21. October 2007 by Pat.

Personal Development is a broad category, encompassing everything from the time management to life purpose. Personal development is the process of developing your natural strengths and overcoming your weaknesses. Personal development is a kind of “tool kit” for life. Personal development is an ongoing process, in which you need to: Identify priorities for personal development Identify personal development opportunities Create an action plan Monitor your progress Evaluate your personal performance Identify priorities for personal development.

Personal

Personal development teaches you how to become more productive and effective at work and how to maintain focus on what really counts in all aspects of your life. Personal coaching can have a profound effect on your growth. Personal development training can bring out those skills and help you fulfill your potential. Personal development involves more than learning a set of skills. Personal development training will help you learn to build wealth by working hard and working smart.

Development

People often mis-diagnose themselves when it comes to personal development problems — often what you identify as the problem is merely a symptom of a larger problem. Development implies change, which is not always easy. The field of personal development isn’t as exacting as mathematics or computer programming, but there are some solutions that do work well. Building your own personal development library is easy. The best personal development books contain solutions to universal human challenges, such as how to overcome procrastination, how to get organized, and how to motivate yourself.

Training

Personal development training can bring out those skills and help you fulfill your potential. Through personal development training, you can learn to increase your performance and minimize your risk. Personal development training will help you learn to build wealth by working hard and working smart. With personal development training, you will learn different ways of accomplishing tasks and meeting goals.

Personal development is unique to each individual. Personal development is also about building effective working relationships and making new contacts to allow you and others around you to realise your full potential. Personal development is about improving yourself mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically. Personal development is an integral part of every manager’s job. Personal development is a key issue in the training and future professional practice is seen as a core element along with skills training and theoretical studies.

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15. October 2007 by Pat.

Show Me The Money! Have you constantly read posters and signs that read ” Make 1 Million In 30 Days!!!”. If you haven’t well I have and I am sick and tired of it. It’s about time this work from home companies put up or shut up. Now I am not knocking every work from home company, there are many great ones out there. What I am knocking is the fly by night companies who are just looking to rip people off. Before you join or buy into any work from home company there are some basic steps you should take. I call them the Show Me The Money steps.

So here we go. First you want to do a background check on the company. How long has the company been around? Does the CEO have a good reputation or is he a crooked con artist? What are people saying about the company? One thing to remember is some people will always have a bad impression on these work from home companies. So take everything you hear, bad and good, with a grain of salt. And do not judge on other people’s results because they may or may not have skills which you have.

Next what is the training like? Will they teach you how to build your business? Or will they leave you high and dry once they have your money? Talk to people within the company, your support system is key! Most people are just starting a home based business so the help is vital. If they do not get good training or have a support system in place they will fail.

Lastly do you have the money and the time to build a business? This is also a very important question as well because no matter what anyone tells you building a business does require time and money. Now if you have lots of spare cash you can always hire someone to get a lot of the work done for you. But if you are short on cash then you will have to devote a larger portion of your time. Which can be tough if you have a demanding job and a family to support.

So these are just a few things to think over before joining a work from home business. Remember though the main purpose of any business is to “Show Me The Money! “.

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12. October 2007 by Pat.

Leadership is not about getting people to do what they want. If they did what they want, you wouldn’t be needed as a leader. Instead, leadership is about getting people to do what they don’t want to do (or don’t think they can do) - and be ardently committed to doing it.

This paradox lies at the heart of all great leadership.

Unlike management, which involves simply the care and feeding of your organizational elephant, great leadership gets that elephant to jump.

Anyone who knows anything about elephants knows that they may run, they may stand on their hind legs, they may kneel on their fore legs, they may roll over; but they don’t jump.

And that’s what leadership is all about: getting organizations to do what they usually can’t do, i.e., getting great results consistently.

Now, you can’t do the jumping yourself. The elephant must do it. You can’t push the elephant into the air. It must jump of its own volition.

Making the elephant jump involves cultivating a special relationship between the leader and the people of the organization.

Many leaders misunderstand that relationship. They try to use fear and pain to spur the activity needed to achieve consistently great results. “Sure, I’ll get this elephant to jump. Just give me an electric prod!”

But inducing fear and pain are habit forming and ultimately destructive both to the leader and the people.

To make the elephant jump — not now and then but consistently, i.e., to lead people to consistently to achieve great results — deep, human emotional bonding between leader and people must take place. And fundamental to that bonding is the nature of the heart of the leader.

This is the secret: You can’t get the elephant to jump unless you have a kind heart. Kindness in leadership means following the Leadership Imperative: “I will lead people in such a way that we not only achieve the needed results but we, the people and me, become better as leaders and people.”

Most leaders focus on the first part “getting better results” and forget about the second part. But in truth, when you have a kind heart, getting results and helping people be better are not two things but one.

From now on, see every leadership challenge you face as a way of having people increase their knowledge, their skills, their courage, their tenacity, and their leadership abilities. Cultivating that perspective is a kindness.

But don’t mistake kindness for being nice. Don’t mistake kindness for having people simply feel good. Don’t mistake kindness for allowing people to indulge the worst aspects of their character, laziness, inconsiderateness, selfishness, etc.

Furthermore, you may be kind and have people be frustrated with you. Many great leaders I’ve had relationships with got me frustrated as they had me go through the trouble of tackling challenges I might not otherwise have tackled. (In fact, deep, human, emotional bonding cannot happen without a great deal of frustration.) But I was motivated despite my frustrations because I recognized that they essentially had my best interests at heart.

Yes, through skill, persuasiveness, understanding, forcefulness, education, and guidance, you can get the elephant to jump — as long as you do it through the kindness of your heart.

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10. October 2007 by Pat.

Let’s get to the point straight! This is the real secrets to work from home success that are presenting right before you which makes my upline a multi-millionaire not once but six times before the age of thirty. You may think that this is a JOKE! Well, I can’t stop you from thinking this way. But what I am to reveal next may be a life-changing experience for you.

The secrets to work from home success is something which I am sharing with you because it works for me too and I believe that success should not be kept within oneself. The first success secret to work from home business is to Dream Big! Well, anyone dreams. Whether you are dreaming big or small, it takes the same energy.. So why not dream a BIG one!!! Always challenge yourself continuously how you can think bigger. This is the first strategy which my upline adopts and it is a very powerful. Though a multi-millionaire, he is continuously thinking of ways to think big. And now, he is not only helping himself but many to attain million dollars mark through personal development. The only reason you can’t have something in life is because you think you are not capable of owing it.

Secondly, being an expert is critical in your success in work from home business. Aim to become the top 1% of a particular subject area. Let’s say you want to make your mark in internet marketing but how are you going to make yourself an expert! Perhaps you are thinking of at least a 10 years time frame to acquire an expert status. Well, you are wrong! To become an expert, all you need is to read at least 5 books or attend 5 seminars or trainings on that subject area. Instead of reading the book only, go through as if you have to give a training after reading. As long as you have more knowledge than the other person, then you can be an expert to that person.

Thirdly, your success in work from home business requires you to create a game plan. A game plan is goal setting. Instead of goal setting, I like to call it goal getting because most people set goals but few realise the goals. These are the three MUST process to realise whatever goals you are setting. They are: (1) Fix a deadline to every goal. (2) Figure out your purpose behind your goal. (3) This is also the fourth strategy which is to take massive action plan.

In order to build a successful work from home business, you need to take massive action meaning taking responsible of your own goals. If you can, write your down your members’ goals as well and hold them accountable too. Always keep the goals in front of you. Taking massive action produces massive result. Not only accountable to yourself, you have to work hard to build your knowledge level. Successful do what unsuccessful refuse to do and Successful get what unsuccessful people can’t get!

The fifth secret strategy requires you to build your leadership. This ties in with strategy on being an expert. Always be a leader which every other leaders want to follow. Remember! Every rises and falls on leadership.

The sixth strategy is to build your vision. Your vision is truly where you expect yourself to be. You can build vision through (1) what other people says about you. (2) experiences you have in life. (3) what you say and what you think about yourself. In short, you must become the person before you experience the result! This is the power of subconscious mind which is much more powerful than your conscious mind.

And the last but not the least is to take 100% responsibility of yourself. Everything in life you are responsible and because of that, you have the power to change other people life. Make an impact to the world by sharing with the world your success. By following these 7 secret strategies, you will attain success from any work from home business.

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9. October 2007 by Pat.

Do you remember as a child lying on your back on a beach or in the field and looking at the different shapes of passing clouds? If you do, you will know how enjoyable it can be to focus completely on one thing. To be receptive, you need to allow all your senses to explore the environment. The more sensory pathways you open up, the more extensive and exact your perception will become. This has been acknowledged by scientists in numerous studies. Students can memorize new material twice as well if it is presented in a visual form - for instance, as a film or video - and not just by merely listening to a lecture. This is because visual cues from the eyes play an important part in the learning process.

The best known method for focusing our thoughts towards what is important and training our perception is Meditation. Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years by Buddhist monks for instance for spirituality and to open up the mind to new knowledge. Zen Buddhism is about mastering the art of Meditation to achieve remarkable things in life. Demonstrations have been performed by a skilled archer and meditator with his eyes blindfolded and shooting an arrow so accurately that it will put out a burning candle hundreds of paces away. He performs this feat by accomplishing the highest concentration and entering a state of deepest calm.

In western psychology, the phenomenon of controlled attention is also useful. Anyone who wish to train or improve his or her memory must begin by controlling perception. For instance, if you find that you keep forgetting someone’s name, it’s likely that you are too easily distracted and do not place enough emphasis or importance to the person’s name when you are introduced. A deeper focus on the situation will improve your memory. A quick tip is to look at the person’s face, without staring.

With a quick sweep of your eyes, notice what the person is wearing, the color of his or her eyes, hair, skin. Take an interest in that person, ask about where she was born, what are the person’s hobbies, children, pets etc. Ask the person how his name is spelt. If there is only one way to spell ‘Tom’, the more relevant question is to ask how to spell his last name. Take notice of it and make interesting associations with it and tie it in with what the person is wearing or the person’s physical attributes. Is he or she tall or short, fat or slender? Does he or she have freckles or a tan?

Your creativity is also influenced by how intensely you deal with the job at hand. If you need a new idea urgently - for example, an anniversary gift for a spouse, you perhaps need to let yourself be inspired by the world around you.

We often do not take the time to see what is around us. The flash of inspiration you need will come to mind if you allow your attention to move freely, embracing all possibilities, even the ones you previously disregard. So open up your senses, see to appreciate, smell new scents, listen with intent and start to feel, both physically and emotionally. Start living and be alive and you’ll find your memory, concentration and creativity will start to blossom.

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8. October 2007 by Pat.

Everyone says they want to make a lot of money. If you ask a hundred people on the street, “Do you want to get rich?” - they’ll all say, “sure!” And as you know, there are many different ways to get rich and there are many experts out there who claim they can help you get rich. I go to the bookstores quite a bit and see all the books on financial independence.

Most of those books are very disappointing to me because the authors idea of building wealth is all about trying to live frugally, saving your money, and investing it wisely. Some of this is great advice, but it’s NOT what you’re about to read in this article! You see, I don’t believe in “cost cutting your way to prosperity”. Living frugally and saving your money has little appeal to me… and that’s not how I made millions of dollars… nor did any of my friends!

The way we became super rich is to go into a lucrative business for ourselves and then to focus all of our time and energy on making as much money as we can. That’s what this article is all about. Saving money and living frugally has its place… After all, let’s say you save a dollar a day, put it in a shoebox and take it to the bank every month. Then every few months you take that money and put it into some kind of mutual fund that gains an average of ten percent interest…”How much money would you have?” The answer may shock you! You see, within thirty years, you’ll have over sixty seven thousand dollars!

This is the most non-risk way to make money. After all, the stock market has averaged about ten percent a year for the last 50 years. So in this example, you leave your dollar a day in some fairly conservative mutual fund for thirty years and you will have almost seventy thousand dollars! All the books on how to become financially independent by saving money and living frugally hold no real appeal to me.

The only way that I know how to teach you how to get rich is the same way that I have gotten rich, and that is through business. THIS IS THE EXCITING WAY TO GET RICH! Just focus on becoming self-employed and try to make as much money as you can in the fastest period of time. That’s it! When the smoke clears, you will have made millions of dollars! Do this for enough years and you’ll wake up one morning and realize that you are a multimillionaire!

I run into many people who want to make millions of dollars…but they are afraid of being self-employed. To them, there is really no other way for them to do it. You see, although there are corporate jobs that pay huge amounts of money (there are people who have became multi-millionaires because of all the stock options they received) as many 5 of these stocks they received with their job were basically worthless at the time but the companies gave it to them. These stocks were an added benefit they received as part of their pay… Then when the company went public, these people woke up one morning and were suddenly multi-millionaires!

Make no mistake, living frugally and saving money for many decades can definitely make you a millionaire… But if you want to make the most money in the shortest period of time, you must commit yourself to becoming self-employed!

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4. October 2007 by Pat.

Anytime employers are asked about the skills they value most in employees, it’s always in the top five. Senior managers and executives frequently cite it as one of the keys to their achievements. Business coaches, leadership development specialists and peak performance experts say it’s essential to success. “It” is the ability to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively. Yet, it’s often one of the most overlooked areas of personal development. Despite the fact that we spend up to 60% of our workday communicating, people rarely spend time trying to improve their communication skills. One reason for the neglect is that communication is often labelled a “soft skill.” When budgets are tight, training in a soft skill slides down the list of priorities and up the list of things to cut. Given it’s importance in the workplace however, a more accurate label would be “essential skill.”

One of the most visible forms of communication in the workplace is the presentation. Yet in the process of helping professionals transform themselves into more effective communicators, my greatest obstacle is frequently the misconception people have concerning the role and nature of presentations in their professional lives. A comment I regularly hear is “I don’t give presentations.”

If you believe this, you need to expand your thinking about what constitutes a “presentation.” What usually comes to mind is an event where you are standing in front of an audience and speaking for ten minutes to an hour. But presentations come in many more varieties than the formal situation I’ve just described.

The common thread running through what might at first seem to be rather diverse activities is an effort on the part of one person to communicate with others. And regardless of the message, you’re always presenting yourself. In fact, you’re presenting yourself every time you:

1. Motivate people to accept change 2. Launch a new program 3. Give a safety briefing at work 4. Solicit Donations for a charity 5. Train people to use software 6. Unveil a new policy 7. Present opening arguments in a trial 8. Convince a jury of the merits of your case 9. Give a sales presentation 10. Report your 3rd quarter sales results 11. Pitch for an account 12. Calm angry employees 13. Instil confidence in customers 14. Introduce a speaker 15. Facilitate a discussion 16. Depose a witness 17. Reassure stakeholders 18. Honor a community leader 19. Deliver an orientation to new employees 20. Reinforce commitment to an idea 21. Entertain an after dinner crowd 22. Change attitudes or beliefs 23. Accept an Award 24. Persuade prospects to buy 25. Talk to a service group 26. Position your service or product 27. Ask for a promotion 28. Promote your brand 29. Apologize for a mistake 30. Answer questions 31. Arouse interest in a new product 32. Explain how something works 33. Attract Investors to your business 34. Demonstrate your product 35. Negotiate a deal 36. Conduct a meeting 37. Express your support for a candidate 38. Articulate your vision as a leader 39. State your point of view at a meeting 40. Question a witness 41. Gather information from a patient 42. Teach a Professional CE course 43. Eulogize a friend or colleague 44. Spark interest in your new product 45. Review an employee’s performance 46. Speak on behalf of your organization 47. Approach prospects for a first appointment 48. Address a group of shareholders 49. Discuss alternative solutions to a problem 50. Interview for a job

Make no mistake about it: just like death and taxes, presentations in some form are an inevitable part of your working life. Ignore them at your own peril. Anytime you communicate you are presenting yourself. People will make judgments about your competency, your credibility and your character based on the quality of that communication.

The good news is that when you make the commitment to improve your presentation of self, you will have gained a skill that is transferable to dozens of other situations. When you learn how to plan your communication strategically, how to analyze and adapt to different audiences, how to craft compelling words and phrases and how to deliver your message in a way that commands attention, you’ll have a powerful set of tools with a lot of portability. They will contribute to your success in any job you may hold in the future.

If you recognize that you could use improvement in this area of your professional life, it’s important to get started now. Read books and articles on becoming a more effective communicator. Consider taking a continuing education course through your professional or trade association. Your local university or community college probably offers courses that range from one day workshops to semester long classes. It’s an investment of your time that has a guaranteed return.

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2. October 2007 by Pat.

Copyright © 2003 Priya Shah

Duplication is one of the most important concepts in Network Marketing.

It is the network marketer’s ultimate dream to develop a system that can be replicated by anyone with average intelligence, just by following the exact methods passed on from one generation to another.

But the fact is that we’re all very unique individuals with very different qualities and talents.

So should we really force ourselves and our downline to become clones, all mouthing the same scripts, whether we mean it or not? I don’t think so.

In fact I believe its one of the main reasons that so many people drop out of this business - because the methods used by their upline do not complement their unique personality and character traits.

I truly believe that everyone can be a winner - but not by blindly following in the footsteps of our “mentors.” You will never be successful if you are not comfortable with doing what it takes.

Here are a few tips that might help to overcome this problem.

1. Learn the Basic Skills

We all need to go to school to learn the basic skills necessary to find our rightful place in society.

So if you intend to do business online, you WILL need to acquire a few basic skills in internet marketing - using the software you need, writing ads, designing a simple website, writing articles, publishing a newsletter.

These are the A-B-Cs of marketing that you MUST learn if you want to survive online.

As a network marketer, you will also need to develop a winning attitude and to believe in your own ability to succeed.

But HOW you apply these new-found skills or attitudes may be completely different from the way your mentor or upline applies them. And that’s the way it should be.

2. Celebrate Your Uniqueness

Your personality is a combination of your own life experiences, education and outlook on life. These are things that can never be duplicated from person to person.

Instead of being ashamed of your past lifestyle or failures, share them with your prospects and customers. Get personal and let them know where you’re coming from.

Frank Garon, who makes over $130,000 a year, revels in being known as a ‘former New Jersey truck driver.’ Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter’s revelations on his attempts to lose weight get more reader responses than any other section of his newsletter.

Sharing that bit of their personality helped them create empathy, an image of them in the minds of others, and made thousands of people trust them enough to join their business.

3. Be Yourself

Because marketing is all about building relationships, you should let your personality come through in your communications, so you can build trust and network with like-minded people.

If you force yourself to become a clone of someone else, no matter how successful they are, you will always sound insincere and that will put people off.

People are more likely to do business with someone they know and trust. Or with someone who forges an emotional bond with them.

Be sincere, let them know something about you that they can empathize with and you’re on your way to building a relationship.

So throw away those scripts. Or read the best ones and make them your own. Rewrite them to complement the way you would normally speak or interact with people.

You can always try to duplicate a system, a script, or even success. But the only thing that can ever really be duplicated is “Uniqueness.”

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