Archive for March, 2015
The Importance of Mindset
Posted by: | CommentsThis excerpt is from book DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger, by Author Jim Palmer, Your Dream Business Coach
Mindset does play an important role in your success, so I want to touch on it and the importance of how your beliefs will shape your success.
Without a doubt, your results are the product of your thoughts, and your thoughts drive your action or, in some cases, your inaction.
As my personal mindset coach, Melanie Benson Strick has taught me invaluable lessons about mindset, so I’ll take a moment here to include her thoughts on mindset:
First, let’s define mindset as a combination of the thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes that you hold about your life, your business, and how much success you can create.
If the strategy you’re using isn’t working at the level you want, I’ve found it’s almost always the lack of the right mindset…
Your business becomes your greatest personal growth tool. We learn so much about ourselves and what we’re capable of…
For success, there are two components that have to be in place. There has to an internal mindset that is causing you to be able to take the right actions. We might think of it as the fuel for the machine (our business) we’re creating. Then there has to be an external strategy that’s designed to achieve the level of success we want. What I’ve seen, having coached people for so long, is that if you have one without the other, it’s like trying to walk on one leg. You will wobble.
“I can’t afford that” is the single most limiting thought you can ever have. Rather than making that statement, turn it around and ask, “What do I need to do in order to have it?” By doing that, you are opening up your creativity and the possibilities.
Jim Palmer – Your Dream Business Coach
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DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger, by Jim Palmer: www.DecideForSuccessBook.com
Head Trash Will Hold You Back
Posted by: | CommentsThis excerpt is from book DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger, by Author Jim Palmer, Your Dream Business Coach
Head trash is real, and left unchecked, it can be a real business crippler… or killer. The remedy is the same as if your kitchen trashcan were overflowing with garbage and “smelling up the joint.” The solution? Easy, take out the trash!
Because the problem of Head Trash is pretty pervasive among entrepreneurs, I asked members of my Dream Business Mastermind to take a few minutes and share their stories of Head Trash so you will know that you are not alone in your own struggle.
Brad Szollose, consultant and best-selling author of Liquid Leadership, shared this with me: ‘…This head trash isn’t really conscious, but it becomes a gut feeling. You feel stymied or that you can’t move forward.’
Gary George, Founder and CEO of Blazin Multimedia, shared this with me regarding the head trash he overcame: “My head trash happened when I started my television show. No one wanted to join me, and I had to go at it myself. I felt like I would have more courage if I were working with others. I felt really uneasy that others didn’t share my vision, but I shook that off and moved forward, and the show became a huge success. Then everyone came out of the woodwork to help.’
Everyone has fears but what separates most entrepreneurs from highly successful entrepreneurs is their ability to DECIDE to push through and step out into a space and place that may be uncomfortable… But guess what – all BIG growth happens outside your comfort zone.
Jim Palmer – Your Dream Business Coach
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DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger, by Jim Palmer
www.DecideForSuccessBook.com
Highly Successful Entrepreneurs DECIDE
Posted by: | CommentsThis excerpt is from book DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger, by Author Jim Palmer, Your Dream Business Coach
When a decision needs to be made, you essentially have three options: “yes,” “no,” or “I’ll think about it.” The last option leads directly to Squishyville.
As an entrepreneur, your ability to get more comfortable accepting and managing risk and making faster decisions will help you grow a more profitable business in less time.
Highly successful entrepreneurs have an uncanny ability to see
opportunity, assess a situation, quickly and deliberately consider the pros and cons, and then DECIDE and move on. They make a decision and act – one way or the other, and they build greater momentum moving their businesses forward.
My great friend, Melanie Benson Strick, known as America’s Small Business Optimizer, says, “Far too many entrepreneurs are the impediment to their own success.”
Being indecisive will slow you down. It’s like tying an anchor around your waist, or in terminology that I prefer, it’s like trying to get your boat up on plane while dragging your anchor.
Even if time later proves that you made a wrong decision, you can always take corrective action and keep moving forward. Forward progress is the goal.
Indecision leads to paralysis. Indecision leads right to Squishyville. Remember, success is NOT a straight line. It is perhaps the most crooked line you’ll find!
Jim Palmer – Your Dream Business Coach
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DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger, by Jim Palmer
www.DecideForSuccessBook.com
Why You Need To DECIDE
Posted by: | CommentsWhy You Need to DECIDE
This excerpt is from book DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger, by Author Jim Palmer, Your Dream Business Coach
Deciding and moving forward, and taking corrective action if necessary, is one of the main traits that separate ordinary entrepreneurs from highly successful entrepreneurs. Deciding is the one thing that can trigger success like nothing else.
Confidence comes from success, and success comes from moving forward. And moving forward faster comes from the ability (and confidence) to make fast decisions and implement them.
As you read my blog posts, books, and watch Newsletter Guru TV and listen to Stick Like Glue Radio, you can always count on me to be candid and blunt with my suggestions and recommendations, and you can also count on me to share some straight talk about what it takes to achieve significant success as an entrepreneur… to grow your Dream Business.
I hope you DECIDE to move forward in your business today.
Jim Palmer – Your Dream Business Coach
Get your hands on a copy of
DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger, by Jim Palmer
www.DecideForSuccessBook.com