You may appreciate links to other articles relating to the concepts presented on this site.
http://judysherman.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/how-is-your-business-doing/
http://judysherman.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/you-have-the-power-within/
http://judysherman.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/my-secret-is-opposite-of-what-your-upline-tells-you/
http://judysherman.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/techniques-that-work/
http://judysherman.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/helps-you-in-four-ways/
THE SECRET TO SUCCESS IS KNOWING WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
AND THEN OPENING THE DOOR TO IT.
UNTILL YOU OPEN THAT DOOR, NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE FOR YOU.
YOU WILL BE WHERE YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AND GET WHAT YOU’VE ALWAYS GOTTEN!
IS THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU?
Okay, let’s get serious about this now. You want to be successful with your business but that means you need to be on the Internet. Nevertheless, you have no idea how to go about it or you figure it will cost too much to get set up.
Here is where the rubber meets the road my friend. Perhaps it’s time for you to make decisions that you have not been willing to make up to now.
You have a desire to succeed but you are not in the right position yet. Let me point out a few reasons why you are having problems and see if any of them fit your circumstances.
* You need to quit talking about succeeding and just do it!
* You need to quit complaining about not succeeding, about why you can’t do it, and get things resolved now so you can!
* You need to make a decision about working with the right people, perhaps you will see me as the right person, and let that person or persons help you.
* You need to get the ball rolling now, even if you think you’re not ready yet. I can help you with that, and you won’t feel overwhelmed.
IT’S TIME RIGHT NOW TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.
I’m and ready to help you where I can, so let me.
Do you have a mentor or someone you respect that you can be accountable to?
Remember that you would not ask a banker for advice on farming any more than you would ask for advice from a person who doesn’t know the first thing about being successful.
You want to take advice from someone who has been around successful people and has the mentality for success. That person may not yet have the level of success that you want but does know how to apply success principles.
Find a person who understands your vision and supports your efforts without criticism or stomping on your dreams. That person needs to help you keep your feet to the fire and tell you when you screw up. You want that person to tell you the truth, even if it’s something you don’t want to hear but you know it’s true. A person like this is NOT easy to find, but when you do you need to rely on their wisdom.
My brother and I have that type of relationship. Most of the time I mentor him, but there are times when he tells me things I don’t want to hear that I need to hear. We make a good tag team for each other. You need someone to be a tag team member for you too. If you don’t have someone, let me help you. I am really good at listening and telling you the truth. I know how to be successful and I have years of experience rubbing shoulders with the most successful people in the Network Marketing world of business.
If you are ready to do something positive right now that gives you a jump start, let me give you a homework assignment. You need to read and ponder on the following books:
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
PARKING AND LACK OF PLANNING FOR WHAT’S NEXT
I’ve discovered that one of the greatest enemies to success is the lack of planning for success! Another is reaching a certain level of success and then parking. Success becomes stagnate when people park themselves and insist on staying there instead of setting new goals and continuing to grow.
People park when they sit back and rest on past laurels; the mistake being that they allow overconfidence and past successes to cloud future rewards. This situation makes people lazy and overlyconfident in their business dealings. They become board with their lives and fall victim to complacency.
Another problem with parking is that it also sets up people for a nose-dive if the tide changes, as it often does. As such, it behooves successfull people to continue setting goals that keeps them feeling alive and active. Staying active doesn’t have to mean making more money or reaching a higher level of competiveness, it means setting goals that makes your life mean something more than just making money.
A stagnant situation happens when people stop dreaming, stop reaching for goals, and stop growing in their businesses! This is NOT a good thing! However, I’ve been around a number of success- oriented people over the past thirty years, and I’ve seen this situation happen all too frequently.
It took me a long time to figure out why people die in their businesses or why they fail in life when they seemed to be at the pinnacle of success in their businesses. In almost every instance, parking was the reason; they did not plan for what to do next once success was attained.
Unfortunately, people often spend too much time and energy on building for their future that they forget how to build a good life in the present or how to maintain good relationships. In so doing, they take people in their lives for granted and don’t see their blessings. This can happen when people see success as a destination instead of a wonderful journey through life.
The problem with people treating success as only a destination is that, once they’ve arrived, they don’t think about what to do next. In other words, they forgot to set additional goals for what is next after reaching their specified goals. Life has a tendency to become routine, mundane, dull, and unexciting. Life seems empty when people have not planned for “What comes next.”
A woman I once knew named Anne found herself in this situation. She described herself as feeling depression. That’s when she asked herself, “Why do I feel this way? All I want to do is cry. I should be happy. I have everything that I could ever want and life is so good to me.”
Anne’s best friend suggested that perhaps what she was experiencing was just a let-down after coming off the high she had been on during that period of time. She had been successful in her business and also had just married a wonderful man. It had been such a whirlwind leading up to the wedding that, when it was all over, she did not know what to do next. In other words, because she had been busily working hard for the event of a lifetime (which she had been praying for a long time), a big hole was left inside her when it was all over. The problem was she had nothing in place to substitute for the energy high she had been on for the past several months.
My point is that you should not only plan to succeed, but you should also plan for what happens after you reach the level of success for which you had planned. You should make plans for what comes next by setting new goals. Think about the following questions:
These are questions you need to answer so that you have a realistic plan in place to keep you motivated and growing each time you reach a new goal. Also, you need to be adding new lifeblood to everything you set out to accomplish. Old blood gets sluggish and thick when there’s nothing to give it boost once in a while. This means you need to bring new people and new ideas into your circle on a regular basis.
I welcome comments about this subject. Do you believe that planning for what’s next and following through with what you had planned is important?
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