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Is there a reason for your current circumstances?
Everything happens for a reason. Despite how it seems, coincidences simply do not exist. Each seeming coincidence has within it a seed of reason. Consequences come attached to the actions that cause them . There are no coincidences. .What you reap is what you sow!

If you’re not getting what you expected from life, ask yourself what it is you need to do better, or different, to achieve what you want. Do you follow through on your promises? Are you honest? Do you show a true interest in people, especially those you are working with? Do you treat others, as you would like them to treat you? Have you secretly given up hope, simply because you failed once before?

Are you afraid to begin your new assignment, doubtful you will be successful? Do you focus on people’s faults, telling them what bothers you about them, when in fact you are jealous and wish you were more like them? In addition and most important . are you honest with you? Do you think of yourself the way you think about others? Do you love yourself like you love others? Do you feel you are worthy of everything you desire?

Life always gives you what you are looking for.

All successful people know one important fact and live by it:

You earn money only through satisfying the needs and wants of others.

Think carefully about that last sentence before you shake your head. Nothing is bought, sold or traded that does not satisfy some need or fulfill someone’s desire. Make the welfare of others a chief priority in your life and you hold an important key to lasting success. Find ways to better serve your customers, business partners, colleagues, friends, family and others to the best of your ability. This must be foremost in your mind and reflected in your daily decisions and actions.

It is only by helping others to their success that you guarantee your own.

Trouble only arises when you change your focus from cooperation with others to focusing strictly on yourself; when your thoughts turn towards problems or your own profit then trouble begins.
Just learning to dedicate yourself to the person you are talking to or dealing with, will increase your success in business immediately and substantially!

If you enjoy doing this, you will be not only successful, but happy as well. This is the only way to true happiness: find a need (that unfulfilled, bothers many people) and enjoy filling it. If people do not want or need what you offer (we are not talking only about products and services, but your ideas as well!), you can waste much energy without any (or very little) success.
This idea is easy to understand. When you act in the best interest of others, people recognize and appreciate your commitment to them and reward that commitment by giving you their energy (business, time, attention, loyalty, money) back. Its as easy as that.

Always remember: Your problems are of no interest to the vast majority of people, however, you can solve the vast majority of your own problems by simply helping others solve theirs.

Even if you are not strictly a businessperson, satisfying the needs of others should be your primary objective in life. Most of your daily activities (conversations, shopping, work, play, family life) bring you in contact with others. You will be more successful in every area that involves people if you focus on their needs instead of your own. In the process, you’ll satisfy your needs automatically.

Consider the following scenarios:

Car and truck manufacturers spend fortunes to produce beautiful commercials. Everyone remembers the scenery and the stunning visuals. But who remembers the car or the truck?

An ad wins in the Oscar of the advertising agency, the Clio. All well and good for the ad agency. But sales don’t pick up. Where does that leave the company that commissioned the ad campaign in the first place? A company spends $100,000 for a perfect dot.com name, but less than a tenth of that amount for website design. In the process, it turns away potential customers who find it difficult to navigate the website or find that “hot merchandise” that is being promoted. These are examples of marketing that sucks. Most marketing “sucks” for the following reasons:

Many companies don’t understand what marketing is. One company spent more than a million dollars for 10,000 copies of a beautiful brochure, only to keep them warehoused in the end. The reason? The brochures were too expensive to give away to just about anyone. Companies operate by generalities. An expert says that a 1% hit rate for direct mail marketing is good enough. And companies limit themselves by this adage, if it is true at all. Many companies undertake only one form of marketing, such as print advertising, instead of a swarming offense that targets everyone wherever that person turns, from print ads to outdoor advertising to infomercials.

Many expensive programs are devoid of innovative thinking. They’re hung up on doing what their competitors do, but better. In the end, no one remembers. The key lies in innovation, in being remembered. Many companies don’t make use of available research. There are databases that can be accessed to enhance the marketing effort. Many marketing professionals remain unaccountable for results or the lack of them. It’s all about moving what you sell!

The super successful also have a different take on failure.

Failure is what happens when you do something. The greatest successes in the world also experienced the greatest failures. The all-time strikeout record in major league baseball is held by … Babe Ruth. But we don’t remember him for his strikeouts. We remember him for setting a home run record that stood for decades. No one cares about his strikeouts. The point is he kept swinging the damn bat! Most of us never get out of the dugout—let alone up to the plate. Those people not only wonder why they never hit a home run—and even begrudge the determined hitters who do!

The key to success is understanding your shortcomings

Donald Trump has lost billions in his financial deals. But who cares. He has made billions more with his successful ventures, and he just keeps swinging the bat. After stumbling into the New World, Christopher Columbus failed in his subsequent
explorations and died a poor and disappointed man. But on Columbus Day do we celebrate his dying destitute? Of course not. We celebrate his success.

This reminds me of a story about Tom Watson, Sr., founder of IBM, being asked by a young management trainee, “Sir, how do I get to the top of the management ladder here?” Watson replied immediately, “Double your failure rate, son. Double your failure rate.” His point was, of course, that more failures could only result from more tries, more initiative, more risk taking … all the actions required for growth. Most of Thomas Edison’s experiments failed miserably— thousands of them. He thought direct electrical current was the answer to lighting the world, and that alternating current was
a passing fad. He was wrong. And nobody cares. Instead, we’re indebted to Edison’s genius and his determination whenever we turn on a light bulb or hear recorded music, watch a film. For the super successful, failure is a valuable lesson. It’s a road not to take again, or at least under the same conditions. And then they move on. Failure is nothing more than testing. As Edison said, “Success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”

To the high performance person, “Fear” is “False Expectations Appearing Real.”

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If you ask yourself: “How do I earn or create a million dollars?” Your mind goes to work to discover the answer. Your mind is compelled to work ceaselessly until a satisfactory answer is found. Note that most individuals ask themselves questions like every one asks: “How do I get a job, salary or work?” Or “Can I earn $50,000 doing this?” The wrong question will generate the wrong result or a less than outstanding outcome.

Questions pre-determine the answer. The size of your question determines the size of your answer. Few people ever ask million dollar earning, inventing, innovating, generating and creating questions. They are yours to ask.

The difference between earning $100,000 per year and a million dollars per year is one zero. To earn a $100,000 per year a person must
work 250 days @ $400 a day. To earn a million a year the $400 must be increased to $4,000 per day. The difference is one zero.

If your loved ones life depended on it could you do it? The answer : “YES!”

Statistics prove that each millionaire creates ten new jobs and each billionaire creates ten thousand new jobs.

As you ask yourself and others better questions, your results will vastly improve, the world will be better off, your quantity and quality of service will expand, the difference you make will experience quantum change, and you will leave a profound legacy.

If you want to be a coach, if you want to help others live the life of their dreams, then you really should have made significant progress towards your own goals. Secondly, you must learn to have the proper motivation for helping other people. When we love the people we want to help as ourselves, then we are truly ready to coach. But only a few people know how to truly love themselves. And that is a barrier to becoming a great coach.

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1. Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life – In a society where people blame everything from their parents to the government for failure, those who don’t buy into this mentality or succumb to the “victim” thinking succeed. To blame something or somebody outside yourself is saying they have control of your life and not you. Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.
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Three Qualities Millionaire’s build their Philosophy on a backbone of:

• Mastery
• Success
• Charity

Let me explain in more detail. Mastery refers to continual self-improvement, mastery of oneself; being as financially successful as possible, building vast wealth; and assisting others less fortunate than oneself, being philanthropic.
The potent nature of mastery, success and charity are found in
these three highly empowering character traits common to all

Millionaires:

#1 They LEARN… increasing their treasure house of knowledge
through continual study and mastering life principles through
self-advancement. They seek personal mastery.

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