The Be Do Have of a Successful Entrepreneur. Renata McDonald

      You have to assume a position or a firm point from which to view life and to act in life.

      This is your beingness.

      This is where you generate your own personal power from.

      THE WILL TO SUCCEED

      It is my experience, as a turnaround business consultant, that even though you can have the best knowledge and tools they will “not work” if the person you are working with does not believe it is possible to turn things around. The will to succeed is way more powerful than any advanced business knowledge or turnaround strategy. The person you are working with has to want to win in order to win! By this I mean that the individual personally has to want the activity to succeed. It won’t fly if his primary motivation is someone else wanting it.

      This means that you must be able to:

      Recognize the actual belief and intentions of the individual, and if needed handle the individual to the point where he is working with the belief that it is possible to turn things around.

      Remember – the will to succeed is of paramount importance in any activity!

      SETTING GOALS & ACHIEVING GOALS

      We are all getting ready to set our goals for this upcoming year and we are hoping that this time some, or all, will come through.

      I have observed that the only goals you achieve are 1: the goals you make a clear cut decision that you want to achieve. And 2: the goals you have a high level of certainty in yourself and your ability to achieve them can be achieved with your current abilities.

      You have to be decisive and certain about your goals.

      If you look back in your life at the goals you have achieved, you will find that point 1 and 2 were present.

      Sounds awfully simple, but then I have never seen complicated theories work!

      GOAL ATTAINMENT

      One helpful exercise someone can do in reference to goal attainment is to picture the goal being point B and where you are point A, and draw out a “path” of what would need to occur to move from A to B.

      It is best done on a gradient scale approach, by writing down each step. This allows you to keep track of where you are in reference to your goal and avoids you getting of the correct path. It is best done, per my experience, by writing a plan or a program.

      ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SECURITY IN THE NEW UPCOMING YEAR?

      The best and only security you can count on is you. It is your self-confidence, your ability to create, to be imaginative. That’s the only real security. Knowing that you can count on yourself to go out and do a good job. It is believing in yourself.

      With that you can rebuild a business and regain wealth. This is the only real security there is. This is the one that counts.

      HOW IS SIMPLICITY RELATED TO YOUR ABILITY TO BE AT EASE WITH SOMETHING?

      Have you ever felt that things got too complicated in an area of your business? And because of it, it became harder and harder to get any production out of it?

      If you look deeper you will find that you are not at all at ease with that specific area and it has become harder and harder for you to deal with it. You start to resent going into to that area and find yourself getting, little by little, more and more frustrated. That’s when an executive finds himself making rush decisions which often turn out to be incorrect.

      The solution to such a situation is to raise one’s own ability to be at ease with the area by getting back in it, rolling up your sleeves, working with your manager and your staff. Observing what’s going on, communicating with them while analyzing the area. Get familiar with it again (or newly), find out the ins and outs of it.

      You will soon find that to the degree that your own ability to be at ease with it increases, the more “uncomplicated” it becomes.

      WHAT’S THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING SUCCESSFUL OR BEING A FAILURE?

      Answer these two questions:

      Do you approach your business and life from a viewpoint of you being cause, being in charge of whatever the circumstance may be, or are you looking at it from being at effect, like a spectator?

      In other words are you being the Director of your life or merely a spectator?

      If the answer to 1 is: "cause" and on 2 is: "I am the Director" then you have what it takes to be successful in business and in life.

      Knowing that you are the cause point of your business and that you are the one responsible for its success, instead of assigning blame and cause for what’s occurring to others, is the most basic and fundamental difference between having or not having what it takes to be successful.

      DOES LIFE FOLLOW YOUR ATTITUDE OR DOES YOUR ATTITUDE FOLLOW YOUR LIFE?

      What monitors your life success? At the end of the road the answer will always be: you.

      Depending on your attitude, in any circumstances, you can predict your success or failure.

      To stay true to your own goals, you must have the ability to believe in yourself, in your judgment and your decisions. If you make a mistake, you get back up and you learn from it.

      Your attitude towards life is the control factor of your journey’s steering wheel. You can factually because over achieving your goals, but in order to do that, you need to first realize that you and your attitude are its controlling factors.

      The mechanics of your job will then follow automatically and aid you in your success.

      Your knowledge does not substitute for your outlook in life. Your attitude in life is senior and is more powerful than your education and training in regards to the quest of achieving success.

      IN SIMPLE WORDS THE ANATOMY OF SUCCESS

      Where you find success you find someone who observed what had to be done, knew how to do and did it. Too simple?

      I found out in life that the simpler something is, the closer it is to the truth. The opposite is also true. Where you find failure, someone failed to observe what was actually going on, didn’t know what to do or didn’t act, and he just let it go.

      It takes courage, integrity and responsibility to utilize this concept, but then again these are traits of a successful person.