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Monthly Archives: June 2015
ENTREPRENEURS MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough”
Og Mandino
VINESH MAHARAJ
SALES PROFESSIONALS QUOTE
“Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on”
Don Cooper
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VINESH MAHARAJ
MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Why?
Whether you are building a business, a family or a body, clarity needs to be crystal clear or it could be like looking through an old windshield caked in the dust of yesteryear.
Jim Rohn, American author and public speaker said “I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change”. In this spirit, I always ask entrepreneurs, business owners and individuals at my training programs and seminars “WHY” they are in business? “WHY” the want to be millionaires and billionaires? “WHY” they want to leave a legacy and I am always astounded by their lack of “WHY’s”! After a few words they’re often left speechless.
I get responses similar to these:
“I want to be rich so I can buy all the things I want”
“I want to be millionaire so that can be free from work”
” I want to leave a legacy for my children so they don’t have the same sufferings we had”
Thats the depth and extent to their WHY!
These are “nice” and “rosy” reasons for failure but by AMPING UP your motivations, you aggressively increase the likelihood of success. When your dreams are big enough, the odds do not matter whatsoever, for you WILL find a way.
If you went to a builder and said “build me a house”, the first thing he would ask is “where are the plans”? She needs to know how many square meters, how many bedrooms, bath rooms, living rooms, garages etc…You will have the WHY’s:
You must be crystal clear about what you want…and WHY you want it…For example:
I need a double storey, six bedroom 600 square meter house with a triple garage, two living rooms, all bedrooms en suite, a games room, a library etc. A bedroom for each of your kids. A living room for the family and visitors. A formal living room for guests, A triple garage for the growing family and so forth.
The more reasons (WHY) you have for wanting it, the greater the chances you will pursue it with purpose and vigor. You will have the bullets in the chamber to strike your target.
Today I wish to share with you: 6 Personal Check-In Questions to Ask Yourself to help you get what you want faster:
- What is that going to do for me? How will achieving your goal improve your current status (health, wealth, education, relations etc.) List all the benefits of achieving this goal. The more, the merrier.
- What’s stopping me? List all the challenges holding you back, time, money, contacts, knowledge, etc.) Be brutally honest with yourself. Delusion is not an option.
- What’s important to me here? Find the opportunity the hidden opportunity in your scenario. By understanding whats important to you in this situation you highlight your path to success.
- What’s working well? What in your strategy is working really well? Where are you getting results? Increase your activities here.
- What can I be better? How can I improve on these results? Be truthful about your growth areas. Find that 1% self improvement where you can be better that could give you 100% return.
- What resources are going to support me? List all the resources that can support your goal achievement. Which family, friends, knowledge, contacts etc going to take me towards the holy grail?
To keep you on track to where you want to get, use the checklist of questions daily or in every situation to keep you moving forward. However the magic ingredient to all success is … ACTION. So take massive amounts of action using your newfound information.
It was Paul G. Thomas who said “Until input (thought) is linked to a goal (purpose) there can be no intelligent accomplishment”. Keep tabs on your progress by holding yourself accountable to yourself, to your goals and your success for there can be no one else but you, who is fully responsible and accountable.
For more on your Business Development, Sales Conference, Sales Training and Sales Coaching needs, contact me for a free 30 minute consultation to showcase our products and services to help you and your organization fulfill its goals and objectives. I welcome hearing from you.
Keep smiling, keep shining!!!
My name is Vinesh Maharaj and I’m your coach and partner in success…
Mobile: + 27 84 990 1539
Email: vinesh@vineshmaharaj.com
MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Youth-Preneurship
Being youth month in South Africa, I want to focus on Youth-Preneurship. Without being too clichéd, we’ve all heard before that “the children are the future”. As such what type of future will they inherit or create?
If we continue at the current rate, we will run into serious trouble in the future. We have serious challenges with unemployment, crime, poverty, longevity and ultimately personal happiness and fulfillment.
Today I want to share with you 3 points on how you can start, develop and grow your Youth business from home, school or your garage.
1. Find the need…
There are literally hundreds of needs all around you. Needs for goods and services. Needs for solutions. By solving peoples problems you solve your own money problems. Focus on high-quality, high profitability opportunities.
Here are some examples to get your creative juices flowing:
Schools, businesses and homes in your area require stationery on the daily basis…Pens, pencils, writing pads, invoicing books, reading books, curriculum books etc. Register your company , speak to your principal or governing body to partner with them. Offer them a partnership they can’t resist. Offer them cost savings (competitive pricing), a small profit share in the form of a donation (please check for legality prior), or sponsor the schools rugby team on their next tour. Offer them more value (while keeping some for yourself) than they can get from a competitor.
Find a manufacturing supplier who can give you competitive prices and high quality which you can pass onto your school. Now find just 10 – 100 more schools and you’re into a serious business with serious prospects of a bright future.
Grow fresh produce on your school or communal grounds (get the right authorization before hand). Seeds cost little to nothing. If you’re really smart, get them sponsored by the local nursery. Add labour, a bit of education about crop rearing, soil fertilization, irrigation and viola! You have perhaps the freshest produce to offer to parents, local shops, restaurants and even super markets. With the right mentorship and guidance, you could launch your path to entrepreneurial wealth, job creation and the passage to big business requiring farm lands, hi-tech equipment, irrigation systems, logistics and distribution systems.
Start a bespoke cupcake birthday business. Try to supply every birthday at your school. Then supply the church, temple, mosque, synagogue with their birthdays and special occasions and events. If they’re really good cupcakes and are value for money, beware…success can be sweet.
Showcase Birthday parties with your DSLR and sell them only the pics they want? Package various options and snap away. Photography can be a great way to start, but real business occurs when you have an army of school going photographers working for you. You find the leads, make the sales and collect the cash…you own the business, your staff do the work. Find the need, fill the gap and prosper.
2. Beat the Competition – There is always competition.
To find a spouse you have to compete…To land a job you have to compete… Competition is about the survival of the fittest. It’s an ancient reality of “adapt or die…” By harnessing this law while in your youth it allows you to grow through rapidly changing environments, it forces you to outwit, outsmart and outplay your competition. You win by adding value. You win by staying relevant. You win by being flexible and adaptable in an ever-changing environment. Find ways of adding value and you will have customers to serve. “Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground”.
3. Innovate, create…
You can start today by innovating and creating new products and services that the market has never seen before. Think Facebook, Twitter…develop your own app? Think about the cell phone? Twenty years ago we were in the stone ages…today mobile communication is at your finger tips. Think about products that people use every day that can be improved such as the electric toothbrush, razor blades, tooth paste. They’re always “new and improved” but don’t create any new results, yet you always pay more for them. Create something really “new and improved” and steal away the market. Create apps for parents such as “track my kids”, so that parents can monitor the whereabouts of their children 24/7. Develop an app you can tie back to your cellphone, so you never lose you keys again, ever!!! Solve problems, make millions…Mark Zuckerberg solved communications and social interactions through taking them online…Oops, he is a billionaire in $’s!!!
Innovation and creation does not lend itself to new products and services exclusively. You can add on value to existing products and services, launching your business from that platform. Someone found a way to take an age old commodity like vodka which has been drunk for hundreds and thousands of years and repackaged it in an innovative, creative way. I’ve seen blue bottles, silver bottles, black bottles, square bottles, triangular bottles and even skull shaped bottles of vodka! Same old wine in a new bottle…smiling all the way to the banks.
Note that these are just some ideas for your early stages of business growth and development. ..As business grows, so should you…Remember that ideas are a “rhyme a dime” but execution is king!
Wishing you youthful entrepreneurs immediate and sustained success. Keep on, keeping on. Signing off in the words of Steve Jobs “Stay Foolish, Stay Hungry!!!
For more on your Entrepreneurial Development, Sales Conference, Sales Training and Sales Coaching needs, contact me for a free 30 minute consultation to showcase our products and services to help you and your organization fulfill its goals and objectives. I welcome hearing from you.
Keep smiling, keep shining!!!
My name is Vinesh Maharaj and I’m your coach and partner in success…
Mobile: + 27 84 990 1539
Email: vinesh@vineshmaharaj.com
MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Pain or Pleasure? What Drives You?
All human decisions and acts are to either avoid pain or to enjoy pleasure. Yet, what seems painful to one person may be pleasurable to another such as the recent Comrades marathon. Thousands of people felt drawn to the pain of the event in pursuit of the pleasure in completing it. Some people have a high threshold for pain in the form of poverty, obesity, unhappiness etc. Others in fear of those, do all they can to accelerate the great escape from pain. Others are instantly attracted to the pleasure of wealth, a slim and trim physique and chooses emotional wellness over unhappiness.
Everything we do is to either enjoy the suffering of pain (self inflicted or complicit) or to enjoy the pleasure of achieving. According to Anthony Robbins and the practitioners of Neuro Linguistic Programming, all humans have Six Basic Needs in a sequence and combination which is unique to you. So ask your self what drives you?
Here are the six basic human needs that drives behaviour…
1. Certainty: Some people are seeking the assurance that they can avoid pain and enjoy pleasure. Some of us even want to be certain of our appointment with death.
2. Uncertainty OR Variety: This is the need for the variety of the unknown or the requirement of change or some new stimulus. These are generally people with the need for new and ongoing adventures.
3. Significance: This is the need to feel unique, important, special or needed by others.
4. Connection OR Love: Here we speak of needing a strong feeling of closeness or union with someone, family or community and sometimes something such as a brand.
5. Growth: This the need for expansion of capacity,ability or understanding. The need for continuous growth, development and learning…
6. Contribution: This is a sense of service and focus on helping, giving to and supporting others who are in need. We are driven by wanting to making a difference in the lives of others.
Your task is to understand the following:
- Which of these drive you most? In what sequence?
- How do you meet these needs. Are your actions positive or negative in fulfilling them?
- What can you do from today to focus on your growth and contribution?
By understanding what drives you, you can create new patterns of excellence which can serve you, creating lasting success.
Peak personal performance comes from understanding your drivers, whilst overcoming your limitations, transcending the mediocre and embracing your potential for the complete and ultimate breakthrough, giving you Personal Mastery.
For more on increasing your organizations’s productivity in Sales, across industries contact me today for a Complimentary 30 minute Business Development Consultation.
Keep smiling, keep shining…
My name is Vinesh Maharaj and I’m your coach and partner in success…
Mobile: + 27 84 990 1539
Email: vinesh@vineshmaharaj.com
THE SALES PROFESSIONALS MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE
“Three Rules of Work:
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. “
– Albert Einstein
VINESH MAHARAJ
THE ENTREPRENEURS MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
– Ray Goforth
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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Tired of The Rat Race? Time to Break The Box!
So, you wake up in a box called a bed. You shower in a box. You have boxed cereal. You drive to work in a box. You ride the box up to your office. You speak to others on a box and you turn on your box at your desk. You repeat the same pattern, watching TV on a box and following the instructions on the box…ultimately ending up in a box on your funeral day. Now lets be frank, Our thoughts and actions have been shaped into this box. Today, lets break free from box thinking. Lets use our creativity to be limitless in health, wealth, career…
The dogma of going to a good school, getting good grades, marrying a good person and working your buns off and one day you will be happy, rich and fulfilled has left us all red faced. We trade 40 years of full time employment for a few years of living in retirement. We are self imprisoned to serve the dreams of others while sacrificing ours until old age. Now lets face the brutal truth…
Get out of the box. Stop running the treadmill of the hamster. Start taking responsibility and accountability for your life. A golden handshake which has become rusty over time is of no value when you trade 5 days of imprisonment for 2 days of freedom. Emancipate yourself. This is the new revolution. This is the time to break free from the rat race. There are no winners in the rat race…there are just rats.
I’m a big advocate of self employment, entrepreneurship, business ownership etc. You should rather ‘own” the rat race, than run in it. By owning the rat race, you create opportunities for others to fulfill their needs. Note I’m not advocating their dreams will be fulfilled, unless it is your dream to flip burgers until death, or mop floors until age 65, or that you want to be a taxi driver as its the most fulfilling occupation under the sun.
Don’t be fooled by so many “Get Rich Quick” scams which sing out loudly “Earn R20K in 2 weeks”, “Work from Home and get Rich”, “Business Opportunity”, “Get rich while staying at home”, they often translate into “Work for me at no pay, just commission”, “Free time”? Its a fallacy. It takes all your free time earn those commissions.
Lets examine how you can kick the box:
- Work for yourself. Start today. We all have hundreds of needs to be fulfilled. Look around you. Wherever you see problems, I see opportunities. By solving other peoples problems, you create opportunities.
- Invent, create, re-invent. The opportunities are there for manufacturing new products, offering new services or improving the services of existing businesses. Lets consider a few examples…get together your family members and start a family business. Use each others networks and skills and launch from the living room or garage but remember to succeed, you must exit the garage and enter formal business premises. Why import Chinese products when we can make them ourselves? Start a new food franchise/bakery from your home. Start a soap manufacturing business. Start a cosmetics company and partner with a huge distributor to reach new markets. Develop an app that adds value. Grow flowers for the funeral parlour. Grow vegetables for the local store. Resell stationary to businesses and schools. Find a unique advantage that you can add value for your customers to compel them to do business with you. Add value in price, quality, service. There are endless ideas. Choose one you love to do, grow it until it matures and the skies are truly the limits.
- Sell, sell, sell…The greatest ideas are useless if you cant sell them onto others. You reach success when you achieve critical mass. When you sell millions, to millions of customers, you are serving millions and therefore you are earning millions. Sell to the greatest number of customers both local and international through mass reach…either a a national footprint through stores or through an online store. While you sleep, customers can buy through your online portal, because sales grows us, our economy, our dreams, ambitions and goals.
If you are truly tired of the rat race and want a viable alternative, that’s going to take time and effort, and you are sincere about building a meaningful lifestyle geared towards your possibility, your dreams and your achievement then you cant miss this opportunity.
Start up now and grow your business from idea to fledgling to a thriving business through the upcoming Vinesh Maharaj Personal Mastery Workshop. This Program is targeted at serious, sincere entrepreneurs who are committed to kicking the rat race in favour of running their own race.
For more on increasing your organizations’s productivity in Sales, across industries contact me today for a Complimentary 30 minute Business Development Consultation.
Keep smiling, keep shining…
My name is Vinesh Maharaj and I’m your coach and partner in success…
Mobile: + 27 84 990 1539
Email: vinesh@vineshmaharaj.com
Vinesh Maharaj: Your coach and partner in success 