en•tre•pre•neur –noun Entrepreneur, translated from its French roots, means "one who undertakes." The term Entrepreneur is used to refer to anyone who undertakes the organization and management of an enterprise involving independence and risk as well as the opportunity for profit.
Personal Development- Always keep expanding your mind
Can you really, fully understand the gravity in this sentence:
You can, and will, change who you are; everything about who you are, for the better and for growth, with the books you read.
“You will be the same person in 5 years as you are today except for the books you read”. Charles “Tremendous” Jones.
This is provided you read the correct kind of books, books that are conducive to expanding and developing your mind. You have an inner power which is sleeping inside of you, waiting for you to discover your full potential, and the only way to discover it is to diligently and enthusiastically read the wisdom from those have become successful in a certain thing that you would like to become proficient in; for instance wealth creation, happiness, spirituality, inner peace, health, fitness, successful company building, relationships, sex, etc. The facts are that if you want to do and have more, you need to be more, and you can only do that through personal evolution, achieved through continuous learning, reading and listening of personal development books and cds, attending seminars and masterminding with other like-minded individuals.
This is actually a process of discovering how your mind and it’s relationship with the infinite intelligence/ the Universe/ God/ Spirit/ creator/ insert your preference here. Because the there are definite universal laws which will either work to our advantage or disadvantage, depending on whether we understand how to leverage them. You must learn to understand who you really are, which will allow you to decide what it is you really want, and to get it you must understand what your mind can do. All the power and resources you will ever need reside within you now, in your mind and body, and you must respect them and properly use them. Your body has all the healing capacity you will ever need, it heals and repairs you without you ever having to be conscious of it, and your mind can both create and eliminate disease, depending on what you focus on and believe.
The laws of the Universe are here to work for you and help you achieve everything you want and need, because as you have and create more for yourself, the more you have to give and help others with; poverty is useful for nobody and noble only for the ignorant. 97% of the population fail because they are ignorant, they don’t know what they don’t know. They do not understand the power of their mind or the significance of every single thought and action they take, and they are not proactive in discovering this amazing magic they hold within themselves; they are too busy focusing on how hard done by they are, how it’s everybody else’s fault, on negatives and suffering. Whereas 3% of the population succeed in everything they decide to succeed in, everything flows for them, and they have such gentle and light ways of being. This is because they have worked harder on themselves than on anything else, and before they started a new thing which they wanted to succeed at. They spend time continuously learning and discovering, taking on wisdom from those who have already acquired it, applied it to their own lives and succeeded as a result. Books, audios and seminars.
The wisdom is out there to help you succeed more in health, wealth, fulfilment, happiness, spirituality, relationships, communication, business, etc, if it’s there, what’s stopping you from learning it and becoming powerful?
I, myself, have overcome enormous personal mountains; anorexia, depression, ill health, broken relationships, a job I loathed, and animosity from the majority of my family members, no friends, and a feeling of loss and emptiness. But one thing I always had throughout the whole thing was faith that I was not alone through the whole thing, and that I had the ability to pull myself through all my adversities. Through committed personal development, spiritual connection and enormous personal growth, within the space of 6 months I healed myself from my second round of 2 year suffering anorexia and psychological frailties, I left the job I hated around the people who were I felt were disrupting me and my chance for happiness (Although I now realise that nobody has the power to stop you, or hold you back, if you want something badly enough, you’ll find a way regardless, and if you’re in a space of people who are disrupting you, don’t continue to drag your energy down by constantly complaining, do something about it!) I have restored and healed my broken relationships, I have so much spiritual connection, which is so fulfilling, I’m happier than I’ve ever been, and I’m starting to live the life of my dreams, with such a sense of purpose to my life. All because I picked up that first book and allowed it to grow....
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Twitter is the new way of connecting which is an incredibly useful tool for internet marketers. It can serve as a platform for people to get to know you, to give and add value and even to generate leads.
The important thing is that you know how to use it before you jump in though because there are a few golden rules if you don’t want to alienate people! Here they are:
Give true information and value with each of your Tweets,
Like mindset development quotes to give people a little nugget
of wisdom, post article links which give people valuable knowledge
and information, post videos which do the same, and create
interesting dilogue with people, strike conversations and get
involved.
Find people who share similar interests to you with
Search Twitter or Twellow.
Social Networking is like a physical marketing, behave in the same
manner. You would pitch the first person you met before directly
after shaking their hand, this only alienates people and it feels a lot
like spam!
Be yourself and be open and friendly.
The facts are that around 90% of your fellow twitters think you are spamming them. I follow Internet Marketers from many different businesses and they have no idea how to use twitter because I have been pitched by every get-rich-quick scheme or MLM opportunity, without asking. It’s highly annoying and they just get deleted. There is a correct way to promote your business on twitter, but don’t they and have everybody you add opt in cold with your landing page, especially before you even know what they want!
DON'T pitch your business on Twitter, give value and give them a reason to follow you!
Create a personal website or blog and link the design with your
Twitter profile, because this helps your personal branding
Recognition.
Follow people who look like they could be interesting in your
business and trust that if they are they will follow, don’t force it
down their throats.
Build relationships, be there to connect and answer replies and
Questions.
Give information and value about your business/ opportunity/
products/ events in a blog, article or press release.
Start positioning yourself as a leader as soon as possible, the more
you get yourself out there and put value out, the more people will
follow you and eventually end up back at your main page. At their
own pace, when they’re ready.
Create a personal website or blog and link the design with your
Twitter profile, because this helps your personal branding
Recognition.
Twitter and Facebook are fantastic new ways to build lists.
Everybody is so inundated with emails and offers they want a break
from it! With this social networking your new clients are able to find
you and follow you by choice through attraction marketing. They
can get to know you without you bombarding them, then they can
opt in when they’re ready. Everybody wants to follow and trust a
true leader, not a desperate fraud.
Twitter isn’t just vapid status updating, it, for us as internet marketers, is public list building. Twitter helps you to find like people just like yourself, and allows you to connect with potential clients, or even to partner up for joint ventures with others.
Every significant entrepreneur is on Twitter because they realize the importance of how building this free list of followers can dramatically impact their business. Granted, the majority of your followers will never follow you further than Twitter, but if you’re able to build a following of, for instance 2000, and only 1% continue down your little micro-system marketing web, you have another 20 leads right there- for free! And how long does it actually take to update a tweet everyday?
You begin by finding people and following them and generally 50% will follow you back, then your list will build as other find out about you independently. The key is to update everyday, at the peak times when people are home, mornings and evenings-night.
One of the great things about Tweets is that you’re bypassing the risk of having emails deleted as you would through an email list, they’re seeing your tweets without having to open that email, so you get instant access to them. If you put something up that speaks to them they will click and find out, and there you go.. another one bites the dust!
Are you maximising your physiology for peak performance?
Your mood, happiness, quality of life, success, sense of fulfilment, friendships, relationships and health are all dictated by your mindset, which is directly influenced by your physiology. Your physiology is a choice; you decide whether you’re going to be energetic and vivacious, or lethargic, slow and sluggish. It’s rarely a conscious decision, but it’s a decision none-the-less, so once you become conscious of how you respecting or disrespecting your physiology, you can start to dramatically improve your life and give it a super kick-start!
Your physiology is, without a doubt, the most powerful tool you have for creating a state change, instantly. When you consciously understand how the quality of the movements of your body, the way you express yourself facially, and the tone and energy in your voice can alone dictate how full and exciting your experience of life is going to be, you can start training yourself to control it to maximum effect. The key things to focus on changing are:
- Posture
- Breathing patterns
- Muscle tension
- Tone and energy of voice
- Facial expression
- Smiling
When you can choose to be energetic, excited, dynamic, cheerful, despite your present and surround circumstances and relationships, you make any and every situation better and really start to enjoy your life and take control of your health and happiness. This is applicable whether you just want more energy, you want more success, you’re in a bad relationship and you don’t know what to do/ how to get out, or you want to juice your current relationship up. Whether you’re in a poor financial situation and you want more abundance, or you’re in poor health currently. You can turn all these situations, and more, in your favour when you decide to intensify your physiology.
Anthony Robbins says, “If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful”. All it requires is your will. It’s one of the most challenging things to create a good mood, inner peace and high energy when you’re seething or fretting over something, but again, this is a test of your will and strength of character. Anger, jealously and worry are states of the ego, calm, peace, love and happiness are all states your you inner being naturally, but they must be consistently practiced and worked on everyday. How strong is your will?!
It’s so ridiculous to think that you need pills and prescriptions for so many things, which in truth can all be fixed by understanding the principle of your body and mind. Changing your state with a pill is a mask; you’re not really changing your state, you’re putting unnatural chemicals in your body, creating a manufactured feeling, which is superficial and not real because once the effects of the drug have worn off you need to pop another or you revert back to depressed-ville again. So this pill then becomes a crux to keep you in this artificial state. When you analyse that, see how truly ridiculous it is. You create your own happiness! If you’re depressed, you put yourself there by telling yourself certain things about a certain situation, and your physiology followed. The same thing applies for all manufactured drugs. The pharmaceutical industry has no personal incentive for actually curing our ailments and putting us back to full health; they’d be out of business! And they make too many billion dollars every year to risk that. It’s in their interest to keep us reliant on as many drugs as possible. How ever did they manage to get by these past few hundred thousand years without the pharmaceutical industry?!
Positive states heal every ailment you could get in body or mind. Norman Cousins wrote in his book Anatomy of an illness, he describes how he made a miraculous recovery from a long, drawn out illness, literally by changing his state and laughing himself healthy. Laughter is an enormously powerful tool that he used to consciously jump start his will to regain his health, live on and become successful. What did he do? He spent all day everyday watching comedies so he could laugh. This is because laughter shifted his physiology, which made his nervous system respond accordingly.
So many cases of cancer and other physical and psychological illnesses have been eliminated, often in miraculous time, because the owner of the body with the illness took control of his physiology, changed his state and changed his nervous system....
Read more here Katie Panton's Blog – Articles
There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, especially in the current economy. As half the world falls about in drama, there are always massive opportunities opened up to those who can focus and find them; the secret is knowing where the opportunities are moving and doing things in a certain way.
Young entrepreneurs now have the World at their feet, probably more so than the generation above us, because the entire global market, for every business, is shifting to the Internet. This means computer based internet jobs, and who better to succeed in this opportunity than the generation who grew up as children experiencing the first computers, the first mobile phones, tamagotchis, play stations, Xboxes, ipods, etc. We’re the generation who invented the ‘text language’, and many of us spend far too much time glued to facebook and youtube. So can you imagine what your life would be like if you could build your career making a success using these exact things, working on the things that we really just play at?
1. The secret is in Internet marketing. Whatever type of business you have, you absolutely must be on the Internet in some form, because like it or not, that’s where everybody is turning to solve all their solutions- major and minor, and if you’re not there then you don’t exist. But it doesn’t have to be daunting, imagine this: Everyday 100,000,000 new users start using the Internet. That’s one hundred million new users… everyday! That’s excluding the billions who were already using it the day before! If you can get your business on the internet and able to give value in some form; if not directly with your products or services, then through information in the form of eBooks, DVDs, books, etc, as you make yourself an authority on your profession. This means you can purposely put yourself in front of millions, potentially billions of prospective customers who are actively searching for what you offer. On top of that have your business automated so that you can be generating money 24/7, globally. That’s a pie you’d like a slice of, no?
2. So that’s the first point you must get right. The second is to go with what the people want; it’s no good trying to sell something that you think is amazing but there is no market for. Find out what people want, and give it to them in the very best, most suave and unique way that you possibly can, and you can do that by utilizing point number 1, as above. Internet marketing, do your due diligence, research who you need for which specific area of marketing for training, apply the methods and keep growing. Marketing can be as expensive or cheap as you like, the top end being Google PPC (pay per click) and the free marketing (but just as effective, often more targeted and authority building) article marketing, video marketing, social media marketing, etc. The point is getting traffic, but also making a notable name and brand for yourself. Get out there and get known, be recognisable and be a leader who people need to follow because of all the value you give them, It’s about relationship building today. People are fed up being conned and scammed, so public trust is at an all time low. For you, the businessperson, his means that cold selling is no longer an option, you’ve got to work harder, roll your sleeves up and get to work on becoming a trustworthy and genuine authority and leader. Give them value, give them a reason to trust you, and you will get their business.
3. As a young entrepreneur, you are to absolutely admired and respected for your courage and willingness to separate yourself from the rest of the pack, actually go for it, make something of yourself and live your dreams. Power to you. Naturally, being younger means you have less experience, so what is vital for you is to condense your learning time by immersing yourself in personal development and soaking as much knowledge, experience and wisdom from the masters so that you have a much more mature idea about and attitude towards your business and which actions you must always take..... read more here katiepanton - The young entrepreneur's survival guide
Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Increasingly people all over the world are turning to entrepreneurship to secure their financial future and their family’s security. As people are being let go from their jobs, having to take serious pay cuts, a reduction in hours, or their jobs are being outsourced or me mechanised; there is less and less security in a job. This makes the commute, the boos, the time away from family and the lousy pay-check even less bearable to tolerate than it was before. Today in 2009, this is the only time in history when it has ever been safer self-employed than to be an employee. The boss and the government are not going to look after you. So it’s your responsibility. Thankfully you’re not on your own as everyday thousands of people are turning to this way of life too. The rise and domination of the internet and information age has created opportunities not just for making a living, but for making a fortune online. As well as having the luxury of being able to work from home and having much more free time. This is because the internet gets used by 100,000,000 new users everyday. Just to be clear that’s one hundred million new users everyday. That’s excluding all the billions of users who were there previously! The internet allows you to reach all these people at the touch of a button, so it’s really not surprising that ordinary people are becoming internet millionaires in record time. The internet is the only way for businesses now and in the future; businesses which are not available online will ultimately suffer.... read the rest of the article here Business Opportunities Articles - Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? - Amazines.com Article Search Engine
How to build and improve your self confidence and self-esteem
Low self-esteem is something that every single person struggles with at one level or another, and all of us deal with it in our own way. Whether it is low self-esteem in our physical appearance, personality, relationships, friendships, or professionally. But there are methods which you can use to segment each area which you feel you are in lacking and turn it around into success. I can help you shift your attitudes and behaviours from ones which hold you back and keep you stuck into personal power.
I can do this because I’ve learned the hard way, and all the instructions I’m giving are learned and used with successful results through personal experience. My back ground is that I have had anorexia twice in my life; the first when I was 13-17, the second when I was 19-20; the second time being the most severe and life-threatening, and it was something that changed the course of my life. I used it as a mask to hide who I really was, and I created somebody new, somebody who I felt was more acceptable. The person I created was hard, skinny, tough, relentless, driven, cold, completely independent and career driven, selfish and depressed (I was in the fashion industry- go figure!). Who I really am is warm, loving, generous, friendly, in-love with people and nature, and I love helping and inspiring people- and I’m still driven, motivated and in-love with what I do, but I have much more balance now and I no longer sacrifice my loved ones to get to the top. What I found out during this time is who I really am, and I truly believe that every body has to go through a process of self-discovery and self-acceptance- whatever your self-esteem level. This means getting in touch with who you really are; not just your body or personality- your spirit. The part of you that feels, the part of you that you feel when you’re happy, in-love, having fun, free, euphoric, excited, driven, etc. These are all feelings of the spirit and they’re your guiding light to tell you whether you’re on track or not, whether you have anything that you need to make changes in. I have come to realise that your heart is the steering wheel to your soul, which is why you must always follow your heart, not your head.... read the rest of the article here Motivation Articles - How to build and improve your self confidence and self-esteem - Amazines.com Article Search Engine
Katie is a professional internet marketer. Her mission is to help and inspire other driven entrepreneurs to achieve their financial freedom and dream lifestyles after achieving her own success and her desired lifestyle.
Location
lincolnshire, Uk
Interests
Walking, excerise, meditation, designing, painting, yoga, travelling, learning, personal development
Occupation
Professional Internet marketer, wealth building and success coach
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