Straight Talk on Women’s success in Business
Women’s Success in Business is Easier Today:
Did you hear about Barbara Beskind? She at age 91 got employed as a very respectable position of inventor at a top design firm in Silicon Valley.
A New Era of Internet is making it so much easier for women to participate in workforce. Women don’t have to commute and stay at office away from home 9 to 5. They don’t have to put your children at day cares. They can fully participate with their children. Women can work from home. And still find a meaningful community of like minded people.
Women are natural born leaders. Now is the time for them to assert who they are.
These tips are based on Napoleon Hill’s Success Principles found in Think and Grow Rich.
I have been studying and applying these principles for at least 16 years and integrate my decades of practicing personal development and Eastern spirituality.
Success is a progressive realization of a worthy ideal. You must apply different elements and strategies every day in your actions you take. These tips must become your daily rituals and habits. Women to become successful in business and to become leaders in their industry, they must not only study success principles but also take consistent daily actions.
21 Straightforward Tips for Women’s Success in Business:
By applying Tip 1 to Tip 8, you are developing persistence.
Tip 1: Find Definite Purpose:
This is your deepest Why. Your reason of being. It’ your big self wanting to do, and be and have in this life time. As much as you love your family, children and spouse, it’s something beyond that. Every day have a quiet moment for yourself and have a conversation with your inner self.
Every day read a short story of someone who is remarkable. Because of Facebook and Social media, you have great access to tons of information.
Yesterday I got to meet Barbara Beskind. She is 91 years old. Since she was 10, she wanted to be an inventor. But at that time engineering schools did not admit female students. It was around the beginning of W.W. II.
She became an occupational therapist and served in the U.S. Army. Becoming a inventor, teacher, medical doctor or any other professional is not your definite purpose.
Today I read about Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who was responsible for saving 2,500 Jewish children during Nazi occupation in Warsaw in Poland.
At first you may not have such unbelievable aspiration. Continue to be inspired.
Even if your immediate concern is just wanting to make more money. You are so much more than just making money.
Tip 2: Intensify your desire:
There are two types of desires. A long term is more aligned with your purpose. A short term is aligned with your goals.
For your business… write down what you want to accomplish in 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 6 month and in one year. The exact amount of money you want to make. And the target date. Or Title and position if applicable.
Tip 3: Develop self-reliance:
You have your family, friends and co-workers. You should also have a Mastermind group. You will be creating nurturing and supportive and sharing relationships.
- Not like an island, rock or very competitive.
- Not co-dependent, where you lose a healthy boundary. You will always come back to yourself. Knowing that only you can do the actual work. You will not overstep your part to give unwarranted advice. You will not let others be like an emotional sponge.
- The best way to learn self-reliance is being honest and transparent.
Tip 4: Layout Your Action Plans… daily, weekly and monthly.
Make the regular steps you take habits or rituals.
So you can repeat them regularly.
Tip 5: Observe and Reflect:
Objectively evaluate your actions and results daily, weekly and monthly.
You may keep a log, journal or actual metrics.
Tip 6: Belong to a Mastermind group:
- Share, support and inspire.
- Reach out to help you team member.
- And reach out for help.
Tip 7: Prioritize and Focus your attention on the things you feel are urgent and important:
- These must be in alignment with achieving your goals.
- Something comes up and because your friends or family members are involved, you may get distracted.
- Always focus on your action plans.
Tip 8: Form good daily habits:
All the tips should become your daily and weekly routine. All the negative feeling and fears you may experience will be minimized as the power of good habits take over.
The following tips 9 to 21 will guard you against weakening of persistence:
Tip 9: Check on you definite purpose daily:
Especially when you feel you are lost and become uncertain of what you are doing.
Tip 10: Keep moving along:
Repeat your routines Tips 1 -8.
Especially when you notice you are procrastinating.
Immediately, revisit and reinforce Tips 1-8.
Tip 11: Be engaged with your Mastermind group and attend live hangout or webinars hosted by your affiliation or organization:
You will maintain your interest and enthusiasm and will continue to learn specialized skill.
Tip 12: Write out your excuses and self justifications:
Especially when you catch yourself failing to follow your daily steps. Napoleon Hill calls these ALIBIS (Refer to Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.)
Read these excuses and laugh at them.
Tip 13: Watch out for dangerous self-satisfaction:
If you are satisfied with yourself and neglecting your daily actions. This is a euphemism for complacency at best and most likely
disillusionment. This is your false ego. Realign yourself with prayer, mediation and reciting spiritually endowed affirmations.
Tip 14: Time to end the blame game:
When you make mistakes, just own them. You correct them and become wiser and more experienced. Don’t blame yourself either. There are many things in life that you cannot control and unfavorable circumstances happen. Just accept that these things happen. And plug back into your daily action and you Mastermind group.
Tip 15: Enrich your soul:
- Boost and refuel your weakened desire and end deadly apathy.
- You’ve lost your fire. Refuel your depleted soul with autosuggestion.
- Celebrate your accomplishments no matter how small.
- List 10 of your strengths and great characters.
- Love yourself. Practice to appreciate and love yourself.
Tip 16: Eradicate hunger, thirst and poverty mentality from your mind:
Count your blessings. Make a leap. Invest in yourself. Invest in your business. Give plenty of nourishment, love water and light to your growing business.
Every time you say, “I don’t have money to do that.” Find the money to invest in yourself and in business. Even if it is $5 a day. Even you have to sell some things. Even if you have to barrow money.
Tip 17: Map out your action plans:
Don’t allow lack of organized plan to stymie your dreams. Put into a chart or table. Post it on the wall. Mark on your day timer. Put into your electronic device. Make a list of what to do before you go to bed night before.
Tip 18: Decide to take up and grasp opportunity that comes in your way:
You never want to just jump blindly. But have faith, you have been developing your skills, working on your personal development.
“Taking a Leap of faith.” This is my formula. A well-known Japanese saying describes decision-making: “Jump off the Kiyomizu Temple Stage.” This adage applies whenever a major decision is made and carried through. It is a leap of faith; fear of failure is set aside.
Tip 19 Distinguish good shortcuts form bad shortcuts.
Bad shortcuts :
Shortcuts are seen as acts of cheating, deceiving, skipping necessary steps to learn, to abuse others’ happiness and peace and dignity.
When we frown on shortcuts, we see shortcuts as ignoring and skipping the natural process; and violating the rights of others.
- If you copy someone else’s work and claim it as your own.
- You lie on your resume to get a job.
- You copy someone else’s homework.
Good shortcuts (Force Multipliers):
As science and technology advance and get specialized, many new computer and electronic tools become inaccessible to people at first.
Force Multipliers are tools that help people amplify their effort to produce more output. By using such tools you’ll get more work done with the same or less amount of effort in shorter period of time.
A bridge is a shortcut. It is an example of a leverage and a complex set of force multipliers.
Tip 20: Don’t be afraid of criticism:
Most people grew up being criticized and ridiculed. They have learned to be people pleasers.
Swallowed their deepest self-esteem, desires and compromised to no end. Stopped following their ideal.
Their genuine dream was treated like a fantasy to be avoided.
(1) Locate the source of the criticisms that you are trying to avoid. The ones that are ringing in your head. Is this society expecting you to be normal like others… conform?
(2) Then also realize who is actually criticizing you? Is there any merit to this criticism? Your family?
Well meaning friends? Who is not an authority on this matter?
(3) Just a negative naysayer. Whose life or values you don’t really admire or believe in.
Tip 21: Find a mentor or mentors who are aligned with your core values, your goals and your purpose:
Some one who has walked the walk and are successful in what you are working to achieve.
Work and follow your mentor(s).
A great mentor will honor and respect who you are. Even you are humble and follow the path laid out by your mentor; you will discover your style and your own message.
What’s Available for Women’s Success:
Many thousands of people are applying these tips every day to follow their dreams. These tips are particularly useful for many women because they tend to lack self-confidence. Also they are given an extra assignment of being mothers. As mothers, they often have to put their professional and work related ambitions aside. But did you know that there is a big revolution going on?
A New Era of Internet is giving women the voice and leadership they deserve. Husbands and wives are working together. They work out of home and they share child rearing together. The Internet Revolution is giving women the chance to be free.
Thousands of people are achieving their financial goals using this simple system.
Mothers can be leaders; stay at home mothers and make money from home.
Meet some of our powerful women leaders.
To Your Success,
