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We all need to make a living and even though we may be involved in something that is not inspiring us or making us feel passionate, right now, we must never allow that to stop us from expressing our true desire. Give yourself permission to dream once again, allow your mind to walk into the future and visualise yourself living the life of meaning and fulfillment you really want.
If you want to finally break free from average and achieve the meaning and fulfilment, you have always desired, then it is time for you to accept that you must “GO THE EXTRA MILE” All the people I have researched and studied, who live fulfilling lives, do not perform at average levels, they all “GO THE EXTRA MILE” with everything they do.
Using social media as a powerful networking and marketing tool does not mean that basic good business practices don’t count any more. Quite the contrary, any business that wants to carry out effective networking or marketing strategies on any of the new social media platforms, must follow some basic principles first. The first and most basic step is to first get to know who you target market is. This will give you the information you need; so that you can discover where to start searching on the various social media platforms to find your prospects.
Are you just drifting through life? Too many people just drift through life, going with the flow, never having any direction about where they want their lives to go. They are like a paper cup that blows around in the car park at the shopping Centre. It is totally at the whim of the wind and it just floats around from one side of the car park to the other. Do you know anyone like that?
We will get out of our lives whatever we invest time and effort into creating. The way our lives ultimately turn out is our responsibility. Whether our lives are fulfilling and enjoyable or difficult and uninspiring is all the result of what we do or fail to do. As the creator of your own experience, empower yourself to become a super achiever and by taking the first step and accept 100 % responsibility for everything in your life.
As we approach the end of another amazing year, I am very keen to see you tu 2013, into your best year ever. So to this end, I am going to be beating the vision, success, planning and goal setting drum a whole lot, until the end of the year. Now is the time to create a positive mind-set, where you orient yourself to constantly be on the lookout for fortuitous situations or circumstances. It is extremely difficult to identify opportunities, when you are not looking for them and impossible, if you do not believe in yourself, your abilities and the potential that any opportunity offers.
Working with the concept of problem solving, introduces a number of challenges for me. I believe that what we think about, we most certainly, through our thoughts and actions, eventually bring about. So the very act of viewing something as a problem causes us to engage in negative thought processes. These negative thought processes sees us approaching any event which has occurred from a very negative standpoint. We view the event as something we need to overcome, rather than simply an event, which has occurred that, is not aligned with the outcome we want to achieve.
It would be naive to say that things have not changed in our environment; we are most certainly facing tougher, or should I say different conditions, than we have faced in the past. The reality of these uncertain times though, is that they are here to stay. I believe that this is how normal will feel and be in the future. The easy times of the early 2000’s will never exist in the same form ever again.
Before the advent of video games and the constant bombardment of 24 hour entertainment streaming directly into our lounges, the highlight of our year was attending the carnival, when it came to town. We could hardly wait to ride the bobbing wild animals and whirl, round and round to the music that was blasting out of the old antique pipe organ. Surrounded by flashing lights and strategically placed mirrors, our hearts would race as we all competed to be the one who could reach out and grab hold of the gold ring, thereby winning another free ride.
Success is never about luck, it is about having and applying a proven system, which is functional and repeatable. As soon as you have developed your system, which you consistently apply in your life, the positive results will begin to flood into your experience. If you continue to blunder from day to day, stagger from month to month, without a system and a set of success routines to support you. You will once again reach the end of 2012, still trapped in that unsatisfactory and unfulfilling place you have found yourself at the end of the past few years.
The time and energy you invest daily, towards preparing for the inevitable opportunity, which will cross your path, at some point, is time well spent. As your consistent lifelong commitment to on-going preparation, is fundamental to developing your self-confidence and a resolute belief in your abilities, both are key to your sustainable long term success. This is one of the best investments you will ever make in your future, which will exponentially grow your value and which is free from the ravages of negative sentiment. Stop Trying to Change the things you cannot Changer
Accept that today is the start of “THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE”. I have lived life in great poverty and have also had the privilege of sharing in the abundance of financial wellbeing, which flows all around us. Take it from me; money is most certainly not everything. It does bring along with it certain material comforts, power, prestige and superficial enjoyment, but absolutely no meaning or fulfilment.
The arrival of the large number of social media platforms is not something to fear and resist. Social media offers any wise entrepreneur a number of new ways to communicate and research his markets. Embracing social media and using all the amazing benefits it offers will allow your business to stand head and shoulders above the competition. The most effective way to leverage all the benefits offered by social media is to use a blend of traditional marketing and networking strategies, combined with a targeted social media strategy.
What is your relationship with money?r
I am sure that you are like most people and have a favourite type of food or even a favourite restaurant, where you love to eat. This gives you a wonderful way of nourishing your body. Can you say the same about your mind? Do you have a favourite author or type of book, which you use to nourish your mind? It is a really sad reality, but our society has accepted that nourishing our body with good food is essential, which is great, but we have ignored the other essential part of who we are namely our mind.
As you know whatever you think about you will eventually bring about. It is for this reason that I recommend creating a few positive affirmations, which support your vision and goals. Positive affirmations are nothing more than positive statements, which we create; to support a new positive belief we need to develop or to support us to take the inspired action we need to take every day. One of the greatest threats to our success is our own negative self-talk and the nagging doubt we feel about our own abilities.
I have not ever met anyone, who did not want to achieve the best possible outcome or results in their lives. The challenge as I see it is that there is only a very low percentile of people, who are satisfied with their achievements and who are living the life of meaning and fulfilment they want. I believe the reason so few people achieve the outcomes they desire, is not because they don’t want to. I believe that it is simply because they do not know how to.
Changing or improving any part of your life or business, is one simple decision away. When you make the choice to excel at something or to become world class, you must first make the decision that you want this positive change in your life. Then you need to learn a few basic new lessons and introduce a few new philosophies into your life. Once you have done this, all you are left to do is to carry out a few consistent daily disciplines, and you are guaranteed to succeed. How Does the Process Work?r
The influences, which the people you spend time around have on your life, are very subtle. Just like anything, either positive or negative, if you repeat something consistently over time, they add up and eventually shape the way you live. The people you consistently spend time around will eventually influence you to dress the same, talk the same, eat the same type of food, read the same books. Or worse influence you not to read at all and over time their influence will cause you to even start thinking the same as they do.
I am sure that you have heard the phrase “It is never what you know, it is who you know, which will make the greatest difference to how much success you enjoy” Learn the art of mining your power base of contacts and you will not only be equipped to survive in any economic climate, but you will also be equipped to thrive too. The people you know are an incredible source of information; new business leads and even sources of business themselves.
Success is something we all desire in some shape or form. It is what will bring meaning and fulfilment into your experience. So you can choose to allow yourself to continue coasting through life and as you know, this will allow your life to only go in one direction – downhill. Or you can accept that success is a doing word and develop a success habit set to support you to take the goal specific actions you need to take daily to achieve exactly what you want. Invest your Time each Day to Prosperr
Every One Gets Knocked Down at some Pointr The secret to super achievement is to spend as little time as possible licking your wounds when you encounter any of the inevitable challenges on your journey towards success, before you pull things together and get on with life. The measure of who you really are is never in the fact that you got knocked down; everyone gets knocked down at some point, but rather in how long you allow things to keep you down, before you begin taking the positive action necessary to get you back on your feet. Choose your Attitude and Level of Happiness Wiselyr
Success means owning a large house in the best neighbourhood, filled with all the latest gadgets, driving a fancy car, having prestige and standing in the community isn’t it? Or does success mean something completely different to you? My objective with this article is not to judge and state that any one definition of success is any better than other. My objective is to show that, unless you know what success really means to you and you have clarity about what you really want from your life, you are going to continue to pursue something that you may not even want in the first place.
It is a well-known fact that people buy from people they know, like and trust. So if you have a desire to increase your sales, then you need to stop sitting with your feet braced firmly against the table, with a desperate look on your face trying to sell your products or services. Instead you need to invest effort into fostering mutually beneficial relationships with business partners. Your objective, when developing these relationships, must be to about solving challenges for your new partners, or rather providing them with solutions, which meet or exceed their expectations.
As every good sales person knows people buy from someone who they know like and trust and that any decision relating to what they want to buy, is directed by logic, but ultimately the final decision is driven by their emotions. Our emotions are really powerful motivators and as such any great leader understands the importance of connecting with their followers on an emotional level. This connection where their followers learn to know, like, trust and really connect with their leader on an emotional level, allows the leader inspire their team and move them to action.
Creating Successful Teams Encouraging your team to become energized and passionate about their roles within their respective teams can be a really challenging, yet the results that will flow from this endeavor will most certainly be well worth the effort. Passion is never passed onto your team through mere lip service and empty words; it is channeled to your team by action, drive and commitment on the part of the leader. As the leader, always strive to become a true example of the passion and energy you want to create in your team.
If you are in sales and you have been struggling to meet your sales targets for the past few years. Ask yourself the simple questio “How committed am I to what I am selling, would I buy it myself” In fact a better question would be “Do I believe in what I sell so much that I Have actually bought one myself” I know it is not always practical for the person selling something to have purchased one themselves as this is not always possible. The main question is, do you really believe in what you have to sell to such a degree that you would invest in one yourself?
As you know there is nothing more valuable than your time. You can get more money, better relationships, improve your health, with better exercise and improved eating routines, grow your spiritual connection and improve the fulfilment you get from your career, but as long as we continue to view time as linear and mono directional, there is no way for us to get any more time each day. Once you have spent the time, which is allocated to you, it is gone for ever.
One of the most important skills you need to develop as sales professionals is your ability to build meaningful, mutually beneficial relationships and real connection with people who matter. Dare to take inventory of your current relationships right now. Are the relationships you have, supporting or retarding your sales efforts? The higher the calibre of people you are connected with, the greater will be your level of sales achievement in the future. Connect with the right People
The ever increasing rate of change in our world, over the past few decades, has resulted in the challenges we face, becoming more and more complex. There is a constant barrage of data and information, through which we need to sort, before we can even begin making any decisions. These constant, accelerating changes, the vast amount of information and the complexities we face every day, has also resulted in much larger interdependencies amongst those impacted by any decision we make. All of these factors have added up and have made decision making far more difficult and complex for leaders.
Have you ever invested energy to explore how much time you spend chatting to colleagues, surfing the net, reading junk mail or making coffee every day, to mention just a few of the worst time consuming activities we indulge in each day? You do not have a shortage of time to carry out your crucial goal specific activities each day. All you have is a very poor system for utilising your available time as effectively and efficiently as possible, so that you can maximise your productivity. Use an Activity Logr
Your self-imposed comfort zone is an artificial place, which you have created in your mind, which limits your potential, to a minuscule part of what you are really capable of achieving. Break free from your SELF-IMPOSED comfort zone and stop limiting your achieving any longer, because of your lack of believing. Stop accepting mediocrity, because it is comfortable and begin to experiment and explore a little, break some new ground, try something new today.
The attitude you project to the world can never be something, which depends on what is going on in your life or business at that time. It is something you have 100 % control over. In fact one of the most important choices you must make every day, is the type of attitude you intend to project to everyone around you. When you make the right choice and you project a positive, optimistic attitude to the world, you empower yourself and set the tone for great success and fulfilment each day. What is Your Depth of Character?r
Any sales professional can immediately improve their sales results, if they stop seeing dollar signs, every time they engage with a customer or prospect and instead develop a deep desire to be of service to them instead. To make this work for them they must ensure that they offer the right customer or prospect the right value proposition, instead of attempting to complete single transactions, to earn as much commission as possible.
Effective networking has been one of the cornerstones of building great businesses, since the dawn of time. Before the explosion of social Media it was a pretty simple process and was conducted face to face, at events designed to build relationships and meaningful connections.
re you and your company still doing business the same way you did 12 months ago or worse still, are you still operating your business the same way you did 5 or 10 years ago? Our grandfathers could afford to keep doing business the same way they had for decades, as the business cycle in the 1950’s was estimated to be around 50 years. The ever increasing pace of technological advancement and other changes, has dramatically shortened this cycle and today that same business cycle, is estimated to be as short as 16 months.
At some stage in your life, you still dared to dream and you had those grandiose goals and aspirations, to live a life of meaning and fulfillment. What killed that drive and determination in you? Was it because you really were dreaming the impossible or you just simply did not have what it took or was it something else altogether? Was it because the people around you told you that what you wanted to achieve in your life or business was impossible?
My objective is to help you to point your creative imagination and inquiring mind in the direction of all the positive things that abound and to try to highlight all the wonderful possibilities, which are available to you. I want you to learn to look for and see all the abundance, possibilities, potential and incredible opportunities that are everywhere, if you are willing to look at the world through inquisitive eyes and search your environment with an open mind.
Designing the Future you Desire Business Speakers South Africa Are you ready to finally write (RIGHT) your future? When you think it that is the time to ink it. After you commit to write everything down relating to your perfect future, you are beginning the process to (RIGHT) your future. The clarity that comes when you order your thoughts and clarify your goals turns goal setting into goal achieving. There seems to be an almost magical connection between our brains and our pens. Wave your magic pen over the page of your perfect future and detail exactly what you want in your future.
There is most certainly no such thing as failure; you only fail when you finally give up and stop trying to achieve anything. As long as you are still taking action, which is in line with achieving the outcome you desire or you are working to overcome an unresolved challenge you have not failed. You are just experiencing a setback Failure is a Mythr
I am sure you have heard many people around say “It is not what you know, but rather, who you know that determines your level of financial or career success” I must admit that I believe that it is most certainly a combination of the two, which will ultimately determine the level of success you get to enjoy, in both of these areas. As your knowledge and skills grow, i.e. as you become more, so too will the calibre and type of people, who will want to connect with you, improve as well.
If you are like most of the people I meet every day, you are searching for ways to reduce the overwhelm you feel, finally begin to make some real headway on your big goals and yet still have some time left over, to enjoy your favourite and most nurturing activities. The challenge we all face though, is that in order to reduce the overwhelm we feel and to make headway on our goals, we need to become more organised, focused and disciplined, which does not leave much time to engage in our nurturing activities.
If I asked you the maximum number of push-ups you could do? You would probably answer a low number like 5, as push-ups are not there on your scale of important things to do. What about if you did your maximum of five and I said that you could rest for a while. Could you do another five after you had rested for a short while? Of course you could. If you kept doing five push-ups twice a day for a week, could you do 10 push-ups, by the end of the week? Yes of course you could, but hold on a second, I thought you said that the maximum number of push-ups you could do was five?
Integrity is similar in meaning to a word we all encountered in math class at school, namely the word integer. As you remember, an integer in math means a whole number and similarly, integrity means wholeness or always projecting one set of standards to the world. Over the years the true meaning of integrity has been refined and it has come to mean a standard of positive personal morality and ethics rather than simply acting consistently and in line with your own set of standards.
Are you going to continue to allow regrets to replace your dreams in 2013? Or are you going to do things differently this time around? It is time to wrestle back control of your life and to finally make a difference next year. The only thing holding you away from realising your dreams is your belief in yourself and your commitment to take inspired daily action, which is aligned with your vision for the future.
I very often get asked by people, why I write an article every day, in which I aspire to add inspiration to as many people’s lives as possible and freely share my take on personal development. They cannot understand how I can give so freely to others and ask nothing in return. My answer is always very simple, we live in an abundant universe and the more we are willing to share and give to others. The more open we are to receive ourselves.
The hardest thing for me to deal with from myself or anyone else is an undelivered promise. I always feel very uncomfortable when someone else lets me down, but it is the promises that I make to myself that I don’t keep, which hurt the most. I am sure that I am not alone when I say that I have made promises or commitments to myself that I failed to keep during 2011. At the start of this festive season for example, I made a commitment to myself, to not overindulge like I have in the past, over this silly season.
As part of my research towards my PHD, I have had the incredible privilege of studying a number of super achievers, from around the world. It has been an excellent opportunity, amazing experience and very fascinating time, during which I have learned much and made a number of very interesting observations. I have spent time observing from both a distance and where I was invited in, as closely as possible, trying to uncover common denominators or pointers, which made these people stand out and become super achievers.
Every great leader knows that they must invest time to learn as much as possible, from both their mistakes, challenges and successes. This knowledge will serve them in the present and assist them to plot the best possible course for the future. When plotting any course, all great leaders need to consider two important criteria. They must firstly look inward and draw on all the experience they have gleaned over the years and secondly, they must also look outward, to explore the prevailing conditions, to see how these may affect their progress now and in the future.
The pressures imposed by society and its expectations and beliefs, regarding anything you can’t touch feel or see, has forced us to repress our intuition and to stop listening to our inner voice. The practice of meditation helps you clear away the day to day distractions and if you will just listen and allow, your intuition, that magical inner voice will speak to you. That inner voice will deliver subtle impulses that will guide you toward living your true purpose.