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The 3 Strategies How to Deal with Failure

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So you want to be successful in your life? Do you know that you will need to face a lot of failures before you can actually achieve what you want in your life?

To be successful is not an easy task. In fact, the more successful you are today, the more failure you will have come across with. This is because in your journey to success, you MUST come across failure. It is the failure that brings you to success. It is not likely that you are going to achieve what you want in the first attempt, maybe not in the first few times too.

If you think about Thomas Edison, you will know what it takes to be successful. Thomas Edison, failed more than 10,000 times just to find out the right material for light emission. What about you? How many times can you afford to fail? Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), get rejected for selling his recipe more than 1,000 times before he finally gets a ‘yes’.How to Deal with Failure

So you see, success is about dealing with failures. Without failure in your journey, you will not learn and improve, and you will not find the right way to success. However, the question now is how are you going to deal with failure? I know that you need to turn failure into success, but how can you do that?

Basically, there are 3 ways you can deal with failure:

1. Give Up and Forget Your Dreams

Yes, this is the easiest route and which most people will choose when they come across any failure. I hope that you are not in this category. You must accept the truth that you need to fail, at least a few times before you finally achieve what you want. (Many people give excuses even before they start! Read this post, Top 10 Excuses People Often Give, to make sure that you are not making any of them)
The moment you did not achieve the result you want, don’t give up. Once you give up, you are going to waste all of your energy that you have previously put in. For example, if you are trying to build an online business, you spend thousands into building a perfect website, and thought that a website is something that can make you money. Then you are wrong. Without visitors visiting website, nobody will know that your website exist. Hence, you got no sales.

So if you give up here, then you will lose all the money that you have spent into building that website. Furthermore, you are going to waste up your time that you spent in it too! Therefore you see, the moment you give up, you are going to waste a lot of your money and energy. The truth is that you are already half way to success, you ALREADY HAVE your website running, all you need now is visitors! But you give up, and lose everything.

What a sad decision to make if you give up here. Thus, no matter in what business, no matter what goals you are pursuing right now, DON’T GIVE UP. Tell yourself that you are not going to give up no matter what.

2. Try Harder, Take More Action

Great, now you have decided not to give up. What most people will do is that if they are not giving up, they will try harder, again, with the very same strategy. So, is this group of people going to achieve what they want in their life?

Hardly, because they are trying harder WITH THE SAME STRATEGY! They will tell themselves, “Well, it is because I’m not hard working enough”, “It is because I did not take enough action”. So what they do is that they try again, try harder, put more time into taking action. However, they did not realize that they are using the same approach!

How can you achieve something when you know that by using the same old strategy, you are going to get back the same old results? Ridiculous! But this is what most people will do. They never thought of that it is because of the strategies that they are using, they thought that it is because they are not hard working enough.

Think about it, you know that 1 + 1 = 2, but 2 is not the result you want, you want the result to be 3. So how can you achieve this? CHANGE YOUR STRATEGY, make it 1 + 2 or 2 + 1. Unless you change your strategy, you will never get the results you want. This is a common sense right? You are trying to make 1 + 1 = 3! This is not possible. So be clear with this.

Ask yourself whether you are doing it right. If you are using the RIGHT STRATEGIES, you can make it BIG. Even with a small fruit stall business, with the right strategies, you can make millions! Yes, you can be a millionaire by selling fruits! Don’t believe? Read this, Are You Using The Right Strategies? to find out.

3. Treat Failure As Feedback, and Change The Strategies

I bet you know the right way of dealing with failure right now. The first step to deal with failure, is to treat it as feedback. Don’t treat failure as something bad. Instead, treat it as a feedback, which tells you where you have gone wrong and why you did not get the result you desire.

The moment you treat failure as a feedback, you will find that it is just like a test given by god. A test of your commitment to achieve what you want. The god is telling you that the strategy you are using is not right, you have to change your strategy of doing things, and that is why god send you a feedback!

Everything happens for a reason. If you receive failure, it is because the way you do things are not right, it is time for you to change it. Einstein define crazy as “Doing the same thing over and over again, and hope to get different results“. So I hope that you are not ‘crazy’ in dealing with failure.

Change your strategies, and you will definitely achieve different results. Don’t give up and don’t do the same thing over again. You have to use different approach. You know that it is impossible to become a millionaire by just having a job with a constant salary of $2,000 a month. You MUST DO SOMETHING different to become a millionaire. For instance, you can start a business, whether online or off-line. Or you can start your investment in stock or real-estate.

This is how by changing the strategies you are using, you will achieve the results you wanted the most. It is actually possible for you to try again and again and again until you achieve what you want. The question is, how many times can you afford to fail? Are you willing to fail 1,000 times before you achieve your goals just like Colonel Sanders? Or you are willing to fail 10,000 times just to find out the right strategies like Thomas Edison?

Find out you can achieve whatever you want, 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want in Your Life.

I bet that you want instant success and if possible, avoid as many failures as possible, right? So you must do things differently, work smart instead of working hard. Change your strategies the moment you face any failure. (Ops, it is feedback, not failure, remember!)

Posted by Shawn on June 30th, 2008

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The Missing Ingredient to Success

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This is a sponsored article from my net friend, Johnathan Wells.

Have you achieved the level of success you thought you would? Do you find yourself wondering if you are somehow missing some obvious step on the path to success? If you are still trying to achieve the level of success you desire, is it possible you’ve been leaving out a vital ingredient? Could it be that you are not doing something that you truly love?

Now it is true that success can come from nearly any pursuit. As long as you have a solid business plan and work at it consistently, you are bound to enjoy some positive results. But here’s the difference, when you are doing something you really love, there is a much greater likelihood of success. Why, because passion is a very powerful motivator

Let’s look at a few of the advantages and benefits of doing something you love versus something that doesn’t inspire you:

  1. First of all, your level of focus will automatically be greater if you actually enjoy what you are doing. It’s much harder to stay focused on activities that seem unpleasant or tiresome. It will also be easier to avoid the tendency to procrastinate because you will look forward to working. In fact, your efforts probably won’t seem like work at all.
  2. When you love what you do, you tend to have more realistic expectations. Rather than expecting to see big results from your efforts right away, you’ll see the value in letting the process unfold in its own time. Instead of being focused exclusively on the financial reward of success, you are more likely to experience a sense of satisfaction throughout the process. When you’re doing something you love, the payoff at the end is just a nice bonus – the true reward comes from each moment you spend working on your “labor of love.”
  3. Without a doubt, you will have more fun. Have you ever achieved something that was extremely difficult and strenuous? If there was no passion along the way, by the time you reached the finish line you were probably too tired and relieved that it was over to fully enjoy any real sense of accomplishment. With something you truly love, you’ll have fun the whole way through, and experience a much greater sense of satisfaction when you finally do achieve success.

So how important is it to your success that you love what you do? It depends. Some would say it’s not really very important. After all, history is filled with people who saw an opportunity, put forth their best effort and were successful – even though they didn’t really love what they were doing.

However, those people had something else that is necessary for success. They had a high level of commitment and the determination to see it through. If you are disciplined and have enough willpower, you can achieve a certain level of success in any venture, whether you love it or not. But it is much easier to stay motivated and focused if you have a passion for what you do.

So ask yourself what kind of success you really want to achieve. Is financial reward all you want, or would you prefer your success to be fun, satisfying and financially rewarding? If you want the more complete version of success and haven’t been able to achieve it yet, could passion be the missing ingredient?

My name is Jonathan Wells and your personal growth and development is very important to me. You can find loads of practical self-improvement information on my blog at http://AdvancedLifeSkills.com/blog. Advanced Life Skills is focused on simple steps that have the potential to quickly transform the quality of your life. I also want to invite you to take advantage of our free 7-day e-course: Developing a Mindset for Success available at http://AdvancedLifeSkills.com/successmindset.html.

Posted by Shawn on June 29th, 2008

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4 Things You MUST Do After Setting Your Goals

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Well, welcome back to The Millionaire Secrets. If this is your first time here, you may consider to subscribe to my articles either using email or RSS reader. You should know that the if you want to be successful and to achieve anything you want in your life, you have to start with motivation.

If you can stay motivated all the time, then you can achieve any results you want in your life. And let me do this job for you. I can help to drive you, motivates you, but only if you subscribe to my blog, The Millionaire Secrets.

Many people know that goal setting is a MUST DO if they want to achieve their goals. However, most of them DID NOT know what they should do after setting their goals. That is why they lose the drive that keeps them going in their journey to success. It is important to set goals. Without goals, you will reach nowhere in your life, because you don’t even know where you want to go in the first place.

Besides that, goals can help to make us stay focused in the direction we’re heading. If you are still doubtful about goal setting, read this article of mine, Why You Need to Set Goals Today. Once you went through that article, you will understand the importance of goal setting and why you need to have a goal today, after reading this post!

So let us get started. What you should do once you have set your goals?

1. Develop Momentum

Yes, you have to do this, it is a MUST. If you did not do this, you are not going to create the momentum that keeps you going from the beginning until the end. Momentum is something like it is hard for you to move when you stay static, but once you start to move, it is hard to stop you down. Therefore, this is the reason you need to create momentum, to keep you going without stopping down.Momentum

So how can you build your momentum? Very easy. Let me give you an example here. Let’s say that your goal is to buy a sports car, take Honda Civic as example. Once you have set your goal to buy it, you can develop the momentum by visiting to your nearest car dealer, have a test drive! You can also ask for brochures about the car, search for pictures and set them as your wallpapers. However, the effect will not be as strong as having a test drive.

The moment you do all these, your mind will tell you that it is a must to achieve your goal, your mind will condition that goal as an important goal that must be achieved. This is how you can develop your momentum. Of course, there are also other ways you can use to build up your momentum. For instance, if your goal is to be a millionaire, you can sign-up for courses and seminars, pay the deposit, and go to your local bookstore and buy some wealth books.

That is how momentum can be developed. By the way, make sure that you develop your momentum within 72 hours after setting your goals. This will ensure the maximum effectiveness.

Momentum - Once You Have Moved, You Can’t Stop

2. Make Public Commitment

You know that by simply setting a goal, you will still procrastinate and won’t achieve it. So the next thing you must do after you have set your goal is this, make a public commitment. This way, you leave yourself no way out but to achieve the goals that you have set. Think about it, if your goal is to be a millionaire in 3 years, and if you tell everyone of your friends, what will they do to you?

Are they going to laugh at you? Well, maybe. However, it is good if they laugh at you. It makes you ever more eager to achieve the dreams of yours. This is how public commitment works. Many people are afraid of their dreams going public, they scare to death that their parents and friends will laugh at them. Do you think that people laugh at Thomas Edison the moment he told the whole world that he is going to invent something that can emit light?

You bet, people even labeled him as crazy. The same thing goes to the Wright Brothers who invented airplanes. When they told people that they wanted to fly to the sky, people laughed at them. But, look at the reality now, did they achieved their wildest dreams? You know the answer.

Hence, if you are serious in your dreams and goals, make a public commitment after you have decided to achieve them. Leave yourself no way out, and you will do whatever it takes to make it come true (In the sense of moral and ethics of course). (Your Fuel to Success, Commitment)

What if you fail to achieve your goals? Think about it, if you set your goal to earn $1 million a year, and you have made the public commitment, but you failed. What is going to happen? What if you just make $500,000 a year and not $1 million? Isn’t that $500,000 still something great? So, even if you fail to achieve what you want, you will still at least achieve something. It is better than sitting there and wait for something to happen!

3. Write Down Your Goals and Bring Them With You

I believe that you have heard this over and over again. You have to write down your goals. Without writing them down, your goals will remain dreams. You have to understand why successful people do this. Because they understand that by writing their goals down and keep on viewing them, it is going to condition their mind, it is going to remind them that they still have something to do or to achieve.

Do not underestimate the power of writing down your goals and bring them anywhere with you! If you can do this, you will see that energy starts flowing through your body, and you will have all the drive to keep you going.

So write down your goals today, stick them anywhere, in your desk, in your car, in your office, etc. This is how you can remind yourself about your goals and this is how you can keep your energy at the highest level.

Another thing is this, make sure that you review your goals every time before you go to bed, and every time after you have woke up. I believe that you know the reasons that you need to do this right? (Having a Clear Goal is Not Enough)

4. Join a Mastermind Group

In order to keep the positive energy flowing all the time, what you need to do is to find a mastermind group, and join that group. A mastermind group is a group that shares the same thoughts and goals. You need to find one to constantly motivate yourself there.

Mastermind GroupIt is easy to find one. You can head to any discussion board or forums to do so. Or you can join groups like Yahoo Groups or Google Groups. Join their discussion and see how other people who have the same dreams as you tackle their goals. This way, you will be exposing to the positive environment that keeps you going. Motivation is not like something that you can do for one day and you will be motivated the whole year. You have to do motivate yourself everyday.

So there you have it, the 4 things that you MUST DO after you have set your goals. Make sure that you do not leave out any of these 4 things. If you are really serious in achieving what you want, I believe that you will follow the steps here.

One more thing, right after you finish off this article, make sure that you have your goals written. If you still don’t have a goal today, SET ONE before you leave. Here are 2 articles that can help you, 5 Questions to Ask Before You Set Your Goals and How to Think Out of The Box by Setting Stretch Goals.

Posted by Shawn on June 25th, 2008

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Top 10 Excuses People Often Give (Part 2)

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Let us continue our story, the top 10 excuses people often give. I hope that you have gone through the first part of this article. If you don’t you can always read it here, Top 10 Excuses People Often Give (Part 1).

So, the first thing you need to do, is to know what you want, where is your passion. Once you know the answers, go and search for opportunities. Don’t sit and wait for opportunity to come to you, if you are waiting, it will never come. Instead, go create some opportunities for yourself.

6. I Don’t Know How to Make Money

Yes, most people do not know how to make money. So what you need to do? Just follow your passion, do what you love, and somehow, you will find a way to make money out of it. Learn more, read more, and you will discover the real ’secrets’ to be wealthy. Most of the time, when people are telling you that they do not know how to make money, actually, it is not that they do not know how. It is that they do not know what they want in their life. When you are so clear about what you want to achieve in your life, you will never come across this kind of uncertainty. It is that you do not know how to make money? Or it is that you are not ready to make money? When you are ready, the determination and the drive will bring you to do whatever it takes to make your dreams come true. Your mind will somehow come out with a plan how you can be a millionaire.

7. To be Rich is Not an Easy Task

Stop Making Anymore ExcusesIf you ever heard people telling you this, they are just trying to justify that they have tried to make it happen, but they just don’t achieve it, because it is too difficult for them! Have you ever wondered why some people can make a million dollar when they are given a ‘manual’ of how to make more money, while most people will still remain the same and never create any amazing result? It is because it is the mindset and the behavior of the people, not because of the book or manual. There are so many wealth books being sold out there, some transformed their life after reading those books, some don’t. This shows that it is those who read and TAKE ACTION that make things happen.

Take internet marketing for example, some people try and try again, but they just hit the wall, and they will tell you that internet marketing just don’t work. It is not internet marketing that don’t work, it is that person that don’t work! Please be clear about this, it is the strategies and actions that the person took that count. You can read 1,000 wealth creation books and still broke, if you do not take any action. So, being rich is not about easy or hard, it is about whether you love it, whether you are using the right strategies and taking the necessary action. If you don’t chances are, you will be giving this excuse too. (Are You Using The Right Strategies?)

8. My Wife (Husband or Anyone) is Stopping Me

“It is because I need to accompany my parents, or else I will be rich now.” Heard this before? I’m sure you do. Some people will give this kind of excuse, they will put the responsibility and blame on other people. When you ask them why are they not successful yet, they will tell you that it is because their wife or husband or anyone in the world is getting in their way. The only one that they are not blaming is themselves. Funny huh. Remember this, whenever you blame on other people, you are giving away your power to control the situation. If you say that it is not your fault, you do not need to take any responsibility and therefore, you will never do a thing to change the situation.

This is how so many people are blaming all over, they can blame anything just they won’t blame themselves. You need to take charge of your life to be successful. If you put the responsibility on others, you will never improve. “Why did you failed math in school?” If you say that it is because your teacher did not do their job, you will never improve your math. However, if you say that it is because of your own fault, chances are, you will take control of your life, you will do something to change, because it is you that makes the things happened!

9. I’m Just Too Young/Old to be Rich

I believe that you have heard this too. Success has nothing to do with age. Colonel Sanders can makes his fortune at the age of 60s, and Anthony Robbins makes his millions when he is in his 20s. So you see, no matter what age you are in, if you have the desire to be rich, you can be rich! It takes just a simple idea to make a fortune. If you don’t have the idea, it is going to take you more time, but, your desire and your commitment will speed things up. You have heard how some people make their first million in just 1 short year, so everything is possible.

Don’t worry even if you are at your 60s, you still can make a difference and achieve amazing results in your life. All you have to do is to make sure that you truly desire for it, know it crystal clear about what you want in life and be 100 percent commitment towards your dreams. Make your dreams come true. Like what Nike tag line has to say, “JUST DO IT”.

10. Any Excuses That You Have Come Across

I will leave this number 10 excuse to you. Just think of it as any excuses that you have come across in your life. I believe that once you have gone through this article, you know it clearly that these are nothing but lousy excuses that most people give. You need to change your way of thinking if you desire for success. Don’t repeat these excuses in your life. You know that what determines your success is not from the outside, it is from the inside.

When something happen, it depends on the reason that you give to it. When you are broke, you can choose to believe that god wants you to be broke and you will never be rich. Or you can choose to believe that it is just a test that god has given to you. Anyway, it is the response or the meaning that you give. Since you are going to choose the meaning to give, why don’t choose one that empowers you? Now, go through this article if you haven’t, 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want In Life.

Posted by Shawn on June 23rd, 2008

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Top 10 Excuses People Often Give (Part 1)

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So, you want to be rich, you want to be a millionaire? Most people, when you ask them this question, they will definitely come up with a sure ‘yes’. After that, they will tell you all sorts of excuses why they are not a millionaire yet.

“Yes, who in the world don’t wish to be a millionaire?! But you know, I just don’t have the money to make money!” Have you heard this before? Do you make this kind of lousy excuses? Face it, if you are truly committed to success and wealth, you won’t make these kinds of excuses. This is what separates the rich from the poor.

The poor makes more excuses than the rich in their life. And that is why, even they bump with golden opportunities, they will never take any action on them. For them, creating wealth is not a ‘must’, it is just something ‘enjoyable’ to have. They won’t die if they are not a millionaire, and that’s why they are not rich.

So I hope you are not going to use these excuses in your life. Next time, when you are going to make these excuses, tell yourself that you have a millionaire mind, and these are nothing but just lousy excuses. You know very well that success requires no special talent or luck, it is just the mindset and the behavior that lies within the people. Before this I have also written a similar post, 4 Common Reasons Why Most People Fail, have a read.

What are the top 10 excuses that people often give? Here they are…

1. I Don’t Have The Time

How many times have you heard this in your life. Please, accept the reality that everyone has the same 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. You have the same time in a day exactly just like us. However, many people will use this as their excuse and tell you why they are not rich. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett both have 24 hours a day. No matter who you are, a doctor, an engineer, a barber, or even a postman, you have 24 hours a day. So the lesson of the day? Learn how to manage your time. Spend your time doing important task than urgent task. Urgent tasks are to be done, but you need to manage your time well and take the necessary well to reach your goals too. Dont' Give Lousy Excuses Anymore

Time is the most valuable in your life, appreciate it more. Spend all your time wisely. Think about this question, is time passed by very fast? Indeed, so manage and use it well.

2. I Just Don’t Have The Talent or Knowledge

Being rich does not mean that you must have certain knowledge or skill or talent. If it is so, everyone who has a degree or a PhD will be richer than those who has not finished their secondary school. However, the truth is always the opposite. Most of the time, those who never finish their school, makes more money than those who have their degree and PhD. So you see, it is not about how much you know, it is about applying what you know. Knowledge itself is not power, it is just potential form of power. If you do not make good use of it, it’s power will not be unleash. There are so many real-life examples out there, this proves that to be a millionaire, it requires no special talent or knowledge. So you can be rich eh.

3. I Don’t Have The Money to Make Money

For some people, they thought that to make money, they need money. Is it true that you need money to make money? If you already have all the money, why do you still have to struggling to make money? It does not take money to make money. In fact, it requires no money to make money. Think about it, it is all the desire and commitment that drive you to take action. And where does all the drives come from? It is because you don’t have much money, and that is why you are thinking of making more money. Again, there are so many examples out there that proved that to make money, you don’t need money.

Think about it, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Anthony Robbins, Richard Branson… each one of them start their businesses from the ground. They don’t have much money at the beginning, but they end up becoming millionaires, some even became billionaires. So realize this truth, it does not take money to make money. Here is a word of inspiration, ‘When there is a will, there is a way’.

4. The Economy Has Been Down

Is it true that the economy has been down so that it is not the right time to strive for wealth? Wrong, no matter in what situation, there will be a group of people who will think of it as something that inspires them to go on and it is the best time to make money. Try to ask some of your friends, if the economy is bad, should they start their own businesses? Most of them will give a big NO, only a few will tell you yes. Those who tell you it is the right time to make it big, they are the ones that will be the market leader when the economy turns back well. When the recession hit, if you are still dangling in nowhere, you won’t achieve great results after the economy turns well.

However, if you grab the golden opportunity, when the economy turns well, you will be rich. I just wanted to tell you that no matter in what situation, there will be a group of people who will always have the opposite thinking. Do you think that it is a good idea to sell shoes in Africa? Whatever the answers are, there will always be someone who has the opposite thinking with you. This means that, the economy, is just another lousy excuses most people make. If you cannot survive during the recession, you cannot survive during the good times, because the competition is a lot higher. Take recession as a test that god has given to your business.

5. I’m Waiting For The Right Time and Opportunity

Chances are, if you are making this excuse, you will be waiting forever. What is opportunity anyway? How can you tell if it comes to you? How can you tell if it is a good or a bad one if you never try it out? When one of your friends approach you and tells you all about a network marketing company, how good it is and how much you can make with it, how can you tell whether it is the right opportunity? I believe that you have come across this situation before, and I’m using it as an example here. It is the same for every other businesses out there, the same goes for internet business. You will never know how an opportunity performs until you try it. (Don’t Wait For Opportunity, Create It)

I have decided to break up this post. It is kind of long and you may get boring reading up such a long article. Therefore, just look up for my next post, or you can straight away read it here, Top 10 Excuses People Often Give (Part 2).

Posted by Shawn on June 22nd, 2008

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Are You Using The Right Strategies?

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I know that you want to make your dreams come true, you want to achieve your goals, you want to create amazing results in your life and you want to be successful, be a millionaire. However, one question though, are you using the right strategies?

You can have all the drive and motivation to keep you going, but if you are using the wrong strategies, you will never ever get the results you always wanted. Why? This is because you are doing the wrong thing. Just like you want to be rich, you want to be financially free, but you are reading games magazine or sports magazine. Another example is this, if you are in internet marketing today, and you are targeting working moms, but you go to sports forum and promote there. Are you going to have great results this way? You bet!

So, first thing first, make sure that you are using the right strategies toward your goals. Here is an example that I grabbed from Adam Khoo’s book, Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires:

Imagine yourself as the small business owner of a fruit shop that makes $10,000 in profits a month. Let’s say that you decided to set a goal of increasing profits to $15,000 a month.

Would that be possible? Probably. You could work a lot harder, raise prices, increase trading hours, sell on-line or create a loyalty program.

What if you set a goal of making $3 million a month from your fruit business? Would it be achievable? Most people would say, ‘of course not, there is no way you can make that kind of money from a fruit business like that!’

True enough. Making $3 million a month from that fruit business is impossible, if the owner continues to use the same business strategy.

Yet, if he were to completely change the way he now does his small localized fruit business, would it be possible?

For instance, the strategy he could use would start by his studying how to greatly expand his market: he would write a dynamic business plan, raise capital through investments, invest in R & D to develop a superior brand of fruit (for example organic certified food products are seeing phenomenal growth everywhere as people become health conscious) and widen his range of fruit (eg: offer sun dried fruit without sulfur, candied fruit using organic sugar, pureed fruit rolls for kids), support reliable new suppliers, build a franchise system and then license thousands of business owners around the world to sell his fruit.

Would it then be possible for him to earn $3 million a month? Of course it would! With enough flexibility in our strategy, we can achieve just about anything.

You still wonder how a local fruit shop can possibly expand and go global? Impossible?

Can you see it clearly now? I hope you do. All of your energy, effort and time are going to be WASTED if you are using the wrong strategies. However, most people who start their journey to success, usually will use the wrong strategies. This because in the beginning, you are still unclear what lies ahead and you don’t have many references and all you do, is just to move forward.

This is why many successful people face more failures (but they treat them as feedback) more than those ordinary one. You have to understand this…

Success Will Not Come in The First Hit

Yes, you are going to face a lot of feedbacks before you get the results you want. Too often, many people thought that success will come as long as they take action. The fact is that, success will not show up if you are using the wrong strategy. If you are trying to create wealth, to be a millionaire, most probably you will not achieve this in the first day. Not in the first week or first month. And usually not in the first year.

So you see, you have to go through a lot of ups and downs, a lot of feedbacks. And whenever you come across with failures, treat them as feedback, then change your strategy, change the way you do things. This is how successful people achieve their results. They change their approach the moment they receive feedback. Because they know that by using the same strategies over and over again, they will be getting the same old results.

Einstein once defined crazy as, ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, but hope to get different results‘. So don’t be crazy, by using the same old strategies, you will get back the same old results. (How Doing Things Differently Attract Success)

How to Acquire The Right Strategies

You can locate the right strategies by 2 ways. One is learning, and the next one is modeling. Keep on learning and modeling those successful people of your choice, you will find that they are using a completely different set of strategies in doing their work. That is why they are successful, because they are doing things differently.

Commit yourself to read self-improvement or wealth books at least 30 minutes every single day. If you are serious in achieving success in your life, you must to be willing to learn, constantly. The more you learn the more your mind acquire and hence, you will come up with different set of strategies of your own.

No matter what niche market you are in, there must be a small group of people who are in the top 5%. Learn from them. Read the books they write, visit their websites, read their biographies, do things exactly just like them, and you will achieve the results just like them.

Meaning to say, if you want to be a millionaire today, learn and model from a millionaire. As simple as that. Read one of my top post, 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want In Life.

Posted by Shawn on June 20th, 2008

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How to Stay Motivated All The Time

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Well, you should know that in order to achieve success, you have to stay motivated all the time. Even if you do not wish to achieve great results in your life, you too, would like to be motivated at all time. This is because if you can keep yourself motivated, you can do your things with more energy and hence, achieve better results.

The only one thing that keeps successful people succeed is that they stay motivated all the time. Yes, there are times when they will feel lousy, but they know how to manage it and they can get rid of that state easily. This is the secret why the rich can make so much money while the poor, who always keep themselves in lousy state, fail to achieve much more wealth. Motivation is something very important and you must do every single day.

Motivation is not skill or knowledge, you have to practice how to get motivated everyday. While for skills and knowledge, once you acquired them, you will never forget them, they will stay with you until the day you are gone. Just imagine this, if your goal is to achieve financial freedom today, and if you can stay motivated all the time, will you do more to move closer towards your goal? Definitely. (Find out What Actually Drives You Towards Your Goals)

So the first thing you must learn in order to make yourself a millionaire, is to stay motivated all the time. This can be easily done by reading articles, reading books, listening to motivational tapes and more. However, doing all these may seem like very time consuming. There is one better way to do all these. There is one thing you can do to keep you stay motivated, in the same time, moving yourself closer toward your goals, and it is…

Do What You Love and Energy Will Follow

Yes, this is a very simple concept, but most people did not actually care about. Think about it, if you like to play computer games, will you feel tired even if it is already 3am in the morning? Will you still go on for another match of your game? You bet, this is how the way how you can keep yourself motivated. By doing what you love to do. What if your hobby is playing golf? And one of your friends invite you to play golf in the morning. Will you wake up early in the morning at 6am and you feel motivated the moment you woke up?

Do What You Love

However, during ordinary weekdays when you have to wake up at 6am to go for work, will you feel sleepy? If this is what you are experiencing, it is because you don’t like your work. You see, when you hate to do something, your mind will automatically tell you that it is a boring thing to do. You will feel sleepy and experience a lousy state. Will you be able to achieve much more or create any amazing result if this happens?

Of course not, that is why you have to find out what you love to do, and do it with 100 commitment. Whenever you do something that you love to do, you will feel energize and you will feel motivated all the time. This is the number one secret of success. Too many people neglect the importance of this, they did not do what they love. All they know is just to follow the crowd and do everything as ‘usual’. If you don’t like what you do, it is impossible for you to achieve financial freedom. Read The Millionaire Habit #5 and you will get the big picture.

Apply This Idea In Your Business

Today, if you are serious in making big money online, you have to apply this idea into your business. Take affiliate marketing or blogging for example. Do you really think that you can come up with extra few hours everyday to manage your blog or your business if you don’t like what you do. You should know that internet business is a business where self-discipline plays an important role, if you can’t manage yourself, you will not take any action.

Plus, some more if you hate what you do, you will give up sooner than you can think of. If you have a blog today, before you write some content for your blog, what do you feel? Do you feel that it is great, because you can share something interesting with your readers, or you feel boring, “God, I need to write something boring for my blog again”?

Be frank to yourself. If you are feeling lousy, maybe it is time for you to change. Find out what you really want and what you really love to do. In the world of internet, all kinds of businesses exist, from dog training to internet marketing to card magic, there are plenty of choices for you. You don’t have to choose the one that you hate to do. Choose the one that you have interested in.

This is the secret how Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Donald Trump, Tiger Wood, Michael Jordan… can achieve such an amazing result in their life. Because they do what they love to do, and they become addicted to it, then it makes them the pro in their field. One amazing event that can prove this, read below:

When Michael Jordan was interviewed and asked how he became the world’s greatest basketball player, he replied, “I expect more from myself than anyone would ever expect from me! When my coach expects me to train 3 times a week, I would train 5 times. When my coach expects me to score 15 points for each game, I would score 36 points! That is why I am the best in the world!”

I hope that after reading this article, you will be as motivated as I am, and you are cleared with what you need to do. Remember this, if you do something that you love to do, you will create better results. If you stay focused and put in commitment in doing the things you love, you can create amazing results.

The moment you realized this concept, you will never work again for another day. This is because, for you, it is not working anymore, it is playing and enjoying the game. (Read: 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want in Life)

Posted by Shawn on June 18th, 2008

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What Actually Drives You Towards Your Goals

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Have you ever figure out why sometimes you are so motivated, you will take any action that comes into your mind and you wanted to achieve your goals so eagerly? There are also times where you feel frustrated and you don’t want to get a thing done at all?

If you have experienced these states, you are considered normal human. Everyone includes very successful person, they will somehow feel the lack of motivation as well. Just that they have a certain way to keep up their drive and they can be motivated very fast. Therefore, if you are going to achieve your goals today, you must learn how to keep yourself motivated all the times.

Many people have set their goals, and goal setting is just simple and ‘must do’ step in your journey to success. However, there are people who had set their goals, but they still fail to achieve them. Why is this so? Is it that goal setting does not work? No, it is not that goal setting does not work, it because of the people that did not work!

What Push You Towards Your Goals?

Today, if you feel you lack the drive to take action towards your goals, it is because of the reasons behind your goals are unclear. It is because the reasons for you to achieve your goals are not strong enough. That is the number one reason why people feel unmotivated towards their goals.

In fact, a goal is just like a target, it helps you to stay focused and it shows you the direction you should move to. That is why people often said that your goals must be as specific as possible. This is because if your goals are not specific enough, they will not bring you to where you want. (Read, How to Catalyze Your Thoughts and Dreams)

So you have to remember, if you are going to set your goals today, you have to write down the reasons why you want to achieve them as well. Without a burning reason, you will not drive into taking massive and consistent action. It is the reason that drives you, not your goals. Once you know why you want something so badly, it will propels you in such a way that you will do whatever it takes to achieve it.

Beside a burning reason, there is another thing that will drive you towards your goals. Read on to find out…

Your Goals Must Be Exciting

Yes, your goals must be exciting. Think about it, which one of the goals are going to drive you jump out of your bed early in the morning the moment you wake up?

  1. To earn $100 in one month, or
  2. To earn $10,000 in one month?

Which one of the goals above do you think will have a greater driving force on you? I bet you know the answer. So you see, the goals you set must be exciting enough. If your goals are not exciting, they will not move you into action. You know that it is easy to earn $100, all you need to do is just to work harder and take a little bit more action.

Think Big

What about to earn $10,000 in one month? It is going to stretch your mind (Read, Think Big, Start Small), because by working just a little bit harder, you still will not earn $10,000. So what your mind will tell you is that you should come up with a strategy to achieve it. You know that by using ordinary strategy of what you do everyday is not going to make you to earn $10,000, you need to do something special.

This is how your mind will operate from a different frame, and this is what we want. It is going to force your mind to think more creatively. Think about it, if you are going to dream about something, why don’t you dream it excitingly and make it attractive since our imagination is free? How to Think Out of The Box by Setting Stretch Goals.

That is why Donald Trump often THINK BIG! He knows that by thinking it big, his dream is going to drive him excited and hence take the necessary action. And the best thing is, if he can do this, so can you. An extra words for you here, one of my favourite quotes from Donald Trump is this…

“My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about my future.”

So you can see how goals can drive you into action now. I believe that you will be more clearer about goal setting after reading through this article. Remember, if you feel boring about your goals, take a look at your reasons, think of why you want to achieve your goals so badly?

Clueless in how to achieve success in your life? Read, 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want in Life.

Posted by Shawn on June 13th, 2008

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Think Big, Start Small

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Did you know that by thinking something big and doing it small, you can achieve an amazing result with it? Often, too many people underestimate something small, they thought that saving just $1 a day is something tedious and mundane. But did you actually know that by saving $1 per day, you can accumulate a very huge amount over time?

In Terms of Making Money

Well, I believe that if you are here today, one of the reasons is because you are looking for ways to make money. The same concept applies in making money as well. You have to think big, but start small. Well take affiliate marketing for example, when you come across an affiliate program which makes you $5 per sale, will you promote it?

Most people don’t, they rather choose one that make them $30 per sale. What they did not notice is that this small amount, $5, can also make them rich. All they can see is the big money lies in front of them, they did not see the potential what small money can do. People may say, since I’m going to set up a website, get an autoresponder, drive traffic, why don’t I choose the affiliate program which can make me more money?

Think Big, Start Small

Yes, this is right. What I want to tell you here is that sometimes it is better to go for the smaller programs than the big one. One perfect example is Ewen Chia’s Secret Affiliate Weapon. It only cost $9.97 and it sells like hot cakes! Will you choose an affiliate program that makes a few sales of $30 a month, or are you going for an affiliate program that makes you a lot of $5 every month?

Well, it depends, if you can make sales, that will be a great affiliate program to go for. However, it is easier to make $5 than $30. People will be surprised and more likely to buy a product that costs them just $9.97 if the product is professionally designed and gives great value. Just like Secret Affiliate Weapon.

Think about it, if you can make 5 sales of $5 per week, you are going to make an extra of $100 per month. What if you have 5 such affiliate programs running for you? You are making $500 each month!

Want to learn how to earn money online? Read this post, 5 Easy Steps That Promise Your Online Success.

In Terms of Traffic Generation

Traffic, the topic that everyone is looking for and the thing that makes most people give up their money making journey. Most people fail in their online venture because of traffic. Again, it is the same in traffic generation. You should think big, thinking of bringing 1,000 visitors to your website or blog each and everyday. However, you should start and do it small.

If today is the first day you publish your blog, it will be impossible to get 1,000 visitors at once. You have to understand this, you are not Britney Spears, nobody will visit your site, you are starting from the ground. Of course there are rare cases that break this record. But like I said, you are starting from the ground, if you are Ewen Chia who had a list of over 300,000 subscribers, then you can bring 1,000 visitors to your blog in just one day.

The problem now is that you are not Ewen Chia. You are nobody. That is why you have to start from the ground. If you have a blog today, what you can do is taking small traffic generation steps everyday, which will lead to massive amount of traffic over time. This is what Yaro Starak did with his blog. Before he achieves the amazing results with his blog, he was once nobody too. And because of the constant small steps that he took everyday (he leaves comments on other blogs everyday), he now deserves the amount of traffic to his blog.

No ideas how to generate traffic? Read my post, How StumbleUpon Can Bring You Tons of Traffic.

Applying This Concept In Your Life

Now, if you are pursuing success in your life, you have to apply this concept as well. Success will not come to you automatically and in just 24 hours. It is not like you sleep tonight and you wake up tomorrow, you are the CEO of a big company. It is not like you sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow and you find that you have a BMW in your garage. No, success will come instantly.

You have to take action, moving one step closer towards your goals each and everyday. This is the process that makes most people give up. Simply because they cannot see the immediate results, they give up. This proves that why weight loss pills can sell so effectively. Simply because people are lazy, and they want immediate results. And that is why so many of the programs that promise can make you $50,000 in just one month are selling fast.

If you stay long enough in pursuing your dreams and goals, you will notice what I said is true. Achieving success is a step by step process, your business requires time to grow. Those who cannot wait and trying to search for the ’shortcuts’ are not going to achieve what they want.

Read this post to achieve anything you want in life, 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want In Life.

Posted by Shawn on June 11th, 2008

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Life’s Most Fundamental Question

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If you are serious in achieving success in your life, you should know the answer to this fundamental question of life. This question may seem like very easy to answer, however, what many do not know is that the real reason to their answer. If you can’t answer that question, and answer it correctly, no amount of motivation can help you change your life. And if you’re like most people, the answers you need haven’t been easy to find, it can all changes today. The question is…

What Do You Want?

People who know the answer to the question above, they know exactly what they want, they know how they should walk their journey called life. They focus in everything they do, because they know their path and they know where they will reach.

Unless you know what you want in your life, you will never find a way to achieve your dreams. Too often, many people have blurry dreams and goals in their life, and that is what makes them don’t know where they should head to. That is the main reason so many people are dangling in nowhere in their life.

What Do You Want?

Many people work, but they don’t even know why they work. Some said that because they need to make a living and they need to feed their family and that is why they work. If you are working for money, there are better ways to make money. Why do you need to spend so much of your time into working and facing frustration then complaining about how much you hate about your work?

Have you ever asked yourself whether you like what you are doing? Do you even know why you are doing it? For example, if you are reading this article right now, what makes you reading it? Is it because you are looking for ways to motivate yourself? Well, maybe, but everything happens, it happens for a reason.

We Do What We Do For A Reason

In other words, some kind of reason, whether good or bad, is at the root of everything we do. To the average person, this doesn’t mean much, but you’re not average. You’ll soon be able to see just why this is such a powerful idea. You can’t get motivated if you don’t know what it is you want in the first place.

If you ask 10 people in the street what is it that they want and why are they doing it, I’m sure that you will get answers that are blurry. We do for a reason, but not just any reason. It has to be a good one, a powerful one. When you put a weak reason behind any goal, it’s not going to happen.

‘It will make me happy,’ isn’t strong or specific enough. It doesn’t excite or inspire. Taking into account the way our mind works, this is never going to move you to action. In fact, you can choose to feel happy at any moment you wanted to. If you know how to control and manage your state, you know that happy is not an outcome, you can make it happen in an instant.

So you can see now, this is why so many people keep wishing for a better life instead of enjoying one. They don’t have good enough reasons behind their goals. So what should you do to achieve success and greater results in your life?

Find Yourself Better Reasons!

It’s that simple. If I told you that walking across the room would radically change and improve your life in an instant, and you truly believed it, I guarantee you would be moving your feet right now. Why? Because the reason moved you to action. It was powerful enough to make things happen. And that’s what you need to do when it comes to your own ideas of a happier, more successful life.

Remember, everything starts from a good and solid reason. Only if you have a strong reason to achieve your goal, or else you will not take any action to achieve it. So take some time right now to think of at least three great reasons why your goal is worth achieving. Make them specific, powerful, exciting, and inspiring.

Just imagine what you could accomplish if you knew how to quickly and easily get and stay motivated to anything, absolutely anything, you’ve ever wanted to be, do, or have. This little trick is just one simple way to get and stay motivated to live a better life.

The better the reason, the better the result. So make your reasons for success so powerful, so compelling, so enticing that you can’t help but follow through with action.

Posted by Shawn on June 8th, 2008

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