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In order for you to succeed in setting up your own business, working from home, you need to be focused and have the mind- set of a winner. Having the right frame of mind is without a shadow of a doubt the starting point for anything in life, not just working from home as an internet marketer. A strong belief and confidence in yourself will allow you to face whatever challenges you have in life, and come out on top. If you don’t believe in yourself then no one else will, unfortunately. Quite frankly if you don’t, then why should anyone else? (Unless, they are family obviously) Before you think this is a harsh statement let me explain. If YOU don’t believe in yourself, will the belief from others change you and allow you to achieve what it is you wanted?? Sorry to say but the answer is a big fat NO (well, as long as you aren’t related to a lepricorn) Now if you did believe in yourself and others believed in you too then that’s a different matter. The support and help they provide, with their belief in you, will only add to yours and amplify your efforts in achieving your goals. If you are a confident person then this is not an issue. BUT not everyone is the same in life, and you may be a person that isn’t confident. You may think because of your lack of knowledge or experience in something new, then you can’t do what it is you want to do. Or you maybe the type that on the surface portrays to be confident, but internally isn’t. Either way the little exercise below will be useful for you!!!!! The starting point is to look in the mirror and take a hard look at you. After you have finished checking out your best poses, and got your hair looking the way it should, you need to use your ‘minds eye’ and ask yourself, WHAT? (And be honest please) What do I really feel about myself, my life, my family? What have I achieved in life so far? What did I really want to achieve? What external forces have, and are restricting me from doing everything I wanted? What issues and factors have determined my life so far? What do I want ? What do I need to do, in order to get what I want ? The purpose of all this is not to depress you, but for you to really think about analyzing your life and WHAT factors have got you here, reading this report. My previous job was that of an area manager. In this role I had to conduct a lot of training, coaching, meetings etc etc, which was fine because my wife, Elaine, always tells me how I love the sound of my own voice. But I was even happier when my staff would make notes of what I was saying. Why ? Because that way I knew my ‘words of wisdom?’ were not falling on deaf ears. It is a known fact that a good proportion of what is said to you, in life, finds its way out of the other ear. This is usually because you are being fed information you don’t really want to listen to (or think you have little interest in), you know… like the times you were in school lessons ‘learning’ about algebra, or the times when the other half ‘nags’ you over something petty. It’s in one ear and straight out of the other (usually to Elaine’s annoyance). Whereas when you read or write the same thing then not as much is lost in the ‘void’ (excluding algebra of course). Your brain is an amazingly powerful computer which a lot of people unfortunately don’t take FULL advantage of as much as what they should (including me!!!). If you don’t believe me then try this little simple exercise. Get a friend to pick out 2 words from a dictionary. They have to be long, hard and not commonly used (words that is!). Read both of them, but write 1 down on a piece of paper. After 24hrs see which one you can remember. The odds are it will be the one you wrote down. Why? Because you have engaged your brain in the process!! If you are really serious in learning something new like internet marketing, and starting a new life for yourself, then I need you to make notes, starting right now please. This exercise will be the foundation to your success, trust me. Take 10 minutes to write down WHAT you feel about yourself, your life, your family, your achievements and your goals. Only when you have done this can you move onto the next exercise. Think of it as needing to put your trousers on before putting your shoes on. You wouldn’t do it the other way round, for the obvious reasons, would you? The WHAT exercise definitely needs to be done before the next exercise. So far you have laid down the ‘foundation to the house’. Now it’s time to start putting the ‘house on top of the foundation’. So the next exercise is ……… To really dig into this exercise, the next step is to now look back in that mirror (get your best pose again) and ask yourself WHY? Why do I feel this way? Why have/haven’t I achieved what I wanted to? Why is my life the way it is? Why do I really want to achieve what I want to? (Why does Richard Branson own his own frikin island, and I don’t?) Pick that pen back up and write down your thoughts, again spending 10 minutes doing this please. Trust me there is a point to all of this self analysis!!!! Well now that you have an idea on WHAT has got you to the stage you are at now in life, and WHY, naturally the next step to start thinking about is ‘putting the roof on top of the house’. The next step is to now work out HOW. How can you move on from where you are? Yes, it’s time for the mirror again, lol. How do I want to be viewed by myself? How do I want your friends and family to view me? How do I/can I do this? How can I achieve what I want? How do I want to be remembered? Again take 10 minutes to write down your answers. Now I do understand that with everything life has, and is, throwing your way it is not surprising that people don’t really get the time to self reflect as much as what they should. So once you have written down your WHAT, WHY & HOW exercise you need to review your notes at least 3 times a week, so you can stay focused on wanting to make a better life for yourself. You can spare 10 minutes 3 times a week can’t you?? If not then use your bath-room break to do it (and don’t tell me you don’t have time for the bathroom) Because if you don’t review your notes, you will just fall back into the mediocrity of life and carry on as you are, You know, in that job you don’t really like, In that pay bracket you don’t really like, In that traffic jam, to and from work, you don’t really like, With that boss you don’t really like. I want to help you move forward!! I want to help you fight through the hard times we are in and forge your own future, instead of the current economic circumstances limiting your future (and your income). I want to help you start your own business, an online marketing business that will give you the financial freedom to enjoy the life you have. I want to help you to create a life style you have only ever dreamed off, and provide you with more money than you can spend. It’s a horrible cliché, but I am going to say it anyway, ‘it take 2 hands to clap’. I want to help you get to this stage, but you need to follow the instructions step by step without dismissing anything. And before the sceptics get on their ‘soap box’ I want to make it clear, I do not want a penny from you!!! So please relax, get that thought out of your head and read on. Going through the above exercise is so important because a home based business needs the extra motivation, commitment and time investment from you. No one is there behind you showing you what to do, day in day out. You need to know where you want to be, where you are now and how you are going to get to the finish line. Without a true analysis of your life if you go straight into trying to make money online you WILL be building your business on a shallow foundation, a shallow foundation that can and WILL collapse. To move forward you NEED goals in life, because without them we achieve nothing!! By achieving goals you are being successful a step at a time. Here’s a great definition of success, ‘The continuous journey towards the achievement of predetermined worthwhile goals’ -Tom Hopkins Again the importance of writing your goals down can’t be stressed enough, but they have to be SPECIFIC!! For example, having a goal of getting a better car and saying I want a 4x4 is not good enough. Specifically I want a black BMW X6, with 22 inch rims, blacked out windows, in automatic with cream leather interior and reversing sensors etc etc. Do you get my point? You have to visualize your goals, only then will you get it. All the greats, from Mohammed Ali to Usain Bolt to Tiger Woods to Roger Federrer visualized what they wanted, practiced and put their thoughts and plans into action before achieving their greatness. It didn’t just come to them. They went to the ring, track, golf course and tennis court not with the thought of ‘Let’s see how things go’, they went with one thought, ‘ I WILL WIN’. They had the confidence to know they could achieve what they wanted. So with this view let’s review the various aspects of your life, which can be broken, generally, into 5 segments: Your family life Your personal life Your business / work life Your spiritual life Your social life Remember the concept of being specific, well use that and write down your goals for the above areas. WHAT do you want?.... for your family, personal life, business / work life etc WHY do you want it?.... for your family, personal life, business / work life etc HOW will you do it?.... for your family, personal life, business etc / work life etc To summarize this exercise you need to write down a statement on your goals putting all five areas together. A statement of WHAT you want to achieve specifically in your family, your personal, business, spiritual and social life. This again is something that you need to look at once a week to stay focused on what you want to achieve. Putting bullet point notes throughout the house, in the car, at work etc is a simple way of making sure your notes don’t just gather dust and not get worked on (hopefully). What this whole exercise will do is build the solid foundation to your business / life success. So please don’t dismiss this as something you don’t really need to do. Seriously this will pay big dividends to your long term success. Hopefully you may remember the fact that from my Bio page I have seen firsthand the importance of working for a company that focused on its long term success and seeing how the business just grew and grew from nothing to a billion dollar empire. The competitors, who just focused on the short term gain, were just left behind in our dust. I want to help you build a business with long term prosperity that will allow you to get paid over and over again. ‘Seriously Shiraz this may be all good in theory, but the reality is that I don’t have the time to devote to starting and running my own internet marketing business!!’ Really ? If you could analyse your daily routine using a typical day from waking up to going to sleep and really dissect it, what would you find? Probably a lot of wasted time here and there, throughout the day. Be brutal and honest with your analysis. How much time is being wasted? This could be time in front of the TV, travelling to and from work, on the internet, on face book, in the pub, taking the dog for a walk etc etc. Total up this time and what to you get? If the answer is more than 2 hours a day then that’s great news!! Because to start this internet marketing business up all you need is around 2 hours a day, to do your research and implementation of what you have learnt and to start building your business, that will eventually work on auto pilot. Seriously, that is all you need, I kid you not!! All I am asking you to do right now is swap the time you usually ‘waste’, for learning and starting your own internet marketing business up. So you can build the life you want and not just live the life you are being forced to live. A life that, in the economic recession we are slowly coming out off, isn’t going to get any better in a hurry really!!! So the reality is that you don’t need to make huge sacrifices and leave your job, you just need to utilize your wasted time more efficiently. So do you still think I am talking sh..., Theoretically ? An example of my schedule when I started was quite simply, - Work from 9 – 5 - Family time from 530 – 730 - Weight training 730 – 8 - Online marketing time 8 – 1100 You do need to have a ‘business head’ on to starting this business. You may be the boss, but you still need to hold yourself accountable for doing what you said you were going to. Devote yourself to each segment above completely. What I mean by this is that in your family time don’t be checking out you emails or washing the car etc. Do what you said and spend time with the family, quality time. When you say you are going to start working on your business at 8 don’t start at 815 then check face book out or some emails, because by the time you know it’s probably closer to 9 and you have not moved any further in your business development. You can make or break habits, all it takes is 30 days!! So repeat this every day and then watch your success habits kick in. If you have a partner and kids then get them involved so they can support you. And if your kids are anything like mine an ethical bribe won’t go a miss. ‘Give me the time and space from 8-1030 to devote to starting my business and from my first pay packet I will get you... that bike you wanted...that PS3 console.....that diamond necklace’. So if it’s 810 and your kids see you watching TV they will be like ‘hey shouldn’t you be working, remember that bike you said you were going to get me. Come on, you need to get some work done Dad’. ‘Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune’ - Jim Rohn
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