Stay on track to achieve your goals

Picture the scene:
It?s the Monaco Grand Prix and the Ferrari of Michael Schumacher is in pole position. The warm-up lap has been completed and Schumacher revs the engine, waiting for the lights to flash in sequence: Ready. Set. GO!The race begins. Schumacher uses his supreme skill to drive the car to its limits and successfully overcome the challenges presented by the tricky street circuit.
At each third of the race, the perfect opportunity to bring the car into the pits to maintain maximum advantage is determined. Each time the Ferrari makes a pit stop, an efficient pit crew will get to work. The car will be jacked up. Tires will be changed, fuel will be added, visors cleaned, spot checks made.
All completed within 10 seconds. Each team member performs their duties at lightening speed to ensure no time is wasted so the car can maintain or improve the lead.
And as the race progresses, a team of analysts will act on feedback received from the Ferrari?s on-board computers and from the driver. The race strategy will be constantly reviewed and changes will be made if necessary to ensure the car has the best chance of winning the race.
Driver, engineers, mechanics, designers, strategists, technicians ? all working together to ensure the car has the best possible chance of victory.
So how can ?Team Ferrari? help to accelerate your success?As you pursue your goals and ambitions, you?ll encounter many trying times. You will face challenges, obstacles, sticking points and setbacks. Your motivation levels will drop, you may feel burned out, stressed, frustrated.
At such trying times, you?re going to need support to help you ?stay in the race?. Just like Michael Schumacher, you can?t do everything all by yourself and when you face challenges and problems, these are the times when you?ll need to go into the pits.
It is so important ? no, VITAL ? that you can turn to positive, success-minded, enthusiastic people. People who?ve done something with their lives, who?ve faced challenges, who know how to overcome fears and obstacles and who can keep you on track to win.
They are the people who we?ll refer to as: ?TEAM YOU?.
Unfortunately, many people who pursue a dream turn to people who live life in fear, who haven?t done anything with their lives and who hold a negative view about life.
Guess what happens when you turn to such people when you need support?You?re right! They increase your fears, they focus on the problems, they offer no solutions, in short, they make it harder and harder for you to win your race.
Would Ferrari?s pit crew consist of people who want to give up at the first obstacle? People who believe the race is lost before it?s started? People who?d retire the car after 10 laps because the race was too hard?You know Team Ferrari wouldn?t have such people anywhere near their car!So why have negative people in Team You? OK, I know you may find it hard to find like-minded, positive people to create your success team. So here?s a technique I use to create my own success team, a team I can rely on when I need to make a pit stop:
Throughout history, there have been many people who have achieved great success and who overcame many major challenges. The help they can give you is priceless. So read about them. Study them. How did they meet their challenges? How did they deal with setbacks? You can find out by reading biographies and autobiographies. Use the Internet too.
You can read about presidents and ministers, kings and queens, warriors and pacifists, sporting heroes, entertainers, inventors, explorers, tycoons, personal development experts, philosophers and spiritual leaders ? whoever you admire, whoever inspires you, whoever excites you, read about them. These are people who?ve achieved great things. Study them. Learn from them.
These are the people who can join ?TEAM YOU?. Why not pick the best to help you win your race?

 

 

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The importance of immediate, massive, daily action has been written about many times already but it is so important that it is worth writing about again and again. The examples in this article come from the world of business but they could apply to any other walk of life as well.

Marketing is the life blood of business but sometimes businessmen will wait until they have written the perfect advertisement or sales message before they send out even one ad. They also spend weeks making sure their website is beautifully designed with all the latest refinements.

Meanwhile good selling time is passing them by. Their product may even be out of date before they are happy with the advertisements. By the time they have everything perfect and ready to go, they may run out of capital and be forced to close down their business.

The best lesson I learned from the late Corey Rudl at a seminar in London was not to worry about creating a perfect website. Just get one up. His own dad had a website selling Ferrari car badges which was very ordinary but it was making money.

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire Mayor of New York, credits his success to getting going without spending too much time planning:

” We act from day one; others plan how to plan – for months.”

Dave and Heidi Perry talk about a fairly average businessman and average marketer whom they call Jack.

Jack’s motto was: “Doin’ it, Doin’it, Doin’it” i.e do something, anything every day towards achieving your marketing goals.

He kept plugging away each day with his marketing even when the format of his sales brochures and forms was not very good. He would not wait for the format to be improved. He believed in ‘Doin’ it’ even if he was not quite ready to do it.

This phil osophy and behaviour made him a multi millionaire and a leader. Even though what he said was not profound and could at times be downright stupid, his action oriented words and behaviour led many to trust him and to follow his suggestions.

“He knew that to get a desired outcome, he had to actually DO something to get there.”

Jack knew that if his audience would just do something – anything – every day toward their goals, they,too,would get there. He, himself, just started doing something.

He didn’t wait until he had enough money to start his business or until his advertising materials were perfect or until he had a stockpile of products to sell. He started with what he had and did something every day to achieve his goal.

You can’t dream or wish your way into riches although this can help. You have to actually do something about it however badly. What is worse than a sales ad? No sales ad. Don’t wait until you have a great website or enough money to start your business.

Get going badly now and do something every day towards achieving your goal. You may still have doubts and fears but by doing something every day you will make progress and your confidence and power will increase.

Some people want to master a piece of software before they use it. The chances are that they will never use it!

The quickest way to learn how a software tool works is to start using it on a daily basis. We will make mistakes, of course, but we will also make progress in understanding the software.

I did not use an autoresponder for ages because I was afraid of making mistakes and sending people the wrong message. When I did get round to using one, I almost immediately made mistakes but learned rapidly how to put them right and no one sent in any letters of complaint!

If possible, find a mentor who can hold your hand while you try something new. However, mentors are not always easily available so trust yourself to have a go on your own and see what happens.

You will probably amaze yourself at what you can achieve on your own especially if you don’t give up at the first signs of trouble.

Obviously preparation, thinking and planning are worth doing but there comes a time when the most important thing is to actually start taking action even if this means you are running risks. Try it and see what happens.

Start “Doing it!”

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Has our modern celebrity-obsessed culture warped our notion of “success”? Read this article to discover a gentler, truer and more enduring notion of what “success” is all about.

I’ve come to hate the word “success”. If you watch TV or read the popular newspapers today, the word “success” seems to be applied freely to anyone who achieves fleeting fame, wins dubious awards, or appears repeatedly in the gossip columns. Success is synonymous with fame, celebrity, or notoriety. In one recent series of the TV show “Celebrity Big Brother” in the UK, the contestants comprised a failed comedian still under suspicion for the death of a guest at his mansion during a late-night drugs party, a woman whose “success” amounted to two affairs with members of the ruling body of the national football team, and a transvestite whose “success” was one hit record some 20 years ago.
But, as I suspect all of us really know, none of this is true “success”. And it is rarely enduring, or deep, or satisfying.
For the fact of the matter is, that real success is not determined in the public arena but in the personal. It is not about having the limelight shining on us, but simply letting our own light shine. It is not about telephone votes, TV ratings, and coming first, but about making little differences that touch others’ lives.
Recently, we rented all 15 episodes of the old BBC series, “To Serve Them All My Days”, R.F.Delderfield’s story of an English public school in the 1920’s and 30’s.
There is a scene in one episode where the much-loved headmaster, Algie Herries, is giving his final speech to the school shortly before retiring. This is what he tells the boys:
“We’ve had our fair share of brilliant boys at Bamfylde but I want to tell you about two chaps who were called Petherbridge and Rogers.
Now Petherbridge was one of our skyrockets. He went on to become president of an insurance company or something. He got the OBE, the DBF, or whatever it is that these chaps get.
But Chuff Rogers never got anything. Except once, when some kindly soul put him down for the lower 4th effort prize because he’d pulled up from bottom to 27th or something.
So, speech day came along and I could see Chuff Rogers down there fairly bursting with excitement, looking as pleased as punch, and waiting for his turn to come along.
He had a woman with a baby sitting next to him, and this baby took a special shine to Chuff, grasping his fingers and making goo-goo noises. And, just as Chuff’s big moment arrived, the baby gave a beautiful smile and was dramatically sick all over Chuff’s best suit. And over himself, and the mother.
She, poor woman, was beside herself with shame. I thought Chuff would be too. But not Chuff. He pulled out the strangest-looking handkerchief I have ever seen, wiped the mother down, and wiped the baby down, and tried to wipe himself down.
And then, and only then, when he had settled everything to his satisfaction, he went up for his one and only prize.
First things first, you see.
And that is what I call a Bamfylde success.
And that is why I’ll never forget Chuff Rogers.
But I’ve completely forgotten… Petherbridge.
“And that, to me is the true meaning of success. Not gongs, or status, or fame. But those who laugh often and much; those who win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; those who find the best in others; those who appreciate the smallest of gifts; and those who leave this world a bit better because they have lived.
If you run any kind of training programme, by all means acknowledge those who lead and come first. But also take a moment to notice and cherish the Chuff Rogers in your midst.

 

 

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