1.) Do a little something for your corporation everyday. Some activity to move yourself forward. Success in a home business is not a sprint, it’s a marathon, so make sure you are active everyday, unless you are taking the day off. Which you have the flexibility to do all the time! Shoot off an email, phone a prospect, listen to a webinar or training call, focus on some personal development, or investigate new advertising methods.
2.) Find another person who has had success and follow them. Duplicate what they’ve done for success. Don’t reinvent the wheel, just go behind the leader.
3.) Build relationships with your business contacts. Get to know them, their families, their jobs or careers if they are part-time in your corporation, and what their values are.
4.) Turn your small business off. I used to be in a business where I was always “on”. I was constantly making contacts, thinking about the business, and talking about the business. Date night with my wife was business talk only…I was obsessed. GET REAL! Lifetime success means there is a sense of balance. Turn your business off and enjoy your family, friends, and hobbies like a normal person you freak!
5.) Get involved with self help. You are seldom standing still in the same spot, you are either developing and getting stronger in body, mind, spirit, or you are dying. So dedicate a little portion of everyday to reading something educational and positive, saying positive affirmations, reading your goals, mediating to limit stress, and focusing on a higher power. If you are not growing, your corporation almost certainlyis not either.
6.) Get involved in your society. Coach your kids sports teams, volunteer at school, and donate some time at church. Develop new relationships here that are not business related. Over the long term, these people will find out what you do, and some will sign up you and some will become fantastic referral sources for you down the road.
7.) Keep in communication with your organization with holiday Cards, birthday cards, and distinctive, personal notes from every few weeks or months. People love to feel appreciated, and spending 30 minutes per week contacting people will show them that you are thoughtful, not just that you are all business out to make your bank account larger.
8.) Go the extra mile. If anything needs done, do it and do it right. No short-cuts. Hard work is vital for success. Get up early, stay up late, whatever you have to do, make it happen. The biggest reason people do not succeed in life is that they don’t work hard enough. Then when your work is done, PLAY HARD.
9.) Set goals. They need to be S.M.A.R.T. Goals. This means S- Specific. Studies have been shown that a graduating class at Harvard were asked to set specific goals upon graduation. Only 3% set specific goals. 30 years later, those 3% had more net worth and accomplished more than the other 97% combined. M- Measurable. How will you be able to tell if you accomplished it or not? A- Achievable. Set big goals, but not ridiculous, pie in the sky goals. If you’ve made $60,000 per year over the past 10 years, don’t join a business and think that you’ll be a millionaire in the next couple years. R- Relevant. Can the goals you have set be met by what you do? T-Timeframe. Make sure each goal has a date of attainment attached to it. Work as hard as you can to make the goal happen, and if for some reason you don’t hit it, reset your goal, make some adjustments and go after it again.
10.) Be-Do-Have. most people think once I have something then I’ll be able to do things and be different. NO! Be different up front. Be the leader you want others to be. Think success. Be the person who gets results. Do the things that it takes to get these results – the action. Then have the thinks that this leader has.
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