As my friend was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not. My friend saw a trainer nearby and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.
"Well," he said, "when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free." My friend was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn't, they were stuck right where they were.
Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before? So make an attempt to grow further.... Why shouldn't we try it again?
Moral:
"YOUR ATTEMPT MAY FAIL, BUT NEVER FAIL TO MAKE AN ATTEMPT."
17/08/2010
15/08/2010
Miracles
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
3,8 million
During 2009, 5000 Swedish men where fined for peeing in public areas. This brought in 3,8 million in revenue to the Swedish government. The terrible odour you can sometimes feel in the street corners at every festival, is NOT pee, it's revenue!! Maybe we can pee ourselves out of the economical crisis after all?
By Anne Bengtson
By Anne Bengtson
13/08/2010
The 6 habits of highly effective marketers
Most business owners, experts and professionals understand the importance of providing non-promotional, educational content during the beginning of the relationship with a customer.
In essence, content marketing is information marketing, and information marketing is the new currency on the Internet. The challenge is how to translate your information into products with high perceived value.
It’s indicative that every business can now be called an information business because we all need some kind of information to make our decisions, learn how to solve our problems or to help us get what we want in life. Simply put we want our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs met in order to take actions.
And getting people to take action through marketing is the most valuable skill anyone can learn and master. (Not to mention it’ll also improve your interpersonal relationships and communication skills.)
This is why great marketers focus on communicating the value and translating the utility of the information. Whether the goal is to get the prospect to click on your website link, sign up for your newsletter, join your coaching program or buy your information product, it requires meeting the right balance of Needs versus Wants from the prospect’s perspective.
Done right, you can leverage powerful internet tools to attract pre-interested and pre-motivated prospects that are ready to buy and start a business relationship with you. Not only will you be perceived as an influential authority but you will gain credibility and trust without having to convince people to buy your product.
So what does it take to be an effective marketer today? Here are six traits of highly effective marketers:
People often don’t question their own assumptions about what will work. Majority of the entrepreneurs, experts, marketers like to spill out their solution without asking what exactly their customers “think they want” that can solve their problems.
Imagine a doctor telling you what’s wrong with you by just looking at you from a distance. Even if the doctor has the correct diagnose, would you trust their advice? Great marketers know that they don’t know what they don’t know. They ask questions and dig deeper below the surface to identity the pain, urgency and frustration of their customers.
In addition to finding out what the problems are, it can also serve as your free market research. Start talking to all your prospects and customers everyday and continue asking why until you get to the root cause, you may be surprise what’s going on inside their reality.
2. Effective Marketers Are Storytellers
Once you have identified your customer’s problems, help them make the logical connection between their needs and your solution (product or services) one step at a time. This way they don’t have to work to figure out how to use your knowledge or expertise to solve their problem; instead you reverse engineer your solution from their problems.
Top marketers know how to connect the dots by using narrative to set the quickly get people’s attention. It’s one of the 3 most effective content marketing techniques you can use.
The idea is to ensure your solution sounds exactly like what’s going to solve their problem when you finally get to introduce it typically “at the end” so it’s easier to digest. Keep in mind that you should never present your solution prematurely, it will only create disconnects which leads to distrust.
Maintaining the communication channel open is critical in facilitating the buying process because people don’t care about your products and services, they just care about themselves. So even with storytelling, guest who’s perspective and story do customers like to hear? (Hint: read the last sentence again.)
What is relationship and why important? Everyone talks about relationship but what exactly is relationship? Here is the definition of relationship from Wikipedia: “Relationships usually involve some level of interdependence. People in a relationship tend to influence each other, share their thoughts and feelings, and engage in activities together. Because of this interdependence, most things that change or impact one member of the relationship will have some level of impact on the other member.”
So a relationship can impact one another mentally, physically and emotionally. This is why social media is a great way to relate with each other to see if the other person is like you, identify a common ground to connect via LinkedIn, follow on Twitter and “friend” on Facebook. In fact, a relationship is a process to continue to relate until we feel related, full of emotions and thoughts of the other person.
A critical mistake many struggling experts, marketers and business owners make is thinking of their customers as “its” they can manipulate. Wrong!
Great marketers focus on building relationship to have trust, admiration and credibility that extends beyond business transactions not to mention people will buy more and refer to from those like and trust.
People often forget that trust is earned over time typically on a more intimate level. In order to introduce your great product or services, you need to earn the right to ask for the sell. This is the framework of the “freemium” business model, where you offer so much value to your prospect that their respect for you goes up instantly.
This requires you to supply relevant content or information and ultimately give away your best stuff to show that you’ve got the goods! (Do you?)
This feels counter-intuitive to most experts and business owners because they feel like they’ve earn the right to charge for their expertise or services through years or experience or training. The problem is they, the customers, don’t know and won’t believe that you’re in their best interest until they get to know you.
Effective marketers aren’t afraid to give away their best stuff because knowing how to drive a car doesn’t mean you’ll win a race even if you start with the fastest car.
Authors like Seth Godin, Yaro Starak, Brian Clark, Michael Steizner and Darren Rowse are great example of over-delivering their value so when it’s time to ask for a sale, readers usually come to expect and respect what they bring to the table.
Today, the market moves so fast that it’s important to understand marketing needs to focus on the long-term strategies to get customers.
There is no silver bullet that will bring you sustainable instant results. In fact, it’s vital to have the right mindset knowing that every action you take is to validate your ideas from fact gathering.
Great marketers do not hold their ego to their chest; they look for facts and data that enable them to make incremental improvements.
This is why direct response marketing delivers better results than institutional branding and advertising. They have different appeals with different purpose but direct marketing is more effective in small to medium size business than branding or making logos and websites “look nice.” Your investment in marketing efforts should always be measurable in some ways, think of it as making progress not perfection.
The best marketing ROI is about profiting on all the time and money invested in your tests! You would test the water before you jump into the pool or drink a hot soup right?
Successful marketer choose a niche and stick to it. They put all the experience, knowledge, theories and ideas they have and consistently create content around it. Everything is narrowly focused so it speaks to those that are looking for solutions in that topic.
They deliver bite size chunks of information to ensure that their audience learn and take actions. Ultimately it’s about delivering value that’s truly a solution not just suggestions. Since people aren’t good at valuing anything with out learning (more information again), top marketers knows to create techniques or systems that enable the prospects to understand the value of the solution.
Simply put, great niche marketing strips away misunderstand and delivers high value information that pushes the buy button. And to do that, it requires focusing on the needs of the customer without assumptions. (goes back to#1 above)
A great method to do that is to learn Neil Rackham’s SPIN Selling technique by focusing on asking the right Situational questions (find out what’s going on), Problem questions (challenges happening), Implication questions(what the challenge implies) and the Needs-payoff questions (the price tag on solving the challenge).
The take away: Marketing is a skill that you can learn and should be practiced everyday. In fact, thanks to the internet today there is very little barrier to entry for anyone to do marketing. The information are all out there, you just need to follow some simple steps to start marketing your product, services or your personal brand.
The six traits are the building blocks to form powerful influence which is explained by Robert Cialdini’s book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion as ethical persuasion in reciprocity, scarcity, liking, authority, social proof, and commitment/consistency.
What do you think the most important trait of a marketer is? What worked well or not so well for you? Love to hear your comments, share it with everyone!
In essence, content marketing is information marketing, and information marketing is the new currency on the Internet. The challenge is how to translate your information into products with high perceived value.
It’s indicative that every business can now be called an information business because we all need some kind of information to make our decisions, learn how to solve our problems or to help us get what we want in life. Simply put we want our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs met in order to take actions.
And getting people to take action through marketing is the most valuable skill anyone can learn and master. (Not to mention it’ll also improve your interpersonal relationships and communication skills.)
This is why great marketers focus on communicating the value and translating the utility of the information. Whether the goal is to get the prospect to click on your website link, sign up for your newsletter, join your coaching program or buy your information product, it requires meeting the right balance of Needs versus Wants from the prospect’s perspective.
Done right, you can leverage powerful internet tools to attract pre-interested and pre-motivated prospects that are ready to buy and start a business relationship with you. Not only will you be perceived as an influential authority but you will gain credibility and trust without having to convince people to buy your product.
So what does it take to be an effective marketer today? Here are six traits of highly effective marketers:
1. Effective Marketers Make No Assumptions
People often don’t question their own assumptions about what will work. Majority of the entrepreneurs, experts, marketers like to spill out their solution without asking what exactly their customers “think they want” that can solve their problems.
Imagine a doctor telling you what’s wrong with you by just looking at you from a distance. Even if the doctor has the correct diagnose, would you trust their advice? Great marketers know that they don’t know what they don’t know. They ask questions and dig deeper below the surface to identity the pain, urgency and frustration of their customers.
In addition to finding out what the problems are, it can also serve as your free market research. Start talking to all your prospects and customers everyday and continue asking why until you get to the root cause, you may be surprise what’s going on inside their reality.
2. Effective Marketers Are Storytellers
Once you have identified your customer’s problems, help them make the logical connection between their needs and your solution (product or services) one step at a time. This way they don’t have to work to figure out how to use your knowledge or expertise to solve their problem; instead you reverse engineer your solution from their problems.
Top marketers know how to connect the dots by using narrative to set the quickly get people’s attention. It’s one of the 3 most effective content marketing techniques you can use.
The idea is to ensure your solution sounds exactly like what’s going to solve their problem when you finally get to introduce it typically “at the end” so it’s easier to digest. Keep in mind that you should never present your solution prematurely, it will only create disconnects which leads to distrust.
Maintaining the communication channel open is critical in facilitating the buying process because people don’t care about your products and services, they just care about themselves. So even with storytelling, guest who’s perspective and story do customers like to hear? (Hint: read the last sentence again.)
3. Effective Marketers Build Relationships
What is relationship and why important? Everyone talks about relationship but what exactly is relationship? Here is the definition of relationship from Wikipedia: “Relationships usually involve some level of interdependence. People in a relationship tend to influence each other, share their thoughts and feelings, and engage in activities together. Because of this interdependence, most things that change or impact one member of the relationship will have some level of impact on the other member.”
So a relationship can impact one another mentally, physically and emotionally. This is why social media is a great way to relate with each other to see if the other person is like you, identify a common ground to connect via LinkedIn, follow on Twitter and “friend” on Facebook. In fact, a relationship is a process to continue to relate until we feel related, full of emotions and thoughts of the other person.
A critical mistake many struggling experts, marketers and business owners make is thinking of their customers as “its” they can manipulate. Wrong!
Great marketers focus on building relationship to have trust, admiration and credibility that extends beyond business transactions not to mention people will buy more and refer to from those like and trust.
4. Effective Marketers Are Givers
People often forget that trust is earned over time typically on a more intimate level. In order to introduce your great product or services, you need to earn the right to ask for the sell. This is the framework of the “freemium” business model, where you offer so much value to your prospect that their respect for you goes up instantly.
This requires you to supply relevant content or information and ultimately give away your best stuff to show that you’ve got the goods! (Do you?)
This feels counter-intuitive to most experts and business owners because they feel like they’ve earn the right to charge for their expertise or services through years or experience or training. The problem is they, the customers, don’t know and won’t believe that you’re in their best interest until they get to know you.
Effective marketers aren’t afraid to give away their best stuff because knowing how to drive a car doesn’t mean you’ll win a race even if you start with the fastest car.
Authors like Seth Godin, Yaro Starak, Brian Clark, Michael Steizner and Darren Rowse are great example of over-delivering their value so when it’s time to ask for a sale, readers usually come to expect and respect what they bring to the table.
5. Effective Marketers Know Everything Is A Test
Today, the market moves so fast that it’s important to understand marketing needs to focus on the long-term strategies to get customers.
There is no silver bullet that will bring you sustainable instant results. In fact, it’s vital to have the right mindset knowing that every action you take is to validate your ideas from fact gathering.
Great marketers do not hold their ego to their chest; they look for facts and data that enable them to make incremental improvements.
This is why direct response marketing delivers better results than institutional branding and advertising. They have different appeals with different purpose but direct marketing is more effective in small to medium size business than branding or making logos and websites “look nice.” Your investment in marketing efforts should always be measurable in some ways, think of it as making progress not perfection.
The best marketing ROI is about profiting on all the time and money invested in your tests! You would test the water before you jump into the pool or drink a hot soup right?
6. Effective Marketers Are Laser Focused On A Niche
Successful marketer choose a niche and stick to it. They put all the experience, knowledge, theories and ideas they have and consistently create content around it. Everything is narrowly focused so it speaks to those that are looking for solutions in that topic.
They deliver bite size chunks of information to ensure that their audience learn and take actions. Ultimately it’s about delivering value that’s truly a solution not just suggestions. Since people aren’t good at valuing anything with out learning (more information again), top marketers knows to create techniques or systems that enable the prospects to understand the value of the solution.
Simply put, great niche marketing strips away misunderstand and delivers high value information that pushes the buy button. And to do that, it requires focusing on the needs of the customer without assumptions. (goes back to#1 above)
A great method to do that is to learn Neil Rackham’s SPIN Selling technique by focusing on asking the right Situational questions (find out what’s going on), Problem questions (challenges happening), Implication questions(what the challenge implies) and the Needs-payoff questions (the price tag on solving the challenge).
The take away: Marketing is a skill that you can learn and should be practiced everyday. In fact, thanks to the internet today there is very little barrier to entry for anyone to do marketing. The information are all out there, you just need to follow some simple steps to start marketing your product, services or your personal brand.
The six traits are the building blocks to form powerful influence which is explained by Robert Cialdini’s book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion as ethical persuasion in reciprocity, scarcity, liking, authority, social proof, and commitment/consistency.
What do you think the most important trait of a marketer is? What worked well or not so well for you? Love to hear your comments, share it with everyone!
Writing (and Blogging) Tip: Start at the End
It’s Friday. The end of the week (sort of, but not really), and it’s time for a short post about a long-term problem I finally did something about this week.
When I proofread a blog, presentation, or strategic planning document, I typically start at the front and work backward.
No problem if I get through the entire blog, presentation, or strategic planning document EVERY time. When that doesn’t happen (which is very often), it creates a problem. By the time the whole thing is finished, I may have edited the front section 5 or 6 times more than the end.
I was about to make the same mistake again the other day when it became clear the end of the plan I was working on was nowhere near completion even thought the front section was in pretty good shape, save for a little editing. Instead of giving the front of the plan yet another round of attention, I consciously moved to the end of the document to work on the fundamental writing needed to get the strategic planning document in decent shape.
If you’re guilty of the same habit of always starting at the front when proofreading, begin at the end next time with the fresh eyes and full attention the front of the document usually receives. It’s a great way to deliver a much more consistent effort reflecting your expertise all the way through.
When I proofread a blog, presentation, or strategic planning document, I typically start at the front and work backward.
No problem if I get through the entire blog, presentation, or strategic planning document EVERY time. When that doesn’t happen (which is very often), it creates a problem. By the time the whole thing is finished, I may have edited the front section 5 or 6 times more than the end.
I was about to make the same mistake again the other day when it became clear the end of the plan I was working on was nowhere near completion even thought the front section was in pretty good shape, save for a little editing. Instead of giving the front of the plan yet another round of attention, I consciously moved to the end of the document to work on the fundamental writing needed to get the strategic planning document in decent shape.
If you’re guilty of the same habit of always starting at the front when proofreading, begin at the end next time with the fresh eyes and full attention the front of the document usually receives. It’s a great way to deliver a much more consistent effort reflecting your expertise all the way through.
Attraction marketing pays BIG money
The title of this article might be a bit of a sweeping statement and an unwise claim you might think; well let me explain. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything.
So briefly let’s start with what attraction marketing is NOT…
Offline: It’s not buying leads and cold calling; it’s not pestering you friends and families until they start to cross the street when they see you coming. It’s not learning pushy sales techniques that we all recognize when they’re used on us.
Online: It’s not posting your opportunity on your Facebook friends’ wall or even group walls. It’s not leaving your pitch in the comment box. It’s not sending your obvious ‘copy and paste’ business pitch in the form of a matey message to the inbox of people who don’t even know who you are.
Remember…people hate to be sold to but we love to buy!
So how do you get people to buy or join your business without selling to them?
Well the good news is that the right way is simple and much more fun than the wrong way.
You work smarter. Of course you’ll have to do some basic market research and identify your target market and where to find them etc. but instead of immediately starting to sell to them, you start by getting to know them first… by building a relationship with them. In fact, another name for attraction marketing is relationship marketing; also known as ‘word of mouth’ marketing. You know how to do that already. Are you beginning to see how easy this can be?
I heard a great analogy from millionaire Network Marketer Larry Beacham. He likened the unsuccessful so called attraction marketers to kids who’ve been shown how each chess piece moves on a chess board and then rush off thinking they know how to play the game of chess. Knowing how the pieces move is not all there is to it… you’ve got to learn the strategies of chess and get some practise in… and you’ll find the same is true of attraction marketing.
If you do make the commitment learn the strategies you’ll build strong relationships with your leads, and by helping them solve their specific problems you’ll not just make a sale… you’ll have found a customer for life.
In order to develop your attraction marketing skills and supercharge your results it’s important to have a basic 1-2-3 strategy to follow. Here’s a quick video explaining the Key Elements of a winning strategy for your attraction marketing success.
By Anne Duncan
So briefly let’s start with what attraction marketing is NOT…
Offline: It’s not buying leads and cold calling; it’s not pestering you friends and families until they start to cross the street when they see you coming. It’s not learning pushy sales techniques that we all recognize when they’re used on us.
Online: It’s not posting your opportunity on your Facebook friends’ wall or even group walls. It’s not leaving your pitch in the comment box. It’s not sending your obvious ‘copy and paste’ business pitch in the form of a matey message to the inbox of people who don’t even know who you are.
Remember…people hate to be sold to but we love to buy!
So how do you get people to buy or join your business without selling to them?
Well the good news is that the right way is simple and much more fun than the wrong way.
You work smarter. Of course you’ll have to do some basic market research and identify your target market and where to find them etc. but instead of immediately starting to sell to them, you start by getting to know them first… by building a relationship with them. In fact, another name for attraction marketing is relationship marketing; also known as ‘word of mouth’ marketing. You know how to do that already. Are you beginning to see how easy this can be?
All you have to do is match what you have to offer with people who need it. Simple!
So why isn’t everyone doing it and being hugely successful? Well, the cold hard truth is there are no short-cuts, you’ll need to learn some new skills and break some old habits before you become a fully fledged attraction marketer. If you do though, the rewards will be huge for you.I heard a great analogy from millionaire Network Marketer Larry Beacham. He likened the unsuccessful so called attraction marketers to kids who’ve been shown how each chess piece moves on a chess board and then rush off thinking they know how to play the game of chess. Knowing how the pieces move is not all there is to it… you’ve got to learn the strategies of chess and get some practise in… and you’ll find the same is true of attraction marketing.
If you do make the commitment learn the strategies you’ll build strong relationships with your leads, and by helping them solve their specific problems you’ll not just make a sale… you’ll have found a customer for life.
In order to develop your attraction marketing skills and supercharge your results it’s important to have a basic 1-2-3 strategy to follow. Here’s a quick video explaining the Key Elements of a winning strategy for your attraction marketing success.
By Anne Duncan
Questions are the answer
As Trent Hamm tells it, “I sat at the kitchen table flipping through the mail, seeing bill after bill after bill. I tore open a couple of them immediately, wanting to see the terrible news in its full glory. I began to calculate what I could afford to pay and what I could not. I began to quickly realize that the pile of bills I just received not only wouldn’t be covered by the current balance of my checking account, but that my next paycheck would not cover them either — and that was if I spent absolutely nothing on food, gasoline, or anything else.”
“I sat there completely stunned for a moment. Then I got up and went into my son’s room, closed the door behind me and sat down in the rocking chair across from his crib. He was so tiny laying there, less than six months old, and sleeping so peacefully there without a worry in the world. As I watched him lay there, gently breathing, emotions poured through me. Guilt. Shame. Embarrassment. Pain.” “I was failing this wonderful little boy, this child who had already brought incalculable joy into my life.
He relied on me for everything and because of my poor decision-making and my selfishness, I was letting him down. I closed my eyes and didn’t realize at first I was crying, almost uncontrollably. My wife came in and put her arm around me. Eventually my sobbing woke up my son, who also began to cry. Sarah held us both.”? - Exerpt from “Get Paid For Who You Are”.
This is something that I feel that many of us can relate to however, the sad reality is that although many people may find themselves in these type of circumstances, there are VERY FEW which find the heart to pull themselves out it. The masses simply just submit to their defeats and say to things to themselves such as, “You’re so far in debt…what makes you think you can get yourself out of it?”
The story goes on to say that Trent really began to evaluate his circumstances and changed the QUESTIONS he began to ask himself. Instead of saying, “Gee…I can’t do this…”, he began to ask himself, “How can I do this?”
You see when you change the questions that you ask yourself you change the direction of which way your mind focuses. In the story above, it could have been VERY easy for Trent to simply just throw in the towel and quit however, his love for his son and for his wife was FAR too strong to give up on them. Instead, he started to ask himself different questions which immediately shifted his energy from the negative to the positive.
When you ask yourself a question that is focused on the negative end of your current state of affairs, your mind immediately begins to look for other reasons and variables to make the situation seem even worse than it is! The troubling part of this is that many of us were conditioned this way as we were growing up. We were given these inferiority complexes which caused ourselves to think, things such as, “I’ve failed before…what makes me think I can succeed again?” Or… “I can’t be successful! I don’t even have a college degree!”
Whether you choose to believe it or not, the questions that we ask ourselves and other people give us power. If you find yourself in circumstances that you are currently not enjoying, it may be time to start asking yourself some new questions. Undoubtedly, the quickest way to change your focus is by asking what I call…
Whether you want more money, more time, freedom, more fulfilling relationships, better health, or a stronger spiritual connection, when you ask yourself “How can I…” you literally open yourself up to the infinite. The trick to really make this strategy shine is to constantly ask yourself that question.
Leave me a comment in the box below and share your thoughts on this matter as the true learning comes from discussion. With that, I hope you’re having a lovely day and I cannot wait to share more with you. Go forth and live with passion!
“I sat there completely stunned for a moment. Then I got up and went into my son’s room, closed the door behind me and sat down in the rocking chair across from his crib. He was so tiny laying there, less than six months old, and sleeping so peacefully there without a worry in the world. As I watched him lay there, gently breathing, emotions poured through me. Guilt. Shame. Embarrassment. Pain.” “I was failing this wonderful little boy, this child who had already brought incalculable joy into my life.
He relied on me for everything and because of my poor decision-making and my selfishness, I was letting him down. I closed my eyes and didn’t realize at first I was crying, almost uncontrollably. My wife came in and put her arm around me. Eventually my sobbing woke up my son, who also began to cry. Sarah held us both.”? - Exerpt from “Get Paid For Who You Are”.
This is something that I feel that many of us can relate to however, the sad reality is that although many people may find themselves in these type of circumstances, there are VERY FEW which find the heart to pull themselves out it. The masses simply just submit to their defeats and say to things to themselves such as, “You’re so far in debt…what makes you think you can get yourself out of it?”
The story goes on to say that Trent really began to evaluate his circumstances and changed the QUESTIONS he began to ask himself. Instead of saying, “Gee…I can’t do this…”, he began to ask himself, “How can I do this?”
You see when you change the questions that you ask yourself you change the direction of which way your mind focuses. In the story above, it could have been VERY easy for Trent to simply just throw in the towel and quit however, his love for his son and for his wife was FAR too strong to give up on them. Instead, he started to ask himself different questions which immediately shifted his energy from the negative to the positive.
When you ask yourself a question that is focused on the negative end of your current state of affairs, your mind immediately begins to look for other reasons and variables to make the situation seem even worse than it is! The troubling part of this is that many of us were conditioned this way as we were growing up. We were given these inferiority complexes which caused ourselves to think, things such as, “I’ve failed before…what makes me think I can succeed again?” Or… “I can’t be successful! I don’t even have a college degree!”
Whether you choose to believe it or not, the questions that we ask ourselves and other people give us power. If you find yourself in circumstances that you are currently not enjoying, it may be time to start asking yourself some new questions. Undoubtedly, the quickest way to change your focus is by asking what I call…
The Magic Question
Your mind is a very powerful tool and can be used to your advantage providing that you ask it the right type of questions. If you are serious about changing your life and the results you are currently getting, without question the most powerful thing you could ever ask yourself is, “How can I…(fill in the blank)?”Whether you want more money, more time, freedom, more fulfilling relationships, better health, or a stronger spiritual connection, when you ask yourself “How can I…” you literally open yourself up to the infinite. The trick to really make this strategy shine is to constantly ask yourself that question.
- “How can I get out of debt?”
- “How can I attract a better business partner?”
- “How can I lose this unnecessary weight?”
- “How can I feel more fulfilled with what I’m doing?”
- “How can I contribute more to our world?”
How To Apply The Power Of Questions
I’m going to give you a powerful exercise that has been very beneficial in my life and will completely change your focus should you decide to use it in yours. The exercise is asking yourself the following questions each morning when you wake up and each evening before you go to bed.Morning Power Questions
- What am I happy about in my life now?
- What am I excited about in my life now?
- What am I proud about in my life now?
- What am I grateful about in my life now?
- What am I enjoying the most in my life right now?
- What am I committed to in my life right now?
- Who do I love? Who loves me?
Evening Power Questions
- What have I given today?
- What did I learn today?
- How has today added to the quality of my life or how can I use today as an investment in my future?
Leave me a comment in the box below and share your thoughts on this matter as the true learning comes from discussion. With that, I hope you’re having a lovely day and I cannot wait to share more with you. Go forth and live with passion!
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