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

PERSONAL MASTERY

Push Until Something Happens

Watch this space for details on the upcoming

VINESH MAHARAJ Personal Mastery Program

…coming this August 2015.

VINESH MAHARAJ

http://www.vineshmaharaj.com

CRUSH YOUR OBSTACLES

“Obstacles cannot crush me.  Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.  He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind”

– Leonardo Da Vinci

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Vinesh Maharaj

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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Gladiators for life

Fellow gladiators, today I want to share 3 differentiators if harnessed could produce you a sublime life that’s abundantly fulfilling along with leaving lasting legacy.  No, its got nothing to do with your make up, shake up or wake up…Its all to do about you Gladiator, your attitude, your service and your commitment to excellence.

ATTITUDE:

While you can’t always control what happens to you, you certainly can manage your attitude and your response to whatever has happened.  You alone determine what you think and do to counter your situation in favour of your desired outcome.

“Your attitude will determine you altitude” we have all heard.  A “So-So attitude” will yield…“So-So results”.  A “Good  attitude” will yield “Good Results”, but and “Excellent attitude” will yield “Excellent results”.  The world (your results) mirrors your attitude.  The world is not cruel, its neutral.  We can all change our attitudes to believe good things can happen to us, that we are lucky, that we are blessed…what we expect from life we achieve, all day long.  The opposite is also true.  “Whether you think you Can or you cant, you are right” said Henry Ford.  Remember, “your attitude determines your altitude”.  Winners have a winning attitude, losers a losing attitude.  You decide…

Remember that what you project, you attract.  Gratitude increases positive attraction.  Gratitude of wisdom, love, health, wealth, opportunity etc. all increases manifestation of these in your life.  Don’t complain ever, just do what you need to do and do it well.  People with the right attitude radiate energy and beauty and the wold projects it back to them.  You can tell what you are projecting by evaluating what you are getting back from life.

Don’t let mental apathy eat away at your life.  Conquer your mind.  “Fill your cup” with people (mentors, associates, uplifting friends and family), books that inspire and motivate.  Fill the spirit until the cup is full.  Take pride in everything you do, big or small.  Be grateful for your current opportunity, it will pave the road for new opportunities.  There is meaning in taking great pride in whatever you do.  It brings meaning to your life to put purpose before title, profit or status.

SERVICE:

The road to success is paved with opportunities galore.  You don’t need to invent anything.  You just have to add ever increasing value through service.  Burgers and fries are at least a 100 year old if not older.    You can buy them at almost any restaurant or take away.  Yet 2 to 3 vendors stole the opportunity in providing you with a priceless service; convenience and price.  Mc Donald’s service of convenience and price separated themselves from all other food vendors, taking them from a small player with a few stores in America, to more than 21 000 stores in over 100 countries. They increased the value in their service to the whole world by making fast, efficient, low cost food to meet the ever increasing demands of time and money.  Remember to create and add value wherever you are.

The people who serve the greatest number of people celebrate the biggest and best results.  Ask your cellular service provider just how many customers they serve and equate it with their latest financial statements.  Ask your medical aid, the local gold mines, your local private hospitals etc.  Ask yourself why the icons of the world became icons?  Because they are the epitome of service sometimes creating products and services we never expected to become dependent on such as electricity, mobile phones, computers to mention a few.  Increase your rate of service and your success will be proportionate.

EXCELLENCE:

Excellence is all we all should strive for…be the very best you can be at whatever your occupation.  When you see your work as mastery, yourself as the master and your customers (business, family and friends) as the only reason for your existence, excellence becomes habit, rather than an act.  An honest days work is far superior to a lazy day of useless squandering of life.  Without excellence our relevance is questionable.

Commit yourself to excellence.  Don’t just do…do with mustering your heart, mind, intelligence and wisdom.  It will out class you from the following pack.  It’s a commitment to an ever increasing standard of excellence.  You can get better and better incrementally.  Just like the 100m sprint.  The record holders went from 10.83 seconds by Ben Johnson (1987) to 9.78 seconds by Tim Montgomery (2002) and down to 9.58 seconds by Usain Bolt in 2009.  In our lifetimes I’m sure we will see it breach 9.5 seconds…In parting I wish to remind you that your personal excellence has no limits other than those you set for yourself.  Remember to be a Gladiator for life

For more on increasing your organizations’s productivity in Sales, Administration and Customer Services, 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…

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Email: vinesh@vineshmaharaj.com

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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Are you Confident or Arrogant?

There are two ways to have the worlds tallest building. One, is to get to work and start building. The other is to demolish all the other buildings taller than yours. Both ways will get you results but which can you celebrate with your teams, be they colleagues, family or friends? Does trampling others buildings inspire and motivate your genius? Does trampling other buildings result in victory? Does trampling other buildings liberate your greatness?

You get a new customer and “Mr. Hubris” talks about his greatest customer. You buy a new car…he talks about his “friend” who bought a “better” car. You book a family holiday and he tells you about how he went off to a “better” holiday. He is a building trampler. Whatever you do, he does better. Whatever you know, he knows more. Whatever you start to say, he has to have the final say. You know who I am talking about.

No one enjoys the company of such an arrogant and self absorbed person. No one, but themselves. Their illusions of grandeur and self importance fills the room with the smell of desperately low self esteem. Every office, business, family or social group has that one person who due to their low self esteem, lack of self confidence and self belief, overshadows and tinges every interaction with them with either disgust or disappointment.

Pride with authenticity, is uplifting not just to the owner but to people they interact with. They act in confidence and with productivity. They don’t run others down for self importance. Hubristic pride, is based on arrogance and egoism. They leave bitter tastes wherever they go. Don’t confuse Confidence with Arrogance, even for yourself. “There is a thin line between pride and arrogance, its called humility. Confidence smiles, arrogance, smirks” – Unknown

Here are 8 Golden Rules Rules to ensure your behaviour:

1. Be Proud, Not Boastful
2. Be Confident, Not Arrogant
3. Be Humble, Not Hubristic
4. Be Encouraging, Not Insincere
5. Be Courteous and Respectful, Not Disdainful
6. Have a Quiet Confidence, Not Loud Bravado
7. Have Gratitude, Not Entitlement
8. Be the Best YOU that you can be, Not the best SOMEONE ELSE

C.S Lewis said it aptly when he said “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less”. Today, start building your tallest building, be it your business, career, wealth, health, relationships through work, not through trampling the buildings of others. Compete with yourself. Be your best. Fill your cup. Drink deep your humility and be loved for who you are.

If you’d like a complimentary 30-minute business development strategy session with me, for more information, please contact us at NO-EXCUSES to unleash your entrepreneurial talents, grow your business and acquire the knowledge, attitudes, skills and habits of wildly successful entrepreneurs.

My name is Vinesh Maharaj and I’m your coach and partner in success…

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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS POSITIVE THINKING

We are all products of our past thoughts.  Be it good, bad or ugly past thoughts, here you are.  Are you trapped by limiting beliefs, low self esteem, self sabotaging or are you suffering the hamster in the wheel syndrome?  Call it what you want, it ain’t pretty.  You have had, and missed some wonderful opportunities and what once looked like a garden of roses, soon turned into a garden of thorns.  What now?  Where to from here?

What if you truly understood and mastered the art of “POSITIVE THINKING”?  By no means am I advocating wishy-washy, airy-fairy delusions.  I mean principles based on thousands of years of philosophy, psychology, religiosity and business practices.

I’m a great believer in universal principles for success. Today I want to share with you “THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS POSITIVE THINKING“.  In no means or way am I implying that you can lay in bed and think yourself thin, beautiful and rich by applying the “THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS POSITIVE THINKING“ alone.  What I am implying is that if you change your thinking, you will change your results.  You will bring new opportunities, relationships and circumstances your way.  It takes a CONSCIOUS effort though.  Here is a sample of this timeless wisdom…

“What we are is what we have thought for years”.
Gautama The Buddha (560-480 BC) – Indian Spiritual leader and Founder of Buddhism

“Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them”.
Plato (428-327 BC) – Greek Philosopher and Prose Writer

“Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.” 
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180) – Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher 

“As a man thinketh, so is he”

Bible from the Book of Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7

It is no secret that “CONSCIOUS POSITIVE THINKING” is not a new school of thought.  The great business books of our times also speak of this.  Whether you’re quoting Donald Trump, Malcolm Gladwell or Sir Richard Branson be sure to see the common thread; CONSCIOUS POSITIVE THINKING supported by a strategic plan.  They never start out thinking they’re going to fail, do they?   All results, are the result of thoughts.  Thoughts which are clear, definitive and consistent, backed with a master plan to succeed MUST result in success.

Here are 10 Powerfully Empowering Ideas to help you:

1. Don’t hold any negative thoughts, EVER – Avoid them like cancer
2. Replace them with conscious positive thoughts which inspire your greatness – clear, definitive & consistent thoughts
3. Go on a 30 day positive diet – think ONLY of your success
4. Keep inspirational company which keeps you locked onto your best life
5. Take 100% responsibility – You are NEVER a victim.  Rather be a perpetrator to your success
6. Keep a list of gratitude – List all that you’re grateful for.  This changes your perspective…quickly
7. Change your language – Use success language.  Speak of opportunities, not problems
8. Hold in your minds eye, your success – visualize
9. Become the most positive person you know
10. Practice, practice, practice and when you have mastered it, keep on practicing still

When you have mastered “CONSCIOUS POSITIVE THINKING“,  your life will be so much simpler, yet so much more successful.  Let the results you achieve be testimony to this timeless wisdom.

I parting, I wish you leave you with this quote and ask that you LIKE, SHARE & COMMENT please?

“Watch your thoughts; they become words

Watch your words; they become actions

Watch your actions; they become habit

Watch your habits; they become character

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”

I’m your coach and partner in success

Vinesh Maharaj

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