Performance Strategies: Entreprenuer Attention Deficit Disorder (EADD)

If you've ever found yourself juggling multiple projects (not just tasks) without being able to get any done you just might have EADD. Entrepreneur Attention Deficit Disorder or EADD (not a real disorder for those of you who are too literal) strikes individuals who are typically the "idea" people and who try to do it themselves rather than delegate or outsource.

Let's take an example. Say you want to boost sales and you've heard about the social media and networking "thing". You "google" till your eyes are red, reading and absorbing everything you can. You find yourself taking online tutorials, downloading this and that, and along the way, you register with Facebook, MySpace, Linked In, and Twitter but not sure exactly how that will help you. You then get caught up with all your new "friends" and their "expert" advice. This sends you off on a new direction because you've now discovered that you can increase revenue by doing webinars. But, to get that rolling you need a "list". How to build a list? OK, back to Google, more tutorials and again you discover another great idea to make money, and the cycle continues till the wee hours when you realize nothing productive happened and other critical things have been passed over. Tired? Of course.

So what's the solution. Well, first acknowledge the problem and get help. First, get a business strategic consultant (shameless plug, call me any time) to help you create your business blueprint (no not a business plan). That plan will identify strategic outcomes and resources needed. Guess what? If you are a one-man-show, you will outsource, if not and you have the in-house talent with the available time, you'll delegate and oversee.

EADD is not a bad thing. Actually if channeled, it shows creativity and growth potential. But potential is all it will ever be until you realize plates will eventually break if you try to keep too many spinning at once.

Look! A penny!

Performance Strategies - Are Rats Smarter Than People?

I've trained wealth principles to thousands of students over the years and am constantly reminded of what stops the average person from achieving success. They simply get in there own way and care too much about what others think. By contrast, put a rat in a maze (their "world"), give them a goal (find a piece of cheese), and they will simply go after it regardless of the obstacles or consequences. That instinctive behaviour gives them the ability to succeed. Even when they head down a path and find a dead-end, they backtrack and take another. They continue in that manner till they reach their goal. All too often, people faced with their mazes, simply give up, either because they encountered too many "dead-ends" or because they couldn't figure out another path or because they were embarrased when they noticed people paying attention to their failures. According to the Chinese Zodiac, "Most rats get more accomplished in 24 hours than the rest of us do in as many days." Be bold, be a rate today!

Performance Strategies: Spirituality and Enlightenment

My dear friend Sukhvinder Singh Jutla has launched a wonderful blog titled: Umeedon ka Gulsan - Garden of Hopes which I recommend you visit. During still or challenging times we need spiritual refreshment. His blog provides such for you to "drink in". Your feedback is valued as a comment on this blog.

Performance Strategies: Take a break...

Every now and then you should take a step back from all your life's turmoil to re-center and refocus on what's important.

Performance Strategies: Don't turn "Self-Help" into "Shelf-Help"!

How may times have you bought a self-help book or program, reviewed it, digested it, attempted to apply it, just to put it on the shelf never to be used again? I call that turning self-help into shelf-help and too may of us have done it all too often.

Oh yes, I am one of the guilty parties. I have so many self-help books, CDs, casette tapes, DVDs, workbooks and the like I could fill the entire personal development section of your favorite bookstore. Some I've never even opened! Many of the ones I have, I never finished. Of those I finished, all too many of the valuable teachings remain unapplied...

Ahhhhh. but to take responsibility for that lack of action and to be accountable to yourself for it is actually enlightening. OK then, now what? Well, the answer is not in those self-help programs, it is in the "self", itself! In other words, assuming you are getting good content, it is you who must ACT! The "book" does nothing.

The simple solution? You need outside help!

I am sure you want success. I am equally certain you are willing to do what it takes to have it. BUT, the issue is following a plan with sustained and correct action. Most of us find it hard to ask for help or to seek it out.

Go out and get yourself a mentor, a coach and a personal assistant. Notice I did not say one or the other. I said...one of each. Oh, and please don't post a reply that you can't afford it. What you can't afford is that attitude. Either make excuses or make it happen. Choose!

Performance Strategies: Unquestioned love...

Performance Strategies: Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield

Performance Strategies: Watch these...

Take 15 minutes for yourself and watch each of the following videos. Then take a few extra minutes to return to this blog and write your comments. Very powerful stuff...

The Simple Truths of Service
The Nature of Success
The Dash
212 The Extra Degree
To A Child
Rock Solid Leadership

Performance Strategies: Perspective, Balance and Duality

Keep your feet on the ground and your head in the clouds

Performance Strategies: A great coach will help you find your heart

Performance Strategies: Absolute Abundance

Prosperity is real. It emanates from a source. Scarcity is illusion. It emanates from imagination. The subconscious mind manifests both as a result of conscious action. Conscious action emanates from belief. Conscious inaction emanates from fear. Focus on faith and you get abundance. Focus on fear and you get scarcity. Faith erases fear...and vice-versa. Either way, it's a choice.

Your limitations are just that...yours! No one has imposed them upon you...except you.

Notice each time you utter or think of a self-limiting or self-defeating thought. Step back, take ownership, and take corrective action just as you would if you did something in error in your "normal", physical day. For example, if you made a mistake writing a letter, you would notice it, accept that you made the mistake, think little of it, and yet you would effortlessly correct it. Simple! Noticing your mind working in the same way creates abundance.

You must know yourself to dwell in abundance. Ignorance is poverty-mindedness.

Performance Strategies: Don't let emotions control you

"When your emotions take flight...don't be onboard"
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Performance Strategies: The Horse Knows The Way...

When I was a young boy I would go horseback riding with my father. One day I remember asking "what if we get lost?". "No problem" he said, "just loosen the reins a little, squeeze your legs (English saddle), and the horse will take you home (back to the stable). The horse always knows the way". "What about in the dark?" I asked. "No matter, the horse knows the way".

Years passed, I gave up riding for along time, then took it up again. I rode with a friend who was very experienced. I got comfortable and one day, with no riding partner, I went out on my own. Well, you guessed it. I got lost. I was so focused on the beautiful scenery that I forgot to take my bearings. Then it started to get dark, quickly. Soon there was little light and I was getting more nervous by the minute. Anxiety got the best of me and I froze. I had no idea what to do. Then it hit me. Loosen the reins and the horse will take me home. So I did. To my amazement, the horse did just that...and fast. It's like he could see in the dark.

This story is a metaphor for the times we get lost in our lives. Either personally or professionally. All we need is a good horse. In other words, we must have something we can trust in times of stress. A mentor comes to mind. Someone who has our best interest at heart and who is an expert in the areas that we are not. In this way we need not trust ourselves, we just trust them, the horse. Why? Because they always know the way home!

Performance Strategies: Act in Spite of Fear

The following is an except from T. Harv Eker. You can get more information on the Millionaire Mind and the opportunity of attending one of his free seminars by visiting: http://www.millionairemind.com/preview/mme/

The formula for manifestation in our physical universe is known to be "thoughts lead to feelings, which lead to actions, which lead to results." Most people have plenty of thoughts and feelings, but the breakdown for many seems to be ability to take "action". The culprit, of course, is fear. That is why to succeed in life you must cultivate the trait of courage.

T Harv Eker

Performance Strategies: Settle for MORE....

Sometimes the reason we don't have is because we are shooting to low. As a result, often we see the doors as closed and don't understand why. Maybe they are closed so that the good ones are left open.

Performance Strategies: Trapped?

Are you trapped in your past experiences? If so, your are doomed to relive them every day as your present.

Performance Strategies: Crumbs or Cake?

"Why eat the crumbs when the cake is for you to take"
---unknown

Performance Strategies: Which comes first?

You must believe to receive yet it seems that many need to receive to believe.
---Stephen Libman

Performance Strategies: Adjust your focus

"Dont be so wrapped up in your way when another way may serve you better"
---unknown

Performance Strategies: Worry, or not...

Think back to a year ago, two years ago, five years ago or even longer and try and remember what you worried about. Chances are, most of those things never happened and the ones that did were managed.

So, considering that what we worry about seldom comes true and that which does is handled anyway, why bother worrying. In fact, all it accomplishes is a tremendous waste of time, energy and yet often adversely affects our health. Now that's something to worry about!