The Power in a Millionaire’s Mindset

Under30CEO | May 14, 2013 | 1 Comment and 38 Reactions

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“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” Having the right mindset is more important than having the right idea

Underachievement …

Frustration …

Below-average money …

Three things you want to avoid in life & business.

The best way to do that?

Don’t be below average, and do below average things.

To develop the right mindset you must make personal excellence part of your DAILY routine and overall mission in life. That means doing what others refuse to do. To get the reward you must be willing to take the risk. Let’s start this lesson with the basic understanding of developing a millionaire mindset.

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.”

The people who find true success in life are the ones who, instead of spending all night in front of the television, are busy working or improving their skills in some way. Don’t be complacent and just get by.

Focus on your own success first.

Don’t hinder your success by worrying about the political, social, and economic issues the world or those around you face. In life, it’s important you take care of yourself first. Do this before you offer your time or effort to others. You’re not being selfish – you’re being practical. The happier you are and the more peace of mind you have, the better equipped you are to help others. So don’t ignore the most important person in your life.

Recognize that not everyone is open-minded.

Not everyone wants to be successful, not everyone wants to be extraordinary; don’t waste your time, effort, and energy on trying to find support from these individuals. Some people aren’t going to applaud you, be happy for you, or support you that’s just the way it is. Just because they don’t want to change doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to have it all.

Don’t compare yourself to others who are doing better than you.

No matter how successful you become, there will be others “above” you. Don’t waste your time and effort focusing on this sort of thing. It creates jealousy and feelings of inadequacy within you. Focus on yourself.

Turn Mistakes Into Opportunities.

If you make a mistake, the first thing you should do is take ownership. Next, look for the golden opportunity, sometimes hidden, that comes with every mistake. The best companies and individuals turn disasters into sales.

You can achieve anything you believe if you take enough action. There are people who are better than you at certain things, but we all have that area in which we excel. All skills are learnable. You may not be the best, but you can improve. If you want something bad enough and are prepared to work for it, you can make it happen.

Accept that it requires hard work and in the trenches commitment.

It won’t always be 100% enjoyable nothing ever is. “Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.” Hard works opens the door to success, and with it comes the freedom to do what you want when you want.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

No one is perfect, not now nor ever will be. It’s not practice that makes perfect – it’s imperfect practice that eventually makes perfect. It’s only natural when you start something new that you do it poorly at first. You may feel inadequate and inferior. Don’t be embarrassed, though. There’s always a price to be paid for success. The trick is to stick with it until you succeed.

If having a millionaire mindset were easy, everyone would have it and the amount people would be willing to pay for your value would plummet. Remember, you’re developing a skill that gives you the ability to provide for yourself and your family, no matter what the economy is doing, how old you are, or what you’ve done in the past.

Evaluate Yourself and Have Patience. Don’t be discouraged if you’re not currently where you want to be in your life. Focus on taking one step, learning one skill, and making one small improvement at a time.

STOP MAKING EXCUSES!!!!! At some point in our lives we’ve all created “learned helplessness.” Every excuse or justification you make is one step backwards in the pursuit of your goals.

Let your life shine. Someone somewhere needs the value that you have to offer, nothing is more important than you taking time to share your passions.

Don’t put off til’ tomorrow what you can do today.

Melissa Krivachek is President of Briella Arion is deeply & passionately committed to the growth & effectiveness of young leaders, teams, and organizations. Melissa is a High Caliber Leadership, Sales, and Personal Growth Expert, Author, Speaker, Coach, and Life Enthusiast! To IGNITE your Purpose, Presence, Passion, & Profit visit http://www.contagiousconfidenceconference.com.

Listening: An Essential CEO Skill

Under30CEO | May 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment and 0 Reactions

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As an entrepreneur or CEO, the success of your organization relies upon your interaction with the people around you. You will need to build strong relationships with investors, employees, suppliers, customers and advisors if you want to survive. One of the most important talents required to establish these connections is the delicate art of listening.

I adapt many of the following strategies from the writings of the world’s greatest salesman, Joe Girard. He is a legend in his field so he certainly knows a thing or two about dealing with people. If you follow these steps, you should see a noticeable improvement in your ability to understand and captivate others.

1.)  Keep your mouth closed

Step number one is common sense yet remarkably difficult at times. When you listen intently, remember that the floor is no longer yours. If ever in doubt, shut your mouth and open your ears—let the other person do the talking. “Silence is golden.”

2.)  Be as observant as possible

Good listening is more than simply hearing what the speaker has to say. For example, note small details like the condition of the other person’s hand during your initial handshake, the smell of their perfume, the clothes they are wearing and their mannerisms during conversation. You should never jump to conclusions; but you can, however, begin to piece your observations into a much clearer picture of the person you are listening to.

3.)  Maintain eye contact

Every good CEO should master this step because eye contact is an absolutely critical skill for any leader. You need to show the other person that you are 100% tuned in to what they have to say. Never break your eye contact.

4.)  Use mindful body language

The way that you position yourself during a conversation will tell how well you are actually listening. Keep a good posture and constantly check your body language to show your interest in the discussion. Don’t slouch in your chair; instead, move closer to the edge of your seat as an outward sign of your attentiveness.

5.)  Become a mirror

Mirror the speaker’s gestures whenever the timing seems right. If they laugh, you should laugh. If they nod, you should nod. This non-verbal communication builds rapport and shows the speaker that you understand where they are coming from.

6.)  Don’t interrupt

Plain and simple: nobody wants to be interrupted by a listener. No matter how much you disagree with what you hear, give the other person time to communicate his or her ideas before voicing your own opinions.

7.)  Avoid distractions and concentrate

If you feel that phone vibrate, don’t even think about reaching for it. The same goes for other noise and visual distractions. I know this can be very difficult, but try your best to stay focused even during unusual interruptions. The easiest way to lose someone’s trust is to noticeably forfeit your complete and undivided attention to the story.

8.)  Listen “between the lines”

There is usually much more you can deduce from a conversation than just the words on the surface. You can identify a person’s true needs by listening to the message behind the story. You’ll have to identify emotions and make many inferences to do this.

When the listening is done, you sometimes receive a perfect opportunity to take action. Find some way to prove that you understand your speaker by showing them that you actually care.

If you’re interested in learning many other great people skills, check out Girard’s best sellers: How to Sell Anything to Anybody, 13 Essential Rules of Selling and Mastering Your Way to the Top.

Mike Darche is a 21-year-old student at the University of Notre Dame whose mission to inspire other like-minded young entrepreneurs.

15 success principles

You can’t assure success, but you can increase the chances of it happening. After all, opportunity favors the prepared. With the following 15 success principles, you can dramatically increase the chances of success in your life.

Success Principles

1 – Prepare

The first success principle is preparation. It’s the foundation of success. With preparation you create your own opportunities. Once you have all the different elements lined up, it only takes a small opening to realize your goal. At the same time, taking advantage of big opportunities without enough preparation means risking your success, as you’re building without a well-laid foundation.

2 – Do something you love

You have to work very hard whatever it is you choose to do. Your work or your project will dominate much of your time and your life. Therefore, find something that you enjoy doing and do that.

3 – Get started

You have to start somewhere. Today is as good a day as any to start. Get into action today and start moving in the direction you want. Putting it off can only lead to failure, whereas if you start and see an early setback, at least you conquered that setback early on.

4 – Move in the right direction

Keep everything moving in the direction you want. It doesn’t matter if things go slowly initially. As long as the overall direction is favorable, you’ll get where you want to go eventually.

5 – Use the power of dreams and your imagination

What you dream and visualize today will become true tomorrow. You just have to work on turning it into reality. Just as your dreams can only influence your life if you let them, the cities you build in your imagination can only become real if you build them.

6 – Think big

If you set your aim a bit too high you might fall short. If you set your aim too low you might achieve your goal… and miss out on the other opportunities. By thinking bigger, the only limit is what is possible. You’re no longer limited by what you think is possible.

7 – Focus on growth

Seemingly impossible challenges are just cleverly disguised opportunities for growth. If you take those challenges and, in solving them, improve yourself, you’ll find yourself continually moving in the right direction.

8 – Maintain your determination

With enough determination, you can succeed through almost any odds. Enough determination means you’ll find a way no matter the situation.

9 – Set a clear vision

Think through where you’ll want to go. Develop a clear sense of what your final goal is, and keep this with you. By knowing the destination you want to reach, you can continually look at your current path and decide if it’s a route that will help you get where you want to go.

10 – Set goals along the way

A final goal isn’t enough. You need intermediate goals that set the path. These goals should be specific, measurable, realistic, attainable, and timely. These intermediate goals define the steps that you need to take to get to the final one.

11 - Work out plans of action for your work

For each goal, it helps to have plans to reach them. Your plan describes how you can reach each step from where you are, or where you will be. Keep in mind that the future is never certain. Things rarely work out exactly how you plan. Therefore, see these plans as showing one or more possible routes, not necessarily the route you’ll end up taking.

Still, knowing the plan means you can avoid long detours that might compromise your chances of reaching a goal on time — or at all.

12 - Commit to taking action

Once you start going, keep going. Never, never, never give up. If you find an obstacle in your way, chip away at it or go around it. The only way to really fail is to give up. If you keep going you’ll succeed. If you hit the limits of what’s possible, you can regroup and find another way.

13 - Use affirmations

Affirmations are just short, positive, and above all direct phrases in present tense. Things like “I’m getting more and more successful.” The idea is that they reinforce a positive world view. With affirmations, you are defining your own reality. By transmitting a positive world view to your mind, it adopts this view. As your mind adopts this view, it helps shape the world around you to fit it, which means it helps make the world around you one that reflects a reality of you getting more successful every day.

14 - Get rid of negative influences

Avoid harmful influences around you that might shake you from your goal. Keep people and ideas around you that support your success and your belief in yourself.

15 - Be grateful and appreciate what you have

The final success principle is to appreciate what you have already. Realize that — by sheer virtue of the fact that you can be reasonably certain you’ll live from one day to the next — you already have enough. Enjoy it! Appreciate what you’ve achieved so far, and see that what you want, where you’re going, is not what you need or what you must do. Rather, these are things and actions that will make your situation even better.

Article By James Meyer | Addicted2Success.com

Three Simple Steps to Reinventing Your Career

Fans of Three Simple Steps tell me that one of the main benefits for them has been gaining the confidence to reinvent themselves. Prior to reading the book they thought of themselves as too young, or too old, insufficiently qualified, inexperienced, unfit, and/or lacking support whether financial or emotional, to stop what they do for a living and follow their passion. All of those excuses seem legitimate when we make decisions for our lives based on the opinions of the people, media and environment around us. I can tell you from experience, however, that reinvention is a simple thing to achieve, far from easy and it takes courage, but simple nonetheless.

I grew up happy but poor in a family held together by the power of a mother’s tenacity and a monthly check from the welfare service. At the tender age of seventeen, however, I won a rare place at naval officer training college, an award normally reserved for the sons of society’s elite. Within three years I found myself being fast-tracked in the fleet, and my friends and family back home were proud. I had a twenty-five year commission to look forward to. At no point in the three years, however, did I ever feel that my chosen career matched who I was. I felt like a fraud deep down in the pit of my stomach, a feeling that people who dislike their current jobs often describe as like gravity tugging at their insides. So, I decided to reinvent myself. It was simple decision, but a terrifically difficult thing to do. The cascade of criticism that followed was loud and fierce.

It was tough to deal with that feeling of having let everyone down, but inside I felt light as a feather for the first time. I reinvented myself using the Three Simple Steps into a hospital radiographer. For several years I felt in the right place at the right time, but eventually began to feel that I could do and be so much more. After six years I reinvented myself again, this time in the biotechnology field. For the next fifteen years I had a fun, fulfilling, and lucrative career. Then as I nudged up against the top of the staff pyramid, I began to feel confined again.

My fourth reinvention was to start my own, and unique, company. It was such a fulfilling experience, I repeated it. After the sale of my second company within eight years, I reinvented myself for a fifth time and you are reading the results. I am a writer with a New York Times bestseller on the shelves, another book in the process, a screenplay in editing, and lots of other projects waiting for me to get to them. I may be a writer for a few years. Certainly time disappears when I write and that is a good indication of being in the right place, doing the thing that is right for me. I know, however, that at some point in the future, I’ll want to reinvent myself again. When I do I will follow the three steps outlined below.

Step one requires that you develop thick skin.

I have never met a self-made person who got that way by making decisions based on the opinions of other people about him or her. Psychology says there are three ways of viewing . . . the way we see ourselves, the way we think others see us, and the way others actually see us. Most people are so desperate to be loved and approved of that they focus their energy trying to achieve the send view . . . how they think others see them. Instead the only view that matters is how we see ourselves. You cannot reinvent your career if you care more about what others will think than what matters to you. Think of it this way . . . The true measure of freedom is to be independent of the good opinion of others. To get that thick skin requires work and in Three Simple Steps there are lots of techniques to help you.

Step two is to actually decide what it is you want to do.

Sounds simple but I rarely meet anyone who can answer this question:

“If anything were possible, and there were no impediments to a guaranteed success, and all you had to do was decide for yourself what you really, deep down, want to do, what would it be?”

Most people can’t answer that or are afraid of the answer. In all likelihood it would not be a slightly better job, more money, or a promotion. In all likelihood it would be something entirely different. You do, however, have to answer the question, and the best way to do it is to take yourself to your favorite natural place, perhaps beach or a park, find a quiet spot where you can be alone. Lie back and recall what it felt like to be a kid dreaming about what you wanted to be when you grew up. Remember that excitement. Try to recapture that feeling because in doing so you fire up a neural pathway in your 100 billion neurons that can help you find your true passion. Then think about the big questions and don’t filter what comes to mind. Your sub conscious knows what you should be doing.

Step three involves taking action.

Most people have great ideas or passionate tugs in their stomach from time to time, but they rarely take any action, and soon the power of that fades away. It is imperative to take action when you complete step two. I am not saying you should pack in your day job and take a one-way ticket to Tibet . . . although if that is what you want to do, go ahead. I’m saying take some small action that puts you in the direction of you reinvention. For instance, when I was enjoying a good career but feeling I wanted to be my own boss, I was short of ideas of what sort of company I good start. One day an idea came to mind. I took action by immediately going online and incorporating the idea. I called the company TGB International LLC. It costs me $100 to do the online paperwork. What was the point? Well, a few days later the corporate paperwork arrived in the mail. There in big letters was my company name and my title as its CEO. I placed the papers on my desk and that was the first thing I saw every morning and last thing at night.

Seeing that paper every day forced my mind to focus and imagine. I started playing around with ideas, doodling so to speak. Within eighteen months it was a real company, and I changed the name to Quality of Life LLC to better suit its mission. So, when you get your great reinvention idea, take some sort of action that causes your mind to think about it every day. That might mean visiting companies in another field, attending night classes to improve knowledge and understanding, or doing preceptorships (shadowing someone for a day in the career or role of your dreams).

© 2013 Trevor Blake, author of Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life

Trevor Blake, author of Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life, was founder and CEO of QOL Medial LLC, a specialty pharmaceutical company he started in 2002 with a few thousand dollars and sold in 2010 for over 100 million. In 2006 he founded ANU, a unique not-for-profit dedicated to developing low side-effect cancer drugs.  Prior to this, Blake was VP Commercial Development at Ceptyr and Director Commercial Development at Orphan Medical. He has worked in the UK, Europe, and the USA with companies such as Biogen, 3M, and Lipha, and has won many industry awards, including marketing professional of the year.  For more information please visit http://www.trevorgblake.com, and follow the author on Facebook and Twitter.

101 Bisnis Online Paling Laris

Cara-cara mudah memulai dan menjalankan bisnis online dari rumah

Bisnis online adalah bisnis yang fleksibel. Risikonya relatif kecil, waktunya mudah diatur karena dapat dikontrol dari rumah, dan transaksi keuangan bisa dilakukan melalui internet banking. Selain itu, modal yang diperlukan relatif kecil, tapi jangkauannya hingga seluruh Nusantara, bahkan ke luar negeri. Banyak yang menjadikan bisnis ini sebagai usaha tambahan, bahkan ada yang menjadikannya bisnis utama.

Banyaknya pilihan bisnis online ini sering membuat para pemula bingung menentukan jenis bisnis yang akan ditekuni. Lalu, bagaimana memulai dan memasarkannya, serta berapa keuntungan yang akan diperoleh?

Buku ini mengupas 101 pilihan bisnis online yang paling laris dan disukai, mulai dari bisnis jasa, kerajinan tangan, kuliner, fashion, hingga “toko” online. Pembahasannya yang mudah dan sederhana bisa membuat semua keraguan pupus, dan Anda pun siap berbisnis. Setiap bisnis juga disertai dengan uraian dan analisis keuangan yang detail. Pilihlah bisnis yang sesuai dengan diri Anda, dan raihlah sukses bersama bisnis online!

Why Are You at Your Desk on a Sunday?

So Why Are You at Your Desk on a Sunday?

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This interview with Daniel T. Hendrix, president and C.E.O. ofInterface Inc., a designer and maker of carpet tile, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.

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Daniel T. Hendrix is president and C.E.O. of Interface Inc., a designer and maker of carpet tile based in Atlanta.

 Q. What were some early leadership roles for you?

A. I would say that my first real leadership role was with sports in high school. I was the quarterback on the football team, I played basketball and I pitched on the baseball team. I would say that one of the better foundations to be a leader is to play organized sports.

Q. And in your college years?

A. When I went to college, I was a phys ed major. My father kept saying: “You’re not going to make any money. Why are you majoring in phys ed?” So I changed to accounting in my last quarter, and it took me about two years to get an accounting degree.

I got my first real job when I went into public accounting with a major accounting firm. That’s when I met Ray Anderson, the founder of Interface. In fact, the company was my first client, and it was still a very small company. I joined it at the age of 27. Within a year and a half, I was the C.F.O., and Ray would dump as much responsibility on me as he could. I think I was running customer service, planning, human resources, I.T., financial accounting, treasury, and I didn’t have a clue what I was doing.

That’s when I learned a lot about business. I was in way over my head, but I thought I had to be the smartest guy in the room. I was dealing with a lot of bankers because we did a lot of public deals and were trying to finance acquisitions and so forth. I thought I could outwork anybody. I was working 24/7 and really had two jobs: C.F.O. during the day, then an investment banker at night, in effect, doing acquisitions and deals. Delegation wasn’t really part of the equation because I was afraid that if I gave it to somebody, they would fail and then I would fail.

The company brought in a president above me who was really charismatic and dynamic. One day he was in the office on a Sunday and he said: “Every time I’m in here on Sunday, you’re in here working. I’m not impressed by somebody who can’t get their job done in five days. I’m really not. It’s about balance.” And I had two young kids. He said, “Go out and hire some people and have a life.”

So I started hiring people, developing people, building a team, and I learned that you have to delegate, have to have accountability and have to make sure that people have the tools to do the job. Then you check in — you ask what’s going on.

Q. Obviously that Sunday conversation had a big impression on you.

A. Big impression. His message really resonated: you’re going to burn out if you keep doing this.

Q. What is your company doing in terms of innovation?

A. You have to keep reinventing yourself in this world. Everybody is a fast follower and so you’ve got to find a way to create an innovation environment. It’s all around collaboration. It’s all around engaging the shop floor all the way up to the top. You have to fund, fuel, encourage collaboration and engagement to get innovation, and you’ve got to go inside and outside to do that.

Q. So how do you do that?

A. We developed something called the Innovation Farm. It’s a platform where everybody can participate within the organization, and you can also go outside with it. So you pose questions: How would you solve this problem? And everybody gets engaged in how you might solve it. Or you just ask an open question: What do we need from an innovation standpoint? Then people vote, and the best ideas surface over time as people vote and start tweeting and talking about that idea. It got our people engaged in this whole open-architecture structure.

And we really tried to get out of the box. We didn’t want a closed architecture, because I think we had one to some extent. We wanted to create an open-architecture structure for anybody in the company, and even outside. So we’re going to post questions on the Web. “How would you solve this problem?” Then, if you get something that’s really interesting, you close off the conversation and discuss it further in a smaller forum.

Q. Let’s shift to hiring. What are you looking for?

A. The thing I want to know is whether they are a cultural fit. To do that, we’ve got to talk about their personal experiences, their family. I’m always trying to figure out how much balance they have. What are their real career aspirations? Are they smarter than me? That’s a big thing. I like to hire people who are smarter than me, and I like diversity. I like somebody who can think differently.

And do they get the idea of servant leadership? I think the biggest misfits for us are people who won’t put the company and the vision ahead of their career. If they’re not of that mind-set, they won’t fit with us. One of the things I look for is hard to find, but when you find this person, they’re gold — it’s a person who can see in three dimensions.

Q. Can you elaborate on what that means?

A. When you ask them a question or give them a project, they come back and give you a lot more than what you asked them for. They give you a lot more questions to the question that you asked them, and they see something that’s a lot different in the third dimension.

Then there are the people who are just sort of linear, and you ask them to solve a problem and they give you the obvious answer and say, “Here’s the answer to the problem.”

But I look for that person who thinks on a different level. As I said, it’s hard to get at that in an interview — I haven’t figured out a way to do that reliably yet — but when you find that person, and I’ve found a few in my career, they are gold. They are the people whom you really want to keep and build your company around. They see implications, they see around corners, they see other possibilities. They’ll come up with a different way to think about the problem, a different solution to the problem.

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