How Fear Paralyzes

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki

As human beings, we are all susceptible to fear, but the way each person handles their own fears is of utmost importance. In our business world, the fear of failing is always real and present in any deal you get involved it. That’s OK. What however is not OK is allowing your fear to paralyze you and prevent you from taking positive actions in the best interest of your business. Such fears stunt growth and progress and at times, ultimate failure which you feared all along. It is OK to lose some and to win some. The moment you allow the fear of losing overcome the excitement of winning, you will lose no doubt. Winning and losing are always two outcomes to expect in any business deal. When out of fear you are fixated on losing, your chances of winning become very slim if not lost outright.

Take my advice. Always find ways to suppress the fear of losing. Don't dissipate valuable energy trying to cover up losses. Remember that you can lose some and win some and life goes on. If you lose, the best thing to do is to learn from your loss then move on to the next challenge. Looking back, if you learned something from your past losses, you haven’t really lost. That is why it's OK to lose sometimes provided you learn something as a result. There is always some sadness in losing and some commensurate excitement when you win. Finding ways not to allow your fear of losing to overwhelm your excitement of winning is what guarantees positive advancement in any venture you chose for yourself.

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


 

How to Grow Your Business Amidst Challenges

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” ~ Bernice Johnson Reagan

Yes you have challenges in your business, so what? You may not be aware that everyone else is facing their own challenges one way or another. If you run a business, facing challenges is a given. You must face challenges in order to grow. When such challenges come as they must do, facing them squarely and conquering them is much better than getting confused and allowing the challenges to paralyze and overwhelm you. Facing challenges is one sure way to nurture and grow your business.

As Robert H. Schuller likes to say, “Tough times never last but, tough people do.” It is the toughness of these people that enables them to squarely face the inevitable challenges and obstacles everyone gets to face in the normal course of everyday business. That is what gives them the staying power to stay the course and to keep their businesses going. Most times, business challenges are a true test of who you really are. They enable you to understand yourself and your abilities better. When you know yourself, at all times, you get to know your capabilities as well. Knowing your capabilities is what gives you the impetus and the zeal to face challenges. It helps you to solve your business problems as they crop up. Being able to solve problems in your business is one sure way to guarantee its growth. Business growth is not without challenges, it is inspite of challenges.

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

Why Success is Gradual

“To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” ~ Tony Dorsett

That something must also be worthwhile and challenging enough to set you in positive motion for results. Many people are not lazy. They are simply not finding anything worthwhile that challenges them enough to achieve something. That is why they may appear lazy. The moment they identify things which challenge them, their talents and zeal to get things done simply get ignited. That is exactly when success beckons.

Once you decide to do something, you will discover that every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments. As you achieve little accomplishments, growth begins. These little accomplishments add up to big accomplishments as you continue to make progress. The reason is because, the person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built a brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Growth, progress and success take gradual pace with incremental progress made from little accomplishments along the way. Once you identify something that holds your attention, motivates and inspires you, you are on your own way to success.

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

How Service Enhances Growth

"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men." -Mahatma Gandhi

Life is all about service, service and more service to others first and to self last. The more you serve others the greater you become. People get into politics to serve their communities. Others get into business to serve customers/clients. In fact, no business is a business if it does not produce something of value for others to benefit from. The more of such service you can render therefore, the more popular you become if you are in public service. But if in business, the more service you render, the more your business grows and the richer you become.

Every business is about service. That is, working for the customer/client more or less. Serving the customer/client comes first then money follows as a consequence. Money is an exchange for service already rendered or to be rendered. When you have no customers/clients to render a service to, surely there is no money to be made. The more service you render therefore, the more money you make. Mr. Ray Kroc advanced this argument more succinctly when he wrote: “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

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

Great Technique to Strengthen Your Downline

 Let us take a look at the “five future PTLs plan.” No doubt you know that you are in business to grow and there is no limit to that growth. To my mind, having your first five future PTLs is just the beginning of that growth. That is just the first group. You can develop many more. Can you imagine the exponential growth in your business if you have such groups in 2, 3, 4, or even 5 or more? Phew!! That will be some real business explosion and affiliates like that will be forcing SFI to search for more Team Leadership positions higher than Diamond and Platinum.

My advice is that you should do all you can to keep developing more first-level stars for reasons mentioned above. Keep on trucking, you can show us all the way to a real business explosion if you keep at it with a single-minded focus.

I do hope you will find this technique helpful.

Good luck!!!

 

 

Always Think and Dream Big

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.” –Les Brown

“Whatever the mind of a man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”-- Napoleon Hill

All through civilization, those who have made the most difference are those who started as dreamers. They dreamed and acted on their dreams and the world has never been the same again. “The greatest achievement was at first, and for a time, a dream.” If you dream big, you achieve big. Many dreamed what may have been at the time taken as impossible dreams but with the help of man’s creative imagination, the impossible became the possible. The story is now being told all over the world how Henry Ford who was born in 1863 in a farm near Dearborn, Michigan, USA started the Ford Motor Company. He was a mechanic and dreamed of one day building a “horseless wagon” and mass-producing it. This appeared then to be an impossible dream because all forms of transportation were mostly by horse-drawn carriages. He followed up this dream by experimenting at his leisure hours. By 1893, he completed the construction of his first automobile. By 1903, Ford Motor Company was born and his dream of “belting-the-earth” with automobiles began. This led to the production of the popular Ford Model T. By 1927, about 15 million of the cars had been sold. The impossible had become the possible and Mr. Ford became very wealthy as a result. It is pertinent to mention that Mr. Ford had limited education, was of average intelligence and just as human as you and I.

Any successful venture began as an idea. Dreams metamorphose into ideas. It takes just one good idea followed by action to change your life forever. Just think about it. Is it money, power or happiness you want? Anything, all you need is to think about it. Put your mind to it and follow through with action. You can never miss the mark. We are what we think, period! A long time ago, my favorite poet Walter D. Wintle captured it all perfectly in the following verses.

 “If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don’t.

If you like to win but you think you can’t,

It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost.

For out of the world we find,

Success begins with a fellow’s will—

It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are.

You’ve got to think high to rise.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

 Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN.”

 “One small step for man and one giant leap for mankind”, these were the words of Neil Armstrong an American astronaut and the first man to walk on the moon. This was in July 1969, a few years after President J. F. Kennedy who before his unfortunate assassination in 1963, sent notice to the world that America will put a man on the moon within 10 years. Today, man practically “lives” on the moon, thanks to the great American dream. You too can dream, act and be someone.