Paradigm Power – What Is It?
Posted by admin on Dec 30, 2009
In my last post I discussed character traits and personality traits, and how they influence our lives.
The term paradigm is used extensively as we move forward. The term simply means a theory or frame of reference, the way we see the world.
Everything that has happened to us in our lives, everyone we are in contact with, has subconsciously shaped our paradigms, how we see the world.
Our paradigms form our attitudes and behaviors.
Now, work this all backwards. If our attitudes and behaviors are formed by how we see the world, how can we change our attitudes and behaviors if we fail to analyze the basic paradigms that formed these attitudes and behaviors in the first place?
We all believe we see things as they are; that we are objective. However, we see the world as we are conditioned to see it, and each of us can see it quite differently based on our past experiences.
If we are to take responsibility for our attitudes and behaviors, we must be aware of the basic paradigms that helped form them.
If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant change we need to work on our basic paradigms.
The Seven Habits are based on Principle-Centered Paradigms, natural laws.
We are all aware of these Principle-Centered Paradigms, but we may not agree on how they are defined or achieved. Here are some examples:
Fairness, Integrity, Honesty, Patience, Encouragement
Principles are not practices or values. They are deep fundamental truths that have universal application. They are self-evident.
Seven Habits is a principle-centered, character-based, inside-out approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness.
This inside-out approach is a dramatic paradigm shift for most people.
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Habits Start From The Inside Out
Posted by admin on Dec 29, 2009
It is quite common for people to achieve great success, but find that something is missing. To the outside world, they appear to have it all. Yet they struggle internally, not knowing why it doesn’t feel right, what is missing.
Our experiences over the years form our perceptions of the world, how we see things. These perceptions influence how we behave.
If we are to see the world as clearly as possible, we must examine our perceptions, and try to determine if they are indeed based on reality, or only our own version of reality learned over time.
In his study of the past two hundred years of success literature, Stephen Covey has determined that the information available can be divided into two distinct groups: the Personality Ethic, and the Character Ethic.
The Personality Ethic encompasses the past fifty years of literature, and in Covey’s opinion, it is superficial. The Personality Ethic is more a function of personality, public image, attitude, and behavior. This method for success has the possibility of being manipulative, perhaps even deceptive, feigning interest in others simply to get what they want from them. This approach may work initially in Direct Sales Marketing, but will not produce lasting success.
In contrast, there is the Charter Ethic. This is the name Covey gives to the first one hundred fifty years of success literature. Things like integrity, humility, fidelity, justice, patience, and the Golden Rule, to name a few. These are the traits of lasting success in an Internet Income Opportunity.
The Character Ethic integrates these basic principles into our everyday lives, suggesting we cannot be truly successful and happy if we fail to embrace these principles and use them daily in our personal, as well as business, lives.
These two approaches to success are further divided into primary and secondary traits. Primary traits are those of the Character Ethic, while those of the Personality Ethic are secondary.
Success can certainly be achieved through these secondary personality traits, but this is usually why successful individuals feel that something is missing. This approach focuses on techniques, and fails to take into account the primary traits of our character. Success is not complete without both elements present.
Secondary traits alone will not lead to long-term relationships whether in our personal life, or our business life. These are the traits seen most prominently by the public, but it is character that is most powerful.
What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say. – Emerson
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It’s All About Habits
Posted by admin on Dec 28, 2009
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
I am starting the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. I believe that this book follows nicely after The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson, and How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
For more about The Slight Edge and How to Win Friends and Influence People, simply scroll back through my previous posts.
If your dreams and goals include an Internet Income Opportunity in Direct Sales Marketing, these books are a must read in my opinion.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, originally published in 1989, is another classic self-help book that has survived the test of time, and promises to get us thinking, and hopefully working toward our goals and dreams.
Winning is a habit … so is losing.
The Seven Habits represent a holistic, integrated approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness. The real key lies in the relationship among them and in how they are sequenced. – Stephen R. Covey
Please join me over the next few weeks as I write about my experience with The Seven Habits, and discuss how they can benefit any Online Business.
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Wealth Management – Your Slight Edge Wrap Up
Posted by admin on Dec 23, 2009
Today I’d like to see if I can wrap up the last few weeks of postings into a nice, neat little package.
If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’ve been reading The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson, and discussing his ideas as they relate to direct sales marketing and an Internet income opportunity.
The basic idea is this: with the knowledge you have, make the best choices you can; create a preliminary plan to achieve your goals; perform simple, repetitive steps daily toward your goals; be consistent; be persistent; revise your plan as you gain new knowledge.
There are some additional tips and tricks that can help you along the way.
Remember that your philosophy is your view of life. This philosophy affects how you see things, how you react to circumstances, and therefore your actions in a given situation.
Your philosophy may change over time, as you acquire new knowledge and develop personally.
Time is a necessity that you must allow for in your plans for success. There is no such thing as an instant success. These “overnight successes” are anything but. We only notice these things once success has been achieved. We do not see all the work that was done prior to the success, but you can be sure there was plenty of work done.
There is a price that must be paid to achieve our goals, and we must pay it willingly. For me, the price of getting healthy is giving up snacks and exercising more.
There are at least five areas of life that should be given attention. They are health, personal development, relationships, finances, life as a whole. We must be careful to give attention to all of these areas, not just one or two as each has influence on the others.
Keep in mind that a great deal of our lives is lived through habits we have developed over time. Take advantage of this and take the time to form good habits that will stay with you forever. This will take care of the consistent part of the equation.
So, here’s the super simplified wrap-up:
- What you learn throughout your life forms your philosophy.
- Your philosophy creates your attitudes, your actions, and your results.
- Your attitudes, actions, and results create your life.
All these things are very easy to do, also very easy not to do. The choice is yours.
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Living The Slight Edge
Posted by admin on Dec 21, 2009
Wise words to live by … if you don’t have your health, you have nothing.
With this in mind, our health should be our number one priority.
Keeping The Slight Edge in mind, what one simple, easy-to-do thing can we do day in and day out to have the greatest impact on our health?
That’s an easy one for me (easy to determine, not so easy to do), snack less and exercise more. I know it; I just need to commit to doing it every day. Ummmm, sounds like a News Years’ resolution to me!
There are five key areas of our lives that we should give attention to: health; personal development; relationships; finances; and life in general.
Here’s a great exercise to make you think, and maybe get you going.
For each of the five areas mentioned above, write a short blurb that includes:
- Your dream – be specific, vivid, and include a timeline.
- What is the price you have to pay to achieve this dream?
- What is your plan to start?
- What simple daily discipline can you start right now to achieve your dream?
This will help to really see where we are, where we want to be, and what we need to do to get started on our journey. If an Internet Income Opportunity or Direct Sales Marketing is on your dream list, this exercise will be very insightful for you.
It is said that your income will never long exceed your own level of personal development. This would explain why most people who win the lottery are worse off within five years than they were before their windfall.
The same is true of every aspect of our lives. The limiting factor is always ourselves.
This said, that would put personal development number two on my list, if I were to prioritize the five areas. Personal development will assist with the remaining three areas of relationships, finances, and life in general.
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Turning Dreams Into Reality
Posted by admin on Dec 18, 2009
Why is it that we feel that something must be complex and complicated to be successful?
In reality, simple is usually more effective.
There are four simple steps that are universally agreed upon that must be done if we want to succeed with our goals:
1 – Write it down, be specific, and set a deadline for completion.
Practice our skills of creating a mental picture of the goal(s) we have written down. Make is so vivid that it feels real.
A dream board works very well, and saying it out loud is even more powerful. Once we’ve said something out loud for others to hear, it’s official, it’s real.
Be sure to be as specific as possible, and set a realistic deadline.
2 – Look at it every day.
If we have created a dream board, put it somewhere that we’ll see it every day, perhaps several times throughout the day.
Our subconscious mind is a very powerful tool, and if we expose our mind to our goals and visions regularly, our subconscious mind believes these goals are real and will start to work on it for us.
3 – Know and pay the price.
There is usually something that we must give up in order to achieve our goals. This could be TV time, social time, whatever.
No matter what the price, we will gain far more for our direct sales marketing than we have to give up.
4 – Start with a plan.
Your plan is not the be-all, end-all of plans. It is simply a starting point. It does not need to be perfect. You will be revising your plan as you gain new information along the way, depending on the circumstances of the specific situation. Plan, do, review and then adjust. This is how to operate an online business opportunity.
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Mastering Yourself
Posted by admin on Dec 17, 2009
The best gift I know of is one we can give ourselves. It is also one of the wisest business investments we can ever make. Think of your Internet Income Opportunity as you continue reading.
The gift I am referring to is our own personal development. Let’s have a look at the processes at work here to clarify this.
How do we determine if something is a success?
Typically, we look at our results to determine success or failure.
The problem with this way of thinking is that results always come at the end of the process. We cannot judge the actions we are taking along the way by results as the results are not in yet!
A result implies the past, something that is complete, and we’ve already discussed how dangerous it is to live in the past.
Results are useful as a tool to learn from, to help make better decisions for the present and future.
Instead of waiting for results, we could focus on our actions, but there is a flaw with this thinking as well.
Focusing on our actions does not take into account the attitudes that are behind our actions.
Our attitudes and thoughts are developed out of our philosophy.
Jeff Olson, in The Slight Edge, put it very neatly like this:
your philosophy
creates
your attitudes
your actions
your results
creates
your life
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.
- W. Clement Stone
Our philosophy is the source of our failure or success.
The best way to move toward our goals is continuous learning.
There are many ways to learn: school; books; teachers; examples of others; from our own mistakes.
The best road to success in Direct Sales Marketing is to learn from all of these sources, not just one or two.
Continuous learning is what builds our philosophy and our awareness of the world around us.
Statistics show that fifty-eight percent of all high school graduates, who do not continue their formal education, never read another book in their lifetime. According to Wycliffe Organization, one person in six (world-wide) cannot read!
Life is not a spectator sport, and there are no do-overs.
My favorite motto is: if you’re not growing, you’re dying.
So, here’s the process I believe works the best:
- Make the best choices with the information we have.
- Form plans to achieve our goals, and get started.
- Learn along the way, and make adjustments as necessary.
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Online Training – Harness Your Power
Posted by admin on Dec 16, 2009
In our previous discussions, we learned that the achievement of our goals is simple, yet many of us fail.
There are a few very basic reasons for this: we fail to get started; we fail to be consistent; we fail to learn and revise as we go.
There are five basic powers we can harness as we reach for our dreams:
1 – The Power of Momentum
We have all witnessed a business that expanded too rapidly and then self-destructed. Fast is not the best path to success. It does not allow time to learn from our journey and revise our game plan for continued success.
There’s always the possibility to move too slowly as well.
The key word is not slow, but steady. This is the key to success in Direct Sales Marketing.
A body at rest tends to stay at rest – and a body in motion tends to remain in motion.
Establish good routines, and be consistent.
2 – The Power of Completion
Incomplete tasks block your momentum, and stopping you from moving forward.
It keeps the past alive.
That pile of incomplete tasks can be overwhelming.
Find something you can do, and get it done.
3 – The Power of Habit
A habit is something you do without thinking, behaviors that are repeated until they become automatic.
There are two kinds of habits: those that help you, and those that don’t.
Thoughts become things. The harder we try to break a habit, the more ingrained it becomes, because what we focus on expands.
Instead, try to replace the bad habits with good ones. Now we are concentrating on something positive, which we want to expand.
4 – The Power of Reflection
Try this exercise: instead of writing down what you’re going to do, write down at the end of the day what you did do. What actions did you take today that made you successful?
Just because we were busy all day doesn’t mean we were busy doing the right things, working toward our goals. This is very important to remember in your Internet Income Opportunity.
Whose dream did you build today – yours or somebody else’s?
5 – The Power of Celebration
Acknowledge your successes and celebrate them.
Nothing breeds success like more success.
Thanks for your time.
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Online Marketing – Your Journey To Success
Posted by admin on Dec 15, 2009
We’ve been talking about what it takes to be successful, what we must do to make our dreams reality.
Remember, this is a journey that requires continuous improvement, learning, and refining our plans to take into consideration the things we have learned, much like Direct Sales Marketing.
Achieving our goals should not be the end of the story, but merely the end of a chapter. We are always setting new goals as life goes on, so when we accomplish one of our goals, we simply keep going to the next goal.
One of the toughest things is mastering our mindset and this is where the journey really begins.
Mindset is all about knowing what we want, and being determined to get it. If the desire is strong enough, we can find a way to get there. No obstacle is too large to overcome. This is the mindset of people who are successful in an Internet Income Opportunity.
All things must have a beginning, and our journey to success is no different. Here is one guarantee in life: we cannot be successful at anything if we never get started.
This is the real secret to success. We can think about things, wish for things, hope for things, but we will never achieve these things if we never start our journey.
Many people analyze every aspect of something before taking the first step, trying to avoid failure and disappointment. The problem with this way of thinking is that we cannot know with absolute certainty what will and will not work. This is what we learn on our journey, and we revise our plan of attack as we learn more along the way.
Never settle for less than you truly want and deserve. This is giving up. The first time we fall short and give up it can be quite painful. As with most things in life, this too will get easier and less painful. This is not a situation we want to find ourselves in.
Learning to accept failure and disappointment is not the way we want to go through life.
Most things in our lives become habit. Why not get into the habit of succeeding instead of the habit of failing?
The minute we see the failure habits forming, this is the time to nip it in the bud and turn things around. It’s never too late.
There are really only two scenarios: we are either going for our dreams or we have given up on our dreams. These are the only two options.
Going for your dreams may take you out of your comfort zone, but this is where much of our success lies.
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Direct Sales Marketing: Success vs Failure
Posted by admin on Dec 14, 2009
Some days it may feel that today is pretty much the same as yesterday, and the day before that. Well, it wasn’t. Every day is different than every other.
Many people dread the passing of time; they see it as a loss.
Successful people see time differently; it is something that must pass to achieve their goals, like creating a successful Internet income opportunity.
Research says that as a child, you heard the word “no” about 40,000 times by the age of five. You heard the word “yes” about 5,000 times. That’s eight times more negatives than positives. Eight times the gravity against your desires.
For things to change, you’ve got to change. For things to get better, you’ve go to get better. It’s easy to do. But it’s easy not to do as well.
The predominant state of mind displayed by people on the failure curve is blame. The predominant state of mind displayed by people on the success curve is responsibility.
Taking responsibility liberates you, it is perhaps the single most liberating thing there is.
When you fail to take responsibility, you blame others or circumstances, fate or chance. You give away your power.
Negative and difficult things happen to all of us. It’s how we react to them that makes the difference between success and failure.
We’ve all heard the expression “Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it.”
More importantly, be careful what you think. What you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create your results.
People on the failure curve tend to focus on their past – and it pulls them down. People on the success curve focus on their future – and it pulls them up.
People on the success curve don’t ignore the past, but they use it as a tool, and learn from it. To succeed in direct sales marketing you must learn from your mistakes and turn them around.
The future is a far better tool than the past.
You can’t change the past. You can change the future. Would you rather be influenced by something you can’t change, or something you can change?
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