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Ultimate Self Confidence Quotes Collection

Justin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:38:40 +0000

Self Confidence Quotes

Over the past few years I have came across some powerful Self Confidence quotes and decided to save them. I always believed in surrounding yourself with positive elements in life in order to keep pushing forward.

Many of people have always asked about the random generating quotes on my sidebar for this blog. If you refresh the page you will notice a new inspirational quote being displayed.

I have decided to share my list of Self Confidence quotes below and I hope you all enjoy!

#	Self Confidence Quotes	Author/ Source
1	“O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth,consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire”	Napoleon Hill
2	“Success is only failure turned upside down”	unknown
3	“If it ain’t fun, don’t do it”	Jack canfield
4	“Sometimes things must get worse before it gets better”	unknown
5	“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought”	Napoleon Hill
6	“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action”	Napoleon Hill
7	“We are like magnets – like attract like. You become AND attract what you think”	The Secret
8	“Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation”	The Secret
9	“Life can and should be phenomenal .. and it will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction”	The Secret
10	“All that we are is a result of what we have thought”	Buddha
11	“Play the picture in your mind – focus on the end result VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins”	The Secret
12	“What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists”	Alexander Graham Bell
13	“Our job is not to worry about the “How”. The “How” will show up out of the commitment and belief in the “what””	The Secret
14	“Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants”	The Secret
15	“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”	Albert Einstein
16	“Decide what you want .. believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it’s possible for you”	The Secret
17	“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right”	Henry Ford
18	“Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.”	Dr John F Demartini
19	“You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made”	Michael Beckwith
20	“Thoughts become things”	Mike Dooley
21	“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls”	Joseph Campbell
22	“You know, when everybody starts to live from their heart, and go for what they want, they don’t go for the same things. That’s the beauty of this. We don’t all want BMWs. We don’t all want the same person. We don’t all want the same experiences. We don’t all want the same clothing. We don’t all want ….. fill in the blank”	Joe Vitale
23	“Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming”	Esther Hicks – Abraham
24	“I believe that you’re great, that there’s something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, this something that is within you, this power within you that’s greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it! Now that is what I know, for sure”	Michael Beckwith
25	“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”	Napoleon Hill
26	“Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.”	Napoleon Hill
27	“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”	Napoleon Hill
28	“Blame and ‘whodunit’ questions solve nothing. They create fear, destroy creativity, and build walls.”	QBQ
29	“There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.”	QBQ
30	“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”	Napoleon Hill
31	“100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.”	Wayne Gretzky
32	“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”	Napoleon Hill
33	“You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”	Zig Ziglar
34	“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”	Mark Twain
35	“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”	Samuel Johnson
36	“Until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life!”	Rocky Balboa
37	“A true man is not afraid to show himself, his inner self. He relies on who he is rather than what he is.”	Gideon
38	“It’s easy to be confident when you have control of the puck. It’s very difficult to keep that confidence when you have to take whatever strange bounces life throws your way. Don’t be careless, but don’t be too careful either. You cannot be afraid to lose. That’s how you gain the confidence – attack the game when the puck isn’t yours.”	The Mighty Ducks
39	“You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period.”	The Pursuit of Happyness
40	“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”	Ralph Waldo Emerson
41	“The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves”	Steven Covey
42	“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking”	Goethe
43	“People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value”	Steven Covey
44	“If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.”	Steven Covey
45	“In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.”	Steven Covey
46	“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure”	Steven Covey
47	“Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.”	Steven Covey
48	“Seek first to understand and then to be understood.”	Steven Covey
49	“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”	Napoleon Hill
50	“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.”	Napoleon Hill
51	“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be”	Albert Einstein
52	“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation”	Michael Jordan
53	“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.”	Tiger Woods
54	“A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do”	Chuck Norris
55	“I think positive. I always think we’re going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you’re throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I’ve always had great receivers, which helps. It’s not just me doing it.”	Dan Marino
56	“As you think, so shall you become.”	Bruce Lee
57	“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”	Bruce Lee
58	“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”	Bruce Lee
59	“Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”	Erma Bombeck
60	“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”	Michael Jordan
61	“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome”	Booker T. Washington
62	“I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”	Donald Trump
63	“You can always become better.”	Tiger Woods
64	“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”	Dalai Lama
65	“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”	Dalai Lama
66	“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”	Dalai Lama
67	“Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today.”	Benjamin Franklin
68	“Knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.”	Dr. Meredith Grey
69	“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”	unknown
70	“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”	Winston Churchill
71	“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”	unknown
72	“You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”	Ralph Marston
73	“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”	W. Clement Stone
74	“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”	Harriet Beecher Stowe
75	“It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing.”	Rosemarie Rossetti
76	“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.”	T.S. Eliot
77	“Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults”	unknown
78	“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”	Swami Vivekananda
79	“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”	Robert H. Schuller
80	“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”	Zig Ziglar
81	“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong…Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?”	Thich Nhat Hanh
82	“That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.”	George Foreman
83	“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”	Lee Iacocca
84	“With vision there is no room to be frightened., No reason for intimidation. It’s time to march forward! Let’s be confident and positive!”	Charles R. Swindoll
85	“An individual’s self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.”	Dr. Joyce Brothers
86	“Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions”	Norman Cousins
87	“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”	Lao Tzu
88	“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”	Lao Tzu
89	“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”	Lao Tzu
90	“To lead people, walk beside them… As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate… When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’”	Lao Tzu
91	“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”	Lao Tzu
92	“Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength”	Lao Tzu
93	“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”	Helen Keller
94	“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”	Helen Keller
95	“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”	Helen Keller
96	“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”	Helen Keller
97	“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”	Helen Keller
98	“What I am looking for is not “out there”, it is in me”	Helen Keller
99	“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”	Helen Keller
100	“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it”	Helen Keller
101	Successful people have the habit of doing things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either, necessarily, but their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.	Albert E Gray
102	If you don’t have confidence in the diagnosis, you won’t have confidence in the prescription	Stephen R Covey
103	To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.	Mother Theresa
104	Sow a thought, and you reap an act. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.	Charles Reade
105	Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don’t feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.	Stephen Covey
106	See every problem as an opportunity to exersize creative energy.	Stephen Covey
107	Your life is a result of your own decisions – not your conditions	Stephen Covey
108	“If you can dream it, you can do it.”	Walt Disney
109	“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”	Walt Disney
110	“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”	Harvey MacKay
111	“If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them”	Harvey MacKay
112	“Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life”	Harvey MacKay
113	“When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience”	Harvey MacKay
114	“The sale begins when the customer says yes.”	Harvey MacKay
115	“Failures don’t plan to fail; they fail to plan”	Harvey MacKay
116	“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be”	Harvey MacKay
117	“It doesn’t matter how much milk you spill, as long as you don’t lose the cow.”	Texas Expression
118	“A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.”	Russell Ewing
119	“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”	Rosalynn Carter
120	“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”	John Quincy Adams
121	“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”	John C. Maxwell
122	“An effective leader knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way”	Unknown
123	“The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.”	Joe Batten
124	“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves”	Unknown
125	“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”	Abraham Lincoln
126	“Self-Confidence is the number one asset that separates great athletes from the rest of the pack”	Patrick Cohn
127	“As is our confidence, so is our capacity”	Richard Bach
128	“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”	Eleanor Roosevelt
129	“Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.”	Henry Ford
130	“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”	Vincent Van Gogh
131	“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”	Ralph Waldo Emerson
132	“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”	Peter T. Mcintyre
133	“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.”	Sophia Loren
134	“Never dull your shine for somebody else.”	Tyra Banks
135	“A gold medal is a nice thing – but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.”	Cool Runnings
136	“Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. “	Nicholai Velimirovic
137	“You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.”	The Fighting Spirit
138	“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. “	Marianne Williamson
139	“Success is about implementing proven strategies that lead to long-lasting results.”	Ruben Gonzalez
140	“If you look at yourself and see what is right instead of what is wrong that is the true mark of a healthy individual”	Reebok
141	“It takes the same energy to think small as to think big”	Display of Power Book
142	“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground”	Theodore Roosevelt
143	“It takes the same energy to think small as to think big”	Russell Simmons
144	“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.”	Venus Williams
145	“The job of the CEO isn’t to check things off the agenda. Her job is to set the agenda, to figure out what’s next. Now that more and more of us are supposed to be CEO of our own lives and careers, it might be time to rethink who’s setting your agenda.”	Seth Godin
146	“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.”	Adlin Sinclair
147	“The harder I work, the luckier I get”	Donald Trump
148	“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”	Ralph Waldo Emerson
149	“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.”	Lowell Thomas
150	“When you give up on your dreams, you give up on life”	Dale Green
151	“Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.”	Warren Buffett
152	“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who make it happen, those who let it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”	John M. Richardson, Jr
153	If you aim at nothing, you will hit it everytime	Unknown
154	There are no shortcuts to any place worth going	Unknown
155	First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win	Mohandas Ghandi
156	Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal	Mike Ditka
157	“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”	William Arthur Ward
158	“I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true!!	Debi Thomas
159	“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners”	Robert Kiyosak
160	This is the beginning of a new day. I have been given this day to use as I WILL. I can waste it… or use it for good. But what I do today is important, Because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, Leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; Good and not evil; Success and not failure; In order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.	Unknown
161	“You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.”	Zinn

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I Destroy My Enemies When I Make Them My Friends

Justin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:56:42 +0000

“I Destroy My Enemies When I Make Them My Friends” – Abraham Lincoln

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde

“Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend”

“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” – Michael Corleone

In Business or in Personal, Enemies are the forces we are sought to stay away from and become bitter towards.

Why do we feel we must ignore our enemies and do everything we can to stay away from them? What is a true “Enemy?

In Business an “Enemy” could be the competition, they may be good people but because they are affecting our pockets of success they are considered enemies.

Personal Life an “Enemy” are people we don’t trust or affected us emotionally to become hatred towards or bitter.

So in both instances, enemies are our rivals or people who we do not want to be associated with because of an act or emotion delivered upon us. The complete opposite of an enemy is a “Friend” right? Why can’t both enemies and friends be intertwined?

What do we have to lose?

I personally use to be stubborn and bitter towards all my enemies in both business and personally then I found out that I am feeding negative emotions just like when I feed towards people who are haters or jealous of me. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

It’s like the classic story in War where there may be 5 nations under one rule where the Tyrant controls all 5 nations but is completely vicious and corrupt. Instead of the 5 nations struggling fighting with each other, the nations should join forces towards one common goal is relinquishing power from the evil tyrant.

So what do we have to gain from keeping your enemies close by or putting up with their presence?

Insight / Preparation – You will become the chess master and know every single move of your enemies while preparing yourself for your own success.
Opportunities – You will let your enemy focus elsewhere giving you the opportunity to expand or achieve the results you want with less resistance.
Growth/Zen – Personally you will grow as a person and in business due to letting your heart and mind become free of this negative emotion. It takes a lot more time and energy to focus on hatred and resentment than it is to let go and move to better yourself and your business.

Why friends can be more dangerous than enemies

You know the old saying that your loved ones and friends can hurt you the most than any other enemy in the world can? We get blindsided when our loved ones or friends back-stab or endanger us. In Robert Greene’s 48 laws of power he explains why Friends can be worse than Enemies.

Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies

“Be wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.”
So let’s not focus on the negatives and let’s crush our enemies by making them our friends, what do you think?

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Never Say Never – 7 Reasons Why Justin Bieber Is An Inspiration To Business Professionals Everywhere

Justin — Tue, 31 May 2011 07:13:47 +0000

Yes it’s hard to believe when you think about the YouTube sensation Justin Bieber you think of millions of young girls who go crazy over his music. Contrary to belief, Justin Bieber has a story behind him that exudes the spirit of entrepreneurship, the underdog and how hard work pays off and that all business minded people can appreciate.

Beside having an awesome name (Hey that’s my name), I went to see Justin’s new movie “Never Say Never” for two reasons:

1.) I have a 7 year old Daughter

2.) I recently attended a small business workshop hosted by Guy Kawasaki and he even was quoted in saying that Justin Bieber’s movie was the best marketing movie for people of today.

Business Success

Below are the 7 business models that Justin has used in order to be successful, Business owners can appreciate this because it relates to almost all Businesses out there in the real world.

1.) Getting noticed / Marketing – Bieber started out his career as a nobody and just like any nobody out there who is willing to get noticed, he started marketing himself by displaying his singing skills and musical talent all over youtube, going to local talent competitions and even singing in local hangout spots. Just like when any Business first starts out, they have to put the marketing machine out there and everywhere possible.

2.) Failure – Justin wasn’t an overnight star as most people would think. His youtube videos has a steady but low audience rate. He even won 2nd place in a local talent competition. At this time Justin wasn’t just a singer but he had talent with drums so he even did gigs as a backup drummer. Most businesses fail when they don’t achieve success early on and give up. It is okay to fail because that is a lesson we can learn from and move on to be better.

3.) Taste of success – One night a talent manager Scooter Braun came across one of Justin’s videos and reached out to him and his Mother to represent him to find a record deal. Eventually this led to being signed by Usher. You might think of this as getting funded as a start-up venture by Angel Investors in the business sense.

4.) Hardwork – Now that Justin is signed and being represented by a major Talent Manager, this doesn’t mean that he became an overnight sensation still. Justin was still putting the work in to get noticed even by powerhouse agency he still has to prove to the world that he is a force to be reckon with. Justin was doing non-stop radio spot tours, there was not one radio station who had not been contacted by Justin Bieber’s team. Justin was singing for anyone and everyone who would let him sing for. This kid was putting in the work to get noticed. The business world calls this “Sweat Equity“

5.) Going viral – The best thing that could happen to any Business out there is to have a successful viral marketing campaign. Justin is a true promoter of the real of Social Media. Everywhere Justin went to perform, he tweeted his location to his steadily growing fan-base. His YouTube followers were soon sharing and tweeting out his videos. Justin and his team were giving out free concert tickets to fans who may of lucked out of a sold out show. Word of mouth and Social Media marketing was going off the roof!!

6.) Never giving up – Although Justin was considered a hit and a success there was still much doubt from a lot of critics that Justin will not succeed. Critics were even disbelieving that he will not perform at Madison Square Garden let alone being sold out. Justin and his team were set to prove the critics wrong by doing more radio spots, concert tours and eventually booking Madison Square Garden. Justin then sold out Madison Square in New York in 22 minutes. Never say never, believe in your business.

7.) Post Success – Now that Justin Bieber has achieved success, how does he maintain and push the envelope further? When a business reaches critical mass, it is important to maintain and sharpen the saw to keep it booming. Justin still incorporates Social Media in his daily activities by posting on youtube, funny-or-die, Tweeting daily and keeping in touch with his fans everywhere on his Facebook page. In the movie Justin showed that he really cared about what his fans think and always find ways to keep his fans in the loops and engaged. A successful Business know this importance in keeping up with post success and never giving up.

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The Power of Assuming Positive Intent

Justin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:36:20 +0000

I was reading an article about Indra Nooyi (Chairman and CEO of Pepsi.) She was being interviewed by CNN Money and it talked about the best advice she ever got. It was very inspiring to say the least, she talked about always trying to “assume positive intent”

“When you assume negative intent, you’re angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response. You don’t get defensive. You don’t scream. You are trying to understand and listen because at your basic core you are saying, “Maybe they are saying something to me that I’m not hearing.” Article Link

The basics are there and that is not jumping to conclusions based on high emotions. We all done it before and that is responding quickly to people with negative thoughts and actions. One negative will eventually get the other to be negative and you don’t want two negatives fighting each other.

Another point of view is when you think negatively right away that the person confronting you is being malicious or diabolical. Again this goes to the root of if you think and respond negatively, you are just going to fuel the negative fire. Diffuse those thoughts and try to keep a level head until you fully grasp the picture. Most of the time people just don’t wake up and say they are going to be vicious to you just because. There is a reason why this person is confronting you this way and it would be wise to find out why before you go guns blazing.

Top Chef Angelo Sosa

A good example is Angelo Sosa from Top Chef, he is known for being hands on with his competitors food and providing suspicious advice to his competition. Granted this is a competition but already people assume right away that he is not to be trusted and that he is trying to sabotage the competition by making himself look good.

Well season-mate Tiffany Derry witnessed this firsthand on Season 7 but when she came back with Angelo in Top Chef All Stars, she had a different outlook on the situation. She said that after reviewing the situations from last season she came to conclusion that Angelo is not being malicious when he helps and that ultimately the Chef’s food are their responsibility and nobody else’s.

My Real Life

Personally, I actually ran across this situation recently as-well at my current company. My boss came down on me hard about my Manager duties that were being questioned. I just came back from Holiday Vacation and the duties she was referring to happened right after I left for my vacation. My first gut reaction was to think that my boss has it out to get me and that she never liked me. All those defensive emotions were being played out in my head and of course I took the wrong road by being confrontational back, showboating that my actions were not to be in question and bringing up reasons why I am so good at my job, overlooking the specific events that she brought up.

Eventually after my knee jerk reaction I did calm down and accepted my mistake that happened and left feeling demoralized because I had a mistake and I couldn’t justify being right in the conversation. It wasn’t until I got home and read Indra’s article that made me realize that maybe my Boss wasn’t being malicious and that she was just actually doing her job in addressing a problem that came up. I felt so bad afterwards because I came to the conclusion that it was indeed an innocent feedback from her and I should be more focusing on how to learn from my mistake. That is after-all the best way to be successful is to learn from your mistakes and move forward.

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Keep Asking Yourself Is What I Am Doing Now Productive?

Justin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:32:49 +0000

Staying organized and focusing on tasks at hand can be very tough. I know for me that is one of the things I struggle with often. Things can get really messy if you have tasks that are not arranged by high priority to low or even worse no tasks at all.

Shooting from the hip is an old Cowboy saying that symbolizes the Wild West, Shoot first ask questions later.

At work this may seem true, we are all rushing to finish the day regardless of how sloppy we get the job done. Of course our clients or employers may not like our tactic but it seems like just like in life, we worry about rushing to get things done without slowing down and making sure we do it the right way with no lazy short cuts.

I just recently moved to the DC Metro area from Virginia Beach. Virginia Beach is such a laid back Podunk town while DC is a fast paced business oriented city. It seems like everyone in this area has to drive 80 miles just to reach their destination everyday even if its less than 2 miles away. Back in Virginia Beach, I see people “cruising” all the time just enjoying the ride, in DC I don’t think I have yet to see 1 person just “cruise” otherwise they will get yelled at for going to slow.

So the point is sometimes you have to take a step back and re-evaluate things. Stop worrying about reaching your destination so quickly, take a step back and re-focus espeically if you want to improve or change your life or business.

Effective Activities and Behavior

In Business or in Life there are times when we do things redundantly or ineffectively that doesn’t make sense in doing. For Business for example, there are many activities that are more detrimental to our success than it is to make money. Many people waste time doing useless tasks and activities that are not helping the overall goal of making money.

As a Loan Officer, I was always caught up in doing paperwork during the day that was very time consuming and left me little time to effectively prospect. Prospecting is how I get business and if I don’t get any business then I don’t make any money. I had to re-arrange my priorities and spent less time doing paperwork at work and brought most of the work load home or delegated to an assistant.

The same time consuming activities can also apply in life. My brother was an avid poker player at the local bars where they would hold tournaments almost every couple days. In the past his Girlfriend would always get mad at him because he would spend too much time at the bars and never enough time with her. This is an obvious poor priority management. The solution to this problem is that he could make work out a deal by going once or twice a month depending on how comfortable his Girlfriend would be and to shift over some of his poker playing maybe at the house or on computer. Whatever the solution was going to be the point is to re-prioritize and ask what will it take to make it work.

A few key points to remember when re-arranging your priorities to work towards your goal or end result.

Is this productive?

1.) Ask Yourself is this productive? Keep asking yourself this very important question over and over through out the day. I recently came across a survey with the top producers in a sales industry and almost every single one of them had this strategy down as one of the tips to being a successful top producer. Get your priorities is straight, if its something not making you money or helping you out with your business in the long run, then change up your game.

2.) Write down your priorites – I have always been a big promoter of this strategy. Most people in this world are visual thinkers and sometimes in order to get organized we need to lay our objectives and priorities down. Start with the most important priority and work your way down to the least important. This work wonders.

3.) Change it – They say a person is truly crazy if they keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. If things are not working the way you want it to be, don’t just wait for change, go out and make things happen. Go out and change your habits or priorities in to making things a success. You control your own destiny is what I always say.

Keep Asking Yourself Is What I Am Doing Now Productive? is a post from: Self Confidence | Positive Thinking | Personal Development - Justified Lions