Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurial mindset’

The path from entrepreneurial dream to success is only partially paved. Just as a solid structure begins with a substantial foundation, a solid business begins with a sturdy foundation. You would not consider building a million dollar home directly on the sand of a beach. Why do people start businesses with a wing and a prayer – no foundation or success plan? Granted you can analyze a situation to death. There is a compromise between being blinded with dollar signs and plunging headlong into a new venture with no research and analyzing for months or years.

An entrepreneurial dream must me accompanied by an entrepreneurial mindset. What do I mean by an entrepreneurial mindset? Know that the path to success is only partially paved. You will have stretches of rocky roads, hills, obstacles and even construction delays. You will have gaps in the road where you are uncertain which direction to turn. You will have cracks in the foundation which require mending before proceeding. An entrepreneur may not exactly anticipate these with jubilant excitement, but the entrepreneurial mindset knows they will occur. The road will not always be smooth sailing at the speed of the autobahn or autostrade.

One of the obstacles, guaranteed, will be emotional ice water. Everyone loves to give advice; much of that advice comes from folks who have not done what you are doing and yet they know all of the answers about what you should do. The very idea of being an entrepreneur guarantees that you will face discouraging remarks. This discouragement, emotional ice water, may come from friends, co-workers or even your relatives. Part of being the entrepreneur means you will be making the decisions. You may be deciding because of them or in spite of their remarks but you will be make decisions. Final responsibility for decisions rests on your shoulders.

When I owned Mountain Castles Property Management in Steamboat, all of the bad news and uncomfortable decisions landed on the threshold to my office. One day I asked the staff, “Why don’t I ever get to hear the good news?” “Oh, good news is easy for us to handle, we don’t need to bother you with that.” Hmmm. They did have a point, but I would have enjoyed hearing some of the accolades as well as the “Oh, no” issues. Ah, once again that is part of the entrepreneurial mindset; accept the fact that you will hear more challenges than praise.

As long as you are prepared mentally with the entrepreneurial mindset to persevere through whatever happens and you have a well constructed foundation in the form of a success plan, you are well on your way to success. The next step is implement the success plan with focused action and continue moving forward. Success will be on the threshold of your office.

The thrill of success is worth every minute of the challenges to your entrepreneurial mindset. Be prepared to repair the cracks in your success plan just as you repair cracks in a foundation. It is all part of the success journey. Enjoy the ride.

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Is your business a ghost or a reality? So many people start a business with dollar signs in their eyes but no plan to make their success a reality. They attend calls, think positive thoughts and maybe even dream of success. Sometimes they even attend live events and take notes. All of this sounds as if they are on the right track. Right? Yes, all of these moves are excellent IF they are followed with action.

Hate to break it to you, but dreaming is just that, dreaming. Nothing really propels the profit except focused action. The entrepreneurial mindset accepts reality. A successful, profitable, business requires focused time, effort and money. Ok, I know that you do not want to hear the “m” word or the “w” word, but every successful person will confirm the facts. Whether you are choosing to excel in arts, sports or business, you will exert focused time, effort and money.

I heard a professional golfer once say, “Stop buying new clubs and start taking lessons and practicing.” Hmmm. We are back to focused time and effort. Money? Professional lessons are not free; however, they are time well spent. Taking lessons without practicing is exactly the same as attending calls and live events without reading the notes and acting on the information.

Robert Ringer’s book is titled “Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves.” This theme is echoed by David W. Langford in his blog titled, “Nothing happens without an action plan.” I agree with both; design an action plan and implement the plan.

You have heard about the 3 birds sitting on the split rail fence. One decided to fly away. How many are left on the fence? 3. Deciding is great; deciding is the first step. Nothing happens until you get off the fence and take action.

An entrepreneurial mindset is exactly the same as a success mindset. We know that success requires action. Sitting on the fence wishing, dreaming, and whistling into the wind may pass the time but they won’t pass your bank account from the red to the black. (Red in accounting terms means you do not have enough money to cover your bills.)

Dreaming, even deciding, without backing it with action is as elusive as trying to take hold of a ghost. Your fingers pass right through the ghost just like the money passes right through your hands with nothing to show as positive tangible results.

Whether you are daydreaming, chasing a ghost or sitting on the fence, your results are the same. Successful people start with an entrepreneurial mindset, a success mindset, decide on the goal, devise a success plan to achieve it and implement the plan. Success requires all of these steps. Focused time, effort and action yield success.

Where are you right now in your success journey? If you are not where you desire to be, check in with your mindset. Are you exhibiting the characteristics of entrepreneur behavior or dreamer behavior? Decide, form a success plan and take focused action.

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2011 is knocking at the door.  People are making New Years Resolutions and perhaps breaking them as fast as they are making them.  Earlier we spoke about making a resolution you really care enough about to follow through.  Motivation is a significant factor in achievement.  Inertia is also a mitigating factor.

Newton defined inertia as the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion and an object at rest to remain at rest unless acted upon by a force.

It takes 21 days to form a new habit and 3 days to break a habit.  Unfortunately, that is the law of inertia.  It takes time to build up momentum.  In far too many cases, all it takes is a bump in the road, not even a very big bump, to halt the progress and derail the good intentions.  Your success plan is frequently derailed with minimal resistance.

Examine the resolution to lose weight – a frequent resolution since the majority of Americans are at least slightly overweight.  At the time of the resolution many may think they “should” lose weight and they may even “want” to lose weight.  Unfortunately the power of the temptation of holiday beverages, holiday treats or television snacks looms more irresistible than the resolve to avoid such delights.  Hence the resolve disappears into indulge.

Think about pushing a large rock off the top of a hill.  Getting the rock to start moving requires tremendous effort.  Once the rock is rolling downhill, it picks up speed.  Standing in front of a large rock rapidly rolling downhill would be a flattening experience.  Picture yourself as a paper thin cartoon character.  Unwise at best.

Relate these scenarios to starting a new business.  Many start a new business as they start a diet.  “I should make more money” and “I want to make more money.”  They may even invest $50, a few hundred dollars or even a few thousand dollars.  The intentions are good and there are visions of dollar signs in their eyes.  Delusions of “This should be easy.  All I do is start the business and money will come rolling in the door” dance through their brains.  Crazy, right?  No one who has ever operated a successful business would expound such a ‘pie in the sky’ ‘get rich quick” idea.

A true entrepreneurial mindset would never expect income without effort.  Just like pushing that rock, it takes tremendous effort to get the rock to budge in the first place.  Once it starts to move, keep pushing.  If you stop at that point, you will need to start all over from the beginning.  Most new business owners, particularly those who start with a few dollars, give up before they start the rock to move even the smallest amount.  It takes more effort to start a successful business than they are willing to invest.

A business owner with an entrepreneurial mindset would start by designing a success plan.  Setting attainable goals which stretch the boundaries of current knowledge and easy access requires effort to achieve.  This stretch requires the entrepreneur to think and design a creative but potentially possible success plan.  The entrepreneurial mindset knows that stretching, creating and persisting are major steps toward the achievement of the success plan.  Having a plan is great but until that plan is implemented on a consistent and persistent basis, it will fail.

Just as the rock will not move and start rolling without effort, so the business will not go from inception to profit without creative persistent and consistent action.  Refer back to the diet.  The goal of weight loss will not occur without consistent and persistent action.

Inertia is present in all things.  It takes effort to begin the process and consistent and persistent effort to keep the process moving until it reaches momentum on its own.

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Granted, this is a challenging economic time for many of us. Men, women and even the smartest pets are budgeting, borrowing and looking for a rich connection. Ok, so maybe the pets are only looking for warm shelter, treats and pets, but the treats may be in shorter supply. Burying that rawhide bone may not be a bad move.

2 choices come to mind for most people – either make more money or spend less. With an abundance mindset, the preferred choice is to make more money. The time tested adage “You will always receive more of whatever you give you time, energy and focus” rings true today will ear piercing volume. Where are you focusing your thoughts, feelings and actions? Focus on “what is the best way for me to generate more income?” and you mind will start clicking, spinning and creating ways to generate income. Focus on “oh woe is me, there is never enough” and your energy will plummet. Your income will dive in rocket speed right down to the red ink. Red ink is an accounting term for negative cash flow; you spent more than you received. Another way of expressing that thought is credit card debt which you do not have the money to pay.

The problem is clear. The solution begins with positive creative thoughts. Over 70,000 individuals have decided to start a new business. Facts reveal that a business will require time, money and effort in order to be successful. Entrepreneurial thinking requires some careful analysis. Is having your own business the correct decision for you? Not everyone is mentally wired, disciplined, enough to succeed at their own business. The entrepreneurial mindset requires:
1. absolute clarity about your choice of business
2. absolute dedication to do whatever it takes until success is achieved
3. discipline to design a plan and stick to the plan consistently
4. an open mind to learn, grow and make wise decisions with time, money and talent
5. a SMART goal (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely)

If you have chosen to make more money and then chosen to start a business as the means to achieve more income, analyze your mindset to confirm if you possess the entrepreneurial mindset characteristics. If you have a resounding yes to all of the above, let’s go forward.

Bonus entrepreneurial mindset thought. I have written an entire series of articles on this topic. Into every life, some emotional ice water will flow. Guaranteed. This negative, usually unsolicited, advice flows more freely than political rhetoric during an election campaign; actually it is about as welcome as the tirade of political ads. But I digress. This negative input which I term as “emotional ice water” flows from co-workers, friends and even our own relatives. Sometimes those to whom we are related pour the largest buckets of the emotional chill. They ridicule, criticize, and tell you they are doing it for your own good. Some may actually believe they are doing it for your own good but the result is just as devastating. Debbie and David Downer exist somewhere on each of our family trees.

If you are to become all that you can be, you MUST minimize the effect of the emotional ice water. Developing and maintaining an entrepreneurial mindset requires overcoming this potentially hazardous substance. Emotional ice water may flow in to you but it is up to you to develop such a red hot passion for your goal that your entrepreneurial mindset will overcome any effect. Your entrepreneurial thinking will determine a major portion of your success.

Remember that what you focus on expands. Focus on success, abundance and your own millionaire mindset. Ok, so you won’t become a millionaire overnight, but if you focus on the characteristics of an entrepreneur and really hone your entrepreneurial mindset, you can become anything you choose.

I salute you on your journey to success. Hire Elaine Love to speak to your group and to coach you as an individual as you pursue your goal. Go to www.ElaineSpeaks.net and lets jumpstart your success. Review www.Elaine4Success.com to insure your success.

Wait a second, is there a new twist on time which really helps? Tell me more. . . .

So many people are harping on time management. You know your time is valuable and each day another 24 hours ticks by. You can’t chase it down and recover last days, weeks, months and years. That only happens in the movies and creative fiction. You can learn more about yourself and how you think about time. The more you learn about how you “time think,” the easier it will be to focus your time. Focused time is productive and probably profitable.

How do you think? Do you think in the present or in the future? People who think in the present are more likely to be thinking about today and not really overly concerned about tomorrow, next week or certainly not 5 years from now. Ask a “present focused” guy about your relationship with him 5 years from now and he probably has not even thought about it. Many employees with a workplace attitude are more present than future focused. Their main concern may be paying the bills already on their desk rather than worrying about what may come 2 months from now.

A future focused person is always projecting months and years ahead. Entrepreneurs are frequently future oriented. The entrepreneurial mindset requires planning ahead. Entrepreneurs have visionary leadership or they would not be able to set projections for the future. Imagine planning a marketing campaign for 6 to 12 months from now if you were a present thinker.

The next elements relate to your schedule. A scheduled person will have an electronic calendar, handwritten paper scheduler or an efficient assistant. They will know exactly where they need to be at what time and what they anticipate doing at that meeting. Highly scheduled people are predictable but not necessarily flexible with their time.

The unscheduled person is more spontaneous and harder to pin down to a specific time or day commitment. They tend to keep their options open for rapid adjustment to situations.

Obviously there are combinations.
A present oriented and unscheduled person would be an adapter. These individuals tend to stay light on their feet and adjust to situations as they arise. This individual will be difficult to pin down to events until the last minute. When they are with you though, they will be fully present and engaged.

Someone who is present and scheduled would be more of a processor. Sound like a computer? There are similarities. This person usually has a high detail orientation and prefers to know in advance rather than be impromptu.

Entrepreneurs are firmly focused on the vision for the future. Visionary leadership requires a healthy degree of future orientation as well as a slightly flexible schedule. It does not mean they are totally unscheduled but they tend more to unscheduled than rigidly scheduled. Focusing on the long range vision for the company as well as keeping one eye focused on the events of today is typical of the entrepreneurial mindset.

The fourth category is the future oriented and scheduled both currently and into the future. This individual plans ahead. They can tell you where they will be and with whom they will be meeting weeks from now. Industry leaders frequently slip into this category. It is necessary for them to observe very closely the day to day operations as well as project into the future how today’s events will influence next year’s results. This person has plans to oversee their plans.

Once you clearly define your “time thinking” you will not only understand yourself better but also be able to make necessary adjustments. Understanding how others differ in their “time thinking” will also help you to coordinate with them. Your frustration is reduced when you realize someone is the opposite of you. It is not that they are disregarding your thoughts, needs and expectations; they simply think differently about time and commitments than you do.

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Challenging economy? Yes, but it is not the end of the world. In fact, at least ten of the top companies in the Dow Jones average started in a down economy.

Money does not disappear, it simply changes hands. Those with a creative entrepreneurial mindset will profit in any economy. The economy changes. Does your mindset take a dive off the top diving board into the black hole of depression? You may not control the economy but you do control your attitude. You are in 100% control of your entrepreneurial mindset.

Henry Ford reminds us that “whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

You are in control, or at least can be in control, of your thoughts, feelings and attitudes. Despite the events of the economy, you still have the ability to control your mind.

Have you read stories of a petite woman who lifted a car to save her child’s life? Have you read other seemingly impossible feats of strength and courage? Unless you have been hiding in a dark closet somewhere all of your life, you have heard of some extraordinary feats of strength or courage.

Your abilities are largely controlled by your mind. If you believe strongly enough that you can accomplish your goals, you will find a way to do so. Are you looking for reasons to succeed or excuses to allow yourself to give up? The entrepreneurial mindset absolutely requires courage, conviction and determination. True entrepreneurs keep searching for a path through the turbulent economic waters until they reach a stretch with true flow.

Flow means when you are making more forward progress than backward movement. Have we all experienced the one stroke forward and two or three strokes backward? Absolutely. The difference is that an individual with a true entrepreneurial mindset does not allow the temporary backward strokes to stop them.

When you make the achievement of your goal more important and more powerful than your challenges, you will find your flow. Make the achievement of the goal a firm feature of your entrepreneurial mindset. With your attitude set and unwavering, you will succeed. Without an unwavering entrepreneurial mindset, you will swim in circles. You may be moving but you will not be progressing. Strive for upward spirals, not circles.

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Job laid you off?  Can’t find another job?  Tired of looking for a job?  Maybe starting your own business is the answer.

79 million people will start a home business in the next three years according to this recent report in Forbes magazine.  American forefathers left England and came to America to build their businesses.  The entrepreneur has always been the backbone of America.  Edison, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gates and so many others were all entrepreneurs.  Every one of them started and developed their own business.  Why not you?

Why start your own business?  You control your income potential; you do not have a boss setting a salary or bonus cap on your earnings.  You set your own hours; no one tells you what time to arrive, take your break, take your lunch or what time to leave at night.  You no longer have to ask permission for a day off or a vacation.  Your duties are also your decision.  Sound good?

Even the beautiful petals of a rose and the heady perfume of its soft fragrance have a down side.   A rose bush has thorns.  Owning and operating your own business requires work.  Yes, I know.  Bummer.  The price you pay for all of those wonderful benefits is the responsibility of accomplishing all of the tasks necessary to make a business successful.

Decision one requires that you do something you know.  Either you already possess the necessary knowledge to be successful or you start learning.  Unless you already know exactly what you want to do, it is time to start assessing factors.

Before I started Mountain Castles Property Management, I asked questions and listened until I discovered a niche which needed to be filled.  Steamboat needed a property management company specializing in single family homes.  They wanted to rent homes on a yearly basis, a vacation basis or an executive basis.  An executive home does not rent; however, it must be cared for during the owner’s absence.  In some cases, the home needed attention even during the owner’s stay.

My knowledge was grossly insufficient in property management.  Reading books, attending classes and working for another property management company provided the training.

Decision two requires writing a detailed business plan.  What equipment, facilities, and supplies will be required?  How much will it cost?  What is the income projection?  What advertising will be used to achieve that income?  What about office staff?  The list goes on and on.  Prior planning avoids being blindsided by expenses.

Be optimistic but add a dash of realism.  You will not start out earning 20,000 income per month.  You will have unexpected expenses.  One of the jokes in building a new home is that it will take twice as long as expected and cost twice as much.  If you do not plan carefully, starting a new business can follow that same scenario.

Accurate record keeping is essential.  If you have a question about keeping a receipt or not, write every detail on it and file it where you can find it.  The IRS loves paper.  The steps to start a small business are quite simple and direct; however skipping any of them is not an option.

1. Find a niche doing something you enjoy
2. Either already posses the knowledge or acquire it
3. Write a detailed business plan which includes every potential cost or situation
4. Implement the plan.  Knowledge without action has far less value.
5. Keep a very positive mental attitude and keep moving forward
6. Celebrate every little success on the way to the big successes

The steps to start a small business are not difficult.  In a tough economy, starting small business may be easier than finding that magic job.

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Over 79 million people will start a home based business this year according to Forbes magazine.  Yesterday I wrote an article on Steps to Start a Small Business.

Starting a small business from home has positives and negatives.

Positives:

1. You do not have any additional rent for your business location.
2. You do not have any additional utility expense for your business.
3. You do not require any travel time or expense.  A 30 second walk from your bedroom to your office does not count as travel time.

4.  In the initial stages you will probably not have any employee expense

Negatives:

1. You work from home.  You have all of the distractions of home life which makes it more challenging to focus and concentrate on business tasks.
2. You have to do all of the tasks.  You place the ads, you call the people, you do the  training, you do the record keeping, you do the short and long range planning and you do your own research to learn more about your new business
3. Wow.  After all of that you are probably thinking about a nap.  No can do.  Until you start making money in your new small business, you are probably still working your day job.  Plan at least 20 hours a week for you new business.

Being health conscious and an exercise-a-holic, I am not telling you to give up your sleep, give up healthy eating, or give up exercise.  It will be more challenging for awhile to accomplish everything.

Oh, your sanity is in the mix somewhere as well.  I am not telling you to give up your spouse, your kids or even your tennis racquet.  You WILL have to focus your time and energy carefully.  No more wasted time.  Carefully examine your schedule and make every minute count.

Weigh the time freedom, lower start up cost, convenience, and unlimited income potential against the discipline, time, initial investment and learning curve required for entrepreneurial thinking.  Do you have what it takes to be successful?

You may be thinking, “What if I fail?”  The best way to overcome your fear of failure is to make your desire for success more powerful than you fear.  What is your “why?”  What is your powerful reason to push through any obstacle until you reach success?

Every business requires a powerful “why,” but a home based business seems to require an even stronger why than a brick and mortar business.  Maybe it is because there is a lower investment or because it is easier to quit.  You do not have a lease to break or contracts to renegotiate or transfer.  Work from home business ideas sound great and they are great.  The catch is the follow through.

If you have the discipline, determination and “why,” your odds of success just skyrocketed.

If you would like individual coaching or more personalized guidance on your steps to start a small business, contact me at www.Elaine4Success.com.

How many hours did you spend preparing for that presentation?  Entrepreneurial success requires preparation, presentation and review.  If it was a major client, it was probably several hours.  You wrote, rehearsed, tweaked and worried.  You probably picked out just the right outfit to make a favorable impression.  The time arrived and you gave your presentation.  How did it go?

Preparation is absolutely important.  Delivery is also very important.  What happens next?  “It has been 2 days since we met, Mr. Buyer.  What do you think?”  Regardless of the words chosen, you probably made at least one follow up call.

What did you do about your presentation?  Did you review your own performance?  Reality indicates that less then 1% of the salesmen ever review their own presentation.  Entrepreneurial success is epitomized by the Toastmasters speaking and leadership tracks.  Toastmasters encourages every member to record a video and an audio of every speech.  Just recording the speech is not enough.  It is important to actually watch and listen to the recording.

How many salesmen, male and female, ever record their presentations?  Out of thousands of sales professionals, you could count the number on one foot with toes left over.  No wonder so many salesmen put their foot in their mouth during presentations.

A wise friend of mine, Ed Tate, recommends using debriefing questions after every presentation.  (Ed Tate was the 2000 world champion of public speaking for Toastmasters.)

What happened?  List the good points and the “lets do that differently next time” points.

Why did that part work or why didn’t that part work?  Break the entire presentation down into small parts and review each one.  Don’t beat yourself up, but do be honest.  The growth is in the struggle to improve.  I recently had a speech which did not go nearly as well as I would have liked.  I don’t know if you ever talk to yourself, but I had a serious heart to heart with myself over that performance.  “Elaine, you stayed up all night working on the last minute changes.  You were not rested and refreshed.”  “Elaine, you spent the time running off new handouts instead of eating breakfast.  Your energy was low.”  “Elaine, you drank black coffee in an attempt to boost energy all night and early in the morning rather than drinking water to stay hydrated.”  “Elaine, you self sabotaged your own performance.”  Even though staying up all night working, running off copies and coffee seemed like good ideas at the time, in retrospect, they were self defeating.

How many college students have crammed all night for a test and almost fell asleep during the test?  Common practice but not a good idea.

What worked?  What parts did not work?  In any speech or presentation some parts work better than others.  Unless you take the time to dissect the entire presentation, you do not know what parts to keep in for the next presentation and which parts to tweak.  In order to maximize entrepreneurial success, a debrief of the presentation is essential.

What did you learn?  Debrief all parts of the presentation and make concentrated efforts to strengthen the most effective parts and revise the weaker segments.  Examine carefully what you learned.  The growth is in the struggle.

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Want to make it easier on yourself to get out of bed in the morning?        How would it feel to be excited about your work?  Imagine being more excited about Monday morning than Saturday morning?

You will always be more productive, more profitable and more emotionally satisfied when you are working in your passion.  When you are passionate about what you do for a living, it is easier to get out of bed in the morning.  You are actually eager to get to the office.  Does that feel like traveling in a foreign land without a map to you?  If being happy about your career is totally foreign to you, then it is time to seriously examine your career choice.

Remember as a child how you had wild and wonderful dreams about how life could be when you grew up?  What happened to that childish wonder and excitement?  As a child did you imagine yourself as wealthy?

Examine your wealth builders blueprint.  Did you forget to even make one or is it covered with years of dust?  Unfortunately, it is probably not gold dust.  Time to dust it off and reinvigorate your dreams.  Your dreams are the first step in your wealth builders blueprint.

What is a dream anyway?

D – Decide what you truly want

R – Refine it down to a specific goal

E – Examine all of the factors involved in making it come true

A – Action plan to achieve

M – Maintain consistent, persistent, focused action

Deciding what you truly want can be accomplished by paying close attention to your energy.  When do you feel the most invigorated and inspired?  What are you doing when time just flies by without glancing at the clock every five minutes or having the overwhelming urge to jump up and get another cup of coffee?  When do you feel the greatest sense of satisfaction?  Where does your mind wander to in your daydreams?  All of these are clues as to your passion – your area of highest productivity, profitability and satisfaction.

Refining all of these thoughts, activities and “what if” ideas into the one most important goal is a process.  Be careful not to talk yourself out of your dream by saying it can’t happen.  Approach the process as if EVERYTHING is possible.  When you want something badly enough and really focus on it, there is usually a way to achieve it.  Napoleon Hill said, “What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Examine all of the factors involved.  Do you need more training?  Do you need to tap into a positive mastermind group who share your quest for achieving a dream?  Careful, no bar room benefactors, they tend to be negative; they are dream stealers.  Look at finances, education, and skills.  You will have to move.  Move your mind in a new direction; move your time priorities; move your seat off the couch and into action.

Form an action plan with step by step activities to move you constantly toward your goal.  It may not be fast but keep checking to be certain you are on course.  Revisit the plan frequently and be certain you have not veered off course.

Maintain consistent, persistent and focused action all headed toward the achievement of the goal.  This means daily.  Your dream becomes a 24-7-365 focus.  You dream about its accomplishment at night, take action on it during the day and daydream about how your life will feel when you are successful.

A wealth builders blueprint starts with a dream.  Live the life you desire and deserve.