Getting to a Higher Level of Success by John Assaraf

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Posted on 14th December 2010 by Krishna Gupta in Business Intelligence |Personality Development

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Do you ever return to your business after reading a book, listening to a CD, or attending a seminar, pumped up full with fresh information, only to never apply it?

That’s because the part of your brain that GATHERS information is different from the part that APPLIES new knowledge.

Your conscious mind is responsible for choose what you want. Your subconscious mind is responsible for your perceptions and behavior. You must train your subconscious to think and behave differently and to work toward what you want.

Here are three things you can do to start reconditioning your subconscious:

1. Take action every morning. Start your day with affirmations about where you want your business to be. Meditate on your visions and goals for your business and life.

2. Focus on what you’re grateful for. By combining your feelings of gratitude along with affirmations in the morning, your brain will release chemicals which will begin to retrain your subconscious mind to think differently.

3. Emotionalize your success. Act as if you are already at the level of success that you want to achieve. By putting yourself in those shoes, you will think and behave differently… which will lead to changes in your behavior… and more importantly… lead to action.

These are just the beginning steps to change from the inside out in order for your business world to change.

How to get on the right footing now? by John Assaraf

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Posted on 27th November 2010 by Krishna Gupta in Business Intelligence

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Are you and your business in a slump?

Let’s face it, the economy is affecting the majority of business owners, including us.

We aren’t impervious to what the market is doing or how people are thinking and behaving, so that leaves us, and you, with only two options:

One, you can succumb to the outside influencers and allow them to control your thinking and behaviors.
Or two, you can ask yourself a question that will help you focus on what must happen in order for you to stay in total control of your thought patterns and actions, no matter what is happening around you.
Now, is it easy? Of course not. However, what’s the alternative?

You can react to the circumstances surrounding you and succumb to the feelings and horrible results they’ll provide you… or, you can adjust your sails and plan how to stay positive and plan what you can do now, when you are faced with these types of situations, to make it through the storm.

As a matter of fact, with the right thinking and actions, you can come out of the storm better off!

It’s the calm person who observes, analyzes and then takes prudent action who wins during economic downturns.

You must remember that it all starts with your mindset. When you change the way you look at something…the thing that you look at changes. Change your perspective right now, and start positioning yourself as the leader in your field.

So with that said, what’s the one thing that you can do right now to create a shift in your perspective and mindset? Do not worry about 10 things, just one thing right now.

Next, what one thing that when you start doing it today, will have a significant positive impact on your business?

By the way, that one thing can be something you start right now, or something you must stop doing right now.

A small shift in thinking and behavior will yield big results over time. It’s like shifting the direction of an airplane just one percent – do that and you arrive at a totally different destination!

Chose your destination now, then set your course and do it.

To your success!

John Assaraf

Reprogram your brain to achieve more success – John Assaraf

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Posted on 4th November 2010 by Krishna Gupta in Personality Development

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I don’t need to tell you that the economy has hit a rough patch. The media has seized upon this story, and the negativity around this is everywhere. What really bothers me about this is that once people start expecting the worst to happen, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Look, we really do have serious problems to face with our economy. But as I’ve said before: Worry is a prayer for what you don’t want.

Now is not the time to become paralyzed with fear. Long ago I read about a study on goal setting, which revealed that the number one reason most people don’t write down their goals is fear of not achieving them. The best acronym I’ve ever heard for fear is (F)alse (E)motions (A)ppearing (R)eal.

Don’t let fear take you off course before you’ve even left the harbor!

It’s very easy—and normal—for a captain to get scared when entering uncharted waters. But this is your life—your ship—and if you want to get to your destination, you must sail on. When we’re caught in life’s storm, fear sets in if we don’t know how to handle inclement weather. Great captains learn to chart their course and prepare as best as they can for the storms. They learn to use the wind to fill the sails, not destroy them.

You can learn to be a great captain of yourself. You can do it the way I did, spending decades reading everything I could find on goal achievement, going to every seminar on neuroscience and quantum physics, and calling up the greatest minds of the planet to interview them and pick their brains.

What is the most important trait for success as an entrepreneur?

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Posted on 26th August 2010 by Krishna Gupta in Business Intelligence

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What is the single most important characteristic of successful entrepreneurs? And if you had one question to ask an entrepreneur that would uncover that characteristic, what would you ask?

The most important characteristic of successful entreprenuers, I believe, is integrity.

There are countless definitions of what, who and how are entrepreneurs. There are countless definitions of the meaning of “success.” And there are countless traits and characteristics of successful entrepreneurship and successful leaders.

Much of this data is myth and folklore, and some of it is derived from decades of academic research, which has yet to be definitive. Moreover, success is interdependent with time, and a key test of success is, does it withstand the sands of time?

Are we asking about entrepreneurs who lead an organization for 30 years, or serial entrepreneurs who start them up? The arena of entrepreneurship is fraught with complexity and definitional variability. But there is one least common denominator. An entrepreneur must lead, through good times and bad, and through the stages and travails of personal and organizational transformation.

This means leading individuals, groups, the organization as a whole, and stakeholders as well. It also means leading oneself. It has been shown that entrepreneurial leadership is a highly dynamic continuum, full of paradoxes such as the differences between leadership and management. Kotter (1999) suggests that leadership is about the management of change, while management is about the management of complexity. But these lines are blurred and confused, and the two are diametrically opposed.

Leadership is about risk and adaptability. Management is about limiting risk and maximizing reproducibility of productivity. Hence an entrepreneur must have the leadership characteristics to ride a continuously changing continuum of dynamically opposing forces and challenges of growth. And yet throughout this, the number-one metric of leadership is trustworthiness, and the number one metric of trust is integrity, meaning personal authenticity and congruence, where “what you see is what you get.”

Personal integrity is the measure of how a person is in action, how a person embodies their beliefs, how a person can hold and carry forth a vision and mission. But most importantly, it is what followers follow over the long term, and this is key. Followers will intellectually, emotionally and intuitively measure the integrity of their leader(s) against their own values and their doctrines of fairness, and will over time decide to what measure they place their fate in the hands of their leader(s).

Moreover, the integrity of an organization is a direct reflection of the integrity of its leadership, and the marketplace will also measure the integrity of the organization’s brand, its products and services and its market presence.

Hence the long-term survival of an organization also depends upon the integrity of its leadership. Therefore, the question I ask is “How do you lead?”