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7 Costumes That Keep You From Success

Written on October 27, 2011 by George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster in Personal Growth

Are you dressing up this year for Halloween? It’s not just child’s play anymore. More and more adults dress up every year.

Today we want to chat about costumes people wear. Not just at Halloween, but year round.

These costumes keep them from being a BIGG success. We’ll share seven of them.

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The Heartless Money Maker

This creature only thinks about where the money is.
What careers pay the most?
What’s the hot business of the moment?

The problem is that the hottest thing now probably won’t be the hottest thing in five years.

Focus first on finding your passion. If you do what you love, you’ll rise to the top of your profession. And the money will follow.

The Material Illusionist

This is a person who has everything – the large house, the hot cars, the best gadgets. And the debt to go with them all.
They appear to be rich, but it’s an illusion. They use sleight of hand to look like they’re loaded.

In reality, the main thing they’re loaded with is payments – a house payment, car payments, credit card payments.

Focus on creating wealth, not displaying it. It’s what the truly wealthy do. It’s great to have nice things, when you can pay cash and not miss it.

The Soulless Millionaire

This person has accumulated wealth. But they feel a void.

They feel a void because, in their pursuit of monetary success, they forgot that there are other forms of riches. The greatest riches lie in your relationships.

Money and loneliness often go hand-in-hand because, once you accumulate wealth, you’ll never know if people are just after your money.

So focus as much energy on social success as you do on building monetary success. You won’t be a BIGG success if you don’t have anyone you love to share it with.

The Duplicitous Devil

This beast says one thing to your face and something else behind your back. Their words and their action are often not aligned. They cast their magic spell and hope the effects never wear off.

But they do. So focus on being honest with people. It’s better to confront a situation head on than to make promises that you can’t keep.

The Self Killer

This person is so worried about pleasing others that they forget about pleasing themselves. Over time, they kill their true nature, taking on whatever form people expect from them.

BIGG success is life on your own terms. It’s your life. You’re the main person who has to be happy with your decisions.

The Doubting Demon

This beast doubts everything about itself.
They doubt that they have the right education.
They doubt that they can get the job done.
They doubt that they will ever reach BIGG success.

Focus on what you do have, not what you don’t.

Focus on what you can do, not on what you can’t.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

The Frivolous Fantasizer
This person is perhaps the scariest monster of all. They have all the talent they need to be a BIGG success.

But they choose to remain stuck. They are stuck because they don’t have a clear vision of what they want to do with their life. They are stuck because they waste day after day working on frivolous tasks because they have no sense of direction.

Focus on creating your vision of BIGG success. Then establish meaningful milestones that make you stretch, but are definitely attainable. Then set your priorities and put all your energy into the task at hand. It leads to BIGG success!

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3 Things Your Business Must Give You to Be a Success

Written on September 29, 2011 by George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster in Business Ownership

Entrepreneurs hear it all the time. We’ve been guilty of saying it.

You have to grow your business to be a BIGG success. You have to scale.

No you don’t.

You don’t have to build something large.

You don’t have to hire employees.

You don’t have to go public.

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BIGG success is life on your own terms. If you’re fulfilled with the size and shape of what you’re doing, all is good…as long as you’ve thought about three things your business must give you.

Before we get into them, we should note that we’re really focusing on the financial side of your business in this discussion. So you won’t hear warm and fuzzy terms. Just the basics.

And we should emphasize another point:

Your business won’t just give these things to you.

You’ll have to work hard to get them.

With all that in mind, here are the three things your business must give you:

Enough money today

This is the obvious one. Assuming it’s a full-time endeavor, your business has to provide you with enough money to sustain your standard of living.

But what’s not so obvious, perhaps, is that you need to be able to sustain your standard of living in the future too. Your costs will increase. Your business must give you enough money to meet these future costs.

If you don’t want to work more, you must have the ability to charge your customers more in the future when your costs increase. Otherwise, you’ll have a lower standard of living in the future.

Replacement customers

No matter how well you serve your customers, you are likely to lose one from time to time.

Hopefully, your churn rate is really low but almost every business experiences some customer turnover. You’ll need to find new customers to replace old customers who do less business with you or no business at all.

Otherwise, you won’t have enough money today. Your income will fall. So it’s important to continue marketing your business, to continue networking, no matter how busy you are right now.

Enough money tomorrow

Even if you are a solopreneur, you need an exit plan.

You may reach a point where you don’t want to work. You may reach a point where you can’t work.

Your business must give you enough money so you can set aside something for tomorrow.

The three “do somethings”

At a minimum, your business must give you the lifestyle you want for now and the future. If it doesn’t, you have three choices.

We’ll call them “do somethings”.

Do something more

Grow your business by doing more for your existing customers or getting more customers.
Do something additional

Is there another business, perhaps related, that would give the extra something you need. Or could you get a part-time job to fill the gap between what you need and what you’re taking in now.
Do something else

Sometimes you just have to accept that it’s not going to work. Be realistic. But be careful that you don’t give up too early. BIGG success usually comes with a price. You will be required to push yourself beyond what you thought were your limits if you want to reach it.

But you’ll grow so much personally and professionally in the process. And that’s what will lead you to BIGG success!