10 Great Tips For Success In Life & Business

 

10 Great Tips for Success in Both Life and Business

 

Sometimes what helps us to be successful in our professional lives is not such a great idea in our personal lives — competition is a quality that comes to mind. At the same time, we all have a limited amount of time each day to do the things that we want to do.
So for the sake of saving time and energy, I’m sharing a list of tips that will help you be successful in both life and in business.

1. Add Value

No matter what you do and where you go, you can’t go wrong with adding value. Simply put value is anything that people are willing to pay for. In your professional life, the more value you can offer the more money you can make. In your personal life, more value translates to closer relationships and strong personal growth. The best way to add value is to find the intersection between what people are willing to pay for and what service or product you can offer that is aligned with your values, strengths and goals.
How are you adding value to your employers and loved ones today? What can you do to increase your ability to add value?

2. Follow Your Passion

Reading numerous biographies on great people and from my own personal observations and encounters, I’ve realized that those who achieve greatness professional and personally follow their passion. The reason why great people are few and far in-between is because most people don’t even know what their passion is. For those that do figure out their passion, most of them don’t follow their passion consistently. This is one of the main reasons why people don’t reach their goals.
Do you know what your passion is? If not, what are you going to do to find out? If  you do know what you passion is, are you following it?

3. Be Extraordinary

If you do the same thing as everyone else, it’s hard to be successful. It is important to find the edge and then push past it. That is how you become noticed and get what you want. Whether it is money, meaningful relationships and/or a sense of personal accomplishment, the extraordinary person attracts them all.
How are you extraordinary?  If you feel just ordinary, what are you going to do to become extraordinary?

4. Start Now

There are many factors that go into become a success in both your professional and personal life but the one factor that is required is taking action. Most people miss out on reaching their full potential because they never start. They are always preparing, planning and waiting for the best time to start.
The stars rarely align and you will never be completely ready so just start now and adjust along the way.
Are you waiting for something before you start? What is your planning to doing ratio? What’s really the worse thing that can happen if you got started right now? If you are someone that’s just been waiting, stop reading this post and get started on what you have been wanting to do. This article will still be here when you get back.

5. Hunt for Good Mentors

People who “make it” usually credit their success to a mentor or a group of mentors who really helped guide them to get to where they are. Mentors have gone down the road that you want to travel and can guide you to get to your destination faster than if you went at it alone. If you want to be healthy, you would find a mentor who is already healthy. If you want to be rich, then you have to find someone who is already rich. What surprises me is how rarely people engage in mentoring relationships and those who do usually find mentors in only one aspect of their lives. If you want to be successful, be active about finding mentors that will help you achieve what you want. Jeff Goins has a nice short article on finding mentors.
Do you have a mentor in your life now? If not, ask yourself what barriers are preventing you from finding or establishing a mentoring relationship? If you do have a mentor, do you have one for the different aspects of your life (financial, health, professional, personal, spiritual, relationships, parenting etc.)?

6. Build a Support Group

While mentors serve as a guide with whom you review your past actions and plan your next steps, a support group are your companions that help you with during the actual execution of your plan. This may be in the form of a mastermind group or accountability partner where you keep each other accountable for your goals and to help each other deal with situations that may arise while you are on your journeys. It is extremely helpful to have someone you know that is willing to listen to your frustrations and self doubt and to encourage you and remind you of how far you’ve already come.
Who is in your support group?

7. Personally Know Your Finances

Numbers scare a lot of people. Start talking about assets, liabilities and net worth and people’s eyes just glaze over. If you are one of these people who run away from numbers, please stop running because you are hurting yourself. If you want to be financially independent, you need to know how to keep score. If you have your own business or want to successfully invest, finances tell you how well you are doing and reveal the health of a business. If you don’t understand finances, you have to learn. It’s easy once you get over the limiting belief that you are no good at numbers.
Do you know you net worth? If you are bad at numbers, what specifically makes you believe that? How can you improve your financial intelligence?

8. Get Help

I have a tendency to try to do everything myself and in some ways it is good and in many ways it is bad. It is important to know and understand all aspects of your life and business but that does not mean having to do all the tasks involved in maximizing your potential in those areas. It is true that we can always learn new things and become competent in them but what is also true is that we are only given 24 hours each day and to live full lives, it is more effective to do what we do best and to outsource tasks that we’re not good at to people who excel at them. Delegating effectively takes trust and the ability to clearly communicate what you want. For those that want to outsource, Elance is a nice way to find some quality freelancers.
How are you spending your time? Is it doing things you are awesome at? If not, what are you doing that you can outsource or delegate so you can devote more time doing what you’re great at? What’s stopping you from outsourcing or delegating?

9. Learn Sales

Many people cringe when they hear the word sales. “I would never be in sales, that’s a sleazy job.” It is exactly this type of thinking that stops people from being their best. Sales is nothing more than persuading someone of something. When you are looking to get a date, you are selling. When you are interviewing for a job, you are selling. When you are trying to persuade your spouse or kids to go to Europe for your family vacation, you are selling. In a professional setting, sales is paramount and the lifeline for any business. If you want to get the most out of life and business, learn the skills for effective selling. I am beginning a series of blog posts on How to Sell on my blog and you can learn from other successful sales trainers by reading material from Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracey and Og Mandino.
When you hear “sales”, what associations come to mind? Are they positive or negative? Do you know the how to sell effectively? If not, how do you plan to learn?

10. Be Resilient

Things rarely work out the way you planned and there will always be distractions and stumbling blocks that you have to deal with when you are on your road to success. The key point to remember is to persist and to develop the courage to move on even when everyone around you is telling you it is ok to give up. This does not mean stubbornly holding on to your original plan but rather continuing to pursue your goal as long as the reasons for doing so is still valid (Make sure you know the “Why” of what you want). When everything seems to be going wrong, keep in mind that “the road to success is paved with a thousand failures” so each failure actually brings you closer to where you want to be.
How often do you quit because things got tough? Would you descrive yourself as an unshakeable optimist? Do you view problems as opportunities or warning signs? How do you view failure and are you making sure that you don’t make the one mistake people make when learning from their mistakes?

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-great-tips-for-success-in-both-life-and-business.html

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Motivational Quote

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”

http://everydaypowerblog.com/2014/02/04/inspirational-commitment-quotes/

Becoming Financially Free - Successfully Finding Freedom in Financial Life - Possible or Not?

Freedom is doing what you want, when you want, with whom you want, and most importantly, having the resources, both physical and financial, to do so. In March of 1992, the Network Marketing industry's skyrocketing success served as the lead story for SUCCESS magazine. It outsold every issue in the 100 year history of the magazine. So, what was it that many had already figured out and still many more wanted to?
The 40/40/40 Plan
Since the printing of David Copperfield, society, as we know it, has been stuck in the 40/40/40 paradigm: work 40 hours a week for 40 years in order to then receive 40% of what was not enough to live on during those first 40 years. Present day society calls this a "retirement plan," and it is the road to poverty. To follow the plan we need to, first, get a good education; in example, a four year degree which, today, will leave you in so much debt that it will take you, on average, 10 years just to pay it off--assuming, of course, that you make it to step two which is to get a good job with a big company. Then comes your reward, step three, the Golden Years. After working (for someone else) for at least 40 hours a week for 40 years, you get to retire.
While this plan seemed to work back in the Fifties, today, your company is more likely to file for bankruptcy than ever make good on its retirement promises. And even if your 401k has something in it, the ravages of inflation will have decimated its purchasing power, leaving you unable to live, while simply waiting out the inevitable: death.

The Four-Year Career Alternative
Is there another way? Can you really work at something for four years and give yourself every thing you want in life for the next 40? Yes, you can. But most people, stuck in the paradigm, will not. Not because they couldn't, but because they have been, some would say, purposefully brainwashed into thinking that it is impossible to follow one's dreams and survive. Yet following one's dreams is the only way to survive. When we cease to dream, we cease to live. So, let's look again at the facts.
Loyalty to one job no longer provides security; A four year degree might get you a good job-maybe; The average person today will change jobs 7 to 10 times in his or her lifetime; Because of student loan debt and the costs associated with starting and providing for a family, most adults will be well into their fifties before they can even start to save for retirement.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Becoming-Financially-Free---Successfully-Finding-Freedom-in-Financial-Life---Possible-or-Not?&id=8827090

How to reach success

When rail roads were first invented engineers started to notice that the rail lines break at different points with no apparent reason. When they investigated further they found that sunlight resulted in the expansion of the metal forming the rail causing a pressure that breaks the line at its weakest points.
As a walk around, rail roads were redesigned to include slots that allows the expansion and contraction of the metal without breaking it.
So you might be asking yourself what does this has to do with reaching success?
The moral of the story is simple, reaching success is only a matter of failing first then modifying your approach to become successful!!

Success comes after failure

Of course there might be few people out there who succeeded from the first attempts but the majority of successful people failed many times before they managed to reach success.
A very large percentage of billionaires faced financial troubles at many points in their lives and some of them even lost all of their money and had to start all over again.
Learning is all about making mistakes first then knowing how to avoid these mistakes in the future. You have to do things wrong before you can learn how to do them the right way and thus in order to reach success you must first know how to not become successful.
Do you remember the first time you tried to ride a bicycle or use a skateboard?
How many times did you fall? How many things have you done wrong?
I am sure you fell tens of times yet you kept learning until you knew how to avoid your mistakes.

Why do people fail to succeed?

So if success is all about learning and avoiding mistakes then why don’t all people succeed?
Simply because most people feel bad and become depressed when they experience their first few failures!!
Instead of continuing the learning process to learn how to avoid their mistakes those people stop at one point, form false beliefs about life and become depressed!!
To summarize it all, here are the exact steps you need in order to reach success:

• Do something!!: People who procrastinate or those who wait for the right time never make their first attempt and so never succeed. People who fear to try or fear success itself never reach anything too.
• Look at failure differently: Failure is nothing more than discovering that you are not following the right approach. Without failure you would never know about the mistakes you did and success can never be reached
• Avoid the mistakes and try again: Right after your failure give it another try after fixing the mistakes you did in the previous attempt

http://www.2knowmyself.com/How_to_reach_success

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