Your 100 Day Challenge!!!

 “They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”  Andy Warhol

The good news is that today is your examination day.

Today is YOUR day for change and YOUR day to start to make a difference in your life.

Today is the day that you take action and start to really accelerate and move forward with your life.

Procrastination is not an option, your time has come to be decisive and take control of your life, build your ship, find your vision and horizon and set sail on your journey of life.

Your success is always in YOUR hands, Your are FREE from your first breath. If you do not have a plan then you are part of someone else’s plan!! Think about this for a moment...

Ask yourself...  Who is your best friend?

You may answer in many ways but in reality there is only one answer to this question... and that is that YOU...  YOU are your best friend!!!

Start to Invest in yourself, invest in your own personal development, you have to start to pay yourself first. And you have to save yourself before you can save anybody else!!!

There are four key elements of success and achievement. And these can be applied to any person or indeed any business.

1          Sales (you need to be able to generate money to live!!)

2          Accounting - You must develop your financial literacy

3          Investing - You must invest and you must invest in yourself

4          Leadership - Leadership of yourself and Leadership of others

But first you have to take action and take ownership and responsibility for who YOU are, where you are in life, and what you have or have and have not achieved.

Everybody has achieved something in their life they are proud of, we have all had moments where we are on a high and feel that we can reach the clouds. We have all been successful at times in our life, just not always as often as we would like.  The 100 Day Challenge starts to focus your mind and actions, the 100 Day Challenge starts to give you a framework of success in your chosen fields of achievement and builds a firm platform so that you can really achieve the goals that you aspire to.

From this point in time STOP blaming someone or something else. In reality it is you that is responsible. From this point forward, take full responsibility and ownership for your life, you are NOW in control of your own ship, you are the Captain of your own destiny, you are responsible for your next step and the following steps in life that you make.

Today is the day you take inventory of your life, your choices, your actions, and your results.

Are you really and truly ready to take ACTION?

Please think about this question, really clearly, be absolutely sure that you, want to become part of the 3% that take action, and that you want to start to take action and define your legacy.

If you are not sure, try this simple exercise...

Imagine yourself sitting in a chair on the last day of your life, with family, or friends, looking out of the window, whatever the ideal situation you would like to find yourself in.   Then ask yourself “What have I achieved? And what will I be remembered for. In effect start to write your legacy.  When you are doing this exercise, think about how you feel, your emotions, picture your goals as having been accomplished, how proud are you about your personal achievements?  What can you say “I did that?”  to....and so on.... build a mental, physical, spiritual and emotional picture in your mind’s eye of your completed life’s story.

Then take this simple ten point examination;

1.     Do you have a clear sense of where you are going and how you will get there?

2.     Are you living the life you imagined, or just going through the motions?

3.     Is your behaviour worth modelling? Does it inspire excellence?

4.     Have you been using the word NO to set boundaries so that you can focus on the bigger YES?

5.     Are your choices and actions taking you closer to your goals?

6.     What are your proudest accomplishments since the beginning of the year?

7.    Are you beginning each day with a written plan? If so, are you following it?

8.    Does your work and daily actions demonstrate a commitment to excellence?

9.    Are you doing everything you can to make this the best year of your life?

10.  If you passed today, would you be proud of the legacy you are leaving behind?

If after this you are still serious about action, then take the next step and start to build your team. Aim to work with some of the best people on the planet. No one achieves anything solely on their own. Everyone has a team behind them, even if this is just your family and friends.

But today YOU are going to start to BUILD your team, your team for success...

Join and commit yourself to the 100 Day Challenge. You will find this incredibly inspiring. Today s the day that you put a stake in the ground and start to turn a corner in your life.

"Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stephenson.. 

To Your action and to your success!!!

Think and Grow Rich!!!

You have a choice

The book accredited to making a million millionaires

An International Best Seller

With over 15 million copies sold

Napoleon Hill in his ground breaking book “Think and Grow Rich” reveals the success strategies of histories rich and famous, including Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller and many more

This is THE Wealth creation Classic

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill, with expert insight and intuition guides you through the journey of success and personal achievement. We all need a guiding hand, a rare person that can point and show us the, and someone who can give you the self belief and confidence to follow your dreams and to reach your highest goals. To tread where few others have gone.

Think and Grow Rich will guide you through to a far greater sense of achievement than you have ever thought possible when you first pick up this book…..

After all it is only a book???.... or is it???

Think and Grow Rich will forever be more than just a book.  It is a compass and a map offering  series of pathways and journeys, interlaced with insight and experience from some of the greatest minds and achievers that have ever lived on the planet. Guiding you forward to a new possible future of success and achievement.

It is a choke…..it is YOUIR choice… it is a choice to read and learn from Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich masterpiece or not.  Are you going to choose to be rich or not?? Do you want to be successful? And, are willing to pay the price and take action?…

……will you make the first step and start to learn from some of the greatest minds of all time…. This is question that you and only you can answer…

But while you are pondering these questions..….think very carefully……

Procrastination costs more, much more than action!!!  If you are reading this then you are serious about your own success or you would not be here……

Also remember that all the studies show that only 3% of the people actually take action in any given situation with 97% of people procrastinate and delay and do not take action until everyone else does, Well in this case 15million other people have already taken action, so you are not alone!!!……

And when you have read this amazing book, you will want to guard its secrets, guard its insights and start to work on building your life of success and achievement….but what you really need to do it to buy and recommend this book for two of your very closest, trusted  and best friends… the two most trusted people in your life….and then advise them to so the same and so on……

You will then start to build your leadership team, and all will have one of the best success frameworks, your “concrete philosophy for success”  for your team to work from and together…you can then all use this as one of your principle “Stepping Stones” towards success and a new life….

But is is still your choice….

Do you want to be in with the 3% taking action of the 97% of [people procrastinating and finding any reason or excuses for not taking action… it is only you that can decide…it is your choice…. If you do not read this book you will never know,, and if you do chose to read this book you will never look back!!…..you have a choice…and your choice is now!!!

“The wiley Scot had grown excited as he expounded the ideas that there should be a concrete ‘philosophy of success’ for the average person, drawn from the experiences of great achievers”  Tom Butler-Brown

When Carnegie asked Napoleon Hill to spend the next 20 years formulating this “Philosophy of success” Napoleon Hill took only 29 seconds to say “yes”…..

How long will it take you??

45 Lessons in Life by Regina Brett (age 90)!!!

I was guided to these 45 lessons in life  that celebrate growing older and the knowledge that lifes experience provides. Regina Brett wrote the 45 lessons life taught her.

Lessons in

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone..
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. it’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ”In five years, will this matter?”.
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything.. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 32
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life.. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.

Three Ways to redefine YOUR compass!!!

Your best friend is yourself. If you can see the best in yourself, you will find the best in others.

Inside yourself, you always have a choice. Do you stand in the light? or do you stand in the dark?

Your compass in life are your values. Define TODAY, NOW!!! What your top three values are!!!

Pitching the Deal to Investors 2012

Investors and senior executives are looking for “the next big thing.”  The Investors are looking for great ideas led by great teams to bring innovation and excellence to the fore and to show the determination, drive and commitment to drive success. Within our complex world many people are vying for attention. The teams that stand out are the ones that deliver their pitch in less than a minute, and still make their points persuasive.

Unfortunately many teams do not think about their story and how it comes across, a great project with an ineffective pitch.  Do not make polite conversation; tell the story in a sentence.

The Four Steps to Success

There is a four step exercise that will work for any company or product. You must simply answer each of the following four questions in no more than two sentences:

1. What do you do?
2. What problem do you solve?
3. How is your product or service different?
4. Why should I care?

By keeping each answer brief, you will develop a succinct story that should take no more than 60 seconds.

Let's use the example of an entrepreneur who is starting a housekeeping franchise. Based on those four questions, the company's story might sound something like this:

"We own Five Star Cleaning, an eco-friendly housekeeping service that pampers you and your home [what your business does]. Typical cleaning services make you prep your home ahead of time, supervise to prevent theft and hang around for hours while the cleaners do their work. Because we require no prep, this saves time right off the top, and we are bonded so our service is worry-free, allowing you to go about your day [what problem does it solve]. And, we always send a minimum team of three to get the job done quickly [how it's different]. Imagine coming home from a long day and your laundry is all done, your bed has been turned down and there are fresh flowers awaiting you. That's the extra pampering we offer that sets us apart from all the rest [why you should care].

Your first sentence should be a "Twitter-friendly headline." You should be able to describe your product or service in 140 characters or less, short enough for a tweet. Create product descriptions that are short, catchy, distinctive and memorable.

If you can tell your story in well under 60 seconds and have some extra time, be ready to relate an example or story that makes your product or service more tangible..

Don't let your idea die because you've lost the attention of your audience. Grab your listeners in the first 60 seconds and they'll want to hear more.

The Five Steps to Effective Delegation

The Five Steps to Effective Delegation

No person works on their own.  Everyone works with a team or in a team, both professionally and in their private lives.

When building a Team you always need to work with the very best people that you can attract. When leading a team you need to show clear leadership and at all times you need to decide if you are working ON your business or IN your business!!

If you are working in YOUR business YOU are doing the work, if YOU are Woking On your business you are leading and motivating a team. In order to lead and motivate a team you need to master teh art and science of delegation.

There are FIVE STEPS to effective delegation and supervision that will guarantee that your expectations are met with success and the results are achieved.

Step One

The first step in delegation is to become perfectly clear about the results that you desire from the job. The greater clarity you have with regard to the results expected, the easier it is for you to select the right person to do the job.

Step Two

The second step is to select a person based on his or her demonstrated ability or success at doing this job. Never delegate an important job to a person who has never done it before. If the successful completion of the task is important to the success of your business, it is essential that you delegate it to someone who you confidently believe can complete the task satisfactorily.

Step Three

Third, explain to the person exactly what you want done, the results that you expect, the time schedule that you require, and your preferred method of working. The reason that you are in a position to delegate a task is because you have probably already mastered this task. Taking the time to teach and explain the best way to do the task based on your experience is an excellent way to ensure that the task will be done as you wish and on schedule.

Step Four

Step four is to set up a schedule for reporting on progress. If it is an important task, set up a deadline for completion that is a day or a week before your actual deadline. Always build some slack into the system. Then, check on the progress of the task regularly, very much like a doctor would check on the condition of a critical care patient. Leave nothing to chance.

Step Five

Step five, inspect what you expect. Delegation is not abdication. Just because you have assigned a task to another person does not mean that you are no longer accountable. And the more important the task, the more important it is that you keep on top of it.

Action Exercise

1             look at yourself and ask yourself honestly. Are you working In your business,  ie being an employee, and doing the task at hand, or are you working ON your business and delegating tasks to others more able and capable?

2             We all have targets to achieve.  Work out the value of your target for each hour that you work.  If your hourly target rate is say £2500 per hpur, do not do any task that in your mind has a value less than this? Delegate the “Ten-bob-jobs!”

3             What tasks and activities can you effectively delegate you someone else? Which one of your team or virtual team can handle the task more effectively?

What task can you effectively delegate to someone else? Which one of your employees can handle the task efficiently?

Remember...  To learn to master a skill, you need to do one thing 4000 times

and not 4000 things once!!!

Begin to master this in order to grow into being a great leader,

Always lead with Integrity and in line with your values, ethics and principles

The Art and Science of Success

“The 4000 Times Rule”

Large organisations are very good at doing 4000 things once!!

The trick is to do one thing 4000 times

Success is borne out of repetition, repetition is borne from determination.

1% of the people on the planet own 36% of all the wealth. 1% of the people on the planet create all the opportunity for the rest.... Why? 

It is simple.... they are not superhuman, they do not possess magical abilities, they are not bestowed with luck beyond belief, it is just that they have learnt and master the art of success, by developing their own unique version, by identifying a small number of key and core tasks that for them build success...and then being pigheaded and determined enough to hone and craft these key skill areas through constant repetition until they get it right and the pieces of the jigsaw start to fall into place... ie doing a relatively small number of critical actions 4000 times!!!

We fall down in life, so that we can learn to get back up!!  Those that do not get back up, are destined for mediocrity and failure, whilst those that keep getting up are charting their course for success.

Remember successful people are successful for one reason and one reason only...  they have failed more times than everyone else, BUT every single time they have got back up, dusted themselves off, learnt the reasons for failure and then got right back on with the task at hand.

Remember this quote

“A ship is safest in harbours, but that’s not what they were built to do..”

As human beings we were not designed to live in boxes and drive sofas whilst watching TV!!   The world is an amazing place and it is filled with amazing people and many of these people are working in your organisation right now!!!  Go and find them and bring them into your teams.. and build your success!!

Aim to be in the top 20% of your team. Then aim to be in the top 20% of that top 20%...that will put you in the top 4%!!!  Then the hardest step of all...aim to be in the top 1%!!!

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

Winston Churchill