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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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Perseverance, The Master key to your success

Your success is not purely based on either planning and execution or energy and enthusiasm. It is largely based on your ability to persevere along with all the above. 

In the world today, most things are instant. Think noodles, baby formula, “ready meals”, fast foods, diet fads etc. They all promise immediate gratification. Sadly this has warped reality and has created an expectation of instant results in almost everything. If I cannot get instant results the recipe or process must be flawed.

We have lost sight that everything has an incubation period. This is not theory, this is law. Think pregnancy, agriculture, cooking, baking, healthy living (eating and exercise), saving and investing. Success takes time. Through following a success plan i.e. “others have done it, so can I”; you too can achieve the same excellence as others have. 

When we throw the baby out with the bath water, we eliminate the possibility of any success. Rather we affirm the negatives such as “success is not for me”, “I don’t have his luck”, “I cant do it” etc.

Rather today I challenge you to persevere to succeed. The dictionary defines perseverance as follows:

“Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success”

Synonyms: Persistence, tenacity, determination, resolve, resolution, resoluteness,, staying power, purposefulness, firmness of purpose etc.

Don’t ever quit, persist…persevere for once you reach critical mass in time and actions, results come fast and furious.

Every great achiever has had to persevere to finally succeed. Be it great businesspersons, musicians, artists or sporting legends. The names are countless. Here are a few for your reference: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, The Wright Brothers, while more recently we have had Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Simon Cowell etc. They all swam against the tide, against the odds but through perseverance they ultimately succeeded in a magnanimous way.

Here are 5 perseverance mastery points for your success:

1. Commit to staying the course – “Come hell or high water”. Of course you must navigate your course and sometimes you may have to rest…but never, never, ever stop.

2. Dig deep – Within you is deeper reserves than you know. When hope is gone, dig in your heels and look within. Your strength is there I assure you. Use your reserves.

3. Review your plan, strategy and execution for stresses. Once you find them, fix them. A mighty ship can be sunk by a pin-sized hole in the hull.

4. Steady up – Take concentrated doses of daily action in the direction of your goal.

5. Face your challenges head on and never surrender.

In conclusion here is an inspired thought by the late great Maya Angelou:

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” 

Do what it takes, persevere the course and the results are achieved through law, not through theory.

At the upcoming VINESH MAHARAJ – PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MASTERY PROGRAM – 2014 we unpack ALL the strategies for your personal and professional success and achievement. The Art of Perseverance is mastered to bring about the results you want and need. Get the perseverance blue print and watch your successes grow.

This flagship program is a game changer and has become synonymous with results achievement. Get more details for you and your company by contacting me. Go on and create your destiny of success and achievement.

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Vinesh Maharaj

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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: 10 Time Management Tips from The Uber Successful

Did you know that there are only 86 400 seconds in a day?  This means nothing unless you use them wisely.  

Your most valuable commodity is your time.  How you manage, use or abuse time will either serve your success or hamper it.  Waste your time and you waste your life, for that’s what life is made of…time.

The greatest achievers across all disciplines were exceptional time managers.  The current super achievers among us are living testimony of effective time management.  Their objective is always how to maximize time; getting the best results in the shortest amount of time.

Today I want to share with you the Donald Trump Time Management System:

1.     Get Organized – Take time to organize yourself.  Clear your desk.  Clutter in your office, clutters the mind.  Organize your information for easy access.  Prepare for a new you.

2.     Start Early – As an early riser you steal light hours from life.  Getting more done before your competitors awake will set you up for an industrious lifetime of success.

3.     Plan Your Planner – Schedule in your tasks, meetings and success activities like networking, creative planning, emails, gym, walking, reading etc.

4.     Manage Your Meetings – Don’t schedule one hour for one outcome.  Have micro meetings of 15 minutes where possible with an agenda sent out to all attendees.  Where not possible do not exceed a 30 minute meeting.  Scope creepers and whiners will steal your valuable time.  Get your outcome and get out.

5.     Prioritize – List your targets in sequence or in importance.  To bake a cake it may be sequential but to strike a business agreement or contract it may be in list of  importance thus jumping the sequence que.

6.     Deadlines – These are at the heart of your goals.  The time within which to achieve.  Ensure you are meeting them and better still exceeding them.

7.     Bite Size Chunks – Don’t try to build Rome in a day.  You will fail and feel unaccomplished.  Rather break down large tasks into small bite size chunks.  One bite at a time takes you closer to goal achievement.

8.     Manage Your Emails – Schedule time for email management.  During this time reply to all emails.  Reply immediately and clean up your mailbox.  A sense of achievement is ever present when you are up to date.  A clogged up mailbox will leave you feeling time strapped and under pressure.

9.     Take A Break – Make time for a regular healthy distraction.  Stop for a water break, sip your favourite tea or coffee, have a power lunch or meet someone inspirational for a quick friendly, catch up.  This small but necessary break will serve as a mini recharge.  Go back fired up!

10.     Plan Tomorrow Today – Schedule tomorrow’s success activities today.  Don’t wait and see…Take action and control your time and your outcomes.

 I leave you with this beautifully, well crafted quote:  “Yesterday’s history, the future is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present”.  Use your time well on the road to achievement or squander it on the path to nowhere.

At the upcoming VINESH MAHARAJ – PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MASTERY PROGRAM – 2014 we unpack ALL the strategies for your personal and professional success and achievement. The art of effective success oriented time management is revealed, trained and mastered to bring about the results you want and need. This flagship program is a game changer and has become synonymous with results achievement. Get more details for you and your company by contacting me. Go on and create your destiny of success and achievement.

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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Living The Madiba Ideals

Today marks the holiday celebration of Freedom Day in South Africa.  It celebrates the 20th anniversary of South African democracy.  This achievement is due largely to the efforts of many unsung hero’s, yet one who stands out like an icon, is none other than the late Nelson Mandela.  

Madiba as he is affectionately known, was a man who stood for many great ideals.  His inner conviction exceeded any doubts about the success and achievement of his goal or objective.  Listed below are some “Madiba Ideals” I wish upon you, so that your inner conviction grows making you unstoppable.

VISION – Madiba “saw the future” of a Rainbow Nation.  A country for all, at a time when most people resigned to “reality”.  Whatever your current status, hold onto that vision of your success and achievement.  Imprint it on your mind and remain faithful to it.  Don’t waiver, don’t quit, don’t be fooled by others visions for you.  Remain true to your vision.

ACTION – Become relentless like Madiba.  He pushed his agenda nationally and internationally.  Not when he felt like it, but ALL THE TIME.  For you to achieve and succeed, you must take massive, consistent and focused actions, congruent with your vision.  Even when the skies are grey and there seems to be no glimmer of hope or no victory in sight, keep on keeping on.

COURAGE – Be courageous.  There will be many moments dominated by fear in your pursuit of achievement.  A brave man, in Madiba’s words “conquers fear”.

BE TENACIOUS – Challenges, difficulties and setbacks can sometimes break the strongest of men.  If you keep striking at your goals, achievement will soon start to appear on the horizon.  Stick with it…be tenacious.

BELIEVE – Success really is for everyone, if they can rise above their circumstances. Its not for a select few.  Rather, it is the select few who believe that it is possible for them.  Madiba believed in his blood that it is for everyone.  Now you believe…

Whatever your current status, your political persuasion or wherever on the ladder of achievement you find yourself, by living the “Madiba Ideals” you can only excel further and faster.  Here is a final point for your inspiration by a great icon, a beacon of hope, a man of truth, justice and wisdom:

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death” – Nelson Mandela

At the VINESH MAHARAJ – PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MASTERY PROGRAM – 2014, we unpack ALL the ideals for success and achievement.  This flagship program is a game changer and has become synonymous with results achievement.  Get more details for you and your company by contacting me.  Go on and create your destiny of success and achievement.

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Vinesh Maharaj

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The Top 10 Customer Service Traits for Customer Excellence

Service in itself is a glorious act of kindness.  Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Florence Nightingale etc have served tirelessly and inspired greatness.  They have served with heart and mind, expecting no reward or recognition for themselves.

Today I want to share with you the characteristics of the greatest “servants” of all time.

The Top 10 Customer Service Traits for Customer Excellence

Patience:  “Infinite patience yields immediate results”.  Theirs was a service over a lifetime.  Their resounding success will outlast you and I.

Commitment:  They do whatever it takes!  Even at the expense of imprisonment or death, you cant question their commitment.

Positive:  Even in the face of massive daily adversity, they are positively expectant.

Lead by Example:  They are doers, on the front lines.  They walk the talk.

Tenacity:  They stay the course, setback after setback.

Resourceful:  With very little but an idea to make the world a better place, they shift beliefs, attitudes and command your attention.

Righteous:  They are always serving a higher good for all.

Focused:  They don’t  get distracted by the next best thing.  They micro-focus on getting results.

Inspirational:  They inspire action among their followers locally but they leave an inspired legacy globally.

Integrity:  They are consistent at honesty and forth-righteousness.  They do the right thing!

Study and adopt these into your life.  As an employer or employee they are applicable anywhere, anytime and in every situation.  The next time you are in front of your customer measure yourself against this.  Serve their needs with these and watch your loyal customer base grow.  People will call in your office only wanting to speak to you because you get them and their needs.  You solve their problems with heart and mind.  You are living the values of customer excellence. Your every interaction leaves the customer committed to buying from you, recommending you and singing your company’s glories at every opportunity.

At the VINESH MAHARAJ – CUSTOMER EXCELLENCE PROGRAM – 2014, we unpack ALL the traits for Customer Excellence.  This flagship program is a game changer and has become synonymous with results achievement.    Get more details for you and your company by contacting me.  Go on and create excellence among your customers.

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Vinesh Maharaj

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Vinesh Maharaj

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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: The Art of Commitment

If success at anything were easy street, the world would be flooded with successful people.  Regrettably it is not.  One of the core ingredients to succeeding at anything is COMMITMENT; massive, massive…commitment.

Commitment is defined as a “the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.” It is also considered to be a promise, a contract, obligation or duty to fulfill.

In your endeavors at your craft and in every facet of life; commitment is the carbon fibre of your success. Stay with it and succeed. Its about taking the road less travelled to deliver exceptional value whatever you do.  There is an unspoken honor towards people who keep and people who exceed their commitments.

Commitment to anyone else but yourself, first is misleading.  Your first commitment is to yourself.   Commit to expect nothing less than your best.  Commit yourself to world class standards and ideals and when your clients, friends and family whisper your name…let your commitment echo synonymously with your name.

The greatest hero’s and heroines of our times have shown huge commitment.  From Mother Theresa to Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Nelson Mandela to name a few.  In the “Long Walk to Freedom”; the late great, Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, he time and time again lives up to his commitment to his cause.  When Henry Ford was met with failure after failure in the pursuit of the elusive V8 engine did he resolve to give up his commitment? Thomas Edison was derided as a mad man he stayed committed to his cause and gifted the world electrical light.  When Mother Theresa stood up to be counted against the odds, she stood tall.  How do you stand in the light of your cause?

Here are 5 Key skills to master your commitment:

1. Decide to be world class and stand tall at everything you do.
2. Raise the bar: Go above and beyond the call of duty to succeed.
3. Perform with heart…every time, all the time
4. Be relentless at taking massive consistent action.
5. Dont quit…you WILL succeed

In closing I want you to take the following with you today.  Let this be your meditation as you go about your business:

“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?” – Vince Lombardy.  Go on, show great conviction through your unending inspired commitment to your success.

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Vinesh Maharaj

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