What s the real difference between success and failure? Some people may argue that it s having a great attitude, money, luck or perseverance. The real difference is only one thing It s the ability to be consistent. You can have a great attitude or perseverance, but if you only have it one or two days a week your life will look like a roller coaster. True success is something you create consistently. What s your recipe for success? Identify the specifics of your successful days: What are you thinking? How do you walk? How are you breathing? What kind of people are around you? Are you taking care of your body? Did you work out today? What types of food are you putting into your body to fuel you? All of these components begin the process of identifying your special recipe for success. Once you have identified it, duplicate it consistently to maintain an upward movement of quantifiable results.
2. Eliminate The Hassles Of Life.
Suffering is optional! Stop suffering, tolerating and hoping. There s a huge addiction in our culture among entrepreneurs that s rarely recognized. It s the addiction to adrenaline. Adrenaline is a source of energy. It s not the healthiest source of energy, and yet people will do anything to get it. Adrenaline is a habit that creates an unhealthy lifestyle.
Here are some symptoms of adrenaline:
Rushing around and juggling as many projects as possible all at once.
Speeding in your car.
Always looking at the clock.
Filing up your gas tank on empty.
Coffee
Sugar
Messy desk with piles everywhere.
Never saying no to projects.
Over promising your results.
Adrenaline addiction runs rampant among entrepreneurs because the common belief holds that adrenaline equals success. Gordon Bahary, president of Electric Kingdom Records used to run his life on adrenaline. I used to create situations that developed adrenaline. I would drink coffee, eat sugar, get hyped, angry and excited more than was necessary. I planned my execution of tasks in an erratic fashion just to get the adrenaline rush. I was dependent upon something external pushing me and used adrenaline to get through my day. Now I m clear about my real talents and draw genuine energy from within. I have time to stop and think and gained a love for my discipline of not running on adrenaline.
The paradox of attraction is if you want to achieve more, do less. It s called irresistible attraction. By eliminating adrenaline you naturally attract success, reduce stress, integrate all aspects of your life, simplify, and reorient around what makes you the happiest. What good is increased productivity and profitability if you re not happy?
3. Get Your Needs Met And Communicate More Effectively.
It s important to be clear about what you need and to communicate it elegantly. Needs are not optional. It s what you don t know about you that really runs you. Unmet needs can run your life, until you identify them and take complete responsibility for fulfilling them in healthy ways. Have the language you need to handle confrontations. When people avoid confrontations their lives get messy. When you have the skills to communicate effectively, you have quality relationships and restore your integrity. Learn how to come across better, listen, influence, coach, motivate, inspire and support others.
4. Create Reserves.
Business owners tend to run their business on the edge. They get so caught up with their ideas that they invest everything into their ventures and want to make it happen all now! Business owners tend to exhaust their reserves quicker and faster than any other group of people, because they are creative and come up with so many ideas that require attention. The solution is to create reserves in every area. You want to have more than enough so that you are always operating from reserves. When you operate on close to empty you react to every situation in life. With reserves you respond to life. When you respond you re always at choice.
How do you build reserves? Begin by creating new standards of doubling everything, i.e time, money, opportunities, clients, friends, energy, etc. Fill your gas tank when it s on half a tank instead of waiting until it s on empty. Buy two boxes of fax paper versus one. Hold money in separate reserve accounts for new projects. Say no more. Stop over promising and begin to under promise. Operating with reserves make you more attractive. People will gravitate to you and seek you out to do business. With reserves comes fewer errors, space to create the future, time to do complete work and the ability to maintain integrity.
5. Work On Your Business Instead Of In It.
Insightful business owner s are wise not to work IN their business, but know that real money and success come from working ON their business. When you work IN your business you think like an employee, do tasks that you can do that others should be doing, and work really hard. When you work ON your business, you orchestrate the work of others, you step back daily to get a helicopter view of where you re heading and plan your business for long term growth.
It s very easy for new business owners to get engrossed and consumed with their business. While it s important to understand how to run and operate your business it is equally important to stop and set up structures and systems so that anyone can do the job the same way. You re probably worth more than your making. Why charge what you think you are worth. Charge what others are charging. What other products and services can you market to your existing client s? Stop chasing, selling and promoting your business and begin to effortlessly attract . The key here is to have an extremely profitable business. Question all your expenses. Leverage your ability to improve the financial bottom line, make money, add more value to your customers, and increase productivity. The key is to have money instead of money having you. Remember the mission and forget the commission.
6. Get Rid Of All The Stuff In The Way
Eliminate the distractions of problems, incompletions and tolerations and increase productivity. Everything you tolerate claims a piece of your creative and physical energy. Tolerations drain you of the resources required for a successful business. Getting rid of my tolerations was the most freeing thing I ve ever done. I never realized how much energy was being drained from tolerations. Everyday I walked in and got annoyed at my messy desk. Now my desk is organized, I have more energy to use on more important things, like growing my business. Says Mike Schneider, president of Ki Sales.
What are incompletes and tolerations? The piles you have in your office, projects you plan to start, unfilled tax receipts or forms, unread magazines, legal matters, the dent on your car, conversations you need to have, etc. Set up a plan to resolve tolerations and structure a way to eliminate them permanently. How? Identify and eliminate the cause of your tolerations, so they don t come up again. I constantly look for ways to make my life easier. When issues comes up I don t just look to resolve them, I look for solutions so the problems never resurface. Says Pete Fioretti, president of Mountain Funding.
7. Discover Your Strengths and Orient Your Business Around Them.
What are your strengths? Unfortunately we learn as children to get good at the things we are not good at. For instance, if you had a natural talent in art and failed in math, your parents would hire you a math tutor instead of an art teacher to embellish your innate strengths. When you spend your life trying to get good at things that don t come naturally to you, mediocrity is at best what you can expect. The secret key to effortless success is to identify your strengths and talents and do only those things.
If you are not certain what your gifts are, it may be difficult to discover it yourself. How do you discover your strengths? Ask five people that know you well what they believe your gifts are. In that dialogue with them you ll discover it.
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