Planting the Garden of Success

Today I am going to help you plant your garden of success.

To begin, you will need to plant three rows of peas:

Patience
Positive Thinking
Persistence

Next you will need to plant three rows of squash:

Squash your excuses
Squash blame
Squash negativity and criticism

Then you will need to plant three rows of lettuce:

Lettuce be responsible
Lettuce be trustworthy
Lettuce be ambitious

Lastly, you will need three rows of turnips:

Turnip when needed
Turnip with a smile
Turnip with confidence.

These are everything you need to plant your garden of success! Are you ready to start planting?

Hope you found this as motivational as I did. Absolutely love this and am going to keep it close and refer to it often.

If I can help you with anything in your business, please let me know. You can call/text me at 612-208-9434.

To your success~

Frustrated with your home business?

If you’re in the home based business industry, most likely you have dreamed of having a huge team, rank advancing to the top, walking the stage and being rewarded with fabulous incentive trips around the world.  Or success for you may be viewed in other ways – retiring your spouse, getting to go to your kids baseball games or dance recitals.  Maybe you envision the luxury of shopping sprees or adventurous vacations.  However it is that you view success, have you ever experienced frustration with where you are in the process of achieving it.

Many times we feel since we’ve not reached our goal we’ve failed.  Since you’re not there yet, you deem yourself not successful or lacking credibility.

Or maybe you compare yourself with where others are?

May I encourage you for just a moment to take a deep breath and stop focusing on what you have not accomplished?

The more you focus on what you don’t have, or what you haven’t achieved or how you are “less than” the more you stay there.

I’m sure you’ve heard the truism, “What you focus on expands.”  The more you focus on your lack of success, well….. the more lack of success you experience.

But the more you focus on where you are going, the closer you get.

This isn’t just true for the home based business industry, it’s true in every other aspect of your life as well.

Skill training is vital to your success, but I’ve also heard it said many times that if knowing how was all it took, we’d all be skinny, rich and famous.  There is much more to this business than simply knowing how to do it.

The home based business industry is a mind game.  So much of this business is how we approach things mentally.

How do you deal with rejection?  How do you keep going when you don’t feel like it?  How do you deal with the negativity, frustration, good days and bad days.  Our minds and the mental aspect of this business is HUGE!  If you find yourself getting frustrated, annoyed and upset with where you are, it would be very wise to spend some time focusing on the mental aspect of this business.

I want to share a training call with you today that talks about being discouraged and how to shift your mindset to start kicking some butt in your business.

You can listen here: http://rec001.freeconferencecalling.com/mp3/1055847/624503/LA3501_11222016100148317_1154597.mp3

I hope this helps you! If I can help you in anyway, please feel free to reach out to me directly at 612-208-9434.

Have a beautiful day ~
To your success~

Attitude....

 

 The One Thing That Determines How Successful You Can Be....

No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude.

The one thing that determines the level of our potential, produces the intensity of our activity and predicts the quality of the result we receive—our attitude.

Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges.

No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us, or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.

No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose; not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.

If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path, and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.

If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value that must be protected accordingly.

When you have the right attitude, you can do the remarkable.

Having the right attitude is an essential prerequisite for success and happiness. The right attitude is one of the fundamentals of the good life. That is why we must constantly examine our feelings about our role in the world and about our possibilities for achieving our dreams.

It is our emotional nature that governs most of our daily conduct in our personal and business world. It is the emotional aspect of our experiences that determines our behavior. How we feel about life’s events is a powerful force that can either freeze us in our tracks or inspire us to take immediate action on any given day. With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

Attitude separates achievers from dreamers.
 
Hope you found this beneficial. Please feel free to share with your team. If I can help you with anything in your home business, please feel free to reach me at 612-208-9434.

To your success~ 

 

Get out of a slump....

 

 

 

Everyone gets into slumps every now and then and if you find yourself in one, here are three things you should do right away to pull out of it. 

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. 

I know, probably not what you wanted to hear.  I read once, "All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously." So stop carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. That said, the other thing you should do about self-pity is make a list of the 25 things you are grateful for.  (I assume you have running water? Indoor plumbing? Some food in your refrigerator? Seriously, it could be worse.)

And if you’re really down, don’t make just one list. Each morning as you sip your coffee, make a list of three to five things you are grateful for. It’s really hard to feel sorry for yourself when you are feeling grateful. And it gives you some much needed perspective, you actually have it pretty good. (You are drinking coffee!) 

Stop comparing yourself to others.  
As they say, happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people. If you are in a slump, comparison only serves to make you feel worse and gets you back in the mode of self-pity. The only time comparison is ever helpful is when it inspires you to take action - otherwise, do not do it.

Get back to focusing on your activities.
Take action!  Reward yourself for activities (like hitting a no-goal for example).  When you crawl into bed instead of going out, the universe won’t pull back the covers and force you into the shower. When you get up and get moving, the universe responds in kind. Oh, and avoid getting into constant measurement mode every second. (Graphs, charts, and numbers don't change the longer you stare at them!)  

The days and weeks will pass soon enough and the slump you feel you are in will pass.  But one last thought of gratitude...

“Think of every single thing that we 'have to' do to get through a day as something that we 'get to' do... before our turn is over. Everything is a gift.”

Hope this helped to pull you out of a slump! Feel free to share with your team. If there is anything I can do to help you in your business, please call or text me at 612-208-9434. 

To your success~ 

Creating a Successful Daily Routine

Why is it that some people seem so super productive while others seem like they simply spin their wheels, not getting much accomplished at all?  Have you ever felt that some people get more done before 9 than you can do all day? 

If you want to be successful in your home business, you have to learn how to be productive with the money producing activities.  You know, prospecting, inviting, presenting and promoting events.  But how can you learn to be consistent with these activities every day?

Creating A Successful Daily Routine

Have you ever noticed you are a creature of habit? Do you find yourself doing the same thing each and every day?  That’s your daily routine and it’s simply a series of habits that you have.  Most don’t even realize that they live life on autopilot.  If you’re daily routine is not proving productive nor profitable there is some good news for you – you can change it!

In order to be productive every single day you must learn to establish productive and profitable habits.   Without a plan, you are asking for failure.  But if you have a plan and you work it, you create an open door for success.  Your actions must be intentional and your habits must be productive.  Take those activities that will make you money – prospecting, inviting, presenting and promoting events – and put them on your calendar. 

In a search for time freedom, you’ll have to learn to live by your calendar.  That may sound counter-intuitive, but YOU get to tell your calender what to do…but for maximum productivity, you need a daily routine.

Daily routine is vital in order to be consistency.  …and you know consistency is vital to success in the home business industry.

There Is A Time For Everything

As you begin scheduling your ideal daily routine, keep productivity and timing in mind.  For instance, prospecting and inviting are vital, but 6am may not be the ideal time for that, even if you are a morning person.  This time frame may be the best to build in exercise or reading/personal development. It may be the best for planning your day or your week.  Or, depending on your lifestyle, it may be ideal for prospecting at the gym.

For many, the afternoon and evening hours make more sense for prospecting and inviting.  You know your schedule and your lifestyle better than anyone else, so look for those blocks of times when you can be productive and spend time building your business.

You have to make sure that the activity makes sense for the time that you are placing it on your calendar.  For instance, many of the people I speak with work a 9-5 job, so calling them at 9 in the morning will get me nowhere….except in their voice mail box.  Scheduling a time to talk on their commute home often proves ideal.

The Best Way To Be Productive

The best way to be productive each and every day is to have a daily routine, and to make that routine a habit. It needs to be embedded in you so deeply that it feels awkward if you do not prospect, invite and present on a daily basis.  Being productive is a habit just like being unproductive is a habit.
Know the tasks you need to do, add them to a calendar and create a habit of following a routine that gets it done every day!

Tips For Creating A Daily Routine

1) Write out all profit producing activities

2) Write out all responsibilities and add to your calendar

3) Add time for margin / emergencies / unscheduled distractions / life

4) Create your Timeline / Schedule

5) Test your routine

6) Adjust your calendar  / move around to more ideal times

7) Go 30 days straight to create the habit and establish the routine

8) Celebrate the wins

9) Understand this will be tough – altering habits is tough!

10) Get an accountability partner / group

You have it in you, you can win in your home business!  Success comes by being disciplined and strategic in your actions. Cheering you on!

Hope you found this helpful. Feel free to share it with your team members. If there is anything I can help you with in your business, please feel free to reach me directly at 612-208-9434.

To your success~

Not seeing results? How to stay motivated.

Today I want to talk about staying motivated when you are not getting results. There are a couple of ways that you can stay motivated while you are not getting results. One is to look at people who are hugely successful that also failed. For example, I think it was Howard Schultz was turned down by 246 different banks and if he wouldn’t have gone one more time, there would be no Starbucks. I believe Ray Kroc was a failure his whole entire life until he stumbled upon a burger stand and ended up buying out that little burger stand and created McDonald’s in the 60s. I know there was a gentleman who was kicked off the Grand Old Opera Stage and told to go back to truck driving and that’s Elvis Presley.

Not getting results is part for the course. It’s just the deal. I was listening in on a training call earlier this week and I heard what I would call a pretty good approach to how to become successful. Now it’s not my definition of success but it’s how to become successful. How to become successful is to be persistent through failure. That is literally only 50% of the equation. Now most people are persistent. You have to persistent through failure and I think, I don’t think it’s perfect but I think it’s a pretty good way to think about success. How to get success. It’s not the definition of success. It’s how to get to success.

You have to understand number one, it’s normal. It’s normal to be doing work and not getting results. That’s normal. Keep going. Be persistent. One of my favorite quotes is from the Dr. Reverend Michael Beckwith, “Pain pushes you until a vision pulls you”. Let the vision of who you want to become pull you pass these obstacles and this is why. Just having a why isn’t enough. It’s not enough to have a why, it’s not enough. You have to have a vision of who you want to become that is so powerful and that can be how are you spending time with your spouse? How are you making a difference in society? Who are you? Who do you want to become? That vision is so critical to get you pass the obstacles because there will be obstacles. There will be. Just a fact. Okay. There you go.

Here are some resources that I want to share with that will help you stay motivated:


How to Get Motivated when you just don’t feel like it
Sly Stallone, Branding and Staying Motivated
What to do when they say you will never make it (amazing stories here)

Hopefully this was beneficial. Please feel free to share it with your team. If there is anything I can help you with in your business, please feel free to reach me directly at 612-208-9434.

To your success ~

4 Ways to Stand Out and Grow Your Business

 

 

1. Create a Great Culture - Whether you are a Fortune 500 company or five person company it's never too early to decide the kind of culture you want to create and determine what your culture stands for. For example, even when Apple was just a two person company consisting of the two Steves it was clear their company culture challenged the status quo and as they grew they attracted and hired those that fit their culture. While it's difficult to quantify the benefits of a strong culture, we can all agree that there is something about culture that speaks volumes to the marketplace. When you focus on your culture you create a strong foundation of values, beliefs, expectations and habits that cause you to stand out in the marketplace and ultimately grow your business.

 

2. Lead with Optimism - Now, more than ever, optimism is a competitive advantage. Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, was asked the most important characteristic of a leader and he said "Optimism." After all, it's not the pessimists who will grow this economy. It's the optimists who believe in a brighter future that will take the actions necessary to create it. Optimism will also help you navigate the set-backs, challenges, naysayers and Energy Vampires as you seek to grow your business. You have a choice. You can believe success is impossible or you can believe that with faith, hard work and an optimistic attitude all things are possible. To grow your business, choose the latter.

 

3. Show your Customers you Care - I am convinced that the most successful companies find unique ways to show their customers they care about them. Les Schwab Tire Center employees run outside to greet their customers when they pull up in their cars. Zappos offers free shipping and free return shipping. My local cleaner replaces buttons on my suit if they notice they are missing and provides free pick-up and delivery service. I can't tell you how you should stand out without knowing more about your business but I can tell you, if you want to stand out and grow you must create your own signature way to show your customers that you care about them. When you show your customers you care they will talk about you to everyone (even write about you) and you’ll stand out in a crowded and competitive marketplace.

 

4. Pursue Excellence - They can blame the economy, the market and the competition all they want but these are not the reasons people and businesses are unsuccessful. These factors merely expose those with weak business models, bad cultures, poor leadership, toxic work environments, apathetic sales forces and mediocre products and services. On the contrary those who pursue excellence are thriving. From the carpenter who is in demand because everyone knows he's on time, works hard and always satisfies the customer to the graphic designer who strives to make each project her masterpiece, to the realtor who is passionate about helping her customers find the right home, to Apple iPads and iPhones, to restaurants that are jam packed... it's clear that those who passionately pursue excellence will stand out and grow high above the competition. The economy no longer will support mediocrity but if you can find your niche, share your passion and work hard to be great then growth will be inevitable.

 

Hope you found value from this post. Please feel free to share it with your team. If I can help you with anything in your business, please feel free to call or text me at 612-208-9434. 

 

Have a beautiful day~ 

 

To your success~