Have you ever eaten an ice cream cone by starting at the cone and eating your way up? No, me neither. Odds are you'll end up with a huge mess and decide it just isn't worth the effort. Yet many potentially successful businesses are started in just such a manner. To have any chance of success, your venture must progress from inception to viability with order and purpose. |
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A WINNER KNOWS THE OUTCOME
Winners are emotionally charged up. Everything you do, and everything that happens to you has its beginning within you. No event or circumstance is outside of you. Everything is under your control and moving you in the right direction. This is because you have
A burning desire to get what you want
The conviction that you deserve what you want.
The confidence that what you want is yours for the taking.
With this inner attitude you can turn possibility into certainty and adversity into opportunity. But, rest assured your successes are never happenstance. You create forward movement on purpose -- rarely by accident. You plan to win. Here is how you do it …
TURN YOUR IDEAS INTO GOALS
An idea is like clay. It floats around your head- shifting, changing, waxing and waning. In order for an idea to take shape, in the real world, it must be linked to an end result. A goal is ply the marriage f an idea with then intended results- it hardens the clay.
When you get an idea, follow it through to its conclusion. Explore the various avenues your idea can follow. Feel the energy hat explodes inside you when an idea leads you right down the path. This energy is a call t action.
WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS When you have hit upon an idea that energises you, turn it into series of goals. The more specific you are about your goals, the fewer wrong turns you'll take along the way. Be absolutely clear about who, what, when, where and how your destination is to be reached. |
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For a goal to be successful, it must be a statement t of achievement, and not a casual wish. A wish begins with the word “I hope” I want” while a statement of achievement shouts “I am” “I have”. When I decide to publish my newsletter, my primary goal statement was “I am a publisher of a trend-setting newsletter.
CREATE A BUSINESS PLAN.
Your idea is a chart for success. It identifies the issues relevant to your business and helps you to move logically through the star-up phase. A good business plan can spare you months of wasted effort, not to mention fistful of cash.
Try the Small Business Administration Classroom for an explanation of the components found in a business plan: http://www.sba.gov/classroom/bplan914.html
Business plan pro has samples plan and a free tool that guides you through the creation f your own business plan: http://www.bplans.com
VISUALIZE YOUR GOALS DAILY
Create a picture in your minds eye of you reaping the rewards of your successful business. See yourself enjoying the fruit of your labour. Feel the exhilaration of having achieved that which you want. See the colour in your surroundings. Feel he floor beneath your feet. Taste the air around you. Be here.
TELL THE WORLD AND TAKE ACTION. |
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In the end, if you follow these goals setting-strategies, you can say the path and reach your goals. And ha is the whole idea …always, always stay the path.
By Brett Krkosska, is a freelance writer and business consultant.
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