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A Key Personal Leadership Trait for Uncertain Times
Uncertainty abounds. Volatility is the order of the day. Stress is the natural by-product.
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
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BIGG success is life on your own terms. It’s about entrepreneuring your life – taking control to create the life that fits you perfectly. That’s personal leadership.
Entrepreneurs learn how to deal with entrepreneurial terror. Most people never experience it. Anyone who has, never wishes it on anyone.
But you’re a BIGG goal-getter. You’re the entrepreneur in charge of an incredibly special enterprise – your life.
So you will learn to deal with the uncertainty, the volatility, and the stress.
But you can do even more for the most important people in your life.
You can be a source of certainty.
You can be a shelter against volatility.
You can be a partner in stress relief.
How?
You Can Be a Success Today
BIGG success is a destination. You create a vision of the life you want. Then you start driving to it.
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Destination BIGG success
But BIGG success is a journey that takes you to your destination.
Take Control of Your Life with a Garden Hose
If you’re still in bed, you’re not alone!
We know – it sounds funny. But it’s true.
Now before you start looking under the covers, you should know this…
You’re also not alone if you refuse to fly today. Or buy a house.
No, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re one of the 17 to 21 million people – in the United States alone – who are overcome with
fear of Friday the 13th!
This phobia will cost the U.S. economy up to $900 million – just for today. Ouch!
We found these figures in an article on Friday the 13th
on the National Geographic site.
Now, BIGG Success is a community of BIGG goal-getters. So we know you’re not still in bed.
The first step to taking control
But we thought this article was worth bringing to your attention because of a single quote. Dr. Donald Dossey, founder of the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute, said in describing people facing this phobia:
“They haven’t lost their mind. They’ve lost control of their mind.”
BIGG success is life on your own terms. It’s about taking control of your life. You’ll never take control of your life if you can’t control your thoughts.
So the first step in taking control of your life is: Decide. Choose to control your thoughts. Because one thing is for certain, either you will control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Train your focus
Dr. Dossey continues discussing people with this phobia:
“They are focused in the wrong direction. In their mind they have a big, large, looming picture of something horrible that could happen.”
As a BIGG goal-getter, you may not see doom-and-gloom on the horizon. But do you still see BIGG success?
You must – it’s a prerequisite for reaching it. You’ll never touch something you can’t see. The dream is intangible until you make it tangible. And while the dream is still intangible, you still have to find a way to keep your faith and stay the course.
To do that, you must take control of your mind. To take control of your mind, you have to train your focus.
Your focus is like a garden hose
Train your focus? Yes. Train it.
Have you ever tried to roll up a new garden hose? The first time you take it out, it seems to have a mind of its own when you try to roll it up.
If you carefully roll it up in a neat loop, you have trained it once. The next time out, it will be a little easier. The time after that, it will be even easier.
Time after time, you train the garden hose to roll up the way you want it to. Before long, it’s easy to make it do what you want. It naturally goes in the direction you want.
Of course, the opposite is also true. Every time you let it have its way, it becomes more difficult. A garden hose can be stubborn.
So can your mind. You have to train it to go in the right direction. This training is not a one-off event. It’s something you have to do every single day.
The cycle of BIGG success
We know…we know – it’s easy to say “train your mind.” But it is anything but easy to do. We know because we’ve been there.
You will feel so beaten down at times. Keep the faith, train your focus, and stay the course!
You may feel like it will never happen. Keep the faith, train your focus, and stay the course!
You must pay a price to reach BIGG success. It’s usually not paid with money. You pay with your energy and your emotions.
Training your focus is the critical bridge between keeping the faith and staying the course. Without it, you won’t reach the BIGG success you’ve always wanted. You won’t live up to your full potential. You won’t live your dream.
We think that’s a much higher price. We’ll close with one more quote from Dr. Dossey. He describes the cycle of success:
“What you think about, you begin to feel. What you feel generates what you do. And what you do creates how you will become.”
Keep the faith, train your focus, and stay the course. It leads to BIGG success!
How do you train your focus?
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The Lottery Entrepreneurs Sponsor
We’re both addicted to news. And last week the news was full of talk about the mega-million dollar lottery.
Did you play? Millions did as the payoff hit a record level.
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What would you do with that kind of money? It was the subject of much conversation as people talked about how their lives would change if only…
…my financial situation wasn’t holding me back
…I could buy whatever I want
…I was rich
Then…
…I’d be popular
…I’d be famous
…I’d have everything I ever wanted and more
Millions of people mentally escaped their everyday lives, if only for a short time. They could see themselves getting out of the drudgery, leaving a life of turmoil and stress behind, and living out their dream.
And it’s a positive thing. Many people just assume that tomorrow will be no better than today. To change that, you must first see a brighter future for yourself.
Unfortunately, the masses stop there. But you aren’t part of the crowd. You’re a BIGG goal-getter. You’re a winner.
So you will take charge to create your dream life. You are the entrepreneur of a very important enterprise – your life.
Today, we want to talk about an option you may not realize you have – you can sponsor your own lottery.
Let’s talk about the differences between state-sponsored lotteries and your lottery. For simplification, we’ll just refer to state-sponsored lotteries as “the lottery.”
Fantasies versus reality
The lottery deals in fantasies. As we said earlier, millions of people were thinking about what they would do if they won.
As an entrepreneur, your lottery deals with reality. You help people solve their most pressing problems.
Luck versus a guarantee
The lottery is based on luck. People pay money for the remote chance of winning.
As an entrepreneur, your lottery guarantees that the fortunate people you serve will win. All they have to do is accept the solutions you offer.
No value to most versus value to all
The odds of winning this lottery were about 1 in 176 million. The lottery offers no value to most of the people who play.
They give up their hard-earned money for what turns out to be a worthless piece of paper.
As an entrepreneur, you know that you have to add value in the lives of others to create value for yourself.
You provide the right solution for a small price. So with your lottery, everyone wins!
State-sponsored lotteries capitalize the fantasies of the multitude to reward the few.
As an entrepreneur, you do the exact opposite. Entrepreneurs invest to make everyone’s dream come true. That’s BIGG Success!
What differences do you see between lotteries and what entrepreneurs do?
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