It’s an Olympic year and I love everything about them. While watching the Olympic trials, I realized there are 5 major similarities between Olympic athletes and successful home business entrepreneur.
Extraordinary Focus, Visualization and Meditation
Years before they Olympians compete there is an unrelenting focus on winning the gold, they focus on their physical goals, but even more important is focusing on the mental part of their game. These athletes spend quality time visualizing and meditating on their craft with the help of coaches and consultants in order to achieve their dreams.I don’t know one successful home business entrepreneur who doesn’t do the same thing. Visualization and meditation help retain focus.
Focus on Personal Development
All opportunities agree on this, you must develop yourself and have a sense of who you are and how you communicate with others. Personal development is directly related to the money you make. Olympic athletes are constantly developing their inner game because they know their mindset plays a heavy roll in winning the competition.
Focus on Executing The Things That Get Results
As Entrepreneurs we focus on Income producing activities. You can do all the visualization and meditation and personal development you need, but if you are not doing the things that make you money every day they will come and take your furniture.
Our income producing activity is simple: find leads, put information in front of the leads and following up with those leads. Our income producing activity is easy to understand.
The Olympic athletes income producing activity is going to the gym, pool, track, etc. Doing the things they need to do to refine their craft and refine their bodies so that when they show up to a competition they are at their peak.
Stay In the Game
To be successful means being involved in your company’s calls, participate in Facebook groups and attending meetings. The number one catalyst for your success is to get to your company’s events.
Obviously, it is the same for Olympic athletes. They have to show up to practice, show up for their meets, show up for their coaching program and show up to the Olympics. These athletes are not going to win a gold medal if they don’t show up.
See Yourself as a Leader
You must see yourself as a leader now! Those leaders in your company are the same as you. The sooner you incorporate that in your mind and heart the sooner you will be a leader too. Look at the other people who have already achieved what you want to achieve, do what they do, and you can have their results.
Olympic athletes show up as leaders in their field of competition. They show up as winners!
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I just heard one of the kookiest reasons for not getting started doing something online from someone I have known and respected for a long time. She said to me, “Karla, I just don't see how I can create the income that I want to create because I don't have an email list and I think I'll need an email list of over at 10,000 people or 20,000 people to create the kind of financial results I want to create.”
I thought there is so much faulty thinking with that particular statement.
Let’s talk about the importance of email marketing.
There are all kinds of list: the people who follow you on Facebook, on Twitter, on LinkedIn, on Instagram, on Periscope, and on YouTube. There is also your email list. Those people you are building a relationship with are extraordinary valuable.
Here’s the cold hard fact. You MUST collect email addresses from the people that visit your websites (or blog or social media pages), because one thing is certain… they will never come back.
Even if you are the biggest marketer in the world, the most amazing blogger, creative amazing YouTube videos, or Facebook posts, maybe they will return, but probably not.
You have to build a relationship. They need to know they can trust you before they buy anything from you.
When Would be a Good Time to Start Building Your List?
If you want a 100-foot tree in your backyard, when would have been the best time to plant that tree? The best time would have been 50 years ago, but when's the second best time? The second best time is today.
And while yes, if you would have started building your email list 15 years ago you have a list of hundreds of thousands of people at this point. When is the second best time to start your email list? That is today!
And just think of it this way if you only generate 3 leads a day in the next 30 days you would have 90 leads; in three months you would have 270 leads. And 270 leads is way more valuable than 1000 and 1000 is way more valuable than 50,000.
Small Lists Are VALUABLE
Let me explain, if you have a list of 10,000 people, that list is not 10X more responsive than a list of 1000 people. If you have a list of 1000 people, that list is not 10X more responsive than a list of 100 people. It just doesn't work that way. For some reason in the Internet marketing world, the smaller the list the more income is typically generated out of that list.
Don and I had a list of 500-600 people that we just nurtured along and we ended up generating an income of over $100,000 with that list. It might have been between 500 and 600, but it was a very small list that we had just begun contributing to steadily over time.
Again, I believe that your list is your personal ATM machine. This is your way to communicate with those individuals and build their know, like, and trust factor with your prospects.
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of gratitude journals. Basically, a gratitude journal is a written record of the things you’re thankful for in your life.
We first heard about gratitude journals at a personal development conference we attended in 2008 in Hawaii.
But isn’t keeping a gratitude journal kind of new-agey? What’s next, wearing strands of beads and chanting under the full moon?
OK, yes, keeping a journal is a little hokey, but we're asking you to get over yourself and do it anyway. We've kept a gratitude journal on and off for years, and it’s nice to reflect on what made us smile on a particular day. We remember that sweet thing we did, or the day it snowed on our wedding day.
When we focus on all the good things in our life, we're more likely to be satisfied with what we already have. Sorry, iPad, but we don’t really need you.
Don and I get the same comments all the time… “Wow, you are lucky to be successful.”
People seem to think that we have something special about us that has “happened” to us to allow us to be top performers at every company we've been affiliated with.
FALSE.
Do you know what I've done for the past 11 years to be that top internet marketer?
I've spent my last penny on marketing for my businesses over and over and over.
I've bought every single successful marketer's products, and then studied and executed on them over and over and over.
I've showed up at training events over and over and over and over… all over the world.
Almost every single Sunday afternoon, I sit down and learn something new. I've done this for OVER A DECADE now.
If you are thinking that a leader has something “special” about them, and are just lucky, you will never be a leader or top performer.
To be successful means being involved in your company’s calls, participate in Facebook groups and attending meetings. The number one catalyst for your success is to get to your company’s events.
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