Have you ever noticed how successful individuals seem to be doing only things that they want?  Ever wonder how they manage to do that?  This article will give you a basic understanding of how you can do the same.

The first thing to understand is the four major areas for getting from where you are to where you want to be.  Then setting up a team of individuals filling in and playing the roles that they most love to play.  Wondering how this can be accomplished?  Read on…

First lets understand the four major stages for getting from where you are to where you want to go:

1. The Visionary - This stage is the process where the vision of what you want is created.  Some individuals love to play in this arena.  They love to create new ideas, visions, solutions, and to stay on the leading edge.  This part is very important because it brings the energy needed in the birth of a new idea or concept.  Any idea will run into its challenges along the way, therefore, the more energy it has at the beginning, the better chance it has to come to fruition.
2. The Advancer - Ths stage is the essential step in narrowing down all those ideas by developing systems that will take the top 3-5 ideas or solutions created in the visionary part of the process.  This is an essential step in beginning to break the process into small sequential steps that can be set into a plan to move forward.  This is also the process where the most important steps of a sequence are identified and ready to be put thorugh the “mill” to trouble-shoot them before they really get underway.
3. The Refiner - This stage is the “mill”.  Namely, this is the stage where the idea gets put through the “mill” to identify any major potential challenges or pitfalls that may kill the vision in its journey to coming to fruition.  This is where all the potential challenges are brought up (not resolved) but brought up so that they may be addressed based.  This step can be incredibly powerful in ensuring that the vision survives and becomes a reality.
4. The Executor - This stage is the “just do it” stage.  This stage comes into effect once the vision has been put through the entire process shared in the first three stages.  This is where nothing needs to be “figured out”, it simply just needs to be applied.  It is most effective when the instruction is clearly defined and all the focus and attention is on just doing it.  This is where the though, idea, and vision becomes a material result.  This is where you see your dream come true, but the other three stages are essential in making this stage happen.

Now that you have the basics of the four stages that are necessary to take something from an idea stage to a manifestation stage, I’ll ask you a few questions:

1. From the stages described above, which would you say you enjoy doing the most?
2. Who do you know that loves to do some of the other steps you don’t love?
3. How can you bring these individuals together to fill in the roles you don’t love and they do love?

Write down the answers to the three questions above, then get clear as to how you can create a win-win situation for everyone involved and begin to implement this process.  It is amazing to see how many people will want to play a role when they are playing a role they love.  What’s even more amazing is to see how many people will play their role and want nothing in return (though I’d recommend you still create a win-win situation for them).  Think about it for just a moment.  How many times have you found yourself “volunteering” to do something simply because you enjoyed the role you were playing…you were just simply having fun doing what you do.  This is exactly what happens when you have the clarity of the roles mentioned above and you set up your team in such a way that everyone is playing to their strength.

I trust you’ll enjoy setting up your team and creating tons of fun.  If you wish to understand this process in more depth, I recommend you take a look at “Success Communication: Keys to effective and powerful communication“

Google is truly amazing.  There is so much that this company has created and most of it for free.  One of the most useful tools I’ve used in my business is Google Docs.  I’ve used it to collaborate with others, to keep track of files that are important to me from anywhere there is internet access, and also to support my clients through the use of these Google Docs.

If you are unfamiliar with what Google Docs are and how you can use them to support your business, then I invite you to watch the video below that explains Google Docs in Plain English.

Now that you know what Google Docs are, I now invite you to start using them.  It is a free and powerful tool that you can use personally and/or professionally.

For more free coaching I encourage you to sign up for one year of Free Success Coaching at www.bodymindsuccess.com.

Some of the best advice I heard from one of my coaches about watching professional sports surprised me a bit.  He stated that his favorite part of watching professional athletes was their pre or post interviews.  After hearing this, it made a lot sense to me.  If you really take a moment and look at most of these interviews, you’ll see that there is almost always a pearl of wisdom that they’ve learned in the process and are sharing with  us.  Talk about free coaching that works, who else is better qualified to speak on what it takes to succeed, than one who has actually succeeded.  I love seeing the mindset that each of these amazing athletes have acquired to achieve their success.  More importantly, I gain a lot from being reminded of how important my mindset is for getting what I want, and even more by implementing this mindset on a daily basis.

How does this all tie into business?  Here is an game/exercise for you to play.

1. Watch the video below of Michael Phelps being interviewed.
2. Write down the key principles that have helped him achieve his success.
3. Then write down a few ideas of how you could implement those same principles in your business for the next 30 days.  Then observe the success you create in your business.

I trust you actually are going to do this and see the results for yourself.  If you wish to have additional support that comes to no cost to you, I encourage you to register for the free year of coaching that you’ll find on the home page of www.bodymindsuccess.com.

Have you ever wondered why some people get fired and others don’t?   Or why some people seem to have the ability to retain clients longer, while others don’t?

Well here are three questions to ponder that may very well keep you from being fired (whether it is for a job or a client):

1. What is the perceived value of your service?
   In other words, how much value are you creating in other people’s lives by providing your service, product or education.  There is a very clear universal law, that you shall be paid in direct proportion to the value you are bringing to others.
2. How would you rate the quality of your service?
   If you didn’t give yourself a rating of excellent, then what could you be doing to get it to an excellent status.  This is where the old cliche of over-delivering comes into play.  Are you giving more than what is expected of you?  If not, why not?  What is stopping you?  And how are you willing to change it?
3. How easily can your service, product or education be replaced?
   Are there many others providing the same thing you are offering?  If so, that doesn’t mean that you can easily be replaced, that simply means that you have the opportunity to also see how well you are addressing questions 1 and 2 of this article.  Is what you are doing and how you are delivering it unique?  If so, it makes it even tougher to be easily replaced.

Take all three of these questions and HONESTLY answer them for yourself.  After evaluating your answers, consider what else can you to strengthen these three areas?  Keep strengthening these three areas and you may never find yourself out of a job or business again.

BE CONSISTENT!

There! There’s the secret to success. Yes, it truly is that simple. I know that every success I’ve had, and have helped others have has come down to this one key action, consistency. Take a look around your successes, how consistent did your actions need to be for you to have reached the success you wanted. I’m going to venture and say that your consistent action eventually resulted in getting exactly what you wanted.

It wasn’t too long ago, on one of my consistent morning walks that I was reminded of this universal law by another of my mentors, James Ray. In that same walk I reflected on may of my successes and recognized that indeed consistent action towards my desired goals was the key ingredient to every success I’ve had.

In order to be consistent, I had to be committed to my desired goal. Thus, another way to look at consistency is as commitment. How committed are you to getting what you say that you want? Wait…don’t answer that just yet. Take these steps and find out.

1. What is one thing that you say that you want?
2. What consistent action are you taking daily towards this desired outcome?
3. Is what you are doing getting you closer to what you want? Or further from what you want?

Once you’ve answered the questions above you’ll have your irrefutable evidence on the level of commitment you have towards reaching this goal. If you are getting what you want, then this may just seem like commons sense. But if you are not getting what you want, I’d encourage you to reflect on the following questions and WRITE down your answers:

1. What is your desired outcome?
2. What consistent action are you wiling to take today (and each day) ?
3. What are some benchmarks that will help you measure your progress towards your goal?

I’ll end with the simple reminder that your level of success will be directly proportional with your level of consistency in taking action towards that goal.

A friend once shared a quote that I loved. “Success is getting up one more time than you fall down”. As long as you keep getting back up and moving forward, you can not fail. Keep going and may you create everything you want in your life.

If you find that you are having a tough time staying consistent, I’d encourage you to hire a coach or get with a mentor that can help you stay on track. Once you are consistently supported and implement this principle of consistency, you’ll be able to apply it to all other areas in your life.

Feel free to contact Body Mind Success for suggestions on how to get quality coaching for health, wealth and growth.

The single most effective way to grow your business is truly very simple. It is so simple that many businesses and entrepreneurs forget how powerful it truly is. It is very easy to get lost in all the “I gotta do…” or the “How much will I get for…?” of a business, and forget the most basic foundation success.

The most basic foundation of success is TO BE OF SERVICE. Plain and simple, every business that truly focuses its efforts on being of service and bringing value to others is a successful business. In order for your business to grow you’ve got focus on being of service by creating value for anyone that interacts with your business.

Here are a few questions to help you create more value in your business:

• What are the main problems your business can solve for others?
• What makes your business uniquely valuable for clients?
• What are you doing to go above and beyond what is expected of you?
• Are you truly coming from your heart and giving what is best for your clients?

As you may know, I have a beautiful two year old son, and I often find myself asking the question “Is what I’m sharing with this client/prospect/individual something I would be sharing with my son if he were in the same situation”. If the answer is yes, then I move forward. If it is no, then I re-evaluate and change what I’m doing.

I trust these reflective questions will support you in creating your next level of success.

Sometimes using a written article can be effective.  Others video can also be very powerful.  But often audio gets overlooked.  Remember there are different types of learners, visual, kinesthetic, and auditory.  Auditory of course people that learn best through listening.  If you leave this group out, you are missing out on another opportunity to grow your business.

I’ve seen many people shy away from audio or video because they believe it is too hard to do.  Well, in the old days this was true, however, that is not the case today.  With technology growing so quickly there are many tools and resources that make both audio and video  a very simple and powerful tool to use.  Personally, I like SIMPLE.  Therefore, I stopped trying to do it all on my own a long time ago and now I use the tools that are simple and effective.  The investment in these tools has helped me immensely.

I’ve used these tools primarily help  me replicate myself and free up more of my time.  I’ve also used these to share myself and my business.  For example, the other day I heard a really neat experience a friend had with some health products and I asked if she would be willing to share that story with others.  She agreed and here is what she said.

Press here to listen to her short audio on Distress Remedy.

I then proceeded to share this audio recording with other people interested in having healthier lives, and before I knew it my sales had increased.  Do you know how cool that is?  To not even be there, and still be able to help others, and as a result generate more income.  Once you’ve experienced that it is actually possible, it can be quite difficult to go back to the old ways of doing things.

So how do you do this?  Simple:

1. Find an audio service that will make this process simple (personally I use Audio Acrobat)
2. Create your audio.
3. Share it with others.

It’s really that simple.  If you couple it with being clear with what you want the listener to do after hearing the audio, then your audio will be even more effective.

For example, if you are interested in the products mentioned in the audio you heard, then go to www.easynsp.com and order them directly from the company. To learn more about distress remedy, press here.

I don’t want you to believe ME, I want you to experience this for yourself and begin to realize how powerful these simple tools can be in helping you grow your business.

Want more simple tools to help you grow your business, I invite you to take a look at Turbocharging Your Business With Simple Technologies, by pressing here.

Enjoy creating your next level of success.

Over the course of running several businesses and coaching countless others.  I have seen thousands of dollars spent on marketing materials.  Though I believe many of these dollars were well spent, many more did not even cover the costs of the advertisement.  The topic of how effective a marketing campaign can be quite involved and is not the topic of this posting, maybe I’ll cover that in the near future.  But I will take the opportunity to share that many of these dollars could have been saved.

The goal of this article is to share with you a simple way you can use yourself to generate many of your own marketing materials and even deliver it to many more people than you might be reaching at the moment.

Here are your simple steps:

1. Create a simple Word, Excel, or any other file with the content you desire.
   (Remember to include your contact information so others can reach you…I can’t tell you how many times this simple step is overlooked)
2. Use a simple free or inexpensive PDF converting software like (PDF995) to convert your document into a PDF file.
3. Now deliver it through any technological method available to you.  (Your webpage, email, blog, etc.)

Quick tip for the delivery of your PDF, don’t attach in an email if at all possible.  Many email programs will not allow attachments and will automatically delete your email and the attached files.  Instead, upload the file to your website or blog, and include the hyperlink into the email.  This will allow for a much higher deliverability rate.

In case you are desiring a walk-through of this process (and other simple marketing tools), I invite you to take a look at the Marketing Training I’ve posted on www.bodymindsuccess.com.  This process is shared through simple step by step videos that you can watch over & over & over….until you get the outcome you want.  Want to see an example of how this Success Coaching is done, press here.

I stopped gambling with my business a long time ago. What do I mean by that? Simply that I no longer throw a marketing idea up and HOPE that it is getting me the results I want. I got tired of “throwing away” money by guessing and hoping that my next marketing idea would work. I learned that I had to test my strategies before actually choosing to spend time, money, resources and energy to grow them. But then, how could I keep track of these ideas and their results?

Well, along came Google and provided a free tool that I have just loved. It is called Google Analytics. If you are not familiar with it and you do any kind of marketing on the internet, then it is an absolute must. This tool automates the tracking of almost everything that goes on for a website.

It tracks

• Number of visitors
• How long they visit
• How many pages they visited
• Whaty type of connection is being used to connect to your site
• And much, much, much more.

I could literally go on for hours about all the tracking this tool does. Instead I suggest you taking a look at the following video.

If you have a bit of sense about marketing, then you understand how powerful this information can be. It can help you take away much of the guesswork from your marketing. All you need to do is create a Google Account, setup an analytics account, and enter a snippet of code into your website’s template, and that’s it.

As early as the very first day, you’ll start seeing detailed reports on the activity that is going on in your site. Once you look at this data, then make adjustments to your marketing and keep repeating the process of checking and adjusting until you get the results you want. It is truly that simple.

I encourage you to track your success and keep making the adjustments based on RESULTS, not guesswork. I trust this tool will suupport you in creating your next level of success.

For more success coaching tips for health, wealth and growth, visit www.bodymindsuccess.com

For years I’ve been committed to helping other small business/entrepreneurs succeed in sharing your passion, resulting in a fulfilling and thriving business. The challenge I had was in reaching as many people all over the world and still have a life I could enjoy with my lovely wife and son.

Thanks to technology, now I have the tools to help you create your next level of success, regardless of where you are in the world (as long as you can access the internet). I’ve created a (free) simple one year coaching program to support you in creating more wealth, better health, and open up more free time to do other things you love.

Why am I doing this? Simply because I understand that success nurtures success. So my “crazy” way of thinking is, “Let me help as many people as I can create their next level of success, and surround myself with success minded individuals as a result”. Crazy? Only time will continue to tell. However, I do know from personal experience that focusing my attention in helping others succeed has created great success in my life in more ways than I can count.

If this “crazyness” is something that makes sense to you and you wish to use as another resource to help you create your next level of success. Simply visit the home page at www.bodymindsuccess.com and enter your name and email, and you’ll begin your free year of coaching right away.

If you need to know more about how this Success Coaching program works, simply press here and watch the video.