Strategic Services Business Tips newsletter, Issue #008

INDEX:
Strategic Services One Minute Tip
Power Quotes
This month’s Business Resources:
-Creating a New Positive Belief System by Mark Victor Hansen
-It is a Challenge to Succeed by Jim Rohn
Strategic Jobs and Applicants
Sponsored Resource
Editor’s Note.

Strategic Services One Minute Tip:

Voicemail can be a useful tool to present a professional image of your business. But have you thought of using it as a marketing tool as well?

Instead of the usual, "I'm not here at the moment but leave a message....." why not record a message which emphasises what you do.

For example,

"Sorry, I'm not in at the moment because I'm with a client showing them how they can boost their profits but if you leave ....."

Or, "Sorry, I'm not in at the moment because I'm with a client talking about totally revamping their web site, but if you leave.... ."

Corny? Perhaps! But you'll no doubt agree that said in the right tone of voice it's much more interesting, reinforces your credibility and shows you are busy!

Power Quotes:

Creativity

"The most important thing I learned from big companies is that creativity gets stifled when everyone's got to follow the rules." -- David Kelley

"Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated." -- Alexander Osburn

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." -- Mary Lou Cook

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." -- George Lois

Credibility

"It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant." -- Don Herold

"Do friendly businesses make it? Microsoft is friendly. Ask them." -- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside." -- Brian Tracy

"What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know." -- Jim Rohn

Decision

"Declarations are powerful. If you declare that you are going to be an optimistic, upbeat person at all times, an interesting phenomenon takes place. When people expect you to be positive, you don't want to let them down. You live your intentions every day - every minute." -- Neil Eskelin

"The future looks bright...for those who choose to shine...and become a star." -- Doug Firebaugh

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." -- Harvey Mackay

"Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top 10 percent in your field. The payoff is incredible!" -- Brian Tracy

Strategic Business Resources – Articles & Tips:

Creating a New Positive Belief System by Mark Victor Hansen

It is because of your belief system that you are where you are in life right now. You have created your success or failure with the beliefs that you have established within yourself.

Most people would be astounded to know how many of their beliefs are based on lack, limitation, and shortage - and that these thoughts reproduce themselves directly into their life experiences.

You owe it to yourself to think only of unlimited prosperity, because abundance IS reality. There is no lack, no shortage. There are no limits except for those we impose on ourselves. Prosperity doesn't start with someone or something outside of you.

Get the picture yet? Your success or failure begins and ends with you.

Wow! Think about that for a minute. What you think and what you believe determines your success or failure.

Your conscious mind is a powerful thing. What you concentrate on comes back to you - multiplied. Your mind is a source of unlimited, overflowing abundance â?" and its manifestation into the physical world depends on your thoughts and beliefs. Your belief in the possibility or impossibility of a situation determines the outcome. If you don't believe in the possibility of success, it's just not going to be possible.

So, how do you replace your old, self-defeating belief system with a new prosperity-focused belief system? Start from within. Delete any "can't-do" beliefs you may have lurking deep inside, and start believing that you CAN.

But simply eliminating old beliefs is not enough. You have to replace them with new positive ones, because something must occupy that empty space. Remember, the Universe abhors a vacuum, so choose something positive to take its place.

The second step is to stay away from the "can't do" people in your life. If you can't avoid them totally, then don't get infected with their negativity. Give yourself a "prosperity booster shot" by remembering that the beliefs and opinions of other people do not have to become your reality. Someone is always going to try to tell you it's not possible. You have to train your mind to block out these negative words.

Every time you hear a "you can't - it's not possible" - say "NEXT!" to yourself and flip back to your new way of thinking. Tell them that you have moved forward, and that old, negative way of thinking has no place in your life. If they can't accept the new you simply stop discussing your goals with them. Stay focused in your new mindset and become a joyful example of what happens when you believe in yourself and what's possible. Think big and prosperous and you'll get big, prosperous results. Think small and lacking and you'll achieve just that. The choice is yours.

"Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be."

Mark Victor Hansen

Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, has for more than 25 years, uniquely focused on the vital elements of human behavior that most affect our personal and professional lives and has influenced society's top leaders and the general public on a global scale.

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It is a Challenge to Succeed by Jim Rohn (excerpted from The Challenge to Succeed audio series)

It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I'm sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. While the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.

"I am a nice person," the man says to himself. "How come this other guy is happy and prosperous, and I'm always struggling?" He asks himself, "I am a good husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn't fair. I'm even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way," he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But you see you've got to be more than a good person and a good worker.

You've got to become a good planner, and a good dreamer. You've got to see the future finished in advance. You've got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You've got to learn to enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You've got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you want the success because challenges are part of success. Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn't really all that difficult.

Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you'll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

I've often said that to have more, we must first become more, and to become more, we must begin the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences; it is also important to discover new emotions. It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the chances we have and the choices we have determines the intensity of our effort. Whether we try or don't try. Join or don't join. Believe or don't believe.

I'd like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and about what you want to do with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking in are the strong feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those who have become so involved in the process of earning a living that you've forgotten about the choices and the chances you have for designing your own life.

Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you're headed. After all, you've only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help and in the process how that can help you?

Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

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Editor’s Note:

Grandma's age:
Little Johnny asked his grandma how old she was. Grandma
answered, "39 and holding." Johnny thought for a moment,
and then said, "And how old would you be if you let go?"

Prayers:
The Sunday school teacher asked, "Now, Johnny, tell me, do
you say prayers before eating?" "No sir," he replied, "We
don't have to. My mom is a good cook!"

The mood ring:
"My husband bought me a mood ring the other day. When I'm
in a good mood it turns green. When I'm in a bad mood, it
leaves a red mark on his forehead."

Turn-About is Fair:
When my three-year-old son opened the birthday gift from
his grandmother, he discovered a water pistol. He squealed
with delight and headed for the nearest sink. I was not so
pleased. I turned to my mother and said, "I'm surprised at
you. Don't you remember how we used to drive you crazy with
water guns?" My mother smiled and replied..."Oh, I remember."

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Until next edition,
wishing you prosperity in all your endeavors,
Your Editor,
Helene Malmsio.

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