Setting goals and intentions in your life is the single most important task in the entire process of creating the life you always dreamed about.

Can you imagine that almost 95% of all people simply don't do this? And the rest of the 5% do it, but only 10% of this small number ever reach their goals. That's why so many people struggle and businesses fail.

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The conscious mind is almost a dim-witted cousin of the subconscious mind.

You might have the strongest desire to attain something, but as long as your subconscious holds a particular belief that is not aligned with that desire, nothing will ever happen to manifest the desire. ??

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"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
- Ayn Rand

I seem to use wry humour, or is it sarcasm? a lot. Hence the title of this blog post.

I think it comes of a natural inclination to want to make people, and especially myself challenge the way they think. To look at things differently.

When we think of change, whether we welcome it or not, I think everyone understands that it will involve some degree of stepping outside their comfort zones. That may be an exciting, adrenalin-producing event. or it might be a huge challenge, weighty and difficult.

One reason may be that in changing, in aiming for a different way of doing things, or different outcomes, we need to take on different ways of thinking, of subconsciously doing.

If I am right-brained, creative and impulsive, then I suspect dieting may be incredibly difficult. That especially applies if the success of dieting involves deliberate goal setting and carefully designed and executed programs and discipline.

If I am shy, introverted and lacking in social skills then networking for my business may be a weighty challenge.

So change may involve deliberately trying to change those thinking/doing patterns and skills. Maintaining a rigid discipline over my eating habits, or developing people skills. Does that sound like stepping out of a comfort zone?

It sure does - to me anyway.

But to bring in the excitement and motivation, maybe the goal needs to be the focus rather than the change ...

Let go of those doubts.

Alexandra Levit writes:

Self doubt has been something I’ve struggled with all my life, from debating whether I could get into a top tier university to believing I could succeed as a writer. It’s a very human emotion, and it’s made worse for some people because of life experiences or temperament. Self doubt also makes you feel alone. Sometimes you think you’re the only person in the universe who suffers from a crisis of confidence, and you wish that you could be more like your successful, self-assured neighbor. Well, I guarantee that your neighbor doubts himself every now and then too.
You won’t ever be able to rid yourself of doubt entirely – believe me, I’ve tried. But I hope that these suggestions will lessen your pain when dark thoughts are all around you.

And you can read the suggestions in the Pivotal Magazine.

The Piper's Son


Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta's brilliant, heart-wrenching new novel takes up the story of the group of friends from her best-selling, much-loved book Saving Francesca - only this time it's five years later and Thomas Mackee is the one who needs saving.

Watch a video of the author Melina Marchetta

Read an extract

Buy the book

 

If you haven't already--as a public speaker, you should dedicate yourself to a lifetime study of adult learning principles. It will pay you colossal dividends.

And there's a lifetime of "adult learning stuff" to learn. Today we'll look at one such principle; Elaborative Rehearsal.

It's more than practice. It's a proactive approach of making the most out of past learning in order to maximize new learning.

For your audiences to make the most out of this proven learning and memory technique, you will have to teach them. Most adult learners just aren't aware of these methods. Here are five tips you can pass along to all of your audiences.

1. Proper Note Taking. For a learner's notes to enhance one's memory, it is important that a learner is able to record the speaker's ideas in their own words. And, as a presenter you need to tell them so.

2. Paraphrasing. This is like the above note taking, except that care is given to the actual words the note-taker uses. Ideally, the words the learner replaces the speaker's with has equal or added meaning to the learner.

3. Predicting. It will help a listener to project a speakers message into the future. This "projection" allows a person to simulate the material they are learning in the theater of their mind.

4. Questioning. A good Q and A will help your audience learn your principles better. Challenge your audience to come up with creative and meaningful questions, and then dig into them together.

5. Summarizing. There much talked about the concept but it is seldom used in most learning environments. Plan a specific, "Now what did we learn here today?"

There's a lot more to the idea of Elaborative Rehearsal than these five tips, and we'll discuss them in future articles.
The "take-away" today is the need for the public speaker to "train" their audiences how to use elaborative rehearsal to their greatest learning benefit.

One thing that will help your audiences to be able to "practice" your message is a strong visual representation of your message. The presentation world calls these graphics by many things, Process Models, Method Maps, Matrix's, and Hierarchy Models, etc.

Wayne Kronz

Wayne Kronz is the host of http://MethodMap.blogspot.com. Visit it today for the best free, online information about the design and use of visual aids in public speaking. You'll discover many actual models you can use in your next presentation plus a host of videos showing you how the top pros are using visual aids in their public speaking. And a lot more!  Photo by The Climate Reality Project on Unsplash

"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."
-- Diane Ackerman

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

-- Goethe

Over the years, I've had the honour of working with 1000's of business owners - new and established - on many issues. The outcome has been the creation of a process that helps them ALL get their businesses rejuvenated. Yes, it doesn't matter if they are currently an $18 million dollar business or a start-up! When you don't have a business plan you've looked at recently or a marketing plan you use daily, the rest of the problems are very similar - only the dollar amount changes!

I've created the list below to walk you through the process I've been using with my clients for about a year now. It works. In fact, it works so well, to help them increase income and help them focus, that I decided to create the You-Can't-Lose Guarantee!

You know the funny thing here? When I first completed the steps below I remembered my time in Corporate America and realized that if business owners (including myself) acted just a little more like corporations - you know the busy-ness part of a business - from the start, they'd be more profitable out of the gate. I know that because when I work with newer business owners that is exactly what happens. And I know it's true for more established business owners because most often they're missing some of the major components and there success has been blocked.


There is no cookie-cutter process here. It's important to determine what pieces are missing or in need of updating and then bring those parts into the business.

So, if it's time for you to take your business to heights that even you didn't imagine possible, start at the top of this list and locate what's missing from your business.

Leverage your time for maximum success

  • Create a vision and mission for your business.
  • Identify your client from hell.
  • Develop a niche and ideal client profile.
  • Prioritize the most important business objectives and strategies.
  • Learn how to create a propelling action plan that helps you complete your to-do list.

Develop a positive money mentality

  • Learn to fully trust yourself with your finances.
  • Be able to talk about money more easily.
  • Create a pricing strategy and package of services.
  • Set your hourly, monthly and value rates.
  • Confidently tell others what your fees are.
  • Discover how to easily raise your rates.
  • Raise your standards with your self.
  • Set boundaries with others - including clients.

Design systems to monitor your success

  • Create compelling ways to articulate what you do.
  • Build a follow-up system for efficient networking.
  • Design referral and affiliate systems.
  • Help develop your Ideal Client Profile.
  • Become comfortable networking
  • Learn how to "market with integrity" using a marketing funnel.
  • Create multiple streams of small business income.
  • Develop a hiring/firing process.
  • Design important business processes.
  • Build support systems that will help take you through any situation.

Leverage Your Success With Follow-up

  • Balance to assure all of the critical areas in the company have been covered.
  • Track your company's performance.
  • Execute the activities you've stated in your plans.
  • Align to ensure that everything is working together.
  • Resolve issues right away that are impeding your success.

 

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