The Power Of Believing In Yourself

When you decide to believe in yourself mountains begin to move.

Years ago I had a new whippersnapper boss that moved up to become a Director of 400 people after one year at the company. I marched into his office a short time later and asked for a promotion. I demanded one actually. After working for many years at the company I believed in my heart that I deserved a raise in pay. I did not get the raise that day but I did land a sweet new position.

A short time later I quit, took a substantial severance package and started working at one of our clients.. My new company gave me a 24% increase in pay the next year. That’s right.  24%. I believed I deserved a promotion and a raise and received one. That is the power of believing.

Any life changes you want to make begin with believing in yourself and your goal. If any doubt creeps into your mind and you say the words, “I can’t”, your self belief will be broken and you will FAIL. I had no doubt in my mind that I deserved a raise art work.

Do you truly believe that you will lose 50 pounds in a year through changing eating habits and avoiding sweets?

In you core self do you believe you will pay off all your credit cards and stop paying idiotic interest to banks?

Do you truly believe you can begin an internet based business because you have a fabulous product you believe in 100%”?

Any beautiful life change begins with believing in yourself. Once that belief is firmly in place, you will begin to taste your success right away.

Keep your beliefs going and there is no dream that you can’t make come true.

Give Me 5 Minutes And I’ll Show You How To start A Kick Ass Online Business.

I was vacationing in Florida last week and the break from the daily grind gave me time to reflect on my life and my career. I’ve been contemplating launching another business for a few years now and it’s high time I kick my own ass and just do it. Have you?

The business is centered on providing business executives an outstanding online tool for tracking projects and how to effectively improve a business process in 5 easy steps. I have the vision, passion, knowledge and business plan to create this dream. I will pour my heart into it. Do you have a dream that is waiting for you?

I can’t work for a company for the rest of my life. Yes I have My Life Changes, and I love this site but it isn’t nearly enough to live on.  This is my time to take my work experience and sell it to the world. Yes, the entire world.  This is my time to run a world class business exactly how I want to. I will own it, learn from its failures and rejoice in its success.

In time I will be able to work from anywhere in the world, on an iPhone , ipad or laptop. I will have the freedom and control over my career and life like I have always dreamed of. In the morning I will wake up to the soft roll of ocean waves because that is where my new home will be.

So come for the ride and I hope you will learn a thing or two about creating an incredible online business over the next few months. I am going to rock the business world to its core.

5 Reasons You Should Never Work For a Company

I run this website and I am starting another targeted at any business in the world. My girlfriend runs a fitness website that receives about 2.5 million visitors a year.   We run these businesses because we refuse to settle for a 9-5 job in some crappy cubicle. Why ditch working for a company?

1.       Our websites run 24 hours a day. When we aren’t online and are sleeping with the cats purring at our feet, money is flowing into our bank accounts. In the morning I wake up and I have a new subscriber from …who knows…New Zealand, that has sent me a payment. This is called passive income. I deliver value to my clients and the site generates a continuous income.  I just got paid from both Google Adsense and my clients that subscribed to the My Life Changes tracker.

2.      I run the business how the fuck I want. In a company there may be a zillion rules, all kinds of bosses (some scary ones) and paperwork up to your freaking ears. Here I have almost zero paperwork, I am God and I own the rules. If I decide to take a break and go have hot dogs and ice cream while swimming in the pool – I do. And I can fire any idiot customer that gets on my nerves. As long as I’ve used good business fundamentals I rule!

3.       I am free. I’m not only free to rule the company as I want, I’m also free to be as creative and imaginative as I wish.  I can have my office in a Starbucks or with Mr Sunshine and the pool. I can write a smashing article one day or think of an excellent application to add. I can even watch an inspiring movie as I work (and eat popcorn).  The company idiot does not interrupt me. Yes I use a trusted set of advisors at times (that I’ve chosen), but I’ve avoided time wasting company meetings.  I am free.

4.       I don’t whine about company politics. I set my own politics. My politics may include breaks ever 90 minutes, lunch with friends every second day or reading a good business book once a week.  I use whatever software and laptop I want, I don’t have anything forced on me.  So how can I complain?

5.       I don’t fight traffic. Ever been stuck in a snowstorm for 2 hours trying to make a 9 AM meeting. Its sucks. Ever had a large SUV cut you off in the morning and then slam its brakes on? Being stuck in traffic and sucking up exhaust from the long line of cars makes me want to pull all my hair out. Working at home (and for yourself) might mean taking a morning trip downstairs to your laptop and seeing if any money came in. Then I brew some coffee, play on twitter and think about a hot shower at one point. Fuck traffic.

Now it’s your turn to decide what kind of value you can provide people and do it! Believe in your dream and make it happen.  How about all those American Idols that had shitty jobs? They went out and pursued their dreams.   If yours is to own a business and operate it from anywhere in the world, there is absolutely nothing stopping you. Trust your inner wisdom and let go of years of false beliefs and conditioning. Do it now.  It’s your turn.

Go From A Good Life To A Great Life!

In a World Wide Gallop poll of 150 different countries a study was conducted to see what factors came into play for us to experience a Great Life.  Interestingly enough this coincides with what the number 1 personal value members of this website are searching for. Balance.  To have a great and balanced life here are the 5 main areas of your life to focus on.  If you only work on one or two areas you won’t have a great life. To truly have a great life it takes all 5 areas.

Health

What you fuel your body with has a huge impact on whether you have a great life or only a good life.  Allowing your emotions to control your eating habits is a huge mistake, especially when try to make yourself happy with greasy hamburgers and fries. Every unhealthy meal you eat will have a negative impact on your future great life. My best tip here is to ALWAYS keep sweets and unhealthy foods out of the house so you are NEVER tempted. Ok, maybe some dark chocolate is fine. Try this for a start!

Work

Most of us spend 8 hours a day at work. These eight hours a day can have a major influence on whether our entire day will be merely good or great! To become great at work use your strengths to become the best at what you do and don’t focus on your weaknesses! Think back to your best moments and build on those. That is the best advice I can give you on work. Use your strengths!

Money

Money is nice to have but when you only accumulate things the initial joy never lasts in those objects.  What you need to buy is experiences. I’ve written about this a few times here. READ IT! Building wonderful memories for yourself with friends and family will definitely have you look back at your life as a Great Life. That fancy car you had in 1999 will not.  Spend your money wisely (and save some).

Social Network

Who we hang around with has a huge impact on how happy we will be. It’s proven that our friends or family have a huge impact on whether we eat, exercise, smoke or get fat. Maybe it’s time to take a hard look at who is in your social network and whether they are getting in the way of a great life. Get an awesome social network!

Values

I’m going to say this again. Your personal values drive you towards the life you dream of. You have to figure them out! My main value in life is freedom. Freedom from stress, from money worries, from bad health and bad luck. Whenever I think about freedom I get pumped up and I make another small step towards a life of freedom. I save that money each week, I eat my broccoli, and I have a good laugh with close friends.  Now THAT is a life free of crap and going towards great. Figure out what value or values drive you!

So there you have it. Time to make some changes. Time to create a plan and have a great life!

Aching To Smack The Minimalists Around

I do support the minimalist blogs out there and their nomad and environmentally friendly lifestyles, don’t get me wrong.  I appreciate reading about how they avoid those yucky cars, sit in cafes blogging about hip memories, and stick their well traveled tongues out at whoever isn’t “master” of their lives. Ya well it isn’t all leprechauns and rainbows boys and girls.

You see…we can’t all chuck everything and go globetrotting at a moment’s notice.  Some of us have serious family commitments, a fascinating career (that may actually help make the world a better place)…and pets…and …oh ya… children.

And some of us really do like ascetically pleasing material goods. Is it bad to treat ourselves? Hey, if I’m going to sit in traffic for part of the day I WANT to be surrounded by soft leather and a Bose sound system.

Yeppers,  I have a 40 foot in ground pool with funky rock gardens surrounding it. After work, I plunge into that cool revitalizing water and skim under the surface in total silence.  Love it. Jagged beams of sunlight greet me to create a golden mirror effect throughout the baby blue water. It’s a fucking alternate universe. Love it.

Am I being authentic about my life? Hell ya. Do I always believe in it? Hell no. But I’m providing a beautiful haven for my family, my pets and myself (for now).

I’ll get to climbing Mount Pica Chu perhaps in a few years. And thank you for teaching me about the horrors of bottled water.  But for now I’m going to take my time to cook a delicious meal, crack open a fine red Syrah and be grateful for all that life has bestowed me.  You are all welcome to join me.

Cheers!

Now WTF am I going to do during winter?

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If We Are Only Willing To Take A Few Risks

I left an aerospace company after being there 21 years. It would have been easy to stay and play it safe. But I had made a promise to myself that I would not retire from this company. I could not bear picturing myself receiving a gold watch, a few pats on the back and a polite shove out the door.

I had been part of a major SAP IT project for 18 months at this company during my final days. Prior to this I had been a buyer/planner for quite a few years. As the project wound down I asked if a promotion was in the works upon my return to the business. Meanwhile I also had a job interview at IBM ; however a co-worker (who treated people like crap and I despised) got that job.

After hearing, “no” about any sort of promotion – I quit.

Being no dummy, I also received a substantial severance package and a few weeks later I was at another company honing my IT skills. After a couple of more years there I landed a job at a pharmaceutical company and began yet another career change.

I’m not sure what prompted me to take these risks. Maybe it was my job interview at IBM. Perhaps it was because I had always embraced technology. Almost certainly my willingness to learn and a gutsy attitude had a part in it. I also desired to be part of a dynamic and growing business.

Are you playing it safe? Do you embrace change? Do you embrace technology?

Let me know, I’m curious.

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5 Reasons Why The Grass May Not Be Greener

Every day I hear someone daydream about changing jobs or companies. It’s incredibly easy to dream. I’ve made three major career changes and changed companies five times. Here are the top 5 lessons I learnt.

Money isn’t everything (but it can help). If you accept a job that earns you ten or twenty thousand dollars more a year, but adds another hour or two of a lonely and miserable commute, are you really ahead? Has your quality of life improved? Those dreadful and polluted hours sucking on someone’s tailpipe are never regained. You can’t call on the traffic fairy and magically have time turned back. Those hours are lost forever. Being stuck in traffic is the biggest stressors in people’s lives. Is your time more important than money?

Be prepared to have a boss that you may loathe. Sure it may be great fun to have your dream job, but when your new boss goes on to bigger and better things, you may be stuck with the company clown as your glorious leader. Now your wonderful new job is a horrific nightmare as each hour your new boss finds fresh ways to torture you. Not so much of a dream anymore huh?

Ready to give up the perks that come with company seniority? I lost three wonderful weeks of vacation time changing companies once. Are you willing to lose your vacation time? Not only will you work more but you have to cover for your co-workers that have more seniority.

Are you able to ignore company politics? Every company has clicks, favoritism and certain unappealing dynamics which may make you wound up over time. I’ve heard whispered plans and dreadful lies spread about me because certain people wanted their friend to be hired. Are you ready to ignore all that and focus on the job itself? Or will you transform into the office tittle-tattle and gleefully buy your boss a Starbucks latte each morning?

You decided to start your own business. Do you think that being an entrepreneur is all about giving yourself a fancy title and working from home in your shorts while the money pours in? It isn’t. Starting a business takes guts, hard work and persistence.

There you have it.

• Make sure your commute doesn’t kill you over time.
• Avoid working for the company clown.
• Think hard about your seniority perks.
• Get ready to ignore office politics.
• Figure out if you have the courage to become a successful entrepreneur.

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Sid backs up a lot of his posts with facts, which is why I like his blog so much.

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My Life Changes

A blog with solid articles on how to make life changes and also provides terrific tools to begin making life changes right now. Align your goals, personal values and mission statement all in one tracker and see your success grow in leaps and bounds.

Do you have any to add?

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Find More Joy In Your Career and Entrepreneurship

Don`t whine, complain or make excuses about what you cannot change.

As someone who has worked in some of the largest and leading Aerospace and Pharmaceutical companies in the world here is my best advice. Don`t try to change what you can`t. And don`t whine, complain or make excuses about it either. In each company I have worked for I have seen plenty of fundamental mistakes being made. These mistakes can create enormous inefficiencies across the company. The best you can do is point them out, provide examples and trust your advice is taken (one day). There may be a million reasons why the company’s priorities lay elsewhere and most of them are probably legitimate. Do your job to the best of your ability and don’t worry needlessly about what is outside of your influence.  When the company feels enough pain they will change. In the mean while enjoy your job and stop worrying about what you cannot change. You`ll feel a huge weight lift off your shoulders.

Segregate your tasks into Vice Presidential duties

As an entrepreneur I have found that segregating my tasks into Vice Presidential duties helps enormously. One day I am VP of Production, another I am VP of Sales, and another VP of Finance. This affords me more clarity as to what needs to get done during any given day or week. Trying to do everything all at once, usually leads to only partially completing tasks and frustration. As I am writing this article I am VP of Production. I am not thinking about any other tasks other than production and writing this article. And I am enjoying writing it immensely. Try it! For more great information on this concept read the book E- Myth Revisited.

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How To Start An Internet Business

I will be sending out an E-mail to my nearing 5000 subscribers this week. Some have subscribed to the free version of www.mylifechanges.com and some to the deluxe paid version. I have had many people ask me how or why I started this business and I will now answer you.

Passion

I have had an intense passion to start my own business since as long as I can remember. I also have a deep passion for physiology, sociology, self development and also business. I am constantly reading (hundreds of books) and refining my own thoughts about what is the best life to live. I have also lived an interesting life, being adopted, and half Asian to European parents in North America. I have lived through a couple of very tough health issues that affected me both mentally and physically. Without the passion to try to make a difference in this world my web site would have never succeeded. I believe without a doubt in my mind that this is something I love to do. I love to provide great information. I love to write my own articles. I want you to learn and help me learn. Occasionally I just want to kick people’s asses really hard, because making life changes isn’t that hard. Just start. Today.

Money

Yes, I would love to make enough money to live off this site or at least nicely supplement my day income. I worked hard to design the website, I believe I am providing a valuable service (Do you want to change your life?) and I don’t want to give it away for free. I invested thousands of dollars in the initial start up when the technology was weaker and I required outside consultation. There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money, unless that is your only objective. Then the passion is gone. I am competing on a global scale here. It is a huge market. For 5 dollars a month you can begin to understand and make life changes. Five dollars! Less than a Happy Meal… I think.

Drive

I work on the site after my day job (I have consulted and and worked at some of the most successful pharmaceutical and aerospace companies in the world). It isn’t always easy to do. But I can’t just quit my day job. I would be a fool to do that. So I find myself tapping away on the laptop at Midnight, researching and reading E-mails late at night. Now you can understand how passion comes into play. Without the passion in my blood this would have stopped many years ago. Yes, it takes work and drive, but this work is connecting me to thousands of people and I cannot ask for anything more.

Overcoming failure

I once lost all my feeds to my blog. I was severely disappointed and never understood what happened. So I had to start over and build back a reader base with lots more completion facing me. Just the thought of that can be discouraging. But I will not give up. I will keep learning from setbacks and I will grow stronger from them. The thing about having a business on the internet is that your completion is global and almost every idea has been tried. So there were plenty of times when I thought my idea was fantastic yet nobody cared. I thought people would swarm the site. This happens rarely. When it does, it is most likely because you have learnt from failures and found a winning formula.

Good Luck to you if you decide to follow this path. And send me an E-mail at terry@mylifechanges.com

I will be happy to answer you.

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