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The Inner Game is a new term for a classic idea explained many different times, many different ways by virtually every success educator, and even philosophers. In the book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill reveals the secret using the words, “thoughts are things.” Interestingly, there is a never-ending connection between the Inner Game in sport and the Inner Game in business. This has empowered ex-quarterback Fran Tarkenton and golfer Arnold Palmer, among others, to step back and forth between expounding on success techniques in the athletic and business worlds. In all cases, these people speak much more about attitudes that aptitudes for a good reason. Surveys, studies, and research consistently reaffirm that 85% of your success will depend on attitudinal factors and 15% on aptitude. Yet in formal education and in most continuing education, the emphasis is on the opposite – 15% on attitude and 85% on aptitude. Certainly technical knowledge and skills are important. In your profession, you must deliver excellence based on your staying up to date in techniques, products, materials, and ideas. However, such excellence alone will never build a successful, growing, profitable business. The excellence that will is an excellence created and sustained in your own mind. This is the most difficult, least tangible aspect of building your business that we will ever talk about, but it is also probably the most important. Yea, but what is it? So what is the inner game? The inner game can be broken down into four major components: - self esteem; - self image; - self confidence; and - self discipline. Quality in these four areas is a necessary foundation to personal and professional success. Self Esteem is essentially your feelings of worth. How much success do you deserve? How much money should you make? How much is your time worth? Here are several ideas for strengthening your self esteem. 1. Establish worthwhile, meaningful goals and values. 2. Take massive action to get your own financial house in order. Reduce debt, bring expenses under income. Invest every single month. 3. Give yourself recognition for each and every accomplishment. 4. Manage your time productively. Procrastination and disorganization rob many people of their self esteem. 5. Associate with positive minded, happy people who encourage and motivate you. Don’t hang out with folks who are negative, unhappy, critical, or jealous. 6. Continually acquire new know-how in your profession and in the areas of business, sales, and communication. 7. Regularly invest in improving your office and home environments, tools, equipment, wardrobe, and other external things that impact your attitude. Self Image is how you see yourself. It is who you think you are. Your self image is controlled mostly by self imposed limits. Very few people ever perform beyond those self imposed limits. Your self image was created and is sustained through self talk; the use of affirmations is the method to alter and modify your self image, literally as you wish. Self Confidence is self assuredness in one’s personal judgment, ability, and power. Being confident in yourself is infectious if you present yourself well, others will want to follow your foot steps towards success. Components of one’s social and academic life affect self confidence and can vary in different environments such as at home or in school. In order to achieve high self confidence, it is essential to focus on identifying strengths, positive assets, and resources that can be used to cope with life’s challenges. Self Discipline is quite possible the most important as most people do not associate lack of discipline with lack of success. Most people think of failure as one earth-shattering event such as a company going out of business or a home going into foreclosure. Failure is rarely the result of some isolated event. It is frequently a consequence of a long list of accumulated little failures which happen as a result of too little discipline. Most people tend to look everywhere but in the mirror for the sources of their failures as well as the victories. It is your own discipline that makes the difference between excellence or mediocrity; between getting by or getting rich. I would encourage you to take self discipline very seriously. Select areas that you know are your weakest links. These would be areas like timely paperwork, punctuality, daily self improvement study, or being happy and enthusiastic first thing in the morning and apply new, tough, demanding, disciplines to yourself in these areas. You will find that success in these particular areas of your day-to-day life will roll over into greater success in all parts of your life. We know that every single moment of game day performance for professional football players is recorded on film to be replayed and reviewed later in stop-action slow motion for critique by coaches and fellow players. If your day was filmed and reviewed, how would you feel during the replay? It is this type of daily journaling, review, and accountability that is essential to the discipline that will provide the bridge between thought and accomplishment. The inner game stuff is tough. If being a big success was easy, everybody would be one. You have to decide what you really want to be, do have, accomplish – and decide whether or not you are willing to adhere to the disciplines necessary to get it. In order to have the opportunity to accomplish virtually any goals you honestly desire, you must accept the related responsibility for everything you get. Therefore, many Entrepreneurs and Internet Marketers learn to Master their Inner Game. 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