Leo Forecast For 2011

Leo has great stamina and the energy and endurance it has often impresses others. Even when in a quite mood he leaves lasting impressions on others.

Leo lives as exiting life and boredom seldom touches him and gets motivated by a clear vision of success. His energy level makes him capable of fulfilling his dreams. The energy in him can even lead him to disastrous situation but he has the capabilities to pull himself out and thus the professional achievement of his are often great.
He is strong, honest and often exhibit warm and tender feeling towards others.

Dignity is his virtue and refuses to do any thing that is low. Honesty is what makes him different and deceives, he never.

Leos are ambitious and for that develops character persistently, he is distinguishable as always aristocratic and authoritative and opinions are always valued. He has confidence with braveness which seldom gets subdued and is extravagant to live king-size. At the same time he is optimistic, organised and temperamental who exhibits opinions openly.

Now lets us see what is there in store for you in the coming New Year. This guide will help you in planning your affairs so that the qualities mentioned above work best for you.

Jupiter shall be transiting in the Pisces sign till May 2011 and after than it will be in the Arian sign till the end of the year. The transiting Jupiter shall be showering its blessing after May 2011 and before May 2011 this positivity shall be subdued a bit. This transiting Jupiter in the Pisces sign may bring in additional unproductive journeys, extra labour which may not yield much, not favourable results from the Governments. Once the transit of Jupiter ends in Pisces and commences in Aries the overall fortune shall rise and will keep on rising for till the end of the year.

February, August and September 2011 are the months when some additional benefits and positivity get infused by the transiting Mars. The native can benefit by victory over old enemies, old property disputes can get settled, and cure to ailments is also signified.

The placement of Saturn in the second house from the natal moon for most part of the year is not an ideal proposition to except some positivity to be infused by Saturn. The native should guard his assets and should observe some constrain while speaking.

Rahu shall remain in the fifth house from the natal Moon till May 2011 and thereafter it shall slip in to the forth house, both transits are not very good for the native. A delay in acquiring property, hiccups in education and strained love life is indicated.

Ketu in Eleventh from the natal moon and then migrating to the tenth is a superb placement to except some positivity to be infused by transiting ketu. The Job/profession shall be at a rise and the incoming shall show an increase.

Let us check that how the various aspect of life behaves for a Leo in 2011.

• Overall personality and Aggression:- The health should be taken good care by the Leo native this year. There will certainly be small moments when he will be in great shape but the net result can be loss of health. The native should stick to some good basic as eating wrong can do him great amount of damage. So eat right and exercise on a regular basis to keep this aspect at bay.

• Wealth and Material success:- A planed effort is required by the Leo natives. There shall be a definite rise in fortune as the incoming shall increase but the planning should be such that the older properties/assets if any should not be touched or melted as some losses is indicated. If the button of this loss gets triggered then no other planet in the transit could be of any help. So plan in a conservative manner.

• Your siblings, courage and small Journeys:- This year do not indulge into undue altercation with your siblings as the relationship can turn to worse and the matter relating to property and its bifurcation can take a back seat. The small journeys can also trouble you which may not be to your liking.

• Your Home, family and vehicle:- The Home aspect has to be taken great care this year. Saturn is stationed in the second house from the natal moon is aspecting this house with its third aspect and this not a pleasant site for the native. So the matter relating to Home and vehicle may suffer but the inter bonding in the family may grow. There shall develop a better sense of understanding in the members of the family.

• Children & Education:- If you are a student and perusing your studies seriously, there is a strong indication that you may get distracted. So ample care has to be taken so that the distraction is minimal. You will have to put in some extra efforts to reach to your goal.

• Love and Romance:- Do not be over ambitious and treat your love with care as there are strong chances that the relationship may turn bitter, with no one to mend it.

• Disease:- February is the month that will be very good for getting yourself cured of all old ailments. Get a routine checkups done in February and see that all the diseases that played hide and seek with you are caught and cured. Going natural is the order of the year. Get regular medical tests done on you, as chances are there that you catch on some diseases. Avoid prohibited food as it can increase to your woes.

• Spouse:- The relationship with spouse shall be good for most part of the year in 2011. Cultivate good humour and enjoy the relationship with you spouse. This also will be peace giving. You stand a good chance to mend your reputation.

• Debt and Terminal disease:- Mend you habits and inculcate good virtues in you, it shall help in combating this problem. Loans raised for purchasing home can however be a profitable affair. Health can take for a ride.

• Fortune:- You may get a good return of the services you provided in terms of increments in salary and doing good in business but be careful as the fortune you are building for your future may not be helpful to you at all. You may eventually lose you reputation. So be careful in negotiating terms and negotiate keeping the future in mind. Turn religious this year; it will solve most of the problems.

• Profession and Employment:- This is going to be good for most part as Ketu will take a good care of you as it will be transiting this house. Again be cautious in striking deals as what appears good and yields instantaneously may not be that good eventually. Overall it will be a nice year for you as far these two aspects of life are concerned.

• Profits:- The profits shall come but the quantum could possibly not be understood by you. The returns may take a good time in showing its colour but mind you financially this year is going to be good for you. Invest the money wisely as you may loose it unknowingly and this money can take with it the previously earned money as well.

• Losses: - Do not be over experiment doer this year as the profit earned above may quickly vanish in wrong direction. Health and your accumulated wealth can take a beating. You have to be very careful while deciding in selling and buying properties. Similarly nagging health problems should be immediately consulted.
Jyotishacharya Vinay Sheel Saxena is a prominent vedic astrologer and Vastu expert. He has been practicing Indian Vedic astrology methodologies and techniques more than 20 years and provides best astrological services as vedic astrology predictions, vastu tips, horoscope, business and education readings.

Life Coaching Tips- How To Eliminate Fear From Your Life

You know what you want. In fact, most of the time, you even know what to do to get what you want, but you get stopped by fear, doubt and uncertainty. These are emotions that tell you that you're listening to your mind, or you're allowing your mind to control your life. Your mind, which I call the "Drunk Monkey," is nothing more than a survival tool. It's a fantastic device that has developed over time for human beings. Its job is to steer us away from danger. Its job is to steer us toward propagating the species, and to keep us safe from danger, and that's about it.

No goals and dreams are achieved via the mind. Goals and dreams are achieved via inspiration. How do you get the inspiration, when what you want seems so big? Does what you want seem too unattainable? Maybe you feel like you're not enough or you don't know what to do. You have to begin with the empowerment process.

The empowerment process begins with the word “aware”. There are four inspirational words in sum: awareness, flexibility, options, and power. Let's take them one at a time.

With awareness, you start to see that your mind is not your friend. You begin to see that the "Drunk Monkey" in your head is really focused in on what isn't working, what you don't like, or what might hurt you. It has thoughts like “I'll be embarrassed” or “I won't look good” or “I won't be enough” or “I'll feel stupid. I'll feel like an idiot” or “my family will leave me”. These are the kinds of thoughts that the Drunk Monkey in your head is going to spin for you, when you ask it to do things you don't normal do.

Your goals and dreams are things you don't normal do, expansion, where you want to go. With awareness, you can start to see that your mind is not on your side. It's not helping you achieve your goals. It's just this biology. It's operating independently of you and it's doing what it's doing. That awareness will lead to the second part of the empowerment process, which is flexibility.

Once you are aware that your mind is running the show, that you are literally the Drunk Monkey's puppet, you can begin to make choices. This flexibility that you have now, leads to the third part of the process, which is options.

As soon as you recognize that your mind is running the show, that the Drunk Monkey is holding the puppet strings of your life and pulling those puppet strings with fear, anxiety, doubt, uncertainty, anger, frustration, as soon as you realize that, a new set of options opens up. Well, what if I took the action? What if I went this direction instead? How about if I ask for help? On and on you go, with all these new options popping into your head that weren't there before. Once you realize that your mind is not a goal achievement vehicle or a goal achievement organ, as so many personal developments gurus have espoused in the past, this leads to number four, which is power.

When you're aware of what your mind is doing, you become more flexible. When you are flexible, you see more options. You have options in your life. Those options empower you to take new actions. This action is what I call inspired action. You become inspired and empowered to take action on your dreams. You experience an energy inside of you, pulling you forward, and having you actually feel confident when before you felt fear.
Matthew Ferry a Life Coach,The Life Coaching Company Matthew Ferry International offers life coaching, law of attraction and dozens of training products and seminars relating to the law of attraction to help you find your passion and love your life.

Why Are You Not Achieving Your Goals Successfully?

Now is the time to learn better strategies that will take you straight to success while having fun during the process of getting there because when you apply this advice you will get there!

A goal is something you want to have or something you want to change in your life. It is basically a project you can manage in a smart way so that in the end you’ll find yourself where you wanted to be when you stated your goal, and began to take steps towards making it happen. But first it starts out in your mind and adopting better thinking strategies followed by powerful action actually will ensure your success, which is what you want… do you not?

Many if not most of the people make New Year’s resolutions and set up goals to quit shortly after that because they feel unhappy and frustrated. The reason is, they constantly compare their actual unsatisfying situation with the ideal goal they want to reach and the only thing they can see is the wide gap between the two places. You feel unhappy and you end up spending lots of energy to keep you constantly motivated when you don’t feel like doing anything because it is impossible to be motivated all the time. And before long you quit!

In other words, if you delay any kind of gratification or feelings of satisfaction until the ideal goal is completely achieved, you are actually making sure you will not accomplish your goal. Some goals can’t be achieved over night so the more you delay the good feelings you think you’ll have when you achieve your final goal, the more difficult it will become to achieve. It is that simple!

There is another aspect of unsuccessful goal setting, watch out! If you decide you are a success only and only if you shed off these 30 pounds or when you are a millionaire, perhaps when you buy that Mercedes and have it standing in your drive way, then you are trapped in a place where there is not escape, as you will be denying yourself any good feelings to keep going… unless you do it the way I am about to share with you.

If you wanted to cross over a river, you would use a bridge to walk on until you reach the other side and if you wanted to grab something that sits on a high shelf you would use a ladder, so why would accomplishing a goal be any different?

Now, what can you do differently and in the present moment to ensure your goals will be successfully accomplished and with fun?

Pick a goal: what do you want?
It can be anything but let’s take the example of a weight loss goal.

Solution 1: make a power decision. What is the first thing you will notice when heading towards your goal? What is the first success?
You want to shed off 20 pounds so if you notice that you shed 2 pounds on your way, congratulate yourself and keep going. Do more of the things you notice bring about success.

Build a bridge between where you were when you started and your final goal. You simply make smaller steps and these little goals will be easy to achieve. The result will surprise you because it will lead you straight to your wished big goal. Keep going and keep rewarding yourself and feeling good about what you’ve already achieved while feeling certain that sooner or later you will be at your final destination!

Solution 2: keep a journal of your progress and successive successes on the way to your goal. People tend to forget what they have already achieved and where they were when they started their journey towards a goal, so by keeping it all written down you can go back any time and see how far you’ve come already and that will keep you on track and highly motivated. It makes the whole project fun and worth going for.

These two important strategies will show you that you are a success and that you don’t have to wait for any final result to feel good about it or about yourself. In fact whatever feelings you think or believe you will have when your goal has manifested in the real world, start on your way by having them right now and build your bridge to success from then on.

What you’ve learned so far to achieve a goal with success is this: it is very helpful to have a concrete and easy way to track your progress. Find a way to make your goal as concrete as possible and break it down to smaller steps you can accomplish with success.

And to make your goal achievement even easier and more of a success follow these steps:
Choose a goal
Check whether the goal is good for you and will enrich your life
Find the resources that will help you achieve your goal: information, people to help you, advice…
Prioritize your goal so you keep hitting your target until you hit it finally
Track your goal, the progress and success journal will help you with that
The freedom to change or even discard your goal if you don’t want it anymore or if it no longer suits you

What now? If you have goals that you’ve already started working on, make them easy to track and start your progress and success journal. Walk the bridge step by successful step, all the way to your final success!

Karima Begag
Karima Begag is a success, creativity and manifestation coach. Her teachings include a wide variety of success technologies and tools. You are special and you deserve to live the life of your dreams Now! To get amazing success and self empowerment tips and tools plus a FREE E-Book “The Manifesting Mindset”, a gem of manifesting tools, your golden key to your dreams come true go here: www.ManifestWealthSuccess.com

Five Performance Lessons From The Biggest Loser

To give you an idea, the most recent winner, Danny Cahill a 40-year-old man from Oklahoma, went from 430 pounds to 191 pounds in 7 months (that`s 239 pounds LOST).

When my wife first began watching the show and telling me how fascinating it was, I wasn`t that interested; reality TV didn`t seem very real to me, and I didn`t really want to watch. After a few more conversations, I decided to watch with her.

The show is "reality TV" and therefore there are elements that don`t interest me that much, and I wish it wasn`t so long (it`s the perfect candidate for your DVR), but overall I really enjoy the show.

Why?

I enjoy the show because of the truths it highlights week after week about human performance, success, goal achievement and leadership. And, of course, these lessons are available to us all regardless of how much we weigh.

Here are five of the most valuable lessons you can take from this show and apply in your life.

The importance of vision. How can we arrive at any destination if we don`t know what it is? Contestants on the show often say "I`m not ready to go home yet" (most weeks at least one contestant leaves "the ranch" where all contestants live while they pursue their weight loss full time). This statement connects to their vision. Often what they mean but don`t say is that they don`t yet have the skills, tools, and more to be successful on their own at home in reaching their vision. Their vision is clear and those who stay the most focused on it have the best results.

The power of purpose. As with most reality television, there is a monetary prize for the person who loses the most weight (as a percentage of their initial weight). Yet, if you didn`t already know that as you watched the show, you wouldn`t learn it from the contestants. Do they want to win $250,000? I`m sure they do. However, that is never a topic of conversation; rather they talk about why they want to lose the weight - to play with their children, to live longer, to be a grandparent, to literally be able to have children, and more. These statements of purpose are the real "why" - the real reason they are putting their bodies and minds through extremes. Those with the strongest purposes, make the most progress.

The need for massive action. You must agree that you can`t lose 20-50+% of your body weight in 7 months by eating a few less chips or walking once in awhile. The people on the show aren`t timid about their actions. They are doing the extreme! When I watch them I am continually reminded that if you want massive change, you must take massive action.

The value of new habits. During the course of the show, there are episodes where all the remaining contestants go home for one or more weeks. During this time, they need to continue to exercise and eat correctly because when they return for the weekly weigh in, they will be accountable for their actions of the week. Those that are most successful at home are those who have built new habits of thinking and acting; habits that transcend the time away from home. So it is for us - we must consciously build habits that support the goals we want to achieve, and make choices that are consistent with those goals.

The consequences of coaching. The show has two trainers who work with the contestants throughout the show - helping them with diet, exercise and mindset changes. Would the contestants be as successful without a coach to help them with their improvement? Of course not! Few of us would embark on physical fitness change without some coaching; yet often we try to reach other personal or professional goals without informed help. Crazy isn`t it? If you want great success, get informed, caring, wise assistance.

Each of these lessons is incredibly valuable, and when intentionally applied can create great change. They apply to those we lead as well. When you take these lessons and apply them to your leadership activities, you can make a bigger difference within your organization.

Am I telling you to watch the new season, or watch past episodes online?

Not necessary; that is up to you.

What I am telling you is that if you want greater results in any part of your life, pay attention to the lessons I have shared above.

Because they work.

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The Truth About How To Achieve Your Goals

Now, before you go on thinking about ways on how to achieve your goals, keep in mind that the first step is to know what your goals really are. Goal-setting is a prerequisite to achievement. It is difficult to experience success when you do not even know what you want.

In order to achieve your goals, you need not only to identify but specify what they are. For instance, saying that you want to be successful in your job is not a specific goal. A goal needs to have some kind of time frame and a measurable standard of success. Saying that you want to see yourself promoted in say, 6 months is more like a goal.

The next thing you need to do is to come up with plans on how to achieve your goals. You need to know the standards or the criteria required for the realization of your goals. Know what it takes to be promoted. Most of the time, it's a balanced combination of working hard and working smart. Put your goals and your plans on paper. Also, you need to write down the things you've done to achieve your goals - just so you can evaluate how you're doing. In no time, you'll discover your own road to learning, goal achievement and success.
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Reach Your Goals With Hypnosis In 6 Easy Steps

If you are a very goal-orientated person then it is inevitable that you will encounter obstacles on your way to achievement and success. The bigger the goal the more set-backs there seem to be. These obstacles and set-backs can act as tests. They test your character and your resolve. Each barrier that is overcome and each challenge that is met head on develops your character, belief in yourself and strengthens your resolve to succeed not matter what.

However, when the same obstacles keep showing up over and over again and failure seems to be a common occurrence it's time to re-evaluate your approach to your goals. These recurring problems are an indication of your inability to learn from the temporary failures you are experiencing. The conscious mind is obviously having trouble analysing the reasons behind the failures and keeps making the same mistakes.

At this point some outside help is needed. Obviously you are unable to consciously work through the trouble you are having and it must be a subconscious block that is preventing you from learning your lesson and moving forward. This is where hypnosis can be invaluable. Either hypnosis or Self Hypnosis can most definitely be used successfully and effectively to get to the root of the problem and eliminate it forever.

One extremely powerful benefit of using hypnosis is the ability to train your mind to stay focused on the successful attainment of your goal. You can program a specific outcome and retain the ability to consciously divert your attention to it in a positive, success-affirming manner. You can also eliminate self-sabotage and remove the negative feelings and thoughts that are blocking your path to success.

Here are some tips for using hypnosis as a goal achievement tool.

1. Visualize. Program yourself with your desired outcome. While under the influence of self hypnosis visually imagine that your goal is already accomplished and your objective has been reached. See it as real. See it through your own eyes and experience all the wonderful feelings associated with that goal attainment.

2. Persistence. Program yourself to be persistent. Post hypnotic suggestions to develop an iron will and persistent approach to your goals will be invaluable in times of stress and disillusionment.

3. Think Positive. Learn to think positively. the subconscious mind has a tendency to replay past memories and throw them back into consciousness in the form of doubts and fears. Through the use of self hypnosis you can totally eliminate them. Program your subconscious mind to think positively and expect positive results.

4. Program out the Problem. If you are having problems reaching a certain goal use hypnosis to solve it. While in trance see yourself successfully traversing the obstacle. You don't have to see how you did it, just see yourself at the other side, relieved, happy and proud that you "figured it out" and reached the other side. If you can't do this, for whatever reason, seek out a competent hypnotherapist to identify the problem and remove it!

5. Pre-pave your path. Imagine yourself meeting the right people and being in the right place at the right time. Program your mind like this, through the power of hypnosis, and your subconscious mind will pick up on non-verbal clues, process the millions of bits of information you receive every second and guide you to the right course of action.

6. Develop faith Use hypnosis to convince the subconscious mind that your goal is already a reality. "Fake it till you make it". Fool your subconscious mind into believing the "real" world is actually exactly like the world you have been visualizing. In the deeply relaxed state that hypnosis offers you can get fully involved in your mental image. Really feel how great it is to have already accomplished all those things you wanted for so long. Enjoy the fact that you are enjoying the benefits of having reached that goal.

Follow these six steps and use them with the power of hypnosis and you will be catapulted towards your goal faster than you can imagine.
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24-7... That's Why You Need A Strategic Plan For Business Growth Success!

Are you caught up working 24-7 IN your growing business?

Can't find the time to get it all done? Not enough hours in the day? No one can do the work right, except you?

Well, then maybe the time is right for you. You're finally ready to implement a strategic plan for Business Growth.

Let's review 24 reasons why your business needs a strategic plan for Business Growth.

24 Reasons Why You Need A Strategic Business Growth System

1. You have no future-oriented vision for your business. In other words, you don't know where you would like your business to be in 1 year, in 5 years, or even in 10 years from now.

2. On the other hand, you have some vague notions of where you would like your business to be in the future. But you don't have any concrete plans established to make your dreams a reality.

3. Another reason you need to develop a startegic plan for business growth is that you are not sure what it is specifically that YOU want to achieve for yourself personally from your business. A strategic plan for business growth specifically incorporates plans to help you achieve those personal goals you want from working in your business for the next 5 to 10 years.

4. A strategic plan for business growth includes the balancing of your personal and business values. One should not outweigh the other. A strategic plan asks you to consider your personal values as you develop a plan to grow your business.

5. One primary reason for developing a strategic plan for business growth is your Cash Flow. Is it unpredictable? Why is that so? A strategic plan for business growth must address your business' Cash Flow circumstances.

6. In addition, a strategic plan to grow your business will help you develop your business' unique methods of generating Cash Flow.

7. Does your business have a specific "system" developed to generate Cash Flow? How about to manufacture more of it? Your strategic plan should encompass the design of such a Cash Flow "system".

8. Any business can suffer from the unfortunate circumstance of having trouble paying bills on time. How can you solve this problem? The answer typically lies in having an organized approach to your business growth that keeps focus on your financial outlook. Your Cash Flow, your sales, your accounts receivables, and your own collections may be underlying reasons for your own financial woes. Your strategic plan should answer these questions and should arrive at workable solutions that you can implement to correct the problem of money, of Cash Flow.

9. If your business has failed to produce sustainable profits, likely you do not have a strategic plan in place. Your plan must set out actions to produce profits. But must also be focused on sustaining profits once they start to come.

10. One major reason for designing a strategic plan for your business is because your customer or client base is unstable, not growing, or even dwindling. You need a plan to identify your current customers and clients. And a plan to target your most valuable ones.

11. What if your customers or clients aren't sure what it is you do? What steps are you taking to ensure that your customers and clients do know exactly what it is that you do? These steps must be "programmed" into your customer and client contact "system".

12. If your customers or clients do not refer business to you, and neither do friends or colleagues, something is wrong. What? You've got to strategically analyze your business and come up with reasons for your lack of referrals. Then your plan must include remedies to the referral problem.

13. Many times, your competition gets the upper hand over your products or services just because you failed to consider them. Your plan to grow takes into account your own competition, their products, and services compared to your own. What steps can be taken to improve your products and services, or to design new ones that are even more competitive in your market? Your plan will have the answers.

14. What do you love about your business? Your products? Your services? Are you really passionate about your business? Any plan to grow a business must answer this important and fundamental question.

15. What about your marketing? Have you addressed this issue in your plan to grow? Are you spending too much money on marketing with no specific method, plan, or target? When you implement your strategic plan, you will come up with a specific plan for your marketing and, most important, a specific target to market.

16. Additionally, it may surprise you but you are in desperate need of a strategic plan to grow your business if your only form of acquiring new customers or clients is word-of-mouth. What is your method of acquiring new customers? What are your specific plans?

17. Who are your "prized possessions?" I call these your "Most Valuable Customers and Clients..., or MVCs for short." Your plan to grow your business must include ways to identify your MVCs, and ways to acquire even more of them.

18. Can you state exactly what benefits your products or services provide to your customers or clients? You must be able to as part of your plan to grow your business. Once you arrive at your answers, write them down. These benefits must be constantly, and consistently promoted to your customers and clients as part of your overall plan to grow your business.

19. Why do you need a strategic plan to grow your business? Because you don't have enough time in the day to do all you have to do. When you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Writing it down, and then following your plan is a great strategy for time management and goal achievement

20. "But I can't develop a plan." I'm just too busy putting out of the fires." That's a primary reason why a plan that strategically addresses your issues, obstacles, and problems, "your IPOs", is urgent. You've got to identify what are your IPOs. You do this as part of your strategic plan. Then your plan has got to come up with solutions that you can implement to overcome your IPOs.

21. A central reason for having a strategic plan in place is so you have a method and steps to follow to achieve your goals. And they'll be written down. Once they're written down, then their achievement are merely a matter of executing the steps you have written down. If you want to achieve your goals, then have a strategic plan to do it.

22. But what if you say you don't have a plan. That you just do what you have to do each day you come into the office. Having a "system" and a formal process to follow day in and day out leads to consistent action and eventual triumph over the hurdles and obstacles you face in your business. A formal plan will keep you on track taking the actions that you need to achieve your goals.

23. A necessary part of your business, if you want it to grow, and make money in the process, is to design and implement a "system of operations". Your strategic plan for your business must establish the key "business operating systems" that will run your business and its component parts, whether you are on the job or not.

24. We're now at the final reason why you need a strategic plan in place to grow your business. If you're not sure of definite ways you should grow your business and increase your profits based on your personal goals and business objectives, then you really don't have a plan. You haven't thought out how your business is supposed to be the vehicle that gets you to the ultimate destination..., your goal achievement.

Once you take the time to design a strategic plan, you'll then have a method... a "system" that you can follow daily.

You'll have a plan that sets out definite ways and methods that you can implement... ways that will increase your profits... and that will drive you daily towards the ultimate achievement of your goals and aspirations. Not only for your business..., but for YOU. And even in an economic downturn or Recession!

There's 24 reasons why you need to design and implement a strategic business growth system for your business.

"But, how can my business benefit if I design a strategic plan
for business growth and increased profits?"

To answer that question, let's review just 7 benefits of designing and implementing a strategic plan for business growth.

7 BENEFITS OF A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR
BUSINESS GROWTH & INCREASED PROFITS

Once you develop a strategic plan to grow your business and increase your profits, you will have these 7 benefits:

=> A business that is strategically growing and evolving into the dream enterprise YOU always wanted.

=> More fun and satisfaction by doing the kind of "work" you most enjoy, with the people you most like to work with, and for the kind and quality of customers and clients you dreamed of one day serving.

=> A financially solid business with increasing income for you and your staff.

=> Profit building, with lower overhead costs and reduced expenses.

=> Easier, quicker resolution of customer and client complaints, and staff issues.

=> More time off to spend with family and friends.

=> Less stress.

So, what are you waiting for?

There's only 24 hours in the day . And only 7 days a week.

24/7.

But that's enough time to get busy working ON your business.

So, get going. Today. This hour!

You want to make more profits? Achieve all of your goals? Have more time off? Feel fulfilled? Be happier and more passionate about your business? Even in a Recession or down economy?

Then here's the secret.

You must design, and implement a strategic plan for your business growth.

This article is an excerpt from the MasterMind Business Growth System, as authored by Miguel Mendez, Jr., Esq.

Copyright (c) 2008. Miguel Mendez, Jr. All rights reserved.
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Achieve Your Vital Career Goals . Record Clear Goals And Follow The 15 Easy Steps To Career Success.

commitment, clarifies required steps in the achievement process, and helps you remember important details.

2) Identify and focus on the benefits to you as well as others of achieving your goals. This is a most strong important motivator.

3) Define the purpose of your goals. Link your goals to a practical, specific purpose. To boost your own motivation, base your goals on inspiration, not just on simple logic.

4) Identify your supportive forces. Examples of supportive forces include instructors , books, training people who encourage you to persevere , skilled coaches or mentors , and printed as well as online research materials

5) Develop an action plan, set deadlines and act. Establish sub goals. Divide each main goal into logical progressive steps. Set deadlines for completing each step, and complete the steps on time.

6) Establish priorities. Take action in order of priority.

7) Make a public commitment. If appropriate, share your goals with someone who encourages you to go the extra mile. This will increase your sense of responsibility.

8) Be realistic about limitations. Do not set a short term goal to get a job requiring more education. Set separate goals to get an education, take an interim job, and then reach the ultimate goal.

9) Use positive self talk and affirmation statements. Do this each and every day. As often as humanely possible. Do them compulsively as if you were a Moslem completing his 3 daily prayer routines. Write down your statements and post them prominently in your bedroom, on your fridge and so that you can see them in the mirror in your car.

10) Use positive visualization. This more than boosts goal achievement

11) Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice new skills regularly. Get additional information, training, coaching and feedback on your progress.

12) Evaluate and revise goals as necessary. Evaluate your ongoing progress. Experiment from time to time with new methods especially if you are not getting the results you want. But most importantly remember to be patient. Rome was not built in a day. However if necessary you may want to revise your goals.

13) Persevere. Stay the course until you succeed.

14) Reward Yourself. Rewards are excellent motivators. As you make progress toward your goals, do something nice for yourself that you enjoy.

15) Record progress on your goals. As simplistic as it seems, al long series of check marks on a calendar or a wall chart may actually, motivate you by providing a vital sense of accomplishment. Do not let missing an occasional daily goal deter you, however. Keep focusing on your ultimate chosen goals.

Remember that your career goals are most important to you and your success. By setting career goals you are on the road to obtaining your ultimate success.

By recording clear goals and following the 15 steps outlines you will focus your hard won efforts and maximize your winnings.


Achieve Your Vital Career Goals . Record Clear Goals and Follow the 15 Easy Steps to Career Success.

Remember that your career goals are most important to you and your success. By setting career goals you are on the road to obtaining your ultimate success. Get Ahead with Dynamic Goal Setting . Follow the simple steps of dynamic goal setting to your career success . By recording clear goals and following the 15 steps outlines you will focus your hard won efforts and maximize your winnings.
Mr. R. Sodoma Career Motivation and Trends Counsellor. Winnipeg Job Shark winnipegjobshark@yahoo.com www.winnipegjobshark.com

Change To Achieve Your Goals!

Most people naturally resist change. We develop our normal routine in life, things are going OK, and we are comfortable with it. Then we identify a “change” we want. We get an idea or see something that makes us want something we don’t have. This could be something physical, or it could be a different situation we want to be in. Maybe we even recognize that we have a new goal. But we continue in our normal routine hoping to reach that goal and after a while we realize it’s not happening. Why not?

Someone once said “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.” If we keep our normal routine, we are not going to get a new result; we are not going to reach that new goal.

That’s why I’ve prepared this new series of articles about change. I’m addressing six topics tied to the word “change.” Here’s what the letters stand for:

C represents “Commitment.” To reach a worthwhile, meaningful goal is going to require commitment to that goal on your part.

H represents “Help.” Your odds of success are much better if you have help from someone. This could be a mentor or it could be a friend or family member who just provides moral support.

A represents “Action.” You are going to take specific actions to progress toward your goal.

N represents “Negative.” Negative is something you don’t want. You will need to get rid of the negative.

G represents “Get Excited.” You are on the path to a new goal, something you really want to achieve. This is great, so get excited about it.

E represents “Execution.” You are going to execute a plan, a series of actions that move you toward your goal. No execution, no achievement!

Achieving goals takes more than just writing them out and thinking about them. It takes many things, and sometimes we can get lost because we don’t have a structured approach. We can lose our focus on just what we’re trying to do. As I expand on each of these letters and words, I hope to help you bring more of the process of goal achievement into your existence. That will help you maintain your focus, your action, your execution, and your excitement. Your helper will be there to encourage you along the way and to celebrate your progress with you. You will meet the challenge and be more confident about going after the next one.

So, this article is just the beginning, just as writing down your goal is just the beginning. As we progress through this article series, the word “CHANGE” will become a positive word. When someone tells you “I hate change; why can’t things just stay the same?” you’ll be ready to say “Really? I like change. In fact I’ve learned that change is going to help me reach my dreams!” They may not understand, but you will!

My goal is that these articles help you in your journey.
And now I invite you to learn more by visiting Launch Your Goals to learn how to stop missing your goals and start living your dreams.

How Billy Jean King And Running Help My Goal Achievement

That's a good question, and I'll start off by saying that Billy Jean King could take up several articles all by herself, considering the milestones she left in the game of tennis, and the role she played in the advancement of women's tennis.
That's not my focus here though. No, what I want to focus on is her famous attitude to every ball she faced.
To sum it up, it was 'same as the last, same as the next.'

She treated every point as an individual point, not letting her position in the match dictate the way she played.
This allowed her to close out victories when she was in front, and also to stage some amazing comebacks from being behind.

Opponents knew that this was her way of thinking, and it used to unnerve them, all swinging the percentages in King's favour.

As I write this, it's January 2007.
I was 40 last year, and to mark it I decided to train for and run a marathon.
I aimed for the London Marathon, but didn't get a place, so I changed my aim to running my own personal marathon around my local streets at the same time on the same day!

So far in my training I have got up to 14 miles, and all is going well.

One thing I have noticed, and this may sound silly, but once you set out to run these distances, it's a long long way!!

You simply can't manage it without getting your thought patterns and mental approach right, and it's here I drew on Billy Jean.

Sometimes when I'm running I will get a tweak in a muscle, or have a spell of aching lungs, or my feet hurt.
It's at these moments that it seems a long way still to go!

When I get those thoughts, I instantly replace them with the 'one ball at a time' ethos of Billy Jean King, and remind myself to not think about how many miles I've done, or how many miles I've still got to go, but to concentrate my efforts on where I am *right there and then*.
Is my pace ok?
Are my arms relaxed?
Am I breathing properly?

Once I've done that assessment, the moment of thinking how far I have to go has gone.

This is an attitude that can be used in any area of goal achievement.
When the going gets tough, don't let your imagination focus on how much further there is still to go, replace that negative with the positive actions of the here and now.

It's a technique I intend to use right up my marathon on April 22nd, and you should use it too.
Gordon Bryan is the author of 'Transform Your Life in 21 Days!' which has been described as 'motivational magic.' Read about it and grab his free 8 Step Goal Achievement Plan at: www.transformyourlifenow.com

Why Goal Achievement *is* Rocket Science After All!

I say and write it myself all the time, and I believe it, I have done for over 20 years, and have used it to great effect in my life.
I write about the theories in my book 'Transform Your Life in 21 Days!', so why would I write this article saying that goal achievement *is* in fact rocket science after all?

Ooh, good question, and here's the answer...

Simply because we can look to the exploration of space (rocket science) to find an almost endless flow of goal achievement nuggets.
The recently revived US Space Shuttle Progamme is great to watch.
Now they show the whole mission streamed live online, so you get to see all the daily mundane workings of the astronauts as well as the more spectacular stuff.

In December 2006 the shuttle discovery docked with the International Space Station, and although the shuttle only stayed a few days, they dropped a crew member, Sunita Williams, to start her 6 month stay at the station.

Yes, 6 months in space!

As I was following her progress, I was fascinated to learn that she has to do 2 hours of exercise a day.
1 hour of cardio work, and 1 hour of weight work.

This isn't to turn her into a superhuman, it's just to keep up with the rest of us back here on Earth.

Because of her zero gravity environment, Williams' muscles, including heart, lungs, legs, arms, etc, will not be taxed anything like as much as they are to just move about in the gravity we feel here.

If she didn't exercise, over 6 months, she would be in a bad way on her return home, she just wouldn't be strong enough to walk or do the simple functions we take for granted.

Hence her 2 hours a day.

Now, an absolute classic tip in the field of goal achievement is to give 1 solid hour a day working on your goal.
If you do this, you will make leaps and bounds you hadn't thought possible.
The reason for this is that most people simply *don't* commit this time.
An hour a day adds up to 7 hours a week (I kept up at school!), and you can get a lot done in 7 hours.

So, as you work towards your goal, think of Suni Williams in space.
As I write this, Jan 4th 2007, she gives 2 hours solid every day - not to make progress, but just to keep up with the rest of us!
She'll continue to do it every day for 6 months!

That's impressive in my book, and she can do it, imagine what you could achieve with 2 hours a day for 6 months!
Can't find 2 hours every day?
Stick to the 1 hour a day then. That will still take you hugely forward.

So, is goal achievement rocket science? It can be!
Gordon Bryan is the author of 'Transform Your Life in 21 Days!' which has been described as 'motivational magic.' Read about it and grab his free 8 Step Goal Achievement Plan at: www.transformyourlifenow.com

Boost Your Goal Momentum--find Your Hidden Stopper

Sam stumbled into the kitchen, still half asleep, and grabbed the new bottle of creamer to lighten his morning coffee. Flipping open the lid, he tilted the bottle to pour out the cream—and nothing happened. He quickly identified the problem, of course, and peeled back the foil seal, hidden beneath the lid, that was keeping the cream from flowing.

Whether your goal is to prepare a tasty cup of coffee or something much more complex, you won’t succeed unless you learn to peel back the stoppers that get in your way. Often it’s as simple as recognizing what your hidden stopper is.

For most people, stoppers are habitual phrases they say to themselves right after they think “I should . . .” or when they notice a task that needs to be tackled in service of their goals. Common stoppers are “I’m too tired,” or “I don’t feel like it” or “Okay, as soon as I . . .” or “Maybe later.”

To find which phrase or phrases you personally tend to use to thwart your goal achievement, all you have to do is ask your subconscious to notice them. As easy way to do that is simply to ask yourself, “What stoppers do I usually use?” and wait for your mind to point them out to you. If you want to speed up the recognition, program yourself before you go to sleep at night by reminding yourself that you want to find your stoppers.

They aren’t all that hidden. You just haven’t paid any attention to them before. Now that you are aware that they are probably lurking in your behavioral repertoire, you’ll spot them quickly.

The next time you notice yourself saying a stopper phrase to yourself, immediately label it and reward your subconscious with a word of praise so it will continue pointing out to you when you use one. Just say, “Stopper phrase! Good job!”

Then pay attention to how automatically you use the phrase as a signal to stop carrying through on the action you intended to make toward your goal. Observe how completely it brought your momentum to a halt.

After a short bit of practice, you will even find yourself becoming aware of stop signals that you haven’t verbalized to yourself. You might see a paper that needs to be filed, for instance, and catch yourself dismissing the impulse to take care of it. You didn’t repeat a stopper phrase to yourself; you just acted on a silent one. But another step toward your goal got postponed nonetheless.

Whether it’s verbalized or not, what recognizing your stopper phrase does is allow you to make a real choice instead of unconsciously reacting to a habitual pattern. When you are aware of your stop-signals, you can decide whether you really want to stop or if you are only responding to the stopper out of habit.

The more you choose to override the stopper and continue with your original intention, the weaker the stopper will become. When you take action despite the appearance of a stopper, over time you will train yourself not to bother issuing stoppers at all because they no longer work. Instead, you will begin to experience the joy of momentum and increased productivity that comes from following through with your decisions to act.
You’ll get the cream into your coffee—and accomplished goals.
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