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Ten Time Wasting Bombs

Guest post by: Ron Finklestein

Article Overview: 11 Things you should avoid.

Ten Time Wasting Bombs

Ten Time Wasting Bombs

1. Not staying focused - Stay focused on your business and ignore any other opportunity that comes along. Jumping from business to business will ruin your career! Stay focused on your company. You are unable to promote more than one opportunity. Avoid being sucked in by numerous sources of revenue. 2. Stop Multi Tasking. You cannot focus do multiple things well. Your productive suffers You think you got a lot done but studies have shown that none a re done well and you would have completed more had you stayed focused.

3. Do not discount your product. You are not the Banker. On more than one occasion I wanted to help someone so I gave them some help by discounting my product. The ones that I offered this help to were the ones who valued it the least. If you do not value your services (product) who will. Stay away from people who do not want to pay for your value. This is especially true for people who sell services. They will not produce!

4. Your do not need to be a expert. People will be confused if you explain every detail. They really want to know why it works not how it works. It helps with your confidence level to know this info but you do not have to tell everyone unless they ask.

5. Stop waiting for your family's approval. They want you safe and many time what you want they see as risky. It is your life. Live it by your rules not theirs! Decide. Take action. Create your dream.

6. Stop going to networking events. Most people you meet at networking events want to sell you their product. That is why they are there. I cut way back on my networking because the same people show up. They were more like reunions. Spend your time elsewhere.

7. The tire kicker. They want to tell the world they tried everything when in reality they will suck you dry and never take action. Work with people who are where you want to be and let the others go. Do not waste your energy on them.

8. Understand your prospect's pain. Live in their problem so they know you get it. Stop selling features and benefits. Anyone can do that. Tell them what they will experience when they work with you.

9. Why are you in business? Being in business is not a get rich quick scheme. You can make money quickly but to experience the power of being a business owner require personal growth. Jim Rohn said is best: spend as much time working on you as you do on your business.

10. Stop believing the wrong thing. It is not skills that hold us back but our beliefs. Anyone can learn anything, assuming they have the desire and interest. I cannot tell you how many audio programs I listened to an did not implement what I learned. I would then listen to the same program 10 years later and wonder why I did not trust (believe, implement, execute, etc) what I first learned.

If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would write four business books, have two published internationally and become a professional speaker and consultative business coach I would have laughed at them. I will give you a bonus.

11. Do not believe your limitations. Those are things you learned as a child and you do not have to belief them now. Here is something to help you immediately. It is not your fault if you are not happy with your life as it exists today but you are responsible and you can change it. Click here to learn how to change your thinking by just one degree:

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