MARK CUBAN says, There’s Only One Thing In Life You Can Control: Your Own Effort
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, says: “The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don’t. That second point is critical, too. Making more of an effort is not the same thing as working longer. It’s working better–setting goals and getting results.”
I couldn’t agree more with his philosophy, and he has made it work for him. You can make it work for you also, if you want to…..
You may want to read Cuban’s new book and apply the concepts to help you make 2012 a fantastic year. His book is called, How To Win At The Sport Of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It.
Check it out for yourself. http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-theres-only-one-thing-in-life-you-can-control-your-own-effort-2012-1
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How Does Accountability Impact the Success of Your Business?
How does accountability make a positive impact on the success of your business? Take a look at the 4 top distinguishing factors of business owners who use accountability to get results.
Top Distinguishing Factors of Business Owners Who Use Accountability
- Taking full responsibility for action and non-action
- Organized, productive and efficient in time management and task completion
- Accept full responsibility for their actions or non-actions in life and in business
- They understand that nothing comes without discipline and diligence – they never quit.
Highly motivated.
Procrastination is at fault for many business failures, and guess who’s responsible for procrastination? Yep, you guessed it, you and only you. Understand how to use accountability to build success by taking full accountability for your action and non-action.
Learn what drives your motivation to succeed and exploit it. Maybe you want to retire by age 50, pay for your children’s education without going into debt, or pay off your mortgage so you can put more money toward your retirement fund. Whatever the reasons are that drive your motivation, stay connected to them so you can leverage that motivation to avoid procrastination, and keep going until you succeed.
Organized, productive and efficient. Every successful entrepreneur understands that organized and efficient productivity is an essential part of leveraging time and energy. You cannot build a business wasting time or spinning your wheels. You have to learn how to do the most in the least amount of time – and with the least amount of energy. When you integrate accountability into everything you do, there is no finger to point at anyone, but yourself. Taking that responsibility will naturally drive you to put your best efforts forward and keep you organized, productive and efficient.
If you’re truly a procrastinator at heart, you may have to bribe yourself with a reward to get things done. For example, don’t allow yourself to go to lunch until you complete three of the five tasks on your To-Do List. Another example may be to allow yourself to take a three day weekend if you met your goal(s) for the month.
Alternatively, you may have to implement “retraining” yourself for unproductive behavior. For example, say you procrastinated or wasted time and didn’t accomplish your goals for the day, week, or month. To retrain your mind to think in an efficient manner, create a competition with yourself to accomplish a task faster than you have in the past. Use a stopwatch or timer to keep track of your time. The next time you have to do that task, try to beat your old record. Do that each time until you refine the process enough to become highly efficient. Don’t sacrifice quality for doing it faster. You can become quicker and still maintain quality.
Accept full responsibility.
Accountability and wealth go hand-in-hand! When you learn how to use accountability to build success, you’ll begin to see just how much power you have in creating your own reality. Set a bit more than realistic goals, yet you want to stretch yourself a little. Say you need to net $4,000 each month for personal expenses and an additional $3,000 for business overhead? If you need to net a total of $7,000 per month, stretch yourself and shoot for a minimum of $10,000 in sales each month.
Throughout the workday, remind yourself that you are the only one responsible for your reality and take full responsibility for your action or non-action. If you do not meet our goals for the month, don’t beat yourself up. Make a list of the actions you took or didn’t take and identify where you can make improvements. Use the experience to learn how to refine your actions for better results next time, and use it to set new goals.
Discipline and diligence. Accountability is a major key to improving discipline and diligence and with that comes improved results. When you understand that the “buck stops here,” accountability suddenly provides a very clear picture that discipline and diligence will produce results. Never, ever quit until you succeed.
It’s up to you to take the actions required to achieve your goals. Successful business owners are disciplined for a reason – it’s because their diligence produces results. You must consistently become your own motivator and cheerleader, although it can be challenging at times to be so.
The truth is for most, when left to our own devices we let too many distractions keep us from the activities we know we need to do and yet don’t do them for whatever it is that’s stopping us. These groups (or coaching) will provide you with support when you need to push through fear or doubt and take action to get the results you desire.
Joining a mastermind or accountability group (or coaching) is vital to your success. As a member of one of a mastermind or accountability group (or coaching client) you will be surrounded by like-minded individual(s) who can hold you accountable for your actions or non-actions. To help you with guidelines of various groups, go to http://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/ and review some ideas to help you get started. You will always need help in evolving and improving your life and business, and accountability is the only way to achieve your goals.
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This is the BEST ADVICE I can give you to help you achieve your goals in the timeframe you desire. This is the most effective way to help
make it easier to achieve your goals that I know of. Apply these concepts and you will be amazed at what you can achieve.
Enjoy the new video. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpt9-ZMvzrE right now.
To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals
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Aim for what you want each and every day!
Anne Bachrach
The Accountability Coach™
Author of Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule and Live Life with No Regrets. Get your copies today. They make great holiday gifts.
Are You a Procrastinator? Stop it! Stop Procrastinating in 4 Easy Steps Tele-seminar
Have you ever procrastinated on something before? Procrastination, also known as dilly-dallying, dragging your feet, and excuse making is something we have all
experienced at one time or another. Have you ever wondered why you procrastinate on some things and not others?
For those of you who are familiar with procrastination, the issue is how can you stop procrastinating and start taking action? Procrastination never pays off for
anyone.
In this content-oriented tele-seminar, you will learn 4 tips for overcoming procrastination that will help you be even more successful
- professionally and personally. Join us.
When: Thursday, December 15
Time: 9:00am PT / 10:00am MT / 11:00am CT / 12:00am ET
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Investment: $10 USD
Tele-seminar Leader: Anne Bachrach, The Accountability Coach™
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The Accountability Coach™ Interviewed on BlogTalkRadio. Listen in….
How to Apply Accountability In Your Life to Increase Overall Success
The #1 Reason People Don’t Get What They Want in Life is Lack of Accountability.
Wouldn’t it be great if our good intentions worked the way we think they should? There’s often a wide gap between our intentions and our actually doing what is required. Unfortunately, good intentions don’t magically lead to good results. That is just the truth! Accountability Coaching provides you with no-nonsense encouragement to help you stay focused on the activities required to achieve your goals so you can ultimately have an even better quality of life – a life others only dream about.
Left to our own devices most people don’t do all the things they know they should do to get to where they want to ultimately be. You probably have experienced this just like I have in some area of your life. Unfortunately, our good intentions don’t always control our actions. Sometimes we do take action on our good intentions, but in short a matter of time, many of us find we often start to slip and revert back to our old ways. Having someone in your life that helps you follow through with your good intentions by holding you accountable, will in the end, turn those intentions into the results you desire.
We all benefit from some degree of accountability. Left to our own devices we just don’t do what we know we should do – day after day. That’s the bottom line.
Listen in by going to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sampsoncaliforniarealty/2011/11/08/use-accountability-in-your-life-to-increase-overall-success
Information packed with a punch
I continue to receive a lot of very positive feedback about my iTunes Podcasts and youtube videos. They are short and packed with a punch we all can use at some time or another. Check them out for yourself.
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Have clear boundaries for work and your personal time
One of the best pieces of advice I can offer you is to remember that you are a business, even if you’re a one-person show – at least for now. Keep your personal and business separate by having clear boundaries for each. Establish the days and times you will be working – and only focus on actions that drive your success. On the flip side, establish days and times when you have the time to relax and enjoy your personal time. Don’t invite your friends to hang out in your office; it will only be a distraction and lead to immense procrastination. And don’t talk business at the dinner table with family. Give yourself the space to enjoy each of your respective lives.
Keep in mind that your personal actions affect your professional reality. Think about your actions, professionally and personally, before you take the next step to ensure your taking effective actions that are driving your success.
New Book: Live Life with No Regrets continues to receive positive feedback!
To download a chapter of the new book, Live Life with No Regrets absolutely free, click the link below or cut and paste it into your browser.
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“What I like best is that the book is brief, to the point, and very actionable. It reflects Anne’s direct style which I find refreshing. This book is definitely a must read for anyone who wants to accelerate their results.”
–William S. Hart, CFP, MBA
Retirement Strategies, Inc.
“If you have a burning desire to do something and you can’t find a way to make it happen, you have to read this book! Regret is defined as “feelings of sorrow, disappointment, or dissatisfaction.” Anne’s book will guide you towards a life of greater joy, fulfillment, and satisfaction. You will enjoy the practical tools that allow you to start your life changes immediately so you begin your journey of living a life with no regrets from this day forward!”
–Dr. Renee Stetkevich,
Doctor of Physical Therapy and Orthopaedic Certified Specialist
“Do not wait until you are faced with a life-altering event to make positive changes in your life. Anne’s book is a field manual to putting your priorities in the right place to improve health and success in all of your endeavors.”
–Cathy Herrick Spencer
President, San Diego Historic Properties, Inc.
Breast cancer survivor
7 Proven Ideas to Help Business Owners Achieve Better Results Webinar – May 26
Because of the positive response for this webinar, I am hosting another FREE Webinar on Thursday, May 26, 2011 called 7 Proven Ideas to Help Business Owners Achieve Better Results. You will learn 7 immediately action-able, results-producing strategies that will help you to:
• Get more clients
• Increase your income
• Get more done in a lot less time (be more productive)
• Achieve more of your goals
• Be even more focused on the activities that produce results
• Organize your time and your life
• Eliminate the feeling of being overwhelmed
Register here: http://www.accountabilitycoach.com/achieve-better-results-webinar/
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7 Proven Ideas to Help Financial Advisors Get Better Results
No Excuses Accountability. How to develop the self-discipline to do what you know needs to be done when it needs to be done so you get the results, professionally and personally, you are truly capable of. During this what-to-do and how-to-do-it webinar Anne Bachrach will share lessons from coaching Advisors who make middle six-figure to seven-figure incomes. You will learn 7 immediately action-able, results-producing strategies that will help you to:
-Get more clients
-Increase your income
-Get more done in a lot less time (be more productive)
-Achieve more of your goals
-Be even more focused on the activities that produce results
-Organize your time and your life
-Eliminate the feeling of being overwhelmed
Most Financial Advisors know what to do, yet they don’t do what they know they need to do so they can achieve their goals and enjoy the kind of business and life they truly want. Don’t leave your potential underdeveloped. Maximize your capabilities.
To review this complimentary webinar for Financial Advisors, go to http://www.baivbfp.com/video/webinar_7steps/index.php
