Quantify your goals

Pie-in-the-sky goals are a waste of your time. Make sure you can quanntify all your goals.

Example: Do not say: "I would like to loose weight". Rather say: "I would like to loose 20 pounds before Dec 31, 2007."

This gives your mind a clear direction and destination. Now you will know how much and by when: The most important equations in actually reaching your goals.

How much and When.

Weekend exercises to success

It's the weekend baby!

Okay, although your weekends are sacred, "your time", but it is also the perfect opportunity to write down goals or review old ones. During the week you should be "Working the Plan", but weekends should used for "navigational" purposes. Take stock of what you did during the past week (Did you move closer or further away from your goal?) and plan for the week to come.

Use 20 minutes of your Saturday or Sunday to do this.

Getting into a habit - First rule in perseverance

Have you ever heard someone say it takes 21 days to get into a new habit or break down an old one? Well, they are right. However, studies show that you are eight times more likely to succeed in creating a new habit if you do the action (habit) for four consecutive days.

Example: If you want to get into the habit of exercising regularly, start by going to the gym for four consecutive days. Don’t skip a day. After the four days, you may skip a day, but persevere for the first four. You are now eight times more likely to create a habit of exercising regularly!

Getting solutions to problems while sleeping!

One of the odities in life is the old adage:

Seek and ye shall find

Try this tonight. Before you go to bed, write down a question to which you are seeking an answer. Phisically write it down in a small notepad and leave it, with the pen on your nightstand. Repeat the question in your brain. Try to come up with the answer. Chances are you won't have it. Now go to bed.

The next day, when you wake up, look at the notepad and start writing down what you think the answer is. Strangely enough, 6 out of 10 times, ou come up with a meaningful answer to your question!

While you were sleeping, your subconsious did not. It kept on working on the answer to your pressing question, giving you the answer when you wake.

Note. The subconsious can only give you good answers if you feed your brain with new info quite often. If you are an accountant, don't expect your brain to come up with the answer to a nuclear Physics question, and visa versa. But if the answer is within your abilities, but you just do not seem to get to it while thinking about it: Use this metod. You might just be pleasantly surprized.

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Success Factor no1

To succeed, you have to burn with a desire to succeed! You have to envy the things you want and with a burning passion in your veins, go for it.

Be specific in what your needs are. Write it down. Read it often.

Chase testimonials and the success will follow.

If you are like me, you love to get compliments, right? Well I got a couple yesterday. I've started my own business recently and the purpose of this blog is to keep a journal of what (if any) aspects make my business successful. That is where copliments come in: It kinda shows you what you are doing right.

FACT! Testimonials are THE best form of marketing message you can use. 95% of us are followers and the other 5% are innovators. People are eight times more likely to use a product/service if they know someone else that had to make the same decision, were eventually satisfied.

For that reason, I use a REAL testimonial in all my ads. Since I've been using it my responses on all my ads have increased dramatically. But to place a different testimonial in my ads every week, I had to start chasing testimonials.

And what did you thank happened? I started treating every client like a person that may supply me with my next testimonial. Service quality improved and I have a whole lot more happy clients. And happy clients tend to tell other people about your product/ service. And it all snowballs on you.

I cannot wipe this huge grin from my face!

Provide value to every person you meet. Study Success. And ask questions.

Happy Testimonial hunting.

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