There was once a housewife, whose daily life is about being cooped up at home with kids (not exactly a bad thing actually) and household chores. Never in her life did she consider doing anything else as her children were her life.   Then one day she asked her husband for a dollar (US$1).   And her husband….

asked,”What for?”   The housewife was speechless.

From then on, she decided she will never be asking anyone for money whatsoever.  I don’t know how she got by but she took up self-improvement courses.  Probably enrolled herself in some college.

She went on to become her own CEO managing some 500 staff today.

This story is an inspirational story told to me by Brian Tracy, who’s one of today’s’ most well-known and well-respected “Life-Coaching” Gurus. Brian is so humble, he doesn’t even consider himself a guru.  He said,”I am just teaching you what I’ve been taught!”

Brian Tracy is comparable to Zig Zigglar, Jim Rohn and many others have changed many people’s life – people who were willing to take that step to improve the quality of the lives they live.

Many small businesses and MNCs have benefitted from these mentors’ teachings.

I was also told that people like Anthony Robbins and Mark Joyner were at one time, some of these mentors’ students. (I also “follow” Stephen Pierce, Ron Hudson, Michel Fortin – all in the TWITTER community – and many other great gurus too.)

So, after hearing what Brian Tracy said, I started thinking…I don’t consider myself ambitious.  In fact I am way behind many of my peers who’ve gone on to become lofty lawyers and CEOs of their own companies. Some ran their organisations together with their husbands. I never really got to know what moved them except to know that some are running businesses to continue what their parents were doing (and it’s about the only thing they know that makes them money).

So why am I blogging about this when I am not even ambitious?  Because I’ve always been curious about what moves people to do what they do.

I met a php programmer who was frustrated with “imperfect” online payment systems (3rd party payment processors or “PPP”) to sell his own php scripts.  He said that people with MoneyBookers’ account may not have an account with PayPal and vice versa.

“If you cater to only those with PayPal.com accounts you may risk losing sales from customers who use other types of “PPP”.   Getting people to register and use another 3rd-party payment processor was a hassle.

People DIDN’T like registering for something they already have.  It’s like, if you already have an AOL and an gMail email accounts, it’s m ore unlikely for you to sign up for another free email account with Yahoo or MSN.”

I can relate to that!

This programmer did not “whine and do nothing”.  Being his own php programming expert, he went on to create a script that could easily solve any webmaster’s PPP headaches.   Although NOT a perfect payment processing system, he has created the only payment processing system that accepts (“New” means “just added”):

1. PayPal
2. 2Checkout
3. Authorize.Net
4. e-Gold
5. MoneyBookers
6. AlertPay (New)
7. PerfectMoney (New)
8. StormPay
9. Liberty Reserve (New)
10. c-Gold (New)
11. Pecunix
12. v-Money (New)
13. Qchex
14. GoldMoney
15. WebMoney (New)
16. PayTreck (New)
17. Regular Mail
18. Western Union (Withdraw option)
19. MoneyGram (Withdraw option)

Here you’ve just read of 2 people who have managed to use their frustration to their benefit.

What’s your frustration?   What’s giving you stress?  Can it be something good for you? Your turn to talk!