Success Traits

[...] A positive mind finds a way it can be done… a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.

[...] Repeated success is about being able to take information and create, build, or apply it in new and important ways. Successful people want to learn everything about everything!

• Love what you do 

  [...] loving what you do is less about what you’re doing and more about how you look at the world.
  

• Work really hard
• Focus on one thing, not everything
• Keep pushing yourself
• Come up with good ideas
• Keep improving yourself in what you do
• Server others something of value
• Persist, because there is no over-night success

[...] Successful people create stuff!

[...] When time is gone – it’s gone forever

See also:

• Character traits of extraordinary entrepreneurs by Melanie
• If not now, when?
• Top traits of highly successful people by Philip
• Work simply and with focus
• Be indispensable by building relationships and trust
• The products you buy by Seth
• Find what you love by Joshua
• The tetris effect by Marelisa
• Qualities of the winner by Andika
• Do hard things by Scott

[...] don’t waste time, use it!

Visioning Process – What do I want to create?

[...] Not all who wander are lost. - J. R. R. Tolkien

1. Know where you are – what makes you remarkable?’
2. Design your focused vision of your future you really want
3. Do it
4. Keep your vision alive during ongoing environmental changes - “What do I want to create?“

Keys to success:

1. Leverage your existing resources in new ways
2. Setting your intentions into motion in intangible ways
3. Your business is your clarity manifest

[...] “Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.” – Senator Robert F. Kennedy

See also:

• Creating engagements in virtual meetings
• Ideas must be presented
• Motivation and Information gap
• Make innovative ideas happen
• Creative bursts
• The Awesome power of two words by Douglas
• Rules of success by Dragan
• Believe in yourself by Dragan
• Startup is vision by Eric
• Do you know where you are going to by Michelle

Tips For Your Next Marketing Message

1. Attract attention by being significant – dont bore them
2. Make use of emotion provoking keywords – make them feel again
3. Sustain attention by being scan-able – remember, people scan they do not read.
4. Peer reviewers may spot details you have left out your target audience needs
5. Expect rapid constructive feedback
6. Monitor competition, learn from them
7. Simplify. Attention is a precious resource.
8. Provoke. Be different.
9. Make sure your message is being opened and read by giving it a remarkable title

See also:

• Online Copywriting
• Absent mind by Art
• You just shared a link. how long will people pay attention?
• Paying attention to the attention economy by Seth
• Attention Economy
• Ideas that spread win!
• Barriers Between You and Your Market by Russ

Be Indispensable by building relationships and trust

[...] Relationships are about helping!

[...] Tell me how I can help you!

1. Attend high quality events - Be invaluable to high quality people at such events
2. Invest in a community – by investing in communities, you will get access to other players and opportunities
3. Be a resource bank - become a go-to person for just about any kind of support
4. Engage thoughtfully - engage with high quality people in a way that they will respond to.

[...] What do you like to do when you are not working?

1. Connect – Seek to understand
2. Engage – Seek to know the person
3. Elaborate – Look for ways to help

1. Stop thinking about results!
2. Always think about asking questions to the people you meet
3. Understand we all are special

Building a relationship is a process of continuous positive experiences over time:

1. Acquitance – be friendly and above all genuine; it helps if you remember some defining comment 
2. Connection - both parties realize they are no longer total strangers
3. Mutuality of Purpose - let each other know how they can help each other;  be a pleasant and polite individual
4. Relationship - Consistency is the touchstone leading people to feel comfortable around us
5. Maintenance - nurture, sustain and stay in touch

[...] Everyone makes a living by selling something - Robert Louis Stevenson

[...] What do you need help with?

See also:

• Today is the Day
• Client Vendor Relationships
• Be irresistible
• Enchantment
• Building quality long lasting relationships by Don
• Keys building quality relationships by Tony
• Open the High Payoff Relationship Flood Gates by Melanie
• Build Better Relationships with the Media by Drew
• Transactional analysis in human interactions by Qualia