The Greatest Disease in the 21st Century

The greatest disease in the 21st Century is lack of self-esteem.  Most people don’t know what they have going for them. The time has come to encourage each other to get out of our head and step into our greatness.

In order to become who and what you are meant to be, sometimes part of you might have to die.  If you have found your inner glow, I encourage you to go out and help another find theirs.

Very often in life it’s when we are at our greatest low, we find our inner glow. It’s up to you to build yourself. Every one of us has a distinct purpose, find it and live it.

If fear is what stops you from being you, here is what you do:

• Write down all your fears
• Then ask yourself, what’s the worst thing that could happen to you?
• Find the courage inside of yourself to say no more to fear.
• Know that every day is a new day to re-invent yourself.
• Work on small things, one step at a time.
• Wake up, re-think and put all those hidden dreams into action.

The only person who will ever truly hold you back in life is you. Build a bridge and get over yourself.

I encourage you to take the next step… stop settling for less and watch the impossible become possible in your life.

Why Business Fails

October 1993, I set up my first business and over the years I have had some great successes and also some great failures.

I have come to realise that an entrepreneur is someone who solves problems at a profit and one of the most important business questions today is ‘Who is your target market?’

It might shock you to know that the vast majority of people out there today will not be your target market.

Hot Question
Look back over the last five years of your business, who have your customers been?

• Stop trying to please everyone and focus on the 1% that is truly your target market.
• Stop wasting time marketing and cold calling people who will never buy from you.
• Spend all your time giving massive value to the customers who currently buy from you.

Why Most People Are Not Successful

My grandmother taught me to use elbow grease when I was a little girl and it’s something I still use today in my life. Elbow grease is about hard work and commitment, a willingness sometimes to do what others don’t want to do.

 

What does the word success mean to you?

 

The word success will mean different things to various people and the number one reason why people are not successful is we are sometimes not willing to do what it takes. The second reason is very often we are too lazy and make excuses like: 

• I have not got enough time.
• The economy.
• Not enough money.

All of the above are excuses not reasons why…

I learned many years ago that knowledge is not power. It is the implementation of knowledge that is power. In simpler terms, it’s not what we know that matters; it’s what we do with what we know that makes the difference.

You have created everything that has happened in your life both the good and the bad. Every day that you live, what you think about, talk about is what comes about in your life.

Three Tips on How to Be Successful:

1. Know what you want.
2. Take action towards your goals each day.
3. Be and feel successful now.

 

 

 

The Old Model Of Leadership Is Dead

With the world going through some of the deepest changes in history, its great that at last, everyone from CEOs to MPs and World Leaders are saying it’s time to take responsibility.

I love Robin Sharma’s new book ‘The Leader Who Had No Title’. He challenges each and every one of us to lead without a title.

Go out and create your own economy.

Six Steps on How to Become a Social Artist of the Future:

1. Look at the current rituals you live by each day.
2. When you change your inner world, your outer world will change.
3. Write down a one page vision of what you will look like when you are playing your leadership best.
4. Do one thing within the next 24 hours that will take you to the next level of being a great social artist.
5. Leave your ego at the door.
6. Learn to say what you mean and mean what you say.

It’s an extraordinary time to be alive, make a commitment to yourself to take responsibility and be the best that only you can be… and never forget that on the other side of fear lives possibility.

It’s time for the social artist to emerge fully in the world and teach people how to move from victimhood to leadership.

I encourage you to look for opportunities in what others call problems. Look at your daily rituals and question yourself.  Is what you are doing in your life working? If not, change it!

Stop being a victim of circumstances, it’s time to lead.

Make a Difference or Get Out of My Way

I recently heard a quote that came from Bono. 
“If you are not going to make a difference, get out of my way.”

At first I was shocked and thought the quote was a bit harsh, then after contemplating on it, I grew to like the quote more and more. It got me thinking about the word responsibility.

We live in a world today where there is a denial of self-responsibility.  We blame everyone and everything except ourselves.  Yet if we look at some of the greatest leaders alive today, they take responsibility and make higher choices each day.

When we take responsibility for who and what we are, we realise that little things do matter and that as you live your days so you craft your life.

Six rules on how to make a difference:

1. Believe in yourself when no one else believes in you.
2. Know and understand that not everyone is going to like what you do.
3. Take responsibility to be the best that you can be.
4. Know that the more you make a difference, the more you will be tested.
5. Surround yourself with people who really make a difference.
6. Making a difference is about taking massive action and going down the road less travelled.

When you commit your life to making a difference, you will live from that vibration and all else will fall away…

Distractions

It’s a true saying, if you want to lose two hours, go on the internet for five minutes.
I have been pondering on the word distractions.
Why? Because it was the end of August 2010 and I had set myself the task of having two new mini books written.
Did I succeed? No!
Why? Because I caught the procrastinator’s virus and I used the excuse of tomorrow I will start… Well, tomorrow came and went.
Have you ever been there, where you are really cross with yourself and you just say enough, no more?
That’s what happened to me and here’s what I did and it worked.

1. Before you fall asleep, let your thoughts be of writing, see yourself writing.
2. Make a decision to get up early, 5am if possible.
3. When you awake, let your mind wander to the day ahead and feel excited about what you are about to do.
4. Go downstairs, make yourself an early morning drink, grab a pen and paper, find a place to sit and start writing.
5. Set the discipline of writing for at least 60 minutes before rewarding yourself with a mini-break.
6. Don’t turn on your computer (distraction).
7. Don’t grab the morning paper or turn on the news (distraction).

Since putting the above disciplines in my life, I have now completed the next two mini books.
Embrace your procrastinator, shut out distractions and take action one minute at a time.

Take the Weather with You

Have you ever gone to meet someone and as they walk to greet you, you just know that they are having a bad day?

I recently went to see a new client and as I waited in the reception area, they walked down the stairs to meet me. I could see from the energy of their body language that they were harassed, stressed and not having a good day.

I had brought the weather of sunshine with me as I had a lovely drive to the organisation and I had been listening to Og Mandino as I drove. I realised upon meeting the client, that each day we awake to a new day and we get a choice as to what weather we are going to project that day. As I walked with the client up to her office, I made a decision to stay in the sunshine.

Steps on How to Take the Weather with You

• When you meet someone who is complaining, listen, hear and look for the positive.
• Life is a cycle of moods, we can never be responsible for other people’s moods, yet we can be responsible for our own.
• Never judge a man or woman by one meeting or interaction, remember we all have bad days.
• Never react, only pause and respond.
• Watch the magic happen when you bring sunshine to your customers and everyone you meet. That is what you will get back.

As Og Mandino once said

• ‘If you feel depressed, remember to sing.’
• ‘If you feel sad, remember to laugh,’
• ‘If you feel fear, remember to plunge ahead.’
• ‘If you feel insignificant, remember your goals.’

And most of all…  Remember you have the choice to master your emotions and bring the weather with you wherever you go.