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ou'll need a self improvement agenda to fuel your trip to destination success for your online business venture. It will your source of unlimited energy for your entire journey. Along the way such an agenda will help you achieve a balance among your work, family and friends, continuing skills development, and your own self-driven fitness program, spirituality and attitudes.Right now you are fired up to get under way. However, getting your venture started is one thing. The real test will be just down the path – when you encounter your first detours/delays/cobbles in the road – when today’s motivation will be seriously challenged. Then is when you'll you need to draw upon additional energies to keep on trucking to your destination.
My company specializes in providing companies of all sizes the support they need to be successful. Down your road to success we hope you will call upon our services – and we're preparing now to be there ready to meet your needs. Right now you need to develop some basic habits that will ensure that business excellence will be your standard throughout your business career. Many centuries ago the philosopher Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
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The common ingredient of success in organizations of all sizes is their ability to continue to evolve, adapt, learn and improve. As the leader of your enterprise you must build your own habit of continuing development. You must adopt the habit of self improvement in all areas of your life -- regardless your age -- at the very start of your enterprise and your continuing journey. Self improvement will be the fuel for your journey. If you put it off now – you just will not find the time in the future. Just tell yourself this: “If it is to be, it’s up to me.”
In our regular management training series we have a number of sessions that address the attitudes needed for success in life. Why? Because attitude is critical to our business success (and our success in life). A study conducted by Harvard and Stanford Universities asked successful business managers which areas were most important to professional performance: skills, knowledge, attitude. The results: skills (5%), knowledge (10% ) and attitude (85%).
What are the right attitudes? Napoleon Hill in his classic book Think and Grow Rich discusses the attitudes necessary for business success. You must “think right” to be successful. In his book Keys to Success he presents 17 principles of personal achievement outlined. I kick off my January training session each year referencing his principles as a framework for lifetime self improvement and pass out a (reduced size) copy that participants can reference daily.
You can build your own self improvement library (click here for one of Zig's audio cassette series). You could start your self improvement by reading "The Lazy Man's Guide to Online Business." And, you can enroll in online study offerings.
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Motivation Tools for Self Improvement
There are many excellent motivational personalities who have expanded upon what basically is Napoleon Hill’s framework for self improvement. One such personality is Zig Ziglar. In one of his tape series sessions Zig recommends reading (or listening to while driving) positive literature for just 20 minutes every day to fortifying positive thinking and expand your education foundation.
A number of powerful tools in helping individuals achieve their goals is covered in the book "Triggers : A New Approach Self Motivation". One technique I have presented in my own Stress Management seminars is "visualization." You take a couple minutes out of your routine and close your eyes and "visualize" a pleasant location or time in your life. The author of "Triggers" suggests using the same visualization technique at home, adding to it pleasant sounds, at the same time using a "Trigger" such as touching an earlobe, elbow, knee, etc. After you train yourself you can "invoke" the "feelings" just using your "trigger." There are many other self-motivation techniques. You can buy a used copy of the book for under $5.
One of the best series of aids combing the use of audio tapes/CDs with the techniques presented in "Triggers" I have seen are produced by Mike Brescia at Think Right Now. For example his I Love Exercising Now! and Eating for Excellent Health Now! are just the right type of new habit-building aids to start the best overall fitness program of the century (I know - my whole family is following this amazing, but simple formula.
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Best of success,
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Richard Dowell, President,
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