We too often focus on what we don’t have, and overlook or even ignore what we do have.
The attitude of gratitude helps anchor us, to remind us of what we have, and how precious it is to us.
So take a moment to look around you, and appreciate all you have. Might be meaningful for some but might be very important for others.
One love ❤️
Maya Angelou became, for so many, a symbol of resilience — the capacity to persist in the face of hardship and adversity — and beyond that a symbol of boundless creativity.😎
If you don’t know her, check her biography. You will be amazed how strong this woman was.
Resilience, Creativity and Generosity are her 3 lessons to cope when adversity shows up.
One Love ❤️
PS: Picture is Sunset in French Mens Cove in Jamaica
Once you have made a decision, you are committed to the desired outcome. 😎
However things happen and your chosen approach might not go as smoothly as you’d like. 🤔
Don’t give up or change your decision, but change your approach and remain steadfast in the achievement of the desired outcome. 💪
One Love ❤️
On my last blog I talked about the 4 stages of competences and i invite you to read it, very powerful !!
In summary:
In Stage 1, you need to recognize your own competence and decide if you want to learn – the big risk factor is an unwillingness to learn;
In stage 2, you really want to learn and roll up your sleeves – the big risk factor is the fear of failure or perfectionism and aversion to change;
In stage 3, you know what you have to do – the big risk factor is simply in not continuing to practice or improve. Doing that you’ll lose your skills and won’t perform effectively;
In stage 4, this is the mastery level where all your skill become “second nature”
Once you reach this level, you should make the commitment to engage in the ” Learn, Do, Teach” method. You will then be a great teacher followed by many people. You can achieve mastery of all these concepts and internalize them.
You need to be Unique and Valuable.
You need to brand your name, your face, your energy, your confidence, your enthusiasm….
You need to continue building your personal value by investing in yourself. Doing that you’ll increase credibility to others by providing them value with what you are learning.
Build relationship, solve the problems of others, provide them value without any ulterior motives and you will attract success to you like a magnet. Don’t forget, people buy people!!! One of the biggest barrier to sales is the lack of trust, so be yourself and communicate with your prospect without an agenda.
Treat on line just like you would if you were meeting your prospect online. Don’t be pushy or pitchy that will make you come across as desperate and needy. Be courteous, polite and inquisitive. If they subscribed to your newsletter or want to get more information about what you are doing, the way you reach out to people and bring them value, chances are, they are not getting results they want to be getting and you’ll be able to provide them with a solution.
Once you have built rapport by actually having a real conversation and listening to people, they will tell you their challenges…You can then offer them a solution
Exemples: “Hey Jack, I’m so glad we got to connect and I understand your challenge with _____________ because I struggled with that too and felt exactly the same way. Here’s what I found that worked well for me and it might work well for you too, would you like me to send you some information on it?”
9 out of 10 times you will get a positive response when you do this right and many of those whom you send the information too will buy from you. Even if you don’t benefit from the sales they will respect you for what you have done.
Also another little tips to see where your audience is and what page they like, go to your Facebook profile, Manage adverts and go to audience insights
Once you know your niche, select the location, age and gender and interest. Then you can see on Page likes where your audience is and you can prospect people from these pages. Don’t pitch, build relationship!!!
Leave me a comment if you got some value or if you want to have more information.
Kathy
You cannot control your team or your sponsor or the company, so you have to take everything in your hand to build your business and fulfill your dreams.
This is why Branding Yourself and not the company, is a MUST.. Anything can happen and you don’t want to lose credibility if something happen with your company. Remember People join People.
The fear of failure is what prevents people of having success. Fear of what others are thinking, or fear of what IF I can’t do it, … You have to say to yourself,
“I will win or I will learn”
There is no mistakes, or objections but only experiences that will allow you to grow and reach to the top. People that are most successful failed many times like Oprah, Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg. So don’t get discourage and focus on what you want to achieve !!
1- You need to be passionate with what you are doing, your audience will feel this passion and will be attracted to you.
2- You need to be in a positive state of mind to change your story.
3- And then you’ll figure out your strategy.
It is in you if you Decide. To achieve your goal you need to think about what you are willing to give up!!
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” – Tony Robbins
You can control your daily activities but not the outcome. Be always positive and improve your attitude. Here are 6 tips that will help you :
In conclusion, you need to stay positive no matter what, have a strategy and keep doing your weekly activities. You can control your actions and your attitude/posture but not the outcome.
So what are you ready to give up to succeed in your business ? Being an entrepreneur is not easy and you need to take massive action!
Kathy
This blog is part 5 out of 7 of the series “7 things that will make a difference in your business”
When promoting on social media, you have to be mindful of the posts. Why?
Why it is important to brand yourself?
Personal branding is essentially the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others. Your skills, your focus will allow them to clearly understand what you’re passionate about. You want your prospects to choose you as the only solution to their problems. You have to be unique and approachable to your audience to get results.
The way you talk and present yourself has a remarkable impact on the people you meet professionally and socially. This is why it is very important you brand yourself and not your company.
Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking chords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.” – Sir Richard Branson
How to brand yourself:
I hope these helped you to understand why Attraction Marketing is very important and you need to brand yourself and not the company you are representing today.
Leave me a comment !!
Cheers
Kathy
This blog is part 4 out of 7 of the series “7 things that will make a difference in your business”
We do spend a lot of time in front of the computer and sitting down. So it is important that you get your screen just in front of you, so higher up your laptop if you can. Also get the right chair and be comfortable.
1- Good posture improves your productivity: you don’t want to spend days going to the physio to fix your back. Proper posture is also associated with other health benefits, like higher levels of energy, lower stress and higher concentration and reduce migraine or headaches.
2- Posture boosts your confidence: your body language and posture will make you more confident. The fact that you open your chest by pushing your shoulders back and lifting your head, you will feel with greater confidence and power.
3- Posture improves communication: some stats suggest that speech only makes up about 20 to 30% of communication.The rest of the information is conveyed non-verbally, by tone of voice, facial expressions, eye-contact, gestures, how we stand, and so on.
Your posture is a reflection of your attitude. You should care about others’ perceptions of you, you want to do things the right way, because conscientious people do good work, they report high self-efficacy which show good work performance. Conscientious people are more prone to be reliable, won’t break promises and won’t quit at the first problem.
You need to take this attitude if you want to grow your business. You need to be confident with your company, product and like what you are doing. Your audience will definitely see if you are not passionate with your product/service. Good ethics also have an impact on how well a business performs in the long term.
In our culture today it’s all about “me, me, me”. The reality is that nobody is going to help us unless we do something for them. That is why it is very important you build relationship with your audience/customers before you even talk about your business.
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”– Dale Carnegie
1- Always ask how open your prospect is before you send a link. You don’t want the person to unfriend you on facebook or lose a friend of you because you started pitching him. You want to keep your posture and if the person says no, just reply no big deal and that’s it … move on. You don’t want to be seen as a pushy desperate person.
2- You make the decision: when making an appointment, as a leader you have to give a choice of time, don’t let your audience see you are free all day, all week. It doesn’t reflect on someone busy and growing a business. You need also to make the decision if you think the person is fit to come to your organization or not.
Many people want to change something in their lives but they think they are too old, or they don’t have the competence to do it!! Well you are VERY WRONG!! You can change everything you want in your life if you really want it!! Work your way towards major changes.
See below the few tips I used to change My Life
1- You have to change your situation, even the smallest changes will make a difference. Go step by step.
2- Change your attitude
3- Personal Growth
4- Attract the right people and get success
5- Never give up
In summary, we all have bad days or bad weeks and it’s ok. It doesn’t mean it is the end. Pull yourself together, re-connect with your motivation and keep working.
Unfortunately, many of us remain stuck at the goal stage. We start out with good intentions and perhaps a plan, but then we can’t seem to make it happen.
But I believe in you and I know you can do it!!!
Kathy
How to approach someone with your products without offending them or pointing out the obvious problem. If you are in weight loss industry, this is the big question!
How to approach your relatives, or friends or prospects telling them they need to lose weight and your product is going to help them. Same with skin care, you can’t really approach someone and say they look wrinkly or they have blemishes!!!
I am going to give you a few tips that will help you to be more tactful 🙂
1- Share your personal story and that is why it is important that you use your product! Always be the product of the product. People will notice if you use it and they will tell you how well you are…That way it is much easier to share what you have to sell and get customers. Proof is just in front of them!!
2- Share third party stories; If you don’t have a personal story sharing other people ones can be very impactful!! Do the Before and After pictures; gather some testimonials. It helps your prospect to relate better to their own problems and activate emotions and curiosity. Try to use stories about your downline or upline, not the one from the company that is there for everybody to see. Your prospects don’t want to see the figures and benefits… Find a way to say it without being boring.
3- Talk about your product saying you are using it and ask a question that can be an open conversation. For example, you are using a new facial product and you find it great, ask your prospect what they use and what they like about it, then talk about yours… Always start with a question, this way you’ll understand better their needs and it will be easier to share your product. Don’t be abrupt and rude… you will only push away your prospect!
4- Once you have a few people using your products, create a group if you are on Facebook and tell your people to put their own testimonials, and pictures. This way when you get prospect, you can easily add them to the group and they will see all the great stories
It is very important that you put yourself in front of the right people that are seeking the benefits of your product…
I would love to hear from your experience and how you approach people with your products!
Kathy
1- As the start, you need to set your goals – long term and small term – but also you need to know the WHY that drives you to become an entrepreneur. This Why will be the flames that will keep you focus when you’ll be doubting about yourself or when you’ll want to quit. Create a business plan – realistic- with knowledge of your niche/people you want to target and choose wisely the company you want to work with.
2- You need to be strong in your mindset; you’ll find some people very nasty and you have to feel like telling them “I don’t care”. Also make yourself strong enough that you can deal with failure, disappointment and frustration. Your resilience will define the ability to recover from setbacks. If you are too sensitive, emotional you will quit at the first challenge. Be ready to get out of your comfort zone,
3- Discipline and consistency; as an entrepreneur, you absolutely need to be consistent. You can’t start something and come back a week after. You need to bring value, everyday. For that you can schedule your posts, your emails, and be present on social media. Facebook live or instagram live are great ways to bring value, it is very easy to use and you can instantly edit it on Facebook, however it disappear when you are finished with instagram. You might need to make some sacrifice also with your family when you’ll need to attend events, or webinars …. Always remember the WHY you started !!
4- You need to make your prospects/team members the ability to feel special; If your team is happy and feel good about what they bring to the society, to the people around them, they will work better and together as a team. You want to reward when they do something great, and the same with your clients, if they feel great around you, they will stay with you and buy from you. People buy people !!
5- Marketing and Training; If you get some training, have a coach you will be able to bring value and duplicate your knowledge. You have to follow a training and structure so you won’t waste time looking at everything and nothing… Educate yourself continually to bring value and when your prospects and team members will see what you achieve they will want to join you/your service. Always post your success !
“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” – Mark Zuckerberg,
6- Prospecting; build your list.. I always say it, the money is in your list. Get new people in your list each day !! Pay attention to your list. You want to build relationship with your audience and keep engaging with them. If you advertise on Facebook, or other multimedia, test your images, your texts, and try to find what is working for you, your service or company.
7- Leadership; you need to show authority figure and influence. You have to inspire your team members all the time and encourage them.To be successful you have to convince your followers, not yourself or your superiors, that you are worthy of being followed. Communication and team building is very important so you can show duplication which will bring a consistent revenue.
If you think of anything else and want to share with me, leave me a comment and i’ll be happy to connect with you
Kathy
