MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Are You Your Own Enemy?

Let’s talk truth…governments around the world are weak, economists forecasts for the world’s economy is bleak, employment numbers are up and many are cowering in fear, surrendering to the status quo, adopting the excuses of the media and the masses.

Now let me flip the coin on you…governments are still collecting billions in taxes, economies (personal and business) are growing, companies are minting dollars and many are taking advantage and are rising above the dictates of mass hysteria and media gloom.

The old adage; “is the glass half full or half empty”.  Yes it’s all perspective.  How do you see it?  Is it a problem or do you see the opportunity?  You can hide behind excuses or you can rise to action.  Even in the world’s most depressed economies there are new millionaire and billionaire debutants.  How do you explain that?  Well, simply it means those people are dictating their own reality.  The refuse to subscribe to the opinions of others, for factually is the glass half empty or half full is really just an opinion, reflecting your reality.

You must ask, are you your own enemy, holding yourself back on the accounts of others…forcing their reality upon you?  Reality is a choice.  Winners are creating their own reality perpetually.  They see the way around, through, over and under the “problem”, for they see them as opportunities.  They are willing to do what others are not willing to do, because everyone else only sees the pain.  Winners only see the gain which they are willing to pay for with effort.

The next time you choose your reality ask yourself?  Am I a victim of my own reality?  Or am I championing my cause, from the front, creating a reality that serves my success?  Are you getting down and dirty where others want to keep their hands clean?  By making more calls, investing in your networks, growing your skills and pushing harder while others are retreating, you are are sure to dominate the future.  If you fall asleep at the wheel, surely you can’t win the race.  So wake up and get committed, creating a reality that sees you and your team mount the summit of success.

Stop being your own enemy.  Commit to never becoming a victim of your own dogma.  Rather champion your reality and make it happen.

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VINESH MAHARAJ

Sales Trainer I Motivational Speaker I Johannesburg, South Africa

7 Habits Of The World’s Highest Paid Rainmakers

The world has many unsung rainmakers, men and women who make it rain daily.  They sell planes, trains and automobiles. They move world economies. They sell IT solutions, homes, industrial development parks, they are network marketers, they are sports professionals, CEO’s and entrepreneurs who move tons of products and services and bank serious amounts of cash.  They drive company direction and results.  They create and innovate.  They see opportunity where everyone else sees problems and they cash in on it.

Rain makers do whatever it takes to succeed. They start early and finish late. They network and dine with other A – Listers in pursuit of the holy grail. Here are some insights into the habits of super successful rainmakers:

1. Result driven – Rainmakers kill it. They aren’t willing to surrender. They push, shove, grind and produce at ever increasing frequencies to hit “bulls eye”.  They create and deliver results.

2. They own their think – Rain makers are not engaged in small talk, negativity or goal distractions. They choose their thoughts, thought inputs and associates to control what they think, hear, talk or experience.  Its almost like being in a tunnel that goes straight to the target exclusively.  They have laser like focus.

3.  Decisive – Rain makers are decisive.  The decide…commit and act.  Once the decision is taken, they never look back.  They are forward thinking, movers and shakers.

4.  Play books – Rainmakers have many play books so they can ensure their result, whatever the scenario.  If the economy goes down, if the exchange rate goes up, if demand slows down, if demand increases etc.  They come armed with preparation.  They play to win.

5. They never eat alone – All actions, communications and resources are focused on ONE thing only…”the mark”. Breakfast, coffee, lunch and dinner are opportunities. They never eat alone. They dine with networks, prospects or customers.  They build relationships, unlock networks and close deals.

6. They work their work – Rainmakers, do whatever it takes to get it done, to close the deal. They are always learning, studying and skilling themselves to close in on opportunities before anyone else sees them.

7. BANK – Rainmakers bank serious cash in salaries, incentives, bonuses and commissions. They take all the money off the table. They are the top 20% of all industries.

How much do Rainmakers earn (2015):  

Bernard Fornas, Co-CEO, Richemont SA, R88 million +

Cristiano Ronaldo, Footballer, Real Madrid (Spain), £57 million +

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress, Hollywood, $52 million +

Lebron James, Basketball Pro, $71 million +

Charif Souki, CEO, Cheniere Energy, $142 million +

To create a rain maker culture at your organisation, contact Vinesh Maharaj; a professional public speaker, trainer and coach.  Vinesh Maharaj is focused on Sales, Leadership, Customer Excellence and Staff Motivation through his signature program; NO-EXCUSES to take your team to the next level.

Book Vinesh Maharaj to speak at your Conference, your Team Building or staff meeting to deliver “The Think Of The Rainmaker”

Let it rain results in your space!!!

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Entrepreneur – Grow your skills

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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: BE AWESOME. Kick average in the teeth and aim for the moon…

The first month of the year is history. Many were happy to see the back of 2015 and are excited about a new year with new prospects and possibilities. Many celebrated success and achievement in 2015 meeting their goals and objectives; yet so many languish in middle class suburban mediocrity…the ever-miserable average.

What is average? Average means neither here, nor there. It means run of the mill. It means somewhere in the middle…neither here nor there. Average at school or university means, you’re not first, nor are you last, somewhere in the middle…again. In earnings it means you aren’t rich, nor are you poor. In age, it means you aren’t old, or young. Like a no mans land. It’s like sitting at a border post between countries. It’s like splitting your vote at elections 50% left and 50% right. Does average, start feeling and tasting distasteful to you? It’s undefined, limiting and frustrating.

If not, just imagine catching the latest average movie, written, produced and directed by the most average. Where after, you catch an average dinner, at an average restaurant prepared by an average chef. The drinks were average, as were the starters and don’t hold your breath…with your average date. How do you expect the night to end? Boombastic, fireworks, mind-blowing tantric yoga?

If you want 2016 to be “The Year”, much has to change. First and fore-mostly your commitment to burning “average, nice, okay and acceptable”. These are the new “fats, sugar, salt and gluten” that you need to eradicate from your thought and speak. Go on a mental health diet that rejects these from your mind, your standards and expectations. As soon as you perceive them, know its time to change, change something. As American motivational speaker and author Zig Ziglar used to say be “Better than Good”. It’s time to embrace a new reality where you, are the star of your show. Where the lights are brighter, your sound track is crystal clear, where the colours pop and words spoken are songs, where the walking is dancing and there is energy and passion in all that you do. No matter how you feel, regardless of the weather or the economy, for those should never own your state of focused, intentional commitment to living your life large and in charge.

Now contrast that with a thrilling movie written, produced, directed by a team of visionary movie makers who challenge the boundaries and take you on an exhilarating journey, along with your breathtakingly beautiful date, an exceptional meal under candle light by a renowned, much sought after chef at a premier restaurant, where the ambiance is only enhanced by the tastes, sights and sounds you consume. The night air is crisp and clear, the stars are dancing in the moonlight and you feel like a teenager in love once again…

If you want to live, then now is the time. New years are nothing more than you getting older and one year closer to the end. Or, new years could signal the new you. Committed. Passionate. All in…Kick average in the teeth and aim for the moon. Should you fail, best you land among the stars. How bad can that be. Take back your life and kick average in the teeth.

Should you want to bring AWESOME to your business, feel free to contact us:

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VINESH MAHARAJ

Your business coach and partner in success…

 

Dumb People, Smart Phones

It’s a crappy title, I know. Yet I feel compelled to share it. This is not an IT or telecommunications blog. Rather it’s a communications lesson for anyone in business and all human beings regardless of your age, occupation or experience.

Too many dumb people have smart phones. Having a smart phone doesn’t make you smart. However, using a smart phone, SMARTLY can make you rich. That is, if you know how to use it. I’m not talking E-mail, Facebook, Google, Apps etc. I am talking about calling, getting either appointments and or getting sales through the phone. We incorrectly deem calling a telemarketing or telesales function. That mind set, is sure to keep you poor.

Since the printing press, perhaps the greatest tool ever created by Alexander Graham Bell, used to communicate is the telephone. Used exclusively to communicate with an exclusive outcome in mind. If you are in business you have just one outcome in mind. Sadly, neither school, nor university teaches or trains you how to use the telephone, yet it is a heartbeat away from untold riches. Perhaps that’s why you are kept out on the dirty little secret. Only the rich, savvy professionals making the top dollars, know how to use the phone and they have been trained, mentored and practiced making it second nature.

Everywhere I go, business owners complain of a lack of business. Whether in real estate, financial services, dry cleaners and even florists are complaining its quiet. When I ask, how many calls are you making to prospective customers, they look at me as if I am from Mars. I hear a hundred excuses for their failure but never any good reasons. Fore mostly most people are afraid of the phone because they suffer fear! They fear rejection. Others, fear people themselves. Some, fear the phone itself. Yet they may have many phones for entertainment but never for wealth creation. I must be from Mars right now, but many like me, use our smart phones to find new customers, close new deals, make more money and stay true to their business goals at all costs.

So there you have it, be smart, use the smart phone, like a smartie and sell your way sales success.

My name is Vinesh Maharaj

I’m Your coach and partner in success…

Email:  vinesh@vineshmaharaj.com

Phone:  +27 84 990 1539

THE ULTIMATE ENTREPRENEURS WORKSHOP 2016

If you’re tired of average, minimalist survival due to not being able to turn your business around and if you are tired of poverty, stagnation, high stress and suffer month end fears, then its time to get new inspiration, knowledge, skills and attitudes of highly successful business coach, public speaker and business trainer, Vinesh Maharaj to help you become: THE ULTIMATE ENTREPRENEUR in 2016!!! 

It’s high time you invested in your business growth if you seriously want to grow your business.  Imagine starving your harvest of water to save money, how long will it be before you go bust and all your hard work is ruined?  Small minds think small and stay small.  Big thinkers, find a way to grow their business at whatever the cost.  They have a “whatever it takes” mentality.  Are you willing to take your game to the next level?

This program is a game changer for many a business.  Book now to avoid disappointment and join the sound, successful businesses who have graduated the program and continue to grow revenue, market share and profit.

*PLEASE NOTE!!!

This is a WINNERS ONLY premier business development workshop. No whiners, moaners, groaners, excuses, losers and cry babies are welcome!!!

EVENT DATE: 29th January 2016

EVENT VENUE:  Roodepoort, Johannesburg

TICKETS:

R1500.00 p.p – Booked and paid before or on 15th January 2016 or,
R2000.00 p.p – Booked and paid after the 15th January 2016.

There are 3 HUGE BONUS items for every attendee:

1. A FREE ONE page business profile
2. A FREE introductory video
3. A FREE customized Sales & Marketing Strategy.

To take advantage of this huge saving, make payment today and secure 2016 as the best business year ever.

Remember, WINNERS create, while LOSERS retreat!!!

Lets make history and create financial freedom and business success this 2016 as you become THE ULTIMATE ENTREPRENEUR!!!

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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

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