My two cousins are the first from a family of job holders venturing into small business. They have started their business about 15 years ago and both of are very successful at present running a couple of small business. I have started a small business around the same time, but my success was not anywhere near to them. It took a long time for me to identify the basic flaw in my system and rectify it.
While majority of the thoughts or my cousins have on a daily basis are about money making and they think in numbers, my thoughts were not that focus and were rather diffused. When you are not that successful or you have just started the business, you have to try hard to focus on making money. When the business is successful, you will not have enough time to lose your focus.
So, I stopped reading news papers and watching news on TV, the two main culprits which are responsible for my inability to concentrate. My mind use to become busy thinking about terrorism, religion, corruption, entertainment, and sports. If you have good focus on your business you don't have to stop reading news papers or watching TV, but on the other hand if you lack focus then avoid anything which will distract you. Now as I am having a couple of successful small businesses, I read news papers daily and watch TV, my businesses take care of my focus.
With no books, no news papers, no TV and not even internet, I use to sit in my office and think about business and money for long hours, this focused thought process made me to take massive actions which resulted in success. Now I am so used to get into focus of thought voluntarily that I became adept in controlling and focusing my thoughts on things which are important to me and and which I have direct control on. As I said earlier, thinking in numbers and about money is essential for success in small business. But there should be emotion of want and desire attached to the numbers and money. Not all you thinks in number and about money make money, ask the teller in your bank how much he makes.
Focus in important when you start your business, once you are successful your business takes care of your focus.
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Traits Of Successful People
There are two types of successful people. The people who don't know anything about the science of success or law of attraction but are very successful because they are designed naturally for success and if you look closely you can find them having almost all of the traits you find written in the success literature. The second type of successful people are not designed for success naturally other than having only one trait which is called desire. If you are reading this, then you are the second type. The only thing you have to keep intact throughout you life is the desire of success,a burning desire.
They say that successful people have vision and focus. Vision is the ability to see the future and plan for the future, and focus is the ability to complete what they have started in spite of many disturbances, shortcomings, and failures. For many of the the football match on the TV is enough to lose our focus on that day's work. If that is what we do, there is no question of vision. So the second trait after burning desire is focus. To develop focus we need to develop discipline first. Discipline is the ability to control our impulses and being able to sacrifice small joys today for greater success tomorrow.
The second trait of successful people is known to be persistence and perseverance. Watching small kids playing games, I found out three different types in them. I called them the losers, the winners, and the lovers. The first type losers lose most of the games generally because of lack of skill, lose interests and either leave the game or convince others to play a different game or join the others when they are playing a different game or just go home and watch TV. The winners are those who win mostly because of their skill and ability to win. Sometimes they also like the game just for the game or because winning makes them like the game. The third type is lovers. No matter what happens these children continue to play the game and they just love the game. They don't abandon the game even they taste failure regularly. I have seen that these lovers eventually become winners. So you have to either develop a strong desire to win which makes you develop skills or just love the work you do soo much that eventually you life becomes a story of success. The successful singer today had same talent and beautiful voice yesterday when he was nobody before success. .
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I don't think other things like taking calculated risks, continuous learning, able to communicate well, networking etc are very important for success. These are abstract things for me. Burning desire, focus, persistence, and skills in your particular chosen field is enough to make you successful. I know many successful people who are not very good communicators and many of them shy. It is just the success coaches are increasing the list of to-do-things just to keep them busy and are very good in convincing you that you wont be successful unless you take up their $ 10,000 program which goes for 2-days in a five star hotel.
They say that successful people have vision and focus. Vision is the ability to see the future and plan for the future, and focus is the ability to complete what they have started in spite of many disturbances, shortcomings, and failures. For many of the the football match on the TV is enough to lose our focus on that day's work. If that is what we do, there is no question of vision. So the second trait after burning desire is focus. To develop focus we need to develop discipline first. Discipline is the ability to control our impulses and being able to sacrifice small joys today for greater success tomorrow.
The second trait of successful people is known to be persistence and perseverance. Watching small kids playing games, I found out three different types in them. I called them the losers, the winners, and the lovers. The first type losers lose most of the games generally because of lack of skill, lose interests and either leave the game or convince others to play a different game or join the others when they are playing a different game or just go home and watch TV. The winners are those who win mostly because of their skill and ability to win. Sometimes they also like the game just for the game or because winning makes them like the game. The third type is lovers. No matter what happens these children continue to play the game and they just love the game. They don't abandon the game even they taste failure regularly. I have seen that these lovers eventually become winners. So you have to either develop a strong desire to win which makes you develop skills or just love the work you do soo much that eventually you life becomes a story of success. The successful singer today had same talent and beautiful voice yesterday when he was nobody before success. .
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I don't think other things like taking calculated risks, continuous learning, able to communicate well, networking etc are very important for success. These are abstract things for me. Burning desire, focus, persistence, and skills in your particular chosen field is enough to make you successful. I know many successful people who are not very good communicators and many of them shy. It is just the success coaches are increasing the list of to-do-things just to keep them busy and are very good in convincing you that you wont be successful unless you take up their $ 10,000 program which goes for 2-days in a five star hotel.
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