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Mindset – Who Holds the Key to Success?

by Tj Helm on 04,01,1010 in Personal Development

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Where the mind goes the body follows. Make sure your mind is going were you want your body to go or you’ll end up somewhere you don’t want to be. Read this article to help set your mind on the road to success.

Mindset – Who Holds the Key to Success?

By John Champion

The Key to Success – Mindset – Making Money Online

Mindset…how big of a word is that in the online industry or any industry for the matter, work or sport related. You ask any professional sports star and they will tell you that it is all down to mindset…they knew it and visualized the win before it even happened, millionaires and billionaires are not there today because that sat around waiting for things to happen. They had an idea and the correct mindset to achieve those goals.

Mindset is a very important aspect of becoming wealthy and successful, you need to think positive, have faith and believe in yourself and what you are capable of achieving! In order to advance from one level of income or achievement to the next there needs to be an advancement within you…

As you know, there are millions of opportunities out there to make an absolute killing, and in so many different areas of work. There are literally unlimited avenues and opportunities you can pursue to advance your own success. Do you need to find the most stellar and lucrative opportunity in order to advance to the next level or do you need to advance yourself first? I believe you need to advance yourself first…People chase opportunities, it’s a natural human thing, something new and exciting comes along which gets them all excited about potentially making a good sum of money, all the hype that comes with the new prospect and idea. Then, after all that excitement wears off a bit so goes the opportunity…there is a saying strike while the iron is hot and this a perfect example, people will buy into the idea when it’s hot but when it fades out and the opportunity falls off the desk and gets tucked away in the drawer of forgotten dreams. But not to worry as there will be another exciting opportunity knocking around the corner…We all get bombarded with tons of emails and requests a day advertising new and wonderful products and they all look so lucrative so it’s no wonder we all get carried away with the excitement.

Do you not think it will be better to master a topic before moving onto the next big thing? How many income producing opportunities do you know of that are out there…tons… and they require a lot of energy to be mastered. If you focus your energy on one topic at a time then you won’t be running around like a headless chicken trying to finish all the dead end jobs, instead you will be focused and clear about the task you set and confident that you can finish them in the required time… Lay one brick at a time and focus on making a difference…

There are an abundant of opportunities out there with millions of strategies, methods and ideas to make a fortune…but there is only 1 YOU… and ONLY YOU determine if you achieve your dreams or not! Focus on making yourself stronger and wiser and you will have half the battle won. You really have to zone in and focus on protecting your dream. Do not let anyone ever tell you that you can’t do it.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t force him to drink…I can give you all the right tools and strategies to become wealthy and successful and have the freedom you desire but only YOU can make it happen. Take action and do not give up especially when the going gets tough and you think you have lost, coz you will never know if victory was another step or corner away.

Don’t get left behind in the Rat Race, change your mindset and believe in yourself… nothing is unrealistic.

Greatness exists in us all we just choose not to believe. Change your life today, take action and start believing.

My name is John Champion and I am just as a normal guy as you are, I work hard and like to play even harder. I am very easy going and relaxed but also dedicated at achieving my goals.

My business background varies from being in the military / private security business to sales and administration to running a few businesses. none of these ventures gave me as much freedom as having my own international online mobile business. I aim to help others in their quest for financial freedom or personal freedom.

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Our Words Create Our Future

by Tj Helm on 08,31,0909 in Personal Development

By Larry Barkan

I was recently coaching a person who told me that he would “try” to improve his relationship with a coworker but that it would be “very difficult” and that it would “take a lot of time to trust him.”

Consider the words that are in bold above. Could it be that while this person thinks he’s merely describing the future, he’s actually creating it? Could it be that our words actually produce results in the real world?

Consider these examples:

I was recently reading about Lanny Bassham, a former Olympic rifle shooter and “mental coach” whose clients include U.S. Olympic archers. Bassham notes that the archery community has a peculiar obsession with “target panic,” which refers to a malady sometimes suffered by champion archers who become so worried about hitting the target that they stop themselves from even attempting a shot.

Bassham says that, “the words ‘target panic’ have induced an unnecessary amount of severity and concern about this condition among archers.” He concludes by noting that, “I think if they had a better word for it, they’d have a lot less problem trying to cure it.” (I’ve bolded those words for emphasis).

In his book, The Perfect Mile, Neal Bascomb writes that, “On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister became the first man to run the mile in less than 4 minutes, a barrier many experts had long considered unbreakable. What is remarkable is that Australia’s John Landy and New Zealand’s Peter Snell bettered his record that same year. Roger’s feat changed the thinking of people in countries all over the world.” (I’ve bolded those words for emphasis).

What do these examples have in common? They all suggest that the key to unlocking our chains lies in the words we use to describe our world.

Consider the possibility that if you want to know what stops someone from achieving a goal, listen to how the goal is described. Could it be that describing a goal as “difficult,” “strenuous,” or “tough” creates those outcomes and that talking about a goal as “achievable,” “exciting,” or “inspiring” creates outcomes that conform to those descriptions?

Isn’t it amazing how we can predict the future? Or, perhaps, not so amazing. Perhaps the process is quite straightforward: We predict how the future will occur when we describe that future and then, naturally, live out that prediction.

Or, as ancient wisdom has noted, “Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.”

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Success! It's Right in Front of You!

by Tj Helm on 08,31,0909 in Workplace Support

By Jan Tincher

Would you like to learn a new way to succeed? Here is an exercise to do just before you go to bed. Sit down and relax. Get ready to use your mind and visualize. Tell your brain that your body may be a little tired, but your brain is fully alert and able to visualize.

Count yourself down slowly from 10 to 1. Take in a deep breath and take your time letting it out. As you are relaxed, visualize this: You are sitting in your favorite chair, very relaxed. In your hand is a remote control. You are looking at a 3 foot TV screen . . . and there you are on the screen. What are you doing? Here’s what you are doing. You are succeeding at something that you’ve never succeeded at before.

What is different between the you on the screen and the you sitting there watching? The obvious one. The you on the screen is succeeding in something the you on the chair hasn’t been able to yet, and didn’t even know you could!

You can tell by the way the you on the screen is smiling. It’s a smile you yourself have had when you have succeeded at something that was a big challenge! And you can see your work place behind the you on the screen, so you know the you on the screen succeeded at some sort of challenge at work.

This is cool, huh? Well, how about succeeding at something in your spiritual life? Your financial life, social life, physical life, or your emotional life? We all have challenges in all areas of our lives at some point. But that’s OK. Challenges are just ways of showing us how to succeed.

So, let’s go back to the remote control. It’s a pretty fancy gadget. And guess what — it has all of those areas listed on little buttons, right in front of you. Spiritual, financial, social, physical, and emotional. You push a button on the remote and the screen changes. You are still a success, but you are seeing yourself as a success somewhere else, maybe at home, maybe at someone’s house.

You are smiling as you watch this, because you know that even when you go to sleep tonight you will continue being a success. That being the case, you keep pushing the buttons and visualize the success in all areas. When you are done, go to the one area that needs the most work.

Watch as you succeed over and over again in that area. Then, get up and go to bed and let your unconscious work, as you sleep, to bring that success into reality for you.

Thanks for reading.

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Entrepreneur, Do You Really Know Your Master Key For Success?

by Tj Helm on 08,31,0909 in Business Building

By Aditi Walsh

Entrepreneurs today are inundated with claims by so many experts, each stating they have the key to your success. This has been especially endemic online. It could even be driving you crazy at times, eh?

What’s amazing is if you have discovered your real success is inner-generated and you are living from your own deepest desires, then you are able to experience challenges and opportunities in a completely different light.

Getting Stuck

Yet, there still may be those times when you just get stuck, even with the best of intentions. And you find it very hard to keep your focus on visioning and living in the success you so desire. You lose the feeling for it and get caught up in your old ideas and limitations. Success starts to slip away again, and stress quickly enters to fill the gap.

When you do pick yourself up, you wonder what all the fuss was about. Or you berate yourself for having fallen into those old mental pictures and ideas in the first place.

Does this sound familiar? The good news is you are not alone. As Tulshi Sen says, “Success cannot be bought or learned… it must be practiced.

The Master Key

I found it really helps when I meditate on the success principles of Ancient Secrets Of Success For Today’s World to dissolve the old triggers. With practice, I am becoming better able to laugh it off, instead of using negative thinking to dissolve negative thinking. Two negatives do not make for a positive outlook, do they?

So how can you transcend the stressors of the day? Is there a ‘master key’ to free yourself from these de-energizers that are holding you back? If only you can remove your mind from sticking to your problems and instead free it to believe in the success you truly desire.

Tulshi Sen shares, “Before a person can achieve anything, they must raise their thoughts and raise their belief level. You cannot fight against circumstances forever. It is tiring. You have to create new circumstances by raising your belief level.”

Training The Mind

You have to convince your mind that you are going to be successful, no matter what your present circumstances are today. This journey of the entrepreneur is led by the heart, not the mind. The mind’s place is to follow the Vision set by the heart.

When we get it backwards, chaos, confusion and doubt take over. And there goes your success. Fear unleashed results in stressful, limited thinking.

And, you cannot convince the mind with the mind. That’s what caused this predicament in the first place. Nor can you trick the mind over the long term. You need to transcend the realm of the mind and enter your heart to anchor in your dreams and visions. Leave them there, where you can nurture them.

Imagination Rules

Einstein said that you can’t solve a problem at the same level of thinking as you created it in the first place. He also said that imagination was more important than knowledge.

Imagination lives in the all-knowing heart. So the first priority is to find out your heart’s desires. Then you can take your trained and helpful mind along for your unique entrepreneur’s journey.

Tulshi Sen will be holding a live, Free, Teleseminars as a prelude to his upcoming one day workshops this fall, called “Raise Your Belief Level with the Master Key for Success” in Vancouver and in Toronto. Go to end of blog post at http://budurl.com/ggqu for further details.

Aditi Walsh is a conscious entrepreneur, helping people create and manifest their visions of success. She shares ideas and reviews of success strategies and tools for the online entrepreneur at http://webmarketingrebel.com

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Personal Branding – How to Do it in 5 Easy Steps

by Tj Helm on 08,03,0909 in Workplace Support

By Jim Meisenheimer

Personal branding for professional salespeople should be a high priority – unfortunately it isn’t.

Your personal branding can provide you with an unique competitive advantage if you take the time to develop it.

Here are five easy steps you can use to launch your personal brand.

1. What makes you different – I mean really, what makes you different from other salespeople? If you don’t give this any thought, don’t think you’re memorable from your customer’s perspective.

I often ask the question, “what makes you different from your competition” during my corporate sales training programs. I always get the same responses: honesty, reliable, experienced, problem solver, product knowledge, follow up, trustworthy etc.

While these qualities are admirable they won’t differentiate you from your competition because everybody believes they possess these qualities.

Just remember this – if you want to be remembered you have to be memorable!

2. What are you known for? Do you have specialized training? Do you have an advanced degree? Do you have 23 years of experience within a market subsegment?

For example, I have met salespeople with doctorate degrees who keep this a secret from their sales prospects and customers. Why in the world would you do this, when you could differentiate you from your competition?

Are you unflappable? Do you possess an extraordinary sense of humor? Do you possess any unique skills – like you’re scratch golfer or maybe a college football referee? Are you a gourmet cook? Do you breed dogs in your spare time?

What makes you different, makes you memorable.

3. Let people know what makes you different. You can communicate your uniqueness in ways you have never imagined before. I’ll give you 2 specific ways you can do this.

Prepare a special report on a topic that you have some experience and expertise in. Google makes doing research a snap. You create a title page, an about you page, the actual content pages, and you could end your special report with a short list of resources your sales prospects and customers would benefit from.

You could also write a book. If you happen to be a timid soul you could team up with two or three other salespeople. Imagine how your sales prospects and customers would react when you give them a book you’ve written. It automatically establishes you as an expert. It automatically sets you apart from your competition.

And here’s some very good news for you – you don’t even have to write the book yourself. You can visit www.elance.com and post a job describing the project and how much you’re willing to spend. You can probably get a special report, on any subject, for less than $125. You can probably get a book written for less than $400.

Think about this for a minute. How many salespeople do you know, who are working in your industry, are giving their sales prospects and customers special reports and books they have written? Probably not too many.

You see, personal branding is not about blending in, it’s about standing out. Doing things that no one else is doing creates a strong personal brand for you.

Your personality, unfortunately, isn’t enough to differentiate you from all the salespeople calling on your sales prospects and customers.

4. Most professional speakers have signature stories they tell. These stories are unique to the speaker. It’s their signature. As an entrepreneur or a professional sales person you can create a signature for yourself. For example, my e-mail signature includes this: 21 years . . . 522 corporate clients . . . 72.7% repeat business.

These 47 characters help create my personal brand – you can easily do the same thing.

What color did Johnny Cash favor? He was the man in black, wasn’t he? What color shirt does Tiger Woods always wear on Sundays? It’s always red isn’t it?

You don’t have to be famous to consider doing this. In fact doing this may help you to become better known in your industry.

You could always wear blue ties. You could always use a fountain pen to take notes during sales calls and to write short personal notes. Not too many salespeople are doing these things.

Another good example of a great signature is Thomas Jefferson’s signature – it really does stand out, doesn’t it?

5. Do something that says you’re different. Do something on the blank side of your business card. Think about what you can leave behind at the end of the sales call. In preparing for this article I did a Google search for the phrase, pencils personalized.

You can order these pencils in a variety of designs and colors for as low as 7 cents each. You can also imprint up to four lines of text on each pencil. The pencil becomes your business card.

Imagine including a sharpened pencil with your sales proposals with a short note saying, “We already sharpened our pencil for you.”

Finally, don’t assume you’re automatically different because of your DNA. You have to work at cultivating your uniqueness within your industry. Doing these five things will enable you to become the “Go to person” within your industry.

I hope you have fun working on your personal branding.

Being boring doesn’t get you anywhere.

Being different does!

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Personal Branding in Today's Market Place

by Tj Helm on 08,03,0909 in Personal Development

By George Metzger

It works for entrepreneurs, professionals, celebrities and job-seekers. Almost everyone is beginning to understand that personal or self-branding is what will put them ahead of the crowd.

If you are different from everyone else and you want to prove it to the world just create the personal branding of YOU.

So what is self-branding simplified? It is a clear understanding of what your personal attributes will bring to a specific situation or job. It is what makes you unique and it is a clear and common identifier of what you stand for.

Self-branding will differentiate between someone who is competent and even professional from one who generates a lot of business and income.

So what if you feel secure and know that you are doing a good job? Does this mean your career life will always go smoothly? No, because there is always someone out there that wants your place so you have to fight for it.

Many people have the perception that self-branding is phony. They don’t see that they are really that good at selling themselves. The facts are that those who do not self-brand will be branded by others. Maybe they will be perceived as lax or lazy about the importance of their career by not putting any effort into self-branding. If you allow this to happen then you are giving away your power to decide what your own self-branding will be.

Branding is a process that is created to sell YOU. Famous people have been using this process for a long time to sell themselves. You know from this example that it works. And doesn’t proof that it works prove it to be an effective method?

Now, you’ve decided to go about the process of self-branding you have to have a strategy to follow.

Build your self-branding identity to highlight your best skills and personal abilities.

Make a marketing plan that markets the new brand of YOU.

Set personal brand goals for yourself and a time line in which to achieve these goals.

You are now on the path to all new brand YOU.

George Metzger is a business coach and mentor that assists serious entrepreneurs in building a profitable online business with multiple incomes streams. George and his team have assisted hundreds of people in generating profits that exceed $250K or more in their first year. For more information and to contact George, visit: http://www.buildafortuneonlinetoday.com

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How to Create a Winning Personal Image

by Tj Helm on 05,01,0909 in Personal Development

By Dr. Raymond Comeau
The image that we project goes a long way to influence people and if we want to have any success in life, influencing people is a prerequisite. To make a sale, we have to influence people, to get a promotion, we must influence people, to implement any agenda that we may have, we must influence people and the image that we project is the medium that will determine, to a large degree, our effectiveness in influencing and motivating others to our way of thinking.

First it must be understood that the personal image is not primarily addressed to the left brain logic but to the right brain emotions. We feel a person’s image much more than we coldly analyze it. A person is “seen” with the heart and not with the brain.

It must also be remembered that our interpretation of a personal images is determined by what is called an “a priori.” An a priori is a deduction made from past observations and conclusion. In other words, we evaluate what a person’s image means to us by automatically comparing it to our previous experience of similar images.

As and example, most people would see a chubby person as being jovial and easy going. Such a conclusion is not based on facts but on previous experience and popular notions. An image is exactly what it says, it’s an image and not a reality so it can be rebuilt, modified and enhanced to our advantage.

When working on the personal image, the first consideration must be the target of the intended image. What will appeal to teenagers will be vastly different than if the business or professional world is targeted. The rock star image will go quite well with teenagers while Donald Trump will be more fitting in the business or professional world.

The image presented will be perceived mostly by the senses and it must appeal to what’s needed and wanted by your targeted community. That is, if you are a businessman, you must look like a prosperous businessman who does not have a care in the world, talk the part and walk it. However, if you are in the community service you cannot afford to go around in a Rolls Royce wearing $3,000 suits. The image must fit the community.

The best role models for the personal image are the people who are successful in your field. These people should be studied, copied and emulated as much as possible.

The personal image is the tribune upon which a person stands to deliver his message. It is the lens through which a person is judged, cataloged and perceived. It is the “you” that the world see, accept, reject or ignore. It is your personal brand for all to see. A lot of your successes and failures depend on it. So, treat it well, improve it as much as possible but don’t get bent out of shape if it happens to be rejected by some.

You can’t please everyone every time. So, don’t overlook the positive many for the negative few. Create the best possible personal image and wear it proudly. It’s your personal trademark for all to see so make it a good one.

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Three Easy Tips to Supercharge Your Affirmations For Dramatic Success

by Tj Helm on 03,21,0909 in Personal Development

By George Hutton
Affirmations can be the quickest and easiest to apply method to powerfully transform not only what you think is possible about your capabilities, but about the world that you live in. All of us have unconscious thoughts and messages that we pick up from teachers, coaches, adults in authority, or even from ourselves that play over and over again. Whether you know it or not, you use affirmations on a daily basis. Unfortunately, messages give to us by adults to keep us safe, can also keep us from achieving the goals we desire later in life. Messages of guidance can easily transform into messages of limitation.

There is a way to change these messages to give yourself incredible confidence, self esteem, and personal power. When you finish reading this article, you’ll easily be able to create simple affirmations that you can use to propel yourself to automatic success. There are three simple rules to learn, so that your affirmations will have a maximum effect.

Rule Number One: State Them in the Positive.
You want to focus on what you want, rather than you don’t want. Instead of focusing on losing five pounds, focus on being your ideal weight. Instead of focusing on quitting smoking, focus on breathing fresh, healthy air with every breath. Instead of focusing on quitting eating ice cream for breakfast, focus on eating healthy foods that support a healthy body.

Rule Number Two: State Things in the Present Tense.
Instead of saying “I want to weigh 150,” pounds, say “I weigh 150 pounds.” Instead of saying “I want to cut back on the number of sweets,” say “I only eat healthy food.” Instead of saying “I will quit smoking next week,” say “I only breath fresh clean air with every breath.”

Rule Number Three: Avoid “Be” verbs and use Powerful Action Verbs
Instead of saying “I am confident,” say “I behave confidently in every situation.” Instead of saying “I weigh 150 pounds,” say “My behavior easily supports a healthy weight of 150 pounds.” Instead of saying “I am a non smoker,” say “I treat my lungs and body with respect and always inhale clean, fresh air.”

If you can, try this now. Choose something that you want to create in life, and apply these three rules. Say it out loud. How does that feel? The more empowered you feel, right now, as you say your affirmation is an indication of how you will take it as your truth. When you say something that causes you to feel a strong emotion, your brain will be much more likely to accept it.

The best time to say these is as you fall asleep at night. This can be a golden opportunity to powerfully program your subconscious for automatic success generation. Ideally, you want to live your life so that you can naturally and easily get what you want without a lot of effort. For more articles to easily help you achieve greater success like this, you can join many others like you, and read more on my blog.

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Secrets of Successful Relationships

by Tj Helm on 02,24,0909 in Personal Development

By Emma-Louise Smith
Everybody wants to have a successful relationship. Who doesn’t? Some people envy other people’s seemingly perfect relationship. You might be asking yourself, what’s their secret?

If you want to find out some secrets of successful relationships, read the following sentences.

Love. This is a no-brainer. No relationship will survive if there is no love. One-sided love is also not good, maybe even worse. This does not only mean that you have to love your boyfriend or girlfriend, it also means you have to love yourself.

Trust. Another foundation of a successful relationship is trust. A relationship with love but without trust will not work. it is very difficult to stay in a relationship if one person is always jealous while the other is untrustworthy.

Communication. This is somewhat related to trust. Open communication is very important. Couples shouldn’t hide anything from each other. This can destroy trust. Communication how you feel about certain issues in your relationship is a good idea instead of harbouring bad feelings to your partner.

Time. Despite busy schedules, couples should still make it a point to spend a few hours each day doing together. It need not be an all-out romantic date. It could be as simple as cuddling while watching TV at home.

Touch. It has been said that a man will not be able to live if no human being will touch him. Touching each other is a way to show affection. Even as simple as touching your partner’s cheek or caressing his or her lower back can say so much.

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How's Your Inner Game?

by Tj Helm on 09,14,0808 in Business Building

By Lorraine Hamilton

Although by the time you are reading this it may all be over for him, I have just watched Andy Murray complete an extraordinary comeback in his 4th round match at Wimbledon against Richard Gasquet. Two sets and a service break down in the third it looked all but over for Murray, yet he dug deep and came back to win the match. Not only did it provide me with some of the most exciting tennis I have seen in many years, but also I was utterly transfixed watching the ‘Inner Game’ of the two men. This was in many ways much more a psychological battle than a physical one.

And it got me thinking again!

How much attention do we pay to our own Inner Game of Business? We have within us the power to become our business’ greatest asset, or its downfall and it can be a simple case of how we talk to ourselves.

Our minds are incredibly powerful and ultimately obedient and once you understand how to feed and nurture them, great things grow. Wasn’t it Henry Ford who famously said, ‘Whether you believe you can or cannot, you are right.’

Your beliefs dictate your behaviour or action, and your behaviour or action dictates your success. Therefore what you believe about yourself and your business are directly related to your success.

So here are 5 ideas I want to share with you to Boost Your Inner Game:
Believe You Can, And You Will
You have a choice, you can either get your mind to work for you or against you. If you spend your time telling yourself why you won’t succeed you will feed your negative inner voice or the ‘devil on your shoulder’. Your negative inner voice is completely obedient and will agree with you wholeheartedly whilst bringing forward more evidence from your memory of reasons that you will not succeed. However, your positive inner voice or the ‘angel’ is equally as obedient and will generate the evidence to support your positive statements.

Give it a try! Tell yourself today is a rotten day – how does your negative inner voice react? Does it provide you with reasons that today will be rotten? It’s too hot/cold? Sales are going to be down? Working for yourself is an uphill struggle?

Now tell yourself this is a great day – watch how your angel springs into action to support your new decision with examples of why today is great and filled with opportunity.

Excuses Are Not An Option
Most of suffer, at one time or another, with ‘excusitis’. We can make excuses about our lack of success about pretty much anything – intelligence, health, upbringing, luck, age. The truth is that excusitis is, as coined by David J. Schwartz, the ‘failure disease’. Challenge your excuses by taking a step back and looking to see if your excuse really is an obstacle that cannot be overcome in some way.

Feel The Fear, And Do It Anyway
Following on from the last point, our excuses are often developed to protect us from something that we fear. Fear is an opportunity to learn something new and is almost always cured by – ACTION. The thought of the fear is generally a lot more frightening than the actual fear itself and acting on it will reduce the fear. Continuing to act on it will remove it completely.

Think BIG
Set yourself big goals and stay focused on them, don’t get bogged down in the petty details. Use positive language at every opportunity, to yourself, to your colleagues, your friends, customers, suppliers. Remember you are better than you think you are. Concentrate on your assets and victories. Practice ‘Big Picture Thinking’, stretch your vision as far as you can. It is possible. Remember to ask yourself, ‘What’s more important, X or Y?’ whenever you need to get a clear perspective on something.

Snatch Victory From The Jaws Of Defeat
How do you do it? Persistence. Tenacity. Never giving up. The difference between those who fall and those who keep getting up is their attitude to ‘failure’. Those who keep getting up recognise that they are in a learning process and take everything they can from every experience to learn and propel them forwards. Those who do not get up again believe they have failed.

Think about this. Have you succeeded in your ultimate goal yet? If not, then you are still learning how to achieve it. If you haven’t done it before, how are you going to get there unless you learn how? What if we lacked such persistence as babies? We would never walk.

Ask anyone who you deem to be a success and ask them if it has been plain-sailing. Most successful people have overcome many obstacles to get to where they are and it is their attitude towards these obstacles that makes them stronger each time.

Andy Murray certainly snatched victory from the jaws of defeat yesterday.

Going back to Andy Murray’s defeat of Richard Gasquet, he could easily have ‘settled’ for going out in straight sets, that was certainly on the cards, however he chose to believe that he could do it and overcame every obstacle that his opponent put in his way to win. Some of the shots that both men returned would have been deemed impossible in normal circumstances, but with the mental attitude and self-belief that they were exhibiting, the impossible was possible.

And it can be for you too.

Lorraine Hamilton is a Client Attraction Coach and knows first-hand how to build a successful, thriving company.

After years as a successful project engineer, Lorraine works exclusively with small business owners who want proven strategies to double or triple their revenue, remove unnecessary costs and not lose their mind while they grow their businesses.

Please contact her at lorraine@servicebusinessboost.com or visithttp://www.servicebusinessboost.com

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