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One of the major themes running through emails, and phonecalls each week with my clients of late is the recurring theme of fear and self sabotage.

You can be fearful in a number of different ways for a number of different reasons:

· fear of success

· fear of failure

· perfection issues – it has to be perfect before you get something out to clients (that never happens by the way)

As a result you don’t take action and if you don’t take any action in your business you bring in any new clients – results – NOTHING happens

Solution:

· make a plan

· get clear on who your market is

· speak to them in a way they understand so they know that you can help them solve their problem

· get out there in a big way – connect, be social, network

· use all the tools at your disposal

Because there is no real payoff for fear! If you are going to be fearful you may as well get paid for it!

Homeplay:

· go make yourself a list of all the things you are not doing that need to be done to bring in business

· outsource what you need to

· get out there and tell people your message

· OK – START NOW!!!

Not sure where to start?

Would you like my help?

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Contact our office now on +61 7 3262 6070 or send us an email at info@successzone.com.au

I look forward to hearing from you!

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON!!!
by Terri Cook

Over the school holidays I took the kids to see “How to Train your Dragon” and WE LOVED IT!!!

Over the next few days it got me thinking. What if we all had the courage like “Hiccup” to do the complete opposite to what everyone else in business around us was doing. What would happen?

Then, I started thinking about mindset and marketing and people who are successful like Oprah, Richard Branson, Rupert Murdoch, Bob Proctor, Rhonda Brynes of the SECRET, Napoleon Hill and Wallace Wattles just to name a few…

What did they do? Did they do the same as everyone else or did they regularly do what’s counter-intuative to what people generally do in Business??
And the obvious answer is YES – they sometimes totally went against what was “thought to make you successful” and have achieved massive success, wealth and power in their chosen fields of business.

Like Hiccup they MADE THE DECISION to do something different.

For those who haven’t seen this movie – its about a boy (the son of the leader of the Vikings who isn’t regarded as terribly “vikingy” in stature) who was soo keen to prove himself he went out to slay a dragon and found that he couldn’t actually bring himself to do it. Then, he started to pay attention to the fact that the dragon wasn’t behaving like everyone said it “should or would”. Then he noticed it actually responded in a friendly way by him doing completely the opposite thing to what everyone had always done or always thought about Dragons. He started interacting with the dragon and developed a relationship with the dragon, who came to know, like & trust him.

Not dissimilar to what we all should be doing with our clients!!!

It’s a fascinating story about walking your own path, believing in who you are and how your life, luck, mindset and worth can turn on a coin. You can become the best version of you by just believing in who you are and walking your own Path.

Entrepreneurial Spirit is Alive & Well at the Cook Household!
by Terri Cook

This week I would like to talk with you about The Spirit of the Entrepreneur.
Is it a learnt behaviour or is it something that comes naturally, that we all have as children???

I would argue Yes! That it is very much an inherent skill in all of us as children.

Let me explain why in a story…

For those of you in Australia, it’s Summer and for the last 8 – 10 weeks children around Australia have been celebrating the school holidays and relaxing and enjoying the summer fun.

In the Cook house at least, it has released the whole Entrepreneurial Streak.
The children decided they wanted more money (over and above their pocket money from weekly chores). So they set about working out what they could do…

What “need” could they fill for people of which they already had the resources for??? (obviously with no capital!)

So they had a “Big Business Meeting” looking at all the things in the house and yard that could be sold without their mother (that’s me) having a melt down about what they are up to.

What they came up with was truly amazing!!!!! You see, we have stone pebbles around our pool and all throughout the base of it and sometimes these pebbles come loose and collect in the filter and at the base of the pool. So, my clever little vegemites decided that these were the same pebbles used in fish ponds and tanks. So guess what they did. They started to collect all the loose pebbles around the outside and at the base of the pool and the filter and put them into a big bag and decided who they could see or market them to.

So they found something of use, something people need and they collected and decided to market and sell their product .

These are some of the places they came up with to sell them to:

- Family and friends with pools and fish ponds and fish tanks (always go for the family 1st – uncles and aunts have tremendous guilt. LOL)
- Aquariums who sell pebbles – they even thought of painting the pebbles so that they had a variety of different colours to appeal to different people
- They asked me to take them to the local aquarium so that they could see how much the pebbles were selling for and how many you could get for what price. Then they decided to price them accordingly.

BUT HERE’S THE THING…

They decided to expand their market base by offering the pebbles not just to the obvious markets – they decided they would sell them to people for their stone pathways and driveways and day spas and all sorts of things…

Now, they had nowhere near enough pebbles to do this BUT that didn’t stop them from looking and working out all the possibilities of how they could market and make more money for themselves.

When was the last time you did that as an adult??? As adults, our first thought is generally “oh, I can’t do that!!” We look for reasons why we can’t do it rather than HOW CAN WE do something??

The kids didn’t have that limitation! That limiting belief had not yet been planted in their heads.

The whole process of watching them plan their “Pebble Empire” with nothing more than an iceblock, some loose pebbles, having fun and enjoying playing in the pool was transforming.

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HOMEPLAY TIME
So your assignment for this week…

Have a look back over your life – What did you do when you were a kid that you don’t do now?

What was your “Pebble Empire” or “lemonade stand” or newspaper run when you were a kid??

When did you decide that you couldn’t??

What can you adapt as your “Pebble Empire” Now! What skills do you have that you can adapt. Don’t re-invent the wheel. Use what you already have!!

Now practise wiping that “can’t” out of your thinking and vocab in your Biz.

Start focussing on what you WANT – NOT what you DON’T WANT!!!

It’s time to be a kid again!!!

Not sure how to do that??

Email Terri personally at terri@successzone.com.au
to find out how she can help you to create your own “Pebble Empire”

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