CREATE MOMENTUM FOR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS
Key takeaways from this article
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Learn how to harness momentum and how it translates into a business success cycle
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Develop practical strategies for success in your business
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Understand your psychology
Here we’ll explain how you can harness the power of positive momentum to help you get better at your business. It starts with creating a virtuous cycle of success. Let's look at how you can start leveraging keys to success in business and your life.
FIGHT INERTIA WITH THE POWER OF MOMENTUM
THE PHYSICS OF BUSINESS SUCCESS
What is the opposite of momentum? It is inertia. Inertia is the tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged. Unchanged is death for a business. Newton's second law of motion states that momentum is equal to the net force acting on it. The more action you take the more good fortune you will have. In other words, you get what you give.
Motion and movement are the lifeblood to everything. An object in motion will stay in motion. An object at rest will remain at rest without a catalyst.
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If you are moving around, picking up flags and gaining ground - good things will happen. If you are stuck in the mud, you are going to need some serious manpower and resources to get your going.
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Business success is all about finding that tipping point of momentum that will get you going toward the results you want.
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VIRTUOUS CYCLE VS. VICIOUS CYCLE
POSITIVE FEEDBACK (A VIRTUOUS CYCLE)
The more success you have, the more you’ll believe you’re going to succeed. In many ways your values, attitude and belief system are the fuel that powers your success cycle. This is what creates a virtuous cycle in your life. If you’ve experienced success, you’re more likely to exude confidence and take risks, which can lead to greater rewards. Success breeds success. The cycle begins again, this time with more clarity and certainty from your positive results.
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Onwards and upwards. That’s the power of the positive feedback loop.
REINFORCE A VIRTUOUS CYCLE WITH THESE FOUR STEPS
STEP 1: Celebrate your level 1 sucess
STEP 2: Stop telling yourself its impossible
STEP 3: Understand the training effect
STEP 4: Evaluate with accuracy
NEGATIVE FEEDBACK (A VISCOUS CYCLE)
A negative feedback cycle is tough to break. This is why we see so many horror stories when things fall apart. This is also why we see so much addiction in our society. People feel trapped and once you feel trapped you can never exude the confidence needed for real business success. A viscous cycle manifests itself slowly and confidence and success will become more and more elusive by the day until small problems take you down a rabbit hole of no return.
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Take Don's example of a virtuous cycle vs. viscous cycle. The former leads to good, momentous things like the example above. The latter leads to the defeated used car salesman. By mid-day he has already beaten himself into the dumps and doesn't think anyone wants a car even though there are people standing right in front of him. The lack of confidence and optimiz leads to a perceived lack oof competence. This turs off most potential customers. Once you diminished your potential, the actions then start to crumble, leading to more poor results. Clearly, one of the key factors for business success is learning to reverse a downward trajectory.
TAKE ACTION AVOID SELF-SABOTAGE
Stuck in the negative and want to break the cycle? Do you find yourself procrastinating when you have big things to get done? The only way out is a plan to take action. You may need a coach or a mentor to help you with motivation or strategy. You can try to go it alone and put yourself in a more positive successful place but then you wouldn't be here now if you were succeeding. You can start a cycle of success, anytime, anywhere - no matter what you’re doing.
A coach can help you in many areas if you feel you are in a negative cycle or downward spiral.
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Remember, the keys to success in business aren’t just groundless positive thinking or sending out requests to the universe; it’s setting yourself up to take the actions you need to get the results you want. Think of it as reprogramming the cycle to achieve what you really want.
You are one decision away from a new and better life. Remember your mindset, is yours to control and it is all you need to fuel an ongoing upward trajectory. You need a momentum mindset. A mindset that produces the next action. The concept of momentum in the business success cycle is directly tied to our mindset. Momentum is a real and physically represented in our natural environment. Momentum has profound mental and psychological effects on our actions. If we think things are going well, then at least they are good. If everyone else thinks things are going well then it is easy to invest or patronize an establishment or brand. You can change your perspective and feelings through physical movement and awareness-building.
Your basic body mechanics, breathing patterns, thoughts and feelings all impact each other, which is a valuable tool in learning to manage your emotions. By learning to tweak one feeling, you learn to tweak them all. As a business owner, using mind-body techniques to achieve a state of calm, clarity and direction prepares you to manage your business decisions so that you catalyze forward movement.
FOUR STEPS TO ACHIEVE BUSINESS SUCCESS
Transforming your mindset is the first step in achieve business success. You will not become a successful business owner or entrepreneur if you don't first conquer your emotions and mindset.
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The steps we have laid out here deal with your state of mind and not with the daily tasks needed to run your specific business. Once you have nurtured your state of being, you’re ready to begin building your skills directly related to running your business.
4 STEP TO SUCCESS
STEP 1: ALL I DO IS WIN (POSITIVE ATTITUDE - POSITIVE HABITS)
Celebrate your first success, don't let it be lost on you. Then, celebrate all of the small wins and accomplishments along the way as you build your business. Why? You want to create the natural state of success where winning is a habit for you. In the words of DJ Khaled "All I do is WIN, WIN, WIN no matter what".
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Active habits are those we develop by repetition and effort, crystalizing as skills we perform with little or no thought. We need to make winning and succeeding at business and life normal and expected.
Decades of psychological research consistently show that mere repetition of a simple action in a consistent context, leads to associative learning, to the action being activated upon subsequent exposure to those contextual cues. In other words, you can consistently trigger your own happiness and success from within. Your habits are who you are. They become you. Being able to recognize what triggers your happiness is key to starting a cycle of positive upwards momentum.
STEP 2: IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING (CHANGE LIMITING BELIEFS)
Taking the limits off of your mind will strengthen you far beyond anything you can do physically. Everyone has the potential to be a better version of themselves. Many times we are the ones holding ourselves back with our limiting beliefs. You are the director of the movie that plays in your mind. if you never accept yourself as worthy then you will never accept the possibility of success for your life and endeavors.
Conquer your limiting beliefs today.
STEP 3: UNDERSTAND THE LEARNING CURVE EFFECT (TAKE ACTION)
Recognize that training and education are crucial whenever you are starting something new, It's impossible to know what you don't know. For example, you must learn how to get around a new city by traveling around and learning the lay of the land. The learning curve is steep but your can learn anything you put your mind to - just like you learned your way around your hometown. Remember but you won't become "Master Splinter" overnight, but with enough effort and practice you can learn a lot in a short amount of time.
Have a plan in place for when you plateau. The rate of change in your growth will be slower and more incremental after the initial period of growth spurt.
STEP 4: KEEP GOING (RESULTS)
Finally, if you want to success in business you have to be persistently consistent. In other words, keep a positive attitude and don't give up. Never Quit. Especially when things get hard. It isn't as if you didn't expect things to be difficult when you started.
What's the secret to success in business? Keep going!
Always find a way to make it to the next moment. You need a Reason to Believe! That smally spark will get you to the other side.
Remember: It is the intangibles that make the best business people. Stick to it. Grit. Resourcefulness. Positivity. Those are the ultimate business acumen.
Continue to discover your inner self to find ways to cultivate a mindset of finding a way instead of giving up; your business will thank you.
GET BETTER AT YOUR BUSINESS
Stuck in a negative cycle?
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Take a step back, bring in a someone objective like a coach or a mentor.
You need a trusted advisor to accurately assess what’s happening in your business.
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