What are your reasons for wanting to be a successful entrepreneur, CEO, manager or sales professional? Why did you choose career profession? What is most important to you? Why do you do what you do?
Probably one of the most common sets of responses are, “Unlimited income potential” or “The harder I work, the more money I can make” answers. Maybe some of you answered, “The entrepreneurial spirit of building my own business” or maybe “Working with so many different clients is interesting and fun”. Let me challenge you to take it to the next level and give you some tips to program yourself to higher levels of business success and performance.
Every top business owner, CEO, manager or sales producer has clear and compelling reasons that motivate them . They have clearly defined what’s important to them and they have gone far beyond the , “I just want to make a lot of money” goal. You see, they have taken the time to sit down and actually write out all their goals. They have identified all the things they want to do, accomplish and acquire. They know exactly how much they want to earn, the way they want to live, where they want to live, the charities they want to help, the people they want to meet, the types of relationships they want to experience, and ultimately the ideal person they want to become.
Do you realize that less than 8 % of the entire population do this. Yes, while we all know that we should do this, less than 8% actually map, write and think it out. Here is the next fact that will blow your mind, only 22% of the 8% (or less than 2% total) take it to the ultimate performance secret-ESTABLISH A DREAM BOARD. Dream boards are simply a visual representation (pictures) of what you aspire towards.
Why are these two steps ( writing your goals out and establishing a dream board) absolutely critical to your success? You see, to accomplish your goals and dreams, you must stir up a deep emotional charge inside you. You must condition yourself to feel the excitement of seeing yourself accomplishing/attaining your goal. This critical technique will help you anchor the strength and motivation you will need to fight through the adversities you will face towards your goal attainment. It provide you the strength to overcome the “negative” self talk we all battle with and continue to create positive action even when you are in a, “Don’t feel like it” mode.
Please understand, anything your mind can conceive and believe, WITH EMOTION, can be achieved. Say it again, ” Anything your mind can conceive and believe, WITH EMOTION, can be achieved”. This is one of the key components of the hit movie-”The Secret”. In one part of the movie, the genie states, “Your wish is my command”. Understand, whatever you ask for and focus on WITH EMOTION will eventually happen. So, if your goal is to, “Just pay my bills”. That is exactly what would happen, you will scrape by, just paying your bills. The key principle here is to make sure your goals are stated in the positive. You never want a goal stated in a negative. As an example, the goal should be , “I want to have financial abundance to pay all my bills and have lots of money left over to invest”. This should be in lieu of, “I don’t want to be broke”. You see, in the latter, your subconscious would focus on the the word “broke” and deliver the results you “don’t want”. Does that make sense? Pretty cool , isn’t it?
Also, please understand, the more specific you can be about the goal, the greater the positive impact it will have on you. Finally , when you add the EMOTIONAL charge of the goal-(how it makes you feel in accomplishing your goal), look out -the things you want to achieve are already on the way!
So, this is your WAKE UP CALL. Get your goals and dreams down on paper, state them in the positive, be specific, visualize the goals happening, develop a DREAM BOARD ( I use a book of pictures of my goals to carry around with me) and tie in the positive EMOTIONAL charge of the feeling generated from achieving your goals. Do this exercise 3 times a day (only a few minutes is needed each time) and you will change your entire life around.
Finally, how do I know this works? Seventeen years ago, I sat down and wrote down my goals (I still have those original five handwritten pages) and did this entire exercise at a time when I was going through a challenging time in my life. I have accomplished almost all the goals I wrote down that day. You see, on that day I was “sick and tired” about being “sick and tired”. I took responsibility for the challenges that I created and decided to change my life. That day was the start of an incredible journey. I hope you make a decision to start yours because everything that you want to accomplish and achieve is there if you want it! The big question, “How bad do you want it?”
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