Proverbs, a book of the Old Testament, was compiled by King Solomon almost 3,000 years ago. Nonetheless, this monarch's secrets remain as relevant and practical as when first penned. This is not surprising. Human nature has not changed in the intervening millennia.
The third chapter of Proverbs, which was written to stand alone, gives ten secrets of success. The first seven secrets and the last each come with a promise, showing what can be expected (as a rule of thumb) when its admonition is followed. In this article, I have adapted those secrets as business advice.
Secret 1: Keep the law; you'll get more out of your day, live longer, and have greater peace.
We are moral beings. Living by moral principles makes business more straightforward, keeps our footing secure and shields us from a good deal of worry, heartache, and disgrace. When we are doing what is right, we can concentrate more on the issues at hand than when we are distracted by negatives such as the fear of discovery. (Rule 1 is based on Proverbs 3:1,2)
Secret 2: Be kind and honest; then you will find favor with God and men.
Most of us appreciate the person who gives us an encouraging word, stands with us when we make a mistake, and doesn't throw the book at us. We appreciate those who don't hog our credit. And we appreciate those who keep their word. A study showed that one of the few characteristics that the majority of self-made millionaires have in common is that they keep their word. (Based on Proverbs 3:3,4)
Secret 3: Trust completely in God; you'll find direction and be a lot healthier.
None of us can see the end from the beginning. But those who trust in God need not fret when business undergoes a reverse. They don't kill themselves if the stock market plunges or a factory burns down. They believe God will ultimately bring good out of such events. Quite simply put, if we look to God in our business dealings, he guides us, even if we don't realize it at the time. Knowing this helps us to overcome serious reverses. Read the lives of Cyrus McCormick, John Wanamaker, or Lewis B. Tappan if you doubt this. Studies have shown that those who consider themselves believers lead happier lives over all. (Based on Proverbs 3:5-8)
Secret 4: Be generous toward God and people; you'll have more to show for it.
Solomon recognized that those who honor God first out of whatever they acquire (which includes giving to true charities), tend to prosper. One reason may be mental health. People who feel grateful tend to be happier. People who share with others have a pleasure misers can never know. Also, when we give, we are forced to think more carefully how to employ what we have left. This makes us better managers. (Based on Proverbs 3:9-10)
Secret 5: Accept correction; it is a sign God loves you.
We need to learn from our mistakes. In my own life, rebuke has often been my best teacher. If God thinks you are salvageable, he will correct you. (Based on Proverbs 3:11-12)
Secret 6: Learn the principles and science behind your business; you'll make fewer mistakes, have better grounds for your decisions, and sleep easier.
Solomon wrapped his sixth secret of success inside words of praise for wisdom. The fact is, we should learn the science and sound principles behind whatever business we engage in. The laws of economics cannot be flouted with impunity any more than the laws of aerodynamics. (Based on Proverbs 3:13-24)
Secret 7: Stay calm during crisis; trust the Lord instead, and your foot won't slip.
Kipling wrote a poem which begins and ends like this:
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
His poem is an appropriate commentary on Solomon's seventh secret. (Based on Proverbs 3:25,26)
Secret 8: Pay in a timely fashion.
No one appreciates being told the check is in the mail when it isn't. Pay your employees and creditors in a timely fashion if there is any possible way to do so. It gains you the respect and confidence of those you deal with. (Based on Proverbs 3:27,28)
Secret 9: Tolerate Competition.
Do you remember the days of gas wars, when stations tried to drive each other out of business by undercutting their prices? In Southeast Asia, gangs killed competitors in franchise wars between similar products. This is a poor business model. Today we know that if you put two pharmacies or two grocery stores on a corner, both will usually do better than either one alone. Competition is good for those who work hard and use innovative methods to hold the highest standards against competitors. (Based on Proverbs 3:29,30)
Secret 10:
Engage in fair business practices; then you'll have the Lord on your side.
Any kind of coercive business dealing, whether by a corporation, mob, labor union, guild, or government, hurts the economy as a whole. When Spain expelled its Jews, its economy collapsed. When Acorn harassed bankers who would not give mortgage loans to those who could not repay, it contributed to a situation in which the housing market collapsed and the United States went into an economic meltdown. On a smaller scale, businesses which trick people into signing documents, or who offer sneaky fine print, lose credibility. There are web sites I visited once but won't visit again because they tricked me with pre-checked subscription buttons. These are all forms of coercion. Deal openly and fairly. The long-term benefits go far beyond anything in this world. As Solomon put it, the Lord's curse is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just. "Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace to the humble. The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools." (Based on Proverbs 3:31-35)
Dan Graves, MSL, is an author and web developer. His books include Scientists of Faith, Doctors Who Followed Christ, The Earth Will Reel from its Place, The Archbishop Who Killed a Man, Great Women in Christian History, and This Day in Christian History. Visit his web sites at http://www.dsgraves.com or Solomon and Christ.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
The 10 Priciples of Success
Many believe that success is for a chosen few who have been marked for greatness by destiny. That is not true. Success can be a part of everyone's life, if they understood the 10 principles of success.
Success is not a matter of fate or destiny and neither does it come to you by chance. You need to work towards it and drag it into your life. It's very rare that to find success looking for you. More often than not, you need to chase it down and make it yours.
So, what are the ten principles of success? Take a look.
1. Be Consistent
If you notice a lot of successful people, you are bound to notice some common traits in them. Adopt those traits and maintain them consistently.
2. Have a Vision
It is important to have a vision and know very clearly what it is you want from life. If you are not sure, or the picture in your head is hazy, you can forget about achieving anything.
3. Make an Action Plan
Knowing what you want is one thing, and knowing how to get it is something else. Organize your ideas and make a strategy for yourself.
4. Believe in Yourself
If you don't believe you can achieve it, you will never be able to convince others of your vision. Never doubt yourself. Tell yourself again and again that you will succeed.
5. Take Responsibility
Take responsibility for your actions, for the consequences of those actions, for your future, for your decisions, and for your life. No matter how many times you fail, get up and start again. Don't let failures decide the course of your life. Treat them as a stepping stone to success and persevere.
7. Make your Goals SMART
Your goal should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Bound. These are the essentials of a workable goal.
8. Continue Learning
Never stop learning. Learning means growth. When you stop learning, you stop growing. If you stop growing, you will die. And dead people can never be successful.
9. Do Not Shirk from Asking for Help
There is no shame in seeking help and guidance from people. It would be shameful if you let something like false pride stand in the way of attaining success.
10. Be an Asset to People around You
Unless you add value to the society in some form or manner, you are not going to be successful.
Hopefully, these 10 principles of success will help guide yo
u in your quest for that which you seek with all your heart.
Visit Goal Setting Tips to learn how to set yourself up for success and get free tips on how to effectively set goals.
Victor Ghebre is the editor of Settinggoals101.com where you get practical tips and information on goal setting, motivation, leadership and more.
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Success is not a matter of fate or destiny and neither does it come to you by chance. You need to work towards it and drag it into your life. It's very rare that to find success looking for you. More often than not, you need to chase it down and make it yours.
So, what are the ten principles of success? Take a look.
1. Be Consistent
If you notice a lot of successful people, you are bound to notice some common traits in them. Adopt those traits and maintain them consistently.
2. Have a Vision
It is important to have a vision and know very clearly what it is you want from life. If you are not sure, or the picture in your head is hazy, you can forget about achieving anything.
3. Make an Action Plan
Knowing what you want is one thing, and knowing how to get it is something else. Organize your ideas and make a strategy for yourself.
4. Believe in Yourself
If you don't believe you can achieve it, you will never be able to convince others of your vision. Never doubt yourself. Tell yourself again and again that you will succeed.
5. Take Responsibility
Take responsibility for your actions, for the consequences of those actions, for your future, for your decisions, and for your life. No matter how many times you fail, get up and start again. Don't let failures decide the course of your life. Treat them as a stepping stone to success and persevere.
7. Make your Goals SMART
Your goal should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Bound. These are the essentials of a workable goal.
8. Continue Learning
Never stop learning. Learning means growth. When you stop learning, you stop growing. If you stop growing, you will die. And dead people can never be successful.
9. Do Not Shirk from Asking for Help
There is no shame in seeking help and guidance from people. It would be shameful if you let something like false pride stand in the way of attaining success.
10. Be an Asset to People around You
Unless you add value to the society in some form or manner, you are not going to be successful.
Hopefully, these 10 principles of success will help guide yo
u in your quest for that which you seek with all your heart.
Visit Goal Setting Tips to learn how to set yourself up for success and get free tips on how to effectively set goals.
Victor Ghebre is the editor of Settinggoals101.com where you get practical tips and information on goal setting, motivation, leadership and more.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Skill Sets and Knowledge
There are two types of knowledge, general knowledge and specialized knowledge. Knowledge, however, will not attract wealth unless it is organized and results in a definite plan of action designed to accumulate wealth.
You see, knowledge itself is not power as is often thought. Knowledge is actually potential power. The power comes about when the knowledge leads to a definite action plan that results in a pre-determined outcome.
It is a well known fact that millions of college graduates, filled with "knowledge" do not go on to amass great wealth. There is a weakness in many cases that can be attributed to a, "lack of ambition".
It is essential that you know how to purchase knowledge. Define the purpose for which the knowledge is required. This of course should match your clearly defined goals. Then check the sources of this knowledge, such as your own experience and education, networking and masterminding with others in your chosen field, colleges and universities, public libraries and book stores and specialized training courses available on your target subject.
The key here is to gain knowledge that makes you a "specialist" in your chosen field. This specialized knowledge will place you in the top 10% or higher in your field and will cause you to become valuable to others. (The industry term often used here is to, "become the hunted instead of the hunter").
As I am writing this in particular to online entrepreneurs, I will hasten to add a remark that I have often heard Mike Dillard say, "The most successful and highly paid people in any field usually have the largest libraries."
I remember something my dad always told me, "we are never too old to learn", and in our field it is essential that we stay current. We are in a very dynamic field where change is continuously happening. Keep on top of the change. Never feel like you have "arrived", and so you no longer have to invest in increasing your value or knowledge.
The remaining element is imagination. Napoleon Hill said it best, "Capability means imagination, the one quality needed to combine specialized knowledge with ideas, in the form of organized plans designed to yield riches."
I have always maintained that innovation is a key ingredient in creating your success.
Melanie PhillibertInternet Consultant and Trainer and EntrepreneurCertified Marketing Consultanthttp://www.GPTWealthCreation.com
http://www.youtube.com/mphillibert
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You see, knowledge itself is not power as is often thought. Knowledge is actually potential power. The power comes about when the knowledge leads to a definite action plan that results in a pre-determined outcome.
It is a well known fact that millions of college graduates, filled with "knowledge" do not go on to amass great wealth. There is a weakness in many cases that can be attributed to a, "lack of ambition".
It is essential that you know how to purchase knowledge. Define the purpose for which the knowledge is required. This of course should match your clearly defined goals. Then check the sources of this knowledge, such as your own experience and education, networking and masterminding with others in your chosen field, colleges and universities, public libraries and book stores and specialized training courses available on your target subject.
The key here is to gain knowledge that makes you a "specialist" in your chosen field. This specialized knowledge will place you in the top 10% or higher in your field and will cause you to become valuable to others. (The industry term often used here is to, "become the hunted instead of the hunter").
As I am writing this in particular to online entrepreneurs, I will hasten to add a remark that I have often heard Mike Dillard say, "The most successful and highly paid people in any field usually have the largest libraries."
I remember something my dad always told me, "we are never too old to learn", and in our field it is essential that we stay current. We are in a very dynamic field where change is continuously happening. Keep on top of the change. Never feel like you have "arrived", and so you no longer have to invest in increasing your value or knowledge.
The remaining element is imagination. Napoleon Hill said it best, "Capability means imagination, the one quality needed to combine specialized knowledge with ideas, in the form of organized plans designed to yield riches."
I have always maintained that innovation is a key ingredient in creating your success.
Melanie PhillibertInternet Consultant and Trainer and EntrepreneurCertified Marketing Consultanthttp://www.GPTWealthCreation.com
http://www.youtube.com/mphillibert
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
7 Tips for Your Mastermind
Mastermind groups are formed by professionals for a number of reasons. The three top reasons being:
1.To generate new ideas and share best practices in an effort to increase revenue and create efficiencies in each member's businesses.
2.To establish a space for accountability, goal setting and encouragement amongst entrepreneurs who are not necessarily reporting up to or being pushed by a Manager. (They are the captain of their own ship)
3.To network and cultivate possible referral relationships with other professionals.
Professionals generally enter into mastermind groups with great enthusiasm and high expectations. However, after six months to a year of meeting, many groups find that the excitement has a tendency to wane and unfortunately, the attendance then follows suit.
Here are 7 helpful tips to help keep your Mastermind group engaged, consistently attended and growing...
Tip #1-Make sure you have a variety of professionals attending who share similar pains. I've talked to Mortgage Professionals who have formed mastermind groups made up solely of Realtors or Financial Planners. This may seem like utopia for YOU, but the group will eventually suffer and may even begin to feel that your attempt to put together a mastermind group was purely self serving. Fresh perspectives, unique approaches & creative business models are more easily derived from groups that include different types of professionals. Of course, only include professionals who share in your pains (i.e. generating leads, branding one's self, team, marketing, effective sales scripts, budgeting, etc.)
Tip #2-Include creative "shake-ups." Make one of your Mastermind sessions an event that the entire group attends, like a seminar or presentation on sales techniques or social media, a chamber mixer or meetup.com event. Assign chapter readings and group discussion from popular business or self help books, like Think and Grow Rich, The Success Principles, The Tipping Point, or Taming Your Gremlin. Use one session to train on a particular product, system or new technology the group is interested in. Spend one session watching a Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield or Wayne Dyer DVD.
Tip #3-Establish a rotating guest speaker list. Assign each mastermind group member a month that they are responsible for inviting a guest speaker. The guest speaker could be a physical fitness expert, a life or business coach, a social media guru, a holistic healer, a local top salesman, a Manager sharing his/her team leadership secrets, a branding expert, a local blogging superstar, etc.
Tip #4-Share the knowledge. Post your agenda, guest speakers' names, take-aways and "aha" moments and newfound knowledge from your mastermind groups on your blog, LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Encourage everyone in the mastermind group to do the same.
Tip #5-Don't be a venue hog. Find other locations, other than YOUR office, to hold your mastermind sessions and change it up from time to time. I had a client hold one at a local park with great success. You can also go to your local library, favorite coffee house, wine bar or bistro, community center or recreation center, pastry shop or even one of your group member's residences.
Tip #6-Introduce the 20 Questions game. When utilizing "group think" to help solve a member's current issue, dilemma, roadblock, bottleneck, conflict, etc., have each member ask that person questions about their current situation, not to exceed 20 questions. No one is to suggest or tell the person what to do, nor make statements or share their opinion. They are simply to ask questions to help the one individual experience a breakthrough and to do so without comparing, assuming one person has the solution, or inadvertently creating tension or conflict in the group.
Tip #7-Survey the group. Never assume that your members are satisfied with the current format, agenda, guest speakers, direction and/or vision of the mastermind group. You know what they say about "assuming." The best way to keep your mastermind group alive and kicking is to be open to changing things up, trying new things and most importantly, listening to the V.O.M. (voice of the mastermind)
The power of the mastermind comes from each member's unique experiences, knowledge and willingness to share. As the leader of the mastermind, you owe it to yourself and the group to be picky about whom you choose to invite as a member. Set the bar high! Find individuals who are smarter, more creative, more innovative and more financially savvy than you are.
It's like Jack Canfield once said, "You are the average of the five people, outside of your family, that you hang out with the most." Take the time to find the "right" members and choose to raise your average.
Victoria Del Frate is the President of Success Gateway, Inc. and the creator of http://www.icancoaching.net and http://icanplan.biz
Victoria has successfully coached dozens of mortgage and real estate leaders whose needs have ranged from systems implementation, business plan development, team building and customer service platform improvements to accountability, time management and life balance concerns.
"My passion is working one-on-one with highly motivated professionals to maximize their personal effectiveness as they develop their vision, define their goals, take action and build strong foundations to ensure their continue success"-Victoria Del Frate
"Coaching is a calling, a passion, a way of life. Each victory, each level you help another human being achieve, to me, is the most worthy contribution one can make in a lifetime. Through coaching, I help others and myself to live "on purpose" every day."-Victoria Del Frate
Victoria's mortgage business planning website, I CAN Plan has been showcased on Mortgage Girlfriends and has been touted as, "The best, on-line, mortgage planning tool" by industry leaders. She was also recently interviewed by Karen Deis as one of the industry's, top business planning experts.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Victoria_Del_Frate
1.To generate new ideas and share best practices in an effort to increase revenue and create efficiencies in each member's businesses.
2.To establish a space for accountability, goal setting and encouragement amongst entrepreneurs who are not necessarily reporting up to or being pushed by a Manager. (They are the captain of their own ship)
3.To network and cultivate possible referral relationships with other professionals.
Professionals generally enter into mastermind groups with great enthusiasm and high expectations. However, after six months to a year of meeting, many groups find that the excitement has a tendency to wane and unfortunately, the attendance then follows suit.
Here are 7 helpful tips to help keep your Mastermind group engaged, consistently attended and growing...
Tip #1-Make sure you have a variety of professionals attending who share similar pains. I've talked to Mortgage Professionals who have formed mastermind groups made up solely of Realtors or Financial Planners. This may seem like utopia for YOU, but the group will eventually suffer and may even begin to feel that your attempt to put together a mastermind group was purely self serving. Fresh perspectives, unique approaches & creative business models are more easily derived from groups that include different types of professionals. Of course, only include professionals who share in your pains (i.e. generating leads, branding one's self, team, marketing, effective sales scripts, budgeting, etc.)
Tip #2-Include creative "shake-ups." Make one of your Mastermind sessions an event that the entire group attends, like a seminar or presentation on sales techniques or social media, a chamber mixer or meetup.com event. Assign chapter readings and group discussion from popular business or self help books, like Think and Grow Rich, The Success Principles, The Tipping Point, or Taming Your Gremlin. Use one session to train on a particular product, system or new technology the group is interested in. Spend one session watching a Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield or Wayne Dyer DVD.
Tip #3-Establish a rotating guest speaker list. Assign each mastermind group member a month that they are responsible for inviting a guest speaker. The guest speaker could be a physical fitness expert, a life or business coach, a social media guru, a holistic healer, a local top salesman, a Manager sharing his/her team leadership secrets, a branding expert, a local blogging superstar, etc.
Tip #4-Share the knowledge. Post your agenda, guest speakers' names, take-aways and "aha" moments and newfound knowledge from your mastermind groups on your blog, LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Encourage everyone in the mastermind group to do the same.
Tip #5-Don't be a venue hog. Find other locations, other than YOUR office, to hold your mastermind sessions and change it up from time to time. I had a client hold one at a local park with great success. You can also go to your local library, favorite coffee house, wine bar or bistro, community center or recreation center, pastry shop or even one of your group member's residences.
Tip #6-Introduce the 20 Questions game. When utilizing "group think" to help solve a member's current issue, dilemma, roadblock, bottleneck, conflict, etc., have each member ask that person questions about their current situation, not to exceed 20 questions. No one is to suggest or tell the person what to do, nor make statements or share their opinion. They are simply to ask questions to help the one individual experience a breakthrough and to do so without comparing, assuming one person has the solution, or inadvertently creating tension or conflict in the group.
Tip #7-Survey the group. Never assume that your members are satisfied with the current format, agenda, guest speakers, direction and/or vision of the mastermind group. You know what they say about "assuming." The best way to keep your mastermind group alive and kicking is to be open to changing things up, trying new things and most importantly, listening to the V.O.M. (voice of the mastermind)
The power of the mastermind comes from each member's unique experiences, knowledge and willingness to share. As the leader of the mastermind, you owe it to yourself and the group to be picky about whom you choose to invite as a member. Set the bar high! Find individuals who are smarter, more creative, more innovative and more financially savvy than you are.
It's like Jack Canfield once said, "You are the average of the five people, outside of your family, that you hang out with the most." Take the time to find the "right" members and choose to raise your average.
Victoria Del Frate is the President of Success Gateway, Inc. and the creator of http://www.icancoaching.net and http://icanplan.biz
Victoria has successfully coached dozens of mortgage and real estate leaders whose needs have ranged from systems implementation, business plan development, team building and customer service platform improvements to accountability, time management and life balance concerns.
"My passion is working one-on-one with highly motivated professionals to maximize their personal effectiveness as they develop their vision, define their goals, take action and build strong foundations to ensure their continue success"-Victoria Del Frate
"Coaching is a calling, a passion, a way of life. Each victory, each level you help another human being achieve, to me, is the most worthy contribution one can make in a lifetime. Through coaching, I help others and myself to live "on purpose" every day."-Victoria Del Frate
Victoria's mortgage business planning website, I CAN Plan has been showcased on Mortgage Girlfriends and has been touted as, "The best, on-line, mortgage planning tool" by industry leaders. She was also recently interviewed by Karen Deis as one of the industry's, top business planning experts.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Victoria_Del_Frate
Robert T. Kiyosaki's Teachings
Robert Kiyosaki is a well known author and successful businessman!
A large part of Kiyosaki's teachings focus on generating passive income by means of investment opportunities, such as real estate and small businesses, with the ultimate goal of being able to support oneself by such investments alone. Kiyosaki also defines "assets" as things that generate money, such as rental properties or businesses, and "liabilities" as things that cost money, such as house payments, cars and so on. Kiyosaki also proclaims financial leverage to be critically important in becoming rich.
He stresses what he calls "financial literacy" as the means to obtaining wealth. He says that life skills are often best learned through experience and that there are important lessons not taught in school. He says that formal education is primarily for those seeking to be employees or self-employed individuals, and that this is an "Industrial Age idea". And according to Kiyosaki, in order to obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner or an investor, generating passive income.
Kiyosaki uses the "rich dad, poor dad" series of books to illustrate his view that the majority of people are stuck in what he refers to as "the rat race"-living paycheck to paycheck and spending all of their time working to pay bills. In his books, Kiyosaki advocates tax-advantaged investment vehicles, such as real estate or businesses, rather than ownership of securities. This idea is further developed in his later books and "Rich Dad" became Kiyosaki's personal brand for various publishing ventures.
Although Kiyosaki recommends investing in real estate usually for rental income, there is one thing that he doesn't seem to teach...how to pay-off your rental property and even your house in one-third the time! If you would like to know how to rapidly pay-off your mortgage and other debts and supercharge your retirement account, visit my site for a free report at:
www.financialadvantages.com
My name is Steve Herman and 5 years ago I discovered a way to rapidly pay-off debt and rapidly fund a retirement account! my website is http://www.financialadvantages.com
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A large part of Kiyosaki's teachings focus on generating passive income by means of investment opportunities, such as real estate and small businesses, with the ultimate goal of being able to support oneself by such investments alone. Kiyosaki also defines "assets" as things that generate money, such as rental properties or businesses, and "liabilities" as things that cost money, such as house payments, cars and so on. Kiyosaki also proclaims financial leverage to be critically important in becoming rich.
He stresses what he calls "financial literacy" as the means to obtaining wealth. He says that life skills are often best learned through experience and that there are important lessons not taught in school. He says that formal education is primarily for those seeking to be employees or self-employed individuals, and that this is an "Industrial Age idea". And according to Kiyosaki, in order to obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner or an investor, generating passive income.
Kiyosaki uses the "rich dad, poor dad" series of books to illustrate his view that the majority of people are stuck in what he refers to as "the rat race"-living paycheck to paycheck and spending all of their time working to pay bills. In his books, Kiyosaki advocates tax-advantaged investment vehicles, such as real estate or businesses, rather than ownership of securities. This idea is further developed in his later books and "Rich Dad" became Kiyosaki's personal brand for various publishing ventures.
Although Kiyosaki recommends investing in real estate usually for rental income, there is one thing that he doesn't seem to teach...how to pay-off your rental property and even your house in one-third the time! If you would like to know how to rapidly pay-off your mortgage and other debts and supercharge your retirement account, visit my site for a free report at:
www.financialadvantages.com
My name is Steve Herman and 5 years ago I discovered a way to rapidly pay-off debt and rapidly fund a retirement account! my website is http://www.financialadvantages.com
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Maximize Your IQ and Brain Potential
How do you know that your brain is performing according or may be exceeding your expectations as well? You may believe that the answer to this question is by taking a certain IQ test that would determine your level of intelligence. Certain theories are found to be the guidelines that are being used in poring over the brain's performance.
Our brain has the capability of combining both linguistic as well as mathematical aptitude because its is unified in a way. The parts of the brain can be stimulated by certain problem solving activities that may contribute to its performance which involves the spatial, rhythmic, kinesthetic and inter/intra personal growth.
The question now is what tactics can you use to be able to increase your brain's performance? And this question would be answered based on your accomplishments and the results of your achievement so you may have to take note of that.
The initial thing that one should look into is what you are definitely good about. There are different skills where one can actually derive intelligence from. what ever skill you think you're good at. that would be your achievement. A lot of people are not aware of what skills are they really good at. If you really are creative, then you can work on any artistic act that involves creative thinking.
There are so many things that we can work on potentially and even exceed expectations. Some may be more inclined to some indoor sports and excel through performance. You may try getting into gymnastics, dancing or even designing as well just to make sure which would be more comfortable for you to test your abilities. If you find out what your good at and you get to surpass what's average, you'll definitely be happy with the results of your accomplishments. But if you don't even give yourself a chance to see what you can do, then you're absolutely missing the point here.
Do you want to be one of the geniuses like Einstein? There are some people who are said to be standing out from the average intelligent person and they are the ones called geniuses. Although it doesn't take to be a genius just so you can succeed in life. All you have to do is to maximize your brain's capability to function through exceeding the normally expected degree that you expect it to work. If you are aware on how to use your brain's fullest capacity then you will always be possibly doing things in the right way and gain an achievement in the end.
Although it's not that easy to maximize your brain's ability to exceed your expectation if it's not equipped with enough information, so what you can do on your end is to load your brain with helpful information that would serve as a food for it. Together with the learning are the experiences that you encounter day by day, this can as well be absorbed by your brain and it can as well help in the potential expansion of your brain's function.
Read a book, a chapter in an encyclopedia or try listening to music being performed by one of the musicians that you prefer. You'll definitely boost up your brain's performance through this.
Vlad Stivenson, author of numerous IQ Tests and developer of personality test
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Our brain has the capability of combining both linguistic as well as mathematical aptitude because its is unified in a way. The parts of the brain can be stimulated by certain problem solving activities that may contribute to its performance which involves the spatial, rhythmic, kinesthetic and inter/intra personal growth.
The question now is what tactics can you use to be able to increase your brain's performance? And this question would be answered based on your accomplishments and the results of your achievement so you may have to take note of that.
The initial thing that one should look into is what you are definitely good about. There are different skills where one can actually derive intelligence from. what ever skill you think you're good at. that would be your achievement. A lot of people are not aware of what skills are they really good at. If you really are creative, then you can work on any artistic act that involves creative thinking.
There are so many things that we can work on potentially and even exceed expectations. Some may be more inclined to some indoor sports and excel through performance. You may try getting into gymnastics, dancing or even designing as well just to make sure which would be more comfortable for you to test your abilities. If you find out what your good at and you get to surpass what's average, you'll definitely be happy with the results of your accomplishments. But if you don't even give yourself a chance to see what you can do, then you're absolutely missing the point here.
Do you want to be one of the geniuses like Einstein? There are some people who are said to be standing out from the average intelligent person and they are the ones called geniuses. Although it doesn't take to be a genius just so you can succeed in life. All you have to do is to maximize your brain's capability to function through exceeding the normally expected degree that you expect it to work. If you are aware on how to use your brain's fullest capacity then you will always be possibly doing things in the right way and gain an achievement in the end.
Although it's not that easy to maximize your brain's ability to exceed your expectation if it's not equipped with enough information, so what you can do on your end is to load your brain with helpful information that would serve as a food for it. Together with the learning are the experiences that you encounter day by day, this can as well be absorbed by your brain and it can as well help in the potential expansion of your brain's function.
Read a book, a chapter in an encyclopedia or try listening to music being performed by one of the musicians that you prefer. You'll definitely boost up your brain's performance through this.
Vlad Stivenson, author of numerous IQ Tests and developer of personality test
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The Truth About Debt
Myth: Debt is a tool and should be used to help create prosperity.Truth: Debt isn't used by wealthy people nearly as much as we are led to believe.
Debt is dumb. Most normal people are just plain broke because they are in debt up to their eyeballs with no hope of help. If you're in debt, then you're a slave, in the sense that you do not have the freedom to use your money to help change your family tree.
According to a recent USA Today article about debt, 78 percent of Baby Boomers have mortgage debt, 59 percent have credit card debt, and 56 percent have car payments. It takes a lot of will, discipline, courage and help to slay the debt monster. But it can be done. Imagine how much you could put toward retirement if you just didn't have a stinking car payment? This is how the wealthy really build their wealth. Debt is dumb. Welcome to the real world!
Dave Ramsey's Background
When training for my first career in real estate, I remember being told that debt was a tool. "Debt is like a fulcrum and lever," allowing us to lift what we otherwise could not. We can buy a home, a car, start a business, or go out to eat and not be bothered with having to wait. I remember a finance professor telling us that debt was a two-edged sword which would cut for you like a tool but could also cut into you and bring harm.
The myth has been sold that we should use OPM (other people's money) to prosper. The academic garbage is spread really thick on this issue. We are told with sufficient snobbery and noses in the air that sophisticated and disciplined financiers use debt to their advantage. Careful there, you'll get a sunburn on your upper lip.
My contention is that debt brings on enough risk to offset any advantage that could be gained through leverage of debt. Given time - a lifetime - risk will destroy the percieved returns purported by the myth-sayers. I once was a myth-sayer myself and could repeat the myths very convincingly. I was especially good with the "debt is a tool" myth. I have even sold rental property that was losing money to investors by showing them, with very sophisticated internal rates of return, how they would actually make money.
Boy, what a reach. I could spout the myth with enthusiasm, but life and God had some lessons to teach me. Only after losing everything I owned and finding myself bankrupt did I think that risk should be factored in, even mathematically. It took my waking up in "intensive care" to realize how dumb and dangerous this myth is. Life hit me hard enough to get my attention and teach me.
According to Proverbs 22:7, "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender" (NKJV). I was confronted with this scripture and had to make a conscious decision of who was right - my broke finance professor who taught that debt is a tool, or God, who showed the obvious disdain for debt. Beverly Sills had it right when she said, "There is no shortcut to any place worth going."
The Debt MythYou have probably heard a lot of the sub-myths, which fall in line behind the big one that says "debt is a tool." Are you beginning to understand that debt is NOT a tool? This myth and all its little sub-myths have been spread far and wide. Always keep in mind the idea that if you tell a lie often enough, loud enough, and long enough, the myth becomes accepted as a fact. Repetition, volume and longevity will twist and turn a myth, a lie, into a commonly accepted way of doing things.
No more. Debt is not a tool; it is a method to make banks wealthy, not you. The borrower is truly servant to the lender. Your largest wealth-building asset is your income. When you tie up your income, you lose. When you invest your income, you become wealthy and can do anything you want.
How much could you give, save and spend every month if you had no payments? Your income is your greatest wealth-building tool, not debt. Your Total Money Makeover begins with a permanently changed view of the debt myths.
This content is provided by DaveRamsey.com and may be used only in its entirety with all links included. Dave Ramsey is changing the face of America by helping people beat debt and build wealth with his best-selling book, The Total Money Makeover, and nationally syndicated radio show, The Dave Ramsey Show. Read more of what Dave says about debt.
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Debt is dumb. Most normal people are just plain broke because they are in debt up to their eyeballs with no hope of help. If you're in debt, then you're a slave, in the sense that you do not have the freedom to use your money to help change your family tree.
According to a recent USA Today article about debt, 78 percent of Baby Boomers have mortgage debt, 59 percent have credit card debt, and 56 percent have car payments. It takes a lot of will, discipline, courage and help to slay the debt monster. But it can be done. Imagine how much you could put toward retirement if you just didn't have a stinking car payment? This is how the wealthy really build their wealth. Debt is dumb. Welcome to the real world!
Dave Ramsey's Background
When training for my first career in real estate, I remember being told that debt was a tool. "Debt is like a fulcrum and lever," allowing us to lift what we otherwise could not. We can buy a home, a car, start a business, or go out to eat and not be bothered with having to wait. I remember a finance professor telling us that debt was a two-edged sword which would cut for you like a tool but could also cut into you and bring harm.
The myth has been sold that we should use OPM (other people's money) to prosper. The academic garbage is spread really thick on this issue. We are told with sufficient snobbery and noses in the air that sophisticated and disciplined financiers use debt to their advantage. Careful there, you'll get a sunburn on your upper lip.
My contention is that debt brings on enough risk to offset any advantage that could be gained through leverage of debt. Given time - a lifetime - risk will destroy the percieved returns purported by the myth-sayers. I once was a myth-sayer myself and could repeat the myths very convincingly. I was especially good with the "debt is a tool" myth. I have even sold rental property that was losing money to investors by showing them, with very sophisticated internal rates of return, how they would actually make money.
Boy, what a reach. I could spout the myth with enthusiasm, but life and God had some lessons to teach me. Only after losing everything I owned and finding myself bankrupt did I think that risk should be factored in, even mathematically. It took my waking up in "intensive care" to realize how dumb and dangerous this myth is. Life hit me hard enough to get my attention and teach me.
According to Proverbs 22:7, "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender" (NKJV). I was confronted with this scripture and had to make a conscious decision of who was right - my broke finance professor who taught that debt is a tool, or God, who showed the obvious disdain for debt. Beverly Sills had it right when she said, "There is no shortcut to any place worth going."
The Debt MythYou have probably heard a lot of the sub-myths, which fall in line behind the big one that says "debt is a tool." Are you beginning to understand that debt is NOT a tool? This myth and all its little sub-myths have been spread far and wide. Always keep in mind the idea that if you tell a lie often enough, loud enough, and long enough, the myth becomes accepted as a fact. Repetition, volume and longevity will twist and turn a myth, a lie, into a commonly accepted way of doing things.
No more. Debt is not a tool; it is a method to make banks wealthy, not you. The borrower is truly servant to the lender. Your largest wealth-building asset is your income. When you tie up your income, you lose. When you invest your income, you become wealthy and can do anything you want.
How much could you give, save and spend every month if you had no payments? Your income is your greatest wealth-building tool, not debt. Your Total Money Makeover begins with a permanently changed view of the debt myths.
This content is provided by DaveRamsey.com and may be used only in its entirety with all links included. Dave Ramsey is changing the face of America by helping people beat debt and build wealth with his best-selling book, The Total Money Makeover, and nationally syndicated radio show, The Dave Ramsey Show. Read more of what Dave says about debt.
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Become a Super Entreprenurial Achiever
Achieving ordinary or average success in a business is not a big deal. Your aim should be to become a super-performer. Becoming a super-performer in your business is not an impossible thing. There is definitely a science to the way this can be achieved. To move forward on this agenda, you can follow these tips.
1. At the start of the business, you will be all-excited and highly enthusiastic. But, after the initial euphoria, this excitement may diminish. You may get caught up in disillusionment. If your desire to become a super-performer is deep-rooted, you must shift your goal-post and try to achieve a little extra in whatever endeavor you undertake. This will enthuse you all along and you will never lose your verve.
2. Your employees should be an inspired lot and should have the skills that are complementary to their specialization. For example, your Administration executive should have accounts knowledge also, your marketing manager must have administrative skills, etc. This will help you in delegating the major portion of your routine work to them so that you can devote most of your time on planning to achieve better than the ordinary plateau.
3. Boredom and anxiety are enemies to achievement. If you fail to achieve your target, you are again caught up in anxiety. This becomes a vicious circle. Pep talks and positive believing will help you to get over this problem.
4. Studies have revealed that boredom stems from lack of knowledge in the subject of your work. If you study the work you have undertaken in depth, it will introduce to you altogether new elements about the work. This will fundamentally change your view of the subject and bring out several extra perspectives of the work. This may also broaden the scope of your business which may take you on the fast track to become a super-performer.
5. It is a monstrous crime if you do not perform to your fullest potential. You must fuel your creative instincts to utilize this potential. As it is said, chaos stimulates creativity. When there is a problem, you tend to be creative and find out the solution to the problem. You have to reinvent yourselves and be receptive to ideas. A lot of commercial legwork needs to be done in business and this requires concentration, patience and imagination.
6. Rigid discipline, obsessive optimism, fortified desires, smart back-up plans and readiness to travel the 'extra mile' are the traits you require to make your desire to become the super-achiever, an unparalleled driving force. It also involves self-examination to know your emotional status on a daily basis so that neither emotion nor reason hold the sway at any given point of time and the right and balanced doses of both are present in your business life.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Raman_Kuppuswamy
1. At the start of the business, you will be all-excited and highly enthusiastic. But, after the initial euphoria, this excitement may diminish. You may get caught up in disillusionment. If your desire to become a super-performer is deep-rooted, you must shift your goal-post and try to achieve a little extra in whatever endeavor you undertake. This will enthuse you all along and you will never lose your verve.
2. Your employees should be an inspired lot and should have the skills that are complementary to their specialization. For example, your Administration executive should have accounts knowledge also, your marketing manager must have administrative skills, etc. This will help you in delegating the major portion of your routine work to them so that you can devote most of your time on planning to achieve better than the ordinary plateau.
3. Boredom and anxiety are enemies to achievement. If you fail to achieve your target, you are again caught up in anxiety. This becomes a vicious circle. Pep talks and positive believing will help you to get over this problem.
4. Studies have revealed that boredom stems from lack of knowledge in the subject of your work. If you study the work you have undertaken in depth, it will introduce to you altogether new elements about the work. This will fundamentally change your view of the subject and bring out several extra perspectives of the work. This may also broaden the scope of your business which may take you on the fast track to become a super-performer.
5. It is a monstrous crime if you do not perform to your fullest potential. You must fuel your creative instincts to utilize this potential. As it is said, chaos stimulates creativity. When there is a problem, you tend to be creative and find out the solution to the problem. You have to reinvent yourselves and be receptive to ideas. A lot of commercial legwork needs to be done in business and this requires concentration, patience and imagination.
6. Rigid discipline, obsessive optimism, fortified desires, smart back-up plans and readiness to travel the 'extra mile' are the traits you require to make your desire to become the super-achiever, an unparalleled driving force. It also involves self-examination to know your emotional status on a daily basis so that neither emotion nor reason hold the sway at any given point of time and the right and balanced doses of both are present in your business life.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Raman_Kuppuswamy
Saturday, October 17, 2009
A Brief Desciption and Basics of SEO
There are a lot of things in the computer world that people tend to find mysterious and they see as touching upon black magic. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of those things that ranks way up there on the mystery and black magic scale. Today, the term has expanded to Search Engine Marketing which includes paid advertising and other online marketing activities but for our purposes we'll stick with SEO.
SEO is the practice of promoting a web site by increasing its position in search results on the major search engines. Those search engines comprise of Google mainly but also include Yahoo!, Bing, and a few others. The idea is to make the site appear higher in the list of search results than similar sites. This is referred to as "organic" SEO meaning that the rank came as a result of plain old search results rather than having to pay for placement on the search engine.
There's a lot of value in getting it right as far as SEO goes. First of all it's free and second of all, web searches are becoming the primary means of finding information. Primary among the search engines is Google and according to some market research, Google commanded an incredible 81.22% of the global market share in June 2009. Google's success is punctuated by the fact that the word "Google" has found its way into the dictionary.
The primary goal of the search engines is to bring relevant search results to their users. When a user types in a search phrase, a search engine is successful when it delivers the information the user is searching for. If a search engine is unable to deliver relevant information it simply won't be long on the digital scene.
Performing this feat is the result of a mix of highly sophisticated programming, incredibly powerful servers, and perhaps some eye of newt and toe of frog thrown in for good measure.
Seriously, however, the full mechanics of how search engines rank web pages are kept highly confidential. It simply has to be that way or the bad guys of the world would use the knowledge to artificially inflate their own rankings.
There are some fundamental truths in SEO and it is fair to say that search engines today consider the following when ranking a given web page:
The content of the page - what it's about, what words are used prominently.
What words are used in the title of the page?
What words are used in the URL of the page?
What words are highlighted on the page?
What internal links (links from other pages on the same site) point to it?
How many external links point to it and more importantly, whether those pages are relevant to the page's subject matter?
The text used to form the internal and external links.
Even the age of the domain name plays a role in its ranking!There is a lot more involved of course and that list could have gone on for a while. Factors such as keywords, the use of images and Flash animations, and the design of the site itself also play a role in a page's ranking.
Good SEO checklists can be found on the web but probably the most important thing to think about doesn't involve search engines at all. That's the quality of the content.
Ultimately a search engine's goal is to return relevant information to its visitors. As such, search engines have become very sophisticated at figuring out whether or not content is relevant to the search term and indeed, whether a human would find it interesting.
SEO is a fascinating subject and the search engines are incredibly complex examples of computer programming. They are so good in fact that the best advice one could give someone looking to increase their placement is - write your content for people and not the search engines. You'll be rewarded for it.
Visit http://www.easy-money-online.net for more information.
Glen Bowes is a computer professional who offers his services to would-be internet marketers who lack the time or technical skills to get their product, service, or idea off of the ground. Learn more about Glen at http://www.easy-money-online.net, or contact him at glen@easy-money-online.net. No technical skills required!
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SEO is the practice of promoting a web site by increasing its position in search results on the major search engines. Those search engines comprise of Google mainly but also include Yahoo!, Bing, and a few others. The idea is to make the site appear higher in the list of search results than similar sites. This is referred to as "organic" SEO meaning that the rank came as a result of plain old search results rather than having to pay for placement on the search engine.
There's a lot of value in getting it right as far as SEO goes. First of all it's free and second of all, web searches are becoming the primary means of finding information. Primary among the search engines is Google and according to some market research, Google commanded an incredible 81.22% of the global market share in June 2009. Google's success is punctuated by the fact that the word "Google" has found its way into the dictionary.
The primary goal of the search engines is to bring relevant search results to their users. When a user types in a search phrase, a search engine is successful when it delivers the information the user is searching for. If a search engine is unable to deliver relevant information it simply won't be long on the digital scene.
Performing this feat is the result of a mix of highly sophisticated programming, incredibly powerful servers, and perhaps some eye of newt and toe of frog thrown in for good measure.
Seriously, however, the full mechanics of how search engines rank web pages are kept highly confidential. It simply has to be that way or the bad guys of the world would use the knowledge to artificially inflate their own rankings.
There are some fundamental truths in SEO and it is fair to say that search engines today consider the following when ranking a given web page:
The content of the page - what it's about, what words are used prominently.
What words are used in the title of the page?
What words are used in the URL of the page?
What words are highlighted on the page?
What internal links (links from other pages on the same site) point to it?
How many external links point to it and more importantly, whether those pages are relevant to the page's subject matter?
The text used to form the internal and external links.
Even the age of the domain name plays a role in its ranking!There is a lot more involved of course and that list could have gone on for a while. Factors such as keywords, the use of images and Flash animations, and the design of the site itself also play a role in a page's ranking.
Good SEO checklists can be found on the web but probably the most important thing to think about doesn't involve search engines at all. That's the quality of the content.
Ultimately a search engine's goal is to return relevant information to its visitors. As such, search engines have become very sophisticated at figuring out whether or not content is relevant to the search term and indeed, whether a human would find it interesting.
SEO is a fascinating subject and the search engines are incredibly complex examples of computer programming. They are so good in fact that the best advice one could give someone looking to increase their placement is - write your content for people and not the search engines. You'll be rewarded for it.
Visit http://www.easy-money-online.net for more information.
Glen Bowes is a computer professional who offers his services to would-be internet marketers who lack the time or technical skills to get their product, service, or idea off of the ground. Learn more about Glen at http://www.easy-money-online.net, or contact him at glen@easy-money-online.net. No technical skills required!
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33 Ways to Get and Keep Yourself Motivated
1. Ignore The Unimportant
Learning to ignore is a fantastic lesson. Much more rewarding that you think. There must be an art of ignoring and they should teach it in universities. Spanning your focus in so many areas will only weaken you. Ignoring what's unimportant will free up energy and help you stay focused and productive.
2. Understand What Makes You Bored
And avoid it. Boredom is a nasty place to be. But as any other state of your being can be understood and you can identify the triggers. Once you understand that, you can safely go away from the gray zone. Takes some time but it really worth the effort.
3. Laugh More Often
Watch comedies, read comics. Throw away that ugly seriousness form your face. Laughing is a safety valve for your stress relief mechanism. It actually let it out from your body in bursts. And while you're laughing you can still learn new stuff, like personal development lessons from Dumbo.
4. Keep A Log Of Your Breakthroughs
Do you remember when you had the first major success of your life? I thought so. We tend to overlook this simple habit of writing down our feelings every time we have a major breakthrough in our lives. Keep a log of your successes. And get inspired by it.
5. Exercise
This is one the easiest and simplest way to get motivated. Just walk out from the office, start doing some pushups or just go for a short run around the house. It will instantly declutter your physical body. Every time you exercise, you produce endorphins. Endorphins are good.
6. Create A Custom Environment
You can't be motivated if you work in an environment which does not represent you. Make changes, adjust, improve. Doesn't matter if it's about your job office or your home. Whatever the space you work in, make it yours somehow, that will lower your unconscious adaptation efforts and you'll have more time dedicated to the actual tasks.
7. Read Success Stories
Like in other people success stories. Get inspired. Admire them (with caution, but do admire them). Reading about success will make it more available to you and will fuel your efforts towards its achievement. And of course, you can learn how to be successful too.
8. Switch Tasks
You will get bored if you work on the same projects for too long. Boredom kills motivation. Try having several small projects that you can land on whenever you feel you're on the verge of a burn out. Not to mention that switching tasks will instantly create fresh perspectives, helping you solve problems faster.
9. Assess Your Progress
If you work constantly you will make some progress, that's a rule. You may have the impression that you're not going anywhere but that's because you're skipping all those little milestones you go through every day. Watching back with satisfaction at what you created will surely boost your energy.
10. Talk About Your Projects
With your friends or family. Let the people know you're doing stuff. That will often make yourself aware of the fact that you're actually doing stuff and enjoy doing it. It will also create a certain level of accountability that will most likely push you forward.
11. Avoid Energy Vampires
Naysayers, pessimists, braggers they all are sucking up your energy. Don't get caught in such power games, avoid at all costs those energy leaks. Even if that means you'll isolate more often. It's better to do work in your own secluded realm than to try to resist to a diminisihing environment.
12. Write Clear Goals
Most of the time that translates to actually write down your goals, you already have them clear in your mind. But take them out of your mind, put them in a trusted system and move on. Your mind works better when it knows what it has to do not when it spends time figuring what it has to do.
13. Exercise Satisfaction
Once you finished some task, reward yourself. Give yourself a prize. No need to be a huge one, but just enough to create the habit. Look forward to it while you're working, wait for it, praise for it. In time you'll become addicted to this fulfillment satisfaction and you won't stop until you reach it.
14. Accept Failure
As part of the game. Failure, like success, is just a result of your actions, nothing more. One of the biggest motivation enemies is fear of failure. Fear that your outcome will turn bad. Accept it. It may turn bad, but that doesn't mean you have to stop doing what you're doing. Give your best and hope for the best.
15. Use Affirmations
Like writing down your intentions, your goals, your current status. Affirmations are a very powerful tool, hugely underrated. People find it awkward to write self-directed messages and read them out loud. News flash: you're doing this all the time, unconsciously. So why not doing it consciously? Start with a morning phrase.
16. Play Games
Impersonate people. Imitate animals. Pretend you're Sindbad the Sailor. Playing challenging games will relax your mind and at the same time will gather more resources from secret sources. A good motivation is always blended with joy. You can start with a simple game like how to get from a to b in 5 random steps.
17. Say "No"
Say "no" to distractions, to trolls, to depression. Exercising "no"'s is liberating. Too often too many commitments are making your life a continuous chore. Limit your promises and only get into things you really want to finish. Once you do that, go to a mirror, smile and start to politely exercise your "no"'s.
18. Look For Positive People
Sadness, whining and complaining doesn't play well with motivation. On the contrary. But positive, optimistic, energetic people will always shift your vibration in the right direction. Search them, find them and become their friend. Sometimes all you need to get motivated is to be surrounded by shiny happy people.
19. Difficulty Is Part Of The Game
Learn to work under pressure. Some things are more difficult than other. Accept that fact and focus on doing what you have to do not on your feelings of dissatisfaction. Difficulty is often what makes things worth doing. No sweat, no glory. Whenever I feel something is going to be tough, I'm usually more motivated to do it. The reward will be higher.
20. Create Personal Challenges
Personal challenges are short term goals, usually from 15 to 90 days. Like starting to exercise, or creating a habit from scratch in 15 days. Using personal challenges strengthen your inner power the same way exercising is strengthening your muscles. The more you do, the more motivated you feel to do even more.
21. Chose Positive Motivation
Whenever you lock in your motivation, do your best to keep it on the positive side, which is rooted in service. As opposed to the negative motivation, which is basically rooted in fear. Negative motivation works just the same, only it lasts significantly less than positive motivation.
22. Release Your Guardians
You do have guardians and some of them are pretty nasty. They won't let you do your stuff. The bad thing about your guardians is that most of the time they're working at the unconscious level, really difficult to interact with. Just accept, acknowledge and let them go. You will be much better off.
23. Enforce Your Personal Mission
You gotta have a personal mission. If you don't, go find one fast. Reinforcing your personal mission at certain intervals is surely one of the greatest motivators of all. It's like looking on a map and seeing at any moment where you are, how much do you have to go and which path you have to chose.
24. Spend Time Outside
If you can do something creative, like gardening or landscaping, even better. But it's ok even if you don't. Spending time outside of your box will clear the air inside. When you get back, everything will be fresher and shinier. And something fresher is always a nice motivator.
25. Keep A Clean Inbox
That's one of the few GTD concepts I still use and it proves to be a great motivator. A clean inbox helps a smooth thoughts flow. A smooth thoughts flow let me be in the moment without any hidden burdens. Being in the moment is usually all I need to actually start doing things.
26. Don't Aim For Perfection
It will soon drain you out. Aiming to be better is the real game. Perfection is a dead end, nothing really happens after you reached to it. Accepting that you can be better instead of perfect leaves some room for growth. And that means you have a reason to do more. And that's what we usually call motivation, right?
27. Do One Thing At A Time
Multitasking is a myth. Even computers processors aren't really doing multi-tasking, that's what we perceive. Instead they have a single frequency and several parallel buses managing information, faking a multi-tasking activity. Multitasking is creating internal conflicts, both in humans and in computers. You end up spending more time solving those conflicts than actually working.
28. Keep A Source Of Inspiring Readings
You're not always completely down, most of the time you're just averagish, just one sentence away from your best shape. Be sure to keep around a list of inspiring readings. Quotes, blog posts, ebooks, whatever works for you. You can start with 100 ways to live a better life, for instance.
29. Put On Some Good Music
Just let it there, floating around, don't turn the volume knob. Just enough to recreate a pleasant atmosphere. Music speaks to areas you can't control with logical tools, yet is so powerful that can completely shift your mood in a second. The only thing better than silence is good music.
30. Don't Fall Into The Productivity Trap
It's not how much you do, but how much of it really matters. Doing stuff just for filling up notebooks with tasks won't make you feel motivated. On the other side, whenever you're doing something that matters, your planing and organizing activities will just flow.
31. Keep Your Life Lenses Clean
Your camera objective may be blurred but you don't know. This is why you get the same picture again and again, this is why feel stuck and can't seem to see any progress. Sometimes all you have to do is to clean up your lenses. It takes a little bit of courage but it's worth the trouble.
32. Clean Up Your House
I know you need motivation for that too, but believe me, it's a fantastic way to clean up your internal garbage. Cleaning up your house is not a chore, it's a necessity. Your action paths may be clogged the same way your floor is sticky. And most of the time unsticking the floor will open your mind again.
33. Stop Reading This And Get To Work
It was fun reading it, I'm sure. But it won't get things done in your place. Inspiration is a good motivator, but don't abuse it. Now, that you are all energized, it's time for you to get back to work. Of course, you can bookmark this post for future motivation sessions, but for now, just go back to work.
I am a citizen of the world, known by the name Dragos Roua. I'm on a never-ending trip in which I discover, experience, share, seek and create many wonderful worlds. You wanna join me?
Learn how I completely changed my thoughts and created my own millionaire mindset.
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Learning to ignore is a fantastic lesson. Much more rewarding that you think. There must be an art of ignoring and they should teach it in universities. Spanning your focus in so many areas will only weaken you. Ignoring what's unimportant will free up energy and help you stay focused and productive.
2. Understand What Makes You Bored
And avoid it. Boredom is a nasty place to be. But as any other state of your being can be understood and you can identify the triggers. Once you understand that, you can safely go away from the gray zone. Takes some time but it really worth the effort.
3. Laugh More Often
Watch comedies, read comics. Throw away that ugly seriousness form your face. Laughing is a safety valve for your stress relief mechanism. It actually let it out from your body in bursts. And while you're laughing you can still learn new stuff, like personal development lessons from Dumbo.
4. Keep A Log Of Your Breakthroughs
Do you remember when you had the first major success of your life? I thought so. We tend to overlook this simple habit of writing down our feelings every time we have a major breakthrough in our lives. Keep a log of your successes. And get inspired by it.
5. Exercise
This is one the easiest and simplest way to get motivated. Just walk out from the office, start doing some pushups or just go for a short run around the house. It will instantly declutter your physical body. Every time you exercise, you produce endorphins. Endorphins are good.
6. Create A Custom Environment
You can't be motivated if you work in an environment which does not represent you. Make changes, adjust, improve. Doesn't matter if it's about your job office or your home. Whatever the space you work in, make it yours somehow, that will lower your unconscious adaptation efforts and you'll have more time dedicated to the actual tasks.
7. Read Success Stories
Like in other people success stories. Get inspired. Admire them (with caution, but do admire them). Reading about success will make it more available to you and will fuel your efforts towards its achievement. And of course, you can learn how to be successful too.
8. Switch Tasks
You will get bored if you work on the same projects for too long. Boredom kills motivation. Try having several small projects that you can land on whenever you feel you're on the verge of a burn out. Not to mention that switching tasks will instantly create fresh perspectives, helping you solve problems faster.
9. Assess Your Progress
If you work constantly you will make some progress, that's a rule. You may have the impression that you're not going anywhere but that's because you're skipping all those little milestones you go through every day. Watching back with satisfaction at what you created will surely boost your energy.
10. Talk About Your Projects
With your friends or family. Let the people know you're doing stuff. That will often make yourself aware of the fact that you're actually doing stuff and enjoy doing it. It will also create a certain level of accountability that will most likely push you forward.
11. Avoid Energy Vampires
Naysayers, pessimists, braggers they all are sucking up your energy. Don't get caught in such power games, avoid at all costs those energy leaks. Even if that means you'll isolate more often. It's better to do work in your own secluded realm than to try to resist to a diminisihing environment.
12. Write Clear Goals
Most of the time that translates to actually write down your goals, you already have them clear in your mind. But take them out of your mind, put them in a trusted system and move on. Your mind works better when it knows what it has to do not when it spends time figuring what it has to do.
13. Exercise Satisfaction
Once you finished some task, reward yourself. Give yourself a prize. No need to be a huge one, but just enough to create the habit. Look forward to it while you're working, wait for it, praise for it. In time you'll become addicted to this fulfillment satisfaction and you won't stop until you reach it.
14. Accept Failure
As part of the game. Failure, like success, is just a result of your actions, nothing more. One of the biggest motivation enemies is fear of failure. Fear that your outcome will turn bad. Accept it. It may turn bad, but that doesn't mean you have to stop doing what you're doing. Give your best and hope for the best.
15. Use Affirmations
Like writing down your intentions, your goals, your current status. Affirmations are a very powerful tool, hugely underrated. People find it awkward to write self-directed messages and read them out loud. News flash: you're doing this all the time, unconsciously. So why not doing it consciously? Start with a morning phrase.
16. Play Games
Impersonate people. Imitate animals. Pretend you're Sindbad the Sailor. Playing challenging games will relax your mind and at the same time will gather more resources from secret sources. A good motivation is always blended with joy. You can start with a simple game like how to get from a to b in 5 random steps.
17. Say "No"
Say "no" to distractions, to trolls, to depression. Exercising "no"'s is liberating. Too often too many commitments are making your life a continuous chore. Limit your promises and only get into things you really want to finish. Once you do that, go to a mirror, smile and start to politely exercise your "no"'s.
18. Look For Positive People
Sadness, whining and complaining doesn't play well with motivation. On the contrary. But positive, optimistic, energetic people will always shift your vibration in the right direction. Search them, find them and become their friend. Sometimes all you need to get motivated is to be surrounded by shiny happy people.
19. Difficulty Is Part Of The Game
Learn to work under pressure. Some things are more difficult than other. Accept that fact and focus on doing what you have to do not on your feelings of dissatisfaction. Difficulty is often what makes things worth doing. No sweat, no glory. Whenever I feel something is going to be tough, I'm usually more motivated to do it. The reward will be higher.
20. Create Personal Challenges
Personal challenges are short term goals, usually from 15 to 90 days. Like starting to exercise, or creating a habit from scratch in 15 days. Using personal challenges strengthen your inner power the same way exercising is strengthening your muscles. The more you do, the more motivated you feel to do even more.
21. Chose Positive Motivation
Whenever you lock in your motivation, do your best to keep it on the positive side, which is rooted in service. As opposed to the negative motivation, which is basically rooted in fear. Negative motivation works just the same, only it lasts significantly less than positive motivation.
22. Release Your Guardians
You do have guardians and some of them are pretty nasty. They won't let you do your stuff. The bad thing about your guardians is that most of the time they're working at the unconscious level, really difficult to interact with. Just accept, acknowledge and let them go. You will be much better off.
23. Enforce Your Personal Mission
You gotta have a personal mission. If you don't, go find one fast. Reinforcing your personal mission at certain intervals is surely one of the greatest motivators of all. It's like looking on a map and seeing at any moment where you are, how much do you have to go and which path you have to chose.
24. Spend Time Outside
If you can do something creative, like gardening or landscaping, even better. But it's ok even if you don't. Spending time outside of your box will clear the air inside. When you get back, everything will be fresher and shinier. And something fresher is always a nice motivator.
25. Keep A Clean Inbox
That's one of the few GTD concepts I still use and it proves to be a great motivator. A clean inbox helps a smooth thoughts flow. A smooth thoughts flow let me be in the moment without any hidden burdens. Being in the moment is usually all I need to actually start doing things.
26. Don't Aim For Perfection
It will soon drain you out. Aiming to be better is the real game. Perfection is a dead end, nothing really happens after you reached to it. Accepting that you can be better instead of perfect leaves some room for growth. And that means you have a reason to do more. And that's what we usually call motivation, right?
27. Do One Thing At A Time
Multitasking is a myth. Even computers processors aren't really doing multi-tasking, that's what we perceive. Instead they have a single frequency and several parallel buses managing information, faking a multi-tasking activity. Multitasking is creating internal conflicts, both in humans and in computers. You end up spending more time solving those conflicts than actually working.
28. Keep A Source Of Inspiring Readings
You're not always completely down, most of the time you're just averagish, just one sentence away from your best shape. Be sure to keep around a list of inspiring readings. Quotes, blog posts, ebooks, whatever works for you. You can start with 100 ways to live a better life, for instance.
29. Put On Some Good Music
Just let it there, floating around, don't turn the volume knob. Just enough to recreate a pleasant atmosphere. Music speaks to areas you can't control with logical tools, yet is so powerful that can completely shift your mood in a second. The only thing better than silence is good music.
30. Don't Fall Into The Productivity Trap
It's not how much you do, but how much of it really matters. Doing stuff just for filling up notebooks with tasks won't make you feel motivated. On the other side, whenever you're doing something that matters, your planing and organizing activities will just flow.
31. Keep Your Life Lenses Clean
Your camera objective may be blurred but you don't know. This is why you get the same picture again and again, this is why feel stuck and can't seem to see any progress. Sometimes all you have to do is to clean up your lenses. It takes a little bit of courage but it's worth the trouble.
32. Clean Up Your House
I know you need motivation for that too, but believe me, it's a fantastic way to clean up your internal garbage. Cleaning up your house is not a chore, it's a necessity. Your action paths may be clogged the same way your floor is sticky. And most of the time unsticking the floor will open your mind again.
33. Stop Reading This And Get To Work
It was fun reading it, I'm sure. But it won't get things done in your place. Inspiration is a good motivator, but don't abuse it. Now, that you are all energized, it's time for you to get back to work. Of course, you can bookmark this post for future motivation sessions, but for now, just go back to work.
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Wealth and Fortune - Brainstorming to Wealth, Gary Spirer
Overview
It is easy to become comfortable and complacent. If you are looking to move from the 99% of the general population to the 1% of the truly wealthy, then you need to look at new ways of earning, financial planning and wealth creation.
Brainstorming
Much of the wealth in this country is the direct or indirect result of innovation and disruptive invention. Microsoft is as famous for the creation of an entire generation of millionaires and the movement of Bill Gates from college dropout to one of the world's top earners as it is for the development of the personal computer that we have come to rely upon.
Jobs do not generally provide enough capital to create real movement in wealth. Real estate holdings, development of business, innovative patents and celebrity are more likely sources of real movement in wealth.
Ideas for business, innovation and invention come from creative thinking, open environments and the fostering of brain storming techniques. It is important to learn to listen for opportunity, to be open to even the wildest of ideas and to drive innovation in the way you approach work, wealth creation and finance in order to create disruptive movement in your own financial picture.
Surround yourself with creative thinkers, attend workshops and seminars, go to innovation museums and exhibits, meet new people from all walks of life and listen for opportunities.
Establish time for quiet reflection, meditation and strategic planning from the ideas you hear. Process carefully, plan appropriately and take time to do the proper research before acting on ideas. But when you have it mapped out, don't be afraid to jump.
Network
There is strength in numbers. Build the type of relationships that power up ideas. Join associations, professional organizations and meet with creative minds of all ages to develop and exercise your ability to be innovative and to generate both new ideas and new money.
People who invest in ideas have powerful positive energy. They are open and great facilitators for innovation. They belief in wealth mobility, as they have experienced it and in some cases they have created it; they will help you to develop the same characteristics as environment and positive energy can lead to great new ideas.
Conclusion
Acting as you always have will lead to the same results you have always gotten. Break out, break the box and be willing to explore even the wildest notions for new sources of revenue, innovation and wealth.
Moving into the upper levels of wealth will always be a daunting task. Acting differently, thinking creatively and nurturing all ideas to find what will be the vehicle for your wealth mobility is essential.
Think, reflect, plan and act. New results are just a brainstorm away.
Gary Spirer, MBA, has developed, syndicated and invested in properties that in today's value, aggregate over $500 million. He now sharing his best business, entrepreneur, and investment secrets for free at http://www.stepsto.com.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gary_Spirer
It is easy to become comfortable and complacent. If you are looking to move from the 99% of the general population to the 1% of the truly wealthy, then you need to look at new ways of earning, financial planning and wealth creation.
Brainstorming
Much of the wealth in this country is the direct or indirect result of innovation and disruptive invention. Microsoft is as famous for the creation of an entire generation of millionaires and the movement of Bill Gates from college dropout to one of the world's top earners as it is for the development of the personal computer that we have come to rely upon.
Jobs do not generally provide enough capital to create real movement in wealth. Real estate holdings, development of business, innovative patents and celebrity are more likely sources of real movement in wealth.
Ideas for business, innovation and invention come from creative thinking, open environments and the fostering of brain storming techniques. It is important to learn to listen for opportunity, to be open to even the wildest of ideas and to drive innovation in the way you approach work, wealth creation and finance in order to create disruptive movement in your own financial picture.
Surround yourself with creative thinkers, attend workshops and seminars, go to innovation museums and exhibits, meet new people from all walks of life and listen for opportunities.
Establish time for quiet reflection, meditation and strategic planning from the ideas you hear. Process carefully, plan appropriately and take time to do the proper research before acting on ideas. But when you have it mapped out, don't be afraid to jump.
Network
There is strength in numbers. Build the type of relationships that power up ideas. Join associations, professional organizations and meet with creative minds of all ages to develop and exercise your ability to be innovative and to generate both new ideas and new money.
People who invest in ideas have powerful positive energy. They are open and great facilitators for innovation. They belief in wealth mobility, as they have experienced it and in some cases they have created it; they will help you to develop the same characteristics as environment and positive energy can lead to great new ideas.
Conclusion
Acting as you always have will lead to the same results you have always gotten. Break out, break the box and be willing to explore even the wildest notions for new sources of revenue, innovation and wealth.
Moving into the upper levels of wealth will always be a daunting task. Acting differently, thinking creatively and nurturing all ideas to find what will be the vehicle for your wealth mobility is essential.
Think, reflect, plan and act. New results are just a brainstorm away.
Gary Spirer, MBA, has developed, syndicated and invested in properties that in today's value, aggregate over $500 million. He now sharing his best business, entrepreneur, and investment secrets for free at http://www.stepsto.com.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gary_Spirer
Assets and Liabilities
If you want to become rich and be able to retire early then the most important thing you learn is the difference between an asset and a liability. Rich people understand the difference and buy assets that make them richer, the poor and middle class do not understand the difference and thus make poor investment decisions that instead of making them richer actually work to make them poorer.
People work all their lives in an attempt to get richer, but with every pay increase their debt and expenses also increases. This increase in debt and expenses forces them to work harder just so they can make ends meet. With the simple understanding of the difference between assets and liabilities these people could be getting richer and richer instead of poorer and poorer.
If you go to your bank and ask them what an asset is they will tell you it is anything you own that has monetary value. But this is often inflated as value is just an idea until it is actually sold. This is NOT what an asset it. Your suits, your computer, your playstation, your cars are not assets they are liabilities. If you want to be rich then you need to start thinking like the rich do and the rich think differently about assets and liabilities.
To make it really simple to understand an asset is something that puts money in your pocket on a regular basis and a liability is something that takes money out of your pocket on a regular basis. For example, you car is not an asset it is a liability because it takes money out of your pocket for petrol, insurance, registration and maintenance. Your house that you live in is not an asset but is a liability because it takes money out of your pocket through maintenance, insurance, council rates and taxes etc. Rental investment properties can be both assets and liabilities depending on whether or not they put money into your pocket on a regular basis or take money out.
So an asset puts money into your pocket and a liability takes money out of your pocket. Rich people know the difference between assets and liabilities and they buy assets. By purchasing assets that generate you income you are increasing your means. Each time you purchase an asset your income goes up, giving you more disposable income and more money to invest each and every year. If you continue to use your money wisely your income will go up and up and up and it will be easier and easier to become richer and richer.
A lot of people will tell you that the smart thing to do is to save money. But rich people think saving money is risky. The cost of living is constantly going up due to inflation, which means the buying power of the dollar gets less and less every year. My mum used to be able to buy a bag of lollies for a penny when she was a kid, and now you can barely buy a bag of lollies for $1. Its the same thing, but the buying power of the dollar has gone down. So every year your money is going down in value if you simply save it.
However, if you purchase an asset like an investment property, when the buying power of the dollar goes down your property goes up in price to compensate, and not only that but your rents also go up to compensate. All the expenses of inflation are passed onto other people so you don't lose money at all. If you just save money in the bank you $100,000 today would be effectively be worth a lot less in 10 years time.
Rich people don't work for money they work to buy assets that generate them income. They understand that money decreases in value and they want to buy assets that will work for them so they don't have to work for money. Both rich people are poor people go to work, but their motives for working create bipolar outcomes. One becomes richer as they work less and less and one becomes poorer as they work more and more.
Finding assets to purchase can be a little more difficult than simply understanding the difference between an asset and a liability. I want to help you learn more about purchasing assets so you can become richer and richer. That is why I created a free email training program for anyone who wants to learn more. Go to http://www.richacademy.com and sign up now and you will receive a free copy of my audio teaching "How To Become Rich Without Making More Money". But hurry while it is still free.
If you want to be rich first you need to understand the difference between an asset and a liability. Then you need to learn how to buy assets. So don't waste anymore time. Hurry over to http://www.richacademy.com and sign up today and start learning how you can be rich.
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People work all their lives in an attempt to get richer, but with every pay increase their debt and expenses also increases. This increase in debt and expenses forces them to work harder just so they can make ends meet. With the simple understanding of the difference between assets and liabilities these people could be getting richer and richer instead of poorer and poorer.
If you go to your bank and ask them what an asset is they will tell you it is anything you own that has monetary value. But this is often inflated as value is just an idea until it is actually sold. This is NOT what an asset it. Your suits, your computer, your playstation, your cars are not assets they are liabilities. If you want to be rich then you need to start thinking like the rich do and the rich think differently about assets and liabilities.
To make it really simple to understand an asset is something that puts money in your pocket on a regular basis and a liability is something that takes money out of your pocket on a regular basis. For example, you car is not an asset it is a liability because it takes money out of your pocket for petrol, insurance, registration and maintenance. Your house that you live in is not an asset but is a liability because it takes money out of your pocket through maintenance, insurance, council rates and taxes etc. Rental investment properties can be both assets and liabilities depending on whether or not they put money into your pocket on a regular basis or take money out.
So an asset puts money into your pocket and a liability takes money out of your pocket. Rich people know the difference between assets and liabilities and they buy assets. By purchasing assets that generate you income you are increasing your means. Each time you purchase an asset your income goes up, giving you more disposable income and more money to invest each and every year. If you continue to use your money wisely your income will go up and up and up and it will be easier and easier to become richer and richer.
A lot of people will tell you that the smart thing to do is to save money. But rich people think saving money is risky. The cost of living is constantly going up due to inflation, which means the buying power of the dollar gets less and less every year. My mum used to be able to buy a bag of lollies for a penny when she was a kid, and now you can barely buy a bag of lollies for $1. Its the same thing, but the buying power of the dollar has gone down. So every year your money is going down in value if you simply save it.
However, if you purchase an asset like an investment property, when the buying power of the dollar goes down your property goes up in price to compensate, and not only that but your rents also go up to compensate. All the expenses of inflation are passed onto other people so you don't lose money at all. If you just save money in the bank you $100,000 today would be effectively be worth a lot less in 10 years time.
Rich people don't work for money they work to buy assets that generate them income. They understand that money decreases in value and they want to buy assets that will work for them so they don't have to work for money. Both rich people are poor people go to work, but their motives for working create bipolar outcomes. One becomes richer as they work less and less and one becomes poorer as they work more and more.
Finding assets to purchase can be a little more difficult than simply understanding the difference between an asset and a liability. I want to help you learn more about purchasing assets so you can become richer and richer. That is why I created a free email training program for anyone who wants to learn more. Go to http://www.richacademy.com and sign up now and you will receive a free copy of my audio teaching "How To Become Rich Without Making More Money". But hurry while it is still free.
If you want to be rich first you need to understand the difference between an asset and a liability. Then you need to learn how to buy assets. So don't waste anymore time. Hurry over to http://www.richacademy.com and sign up today and start learning how you can be rich.
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Michael Jordon Wealth Mentality
Making $250,000 in a year sounds like an unattainable amount for some people. But if you posses the "Michael Jordan Wealth Mentality" then it becomes achievable. Michael Jordan is arguably the greatest basketball player ever to play the game. And I remember NBA TV analyst, Ahmad Rashad asking Jordan in an interview how he consistently scores 30 plus points per game? Jordan simply replied "I don't look at it as scoring 30 or 40 points a game, my game-plan is to just make 4 lay-ups per quarter, plus the free-throws when I get fouled." Looking at it that way, four lay-ups in twelve minutes seems pretty achievable and once completed totals 32 points a game and once you add in the free throws you can see how Jordan consistently scored 30 to 40 points.
Lets analyze how you can make $250,000 in a year using the "Michael Jordan Wealth Mentality." A quarter of a million dollars a year is about $20,000 per month or $5,000 per week. Let's start with an item (a Polo shirt) that I sold for $35. In order to make $5,000 in a week I had to sell roughly 140 shirts. Selling 140 of the same item was difficult for me at first and since I got exhausted driving all over Dallas/Fort Worth to sell them, I used a strategy typically used by wealthy individuals called leverage, which is using other people's time, money, or efforts to achieve a desired result. I agreed to let three others sell the items for me in return for a portion of the profits.
Now 140 items divided by three people is about 47 items per week or only 10 polo shirts per day individually (and that's only a 5 day work-week). Now that was a cakewalk for me and it became so easy that I advertised on Craig's List and got two more people selling items for me in Houston, TX and then small towns (Tyler, Longview, etc.) and on and on. And it gets even more easier once you add various items like Sean John Jeans, NBA hats etc. to your inventory. Since I knew the market for hip-hop clothing I succeeded, but you can substitute clothing for any other product or service of your choice and be on your way to generating six-figures.
James "Bird" Guess was once homeless after high school, yet he personally financed his way through college and graduated with hopes of climbing the corporate ladder and becoming a rich executive. But after only working a year in "Corporate America," James' ambition and goals outgrew his corporate career plan and he decided to risk everything to go after wealth, success, and the "American Dream."
Starting with only $1,000 saved from college, poor credit, and a dream to become a millionaire, James single-handedly built a half-million dollar enterprise selling clothes from the trunk of his car.
James is now the President & Founder of The $chool of Money & Wealth, and is the best selling author of the book How I Made A Quarter Million Dollars From the Trunk of My Car.
To learn more about James please visit http://www.JamesBirdGuess.com.
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Lets analyze how you can make $250,000 in a year using the "Michael Jordan Wealth Mentality." A quarter of a million dollars a year is about $20,000 per month or $5,000 per week. Let's start with an item (a Polo shirt) that I sold for $35. In order to make $5,000 in a week I had to sell roughly 140 shirts. Selling 140 of the same item was difficult for me at first and since I got exhausted driving all over Dallas/Fort Worth to sell them, I used a strategy typically used by wealthy individuals called leverage, which is using other people's time, money, or efforts to achieve a desired result. I agreed to let three others sell the items for me in return for a portion of the profits.
Now 140 items divided by three people is about 47 items per week or only 10 polo shirts per day individually (and that's only a 5 day work-week). Now that was a cakewalk for me and it became so easy that I advertised on Craig's List and got two more people selling items for me in Houston, TX and then small towns (Tyler, Longview, etc.) and on and on. And it gets even more easier once you add various items like Sean John Jeans, NBA hats etc. to your inventory. Since I knew the market for hip-hop clothing I succeeded, but you can substitute clothing for any other product or service of your choice and be on your way to generating six-figures.
James "Bird" Guess was once homeless after high school, yet he personally financed his way through college and graduated with hopes of climbing the corporate ladder and becoming a rich executive. But after only working a year in "Corporate America," James' ambition and goals outgrew his corporate career plan and he decided to risk everything to go after wealth, success, and the "American Dream."
Starting with only $1,000 saved from college, poor credit, and a dream to become a millionaire, James single-handedly built a half-million dollar enterprise selling clothes from the trunk of his car.
James is now the President & Founder of The $chool of Money & Wealth, and is the best selling author of the book How I Made A Quarter Million Dollars From the Trunk of My Car.
To learn more about James please visit http://www.JamesBirdGuess.com.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Achievement Indicators
In order to be a force to be reckoned with in society, you need to take serious steps to reach into your inner being. Realize that you came into existence for a particular reason and not just to add to numbers. People who strive to achieve success are visionary in nature and focused to see their dreams come to pass.
Equally important is that a visionary individual must also be a starter many times. Sometimes in life things fail to work out thus prepare yourself psychologically to pull yourself up again. Keep trying and you are bound to achieve success in whatever you pursue in life. We dream of a better tomorrow but we do not do anything about it and hence our dreams remain just that, dreams.
Starters are the individuals who have defeated the tendency of procrastination and fear. They believe in self motivation and hence do not wait for someone else to trigger them into action. Rather than being copy cats, successful people are innovators. Winners after dreaming they wake up and bring the dream to open manifestation.
Achievers are able to galvanize others to attain a common purpose and mission. This kind of initiative individuals, are the ones that borne leadership qualities and thus their own personal development. Ask yourself this, what can I do to bring about a better tomorrow? Keep in mind that you hold the key to your destiny, therefore make use it appropriately.
Successful people are usually not the strongest, nor are they the most intelligent individuals but rather they are those who are receptive to change and act rather than wait for conditions to be favorable.
Belsheba shares her experience in personal growth that will definitely add value to your life. Website: Personal Development Tips.
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Equally important is that a visionary individual must also be a starter many times. Sometimes in life things fail to work out thus prepare yourself psychologically to pull yourself up again. Keep trying and you are bound to achieve success in whatever you pursue in life. We dream of a better tomorrow but we do not do anything about it and hence our dreams remain just that, dreams.
Starters are the individuals who have defeated the tendency of procrastination and fear. They believe in self motivation and hence do not wait for someone else to trigger them into action. Rather than being copy cats, successful people are innovators. Winners after dreaming they wake up and bring the dream to open manifestation.
Achievers are able to galvanize others to attain a common purpose and mission. This kind of initiative individuals, are the ones that borne leadership qualities and thus their own personal development. Ask yourself this, what can I do to bring about a better tomorrow? Keep in mind that you hold the key to your destiny, therefore make use it appropriately.
Successful people are usually not the strongest, nor are they the most intelligent individuals but rather they are those who are receptive to change and act rather than wait for conditions to be favorable.
Belsheba shares her experience in personal growth that will definitely add value to your life. Website: Personal Development Tips.
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Creative Marketing
Blackbird convention on my lawn. The feathered creatures followed the maintenance workers who spread the winter seed and winter fertilizer. Birds provide a valuable lesson for marketers. Go where the pickings are available. Go where the customers are located.
Lexus used this principle at the beginning of the economic downturn, nice way to say the beginning of the recession. Since customers were not coming into the showroom in sufficient numbers, a few creative Lexus dealers followed the blackbird method. These energetic salesmen took the fleet of cars to where the customers were located. What a novel concept - go to the customers. While other dealerships, domestic and international, were making another pot of coffee and boo-hooing the lack of business, Lexus became creative. Lexus took the fleet of cars to the country clubs, golf courses, and any other place they would expect affluent people to inhabit. They simply introduced themselves and asked if the people had ever test driven a Lexus. If the individual was interested in a test drive, and many were, then the opportunity presented itself to demonstrate the luxury features of a Lexus. Being a Lexus owner, myself, I know the impressiveness of that test drive.
Once the people settled into the cushy leather seats which wrapped around them like their favorite snuggly blanket, experienced the smooth "won't spill a drop of your open coffee cup" ride, enjoyed the quadraphonic sound and all of the other delightful toys which come as features on a luxury automobile. After such a delightful experience, getting back in their old car (even though it was probably only a year or two old), the old car felt shabby in comparison. Lexus closed an amazingly high percentage of those test drives.
Once you are accustomed to luxury, stepping backwards becomes even more difficult. Everything is relative. If you are currently driving a basic car which is ten years old or older, driving a new car with even a few more features presents a pleasing experience. The point is that Lexus thought creatively and took their fleet to where the customers were located. If Mohammed is not coming to the mountain, then take the mountain to Mohammed.
The old Southern expression is "Do not expect fried chicken to fly in the window." You must design and take action on your success plan. The blackbirds which infested my lawn came to the location of the seed. They did not expect the seed to be delivered to their nest.
Are you expecting customers to be deposited in your business or sales funnel or are you taking creative and massive action to attract customers to you?
Amazon called everyone into their offices at the beginning of the recession and said, "There is a big recession coming. Let's miss it." Like Lexus, Amazon took a carefully designed massive action plan and aggressively implemented that plan. Consequently when everyone else was whining about holiday sales being off last Christmas, Amazon sales were significantly higher.
So many salesmen and businesses sit back waiting for customers to come to them instead of using the Doobie Brothers approach and "Takin' it to the Streets." Be creative, go to where the customers are located and expect positive results.
Even a blackbird knows where the find the seeds. Find your own seeds of success.
28 years experience as a successful entrepreneur, post-graduate degrees in Communication and Alternate Dispute Resolution, and a proven track record as a teacher, coach and mentor, revealed the success formula.
Network marketing achievements for the last 4 years. Executive Committee, Ethics Committee, Certified Consultant Seminar Program, Leadership Support Team, Leadership Award Synergy Saturday, Empower Magazine, Millionaire Mastermind Group and selected as Consultant of the Month by Network Marketing Magazine in July 2007.
Elaine Love, OwnerResults For Life LLC
Certified Master M3 Consultant303-284-0514resultsforlife@gmail.com
http://www.Elaine4Success.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Elaine_Love
Lexus used this principle at the beginning of the economic downturn, nice way to say the beginning of the recession. Since customers were not coming into the showroom in sufficient numbers, a few creative Lexus dealers followed the blackbird method. These energetic salesmen took the fleet of cars to where the customers were located. What a novel concept - go to the customers. While other dealerships, domestic and international, were making another pot of coffee and boo-hooing the lack of business, Lexus became creative. Lexus took the fleet of cars to the country clubs, golf courses, and any other place they would expect affluent people to inhabit. They simply introduced themselves and asked if the people had ever test driven a Lexus. If the individual was interested in a test drive, and many were, then the opportunity presented itself to demonstrate the luxury features of a Lexus. Being a Lexus owner, myself, I know the impressiveness of that test drive.
Once the people settled into the cushy leather seats which wrapped around them like their favorite snuggly blanket, experienced the smooth "won't spill a drop of your open coffee cup" ride, enjoyed the quadraphonic sound and all of the other delightful toys which come as features on a luxury automobile. After such a delightful experience, getting back in their old car (even though it was probably only a year or two old), the old car felt shabby in comparison. Lexus closed an amazingly high percentage of those test drives.
Once you are accustomed to luxury, stepping backwards becomes even more difficult. Everything is relative. If you are currently driving a basic car which is ten years old or older, driving a new car with even a few more features presents a pleasing experience. The point is that Lexus thought creatively and took their fleet to where the customers were located. If Mohammed is not coming to the mountain, then take the mountain to Mohammed.
The old Southern expression is "Do not expect fried chicken to fly in the window." You must design and take action on your success plan. The blackbirds which infested my lawn came to the location of the seed. They did not expect the seed to be delivered to their nest.
Are you expecting customers to be deposited in your business or sales funnel or are you taking creative and massive action to attract customers to you?
Amazon called everyone into their offices at the beginning of the recession and said, "There is a big recession coming. Let's miss it." Like Lexus, Amazon took a carefully designed massive action plan and aggressively implemented that plan. Consequently when everyone else was whining about holiday sales being off last Christmas, Amazon sales were significantly higher.
So many salesmen and businesses sit back waiting for customers to come to them instead of using the Doobie Brothers approach and "Takin' it to the Streets." Be creative, go to where the customers are located and expect positive results.
Even a blackbird knows where the find the seeds. Find your own seeds of success.
28 years experience as a successful entrepreneur, post-graduate degrees in Communication and Alternate Dispute Resolution, and a proven track record as a teacher, coach and mentor, revealed the success formula.
Network marketing achievements for the last 4 years. Executive Committee, Ethics Committee, Certified Consultant Seminar Program, Leadership Support Team, Leadership Award Synergy Saturday, Empower Magazine, Millionaire Mastermind Group and selected as Consultant of the Month by Network Marketing Magazine in July 2007.
Elaine Love, OwnerResults For Life LLC
Certified Master M3 Consultant303-284-0514resultsforlife@gmail.com
http://www.Elaine4Success.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Elaine_Love
Motivation and Reasons to Escape the Rat Race
I have saved and invested and run web sites for years. I work at night for a company for the benefits. I have been with this company for almost ten years.
The person who trained me at my night job was recently removed from the site for trivial offenses. Now he has a new site with the same company.
THIS GUY NOW WORKS 2 GRAVEYARDS, 2 SWINGSHIFTS, AND 1 DAY SHIFT!!!
Is that a screwed up schedule or what? To give a company ten good years and then get the shaft like that.
And he will not complain to the state about any of it.
Don't let this happen to you! Save money, learn to build a business, invest, LBYM, and be mindful of punks in the workplace.
Take a look at www.financialindependenceuniversity.com and make a plan for YOUR financial future. I guess we can't count on "reputable companies" anymore. Seniority is gone. Common sense and personal ethics are gone.
Abandon the "I'm not good enough" attitude and take charge of your life. I have had real good feedback from my site. While it obviously will not solve everyone's problems all the time, I suggest a look.
List your reasons for wanting to escape the rat race. BE COMPLETELY HONEST WITH YOURSELF, PLEASE!! Let the negative and the positive reasons drive you.
Best of luck.
The person who trained me at my night job was recently removed from the site for trivial offenses. Now he has a new site with the same company.
THIS GUY NOW WORKS 2 GRAVEYARDS, 2 SWINGSHIFTS, AND 1 DAY SHIFT!!!
Is that a screwed up schedule or what? To give a company ten good years and then get the shaft like that.
And he will not complain to the state about any of it.
Don't let this happen to you! Save money, learn to build a business, invest, LBYM, and be mindful of punks in the workplace.
Take a look at www.financialindependenceuniversity.com and make a plan for YOUR financial future. I guess we can't count on "reputable companies" anymore. Seniority is gone. Common sense and personal ethics are gone.
Abandon the "I'm not good enough" attitude and take charge of your life. I have had real good feedback from my site. While it obviously will not solve everyone's problems all the time, I suggest a look.
List your reasons for wanting to escape the rat race. BE COMPLETELY HONEST WITH YOURSELF, PLEASE!! Let the negative and the positive reasons drive you.
Best of luck.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
A Good Mind Set for Success
People talk about mindsets and millionaire mindsets all the time.
Finding the millionaire mindset is like a holy grail in investing and entrepreneurship.
I would describe a good mindset for success like this:
1) Know what you want, and be able to explain it.
2) Make a plan and two back up plans that take you to where you want to be. Set subgoals from where you are now to where you want to be.
3) Get help from others, ie a mastermind alliance or business consultant. Talk to people who have done what you want to do.
4) Resolve in advance to tackle the setbacks and challenges that will arise.
5) Write down all of the benefits of reaching your goal. Doing this will reinforce the desire to reach the goal and deal with the obstacles. It may also help you to define what you want.
6) Take action on your goal every day.
7) Read "The Forbidden Book of Getting What You Want." This book will get you going on developing the proper mindset. Despite some typos, this book delivers. You can read the reviews by clicking on the ad at your right.
Finding the millionaire mindset is like a holy grail in investing and entrepreneurship.
I would describe a good mindset for success like this:
1) Know what you want, and be able to explain it.
2) Make a plan and two back up plans that take you to where you want to be. Set subgoals from where you are now to where you want to be.
3) Get help from others, ie a mastermind alliance or business consultant. Talk to people who have done what you want to do.
4) Resolve in advance to tackle the setbacks and challenges that will arise.
5) Write down all of the benefits of reaching your goal. Doing this will reinforce the desire to reach the goal and deal with the obstacles. It may also help you to define what you want.
6) Take action on your goal every day.
7) Read "The Forbidden Book of Getting What You Want." This book will get you going on developing the proper mindset. Despite some typos, this book delivers. You can read the reviews by clicking on the ad at your right.
How to Become a Billionaire
Off the top of my head, these ideas will halp you to become a billionaire.
1) Quit blaming others for your problems and failures. Accept full responsiblity for your life.
2) Start a business. Science and technology, including health sciences are two of the big fields to look into.
3) Think big. Chase big stuff, not little stuff. Sell things everyone needs or high end stuff the masses want. Acquire a list of customers and resell to them in the future.
4) Have a business model that is as simple as possible. Make sure your business plan is complete.
5) You will work long hours making your billions. Delegate the unimportant stuff. You need to do the important stuff, to make sure it is done right. Make sure your time is never watsed. Have an attorney review your business plan.
6) Study the business plans and annual reports of your competitors, or at least of your favorite, or similar companies. A degree in business goes a long way.
7) Start or join a mastermind alliance. You need to acquire specialized knowledge.
8) Be alert for financial predators. Consult your attorney.
9) Form an LLC or other corporation type at the start of your venture.
10) Back to your business plan. Make sure you have FAQs for customers, investors, employees, etc. You want a kid to be able to understand what you are selling.
11) Read the 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss and Before You Quit Your Job, by Robert T. Kiyosaki. There is information in both books that will help you.
12) Improve and develop your products. Focus on creating and improving your products and the selling of them and avoid doing things that do not directly affect the bottom line.
13) Have a vision for your company. A good vision will keep all hard working employees motivated and will improve morale.
14) Look at the bottom line. How can you sell more? How can you cut expenses? Ask your self these questions. Do things that improve the bottom line.
15) Have a plan. When will you sell your business? Will you takeover another company? There are a lot of things you must plan for.
16) You need capital reserves. You need a golden parachute. You will want a retirement home. You may want to expand your business, etc.
More soon.
1) Quit blaming others for your problems and failures. Accept full responsiblity for your life.
2) Start a business. Science and technology, including health sciences are two of the big fields to look into.
3) Think big. Chase big stuff, not little stuff. Sell things everyone needs or high end stuff the masses want. Acquire a list of customers and resell to them in the future.
4) Have a business model that is as simple as possible. Make sure your business plan is complete.
5) You will work long hours making your billions. Delegate the unimportant stuff. You need to do the important stuff, to make sure it is done right. Make sure your time is never watsed. Have an attorney review your business plan.
6) Study the business plans and annual reports of your competitors, or at least of your favorite, or similar companies. A degree in business goes a long way.
7) Start or join a mastermind alliance. You need to acquire specialized knowledge.
8) Be alert for financial predators. Consult your attorney.
9) Form an LLC or other corporation type at the start of your venture.
10) Back to your business plan. Make sure you have FAQs for customers, investors, employees, etc. You want a kid to be able to understand what you are selling.
11) Read the 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss and Before You Quit Your Job, by Robert T. Kiyosaki. There is information in both books that will help you.
12) Improve and develop your products. Focus on creating and improving your products and the selling of them and avoid doing things that do not directly affect the bottom line.
13) Have a vision for your company. A good vision will keep all hard working employees motivated and will improve morale.
14) Look at the bottom line. How can you sell more? How can you cut expenses? Ask your self these questions. Do things that improve the bottom line.
15) Have a plan. When will you sell your business? Will you takeover another company? There are a lot of things you must plan for.
16) You need capital reserves. You need a golden parachute. You will want a retirement home. You may want to expand your business, etc.
More soon.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Finding Foreclosure Deals Can Be Easy
It's been said that you make money not when you sell real estate, but when you buy it. What this means is that if you can buy a property at a good price you're virtually guaranteed a nice profit. One of the best ways to get a bargain price on a fantastic piece of real estate is to look for foreclosed properties.
If it were easy to make a fortune buying and selling foreclosures, everyone would be doing it. It takes a lot of work to find a potential deal in the first place and then usually requires some repairs before a house is ready to be rented or flipped. The first step is finding potentially profitable deals in the first place.
One way to find repossessed properties that need to be sold is to contact a number of local real estate agents. Some real estate agents specialize in REO's or "real estate owned" by banks or other lending institutions. It will take you some time but if you find a real estate agent that specializes in foreclosures they could bring you a good number of potential deals but no one real estate agent can provide you with all of the possible deals in your area and real estate agents will only have access to properties that have already been repossessed. Many times there are great opportunities to buy properties at bargain prices while the property is still in the foreclosure process.
The only way to find all of the potential deals in your area is to search the county records. County records are available to the public at no cost and hold a wealth of information for investors looking for a great deal. You can look for a notice of sale to tell you when a house will go up for auction. At the auctions, savvy investors snap up the best deals before they ever make it to a real estate agent that specializes in REO's. You can also look for a notice of default to find properties that are in pre-foreclosure and you may be able to find a great deal for a bargain property before that property even goes to auction.
While searching the public records is free, if you value your time it can be pretty costly. There is a huge amount of information to sift through in order to find the gems that you're looking for. Even if you know exactly what to look for it can still be a very time consuming and laborious process. Fortunately, there are companies that have employees that are constantly combing through public records and compiling exactly the kind of information that investors are looking for. For a small fee you can save yourself a tremendous amount of time and easily have access to more deals than you could ever hope to invest in.
Get home foreclosure listings and find foreclosed homes at huge discounts. Learn where to go to find local bank foreclosures, HUD homes, VA homes, IRS repos and more in your area http://www.smartcreditblog.com/foreclosure-lists.html
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=James_Ferris
If it were easy to make a fortune buying and selling foreclosures, everyone would be doing it. It takes a lot of work to find a potential deal in the first place and then usually requires some repairs before a house is ready to be rented or flipped. The first step is finding potentially profitable deals in the first place.
One way to find repossessed properties that need to be sold is to contact a number of local real estate agents. Some real estate agents specialize in REO's or "real estate owned" by banks or other lending institutions. It will take you some time but if you find a real estate agent that specializes in foreclosures they could bring you a good number of potential deals but no one real estate agent can provide you with all of the possible deals in your area and real estate agents will only have access to properties that have already been repossessed. Many times there are great opportunities to buy properties at bargain prices while the property is still in the foreclosure process.
The only way to find all of the potential deals in your area is to search the county records. County records are available to the public at no cost and hold a wealth of information for investors looking for a great deal. You can look for a notice of sale to tell you when a house will go up for auction. At the auctions, savvy investors snap up the best deals before they ever make it to a real estate agent that specializes in REO's. You can also look for a notice of default to find properties that are in pre-foreclosure and you may be able to find a great deal for a bargain property before that property even goes to auction.
While searching the public records is free, if you value your time it can be pretty costly. There is a huge amount of information to sift through in order to find the gems that you're looking for. Even if you know exactly what to look for it can still be a very time consuming and laborious process. Fortunately, there are companies that have employees that are constantly combing through public records and compiling exactly the kind of information that investors are looking for. For a small fee you can save yourself a tremendous amount of time and easily have access to more deals than you could ever hope to invest in.
Get home foreclosure listings and find foreclosed homes at huge discounts. Learn where to go to find local bank foreclosures, HUD homes, VA homes, IRS repos and more in your area http://www.smartcreditblog.com/foreclosure-lists.html
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=James_Ferris
Success is a Feeling
SUCCESS IS A CHOICE
I think there are a lot of people who would argue with me on that. They think success is something that happens to them, if they are lucky.
Some people consider themselves really unlucky and believe that success will never come to them. People who think of themselves as not being successful usually have plenty of reasons why. Perhaps it's because ............
* I don't live in the right location
* It's a consequence of the way my parents brought me up
* I haven't received the recognition I deserve
* the opportunities have just not been there for me
* ___________ won't cooperate with me * (you fill in the blank)
Just think for a moment - are these really reasons, or are they excuses? Do you know of ANYBODY who has succeeded despite "living in the wrong location"? Anybody who has succeeded despite the way their parents raised them? Anybody who has gone on to succeed despite not having gained recognition for their efforts? So are these things reasons why we can't be successful, or obstacles to be overcome on the way to success?
What is success anyway? Is it having a certain level of income, having a particular type of car, living in a fantastic house? A lot of people have those things but are not happy.
While success is usually tied to an achievement or a material acquisition, success is not the actual thing, but it is really the FEELING that those things represent. For example, you train hard, you win a race. You put the trophy on the shelf. Every time you look at it, you feel great. Is it the trophy itself that makes you feel great? No, it is the achievement it represents. You look at the trophy, remember what it took to win it and FEEL a success energy.
So if success is a feeling, then success is also a CHOICE. You can choose how you feel. (If you are not convinced of that it is another whole topic that I'm not going into right now.) If success is a feeling you can teach yourself to feel successful every minute of every day. Focus on your successes, build the success energy in your life. Remember that you get more of what you focus on, so more success will come your way.
CHOOSE SUCCESS, don't wait for it to magically happen to you.
Suzi Morris
My purpose and potential lie in in the area of personal development and coaching. My aim is to challenge, inspire, and inform. I want YOU to be the best that you can be and live life to the full. http://www.theSecret4success.biz
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Suzi_Morris
I think there are a lot of people who would argue with me on that. They think success is something that happens to them, if they are lucky.
Some people consider themselves really unlucky and believe that success will never come to them. People who think of themselves as not being successful usually have plenty of reasons why. Perhaps it's because ............
* I don't live in the right location
* It's a consequence of the way my parents brought me up
* I haven't received the recognition I deserve
* the opportunities have just not been there for me
* ___________ won't cooperate with me * (you fill in the blank)
Just think for a moment - are these really reasons, or are they excuses? Do you know of ANYBODY who has succeeded despite "living in the wrong location"? Anybody who has succeeded despite the way their parents raised them? Anybody who has gone on to succeed despite not having gained recognition for their efforts? So are these things reasons why we can't be successful, or obstacles to be overcome on the way to success?
What is success anyway? Is it having a certain level of income, having a particular type of car, living in a fantastic house? A lot of people have those things but are not happy.
While success is usually tied to an achievement or a material acquisition, success is not the actual thing, but it is really the FEELING that those things represent. For example, you train hard, you win a race. You put the trophy on the shelf. Every time you look at it, you feel great. Is it the trophy itself that makes you feel great? No, it is the achievement it represents. You look at the trophy, remember what it took to win it and FEEL a success energy.
So if success is a feeling, then success is also a CHOICE. You can choose how you feel. (If you are not convinced of that it is another whole topic that I'm not going into right now.) If success is a feeling you can teach yourself to feel successful every minute of every day. Focus on your successes, build the success energy in your life. Remember that you get more of what you focus on, so more success will come your way.
CHOOSE SUCCESS, don't wait for it to magically happen to you.
Suzi Morris
My purpose and potential lie in in the area of personal development and coaching. My aim is to challenge, inspire, and inform. I want YOU to be the best that you can be and live life to the full. http://www.theSecret4success.biz
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Suzi_Morris
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The Genesis of Success - How Success is Achieved
You can read hundreds of success stories and the scenarios are always the same. The names change, the details are all different but the road that leads to success is always the same. There is only one and there are no shortcuts.
It all starts with having a very clear and definite outcome. Sylvester Stallone knew his outcome. He wanted to be a movie star. Donald Trump knew his outcome. He wanted the number one real estate developer. Arnold Schwarzenegger knew his outcome, he wanted to be the number one bodybuilder then become a movie star.
These are only three examples but we could cite thousands of success stories and they all start with a definite purpose - a clear outcome. We cannot achieve a goal that we don't have or reach a destination that is not known.
The path to success begins with a clear and precise objective, a definite goal, a very specific outcome. This point could never be stressed enough. People dream of success, they dream of achieving great deeds yet, they don't even have a clue as to what it is that they want to do.
Once the outcome is clearly defined, a plan or a strategy has to be established. As Sun Tsu writes in The Art of War, "Every battle is won or lost before it is ever fought." The same rule applies to goals and objectives seeking.
The game is won in the strategy room where the plans are made. The plan is the map that will lead to the objective. It is one of the most important tools in goal achieving yet it is also the most neglected.
People will spend more time planning a two weeks vacation than they will on planning an entire life. The we'll-see-as-we-go attitude is not good enough. No head of corporation, army general of head of state would ever dream of wigging it by ear and neither should we. A well thought off plan is absolutely necessary.
Once we have defined the objective and mapped out a plan, the crucial part comes in and that is massive action. This is truly the decisive part. This is where success or failure is spelled out. This is what separates the winners from the could-have-been.
Massive action implies exactly what the term says. People who have attained huge success are known to work long hours. They are dedicated, involved, passionate, focused, committed and determined.
There is a price to pay for achievement. That's a lesson that has not caught on. Instead of taking massive action, most people are looking for the secret formula that will perform miracles. Read the biography of every single successful person and that secret formula is nowhere to be found. It cannot be found for the simple reason that it does not exists.
The story of success is the story of hard work. No matter how talented or how charismatic a person is success requires work. So much work in fact that unless that work becomes a passionate game, chances are very slim that anyone could overcome the challenge.
The way to succeed is not all that complicated and it is certainly no secret. It requires a definite objective, a workable plan and a lot of hard work. That's how it's been done since the dawn of time and it does not look as if it's about to change.
Dr. Raymond Comeau aka Shamou is the Author of ShamouBlog and Owner Administrator of Personal Development for Personal Success Forums
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dr._Raymond_Comeau
It all starts with having a very clear and definite outcome. Sylvester Stallone knew his outcome. He wanted to be a movie star. Donald Trump knew his outcome. He wanted the number one real estate developer. Arnold Schwarzenegger knew his outcome, he wanted to be the number one bodybuilder then become a movie star.
These are only three examples but we could cite thousands of success stories and they all start with a definite purpose - a clear outcome. We cannot achieve a goal that we don't have or reach a destination that is not known.
The path to success begins with a clear and precise objective, a definite goal, a very specific outcome. This point could never be stressed enough. People dream of success, they dream of achieving great deeds yet, they don't even have a clue as to what it is that they want to do.
Once the outcome is clearly defined, a plan or a strategy has to be established. As Sun Tsu writes in The Art of War, "Every battle is won or lost before it is ever fought." The same rule applies to goals and objectives seeking.
The game is won in the strategy room where the plans are made. The plan is the map that will lead to the objective. It is one of the most important tools in goal achieving yet it is also the most neglected.
People will spend more time planning a two weeks vacation than they will on planning an entire life. The we'll-see-as-we-go attitude is not good enough. No head of corporation, army general of head of state would ever dream of wigging it by ear and neither should we. A well thought off plan is absolutely necessary.
Once we have defined the objective and mapped out a plan, the crucial part comes in and that is massive action. This is truly the decisive part. This is where success or failure is spelled out. This is what separates the winners from the could-have-been.
Massive action implies exactly what the term says. People who have attained huge success are known to work long hours. They are dedicated, involved, passionate, focused, committed and determined.
There is a price to pay for achievement. That's a lesson that has not caught on. Instead of taking massive action, most people are looking for the secret formula that will perform miracles. Read the biography of every single successful person and that secret formula is nowhere to be found. It cannot be found for the simple reason that it does not exists.
The story of success is the story of hard work. No matter how talented or how charismatic a person is success requires work. So much work in fact that unless that work becomes a passionate game, chances are very slim that anyone could overcome the challenge.
The way to succeed is not all that complicated and it is certainly no secret. It requires a definite objective, a workable plan and a lot of hard work. That's how it's been done since the dawn of time and it does not look as if it's about to change.
Dr. Raymond Comeau aka Shamou is the Author of ShamouBlog and Owner Administrator of Personal Development for Personal Success Forums
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dr._Raymond_Comeau
Friday, October 2, 2009
Modeling Your Way to Success
As a child, what were some of the things you saw your parents and the people around you do? Do you remember imitating some of those things, or do you find yourself even today behaving in the same manner? This behavior is called modeling.
Modeling is a conditioned behavior that we pick up from those we are closely associated with, beginning in our childhood days. Unfortunately most of those behavoirs no longer serve us. Ninety- nine percent of the time those learned habits are of a negative nature anyway and they seem to hold most people back.
Before any significant level of success can be achieved the negative habits must be transformed into positive and influential ones. The best and fastest way to accomplish this is by learning to model other successful people. It will require making some changes, and awareness is the first step toward change.
Become aware of what successful people are doing, hence, have done that allows them to live a wealthy lifestyle. Use that information to measure where you are with the things you are now doing. Modeling to success should be easy because as kids we learned everything from modeling others.
By studying what other successful folks have done, rather than branching out on your own, you can receive the same great results much easier. Success is a choice. There is no right time for it, so why not get motivated, inspired and start right now to create the lifestyle of your dreams. Take the actions to model your way to success.
Rena Williams resides in Florida as a Lifestyle Mentor and a successful entrepreneur. She delights in helping many achieve great levels of success through free mentoring and guidance. Get a free copy of the ebook that changed her life, by visiting http://www.yoursuccesscorner.com.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rena_Williams
Modeling is a conditioned behavior that we pick up from those we are closely associated with, beginning in our childhood days. Unfortunately most of those behavoirs no longer serve us. Ninety- nine percent of the time those learned habits are of a negative nature anyway and they seem to hold most people back.
Before any significant level of success can be achieved the negative habits must be transformed into positive and influential ones. The best and fastest way to accomplish this is by learning to model other successful people. It will require making some changes, and awareness is the first step toward change.
Become aware of what successful people are doing, hence, have done that allows them to live a wealthy lifestyle. Use that information to measure where you are with the things you are now doing. Modeling to success should be easy because as kids we learned everything from modeling others.
By studying what other successful folks have done, rather than branching out on your own, you can receive the same great results much easier. Success is a choice. There is no right time for it, so why not get motivated, inspired and start right now to create the lifestyle of your dreams. Take the actions to model your way to success.
Rena Williams resides in Florida as a Lifestyle Mentor and a successful entrepreneur. She delights in helping many achieve great levels of success through free mentoring and guidance. Get a free copy of the ebook that changed her life, by visiting http://www.yoursuccesscorner.com.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rena_Williams
Thursday, October 1, 2009
How to Get Rich Quick
Wherever you look these days you find promoters of 'get rich quick' schemes or motivational courses aimed at changing your mindset in a way that will supposedly, as if by magic, attract wealth into your life. While many of these schemes and courses have merit, often the wealth flows to the providers rather than to the participants. There are only two ways to get rich quick and I will mention these later. Let me start by saying that getting rich quick is like building a prefabricated house. Once you have a good foundation the construction is quick and easy. If your foundations aren't solid and straight you are likely to end up with something that could well fall down. Good financial foundations are made up of a strong asset base and a positive cash flow.
To have a strong asset base means owning assets such as property or investments which increase in value over time. The best measure of a strong asset base is the difference between the value of those assets and the amount of debt you have. It's all very well to own a million dollar property, but if you have a million dollars owing by way of mortgage and other debts then you really have no asset base at all. A good asset base will give you the ability to stay strong when things don't go according to plan.
Having a positive cash flow means that the income you receive on a regular basis from employment or your business is greater than what you spend on a regular basis. If you have a positive cash flow, then you have the power to add to your wealth over time.
Some people, particularly young people it seems, are impatient when it comes to building wealth. Too often I have seen people with high levels of debt, unable to save, but wanting advice on the investment of a small sum that has come their way as an inheritance or a windfall of some kind. Because they are struggling to get ahead financially, they want to invest their small sum in something that will multiply their money several times over. What they fail to realise is that investments which have the ability to multiply your money also have the ability to fail. In the worst case, you may lose more than you initially invest. Risking everything you have has much more dire consequences than risking a small part of what you have. The stronger your financial foundation, the more risk you can afford to take and therefore the quicker and easier it is create more wealth.
I mentioned earlier that there are two ways to get rich quick. The first is to borrow money to invest in property. The second is to invest in businesses - either your own or somebody else's. Both of these strategies require a solid financial foundation and two other key ingredients; time and expertise. Use the time while you are building your financial foundation to learn what you need to know to be a smart investor in property, shares and businesses and to put together a team of experts who can help you. Start slow, be strong, do your homework and riches will quickly follow.
Liz Koh is no ordinary financial planner. After a successful career in management spanning more than twenty years, Liz set up her own financial planning company - Moneymax - in 1999. Since then, her mission has been not only to help people manage their money and increase their wealth but also to help people enjoy their lives - to the max! Her list of clients continues to grow through word of mouth and she is a regular contributor to several top newspapers, magazines and websites. Liz is the author of the best selling book - Your Money Personality: Unlock the Secret to a Rich and Happy Life, Awa Press, 2008, available from http://www.awapress.com.
For Liz's best tips for financial security, visit her website http://www.moneymaxcoach.com to receive your free 8-part eCourse on "8 Steps to Financial Freedom".
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Liz_Koh
To have a strong asset base means owning assets such as property or investments which increase in value over time. The best measure of a strong asset base is the difference between the value of those assets and the amount of debt you have. It's all very well to own a million dollar property, but if you have a million dollars owing by way of mortgage and other debts then you really have no asset base at all. A good asset base will give you the ability to stay strong when things don't go according to plan.
Having a positive cash flow means that the income you receive on a regular basis from employment or your business is greater than what you spend on a regular basis. If you have a positive cash flow, then you have the power to add to your wealth over time.
Some people, particularly young people it seems, are impatient when it comes to building wealth. Too often I have seen people with high levels of debt, unable to save, but wanting advice on the investment of a small sum that has come their way as an inheritance or a windfall of some kind. Because they are struggling to get ahead financially, they want to invest their small sum in something that will multiply their money several times over. What they fail to realise is that investments which have the ability to multiply your money also have the ability to fail. In the worst case, you may lose more than you initially invest. Risking everything you have has much more dire consequences than risking a small part of what you have. The stronger your financial foundation, the more risk you can afford to take and therefore the quicker and easier it is create more wealth.
I mentioned earlier that there are two ways to get rich quick. The first is to borrow money to invest in property. The second is to invest in businesses - either your own or somebody else's. Both of these strategies require a solid financial foundation and two other key ingredients; time and expertise. Use the time while you are building your financial foundation to learn what you need to know to be a smart investor in property, shares and businesses and to put together a team of experts who can help you. Start slow, be strong, do your homework and riches will quickly follow.
Liz Koh is no ordinary financial planner. After a successful career in management spanning more than twenty years, Liz set up her own financial planning company - Moneymax - in 1999. Since then, her mission has been not only to help people manage their money and increase their wealth but also to help people enjoy their lives - to the max! Her list of clients continues to grow through word of mouth and she is a regular contributor to several top newspapers, magazines and websites. Liz is the author of the best selling book - Your Money Personality: Unlock the Secret to a Rich and Happy Life, Awa Press, 2008, available from http://www.awapress.com.
For Liz's best tips for financial security, visit her website http://www.moneymaxcoach.com to receive your free 8-part eCourse on "8 Steps to Financial Freedom".
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Liz_Koh
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