I am not suggesting that anyone should completely discount world events that cross our paths but we do all know that such things are likely to occur. When considering your life path, it is possible to take into account that major world events will occur and decide how you will cope with them.  If you have a business that can be impacted, have some idea what you need to take into account.  If your work takes you around the world or through airports, have something in mind for how you will manage that.

The thing is that reacting all of the time is not good in many ways. It is not good for your health and well-being; it is stressful and unpleasant for all around you.  It is not good for business and it is not good for the whole Universe.  Take the GFC in particular.  Much has been said about how bad it is for businesses, how businesses are likely to go under and not recover, how high unemployment is and so on.

Now all of this is true for those affected but it is not true for everyone and all business. In fact, I am hearing from more and more business people that they have had the best turnover in this year to date that they have ever had!  If those same people had listened to all of the doom and gloom, reacted to it and done things differently they may have had a very different outcome.  It all comes back to making your own decisions about what you will so and when you will do it.  Decide for yourself how you will engage with the information that comes via the media.

Act or react; it is up to you. Keep your eye on what it is that you want in your life and put your attention there rather than on any number of things that will occur regardless.

The world of an entrepreneur is an exciting one with new possibilities on the table every day. While this is not the world for everyone, currently more and more people are moving towards their own business as a life of employment becomes less attractive and high paying jobs harder to find.  People are investigating, via the Internet, the endless stream of business opportunities that are presented.  So how do you decide to become an entrepreneur and what does it take to succeed.

For many people, redundancy has made the decision for them and set them on the path to be an entrepreneur.  For others, life in a job has long held little charm and they simply come to the “fork in the road” and are not prepared to work like that forever.  Some people have a burning desire to earn a lot more than paid employment will ever allow and still others are drawn to the pure pleasure of being their own boss!

So if you are thinking of becoming an entrepreneur think about the following:-

• Can you set your mind to something and see it through?
• Are you prepared to do the hard yards that the first few years might take?
• What will you do if you have a setback – do you have perseverance?
• Can you work alone and remain motivated?
• Can you focus on solutions and not the problem?
• Do you take control of your own destiny and all of the responsibility that goes with that?

If you answer yes to those questions then you might just be an entrepreneur and the person who I am looking for.  Contact me.

Think positively. Find me one successful person, in business or any area of life who does not take a positive attitude to anything that they do.  This is important for more than one reason; it is important because successful people attend to three main areas in life – their business, their health and their life balance.  Being positive is well recognised as contributing to good health and positive people easily see many of the opportunities that come their way in business and in life balance.  Positive people have energy and enthusiasm and get things done.  Action is required if you wish to be successful.

Avoid negativity in any form. Negativity draws energy away from you, it positions you to miss opportunities that are sitting right in front of you and it allows you to see only the bad things around you rather than the good.  It drives you down.  Negativity also attracts negativity, call it karma or the Law of Attraction, but negativity attracts negativity and negative people have to work so much harder to find success.  So work easier, identify your own negativity, act on it, stay away from negative people and find yourself a group of positive and successful people to associate with.  Find me a successful person who has a negative attitude!

Be disciplined and take action. Things do not just happen for you, even if you do have the power of the Law of Attraction working for you.  You have to determine what you want, what you will have to do to get it, be disciplined and get to it.  Be disciplined in every area of your life; be good to yourself and make time for your needs, set up your day, week, month and year to take all of the things that you will do to succeed into account.  Schedule them into your life and finish them.  Celebrate each and every one of your actions and achievements and get to it again.

Take care of your own motivation. It is not up to anyone else to provide you with motivation.  This is an internal thing and if you are low on motivation then get your self onto a good personal development program.  You will never be sorry because then you will look for inspiration and not motivation.  And then feed your inspiration weekly.  Never be afraid to spend money on keeping your self in the forefront, because when it comes to business success, only you will make the difference and you are what you think and believe.  Thankfully you can take control of both.  I can not emphasise enough – become a devotee of self development.  Get onto the best program and if you can not find one then contact me from this site – I will be glad to assist because there is nothing that I love more than to see people succeed.

Persevere. Big shots are just little shots who keep shooting.  Go into your venture with the attitude that you will give it everything you have, not just give it a go.  Remember this, it has taken you years to get to where you are now, it might take you some more years to hit the top and you do not want to give up when success may be just around the corner.  Keep at it, have faith in yourself and cultivate confidence – there’s that self development program again.

I am grateful to have found a home business that allows me to help others every day at the same time as earning a serious income. How can this be?  It is quite simple really, it just involves being open to a new idea instead of always functioning with the old ideas.  The first step for me was to accept that it is actually ok to earn good money while helping others.  This did not happen easily, it took quite a bit of self development, working with my limiting beliefs for me to reach the point where I can now accept that that is what I am doing now in my life.  Earning good money for helping people and I move in a circle of people who earn exceptional money for helping people.

Want to know how? Well, you might have to do something different because if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always had.  Take a look at something different.

I believe that this happens because society believes that doing good should be done for the sake of it and not for money. In fact at times the people who are doing the most good, taking care of others and seeing that those in need have food and shelter, might earn very little more than being regarded as saintly.  There seems to be a view that making money is for the fatcats; the greedy ones who take care only of themselves.There is another way to consider money and what it stands for.  Deepak Chopra writes about this in his book Creating Affluence:-

“M stands for making money for others and helping others make money. Helping others make money and helping other people to fulfill their desires is a sure way to ensure that you’ll make money for yourself as well as more easily fulfill your own dreams.

“M” also stands for motivate. The best way to motivate other people to help you fulfill your goals is to help them fulfill their goals”.

I am delighted to be involved with a personal development home business that places me perfectly to do exactly that; make money for the purpose of helping others, help others to make money, fulfill their desires and achieve their dreams.  Can you believe that such a business exists?

Little wonder that I feel so happy.

The book takes you through the 13 steps necessary to overcome all obstacles and achieve all of your ambitions and remember, it was written in the early 1900’s. It is an amazing book, a guiding light and a basic text for any student of personal development.   These days, as expected, you can become a member of the Napoleon Hill Foundation and enjoy all of the benefits that the Internet has to offer.  I can only imagine their lives if these men had access to the technologies that we have.  However the book allows a glimpse of personal development 1928 style.

One of the key principals that Hill outlines is the mastermind which is the capacity to join up with a group of people who have harmonious minds and share your thoughts, thought energy and intelligence for their good and your own. This bringing together of thought energy creates a great bank of energy that is then used towards a specific purpose.  According to Hill, this form of cooperative alliance has been the basis of nearly every great fortune.  The message is simple, surround yourself with like minds in a harmonious environment, give generously to the mastermind yourself and receive the full benefits.   To success and happiness!

When you do turn off the media, you actually find many hours of the week available to you to do other more exciting things like researching your new venture, your home business or work from home opportunity or any of the other things that you might be passionate about.  And passion and following your passion is one of the important keys to success.  So give up media in all forms, TV, newspapers, magazines and you will have time for your passion.

I hear so many people saying that they want more time in their day for the things they want to do. Well, here is one way to gift yourself time.  Time to exercise, time to play with your kids or dog, time to expand your mind, grow your mind power or time to read inspiring books or articles.

In the words of Nelson Mandela, “As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to be the same”. Wonderful man, wonderful book.  Well I am off to expand my mind, have some personal development and read a bit more of Nelson Mandela’s life story.  And have a bit of fun with one of my passions; books.

I know for sure, in my home business in personal development that many of the business owners are women. And I know that these women have what it takes to set up a business that allows them to work from home.  One of the things that it takes to be successful in your home business is persistence and perseverance.  Not only to access capital, credit and equity as shown by the American statistics, but also to understand marketing, arrange a daily schedule of activities that works for you and to keep going while the business is established and producing an income. Persistence is the key.

And it pays to remember that people who do not succeed in their home business may be just one shot away from success when they give up.  Persistence and perseverance is everything. Isn’t it great also to see the leadership role that women are taking in business about lifestyle and making money. Here in Cairns, in my home business in personal development, I can be persistent while enjoying my amazing lifestyle and having fun.

My mind turned to being my own boss.  After all, could it be any less secure than my circumstances at the time.  Although it was critical, to make money was not my only driving aim.  I had always wanted other things like work freedom, a balance between accountability and responsibility, happiness and generosity and a host of other values based things.  The job had been good to me; I loved it but was driven to make my own way to success.  Have you ever heard of a millionaire who got that way while in a job?  A home business was definitely the go, something online if possible and suddenly there it was!!  The Universe provided and into my line of vision came this amazing online home business in personal development. I was ecstatic to say the least and my intuition assured me that this is just right.

This business caters for all of my needs. Time for my family, working from home, only the travel that I want to do, the opportunity to talk with amazing people every day, immersion in personal development which has been a lifetime love affair, assisting people all over the world to achieve their dreams and desires while I have the prospect of earning a six figure income.  The business has been amazingly successful in Australia and I am excited to be a part of such a revolution.  So the next time that I am asked – why a home business in personal development I will answer quite simply – because it is fun.  And then I will drink to my success and my intuition!

Hill contended then that it is possible for thoughts to communicate with other thoughts; minds to speak directly to minds and gives as an example the Master Mind that served so well for Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone. Well, I will be happy to achieve to the extent that those three men did so two weeks ago I set off on a journey to meet up with as many of the experts within my new home business in personal development field as I possibly could in the time that I had available.  The first thing that I found was the absolute generosity of those experienced people.

They freely gave me hours of their time, shared their business acumen, provided hot tips and advice garnered from others and from their own experiences, lent me books and in some cases hosted me in their homes. I greatly appreciated this generosity and having never been seen it before, was amazed and humbled.  I am sure that in relation to give and receive, these people will receive ten fold in return.

Now for the amazing bit.  In some cases, I was gently but firmly challenged in regard to some of what I believed or was doing and that was an incredible learning experience on its own.  However in all cases, I left with something on my mind that I have subsequently turned much attention to and found some answers that I did not ever expect.  I can only think that this was a genuine Master Mind as defined by Hill.  Apart from that though, I greatly welcomed the Master Minding discussions that we had and learned heaps from them.  I thoroughly recommend that every small business owner find themselves a Master Mind!!  And I am sure that my own home business in personal development will be all the better for those Master Minds and others that will take place in the future.

The drive down the coast from Cairns to Brisbane was alright too. I highly recommend a look at both Tannum Sands and Burrum Heads.