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You are well-acquainted with just about all property investment strategies, is any one really better than another?
Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Today’s success tip comes from Craig Turnbull.

As a best-selling author and multi-millionaire property investor, Craig is one of the most in-demand educators in the country.

You are well-acquainted with just about all property investment strategies, is any one really better than another?

There are so many ways to make money from real estate, such as renovating, flipping, developing, positive cash flow, negative gearing, and buy and hold, to name just a few. And there are just as many people out there telling you that the way they favour investing in property is the only way to go.

That concerns me because what they are really saying is that everyone is the same in their financial goals, knowledge, income, age, time availability, cash, equity and so on. But if you have no cash and no borrowing capacity, how can a negative gearing strategy work for you? If you have a high income with plenty of cash and not much time, then a long term buy and hold strategy with negative gearing might suit you. People who have a lot of time commitments may be at a disadvantage in time-intensive strategies like renovating. And people who want to get into property development need a lot of knowledge, planning and research skills.

Each strategy has its own strengths and weaknesses. It is imperative that you choose one, or possibly two strategies that you can become very, very good at and make your wealth grow that way. I found that trying to use too many strategies split my focus and I ended up causing myself some grief.
 

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Filed under: Real Estate, Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 9:23 am
Today’s success tip comes from Rosie Pekar.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Today’s success tip comes from Rosie Pekar.

Rosie is a ÔBut-kickerÕ Ð author, motivator and columnist to over 60,000 entrepreneurs globally and she travels regularly delivering seminars and ÔDeliberate CreationÕ workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and the US.

What has been one of the biggest challenges you have had to face in your life and how did you overcome it - how did it shape your life?

The biggest challenge I have had to face, and one that I continually have to overcome, is me! Now, this may sound strange considering that I’ve had to overcome the fiery and violent nature of burly angry men intent on bashing me with baseball bats, tyre levers and bricks; that I had a contract taken out on my life within my first six months of policing; that I had to prepare myself to jump off a third-floor balcony in order to escape from a man with a shotgun; and that I had to face a knife-wielding man who kept reminding me that he was ‘ready to carve me up’. Hmmm…yep, I am definitely my own biggest challenge!

Why? Because of my own mind-set and habitual limiting thoughts. I have met many other people with the same problem or as I like to call it, ‘poor-me-itis’. Essentially it’s when people blame everything on a specific moment in their life.

Unfortunately, we get conditioned to keep on repeating our story - ‘poor me I grew up with’ or ‘I was diagnosed with’ or ‘I was abused by’ The truth is, if you live long enough you’ll always have a story to tell, the challenge is to not hinge the rest of your wellbeing on it. That is, don’t use it to restrict your personal power for a happy life.

It’s the thoughts in our heads that make us prisoners to the past and keep us locked into our ‘feeling bad’ states. Then we wonder why more bad stuff keeps happening to us and lay blame on anything and anyone. Once we understand that it’s not ‘out there’ and that the problem is ‘in here’ (nasty self-talk) then we are at least on the right track to the root of the problem.

I have met some professional victims alongside career criminals. I call them professional because as I see it they have mastered the art of criticising and condemning while holding themselves aloof. (Yep, guilty as charged, your honour! I especially excelled through my teens and early twenties.)

Some will justify the validity of their claims, ‘I have every right to feel bad, mad, tired, or whatever’ and sadly it becomes their way of being in their life. Not only is this sad for them, it’s toxic for all those around them too, and we all know someone like this. I have even watched one die holding onto this attitude.

‘Live a life so that when you die, even the undertaker is sad.’ Since you can’t escape your thoughts I choose to continually challenge myself and believe in more than I dreamed possible. I choose to make my self-talk my friend - not my enemy. Why not make your thoughts something that is exciting and makes you feel good, and in the process attract fabulous results into your life? Makes sense to me!
This website contains even more great tips from Rosie Pekar.

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Filed under: Marketing, Personal, Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 12:14 pm
Dream big - chase your dreams until they become reality and don’t be afraid of your passions.
Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Today’s success tip comes from Lisa Messenger.

With a background in sponsorship, marketing and PR, Lisa is currently the managing director of Messenger Marketing and Messenger Publishing. She is also the author of two books, with a six-part series of books soon to be released.

What are your top tips for success?

Dream big - chase your dreams until they become reality and don’t be afraid of your passions. If you believe in them enough, you will find an inner strength to achieve them.

Don’t procrastinate - try not to postpone anything for the wrong reason. If you have to put something off, make sure it’s because the time really isn’t right, not because you’re too afraid to start.

Ban negative thinking - become aware of the negative patterns you are perpetuating and de-program them. Replace them with positive habits to create a new way of living.

Maintain a positive outlook - believe that you can take on the world - you can! Remain focused and don’t let anyone drag you down. Wherever possible, break from convention and take risks.

Find a level of inner peace - believe in a higher power that will take you beyond your emotional and intellectual boundaries. You may surprise yourself by how exciting the journey of personal discovery can be.

Find a strong team - surround yourself with the best people. Create a brilliant team with brilliant minds.

Dump - leave behind anything you are not passionate about. Pursuing ideas that don’t sit well with your personal philosophy or ethics is a waste of time and a drain on your energy.

Delegate - pass on anything that doesn’t require top-level strategic thinking. That way you can keep yourself clear for important projects, to think and to dream.

De-stress - deal with any issues that could become unmanageable as they arise. I have found that this is a great way to alleviate stress. I have also found it useful to create an effective ’switch-off’ mechanism when I’m out of the office. I have an extremely full life with golf, tennis, boxing, kayaking, writing (I am currently working on a novel and co-authoring six non-fiction books), meditation, walking and going to the movies to keep me de-stressed. I’ll pretty much try anything once and have managed to create an amazing work/life balance.

Know who you are and what you want - I can now say that I am content and accepting of who I am. I now have a greater awareness of my values and my beliefs. I think it is important to look deep within yourself to realise who you truly are, where you came from and what made you the person you are today.

Love what you do - if you don’t like what you are doing now, change it! Refuse to live a discontented life.

Never give up - sometimes knowing what we want is the hardest part of life. But when I know what it is that I want, I have an uncanny knack of never giving up until I have made it happen. I have so many dreams and never want to close myself off to opportunities. I suppose that is the true essence of an entrepreneurial mind-set.

This website contains even more great tips from Lisa Messenger.

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Filed under: Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 1:56 am
What do you do to pick yourself up when you are feeling down?
Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Today’s success tip comes from Jeremy Lim.

Young Ambassador of the Children’s Medical Fund and freelance writer, Jeremy Lim, is a 16-year-old boy who has ‘Brittle-bones’ Disease. His numerous achievements and positive attitude despite his daily challenges has attracted media attention all over the world.

What do you do to pick yourself up when you are feeling down?

Feeling down is as natural as feeling pain when you are hit with an object. How much pain you feel depends on the degree of impact. Sometimes, I feel miserable. I think it is perfectly fine to feel that way, after all I am only human.  However, I know I don’t have to stay down forever and the quicker I let it go, the better it is for me.

What do I do to pick myself up? I don’t make a big deal of what has passed because I cannot do anything to change it. Instead, I use my time and energy to think of solutions that will bring back my smiles. I also remind myself that spring would not be so pleasant if there was no winter.

Of course, there will be times when I feel sad because of reasons beyond my control. One of the things I do to feel better is to write about it. I write my column for Today newspaper and this feels great because it gets the negative feelings out of my system.

In challenging times, I pick myself up by looking at funny pictures or comics and reading jokes to have a good laugh. I will also turn to my books for inspiration and words of wisdom.

This website contains even more great tips from Jermeny Lim.

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Filed under: Personal, Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 10:32 am
How to get more done with less effort?
Monday, October 27th, 2008

Today’s success tip comes from Laurence Harrould.

Combining his three passions of business, science and astrology with a love of working with people, Laurence has developed the Aviel brand. Laurence has also achieved diplomas in education, business information systems, orthomolecular nutrition, clinical ecology and workplace training.

For most business minded people, there are never enough hours in a day. What’s your advice for getting more done with less effort?

Everything keeps coming back to focus. If you know what your objectives are then whenever something comes up you can make a decision about whether it needs to be dealt with now. Steven Covey (author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and First Things First) uses four quadrants: (1) Important and Urgent, (2) Important but Not Urgent, (3) Not Important but Urgent, and (4) Not Important and Not Urgent.

When we are clear about our purpose we can more easily put tasks into these quadrants. If it is in quadrant four, ignore it; quadrant three, get someone else to do it. Ideally life should be about working in quadrants one and two.

Particularly challenging for small business owners is getting caught in the trap of thinking, ‘If I don’t do it, then it won’t get done’. Something I find useful is to have a sign above your desk that says, ‘Whose job am I doing now?’

Delegation is very powerful and often misused. It is about having people who are responsible for specific tasks and allowing them to carry out their responsibilities without micro-managing. The other important point here is that your staff must have the authority and the tools to enable them to perform their roles. There is little that is more soul-destroying and stressful than having responsibility without the authority or ability to fulfil that responsibility.

Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth is a must for any business owner; the basic premise is about having systems in place. The other must-read is The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.


This website contains even more great tips from Laurence Harrould.

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Filed under: Personal, Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 9:00 am
An Inspirational Video - The Law Of Attraction
Monday, October 13th, 2008

Filed under: Cool Videos, Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 1:14 am
Why is it so important for people to learn to say ‘no’?
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Today’s success tip comes from Jennifer Jefferies.

Today Jennifer speaks to corporations throughout Australia, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, the United States, Europe and New Zealand. She is the author of 7 Steps to Sanity and seven other health-related titles which are sold throughout the world, and have been translated into four languages.

Why is it so important for people to learn to say ‘no’?

Most of us are our own worst enemies when it comes to saying ‘yes’ to everything that is asked of us. I can’t tell you the number of people that I have treated over the years who felt overloaded, fatigued and resentful for having been put in situations where they’ve had to do things that they either didn’t want to do or didn’t have time to do.

The reality is that you create this situation by saying ‘yes’ when you should have said ‘no’. You choose to forgo your own needs rather than having the courage to say ‘no’. You choose to accept being overloaded rather than risk being thought of as selfish or inconsiderate. But have you ever thought about how unfair it is to say ‘yes’ to someone and then feel angry at them for it? If you are going to say ‘yes’, you need to mean it, get your head around it and get on with it. If you are saying ‘yes’ but meaning ‘no’ then you are heading into trouble.

There are enough stressors in life without creating new ones for yourself every time you are too afraid to say ‘no’. No one likes to disappoint or let anyone down, but in life it’s a reality - the only question is whether you will choose to always let yourself down by never letting anyone else down.

It’s time to show some respect for yourself and to start saying ‘no’. It doesn’t mean that you are selfish or don’t care. It demonstrates that you understand your limits and are realistic about what can be achieved given your time, resources and capabilities. Respectfully saying ‘no’ shows others that you are not willing to disappoint their expectations by promising more than you can give.

We also have to learn to say ‘no’ to ourselves when we’re not acting in our own best interests. You might have experienced the ‘I’ll just finish this one thing’ syndrome, where you become so single-minded about your work that you neglect to look after the other areas of your life.

It usually strikes after 5pm on a weekday and every time you think, ‘I’ll just finish this one thing’ another hour slides by with you still sitting at your desk - then you grab something fast and fattening to eat, decide it’s too late to go to the gym or that you’re too tired to catch up with friends as planned and the ‘poor me’ behaviours begin to creep in. Negative emotions like ‘poor me’ suck the life out of you. It is generally unnecessary fear that stops us saying ‘no’.

This website contains even more great tips from Jennifer Jefferies.

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Filed under: Personal, Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 1:25 am
Top tips to people who want to start or have just started networking?
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Today’s success tip comes from Simone Preston.

As Founder and Managing Director of Business Women Connect, Simone has combined her dual desires of running a successful business and empowering like-minded women to fully develop their potential. One and a half years after this business started, ÔBWCÕ has grown into five major regional areas and is forecasting a multi-million dollar turnover in 2007.

Can you offer some tips to people who want to start or have just started networking?

* Business cards - have professionally-designed and printed business cards.

* Give without expectation - do things for others without receiving anything in return.

* Competitors - seek opportunities from your competitors.

* Names - always make a mental note of people’s names (hint: say their name three times in a conversation as you will be more likely to remember it).

* Functions - be strategic in which networks work best for your business.

* Sell - don’t hard sell to people you have just met.

* Relationships - build relationships with other networkers on a personal and business basis.

* Meet and greet - make sure you meet and greet at least five people at any given function (don’t make the mistake of getting caught with the one person for too long).

* Confidence - fake it until you make it. If you are nervous, tell the host so that they can introduce you to others in the network.

* Body language - maintain good posture, don’t fidget and wear the appropriate clothing.

* Introduction - have a 15 to 30-second introduction about yourself (short and sweet).

* Listen - listen to what others have to say.

* Handshake - always shake hands with a woman or a man.

* Kiss - to kiss or not to kiss? Assess each occasion as it happens.

This website contains even more great tips from Simone Preston.

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Filed under: Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 8:00 am
What types of management do you use to increase productivity?
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008


Today’s success tip comes from Andrew May.

Andrew runs Switched On, a consulting company based in Sydney and
London. He is one of Australia’s leading experts on performance
and gives keynote presentations around the world and coaches CEOs
and senior managers. He also runs PT Plus, a mentoring and
coaching business.


What types of management do you use to increase productivity?

Priority management - managing priorities is not about getting
everything done, it is about deciding what is most important and
getting that task done. It is about getting more done in less
time.

When I started working on priority management, I suddenly noticed
that I was getting a lot more done in less time. I started to
feel much more in control, and friends, family and work colleagues
commented that they noticed something different. Each day I sat
down for ten minutes before starting on the ’stuff’ and
prioritised the five most important things to accomplish for the
day. I stopped creating massive ‘to-do’ lists at the start of
each day and made a ‘will-do’ list and started on what was most
important. This also helps avoid time wasters, the things we do
to put off doing the hard tasks that we know deep down need to be
done. This approach has had a big improvement on my productivity
and has allowed me to get more done.

When I coach people on this topic it is interesting to note that
many people don’t really know what’s important. I mean they do
know deep down, but they just haven’t allocated valuable time to
thinking about the bigger picture. The key is asking yourself,
‘What is the most important thing I can be doing with my time
right now?’

Energy management - the highest level of productivity is achieved
by managing energy. If you are a morning person (gazelle) then
get into work early and do the high-end cognitive tasks while
your brain is in top gear - avoid getting to work and doing junk
emails for the first two or three hours! If you are an afternoon
or evening person (bear) then it might take you a few hours to
warm up and hit your straps. I know some bears who don’t
actually get into work until 10.30 or 11.00am but they stay back
later when they are more productive.

Defining the best time of each day and each week, when your brain
works at its peak, and undertaking high-end cognitive tasks during
these times is a key strategy to optimising performance. Then you
can do lower-end activities when your energy levels plateau or
take a dip.
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Filed under: Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 9:14 am
What specific things can people do to improve their attitude and outlook on a daily basis?
Friday, September 12th, 2008

Today’s success tip comes from Josephine Thomson.

After beating the odds and surviving cancer, Josephine has gone on to become an award winning coach, receiving the Results Coach of the Year award for three consecutive years and in 2005, she was a state finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the Year.

What specific things can people do to improve their attitude and outlook on a daily basis?

Forgive yourself and others - life is too short to hold on to regrets, grudges, miscommunications or disappointments. Free yourself by letting go of any negative energy you may be holding on to. One way to do this is to write down anything you’re ready to let go of on a piece of paper, ceremoniously tear it into small pieces and throw it away as you forgive.

Practise gratitude and appreciation - understand that whatever you focus on grows. When you focus on everything in your life worthy of being grateful for, including the wonderful people you appreciate, the universe will hand you more to feel grateful about.

Live each day as though it were your last - if today was your last day on Earth, what people would you surround yourself with? What would you say to the people you care about? What personal gifts would you offer to humanity? Live each day as if it was your last, and you will be living in a state of light, love and unconditional contribution.

Meditate/pray - these kinds of activities open a direct link between yourself and the spiritual realm. Meditation and prayer can bring you peace, clarity, joy and connection. It can bring you closer to your creator and can assist in experiencing a perfectly balanced state between your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual self.

Suspend judgement - we judge other people in order to feel less guilty about our own misgivings. Judging is dense, dark and heavy, and we should instead strive for acceptance.

View every experience as a gift - look back over your life and you will realise that even the worst experiences have taught you some invaluable lessons, thus continuing your growth and development as a person. When you experience every situation - bad, good, ugly - as a gift, life will be more inspirational.

Stay consciously aware of all of your thoughts and feelings - this is important if you wish to avoid falling into the persuasive negative behaviours of complaining and feeling like a victim. To stay out of these patterns, check in with yourself, your present thoughts and feelings, several times a day.

Treat your physical body as your temple - your body is the only vehicle you have to ride through life in - look after it! Eat healthily, exercise, and rest! When you look after your body you will increase your energy, vitality, joy and freedom.

View the world through the eyes of a child - children are totally enthralled by the process of observing and experiencing the wonder and beauty in every single thing, colour, texture and person they meet. They can’t get enough! Look at every tree, sunset, cloud and human as a child would and you’ll be in a constant state of wonder, joy, surprise, acceptance and enlightenment.

Give love - love is the highest vibration. Allow yourself to receive love unconditionally and give love from your heart unconditionally to others as well as yourself!

Filed under: Health, Lifestyle + Travel, Success Tips — Rob Orriss @ 10:30 am
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