1) Define Your “Why”
MAKE NO MISTAKE
YOUR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON YOUR THOUGHTFULLY EXECUTING THIS STEP!
Although this does not make the money, the extremely serious money and extreme levels of success CANNOT be made without this carefully evaluated step IN ANY BUSINESS! It is important that you define what your expectations are and “Why” you have purchased your new home-based business through YTBI. Although nothing happens on its own, this business is unique in that through the power of the Internet and the system provided through this Company, you have the ability to greatly leverage your efforts and its resultant success. Your commitment level will be determined by the goals you establish and COMMIT to following through with. Without the clearly defined goals, there is little incentive for the commitment. Some folks are simply looking to maintain a minimal time commitment and save thousands of dollars annually through their access to wholesale travel benefits and tax deductions. Some love their job and are just looking to supplement their current income, while utilizing the travel benefits and tax deductions. Some, like us, are successfully building a business that will create an income that will financially set not only ourselves financially independent, but also our future family financially independent for generations to come. We want to write one check for our child’s college, be home for our child and have the professional flexibility to attend all school functions, never be placed in a position where we have to enroll our parents or watch our kids have to enroll us in a nursing home but rather provide an in-home care solution, purchase a very specific "dream home” on a large lot of land for our dogs, have access to tax deductible travel for pennies on the dollar and we want this generous, residual income to allow us to walk away from our commitment at a very early age while the business keeps working for us.
These examples are very different objectives and will require equally different commitment levels and game plans AND ESPECIALLY “DAILY HABITS.” It is important that you be absolutely clear with what your objectives are so you properly identify the commitment required and also to realistically evaluate the success you are experiencing in response to your goals and commitment. If you cannot vividly and specifically imagine what your specific success will look like when you get there, not only will you not get there, you can’t even know how to approach the path that will take you there! Make your objectives and goals bigger than yourself; so big that they are absolutely undeniable! Goals that that are so important that absolutely no person, outside opinion or influence stands a chance of altering your course! Then, establish small, short term goals, that you place your immediate focus and attention on, one at a time, that will serve as periodic rewards, which will lead you to those destination goals!!
The bigger and more specific your goals are, the more specific your plan and direction will be while allowing you to tap into the elevated level of consistent determination and conviction that will provide the power needed to stay the course. This aspect will many times determine the small decisions like, “do I talk to that person real quick or should I just pick it up again tomorrow?” Folks, tomorrow never gets here. I will make that decision to talk to that person today and overall work much differently and harder to do things like retire my parents, leave a large nest egg for my children or put my child through college than I would for a new house or boat! Fact… you will not obtain an extreme level of success, through anything, if you cannot vividly visualize what “your” success looks like! This visualization should be disciplined and kept in constant focus (in front of you). Your goals should be the first thing on your mind when you wake up, the last thing on your mind as you go to bed thinking about how your next day will be navigated and this focus should be an active participant in the decisions, no matter how insignificant they may seem, throughout the day. This is likely a very different way of maneuvering through your day, but it is likely the difference between where you are now and where you strive to be. You must absolutely know what your specific “success” looks like in order to set the goals and know how to begin the approach of accomplishing it; this is a different picture for every individual. Set yourself up correctly!
If you are going to “step it up” and do it differently than you have in the past, lets do it right and for good! Think carefully about this… “We are all currently enjoying 100% of the rewards the boundaries of our current activities and habits have to offer. To expand the rewards, we have to expand the boundaries first!” Here are some tools that have been ABSOLUTELY INVALUABLE in helping our family to recognize the significance of understanding this aspect of our business and personal success overall…