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Thursday, 9 July 2015

7 Attributes of Master Achievers

Cultivate These 7 Attributes of Master Achievers
 
Cultivate These 7 Attributes of Master Achievers
             
 
 
Master achievers are those people who have an unwavering commitment to happiness and success. They are the people who, despite the criticism and negativity thrown at them, achieve anyway. They are the people who never stop, no matter how difficult a challenge.
These achievers are disciplined in specific habits available to everyone. What makes one person a super achiever and another person average is if these habits are applied with consistency or not that.

1. Hungry for achievement.

Master achievers hunger for the sensation achieving brings to their lives. Success at something they did not know they could achieve brings them the joy and satisfaction that motivates these types of people.
Achievement thrills them with a sense of newness that inspires creativity and excitement. When master achievers reach one level of success they are immediately curious about what could be next. They begin charting innovative paths to get to something even larger. They feed their hunger one achievement at time to live a life of success, happiness and satisfaction.
Master achievers perceive themselves as elite in their field. They never wallow in feelings of inferiority. By learning to climb the ladder of success they overcome uncertainty and come out victorious. They accept that uncertainties and insecurities will come along the way but they use the challenge as fuel.
Super achievers do not see limits, they see possibilities.
Related: The Difference Between Successful and Very Successful People

2. Mental strength.

Exceptionally successful people neither run from nor dwell on their fears. They confront the fears most people shy away from. They recognize fear and doubt as the two biggest enemies to their success.
Fear and doubt are all mental. High achievers feel these emotions, just as anyone else, but make the required effort not to be influenced by them. The successful elite use mental discipline and hard work to cultivate the habits that override these two negative counter forces.
The mark of a courageous person is the willingness to face what they fear. Master achievers habitually do the very things that scare them as a systematic desensitization process. The more they expose themselves to fearful situations, the less power fear has over them.
A person with the ambition to reach the top of their field must confront the fears holding them back. That is what makes someone a huge success.

3. Unwavering commitment.

Super achievers live with an unwavering commitment. They live with an intense belief in themselves, their business, their purpose and mission. They believe in the services they sell and in the quality of their customers. This deep belief cuts through the uncertainty and wavering that a less committed person would trip over on their path to success.
Super achievers know there is a one-to-one relationship between the depth of their belief and what happens in their reality. They believe wholeheartedly in the rightness and goodness of what they stand for, what they are trying to achieve and what it will take to achieve it. This deep belief is the catalyst for creating their phenomenal reality.
Those who are not committed tend to live empty lives. Super achievers know that caring deeply is a critical element in life. All people who enjoy great lives care deeply about what they do.

4. Always prepared.

Truly successful people do not procrastinate. Research and preparation keep them ahead of the game. Super achievers do the things the average person is unwilling to do. They make the necessary sacrifices to keep pace with the elite-of-the-elite. That is what makes them extraordinary.
A master achiever never goes into a meeting unprepared. They do the research necessary to get themselves and their team to the next level of advancement. They do not leap at every deal that comes their way. They thoroughly review every detail of a new deal or collaboration before deciding whether to take it on.
Preparation is the foundation of confidence. A person who has prepared thoroughly has no fear or doubt when presenting ideas or when deciding on new opportunities. Being prepared and informed is what makes super achievers smart decision makers and great leaders.
Related: 10 Behaviors You Never See in Successful People

5. Persistent learners.

Super achievers are passionate about learning. The excitement of not knowing fuels their curiosity and motives them to take their new ideas to the next level. There is no room for ego or complacency in the lives of master achievers. They are always open to learning and never assume they know it all because that would limit their creativity and leave no room for more success.
These types of people are in continual self-development. They tend to be avid journal writers, involved in professional development groups, trainings and seminars. They voraciously read whatever they can get their hands on to become bigger, wiser, happier and more satisfied in life and career.
Those who are in-it-to-win-it live the belief that if they are not working to get better, they are getting worse.

6. Fiercely accountable.

People who are wise in the areas of self-awareness and self-management are the greatest successes. They know their biggest management challenge is managing themselves. They do not view themselves as working for someone else, even if they do. They are "self" employed in the sense that they know to get to the top of their field they have to be accountable for getting themselves there.
They see themselves as the one constant they can influence, control and change.  Super achievers take full responsibility for who they are and never put blame off onto others for any failure. They examine what failed, look for what they can improve and make immediate efforts to do that.
They view themselves as owning their careers, lives, finances, family, choices and relationships. They take complete responsibility.

7. Alchemists when confronting setbacks.

The successful elite use all challenges to fuel their creativity and their drive toward more success. Letdowns are viewed as painful learning opportunities for greater advancement.
The super successful have learned that success is a process, not an event. They expect to have good and bad days, experiences, deals and failures. All experiences, good and bad, are used for their promotion, personal transformation and education. Hindsight provides them with the understanding and gratitude for why it all had to happen the way it did.
Super achievers know success in life and career results from using each challenge along the road to their benefit.

Thursday, 25 June 2015

The 6 Books Shark Tank's Daymond John Wants You to Read

The 6 Books Shark Tank's Daymond John Wants You to Read
The 6 Books Shark Tank's Daymond John Wants You to Read


June 25, 2015
When Daymond John was in elementary school in Queens, N.Y., he had to read books four times over to retain what they said. Now, at 46, he says he still has to reread them several times -- often two to three times each -- for the information to really sink in.
The sharp-dressed Shark Tank star and veteran investor/entrepreneur doesn’t habitually reread books as a result of being too busy or distracted the first go-round. He chalks it up to being dyslexic, something he only discovered as an adult with the onset of texting and social media.
“Because I’m dyslexic, I’ve had to read books many times,” he says. “That’s why I focus on reading ones that are high-impact and incredibly useful, full of important lessons that I can apply to my life and business.”
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Despite how challenging reading is for the multi-millionaire celebrity business mentor, he forces himself to do it regularly, soaking up pearls of wisdom from contemporary and past thought leaders and leveraging them to up his game.
We recently caught up with the Infusionsoft and Shopify brand ambassador on the Sony Pictures Culver City, Calif., set of Shark Tank, where we asked him which books had the greatest impact on his life and career. Remaining humble, the FUBU co-founder didn’t seize the opportunity to plug his own books, though he easily could have (other Sharks did). He didn’t even mention them. Instead, and without a moment to prepare ahead of time, he quickly rattled off the names and authors of six books that forever changed him and that he thinks all entrepreneurs will benefit from reading, too.
“They’re smart choices not only for hopefuls, but for seasoned business pros as well,” he says. They are:

1. Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert Kiyosaki

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In this step-by-step-style financial literacy classic, multi-millionaire entrepreneur and motivational speaker Robert Kiyosaki shares how he used lessons from two dads -- his own fiscally poor father and his best friend’s rich father -- to shape his opinions around money and to build his fortune.
Related: The 7 Books Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer

2. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

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The business theorist authors of this data-rich international bestseller lay out an innovative systematic approach to obliterating your competition without competing with them at all. Drawing on a decade-long academic study of more than 150 strategic business moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years, they detail how to build what they call “blue oceans” -- new opportunities in markets that are ripe for disruption.

3. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

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First appearing in print way back in 1937, Napoleon Hill’s motivating classic is the result of 20 years-worth of research and interviews with more than 40 famous millionaires. Think and Grow Rich is indeed rich with the secrets to success from world renowned historic magnates like Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, John D. Rockefeller and Theodore Roosevelt. The exceptional life lessons packed within are still relevant today.     
Related: Shark Tank Star Daymond John Says This Is the Biggest Branding Mistake of All

4. Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime by Tony Jeary

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Veteran executive coach and presentation strategist Tony Jeary has taught countless executives at big-name global companies how to deliver knockout, persuasive public speeches. In Life Is a Series of Presentations, he reveals his expert strategies in a series of practical, easy-to-digest tips and techniques, including how to boost your confidence and credibility when facing one of life’s most terrifying things for many -- a live audience staring back at you, hanging on your every word.

5. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson

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Management consultant Spencer Johnson’s 96-page literary attitude adjustment winds readers through a simple yet potent parable that unfolds in a maze. The maze is occupied by four characters -- Sniff and Scurry, mice that will stop at nothing to get cheese, and Hem and Haw, mouse-sized humans for whom cheese represents much more than merely sustenance. The characters learn to adapt to changes in the cheese, a symbol for our jobs, career paths, relationships, etc., and they set out in search of new sources of cheese when their cheese runs out. The key takeaway: Adaptability, perseverance and a positive mental attitude are critical to success in any endeavor, especially in the cutthroat world of business.   
Related: 10 Quotes From Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran and the Rest of the Shark Tank Investors

6. The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

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In this allegory-filled oldie but goodie, widely revered management experts Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson share how to manage others in ways that can increase their confidence, pride and productivity. The book maps out three powerful one-minute management “secrets” -- employee goal-setting, employee praisings and and employee reprimands. For a freshly updated version of this executive staple, check out The New One Minute Manager (William Morrow, 2015).
For more recommendations and advice from Daymond John, check out the video below:


You can watch John drop more expert business knowledge on an all-new season of Shark Tank. Season Seven kicks off on Friday, Sept. 25. Catch the first episode at 9 p.m. ET/PT on your local ABC station.