| The single most important determining factor in | | | | - Pay off credit card debt? |
| whether you will succeed or fail in your new business | | | | Whatever the reason, you want to write it down on |
| venture is available to everyone according to Bruce | | | | an index card and keep it with you at all times. Print |
| Bley, founder of BCB Associates- consultants. It does | | | | up a sign and post it on the refrigerator. Scotch tape |
| not discriminate based upon gender, race, religion, | | | | it to the bathroom mirror so that you see it every |
| age, education or nationality. | | | | day. A picture or graphic works best. Cut a picture of |
| It is not your intelligence or education. There are | | | | the car or boat you want out of a catalogue. Cut out |
| many high school drop-outs that have succeeded and | | | | the emblem of the school or picture of the campus |
| plenty of college grads who have failed. It's not your | | | | where you want to send your child. Pictures of your |
| looks, because plenty of "beautiful people" have | | | | children or the "dream house" also work. You have to |
| failed. It's not the amount of money you have to | | | | feel it, taste it, smell it, experience it before you |
| invest in your business, because plenty of people | | | | actually get it. Visualization, auto-suggestion, positive |
| with money to invest have failed. It is not the | | | | thinking, positive focus are all terms to describe this |
| business model or marketing plan, because some | | | | technique. You have to visualize accomplishing your |
| succeed and many people fail using the same plan | | | | goal, just as a successful athlete does. |
| and model. The secret is "DESIRE"; and, it can't be a | | | | Then take action. If you have joined an established |
| ho-hum desire. You have to have a burning, deep | | | | business with a proven track record, use their |
| down, insatiable desire to succeed. | | | | established system. You have already paid for it. |
| The key is to find your "WHY". You have to have a | | | | Don't reinvent the wheel or customize their |
| reason, or a purpose, for starting your own business. | | | | marketing plan to your liking. That usually doesn't |
| What do you want this business to do for you? | | | | work. Use the system and the tools that have been |
| Take the time to truly understand and acknowledge | | | | proven over time to work for others before you. |
| what your purpose is for starting your own business. | | | | Dive in and participate with your upline and leadership. |
| That's your "WHY". This will be your motivator, your | | | | Take the action steps suggested by your trainers. |
| boundless source of energy that will help you to | | | | Do the training assignments, get out of your comfort |
| persevere through the disappointments that will be | | | | zone and apply what you have been taught. Attend |
| encountered along the way. No one said that it would | | | | Team Calls. Now is not the time to procrastinate. |
| be smooth sailing or a "slam dunk". As General Dwight | | | | Nothing happens without action. Like the ad on TV |
| Eisenhower said "There are no victories at bargain | | | | says, "Just do it". Don't wait until the house is in |
| prices". You need to stay focused on this. | | | | foreclosure or the repo man is stalking your car. Why |
| For some people, they just have always wanted to | | | | put yourself under the pressure of having to get |
| own their own business. Some want to get involved | | | | your business up and running and profitable ASAP |
| in a business that helps others solve a problem with | | | | when you are struggling to put food on the table? It |
| the products or services offered. Maybe you want | | | | can be done. It has been done by many before you, |
| to earn money that would enable you to do more | | | | so why wait? If you wait until the eleventh hour cash |
| volunteer work. Many are just fed up with the rat | | | | flow may be nonexistent or negative and it may be |
| race, the status quo, and want to be able to make | | | | too late. The time to take action is now. |
| money working from home. For many it is the | | | | You can change your own life and your financial |
| money and the reasons are all different: | | | | destiny. You can have the lifestyle you have always |
| - Supplement the family budget? | | | | wanted. You can achieve financial and time freedom. |
| - Be able to donate more money to charity | | | | But, it will be up to you. You will have to work for it. |
| - Be able to quit that second job? | | | | Remember that many fail to recognize opportunity |
| - Send your children to private school? | | | | because most of the time it is disguised as hard |
| - How about college tuition? | | | | work. Keeping your "WHY" in front of you should |
| - Fund your retirement? | | | | give you the extra motivation needed to take action, |
| - Buy a new car or boat? | | | | persevere and succeed. |