Home Business the New Growth Sector
Posted on November 24, 2009
Home Business the New Growth Sector – Why Now? Especially Now.
The world’s leaders have decided that our future is uncertain. Global recession…Global warming… Global Panic.
Well this little black duck will not take this lying down. A recession proof industry like Personal Development makes so much sense as to secure Your families, and their families families, future.
To be self reliant and accountable for your future; as it is always better off in Your hands. Today’s world is full of possibilities that could only be dreamed of by our parent’s generation. In a few short years communication technology has turned the average home into a well equipped global office. With video cameras, conference calling technology and full internet solutions the possibilities are endless to creating a successful business. Social networking sites such as facebook and twitter have given the Internet mass appeal across many generations. Communication is just so easy, accessible and Now.
E – Commerce is now huge business and the internet has created a level playing field that gives every business, large or small, the same opportunity for success. Consumers around the world are spending over $9,000,000,000 a year in commerce transactions over the Internet.
We are still in the early stages of this growth cycle and the demand is expected to grow even faster in the near future.
Home businesses are starting up every day in just about every country around the world and have become a viable way to create a successful business providing an income and security for Your family which is totally up to You, rather than the boss. It costs tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up and run a conventional business.
Running a home based business on the other hand does cut costs quite dramatically. The Internet has the potential to reach customers from all around the world for a fraction of what a traditional business would spend. The Internet has come of age and just about everyone on the planet uses the internet for purchases, research, and employment amongst many other things. The slogan now is, if you want information, just ‘Google it’.
There is no such thing as ‘job security’ anymore. Your only job security is YOU. Smart people are looking for other options, options that suit the lifestyle they demand and they are creating it through legitimate and ethical home based businesses.
One needs to be self motivated and disciplined to have success at working at home as there is no ‘boss’ to check up on you to see if you’re doing what needs to be done. You are accountable for your own level of income.
It’s important to look and utilize mentors throughout your journey – Work with someone who’s already doing the business and having success, learn from them and duplicate exactly what they are doing, always though, put your own flair to what you’re doing and look to always improve; it’s natures way.
The Personal Development industry has been around for many years. Personal Development has been featured on the Ellen De Generes show, Larry King Live and has featured on Oprah many times. As people continue to strive for better results in life they lean more and more to work with coaches, mentors and trainers that can take their business to the next level. The industry has become so popular that over 19 billion US dollars worth of products were sold worldwide last year alone, so people are really looking for self improvement.
Do you dream of achieving your financial and emotional goals while working efficiently and ethically at home, working hours tailored around the lifestyle you dream of? We all do. Do You wish to achieve the work life balance tipped toward Life rather than work. We only have One Life. We must all strive to make it the best one we possibly can.
Personal Development is improving You to be the Best You there is.
Too many people settle for mediocrity when success and abundance is just around the corner.
Home Business is not the scary monster is use to be, as more and more professionals are heading this way, to give them back their lives, and not miss the one time to be there, when their children grow up. …or any other major family event.
That one event, that will never be repeated…don’t miss it.
Just remember; Ford, Microsoft and Coca Cola all started as home businesses.
About the Author:
Christine Greig has a true passion for assisting others to achieve their full potential in life through empowerment on all levels.
Chrissy runs a very successful international home based business in the booming personal development industry.
She shares a love of animals, people, traveling the world, attending Personal Development Seminars to name a few.
Chrissy and her lovely family currently reside on a property in beautiful Sunny Tamworth Australia when she is not traveling, and is Loving Life.
“Seeing people who I have mentored become wildly successful in all areas of their lives, is absolutely the best feeling…
there is no greater joy…I thank you all”
For more information and guidance on how You can become independently successful free call 1800 735559 or visit www.BestEverHomeBusiness.com
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A Key Entrepreneurial Skill – Anticipating Decline
Posted on November 17, 2009
A Key Entrepreneurial Skill – Anticipating Decline
“Do not look where you fell but where you slipped.” That’s an old African proverb – no one really knows who said it, but it’s a good one. In fact, looking at where you slipped is a key entrepreneurial skill. But what does it mean, and how do you apply it?
Basically, it’s pretty simple. By the time you’ve actually landed (the fall), it’s really too late to do anything about it – staring at the ground where you landed won’t teach you a thing.
However, if you can locate the point at which you started to slip, you can actually prevent future falls.
Let’s look at statistics, for example. The numbers could be going up consistently for weeks or months on end. You look at them every week, and note their climb. Maybe you get the occasional down week but it’s nothing major, easily understandable (a hurricane hit and there was no electrical power, a snow storm kept everyone trapped in their home, and so on), and things go back up the next week.
Then you hit a week that goes down, and you don’t have a clue what’s behind it. That’s the beginning of the slip. Then the numbers go down further the next week and you still don’t have an explanation.
You are headed for a fall.
What is the entrepreneurial skill to be learned here? First, if the numbers start slipping, find out why; now. Second, if you are trying to recover from a fall that happened quite a while ago, look for the point at which things started slipping. There will be your answer.
Achieving success depends on anticipating the future – which you do with entrepreneurial management skills like finding out why things slipped instead of waiting for the fall.
Shane Krider, John Lavenia, Shannon Lavenia and Gene Braxton all must be highly commended on their efforts to bring more positivity into this world. What a great community to be fully involved in. Cannot wipe the smile from my face….Chrissy.
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Bad Habits…give them the BOOT
Posted on November 11, 2009
Give Bad Habits the Boot!
Chris Widener
Everybody has bad habits. Everybody. Now granted, some people have less than others and some people’s bad habits are more grating than those of others, but we all have them. What is great is that we don’t have to! Imagine a life where you couldn’t change? What kind of life would that be? But we can, so let’s!
There are two kinds of bad habits: Those you know you have that others may or may not know about, and those you don’t know you have but everybody else knows you have!
For the sake of everybody involved we ought to get rid of them all, right?
Well Chris, how can I get rid of a bad habit if I don’t know I have it? Simple, but hard. Ask somebody to be brutally honest with you! You might think, “Yeah, but I’ll be embarrassed.” Would you rather everyone talk behind your back? Get up the courage and ask. Ask somebody who loves you and has your best interest in mind. Be gracious and don’t defend your self. Just accept it and work on it.
What about the ones we know about – which are all of them once your good friend tells you the ones you were missing? Those are the tough ones. How do I know they are tough? They must be tough if you know about them and yet you still have them! If they weren’t tough, they would be FORMER bad habits! Got me? Good!
So how do you break a bad habit? How do you give it the boot out of your life? Here are a few things that must be a part of the plan in order to see that stuff gone forever!
- You must want them to go.
That’s right, some people want them to stick around. I have seen dads choose alcohol over their grandchildren. I have seen smokers continue smoking while watching their parents die of emphysema. They don’t want them to go. The first thing is to go deep into the recesses of your heart and ask, “Do I really want to give this up?” - You do?
Good. Step two: Make up a list of all of the reasons you want to quit your bad habits. Make them positive. Make the list long! Start with the really powerful and dramatic if you need to. Now memorize them. Put them in your mind. You are making connections between stopping the bad behavior with what good things you will get from doing so. If you want to lose weight, then picture yourself slim and looking good in those skinny people clothes! If you want to stop smoking, picture your wife actually kissing you rather than sending you to the bathroom to brush your teeth! - Choose.
That is right. Once you have the information, this comes down to one thing: It is an act of the will. Choose to do it. Say to yourself throughout the day, “I am choosing to…” Eisenhower rightly said, “The history of free men is written not by chance but by choice, their choice.” It is your choice. You can write your history. - Take action!
Point four is tricky because there are two philosophies about this. One theory is that you must take massive action. You must go all or nothing. Using the weight loss example, this person would go spend $500 to join a gym, rework their schedule and hit the treadmill everyday for a year. They will get rid of all fat in the house. They go all out! That works for some. Others would burn out on that, feel like failures and be worse off than before. They should start out slow, taking baby steps, but working diligently toward a planned goal. This person would decide to start walking three days a week. They would decide to limit dessert to two nights a week, down from seven. See how this works? Either way is okay as long as you get to the goal eventually. Which one am I? - Tell somebody.
This is your accountability partner. Tell them your goal and tell them your plan. Write it down for them and have them ask you on regular intervals about your progress. This will prove invaluable! - Recover from failure.
Inevitably most people will have setbacks. The key is to have them be setbacks and not turnbacks! Pick yourself up and get going again. Some people may want to lose 30 pounds and after losing fifteen they eat a gallon of ice cream. Then they feel bad and give up. Don’t! Reset your goal for another two weeks and get going again. Chalk it off to experience! Say to yourself, “Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.” - Reward yourself.
That’s right. You should regularly congratulate yourself by rewarding yourself with some gift to yourself. Start small with small victories and plan a big one when you are finally and for sure over the habit.
Is it that simple? Most of the time, no. Habits are hard to break. There are so many intangibles that it would be hard to cover them all. But this is a simple and workable plan that will help you make great strides if you apply the principles.
Get going! Give those bad habits a boot! Good luck!
A big thankyou ot Chris Widener. Your words of wisdom are always inspirational.
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GOAL SETTING…very very very very important!
Posted on November 10, 2009
People often ask me what the most important quality for success is. Throughout my career I have worked with hundreds of supremely successful people and they all had one easily identifiable trait in common: They all knew how to set goals for themselves and work hard to achieve those goals.
The ability to set goals and make plans for their accomplishment is the “master skill” of success. It is the single most important skill you can learn and perfect. Goal-setting will do more to help you achieve the things you want in life than will anything else you’ve been exposed to.
And yet according to the best research, under 3 percent of Americans have written goals, and under 1 percent review and rewrite their goals daily. Most people don’t understand the importance of setting goals, or they don’t know how to do it. Or maybe they’re simply afraid of failure.
Today I would like to share with you five key concepts that will help you to reach your goals more effectively. Each of these keys starts with one of the letters in the word “GOALS.” Whenever you find yourself getting off the track, simply repeat the word “goals,” and think about how each letter stands for a key that just might apply to your current situation.
G = Get to It!
Sometimes, the only difference between a successful person and a failure is that the successful person has the courage to get started, to do something, to begin moving toward the accomplishment of a specific goal.
You may have a long-range goal. In order to achieve it, you need to sit down and make a list of all the steps that you will have to take to get from where you are to where you want to be. Then begin with the first and most obvious thing that you can do on that list. Complete it, and then start on number two.
Don’t worry about the long term. Just concentrate on the obvious first step that you can take. Surprisingly enough, everything else will take care of itself.
The Confucian saying, “A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step,” is so popular in so many languages because it is so true.
O = Opportunity
Successful people do not wait for opportunities to turn their goals into reality. Instead, they make their own opportunities, because they are perfectly clear about the kind of life they wish to create.
Once you have taken the time to decide exactly what you want, you will experience an endless flow of opportunities that will help move you in that direction.
A = Ability
Many people hesitate to set high, challenging goals because they lack the ability necessary to turn those goals into reality. But remember that we all lacked knowledge and experience when we started out in our careers or fields of expertise.
Since you gain the ability necessary for high achievement through knowledge and experience, if you increase the speed at which you acquire both of those, you increase the speed at which you move ahead.
L = Leadership
Leadership is simply the ability to get results. And you begin to get results when you accept full responsibility for yourself, for your job and for the outputs required in your position.
You demonstrate leadership when you refuse to make excuses or blame anyone or anything for the problems you are having. The acceptance of the responsibility of leadership enables you to move ahead and take action.
When you are not satisfied with your job or income, and you sit down and make a written plan to change it, and then take action on that plan, without waiting for anyone’s approval or permission, you are behaving like a leader.
S = Stay With It!
Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles. The bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have, and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
When you look around you, you will see that all achievement is the triumph of persistence. You will see men and women everywhere who are struggling with and overcoming adversities in order to accomplish something that is important to them.
… And so can you.
Goals enable you to do the work you want to do, to live where you want to live, to be with the people you enjoy, and to become the kind of person you want to become. If you set your goals and create a plan that will help you achieve those goals, nothing can stop you from finally winning through.
To learn more about how you can radically improve your life through goal-setting, please accept my free report, Goals!, as a special gift to you.
The report breaks down my proven goal-setting process into easy steps that will help you achieve the life you want faster and more easily than you ever thought!
To download the report, please click here now.
Thanks to success coach Brian Tracy for an inspiring guest article!
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Entrepreneurial Skills – One BIG Reason to Put Them on Your Must-Do List
Posted on November 9, 2009
Entrepreneurial Skills – One BIG Reason to Put Them on Your Must-Do List
Whether you’re currently working for yourself or as an employee, entrepreneurial skills are a vital part of business. But, as importantly, they’re also a vital part of life.
Let’s look at just one skill every successful entrepreneur has – the ability to negotiate. Now let’s look at how you use it in life.
A good example is my friend’s approach to getting his daughter willing to stop playing and come to dinner. It was quite a dilemma; every time he called her to dinner he had to argue with her. Then she’d come to dinner upset, and dinner would not be the happy occasion either of them wanted.
So, he devised a plan – he’d put her in the driver’s seat. One day he asked her, “What one thing do you have to do before you can eat dinner?” And it worked! She responded with “put away my dolls,” “feed my kitty,” or “dress my Barbie in her new pink outfit.’ He was delighted. She would do that one thing and happily come to dinner.
But it didn’t take long before she caught on. One day he asked her the magic question and she replied, “Play for another hour.”
My friend knew she had his number. And she was only six years old! See … everyone negotiates. It is key to achieving success in many, many areas of life.
By the way, that little 6-year-old was born with serious entrepreneurial skills. She’s older now, and one of the most innovative minds on the planet.
Don’t think entrepreneurial skills are just about business – they’re for life. Use them, and life will be better.
Another Huge thankyou to Shane Krider, CEO of Polaris Media Group
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To Achieve $uccess, Stamp Out Complacency
Posted on November 9, 2009
Achieve Success without Stress – It’s Much More Pleasant and Productive
Most of us are aware that stress can cause physical problems, but many may not know the extent to which the opposite is also true. To achieve success, you need to feel good physically, mentally and emotionally. So it’s important to master the subject of stress. Here are a few key physical situations that cause stress, and their remedies.
1. Dehydration: Experts say that 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. They might drink plenty of fluids, but some fluids dehydrate the body further.
Remedy: Drink six to eight glasses of water a day. And cut down on dehydrating liquids like coffee, soda and alcohol.
2. Overworked immune system: Allergies, bacteria and viruses could be an issue even if you don’t have recognizable symptoms. You could be allergic to wheat, for example, and not have a clue. But that wheat allergy might be causing severe stress.
Remedy: Get checked out, and take action.
3. Lack of sleep. You might achieve success without getting much sleep, but you probably won’t enjoy it. Stress and sleep go hand in hand. Stress causes lack of sleep; lack of sleep causes stress. While sleeping, the body produces growth hormone, needed for tissue repair, and melatonin, which gives you a sense of well-being. These hormones are the closest you’re going to find to a fountain of youth and vitality. But, they are produced before midnight.
Remedy: Get to sleep by 11:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m. is even better. If you’re having trouble getting to sleep, use an herbal or mineral supplement or do something relaxing (not work) before bed. If you just can’t get your attention off work, use your entrepreneurial skills to make a list of the things that need to be done and a plan for their execution. That will get things more under control so you can sleep. Also, go to bed on an empty stomach – your body’s busy enough doing other stuff.
4. Pain. Being in pain of any sort causes stress.
Remedy: Get to the doctor, the chiropractor, acupuncturist – whatever your preference – find out what’s causing the pain and get it fixed. To achieve success, you need to have your wits about you.
No matter what you want to achieve, success is dependant on having things under control. And that includes you, your body, and your stress levels.
A Huge HUGE thankyou to Shane Krider. A visionary determined to help as many people as he can, improve their lives. We also have that vision.
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Will It help me and others? Will it hurt others?…YES…NO…GO!
Posted on November 2, 2009
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Achieving Success is an Empty Experience When We Destroy Others in the Process
Wow. Not a very literate comment, I admit, but I still think the new Global Economic Ethic Manifesto deserves a ‘Wow.’ Achieving success, for many, is an empty experience when we have to shove other people down the ladder for us to make the upward climb. Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same.
Some think there was no predicting the economic mess we’re in, that it was all accidental and just as much a surprise to industry leaders as it was to the millions who lost their homes, their jobs, their savings, their retirement plans, and so on.
But documentation abounds (check some of the Wikipedia references for specifics) that proves the existence of several warning signs – they’ve been staring us in the face for years – which were ignored by the powers that be, many of whom were bailed out by the government (and our tax dollars) while the man on the street bore the brunt of the catastrophic results.
That’s why we’re our current economic mess, and why we need a set of global guidelines which, if followed, will ensure that everyone who uses their entrepreneurial skills has a fighting chance at achieving success. The Manifesto, written by a working committee of the Global Ethic Foundation, is just that.
Will the Manifesto be followed? Greed has become a way of life for the big guys. They may be too far gone to rise to the occasion, especially when they’re simply bailed out when their world caves in around them.
But that doesn’t stop the rest of us from supporting the Manifesto and adopting the guidelines for our own business activities and insisting that those we deal with do the same. Check it out, live by it, and your personal success will also bring you happiness.
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Support Entrepreneurs… we create creations
Posted on November 2, 2009
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
The Built-In Entrepreneurial Skill That Sets Gen Y Apart
I was just reading 30 Under 30; America’s Coolest Young Entrepreneurs and saw the story of M3 Girl Designs. In addition to coming up with a great product idea, one of the chief entrepreneurial skills used by the company’s 13-year-old founder, Maddie Bradshaw, was the ability to build and rally a team – which is very Gen Y, and something at which Gen Y excels.
Who is the team? The 3 in M3 Girl Designs are Maddie Bradshaw, the founder, president and head designer, her Mom, who gave Maddie an okay to spend $300 she’d saved from birthday and tooth fairy money to get the business started, and Margot, Maddie’s 9-year-old sister, the company’s vice president and assistant designer.
Are you impressed yet?
Read 30 Under 30 to find out about some other inspired Gen Y’ers, and get inspired yourself.
And keep an eye on your kids. Do they have good ideas? Are they exhibiting inherent entrepreneurial skills?
Cost of starting Maddie’s company = $300
Value of Maddie’s company today = $1.6 million
How Maddie feels about her accomplishment = Priceless
Support Entrepreneurs!
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Interruptions cause inefficiency….. control them
Posted on November 2, 2009
Entrepreneurial Skills and the Power of Interruption
I read a study a while ago about how long people take to get back to work after they’ve been interrupted. The results were quite amazing, and it really brought home the power of interruptions and the vital necessity to avoid them if you want to achieve success. In fact, organizing in a way that prevents interruptions is a pivotal entrepreneurial skill.
The study was conducted on people working in a corporate environment. On average, per the study, people are interrupted 15 times during their 8-hour workday and, each time, it takes them an average of 20 minutes to get back into the swing of things. An interruption may only take 5 minutes, but if you are on a roll, in the middle of a train of thought, it takes time to get that roll going again.
Based on those numbers, people work an average of 5 hours in their 8-hour day. So if you find yourself wondering “where did the time go” at the end of your day, there’s your answer. And there’s no way you’re going to achieve success under those conditions.
Cutting down on interruptions is pretty easy if you’re working at home or in a work environment you can control:
-Set appointments for in-person or phone meetings rather than having people drop in or call whenever, or ‘tomorrow.’
-Schedule appointments in such a way that you have long stretches in which you can get other work done.
-Exercise personal discipline so distractions don’t pull you away.
-Work in a space where you can close the door.
If you’re in a large office, or you’re not the boss, get with the powers that be and see what kind of policy changes can be made. Which takes a different set of entrepreneurial skills – but that’s another story.
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Golden Words from Polaris Media Group
Posted on November 2, 2009
A Vital Entrepreneurial Skill That Can Save Your Business and Your Sanity
We recently received a comment from a business owner who is so busy on production, he doesn’t have time for paperwork, organizing, and so on. I know how that feels: business is great, but getting up in the morning is no longer an exciting proposition when you have to face the backlog from Hades. Getting administrative duties under control is a vital make/break entrepreneurial skill. But, how do you do it?
The person who commented on the blog post wondered if he should just take a week off to get everything caught up. I wouldn’t suggest closing down the business for a week, but it’s not a bad idea to take a weekend and devote it to getting those things done.
However, you might be able to handle it by taking the least busy hour of the day – or even getting up an hour early or staying an hour late – and focusing on nothing else. And I mean nothing – doing things without interruption makes the world of difference. Once you get started, you can make a realistic assessment of what it will take and schedule from there.
Whichever way you choose to catch up, scheduling your day so it includes time for this and other activities, is a vital entrepreneurial skill. Even if it’s only half an hour, it has to happen every day.
And that half hour is sacrosanct. You absolutely cannot adopt the attitude that ‘it’s only paperwork.’ Not only will you lose business, and sleep, it can get so overwhelming you no longer enjoy your job and might even want to quit the business. Backlogs can make you feel your life is in shambles, directionless. It’s a BIG deal – try catching up on everything and you’ll see for yourself.
When you’re done, reward yourself by exercising another vital entrepreneurial skill – loafing, in whatever way floats your boat. I can guarantee you’ll enjoy it more than you would have had you left that backlog unhandled.
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