Today’s success tip comes from Suzi Dafnis.

Suzi was the founder of Pow Wow Events, a company distributes books and other learning products, and occupies more than 50% of the market in the personal finance, personal development and business skills segment. Having now sold that company, she is the director of the Australian Business Women’s Network.

Having attended hundreds of seminars on business and personal development, can you list some of the most valuable lessons you’ve learnt from them?

Some of the most valuable lessons include:

Integrity - You need to be able to sleep with a clear conscious, so have integrity in your dealings with others and with yourself. Keep your relationships above board and work for the highest good.

Karma - I really believe that you reap what you sow. If you believe you are a victim of scarcity, there will never be enough money, clients or business. If you believe in abundance, you’ll be generous and it will flow back to you.

Assets vs Liabilities - This is a big one, many business owners know how to generate cash but they don’t know how to keep it. Using cash flow to buy assets, which in turn produce their own cash flow, means that your money is working for you, rather than you just working for your money. This was an idea that I mainly got from Robert Kiyosaki.

Marketing and Innovation - Without these components, you don’t have a business. No matter how good you think your product is, if you cannot market it you will go broke. Innovation is not about inventing something new, it is the commitment to the ongoing improvement of what you do, whether it is the way you answer the phone, the way you market, or the way you recruit. Innovation is what differentiates exceptional companies from average ones.

Numbers - Business is a numbers game. If you don’t understand financials, make sure somebody you trust does. No matter how fun it might be to take on a business activity, at the end of the day if it loses you money, it’s not worth doing unless it’s going to get you some other goal down the line. We’ve had some great fun projects that the team loved taking part in which cost us a lot of time and money.

Responsibility - Some people think that responsibility means taking on a lot of work. What it means to me is doing what you say you are going to do. As a business owner, I’m 100 per cent responsible for the success or failure of the business. Staff can and should be held accountable for their areas of the business, and my responsibility is to hold them accountable for what they say they will do, and to set an example by keeping my word.

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That’s it for this week. If you want more great advice on how to live a productive and successful life, be sure to check again next week.

Until then,

Allan Poole

Hi friends

I find I struggle with who I am and with the things that I desire to accomplish in my life!

Do you ever find that you put off doing something because you are afraid?
Perhaps you don’t know exactly how to do something or what the outcome may be.

Well I struggle with this problem!

I know that I want to be a different person in 6 months time to who I am today! I desire to be more confident, more focused, making a bigger impact for good in the world, improving and changing not only my life, but also the lives of others.

I hope that we can go on this journey together - growing and changing the world for good!!!

Until next time.

Your Friend in Success and Life

Leanne Annett

Remember: *** True nobility is not about being better than someone else, it’s about being better than you used to be. ***

Today’s success tip comes from Andrew May.

After he founded Good Health Solutions, which is now Australia’s largest corporate health and wellbeing consultancy, Andrew continued to work with professional athletes and is now considered one of Australia’s leading experts on performance.

What are your seven steps for successful goal-setting?

1. Ask yourself the right questions - what do you want and why do you want to achieve it? How much does it really mean to you? What are the benefits of achieving the goal? Who will be affected? Are you prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve the goal?

2. Involve significant others - don’t keep your goals to yourself. Enlist the support of your partner, family, friends and colleagues. This keeps you accountable, while at the same time forming a support group to keep you on track.

3. Get anchored - write your goals down on a sheet of paper, simplify them into point form and then display them somewhere you can view them regularly - your diary, office, car, even on the back of the toilet door.

4. Small bites - George Miller, a 1950s psychologist, believed that we can only deal with seven bits of information at any one time. Any more than this and we need to group things into more memorable, manageable chunks. So when you create your master plan for the New Year, keep goals to a manageable number and group similar areas.

5. Set a plan - after you have written down your specific goals, the next step is to work out a specific plan. Identify the key steps you need to take toward accomplishing your goals and assign specific dates for their achievement.

6. Project the future - review your goals at least every seven days (every day is ideal) - and don’t leave it for another year. This helps activate the Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS is an inbuilt goal-setting device that tracks us toward our target and filters the type of information we let into our internal system. Spend time thinking about what it will be like once you have successfully achieved your goals. How are you going to feel? We really do become what we think!

7. Be realistic and reward yourself along the way - it is important to reward yourself along the way as you tick off your achievements. Give yourself a pat on the back for sticking to the process.

And remember, humans make mistakes, so don’t beat yourself up if you lose focus. If you find yourself breaking resolutions or experiencing distractions, sit down and go through the goal-setting process again, starting from step one.

If you enjoyed this week’s success tip, make sure to check back for next week’s installment.

Until then,

Allan Poole

Welcome to my blog. Today I would like to share with you some tips that I learned from Jamie McIntyre at the 21st Century Academy Lifestyle Conference.

* “Lifestyle has more to do with Planning than it does with money.”
I am sure that you have heard it said before that those who fail to plan plan to fail. This is true in every area of our lives!
In regards to the life that we choose, we must realise that we need to plan ahead. For instance, plan that weekend away with the family. Plan a date-night each week with the one you love. Plan to have a family picnic on the weekend. Plan to spend time with the kids. Plan time to relax!

There are so many things we can do in life that involve little or no money. So remember to not stress if money is tight. Make the most of what you have and plan activities that do not need a lot of money!
If we fail to plan then each week will fly by and before we know it another month is ending … then another year!
So remember that planning is important in every area of our lives!

* “The sign of Intelligence is the ability to entertain a new idea.”
It is easy sometimes to go through life with my own preconceived ideas and not being willing to listen to others, but I am learning, as the years go by, that if I can listen to other people’s opinions and learn from them, then I continue to grow as a person and begin to see outside the box of my own life. I am enjoying expanding my thoughts and learning to look for other ways to do things.

* “The most powerful way to learn is to teach.”
I have found personally that once I learn a new concept or idea that if I am able to share this with others and teach them, then I myself learn the concept more deeply also.

Here is a photo of Greg and I with Jamie at the conference.

Until next time.

To your success and fulfilment in life!

Leanne Annett