In this post, I will share with you some of the things that I do that have help me to grow my businesses.

1. Have Clearly Defined Goals:
The more specific your goal is the better. A goal like getting debt free isn’t as focused as a goal like “to earn $321,756.89 in the nest 90 Days” The more focus and defined a goal is, more powerful and focused you will be. Having a clearly defined goal is very important.

2. Get An Accountability Partner
Having someone that you are accountable to will greatly increase your chances for succeeding. For some strange reason, we will press through when we know that others are watching or are counting on us. Accountability partners can be friends, or family. The only requirement is that they be committed to holding you accountable. My accountability partners encourage me to continue when I want to give up and move on to other things.  My accountability partners remind me of  mission and keep me focused.

3. Have Confidence In Your Own Ability And Your Resources
Everyone need to be encouraged every now and them. We also need to be reminded not to be so quick to count ourselves out. Give yourself a fair chance.  Realize that before things can change out side , they have to change inside. You inner mental game is very important. Controlling your mind set and your thoughts is essential for developing a healthy and positive self value mindset.

If you have no confidence in your training, your resources and your own ability, there isn’t much you will be able to achieve in any area.  Give yourself permission to try knowing that your Dreams do not have deadlines. The three strikes and you’re out rule doesn’t apply here. You play until you win So give yourself a fair chance.
Rom 12: 1…. be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind

4. Be Honest with yourself
Do a self  evaluation and identify your strengths and weaknesses. This can be done with a simple blank sheet of paper. Divide the paper in half. On one side, list 10 of your strengths. On the other side, list 10 of your weaknesses.  Next, arrange you strength list based on the things that are the easiest to do. The easiest thing should be the first on the list so forth and so on. Focus on the NO1 item on your list. Be aware of the items on the weakness side but don’t focus on them. For many people, they are focusing on their weaknesses rather than their strengths. Again, give yourself a fair chance….

5. Find Out If Your Are Stuck
All of us are going to be challenges, the only people that aren’t challenged are Stuck or are people that aren’t really doing anything. To be challenged or to be stuck someplace means that you are looking to make progress and that you’re moving forward.

Look to get beyond those failures, challenges and the things that tend to stay in your way. Look at what you can do with what you already have rather than focusing on what you can’t do and what you don’t have.

6. Establish A Daily Routine or ritual
When I was employed, every morning I had a routine that I went through each morning before going to work. This was a form of discipline that later proved to be a challenge.  When I quit being self employed, that ritual had to be replaced with a new one. I remember getting up thinking I needed to go to work as I had done for many years. That ritual  was so engrained in me that I didn’t know what to do each morning. It was scary for a few months. My lack of having a daily ritual or routine cause me to be “Stuck” for several months. Establish a daily routine  to establish self discipline .

7. Create A Daily And Weekly Task List
There a saying that what isn’t tracked can’t be measured and what isn’t measured can be modified or changed. Have a  Weekly Task List and a Daily activity  list for reaching your weekly goals. This was the method I use to develop my 8 Week Commercial Financing  Course.

8. Create An Issue List.
Identify the issues that you need to deal with. Organize them and decide which one you want to take on and resolve. It’s important that you address one issue at a time. Here is where an accountability party or a mentor will be very helpful. Select the issue, and explore solutions. Decide on a action plan and implement that plan. Set a start date and monitor your progress weekly. Don’t take on any new issues until you get this first one resolved. Once you get the first issue resolved, you’ll establish momentum for the next one. Before you know it, you’ll be on a roll…

9. Focus On Your Objectives And Your Resources
Once you are clear on your objectives, on what matters and why it matters and that it’s worth going forward with, you can breath better. You’ll be a bit more relaxed and less stressed-out about all the other things going on around you even if they are exciting because they will not be relevant to you and your objectives.
You really do have control over who and what gets your attention.  Clarity  will prevent your mind from running all over the place and you can focus on having the impact and the results you want. The “Inner Game Is The Game To Master”.

10. Be Consistent In Your Actions And  Recommit Daily
In order to really succeed, we must remember that every day we have to muster up the courage to starting again and following through even when we don’t feel like doing it. This is a day-to day activity. We must have the courage to start and the strength to finish what we start. Remember to renew your commitment every day. It you get stuck, press through to your breakthrough. It’s up to you to make your dreams real.
Your commitment to your dreams and goals require courage .

10. Reward yourself
You are just as deserving of success as myself, as a Bill Gates, or as anybody. But at the same time, you’re no more deserving of success.

Life does not give us what we deserve. Life gives us what we go claim. And claiming is a proactive process that we have to engage in every single day.

This is a process, and this process is an ongoing journey of continuous, unending progress that every single one of us should enjoy every step of the way. There are certain things that happen that we don’t necessarily feel good about, but because we know that it’s worth it, we go ahead and we endure it and we keep on moving forward.

Remember to reward yourself and celebrate your successes.

“Hope deferred makes the heart grow sick, but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.”
Proverbs 13:12 (Amplified Bible)

Durante