Entrepreneurship – Goal Attainable
Published March 26, 2012 | 
If you want to catch excellence, then pursue perfection.
Attainable is extremely important when you identify and prioritize goals that are most important to you, and you begin the process of determining ways that you can make them come true by achievement. The process of achievement that you develop should include the right blend of abilities, skills, attitudes, and the financial capacity to increase the likelihood of successfully reaching them. A significant phenomenon occurs as part of the dynamic process, as you begin to consider previously overlooked opportunities more clearly and bring yourself closer to the achievement of your goals and beyond.
Understand too that goals you set which are too far out of your reach, you and your team probably won’t fully commit to doing. Although you most likely start with the very best of intentions, the simple knowledge that the goal is too much for you means, your own subconscious will remind you repeatedly of this fact, and will serve to stop you from even giving it your best effort.
The essence of a goal should stretch your efforts slightly, so not only you feel you can do it, but it will need a genuine commitment from you. For instance, if you aim to squeeze two weeks of work one week, you and your team all know that isn’t achievable. But setting a goal to do a week’s work in three days, and when you’ve achieved that, aiming to do the 
remaining work in three more days, will keep it achievable for you, and your subconscious will be on board with the achievable commitment.
There is something that I’ve witnessed people having a lot of trouble with, an element that if you don’t define it, you will run into a proverbial wall.
For example, I think we can all agree that one thousand dollars is perhaps more attainable than one million dollars. But, there’s one incredibly essential component or element that’s still missing in the goal setting success recipe, and that’s the how. How are you going to make this money? What’s the process?
Just stop for a second and think. I mean, do we just say to ourselves, “I want ten-thousand dollars now!” and then just sit there waiting while we stare at the wall in front of us? I don’t think so, sitting and waiting’s not going to ever work, never, no way, no how. So goals are great, but you actually have got to get up and do something to achieve them.
So when you’re setting goals remember to define the processes as well.
A better goal would be, “I want ten-thousand dollars from my Web design business.” Since it assigns another specific, which is always a good thing, because it lets you know where to concentrate and focus your effort resources.
Believe me when I say, “This is a real time-saver.” It’ll keep you active at exactly where you need to be active, and unnecessary distractions will be eliminated.
Remember this isn’t rocket-science, and we’re not creating poetry. It’s a very feasible, attainable and specific goal that will serve to keep you away from the indecisive and completely open-ended “I just want my business to make a million dollars and be happy” sort of goals.
Much more importantly, the essential “feeling of success” which reaching for and achieving more attainable goals brings, helps you to remain motivated and build momentum towards even greater success.
Entrepreneurship – Time for a Tune Up
Published March 14, 2012 | Consider that every business has a rhythm to it and creates its own music, lyrics and sound. And knowing the musicality of your business helps you maintain the rhythms and beat necessary for the best possible maximization of your business success.
Tune into some tunes if you want to feel less stressed and more energetic, and turn on your music. Whether you are partial to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lady Gaga or even The Beatles, music makes you feel good by increasing both your heart and breathing rates, which in turn makes your brain release “dopamine,” a pleasant feeling neurotransmitter. In addition, whether you enjoy your favorite music in solitude or with friends, it will more than likely give you the boost to your frame of mind you’re seeking.
Tune up your brain reminiscent of when you were like most kids growing up, and you experienced those what seemed like endless hours that your parents made you spend practicing, and more practicing with a musical instrument from school.
The good news is all that practice did more than tune up your music performance skills. It may have had the effect of making the language areas of your brain more efficient, in addition. So, the good news is that if you never took music lessons, here’s a good reason you should start.
Your brain on music creates increased brain functionality in the region and areas of the brain that deal specifically with the tasks associated with learning both languages and even math. This important information leads researchers to conclude that building music skills may bolster language areas of the brain, as well as math areas of the brain. To put it as plainly as I can, studying music is like doing “brain push-ups.”
Did You Know that just listening to music also has health benefits, especially that the right kind of music can pick you up, ease discomforts and lift your spirits. Now the question is, “What’s the “right” kind for you?” The simple answer is anything you like from sounds that relax you, to classic rock, edgier beats… basically, whatever sounds good to your “inner spirit” is really good for your body, as well.
It’s actually been known for a quite a while that music is a great way to decrease pain you experience, and has a calming effect on fears after surgery and especially during cancer treatments.
So the music that you have playing in the background in your business’ office or in your store, serves a great purpose for you, your employees, clientele and customers.
Entrepreneurship – Make Time for Recreation
Published March 6, 2012 | Remember you almost never have to explain yourself. Your friends definitely don’t need an explanation, and your enemies certainly won’t believe it.
Make Time for Play
Something too often overlooked as a waste of valuable time by many entrepreneurs is the need to take time to recreate one’s self or restore to peak form both physically and mentally. You should be ready to regularly swap your endless to-do lists for some spontaneous recreation or simply playtime. Understand that it packs enormous benefits for your health, mood, mind, job, capacity, and yes, even your relationships, both personal and business.
It’s extremely important to know and reach the realization that the time when you’re floating free, in high spirits and balanced, and totally immersed and engaged, you’re actually enjoying the same results as taking a “mini vacation.” You should welcome this as a vitally important time away from deadlines, bills, and the crazy-crazy schedule you face daily. This is a time to open your mind and let anything count, from enjoying a silly moments with your family to hosting an impromptu gathering of friends, to cooking up new recipes in the kitchen, enjoying long walks, runs or rides on biking trails.
Finally, you know the old saying “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” is simply quite true. In addition to helping yourself to lead a much more fascinating life, recreation is so important because of its many health, social, and educational benefits. Why, even the very word by itself, “recreation,” indicates there is something in us, a vitality that is lost through our daily grind that needs to be replenished. It has been a well-known and established fact that we need to be re-created periodically, replenished, and built back up after a time-period of hard work, and one that none of us should ignore to the detriment of our potential high-level of success.
Entrepreneurship – Keep Your Words Positive
Published February 29, 2012 | A positive mind looks forward to joy, wellbeing, happy moments, and a successful outcome of every situation and action.
Adopt a positive vocabulary of the words that you use. Not only the words that you speak out loud to others, but your internal discourse as well, have an enormous influence in just how you observe and understand what’s happening in the world around you. An often overlooked fact about all words is that they carry a certain amount of emotional weight or impact, inherent both in their precise definition and in the context of the way that they’ve been used in the past.
Let’s look at a few words including for instance, the words “despise,” “hate,” “dislike,” and “loathe” carry basically the same meaning, but contain very different emotional impact. A “dislike” of something, can turn into “hate” by telling yourself that you “hate it” repeatedly over and over, which serves to strengthen the original emotion.
To keep a positive attitude, use words that carry very little negative weight and strong words for positive impact. 
This impedes or prevents the descending spiral of negative energy and its associated words, and in turn quickens the upward spiral of positive energy’s emotions and words.
An entrepreneur’s positive thinking is a mental attitude that admits into the mind only certain thoughts, words and images that are conducive and contribute to growth, expansion and most importantly, success. It is this crucial mental attitude that fully expects good and favorable results, and won’t settle for anything less. Understand that No matter what the mind expects, the mind finds.
Positive and negative thinking are both contagious and every one of us is affected in one way or another, by the people we meet (and we affect them). This naturally occurs both instinctively and subconsciously, transference of our thoughts and feelings through body language. 
So people always sense our aura and are actually affected by our thoughts, and vice versa. Which explains why we’re naturally drawn to positive people, and we would rather be in a positive environment and avoid negative ones if at all possible. Understand that people are more willing to lend a hand and assist us if we are positive, and they really dislike and avoid anyone broadcasting negativity if at all possible.
Negative energy created from thoughts, words and attitudes lead to negative and unhappy moods and actions. When the mind is negative, poisons are released into the blood, which cause more unhappiness and negativity. This is the way to failure, frustration and disappointment. Train yourself to maintain positive energy and outlook, and success becomes part of your life.
Entrepreneurship – Dealing with Negative People
Published February 28, 2012 | It’s important to know it’s not the situation you find yourself in… but your reaction and the choices you make as a result of the situation.
Dealing with negative people is something everyone has to do at one time or another, and you probably have at least one or more friends, relatives, or even associates and acquaintances who make you feel tired and drained after meeting or speaking with them. You know the type that always seems to have something negative or unpleasant to say, as criticisms easily come to their lips from their minds considerably more rapidly than compliments, which seem anathema to them.
It’s truly amazing the level of toxicity that these type of people have and the direct impact they can have to your attitude and ultimately to your success. An old saying is “misery loves company,” and if “naysayers” are not aggressively trying to destroy your enthusiasm, they’re most certainly attempting to sway you to their way of thinking about issues in the market and the world. 
They are literally a drag to everyone they come in contact with, except of course, people just like them.
One of your goals as an entrepreneur is to always maintain a positive attitude. That is why you have to strongly consider a sharp limitation to your exposure to such people, whether or not it’s daily, weekly or any timeframe. Be sure you stay away from the daily “water cooler complaint festival,” and avoid the “gripe and complain” crowd. If you’ve got any family members or close friends who are constantly negative, tune them out.
Tips for Dealing with Negative People include
1) Avoid engagement in any negativity
2) Hang out in groups to deflect
3) Remain impartial, detached and neutral about any negative comments made
4) Avoid hot-button negativity issues and focus on lighter topics
5) Be watchful of the time that you spend with them
6) Identify and focus on areas where you can make a positive impact
7) Drop them completely from your routines, if not your life
Always remember that your valuable time and life is yours to lead, and it’s directly up to you on how you want it to play out. Understand that if there are any negative people (and there’s always some) who always make you feel bad about yourself (you know who they are), you should make a plan on how to deal with them including the tips given earlier. With the right planned actions, you can create a dramatic difference in what you get out of every single one of your relationships.