My biggest problem in becoming self-employed was me. In order to be a self-employed person I had to start thinking like one. I found myself reverting to that nine-to-five mentality. If I wasn’t accomplishing a task every hour, then I must not really be working. Sometimes a self-employed person has to make decisions about her business. Sometimes she is just thinking about a solution to a problem. Sometimes she just has to quiet her mind so new ideas can come. Just because you’re not pounding away at the typewriter every minute doesn’t mean you are not working. I’ve also learned that it’s okay not to answer the phone every time it rings. That’s what voicemail is for, and the same goes for email. At my nine-to-five job I would leave the email program open all day and answer each one as it arrived. It took me a while to realize it’s okay to only check email several times a day instead of constantly being interrupted. It’s actually more productive than having to stop your thought process every time you have mail. At my other job, I was able to let a phone call roll over into voice mail, but it took me a while to be able to shut down the email too. You are going to have days where you feel you didn’t accomplish much. Then again, you’ll have days where you’ll feel you can conquer the world and you’ll be amazed at how much you got done. Some days you may not finish many tasks, but you’ll make a decision on a problem that needs to be addressed. Or, you will have learned a valuable lesson about yourself. And, I had to learn to stop breaking down all my tasks into dollars and cents. I tended to worry about how much I was or was not earning every day. The truth is, some days you are going to make more than other days. If I spent my day on marketing issues, even though I didn’t earn any money from it that day, I would benefit from it some time in the future. Rather than worry about what benefits I do or don’t have, I realized the benefit I have in my business is that I answer only to myself. Everything I do will benefit me sooner or later. Instead of my income being dependent on somebody else’s budget, I can go as far as I dream. And because I’m now doing what I truly love and not what someone else tells me to, I’m much happier and more content. I learned if you start THINKING like an entrepreneur, then you’ll actually be one.
Do You Have Great Ideas ?
Want to have great ideas? You could try waiting to see if they pop into your head someday, and they honestly might. However, if you want a more systematic method you can use today, here it is in three simple steps:
1. Get knowledge in the area in which you want the ideas. 2. Use idea-generating techniques. 3. Choose the best ideas from the results. Great Ideas Start With Knowledge You wouldn’t expect to come up with a new theory of relativity if you had no knowledge in physics or mathematics.
You need some degree of knowledge in the area in which you want new ideas. For truly great ideas, it helps to have a great deal of knowledge. To create a new transportation device, for example, you would want general knowledge in that field, as well as more specific knowledge. This might include knowing a little about all the current modes of transportation. You might add to that a list of things that have been tried and failed, and a list of all the things that people want in their transportation.
Great Ideas From Techniques Ideas and inventions start in the mind, and the mind follows certain patterns and rules. This is why tools such as problem solving techniques and other idea generating techniques work so well. Consider the “concept combination” technique, for example. Tell your mind that you need a useful combination of a plane and a motorcycle, and it will search until it finds it. This mind took twenty seconds to imagine wings that expand out at high speed from a motorcycle, allowing it to glide right off the edge of a cliff.
The technique of redefining problems in many ways can open whole new areas to explore. Redefining “inexpensive homes” as “ways to help people afford homes” has led to all sorts of new financing methods that have made it easier to buy a home even as prices have risen. If “better job” becomes “better way to make money” you open a whole range of possibilities. There are dozens of great idea generating techniques to choose from, each with its own advantage. Many Ideas To Choose From The more ideas you come up with, the more likely you are to find good ones to work with. This is why you should learn systematic ways to produce new concepts. Finally, if “great” means “important” to you, you need to work in important areas. There’s nothing wrong with inventing a better clothes hanger, but if you want to change the world, start working on new ways to save the environment, ways to end hunger, new political processes that avert wars and other great ideas.
Everyday is a good day
When you wake up in the morning INHALE and EXHALE , connect to the higher power who made it possible for you to be alive. Practice mindfulness, the act of being fully present and aware of who you are.
Everyday is a good day, when you start off your day with a new mindset, feeling driven to help others, become the person you can be, or combat climate change. You can try to develop a purpose to give yourself a direction that would help you enjoy life more.
Everyday is good day, when you nurture positive environment, surround yourself with people who adds color to your life and spend time in nature which releases stress and improve your overall general health
Everyday is a good day, by learning how to be kind to yourself. Treat and nourish yourself with something special, take care of your IN and OUT health, practice forgiveness and press forward because there is an amazing plan for you both now and in the future.
Celebrate every small win, be grateful for the simple blessings in your life by celebrating every step of the way. Focus on your inner strengths and accomplishments. Live your life to the fullest by reaching out for newer, richer, deeper life – changing experiences.
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In other for you to receive the most of life’s equation, you must understand that life is an ARITHMETIC. Therefore transform and reshape the negative into positive. Let the light shine through the darkness.
The Extraordinary You!
Wake up everyday with a new mind set by changing your perception and strengthening your relationship with God. You’re a perfect unique design, born with an extraordinary dreams, purpose to serve, potentials to do exploit and to living your life to the fullest.