How To Embrace The Billionaire Mindset of Donald Trump & Bill Gates

Starting Doing This ... Today !

Anytime you’re able to do what you want, what do you typically do ? 

If you’re like most people, you do the thing that you find the most enjoyable, the least scary or the easiest.

Therein lies a MAJOR stumbling block to success – procrastination.

Sure, you need to finish that project, but first you’re going to spend a few minutes on Facebook.

Yes, you need to get that blog post written and uploaded, but…are those dust bunnies under your desk? It won’t take long to run the dust mop around and then you will get right back to work.

And so it goes.

It is amazing the things that look more interesting to us than doing what we need to do. Sometimes it is “shiny object syndrome”, where something new seems that it would be more fun than working on the client project that is due next week. But it can even be something we normally would not want to do (Dusting ? Really ?) if we were not facing a more daunting task that we want to put off.

One of the reasons many of us went in to business for ourselves is that we wanted to set our own goals, control our own schedules and we didn’t want to answer to someone else. The one good thing about answering to someone else, however, is having that external accountability.

When you’re accountable to someone and you need to answer for your actions, you know what happens ? You get stuff done. And oftentimes just getting stuff done makes all the difference between succeeding and failing.

We tend to be our own worst enemies when it comes to being focused. But when you have someone to report to each day and account for what you accomplished, and whether you achieved your goals for the day,  procrastinating becomes downright difficult – and even a bit embarrassing. You know you’ll have to make an excuse if you didn’t get your work done, and you know your partner isn’t going to buy that excuse any more than you’re going to buy hers.

Find someone with whom you are compatible and become each other’s accountability partner.

Set goals for each day or week and share them with your accountability partner. Then you report on how you did on reaching your goals.

Here is how I do it : Every Monday I send out two emails to my accountability partners. One is my list of goals for the week and the other reports on how I did on my goals for the previous week. They do the same with me.

Just knowing that I will be reporting on what I accomplished (and what I failed to accomplish) motivates me to get more done.

This is a simple technique but I think you will be completely amazed at the difference it makes in your business.

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Getting On The Right Line Of Thinking - Think Like An Entrepreneur

How does one learn to think like an entrepreneur ? If you get lost, here is a line of thinking map.

Written by Anna Vital

“Forget everything you learned,” they told me on the first day of law school. Three years and $150,000 later they erased from my mind all the half-truths I learned from school and my family. They were not teaching law, they acknowledged, they were teaching thinking. As an entrepreneur, you, too, have to relearn everything from scratch. By yourself.

As much as it seemed like a ripoff back in law school, I later realized knowing how to think is the most valuable thing. Period. You can do it yourself, for free, but be ready to painfully rethink everything you know, with a lot of courage. The reason is that by the time you figure out what you have to unlearn, you are already packed with multiple identities – the child, the student, the spouse, the employee, the citizen, the parent. None of them teach you to be an entrepreneur. Or to see opportunity. They just tell you what is required of you. To see opportunity – for that you have to think yourself. And, just as importantly, rethink and unlearn what you were told in your pre-entrepreneur life.

Get on the right line of thinking

I was riding the New York subway a couple of years ago. Got lost and came out in the wrong place.  Same with thoughts – you find out you got on the wrong line of thinking.

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