What is your motivation? What is the why behind what it is you are trying to accomplish. Your motivation is the foundation, nay, the cornerstone of the foundation upon which you will build the rest of your palace of dreams. If your motivation is not so strong that it chokes you up, makes you pause to take a breath while you tell others, then I fear you may not have the proper motivation. Take time to reflect on it for awhile, write it out, I INSIST. You can thank me later. Also, once it is written, and you are satisfied with the powerful emotional content contained therein, keep it with you.
Two other things you need are a productive team and a good leader and mentor. Any team knows that one player cannot win the game all by himself. Do you think Michael Jordan or Karee-Abdul Jabaar won all those NBA rings on their own? How many times did Mickey Mantle, Don Mattingly, or Derek Jeter (yes, I’m a Yankees fan) go to bat in the World Series’? Just as many as everyone else on the team. Did Wayne Gretzky score every goal, get every assist and stop every shot? They all had excellent teammates AND were leaders on their respected teams. Teams have leaders, and those leaders have mentors. Can look at mentors similar to the coach or manager of the team. He/she is still technically part of the team, but it gives them all the pleasure in the world to pass on their knowledge to assure their team’s success.
Success itself, also depends greatly on communication. Conveying your lessons to your team effectively and discussing issues or ‘tricks’ with them on a regular basis is imperative. Has anyone heard that saying, “you are what you eat”? If all you take in throughout a day or week is the incessant complaining of negative friends, I can assure you, you too will begin to whine a little bit. If you listen to inspiring audio books all day, you’ll have a great message to bring to your team, even if it’s just a simple three or four word reflective thought like, “dreaming leads to success”. My point is, your effectiveness on your team and application from your leaders and mentors will show. If you only talk once a week, you will miss a lot. It doesn’t have to be two hours, just fifteen minutes to make sure everyone is on the same page and you are progressing. In doing so, you will be able to build your own team in a grand fashion, because you will know how to communicate with them especially well and able to teach them.
Finally, I would like to touch briefly on vision. I asked at the beginning of this if you had set any goals. I highly suggest you do that. Write them down. Keep them in front of you to remind yourself every time you look up from your computer what you are aiming for. This differs from motivation, try not to get the two mixed up. A vision, is a set of goals in its entirety, the end result, the ultimate goal, and all the little steps, giant bounds and leaps you must make along the way. Start with small goals. ‘I will sponsor one person this week’ or ‘I am going to make a hundred dollars residual income this month’. Notice I did not use ‘I want’ or ‘I hope to’ or something along those lines. Your goals have to be finite territory. Hopes and dreams are all good well, the seeds to success even, but seeds only. If you only want one plant, you still have to plant that seed, water it, care for it, fertilize it maybe, and nurture it to full growth. Even when it is grown, you still have to care for it to assure its survival. A little more than brief, but hopefully you get what I’m saying.
“Coincidence rests only in the minds of the ignorant and foolish.”
-Justin LaFountain
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