Entrepreneurship – Set Goals to Create Best Business Results
Published March 20, 2012 | 
It is extremely essential to clearly define your business processes, milestones and goals, so that others can visualize them as you do.
The process of setting goals gives you and your team a target on which to sharpen your focus, ensuring that your efforts aren’t just focused, but all in the same direction, thus enabling the team to enjoy a greater chance for success. And, by the development of specific process-oriented goals, you create a compass to provide the team with a sense of direction. They no longer just show up for work just to take up space and valuable resources.
Your team will start to quickly assume increased responsibility and ownership of the projects that need to be completed, as a direct result of the new found direction. The process-orientation of the goals you all commit to will give you metric or measurable milestones to allow them to know and ensure specific projects both to stay on track, and within time frames established. And of course, be sure you celebrate milestone accomplishments along the way!
By the implementation of proper processes and procedures for creating goals, you actively set the basic foundation for creating a successful plan. On balance of everything considered, if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well… right? 
The first step to getting what you want not only from your business, but your life as well is the consideration of the quality of your goals. So be doubly sure that you take the process of goal-setting seriously.
Understand there is no longer “business as usual” or “the way it’s always been done.” If you create your goals in the “usual way,” they often quickly get forgotten, ignored, and fall to the wayside. Make them process-oriented, succinctly clear, specific, attainable, keep your team involved, and you’ve created a powerfully motivating force for positive change and maximized success!
Questions That Create Entrepreneurial Success
Published February 16, 2012 | Always Remember, that it’s Our Choices, not Chances that Decide our Destiny.
Truly successful entrepreneurs develop early on, the unique skill of incredible focus on the things that really matter. Let’s examine a few questions that you can ask yourself on a daily basis to develop, sharpen, and maintain the high-level of focus that’s so critical to navigating your journey on the road to success.
First of all, do you consider success means making lots of money? If you do, then you may want to think again.
Let’s face the fact that simple pictures of dead presidents (i.e. money etc.) have never really made anybody truly happy. And success without happiness is not, well, success. So, someone buying a lot of things and spending a lot of money may be good for a moment, but only a moment. For instance, a brand new car may really keep you pumped with emotion for a day, a week or two, and even a month, but the pride of ownership is short-term and transitory to the continuous search for the illusive moments of being happy.
Real entrepreneurial success comes from the quality of relationships entrepreneurs have and the real emotions that they experience each and every day. 
Let’s look closely at questions you need to strongly consider asking at the end of each day, and you can be guaranteed that you’ll become more successful. Ready? Here are the questions and they all start with “Have I…”
- Made absolutely sure that those I love feel loved?
- Done something to improve the world today?
- Spent time conditioning my body for more strength, flexibility and resiliency?
- Reviewed, sharpened, and improve my plans for the future?
- Maintained the same high-level of integrity whether in private or the public eye?
- Avoided unkind words and actions of a strong and lasting negative nature?
- Been able to accomplish something meaningful and worthwhile?
- Provided help to somebody in less fortunate circumstances?
- Created any valuable moments that make up future wonderful memories and recollections?
- Felt really thankful for the tremendous gift of just being alive?
Here’s the real heart of the matter. Questions that you ask yourself on a daily basis contribute to your level of focus, and the strength of your focus directly shapes and influences the results of what you do.
Simple questions like these compel you to focus on the things that are really important in your life. Learn them, pay attention to of them, use them, and the rest of your life, especially your work and your business will quickly create a place where success becomes the destiny you control. And by doing so, you will be able to both visualize and navigate a straighter path as you journey on “your road to success.”
The Zen of Spacious Life – Mindfulness
Published October 27, 2011 | 
To consider it in the simplest way, mindfulness means to stop thinking and start to be aware, to live in the present (here and now) of your life experiences instead of the past and future of your experiences and thoughts. Awareness or mindfulness stretches time in exactly the same way that new experience does, and since we devote more focused attention to our experience, we take in more information from it.
In other words, each of us to some extent can actually control time, although many do it unknowingly. But, the fact remains that time doesn’t have to speed up as we get older. Some of us try to extend our lives in traditional ways like keeping fit and eating healthy food, which is completely sensible and highly recommendable. Yet, it’s also possible for each one of us to expand time from the inside. How? By changing the very way we experience moments, the moment to moment reality that is our lives. Just imagine we can live for much longer, not just in terms of chronological years, but also in terms of our perception… and our spacious life.
Understand that Mindfulness is simply, your focused awareness of the present moment. The focused awareness of mindfulness allows us to be entirely conscious of any simple sensation like the warmth of sunlight, the cold of snowflakes or with the right focused awareness, the complex relationship and interaction occurring between our inner thoughts and feelings.
By tuning into our mental processes with the same focused mindfulness, we are capable of recognizing that our thoughts are actually just thoughts, and they don’t necessarily have to represent reality. With that focused recognition, we can observe our very thoughts, rather than being subject to them.
An amazing trait of mindfulness is that the clear and focused awareness allows us to absorb the tapestry-like richness of the moment, rather than going through life with half of our attention on the past or future or consumed by our own mental thought-chatter. The self-actualized knowledge that directly results from mindfulness permits us to be more intentional in choosing priorities and actions that fit our life mission or our entrepreneurial endeavors with greater success.
Senses of Mindfulness
Body – Being mindful of your breathing, even to the level of individual breath and this is your perception of the breath. Try it with different breath durations, long breath, short breath, deep breaths and shallow.
Feeling – From pleasant to painful and feeling along the spectrum.
Thoughts – Thoughts and intentions.
Mental – This is as much about the mechanism of how the six senses function, and is the very source or origin of all thoughts, feelings and perceptions. Everything starts somewhere and this is it. It is known in many beliefs as “the all.”
Therefore mindfulness should be defined as a technique in which a person becomes intentionally and skillfully aware of his or her perceptions, feelings, and thoughts in the present moment.
Finally, studies have found the following benefits for people who have developed their personal focused awareness and mindfulness with regular practice:
- Self-trust, self-acceptance, and increased self-awareness
- Enhanced and insightful appreciation of life
- Face difficulties with genuine serenity
- Accepting of life and its challenges with greater attitude
- Effective coping strategies with fluid adaptation to change
- Lasting decrease in stress-related physical symptoms, including chronic pain
- Anxiety and depression decreased significantly
- Greater concentration and enhanced creativity
- Immune system functioning with highly-noticeable improvement
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. – Daniel Goleman
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness ‘the All,’ with God. – Peace Pilgrim
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. – Paul Cezanne
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. – Lao Tzu
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. – Eric Hoffer
To reach your highest level of awareness, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. – Anonymous
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Positive
Published August 12, 2010 | Yin and Yang, left and right, good and evil, positive and negative, represent one of the most powerful aspects of human nature and life, the forces that can have a direct impact on the quality of life and the choices people make that determine their actions causes 
and effects not in only their lives but sometimes in the lives of many others including the entire world, depending on who the people are and their positions in life.
One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge, enlightenment and understanding about being POSITIVE and the great importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and positive, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. – John Wooden
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. – Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. – Albert Einstein
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life. – Joel Osteen
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. – Michael Jordan
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. – Henry David Thoreau
Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. – Pablo Picasso
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. – Alexis de Tocqueville
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. – W. Clement Stone
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – W. Clement Stone
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. – Brian Tracy
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. – Robert H. Schuller
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. – Pat Riley
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. – Franz Kafka
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. – Les Brown
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – Robert Collier
I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. – James A. Baldwin
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. – William James
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain. - Robert A. Cook
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. – Wade Boggs
Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients – foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes – contribute to greater energy and positive emotions. – Marilu Henner
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. – B. F. Skinner
I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. - Harvey Fierstein
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. – John Newcombe
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Focus
Published August 1, 2010 | One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge and enlightenment about FOCUS and the importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and present, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. – Tony Robbins
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. – Tony Robbins
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. – Brian Tracy
My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. – Andy Warhol
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right. – Marianne Williamson
Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That’s the key. – Jack Lalane
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, and reduce it. And laugh. – Jim Carrey
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. – Alan Watts
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. – Denis Waitley
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. – Denis Waitley
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman’s personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman. – Vera Wang
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. – Matt Cameron
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses. – William Arthur Ward
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. – Sydney Madwed