A leader brings value that encourages others to display mentoring leadership…

A long term decision to display mentoring leadership all the time; not sometimes, will happen when the leader takes 100% responsibility for their business…

Everyone is looking for mentoring leadership all the time even if they are not aware of it.. A leader who doesn’t market or tell people simply what they want to hear, else the result would bring false and malignant expectations. Leaders will always invest in themselves. They will invest in the things that are in need of help. This is done with a little self assessment, say you are bad at a couple things, one being generating leads at a 2 out of 10 scale and the other being closing at a 7 out of 10 scale. If you double your efforts with generating leads you will still be a 4 which is still not very good, and if you double your closing efforts you will be at a 14, and now you are hitting home runs. The leader would have picked closing because it will make up for their lack of skills in the other areas. Non-leaders would have picked generating leads and would still be waiting to find someone to close.

Leaders don’t always go with the crowd.

Anyone of high value (a leader) in any organization will stick even if their guru leaves a company. A leader will make a tough decision that they are going to stick with what they have and recognize the fact they have the skills to build what they already have rather then going to look for the next best thing.

An awesome mentor/leader of mine Ray Higdon is one guy you should be following to see what you should be doing to become a leader in your business.

Why do you want to start your own home based business?  What is it going to do for you?  If money were no object anymore, what the heck would you being doing with your life?

I have thought a lot about these types of questions over the last 10 years.

My reasons why… Gosh, where to start.. I do feel I have not been challenged for the last 10 years. I have been just getting up and going to work, day in and day out.

I have been having this feeling of not accomplishing something in my life.  I have been saying constantly that I am not done, I have more in me and it needs to come out.

I lost my son about 5.5 years ago, I didn’t know the reason why I had to endure that.  What was gods plan for me?  I didn’t know at the time what the reason was, but now I am starting to get the idea, I was meant for something more, and time is short on this earth.  Further emphasis was put on this with my father’s passing this past spring.  I was only 39 years young then. Seriously, I should be taking pills by now or something right?

Coming into my daughters 14th year of life I see her growing up and that excites me and makes me sad at the same time. Excited, because I get to share all my life experiences with her and hopefully make her a wiser person because of it.  I also am sad because time is going by so fast.

I can’t believe I have been at my job almost 20 years now and still there.. when I said 10 years ago I was going to find a way to get out.  I am all about safe and secure for the past 20 years, and I need to now embrace challenge and change more than ever in my life now.

Another reason is my never ending credit card debt.  That is a mountain I need to get out from under.. It all started with my last failed entrepreneurial adventure gone wrong.  No one could of predicted the downturn in the economy, but I could have responded differently instead of being bummed out for the last 10 years.

I am sorry to say this, but I see people at work being complacent every day. I asked a guy just today even, are you moving forward in your life?  His response was “yes, but not very fast”.  He tells me we need to talk soon.  Yes we do my friend, because I am building something more than just an income here…  I am building a legacy of lasting friendships, and personal growth, and yes of course the money.. It seems like it is going to be secondary at the point in time where I become debt free, or as far as I can get without owing stupid bills like credit cards.

I have my whole life ahead of me now, a new wife is going to be here on 11/11/11 and a new start for her and I together. I am so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life now. I wonder what happened to the people I used to talk to all the time.  Where did they go? What are they doing?  Did they start being complacent on me and can no longer bear to pick up the phone and say hi, or even call back when I say hi to them.

Reasons… I know that is not the end of them, and this list is going to continue to grow over time.  What I do know is that I am tired of not doing the things that need to be done for me to get where I want to be in life.

So, Where are you going to be tomorrow? What are your reasons why?  Let’s talk soon, it’s never too late!

I have been asked this question a couple of times from my team. What steps do I take to build my business online? Well I have some steps I can share with you in a second. First I wanted to share a thought with you. Your daily discipline is going to dictate what you do in the future.

So think back to the last couple of days and note the routine you have done. Hopefully you will have realized that you were doing non-productive activities. I call this “being busy on your business instead of being busy in it”. You need to recognize that the way you have been doing business is not working and you need to change your routine to change the results of doing business.

First Step in your daily routine should be to clear out the clutter. This means getting rid of all the unwanted distractions, and focusing at the task on hand. No more checking emails incessantly, no texting, and no spending 3 hours on facebook.

Second thing you should be doing is creating one piece of content for your business each and every day. So you will be creating a video or article at least once a day. Yes this means you are going to miss the latest Sons of Anarchy episode.. You should be DVR’ing it anyways to skip the commercials, which will further save your precious time.

Third idea to get a solid daily routine going in your business is to spend about an hour a day listening to training for your online business, and also listening to personal development type speakers. Remember your financial growth will mirror your personal growth. Don’t leave money on the table by not developing the right mindset for the job.

Lastly, you should be making 20 connections with people daily. I do realize that you may not be able to do that every day at this point, but you will soon. Just keep following your daily routine, and the principles of attraction marketing and you will be on your way soon.

Now, at this point you are probably saying to yourself. “When do I sell them on my business?”

The truth of the matter is you should not be selling anyone on your business when you first meet them. I am sharing with you how to convert a person from your cold market to your warm market. Develop the relationship with them first, there will be plenty of time to sell them later, but you will not meet resistance when you talk about the thing you are passionate about this time. Bottom line, don’t Get anyone, don’t treat them like a piece of meat that you have to devour, and by all means please don’t beg them to join your business.

I just watched the most motivational and uplifting personal development video I think I have ever seen.  I will share that with you at the end of my post.

So I get up today, it’s Monday on my celly, uggh.. not another 5 days til the weekend… I just worked the weekend also because I am greedy right? Not…!  I have been trying to get ahead in life. Doing it wrong like that for way to long.  I hope you can relate to what I am about to share with you.

I am going to repurpose some content I listened to from the TGIM – Eric Thomas video I am going to share with you, but I believe that it needs to be written down so you can read it over to yourself.  What would your life look like if you didn’t live in fear anymore?

I have been living in fear myself.. I have just realized it, and it has come to my full attention now. I am done with that noise, check this out…

I was scared to succeed!  Let me say that again… I WAS SCARED TO SUCCEED!  OMG I can’t believe it, but it’s true.  I was holding myself back because I had grown so accustomed to living in my cozy little comfortable world that I forgot about my dreams.  When I landed what I thought was my dream job back in 1992, I thought I was gonna be set for life. I fell into the complacent trap of what I thought was a safe and secure job.. Think about this… I wasted the last 19.5 years doing something that kept me from living in abundance in my life. I can only wonder what I could have accomplished if I had spent the last 2 decades building my life with a rich robust faith.  I am not bitter, and I am not whining… I just recognized that something is going to change.

Now is the time for change…

I have recognized I was self defeating myself, and I have and constantly work on my outlook on life so I keep pushing negativity to the way side.  No more fear, live in faith… This was so impactful for me I can’t believe it has not hit me sooner. I would make a better millionaire that I would make a welfare recipient.  Life was not that hard for me but safe and secure was that chain holding me down. that’s why I have more in me and it’s gonna come out.  I deserve to be a successful entrepreneur, and I will not hold myself back anymore!  I have always had this desire in me, it just needed to come out.. I know some of you are having your aha moment now.  I really truly believe that 90% of the time at least, people are holding themselves back from greater things happening in their lives.

Won’t you join me on a journey? A journey that will explore the deepest depths that our conscious mind can reach. A journey of a thousand miles that will end with fruitful abundance rather then defeat.  I am on a role today.. I hope you are feeling what I am saying.  Its ok to be fearful we all do it, but don’t go bury your head under the covers and think your life will get better by itself. Take charge of that future and make your dreams come true. You Deserve Better!  Stop settling for less, you deserve the best!  You do not deserve the usual!  I love that!

Go ahead and watch the video, but know this.. I have a better way, let me show you! If you have felt my words and was motivated by the video.. tell me below in the comments. Lets start a dialogue on how we can get you to where you want to go…

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When starting out my entrepreneurial journey there was one thing that was keeping me from achieving the success I wanted.  This one thing called negative self talk was eating me up. I want to share with you the story that was going on in my head before I figured this out.

The story went something like this: “Can I really create wealth? What do I have in me to share with people on the internet that they even give a rip about? Why are so many other people making success look so easy?” Well, I have news for ya, either those easy peasy people were lying to me or I was missing something.  I finally had my defining moment with this when I realized I had missed something. The something was me, myself, and I, or in your case maybe  its you… See I was defeating myself and not believing in myself from the get go. Who knows when those thoughts got in my mind, but my mind was not in the game so to speak. I was like an addict that didn’t want to admit to having a problem, but when I finally did I was able to figure out what to do to fix it.

You notice how all my questions could have just lead to more questions, negative questions…  I would keep asking myself those defeating questions on a daily basis, over and over, and I was getting in my own way constantly.  If you are reading this article you are probably tripping over yourself also. I call this the “Shooting Yourself in the Foot Thinking.”

“Stop Shooting Yourself in the Foot, and Start Shooting the Fish in the Barrel..”

I want to share with you my life breakthrough, the epiphany if you will that made all the bad thoughts come to an end. So,  I was listening to my daily dose of personal development audio’s on the way home from my job the other day, and there it was. “If I wanted to have the success in life that I deserve just do this…” The step by step approach to thinking better.. My mentor knows I love step by step, but knows I can’t have it that easy. I tried.. LOL

These 4 beliefs said to myself every time a negative thought would pop into my head. They allowed me to erase the self doubt I had, and create a positive mindset through which I am finally focused on the things that really mattered to create the life I chose to live. You can also experience greater successes,  significance, and abundance in your life by following what I am about to share.  Those 4 beliefs are as follows.  Here we go!  “I am worthy”, “I am capable”, “I am deserving”, and “I trust myself”.

Now combining those 4 things and this statement “If you were to act as if it were impossible to fail.. you won’t.” You will hopefully start to realize you are creating your own walls, the mental ones that keep a lot of us from achieving and doing more in our lives.
It is my hope you have your breakthrough if you have not already, and you can finally start living in abundance.  If you feel compelled please leave a comment below, it will post after it goes through my spam filter so never fear if it does not show up right away.

The next time you go to your local coffee shop take note of the people that are hanging out there. Those people are your new social network. Go back to the coffee shop the same time over the next couple weeks. Do you see a trend? I bet you have noticed that the same people you saw the first day have showed up multiple times over the next couple weeks of visiting the same coffee shop at the same times during the day. After a couple of encounters you can work on introducing yourself and getting to know these new people. When the time is right they will start talking to new people in front of you and suddenly triangulation occurs and your network increases exponentially. This is where you are introduced into new social circles and a time to share with people what you do for a living. Do not, I repeat do not try to tell them what you do when you first meet the people. Over time you can share what you do and in a non threatening way. Trust me, I have made this mistake myself multiple times, and by writing this down I will be more conscious about how I approach people. Better yet according to what I just learned its going to be better not to approach them at all. Truly, attraction marketing at its best right? Hope you had an aha moment here, if you did please comment below and maybe share with me what you do to meet new people and how you go about doing it.

“Never Fear, Clintano is Here!”

Talking about being like a rock! Don’t move or the house of cards may crumble… Today’s topic is building a business on a solid foundation. How many times a day do you say, man I hope that guy never works for me? or I am glad that is not me… You see it every day, people going about their business lives acting like complete idiots when it comes to conducting business. You know who they are… Yet, no one points it out to them that if they don’t change the way they treat people, there will be no more business for them. At least the rewards will not be as great if you were to not go out and establish those relationships.

I am sure I just lost some of you here, so I will summarize here… If you don’t go out everyday and establish yourself in the marketplace by branding yourself or your company as being someone who cares and will help you solve your problems, you might as well hang it up because there is going to be someone who just rolls over you. I ran across this video where Gary Vaynerchuk details how he became such a big success in his online business wine library video blogging site where he gets 85k visitors a day, yes a day!  He does it, kills it, loves it and rocks it! In the video he is going to talk about how you and I can monetize our site doing something similar to what he does even if its only 85 visitors a day.  He tells how he is out there everyday branding his web presence and building business relationships on that solid foundation, and that is making him a very wealthy man. The video is long but his personally inspiring message is worth every minute!

Gary Vaynerchuk Blog World Expo Keynote Speech from David Peralty on Vimeo.

Let me know how you feel about building a business on a solid foundation by leaving a comment below or socially talking about the message with your peers by clicking on the Tell! and share button…

To Your Success,

Clint Anderson

Focus on Affiliate Marketing

It has come to my attention that if you have not been focusing on the right things in order to have your affiliate marketing business get off the ground there may still be hope for you.  “Focus on the right things and the rest will follow!”  Jason Dinner recently told me to focus on the task at hand… This message seems to be reoccurring also. See this message from Perry Marshall.  Oh, and here are a couple more… Justin Brooke and Jimmy Brown.

A list of loyal follower’s that know when I say something that I mean what I say and with all my integrity believe it to be honest and true.  I was finding myself getting caught up with all the internet marketing ‘guru’ offers out there.  I was even thinking about subscribing to a couple, but honestly… I have enough to try and figure out with the material I already have.

We have all heard about multitasking and how great it is for some people.  The truth of the matter is multitasking actually lowers IQ’s and makes what we are working on suffer in quality and the time to actually finish a project.  If you have that much to do… make a list and keep updating it daily so you do not forget what to work on next.  I would implore you to only focus on one thing at a time and minimize the distractions around you during those focused times.

So my best advice in lieu of all the information presented to me suggests that anyone trying to make a successful business online would need to focus on one thing at a time.  Follow some of the tips that are mentioned in the articles above. Use old school techniques like note cards and high tech techniques like using your calender in Google or outlook. The important thing is that you take action and follow through! Good luck to all of you!

To your Success,

Clint