This article was written by Aaron Rashkin titled,  5 critical components of success  in business.

After building a 7 figure income from scratch in the past 24 months, there are 5 Components of Successful Entrepreneurship that I feel are critical in order to truly succeed in today’s marketplace.
I shared this information on my sister in law’s Internet Radio Show called Nothing But the Truth with Anh Vu on Money Mondays, so just in case you missed the show LIVE, here are my notes:

#1 – Know Exactly Why You Want to be an Entrepreneur

Your reasons for wanting to be successful have to be much more than just “making money”.

Now of course making money is great but you must know exactly why you want to make a lot of money.

It could be that you want more free time for yourself, or time w/ your spouse, or kids.

Or perhaps you want a more flexible schedule to do whatever you want, like workout everyday or travel, or take more vacations.

Or perhaps you want to pay off your bills or become free from debt and reduce the fear, stress or anxiety that you feel from financial pressures and obligations.

Or… maybe you have a much bigger vision that includes restoring water for a 3rd world country or perhaps building a chain of fitness centers around the world, or perhaps even helping to find a cure for cancer through extensive monetary contributions for research.

Ultimately, whatever your reasons for wanting to be a successful entrepreneur, as long as those reasons are bigger than the challenges that you will encounter along the way, you will always have the edge over your competition when it comes to making your dreams come true.

Now I don’t like to tell people what to want or what to do – I will only share here what I wanted and what I did to get it.

Me personally, my goal was to start working for myself part time, so that eventually, I could go full time.

Then, my goal was to work only part time – but make a full time income.

Sometimes, part time even means “no time”, because there have been times that  I don’t work at all, for days, even weeks, if I don’t want to, or even can’t, as was the case of when I was in the hospital earlier this summer and needed extra recovery time when I returned home to my family.

In the wake of “no time”, my wife & I are still able to earn many thousands of dollars on a daily basis, whether we work on our business or not.

And yes, this is a part of what we wanted to achieve when we first got started – to work less, but earn more, so that we could spend more time together and with our 2 boys, Carter & Legend.

As you will read below, this is only possible when you know how to automate and create leverage through different processes within your business, which is exactly what Sophia & I have done in the past 2 years.

But back on track here, Critical Component of Successful Entrepreneurship #1 – Know exactly why you want to be self employed.

#2 – Find a Great Mentor or Mentors

This Critical Component of Successful Entrepreneurship is often overlooked, most often by new Entrepreneurs, so, to put a stop to it right now, you want to pay close attention to this one if you are just getting your feet wet in starting your own business.

First of all, you must understand that it’s not the duty of your mentor to struggle for you, but ensure you that you struggle is absolutely worthwhile.

And struggle you will at first – unless you are one of those rare people who enter into entrepreneurship “ego-less”.

Truth be known that very few people get started that way, but learn quickly that “ego” is the #1 culprit that robs most people from the very opportunities that their mentor is showing them.

But let’s get back on track in regards to finding a great mentor.

Here’s a short list of what you should look for when selecting a mentor:

A) Your mentors should have already achieved what you are looking to achieve yourself.

It could be income, lifestyle, or both.

It could be relationships, skills or perhaps even contacts.

Don’t just randomly pick any old person to be your mentor because you like them.

It’s like they say in Hollywood, “Success is not about Show friends – that’s why it’s called show Business!”, so treat your business like a business and select a great mentor to help light your path.

B) Make sure that your mentor in business, is still IN business.

Far too often, people who have had success, stop building their business to teach others how to succeed.  They start coaching programs and sell information products and this is great, but if they are not also building their primary business that made them successful, this is called “Management Mode”.

The problem with “Management Mode” is that with the ever changing landscape of the marketplace, the economy and people’s wants, needs and desires, your mentor should be constantly learning or they will fall behind and teaching you strategies that don’t work the same way today, as they did years, months, even weeks ago.

You don’t want to work with a “One Hit Wonder” that made some money back in the ’90s and now claims to know what is working today.

I see this far too often, where people hire mentors who never even really had success.

Make sure to do your research and find out if what your mentor is going to teach you, they made their fortune putting into practice, not just theory.

#3 – Choose Your Product Wisely

This is a Critical Component for several reasons.

First, make sure the Business / Product that you are marketing is in alignment with your own interests & passions.

In other words, you won’t just be working for a “living”, but for a loving!

And it will show in every way imaginable.

Because if you don’t love what you are doing, don’t have fun doing it and don’t enjoy yourself, your prospects will pick up that and find someone else to buy from.

You also want to make sure that your product is as close to whats hot on the market as possible. If you start selling vinyl records, unless you cater to an old school DJ marketplace, your probably not going to make a lot of money.

Find out what’s selling in today’s market, what people are searching for and buying no matter what the economy is doing or not, and see if it’s something that you like, enjoy or can be passionate about.

This is how fortunes are made – by doing some smart research.

#4 – Choose Your Vehicle Wisely

First, the vehicle you choose should offer you the ability to automate and leverage it’s systems and processes so that you can take off, travel, take a vacation or do whatever you want to do and never have to worry about not getting paid.

In other words, the business you choose should be able to make you lots of money and work for you, even when you don’t want to.

Plus, you want to choose the right vehicle to market your products or service because without the right vehicle, you limit yourself to what’s called Linear Income.

This means that if you work, you get paid. But if you don’t work, you don’t get paid.

When you can walk away from your business and still make money, you have Leveraged Income, which in turn, creates Lifestyle! This is when you have plenty of income coming in, repeatedly, and all the time in the world to enjoy it, while it continues to grow.

Some business models or vehicles that you can choose from include, Direct Selling, Multi-Level Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, ECommerce, Retail Sales and/or Distribution.

Each has its own pros & cons, advantages & disadvantages

And finally you want to pick a great vehicle when it cones to products and/or services you market and sell because you can be the best race car driver on the track, meaning you are great at what you do, but be in the slowest car in the race.

You’ve got to look at market trends and the state of the economy and find out what people want and are buying right now. Plus, with the US Dollar on the fall, make sure you pick a productline or service that pays you right now – not in months or years.
It’s called “Get Paid Today”, because your dollar is worth more today than it will in the next 3-5 years while the Devaluation of the American Dollar takes place.

#5 – Personal Growth & Development

This happens to be my personal favorite Critical Component and factor when it comes to being successful.

A lot of people think this is a bunch of crap, but the truth is, you will never out perform your own self image.

And typically, those people who think that personal growth & development is a bunch of crap, usually their lives are a bunch of crap.

Maybe not easily detected on the outside, but like me many years ago, on the inside there is probably a giant tornado ripping right through them whether they admit it or not.

And their bank account balance… their ego is probably bigger than their bank account.

In other words, your personal income will never exceed your personal growth.

Remember, your real product is people, so learn more about people and you will have just learned more about the real product that you market.

Start with yourself.

Read great books.

Listen to CDs and/or DVDs.

Attend LIVE Events.

Model great people and surround yourself with those who have what you want.

Be a great observer.

Be honest.

Stay humble.

And develop high levels of Integrity.

As you develop into a better leader & communicator, so will your income grow as well.

Just remember that you are exactly where you are supposed to be, so if you don’t like where you are starting, you can finish very differently.

Your future does not have to equal your past.

Personal Growth & Development is truly the key to your success!

So, my friend, there you have my 5 Critical Components to Successful Entrepreneurship.

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

Ways to Gain Positive Thinking

Daily Gratitude. There is so much good and beautiful inside of us and our lives… and so often we choose not to notice it. Look around and you’ll see that you are surrounded by many wondrous things!  Give thanks for the skills and talents that you possess. For example, “Today I am grateful for the crisp breeze blowing through the trees that cools the air and brings refreshment” or “Today I appreciate the stranger who smiled at me as we passed each other in the grocery store.”

Feel your Negative Feelings. When you are really in the dumps, do not try to use positive thinking to make the dumps go away. This kind of positive thinking inevitably leads to more disappointment because it does not provide the motivating/fulfilling energy needed to sustain it! Instead, embrace how you feel. Discover your unmet needs that are creating your feelings. Learn to meet those needs in empowering ways. Then, write Truth affirmations about your strength, courage and insights.

Truth affirmations, these are brief, true statements about you, your life and the people in it based upon actual experiences, daily acknowledgments and gratitude’s. The truth is that you KNOW you can accomplish anything and manage any life lesson that comes your way. It is just that sometimes we lose sight of this truth of our own being and need reinforcement. If you are already writing daily gratitude’s and acknowledgments, you’ll have lots of material to create Truth affirmations. Examples: “I am strong.” “I have many supportive relationships.”

To your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

Labor That works Miracles by Jim Rohn..

Two thousand years ago on April 15th one of Jesus’ disciples came to him and said it was time to pay taxes (that’s how I know it was around April 15th), but they had no money. In response to his disciple’s statement Jesus said “no problem”.  Now why could he say “no problem”?  Well, word had it that Jesus was a miracle worker.  If you hand a problem to a miracle worker what they are inclined to say is “no problem”.  You’ve got to hang out with people like that.

I belong to a small group and we do business around the world.  These guys are all miracle workers.  What an incredible group.  If you hand any of them a problem guess what they say, “no problem”.  How many books will they read to solve a problem?  As many as it takes.  If they need to consult – how much consulting will they do?  As much as it takes.  How early will they get up?  As early as it takes.  “No problem”… you got to hang out with people like that.  You cannot believe the thrill of being associated with miracle workers, people who will do whatever it takes to get the job done and perform miracles.

When asked about paying the taxes Jesus said it was “no problem”.  In fact, he said it was going to be easy – he told the disciple to just go fishing.  Now it couldn’t have been any easier than that, especially for this disciple whose name was Peter, because Peter was a fisherman.  Now if you can fish and you should fish and you don’t fish – then that is why you do not get a miracle.  But Jesus told his disciple to go fishing and the first fish that he caught to look in its mouth.  Peter, who was used to strange things happening, agreed.  Well, the first fish Peter catches, he looks in its mouth and finds coins.  Peter then adds up the coins and they are exactly enough to pay his and Jesus’ taxes.

“Wow!”, you might say, “That is a miracle!”  Here is why we call it a miracle – simply because we don’t quite understand how it works.  That’s all.  Doesn’t mean it doesn’t work, it just means we don’t quite understand how it works.  Which is true of all miracles.  In fact, for most of us – our whole life is a miracle.

How about this miracle…God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree.  Wow, you can’t have a better arrangement than that.  First, it gives God the tough end of the deal.  What if you had to make a tree?  That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree.  God says, “No, leave the miracle part to me.  I’ve got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons.  I’m God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do.  And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.

To Your Success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

Being faithful to your goals and dreams is a great article by Ed Hirsch. Ed explains how to create the right life.

Being faithful to your goals and Dreams sometimes means sacrificing comfort and convenience (at least for the short term).  To live the life you most aspire to, you need to do specific things, in a specific way, in order for them to turn out.
Think back and remember things that happened in your past, to those periods of time when you wasted time and money, and then had to somehow figure out a way to rework your misguided ways, overcoming to make things RIGHT.

What specific things need be done NOW in your life?

Do you know…are you willing to find out?

What if you’re wrong (again)?

You need mentors.

Not only for your business career, also for your Life’s balance to ensure that what you earn, you keep.  What you keep must be re-worked, re-invested (throw some compound interest & geometric progression in there too) for continued and sustaining growth and prosperity.

Are YOU WILLING to move toward the balance that life affords, as is nature itself?

What is your perception of balance in your own individual life?  Know anyone who has it?

What are the specific excuses you come up with in your mind to avoid the disciplines in business, family, health, God, contribution, etc…(whatever it is you hold dear and most significant/important to the essence of who you ARE)?

There is a RIGHT way to live that balanced life I suggest.

However, it usually cannot all be learned from one (1) individual (mentor).  Mostly, it requires a concerted effort to SPECIFICALLY identify the parameters of balance.  Earning and having a lot of Money is ONLY ONE part of balance.

Your specific thoughts, intentions, words, movements, actions, plans, goals, Dreams…day in, day out…if done RIGHT, will move you where?

What do YOU think?

Being obedient in Faith, disciplining your life in the way you KNOW you are being led (in whatever way you truly believe in your heart to be true), has GOT to be the greatest challenge and reward.

To your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

Look In The Mirror, Your Problem And Your Solution is a wonderful  piece written by William E. Bailey. Mr. Bailey is a respected speaker and author, a Horatio Alger Award recipient, founder of a $620 million dollar a year enterprise in the early 70′s and is one of Jim Rohn’s and Les Brown’s most respected mentors. I know you will enjoy this.

One of my favorite people, Winston Churchill, once said, “The truth is incontrovertible.  Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end there it is.”  Now I’ll give you the Bill Bailey hillbilly version.  “You might as well start with the truth, you are going to end with it.”
The words I believe, the words I think, the words I feel, may or may not be true.  The words I experience are true.  Where you are today is the sum total of every experience you have had in your life.  And you had the opportunity to say “yes” or to say “no.”  Whatever good happened to you, you ought to take credit.  And whatever blame happened to you, you get that too. Because you could have said “yes” or said “no.”  Wherever you are is okay, because you are here.  And if everything hadn’t happened exactly the way it did in your life, you would not be here.  You might have not survived.

Your direction is critical.  Because one thing I will assure you of, in your life after seventy years of watching it, It Will Change!  All positions are temporary.  Take a look behind you.  As Shakespeare said, “Straight satisfy yourself as the truth of it.”  And again I’ll remind you.  Whether you like it or not, you look in the mirror, that is your problem and that is your solution.

When I was very young I learned my first lesson in motivation, absence of options will create a very quick and powerful decision.  I was born and raised in the hills of Kentucky, what you all call Appalachia.  We called it just plain poor.

There were eleven kids in the family.  We had six flat acres, the rest of them were on the hills.  We plowed with mules.  I was born in 1930, we didn’t have paved roads until I was 15.  We had electricity when I was 16.  We never had indoor plumbing.  So we were a family, but we walked to church together and we walked back together.  We had a very unusual community feeling.

So one day when I was 15 years old, I was plowing corn.  The last time you plow a field is in August and in August, it’s very hot, it’s very humid.  Well, I was plowing about three o’clock, back in a place called the Dorsey Holler.  And I, like most young people decided I was not going to plow anymore, so I spent about five minutes thinking up a nice lie I was gonna tell my father if he asked.  So I backed up under this big beech tree, sat down, tied the plow lines of the mule up to the plow handles, lit a cigarette.  About that time I heard a voice say, “What in the h__ do you think you are doing?”  And there stood my father looking like a rain cloud about to burst.  I quickly whipped out my best lie and said, “Well, the ground was hard and the mule didn’t want to pull the plow.”  He asked, “Did you hit it?”  I said, “NO.”  He said, “Well son you can hit the mule or I am hitting you.”  I HIT THE MULE!

Here is the next statement for you.  It is a shame that we wait for something outside us to cause us to do what we ought to do ourselves.  Why did I wait for someone to force me to do what I should have been doing?  We should all be truly excited about the rest of our lives because we have the greatest single tool in the world called the human brain.

My first eight years of school were in a two-room schoolhouse.  Woody Craft, a Baptist minister, was our teacher.  Woody taught me something that I will never forget, because he made me an absolute fortune and he gave me the window into an incredible world.  Every Friday, after lunch at one o’clock, he would gather all the two rooms together and he would read books like “Pilgrim’s Progress,” “Call of the Wild,” and “Robinson Crusoe.”  And he read them in voices.  I thought that was incredible.  I thought, “My God what an adventurous world right at my fingertips.”  I learned to love to read.

After I learned to read, I then learned something else to further my reading skills.  Because we were very poor, we used coal-oil lamps.  Kerosene if you will.  And my father did not like to have the lamps burn too long.  When he said to turn that light out, what he wanted to hear was click, the sound of it being turned off.  It was not a debate session.  So I learned to do something that people now teach, speed reading.  Well, I learned to speed read because of my father.  When he’d come home I’d have to cut wood for the stove, help milk the cow and feed the mule, so by the time I got a chance to read, I only had a half an hour left of daylight.  So out of necessity, I learned to look at a paragraph until I absorbed it.  And the funny thing about absorbing it, is it never goes away.  It’s always there.

In the same way, life asks us to absorb; absorb the experiences and the moments.  For example, at times when I have been in the mountains or sailing far out to at sea, poems appear.  Now I cannot write poetry, but over the last twenty years, I have had some come to me.  I don’t question where they come from.  These poems come from a source, I’ll leave it up to you to decide what that source is.  I’ve never tried to make them come.  I can now sum up my philosophy for you in a poem.  As a matter of fact, about five or six years ago, somebody got me to write them down in a book called “Rhythms of Life.”  Up until that time I had never written them down, I had never seen the need to because I keep them in my memory.  One day somebody asked, “Well what if you pass away and they aren’t written down?”  I said, “Well you know, there is no direct evidence I will ever expire, but circumstantially it is fairly strong.  I may in fact do that.”

This one poem sums up my philosophy.  How I have lived ever since I came across the idea that there are no limits on what I can do or what I can be.

So I am going to do the poem for you.  It is called “A Warrior’s Song.”  This poem appeared to me when I was at Beartrap Lake, which is 11,400 feet up on the Eastern slope of the Sierras.  There is about a four acre lake above the tree line.  As I crawled out of a sleeping bag one morning, just as the sun came up over the ridge, it seemed to move through the meadow just like a wave of water.  The wave of light lit the wildflowers and then it hit some snow over on the north side where it doesn’t melt.  And this is what appeared in my mind.

A WARRIOR’S SONG

The sun kisses a mountain top
And glistens on its face of snow,
And slowly climbs into the sky above
And lights the valley below.

For each of us that this day awakes
A miracle takes place.
For once again we walk our earth
And own all upon its face.

And the past regrets and foolish fears
Of yesterday’s cloudy mind,
Are washed away by the light of day
And seem so far behind.

For each of us is reborn each day,
Our life renews again.
And with the help of God we will find a cause
That makes us want to win.

For a man without a goal in life
Is a man already dead.
His mind wanders from place to place,
And he walks with feet of lead.

He has no reason to stretch his mind,
No spirit to stir his soul.
His name is not even in the book,
When destiny calls the roll.

Better to take the wine of life
And drink both deep and long –
Greet each day ’cause you’re here to stay,
And sing your warrior’s song.

For the battle of life is joined, and
You might fight long and true.
For in this strife, it’s the game of your life
And the only loser is you.

Gird up your loins with courage
And answer the trumpets call,
And lose or win, you can say at the end,
This was the greatest of all!

To Your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

Get Off The Nail, by Jerry Clark..

Over the years I have met and observed thousands of people and each and every last one of them say they want some improvement in certain areas of their lives.  In fact, most of them flat out confessed that they hated certain situations they were in.  But after further evaluations, I discovered that they weren’t willing to do anything about it.  It seemed to be good enough for them to just sit there and wallow in their pain, anguish and misery.

Last year, motivational speaker Les Brown and I were chatting after we had both conducted trainings for a Network Marketing Company.  We were talking about the number of people who say they want to make changes but don’t seem to ever do anything about it.  I told him it reminded me of a story I heard him tell an audience over 10 years ago.  Here’s how the story goes…One day a man was walking down the street on his way to work.  As he walked down the street, there were dogs on just about every front porch and they all would bark as the man walked passed them.  However, there was one dog that he remembered, because this dog was just sitting there and he was whimpering and whining and moaning, you know the little whimpering sounds dogs make when they are wounded or in some sort of pain. Well this particular dog was just sitting there on the front porch making those sounds.  The man was curious as to why this dog wasn’t barking like the other dogs and why he was whimpering.  He couldn’t figure it out, so he just kept walking to work.  The next day he was in the same situation where he was walking down the street and saw the dogs once again and this same dog that was moaning and groaning the other day was doing the same thing today and he just couldn’t figure it out.  Well, he walked past for an entire week and every day the dog would be there moaning and groaning.  So, finally, the guy got fed up, he said “let me find out what’s going on.”  So he went and knocked on the door and a guy came out and said, “Yes, how may I help you?”  He said, “Sir, is this your dog?”  “Yes, that’s my dog.”  “Well, what’s wrong with him?” The owner of the dog said, “What do you mean?”  “Well, he’s been sitting here moaning and groaning, whimpering and whining for an entire week.  The rest of the dogs are barking, your dog should be barking too, why is he moaning and groaning?”  The owner said, “Well, he’s actually sitting on a nail.”  He said, “What!  Your dog is sitting on a nail.  Why doesn’t he get off?”  “Well, it just doesn’t hurt him enough.”

Wow!  You know most people are like that dog sitting on a nail.  I mean, sure, they would like to get off the nail, but what if they got off the nail and they died or something?  They never seem to stop to consider that maybe they would be healed, maybe they would be free, maybe they would be able to move about and discover some new and exciting options for their lives.  But noooooo.  Instead, they just sit there on that nail because they’re not sure what’s going to happen if they get off.  I mean, there are no guarantees of safety so to speak.  Even though, it’s not the best feeling in the world, sitting on a nail, I mean, it’s not comfortable sitting on a nail, it kind of hurts, but at least they know what to expect.  They know that they have $900 per week coming in so they can pay their bills and put food on the table and they can put some cloths on their back and a roof over their heads.  You know, that’s enough for most people.  They may even get upset with you if you question their so-called security, I mean, if you hand them a book or tape program or tell them about a seminar that can give them some effective strategies for getting off nails, they may resent you for it.  Well, you’re different.  You are willing to learn some effective nail removing strategies that could set you free because you and I both know that there is no such thing as security.  Well, maybe I should take that back.  I do know of a place where security exists on this planet.  It’s called the graveyard.  And you know what, most people tip toe through life so that they can arrive at the graveyard safely.  Of course this will not be you…Right?  That’s right…Simply because instead of Moaning & Groaning, Whimpering & Whining about not getting the results you desire, you are a Developing Charging Rhino…And Rhinos always choose to GET OFF THE NAIL and Create the conditions they desire…So Until Next Time, Be Sure to…

GET OFF THE NAIL & Always remember to Go, Go, Go!!!

JERRY CLARK became a self-made millionaire while still in his 20′s. Today, through his company, Club Rhino, Inc., he conducts personal and professional development seminars in over 35 countries worldwide

To Your Success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com
If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

The Meaning of Positive Thinking

Positive thinking is a powerful tool that can help us arrive where we want to be in life. When we focus on the positive versus dwelling in the negative, we are uplifted, happier and more effective. If we learn to harness the power of authentic positive thinking, we become fueled with the passion and purpose to realize our dreams.

Yet, in our current “Law of Attraction” culture, positive thinking has become the fast food of the personal development world. Just as that burger and fries will only sustain us for so long, so will positive thinking unless it contains the good nutrients needed for the long term. In some ways, positive thinking can become “empty calories” in our lives – filling, but not fulfilling. How so you ask?

Positive thinking can actually disempower us if we are not careful. This happens at the times when we “pretend” that everything is good with us. This type of so called positive thinking is actually just delusion and very harmful. Did you ever know someone stuck in an unhealthy relationship and refusing to admit or change it? This type of thinking is a “false positive”. It is a setup for disappointment when we arrive at the truth of what we so diligently thought positively about.

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are in network marketing or you are interested in pursing a network marketing career please contact me on an incredible opportunity.

Here is a great piece called the four steps to a super attitude written by Brian Tracy. If you enjoy Mr. Tracy’s work you will love this.

DECIDE HOW TO REACT
It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind.

Here are four things you can do to assure that your attitude is the very best it can be, under all circumstances.

FOCUS ON THE FUTURE

First, whatever challenges you face, focus on the future rather than on the past. Instead of worrying about who did what and who is to blame, focus on where you want to be and what you want to do. Get a clear mental image of your ideal successful future, and then take whatever action you can to begin moving in that direction. Get your mind, your thoughts, and your mental images on the future.

THINK ABOUT THE SOLUTION

Second, whenever you’re faced with a difficulty, focus on the solution rather than on the problem. Think and talk about the ideal solution to the obstacle or setback, rather than wasting time rehashing and reflecting on the problem.

Solutions are inherently positive, whereas problems are inherently negative. The instant that you begin thinking in terms of solutions, you become a positive and constructive human being.

LOOK FOR THE GOOD

Third, assume that something good is hidden within each difficulty or challenge. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a major proponent of positive thinking, once said, “Whenever God wants to give us a gift, he wraps it up in a problem.” The bigger the gift you have coming, the bigger the problem you will receive. But the wonderful thing is that if you look for the gift, you will always find it.

SEEK THE VALUABLE LESSON

Fourth, assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to you to help you learn something, to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

DECIDE TO BE POSITIVE

A Positive Mental Attitude is indispensable to your success. You can be as positive as you want to be if you will simply think about the future, focus on the solution and look for the good. If you do what other successful people do, if you use your mind to exert mental control over the situation, you will be positive and cheerful most of the time. And you will reap the benefits enjoyed by all successful people.

ACTION EXERCISES

Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action:

First, become solution-oriented with every difficulty you face. Make a habit of looking for the answers to your questions, the solutions to your problems.

Second, seek for the valuable lesson in every adversity. Make a list of every idea or insight you can gain from every setback or difficulty.

Third, think on paper. Take some time to write out every detail of the problem, and then take the most logical next step to solve it.
To your success

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

SEVEN SIMPLE STEPS TO SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESS by Brian Tracy

Many businesspeople achieve their greatest successes in unexpected areas. They begin a business and then they find that it isn’t as profitable as they had anticipated, so they change direction, using their experience and their momentum, and strike pay dirt in something else. The most important thing is to begin, to take action. To move forward one step at a time, learning and growing as you go. There is enough information available in virtually every field for you to become knowledgeable enough to achieve success. But action is necessary.

THE TWO PARTS OF SUCCESS

Success author Orison Swett Marden once wrote, the first part of success is get-to-it-iveness. The second part is stick-to-it-iveness. Every business beginning requires an act of faith and courage, a bold leap into the unknown. Only one in ten people who want to start their own business ever develop enough courage to begin and enough persistence to continue. Get-to-it-iveness. And stick-to-it-iveness. The fear of failure, more than anything else, holds people back. It paralyzes action. And it makes failure inevitable.

BEGIN WITH A DREAM

Fortunately, even if you know nothing about business, you can begin with a dream, a castle in the air, and then build a foundation under it.

SEVEN SIMPLE STEPS

The starting point of many great fortunes has been these seven simple steps. Number one, set a goal and back it with a burning desire. Number two, begin accumulating capital with a regular savings program. Nothing else is possible without this. You cannot move forward until you start a savings program.

USE YOUR CURRENT JOB AS A SPRINGBOARD

Number three, use your current job as a springboard to later success. Learn while you earn. Take the long view. Number four, experiment in business on a limited scale so you can learn the key abilities necessary for success. Number five, search for problems, needs unmet, products or services you can supply of good quality at reasonable prices.

READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN FIND

Number six, read everything you can find on your chosen field. Remain flexible. Be willing to change your mind if you get different information. And number seven, implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, never give up.

ACTION EXERCISES

Now, here are two actions you can take immediately to start moving toward entrepreneurial success:

First, set a goal, make a plan and then launch your plan. Get started. Do something. Begin on a small scale with limited risk and investment but get going!

Second, resolve that, no matter what happens, you will never, never give up until you are successful. Before you accomplish anything worthwhile, you will have to pass the persistence test. And the test will come far sooner than you imagine.

To your success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

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COMING IN FROM THE COLD by Dr. John C. Maxwell

Sir Ernest Shackleton was a great explorer who found himself and his crew in a life-or-death crisis when they had to abandon ship in the icy waters around Antarctica.

It was 1914, and Shackleton’s expedition had planned an unprecedented land crossing of the frozen continent. When the ship got stuck in the ice and sank, the crew began an unscheduled 18-month survival test. They stayed alive as they moved among the drifting ice floes until they eventually found an island, where they established a camp. When their provisions began to run low, Shackleton and several crewmembers boarded one of their salvaged lifeboats and made a daring 800-mile voyage to a whaling station. They returned with a ship, and all 27 men survived the ordeal.

There are two types of people during a crisis – those who freeze and those who focus. Shackleton might have been stranded in one of the coldest places on the planet, but his creativity never froze. Instead, it was critical to the team’s survival.

As I studied Shackleton’s experiences, three principles about leading with creativity during crisis came to mind.

1. Creative activity increases creative ability.

As you become active in creativity, you gain more creative ability. Many people would love to have creative ability, but they’ve never done creative activities. When we freeze, we stop creating. Shackleton practiced “routine” creativity, for himself and for his crew. So when problems presented themselves, he and his crew never gave up on their ability to come up with creative solutions.

2. The rulebook no longer rules.

Everybody wants to give you the rulebook. David Kelley was right when he said, “The most important thing I learned from big companies is that creativity gets stifled when everyone’s got to follow the rules.” And Thomas Edison, probably the greatest inventor ever, would tell people who visited his laboratory that, “There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something.” Structure and rules serve us well, but legalism can choke our creative spirit to its death.

3. God is the Great Creator.

It doesn’t make sense not to bring God – the Creator of the universe – into the creative process. No matter how much natural talent God has given us, God always can make it greater, better, bigger. That’s why I pray for creativity. And when I pray for creativity, I ask for two things – I ask God to give me an idea or give me an example.

In our fast-paced, competitive marketplace, few resources are more valuable to organizations than creativity. But during a crisis, which is when real leadership either rises or falls, creativity often finds itself swallowed by urgency. Who has time to think outside the box when the box is collapsing around you?

Shackleton, however, saw beyond the problems to the big picture. He recognized creativity’s importance in keeping him and his crew alive and functioning as a team when they had little margin for error in the bitter cold and isolation of Antarctica. More than a skill, creativity was an attitude in his life that enabled him to find solutions to the obstacles they faced. When others would have frozen – literally as well as figuratively, in this case – Shackleton focused creatively on surviving the crisis.

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It is by no accident that John Maxwell has come to be known as a leader of leaders and mentor to thousands – his path and his purpose have been a single, straight thread since childhood. From the pulpit to the boardroom, his focus has always been to equip and inspire leaders at all levels.

To your success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com
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