17 Terrific Business Lessons From Kung Fu Panda

 

Do you have a favourite movie?  One that just makes you laugh out loud whenever you watch it?

Well Kung Fu Panda rocks it for me…in fact, my family have more fun watching me laughing at the movie than they do watching the movie itself.

The reason I love this movie so much is that there are some UNIVERSAL TRUTHS throughout the storyline…plus I’m a sucker for slapstick and great comedic writing.

When I last watched Kung Fu Panda I hit the record button and watch it later without putting the family through it one more time.

Five minutes in, I had to stop and grab my notepad and pen because I was struck with how many great business lessons are contained within this movie…I promise after reading this you’ll look at this movie again in a different light.

So here are 15 terrific business lessons gleaned from Kung Fu Panda - I encourage you to watch the snippets provided:

2. When you follow your PASSION, you will find your PURPOSE
3. Be PUNCTUAL – opportunities could be lost because of tardiness
4. Where there’s a will there’s a way – can’t get through the door, try pole-vaulting a wall instead…if you really want something, you WILL find a way
   WATCH THIS SNIPPET - Kung Fu Panda - Dragon Warrior Selection
5. Ignore those who try to quash your dreams – many will give you reasons why you don’t belong or why you can’t achieve what you want…ignore them and give it ALL YOU’VE GOT!
6. Comparing yourself to others only causes you despair
   WATCH THIS SNIPPET - Master Oogway's Awesome Saying
7. There is no good or bad, it is just news…the same with business. There is no failure…it is just results.  We often learn more from so-called ‘failures’ than many of our successes.
8. LET GO of the illusion of control
   WATCH THIS SNIPPET - Kung Fu Panda - Oogway Ascends
9. Find a MENTOR that can help you achieve your dreams
   WATCH THIS SNIPPET - Kung Fu Panda - Cookie Scene
10. At first it will be hard, then it gets easier with PRACTICE
    WATCH THIS SNIPPET - Kung Fu Panda - Shifu Training Po
11. Be UNIQUE…there is no-one else like you
12. CELEBRATE your achievements along the way
13. Keep FOCUS on your goals/dreams
14. To make something special you just have to BELIEVE it is special
15. There is POWER in believing in yourself
16. Focus on your STRENGTHS and use them to your advantage
    WATCH THIS SNIPPET - Kung Fu Panda - Po vs Tai Lung
17. BELIEVE in your inner Dragon Warrior

What was your favorite business lesson from above?  Have you ever been inspired in your business by a movie you watched, share it in the comments below.

Tamil Nadu Man Makes Patented Technology To Convert Banana Waste Into Ropes

TN School Dropout Developed A Machine To Convert Banana Waste Into Ropes For Bags And Baskets!

PM Murugesan, an inhabitant of Melakkal town in Madurai area, almost twenty years prior, figured out how to utilize the residual banana fibre to mesh them into ropes. These could then be utilized to make different items like mats, sacks, and so on.
The Beginnings

Due to his family’s poor conditions, Murugesan could not finish his education post class 8. He was forced to help his father in the fields as his family did not see much use in his education. He grew up seeing a lot of banana waste being generated around him, which got him thinking about ways to utilise them.

PM Murugesan with his processed banana fibre

It was 2008 when Murugesan, his wife, Malarkodi, and the other family elders started discussing utilising the banana plant waste. The idea struck him on seeing a banana thread being used to thread flowers to create garlands. The sheer difficulty in keeping the rope from breaking apart was a challenge to him. He used a machine that converted coconut husk into ropes for bananas, but it failed.

Using the failure as a crutch, he took that machine and modified it to work for bananas. Upon its success, he added a motor to make it work faster. Working it up further, he used bicycle wheel rims and pulleys to build a spinning machine. He ended up investing INR 1.5 Lakhs and built and patented this machine. He then went to the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) with his invention and they liked his machine and recommended other farmers in the area to use it.


Evolution Of Business

In 2017, Murugesan built up a mechanized rope making machine, in which dual functions could be performed of making the rope and interlacing/twining it together. Murugesan said that he was utilizing a hand-wheel component to make rope from the banana sheath, and that took five individuals for every wheel for the cycle, and each wheel yielded distinctly around 2,500 metres of rope. With the new machine, they produced on normal 15,000 metres utilizing one machine and with only four individuals in all.

   

Employees at work

They started with five people, which increased to ten, very quickly to twenty, and as of today, they employ over 350 people, with a majority of women in their ranks. Taking the decentralization aspect of a job into account, the work routine is very flexible as the women work from home, weaving new things that can also be coupled as gifts for their children while earning them a decent income. The company currently earns an annual turnover of INR 1.5 crores.
Accolades

He has won seven National Awards and several State Awards, which include the PMEGP (Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme) Award from Khadi and Village Industries Commission under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, National Farmer Scientist Award from Union Ministry for Agriculture and Best Entrepreneur Award from Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Jabalpur.

Despite these accolades, Murugesan feels the most satisfied knowing that he brought about an upheaval of his village and bringing them employability simultaneously.

Image Sources: Google Images

Sources: India Times, The Better India

Can you tell me something inspiring?

 

In the 1940s, there was a man who, at the age of 65, was living off of $99 social security checks in a small house, driving a beat-up car.

He decided it was time to make a change, so he thought about what he had to offer that other people may benefit from. His mind went to his fried chicken recipe, which his friends and family loved.

He left his home state of Kentucky and traveled throughout the country, trying to sell his recipe to restaurants. He even offered the recipe for free, asking for only a small chunk of the money that was earned.

However, most of the restaurants declined his offer. In fact, 1,009 restaurants said no.

But even after all of the rejections, he persisted. He believed in himself and his chicken recipe.

When he visited restaurant #1,010, he got a YES.

His name? Colonel Hartland Sanders!

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There are a few lessons that you can take away from this story. First, it’s never too late in life to find success. In a society that often celebrates young, successful people, it’s easy to start to think you’re never going to be successful after a certain age. However, Colonel Sanders is an example that proves that argument wrong.

This story also demonstrates the power of persistence. You have to have confidence in yourself and believe in your work for other people to believe it too. Disregard anyone who tells you “no” and simply move on.

~🟡~

What are the best ways to slow aging and to look as young as possible?

 

1. Get lean. If you’re above 20% body fat a a guy and above 25% bod fat as a gal, you’ll look a lot older. So drop the blubber.
2. Build muscle. Muscle not only makes you look younger, it will make you a lot healthier. Muscle can slow aging and preserve a lot of strength and coordination in old age.
3. Do your cardio. A healthy heart and a big “gas tank” have many benefits. I like burpees and martial arts. Pick something that gets your heart rate up and do it regularly.
4. Stay natty and don’t hop on high doses of steroids. Without getting too much into detail, steroids will accelerate the aging process by upregulating IGF-1. This is a hormon that makes tissue grow. But tissue isn’t just only muscle…Cancer cells grow also from being exposed to IGF-1.
5. Watch your diet. Eat clean 90% of the time. Veggies. Lean protein. Starchy carbs. Healthy fats that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids.
6. Eat less meat and more plants. Meat, particularly red meat, has shown to produce TMAO when cooked. Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), is then processed in your live when eating red meat and may lead to cardiovascular disease as well as cancer.
7. Fast. Fasting has shown to regulate hunger and have a ton of different health benefits, such as cell regeneration.
8. Get cold. Cold exposure has shown to activate longevity genes, increase blood flow and reduce inflammation. So, cold showers, exercising in the cold and ice beaths are on the menue.
9. Sweat your balls off. Saunas, followed by cold showers have shown to reduce all cause mortality in many studies.
10. No smoking. Obviously.
11. Don’t microwave your food in plastic containers. Cancer cell builder No. 1. Avoid at all cost.
12. Don’t get black out drunk and/or high regularly. Flooding your brain and body with drugs and alcohol, is neuro- and cell toxic, leading to all kinds of ageing processes.
13. Less sugar. To much sugar can lead to ageing process and makes it hard to stay lean. Not because carbs make you fat, but because they make you incredibly hungry AFTER eating them, so you end up overeating regularly.
14. Regulate stress and look after your mental health. Learn to calm your mind by taking deep breaths. The 4–7–8 method works wonders for me. Breathe out fully, then breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7 seconds and then breathe out with a “whoosh” sounds for 8 seconds. Repeat three times. Works wonders whenever I’m stressed out, feel overwhelmed or unfocused.
15. Keep your brian engaged, active and stay sharp as a tack. Read. Learn languages. Improve your memory. Stop googling everything and don’t rely online personas to make decisions and think for you.
16. Tailor your nutrition to your genetics. Won’t get into all the details, but this is critical. Want to know why you digest certain foods better than others? Why do some foods give you nasty farts and stomache aches? Why do you get headaches? It might be, that you can’t stomach (pun intended) some foods, because your genetic makeup doesn’t conform with the food item.

What is something that almost nobody knows about entrepreneurship?

This is Mr. Andrew Carnegie, once the richest man in the world.

He arrived in America with no money and with no formal higher education.

His parents decided to move the Carnegie family to the United States in 1848 after a famine hit the Scottish countryside. When he arrived in America at thirteen years old, he found a job that would pay him $1.20 for a 70-hour week.

During his free time, Carnegie read books loaned to him from one of the local libraries. (Later in his life, he never forgot how important these books were to his life, so he donated his money to building over 2,500 public libraries and important educational institutions around the world.)

When Carnegie was about 18 years old, Thomas Scott, the owner of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, employed him as a telegraph operator at a salary of $4.00 per week.

By age 24, Mr. Scott saw great potential in the young Carnegie, and asked him if he could handle being superintendent of a division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He took the role, and his relationship with Mr. Scott grew stronger.

Mr. Scott later became Carnegie's mentor, which lasted until 1878, when Scott suffered a stroke that limited his ability to work. Despite this layoff in interaction, the relationship through the previous years changed Carnegie's future.

The experience gained working closely to Scott was a vital ingredient in his extraordinary success in the steel industry. Selling his company to JP Morgan would later make Carnegie the wealthiest man in the world and the extraordinary philanthropist he later became.

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Now, to answer your question, what is something that almost nobody knows about entrepreneurship?

This is culinary school. It’s very “similar” to Mr. Andrew Carnegie's classroom.

How is it similar?

Chefs learn by doing. They test and practice. They burn food, and try again, and again, and again. They sometimes cut themselves, often it happens again and again.

People may know this, but hesitate to believe that … :

• A college degree is not needed to become a successful entrepreneur. It’s been proven over and over again in history that this is true.
• College teaches what has been done in the past, not what hasn’t. Entrepreneurs look forward. They observe the world around them and anticipate market trends.
• The years and money people spend “writing papers” could be spent creating and starting a small business. People learn much more during one year in the startup world than the whole four years in college. Also, chances are, it will be cheaper.
• “But starting a business won't guarantee any success!” True. Does any college guarantee you a job, or give you your money back? No! They take your money and run!

• Many people think that they need an MBA to be a successful entrepreneur. False. An MBA is a “Master of Business Administration.” Let me translate what “Administration” means:
  Administration is running a business, NOT starting one.
• Do you see anyone “cooking” here?

A chef is not a chef until he/she cooks something.

An entrepreneur is not an entrepreneur until he delivers value.

Get out of the classroom and start cooking!

How did Steve manage to “Think Different?”

 

Steve was a dropout, a rebel, but most importantly, Steve was FREE!

Steve enjoyed complete self-governance, total independence to be himself, and would never conform to or follow the crowd.

Steve was not a people pleaser. He was driven by his passion and vision, NOT by other people’s opinions.

Why don’t we have more Steve’s in the world?

Our Industrial Age educational system has one mission to accomplish:

STANDARDIZE!

The educational system tells us what to think, NOT how to think.

Indoctrination is oppressive, it kills creativity and innovation.

Indoctrination has been an effective way to mold people to fit the “status quo” and NOT challenge it.

Why doesn't the world see more creative geniuses?

Because we’re expected to follow the crowd.

To answer the question, what made Steve Jobs so special?

Steve was FREE from indoctrination!

Real education teaches you how to solve problems, how to create things, and most importantly, how to THINK DIFFERENT!

#BusinessSmart

What type of business has the highest success rate?

 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬:

𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬, 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧.

𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝.

ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ ᴏᴜᴛ! ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ᴀ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴏɴ ᴍɪꜱᴛᴀᴋᴇ!

ɪᴛ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ᴍᴇ ꜱᴇᴠᴇʀᴀʟ ꜰᴀɪʟᴜʀᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀꜱᴛᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪ’ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴀʟʟ ʙᴜꜱɪɴᴇꜱꜱᴇꜱ! (ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ᴡʜʏ ᴇᴠᴇɴ “ᴘʀᴏᴠᴇɴ” ꜰʀᴀɴᴄʜɪꜱᴇ ʙᴜꜱɪɴᴇꜱꜱ ᴍᴏᴅᴇʟꜱ ꜰᴀɪʟ ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴀɴᴅꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡʀᴏɴɢ ᴏᴘᴇʀᴀᴛᴏʀ.)

𝗦𝗼, 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 “𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲.” 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱, 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗢𝗨!

𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 “𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆” 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹.

𝑺𝒐 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏& 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓
𝑰𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖
𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔

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