Motivational Speakers - Allow your Dreams to Soar in 2013

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Allow your Dreams to Soar in 2013

If you feel like you have tried really hard in the past to realise your dreams, but you feel like nothing ever seems to go right for you, you are not alone. The majority of people I speak to feel exactly the same way. They feel like they have tried really hard in the past, but nothing ever seems to go right for them. They feel like they just don’t have what it takes to achieve greatness.

Well I am here to tell you that you do have what it takes; you have just allowed yourself to fall into the trap of discouragement and disappointment, where you have developed the habit of accepting less than you are capable of. Your lack belief in yourself has also stopped you dreaming and having huge expectations. This has then all been compounded by your impatience and unwillingness to allow sufficient time, for results to show before you give up.

Do not be Discouraged

You really do possess unlimited potential and you do indeed live in a very abundant universe. Make 2013 your year and finally allow yourself to live this potential and commit to realise your dreams. I want to describe the reasons why you have allowed yourself to be pulled away from your dreams in this article to try to help you break free from the anchors that are weighing you down.

Discover  your Drive

The first challenge I have observed in the people who have lost their drive to succeed, is that they have been discouraged by the people around them. These people have failed to deliver themselves and so they unconsciously project their disbelief and doubt to everyone around them. As you know we mirror the behaviour of the people around us, so we fall into the trap of doubt and disbelief ourselves.

Action Idea: Spend as little time around the naysayers and people who discourage you as possible. Look around your world and find people who either have or are on a similar path to the one you want to travel, towards realising your dreams. Discover innovative ways to spend as much time as possible around these people as possible. Their positive attitude will buoy you up and eventually you will mirror their positivity and drive to succeed.

Do not allow people to place limitations on you or to hijack your dreams any longer. Instead of allowing yourself to be surrounded by the turbulence of criticism and doubt, find a way to surround yourself with support and positivity.

Learn from the Past

Stop allowing your “FAILURES” of the past to limit you in the future. Remember that there is no such thing as failure; you can only fail when you stop trying to achieve the outcomes you want. Learn the lessons offered by any challenges or setbacks you have encountered and have the courage to believe in your ability to achieve greatness in the future.

Action Idea: Read a few biographies of great achievers who have gone before you. It does not matter which one you choose to read, you will see that every single one of them “FAILED” at some point. When I say failed, I mean they encountered incredible challenges on their path towards success and with focus, determination and great effort they overcame the challenges and triumphed in the end.  Your “FAILURES” are no different, they are only become failures when you give up and surrender. As long as you are looking for ways to achieve your dreams, all you have are unresolved challenges or setbacks.

Have Huge Expectations

Your future success is limited only by you expectations and your willingness to believe in your ability to realise those expectations. Dare to dream once again and have huge expectations of what is possible for you to achieve. Once you do that, all that is left to do, is for you to commit to constant and never ending growth and development and for you to believe in your ability to bring your dreams to life.

Author: Andrew Horton Motivational Speakers

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Motivational Speakers - What are the Benefits of Showing and Feeling Gratitude?

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What are the Benefits of Showing and Feeling Gratitude?

As you know, your thoughts create your state of mind and the attitude you reflect to the world, which either make you feel positive and driven to succeed or they are restrictive and limit your daily efforts. Restrictive thoughts as you know do not only limit your growth and potential, but they also have a major effect on your health too. It is therefore wise to discover as many ways as possible to help you to remain in a positive mental place. One of the best ways I have found, which will allow you to achieve a really positive outlook and mind-set. Is the simple practice of looking around your world, discovering all the things that you have to be grateful for and then allowing yourself to feel real gratitude for them.

Improve your Health

Research has shown that practicing the art of gratitude has profound effects on the way you feel and respond to your world. This research has also shown that there are huge benefits to both physical and emotional wellbeing, in the form of a reduction in stress, fear, anxiety and even improvements in blood pressure, when you consciously feel gratitude. These studies have also shown that there are other benefits, such as a reduced incidence of depression, heart disease and immune system deficiencies, in the groups of people who practiced gratitude daily. You can definitely improve your health, emotional and physical wellbeing by consciously feeling gratitude for everything, which is working in your life.

Improving your Relationships

As perfect as our partners may at first appear to be, they seldom, if ever meet all our needs. There is always a gap, between our needs and expectations and what they are able to deliver. I know this must sound really callous, but this just one of those irrefutable facts of life and the reason some people can never stay in a relationship for very long at all. At first we only focus on all the things that are right and feel very fulfilled in the relationship. As time goes on, when the honeymoon period is over, some people start to focus on the small percentage in their partner, which is not ideal for them and so feel unhappy. This makes them look for the next partner.

The challenge is that the next partner also does not completely satisfy their needs either. They also only satisfy a portion, albeit a major part of what they want and expect. The key to make any relationship work is to consciously focus on the portion of the person, which is perfect for you and to feel real gratitude for this. This positive attitude shown towards your significant other will change how you feel, behave, interact with and support your partner. Your partner will in turn respond towards you in a more positive and supportive manner too. My experience has shown me that feeling and showing real gratitude towards your partner will deepen and strengthen your relationship with them.   

Inviting Financial Wealth into your Experience

Operating from a positive optimistic perspective, where you see your glass as half full and you have huge expectations, which you believe are possible for you to achieve, will allow you to operate in a positive mind space and inspire you to take the daily action you need to take, to invite the financial abundance you desire into your experience. By focusing on all the things you have to be grateful for, you attune your mind to abundance and you will begin to see opportunities all around you, to create financial wealth and independence.

The gratitude you feel will allow you to remain more positive and inspired and will change how you show up every day. You will walk with more confidence, speak with authority and people will be more inclined to want to develop mutually beneficial relationships with you. Other influential people will see your abundant, progressive, positive attitude and want to build mutually beneficial relationships with you. Feeling gratitude will shift your mind space into a positive place and will create the perfect conditions for you to invite financial wellbeing into your life.

Gratitude is a Choice

Action Idea: Make identifying and feeling gratitude for all the wonderful things you have going on in your life, a new daily habit. This new success habit will allow you to shift your mind-set towards positivity and with practice, this new habit set will create more abundance, prosperity, wellbeing, fulfilment and invite more happiness than you ever thought possible into your experience. It is a simple law that, if you want to create abundance in any area of your life, you must first appreciate and feel gratitude for what you already have.

Our thoughts create our expectations and our expectations drive our actions, so if you operate from a standpoint of lack and negativity, your thoughts will create poor expectations, which will drive poor actions and so you will continue to create poor results. Operating from a positive mind space, on the other hand, where you are focused on feeling gratitude for all the abundance you already possess will drive you to have much greater expectations and allow you to believe in your abilities far more. This will inspire improved daily performance and finally the outcomes you desire will begin to manifest in your life.

Remind yourself to be Grateful

Action Idea: Write down all the things you have to be Grateful for Every morning, lunch time and evening. This will help to constantly remind yourself to feel gratitude and to remain in a positive place.

Yes focusing on taking action daily to achieve your goals is important, but don’t forget about the power of looking around your world and focusing on the wonderful things you have right beside you. All the things you have to be grateful for. Invest time to review all the areas of your life and discover all of them which are abundant. Use these successes, to help you focus on possibility and to inspire you daily, to take the goal specific action you need to take, to achieve your dreams.

Only focus on the past, to learn the lessons it offers and to appreciate all it has brought to you. This will equip you to approach the future with open arms, ready and willing to achieve all the new blessings, which will come to you. Remaining in an abundant state of mind, will create the perfect conditions for your inner creative genius and allow you to enjoy the abundance that is your birth right.

Author: Andrew Horton Motivational Speakers

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Now is the Time to Start Investing in YOU!!!!

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Are you one of those people that can state every sports statistic about every player in your favorite sports team, but when asked, do not even know what you bank balance or net worth is. People invest so much of their available time into looking at other people’s statistics that they neglect the most important stats, namely those that relate to their own success. If you want to begin making real and meaningful positive changes in your life, stop focusing on others peoples successes and statistics and start to investing time into your own future and statistics.

Imagine what you could achieve if you started to Invest your time as follows:

1) Instead of reading the sports page – Read a self-improvement book

2) Stop listening to the radio in your car – Listen to an instructional CD.

3) Spending your evenings and weekends watching sport on television – Watch a DVD from a great seminar or read an instructional book.

4) Spending hours talking about sports statistics – Talk about your goals and plans and how you can help each other achieve them.

5) Stop reading gossip magazines – Read magazines such as Success magazine that will help you to learn and improve

6) Stop watching reality shows – Focus on your own reality and plans for success

7) Gossiping about other people and their difficulties – Discuss your challenges, the lessons you learned and your plans for continual growth and improvement.

As one of the motivational speakers that views life differently, I ask you to think about the following.

1) How do you think your life would change if you began to make these small shifts and you invested your available time more prudently?

2) Do you think your own scores and statistics would begin to change? Would your bank balance change, how about your level of skill and knowledge? The victories you would be celebrating would be your own and not those of other people.

There is obviously a place for everything in your life and I am by no means saying that you must cut all entertainment out of your life. I am saying that you should aim to change your current ratio of 50 hours of entertainment to one hour of education. Work to convert this ratio to a more favorable ratio of 5 Hours of entertainment to one hour of education. Could you imagine the all the positive changes that would begin to happen in your life, if you invested ten times more of your available time into improving and growing? How do you think your success ratios would change?

The way to completely transform your life and to begin seeing the positive changes you desire starts with you shifting your life away from constant entertainment toward more education. The measure of your future success will be in how you manage to balance the amount of time you spend watching other peoples dreams unfold vs. how much time you invest into making your own dreams come true. Imagine how amazing your life would be if you invested as much time and energy into your life as those people that you watch and admire, so much, invest into theirs.

Author: Andrew Horton Motivational Speakers

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Marketing your Small Business using Social Media

Marketing your Small Business using Social Media

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There is a huge shift and transformation going on in the online world. Social media has made an interesting and very effective marketing medium available to small business. This gives clever marketers a free tool to not only communicate with their market place, but to also receive feedback almost instantly as well. This feedback is a fantastic way of getting to understand the needs within your market and to get to understand new or changing trends that you can turn into opportunities.

Social media allows people in your market to communicate with the person behind the product. The smart marketers must understand the soft triggers within their markets and must direct their message toward influencing people to want to purchase your product. Customers can get involved in a conversation with a real person and if they need support they will be communicating with someone that can assist them, either by phone or email.

The real art of using social media to market your business is not about starting a facebook page, writing a daily blog or tweeting throughout the day. It is about emotion, listening and communicating to a select few people that want what you have to offer for sale.

Building massive lists of people that do not need what you offer is pointless and will merely consume your valuable time. Success in social media is not about the size of your lists on facebook, twitter and your blog. It is all about how you manage to convert the people on your lists into long term customers. Use technology to speak to the right people and awaken their emotion. Get them to know, like, trust and see value in what you have to offer and you will become very successful.

To successfully market your business using social media, requires thought, planning and a commitment to listen to the conversation on facebook, twitter and LinkedIN. When you get a feel for where the people that would use your products and services can be found and you understand what they want. Then and only then is it time to become part of the conversation.

It would also serve you well to take a look at the corporate trend setters such as Kodak, dell computers and Starbucks. Take a look at what they are doing with blogs, facebook fan pages, their strategy on twitter and YouTube. They are all doing a pretty good job of using all these forms of media to promote their companies. Observing what they are up to, will give you a great background and feel for what is working right now.

Dell for example uses their facebook fan page to build loyalty with their customers. www.facebook.com/DellSocialMedia This page was created to offer a social media resource that allows Dell to target a demographic outside of their traditional market. The Coco Cola fan page on facebook is run by two people not employed by Coca Cola. www.facebook.com/cocacola was a page started by two fans of Coca Cola. They rewarded the two people that started the page with a free trip to Altanta for their efforts in starting the page. This free trip was widely publicized as Coca Cola was hoping that more people would become loyal fans too.

If you are to succeed with the social media strategy, you must be authentic, passionate and you must be transparent in all your communications. When you commit to make social media work for your business you cannot just dip your toe in to the conversation pool and hope to become successful. You must commit to become a leader and be viewed as an expert in your field. Constantly provide good quality content and lead your conversations with integrity.

Author: Andrew Horton Inspirational Speaker

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