If you want to make a difference in your world, here’s a great way to do it. Do an act of kindness for a stranger involving a financial exchange. It’s called Wealth Wednesday, and the impact can be great on the recipient. I’ve told the cashiers in the drive-through line at restaurants to keep the change. They always react with surprise and with gratitude. You also can pay for the person behind you at the drive-through or put some money…
Recently, I read a couple of articles that revealed a couple of surprising obstacles to reaching goals. See if they are as surprising to you as they were to me. Everyone struggles to reach those goals at one time or another. I know I’ve gone through stretches in my life when it seemed I was going nowhere in my efforts to reach my goals. The first surprising obstacle was perfectionism. I think this is in part because we’ve always be…
Are you having trouble reaching your goals or dreams? Here’s an essential step to start moving in the right direction. In basketball and other sports, madness often reigns among fans. Those who closely follow a team might often wonder why certain players don’t play during games. Most likely, the coach knows best. When my children were young, they played a lot of sports. Occasionally they would complain about not playing more in games. I always had the same response: the…
Don’t stop running. That’s the lesson we can learn from Landon Donovan. As you likely know, Donovan was the player who scored the goal that kept the United States alive in the World Cup soccer tournament. You’ve probably seen the video of him booting the ball in after another player had missed. What you might not realize is that Donovan had actually passed the ball to another player a few seconds earlier. After passing the ball, he could have slowed…
Everyone in business is looking for a successful business plan. They realize that the old adage is true that failing to plan is planning to fail. photo credit: centralasian I’d like to suggest that before you adopt a business plan, first take a look at your values. Knowing what you believe will keep you from doing things that you’ll regret later. And if you already have a business plan, being clear on your values will help you clarify and if…
As 2010 gets started, I thought I’d pass on a goal setting tip I got from Chris Brogan‘s newsletter a few months ago (you can sign up for the newsletter here). Brogan passed on an idea he got from Bre Pettis, an innovator and designer. You write down your “most audacious goal” on a big, white sheet of paper. Then you go backwards with ways that you can accomplish it. Those ways become your goals. Brogan calls them “lighthouses” that…
I came across an interesting post the other day called “This is a Business, Not a Hobby.” The piece was written by Jim Kukral, who works with small businesses on web marketing. It cites a post on Copyblogger called “The Three Fatal Diseases that Kill Good Blogs.” Kukral’s article focuses on social media, email marketing, affiliate marketing and online public relations, but his point applies perfectly to network marketers who are trying to build their business using the Internet. “We’re…
(NOTE — Jim Rohn, one of the great personal development philosophers of our time and one of my favorite motivational authors, died today. Below is one of his many articles that influenced me. It is reprinted in his honor.) If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a…
The search for network marketing success can be a long, confusing journey. It seems like you can find tips, strategies, advice and recommendations all over the Internet. Often lost in all the confusion is one of the most basic rules of network marketing — if you want to improve your business, improve yourself. Personal development can, of course, take many forms, but I’ve found that one of the most important keys for me is to focus on my strengths. photo…
Chris Brogan, an Internet marketing expert, recently wrote a post called, “Content is Not King” that applies perfectly to Internet network marketing. “Content is king” has become something of a catch phrase in internet marketing. It urges bloggers to concentrate most on the content of their posts. If you want readers, the thinking goes, you must first give them something worthwhile to read. That logic has gone pretty much unchallenged among those “in the know” about how to be successful…