The Ten Keys to Business Success
Posted by Brian Tracy on Nov 3, 2009
There are ten critical areas where your ability to think largely determines the success or failure of your business. The greater clarity you have in each of these areas, the better decisions you will make and better results you will achieve. Read the rest of this entry »
Living Without Limits
Posted by Brian Tracy on Oct 7, 2009
The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do. Read the rest of this entry »
Factors of Risk in Selling
Posted by Brian Tracy on Jul 28, 2009
The Critical Factor: Risk
The critical factor in selling today is risk. Because of the continuous change, rapid obsolescence, and an uncertain economy, the risk of buying the wrong product or service has become greater than ever before.
One of our powerful needs is for security, and any buying decision that represents uncertainty triggers the feeling of risk that threatens that security.
There are four main factors that contribute to the perception of risk in the mind and hear of the customer. Read the rest of this entry »
3 Laws of Business Success
Posted by Brian Tracy on Jun 17, 2009
There are certain laws of the universe that are working whether you know about them or not. They may even determine some of your success in business and life. Below are just 3 of the business laws to consider for success…
Law #1: The Law of Purpose
The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer.
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4 Ways to Change Your Life and Your Business
Posted by Brian Tracy on Jun 12, 2009
You have heard the old saying, “The more you do of what you are doing, the more you will get of what you’ve got.”
Your goal should be to make the current year the most productive and highest paid year so far, until the next year comes along. To achieve this goal, you are going to have to do something different from what you are doing today.
There are only four ways that you can change your life and your business. Here they are:
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The Butterfly Effect
Posted by Brian Tracy on Jun 4, 2009
It has been said that, “A Butterfly flapping its wings in Peru can start a change in the weather that leads to a typhoon in China.”
The application of this idea is that a casual meeting with a new acquaintance at can have major long-term effects on your sales and your life.
At every turn in the road of your life, there will be a person standing there helping you or hurting you, guiding you or blocking you, giving you good or bad direction.
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7 Steps to Successful Goal Setting
Posted by Brian Tracy on Jun 1, 2009
Your ability to set goals and make plans for their accomplishment is the “master skill” of success. The development of this ability and your making it a lifelong habit will do more to assure high success and achievement in your life than any other skill you can possibly learn.
As with anything, you only own the process of goal setting by learning it and then by applying it over and over for yourself until it becomes automatic, like breathing in and breathing out. Your goal must be to become a continuous goal setter. You must become so clear and focused about what it is you want that every single hour of every day you find yourself doing things that are moving you in the direction of your own choosing.
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You asked…I answered
Posted by Brian Tracy on Apr 20, 2009
I recently asked you, “What is the single biggest question that you want to ask Brian Tracy?”… here are the first 5 top questions asked… also, stay tuned til next time when I will answer 5 more.
Question: How do you stay motivated and succeed in our economic state and in the face of adversity?
When the Going Gets Tough
Posted by Brian Tracy on Jan 19, 2009
“These are the times that try men’s souls.”?
So wrote Charles Dickens in the first sentence of his book “Bleak House” more than 100 years ago.
From the boom times of the mid-70’s we are entering into one of the most challenging economic periods of all of our lives. Our economy and our businesses are experiencing financial reversals that have not been seen since 1937. And if the economists are correct, this situation will continue well into 2009 and maybe into 2010.
But, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. As Napoleon Hill said, “Within every problem or setback lies the seed of an equal or greater opportunity or benefit.”
Our job is to look into every problem or difficulty for the valuable lesson that we can learn and turn to our advantage. It is to look for something good that will help us to be better and stronger in the future. And the good news is that, if you look for something good, or a valuable lesson, you will always find it.
Over the years, it has been said over and over again, “Learners are leaders.” It has been said “Leaders are readers.” The latest research shows that those people that start at the bottom and eventually get to the top engage in what is called “deliberate practice.” They never stop learning and growing in their fields. They deliberately select the subjects that they need to master in order to use all of their other skills and abilities at a higher level.
In the past, during periods of affluence, the majority of the population has become soft, like an athlete that has been out of competition for a long time. The average person today is preoccupied with what Dennis Waitley calls activities that are “tension relieving” rather than activities that are “goal achieving.”
Continuous learning was considered by many to be optional, an activity engaged in by some of those “positive thinkers” that seem to be earning so much more money and moving ahead so much faster than the average person.
Today however, continuous learning is the minimum requirement for survival and success in your field. If you are not getting better, you are getting worse. If you are not constantly improving and upgrading your skills, you are falling behind, like a runner in a race. And there is no time to lose.
Malcolm Forbes once wrote a story about how many factories found that the byproducts of the manufacturing process turned out to be more valuable than the actual products produced in the factory itself. For example, for many years in Germany, Bayer, a major chemical company, stacked up piles of acetylsalicylic acid next to the factory, this was a byproduct of the chemical manufacturing process.
Over time, the executives of the factory noticed that the workers would scoop up a bit of this acetylsalicylic acid powder and consume it with water when they came in on Mondays with hangovers from the weekend. They found that it had remarkable pain-killing properties. This led to the discovery of Aspirin, and to Bayer Aspirin, which became a billion dollar industry world wide.
The byproducts of your daily life are spare time. Each week, you start off with 168 hours. Of that time 40 hours is devoted to work and another 56 hours to sleep. This leaves you 62 hours per week to do with as you please.
The great discovery is that if you invest two hours per day, fourteen hours per week, back into yourself, you will soon become one of the most competent, capable and highest paid people in your field. The byproduct of your daily life are those extra hours that you have leftover to invest in yourself.
The 80/20 rule seems to apply, based on current research. What it says is that the average income of people in the bottom 80% in our society increases at approximately 3% a year, keeping pace with inflation. This means that people in the bottom 80% very seldom make any progress. They have a “JOB” which stands for “Just Over Broke.”
But people in the top 20%, those who are continually upgrading their skills, increase their income at an average of 11% per year. This means that their income doubles every 5-7 years, and then doubles again repeatedly throughout their lives. As a result, people in the top 20%, the life-long learners, are increasingly earning more money, driving nicer cars, living in nicer homes and providing nicer lives for their families. Which group do you belong to?
After 25 years of working in the field of personal development, and taking my own self from rags to riches, I discovered www.ilearningglobal.tv. I have since put my whole heart into producing programs for iLearningGlobal and encouraging dozens of others of the top speakers, trainers, authors and experts in the world to produce programs for iLearningGlobal.
When you become a member of iLearningGlobal, you have the best learning resources in the world at your fingertips 24/7. There are more than two million dollars worth of courses on iLearningGlobal today, and the number is increasing each week. You can learn how to sell, build a profitable business, negotiate, make more money from the internet, buy and sell real estate, invest effectively, manage and lead, manage your time effectively, and dozens of other essential subjects that you need to learn for you to earn the maximum amount of money that is possible for you.
Remember, your most valuable financial asset is your “earning ability.” This is your ability to earn money. You can have a low earning ability or a high earning ability. And this is totally up to you. It is a matter of your own personal decision. Your earning ability is not fixed. It is flexible, and you can make it grow, by acquiring new knowledge and developing new skills.
All business skills are learnable. All sales skills are learnable. All money making skills are learnable. All life skills and all health skills are learnable. Everything that you want to know, you can learn if you reach out for it.
Read everything you can on the subjects that can help you to improve the quality of your life and work. Listen to audio programs in your car and on your iPod. But especially, visit www.ilearningglobal.tv today and take a look at how this website can help you move to the top of your field.
These are challenging times, but they are also full of opportunity. Your job is to develop the skills and abilities necessary to take advantage of the opportunities around you and to move ahead of your competition in the months and years ahead. Take action today!
Brian Tracy
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Using Stumbling Blocks as Stepping Stones
Posted by Brian Tracy on Nov 24, 2008
Everyone makes mistakes and the busier you are, the more mistakes you will make.
The only question is "How well and how effectively do you deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life?"
In this newsletter, you learn the difference between a positive and negative worldview. You learn how to benefit from your mistakes and how to remain positive in the face of adversity.
Let the Light Shine In
This is achieved through the simple exercise of self-disclosure. For you to truly understand yourself, or to stop being troubled by things that may have happened in your past, you must be able to disclose yourself to at least one person. You have to be able to get those things off your chest. You must rid yourself of those thoughts and feelings by revealing them to someone who won’t make you feel guilty or ashamed for what has happened.
Using Stumbling Blocks as Stepping Stones
There are two ways to look at the world: the benevolent way or the malevolent way. People with a malevolent or negative worldview take a victim stance, seeing life as a continuous succession of problems and a process of unfairness and oppression. They don’t expect a lot and they don’t get much. When things go wrong, they shrug their shoulders and passively accept that this is the way life is and there isn’t anything they can do to make it better.
On the other hand, people with a benevolent or positive worldview see the world around them as filled with opportunities and possibilities. They believe that everything happens as part of a great process designed to make them successful and happy. They approach their lives, their work, and their relationships with optimism, cheerfulness, and a general attitude of positive expectations. They expect a lot and they are seldom disappointed.
Flex Your Mental Muscles
When you develop the skill of learning from your mistakes, you become the kind of person who welcomes obstacles and setbacks as opportunities to flex your mental muscles and move ahead. You look at problems as rungs on the ladder of success that you grab onto as you pull your way higher.
Two of the most common ways to deal with mistakes are invariably fatal to high achievement. The first common but misguided way to handle a mistake is the failure to accept it when it occurs. According to statistics, 70 percent of all decisions we make will be wrong. That’s an average. This means that some people will fail more than 70 percent of the time, and some people will fail less. It is hard to believe that most of the decisions we make could turn out to be wrong in some way. In fact, if this is the case, how can our society continue to function at all?
Cut Your Losses
The fact is that our society, our families, our companies, and our relationships continue to survive and thrive because intelligent people tend to cut their losses and minimize their mistakes. It is only when people refuse to accept that they have made a bad choice or decision-and prolong the consequences by sticking to that bad choice or decision-that mistakes become extremely expensive and hurtful.
Learn From Your Mistakes
The second common approach that people take with regard to their mistakes, one that hurts innumerable lives and careers, is the failure to use your mistakes to better yourself and to improve the quality of your mind and your thinking.
Learning from your mistakes is an essential skill that enables you to develop the resilience to be a master of change rather than a victim of change. The person who recognizes that he has made a mistake and changes direction the fastest is the one who will win in an age of increasing information, technology and competition.
By remaining fast on your feet, you will be able to out-play and out-position your competition. You will become a creator of circumstances rather than a creature of circumstances.
Action Exercises
Now, here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.
First, imagine that your biggest problem or challenge in life has been sent to you at this moment to help you, to teach you something valuable. What could it be?
Second, be willing to cut your losses and walk away if you have made a mistake or a bad choice. Accept that you are not perfect, you can’t be right all the time, and then get on with your life.
Third, learn from every mistake you make. Write down every lesson it contains. Use your mistakes in the present as stepping stones to great success in the future.
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