Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Achieve More In Home Business With Personal Development

By Patrick J. Gifted


It's not just a lucky trick of fate that makes some people more successful with their businesses than others. A majority of entrepreneurs make no secret of the fact that they read self-improvement books and attend seminars. Successful people know their success is a factor of keeping their thinking positive. This is a high priority with them and makes them stand out from the crowd. If your business is experiencing slow growth, or no growth at all, you might want to consider looking at things in a different manner. A good approach that we suggest is to listen to your "self-talk" regarding what being in business means to you. How do you truly feel about your chances for success? Give yourself time to seriously analyze your business actions, if possible, and then write down your objective conclusions. Oftentimes, all the pieces to the puzzle will become obvious and begin to fall into place.

Perfectionist behaviors are an expression that some people bring with them to their business pursuits. Very basically, there is some underlying fear of possibly making mistakes, being criticized or generally looking less than some part of you desires. You will see the person who frets over every little detail basically taking forever to initiate and maintain forward momentum. If the need arises for making certain kinds of strategic decisions, then the perfectionist often will experience anxiety. If you are frequently under tight schedules and deadlines, then once again there could be costly delays. What can be done about the perfectionist behavior will depend on whether or not the person feels it is a problem.

Do you realize that most people are unable, or refuse, to face up to their own true natures? This is a pretty common phenomena. No one likes to think that they might have behavior patterns that are negative. Of course ignoring them is the least painful thing to do. Avoidance, or ignoring our behavior, isn't the solution. We need to recognize our short-comings. This behavior, of course, is not easy to get rid of. You could believe that not thinking about your faults eliminates them, but the solution is only temporary. All you are doing is keeping the problem around for a longer period of time. This is a common reaction to the things we don't want to face and most people are guilty of this. The pay-off for just facing up to the things you are hiding - even from yourself - will be worth the trouble.

New internet marketers suffer from overwhelm also with all the information being dumped on them. Most of them never actually get around to doing anything. There are different ways this can materialize. The most common situation is when a newbie constantly buys new programs and methods for online success, but never actually puts any of them into practice. The cure for this is a combination of awareness, focus, discipline and changing some habits. You know very well if you are guilty of this one.

If you are at the point where you have outsourcers and actual teams working for you, then first of all that is great. But avoid being the kind of manager that is too controlling and engages in micromanaging. But then again maybe that is just an extension of how you naturally are to begin with. Do you feel that your hired work is suffering from this in terms of efficiency? Awareness and acceptance of your faults and shortcomings is where it all begins to get better if you work on it. The thing to do though is learn how to become less of a control freak, so to speak, and let others do their jobs. This is a situation that can be improved, but it will take a lot of courage on your part to let go a little. We all have our own particular areas in which we would benefit from a self improvement effort. It seems the larger question is not so much how to do it, but rather if you are willing to do it.

Numerous individuals are conscious that the more productive you are in any small business, the nicer automobile you are likely to drive. But did you realize that this also works the other way around? When you drive a pleasant automobile, you will then be much more successful in business. This can be a successful combination with any mind improvement methods you choose to do.




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