As a subscriber to entrepreneur.com, I receive articles throughout the week that deal with entrepreneurship and how to build successful businesses. This morning I received an article that I felt deserved to be added to this blog site. Below is the beginning of the article followed by a link that will take you to the full article.

Enjoy!

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Make 'Someday' Happen Today
Here's what it takes to implement your big idea in 10 minutes a day.

by Rory Cohen

July 7, 2008

Aristotle observed that every living organism has an inner force, a vitality that propels that organism to be fulfilled. He called that state of being entelechy.

Everyone has an entelechy, a vital force that is yearning to be expressed.  The entelechy of an acorn, for example, is to be an oak, and given the right environment and nutrition, that's what it will be.

Try as we might, we can't turn the acorn into a pine or a willow. Our entelechy is uniquely our own and is encoded in our very being. Essentially, our entelechy is who we were born to be.

Unfortunately, many of us are busy trying to turn our acorns into pine trees, and we don't even know it. We try, struggle and fight for success, getting only more trying and struggling and fighting as a result.

When we can know our entelechy, and make our thoughts, intentions and actions line up with that vitality, we find that we struggle less and enjoy more, achieving marvelous results along the way.

A colleague of mine send me this link today through IM that I would like to share with you all.

Normally I get about 30 links a day from him that lead to articles or images that are either so funny that I have to summon everything in my being to not choke to death from laughter, or so bizarre that the rest of my day seems a bit off after the point of clicking the link.

The article he sent me today was very interesting, but not in a comical or weird way. It was interesting from a business point of view.

The article covers a strategy that the online shoe company, Zappos, uses to filter out their recently hired employees who do not think long-term. It's very clever.

To read about their strategy, click the link below. After you read the article, ask yourself...what choice would you make?

Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too