Well it’s back to business after a long holiday break, although I’m leaving again to go to the Caribbean for a week in a few days.

I wanted to send write a quick post about the importance of kicking off your year right.

If you’re on my list then you’ve gotten an email from me about setting goals for 2009 and beyond, and I would highly recommend you listen to the audio podacst I did back in September on how to properly set goals.

As I’ve mentioned in that audio, years ago I was at a seminar where the speaker said - “… in 10 years you’re going to be somewhere, the question is where?”

The question you need to ask yourself is “where do I want to be a year from now?”

The answer and your commitment to it will determine what you will do today in order to achieve that.

As you may have noticed time flies. I can’t believe it’s 2009.

It seems like yesteday we were all thinking whether we’ll have the lights on and be able to get money out of ATM’s on Jan. 1 2000… that was almost 10 years ago.

So how’s the last 10 years have been?

Have you gotten what you wanted?

If you set any goals back then, did you achieve them?

It’s not just the setting of the goal that’s important. It’s the constant reminders of where you’re going and the commitment you give to the things that you need to do to accomplish it.

If you don’t give too much thought about the things you want to achieve, if you don’t keep those reminders in front of you, then your mind will wander off somewhere else.

The KEY is to stay focused and have your long term goals broken down into shorter term, measurable steps.

So whatever you’d like to accomplish in 2009, needs to be broken down into quarters, months, weeks, days all the way to what you need to do today. And it’s those daily little things that make the big things possible and attainable.

If you haven’t heard my audio from September yet, CLICK HERE to listen to it, it’ll give you the directions you need, and it’s exactly what I do to keep myself on track.

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The finalist of the U.S. Open, Jelena Jankovich, ending up in 2nd place and getting $500,000 in prize money was infected with failure.

This was comment from the commentator about her game in 2006 when she lost over 30 games in row.

He said it was as though she was infected with failure and even considered quitting the sport.

But this girl is a fighter and a competitor which ultimately makes her a winner.

In the last two years she’s played more games than anyone else in the world, 167 I believe (I could be wrong but it’s around that number).

Working her way up from the bottom of the barrel to #2 spot in the world.  At only 23 years of age, she’s already got over $5,000,000 in prize money, not counting her endorsements.

Jelena Jankovich at U.S. Open

So what’s the lesson here?

It’s a all about being mentally tough.

It is unfortunate but in our society defeat is treated like failure.  Failure is such a negative word, it sounds like it’s permanent.

You know when you don’t pass an exam in school, what do you get an F, which means you’ve failed.

And so from the very early childhood and all through our school years we’re taught that failure is bad.

I know this is somewhat elementary, and I know that you know that failure is just a stepping stone.  But that’s not the issue.  The issue is that most people may on a logical level understand this, but on the emotional level, unconsciously they label themselves as failures.

You see all this programming that we’ve received from school about how bad this F is, is deep within our unconsciousness.   And even when you begin to understand that failure is just a stepping stone, that setbacks are necessary and simply require you to correct your course, BUT on the subconscious level (which by the way dictates what you really think, feel, and how you act) you’re still a failure.

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You have less than 120 days left in this year, and it’s January 1st 2009.

Sounds like from a fiction movie.

Anyways, where’d the time go?  Remember all those New Years resolutions you’ve made in what seems like last week?

So how are you doing with them?

You see, I’ve noticed an interesting thing over the years working with people.  Everybody sets big goals in January.  They’re going to conquer the world.  They will double, triple, no quadruple their income, lose weight, stay fit, save more money, and on and on…

But as time passes they forget about them.

They make a list, tuck it away and never look at it again.

And then another year goes by and they’re at it again, make a list, and …. 2 weeks later they forget all about it.

Well, today my kid is back to school, actually she’s starting 1st grade, and as I’m driving her in the morning I see all those school buses and a new school year is beginning.

So I thought, why do we have to wait until Jan. 1st to set some goals, 2008 isn’t over just yet.

As far as I’m concerned today is the absolutely perfect time to revisit what you’ve set for yourself and give it a push to finish off the year with a bang.

We have less than 120 days in the year, so why not set and achieve some real goals for this year.

By the way IF you do this, it will put you in the top 3% of the people in the world who actually set goals.

This is something I like to do once a quarter.

First of all it gives me an opportunity to review my progress, then it allows me to refocus my thinking, my energy and keep my conscious mind on track, while at the same time reinforcing this programming in my subconscious mind.

I went ahead and recorded an audio for you so you don’t miss a thing.

Go ahead and listen to the audio as I will walk you through the process and the specifics of how you can have set yourself up to have this be your best year, in just 120 days.

You might want to get out a sheet of paper so you can jot things down and when you hear some ideas that inspire you or things you want to add to your goal list make sure you note them.

Feel free to share your comments as you begin to put this into practice.

And have your greatest year in the next 120 days.

Best,

Vitaly

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You know when I started selling financial services, I was almost 19 years old.  Knowing absolutely NOTHING about this industry, how the products worked and how to present them, was a bit of a challenge.

I mean after all, would you trust a 19 year old kid with your finances?

On top of that I knew nothing about sales or marketing, as the saying goes, I couldn’t even ‘close’ a door.

So how do you overcome these challenges?

You become a pro.

What I’m about to share with you is amazingly simple and fairly easy to do.

BUT, as the legendary motivational speaker Jim Rohn says, the things that are easy to do, are also easy NOT to do.

I decided that I will make myself so knowledgeable and so good, that clients will have no other option but to do business with me.

So I went to the bookstore and got myself some personal finance books and books on mutual funds.  I found some great training literature on different insurances, and I dove right into it.

If you make commitment to read 1 hour a day, even if it’s only in 15 minute increments, that’s over 365 hours a year.  In 2 years you would have put over 700 hours of study into the thing you want to get good at.

Ya think you might get good at it?

I’ll tell you this. The amazing thing is that almost no one will do that.  And when I say no one, I mean 99.999% of the people that say they’ll do it, WON’T.

Why?

Who cares why, that’s just the way it is.  Actually I do know the answer to why they won’t do it, but that’s a long winded explanation, and you can read my previous posts on that, or go to www.businessattractor.com and find out more about how your mind works.

But the bottom line, is that most people will simply not have the little discipline needed for their success.

And if you simply make a commitment to read and learn every day, in a very short period of time, you’ll rise above the rest as you’ll become the expert.

I’ve done this successfully for years.  Starting at 19 and getting myself to a such level of competence, that people didn’t care how old I was, all they saw is how I can help them.

I then spent many hours studying sales, marketing, and communication.  Again with just a little time everyday, you can become a wealth of knowledge.

When I switched my business to marketing and consulting the same thing happened.

I already knew that I was more than capable to learn anything I need or want to learn if I simply take 1 hour a day and devote it to learning.

So if you want to be an expert in a specific niche.  Or if you want to radically improve your sales and marketing, follow this simple, easy to do daily routine and watch yourself become the go to person in that area.

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Can we really benefit from negative thoughts?

Absolutely.

Many self-help books and courses talk about removing negative thoughts, eliminating them, and I completely agree with that.  However, negative thoughts and emotions play a very important role in your life.  Without them progress would be very difficult.

Here’s a little twist.

You see, whenever you’re feeling negative, what that means is that you’re not in alignment with what you really desire.

Since we attract what we feel, the minute you catch yourself feeling negative, you know that in that moment you’re attracting the opposite of what you want.

This is good.  Because most people have no idea what’s going on in their life, but if you understand what happens during the time you’re feeling this way, you can change your point of attraction.

Negative thoughts and feelings guide you and let you know that you need to correct your course.

Of course after that you want to remove the thought/feeling and replace it with what you do want.

As you start catching yourself thinking negative, you should congratulate yourself because you’re now aware of your thinking, and when you become aware you start gaining control.

As you notice that negative thought or a limiting belief start surfacing up, you know that you’re now attracting the opposite of you what you want and it’s time to change your thoughts.

Now isn’t that a better way to handle it, then to beat yourself up over the fact that you’re not positive 24 hours a day?

Plus it’s really impossible to stay positive all the time.  Whether we feel positive or negative, they’re just signals that we’re receiving about what we’re attracting at any given moment.

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I’d like to share with you one of the biggest, if not the #1 reason why people don’t live up to their potential.  This is THE thing that stops most people dead in their tracks, and keeps them from achieving lots more success.

But first let me tell you a true story about someone I’ve worked with in the past.

This guy is a very well educated person.  Has 2 college degrees, comes from a family full of professionals and is highly motivated.

When I recruited him to work in my agency, he was very excited.  He saw the big possibilities of this industry immediately and I really didn’t have to tell him much about the opportunity, as he saw the promise of big financial rewards him.

One thing I remember very vividly is his comment to me that he doesn’t want to work for anyone and that he’s an entrepreneur.

Every time we talked he was the one telling me his new ideas on how to grow the business, and how much business is out there, etc…

But the bottom line in that business, as in any other business, is you’ve got to see people.
You have to go on appointments.

Days and weeks went by and he wasn’t setting any appointments or doing anything that would move his business.

I would talk to him daily, telling him that he needed to call people, and set up appointments.  Explaining to him that he needed to fill his pipeline and all of that.

And still, there were almost no results.  He might have had 1 or 2 appointments in a month.  Which is enough to tell you that he wasn’t making any money.

He even went to an advanced sales training seminar with me, and studied for 3 days like a mad man.  Memorizing everything, all the closes and the objection handling techniques.

At the end of the seminar, I told him that this is great, but you need to have a someone that will actually give you an objection for you overcome.  To which he replied – “Of course”

A few more months went by and he quit the business and got a 9-5 job with a paycheck.

I thought about this for a long time.  Why didn’t he do anything.

He wanted to.  He put the time and the effort to learn the business, study sales.  He had a good personality and seemed to be motivated.

So what was it that stopped him?

Eventually I came to a conclusion that the thing that killed his chances of success was this – Read the rest of this entry »

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Yesterday I took my daughter to see Kung Fu Panda. I thought it was awesome.

I have to admit, I love martial arts movies (and cartoons).

But to me there was much deeper, positive message in this kids cartoon.

Po, the clumsy panda noodle-maker who always dreamed of being a kung fu fighter, accidentally got a chance to be among the best of kung fu students and study with the great Shifu, a protégé of the great kung fu Master Oogway.

Being chosen as The Dragon Warrior, only he could read from the sacred Dragon Scroll that contained the secret of extreme power, and who ever read it would be lethal in his skills.

After opening the scroll, Po saw that there’s nothing there. But just a little later he realizes with the help of his father, that the secret power is inside.

His dad a famous noodle-maker was known for his special secret ingredient, finally let Po in on the secret…

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One of the things I’ve always loved to do is to draw.  Not because I’m great at it, I just enjoy drawing.  And my daughter and I draw quiet often.  She always asks me to draw her favorite cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse, Strawberry Shortcake, Dora, and Disney’s Princesses.

Lately she’s been asking me, “How do you draw so good, why can’t I draw like you?” What a great opportunity to teach her about practicing.  So tell her, you’ve got to practice.  If you want to get good at something, you simply practice.  There’s no talent, no luck, it’s just practice, and keep improving.  I’m drilling this into her brain (she’s 5, so it’s easy), and she believes it.  She doesn’t doubt that she will not be able to do it.

Recently we bought one of those piano keyboards with a stand.  And she’s been playing around with it.  I taught her to play the tune to “Happy Birthday” and “Jingle Bells” (That’s about 50% of what I know )  Anyway, she’s asking me, “So if I practice can I be good at this too?

You see we all need to remember that practice is the key to anything.  This is both mental and physical.

I remember years ago, I was starting out (it didn’t last but for 3 years) in a jewelry business.  I was learning to set diamonds, and one of the settings called bead or pave setting, requires a TON of practice.  And you start with putting cubic zirconium into copper, before you move on to gold and diamonds.

I’ve spent weeks, practicing on copper.   But as a result I learned how to do it.

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Here’s an important question to ask yourself. Are feeding your dreams or your nightmares?

What influences your mind the most? Is it what you want or what you don’t want. Are you letting fears or desires dictate your state of mind.

One of the 13 principles of success that Napoleon Hill wrote about in his classic “Think and Grow Rich” is the principle of Autosuggestion. Which is all suggestions that reach your subconscious mind by what you allow to remain in your conscious mind.

We get exposed to lots of stimuli in our day to day activities. The media, the society, the books and magazines we read, and our interpretation of this huge stream of information and what we think and how feel it will affect us, is what gets programmed into our minds.

Whatever we allow to dominate our mind is what gets imprinted into our consciousness.

Here’s what’s important to realize. Is that we have complete control over what we allow to go into our mind.

Some people will argue that they’re not in control, but I disagree. If you tune into a station on the radio or a channel on TV that you don’t like, why keep watching or listening to it, just change the channel or tune into a different frequency on the radio.

If you go see a movie you don’t like, are you going to buy it on dvd to watch it again?

That’s kind of obvious, isn’t it? But that’s exactly what most people do when it comes to thoughts and ideas.

Changing the course of your thoughts is as simple as changing the channel on your TV.

It simply takes a decision. It’s a lot easier when you know specifically what it is that you want, and you can feed those dreams, and starve your nightmares.

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Every now and then, I stop by a forum and eavesdrop on what people talk about. As it relates to the Law of Attraction, it seems that there’s a group of people that firmly believes in this amazing power, and also there’s a group that questions it, and doesn’t really believe that it’s that simple.

One comment I saw from someone who saw “The Secret” and stated that “…where’s the proof? … it can’t work just like that…”

My first reaction was that it’s just another cynic. However, after I thought about it for a while, it made me realize that there are a lot of people like this guy. They don’t believe in anything or anybody. They’re always looking for the catch.

When I was recruiting people in my former business, and I would do a meeting, talking about the opportunity, there would always be someone in the room who would be a total skeptic and question everything.

I remember 2 specific times. One lady Read the rest of this entry »

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