Five Benefits Of Having A Success Mindset

Are you ready to start getting more out of your life and to start getting the results you want? For many of us, success is a very slow process and one that involves a huge amount of work and effort.

For others, it all seems to come very naturally. We all know those people, the ones who seem to have the Midas touch – who seem to strike lucky no matter what they do. What’s their secret?

It’s making that cognitive shift that will help you to start making the progress you want to see in your life and moving away from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. And here are five of the biggest ways that changing your outlook can change your fortunes…

Problems Become Challenges

A success mindset turns problems into challenges.

It means that you stop seeing setbacks as the end of the world and start seeing them as new opportunities to kick ass and take names!

When you take this approach, nothing can stand in your way!

And Failures Become Learning Experiences

You might have this idea in your head that highly successful people can never put a foot wrong or make a mistake. That’s far from the truth though.

They see it as a chance to try again – now with new information!

You Feel Amazing

When you genuinely believe you can do anything, it doesn’t just affect the way you walk around the office and conduct yourself in business.

It changes the way that you present yourself and feel about yourself. In short, you feel awesome.

You Become Instantly More Attractive

What is the secret to attractiveness in both genders? You guessed it: confidence!

People who are confident tend to be more charismatic and positive, so others will naturally tend to gravitate towards them.

You Finally Start Getting What You Want

Finally, when you adopt an open mindset for success and everything that comes with that, you’ll finally start to get what you want.

When you have a clear goal and mission, anything becomes possible. It’s just a matter of time.

Top Five Challenges Of Creating A Success Mindset

‘Create a success mindset’ they say.

‘Just go after the things you want in life’ they say!

‘Take risks’ they say…

Some people seem to be able to rewire their mind with ease, but for others it can be a real struggle to change the way they think from negative to positive.

Here are the top five challenges of creating a success mindset:

You Don’t Know What You Want

This is a surprisingly common issue and one that rarely gets brought up.

How can you go after what makes you happy if you don’t really know what that is? How can you find a goal and stick to it when you fear commitment?

Clarity is key to changing the way you think; once you know what you want, you can put your efforts into achieving it, but it you aren’t really sure about what you want, you will make excuses to procrastinate, and you’ll never make any progress.

Having Weird Aims

Or what if you know what you want in life, but your aims are just too weird or unattainable? What if you don’t want to start a business, travel or start a family. What if you want to be an acrobat? And you’re 60?

What if everyone will laugh at you?

I’m not saying that you should restrict yourself, but you need to be realistic.

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Being Conflicted

Or how about being torn between travelling and settling down with the person you love?

What if your heart is genuinely pulling you in two different directions?

What if going after your dream, means saying goodbye to people you love, or turning your back on the things that made you who you are?

This is where clarity can help, but ultimately you need to decide what is most important to yourself.

Being Honest With Yourself

We are prideful creatures, and our very psychology is wired in such a way as to protect our fragile egos. We don’t want to admit to our failures, and we don’t want to feel like we’re going backward.

And it’s even more difficult to blame the person in the mirror, but the responsibility for your own path in life is ultimately yours!

Responsibility to Others

It’s easy to say that you should take a leap and apologise later but what if people are really relying on you to be mature and stable?

What if your goal is to go travelling but your wife just got pregnant? Yes, there are ways around this too – you can explain how important this is to you and convince her to come with you.

But it won’t always work. And at the end of the day, you’re always going to be giving your child a less stable home.

There are answers to all these problems of course – but just know that the path isn’t as simple as some would have you believe!

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Building A Strong Success Mindset Pt 4

In the first post in this success mindset for entrepreneurs series, you learnt about the importance of believing in yourself and you can find that post here

And, in the second post you learnt about testing your ideas to ensure that they are worthy, and that post is here

And in the third post you learnt about learning from your mistakes, and that post is here

In this final part of the series, we will look at focusing on your customers and building a team around you to help you to have the success you desire.

Focus On Your Customers

The customer is always right. That’s a truism of customer service, but it’s just as important when planning for success.

In the last chapter, you learned that one of the main reasons start-ups fail is because they fail to focus on the customer. But you’re not going to make that mistake!

Why You Should Focus On What Customers Want/Need

Your customers are the life’s blood of your business. If they’re not happy, your business will fail. It’s that simple.

It doesn’t matter what critics of your company and products say. If your customers are happy and satisfied, you’ll make money.

Think about James Carville’s famous sign during Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. It read, “It’s the economy, stupid.” It was a reminder that the campaign’s voters – its customers – were worried about the economy. Keeping their focus on the community helped make the campaign a winning one.

Creating A Great Start-To-Finish Experience

A customer’s experience with you starts when they first learn about your company or product and continues for as long as they use your product.

Customers who’ve received top-notch support remember it. They’ll mention it to their friends.

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Providing Value

What’s the secret to attracting customers? VALUE.

Before anybody spends their money on your product, they’re going to want to know that it’ll deliver on its promises. You can make them feel better about that by offering clear value to them even before they buy.

Delivering value triggers a mental glitch called Reciprocity. When you give customer something for free – even if it’s information – they’re more likely to feel obligated to buy from you.

Of course, value must come from your product as well. It includes the quality of the product, its usefulness, its longevity, and its price.

Becoming An Authority

People look up to authority figures. You can prove your authority by doing what we just talked about – delivering value to your customers.

But authority is more than that. It’s about showing that you’re a reliable and knowledgeable source of information. On social media, it means delivering original content that’s informative and actionable. It may also mean curating content from industry publications and authorities and sharing it with your own take on the topic.

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Customer Support

Customer support starts when a customer first visits your website. You should think about what kind of support your customers need and how you’ll deliver it.

In the old days, support was mostly in person or on the phone. Today, you may want to think about:

• Email support
• Chat support
• Chatbots
• Self-service options
• FAQ
• Social media support

You’ll need to test various options to figure out what’ll work for your audience. Remember that a lot of companies are merging social media with support and consider doing the same.

Next, we’ll talk about the fifth and final step to success: building your success team!

Building Your Success Team

If you want to be successful, you can’t go it alone. There’s a temptation to do that, of course. Wearing every possible hat might save you a little money. But in the end, it’ll cost you more in time (and sanity) than the alternative.

Why You Shouldn’t Try To Do Everything

You might have a lot of skills. Perhaps you’re a great innovator with excellent communication skills. Maybe you’ve dabbled in accounting and flirted with marketing.

No matter how good you are, you’re not equally good at everything. If you try to do the things you’re not so great at, you might wind up settling for a less-than-perfect result.

Not only will you be able to do a better job at the things that ONLY you can do, you’ll also be able to live a balanced and productive life – and that’s part of success.

Tips For Building A Team

The idea of building a team can be an intimidating one, particularly if you’re thinking that you need to hire people and deal with taxes and insurance.

The good news is that you don’t need to do those things unless you want to. Lots of companies outsource tasks as needed without hiring full-time or even part-time people.

You may decide to hire someone full time. Keep in mind, though, that there are plenty of tasks you can outsource to freelancers. Using sites like Upwork makes it easy to find virtual assistants and team members.

The Importance Of Delegation

How do you know what to do yourself and what to delegate? Delegation is an essential skill. You know you can’t do everything, but it can be difficult to let go of the things you’re accustomed to doing even when you have help.

Here are some questions to help you learn how to delegate. About each task, ask:

• Can I teach someone else to do it?
• Is there anything that I’m unable to teach?
• Is my personal input required?
• Do I have someone on my team who’s capable of learning how to do it?

Unless the task absolutely requires your input and skills, it should be open to delegation. Yes, you’ll need to spend some time training your staff or freelancers to do the task to your standards. You’ll probably end up fielding a few questions and possibly, correcting a few mistakes.

It can also be helpful to take an inventory of your team’s skills. They might have abilities you don’t know about yet!

As you can appreciate, changing the way you think can have a huge impact on your life, and if you want to know more about developing an inspirational mindset for success, please click on the featured resource below for a free Strong Mindset report; download, read it and take action 😊

Building A Strong Success Mindset Pt 3

In the first post in this series, you learnt about the importance of believing in yourself and you can find that post here

And, in the second post you learnt about testing your ideas to ensure that they are worthy, and that post is here

Next, we will look at the importance of learning from your mistakes. This is a key skill to master because mistakes can quickly paralyse you and stop any momentum you had going.

What’s Your Inner Critic Saying About You?

The key to success is taking that annoying, critical voice in your head and turning it into something positive. That might seem impossible, but I promise – you can do it. It all starts with listening to that little voice.

You see, a lot of times you might simply dismiss it – or let it stop you without really listening to it.

It might even tell you that you’re stupid. Write it down. Don’t read it over again. Just record it and put it away. You’ll probably think about it during the day but try not to dwell on it.

Understanding Your Inner Critic

Are you ready to get to the heart of what your inner critic is trying to tell you?

Pull out that notebook from yesterday and read over what you wrote. Think about how you felt and what immediately came to mind.

I’m willing to bet it’s negative. Maybe even hurtful.

Ultimately, it’s trying to protect you – even though it might not seem like it a lot of the time.

Your job today is to look at what that voice says and figure out what it really MEANS.

For example, if your inner critic tells you that you shouldn’t try to start a business because you’ll fail, there are two ways to look at it:

1. Your inner critic has no faith in your ability or skills, and wants you to give up;

or –

2. Your inner critic is really consumed with the fear of failure and wants to protect you.

Which of those two do you think is the most likely? I’ll save you the suspense. It’s the second one.

How are these thoughts and feelings impacting your business? And more importantly, how can you mute that critic so you can focus on your strengths and what you bring to the table?

Learning From Your Mistakes

Every cloud has a silver lining – and so does every mistake. It’s a bit cliché to say that mistakes are learning opportunities, but the fact that it’s a common saying doesn’t make it untrue.

Just like failure, mistakes show us who we are. We all make them. It’s what you do with them that marks the difference between success and failure.

Why Start-Ups Fail

It’s not easy to get a start-up off the ground. When start-ups fail, it can be for any one of several reasons. Here are some of the most common:

• Not focusing on customers and solving their problems
• Lack of focus
• Scaling too quickly
• Not building a success team

We’ve already talked about focusing on customers. If you do that, you’ll be halfway to success because you won’t be thinking about yourself, you’ll be thinking about your audience.

Scaling is something that can send any entrepreneur into a tailspin. Allow your business to grow organically and scale only when you’re ready.

We’ll talk about how to build a success team later – but suffice to say, you can’t do everything yourself!

Reframing Mistakes as Opportunities

Nobody likes making mistakes. It’s no fun to be wrong. But every successful entrepreneur needs to get comfortable with it – and learn to see mistakes as opportunities.

What happens when you mess up? If you pay attention, you can learn something! Everything you learn now will help you with your next goal.

When you make a mistake, take a deep breath and ask:

What can I learn from this?

Then, once you’ve identified it, use the lesson to create your next opportunity. Once you get in the habit of doing it, it’ll be easy.

Tightening Goals

We already talked about SMART goals. When you don’t achieve a goal, it’s easy to feel disheartened. Often, it’s just a sign that your goal was too big.

When you set goals for yourself, take every long-term goal and break it down into the smallest possible steps. Focus on what you want and narrow your goals to help you achieve it. You’ll be far more likely to get where you want to go if you have tight, achievable goals.

How To Find The Lessons In Experiences

Everything you experience is a lesson. When you make a mistake or fail, it’s natural to be upset.

Take time to be upset. But then, step back. Ask what you did wrong, and what you would do differently next time.

If you lack information, go find it. Read, study, talk to other people in your industry – and then take what you’ve learned to heart and use it in the future.

Split Testing

One of the best ways to refine your goals and fine-tune your products is with split testing. Split testing involves taking content or an ad campaign and testing different versions until you get the best results.

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Creating Your Plan B

It’s always a good idea to have a Plan B. If your first idea doesn’t work, what will you try next?

There’s no shame in having a back-up plan. In fact, part of the reason that successful people become successful is that they have a back-up plan!

Coming up next, we’ll talk about how to keep focused on your customers, so you don’t get off track, so until next time…

As you can appreciate, changing the way you think can have a huge impact on your life, and if you want to know more about developing an inspirational mindset for success, please click on the featured resource below for a free Strong Mindset report; download, read it and take action 😊

Building A Strong Success Mindset Pt 2

In the first post in this series, you learnt about the importance of believing in yourself and you can find that post here

Nobody wants to waste time on a project that is doomed to failure, right?

Testing Ideas To Prove Them Worthy

You probably have tons of ideas. Some are good and – let’s face it – some aren’t. How can you tell the difference? By testing them!

Why Testing Ideas and Products is Important

Testing your ideas and products is essential – and it’s not that hard to understand why. Which would you rather do:

1. Spend your time and money developing and launching a product only to find out that it doesn’t sell the way you thought it would; or
2. Spend some time testing and refining your idea first before you invest your hard-earned dollars in launching it.

The answer’s clear, right? It’s a better use of your time to test things out first. Once you’ve tested, refined your idea, and re-tested it, you’ll have a pretty good idea of whether it’s going to work.

Market Research

One way to improve your chances of success is to do market research before you spend valuable time and money trying to start your business. That might mean pitching your idea to a few valued friends or family members. It might mean asking your blog readers what they think of it.

With products, it’s a little trickier. But you might do a Google search for products in your niche or spend a few minutes on Amazon seeing what’s available. If there’s a product that does exactly what yours will do, you’ll need to reconceptualize it.

Your value proposition could be about functionality, or it could be about price. The main thing is to know how you’ll differentiate your product from others on the market.

One thing you should do for all your target audiences is to create a customer avatar.

This avatar should be your ideal customer and you should flesh it out as much as possible.

One you know your ideal customer intimately, it becomes much easier to identify what they want, and you can create products or services that meet these needs.

Plus, you will also know what struggles they face and can use your marketing to focus on these pain points and then offer them your solution and they will be much more likely to buy because they know they now have hope.

This leads on to…

Identifying Problems And Finding Solutions

You will be much more likely to succeed if you identify a product or service that provides a solution to a problem faced by your target audience. People go online to find answers. They ask questions and look for products that will help them.

You can find problems by searching a common keyword in your niche and looking at Google’s suggested searches. For example, say you want to create a project in the pet training niche and you’re looking for an angle for puppy training product. You might search “How to house train a puppy” and see this:

You can see there are some ideas there, including focusing on training with a bell or training with a crate.

It is also a good idea to hang out where your target market hangs out online. There may be specific forums or Facebook groups where they are asking questions, so these are great places to find out what they are struggling with.

You can give honest, helpful answers and position yourself as an authority, so when you do finally come to make an offer, you will have warmed the audience and they are much more likely to take a serious look at what you have to offer.

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Setting Goals/Small Steps To Success

Do you know how to set goals? It involves more saying “I want a successful business.” You may have heard about SMART goals. It means setting goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Reasonable, and Timely. If you want to know more about SMART goals, read this post here

This series is about a success mindset, but “success” isn’t a specific enough word when you’re setting goals. Here are some examples of SMART goals:

• Incorporate a new business
• Generate $50,000 in revenue in the first year
• Attract 10 new clients in the first quarter

When you set goals, ask if they’re SMART and if they’re not, fine-tune them until they are.

Planning For Failure

You’re probably thinking it sounds strange to plan for failure. It does – but it’s also a smart thing to do.

Everybody fails. Remember the story about Stephen King being rejected 30+ times by publishers? The reason he’s the beloved (and highly successful) author we know today is because what he did after those rejections.

He didn’t stop. He didn’t give up. He learned to cope with rejection, and he persisted.

Coming up next, we’ll talk about the next step, which is related to failure. Successful people learn from their mistakes – and you’ll learn how you can, too. See you in the next post…

As you can appreciate, changing the way you think can have a huge impact on your life, and if you want to know more about developing an inspirational mindset for success, please click on the featured resource below for a free Strong Mindset report; download, read it and take action 😊