Copyright (c) 2009 Khadijah Ibrahim

In my opinion there are three basic things that everybody must do so that they would be successful whether it is online or offline business or even in their life. I believe that all successful people know and do these three basic things. I also could guarantee that if you ask any successful people, these three things would be the first things they mention.

What are the first three basic things that are important and you need to do?

Believe that you can succeed

With everything that you do whether in your online or offline business or even your life, the first thing you need to do is believe that you can succeed. Believe that you can achieve anything that you put your mind into. This is the first and important thing that you need to do before anything else.

You must be able to see yourself achieving your dream, hear the positive things that you would say when you achieve your dream and feel the feeling when you achieve your dream.

You might be asking why is your belief very important and be the first thing that you need to do?

It is important and the first thing that you need to do because without belief you would not feel the urgency to achieve your dreams. Without the belief that you could succeed you would never take any action to achieve your dreams.

Let me give you an example. If you are supposed to jump out of an aeroplane however you do not believe that your parachute will open and you would safely land on the ground, would you do it? I don’t think so.

The same goes with any venture that you are going to jump into. You need to have a belief before you do it. If you jump into any venture without any belief, I could assure you that when you meet with the first obstacle, the obstacle will definitely break you and you will give up.

So whatever you a going to do or choose, you need to believe that you would be able to succeed.

Take action

After a very long explanation on beliefs, I need to remind you on the second most important thing that you need to do.

Yes, that’s right; take action. If you believe with your whole heart that you could succeed but you are not taking any action to achieve it, how are you going to succeed? If you believe that you are going to be a millionaire however you are not taking any action, just waiting for somebody to hand you the money; will you be a millionaire? Unless of course if you have Uncle Ben who is a millionaire and you are going to inherit his money then may be you can just sit tight waiting for him to die. However with that kind of guarantee in your pocket, you must still take actions to ensure that he would not change his mind, mustn’t you?

If you want to succeed in an online business then start making plans on how to start building and do it. If you still do not know how to do it then start learning and ask people who already have the experience and knowledge.

If you want to be successful, start acting like successful people best cialis and do what they did to become successful.

So you see, just believing will not be enough you must take action.

Never give up

The third most important thing that you need to do is to never ever give up. You must realise that before success there will always be a lot of obstacles, roadblocks, frustrations and hard work.

I don’t think that there is anybody who is successful who never encountered these four things. If they didn’t, you better check them out to see whether they really are successful.

The truth is, obstacles, roadblocks, frustrations and hard work are good things. These are the things that make you stretch out and become a better person. Being successful is not just what you achieve but also who you become in the process of achieving success.

So there you are three basic but most important things that you must do to achieve success. With these three things everything else will come together and you will be on your way to achieve your dreams in no time.

Khadijah is a certified handwriting analyst, internet marketer, author, trainer and NLP practitioner. Listen to her talks about building online business and developing positive personality by clicking here to go to her blog and click here to see her website that shows you how your handwriting could reveal a lot about your personality

I was in trouble and living my life in confusion, complexity, and chaos.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. More than anything else, I was looking for a meaningful life, searching for that ultimate satisfaction that would make me live every day with full passion for what I do. Yet every day I felt that I lost a part of my soul.

I kept falling in that downward spiral until I started reading about success and successful people. Only then did I discover three vital qualities that ultra-successful people have – and live by – that make all the difference. These qualities make those successful people move forward with lightning speed and reach levels of success that no one could have ever imagined.

I started applying these qualities and soon effected a complete life transformation – from an ordinary person to a success guru who is helping thousands of people worldwide to create everlasting success.

Now, you may be wondering what these qualities are. You may even think that it must be very hard to adapt them to your own life. But those three qualities are surprisingly simple, and yet extremely powerful. And they hold the key to success in any endeavor.

The first quality is CLARITY.

Successful people are clear about their purpose and what they want to achieve. They know their mission and they work every day to fulfill it. Their thoughts are clear and fresh. And their clarity of purpose brings them a peaceful mind and a passionate heart.

The second quality is SIMPLICITY.

Oh, I can’t stress that one enough! Simplicity is the key to power. If you simplify everything – your life, work, needs, environment – you will be amazed at the sense of relief you feel. There is a reason behind that old saying “keep it simple, stupid!” Overcomplicating your life means you can’t think clearly. If you simplify, you will be an ultimately powerful person.

The third quality is FOCUS.

Successful people have laser-like focus. They guard their time and never allow anyone or anything to distract them. They go after their target with determination and their eyes on the prize. They don’t get distracted and jump from one opportunity to another. They reach success one step at a time. They give their all to reaching their goal until they achieve it, and then they train their focus on the next goal.

As I often say, focus is what gets things done! True, huh?

To sum up, the reason successful people find their way to the top and achieve massive success is because of their depth and clarity of thought, their ability to simplify the complex, and their laser-like focus.

Adopt these qualities today and you will be armed with three vital qualities that will definitely accelerate your success.

C.S.F. your way to success!

Got it?

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Mohamed Tohami (The Success ‘Pharaoh’) is the author and creator of “The Life Purpose Discovery System: Your Ultimate Guide To A Meaningful Life“. http://www.LifePurposeDiscoverySystem.com

Success means different things to different people. Whatever your definition of success, this article will help you realize your goals.

If you define success in terms of a good job or a profitable self-owned business, then this article may become the turning point in your life. As you read, I will share some of my success secrets, which I have been able to execute in my own online business.

What It Means To Be A Leader

During my time in the U.S. Army as an Army Staff Sergeant, I learned valuable lessons about leading teams to the successful completion of projects. I learned that by following the direction of good leaders, one could build the confidence and skill set necessary to become a successful leader.

Good leaders quickly separate themselves from the masses of people who simply live day-by-day doing only the bare minimum to keep their job one more day. In other words, leaders stand out in a crowd of managers and workers.

While the Army tried hard to bring leadership qualities out in all of their people, the truth was that leaders are those who decide to go the extra mile and to create a brighter future for themselves and others around them.

A good leader is simply the person who “helps” you to become the best person you can become, by teaching you how you can “help” other people to become successful too.

One Decision Can Change Your Destiny

Are you waiting?

Are you waiting for “me” to tell “you” the secret to success?

It is time for “you” to make a decision, now.

You must decide to stop waiting for success to come to you. Success simply will not fall out of the sky into your open arms. It does not work that way.

You must “decide” to become successful. If you are waiting for success, then success will never come your way. But, once you understand that success is waiting for you, and you decide to go get it, no matter what, then you will have changed your destiny for the better.

Follow In The Footsteps Of People Whom You Wish To Emulate

While I was in the U.S. Army, I learned how to seek out leaders who were willing to share with me their secrets to success. I actively sought out people who could help me to become a better leader.

Even in my daily life outside of the Army, I found several opportunities to hook up with people who exuded leadership qualities, people who were willing to share with me their own secrets to success.

The truth is that there are people who may doubt their own abilities to have something to share, but if they doubt themselves, they are wrong. Everyone has something important to teach others, but it takes a gem of a person to understand that the role of a leader is to teach others, what “they” take for granted.

A Lifetime Of Learning Over Lunch

Just the other day, I had lunch with a fellow who is probably responsible for selling more cars in our area than anyone else. In our local metropolitan market, if someone asks about a great car dealer, his name will surely be mentioned.

My lunch partner knew that I have a successful website, and he also knew that I had an interest in learning more about what is required to be successful, from him.

To my surprise, his first words were, “Clinton, I don’t know if I can offer anything to you that would help you. I sell cars, and that is what I do. You have some kind of online business, and I cannot even venture to guess how you make your money.”

My lunch partner went on to say, “I appreciate the offer to share a lunch with you, but your business and my business are so different. I would not even know where to begin in giving advice to you.”

Despite his initial hesitation, we went on to have a great meal, and I learned a lot! I could literally spin several articles just on the knowledge that he was able to impart to me over lunch.

If You Want To Be Rich, Listen To Rich People

Online and offline, I like to associate with people who have been successful in their fields. I learn so much about growing my business, by listening closely to people who have defined their industries.

Even online, there are key people whom I pay close attention. With every conversation, I hear some gem of information that I can apply to my own online business. These tidbits of information pieced together have helped me carry my website from one in millions to one that has served more than a million visitors.

Success In Three Simple Repeatable Steps

My car dealer friend finally put aside the idea that he could not help anyone outside his own industry, and we had great conversation.

When I asked him the secret to selling cars, he said he could sum it up in three steps:

? Talk to your customers. When you understand the needs of your customers, then you know how you will best be able to help them solve their problems and achieve their goals.

? Follow-Up. People rarely buy on their first visit, so it is important to follow-up with them. When buying big-ticket items, people tend to shop around a little bit more. When you follow-up, you are frequently creating a relationship with your customer. When all is said and done, if two products are substantially equal, it is often the relationship the customer has with the sales person that will “seal the deal.”

? Be persistent. Persistence does not equate to being pushy. Persistence means that you follow-up, once, twice, three times, and more if necessary. If a salesperson is obviously “only” interested in satisfying his or her own interests, then persistence could be construed as pushy. But, when your goal is to be persistent with the goal of helping the customer solve his or her problems and satisfy his or her goals, then persistence is a quality to be appreciated.

Learning Anew Each Day

Bill Platt at The Phantom Writers (http://www.thephantomwriters.com) taught me the same lesson last year. Bill always tells me that the secret to success online is “consistency.” He says that we need to talk to our potential customers, and we need to keep the conversation going by consistently talking to potential customer base.

John Reese of Marketing Secrets (http://www.marketingsecrets.com) taught me the same lesson. He emphasized that I need to develop a newsletter or an auto-responder series so that I could create and keep an ongoing conversation with my potential customers. Reese also taught me to track my results (follow-up) on everything that I do for my business.

Since buy cialis brand I started my website in 2001, I have noticed that all of my mentors tend to teach me the same lessons over and again in their own terminology.

All of my mentors continue to tell me to talk to my customers, follow-up, and to be persistent in talking to my customers

With so many people who are successful in their own industries sharing with me the same sage advice, I tend to pay attention.

Final Thoughts

It does not matter whether you seek to use this information to help your career or to build an online business.

Make your decision today; decide to be successful. And then follow the golden rule of helping others to achieve what they want to achieve, follow-up, and be persistent in your efforts.

If you play your cards just right, in just a few years, you might be the mentor that we will all want to attentively listen to and appreciate.

When I first started my online business, I was a lot like many of you.

I worked hard to get my website up, spent endless days trying to identify my niche market, labored to create a great product and service, and struggled to build my client list. And when it came time for clients and customers to take action… they didn’t.

Have you ever looked around at successful businesswomen and wondered how they got that way? When success didn’t happen for me quickly enough, I certainly did.

What I’m about to tell you turned my wretched business start-up into a thriving success. And it’s also turned many of my unsuccessful clients into lasting business successes.

I’ll tell you my secret—right here—and show you how you can do the exact same thing. There’s nothing magical about it. It’s not a quick fix or get-rich-quick scheme. Instead, it’s what every master of business success does. It’s the three-part key to long-term, sustainable business success.

The Three Ps of Lasting Business Success

1. Persistence

Persistence means that you keep at it day-after-day, month-after-month, and year-after-year. You keep keeping at it, even through the occasional fumble, intermittent failure and repeat mistake. Persistence means you stay with it and are unrelenting in your pursuit of business success.

Follow the example of other successful businesswomen. Look to Oprah Winfrey, Indra Nooyi, Chair and CEO of PepsiCo, and Marissa Mayer, Vice President at Google, for your inspiration. They aren’t successful just because they’ve applied themselves for one year or even ten. By the time they became successful, they’d already been at it for a very long time. They made it look easy because they’d already built success momentum.

Start now to act as if you are currently successful and will be for the rest of your life. Then be persistent. 

2. Patience

Be patient. Just about every woman I’ve helped start up a business has been impatient for results. Many of them wanted to start up a business right away, turn a profit in less than a year, and franchise in two. 

Often this lack of patience is characteristic of women who’ve had an unsuccessful mindset for many, many years. Now they are desperate to turn their thinking around and be successful immediately.

Changing an unsuccessful mindset, though, takes time. Be patient. Think like a baby learning to walk. You will fall down many times before you’re able to string a succession of steps together. Focus on the goal. Be patient with the results.

3. Practice

Masters are people who understand what it takes to be successful. If you examine the lives of professional dancers, Olympic gymnasts, concert pianists, or anyone who has gained mastery in a specific area, you’ll discover that they have one thing in common: They’ve had a lot of setbacks.

What made the difference was not how they dealt with those setbacks but how they practiced success. Mastery in any area, including business, comes from daily practice. So, focus on what will lead you to business success. Then practice.

Persistence, patience, and practice are the three Ps of lasting business success. Every successful businesswoman knows this. It’s what made Oprah, Indra, and Marissa successful. It’s what will make you successful, too. What’s your plan to start building success momentum and set your course toward thriving business success?

r. Susan L. Reid is a business coach and consultant for entrepreneurial women starting up businesses. She is the award-winning author of “Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Journey to Business Success,” and has a free chapter PDF of her most popular chapter: “Doing What You Love: Multiple Streams of Passion” at http://www.SuccessfulSmallBizOwners.com for those who want see how persistence, patience and practice can really pay off.

For success in MLM, training is a must. Do you want to make a six figure income in MLM? Find out how to locate the right success training that will empower you.

When you are looking for MLM success training, there are three questions you must ask:

What am I being trained in?
Who is training me?
How am I being trained?

Let’s look at these more closely

1. What am I being trained in?

Are you being trained to recruit for your business opportunity or for marketing your products? Stable income is generated only from the sale of products. Your goal is to have a growing basis of product customers who are ordering month after month.

Then, are you being trained in “old school MLM”, the type of training that your company is offering? Over 95% of all networkers who are following these approaches never make a dime in their business, so be wary. You want to learn marketing tools and skills that work, the same methods that all successful businesses are using today.

2. Who is training me?

Is he a recruiter for opportunity seekers? Or is she an old school MLM leader? They may be very successful, but that does not mean that you will be. If you look closely at their stories, you will find that they had a passion for pursuing the path that they did. Almost any path will work, if you pursue it with dedication for a long time. But is their path something you have a passion for?

Find trainers who are successful in marketing products and services; who have their own thriving businesses, and a track record of success. Their marketing tools will work for everyone, who is teachable and willing to work.

3. How will I be trained?

Are you receiving one way instruction, or interactive training? Can you ask questions and get answers? Ideally you should receive life interactive training in the comfort of your home. Tele-seminars and webinars are very popular these days, but you should be able to interact with your trainer to some degree.

Is the training for a limited amount of time or life-time? Markets and tools are changing rapidly these days, and you want to stay current. If you are going for a life-time program, see if your tuition is a one-time fee or a recurring payment. I have personally seen recurring fees of $ 97 per acomplia order online month for what was essentially access to website with monthly updates.

What to do next

Go ahead and check out programs on web. Question #1 will eliminate many of the big popular programs. You will also find a number of other trainers with a very good personal track record. Many of them teach old school MLM. Once you get to question #3 and are looking for live interactive training with life-time access, you will be challenged to find any.

If you are interested in checking out a proven MLM success training that answers to all of the three questions above, contact me at my blog.

Kai Druhl – 641.469.3292

http://www.kaidruhl.com/mlm-success.htm