Confidence

CON: WITH

FIDERE: FAITH

BELIEF AND FAITH IN ONE’S ABILITY

You must develop the faith first in you before you want a non-profit, website partner, or another affiliate to have it in you. Like a seed, it is in you to produce a mutiple of crops.

YOU CAN DO IT!

Mansion

People don’t start in a mansion unless they inherit one.  Most start off small and slowly outgrow that place of living and step up to another level.  To increase our belief, we have to increase our positive experiences.  To increase our positive experiences, we have to increase our positive actions.  To increase our positive actions, we have to increase our positive thoughts.  It starts with feeding yourself the right words such as reading this blog so that you begin to think better, act better, and experience better.  You will naturally believe better because you are living it. 

Even the act of prospecting someone can be viewed as a positive experience, whether they sign up or not. If I knew that regardless what this person does, I am increasing my “numbers” and eventually because of these actions I will find the right people to get the mansion. That action will then bring positive experiences which will increase my beliefs.  If I continue doing this over and over, I will weed out the negative beliefs of myself and create stronger positive beliefs. This in turn will make me the kind of business person who produces more, and then I WILL GET MY MANSION!

8 Secrets To Speak Well

1.  Talk about BIG IDEAS.  Limit it to 1 idea, because that is all most can remember.

2.  Speak in the moment.  Talk about what’s happening in the moment, and what they are dealing with in their business or lives in order to win them over.

3.  Keep it simple.

4.  Be a straight shooter-true message. People will accept a mistake, not perpetuation of a lie. Honesty!

5.  Be an optimist. Balance reality with hope. See and talk about what is possible. Set the course.

6.  Focus on the future. Through tough times, create and instill hope!  What can be done, what do you believe is possible?

7.  Be real. The title that you have can put people off.  Make sure you have a connection with them. Humanize yourself and maintain authority.

8.  Stand for something BIG.  PURPOSE.  You embody the mission!

Changing of The Seasons

No season lasts forever because life is a cycle of planting, reaping, resting, and renewal. Think back over your lives. Have there been times of lack before? I would imagine so, as well as there have been times of abundance. What if we didn’t freak out so much when we hit winter again? Winter is not infinite. It won’t stay here forever and in fact in our business winter will end sooner if we focus on planting and creating momentum in our business. If we are faced with these challenges let’s focus extra hard on planting and if we see the snow all over the fields why not grab some sleds and go enjoy ourselves since we know we will be reaping soon.

John Wooden’s 2nd Tier

Discipline yourself and others won’t have to.

4 traits that involve control and direction of your mental faculties.

• Self-control: This is essential for consistency in leadership. Control of emotions, resolve to resist the easy choice and temptation. Discipline when necessary but hold no grudges. Self-control of little things leads to control of bigger things. Lead by example (seems like we can’t get away from that one regardless of how hard we try).
• Alertness: “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” The ability to constantly observe, absorb, and learn from what’s going on around you. Constantly be awake, alive, and alert to evaluating yourself and improving. Most of what we learn comes from others.
• Initiative: Don’t live in fear of making a mistake. “The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.” Don’t make sloppy careless mistakes but mistakes that result from assertive action based on proper assessment of risk. Failure to act is often the greatest failure of all.
• Intentness: “The one who once most wisely said  ‘Be sure you’re right, then go ahead’ might well have added this to it ‘Be sure you are wrong before you quit’! Persistence over the long term will always result in more success than short little energy bursts.

Being The Leader

When you are the leader you are in it 24-7.  Somebody is always watching.  It’s not just when you are in front of people giving a presentation, it’s body language, tonality, expressions of all kinds every minute of every day.  If I am walking around moping about something unrelated, people are going to assume the business is causing the problems. If I answer the phone not so energetic they are going to think that sales are down.

Many times we don’t communicate properly with our team. We don’t form that vital bond of trust. If we don’t form it with them we must realize that they will look elsewhere to get it. They may look to their opinionated spouse or friend who is negative, to give them support where you are not. Good leaders will build this bond of trust. The way to do that is through honesty, integrity, spreading the vision, listening, giving feedback.

We need to have emotional intelligence which is interpreted as the ability to communicate empathy and compassion, treat people well, and relate to them on a human level. We do this through clarity, knowledge of our company, managerial skills, follow-through (doing what we say we will do when we say we’ll do it), and humility.