Challenge Yourself to Think Positively and You Will See Results in Any Field

There is a quick fix that will give you the success you’re dreaming of in your professional career. What’s the secret? It’s not a single prescription, but a formula based on a positive belief system.

As a business development coach, I have learned that a strong belief system seems obvious, but few people possess it. Believing you’re the best and you’re capable of great achievements can be the hardest thing to do. It requires daily dedication to self-support, self-encouragement, and positive self-talk. Whatever your professional goal, believe you are capable of achieving it and extend this belief to your product or service. 

Ready to start developing the mental posture for success? Here are some of the assessments and strategies I employ in my business development program that get results:

• Believe in yourself when you network? 

Walk into a room tall, strong, and proud. Feel you are the best even if your competitors are there. Be confident that you are the only one in the room that can offer the quality your customers seek.

• Socialize with successful people 

Hang around the right people: other successful people. Network where the best customers and prospects go, join the right associations, and make the right friends. Stay away from negative people and those who can’t seem to get anywhere. Have a mentor who has reached the goal you aspire to, and that is who you are likely to become. When you hang around negative people you will get negative results. Hang around positive people and you will get positive results.

• Learn every day

If you’re not learning every day you are at a disadvantage because your competition is. New information is essential to success. Spend each day learning something new. Find the best books on your goal and learn from the best. Since you don’t know on which day success will occur, you’d better be ready every day by preparing with education. Study road maps to success and incorporate the details for their achievement into a plan to achieve your goals. Learning and goals are the surest methods to be ready for success. If you do not have a plan then your plan is to fail.

• Become a resource of information

Give first and become known as a resource, not a salesperson. Your value is linked to your knowledge and willingness to help others. The more valuable you become, the more the marketplace will reward you.

• Opportunities

Stay alert for situations that can create successful opportunities. The key is to maintain a positive attitude. Your attitude allows you to see the possibilities when opportunity strikes because it often shows up in the form of adversity. What first appears as adversity may turn out to work in your favor if you keep a positive attitude.

• Take the blame

We all blame others to a degree. Blame is tied to success in reverse proportion. The lower your degree of blame, the higher degree of success you’ll achieve. Get the job done yourself no matter what. Petty blame is rampant and the biggest waste of time. Don’t blame others or yourself. Take responsibility for your actions and decisions. Blaming others is an easy thing to do, but leads to a path of mediocrity. Successful people take responsibility for everything they do and everything that happens to them. 

• Less talk and more action 

Stop talking about what you are going to do and “just do it” like the Nike ad says. Actions are the only way to bridge plans and goals with accomplishment. Nothing happens until you do something to make it happen every day. Take the step.

“Successful people are driven. They want to be from the moment they get up till the moment they go to bed. They want to be overscheduled and rushing from one thing to another. There is no greater high.”  Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York City.

Milton J. Paris, is President of the Monroe based consulting firm Getting Ahead in Business whose motto is “nothing is impossible.” www.gettingaheadinbusiness.com

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