Friday, September 7, 2012

How to become successful entrepreneurs successful?


I just returned from a 3-day conference in Los Angeles, and I learned a lot from this long 16 hours, 7am-10pm days ...

Brian Tracy is a personal development coach, his speeches and seminar topics include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness and business strategy. In short, he helps people become successful.

He dropped by our en conference submission, and Jay Abraham took the opportunity to ask him what he has observed how the characteristics of most successful entrepreneurs. Brian Tracy shared 3 of the most important things that successful entrepreneurs do see, and because it is a very smart guy, I'd like to share his thoughts with you, because I think it might also be interested in knowing what he had to say.

The 3 most important things are successful entrepreneurs.

1. To learn more things

The world is constantly evolving, so please continue to learn. It 's quite simple. If you look at all the successful people out there are people who simply do not have to accept the status quo. I've never been minimal, and did not just keep doing the same things were already doing.

2. Try more things

Successful people, beyond learning more things, try more things. Now, this is not rocket science so far. But, Brian Tracy, says, sometimes it's not just you know common sense, but also do so.

We buy many successful books, and one thing I noticed is that do not contain anything really new. I am continually rehash things that have been said before. They go down to the fundamentals, but there is not much really new.

The successful entrepreneur Flight Plan

Brian Tracy gave an analogy I loved it. He said that the most successful entrepreneurs have a flight plan, and in a moment, I describe what it seems. Think of an airplane.

The first thing you need to know is the destination. I bet most people do not get on a flight not knowing where they are heading, although there are always some of the craziest. If you want to succeed you must begin with a destination in mind-not to take a flight to nowhere. Before you start going anywhere, you know where you're going.

The second part, take off, is incredibly important. This is where most entrepreneurs fail. Most entrepreneurs never get started. They get busy schedule, and how to plan a trip that never take.

Thirdly, and this is why the analogy of an airplane is so important, every pilot will tell you that 99% of the flight, you are actually off course. If you think a plane is always in progress, they are wrong. A plane is almost never in the running, running on autopilot, constantly adjusting because there are several jet streams, twenty different, and the flow of traffic than other planes: there are many things change and alter the course.

Therefore, a pilot is always regular and retake the course. And how they do it? To find out where they want to go, and get back on track. This is what is happening all the time.

There will always be on the track, so you must accept that as a fact.

In a sense, it is nice because many of us often feel hurt and punish ourselves because we are off track, but the good news is that all are way off! This means that to be able to get back on track, you really must learn and try more things. I found this quite an interesting analogy.

3. Be persistent.

The top entrepreneurs do these two things first, and only refuse to give up. If you know where you're going, keep learning and trying new things and constantly adjust the course, but it gets. It may take longer, and could be much more difficult, but you're coming.

And this is Brian Tracy recipe for success. The analogy flight plan has been particularly instructive because it is a different lens to look at what it means to be successful.

People give all the time, and that's because it's really hard. I noticed that the road to success is an emotional rollercoaster, and many people do not have the stomach for salt and sauces. When you just start, you're excited but every time you start downhill, I doubt it. It happens once, you take ... and then it happens again. And sometimes, you turn much lower than you ever could be.

But this is the way it happens, you get thrown off course, and you get a kick in the face.

I think this is really the way it happens because it happened to me. Before starting our online business with my partners, Vishen, I was the golden child - everything I did was wildly successful. I was promoted, I got into Stanford, I had paid for business school, I was making new corporate strategy at eBay touched anything ... I turned to gold.

In a corporate environment, which is pretty easy. At least, it is much easier than in a start-up environment, because the reality hits you a lot faster when you're in a startup environment. It 's bad, but you have got to accept the fact that bankruptcy is going to be part of it. A lot of people are too afraid of the constant getting-kicked-in-the-face part.

If you saw the movie The Secret, you realize that a lot of people approach, but give up just before reaching their place. If you study a lot of successful people, when they hit bottom, even if he wants to give up, they persist and get their turn. In a sense, it is necessary to set aside your ego and be passionate about, think about the final destination and enjoy the process.

Here are some tips from my experiences with building a business online:

1. Learn to look at things differently, and learn a different attitude to failure. Even if everything you do works when it does something and it turns out a disaster, not to the shame of it! Celebrate and say 'thank you' because you've learned not to do it, and then, of course change.

2. If something is not working as it should to not throw away completely, improve and find other uses for it. When you get off course, using the most important contribution to help you change direction and get back on track. After you have fully adopted this mentality, do not look more like a failure.

3. Watch your growth as always going up. In this way, you feel that you went side ways and not down, which makes it much easier. Not always you beat on the failure, but constantly share learnings to help each other get closer to your goals.

I hope you find the words of Brian Tracy as instructive and inspiring as I did. If you have any questions, I can not answer the way Brian Tracy would say, but I will give my two cents worth.

I'll end with 2 quotes by Brian Tracy. First, "Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor." And again: "Successful people are simply those with success habits."

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