Seasons of Success

Seasons of Success

Inspirational Speakers

No machine, animal or human can operate at 100 % of their capacity all the time. As humans we need to allow for this and plan periods of rest into our schedule. Everything in nature works in cycles. There are four seasons in the year, there are times when the sun shines brightly and times when it doesn’t, there is daylight and darkness, plants grow more during the summer months than during winter, these cycles just seem to work effortlessly.

As an integral part of our world we also operate best when we work in regular cycles. As you know:

1) We cannot improve every area of our lives simultaneously.

2) We cannot try to tackle all our goals at once.

3) WE cannot do everything at the same time.

Those people that burn the candle at both ends soon realize that it is impossible to work against the natural cycles of the universe. They quickly burn out, fail or blow up due to stress. The universe and our world works in cycles and seasons. There is a time to learn, a time to produce, a time to harvest and most importantly a time to rest. All top achievers operate within the constraints of these cycles and use the natural rhythms within their world to leverage the maximum from their lives.

Learn to understand and use your own cycles or seasons and success will not only be inevitable, but it will seem effortless. Most people spend their days in a haze of busyness, constantly starting one thing and then stopping to do something else, allowing interruptions all the time. When they try to go back to what they were doing they need to gather their thoughts once again and try to recapture their rhythm.

Most people think that by multitasking, allowing their phones, people and a number of simultaneous projects to interrupt their rhythms is the best way to get things done every day. Nothing could be further from the truth. WE operate best when we focus our energy on one project at a time and we work in an uninterrupted fashion.

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers says that the challenge with not taking control of our lives, prioritizing and focusing our energy on one thing at a time, is that we get trapped in a cycle of ineffective busyness. We feel like we are doing so much, yet we are achieving very little. The reality is that this cycle of busyness is in complete contrast to and it works against our natural rhythms. We produce the best results and operate best when we stay focused on one thing and do not allow any interruptions to our rhythm.

Multitasking and allowing interruptions and constant distractions is completely alien to the way we are designed to work. We work best and operate most effectively and efficiently when we work with the natural cycles of our bodies and the universe. When we allow ourselves to get lost in these unproductive cycles, Unproductive days turn into, wasted weeks, mediocre months, useless years and lost decades.

We operate most effectively and deliver the best results, when we are supremely focused on one activity and we stay in the zone for sustained periods of time. The best way to leverage this principal and to gain the maximum benefit from this new understanding is to break your year into four equal cycles of 90 days each. Prioritize and focus on one important outcome and then break each task up into compressed chunks within each 90 day cycle. Depending on the size of each small project, these could be three 30 day cycles or six 2 week cycles.

For example I am in the process of identifying new corporate clients for my new speaking business. I am focused solely on identifying and building relationships with a select few targeted prospects. I am building up a solid rhythm and every day I get hotter and hotter and the results seem to grow exponentially every day. This absolute focus has allowed me to build relationships with more customers in a month than would be possible had I operated in a cycle of multitasking busyness.

When you compress key tasks into extended windows of time, you are able to stay more focused and for the same energy, you are able to achieve far more. This will allow you to compress more into the same amount of time. Your results are multiplied.

Author: Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers

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Inspirational Speakers - The Magic behind Goal Achievement

The Magic behind Goal Achievement

Inspirational Speakers

After setting your goals and writing them down. The first thought that comes into our minds is “OK! Now what must I do, to turn my goal setting into goal achieving”? Working to discover what you must do is only half right. You must explore what you need to do, so that you can become the kind of person that will attract the kind of success you desire. The best way to turn your goal setting objectives into goal achievement is to explore what you will have to become in order to achieve your goals.

As Jim Rohn said, “Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue eludes you. Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more you must become more.

A number of years ago I wanted to become one of the most entertaining and informative Inspirational Speakers in my field. I wrote down all the things I wanted to achieve to make this possible:

1) The places around the world where I wanted to talk

2) The sizes of audiences I wanted to talk in front of

3) The topics I was going to talk on

4) How my life was going to be as I evolved into an international speaker and author.

5) How much and where I was going to travel

6) How my wife would be an integral part of my speaking and travel success

7) I wrote an in-depth set of goals around the career I was going to have.

I had my goals, they were specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time defined, I was on my journey to become on of the best Inspirational speakers around. If I had asked “What must I do to ensure that I achieve all my goals to become a one of the great Inspirational speakers”? I would still be chasing after a phantom and would not have achieved the level of success I have as an international professional speaker. I asked myself the question “What type of person do I need to become in order to achieve the outcomes I desire”?

I then went about the business of carefully defining the traits, philosophies, values, skills, knowledge, behaviors, attitude, characteristics and attributes, I would need to posses in order to achieve and live my goal to become an international inspirational speaker. I then went about the business of working to acquire all these characteristics that I needed to include in my life to become the kind of person that would attract that kind of life.

Incredibly this strategy has worked. It is almost like magic every day. New opportunities come flooding into my life every day. My original goals have evolved and I am living the life I designed a few years ago. Not because of what I did, but rather because of what I have worked to become.

So if you set yourself a goal of increasing your net worth by $ 100 000 this year. Ask yourself the question “Who and what do I need to become to deserve an extra $ 100 000 in value”? The attributes, skills, knowledge and philosophies you may need to include in your life may be as follows:

1) I must become a master over how I use my available time.

2) I prioritize my efforts and only focus on high efficiency activities

3) I will wake up an hour early and read educational books every day

4) I will listen to inspirational and educational cd’s in my car every day.

5) I will eat responsibly

6) I will exercise daily.

7) I will only feed my mind with positive information.

8) I will work to only surround myself with positive people that support me.

9) I will surround myself with peers and mentors from whom I can learn and grow.

10) I deliver excellence and always exceed everyone’s expectations.

11) I seek referrals and testimonials from everyone that I can.

12) I am a confident and competent leader.

13) I cultivate strength and greatness in every one I touch.

The formula for long term sustainable success is simple. Before you can acquire the things you want, you must take daily inspired action. You can only take daily inspired action, once you have become the person you need to be. Having = becoming + doing.

“To achieve something you have never achieved before, you must become someone you have never been before” Les brown

If you want to achieve anything, begin by exploring what characteristics, behaviors, knowledge, skills and disciplines you will need to acquire. Become the kind of person you need to be in order to attract the success you desire.

Author: Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers

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Business Speakers - Super Achievement is about the things you don’t do

Super Achievement is about the things you don’t do

Business Speakers

Success is about planning, doing, reviewing and improving. The success tool that best compliments these four keys to super achievement is actually related to something you don’t do. Super achievers have mastered the art of saying no to the good so that they have time and energy available for the great. The master skill and secret to super success is learning the art of when to say yes and when to say NO!!!!!

We live in a world where we are constantly tugged on from every conceivable direction. There are constant distractions via our mobile smart phones, messages are constantly bombarding our computers, there are advertisements every where we look, the television and radio stations are filled with constant messages. Your ability to be productive and turn your time into long term sustainable success is constantly under threat.

Andrew is one of the best Business Speakers, he has realized that the secret to turning your available time, into success building time, is to know how to tune out from the things that are distracting you and tune in to taking actions that will make a real difference in your life. Your level of success will depend more on what you learn not to do, rather than on the things that you do. We have limited resources of time, energy and focus available. So everything you say yes to means that you have to say no to something else.

It is impossible for us to make more time in the day and filling each hour with more activity is also impossible. We live in a world of constant activity and if we are not vigilant, our lives can become overwhelming. We constantly bombard ourselves with massive expectations and apply ourselves to our lives with an intensity that is crazy. We work ourselves to exhaustion 24/7 but we still do not see any long term results.

That stops right now. You are unable to fit more into your day, you are already close to overwhelm. So the secret to becoming a super achiever must obviously be related to doing less. Does that sound a little crazy and doesn’t it feel like a contradiction. As you learn what to say no to and when to say yes, you will begin the journey of moving more effortlessly, efficiently and expeditiously toward you dreams.

Real high performance is about knowing what to say no to, carefully selecting the activities to say yes to and then applying unrelenting laser focus to your efforts. You can never tolerate any distractions that may stand in your way. When you have an unrelenting laser focus on what you want to achieve and you do not allow anything to distract you, super success is inevitable.

Learn to say no to a distracting TV program that will suck hours out of your life. Stop attending unnecessary and unproductive meetings that suck away your valuable time. Say no to invitations that serve no good purpose, save to make you feel busy. Set time aside and ruthlessly manage your emails. Do not allow yourself to be interrupted throughout the day by phone calls. Set time aside to take and make calls. Do not allow people to interrupt you with unimportant issues throughout the day. Your time is one resource you can never get more of. Treat yours as your most valuable possession and guard it wisely.

It is your day and your life; learn the art of making the most of both.

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Business Speakers - Designing the Future you Desire

Designing the Future you Desire

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Are you ready to finally write (RIGHT) your future? When you think it that is the time to ink it. After you commit to write everything down relating to your perfect future, you are beginning the process to (RIGHT) your future. The clarity that comes when you order your thoughts and clarify your goals turns goal setting into goal achieving. There seems to be an almost magical connection between our brains and our pens. Wave your magic pen over the page of your perfect future and detail exactly what you want in your future.

Be bold, dream big and put your aspirations on the line. If you don’t see great things in your future, great things will not come about in your future. It is rare that anyone exceeds their own expectations about how their future will turn out. Have the courage to dream really big and to commit to stretching yourself. Then finally believe in yourself and your abilities and pull the trigger to begin bringing your ideas, goals and dreams to life.

The easy part in the process of creating the future you want and can be proud of. Is the part where you convert all your dreams and fantasies into time defined goals. This is in effect only list of things you want to bring about in the next 1 to 10 years. The tough part in the process is creating sufficient belief in yourself and your abilities to turn this list into reality.

The belief in your ability to succeed can only be strong enough if you actually posses the required skills and ability required to carry out the daily actions necessary. This is the one stumbling block you must commit to overcome on the way to success. You must carry out an audit on your strengths, assets and opportunities and see if they are sufficient to deliver on your big dreams. If they are lacking in any way, commit to go about acquiring the skills and abilities you may need.

As one of the most informative and entertaining business speakers I highlight the importance of acquiring the skills and abilities you may lack. This must be an integral part of your goal setting process. Do not let the lack of a skill or ability to hold you away from dreaming really big. You are worthy of achieving great things. It has bee3n proven countless times that average people can achieve extraordinary things. Why not you? Anything that you can clearly visualize as possible for you is possible for you to achieve. As Napoleon Hill stated “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve”.

The size of your goals is of no consequence to your mind. Your mind and your potential are limitless. If you dream small dreams and set small goals, you will achieve small things. If you stretch yourself and dream big, you will achieve big. It is also strongly believed that it takes as much energy and life force to achieve big as it does to achieve small.

Ask and expect greatness from your self and you will see greatness manifest in your life. Commit to allow your light to shine and allow yourself to live full out. Believe in your future and your ability to make it great and then begin and sustain the journey to make it happen for you.

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Stop Selling and Start Helping as many people as possible get what they want.

Stop Selling and Start Helping as many people as possible get what they want.

Keynote Motivational Speakers Gauteng

Selling or the ability to influence people is not only a very necessary business skill, but an essential life skill as well. Our lives are filled with sales conversations. We need to convince or sell the idea to our children to rather make healthy food choices, we may need to convince our spouse to watch the movie we like or we may need to sell our boss on the idea of giving us a raise or a day off. Developing great sales skills or the ability to influence people will most certainly make life a lot easier for you.

This essential life skill is not as mysterious or complicated as we make it out to be in our minds. The art of selling is in effect simply the art of influencing an outcome to conform to your wishes. It is time to shift your mindset away from the traditional picture selling conjures up. The picture of the sales person sitting with their feet braced firmly against the desk with gritted teeth, desperately pushing a product or service that you do not need or want.

Change your mindset and shift your thinking away from you being a sales person. Someone that has something you desperately want to unload on an unsuspecting client. Shift your thinking away from selling and rather think of helping people to easily and efficiently satisfy a real need they have.

Stop viewing your prospect list as your “HIT LIST” and rather view them as real people, with real needs and wants. View your prospective future friends as people that require your help to provide them with products and services that are going to make their lives better. You must strive to become a valued and trusted partner that provides a valuable product or service to their friends.

Keynote motivational Speakers Gauteng says that the secret to building relationships with your customers is to apply the law of reciprocity. As Zig Ziglar says, “You can have anything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want”. Don’t just treat this as a wise quotation, actually embrace the principal and be authentic and ensure that you have real intentions of helping your customers.

When interacting with anyone, especially you customers, look for opportunities to discover and understand their goals, dreams, pains and challenges. Once you have a clear understanding of the situation, start to look for ways to help them. Shift your thinking from sealing, to a mindset of offering real authentic help to everyone around you. This will transform your behavior and people will see the real intention behind your connection with them is to connect with and help them.

This is a much easier way to sell that is far more enjoyable, meaningful and rewarding for both parties. Sharpen your helping (sales) skills and you will have a massive competitive advantage. You will become an effective influencer and invaluable ally to everyone you meet.

Author: Andrew Horton Keynote Motivational speakers Gauteng

Keynote Motivational Speakers Gauteng

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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