The rocking horse theory permeates small business. Far too many people who own small businesses or home based businesses confuse motion with forward progress. Rocking horses create motion, but zero forward progress. Busy and moving does not equal progress.
Answering your email, calling your co-workers to inquire about what they did for fun for the weekend, or chatting with employees provides a delightful social activity; however, it rarely moves your business forward. Many new entrepreneurs confuse spending time in front of their computer with actually accomplishing forward moving business progress.
Analyze your activities. Are you jumping up from your desk and going to the kitchen for another cup of coffee or getting sidetracked with personal emails? How focused is your time and productivity? Petting the kitty or puppy for a few minutes may not seem like a big deal or take much time, but it is an interruption in focused thought and focused activity.
It may come as a surprise to John Jackson who does the CarbonCopyPRO wake up call but I shower with him every morning. Now before you get all excited, he is in Texas and I am in Colorado. Thank goodness I do not have a camera phone. My day starts at 6 am with daily meditation and positive affirmations. Physical fitness remains a top priority for me as I firmly believe in both a healthy mind and a healthy body. Anyone who knows me well knows that my treadmill/run time occurs for 99 minutes each morning. Why 99 minutes? The treadmill has a 2 digit read out. A series of stretches always follow my run. The wake up call with John Jackson of CCP starts promptly at 8:30 am MST; I sign in a minute or so before 8:30. Signing in is important. Since I ask my consultants to attend calls, I practice what I request of them. Setting a positive example is another mark of a top leader and top producer.
Think I forgot about the shower? Once I have logged in to the call, the phone goes on mute and speaker. Shower time while I listen intently to the call. Yes, I shower with John Jackson Monday through Thursday. Next I sign in to the Wealth Masters call and get ready for my day listening to WMI. No wasted time.
At 9:30 am I am ready to start writing articles, making videos, sending broadcast emails to my list, calling apps and BIBs and working on other creative new marketing ideas.
My head is down and my fingers are flying on the keyboard until about 1 pm when it is break time for a bite of lunch. From 1 to 3 personal details such as weight training at the gym every other day, errands or personal details such as my toastmasters officer duties take place.
From 3 pm to 5 pm there are follow up calls to consultants requesting assistance and returning calls to potential new consultants. From 5 pm to 8 or 9 depending on the day, there are evening training calls to conduct or attend. Always be masterminding with others who share a similar positive mindset and commitment to success.
Never confuse the motion of a rocking horse with forward progress in your business.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Tips for Success
Dogs don’t bark at parked cars. Even an animal in the forest will stand perfectly still in order to avoid being noticed.
You can have the most beautiful web site every created with fabulous pictures, graphics and compelling text, but until you take action to attract attention to it, it is worthless. The time tested success training tip is to take massive action. The scientific laws decree that nothing happens until something moves. This rule applies even more in business today.
If you say September has always been my slowest month because people are just returning from vacation and getting ready to get the kids back in school, you may not prospect as much. You may make fewer calls. The results probably demonstrated that September was indeed a slow month. You decreed from September 1 that the month would be slow and you took less action; consequently, the month was indeed slow. The problem existed not with the month of September, but your attitude about it and your actions (or lack of action). Our mindset determines our results. Our actions follow our attitudes and beliefs.
Change your attitude and change your results. Yesterday I wrote about “Gold Dust in the Air.” A salesman decreed that there was gold dust in the air and everywhere he turned he found prosperity. He found prosperity because he expected it, believes it and took the action to prospect for the gold.
Napoleon Hill wrote about your power to control your own mind and therefore, your results in “Think and Grow Rich.” The greatest tips for success all find their root in a positive mindset and massive action. When your beliefs are aligned with your actions, success building occurs. Beliefs align with thoughts, words and actions to produce success. Sound simple? Yes, it is. The beauty is that it is also very true.
Dogs don’t bark at parked cars because noting is moving or drawing their attention. Animals have instinct to avoid detection. Customers are searching for information; however, you must take the massive action to be where you can be easily found.
The tips for success remain very simple and specific. Set a target firmly in your mind, design a plan to reach the target and take massive action. Action creates the opportunity for customers to find you. Success training boils down to these few basic steps.
Another of the key tips for success is discipline. Each of these factors plays a significant role in your success. Consistency tops the cone of activities. Success requires daily focused action.
Build your cone of success by constructing a solid foundation of positive mindset for success. Add a layer of laser focused clarity of your target goal. Build another layer above that with a specific targeted audience. Above that add a layer of action plan, roadmap, as to the specific steps to achieve the goal. Second layer from the top resides taking the specific actions to achieve the goal. At the very top sits consistent daily action.
Think of the consistency as hot fudge on the top scoop of ice cream. Yes, it remains at the top but it also flows down through all of the layers of the success cone.
The key tips for success firmly reside in that cone of success. When you build it and immerse it throughout your being and your priorities. Success is guaranteed.
You can have the most beautiful web site every created with fabulous pictures, graphics and compelling text, but until you take action to attract attention to it, it is worthless. The time tested success training tip is to take massive action. The scientific laws decree that nothing happens until something moves. This rule applies even more in business today.
If you say September has always been my slowest month because people are just returning from vacation and getting ready to get the kids back in school, you may not prospect as much. You may make fewer calls. The results probably demonstrated that September was indeed a slow month. You decreed from September 1 that the month would be slow and you took less action; consequently, the month was indeed slow. The problem existed not with the month of September, but your attitude about it and your actions (or lack of action). Our mindset determines our results. Our actions follow our attitudes and beliefs.
Change your attitude and change your results. Yesterday I wrote about “Gold Dust in the Air.” A salesman decreed that there was gold dust in the air and everywhere he turned he found prosperity. He found prosperity because he expected it, believes it and took the action to prospect for the gold.
Napoleon Hill wrote about your power to control your own mind and therefore, your results in “Think and Grow Rich.” The greatest tips for success all find their root in a positive mindset and massive action. When your beliefs are aligned with your actions, success building occurs. Beliefs align with thoughts, words and actions to produce success. Sound simple? Yes, it is. The beauty is that it is also very true.
Dogs don’t bark at parked cars because noting is moving or drawing their attention. Animals have instinct to avoid detection. Customers are searching for information; however, you must take the massive action to be where you can be easily found.
The tips for success remain very simple and specific. Set a target firmly in your mind, design a plan to reach the target and take massive action. Action creates the opportunity for customers to find you. Success training boils down to these few basic steps.
Another of the key tips for success is discipline. Each of these factors plays a significant role in your success. Consistency tops the cone of activities. Success requires daily focused action.
Build your cone of success by constructing a solid foundation of positive mindset for success. Add a layer of laser focused clarity of your target goal. Build another layer above that with a specific targeted audience. Above that add a layer of action plan, roadmap, as to the specific steps to achieve the goal. Second layer from the top resides taking the specific actions to achieve the goal. At the very top sits consistent daily action.
Think of the consistency as hot fudge on the top scoop of ice cream. Yes, it remains at the top but it also flows down through all of the layers of the success cone.
The key tips for success firmly reside in that cone of success. When you build it and immerse it throughout your being and your priorities. Success is guaranteed.
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