Are You Ready to Prosper In 2010?
An article by Jim Rohn who recently passed away said:
“Here’s the great challenge of life. You can have more than you’ve got because you can become more than you are.
I have found that income seldom will exceed your own personal development. Once in a while income takes a lucky jump, but unless you grow out to where it is, it will go back to where you are.
Somebody once said if you take all the money in the world and divided it among everyone equally, it would soon be back in the same pockets.
However, you can have more because you can become more. Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.
In order to have more, you have to become more.”
Are You Prepared To Take A Risk? Doing things you haven’t done before can be risky, however if you don’t take any risks you will live a very unfulfilling life.
My friend Mike worked 12 years for a large corporation. Very secure, lots of perks and he received a reasonable income. He had a job for life.The only drawback, after a few years - it was boring. He was miserable. He was wasting his life away.
The organisation was big enough that he could transfer to different positions within the company - which he did do. However, the culture of the company was the same wherever he went. The environment wasn’t stimulating and Mike found he was not stretching himself. He was existing and not living.
Mike was a reader of self-help books and also attended numerous personal development courses, so he knew he could enhance his life dramatically if he would just make a decision and take action.
Mike finally took the plunge and with his company pay-out, he left. He ended up becoming a partner in his friend’s restaurant. When he was an employee, he used to advise his partner on how to run the business. He soon learned it was one thing telling someone else what to do with their business and totally different when he was financially committed. With no experience as a business owner, he embarked on a huge learning curve.
He went from a boring yet very cushy 9.00 - 5.00 p.m. job with a regular income to working 9.00 a.m. - 9.00 p.m. seven days a week with barely any income. He and his partner thought they knew what they needed to do to make their business work, but they didn’t. Hard work and enthusiasm wasn’t enough.
Mike eventually sold his share of the partnership. He realised that there was so much more to running a business of his own than working for someone else. The pressure on him had taken it’s toll. He had been getting heart palpitations and couldn’t sleep. The stress of it all was too much.
Mike had leapt out of his comfort zone and took a risk. Although in this instance, he found out it was too big a price to pay, he wouldn’t have known whether or not this was going to work out until he tried it. Of course he had done all his due diligence beforehand, however that was still no guarantee that he had made the right decision.
What Mike learned from his experience however, is that there is a world of opportunity out there and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. But you’ll never know unless you give it a go. He was still excited about the possibilities for his future and was grateful that he had the guts to take action. The whole experience has made him a much more resilient person and gave him the courage to take on bigger challenges.
So many business owners get stuck doing the same thing year in and year out and not achieve what they really went into business for in the first place.
If that sounds like you, then there is no better time than now to make changes.
If you want to become more prosperous in your business and your life this year, what decisions and consequent actions do you have to take? What knowledge, resources and support do you need to get on track and focussed so that you get the rewards you deserve?
Write it down and get into action today!
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Lorraine Pirihi, The Productivity Queen, is Australia’s leading Productivity Specialist and creator of “The Productivity and Profit System TM” the complete one-on-one training program for solopreneurs and small businesses that shows business owners exactly how to work less and earn more! To receive your F.R.E.E. CD & Report “3 Steps to Dramatically Reducing Your Workload and Stress While Maximising Your Profit$! ($77 value) go to www.productivityqueen.com.
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