subject: A Unique Business Opportunity & 5 Practises For Your Success [print this page] With a Personal Development Business opportunity, as with all businesses, there is a core set of common practices and actions that will help ensure your success.
Being an independent business owner can often be a hard road to take and sometimes it will feel like the chips aren't in your favour. Learning to master the following principles will do wonders to stack the odds on your side. Rating yourself out of 5 in each of the "Pillars of Success" is a great method to determine where you're currently at.
A rating of 1 Being that it seems like a good idea but you aren't currently doing anything about it and 5 being that you are someone that other could model in this area. Be sure to re-evaluate yourself often to reveal your weak spots and thus help you to continuously move forward.
1. Activities That Directly Produce Income
4-5hrs/day, four days a week should be dedicated to tasks that directly generating income. You should review your advertising strategies regularly, adjusting as required and continually researching and applying new tactics and sources. Ensure that you follow up with any potential business partners within 24 hours and you should always be available and offering support to the people that work with and below you.
2. Meditate & visualize your goals daily
Make visualizing your goals at least 3 times a day (recording them and/or giving them your focus and attention) a habitual process. Be sure to inject your visualizations with feeling, power, love & joy in how they affect all aspects of your life (mental, spiritual, social, physical etc...). Make sure that all of your gaols are written in the S.M.A.R.T format (Specific, measurable, Achievable, Results-oriented, restricted by Time).
3. Engage in Personal & Professional Development
To further your business you will need to further yourself. There is a saying that your income will only grow to the extent that you grow. So read books, watch online videos, listen to recorded and live audio, start a home study course and attend conferences. You should dedicate at least 30 minutes every day to your personal growth.
4. Leadership: You & Your Team
To be successful in any business environment you must learn how to be an effective leader. This is actually a lot easier than it may first sound. You simply have to lead by example. Make sure that your actions and words are always congruent with the greatest good for those around you. One of businesses interesting properties is that those below you will follow your lead. So if you lead with laziness you can expect nothing but the same from your team. However if you are positioned for
5. Masterminding With Leaders
A concept that grew in popularity after Napoleon Hill's book, Think & Grow Rich, masterminding is probably the simplest and easiest way to further your own skills and nurture your mindset. The easiest place to start is to ensure you stay in contact with your mentor at least once a week. You can also link up with your community and find people who are at a similar place in their business and become accountability buddies. Go online and join the mailing lists of some of the industry's top leaders, they regularly have interviews and learning sessions that you can be a part of and learn from. Don't be afraid to ask questions if you can and soak up the experience of those that have gone before you.
The above "5 Common Denominators For Success" are all simple in nature but powerful when put together and followed. All it takes in a little common sense. You'd be surprised however at the number of people running a Unique Business Opportunity who don't.
If you can learn to master these skills and practises then you will instantly be ahead of the crowd. Then through leveraging your personal development business opportunity you will be able to achieve the success that you have been dreaming of.
by: Iain Forrest
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