“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”

– Samuel Goldwyn

I know lots of people who are unable to motivate themselves, let alone make great achievements. They all have one core problem in that they don’t know or have not got the will power to move themselves into a positive mindset and position from which to succeed.

You need to believe in your self first and secondly that success starts with your attitude. You must be convinced that you can and will succeed! You have to control your thinking processes to build the right attitude. Have positive thoughts, (look for the bright side of the situation) and build the belief in yourself. When you think that nothing can stop you, others will slowly adopt your view and attitude and from confidence great adventures build. They will support you, jump on your bandwagon, and contribute to your success. They will give you help that they won’t provide to people who don’t believe in themselves.

One major key to learn is to project a winning, confident attitude that inspires success. This is achieved at the beginning by working on your internal thought processes. For example, change the way you end and greet each day. Before you go to sleep think of something you are looking forward to doing tomorrow. In the morning before you get out of bed, take a few moments to welcome the day. Think of the reasons why today can be special or important for your future. Say aloud to yourself, “What a great day!” Think about how you can make wonderful things happen. As ideas flow through your mind, feel the enthusiasm that your positive attitude has generated and the smile on your face.

The next step is how you dress because the first four seconds determines how the people meeting you will set their thought pattern for the rest of the meeting. Dress as if you are a successful millionaire, walk tall, head held high to present a solid image, shake hands with firmness in your grip to show your strength and resilience. People all around the world like to associate with success, therefore an image of success helps to convey confidence to others in joining with you in a joint venture or providing start-up funding etc.

You’ll be amazed at how energetic and proactive it will make you feel, when you project an image carried through your actions into your standard of dress. That energy will carry you through the day and help you to be happier and more productive. The smile you wear will impact on those around you, lifting them to follow your leadership, to give that little extra.

It is also critical to challenge yourself. We all thrive on challenges whether we want to admit it or not – particularly on doing what others think cannot be done. You should use challenges for self-motivation. To me, the best challenges are the ones I give myself at this point in my life, where I don’t need to impress anyone. However I still need to satisfy my own challenges and become involved in things that excite me and stretch my thinking.

The key ongoing lesson is to compete with you against yourself. Don’t be a one-hit wonder. After you succeed, find ways to surpass what you’ve already done. I am convinced that no matter what I do, I can always to something bigger and better. Always try to reach new heights, with bigger and better results.

“Being satisfied can only undermine your future”

It keeps you from reaching your potential.

Most people describe other people as being “Successful” because of the wealth they have, or appear to have accumulated, the cars and other assets that they have, or by the power they seem to have through media attention, when we are not directly associated or dealing with them.

Money, power, fame… These things can represent the rewards of successful people’s achievements. But if you were to ask such people you will be surprised at how many will respond with comments to the effect that “it was the earning of the achieving the rewards that defines them and defines their success”.

We all too often confuse “success” with its rewards. But that’s confusing the process with the product, or the journey with the destination.

People, in different places and ages, have attached different meanings to the concept of success, but one of the key hidden measures is that of being happy. What’s the point of being successful or gaining success if it doesn’t make you “happy”? This to me is the clear clue to this business of the journey and the destination.

I know lots of wealthy and powerful people, and many of them would freely admit that having arrived at where they thought they wanted to be, the place of their dreams, they were miserable, or at least disappointed and filled with discontent. Many were casting about looking for the next thing or better thing that would give their future some greater meaning and purpose.

Success can’t just be a one off destination. It can’t just be about rewards. Otherwise, we’d never have it or be sure we had it, or hold onto it for long.

NOT WHAT WE HAVE. BUT WHAT WE ENJOY,

CONSTITUTES OUR ABUNDANCE

By Epicurus

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“What do you really want out of Life” It’s a short question that would seem easy to answer and yet it is the one question that causes so much discontent. Some one once wrote a book called “ I could do anything , If only I knew what it was” I think we can all relate to that statement at some point in our lives if we haven’t set some key goals to achieve. Lets face it most mid life craziness is built on answering that question, particularly if we feel we haven’t got something tangible to look back on.

The one key point out the paragraph above is the fact that you don’t actually have to know exactly where you are going and how the path will unwind as you begin to move forward. What is required is that you take the steps to actually move forward. What we mean is that you need to focus on something in order to give your life some purpose, with some priorities, which will in turn;

Give you increasing clarity of the world around you

1. Develop the discipline you need
2. Commit you to ongoing action
3. Mobilise the resources necessary for each action
4. Achieve outcomes that push you forward

Goals are like a compass: they set the direction – not the destination

It all comes down to this

“You have to set out for somewhere, before you can get anywhere”

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You look at the world around you and are either excited or semi pessimistic about what you see. The attitude you adopt is entirely left up to you as an individual. There is no one else who can influence or change the stance you actually allow your attitude to control and hence the path you take.

Your views are often clouded by your wants in life, you can feel the world owes you a living, owes you a better job, a better home and car, the list goes on and on. The world owes you nothing other than the two givens in life, which you already have. “You must breath and you must take up space”. Beyond this all you have to do is “accept the consequences” of your actions.

For the masses, those of us that are excited have set our goals and are working towards them. We spend time each day visualizing the goal as it will be, seeing the enjoyment it will bring, not only ourselves but to those around us, our family, our parents and our true friends. The attitude of the excited reflects their progress in life; they set and go for their goals with a passion. They dust themselves off and go back into battle for the goals, each time they meet adversity.

The pessimistic among us dream of the future wishing their lives away as they go through the cycle of work each day for the 45 years of working life that is the normal allocation. There dreams remain just that except for a very fortunate few, who become the envy of those around them. What is their attitude? Certainly for pessimists it is not as Jim Rohn would have wanted it when he penned the following note on this very point.

Attitude

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read

By attitude we decide to try, or not to try

By attitude we blame ourselves for our failings, or blame others

Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide to succeed or fail

Finally at the end of our days, “by our attitude will we be judged?”

The last statement says it all - By your attitude will you be judged. Our own self talk can feed the fear within us that makes us “Fail”, but more importantly it can feed the power, the drive and the passion within us to “Succeed”.

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Do you have what it takes to be an Entrepreneur?

“Am I an entrepreneur?” Who is to say you are or you aren’t, or that you will become or will not become an Entrepreneur at some point in your life.

It might be a common question, but it is the right or wrong one to ask yourself, because how you review the situation may lead you equally into action or inaction. Entrepreneurship is not a “yes” or “no” phenomenon it’s not something you can buy or sell. It is also not a question of either “Yes, I’m an entrepreneur” or, “No, I’m not an entrepreneur.”

Entrepreneurship is not genetic. It has nothing to do with your parent’s ability or chromosomes. Neither is it an inherited trait that is handed down through observation of family members. Entrepreneurs are not born; they seem to develop out of adversity, more than from affluence. They have great passion and make things happen because of their will to succeed through gained skills and knowledge that support this passion. (Yes it is topped with a bit of luck of being in the right place at the right time in some cases). You can however learn and enhance the skills that make all entrepreneurs successful. The passion? Well we will leave that up to you.

So where do we begin? Perhaps start by asking yourself the right question:

“How can I learn what I need to know, and improve my entrepreneurial skills to maximize my chances of succeeding?”

That’s the right question because successful entrepreneurs learn to develop and strengthen their personal power skills. Don’t give up on yourself before realizing that you can develop these skills. Becoming a successful entrepreneur is within your grasp if you really want to make it happen. It all falls back to the passion you hold. Have “No or little passion” and you will procrastinate, develop self doubt and in a short time you will fail. Hold your passion and the boundaries to wealth creation are limited only by your own vision. Passion allows you to drive through, to endure and become creative, where others lacking the passion faultier.

Consider this list of what are considered the Essential Entrepreneurial Power Skills. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you must learn to:

1. Assess the present situation.

Hone your ability to observe, collect information, and understand the opportunities and threats that can impact you and your business-to-be. Factor in your own personal strengths, skills, experiences, challenges, and resource limitations. If you begin with the wrong assumptions, you will invariably get the wrong answers.

2. Go after bold visions.

Having gone through a reasoned assessment, you are in a position to establish clear, measurable goals. Be bold! You can accomplish considerably more than you realize. And it takes about the same amount of effort to go for the gold as for bronze.

3. Be unstoppable.

Focus your attention on the timely execution of every milestone on the path to your goal. You and your team will face many obstacles along the way, but you will not let these stumbling blocks stop you. Just show up and get it done–period.

5. Brainstorm.

Brainstorming harnesses the thinking, experiences, and imagination of a group to generate creative ideas and solve problems. The collective knowledge of a group is vastly greater than that of any one individual; and therein lays the power of the brainstorming process.

4. Negotiate firmly and “win-win.”

Every interaction between people can benefit from proficiency at win-win negotiation. You can accomplish what you want and still retain a productive relationship based on mutual understanding and accommodation. Here are the ground rules:

a) Listen and understand, before seeking to be understood.

b) Separate the people from the process.

c) Focus on interests, not positions.

d) Insist on objective criteria.

e) Invent options for mutual gain.

f) Solve problems effectively. There is rarely a day in business or a personal life that a problem doesn’t crop up that needs to be solved. Problem solving is a skill that can be learned through study and practice. Start by identifying the problem meticulously, examine changes, test for causes, and verify the solution. Your rate of success improves dramatically with your ability to solve problems.

5. Make good decisions.

The ability to make good decisions is essential to success in business and personal life. Decision making can also be learned and enhanced. The process begins with clarifying the decision statement; then defining what the right decision must accomplish; developing and evaluating alternatives; examining future consequences; and finally, making a reasoned choice. This is a process you can learn and apply to systematically improve your decision-making ability, as well as become a better problem solver. You don’t have to wing it.

6. Mobilize resources.

You can’t accomplish anything without understanding how to leverage resources, which, in the entrepreneurial vocabulary, are anything, absolutely anything that moves your venture further and faster with the least risk possible. Categories of resources include: physical, financial, infrastructure, people, knowledge, and your own unbridled imagination.

7. Communicate.

You’ve assessed the situation, put your bold vision in place, and established performance initiatives. Now what happens? Nothing - unless you communicate consistently and constantly to all stakeholders. Be clear with stakeholders about what you intend to accomplish and what you expect from them.

8. Act decisively.

Entrepreneurship is a contact sport. It is not only about thinking, planning, coordinating, strategizing, and visioning–it is about doing. Figure out how to get the task done. Be unstoppable in its execution.

9. Behave with integrity.

There are people for whom you would do anything, and others with whom you would not waste your time; the difference is the quality of the person’s character and behavior. Integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability, knowledge, professionalism, maturity, punctuality, good negotiating and listening skills and, last but never least, humor, are the qualities of successful entrepreneurs. Stick to these, and never waver!

This article is adapted from the new book, Trump University Wealth Building 101: Your First 90 Days on the Path to Prosperity (Trump University) It is a worthy read for any person seeking personal development and to expand their personal wealth creation and skill set, let alone your mindset to becoming an entrepreneur.

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If your serious about your success – wanting to make breakthroughs in your life then set your goals, involve those around you in your direction for life and bring them with you, build from their support and share with them the successes that you achieve with each milestone that your reach.

I sometimes think that knowledge and higher education can be overrated because life has shown me what I didn’t learn at school (but wish I had) has been of greater use in my wealth creation. I know many people who are very well educated wear the right school tie, mix in the best circles and know a lot about business or investments – but they haven’t built significant wealth, a business or even successful careers. To top it off some of them actually go so far as to write books, run courses and do presentations to tell others how to build wealth based on their education not experience of actually doing it. This is a real example of the spectator telling the sportsman how to play the game.

For any success in wealth creation there are fundamentals that must be achieved. Without any one of these fundamental not being achieved, then any success will be short lived. We have all seen business start grow and fold. The statistics show that nine out of ten business fold in the first year. Nine out of ten that pass the first year fail in the next two years and only five out of ten that remain will last for ten years. Many successful companies will fold while they seem to be ploughing ahead. What are the fundamentals I hear you asking? The three that I put at the top are as follows

1. There’s stuff you need to Know
2. There’s stuff you need to Believe
3. There’s stuff you have to Do

No single fundamental is higher than the other. They all hold equal weight

What makes the difference between people who become ultra-wealthy and people who never make the grade? First, ultra-wealthy people always start companies. At some point, working for other people is no longer letting them achieve the success they were destined for. Second, the ultra-rich always invest in shares and real estate as they provide the greatest returns and enable tax minimization or tax free income streams. The third point is there is no other investment like a balanced investment portfolio. Over time, despite ups and downs, it outperforms all other investments. Remember that “Financial Security” is the biggest health cure available to western society.

Together, with a little work, you are going to make yourself rich. Set your goals, remembering to use the law of attraction, manifest the goals, live the goals as if they were already there and when they are there, stop and enjoy them. Give gratitude that you have what you have and above all else give to others so that the abundance reaches out to all of mankind.

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