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Which Of Mike Dillard’s Categories Are You, Alpha, Pre-Alpha or Beta?
Alpha types: These are established leaders.
Pre-Alpha types: These are the aspiring leaders.
Beta types: These are the followers.
Mike Dillard writes in Magnetic Sponsoring that you ultimately decide which group you are in according to your state of mind, but how society responds depends on the degree to which you FOLLOW THROUGH by acting according to your beliefs. The “poser” for example, is a case of someone...
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Sallust & Machiavelli on Men, Women, Fortune and Success
This is actually a blog post that I published on an old Blogger blog back in 2008, but the message about fortune and success is as fresh today as it was then, even if all the original links have died or gone very, very stale…
Niccolo Machiavelli is one of my heroes and in this post I use his ideas about taking action, along with Sallust‘s famous saying about success to show how acting with DECISION is the KEY to SUCCESS.
In the article I also explain WHY this blog of mine is called “Grasp-The-Nettle.com” (or GTN for short), so I decided to move the article over here to GTN and stick a “redirect” link on the old Blogger blog.
I trust Google will be intelligent enough to work out that the article has MOVED and that this is therefore NOT duplicate content, but tough on Google IF, after spending all those millions of dollars on research, they don’t.
Enjoy!
David Hurley
What Sallust Could Tell You About Men, Machiavelli About Women, And Both About Fortune And Your Chances Of Success
Friend of Caesar and historian of Rome, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, aka Sallust, is said to have first coined the saying,
Faber est suae quisque fortunae,
which is to say, being interpreted,
Each of us is the maker of his own fortune.
In a way that is as true for those who “make” or “do” nothing as for those who take action.
Three Types Of People
It has been observed that there are those people that make things happen, those people that hope things happen and lastly those people who wondered what happened.
Yet, each group of people whether they take action or remain passive, will see results according to its kind.
However, people who make things happen are of course more likely to create the fortune and success they desire by focusing on what they want and taking the steps required to achieve their objectives.
In this sense it is they who are truly the makers of their own fortune, while the others might be said to have undone themselves, or done themselves out of good fortune by failing to act with decision.
Take Action – NOW!
Making things happen is all about being proactive, taking action and doing so with vim and vigor.
As Machiavelli observed, it is often better to take a risk and act decisively than proceed cautiously, for, “Fortune is a woman” who is apt to change and one must move swiftly to find favour with her.
Too often we spend too much time in careful preparation and tedious planning, trying to tweak everything until it is just right. But this can cause untold delays and even bring about the paralysis of overmuch analysis.
It is therefore usually much better to plunge into a project even though it is not completely ready to be launched.
You have to be brave enough to just “do it now” – and make adjustments as you go!
As long as you have a clear goal in mind, the mere fact of starting the project will provide the forward momentum that you need to motivate you to focus on the important and urgent action points and not worry about all the finer points that we sometimes waste time on.
Grasp The Nettle
By taking action you will also discover a key success secret…
… namely…
… if you grasp the nettle TODAY you will begin to attract to you the people, opportunities and resources that you need to achieve fortune and success TOMORROW.
On the other hand, merely “thinking about it” would not have made these people and resources available to you.
Do you see?
That’s why this blog is called Grasp-The-Nettle.com!
And what’s more, by taking action you will generate some valuable feedback, as for example, the market response (or lack thereof) if you are launching a business project, which you can take on board and use to make adjustments and fine tune your progress.
So it makes sense to save the fine-tuning till after you have launched your project.
The simplicity of this technique should not be discounted as it is a sound and powerful method of accelerating your progress.
How often have you hesitated to commence a project just because it seemed a little too big or complex? And then, once you finally took the first step and got started, how much easier did it seem now that you’d got moving?
I would hazard a guess that as soon as you took action you would have felt better about your chances of achieving your goals.
That is no surprise.
Success breeds success.
As you discover how to succeed with one part of your project, the feedback loop goes into action and you discover, step by bigger step how to succeed with the whole thing, for, as Francis Bacon said, “the art of discovery grows with discovery” and with it the art of achieving success grows as you discover how to succeed.
Or, as Machiavelli would have put it,
“Fortune is a woman who… lets herself be overcome by the bold.”
Quite so, Niccolo.
Here’s to your fortune and success on the Internet!
David Hurley
Business Goal Setting: The Difference Between Static & Dynamic Goals
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How To Take Into Account Personality Types When Motivating Your Clients
What motivates you? The answer will be different from person to person and any motivation training will have to take that into account. In neuro-linguistic programming or “NLP” this is taken into account in a number of ways. One of the most useful NLP theories is the conception of “away-from” and “towards” personalities.
While we use all forms of sensory perception and methods of communication most of us prefer one form over all the others. Those whom the “towards” motivation dominates will be more affected by hopes of future rewards. Those with a primarily “away-from” motivational style, will be more affected by thoughts of escaping pain or trouble.
Why not use this test to get an idea about which motivational style dominates your personality? Take a moment to look over the following two descriptions of what having millions of dollars could mean to you.
I. You are safe and secure. You never have to return to your job or do anything you don’t want to do. You can easily solve your problems. You are free and can buy anything you like to enhance your life.
II. You can own a collection of luxury cars and own your own dream home. You can do what you like and treat your friends and family as well. You can now achieve your wildest dreams.
Which description of wealth did you prefer? If you preferred the first one you are probably a more retiring, risk-averse type. If you preferred the second passage you are probably a more adventurous, risk-taking, go-getting type. Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages with each personality type. Risk-averse go-getters are good at selling and making money, but their Achilles’ heel is their aversion to careful planning. They tend not to look before they leap. “Away-from” individuals manage things well and avoid problems, but don’t do as well at big goals.
When seeking to motivate others, what is the best way to apply this kind of knowledge? Suppose someone wants to make more money and is a “towards” person. Help that person to get a clear and well defined image of the goal they are aiming for and lay out a route map to motivate them to take action. When motivating a more retiring type to take action, after you have set out the goal, focus on the risks of failure as well as on the improvements in terms of safety and security that will come when the goal is achieved. Otherwise they’ll lose their motivation once they reach some level of comfort.
Of course, when you understand these two motivational styles, you can also influence others more easily. For example, if you are an investment broker, knowing which type of personality you are dealing with would help you to communicate more effectively with your potential client. With a go-getter you would want to focus on the upside opportunity. With a risk averse personality you would need to focus on how the investment protects the potential client from downside risk or market volatility.
It is worth investing some time to study NLP so that you can better influence and motivate others as well as yourself. That’s right, do not neglect to use NLP to improve the quality of the conversations that you have with yourself as well as helping to motivate others.
Issia Jordan is a qualified life and business coach. For more free tips about how to motivate yourself and others, check her blog, IssiaJordan.com
Find A Success Mentor To Get You Out Of The Rat Race
You can find the following definitions for “Rat Race” on Google:
* “A rat race is a term used for an endless, self-defeating or pointless pursuit. It conjures up the image of the futile efforts of a lab rat trying to escape whilst running around a maze or in a wheel.”
* “A mad scramble or intense competitive struggle, such as in the business world.”
* “An exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation.”
For me the first definition is the best; the rat race is an “endless, self defeating pursuit,” like a rat in a wheel. This definition of “the rat race” pretty succinctly describes what having an ordinary job while trying to gain some financial freedom is all about – running like crazy and “getting nowhere fast.”
As an employee you make a simple trade with your employer: you sell your time in return for money. If you want to increase your income, all you have to do is increase the number of hours you work.
Over the long term it is just not a sustainable nor an effective strategy. It leads to burnout, or a fate worse than burnout; anybody who has lived in Japan for any length of time, as I have, will be familiar with the Japanese word “Karoshi,” which translates as “death from overwork.”
Ouch!
Another way to increase your income in the job market could be to improve your productivity within your regular working hours and do more work in less time. But while such a strategy may secure a salary raise, what also tends to happen is that you will land yourself more work, additional responsibilities – and maybe even “death from overwork”…
On the other hand, as an efficient and capable employee, you may be required to work longer hours, which is good from the point of view of earning more money, but disastrous from the point of view of your family life and free time pursuits…
So what is the answer?
The answer is to find a success mentor who can help you take control of your life.
A good success mentor is someone who has come through trials similar to the ones you face today and can teach you how to achieve the same kind of success.
Any mentor worth his or her salt will tell you,
“if I can do it, so can you.”
Finding a Success mentor is therefore the most powerful single process to help and encourage someone who wants to escape from the rat race.
So if you want to escape from the rat race, the best thing you can do is to find a good success mentor to help you leap off the ever-spinning wheel that is the employment rat race.
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