100 Mental Training Success Tips Home Business Entrepreneurs Should Know and Do

A collection of success tips that I have gathered over many years of working with independent online business entrepreneurs. I have created a list of my 100 favourites that I personally follow to drive forward my online home business. I organised the tips into areas covering attitude and discipline, focus and visualisation, time and task management, income and lifestyle, knowledge and skills, personal growth and lifestyle, evaluating your activity, and giving and adding value.

ATTITUDE & DISCIPLINE

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1. Be persistent and give yourself time for momentum to kick in.

2. Make up in numbers what you lack in skills.

3. Celebrate success at every step.

4. Learn to manage the opinions - everyone has a right to have one - never make it personal.

5. You are not the message, you are the messenger.

6. Your family and friends may not understand the journey you are on.

7. Everything works when we work.

8. If you get overwhelmed and confused, go back to doing the basics.

9. Pass the three-part test - loyalty, work habits, consistency.

10. Have a warrior spirit. Set objectives and take action every day.

11. Make a commitment to any new activity. Succeeding at something is about taking not making a decision.

12. Being successful is the ability to continue with your plan long after the emotion and circumstances surrounding your original decision has passed.

13. Your confidence is what makes you attractive in the market place. People buy people they know, like and trust.

14. Avoid negative thinking and negative people that bring you down and steal your dreams.

15. FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real. Feel the fear and do it anyway. Growth comes from stepping outside your comfort zone.

16. Run to your fears. The place where your greatest fears live is also the place where your greatest growth lies. (Robin Sharma)

17. An ounce of action is worth a ton of ebooks.

18. All excuses are equal and none of them count.

FOCUS & VISUALISATION

19. Know what you want, why you want it, and when you want it by. Write it down, read it twice a day. Know the price and pay the price.

20. Visualise your destiny - 'see it' and plan it - be very specific about what success looks like and feels like, and do this for each and every milestone or goal you set.

21. If you think you can or think you can't, you will always be right. (Henry Ford)

22. Try to be solution focused.

23. Understand the true power of dreams and goals, they act like magnets pulling us forward and need to be strong enough to break away from the past pulling your back.

24. Only an idea has the power to spread.

25. The only thing you need to believe in is your own work ethic and how badly you want to succeed.

26. Keep your inner flame going with personal development and being active in the community.

27. Use positive language. Words, thoughts, actions, results. Pursue all your challenges and obstacles with a positive mental attitude.

28. Mental visualisation is all important to your longer term success. How you want to see yourself, how you hold yourself, your expectations - create a detailed set of images of who you want to be.

TIME & TASK MANAGEMENT

29. Get organised.

30. Consistency is far better than the occasional blitz.

31. Create a daily method of operation, discipline yourself and be accountable to yourself.

32. Everything works -but find a daily method of operation that works for you, around your personal situation and commitments.

33. Fill your time only with productive activities.

34. Set out your targets and work backwards so you know what needs to get done.

35. Develop a sense of urgency and get into massive action.

36. Remember that you, of all people, deserve your undivided attention.

37. Anyone or anything that tries to distract you from your mission and goals should not be tolerated.

38. Being busy is not the same as being productive. Don't be busy being poor, be busy adding value to your life.

39. Develop good time management. It's not the hours you put into your business, it's the business you put into your hours.

40. Lead flow is the source of your momentum and income growth. Don't over-worry on conversions until you have good lead flow into your business.

41. Support and encourage your team members, but don't be responsible for someone else's business. Balance motivating and guiding with encouraging independence.

INCOME & LIFESTYLE

42. Run your business, don't let it run you. Build a business on the vision of the life you want to live and start living it.

43. Get going fast, massive action equals massive results.

44. Remember that selling a 6 figure income opportunity isn't about the money, it's about a dream lifestyle free from debt free to work when you want, where you want, how you want

45. Only market products that earn you significant return on your investment of time and budget.

46. "Top Tier" Opportunities Attract "Top Tier" People That Are Smarter (And More Fun To Work With)

47. Identify the top five things you do in your business that generate 80% of the results.

48. Know your business numbers - your running costs and your bottom line.

49. Reinvest your earnings back into your marketing.

50. Promote, promote, promote - call to action, make offers, create demand.

51. Focus on the long-term residual income potential not the short-term earnings of your business.

52..Avoid discounting. People don't buy on price, they buy on value.

53. 80% of the world does what everyone else does and lead an ordinary, average life. Only 3% live extraordinary lives because they make extraordinary choices and do extraordinary things.

54. You are the person that sets the pace of your business. Make a decision on exactly what your goals are and develop the daily discipline to achieve them.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

55. Know your craft and be knowledgeable, committed, loyal and enthusiastic about the products you choose to market and the company.

56. Keep it simple, don't reinvent a proven formula.

57. If you get stuck, find ways to get out of the glue quickly to avoid negative impact.

58. Don't think about what you know, be curious about things you don't yet know.

59. If you have doubts, learn more about your company, your products, your business, your craft.

60. Better to personally act upon the information contained in two good books than to be able to quote from a hundred.

61. Build your business like you build a water pump. It takes some time to set up and you have to crank the handle, but then the water comes with just a light touch.

62. Marketing is not an exact science. It takes trial & error.

PERSONAL GROWTH & LEADERSHIP

63. Compete with yourself. Finish each month stronger than the one before so you feel and see you are growing.

64. Build trust and confidence in your community and with your audience.

65. Be a leader. Step up to the mark - get up, dress up and show up and give back.

66. Don't miss out on opportunities to experience extraordinary things. Go the 'extra' mile.

67. Leadership is a choice not a title. Take 100% responsibility. Blaim is drain, never complain. You have complete control over your future.

68. Teach only what you do. People do what you do not what you say.

69. Gather testimonials for your product, your team, you. A testimonial is a true story packaged in a powerful way so as to impact and influence others.

70. Get out from behind your PC sometimes. Shoot videos outside or go do some offline advertising

71. Develop a positive 'can-do' 'will-do' attitude fuelled by your desire to succeed.

72. Affirm your belief in yourself, every single day celebrate your achievements and breakthroughs.

73. Learn and adopt what successful people do. Master the fundamentals that are working before you modify, adapt and innovate.

74. Do the uncomfortable or difficult stuff first - ("Eat That Frog", Brian Tracy). It soon becomes comfortable and second nature.

75. Set a goal to become a millionaire, not for the money but for the person you will become (Jim Rohn)

76. Make the best of what you have but always be hungry for more.

EVALUATING YOUR ACTIVITY

77. Learn from what's not working and become a problem solver.

78. Leave your ego at the door.

79. Check your positioning - are your leads targeted, do they convert well.

80. Plan, Do, Review. Don't procrastinate, just get stuck in and take action. Ready, fire, aim.

81. Don't look to the magic bullet - multi-task, look for new opportunities, test and refine.

82. Monitor your results against your plan. Did you do the activity?

83. Qualify your prospects. Don't try to sell them, let them sell you. Questions are the answer.

84. Your results are your feedback. Blame no-one but yourself. You are where you are and how you are because of the decisions you have made over time.

85. If you're doing the activity, getting the numbers, you're energy and attitude is right, the it's usually something missing from your skill set. Communication.

86. If you fail to meet your expectations on any one day, don't drop the ball but work twice as hard the next. Don't get used to accepting dropping the ball. Get up tomorrow a little bit better.

87. It's easier to do the work than deal with the disappointment in yourself of not meeting your targets.

GIVING & ADDING VALUE

88. Create uniqueness & value in what you put out on the internet.

89. The market doesn't pay you on what you need, it pays on value. Those that help the most people make the most money.

90. If you want to double your income, you must double your value in the market place.

91. Stop making it about you, your business, and what you need to happen. Instead identify what others need most and how you can help others get more of what they want.

92. Focus on taking people to the next step in your sales & marketing funnel, not all the way in one leap.

93. Authenticity dramatically increases your results.

94. Pick up the phone to connect with your leads, new members and customers.

95. Form groups and communities to target interest and build relationships (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace,LinkedIn)

96. Learn how to flick the switch with people. Develop emotional intelligence. Find their pain points and show them the solution and get them thinking in a new direction.

97. Find people, sponsor them, work with them to keep them.

98. Be clear about your business processes, what to do at each step so you can take others through that process, lead by example.

99. Teach, validate, recognise and refresh your team.

100. Seek inspiration, but every day also be someone else' inspiration, it will feel amazing!

100 Mental Training Success Tips Home Business Entrepreneurs Should Know and Do

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ESP - An Underestimated Benefit of Great Martial Arts Training

Yesterday, just as my expectant wife, our 12 month old and I were about to turn into the parking lot of our favorite specialty market, my bad-guy radar instantly took over and made me steer clear of the area.

I asked her if she saw the two suspicious characters I spied as they burned way too much energy taking long strides on diagonals across the small parking area.

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"Yeah, I saw them," she replied with equal concern.

"They're the reason I took off," I explained.

"No problem," she shot back. As an experienced student of kenpo karate, she reacted exactly as I did to the potential danger we averted.

One of the most underestimated benefits of great martial arts training is that it gives you a sixth sense, a kind of ESP or precognitive ability to spot and skirt danger before it threatens you, personally.

In typical dojo training, too much attention is devoted to fighting your way out of dangerous circumstances. By the time you're besieged, you could be so compromised that it's too late to stage a successful defense or counterattack.

Some gung-ho combatants might think that circumventing danger is somehow unmanly, wimpy, or other than virtuous. But they're mistaken.

It shows the sort of omniscience and awareness that are the hallmarks of the highest and best uses of martial arts training.

Gichin Funakoshi, the founder of Shotokan karate, taught that there is no first strike in karate. The art should be used defensively.

I believe cultivating your "Danger ESP" eliminates anyone's first strike, making it a suitable and logical extension of Funakoshi's philosophy.

Ask your martial arts teachers to introduce drills to sharpen your extrasensory abilities. Believe me, they exist, and some of them are nothing less than amazing!

ESP - An Underestimated Benefit of Great Martial Arts Training

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drive Training & Conditioning For the Rugby World Cup 2011 by Pulling a 12 Ton Truck Or Plane

Have you seen the strongman competition? Won by Zydrūnas Savickas in 2009, it is held annually and often involves giant men such as Bill Kazmaier, Mariusz Pudzianowski and Magnus Ver Magnusson performing feats of power that are unimaginable and awe inspiring. Performing stunts like lifting atlas balls, the 'Hercules hold', keg toss, flipping over giant tyres, 'duck walk' and car carry, against both the clock and competitors; the strong man competition is the extreme power event in the world. The power and conditioning of these athletes is phenomenal. There power conditioning not only involves the quality to lift massive weights but to carry them over distances which takes into consideration the cardio vascular aspect of their training. When you see the strongman events you cannot help but consideration that some of these athletes push themselves to the point of bleeding through their noses. The endeavor and dedication put into the event is out of sacrificial love to be the best no matter the cost. I would not want to tread lightly into the gym workout or training agenda of any of these anticipated Hulks let alone compete in Strongman.

One of the strongman events is the pulling of a truck or airplane with a rope. Vehicles such as vehicle trucks, trams, buses or airplanes are pulled over a 30 metre procedure by hand as fast as possible. In 2007 a fire engine truck was pulled and in 2008 a coal truck. The truck itself sometimes weighs over 12 tonnes. How is a human being able to pull a truck that heavy? What kind of weight training, power training exercise, power conditioning or gym workout would one result to attain such monster proportions of strength? Some of these athletes are able to pull the truck past 30 metres in approximately 30-40 seconds. This demonstrates raw power together with endurance and speed. How is a human being able to accomplish such a feat? Does science hold an reply to this? Is this all geometry and physics? Or is this something to do with the power training anatomy of the individual concerned i.e. Is he a superman?

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Yes it takes spectacular, power to do this. But is there more to it? Examining the truck or airplane pull in detail - when you look at the stance of the athlete in the event, you consideration his stance is somewhat similar to a 100m sprinter in the blocks. Have a close look at Dwain Chambers, Usain Bolt or Assafa Powel in their blocks before their sprint off in the 100m. The strongman stance is similar. They all tend to lean forward at a 45 degree angle.

A ball thrown into the air at a 45 degree angle travels the furthest. A cricket batsman like Vivian Richards from the West Indies or Aravinda De Silva from Sri Lanka are able to hit the leather cricket ball out of the cricket ground, past the spectators, over the sea gulls and into the colse to housing complexes by targeting their hits at a 45 degree angle. This is pure physics. A projectile fired at 45 degrees travels the furthest as at this angle most distance is covered at maximum force. This principles is implemented in firing missiles and rockets. Therefore by maintaining a 45 degree angle to the ground, the power training anatomy of a strongman is able to drive the most force against the truck / plane he is pulling. A higher angle exerts less force and perhaps causes difficulties in balancing as his centre of mass / gravity is thrown off course. A lower angle reduces the frictional pull the strongman has on the ground. The power endeavor at a 45 degree angle is the greatest.

Having a look at the truck / plane pull reveals that a strongman does not accomplish one particular pull (or thrust forward), but instead exerts a sustained set of continuous repetitive pulls. His power conditioning involves momentum. He does not explode with one pull alone but uses the speed from each pull to drive the next pull. Bodybuilders often avoid this sort of training as momentum uses physics rather than muscle fibre to make the weights move in their training motion. Each pull from the strongman slackens the rope before being pulled again. Friction causes the truck to slow down after each pull. This strongman event is likened to a power training rehearsal of performing a 220 Kg squat for more than 40 repetitions in less than 30-40 seconds.  Does that sound doable to you?

What does all this have to do with Rugby? The World Cup is not too far away and a lot needs to be done in preparation. power training and more so - functional power training, is likely to be the decisive factor in the Rugby World Cup 2011. The Tri Nations 2009 revealed that strength, force and endurance crowned South Africa the victors. There is just about time for teams over the world to tap into functional power training and drink the spoils of warrior grade training. Who better does one learn from than the kings of power and endurance? The strongman.     

Rugby League or Rugby Union; it as a matter of fact does not matter which version of the game you play. Driving forward with consistent force, sustained waves of assault with the hope of penetrating the opposition defences and forming thundering walls of defence are part and parcel of the game. The strongman truck pull immediately reminds me of the Rugby Union scrum. The body positioning, the stances and the goals i.e. Captivating forward against a force, (the force of the opposition scrum and the frictional force on the truck are in the same directions!) are strikingly similar. Following the strongman example, if a rugby player positions himself at a 45 degree angle when driving forward, he is likely to exert the most force and power. Thereby he is able to accomplish the most from his power training through the leverage of his angle of attack. When the whole scrum comes together in this formation they are a force to be reckoned with. Some scrum teams weigh over a tonne and I wonder how many 747 s they would be able to pull. The scrum also needs to move forward in repetitive bursts of thrusting forward. They all need to be synchronized to exert the most force. I immediately begin to envision the movie 300 where the Spartan Warriors came together to form a defensive shielded group that thrust forward in synchronized harmony. The maximum force is exerted in this manner.
 
Most crowd pleasing moments in the game of rugby are when a carrier or defender are pummelled to the grass in a tackle. The more 'road runner cartoon type' the tackle, the more reaction one gets from the crowd. We are like the aged Romans during the gladiator battles. Most 'victims' of such tackles are those who stood tall in the tackle. We learned that if you position yourself above 45 degrees you may have issues with equilibrium and you as a matter of fact cannot exert much force whilst you are not balanced. Your centre of gravity / mass is as a matter of fact shifted from a point of equilibrium and you could as a matter of fact be tipped over no matter how strong, superior or heavy you are. If you are below 45 degrees you are likely to fall forward or slip in wet grassy conditions. At 45 degrees any defender has a fair occasion of using his utmost power to floor an attacker. Any attacker is most efficient when maintaining a 45 degree angle when charging forward. Any defenders caught above or below 45 degrees are vulnerable and open up a weak link in the 300 Spartan Warrior formation. They will also find it hard pressed to get down to position quick enough. As a carrier, keep your eyes always open for such opportunities. As a defender, always keep to formation.

Have you ever wondered why Power Lifters accomplish their movements rapidly? Whilst bodybuilders accomplish slower repetitions but much more of them. Power lifter movements such as the bench press, dead lift or squat are performed rapidly. Power lifters are the pinnacle; the top of power conditioning individuals.  In fact, for bench pressing or squats, lowering the weight speedily and using that momentum to burst upwards is one way to trick your muscles to pushing heavier weights; although that would have bodybuilder Olympia gurus like Dorian Yates swear out at you. Momentum is critical. Physics dictates that F = Ma i.e. Force = Mass multiplied by Acceleration. The faster a player is moving, the more force he is likely to exert on impact. In the scrum, charging, rolling mauls or defending, the more momentum the more force. The opposition needs to exert an equal force to stop you. Even if they tackle you by your ankles, their forearms, arms and shoulders will have to digest the force of your impact and they are guaranteed never to forget about you. power and speed attribute to power. Power will determine who wins the Rugby World Cup 2011. Will it be the All Blacks?  Or the Springboks? England? Fiji? Functional power training will spin the new champions.

Olympic lifters (watch out for them in the London Olympics followed by Samba in Rio!) also capitalize on speed. In power conditioning it is prominent to contain repetition. That is, train your muscles repetitively for the movement you want to perform. There is a very good think why Olympic athletes may not be able to bench press as much (I often find people on the internet criticize strongman competitors when they find out they cannot bench as much either).That is because of our power training anatomy. Diving into human biology, our brains build neural pathways. A neural pathway tells the brain that a sure set of muscles need to be used in a sure sequence under a sure estimate of force. Our bodies adapt to the strains imposed upon them and build the critical power training anatomy to deal with the load. This adds power to the statement - practice makes perfect. Determining one person's power over an additional one is futile as it all depends on the function they have been training for. Sometimes the lanky finding guy is more risky down the dark alley than the big bench monster. Using momentum together with conditioning your body (by repeating the power exercises) is what delivers the most power. As a part of your power training, weights training, gym workout or training program, contain speed and repetition to push or pull heavier weights.

There is still a lot be learned from the science of strongman competitions. Strongman competitors, Power Lifters and Olympic lifters all provide unique learning points for Rugby players. It is wisdom to learn battle plans from Spartan Warriors; it is wisdom to learn about combat from Gladiators and it is wisdom to learn from the professional strongmen of this world on how a physical game like Rugby could be mastered and taken to a whole new level.

There will be much more to come.

drive Training & Conditioning For the Rugby World Cup 2011 by Pulling a 12 Ton Truck Or Plane

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