Brian Tracy's Blog, page 55
October 30, 2012
Look Rich or Be Rich: Develop a Millionaire Mindset to Achieve Financial Independence
To obtain the type of financial independence you’ve been dreaming about all your life, you must learn to develop a “millionaire mindset�. Thomas Stanley and William Danko, in The Millionaire Next Door, explain that most wealthy people and self-made millionaires drive used cars, live in average neighborhoods, wear average priced clothes and watches and are very careful with their money.
In addition, very few of them buy boats, recreational vehicles, second homes, personal airplanes or invest in...
October 25, 2012
Good Habits Worth Developing: 3 Things Hard-working and Successful People Do Differently
Successful people maintain good habits that go hand in hand with success in every area of endeavor. There is nothing that will bring you to the attention of your superiors faster than developing a reputation for being a hard-working and dependable worker. How you work determines the quality and quantity of your rewards.
Developing Good Habits for a Successful Career
Your ability to develop good habits for work determines how much you earn, how effective you are, how much you are respected in...
October 23, 2012
5 Tips for Motivating Employees: SMART Goal Setting for Managers
For people in management roles, goal setting is absolutely essential to motivating employees and creating an environment where they can win, and feel like winners. The 10/90 rule in smart goal setting says that the first 10% of the time that you spend developing absolute clarity about what is to be done will save you 90% of the time once you begin. It can also save you 90% of the mistakes, the costs, and the time of other people involved.
You’ve heard it said that, “you can’t hit a target that...
October 17, 2012
Personal Strategic Planning: 4-Step Action Plan to Strengthen Your Personal Skills
Only by discovering your innate, personal skills and developing and exploiting them to their highest degree can you utilize yourself to get the greatest amount of satisfaction and enjoyment from everything you do. Creating an action plan through personal strategic planning can give you the highest rewards for your efforts and is the starting point in getting the best out of yourself.
Corporate vs. Personal Strategic Planning
When we do strategic planning for corporations, we begin with the prem...
October 16, 2012
Motivating Your Team to Peak Performance: 6 Tips for Successful Team Building
Over the years, exhaustive research has been done on top teams and peak performance. There seem to be given characteristics or qualities of peak performance teams that you can incorporate into your strategy to reach your business goals.
The words “team work� and “team building� are two of the most popular phrases in modern management today. They are often announced as though they are great discoveries that have only become evident as a result of the speed of change in the last decade of the 20...
October 15, 2012
The Ultimate Lead Generation Machine: Dan Kennedy’s Secret to Business Success
My friend and marketing legend, Dan Kennedy, has experienced incredible success in lead generation for decades, and his techniques have helped his students to generate millions of dollars in revenue. His expertise in lead generation has helped business owners and entrepreneurs to find the equilibrium between building a business that is both sustainable and profitable.
Lead generation is the critical component that is often overlooked by business owners and entrepreneurs. Fortunately, Dan Kenne...
October 11, 2012
5 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage: The Importance of Continuous Learning and Personal Development
One of the surest ways to gain a competitive advantage is by learning how to make the most of your time. Through continuous learning and personal development, you can keep up with, and get on top of, your job, career, and field of expertise.
Gain a Competitive Advantage by Reading
To gain a competitive advantage in your career, read at least one hour per day in your chosen field. One hour a day will translate into approximately one book a week. One book a week will translate into approximately...
October 9, 2012
How a Smile Can Affect Self-Esteem: Building Healthy Relationships with a Positive Attitude
People have deep subconscious needs, and the deepest need of all, the core emotional need of the human being, is for self-esteem. It is to maintain healthy relationships of mutual respect. The deepest need is to feel important.
An important way of satisfying a deep subconscious need for self-esteem and personal value is acceptance.
Healthy Relationships and Self-Esteem
Sociologists say that lack of acceptance, or rejection from individuals or groups, is the main cause for many problems with disa...
October 4, 2012
How to Become a Top Salesperson by Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone and Building Self-Confidence
If you are not particularly skilled at a particular activity, you will be stuck in a comfort zone and feel uncomfortable at the very thought of stepping out of it. Failing to overcome a lack of self-confidence and failing to believe in yourself will prevent you from achieving the kind of success you dream about.
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If you are not good on the telephone, you will avoid the telephone as much as possible. If you are not good at prospecting, you will avoid prospec...
October 2, 2012
3 Bad Leadership Qualities to Avoid: Build Self-Esteem and Lead Your Team to Peak Performance
One of the best leadership qualities that a manager can develop is to build self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-respect in others. By focusing on building self-esteem, you can help your team reach peak performance.
Each person has unlimited potential and can reach peak performance in the right environment. They have huge reservoirs of creativity that can be unleashed to solve problems, overcome obstacles and achieve business goals.
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Thus, the leader is the most impor...