Ten Mistakes That Can Affect Your Business Success

Ten Mistakes That Can Affect Your Business Success

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Linda_Hancock]Linda Hancock 

So often people talk about the things that you need to do in order to achieve business success but very few ever mention the things and choices that a person allows to interfere with their progress and business. This article will focus on issues that business owners tend to ignore or continue doing without realizing that their success will be limited or destroyed over time.

1. Financial problems - If you have not set up your business with the proper procedures and backing, you will soon find that you are out of business. You need to have a Business Plan and the financial support that will allow your business time to grow in the start-up phase.

2. Relational - Many people surround themselves with people who drain their time and energy. If you have a business partner who is not working on the same goals as you are, it won't be long until the business will suffer.

3. Personal - Dishonesty, old negative patterns, untreated mental or physical ailments, family demands or hidden "secrets" can all interfere with your business success.

4. Addictions - When people have an addiction, it take priority over everything. In fact, alcohol or drugs can become a "first love" that steals reasoning and resources not only at a personal level but also from a business endeavor.

5. Incompetence/Inexperience - When you do not know what you are doing, mistakes can occur frequently. Your time and reputation will likely suffer as you try to clean up the mess!

6. Poor self-care - People who are tired, under nourished or ill are not able to reach their potential. As a result, everyone, including that person, the rest of the staff and the client suffer.

7. Lack of Focus - Many businesses fail because time and energy are invested in the wrong things. You need to know where to invest your attention so that you have good revenue and an acceptable bottom line.

8. Poor Service - Clients come to you in order to have their needs met. If this doesn't happen, they will not only look elsewhere for services but also spread the word that your business is not very helpful.

9. Inflexibility - You need to be able to adjust your ideas in order to improve the business. Stubbornness without consideration of options will kill a business in a world that welcomes change and new ways of doing things.

10. Other Psychological Factors - World trends and economic times can have a strong impact on how a business will do. If you are not motivated or able to handle stress, you will likely soon find that running a business can be an overwhelming adventure.

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Positive Words, Key To Success

Positive Words, Key To Success

Our words control our lives in more ways that most people can even imagine. The power and effect our daily confessions and affirmations have on our lives is literally mind-blowing, when you consider the fact that our words determine the very course of our lives. I grew up hearing a lie. That lie was," Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." Maybe you heard that before to. And maybe, you thought that this saying was a good thing to believe and repeat to your children. But this quote, regardless of how innocent it appears, is deceptive. 

It is not true that words can never hurt you. Words can kill you. Words can destroy you. Words can bring you down. Words can literally destroy your true purpose and potential. And words can destroy the true purpose and potential of others who may be spoken to in a negative light, all the time. Job said that words can break a person in pieces. The essence of what comes out of our mouths on a daily basis is what is determining the actual results we are experiencing all the time. If things are not working in your favor, check your words.

The Bible teaches that the power of death, destruction and misery, as well as the power of life, peace, vitality and success is in the authority of the tongue. We cannot escape the effect of our own words upon our minds, spirits and lives. And this is compounded by the words of others who we allow to speak into our lives as well. What we need to ask ourselves is, what are we saying continually, and what are we hearing continually. 

It is a proven fact that we will never rise beyond the level of our confessions. If we speak negatively all the time, we will experience negative results all the time. Our constant negative speaking will produce within us negative expectations, which shall result in negative patterns of behaviors and negative results in our relationships, situations and circumstances.

However, if our words are constantly positive, we will produce within ourselves positive and confident expectations of good things, which shall result in positive behaviors which produces positive and worthwhile results. Our words matter.

Seeing that death and life are in the authority of the words which we speak, should we not ponder carefully what comes out of our mouths on an on-going basis, eliminating the negative, and embracing the positive? After all, we are in the drivers seat. Our words are just that, our words. Granted that we may have been influenced by this person or the next, the truth of the matter is that we decide what we will accept and what we will reject. Wow. This means that we really are in the drivers seat. 

If you desire true success, you must learn that the number one key to becoming a real victorious person is to take one hundred percent responsibility for your life and decisions. So again I state that your words are just that, your words.

For this rest of this week, watch every word that you allow to come out of your mouth. Ponder them carefully. Look at your speaking patterns. If you discover that they are constantly negative, then work on changing them. But what is the first step to changing my words from negativity, to positivity, you ask? You just took that step when you read this article. Now read it again. Then second and third step are in here as well.

Sheldon D. Newton is an inspirational and motivational speaker, teacher, pastor and seminar lecturer. He is the Founder and Senior pastor of Jesus Christ Centered Ministries International and the author of various books including, Refuse to Live the Common Life, The Positive Power of Biblical Affirmations, Humility and the Honor of God and True Spirituality.

His burning purpose is to see lives transformed through the application of timeless and godly principles, which will enable them to live better lives of peace, wholeness and fulfillment. This purpose has taken him throughout the islands of the Bahamas, The United States of America and The British Virgin Islands.

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The Key to Success - Motivation and Inspiration

Good People, Bad Mindsets 

I'm just going to jump right into this. People want you to fail. Plain and simple. It sounds a little harsh and unrealistic at first, however if you consider the following you will realize that it is true. While most people will not come out and say it directly, we as a culture are indirectly bred to think this way. From the time we are born, we are exposed to countless media outlets that scream "No matter how much you have, it is not enough."

 We are trained from a very young age to believe that we need to look a certain way, have a certain thing, or act a certain way in order to be considered successful, or even in a lot of cases "normal". After years of being surrounded by this, our minds are predestined to behave in a certain way. When a person hears of another persons success, hundreds of thoughts will immediately be thrown around in their head, among which most will be negative.

 No matter how good an idea you may present to a friend, 90% of the time they will give you 1000 or more reasons for why that idea will not work. They don't do this in a manner that is direct and insulting, and in fact usually portray it as an attempt to help you. "But have you thought about this?", "Do you realize how much that will cost?", "I'm only trying to help", and so on. The fact is they are trained to think that way because subconsciously their brain is telling them that you may succeed, and leave them behind. It's a natural tendency that is very hard to fight against. Most people don't even realize what they're doing and truly believe they are being helpful by offering "logical" advice. But the fact is, unless they are speaking from 100% personal experience, the only "logical" advice they have are ideas that their brain has generated on the fly. They're good people, they just have bad mindsets.

Get Out of Your Way

In the same way other people try to get in the way of our success, we too have a tendency to get in the way of our own success. Given the same principals as above, a lot of people over many years of exposure to today's culture begin to feel that no matter what they do, they will never have enough. As I've once said already, we are basically brainwashed from a young age to believe we will never have enough, and after hearing this nonsense for so long, we almost have no choice but to believe it's true.

Here's the truth. If you don't make a conscious effort to discover your skills, and other things that make you yourself, you will inevitably fall into a state of mind that tells you that you're no better than anyone else. So many people actually believe they haven't a single thing at all to offer this world, and that is truly a disease of the brain if I have ever heard of one. If you want to think that way, then you WILL be just like everyone else. But I can assure you there is no fun in that. Each of us have our own set of skills, ambitions, and goals and it's those things that set us apart from everyone else. The fact is, though, that most people will not act on many of those skills, or ambitions, or goals and therefore will fall into the same place that 90% of the world falls into. If any of us were given the literal choice one day to conquer all of our goals and get the most out of life, or to fall into contempt and die peacefully bored, we would obviously choose the first.

 The truth is, however, we DO have that choice. We fortunately get to make that choice every day we wake up. The sad truth is that most people will choose the second option. Why? Because it's easy. It's really easy to just get out of bed everyday, go to work, eat dinner, then go back to bed and do it all over again the next day. We as a culture love cycles. We love tradition. Why? Because we know what to expect. If we didn't have a routine to follow, we would never know what to expect, and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. But here's the truth. You can die peacefully bored, or you can live life with a little uncertainty and quite probably change the world. Get out of your way, you have big things to do.

Ok I'm Ready! Now What 

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THE EVIDENCE OF AN UNFAILING FAITH

I want to take my text from Hebrews11:1-5.Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,the evidence of things not seen.You need an evidence to serve as a conclusive basis for your beliefs in life..You will never doubt anything that has an evidence.

For example,an evidence that you have money in the bank is your bank statement.Similarly,a title deed to a piece of land is enough of an evidence.In the same vain,the promises of God are made real in your life by faith.How can you be so sure that you will prosper,excel in life and business and ministry?You know it by faith.The proof you have now that you will make it big time is the promise of GOD in his world.

Should any body ask you why you are so sure that your tomorrow will be better than your today ,simply show him the evidence or proof---your faith.
Therefore you must not destroy your evidence,your proof of a better tomorrow.Do not allow the enemy of your soul to steal your evidence or make you doubt your proof.It is by faith you will even please the Almighty GOD.

This is why you must keep your faith at all times.
Hope this helps