What is it that you want to take action on? Is there a goal you want to pursue? Is there a habit you want to create? Sometimes it seems like a mystery as to how people are able to accomplish some things and other things they leave to procrastination or simply don’t ever get started. When I examine my life I know there are things that I should do and just don’t do. You likely face the same situation at times. Understanding the “Theory of Planned Behavior” developed by Ajzen and Fishbein can help. This theory shows what PLANNED behavior is most likely to become ACTUAL behavior. Understanding it can help you move more of your behavior from planned to actual.
There are three things that determine the likelihood that you will take action.
1. Attitude Towards the Behavior/ Action
This concept is pretty simple. What is your attitude towards the action or behavior? If you have a positive attitude, you are more likely to take action. Think of a couple of examples. If you have a positive attitude towards exercise you are more likely to exercise. If you have a negative attitude towards exercise, you are less likely to exercise. If you have a positive attitude towards making that next sales call, you are more likely to make it. This is true for any action or behavior.
2. Subjective Norms
The second factor is the subjective norms related to the action. This relates to the perceived social pressures around the action. In other words, will others approve of the action or behavior. This is why having someone to exercise with makes such a difference. It provides a built in positive social reinforcement. The strength of the social pressure comes in to play here as well. The more people that will react positive to your behavior and the more important those people are in your life, the more likely you are to take action.
3. Perceived Behavioral Control
The final factor is the likelihood of being successful. This really relates to the perceived difficulty or ease of the action. If it is something you think is easy and that you will be successful in it, you will more likely do it. If you think it will be difficult and that you might fail, you are less likely to do it. If you think it is going to be difficult to lose weight, you won’t try. On the other hand if you think it will be easy, you will get started right away.
Notice that this is all based on your PERCEPTIONS. Of course you may perceive something very difficult than it actually is. How often have you resisted doing something because you thought it would be hard and take a lot of time, only to find it was much easier than you thought once you got started? This is because your perceptions were out of line with reality, however it was your perceptions that controlled your actions.
Bring It Together
Bringing it all together this theory teaches us that if there is something we really want to accomplish, there are three things we can do to make it more likely we will actually do it:
Have a positive attitude about the action or behavior
Bring others around to support and challenge us – people that would approve of our success in this behavior
Believe you will be successful and that the task is not as hard as you think
What is one action you’ve been putting off doing? Or what is one habit you want to create in your life? Take that action or habit and analyze it under the three factors and use them to help spur yourself into action.
Written by: Danny Gamache – The Success Professor
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Posted on June 21st, 2010 by The Success Professor | No Comments »
One trap that many people fall into is the trap of comparing themselves to others. This is a trap because it only leads to negative results. You cannot win by comparing yourself to others.
When you are comparing yourself to others you are likely doing one of four things:
1. You compare yourself to people who are more successful than you and you get discouraged.
Comparing yourself with people more successful than you may cause you to be discouraged because they have achieved success and you have not. You start looking at their level of success as where you should be. This causes you to look at what you do not have instead of what you do have. It takes away from an attitude of thankfulness and contentment with your current situation. While it is healthy to have goals that you pursue, it is not healthy to get discouraged because others get there faster or have more.
2. You compare yourself with people who are more successful than you and you make excuses.
Another risk in comparing yourself with people more successful is that you start to make excuses for your current position. You start to think about why they have succeeded and you have not. You use these differences to justify your current situation – as an excuse. Certainly other people will have a different skill set, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t succeed with what you have.
3. You compare yourself with people less successful than you and you get prideful.
It is easy to feel good about yourself when you compare yourself with people who you think are less successful than you are. This is a false form of self-esteem. True self-esteem does not come from considering yourself better than others. It comes from an awareness of your abilities, what you can achieve, and what you have achieved already.
4. You compare yourself with people less successful than you and you get satisfied.
If you continually compare yourself with people who you view as less successful it is easy to get satisfied with where you are at. If you get satisfied with where you are at, you are less likely to pursue goals that may make a big difference in your life and in the lives of others. You are unique. Your skills and abilities are different from everyone else. You should be satisfied when you do your very best. Your satisfaction should not come from the fact that you are further ahead than someone else. They started at a very different point than you.
Instead of comparing yourself to others:
1. Learn from those more successful than you.
Don’t look at the success of others and get discouraged. Don’t look at them and make excuses for where you are at. Look at successful people and learn from them. Look at their activity. What are they doing to reach their goals? Take those activities and duplicate them in your life. You will move towards the type of successes that they have.
2. Teach those less successful than you.
Don’t look down on people less successful than you and get prideful. Don’t use their lack of success and get satisfied with where you are at. Instead, look for ways to encourage, lead, and teach those people. If they are willing to learn you can lift them up. If you have gotten somewhere that they would like to get, you can help them get there too. Success is not a limited pie. When others become more successful, it doesn’t mean you become less successful. In fact, it is usually the opposite. As you help people become more successful you become more successful as well.
In conclusion:
don’t compare yourself with others
learn from those more successful than you
teach those less successful than you
understand that everyone started at a different place
everyone can succeed by doing the best that they can
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The Success Professor – Danny Gamache
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Posted on January 11th, 2010 by The Success Professor | 5 Comments »
Lou Holtz is known as one of the top college football coaches of all time. Most recently he came out of retirement to coach South Carolina and before that had a successful run coaching at Notre Dame. He is the only coach ever to have brought six different teams to bowl games and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
Recently I was at a conference where Lou Holtz was the keynote speaker. Aside from being a great football coach, Holtz is a great LIFE coach. His lessons are clear and powerful and delivered with a mix of inspiration and humor. Here are his five keys to success.
1. Choose Your Attitude
In life you will face many difficulties and problems. It is guaranteed that life won’t be easy. You choose how you respond to adversity or difficulties. You choose how you respond to rejection. You choose how you approach life. Be self discipline and be enthusiastic about everything you do.
“You cannot let others people determine your attitude.”
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
2. Have a Passion to Win
You need to develop a deep passion to win. As you do, obstacles will slip away. If your passion is strong then there will be no obstacle that will keep you from being a success. You will pursue, persevere, and endure. You will sacrifice and have no excuses.
“You can evaluate your passion to win by what you are willing to sacrifice.”
“Focus on why you can win; no on why you can’t.”
“You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.”
3. Understand Your Purpose
Do you know your purpose? Your purpose is your WHY: the reason WHY you are pursuing your goals. You need to have clear objectives, and have a team ready to help you move towards your goals. Based on your purpose, ask yourself the WIN question: “What’s Important Now?” Ask yourself this at least 25 times a day. This will help you push back towards your purpose.
“If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.”
“I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”
4. Be a Dreamer
Your purpose should be connected to your dream. Have a dream, share your dream, and use your dream to identify your goals. Develop a dreams list of all the things you dream to do. Have something to do, something to hope for, something to love, and something to believe in.
“Don’t maintain where you are – everything is either growing or dying.”
“Don’t be a spectator. Don’t let life pass you by.”
5. Lift People Up
You need to develop and maintain meaningful relationships with others. Do what is right to others. Do everything to the very best of your ability. Show people you care. All the people you meet have their own struggles and are carrying some burden. They are just like you.
“Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”
“If you burn your neighbor’s house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.”
Read more of Lou Holtz’s wisdom by picking up his book “Winning Everyday”.
Written by: Danny Gamache Based on a presentation by Lou Holtz
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Posted on November 10th, 2009 by The Success Professor | 5 Comments »
For years people believed it was impossible. It was impossible that a man could run a mile in under four minutes. Doctors and Scientists said that the human body could not possibly achieve such a feat; some suggested that the body would break apart before such a speed could be reached. Everyone agreed: the four minute mile was not possible.
Well, not quite everyone. After breaking the 1500m record (the mile is 1600m) Roger Bannister started to believe. He started to believe that the four minute mile could be broken. And that belief made all the difference. It led to increased training and an all out effort to break the barrier.
Then on May 6, 1954 this happened:
Roger Bannister had done it. He had broken the four minute mile; a barrier thought impossible. Now he had proven that it could be done. Other people now had the evidence that the four minute mile could be broken. Other people had the belief.
In the days and years that followed, that belief turned into results:
Just 46 days later Jim Landry of Australia broke the record again.
Less than two months after that both Landry and Bannister both broke four minutes in the same race
Since then thousands of people have run the mile in under four minutes
In the next 30 years the record was broken 16 more times
The record now stands at 3 minutes and 43 seconds
Even high school students have broken the four minute mile
In 1997 Daniel Komen of Kenya double the feet running TWO miles in LESS THAN EIGHT minutes.
Each of these feats took Roger Bannister breaking the record to show the way. To show them that it was possible. To break the barrier that others had put up. Once the barrier was broken by Bannister, everyone else followed suit.
What is your “Four Minute Mile”?
What is the thing in your life that everyone thinks is impossible? What is the thing that you keep hearing can’t be done? Maybe you even believe it. Perhaps it is a goal you have given up on, or a sales target you think can’t be achieved. It might be the next step to success in your field.
Your four minute mile might even be something that others have accomplished. It just might seem impossible to you. You need to treat this goal as a four minute mile, and know you can do it, that you can break your four minute mile.
“Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.” – Roger Bannister.
Lessons From Bannister’s Four Minute Mile
1. You need support
Bannister didn’t do it by himself. As you see when you watch the video, he had teammates to help pace him. They went out and set the early pace for Roger to follow. Behind the scenes he had coaches, training partners, and a support system. To break your four minute mile you need support. Bring the right people around you that can help push and encourage you towards success.
2. Facing criticism
Bannister faced significant criticism as he worked towards his goal. First, he faced criticism that came from having a goal that everyone though was impossible. He was wasting his time. Pursing an impossible goal is a waste! He also faced criticism about his unorthodox training methods. People had an understanding about how to best train for these kinds of races, and Bannister wasn’t following those methods. Roger faced this criticism and went right past it. He didn’t let the criticism affect his belief and the way that he saw his goal.
3. Push through the pain
Reaching any worthwhile goal requires pain and discomfort. In athletics that is often a physical pain, but your pain might be emotional or mental stress. Pushing through the pain and getting out of your comfort zone is vital to success. Bannister said:
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
4. Barriers are often mental not physical
Scientists believe that the barrier to reaching the four minute mile was a physical barrier. It was not. It was a mental barrier. No one broke the four minute mile, in part because no one thought it was possible. Certainly it wasn’t easy, but it was possible. The same is often true for our goals. What we think we can’t achieve is really only a mental barrier, not a physical barrier. If you believe in your abilities you can achieve far more than you imagine.
What is your four minute mile? It is likely something that you think you can’t do. A goal you think you can’t reach. It is mental. To break through and beat your four minute mile you need to start by believing. Believe that it is possible. Once you have that belief you will still need to work hard. You will need to train, face criticism and push through the pain. But by surrounding yourself with a support team and persevering, you can break your four minute mile.
I’ll leave you with this inspirational video that helps apply Bannister’s four minute mile to life:
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by The Success Professor | 5 Comments »
Do you remember what you were like as a teenager? No, I am not talking about the awkwardness and struggles with self identity or the clumsiness as you wonder about who your next date will be. I am talking about how you looked at the future. The optimism you had about who you could become and what you could do in life. Chances are your thought process was much different than it is today after you have been beaten up by life a little. It is time to change that, to reconnect with your teenage-self, and start thinking big again.
Have Big Dreams
As a teenager you probably had big dreams about life. Think back to that time. What did you dream about? What were your hopes for the future? At one point, I remember dreaming about being able to retire young and play golf every day. Your dreams at this age are not limited by life experiences. There isn’t as much that you think “I couldn’t do that” or “that’s not possible”. Instead you believed that it was possible to live your dreams.
Do Anything/ Achieve Anything
Chances are you believed that you could do anything in life. You could achieve whatever you wanted to. What did you want to achieve? Did you have a list of what you wanted to do in life? If so, your list was probably very extensive. The world was in front of you and you could aim to do anything you wanted to. It was all possible.
Change the World
Not only did you believe that you could do things for yourself, but you knew that you could make a difference. You could change the world. Your dreams were not small dreams limited to yourself, they were world changing. What impact did you want to have on the world? What was the thing that you wanted to change, for the betterment of all humanity?
Unshakable Confidence
The most interesting thing is that your mindset didn’t stop with big dreams and a belief that you could do anything, achieve anything and even change the world. That dream was combined with an unshakable confidence that not only could you do it, but you would do it. You would achieve more, have more and be more. You would make a difference in the world. You would make your dreams come true.
So What Happened?
A drastic change occurred. Likely you don’t have those same dreams anymore. You likely do not see yourself changing the world, and while you have goals you likely have much smaller goals than the “teenage-you”. Somehow things changed.
This change didn’t happen all at once. It was a gradual change. It happened step by step in your life as things didn’t quite go the way you thought it would. One disappointment at a time, you slowly began to accept less in life. You started to lower your goals and to dream of smaller goals.
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It started small. Maybe you didn’t get into your top choice for a college. Perhaps you didn’t get the summer job you hoped for. Later, the disappointments got a little bigger. You graduated from college and ended up working in a fast-food restaurant or a retail store. This wasn’t what you went to college for! You started to think more about paying off your student loans than about the dreams you used to have.
Over time, step by step, the burdens of life and the disappointments that occur have diminished your dreams. As a result, you set smaller goals, and you began to accept less and less out of life.
What Can You Do?
It is time to get your dreams back. No, they don’t have to be the same dreams you had as a teenager – although some of them might be. It is not the actual dreams that you need to get back, but your ability to dream; your ability to think big about life, to see the world as full of possibilities instead of full of limitations. It is about being able to see yourself as capable of achieving big things, and getting back your unshakable confidence.
The Irony of It All
The irony of the situation is that you are now in a better place to achieve big goals. You are now far better prepared to do big things, to live an extraordinary life. You have more skills and abilities. You may have more education, or at least a lot more life experience. You know your strengths and weaknesses. You have more connections, a bigger network. You have more potential!
Combine the Two
In the end, what you need to do is combine the two sides. Combine the energy, belief, and dreams of your teenage-self, with the knowledge, wisdom and abilities of the current you! The trick of course is to combine them without letting your current mindset and beliefs takeover again. Stick to your big dreams. Stick to your unwavering belief that you will achieve your goals, and stick to the attitude that comes from those beliefs. This change in mindset and attitude will take time. You will need to work at it and create a new habit of thinking. But if you do work at it, you can replace your current thinking with the type of dreaming that was true of your teenage-self.
When you combine the two, you will move forward rapidly towards your goals. You are better than you think you are and by connecting with the teenage-you, you can reach your dreams, achieve more than you imagine, and you can change the world.
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Posted on July 27th, 2009 by The Success Professor | 1 Comment »
Lance Armstrong is inspiring. His story is one that encourages you to fight to reach your goals. The story is so good that you almost think it can’t be true. Think of the sporting accomplishments alone. Before Lance Armstrong, no one has ever had more that than five Tour de France victories. Not only did Lance win five, but he went on to win number six and number seven. Far more than anyone had done before. Now he’s made a comeback, showing that he is still one of the best in the world at 37 years of age, and with three years off from professional cycling. It is inspiring!
And then there is the other Lance Armstrong story. This is the story of the cancer survivor. Lance went through a battle with testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain. When he was diagnosed he was given a 20% chance of survival. Not only did Armstrong survive, but he went on to become a world leader at raising money and awareness in the fight against cancer.
No combine those two stories. Each on their own could make a movie, together they are spectacular. Armstrong’s fight with cancer came in the middle of his professional cycling career. He was out for two years and came back better than ever. The following year he won his first Tour de France, winning the three week race by a substantial margin, over 7 minutes. Some called it a fluke victory, so Lance came back and won again and again and again…. proving to be one of the best cyclists of all times.
Below, we’ll look at some lessons we can learn from Lance Armstrong. To give you a clear picture of Lance’s story, check out this video:
There is a lot we can learn from Lance Armstrong and the Tour. Lance himself tells us that we can learn life lessons from the Tour. He writes,
“It’s not about the bike. It’s a metaphor for life, not only the longest race in the world but also the most exalting and heartbreaking and potentially tragic. It poses every conceivable element to the rider, and more: cold, heat, mountains, plains, ruts, flat tires, high winds, unspeakably bad luck, unthinkable beauty, yawning senselessness, and above all a great, deep self-questioning. During our lives we’re faced with so many different elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope. The Tour is not just a bike race, not at all. It is a test. It tests you physically, it tests you mentally, and it even tests you morally.”
Whether it is in his fight with cancer or in battling to win the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong is a great example of perseverance. The fact that he made a cycling comeback at all required significant perseverance. He didn’t need to go back to cycling. Success in any goal requires that you persevere.
In the Tour, pain builds from days of racing and mountain after mountain to climb up. What makes Armstrong successful is that he fights through the pain. Cancer taught him how much pain he could endure and cycling can’t match it. Now he pushes through the pain. Perseverance towards your goals will mean that you need to push through pain, and do so more than your competition.
Lance knows that if he keeps pushing on through the pain the competition will eventually fall behind him and he will ride on to victory. The same is true if you are in business. Your competition won’t keep up with you if you keep doing the things that you need to do to become successful even when you don’t want to – perhaps ESPECIALLY when you don’t want to.
2. When You Fall, Get Up and Keep Going
In one of the most impressive Tour de France performances ever, during the 2003 Tour on the important mountain stage to Luz Ardiden, Lance crashed after clipping a spectator with his handlebars. As with everything else in his life, Lance didn’t stay down. He got back up and powered his way back to the leaders catching and eventually blowing past them to take a commanding lead in the Tour.
When something happens in your business or life that gets you down, you need to get back up and keep going. Dust yourself off, get back on your bike, and ride. We will all face obstacles on a daily basis as we work towards our goals. Don’t let them slow you down.
No one prepares for the Tour de France like Lance Armstrong. Certainly Lance prepare physical by getting into peak condition, but what really sets him apart from the others is the other things he does. Armstrong goes to the important mountain stages before the Tour and examines the climbs. He then rides them over and over again making sure he knows exactly where the steepest parts are, where to attack the field, and where to rest.
What kind of preparation can you do that will help you reach your goals more quickly? Perhaps extra practice before you give the big presentation, more research into your potential clients so you can specifically address their needs, or maybe going the extra mile to make sure your blog article has all the facts. Take the time to prepare well. Know that those who prepare and then take action will reach the top, they will get the big client and make the big sale. Do your preparation.
4. Surround Yourself With a Great Team
One of the ironies to professional cycling is that it takes a team to win, even thought there is an individual winner. Lance has consistently surrounded himself with an excellent team that helps him win the Tour. As the team leader, Lance would rely on others to set the pace, block the wind creating a draft, and help him defend the lead.
Whatever goal you are working towards you need a team. This may be a support team that encourages you on, challenges you, and holds you accountable to your goals. It might be a team that you work with on a day-to-day basis trying to achieve a common goal. Look to build a team that compliments your skills, encourage you, challenge you, and help you move on to victory.
5. Don’t Listen to the Critics
If you are attempting to do something great you will face critics. There will be people that will tell you that you can’t do it, or that it can’t be done. There will be people who look at your weaknesses and focus on those, and there will be people who simply try to pull you down because they want to keep you where you are.
As a champion, Armstrong has faced a constant berrage of critics. They said he couldn’t win and when he did, they said he couldn’t do it again. Later they turned to accusations of cheating and anything else they could do that could hurt his image. Time after time, Lance rose up and showed the critics that he was a real champion.
So ignore your critics; or better yet, use their criticism to energize you and provide the fuel you need to push you over the top.
6. Life Is Short, Use it Well
Cancer attacked Lance Armstrong as a young athlete in the prime of his career. This should be a reminder that life is short. We never know when our time will be up. Make every day count. Be thankful for the health you have, enjoy every day, and use it well.
As we leave, check out this inspirational commercial from Nike.
No matter what type of organization you lead, business you run, or what kind of personal goals you are pursuing, one of the keys that will determine the level of your success is momentum. Momentum is defined as “the force of movement”. It can help decide how high you will go and how quickly you will get there. At the same time, momentum can often prove illusive; something that seems to be here today and yet is gone tomorrow.
WHAT DOES MOMENTUM LOOK LIKE
John Maxwell calls momentum “the big mo”. In his book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, he says that “Momentum is really a leader’s best friend. Sometimes it’s the only difference between winning and losing.”
You know you have momentum when you run over obstacles in your path like they were nothing. Momentum is when things happen with ease, one success follows another and forward growth comes quickly. Momentum allows leaders to move past mistakes quickly, and any kind of change is possible. People throughout the organization are motivated to achieve more, and at a higher level. Momentum makes the leader look good, because success seems to happen easily.
If you’re in sales, momentum is when sales come easy, one after another. In fact you are confident going into the next sales call that you will make the sale. In your personal life momentum is when you are meeting your goals one after another. It is when your life is in balance and everything is going right. You get the idea – it’s like dominos once one thing falls, the rest follow suit.
HOW TO ACHIEVE MOMENTUM
1. Achieving momentum starts with creating forward progress.
Getting started is the most difficult part. It’s like the law of inertia: an object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Momentum is what happens when you get moving. Whatever your goal is take a step towards it now. This is why I suggest starting your day with a power hour. Your power hour allows you to do something first off in the morning that gives you progress towards your goals right away. You create success within the first hour of the day, helping you gain momentum. Once you are in motion for the day you are more likely to stay in motion and continue on towards your goals.
2. You are responsible for the momentum of your team.
Momentum starts with the leader, and then moves outwards and impacts the entire team. If you lead a team of people in any form then you are responsible for the momentum of your team, you can’t place the responsibility on anyone else. Team momentum starts with your personal momentum. You need to be motivated yourself and moving forward, before you can motivate others. Understanding this will allow you to help your team to follow these steps towards momentum.
3. Have a clear vision and goals for your future.
Develop a vision for where you want to go and keep that vision out front. Continually remind yourself and your team about the vision you are pursing. Your vision should be important, not just to yourself but some way of contributing to the world and the well being of others. This kind of vision will inspire. Then starting from your vision set your goals. Make your goals clear, concise and dated. Develop ways to remind yourself about your goals and vision. Review your goals list daily, and put photos around your workspace and home that remind you of your goals. Use these reminders to inspire you to move forward.
4. Apply the principle of massive action.
In the Olympic 100m sprint, the most important part of the race is leaving the starting blocks. Sprinters that have a quick reaction time and are able to leave the start with power are often able to get so much momentum that they can’t be caught later in the race. In your business you need to leave the starting blocks fast. Even if your business is established you can get out fast by restarting your business – do that today and go! If you are looking for customers, make a massive amount of prospecting calls bringing in a large amount of new customers; if you’re promoting your web site, do massive amounts of promotion – whatever you do to grow your business or to achieve your personal goals, start creating momentum by doing massive amounts of what it takes to succeed.
5. Follow one success immediately with another.
When is the best time to try to set an appointment with a prospect? The best time to make a new prospecting call is immediately after you just set an appointment. When is the best time to do a sales presentation? It is immediately after you just made a sale. Far too often people will stop and take a break after they meet some goal or objective. They think they deserve a reward and they take a break. I’m all in favor of rewarding yourself for success but if you do it immediately after a small success, you’re limiting the momentum you can achieve. If you’ve just had success in a particular goal, whether its making a sale or meeting a deadline you have gained a tremendous amount of energy and confidence from that action – so take advantage of it and make the next step. You are most motivated immediately following a success, make use of that motivation to continue the forward motion you’ve started. Reward yourself later, keep moving forward now!
6. Create Wins for Your Team
Having seen your success, the motivation of your teammates will be rising. You can capitalize on this by putting them in situations that allow them to see some wins in what they are doing. Look for any way you can of helping them succeed. The more wins they can have, the more confidence they will have and the more momentum they will be build. Make sure you are not neglecting the massive personal action at this time as well. You need to maintain personal activity while working with your team members at the same time.
Following these steps will help you create “the big mo”. Hold on tight, because momentum can propel you and your business further towards your goals in a short time than you might even imagine.
The Success Professor – Danny Gamache
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Posted on November 25th, 2008 by The Success Professor | 6 Comments »
