Posts Tagged Business Success
Professional Development Tools: How to Effectively Use Inspirational Books, Audios and Videos
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on October 2, 2009
What books are you currently reading? What audios are in your car? One of the quickest ways to master anything is to read books, listen to audios and watch videos on the subject. These are your tools for professional development and business success.
If you’re spending free time reading novels or listening to music, you’re missing a major key to personal and business success. People who achieve high levels of abundance generally read two or three inspirational books every week. They aren’t parked in front of the TV all night.
With today’s technology you have many choices of how to best receive personal growth information. There is no longer an excuse for not having time to be educated.
Look at this partial list of delivery methods for getting professional development information to you:
Read online or listen to PDFs online–software can read text to you!
Listen to audio or watch streaming video online
Download audio or video to your iPod
Download print, audio or video to your cell phone or PDA
Print out a PDF to take with you in a folder
Read a print book
Listen to CDs or watch DVDs – in your car, on a plane, on your TV or computer
You’re probably thinking, “I barely have time to complete all my tasks now. How could I add anything else?” But, we all have the same 24 hours each day.
Since you can’t add hours, it’s up to you to decide how to spend the ones you have. The advent of the iPod makes it easier to access professional development tools. Now you can listen discreetly while standing in line or waiting for an appointment. iPods aren’t just for kids. They’re important tools for business success and personal growth.
To create the life of your dreams, you must make new choices about how to spend your time. If it were possible to achieve your personal development goals by doing what you’re doing now, you would already have everything you want.
I’m sure you’ve heard the adage that you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it. It’s the same with any personal growth change you want to make in your life. You can’t create a new life with the old habits that produced the life you have now.
Just as when you were a child and books magically took you to places you’d never been, inspirational books will guide you to become the person you want to be and will help build the business success of which you dream.
Every multi-millionaire I’ve met had many personal growth obstacles to overcome in their lives. Not one of them was born into a life of ease. They dealt with circumstances ranging from total poverty, abandonment as a child, abuse, depression, life-threatening illness, divorce, business loss and bankruptcy.
This reality shatters all the excuses you’ve been using throughout your life for why you can’t succeed. For many, inspirational educational tools were the beginning of their road to personal and business success. These professional development tools will start you on the road to your dreams, too.
Let me give you some examples of abundant people who are big readers. Robert Allen, real-estate guru and author of best-selling books including my favorite, Multiple Streams of Income, reads several books at once by leaving them in various rooms throughout his home so a book is always available.
Cynthia Brian, co-author of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul and author of Be the Star You Are, finds it easy to read several books a week because she carries a book everywhere and spends at least two hours nightly reading instead of watching TV.
David Anderson of Famous Dave’s really raises the bar. He’s a self-proclaimed night owl, sleeping an average of five hours. He not only reads two or three books a week, but 20-30 magazines a month! He reads continually for personal development and to stay current on business trends.
You say you want more from life, but will you move outside your comfort zone to make it happen? Maybe reading a book every week seems unfeasible. Commit to reading one book this month, or in the next two weeks. When you find it’s not so difficult, up your quota.
The key to effective use of inspirational books, audios and videos is that you implement what you learn. Put your new knowledge into practice; don’t just read, listen or watch for the sake of spending time doing it.
Your Success And Personal Development Plan
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on September 14, 2009
Personal development plays an essential role for your success in the field of interest that you are trudging. In business arena, for example, a well-developed personality serves as your key to persuade people, to convince them that you are capable of providing quality services or products. How can you develop your social personal being?
Designing a personal development plan is essential and this means modifying the career path life cycle. In addition, the core component for a personal development growth plan is to manage every assigned assigned tasks with the same vigor and enthusiasm like it was the very first one.
The success route is taking the high road and aspiring, desiring for a better life and being aware of the difference between right and wrong. Living life in quiet desperation and pursuing a vision only leads to a self-proclaimed revenue stream and a unique living, which paves way to enter the portal of comfortable life.
You eventually reach a point in your life when you are prepared for alteration and a whole bunch of information that will help you unravel your personal development capacity. In a personal development plan, motivation, trust, recognition, and the importance of unending personal development growth is of great essence.
Attempting to learn new things without that substantial recognition usually means the learning will not stick. There are numbers of self-help books on the marketplace, and they may have some very useful information, however, a personal development seminar has a significant advantage that the self help books When you participate in a personal development seminar, you have the benefit of talking to a trained and knowledgeable counselor that can answer any questions that you may have and chances are they have been exactly where you are.
Once you have formed the habit of applying a base of new principals of Personal Development, adding more to your daily routine will become simpler approach and your results will get better. As you typically have more new principals introduced into your life all at once, the habit building process will take longer, so expect to see results in some parts of your life right away and some as time goes on.
While everyone of us has quaint personal development needs, the above ideas do apply to most people on the path to personal development. That whether you are in need of personal development techniques or personal development as a social and business individual, you need to be fully-grown in terms of personality because this serve as a prime component and catalyst in achieving business success.
Personal Development Tips: Seven Criteria for Recognizing Your Passion and Purpose
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on September 11, 2009
Your passion will fuel the engine that powers the manifestation of your dreams. You need a passion that will drive you to personal growth and business success.
Do you know what your passion in life is? Or are you still looking for it? Many times people are already living their passion and they don’t recognize it.
On the other hand, you may think you are doing exactly what you were meant to do, only to find there’s something else that calls to you more powerfully.
If you’re looking to discover your passion, the following questions will get you started before I reveal the seven criteria. I suggest that you write each question on its own sheet of paper, which will give you ample room to add brainstorming ideas.
What really excites you in your life?
What do you do that gives you so much pleasure you lose track of time?
What topics do you read about or see on the news that get you fired-up?
What do you love doing so much you’d be willing to do it for free?
Many people wonder, “How do I know what my passion is?” “How do I know this is my life purpose?” Now you can put your passion to the test. Here are seven criteria for recognizing your passion and purpose. You’ll want to write these down in a place that you can refer to often.
Seven Personal Success Criteria for recognizing your passion and purpose:
Personal Success Indicator #1: What you do makes you feel good about yourself.
Personal Success Indicator #2: You would do it for free.
Personal Success Indicator #3: You lose all track of time when you do it.
Personal Success Indicator #4: You love to talk about it to anyone who will listen.
Personal Success Indicator #5: You are happy to teach it to others.
Personal Success Indicator #6: If this were how you spent all of your time, it would be a good thing.
Personal Success Indicator #7: It makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.
This simple process to identifying your passion and your life purpose will help you focus so you’re not creating a business about a subject you’re going to get sick of in a few months.
Unfortunately, that occurs more often than you’d think. Misdiagnosing passion happens to many people. Using the above criteria will prevent this from happening to you. If you can say “yes” to all seven indicators, then you’ve verified that you’re passionate about the subject.
So, what do you do once you think you’ve uncovered your passion? Well, the first step is to start visualizing your end result. Many people share the same passion and purpose, yet each one approaches it differently and contributes their own unique talents to it.
A major part of what I teach my clients is to turn their passions into information products. I had spoken on that topic at Mark Victor Hansen’s Mega Book Marketing University, and later had a conversation with a plumber who was attending the event.
We discussed creating a product describing how he’s made his plumbing business more successful than his competitors. I thought, “Well, yes, that could be a great product.”
But then I asked him, “What gets you so excited about teaching, that you’d do it for free?” He immediately gave me a different answer. What got him enthusiastic was the work he did with kids, and he could have talked about that for hours.
His brain thought, “Well, I’m really good at X. X is probably what I should do as a product.” But X is not what makes him happy. It’s not what fulfills him. It’s not what he’s passionate about. He’d soon be bored and moving on to something else if he went ahead with X.
Sometimes we just need to clear our minds, ask some questions and give ourselves creative space to recognize our passions and purposes. Start identifying your own passion and purpose by putting the seven steps in motion for your personal success.