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Momentum And Goals – How To Build On An Inspired Start And Keep It Going

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 10:12 pm

When you’re inspired you get a tremendous boost to your energy and motivation. This is a great way to get started towards your goal, yet you also need momentum to keep going to reach it.

You can find momentum literally in DETAIL – one factor for each letter of the word. You can use this as a checklist anytime to build and maintain momentum. Score each factor out of 10 (where 10 is perfect):

* Direction

Is your goal still appealing and relevant? Does it have the magnetic attraction to pull you towards it?

If your score is less than 8, you need to clarify your goal. Maybe the size is wrong – if it is too overwhelming, break it into smaller chunks. If it is too small to attract you, make it bigger and bolder.

Remember Michelangelo: “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark”

* Energy

Check your energy levels. If your score 7 or under, where else is your energy going? Beware the energy vampires.

Low energy can be a sign of working outside of your strengths – what can you share or delegate?

Working with your strengths brings new energy – how can you do more of this?

* Time

Where is this goal on your priority scale? Is it getting enough time to ‘stay alive’? Procrastination is a huge energy drain.

If you score less than 8, the challenge is to find how you can spend more time on this goal. This is a subject in itself (!) so remember that the minimum time is that needed to maintain momentum. Therefore regular inputs of time are as important as the quantity.

If you don’t increase the overall time you spend, how could you use the time you are already spending to build greater momentum?

* Accountability

You may know that making yourself accountable for progress can be a big help in maintaining momentum.

This accountability can be to yourself (checklists, graphs, targets etc) and/or to others. It can be formal (for example, it’s usually a key feature in coaching) or informal. Generally the more people you are accountable to, the stronger the effect.

If you score less than 7, how could you make yourself more accountable?

* Incentives

How well do you use incentives and rewards for milestones on the journey? What celebrations do you make when you reach interim stages?

If you score under 8, there is much scope here. Incentives are inherently personal so you will have an idea of what could work for you.

Experiment with frequency – once a day, once a week, once a month – rewards need to be often enough to assist momentum without taking over so that more time is spent on the rewards than the progress you want!!

* Learning

How well are you learning from progress so far? How effectively are you using the feedback available?

If you score anything under 10 here, there are opportunities to tune your operation. There is scope for working smarter.

Ask : what is working well? What could be working better? What adjustments could you make?

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Momentum is essential for reaching our goals. Sometimes it builds naturally; more frequently we have to help it along. Now you can use DETAIL as often as you need and enjoy your success.

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Use Goal Setting To Increase Your Product And Affiliate Marketing Sales

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 9:05 pm

All successful people are intensely goal oriented. They know what they want and they are focused single-mindedly on achieving it every single day. Do you really need to set goals for your product sales to increase, or for your affiliate marketing sales to increase? The answer is a big yes.

Goals are an important part of every Internet marketer’s arsenal. This is because goals take you beyond your limits to a world of unlimited power. Every Internet marketer needs to set goals on what they really want to achieve from Internet marketing.

When we first set goals, they may seem impossible to achieve, but if you find a goal that’s big enough to inspire you, you will unleash your potential power, and achieve them.

A way to do this is to write out on paper an amount you really believe you would make from your products or affiliate marketing in a year’s time. Always start with the letter ‘I’.

Also write out the date you believe you will achieve it. Detailed steps on how you would make it happen is essential as well. Short term goals are also necessary, covering monthly, weekly and daily goals which create the momentum and process to achieving the yearly goals. The following format can prove useful:

1. By the end of xxx, I will achieve xxx from my product sales or affiliate marketing sales
2. I will achieve this by xxx
3. I will also give to xxx when I achieve my goals monthly/yearly
4. Believe it with all your heart
5. Read it at least every day or every weekend to boost up your confidence
6. As you read it, feel yourself already in possession of the amount

So how can you apply these detailed steps to drive traffic to your website, squeeze page, blog etc. It’s very simple. The bottom line is that the more traffic you generate the more sales you get.

Just do something everyday to drive traffic to your various sites. There are a couple of free and paid traffic generation strategies that are out there. You do not want to apply all of them, unless you will be pretty much tied down daily.

What you want to do is look for 2 or 3 that you can master. For example, you may want to use Video Marketing, Joint Venture and Article Writing as your key strategies.

So what you should do is write down what you want your goals and objectives to be in relation to your traffic strategies and the time frame for your monthly or yearly plan.

Once you have decided on your plan of action for your marketing plan, make sure that you take consistent action every single day to get the most out of it. Do not stop until you start to see traffic and sales. Then, you can now add another one or two more traffic strategies to your marketing plan to boost your sales further.

Always remember to track your results you get from your efforts. This could be part of your weekly or monthly plan. You would notice that if you do this everyday, you will start to see very positive results and massive increase in the traffic you generate to your products. This will ultimately result in you smiling to the bank.

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How To Break Out of the Comfort Zone

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:56 pm

This fear of failure is the single biggest “affliction” in society. The comfort zone and a fear of failure paralyze people from making the steps they need to in order to improve their situation. If you look at anyone in a low paying, dead-end job or who stays in an unhealthy relationship you are seeing a person who is in a comfort zone.

Incessant planning and contemplation as opposed to action are a means of maintaining ones place in the comfort zone and can be your own worse enemy.

With the Fire, Ready, Aim strategy, you take your big goals and break them down into smaller, more accessible goals. That’s why we use the belt system in the martial arts. The goal for all of my students is black belt. While I have accelerated courses that can get you to black belt in as little as six-months, it takes most students 3-5 years of classes. That is a long time, so we break that time frame with short-term goals represented by belt colors.

In most schools, the darker the belt, the closer to black belt you get. So in my school, you would start with white belt. The white represented that you didn’t know anything about martial arts or very little. Within six-weeks, you would earn your gold belt and then in eight to twelve week increments, you would go to orange, green, blue, red, 4th degree brown, 3rd degree brown, 2nd degree brown, 1st degree brown and then black.

Each belt was earned through an examination process. With each belt earned the students felt a sense of progress. These acted as mini-victories that motivated them to continue classes. It was important for student retention that the every eligible student take their exams. We knew from tracking our statistics that students who did not take exams were our highest drop out risks. Progress creates motivation. Fire-Ready-Aim creates progress which creates momentum and motivation.

To be clear, Fire-Ready-Aim can create some challenges and set-backs that could have been avoided with more preparation, but in my experience, and this book is only my perspective on this things, the results far outweigh the risks.

Despite what all of the business books say, I’ve never written a business plan nor have I ever used on. I’ve never written a marketing plan either. For small businesses like mine, I don’t see the need to outline and prepare for every contingency. For large businesses, I can see how having plans can help keep everyone’s ladder on the same wall. But for small business with just a few employees, I think that’s less necessary. I would rather spend that time attacking my next project.

Fire-Ready-Aim can create some problems of its own that you may avoid with more planning but the key word is “may.” You may encounter the same problem with planning, who knows? Who cares, just get on with it. I believe that if you pull the trigger you will get the feedback you need to adjust from the market rather than a theory. I guess another way of looking at this to “Make the mess and clean it up later.”

John Graden is the author of The Impostor Syndrome. The Impostor Syndrome is the feeling you’re not as smart, talented, or skilled as others think you are. It’s the feeling you’ve been faking it and are about to be found out. Learn more about the book at:

http://www.theimpostorsyndrome.com

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How Does Having A Positive Mindset Change Lives

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:56 pm

When it comes to goal setting, it is essential that you have a positive mindset.
It is this positive mind set that will see you through all the expected and unexpected obstacles that crop up along the way. Having faith in your abilities is also essential when it comes to taking the necessarily actions on your path to success.

Hence, we see this everyday in people who are considered headstrong and determined. Their self-belief carries them along. Self motivation can be a brilliant thing as long as they can keep there feet on the ground.

A negative mind set is associated with low self-esteem and low self-confidence. Examples include fear of failure. Or self doubts which renders the individual paralyzed and unable to make even simple decisions.

Help would be needed to turn this around. Whether that helps is in the form of self-help or assisted help from a qualified or experienced counsellor. This would be up to the individual.

Knowing help is need is the first and major obstacle when you are trying to create a positive mindset.

Having defined a step-by-step action plan is essential. Not only will you see where you are going. You will also be able to see where you’ve been. With every successful and completed step, no matter how small, would be an enormous boost the individuals’ self-esteem and self-confidence. With each actualized goal, the momentum builds and the individual is motivated onwards to the next step. Then it’s onto the next goal, and the next.

It’s a bit like a baby learning to walk. First the baby has to learn how to crawl before she can stand, and then learn how to balance when standing before she can walk, and learn how to walk without holding onto things before she can run. Baby steps. One step at a time. One task at a time. One goal at a time. Keeping focused is a must.

It is inevitable that there will be set backs along the way. But they would not seem so dramatic when compared to a row of successes. Gradually the negative mindset would be transformed into a positive mindset, raised self-esteem and raised self-confidence.

This is very powerful stuff. It can and has turned lives around for the better.

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Debra Ashton

An avid consumer of business and personal development information for over a decade. Now sharing what I’ve learnt with others.

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