Entrepreneur of the Week - Howard Hughes
"I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest
film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world,
and the richest man in the world." - Howard Hughes
Learn more about Howard Hughes at: http://www.evancarmichael.
Want More Advice From Top Entrepreneurs?
* Check out my latest Modeling the Masters video
and blog post at: http://evancarmichael.com/
Business Building - 10 Reasons Why People in Business are Successful by Nick Ikonomou
1. They are willing to learn. The greatest learners become the
best teachers. Never ending improvement, as the Kaizen
principle insists, should be an individual's primary goal in
life. The only failure in life is the failure to participate.
There are no right or wrong ways of doing things, each
providing a result that can be assessed and worked on from
the learning that the outcome provides. This perfectly fits
in with the following success factor.
2. They take action. I have never seen anyone being
successful by doing nothing. By default, doing something has
to be a move forward. Doing a lot means that the law of
averages will ensure that success falls your way. 95% of the
population "can't be bothered". To jump into the 5% of the
population who are successful isn't hard. It's just a genuine
decision to do something and persevere. Successful people work
on improving their time management by learning how time works
and what it means to you.
3. They mix with the right people. You can mix with the right
people and you can mix with wrong people. The choice is yours.
You either fall into those groups or you seek them. Because
successful people don't gloat because of the Australian tall
poppy syndrome, you need to do your homework and ask people
about their success. They are more than willing to tell you
because if they initiated the conversation, that might have
been construed as gloating. Look for a business coach and/or
a mentor. Surround yourself with the best accountants and
lawyers.
4. They are great networkers. Successful people go out of
their way and meet as many people as they can because they
know that the more people they know, the more opportunities
come their way. Staying in your business or at home most of
the time produces little results.
5. They have a dream. These people are the greatest dreamers. ... (continued)
Read the complete article here: http://www.
Evan's Recommended Resource:
* Free 7 Day eCourse on How to Write a Business Plan
including the the worst executive summary I've ever read:
http://www.evancarmichael.com/
Work-Life - Give up excuses! by Leslie Gail
So, we all have excuses in life that we fall back on time and
time again. Maybe because of difficult upbringings, or
hardships, certain beliefs have laid their imprint on you.
Excuses keep you from venturing forward, in that they keep
you safe from possible heartbreak. Having an excuse excuses
you from facing the truth, while keeping you in your comfort
zone. Maybe someone uses the excuse that they never have
enough time. Sound familiar? Then, they create a lifestyle
that feeds into this excuse. They keep extremely busy, they
overcommit themselves, they take on far too many
responsibilities. Then they tell themselves "See, I told you
I never have enough time". Well their wish is granted. Others
tell themselves that they will always be overweight, it's just
in their genes. Because they believe this excuse, they
continue to eat unhealthy foods and stray from exercise. Why
bother, they tell themselves, if they are always going to be
out of shape anyway. This plays into the victim mentality.
Not very empowering. What if you didn't have any excuses to
fall back on? What if you took responsibility for all of your
choices and all of the subsequent consequences? Would this
make your life harder in that you would have to venture out
there and face some of your fears? Or, would it make you
stronger and more confident because you would be taking
responsibility for all of your actions? You wouldn't be using
excuses as your safety net. In order to move past your
excuses, you first have to admit you have them in the first
place. This is the difficult part. Once you've admitted that
you don't need to be overweight for the rest of your life,
then you need to do something about it. Something to think
about.
ACTION STEPS FOR THE WEEK:
1. List your top excuses
So, what are the top excuses you use? "I'm always going ... (continued)
Read the complete article here: http://www.
Sales & Marketing - 12 Tips To Increase Productivity With Better Time Management by Susan Regier
With a little effort we can all find ways to use the time we
have more productively. Here are a dozen tried and tested
tips for working quicker, smarter, and more effectively:
1. Allocate 20% of your day - between 1 and a half to 2 hours
- to working on your most important objectives. If you don't
do this, you will find that all your time is spent reacting
to things, and the really important tasks somehow never get
finished when they should.
2. Tackle the hardest things first. All of us like to do
what's easy. But you must get into the hard stuff - and the
best time to get stuck into it is first up, when you can give
it all you've got. At least make inroads, even if you can't
finish everything you want to in a day.
3. Have a maximum of 3 major things on the go at a time. Any
more than this is asking to get bogged down. Set your
priorities according to what will best help you to grow your
business - and tackle them in that order of priority.
4. At the beginning of each week, make a list of your goals
and targets and prioritise them. Revise the list daily, as
necessary. Refer to it regularly and make sure you're on
track. A whiteboard is a very visible and convenient tool for
keeping this 'main goals' list going.
5. Use a task planning sheet to sort your daily priorities
out and help you reach those weekly goals.
6. Group similar activities together - make all your outgoing
phone calls at one part of the day; send all your emails at
the one time; deal with all incoming mail, email and messages
in bunches, and so on. You might want to break the day up so
that - for example - you spend a maximum of 15 or 20 minutes
on incoming email or voicemail in the morning, and another
block just before lunch. Turn off the "new mail" alert on ... (continued)
Read the complete article here: http://www.
Leadership - It's What's Inside That Counts by Raymond Perras
275 Macpherson Avenue, Suite 103
Toronto, Ontario
M4V 1A4
"I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest
film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world,
and the richest man in the world." - Howard Hughes
Learn more about Howard Hughes at: http://www.evancarmichael.
Want More Advice From Top Entrepreneurs?
* Check out my latest Modeling the Masters video
and blog post at: http://evancarmichael.com/
Business Building - 10 Reasons Why People in Business are Successful by Nick Ikonomou
1. They are willing to learn. The greatest learners become the
best teachers. Never ending improvement, as the Kaizen
principle insists, should be an individual's primary goal in
life. The only failure in life is the failure to participate.
There are no right or wrong ways of doing things, each
providing a result that can be assessed and worked on from
the learning that the outcome provides. This perfectly fits
in with the following success factor.
2. They take action. I have never seen anyone being
successful by doing nothing. By default, doing something has
to be a move forward. Doing a lot means that the law of
averages will ensure that success falls your way. 95% of the
population "can't be bothered". To jump into the 5% of the
population who are successful isn't hard. It's just a genuine
decision to do something and persevere. Successful people work
on improving their time management by learning how time works
and what it means to you.
3. They mix with the right people. You can mix with the right
people and you can mix with wrong people. The choice is yours.
You either fall into those groups or you seek them. Because
successful people don't gloat because of the Australian tall
poppy syndrome, you need to do your homework and ask people
about their success. They are more than willing to tell you
because if they initiated the conversation, that might have
been construed as gloating. Look for a business coach and/or
a mentor. Surround yourself with the best accountants and
lawyers.
4. They are great networkers. Successful people go out of
their way and meet as many people as they can because they
know that the more people they know, the more opportunities
come their way. Staying in your business or at home most of
the time produces little results.
5. They have a dream. These people are the greatest dreamers. ... (continued)
Read the complete article here: http://www.
Evan's Recommended Resource:
* Free 7 Day eCourse on How to Write a Business Plan
including the the worst executive summary I've ever read:
http://www.evancarmichael.com/
Work-Life - Give up excuses! by Leslie Gail
So, we all have excuses in life that we fall back on time and
time again. Maybe because of difficult upbringings, or
hardships, certain beliefs have laid their imprint on you.
Excuses keep you from venturing forward, in that they keep
you safe from possible heartbreak. Having an excuse excuses
you from facing the truth, while keeping you in your comfort
zone. Maybe someone uses the excuse that they never have
enough time. Sound familiar? Then, they create a lifestyle
that feeds into this excuse. They keep extremely busy, they
overcommit themselves, they take on far too many
responsibilities. Then they tell themselves "See, I told you
I never have enough time". Well their wish is granted. Others
tell themselves that they will always be overweight, it's just
in their genes. Because they believe this excuse, they
continue to eat unhealthy foods and stray from exercise. Why
bother, they tell themselves, if they are always going to be
out of shape anyway. This plays into the victim mentality.
Not very empowering. What if you didn't have any excuses to
fall back on? What if you took responsibility for all of your
choices and all of the subsequent consequences? Would this
make your life harder in that you would have to venture out
there and face some of your fears? Or, would it make you
stronger and more confident because you would be taking
responsibility for all of your actions? You wouldn't be using
excuses as your safety net. In order to move past your
excuses, you first have to admit you have them in the first
place. This is the difficult part. Once you've admitted that
you don't need to be overweight for the rest of your life,
then you need to do something about it. Something to think
about.
ACTION STEPS FOR THE WEEK:
1. List your top excuses
So, what are the top excuses you use? "I'm always going ... (continued)
Read the complete article here: http://www.
Sales & Marketing - 12 Tips To Increase Productivity With Better Time Management by Susan Regier
With a little effort we can all find ways to use the time we
have more productively. Here are a dozen tried and tested
tips for working quicker, smarter, and more effectively:
1. Allocate 20% of your day - between 1 and a half to 2 hours
- to working on your most important objectives. If you don't
do this, you will find that all your time is spent reacting
to things, and the really important tasks somehow never get
finished when they should.
2. Tackle the hardest things first. All of us like to do
what's easy. But you must get into the hard stuff - and the
best time to get stuck into it is first up, when you can give
it all you've got. At least make inroads, even if you can't
finish everything you want to in a day.
3. Have a maximum of 3 major things on the go at a time. Any
more than this is asking to get bogged down. Set your
priorities according to what will best help you to grow your
business - and tackle them in that order of priority.
4. At the beginning of each week, make a list of your goals
and targets and prioritise them. Revise the list daily, as
necessary. Refer to it regularly and make sure you're on
track. A whiteboard is a very visible and convenient tool for
keeping this 'main goals' list going.
5. Use a task planning sheet to sort your daily priorities
out and help you reach those weekly goals.
6. Group similar activities together - make all your outgoing
phone calls at one part of the day; send all your emails at
the one time; deal with all incoming mail, email and messages
in bunches, and so on. You might want to break the day up so
that - for example - you spend a maximum of 15 or 20 minutes
on incoming email or voicemail in the morning, and another
block just before lunch. Turn off the "new mail" alert on ... (continued)
Read the complete article here: http://www.
Leadership - It's What's Inside That Counts by Raymond Perras
Socrates once said: "Know thyself".
In my last article, I emphasized focus as the technique to
create motivation. If you want to generate the drive
toward a goal or preferred vision, you will want to direct
your focus in such a way that you get excited about attaining
the desired place.
Today, I draw your attention to the fact that focusing
will be made much easier if you remember that "you can't give
what you don't got." Let me explain. In order to
direct your focus, your mind should be free of any doubt or
misperception of who you are, your self-image. In his
study of the mind, Dr. Maxwell Maltz who made
psycho-cybernetics famous, produced an understanding that
smashed the B.F. Skinner concept that we are the product of
our environment - Skinner postulated that we have no choice
on who we will be, what we will do, or what may happen to us
as we go through life.
Dr. Maltz's discovery was based on the premise that we
have a "self-image" held in our subconscious mind that
supports our every effort. That self-image is the
product of our thinking developed over many years of personal
study, our experiences, life's accidents and education.
Since it is within, then it can be modified as you
wish. According to Dr. Maltz, the internal self-image
controls:
Read the complete article here: http://www.
Entrepreneur Blog of the Week - MyBusinessAssistant
At MyBusinessAssistant.com, we are THE small business
outsourcing solution for virtual assistant services. As happy
clients have found, we are NOT just your typical virtual
assistant company. We are home to the Virtual Business Center
(VBC), which provides greater flexibility, scalability and
customized solutions for entrepreneurs and executives.
Visit the blog here: http://
What Do You Think???
Do you have 5 minutes to answer 3 questions? I would love you
know what you think about my newsletter and what we could add
/ remove to make it more useful for you. Please let me know
and answer my 3 question survey at: http://
If I get enough responses then a change will be made!
As always, if you know someone who could benefit from the
thoughts in this newsletter feel free to forward it
to them.
Ps. If you want to keep in touch, follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/
or Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/
Evan Carmichael
http://www.EvanCarmichael.com
"Over 14 million entrepreneurs helped and counting!"
In my last article, I emphasized focus as the technique to
create motivation. If you want to generate the drive
toward a goal or preferred vision, you will want to direct
your focus in such a way that you get excited about attaining
the desired place.
Today, I draw your attention to the fact that focusing
will be made much easier if you remember that "you can't give
what you don't got." Let me explain. In order to
direct your focus, your mind should be free of any doubt or
misperception of who you are, your self-image. In his
study of the mind, Dr. Maxwell Maltz who made
psycho-cybernetics famous, produced an understanding that
smashed the B.F. Skinner concept that we are the product of
our environment - Skinner postulated that we have no choice
on who we will be, what we will do, or what may happen to us
as we go through life.
Dr. Maltz's discovery was based on the premise that we
have a "self-image" held in our subconscious mind that
supports our every effort. That self-image is the
product of our thinking developed over many years of personal
study, our experiences, life's accidents and education.
Since it is within, then it can be modified as you
wish. According to Dr. Maltz, the internal self-image
controls:
- What we do and what we don't do.
- Where we go.
- Where we live.
- Who we end up with in relationships, and how these
go. - What we do for a living.
- How far we move up the business ladder.
- How much we weigh, and what kind of physical shape we are
in. - How well we perform at school.
- The state of our health.
Read the complete article here: http://www.
Entrepreneur Blog of the Week - MyBusinessAssistant
At MyBusinessAssistant.com, we are THE small business
outsourcing solution for virtual assistant services. As happy
clients have found, we are NOT just your typical virtual
assistant company. We are home to the Virtual Business Center
(VBC), which provides greater flexibility, scalability and
customized solutions for entrepreneurs and executives.
Visit the blog here: http://
What Do You Think???
Do you have 5 minutes to answer 3 questions? I would love you
know what you think about my newsletter and what we could add
/ remove to make it more useful for you. Please let me know
and answer my 3 question survey at: http://
If I get enough responses then a change will be made!
As always, if you know someone who could benefit from the
thoughts in this newsletter feel free to forward it
to them.
Ps. If you want to keep in touch, follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/
or Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/
Evan Carmichael
http://www.EvanCarmichael.com
"Over 14 million entrepreneurs helped and counting!"
275 Macpherson Avenue, Suite 103
Toronto, Ontario
M4V 1A4
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