3 Tips to Boost Your Daily Productivity
3 Tips to Boost Your Daily Productivity
3 Tips to Boost Your Daily Productivity
Have you finally come to the realization that you need to boost your daily productivity? If you have come to the point of admitting you have problems with self-discipline and you’re determined to finally overcome this, celebrate this step. It’s a clear indicator that you have reached a significant milestone.
I remember when I reached that milestone. It was eye-opening, because I thought that I was being very productive. However, when I reviewed my actual production it fell short of my goals. I had fallen into the perfectionist trap.
Today I will share with you three tips (including avoiding the perfectionist trap) to help you boost your daily productivity and achieve your daily goals.
1. Avoid the Perfectionist Trap
Do you finally finish a project, but when you start proofing it or testing it, you think of one more way it can be improved? Then you think of another. Then you research another. Before you know it, you’ve practically rewritten or redesigned the beast and you’re scrambling to meet deadlines (your own, or client-driven ones.)
Learn step back and say “STOP! This is done” by deciding in advance to do so. (It’s easier than you think.)
2. Don’t Punish Yourself for Success
If you finish a project early, resist the urge to immediately fill it with another one. That’s like punishing yourself for being super-efficient and leads to stress and burnout – no matter how keen you are on your business.
Instead, reward yourself with a well-earned dose of self-care. Read a book. Watch a movie. Sit in the garden for the afternoon. Get your hair done.
3. Learn to Switch Off
It’s a proven fact that the most burned-out people are those whose mind is always on their business. That’s a paradox for most entrepreneurs, but talk to any top, seven-figure entrepreneur and you’ll find that ninety-nine per cent of this elite category have no trouble shutting the office door at a certain point every day.
And running on empty won’t make you more efficient. It will just undermine the quality of your work and increase stress.
Conclusion
If you are ready to boost your daily productivity, then follow the three tips I have shared with you today.
- Avoid the Perfectionist Trap
- Don’t Punish Yourself for Success
- Learn to Switch Off
For more tips on boosting your daily productivity, click here for the Daily Discipline for Entrepreneurs™ e-book.
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals.
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I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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Service as a Leadership Model for Entrepreneurs
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Service as a Leadership Model
Service as a Leadership Model for Entrepreneurs
Have you ever considered using service as a leadership model in your business? As an entrepreneur, you will gain both tangible and intangible benefits when you use service as a leadership model.
In this episode of My Biz Dream Team: Opportunity Wednesday Training Series Dexter and I discuss the importance of serving and engaging with your community.
1. Define Your Community
You decide how to define your community. Your community can be the customers, clients, and colleagues that you associate with online. Or your community can be the people and organizations in your physical world. Perhaps you are an active participant in both dimensions, online and off.
However, you define your community, Dexter and I encourage you to use service as a leadership model. It is important to your growth as an entrepreneur and a citizen of the world to be of service. Using service as a leadership model is also a wonderful way to network and be known in your community.
Robert Greenleaf is known as the “grandfather of the modern empowerment movement in business leadership.” He is best known for his writings and lectures on servant leadership. I recommend that you read a compilation of his writings, On Becoming a Servant-Leader.
2. Service by Giving Your Time
One important aspect of servant leadership is volunteering your time. I understand that you are busy running your business. However, it is important to take a moment to look around and see the problems. Then think about how you can help.
As an entrepreneur you have very valuable skills that organizations can use. Your ability to set and accomplish goals, organize tasks, or make a presentation could be invaluable to your community.
I am not suggesting that you start a non-profit. I am simply suggesting that you volunteer a few hours a month. I recommend that you find a cause that is dear to your heart and volunteer a few hours of your time.
During the holiday session, I had the opportunity, as part of the Woodbridge Rotary Club project, to serve a meal and gift gifts at the local Boys and Girl’s Club. It brought joy to my heart to see the pleasure in the eyes of the children. They enjoyed their taco dinner, gifts, and a visit from Santa.
Service as a Leadership Model
Service by Giving Your Money
Another aspect of servant leadership is giving your money to worthy causes. There are thousands of philanthropic and cause-based organizations who can make a positive impact when your money is combined with that of other like-minded individuals.
Although you do not give with the expectation of receiving anything in return. You will often find that when you give with a loving heart that your gift is returned in many tangible and intangible ways. The goodwill that you generate is incalculable. The smile from a student that is helped by your donation can be breathtaking.
Also, you become known by your business colleagues as a person of caring and commitment. Those connections with other like-minded people could lead to better relationships and more business opportunities for you.
Conclusion
Entrepreneurs benefit their communities and themselves when they use service as a leadership model. The benefits to the community and to you are both tangible and intangible. We encourage you to actively engage with your community and commit to a model of service as leadership.
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals.
Check out The Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team™.
Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
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I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, business strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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The Best Way to Create a Fabulous Podcast
The Best Way to Create a Fabulous Podcast
The Best Way to Create a Fabulous Podcast
Have you ever thought about the best way to create a fabulous podcast?
Many entrepreneurs are jumping on the podcasting bandwagon. But there are many more who are still hesitant, despite the clear evidence that podcasting allows you to showcase your expertise and grow your business.
This question has been on my mind for several days.
Dexter and I have been producing a podcast for more than 2 years and have seen our audience and our business grow significantly.
We have learned several lessons that we share with you in our The Special Report and Training Guide: Podcasting Power Playbook™.
Below are a few of our tips on how to create a fabulous podcast. We recommend that you begin with a plan than includes these three specific strategies.
1. Speak to Your Target Audience
Speak to a specific audience who is ready and waiting to hear your message. Your audience is not everyone.
Each week address a specific problem that your target audience is dealing with right now
2. Script Your Podcasts
We like to script our podcasts. We do not want to stumble and sound unprofessional.
Instead, we have developed a consistent opening and closing. So, each week, we script the middle.
3. Set a Goal for Each Episode
Set a goal for every episode of your podcast.
Then be sure to include a call to action to your audience around that goal.
Conclusion
The best way to create a fabulous podcast is to begin with a plan that includes the following three strategies.
- Speak to your target audience
- Script your podcasts
- Set a goal for each episode
To learn more about these strategies, and others on the best way to create a fabulous podcast, checkout The Special Report and Training Guide: Podcasting Power Playbook™.
Marketing Templates
Just imagine if you had marketing templates and insider strategies that got you consistent results.
Would that end the procrastination and anxiety you face staring at a blank computer screen.
Well now, you can tap into the expertise of my colleagues Alice Seba and Ron Douglas. They have put together a fabulous package of marketing templates that you can use in your business.
In addition, you can lightly edit these templates and sell them.
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Mentoring
Dexter and I have a few slots in my 6-week Strategic Pathway to Success Program. If you are interested in working with us to solve your pressing business problems and begin to create multiple streams of income.
Click here: The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team™.
Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love!
Act today!
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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Making Time to Take Stock of Your Business
Making Time to Take Stock of Your Business
Making Time to Take Stock of Your Business
Are you making time to take stock of your business? Do you have a few hours in the next few days to look back at 2018 and look forward to 2019?
Are you spinning your wheels in your business? Have you met your goals this year? What do you want to achieve in 2019?
These questions and others are on my mind this morning.
I have learned the importance of making time to take stock of my business and my life. Both must work together if I am to be happy and fulfilled. Today, I am sharing with you my process and tools for taking stock of my business.
Plans for 2019
Today I am beginning my annual planning process where I take stock of my business and my life.
I will take a few hours to review 2018. I will consider whether I have met my income goals. Then I will ask myself whether I made the business connections that I wanted.
Next, I will ponder over the growth of my business.
Is this really what I want to do? Am I meeting people in the community who can help me with my personal and professional goals?
As I review 2018, I will begin thinking about what I want my business and life to look like in 2019.
What dreams and goals do I have for 2019? I am really looking forward to experiences that excite me. I want to set goals that will push me beyond my comfort zone, but I want to passionately pursue.
I will be using a product by my friends at Coach Glue to help me with this process. I find “Your 12-Month Marketing Calendar” a great planning tool that keeps me on track. I also use it to teach my clients how to do the same thing!
If you are interested in working smarter rather than harder, and teaching your clients to do the same thing, then check out “Your 12-Month Marketing Calendar.”
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Podcasting
If you are interested in learning how to begin a fantastic podcast, then check out The Podcasting Power Playbook™ that Dexter and I created.
We provide you a step-by-step guide to producing a podcast built around informative conversations that showcase your expertise.
Click here: The Podcasting Power Playbook™
Mentoring
I have a few slots in my 6-week Strategic Pathway to Success Program. If you are interested in working with me 1:1 to solve your pressing business problems and begin to create multiple streams of income,
Click here: The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™
Conclusion
Making time to take stock of your business is an important exercise. It assures that you are on the right path to the future success that you deserve. It is especially important if you want to develop a plan that helps you work smarter rather than harder.
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team™.
Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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How to Begin A Fantastic Podcast Today!
How to Begin a Fantastic Podcast Today
Begin a Fantastic Podcast Today
What would happen to your business if you were able to begin a fantastic podcast that showcased your expertise?
Podcasting is growing in popularity and offering you more opportunities to market yourself and earn more money. It is a great way to showcase your expertise.
If you are interested in learning how to begin a fantastic podcast, then check out The Podcasting Power Playbook™ that Dexter and I created.
We provide you a step-by-step guide to producing a podcast built around informative conversations that showcase your expertise.
Click here: The Podcasting Power Playbook™
Mentoring
I have a few slots in my 6-week The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™ If you are interested in working with me 1:1 to solve your pressing business problems and begin to create multiple streams of income.
Click here: The Strategic Pathway to Success Program™
Attract More Clients to Your Website
Hopefully you have been following our advice to establish a home on the internet. That would be your website where you blog, provide access to your podcast, and have an irresistible free offer for your ideal client.
If you want to take your website from bland to brilliant, take advantage of this fantastic training package from Coach Glue:
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Conclusion
If you are ready to begin a fantastic podcast today, then learn how by following our step-by-step guide in The Podcasting Power Playbook™.
I look forward to working with you to help you create a fantastic podcast that showcases your expertise.
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals.
Check out The Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team™.
Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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Absolutely the Best Way to Deal with Business Burnout
Absolutely the Best Way to Deal with Business Burnout
Absolutely the Best Way to Deal with Business Burnout
Do you know how to deal with business burnout? What if you knew absolutely the best way to deal with business burnout?
Would you like a solution to address the lack of energy and enthusiasm that you and your clients may feel for your businesses?
I don’t know about you, but I am feeling the stress of this busy holiday season. In addition to keeping my business growing and thriving, there are additional social events this time of the year.
What about you?
Is your enthusiasm for your business waning? Then read on about a fantastic product that you can use for yourself and your clients to deal with business burnout.
Warning Signs of Business Burnout
The moment business burnout starts creeping in, the stress you are already feeling tends to magnify. Warning signs of business burnout include:
o No longer feeling energized by working long hours
o Frustration with your inability to accomplish tasks that were once easy
o Not wanting to come to work (or sit down at your computer)
o Feeling angry with yourself at not accomplishing more
o Procrastination and avoidance behaviors
o A decline in self-worth and self-esteem
o Resenting clients and customers
o Feeling overwhelmed
o Feeling hopeless
When I saw what my friends, Nicole and Melissa from Coach Glue, were offering for sale today, I just had to share it with you! It is a topic that will benefit us all:
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You can learn from it, teach other speakers and entrepreneurs how to deal with this problem, and earn yourself some money!
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Another great way to earn yourself some money is to begin a podcast. Podcasting is growing and offering you more opportunities to market yourself and earn more money.
Perhaps if you add another dimension to your business, like podcasting, your enthusiasm for your business will be re-ignited. Your business burnout could go away!
Check out my Special Report and Training on podcasting today!
Click here: Podcasting Power Playbook™
Mentoring Program
I have a few slots in my 6-week Strategic Pathway to Success Program. If you are interested in working with me 1:1 to solve your pressing business problems and begin to create multiple streams of income, then contact me at pamela@mybizdreamteams.com
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Conclusion
If you are feeling overwhelmed by your business, lack enthusiasm to work on a project, or resent talking to your clients, you may be suffering from business burnout.
You will certainly benefit from “How to Recognize and Heal from Business Burnout” by Coach Glue. Then you can teach other entrepreneurs having the same problem and earn yourself some money.
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team™. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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How to Choose a Pathway for Success
How to Choose a Pathway for Success
How to Choose a Pathway for Success
If you had a choice, would you choose a pathway for success or a pathway for failure? Of course, you would choose a pathway for success!
However, I often find that people choose to focus on improving their weaknesses. In their minds, they see this as the pathway to success. I say, that is the wrong choice.
Instead, my experience shows that choosing a pathway for success is about identifying your strengths. Begin to chose your pathway to success as an entrepreneur by focusing on your strengths, building them up, and letting go of areas of weakness.
I have found that this course of action works for me. Hopefully, it will work for you also.
1. Focus on Your Strengths
Focusing on your strengths makes you a much more successful entrepreneur than trying to improve your weaknesses. I learned early in life that I had a gift for public speaking and focused on that strength in school, in choosing a career, and in building a business.
After singing in the church choir, I quickly realized that singing was not one of strengths. Rather it was a weakness for me. So, why should spend time trying to become a singer.
2. Follow Your Dreams
I always dreamed of being a lawyer. I loved the idea of being an advocate. In school, I was the person advocating for students with the principal and school board.
I also enjoyed teaching. As a child, I loved teaching my siblings how to read and recite poetry and speeches. My teachers often asked me to tutor other students.
As I grew older, I was able to have a career that involved both being a lawyer and a teacher. Now, I focus on teaching business owners on becoming effective leaders, speakers, and entrepreneurs.
3. Everyone Has Strengths and Weaknesses
Everyone has both strengths and weaknesses. Not everyone is going to become a doctor. Nor is everyone going to become a concert pianist.
Neither pursuit is better than the other. They are simply different. What would you do with your life if you could only do what you really love and are good at doing?
Unfortunately, many people are taught either accidentally or on purpose that they should become well-rounded. So, sometimes they dabble in careers that do not interest them, simply because it is popular today. They have no real ability or interest in the career.
4. Do What You Love and Are Already Doing Well
I cannot think of anything much worse than doing a job all-day long that does use your strengths.
Hopefully, you are not draining your resources by dabbling in career and business endeavors simply because they are popular.
Do not try to fit a square peg into a round hole. Instead, identify your strengths, what you love doing, and are already doing well.
If you do this, then you can find entrepreneurial success.
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out The Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team™. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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How to Identify Your Strengths: A Checklist for Success
How to Identify Your Strengths
How to Identify Your Strengths: A Checklist for Success
Learning how to identify your strengths can be daunting. However, having a good checklist to help you identify your strengths can make a world of difference. As I made the transition from employee to full-time entrepreneur, I used this checklist to help me uncover the strengths that would help me in my new role. Take a few minutes to go through this checklist to help you identify your strengths as you transform from an employee to an entrepreneur.
1. Identifying Your Strengths
First, answer the following questions:
What do you like to do every day?
Do people make favorable comments about what you like to do?
Are there other things that you do that receive favorable comments?
What do you like to talk about?
2. Capitalize on Your Strengths
Practice saying “No” to doing things that you do not do well.
Identify skills you can transfer from your job to your business.
Stop doing things you dislike, when possible. (Remember to outsource by building your business dream team!)
Leave your comfort zone.
3. Develop Your Skills
Take one step a day towards improvement.
Define expectations for yourself.
4. Determine if Weaknesses Matter
Center your activity on what you can do.
Know that you can do more than you think you can.
Avoid making excuses.
5. Use Tools to Help You Better Understand Your Strengths
Take at least one personality test.
Identify famous people with your personality type.
Read books that highlight how to use your strengths.
Find a coach or mentor.
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out Special Report and Training Guide: Building Your Business Dream Team. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
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Developing Better Listening Skills for Effective Leadership
Developing Better Listening Skills for Effective Leadership
Developing Better Listening Skills for Effective Leadership
Have you ever thought about developing better listening skills? Well, if you want to be an effective leader, developing better listening skills is essential.
I learned the importance of developing better listening skills for effective leadership during a successful career as a litigator, policy maker, entrepreneur, and serving on the boards of many community organizations.
I am not talking about whether you can hear or not. Instead, I am referring to the ability to connect with someone because you not only hear what they are saying, but also understand what they are not saying. This often called 360 listening.
Today, I am sharing with you the lessons that I have learned about the importance of developing better listening skills in making me a better a leader. Hopefully, you can learn from my experiences!
1. Developing Better Listening Skills Builds Trust
The ability to connect and to build trust in a meaningful way is a key component of leadership.
I recently read an article by Melissa Daimler, “Listening is an Overlooked Leadership Tool” in the Harvard Business Review. Ms. Daimler makes an excellent point that, “The most powerful mode of communication is that of two people listening.”
At one time, I thought that as the leader, I should be the person doing most of the talking. However, I realized that I was a more effective leader when I listened and asked questions.
Developing Better Listening Skills for Effective Leadership
2. Developing Better Listening Skills Builds Respect
I learned that there is no better way to show respect to another person than to listen to what she is saying. I had to learn to stop looking at emails when a team member came to talk to me. I also had to learn to stop multi-tasking, and to pay attention to the person standing in front of me.
Sometimes, I found myself so worried about getting stuff down, that I forgot about the importance of effective communication with the people who worked with me.
As Steven Covey said in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, “Seek first to understand.” I learned to understand by listening. Once I began developing better listening skills, I became a more effective leader.
Below is a checklist that I have developed to help me and my colleagues in developing better listening skills. Hopefully, the checklist will help you as you learn to connect, build trust, and communicate by developing better listening skills.
3. The Developing Better Listening Skills for Effective Leadership Checklist™
1. I understand that developing better listening is a skill that I absolutely must develop.
2. When I am listening to someone, I eliminate distractions and give that person my full attention. I am no longer:
- Processing what I want to say as they are speaking
- Jumping to conclusions or making assumptions about what they are trying to communicate
- Interrupting people when I should be listening
- Other__________________________________________
3. As I am developing better listening skills, I am:
- Looking for non-verbal clues
- Asking deep questions
- Thinking before I speak
- Following up on our conversation
- Other___________________________________________
4. I do not hesitate to make notes about conversations I have just had, to remind myself of important details or follow-up actions I must take.
5. I am aware of the three different types of listening, and what differentiates them:
- Internal listening
- Focused listening
- 360 listening
6. I am working hard to practice 360 listening.
7. I understand that developing better listening skills actively builds trust.
Developing Better Listening Skills for Effective Leadership
Conclusion
The importance of developing better listening skills for effective leadership can not be overstated. Over a successful career as a litigator, policy maker, entrepreneur, and serving on numerous boards, I have learned from my experiences. Hopefully, you can begin developing better listening skills as you grow as a leader in your job, your business, and your community.
I would love to hear from you about the leadership challenges that you face! Leave me a comment below!
At My Biz Dream Team, we can show you how to develop an internet lifestyle business that can help you reach your money goals. Check out the Special Report and Training Guide: Build My Business Dream Team. Let us show you how to reach your goal of creating a lifestyle and a business that you love! Act today.
Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, entrepreneur, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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Shifting Your Mindset for Prosperity and Success
Shifting Your Mindset for Prosperity and Success
Shifting Your Mindset for Prosperity and Success
Shifting your mindset for prosperity and success may sound daunting. However, by practicing a few habits you can begin transforming your life.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a prosperous and successful entrepreneur? Do you wonder what prosperous and successful entrepreneurs do or know that makes them so different from everyone else?
As you know, entrepreneurs are different from everyone else because we get to make the rules we live by. The trouble is, however, that many entrepreneurs still live by rules that others make. These rules often do not work well and keep them from prosperity and success.
Today I want to share with you what I have learned from being in business for several years and from talking to dozens of my colleagues. To become a prosperous and successful entrepreneur I had to learn to enlarge my capacity and change the habits that no longer worked for me. My colleagues had to make the same changes. We had to begin shifting our mindset for prosperity and success.
Here are 7 mindset practices that Dexter and I, and other successful entrepreneurs use to replace those old habits that kept us stuck. Once you begin to practice these new habits, you find yourself shifting your mindset for prosperity and success.
1. Use Affirmations Effectively
To begin shifting your mindset for prosperity and success, learn to use affirmations effectively.
If affirmations have not worked for you in the past, consider the fact that you may be investing your energy and hope into (1) unrealistic ones you do not really believe in or (2) generic affirmations that are too vague and broad-ranging.
The key to making affirmations effective is two-fold:
• Be specific. Take your affirmation from pie-in-the-sky platitude to something you can achieve.
• Make sure you believe in the message.
Anyone can say: “I am a millionaire right now.” But that is not really an affirmation. That is wishful thinking.
On the other hand, telling yourself daily, “I have a millionaire mindset” can be a powerful boost to your confidence and outlook, if you pair it with a plan of action.
2. Change your Perspective
The next habit to develop as you begin shifting your mindset for prosperity and success is to change your perspective.
Are you a “glass-half-empty” person? If so, call yourself on these negative, doom-and-gloom self-messages. Say,“Oops, that’s a glass-half-empty thought. Let’s turn this around and transform this thought into glass-half-full.”
It may feel contrived and your heart may not be in this little exercise at first, if you have been undergoing stress or challenges in your business or personal life. But if you persevere, you will soon discover that deliberately changing glass-half-empty thoughts to glass-half-full ones increases:
• Gratitude
• Empowerment
• Optimism
• Proactivity
Ultimately you will achieve prosperity and success as you develop the habit of changing your perspective!
Reframe Your Negative Thoughts
3. Reframe Negative Thoughts
Shifting your mindset for prosperity and success, involves learning to reframe negative thoughts.
The damage may be done. A negative family environment or significant relationship may have left you with poor self-esteem or poor processing habits. Or perhaps the damage was caused by that toxic company you worked at for twenty years.
But no matter what caused you to adopt an “I’m doomed, I may as well give up” attitude. You can make the decision to change that thinking today.
You can begin to making a mindset shift for prosperity and success.
One successful technique that psychologists use is called “re-framing”. This is how it works:
• Take a negative, habitual thought
• Filter it in an objective manner through the light of reality
• Replace your negative thought with a positive but realistic, corrected version.
You can do this with any type of thought,business or personal. For example, change “I always fail” with, “I am successful. Sometimes I may make mistakes, but I learn from them.”
4. Avoid “All-or-Nothing” Thinking
One highly destructive self-talk is known in psychological circles as “all-or-nothing thinking”. To ensure you do not do it, watch out particularly for the words “always” or “never” in self-talk: For example, “I always fail at everything I do” or “I’ll never learn how to do write sales copy”.
All-or-nothing thinking is just another way of beating yourself up, and strips away both personal power and confidence.
If you catch yourself making an all-or-nothing statement, reframe it instantly to a more realistic, empowering thought.
For example, change your “all-or nothing” thinking to, “Lots of people learn how to write sales copy effectively. I can choose to outsource this. Or say to yourself, “I can just take my time, read instructions more carefully, and keep doing it until I get it right.”
Shifting Your Mindset for Prosperity and Success
5. Avoid Making Every Setback a Catastrophe
Do you see every setback as a catastrophe? Is every setback that happens the end of the world? Do you say things like “my business is FINISHED” if your computer dies, instead of simply buying another one?
Yes, this is just another form of beating yourself up. Even if you do experience a disaster—for example, a power outage occurs, and you lose a graphics file you’ve been working on for hours—realize that in the large scheme of things, this is frustrating but not really the end of your world. Treat it as a learning experience. Example: “Next time I’ll remember to save that graphic at every step.”
6. Ask Yourself: “Will This Matter in Five Years?”
One of the best ways to train yourself out of doom-oriented thinking is to get into the habit of asking yourself, after each disaster, “Will this matter in five years?”
If the answer is “no, I won’t even remember it”, it’s not worth worrying about.
7. Focus On Serving Others
One of the best ways to begin shifting your mindset for prosperity and success is to start focusing on serving others.
Our worst worries, fear and paralysis behaviors and mindsets occur when we are focused inward, thinking about ourselves.
Instead, focus on serving others. Think about how you are going to help the person who reads your next book. Or focus on how much it will help not just your client but other members of his team when you finish your project on time.
When you are focused on serving others, there is no room for worry.
Conclusion
As you begin shifting your mindset for prosperity and success, you will begin to transform yourself and your business.
Remember that any transformation begins in your mind. See it. Believe it. Then you can achieve it.
Begin to practice these 7 mindset habits to experience prosperity and success in your life.
1. Use Affirmations Effectively
2. Change Your Perspective
3. Re-frame Negative Thoughts
4. Avoid “All or Nothing” Thinking
5. Avoid Making Every Set Back a Catastrophe
6. Ask Yourself: “Will it Matter in Five Years?”
7. Focus on Serving Others
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Pamela Montgomery
I am Pamela Montgomery, attorney, author, marketing strategist, and speaker, helping you create the life of your dreams as you achieve uncommon results in your business and in your life!
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