Mistakes that kills Success(part 2)

This is a continuation of the Mistakes that kills Success.
Mistake No 4: Having No Strategy.

What is your strategy in life? Do you have
one?

If you have an online business what is
your strategy for your online business? Do you
have one?

Think about this? Why do banks ask people to
complete business plans with everything
meticulously detailed?

From the marketing plan, through to the
budgeting, through to the cash flow and profit
and loss forecasts?

Just to make life more difficult?

No, because they know that with a strategy
or plan in place there is far more chance
of achieving your objectives.

Most people particularly people looking to
create an online income have no strategy
whatsoever.

They go day to day, looking for the next best thing
to promise them instant online success, or the next
hot thing to come out to try and promote.

There is of course nothing wrong with wanting to
promote the next hot thing that comes out, but is
that part of your strategy?

And what else does your strategy for online
success include?

Do you have a branding strategy in place?

How you are going to brand yourself or your product?

Do you have a traffic strategy in place? How
you are going to get and keep a constant flow of
traffic coming to your website?

Do you have a budget in place so that you are
not living month to month, but are able to plan
ahead to meet the costs of your business?

Do you have a vision of where you want to take
your business in 12 months, and can you see the
clear route of how you are going to get there?

That's why I say proven strategies that are
time-tested is what you should be seeking in
everything you do instead of easy fixes as
outlined in mistake no 3.

Any task or venture you undertake, if you
want to complete it successfully, take however
long it takes, a day, a week or even a month to put
all the strategies in place and to define them as
meticulously as you can, so that you have
a better chance of achieving that success.





Mistake No 5: Thinking You Know It All.

No one has exclusivity on knowledge. Pride is
and has always been man's biggest downfall.

Nations have overtaken prouder nations in history,
where one nation thought they had everything and
didn't need to learn anything new from anyone else.

Realize that you don't know certain things.

Then learn them from those that do.

If you are not good with talking with people
in a social gathering, and you want to be... find
out the strategies of how to develop that skill from
someone who is proficient at it.

If you want to learn to drive... you'd go to a driving
instructor right?

And you pay happily for those driving lessons.

Why then when it comes to learning strategies that will
transform our lives are we so against investing in our
most valuable asset? Ourselves?

Simply, because quite often, we think we know it all.

Successful people recognize the importance of learning
from others.

Professional singers hire and pay professional singing
coaches.

Why? They're already stars and can sing right?

Professional football clubs hire and pay coaches to train
the players.

Why? The players already know the game so why do they need
a coach?

Gymnasts, tennis players, people in business and
multi-millionaires all GET it! They know that despite how
much they know, someone can always teach them or help
them to know things they don't know or help them to know someone who can always teach them to improve
and successfully implement the things they DO know.

World Champion boxers... have trainers don't they?

Why? They're already knocking the lights out of people
in the ring, what can old frail men teach them about
fighting?

They KNOW that no matter what they do know there is always
room for learning strategies or implementing strategies or
even perfecting strategies that they can learn from
someone else.

That's what makes winners. They aren't afraid of investing
in the proven strategies of others to improve their own.

So there is a key difference in attitude and thinking
between the successful and the none successful.

One value proven strategies, even when they are at the top
of their game and pay those with experience to learn them.

And those that remain mediocre think... "Yeah? What can
he teach me?”