Effective Networking is the Top Skill Required to Succeed Today

Effective Networking is the Top Skill Required to Succeed Today
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Despite the ever increasing rate of change all around us, the most important skill you need to develop in the next few years is your ability to build relationships and real, meaningful connection with people that matter. The way to look into your future and predict how your life will turn out is to take inventory of all your current relationships, the higher the calibre of people you are connected with, the greater will be your level of achievement. The number one skill that has always been the prime factor, in how people’s lives have turned out is their ability to network effectively. It is your ability to network and connect with the right people that will assist and support you in your efforts to succeed that will determine how your future will unfold. These people are your gateway to discover the path to achieve any goal, destination or achieve any aspiration.
It is time to lose your fear about networking and to immerse yourself in the crucial process of connecting with the right people.  As you hone and master your skills as a successful networker, you are setting the foundation for creating meaningful relationships with people that matter and can help you to make a real difference in your life. The secret to becoming an effective networker is to be authentic and to allow your real self to show. Pretending to be something you are not is a sure fire way to fail at networking. People will see through your façade and they will not know, like or trust someone that is acting or pretending to be something they are not. Commit to be completely authentic and always be on the lookout for ways that you can assist fellow networkers or for people that you know that would benefit by connecting with someone else.
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Effective networking is about connecting with people that can make a real difference in your life. The challenge we often have is that the very people that we need to connect with, seem larger than life. They seem scary, imposing and too powerful to even approach. The truth is that behind the façade of fancy press releases and elaborate packaging, lies a normal, sensitive, frail, hopeful and generous human being that is flawed too. The challenge we face when we want to approach people that we believe are of high stature is that, all we see is the façade that is created around them, not the real person underneath.  I have had the honour of meeting a number of so-called celebrities or super achievers. After the first few seconds of meeting them, they appear as just normal people. Yes these people may have achieved great things and they most certainly have amazing personal philosophies that they can share and wisdom they have gained along the path to their success, but they are just still just people wrestling with the same frailties we do.
Always remember that people are just flesh and blood, ignore the packaging that has been bestowed on them by their press agents or how society has built them up as heroes and see them for what they are. Human beings that have fears, hopes and unfulfilled desires and needs, just like everyone else. Each of the so-called super achievers is merely normal people that are simply just another kind of NORMAL human being. Allow your fear to evaporate and remove your tendency to hesitate when you want to reach out to network with any one and I mean anyone.
Author: Andrew Horton Motivational Speakers
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Identify Your “WhyPower” that will propel you toward your dreams

“I believe each of us is born with a life purpose and mission. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this mission and purpose are perhaps the most important actions super achievers take.”

Discovering and articulating your values, mission and purpose allows you to gain direction for your life’s journey and allows you to organize all your thoughts and actions around satisfying this true essence that is you. Anything that is not a true expression of your values, mission and purpose should be excluded from your life.

Once you have identified your values, mission and purpose you will gravitate toward doing only those things that bring you closer to living your vision. Living on purpose will inspire and become the WHY that drives you to do what is necessary to live your dream life. Once you know your WHY for living, everything in your life will become crystal clear.

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There are factors, like the type of parents we had, the schools we attended, the part of the country we grew up in that may affect how our lives turn out, if we allow them to be a factor. All external factors can only have any effect on your life if you allow them to. The major factor that will however most certainly affect how your life turns out is your ability to dream.

Dreams are your imaginations way of escaping the constraints of your mind and are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead in the future. When you commit to clarify your dreams and you invest the energy to turn them into real and meaningful “GOALS” you create a force that will drive you and empower you to skip over any obstacles that will invariable cross your path.

The way to unleash this incredible power is to look beyond your willpower and discover your “WHYPOWER”. When you can find the compelling reason “WHY” achieving a dream or a goal is really important to you, you will have discovered the key to unlock this unstoppable force.

When you have clarified your dreams and turned them into clearly, time defined, believable and achievable “GOALS”. The next step is not to figure out how you are going to achieve them. It is to search within yourself until you discover that one really audacious reason “WHY” achieving that goal is so important to you.

A really compelling and meaningful reason “WHY” you absolutely must achieve any “GOAL” will give your “GOALS” incredible pulling power. This will allow you to unleash your creative force, inspiration, determination and equip you to overpower any obstacle that may cross your path.

To leverage the maximum benefit from your “WHYPOWER”. You must ensure that your “GOALS” are well defined and you must have a crystal clear picture of exactly how you want your future to be. When you fuel your “WHYPOWER” with vivid, well defined and meaningful “GOALS” the plans you create to make this future possible for you, will act like a strong attractive force.

Dare to dream of the incredible future you desire and massive success and incredible achievement; is most certainly possible for you. Find your compelling reason” WHY” it is crucial for you to live that future. Then visualize yourself actually living the future of your dreams, right now. Feel all the positive emotions and good feelings that future will bring and you can have, do and be anything you want.

You must see yourself at the finish line, while you are still running the race. You must focus on the positive emotions and cheers, when you are in the middle of any huge project.

When you encounter any of the inevitable challenges along the path to success, stay focused on the final goal. Henry Ford said that “You will never see any obstacles, as long as you stay focused on your goals”. Most importantly stay focused on your “WHYPOWER” and keep doing the uncomfortable, until it becomes comfortable, because focus and persistence are the way you can achieve anything you want.

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Three New Success Habits to Promote Succes

Meet Your Future, C.P.A and Performance Management System

Inspiration is that fire in your belly that drives you to begin and to keep taking the necessary daily actions that will help you to realize all your dreams. Aligning your values with the success you desire and developing a success habit set are the catalysts that will help you to sustain your efforts and allow you to live a harmonious and balanced life. When you are in alignment with your values and you have created an ingrained success habit set to support you, you have the makings of creating and sustaining what will appear to be effortless success. This new set of daily routines or ingrained habits is what will keep you going even when that initial fire in your belly begins to burn out.

You will be introduced to the three simple concepts or new habits that will encourage success, balance and harmony in your life. You will be guided to gradually introduce these three new routines into your life. Once you have learnt and are applying these tools on a daily basis, you will have introduced three fundamental tools for long term sustainable success. You will carry out new daily routines almost on autopilot and most importantly you will have created daily time slots to work on your future. These activities will be measured regularly and tweaked until they deliver the desired outcomes. Bear in mind that once mastered, this approach can be used to create success in any area of your life.

Meetings with Your Future

This is your new success tool that is introduced into your daily routine to equip you with the time needed to carry out your inspired daily actions. This is time that you set aside every day to work on yourself and your future. When you introduce meetings with your future into your daily schedule you are teaching yourself to make time available to carry out the necessary daily activities to create the future that you desire. This is the time you make available every day to carry out the 5 daily activities or codes as described below. These are the almost insignificant daily actions that, compounded over time, allow you to create the future you desire, moment by moment. Real long term sustainable success is not about huge effort carried out over a long period of time. It is about small almost insignificant actions performed indefinitely over the course of your life.

Scheduling meetings with your future is time that you schedule every day to devote to making a meaningful difference to the way your future will turn out. Choose to include this very simple tool into your daily schedule and make it an integral part of your success habit set. This will remove the illusion that there is no time available to work on exploring and exploiting your own potential.

There are endless possibilities and opportunities all around you. Break free from the prison of perpetual ‘busyness’ and stop allowing yourself to be a victim of a perceived lack of time. Choose to introduce this system for time efficiency into your life. You will then have time available to perform those few small daily activities that will add up to massive success.

Code of Personal Achievement (C.P.A.)

This is a unique set of commitments or codes that you set for yourself every day, to carry out five activities that are aligned with the goals, you are trying to achieve. These activities when carried out daily will move you closer to the outcomes you want to achieve. They are the daily actions or tasks you are attempting to develop. These daily activities will over time turn into your success habit set. Initially it will require willpower to carry out these very necessary daily activities. After about 46 – 66 days these activities will become entrenched habits. To ensure that you have the time and inclination to carry out these tasks, we have created the concept of daily Meetings with your Future. (See above). Once you have developed the habit of scheduling Meetings with your Future every day, to ensure that you have time to carry out these actions. You will have created a daily routine that will help you to build any new success habit set you desire.

For example: If your goal was to improve your health.

You would choose five daily activities or “commitments to yourself” that would help you achieve this goal.

· Drink 2 liters of water

· Exercise 30 minutes a day

· Eat 5 fruits and vegetables a day

· Cut down on fat intake

· Take multi vitamin daily

You will consciously carry out these five activities every day for 66 days, until they become entrenched habits. Current research has shown that it should take between 40 to 66 days for these activities to become entrenched habits. It will initially require discipline and willpower to carry out these activities but soon enough they will become ingrained habits and will become an integral part of your new success habit set. This is a tool that allows you to start developing a new daily routine that will ensure your success. This code or commitment you make with yourself, acts as a daily reminder for you to carry out activities that will help you learn new positive habits. Over time as you apply discipline to carry out these carefully chosen daily activities, you instill a new set of behaviors that eventually evolve into your new success habit set.

Performance Management System

It is not enough to merely have forward motion, where you are like a feather blowing in the wind. Yes, you are moving forward toward achieving your dreams, but at the first obstacle you become stuck and lose all impetus. This book will show you how to build momentum in your life as you work to achieve your goals. You must learn to feel and operate like a strong free flowing river, where you become virtually unstoppable. This is only achieved if you constantly measure your performance and you take action to ensure that your activities are delivering the desired results. As long as your daily activities are achieving the outcomes you desire, you bring some of the most powerful forces into play namely momentum and compounding.

Whatever gets measured gets done. The performance measurement system is designed to measure your performance on a daily, weekly, quarterly and annual basis. This system is designed not only to measure performance but it is also a way to celebrate success. When we constantly celebrate our successes, we are better equipped to remain inspired and driven to succeed.

One Small Shift That Will Revolutionize Your Life

One Small Shift That Will Revolutionize Your Life

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We will get out of our lives whatever we invest time and effort into creating. The way our lives ultimately turn out is our responsibility. Whether our lives are fulfilling and enjoyable or difficult and uninspiring is all the result of what we do or fail to do. As the creator of your own experience, empower yourself to become a super achiever, by taking the first step right now and accept 100 % responsibility for everything in your life.

Yes I am talking about all the good and bad things that have happened and will happen to you in the future. When you make this small shift, you understand that the thoughts you think, the words you speak and the actions you take are creating the life you will live in the future. This is one of the most enlightening experiences, where you get to realize that you can have do and be anything, if you consciously think, say and do the right things every day.

Start the process of conscious creation by first having HUGE EXPECTATIONS. If you don’t first think about the possibilities of what you can create, you have nothing to aim for. Your thoughts are the creator and driver of your expectations. Expectation is the catalyst and driver of the creation process. So consciously design your expectations. Your level of achievement will never exceed your expectations.

There are so many books that have been written around the subject of how your thoughts mould your life and create your future. “The Magic of thinking big, Think and Grow Rich, The power of Positive Thinking, As a Man THINKeth etc. Consciously control your thoughts, be the master of your thoughts and avoid negative thinking as much as possible. Your thoughts are creating your future, whether you are aware of it or not.

The primary function of our minds is to keep us safe, by helping us to avoid danger and to ensure our survival by constantly carrying out threat assessments. Our minds are programmed to search out and find whatever is wrong, lacking or missing in our environment. Our mind constantly fills our head with emotions such as fear, hesitation and suspicion to protect us. This is done at every turn, in an effort to ensure that we remain safe and secure.

You must take control of your thoughts and not allow negative thoughts to dominate your mind and to become your expectations. Your expectations always determine the direction and size of your creative potential and the way your life will ultimately turn out. When you allow yourself to constantly explore negative sentiments, you are dooming yourself to a lifetime of disappointing and unfulfilling experiences.

The way to stop your natural defense mechanism, from controlling your life, is to redirect your thoughts towards abundance and your positive potential. One of the easiest techniques that will help you to move your thoughts in this direction is to focus your energy and thoughts on all the things you are grateful for. When you focus your attention on all the things that are working in your life, you move your attention to positive and good thoughts. This shift will see you instantly change the trajectory on your life.

When you choose to change your thoughts to gratitude you change your “STINKING THINKING” into creative positive thinking. An attitude of gratitude adjusts the thoughts in your mind away from the negative and allows you to focus on the positive. As you train your mind to focus on the positive, you will start to discover and create more of the same experiences, of abundance, prosperity, wellbeing and love in your own life.

Author: Andrew Horton Best Motivational Speakers

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