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February 9, 2012  

The Intuitive Group Review Student Mentality (And How To Maintain It)

Intuitive-Group-Review-Student-Mentality“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other” –JFK

“I am still learning” –Michelangelo

“Learning is not attained by chance.  It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” –Abigail Adams (wife of President John Adams)

What quality do you think is most important to possess to become successful?

Of course the answer to this question is perspective; however from experience I can tell you that if you do not believe that a student mentality is important to succeed, you may never find success.

In order to keep moving forward you need to keep learning.  Contrary to what you may think even the top tier business professionals are still learning, and the top tier of these professionals will not allow themselves to stop learning until they stop doing their job!

When you hit a point where you think you know all you need to know you are in trouble! ESPECIALLY if you have not reached the level of success you are striving for.

There may be times you think there is nothing more to learn…well that is WRONG!  If you have adopted this way of thinking it is vital that you force yourself out of your comfort zone to grow and learn more about your craft.  No one wants to follow a “know it all” minded individual!

So, what do you do if this has occurred? You have to dig deep! Find ways to get better at the tasks you are already good at.  Seek out the knowledge from those that are at the position that you are growing towards.  A good rule of thumb is that unless you are able to write a best-selling book about what it is that you are doing, you have yet to learn everything there is to know about your position.

Chances are you may be feeling stuck or stagnant, but reality is you just allowed yourself to stop learning.  When you are not learning you are not growing!  When you are not growing, you are not adding value to your clients!

Student mentality is a choice; choose to perfect your craft!

If you feel as though you are not going anywhere or you have hit a wall and you are not sure what to do to reach your goals…never give up…become a phenomenal student!

Remember when you learn you earn!  Here are a few things you can do to continue learning and find your success:

Read a book

Attend seminars

Set up time with your mentors and ask them questions (they may be busy but they love it, it is never a burden for them to help their team grow)

Talk to your team and collaborate…maybe they see things you may not

Shadow someone for the day

Evaluate yourself

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January 31, 2012  

Intuitive Group Review Top Business Websites (and other mediums)

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With the Internet being such a big part of society’s everyday lives I want to provide a list of websites you may find useful and motivational personally and professionally:

1.    TechCrunch: How technology works in our everyday
lives and improves business ~ www.techcrunch.com

2.    How to Change the World: Guy Kawasaki’s blog
site ~ blog.guykawasaki.com

3.    On Start Ups: Advice and insight for
entrepreneurs ~ www.onstartups.com

4.    Seth Godin’s Blog: Best-selling author reviews
business, respect, and the spreading of ideas – Sethgodin.typepad.com

5.    Mr. Self-Development: Will point you in the
direction of success while helping you grow personally and professionally ~ www.mrselfdevelopment.com

6.    The Motley Fool: Learn and manage your finances,
stocks, investments, etc. ~ www.fool.com

7.    Business.com: collaboration of millions of
businesses and tips to better your business ~ www.business.com

8.    Business Owner’s Tool Kit: All the resources you
need when it comes to business, includes lists, how-to tutorials , and real
life case studies ~ www.toolkit.com

9.    Entrepreneur: The website based off Entrepreneur
magazine, catch up on new ideas and trends in business ~ www.entrepreneur.com

10 Kauffman
The Foundation of Entrepreneurship: Provides up to date information on
understanding and advancing the entrepreneur mind ~ www.kauffman.org

Now if you are more of the hands on reader I have also included a couple of great magazines to follow-up on:

1.    Fast Company

2.    Fortune

3.    Entrepreneur

4.    Smart Money

5.    Inc. 

Of course I will not forget the people who would rather watch the movie instead of read the book, the following is a list of television shows that will bring insight to your business mind:

1.    Mad Men- AMC

2.    60 Minutes- CBS

3.    The Suze Orman Show- OWN

4.    Failure Club- Yahoo!Screen (online TV)

http://screen.yahoo.com/episode-1-welcome-to-failure-club-27284740.html

5.    CNBC Primetime (there are numerous shows and
specials that play on this channel regarding business and success)- CNBC

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000069966

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January 6, 2012  

Matt Sileno’s Intuitive Winter Reading Book Group

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Intuitive Group's Winter Reading

With the winter in full force and the weather getting colder, what better way to stay warm than relaxing in your favorite chair with a good book?!

The Intuitive Group President, Matt Sileno, has provided a few of his favorites that will help pass the cold weather and help you with your search for success.

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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

For over sixty years this book has helped some of the most successful people reach their potential.  This best seller will teach you fundamental techniques in handling people, tips to make people like you, and a number of ways to assist you in winning people over to your way of thinking.  “You can go after the job you want…and get it.  You can take the job you have…and improve it.  You can take any situation you’re in and make it work for you.”

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The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

A story of personal achievement and the principles of learning and performance; The Art of Learning will help you learn to channel emotions into creative fuel.  Josh Waitzkin was a National Chess Champion by the age of 9 (Searching for Bobby Fischer was written based on his story) and later in life became the Tai Chi World Champion.  It is by no accident Waitzkin has become a champion on different playing fields.  In this page turning narrative you will find ways to embrace defeat and make mistakes work for you.  This is a book that will keep your attention from start to finish!

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Play to Win by Larry Wilson and Hersch Wilson

Are you looking for ways to succeed in today’s unforgiving business environment? Then this is the book for you! Become more prepared so you are thriving on change instead of faltering.  The Wilson’s book will get you comfortable being uncomfortable and teach you ways to better manage your expectations.  You won’t be disappointed with the real life case studies and techniques that have been tested successful time and time again.  Take time to read this book and get the results you want by becoming more aware of how you’re thinking influences your life.

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Business Stripped Bare by Richard Branson

The Virgin Companies are the largest group of private companies in Europe.  In Business Stripped Bare, follow Branson through the start and growth of the billion dollar companies and learn what is necessary for success.  Find out the importance of a brand and why mistakes are more beneficial than they are detrimental.  If you are searching for ways to better your entrepreneurial mindset and build on your leadership skills, this should be a must read for you!

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Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden and Steve Jamison

As one of the most respected and honored sports coaches in our nation’s history, any one of Wooden’s books are a great read for the business mind.  This book has been chosen due to its admirable lessons on teamwork, organization, and discipline. Filled with a combination of lessons, thoughts, ideas, and inspirations from Wooden’s personal notebooks he logged in daily. Learn to confront limitations and find success in whatever situation you find yourself in.

Hopefully you find these books as helpful and entertaining as we have here at The Intuitive Group! Let us know what you think after you have read them! Do you have any recommendations?

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December 29, 2011  

Intuitive Group’s Training Process – Just Like Everywhere Else

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astonish ourselves.” –Thomas Edison

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Make the decision to try

At some point in time all of us have to go through a training process.  Sometimes it is for hobbies or fitness and sometimes it is for your career.  Regardless of what types of training you will go through, without it you would not be able to hold a job or complete a touchdown pass or a 5k marathon.

As vital as the training process can be it can also be a little on the difficult side.  Hopefully this blog will help you push through the rough spots not only in training but on your path to success.

Training always starts off pretty much the same way.  You are SUPER excited and feel like you are indestructible.  You can’t wait to get all the things you need and are eager to start learning new things.  Then you start the training process and after your first couple days of training the initial excitement wears off. Inevitably you will come across something that you have a hard time picking up and it takes you longer then you expected to move through the process.  This is the point when most start doubting themselves.  When you come to this point the last thing you need to make it through is negativity and self-doubt.

Previously we spoke about surrounding yourself with a support system; a team of people who will help get you through the more difficult times.  However, to become successful there are times you will need to push yourself forward.  The best tip in doing so is by saying YES and then moving forward! Do not allow doubt to overcome you.  When a task becomes difficult instead of complaining about all the reason you don’t think you can do something just say YES, yes I can figure this out and move forward! In the beginning of your training process your excitement motivated you because you were learning something new, now that you are in the middle or at the end of your training allow the idea of you achieving something new motivate you, and keep saying YES to accomplishing your goals.

Regardless of what you are setting out to do always allow yourself to make it through the training process.  It is the training process that is the most difficult when learning something new. If you will not allow yourself to finish you may be holding yourself back from accomplishing great things!

Eliminate doubt, “Just say YES, and move forward”!

“Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They’re willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There’s a very positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task and the time they’re willing to spend on it.”
— Dr. Joyce Brothers

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December 23, 2011  

Intuitive Group’s Worst Enemy and How to Conquer Yours

"What matters most is how you see yourself"

Even the most successful people in this world have dealt with self-doubt.  One of the differences between the successful and unsuccessful is their ability to see past the unrealistic ideas they have in their head.  We can all be our own worst enemy at times; the best way to overcome this challenge is to learn to work with your “enemy”.

Below are a few helpful tips and quotes that will help you conquer self-doubt and bring you a stronger sense of determination:

1.

Recognize and acknowledge your doubt.  They always say the first step is admitting!  By ignoring self-doubt you are imposing limits on your abilities to do great things.   Take your doubt head on and acknowledge that YOU are putting your own restrictions on your success.  Blaming outside influences will only feed the negativity brewing in your mind about yourself.

“Success is a battle between you and yourself only” –Anonymous

2.

Analyze and plan.  Once you have acknowledged your self-doubt take time to address why you have those doubts.  When you do this your thoughts are more likely to be put into reality and logic will help you find a solution to overcoming your doubts.  If you are able to identify the source, more often than not you will be able to move past whatever doubts may be in your mind and help you see that you’re better than your “enemy”!

“ If you hear a voice within you say ‘you can’t paint’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” –Vincent Van Gogh

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View mistakes as a good thing.  The reason why most of us have self-doubt to begin with is due to fear: fear of humiliation, fear of failure, fear of making a mistake.  You must remove the idea that mistakes are bad and with that you will remove some of the fear of failing or being embarrassed.  When you start having any limiting thoughts try and take a step back and think of the worst case scenarios; most of the time worst case really isn’t that bad in the grand scheme of things.  You can choose to believe your doubts and hold yourself back due to a fear of making a mistake OR you can push any debilitating thoughts off to the side and take a chance on success. Remember no one is perfect.

 

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing” –George Bernard Shaw

 

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Have a support system.  Handling self-doubt is a difficult task in itself, let alone if you are trying it alone.  Make sure you have a good support team to lean on during the more difficult times.   You need to have a group of close friends, family or co-workers you can trust and confide in. Having that solid group of people will be a great form of reassurance and boost of confidence you need for success.

 

“Doubt is the father of invention” –Galileo

 

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Don’t look at it as a negative.  Self-doubt can be a very negative thing if you let it.  Allow the doubt to help you push forward.  Take your self-doubt and turn it into a personal challenge, push yourself to prove yourself wrong!  The best way to cope with self-doubt is recognizing the truth, and what better way to realize the truth but by conquering what you thought you couldn’t do.  You can do anything you put your mind to, so stop putting your mind on the “can not’s” and start thinking “yes I can”.

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not” –Unknown

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November 29, 2011  

Work Ethic: What Does That Really Mean? 3 Tips shared by Intuitive Group Inc.

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Work Ethic: What Does That Really Mean? 3 Tips

By Vickie Jimenez

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Examining the Meaning of Work Ethic

Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to examine what work ethic meant to me. I think there is a difference between having a work ethic as an employee and having a work ethic as an entrepreneur. For me, they are very different from one another.

Work Ethic as an Employee

 I remember being an employee and selling myself to my employer and telling him my skill sets, my loyalty and my background at other companies. I gave them references and hoped to impress them enough to have them add me to their payroll with my promises of working hard, being a team player and being willing to add to their company’s bottom line.

 When I was offered the position, I remember going in gung ho and working at my fullest. I gave it everything and then I would become disappointed about a lost promotion or disillusioned at some broken promise or something that did not go my way. Suddenly I would feel not 100% and go in at half mast, work like a robot and just meet the minimum.

 The great thing about having a job vs. owning a business was simply that you could come to work with your “A” game or with your “F” game and still get paid the same amount. You do not have to be at your best all the time when you are at a job. You simply have to be consistent at your job. Show up and move through the day, some days good, some days not so good, however, that did not lower or increase your pay. I wasn’t playing at my “A” game most of the time. I was being a “B” to “C” player. I often didn’t feel connected to a mission of a job, only to what it could provide me. If I didn’t get that, I was not interested in working my best. It was an entitled way of being and I thought it smart.

 This was not only harmful to my employer; it was more harmful to me. I began believing a story about what my life was and I began settling for mediocrity and thinking it was good.

The Entrepreneurial Work Ethic

 One day I realized that I did not want to have a mediocre life. I wanted to be a business owner that played on a major scale. I did not want to play small anymore; I just wanted to be more and better. I wanted to achieve my vision before I died.

So I stepped out into the unknown and began my entrepreneurial journey. In this arena I found work ethic. I found that in order to win, I had to work with my “A” game every day. This made me happy because I was reaching and confronting thoughts and behaviors that had been holding me back all my life. I got to explore gifts and talents I never knew I had.

 I got to feel real self-esteem not a false sense. Work ethic is not about working more, harder or faster. Work ethic for me is about becoming real with your work. Loving what you do and feeling like you want your “A” game to be the standard in your life. If this is you then I must tell you that you will have to step out into the unknown and begin the journey.

Here are 3 things I did that really helped me:

Create a self-vision: I created a vision about who I wanted to become in myself. I wanted to be courageous, action oriented, creative and a healthy strong leader. Then I began working towards becoming that. Not all at once either, I made plans and took classes that helped me become my vision. This helped me develop a healing plan for healing myself. It was so important for me because it gave me so many skill sets that were necessary to succeeding. I could not have gotten here with them.

 Create a support system: When I began my journey, I created a support system for me. I did this to ensure my success. I got a coach, a therapist and a mastermind group. When I had these things in place I had created for myself, accountability, camaraderie and leadership. I simply created a cocoon of success for myself to help me transform and become what I wanted to experience myself as.

Read and listen to audios: I shut off my TV and began reading non-fiction books and biographies about subjects and people who have made it to where I wanted to go. I learned so much from this one simple thing. I started out by reading one book a month. Now I read anywhere from three to five non-fiction books a month because my love for learning has exploded and I love reading.

 If you want to find true work ethic within yourself and live your highest vision, then I would invite you to use the tools I used and come and join the fun. Create your adventure, be well and thrive.

 May you direct your dreams!

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November 8, 2011  

Intuitive Group Shares Mike Tomlin’s Commencement Speech on Success and Motivation

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Mike Tomlin

With football season fully underway what better way to learn great leadership skills and the power of motivation but from one of this generation’s most influential football coaches: Mike Tomlin, head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Tomlin became the Steelers head coach in January of 2007, as the third youngest coach in NFL history.  Tomlin is also the youngest coach to take his team to the Super Bowl not once but twice and find a win at Super Bowl XLIII against the Arizona Cardinals.  Of his 5 years with Pittsburgh, Tomlin and the Steelers finished first in the AFC Conference 3 times.  With statistics like these you can see why Mike Tomlin is a force to be reckoned with and a leader to follow!

The following are segments from a commencement speech Tomlin gave at Saint Vincent College.  He shows how important motivation is to a winning team.  If you are unable to motivate your team to success, you will find it challenging to find success yourself.  Not only in this speech, but with his team, Tomlin provides a great example of positive motivation.

“I want to encourage you to trust your preparation,” Tomlin said, as if he were talking to Ben Roethlisberger and James Harrison instead of all those young faces looking back at him. “Trust what it is that you’ve done here. I tell you that you are prepared for the game of life. “

“I’d like to reassure you that the first five minutes of the game does not determine the outcome. We might burst out of these doors and have great success right away, but we can’t wear ourselves out patting ourselves on the back. Or we might burst out of those doors and trip over a cord or something and fall flat on our face. The first five minutes never determine the outcome of the game. …

“I’d like to encourage this group to attack and to play to win. But it’s also about how you play the game of life. You play with great integrity and honor and class. You must give back to your community and make this a better place to live for all of us. …

“Lastly — and I mandate this — you must continue to dream the wild dreams that you dreamed when you were young. Dream, and dream big. But you have to make a daily commitment to take action to make your dreams a reality.”

(Excerpts as found in the Post-Gazette, to watch Mike Tomlin’s full commencement speech, watch here!)

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October 25, 2011  

The Intuitive Group Inc’s Stairway To Success Tips

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Stairway To Success

Do you find yourself asking how do I get my boss’s position?

Or I really want to be my own boss but how?

The following 15 tips can help you reach CEO status or president of your own company!

  1.     Work harder than everyone else.  Your boss did not get the position he/she has by blending in with the crowd; they worked harder than every one around them!  Remember your work is a reflection of you, so give it your all!
  2.      Know your responsibilities and complete them.  As a boss you must take care of things outside your realm of responsibilities.  If you are unable to complete your given responsibilities, how can you be trusted to run a company?
  3.      Complete even the smallest tasks.  The little things do not go unnoticed, and your attention to them will not either.  Something as small as filling the paper in the copier shows you are invested in the success of a company, and people will take notice.
  4.      Keep a clean and organized work space.  As an owner or boss of a company, things can become hectic very quickly and if you are not organized, things can get out of hand fast!  When you are viewed as a clean and organized person in the work place you are more likely to be trusted with more responsibilities.
  5.      Keep a positive attitude and emotions out of decisions. A negative attitude never found anyone success.  If you are going to run a successful business it is vital to deal with personal issues on personal time and business issues on business time.  Mixing the two can create bigger issues on both sides.
  6.      Be the first one in and the last one to leave. By coming in 15-20 minutes early and staying an extra few minutes to make sure everything for the day is complete shows that you are ready to work hard to accomplishing your goals, as well as helping the company accomplish theirs.  An added benefit to this is that if you are always planning to be early you will most likely never be late.
  7.      Have a great student mentality.  When you are learning and growing you are providing more opportunity for yourself.  You will walk into work more motivated because you know more about your surroundings.  This motivation can spread to others in the office and is a great way to show your boss you can lead a team of people to success.
  8.      Dress the part. If you want to be in your boss’s position, you must not only act the part but dress the part.  In any aspect of life image is important and is often the first impression you give someone.  If you had to choose a person to run your company you are more likely to choose the person in a nicely pressed suit and tie over the person whom does not look professional.
  9.      Have an informed opinion.  It is great to participate in meetings and provide feedback.  It shows your initiative and your ability to be solution oriented.
  10.   Always be prepared.  Showing up to work or a meeting without the knowledge or items needed is not something to impress your boss.  Coming in prepared shows you are able to take on more responsibilities and handle a higher position.
  11.   Take the initiative.  Don’t wait until someone asks you or tells you to do something.  Taking the initiative shows you are ready for more responsibilities and can handle the pressure of a higher position.
  12.   Fight inexperience with advice.  No one knows everything, and by reaching out to others to learn from their experience is a great way to build relationships and show you are CEO material.
  13.   Be a team player.  Boss’s look for team players, someone who is not just out for their own success.  A boss needs to care about the company they work for and the people working in the company. By being a team player you are showing you are capable of running a successful business.
  14.   Plan to “wing” the uncontrollables.   It is inevitable that your boss will provide you with a last minute task when the last thing you have is time, or a problem arises on a project you are working on that has a deadline that is quickly approaching.  How well you handle these uncontrollables can do one of two things; either show your boss you can handle more responsibilities or that you just are not ready to become the next promotion.
  15.   Follow through on what you say.  Don’t just talk the talk, but walk the walk!
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October 18, 2011  

Intuitive Group’s Top 10 Success Motivators

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Keys to Success

The Intuitive Group, Inc. understands that your goal in life is to be successful.  While that is a great goal it takes a lot of personal growth and development to reach that level of success.  Those with the highest levels of education and years of experience will struggle just as hard as a college dropout with limited experience.  The following is a list of 10 things I believe will help make just about any person who has a drive to be successful, find success!

Along with this list are quotes to help motivate you in the right direction.

1.     Step out of your comfort zone, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!  There is so much to life to experience; the only thing that should matter is what you think of yourself.

“We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are” –Max DePree

2.     Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.  Some of the greatest success stories come from those who have made numerous mistakes.  Take every mistake as a lesson of what not to do the next time around.

“Success is 99 percent failure.” –Soichiro Honda

3.     Don’t feed into self-doubt.  Silence the voice of self-doubt by doing; remember actions are louder than words, and that pertains to you as well.

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other’s throw at him or her.” –David Brinkley

4.     Be happy.  Happiness is a choice, a choice that can change the outcome of everything in your life.

“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” –William E. Gladstone

5.     Spend at least 1 hour a day growing and learning.  Take time to read a chapter a night or meet with the people whom are where you want to be.  When you are constantly learning you will never feel stuck or find yourself in a rut.

 “All of the top achievers I know are lifelong learners…looking for new skills, insights, and ideas.  If they’re not learning, they’re not growing…not moving toward excellence.”  –Denis Waitley

6.     Finish what you start. Give yourself a sense of accomplishment; it is a great form of self-motivation.

“Winning isn’t always finishing first.  Sometimes winning is just finishing.” –Manuel Diotte

7.     Live fully in the present.   By living in the present you eliminate many of the distractions that may hold you back from your success, like the “what ifs” of the future and the “oh-no’s” of the past.

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.  Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.  There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” –Henry David Thoreau

8.     Never quit when you experience a setback. Quitting won’t get you to your goals so why even consider it?

“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” –Vince Lombardi

9.     Set big goals.  You won’t know your limit unless you push yourself.  Find out your limits and set bigger goals for yourself.  What is the worst that can happen, you become successful?

“Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” –Les Brown

10.  Stay positive.  By thinking more positively the setbacks you are bound to run into won’t seem as harsh and won’t cause as much stress, which in the end will help your success rate increase.

“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation it may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” –Martha Washington

 

What are your thoughts? Implement some of these ideas into your daily life and let us know!

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June 13, 2011  

The Intuitive Group: Winning!

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

“There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that’s first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

“Every time a football player goes to play his trade he’s got to play from the ground up — from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s O.K. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.

“Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization — an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win — to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don’t think it is.

“It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That’s why they are there — to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules — but to win.

“And in truth, I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

“I don’t say these things because I believe in the “brute” nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle — victorious.”

– V. Lombardi

We are all searching for some form of success, whether it is climbing the corporate ladder or starting our own profitable business.  We always want to be winning!

So we ask how do we make this happen, and in the fastest time possible.

Easy! Positive thinking and believing in those thoughts no matter what obstacles come our way.  We all have the ability to choose what kind of spin we put on life.  If something goes wrong in our planning we can look at it negatively and push ourselves back to square one; or we can look at it in a positive light, learn from our mistakes and move forward with more momentum than before.

We need to attack our goals and not be afraid of what might happen on the journey to them.  Stop second guessing yourself or asking what-if!  The most successful people never thought about the what-if’s, they thought about the end result.

I challenge you to remove all of your negative thoughts and to think positively. Success will begin to follow you instead of you constantly trying to chase it down.

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