The first persistence stategy is taking responsibility for all of your life. It's the first step toward having a successful and fulfilling life. Stop blaming others, stop making excuses, and start changing your actions and reactions to events and opportunities in your life to those of a positive nature.
Understanding that everything you are experiencing today is the direct result of the choices you made in the past makes it easier to start taking 100% responsibility for all of it. Once and for all, vow to give up complaining and start soaring into positive action in the direction of your dreams.
Responsibility is really about control (not blame). Do you want to control your life, or hand that control over to others such as your family, the media, and society?
Every day, remind yourself to take control of those parts of your life that are within your control, and let go of trying to control what or who is not.
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." ~Dale Carnegie
Persistence Strategy 2 - Keep rolling the dice to come out a winner.
The single most important quality that all successful people possess is the power of persistence. No matter the obstacles, no matter the unforeseen roadblocks, and no matter how huge they appear, those who are or will be successful keep rolling the dice over and over again.
The longer you play, the greater the odds are in your favor of coming up a winner. When you realize that winning success could very possibly be the very next roll of the dice, you'll understand that there's no point in getting discouraged and quitting.
Within every road to successful achievement are buried invisible land mines you're almost certainly going to step on. When you do, don't panic! Remove yourself from the situation, step back and ask yourself these three questions:
1. "What are 3 ways I can move over this obstacle?" 2. "What are 3 ways I can move under this obstacle?" 3. "What are 3 way I can move around this obstacle?"
Give yourself the time necessary to find the answers. They are there, but only when you look for them!
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race." ~Calvin Coolidge
Persistence Strategy 3 - Be willing to do whatever it takes.
Within the achievement of every dream lies a multitude of walls, barriers, setbacks, delays, and overwhelming challenges that were leaped over, crawled under, sailed around, and charged right through to overcome. Practice, determination, consistence, persistence (and then even more practice!) are absolute requirements on your path to ultimate success.
The knowledge and acceptance of this truth plus your willingness to do whatever it takes adds the extra push you need to persevere in spite of any temporary pain along the way. Lasting benefits await you!
Do Whatever it Takes Instructions Simplified:
1. Fall down. 2. Get up. 3. Dust off. 4. Repair or rebuild anything broken, bleeding, ripped, or destroyed. 5. Observe what you did to help cause the fall, then change your strategy. 6. Continue on.
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." ~George E. Allen
Persistence Strategy 4 - Avoid failure mentality.
There are many actions (or reactions) you can choose to take when you hit a brick wall on your road to success. The responses listed above will keep you moving forward in a positive direction. The three listed below simply won't work.
Denial: Some people don't want to face the fact that there's an obstacle in the way and that they have to change their course to get around it. Instead, they keep doing what they've done to get there over and over again, producing the same dismal result each time.
Quitting: Those who give up and quit have (and develop even more of) an inner attitude that they don't have what it takes to succeed, they're not smart enough to meet their goal, or that they simply don't deserve to have success. All quitting really does is keep you stuck in the same place and mindset.
Anger: Throwing a temper tantrum and shaking your fist at the obstacle won't move it. It won't budge even when you're ranting, raving, and railing about it to others. All you manage to do is waste a lot of time and energy while remaining stuck in the same place.
Remind yourself of this success affirmation often: "When I feel inadequate, I remind myself that I have all the experience, tools and resources I need to overcome any situation. I think through all possible issues and know that I can rise above them superbly."
You can and will when you believe it!
A goal is???. where you want to go, At the top of a piece of paper draw a circle and write in that circle where you want to be in two years or better still five years.
For the business: it may be to make target sales of $156,000 per year. For personal: it may be a family holiday overseas valued at $25,000
A strategy is ????how you will get there In individual circles, set down each of the steps you must take that will link to the top goal circle. At times, like in any business, the circles may first link to each other before they reach the goal.
For the business: It may be sales of 156 produces valued $1,000 each = $156,000 per year For personal: Holiday overseas: savings per week of $520 over 48 weeks = $24,960 per year (48 weeks because you will be on holidays for the other 4 weeks)
Time frames. Next question must be, in what time frame? Trying to develop a business without a time frame is much like taking a trip overseas without destination, departure or arrival times. Ultimately, you will have no idea where you are going, when you will arrive or if you have arrived at all.
Having set your time frames, it may stand to reason there could be times when external influences mean you will need to cancel or extend the time frames you initially set down. That's fine, like life, nothing stays the same and your business will be influenced by many events beyond your control. You simply reassess your time frames just as you would reschedule a flight.
What income are you expecting out of this business? Now let's look at the income you want to derive from this business venture. Your lifestyle and expectations may well be beyond what you are able to generate in the first few years of your business. This is the crucial part of any business plan. If you can't generate enough to make a decent living out of your business then it may well be better to find a job with a regular income.
If you are looking at a personal income $52,000 per year, you know you will need to generate sales of at least $1000 per week, every week to cover this, not forgetting that in fact, the sales would need to exceed this figure to allow for overheads and profit. A simple rule to follow when working out the income you want is:
Using a target wage of $52,000 per year
Wages + overheads + profits = what you need to generate in sales $52,000 (wages) + $52.000 (overheads) + $52,000 (profit) = $156,000 turnover in sales
However, to generate this sort of income you will need to know what quantities to produce (manufacturing) or appointments to make (service). And, if in fact, you, as a sole operator can constantly produce the required amount to reach this income level, taking into account the peaks and troughs that may occur.
For instance, swimsuits are less likely to sell in winter than in summer unless a strong overseas market has been developed to sustain production at the same level throughout the year. Every business, regardless of what it is, will at some time experience a dip in sales. Fads and trends may dictate how much stock suppliers hold or how long it takes to source them. World events, petrol prices and level of demand will have some bearing, as will shipping costs and the list goes on. Adequate consideration of these events must be add in a ?what if? scenario when planning your strategies.
From the time you make the conscious decision that you want to go into business for yourself, you are in control, you will be responsible for everything that happens to you good or bad, you will need to feel confident in your ability to operate your business, set a clear path, match your personal and business goals against your performance and learn to identify problems in advance. You will need to base your decisions on knowledge and not emotions.
?The disgrace is not in the decision you make, but in not making a decision.?
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