"Part 7: Jason James In Search of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski
Ralph Zuranski: Do you think it’s important and beneficial to make decisions quickly?
Jason James: Definitely. Personally I’m a quick decision maker. Just last night I was with my girlfriend at dinner and we had been to this Mexican restaurant several times.
Jason James: I look at the menu for maybe 30 or 45 seconds. I review it and boom, I know what I want. My girlfriend has been to this place several times but this is a recurring theme. She takes forever. She has to keep telling the waiter or the waitress to come back because she doesn’t know what she wants yet. It’s like, pick something, you know.
Jason James: I think in business you have to be a quick decision maker. You have to think real quickly. Am I going to pursue this or am I not going to pursue this? Am I going to do this or am I not going to do that?
Jason James: You waste a lot of time dwelling on things that you don’t need to be dwelling on. I think it’s important to be a quick decision maker. Explore things in as much detail as possible, make a decision and move on.
Ralph Zuranski: Once you make a decision are you slow to revise or reverse that important decision?
Jason James: Personally, no. I’m not slow at all. I think business is sort of about adapting to change and adapting to things that happen so if I make a decision and I’m not happy with it I will revise or reverse it pretty quick. I’m not slow at all to do stuff like that. I’m one to take action quickly.
Ralph Zuranski: In the pursuit of your goals and your dreams, I know you were in the military for a while and you’ve been challenged by loss of your job and loss of your car and I know that creates doubts and fears. How are you able to overcome your doubts and fears?
Jason James: By not having any choice and sort of realizing that this is my life, this is the only life I will ever have; this is the life that God gave me. You just sort of have to have that hope that there are better times ahead.
Jason James: You just sort of have to keep moving forward and take one day at a time. Take things one day at a time and do small things each and every day that move you toward your goals.
Jason James: For me in those really, really difficult times when I woke up each day feeling really badly about myself but there was also this small part of me that was like, “Things are bad now and they can’t get much worse. So it’s going to be better times ahead. I know there is. Just have faith that there is.”
Ralph Zuranski: Do you think that it’s important to readily forgive those who upset, offend and opposed you?
Jason James: I do, actually. I learned this a long time ago. For example if someone wrongs you or if someone did something to you that you didn’t think was right I think the power of forgiveness is great.
Jason James: I can relate this to online business. Someone, for example, screws you over some way online and time passes and then as you come back and maybe that person comes back and they email you in the future and say, “I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have done that. That was wrong. I apologize.”
Jason James: A lot of people would say, “Forget you; I’m not going to work with you.” But for me personally I think the power of forgiveness is powerful because what good does holding a grudge have? What good is it saying, “No, I’m not going to work with you. You wronged me.”
Jason James: When you forgive someone what you end up with is friendship and experiences. You know about that person and they came back and they forgave you and what you have is a friendship and a future business relationship.
Jason James: If you take the offence and want to hold a grudge and not work with them, what do you have then? You have an enemy, you don’t have that business relationship, and you don’t have that friendship. I think to forgive is very important no matter how hard it might be sometimes.
Jason James: People make mistakes and if they are willing to admit those mistakes it’s very important to forgive.
Yours in success,
Jason James
Consultant and eBay™ Power Seller™
Founder, Auction Resource Network
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Jason James is originally from Boston, MA. and has spent time in the U.S. Marine Corps learning some of the discipline that is required for a successful home-based Internet marketing business.
Jason has built a long track record of success mastering eBay and building profitable membership websites.
His first Internet success was selling products on Internet auction site eBay, becoming a power seller then eventually putting together the website www.auctionresourcenetwork.com which detailed the exact steps a person can take to make money on eBay.
Jason's most recent venture is putting together a series of Online videos made by some of today's top Internet marketers to help budding entrepreneurs get trusted information to help their online businesses grow to phenomenal levels.
Jason has kindly allowed us to post one of his articles about how to be successful on E-bay each day for the next couple of months. Thanks Jason.