How E365 Entrepreneur Challenge Works

E365 is a challenge in which you compete with every other SFI affiliate who joined SFI the same day you did. The idea is to outlast them all and, on your 365th day in SFI, be named the champion of your class—an Entrepreneur365 Champion! As an E365 Champion, you'll receive special corporate recognition, income-boosting CSAs every month from the CSA Rewards program, a spot on the E365 "hall of fame" Website, bragging rights, and a handsome plaque for your office wall (shown at right) to commemorate your achievement, and more. And, along the way, you will have the opportunity to win thousands Rewardical Tokens you can exchange for a variety of goodies.

To be named the Entrepreneur365 Champion of your class, you'll simply need to accumulate the most VP in your class by the end of your 365th day. For each of your days as an E365 contestant ("Challenger"), you'll also have the opportunity to win up to 500 Rewardical Tokens in our E365 Daily Drawing. Drawings are daily random drawings for all qualified contestants from your class and all other classes still within their first 365 days in SFI. 


 
E365 also features a MONTHLY contest with even more recognition and prize. That is, during each month of the year-long contest, you can earn special recognition as the monthly VersaPoints champion for your class by having the most VP for the month.

IMPORTANT! To be eligible for the daily or monthly drawings, you must hold the minimum SFI rank of EA (Executive Affiliate). Tip: You can make this automatic by setting up a 1500 VP auto-delivery order.  Note that if you're in your first month and do not collect 1500 VP by the end of the month, you can transfer all of your VP to the subsequent month.

OFFICIAL RULES

1. No purchase necessary.

2. Winners must provide a valid and complete physical mailing address.

3. The E365 contest is open to all affiliates within their first year in SFI. Maximum one contest entry per affiliate!

4. Participation in E365 is void where prohibited or restricted by law.

5. Winners are solely responsible for any federal, state or local taxes.

6. All VersaPoints are awarded based on the official SFI time/date as displayed in the footer at the SFI Affiliate Center (www.sfimg.com).

7. Challengers (first year contestants) may win a maximum of one prize daily. E365 Champions participating in the E365 Daily Drawing may win unlimited times.

8. Winners of each daily drawing and the prizes won are posted daily online (after midnight CT) at the DRAWINGS tab.

9. SFI reserves the right to use prizewinners' names and hometowns in any advertising or promotional materials relating to this E365 contest without further notification, permission, or compensation to the winners, except where prohibited by law.

10. SFI reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the contest or the Website; to be in violation of the SFI Affiliate Agreement; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; to be acting in a unethical or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person, as determined by SFI at its sole discretion.

11. Any use of cartel, robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or like methods to accumulate contest points will void the affiliate's contest entry and will result in suspension or termination of SFI affiliateship.

12. If for any reason the E365 contest is not capable of being conducted as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which, in the sole opinion of SFI, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this contest, SFI reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest as is necessary.

13. SFI reserves the right to change contest rules and/or prizes as determined necessary.

Article Source: SFI Blog 


 

Don’t be Afraid to Fail

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison

Are you afraid to fail? Have you failed before? Do you like failing? Cheer up! That you’ve failed at doing something in the past is a clear indication that you tried to get something done. It is only do-nothing people that never fail. The reason they remain mediocre all their lives. Nothing enviable there believe me! Yes, you are striving to get something done. Yes, you are getting things wrong and making mistakes all along. So what? Do not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another positive step forward. The mistakes you make and discard must not be repeated. As the mistakes get discarded and reduce in number, it takes you closer to getting it right. If you allow these mistakes to stop you, you can never succeed in getting anything worthwhile successfully done. Just keep going, taking actions, making mistakes and making progress. That is the right way to go.

Let your business life be motion and movement all the way, mistakes or no mistakes. Reason is, it appears success is irretrievably connected with action. That is exactly why successful people are always on the move. Even if they make mistakes as we all do, they keep moving and never quitting. They always manage to stay on course and eventually succeed. Therefore, no one should be afraid to fail. Even you fail, don’t dissipate energy trying to cover it up. The way to go is to learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. Meaning? It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing. If you are not growing, you can’t hope to succeed at anything worthwhile in your entire life.

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”


 

Top 5 Ways to Stay Calm under Pressure

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If you run a business, there is no doubt you must be running into pressure from time to time. Your ability to stay calm even while under pressure counts for much in your productivity index. What that means is that your ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance on the job. Therefore, if you want to stay calm under pressure, learn to do these here 5 things.

01. Staying positive. Staying positive is one great way to avoid being stressed up. Positive thoughts help make stress intermittent by focusing your brain’s attention onto something that is completely stress-free. When things are going well, and your mood is good, it is relatively easy to handle. But when things are going poorly, and your mind is flooded with negative thoughts, this can be a challenge. Your way around such challenges is to have something positive that you're ready to shift your attention to when your thoughts turn negative. That way, you can manage to remain calm even while facing real challenges.

02. More rest and sleep. Credible research has shown that that the stress hormone cortisol is greatly reduced with better rest and sleep. When you sleep well, your brain literally recharges and your body rejuvenates. That way, you can think better and more clear-headed in your thinking. But when you are deprived of sleep and rest, your stress hormone levels go up and that presents a real challenge to your productivity. Getting enough sleep and rest enables you to remain calm even under stressful conditions.

03. Limiting your caffeine intake. Caffeine is a well known stimulant present in common beverages like tea and coffee. Ingesting caffeine somehow helps to trigger the release of adrenaline which is a “fight-or-flight” hormone.  The more caffeine you take, the higher your “fight-or-flight” response, a survival mechanism which defies rational thinking. In such hyper-aroused state induced by caffeine, your emotions somehow manage to overrun your behavior. That is clearly a stressed-up scenario. Ingesting less caffeine therefore, is one sure way to stay calm even under pressure.

04. Engaging more support system. Taking on too many tasks at a time and heaping much more on yourself is stress-inducing. To be calm and productive, you need to recognize your weaknesses/limitations and ask for help when you need it. That is a very smart thing to do anytime you have too much on your plate. One great way out of stress is to tap into your support system when you find yourself in a situation challenging enough for you to feel overwhelmed. Getting a helping hand during such challenges is one way to stay calm and be productive.  Asking for help in times of need helps to mitigate your stress level and strengthens your relationships with the people you regularly rely upon to help out in such scenarios.

05. Routinely disconnecting. Every human being has his own limits of endurance and it varies from person to person. Disconnecting is a way of shifting attention away from the work at hand to focus on other mundane matters which may or may not be directly related to the work at hand. That way you can refocus and somehow get rejuvenated when you turn your attention back to your main work. For example, if you work online, sometimes, forcing yourself offline and taking a short walk, stretching out and grabbing a cup of tea or coffee can help you disconnect somewhat. This is one more very smart way to maintain some measure of calmness even while working under tremendous pressure.