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4 Reasons Why Health And Fitness Have Everything To Do With Success

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Few people know how much of an impact being healthy and fit has on your success. In fact, your health and fitness are two critical factors that allow you to indicate how much you are taking care of yourself. Being healthy and fit tells you that you are able to keep your own body in shape. If you can keep your health and fitness in check, you can keep yourself in check in other ways as well. Here are four reasons why health and fitness have everything to do with success.

  1. Good health and fitness encourages you to set goals. In order to maintain good health and fitness, you need to set goals. Setting goals such as eating less sugar, doing more chin-ups, or just running outside every day are set so people can maintain healthy and fit lives. As an individual gets better at implementing goals for health and fitness, it becomes easier to shift that mindset for other goals–like a business plan.
  2. You don’t like to settle. Once people become fit, they have the natural tendency to get more fit. If an individual is able to run the mile in under five minutes, that person will strive to run the mile faster next time. You are happy with what you have accomplished, but you also know that the journey never ends. Never wanting to settle will encourage you to try new things, experiment with old ones, and take risks.
  3. You get more confidence. Not everyone is healthy and fit, but if you are, you have done something incredible. You are consistently maintaining your body and nourishing it properly. That’s a big accomplishment which will definitely boost your confidence. In addition, being healthy and fit gives you the “I Can” mentality. This mentality is your super power that allows you to believe in your ability to do anything.
  4. You will learn that success requires patience. Do you want the rock solid abs? Do you want to have a muscular body? It takes several months of working out the right way for the average person to get to that level. There is no such thing as overnight success, and if you maintain your health and get fit, you will learn that. Then, it will be easier for you to carry that over to your business.

There are many connections that health and fitness have with being successful. Those are just four of the many ways that keeping your body in check can lead to a better life. What are your thoughts on the list? Do you have any additional reasons that health and fitness affect success? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

 

6 Characteristics That Every Successful Entrepreneur Has Part 2

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Think Like An Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs are individuals who break out of the status quo to pursue their own dreams. Even if they may not make a lot of money in the beginning, entrepreneurs pursue their dreams instead of looking for survival jobs. All entrepreneurs have several characteristics. In an earlier blog post, I mentioned six characteristics that every successful entrepreneur has. Since then, I have learned more about entrepreneurship, and I will continue learning about it. As a result, I have been able to come up with six completely different characteristics that every entrepreneur should have.

  1. Have an optimistic attitude. Every entrepreneur faces obstacles. An entrepreneur’s success is dependent on how he/she responds to the obstacles. If the entrepreneur remains optimistic about their journey, that entrepreneur will make enough mistakes to get one thing right, and getting one thing right can be the difference between a survival job and a multimillion dollar business.
  2. Risk taking. Entrepreneurs need to be willing to make risks. The safe game is no longer safe because there are too many people playing that game. In order to stand out as an entrepreneur, you need to take risks so people see you as a remarkable entrepreneur.
  3. The desire to experiment. There is no rule book for your niche to break from the norm. There are several ways to break from the norm, but the only way you will know whether your method worked or not is by giving it a try. You may need to conduct numerous experiments before coming up with the one that works.
  4. Entrepreneurs accept that failure happens but don’t get stopped by it. Successful entrepreneurs realize that failure is inevitable, but they also realize that success is inevitable. After failing so many times, entrepreneurs learn enough about their niche that they get it right. Getting it right and having the product or service deliver the way you expected it to is when the magic starts to happen.
  5. Entrepreneurs are willing to work for 80 hours to avoid working for 40 hours. Shark Tank’s Lori Greiner came up with a humorous but true statement about entrepreneurs. We work more to avoid less work. The only difference is that after everything pays off, entrepreneurs are able to live in a way that most people can’t.
  6. Entrepreneurs utilize their leverage. We have more leverage than we realize. Technology has torn away communication limitations, information-obtaining limitations, and even the age limitation. Even in a world with more leverage, not every entrepreneur is utilizing that leverage. The successful entrepreneurs are utilizing the leverage around them to thrive and create superstar products.

Those are the six other characteristics that every entrepreneur has. You can see the other six characteristics here. What are your thoughts on the list? Do you have any other entrepreneurial characteristics you would like to share? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

 

Learn Or Plateau

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In his book No Excuses, Brian Tracy mentioned something that forever changed the way I view my niche. In the book, he said that you either learn more about your niche or plateau. You can only go so far with the knowledge you already have, but in order to go further, you need to obtain more knowledge.

Learning more about your niche creates more possibilities. If you stop learning about your niche, you are limiting your capabilities. Learning about your niche will allow you to become the go-to expert in your niche. In addition, learning about your niche will give you more knowledge that you can package into books and training courses.

Make the choice today to learn more about your niche so you are able to grow instead of plateau. Never settle for where you are. Always raise the bar higher and strive for better results.

 

The 1,000th Blog Post

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Writing two blog posts every day definitely allowed me to reach this milestone faster. Writing three blog posts every day would help me reach the 2,000th blog post milestone much faster than I am currently projected to reach it. I publish two blog posts every day (that number is not going up), which means I write 730 blog posts every year. Sometime in 2015, I will have written my 2,000th blog post.

We all have milestones that we want to reach. Some of us may want our Kindle eBooks to make 10 sales every day while others may want to have over 10,000 Pinterest followers. It’s great to have a milestone in place. Milestones give us something to strive for.

What we also need to figure out is how we can reach those milestones faster. I would probably have less than 700 blog posts on this blog if I only published one blog post every day. I would still have under 100,000 Twitter followers if I used the same methods I was using back when I only had 10,000 Twitter followers.

The difference between a milestone that gets accomplished and a milestone that remains a memory is the individual in charge. In order to accomplish your milestones, you need to identify a way that you can get there faster. You may be projected to reach 10,000 Twitter followers in two months. Instead of accepting it, ask yourself how you can trim down the time from two months to one month. I thought I would reach 100,000 Twitter followers in my senior year of high school. Now, I will exceed 400,000 Twitter followers at the same time I thought I would be at 100,000. I may even be able to pass the 500,000 milestone before I graduate.

Even though I have trimmed down the time it took for me to amass my Twitter followers, I want to trim it down even more. If I learn how to gain 1,000 Twitter followers every day very soon, I could end up with over 700,000 Twitter followers by the time I get out of high school.

There is always a way to reach a certain milestone faster. When you reach the milestone once, it gradually becomes easier to read other milestones. The 1 billionth tweet was sent out 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day after Twitter was created. Now, Twitter sends the same number of tweets every week.

Twitter really trimmed down the time for that one. Your milestones will happen if you remain dedicated, but you also need to find out how you can make your particular milestone get accomplished faster. Getting that milestone accomplished will make you want more, and as a result, find more ways to trim down your time once you seek another milestone.

 

Case Study: How Keeping Score Increases Productivity

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A very long time ago, I wrote about keeping score, and I wrote about the results of my first score card. I have been using the score card for months, and I do not plan on stopping. Score cards enhanced my time management and productivity, and score cards continue to amaze me today. Before I created a score card, I thought it would have been impossible for me to write 25 blog posts in one week. Not only did I do that, but I also finished reading an entire book and created the blueprint for my upcoming membership site, Total Social Media Domination. The following week, I was able to accomplish 12 different goals which all required a good amount of work. Some of the things I did that week were:

  1. Write 20 blog posts
  2. Finish reading Blue Ocean Strategy from start to finish
  3. Write 5,000 words for an upcoming book, Unlock Your Potential

There were 9 other goals similar to those three, and I got them all done in one short week. What once looked impossible has now become a routine of accomplishment.

The main reason the score card works is because you have to write down what you plan to accomplish for the week. If you think about the things you have to accomplish, it is easy to forget about some things and reduce expectations for other things. If I thought of write 20-25 blog posts every week, I may think at some point in the week that writing that many blog posts is too challenging. Thinking about it could have resulted in me lowering the bar to 16-18 blog posts for the week. Writing everything down forces you to be accountable, and making yourself accountable gives you no one else to blame but yourself for anything that goes wrong on your score card.

It is the desire to get a perfect score that motivates me as I continue creating score cards and getting tasks accomplished. You may not get a perfect score when you create your score card. In fact, I almost never get a perfect score. It’s not because I am not productive. Instead, it is because I raise the bar very high. I could easily get a perfect score on every score card if I only assigned myself 10 blog posts every week, but then I would not be able to publish two blog posts in one day.

If you want to get better time management and increase your productivity, you need to use a score card. Write down the goals you want to accomplish and use tallies to indicate how close you are to accomplishing a goal. Then, draw a big checkmark next to any goal that you accomplish. It’s that easy, but it is going to make a big difference in your time management and productivity.

 

Why Having Good Fitness Helps Out In The Journey Towards Success

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Health And Fitness

I believe that fitness is one of the most underrated parts of success. Does this mean walking in to the job interview with a six-pack is going to guarantee you the job? Absolutely not (why apply for a job anyway)! Looking more muscular in your YouTube videos does not mean those videos are going to get more views.

So how exactly does having good fitness help out in the journey towards success? Being in shape has been proven to make people happier (happiness certainly helps out towards success and life), but good fitness also encourages the development of the winner’s mindset.

People with good fitness want to become more fit. They don’t settle with the strong abs. They also want strong legs, arms, shoulders, and every other body part to be strong as well. Some people do 20 curls and realize that they can do five more. They don’t stop at an assigned number if they believe they can do more than that. This is the entire concept of raising the bar higher. When the 20 pound weights get too light, these people move on to the 30 pound weights. It’s a bigger challenge, but it also leads to better results over time.

Getting in shape may be the trigger that allows you to thrive and change your attitude about life. Whether you decide to keep up the fitness by lifting weights or running, you need to do some kind of workout every day so you become committed and develop the winner’s mindset.