As we end the first month of 2012, thoughts of the progress I have made with blog and my other luxe pursuits baffle me. Here’s my summary of it all…

Sometimes you never know what will come of your crazy ideas. Before you know it, you have a brand. The brand isn’t really yours. It belongs to those who identify and personalize it in their hearts and minds.

Your brand is the befitting proxy for your beliefs, tastes, vision, and passions, whether or not you are physically present in the many conversations, transactions, and encounters people have with it.

Beyond all material success, the pursuit of an identity is the single most indomitable challenge some of us will ever undertake.

Here’s to pursuing the weird ideas that make us who we are. The worst that can happen is that you fail. Failures are necessary transit points to success. Even if you fail at something, you are closer to finding out just who you are.

Keep thinking, stay hungry, and embrace the beautiful struggle.

– Edmund Amoye

After writing the above lines, I did a search for “crazy ideas that became successes”. Nothing really good popped up, except for this article about The 7 Success Principles of Steve Jobs. I think it definitely applies to luxury brands. Mr. Jobs took some of his ideas from luxury brands like the Four Seasons hotel chain, so why not take a page from his playbook?