Motivation

What amazing weather. OK, it’s far from tropical or shorts and tee shirt outside but it’s definitely warm enough to sit and enjoy a few pages of a good book and a cup of coffee in the garden this morning.

That’s actually what I was doing when I came up with the subject of today’s blog so without further ado.

Motivation…

If you are anything like me you’ll have a selection of self help and/or personal development books helping to fill a shelf somewhere at home. You might even have read most of them and have book marks in the pages of those you never finished.

Something I noticed all have in common was that they never fully fulfilled the intent. What I mean by that is that although for the main part enjoyable to read and often somewhat motivational, each one I read left me actively prepared to purchase another. I'm not saying that each hasn't provided its own certain insight or instruction that allowed me to progress but nothing that by itself provided full detailed instruction.

If that is something you can also relate to you might like to check out a recently released book by well known mentor and marketer Brendon Burchard . His book, totally unrelated to any business we both share is called The Motivational Manifesto and takes you further into self realisation and development than any I have ever come across.

http://www.motivationmanifesto.com/ 

If you follow the link you will notice that he also provides a 12 week video series to accompany his book, you get free access along with the book that is also free but he does ask that you cover the postage. In my honest opinion I have never felt myself dig so deeply into my own thoughts and actions as this series has made me do and although I thought what I had learnt from everything else I had studied this covers brand new boundaries that I never considered existed. As an idea of how new his book is we’re only on week six of his series.

That’s it for today, it occurred to me that this could be the ideal share to help with those New Years Resolutions. It’s not something that I am affiliated to or anything, just another step in providing solutions for forward thinkers and those with desires of higher incomes.

Do something each day that will make a difference.

Motivational Manifesto could be just what you are looking for to help somebody you know, friend or family. Please feel free to share this post openly and unselfishly to help as many people as possible.

What is Networking?

Hi All,

No, I'm not asking. I'm actually going to try to set the record straight for a few of you.

It's a common understanding that things usually seem to happen in clusters, similar to where buses often don't come until two or three turn up at once. Not such a familiar sight now as it used to be but definitely a good example.

I'm not a prolific user of  social media for building my home based business and I'm not suggesting it doesn't work either. I know many successful people who do use and benefit from it but what I am suggesting though is that a lot of people don't understand  networking, how to benefit from it and what it entails.

Some might ask what there is to understand, I've had that come up quite a few times, others though are quite happy to have it explained to them.

I attend various networking meetings and it was at a breakfast one this morning  that one of our guests asked what the 5 key features of networking are?

Happily, I was able to sit back and enjoy Victors response. Victor is a man I respect highly, I've admired him right from my very first encounter. He's a jovial type of person, strong charactered, definitely confident in his abilities and always prepared to offer a helping hand or advice.. He went on to explain how a lot of people get networking wrong  and provided sensible steps to ensuring reaching ones target market.

It was strange, like the buses I mentioned earlier because it was only the night before that I had a very similar conversation with my own business partner. We had been discussing the struggles suffered by many working within the home based business industry and how so many of them don't network at all. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting they aren't using social media to project their opportunities, that I'm afraid is exactly what they are doing which is why they are suffering in the first place.

For those of you struggling with social media who were drawn to the heading 'What is Networking?', maybe you should take something from my mentioning projecting your opportunity.

Networking is about meeting, greeting and conversing with people. It's as much about the other person as it is about what you want out of it, even more so in fact.  Like me, you've probably lost count of the amount of people that message you online inviting you to join them in their opportunity only to disappear into the distance as soon as they know you are not interested. For me it's a wonder they ever expected any interest, how many of you take a wide birth from those obviously promoting something in the high street?

Networking done properly can produce results. Obviously its going to be product or service dependant, somebody offering equine services isn't likely to attract as many customers/clients in a built up city as a locksmith but then in a rural area results are likely to be reversed. That said though, the locksmith could well have family or friends who require specialised veterinary assistance and that is where networking properly begins to pay off.

Hopefully I've provided you something to think about, projecting your product or services into the private space of others uninvited isn't networking.  It is as more likely to produce resentment than anything else and for want of a less offensive name it can only describe it as spam.

I'd be great to hear your thoughts, especially your stories of humorous replies you've sent in response to spam.

To your success

Keith