In this article, I want to take the time to talk about one of my very favorite topics: the fact that “Success isn’t fair”…and what to do about it…First off, I need to be clear that you understand that LIFE itself isn’t fair. In case you were born on the moon, almost NOTHING on EARTH is fair. “Fairness” in effect is an idea, an intangible concept that man has created. I think we probably created the whole idea of what is “fair” to torture ourselves psychologically, in fact. Why would I say that? That’s a good question and we’ll get to that, but for now let’s put it up on the shelf.
Here are a few ways that life isn’t “fair”, as the whole theory relates to money and success:
1) Some people are smarter and more creative, and some are decidedly less so. While the world will reward ANYONE with enough belief in themselves and enough “gumption” to make it happen- the truth is clear that in the world of success, being born with an innate creativity is a huge advantage to an entrepreneur. How unfair.
2) A ridiculously small percentage of the population that is born and lives out their lives on this planet live the lives they CHOOSE to live without worry over finances, spending their time doing the things they ENJOY with the people they LOVE. Most are BORN that way. How unfair.
3) Many men and women go their ENTIRE lives without ever reaching that pivotal place of choice, power, and PURPOSE we call “financial freedom”. How unfair.
4) Some individuals have hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, so much so that the MERE interest on their accumulated fortunes can provide a lifestyle of luxury while the PRINCIPAL remains intact and untouched. How unfair.
5) Some men and women know the secrets of harnessing principles of wealth that are taught to them by parents or mentors, secrets whose use consistently allow them the FREEDOM of creating an ideal life for themselves and their families. How unfair.
The point I’m trying to make is that…LIFE ISN’T FAIR! And in case you haven’t noticed it yet…the world of money isn’t fair, either. Sometimes an entrepreneur will have a GREAT idea and then external circumstances will stifle a deal. Sometimes a specific real estate investing technique will work for you, and sometimes it won’t. Sometimes you’ll feel powerful and confident in your abilities and future prospects, and sometimes you won’t.
Now, to be honest here I know I may be alienating a few people here. It’s true that most people don’t like the idea that life (and success) isn’t fair. These people often get extremely upset when things don’t go their way. They frequently place too much negative meaning on things that happen to them. Too often, they respond reactively to responses they get from the world and generally act like life should be different. Of course, this is CRAZY.
The more that I realized this fact… that life just isn’t fair… the more that I realized another PROFOUND truth: IT’S GREAT NEWS! If life were “fair”, then you wouldn’t be able to do anything to change your personal success. You’d get what everyone else was getting.
So what does this have to do with investing in real estate? Well, the fact is that you CAN change your personal success in ANY area you want (including success with money and investing). Truly, the best part of this realization is that you can not only get better and better results in a society where many feel the house is playing with a stacked deck, but you can actually turn the tables around in YOUR FAVOR. You can improve so much your understanding of investing and your skill with making good investment decisions that you are actually at an ADVANTAGE when it comes to money and investing.
What is this advantage? I know, I know…some of our advanced investor readers, I know you are nodding your head here as you’re reading this. You understand already. But give me a moment to break it down 1-2-3 style for those who haven’t figured it out yet! It all goes back to where we were earlier…let’s take that idea from before down off the shelf, that idea that: We created the whole idea of what is “fair”…to torture ourselves psychologically.
Granted, as you sit there pondering what it is I’m saying…the idea that “life isn’t fair,” a popular worldview, is based on self-sabotage might sound a TAD harsh. In fact, if you know you’ve caught yourself saying these exact words at some time in the past, you might not LIKE ME RIGHT NOW. But, think of it this way- what exactly do people give as the reasons for not investing in Real Estate? Same old answers, right? Not enough MONEY Not enough CREDIT Not enough TIME. I know…how unfair.
The truth is, if you believe as I do then you’ll realize that each of these “reasons” is in all actuality an EXCUSE. Now, if the idea that “life isn’t fair” is such great news, then why aren’t more people thinking of it this way? Why aren’t more people turning this belief upside down and inside out and shaking the loose change out of its pockets?
I personally think that many people have a FEAR of SUCCESS, and if you were BORN with MONEY you might think I’m full of it. If you weren’t and you’re just beginning to make your crack at it and strive for your rightful place in the world of success, think with me for a moment. Isn’t it EASIER just to throw up your hands and say “life isn’t fair”. Isn’t it less painful to say “I’ll never be rich”. Isn’t it more COMFORTING to convince yourself that dreams are for “those” people, those other people with more X, better Y, and the best Z? Sure it is! I know. I’ve been there.
It’s called taking the path of least resistance and this unfortunate mindset is the culprit that steals countless dreams and spoils many, many splendid plans and ideas. And for someone who has dreams, big dreams, like you, dear reader, this mindset is a HUGE obstacle to your successful lifestyle as a real estate investor. If you’re worried that you might have this “Life isn’t fair” mindset, take a few minutes then and quietly reflect…isn’t it time to STOP torturing yourself by saying “Life isn’t fair”, realize the truth and harness the power of flipping it around!
Success isn’t fair… and that’s great news.
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Success Isn’t Fair And That’s Great News!
Business Tax Accounting – An Important Domain For Smooth Functioning of Your Business
Business Tax Accounting is one of the most important domains in the business world. In order to maintain a smooth functioning of your business activities, sufficient knowledge about the various tax accounting methods is essential so that they apply the appropriate method according to the nature and the size of their business. Organizations are responsible for paying taxes to the government. There are different methods of paying taxes that can be used in order to reduce your taxes and increase your profits. The taxes fall into two categories, that are: .The accrual method of taxing.The cash method of taxing
The company or the business decides the suitable tax accounting method that it needs to adopt, depending upon the nature and size of its business. For small scale business, in order to be in compliance with the federal tax authorities, it is suggestible that the business owner opts for cash tax accounting method. The tax payer can change the business tax accounting method that is being used by the organization. However, for that the tax payer needs to have the consent of the secretary of the treasury.
Some of the advantages of using the business tax accounting methods are:
.The goodwill of the company gets highlighted as far as legal compliance is concerned.Ensures faster decision making by having a clear image of the finances of the company .An accurate and precise budget can be maintained that gives a clear idea of the profits as well as losses of the company .Business tax accounting methods help to maintain a better record by getting rid of the unnecessary details as well as information.
The business tax accounting is an important function that plays a pivotal role in determining the future of the company. Well maintained records can really be a boon to an organization as that would always show the clear image of the company’s standing as far as the finances are concerned. This would enhance the credibility of the company. In addition, at the time of filing the taxes, a well maintained financial record can go a long way in saving money while filing tax returns.
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Action is All That Matters
How are things? Do you have time freedom in your life? Do you own your time? Do you find yourself moving forward in your investing business and career, and growing as an entrepreneur with unstoppable momentum? Great! This brings me to the subject I want to talk about…which is directly related to many of my own struggles as an entrepreneur, and probably a lot of what I’ve ever written about success or investing. Simply put: Action is all that Matters.
Listen to me: just 365 days from today, one more entire year will have passed into oblivion, recorded into history, engraved in stone. It doesn’t matter who you are- mother, father, teacher, preacher, businessman, president- 365 days is all you are going to get in the next year. No more, no less. Broken down, that comes out to 8,760 hours… or 525,600 minutes… or… 31,536,000 seconds. Tick, tock.
Now, let’s say you are richer than old King Solomon and you’re willing to pay through the nose to have more time in the coming year than other folks. It’s not so much that you want more time, per se, not for the use of it….you’re just so rich that you want something other people can’t have. Let’s say you want just 10 extra minutes, just ten measly little minutes that could as easily be used brushing and flossing extra vigorously as doing anything important like transporting a cardiac arrest patient to the hospital or exciting like hitting double overtime during March Madness (yeah baby! Go U of L Cardinals!) and sinking the winning three pointer.
Let’s say you just want TEN minutes…just enough to show how important you are…and you’re willing to pay one million dollars for each of those 10 minutes. So you’ve got 10 million dollars to throw away on a flight of fancy that has no real significance. I mean, really, what could you do with those extra 10 minutes, anyway, assuming you could get them? Doesn’t matter. You can’t buy them. They’re not for sale.
You couldn’t even buy one extra minute….or even one second… for 100 billion dollars. Time is not for sale. It’s as simple as that. Not at any price under the shining sun. During the next year, not one single solitary person is going to have more gross time than you and nobody (except those Lost Souls who regularly go to the self-checkouts at Wal-Mart) is going to have less.
The time we get from day one to day 365 is the great equalizer that ties everyone together. No one person gets any more time in the day than any other person. So what’s the point? Well, check this out. Here is the “so what” of it: The difference from where you are right now, today… and where you will be 1-year from today, depends on one thing and one thing only. It depends on…What You Do with Those 8,760 Hours You’ve Got to Work with in the Next Year! Tick, tock.
As much as we like to think positively, what you just think about isn’t going to effect any change whatsoever, and change, dear reader, is what you’re looking for in your life- isn’t it? Ideas without ACTION are just waiting to get dusty and surrounded by cobwebs. Although no one will deny the power of goal-setting and knowing what you want and communicating it clearly to yourself and to others, I have to break it to you that what you just plan isn’t going to create any significant change either. Just planning’s never resulted in my successes, nor anyone I know.
How you feel isn’t going to make a great difference. What you read; what you learn; what you study; what you discover… none of these things… none whatsoever… is going to make a single scintilla of difference about where you are 1-year from today. We all need to get this straight in our heads: The only thing (except for God and chance maybe) that is going to make any difference at all in our life… is… What You Do! Action is all that Matters!
So, what are you going to do with those 8,760 hours you’ve got to work with in the next year?
Find Out How To Start A Profitable Online Home Based Business With Parttimejobslover
The online work at home industry is spreading regularly and study tells that online income earned from online business opportunities will rise by 32% every year through the year 2009.
Best major point of an internet home based business is it needs a VERY SMALL CAPITAL COST but VERY BIG INVESTMENT RETURNS once it is well-established and active. Match with other kinds of investment as stocks, properties and traditional businesses, if the investment dead terribly, you might finish up losing the capital plus the money earned.
Furthermore, online work at home business is easier and it can be in any shape. The working hour does not necessary be from 7 to 7 daily, you can begin work at any time or even any where as long as you have access to a pc. The home based business can be your knowledge selling, that is sell an information product about “how to start home based business”; or physical product selling, for example selling one eBay; or doing surveys for company; or write ads for corporations to sell their product and make money.
One of the main popular money making home business is “Network Marketing” or “Multi-level Marketing” (MLM). For over half of century, MLM has increased quite a bit. Most network marketers making from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars a month. But importantly they enjoyed the freedom of working for them by become their own boss.
The concept of MLM marketing is simple. An online business can offer their goods and services at discount rates to you then by selling the goods/services to others at a full price, you are making money the difference as the commission.
Because home based business opportunity is your BEST decision for your financial independence. As your online work at home business is on track, you will be happy with your financial security by having two options to earn money. One from your full time job and the 2nd one coming from your part time internet business. Most of all, there is big potential in work at home income to OUTGROWN your full time earnings.
Nothing can entirely eliminate all of the risks involved with starting internet home business income of any kind, but you can sequze the risks by being tentative. Careful planning and research into the home based business will support to lead you onto the road of money making.
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Stop Procrastinating And Take Action!
Procrastination steals our dreams. If you want to stop procrastinating and take action then whenever you think “I can’t,” you MUST do it, whatever it is. There is nothing wrong with an attempt and a miss…in the grand scheme of things it is almost always better than not swinging the bat at all.
A good friend of mine went out and started a brand new website design business a couple of months ago. He was amped up and excited about the whole thing, talking nonstop when he got started.
At the time, I was excited for him and encouraged him to go for it, to reach for the life of his dreams.
Recently I called him up and I asked him how things were going, and he said “great”.
He proceeded to tell me with lavish enthusiasm about all the wonderful and profitable things he’s going to be doing. All the plans and ideas he has for his new company. All the things he is looking forward to being able to have and do when the big bucks started rolling in.
Funny enough, can you guess the one thing he DIDN’T tell me?
That’s right…
Anything that he’s actually DONE.
You see, I could quickly discern this by listening between the lines. As a matter of fact, this situation resonates with me. I recognize this tendency in others more and more as the weeks pass as a constantly-striving-for-that-next-level entrepreneur myself.
Why?
Simply this: I’ve been there.
Many, many times in fact.
You see, this friend of mine is a dreamer. He’s a planner. A real big thinker.
But…the one thing he’s not?
He’s not a doer. He just doesn’t take action.
(Not yet anyway)
This kind of thing depresses me. It frustrates the heck out of me. Makes me want to throw my hands up in the air.
How many people do you know like this?
Are YOU like this guy?
Do you procrastinate on your dreams?
It’s ok if you are. It’s ok if you do. I oftentimes have been that same guy in my life. There’s no secret there. I’m most definitely a big, big dreamer- as often as not in the clouds as I am solidly on the ground.
But on the ground is where the action is.
We’ve just got to realize that the greatest idea in the world won’t get you anywhere unless you stop procrastinating and take action. The truth is that an “idea” is just an idea. It’s fragile, delicate. It’s fleeting, ephemeral. It has so little solidity a small puff of air can blow it away or a negative thought shoot it down.
We don’t even know if it’s a good idea until something gets done and the world has a chance to choose to take a look or take a pass on it.
It’s true that the entrepreneur is nothing without the idea.
But the idea is nothing without the work.
If we don’t take action and put in the work, ideas don’t grow. Plans fall apart. Freshness grows stale. Ambitions wither. Dreams die.
It’s a sad, sad story, oft repeated.
What about you?
What are you putting off?
What are you waiting for “the time to be right” on?
The Need And Importance Of Business CRM
Business CRM is a process of maintaining relationship with your customers. CRM is a software solution that focuses on quality service with technology. Typically, CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a process of maintaining customer records and managing customer accounts. Detailed information about a customer can help a great deal while dealing with them in future. It helps you track the history of a customer and serves as a ready reference to let you know your customer better.
Complete data about a customer is gathered and stored in a software system called CRM. It helps in organizing and analyzing this data for marketing and advertising purpose. In fact, this data can be retrieved later to facilitate transactions or interactions with a customer.
Business CRM is also used for generating reports, project management, sales and marketing and much more. The scope of this software is very wide and it can improve your business operations. The role of Microsoft CRM software cannot be dismissed; it plays a very important part in carrying out business activities. Here are some of the important advantages of using this software.
Importance Of Business CRM
Large Database: If you have a large customer database it can become difficult to manage information. However, with CRM software it can be easy to manage customer information. This system can handle huge database and will not affect the productivity of your staff. The system is fast and you can expect information at the click of a mouse.
Customized Services: You can expect customized services to suit your business needs. A software expert will evaluate your business requirements, understand your needs and then develop a solution that is ideal for your business. This type of tailored services will improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Features Of The Software: Business CRM software has various features like third party software integration with fax solutions, accounting sales, sales compensation packages, inventory management and much more. Other features include data security checks, workflow process, and so on.
Customer Satisfaction: This type of system will ensure customer satisfaction and assist you in retaining the existing customers. For instance, if a customer speaks to your frontline staff and gets an immediate answer or resolution for the question raised it will leave the customer happy and satisfied. CRM software assists in handling queries, complaints and feedback. In fact, this system can also be used for conducting a survey.
Business CRM is committed to quality customer care. It helps in streamlining processes and improves the performance and operations of your business activity. Experienced professionals develop this system. They possess many years of industry knowledge and expertise. Implementation of this software solution helps in increasing revenue, better marketing efforts, customer acquisition programs, customer retention, database development, market segmentation, market targeting, increased loyalty, customer analysis and much more. It also helps in cost reduction since customer data is maintained online effortlessly. There is no paper work involved.
This system has evolved over the years and is an exceptional support system aimed at achieving customer satisfaction. Not only is it good for external customers, it is also good for internal customers. It improves the productivity of your staff too.
تقرير عن مسابقة التاجر الصغير بدبي Young Entrepreneur
تحت رعاية سمو الشيخ حمدان بن محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم ولي عهد دبي تطلق مؤسسة محمد بن راشد لتنمية المشاريع الصغيرة والمتوسطة “مسابقة التاجر الصغير” كل عام بناءا على رؤية ورعاية روح المبادرة الاستثمارية في نفوس الاجيال الجديدة في دولة الامارات وتشجيع وتسهيل ايصال فكرة المشاريع الصغيرة والعمل التجاري لدى شباب المستقبل من خلال توفير بيئة اعمال حقيقية ومتكاملة تضمن تخريج أجيال من رواد الاعمال قادرين على الابتكار والابداع ضمن بيئة تجارية تنافسية Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum – Crown Prince of Dubai, the Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Est. for Small & Medium Enterprises Development launched the Young Entrepreneur Competition 2011 and it’s 7th Edition. The four day event brings together students from different private and public High schools, Colleges & Universities across the UAE, who will set up their stands and sell their products in a competitive environment. The competition aims at educating students on the basic principles of starting and operating a private business, and to inspire the students to become entrepreneurs in the future by creating a simple entrepreneurial environment.
Roger James Hamilton Asia Leading Wealth Consultant
If you are an entrepreneur and aiming to become a successful icon in your field of business, you must follow Roger James Hamilton. He is the man behind Wealth Dynamics and the brain behind the development of XL Group.
According to Roger, success is not an accident nor is it a matter of luck. It is an organized journey following your aptitude and skills. Most novices take paths beyond their experience. Roger says that these people will fail because they either lose their confidence or they lose their patience. So it is best to commit to a path and follow it step-by-step. He has created the Wealth Spectrum test as a map to help you to achieve this.
The Wealth Spectrum Test helps us know exactly at which level we are and also throws light on what are the next levels of test we need to take.
“Don’t chase the pot of gold, instead paint the rainbow”- Roger Hamilton
Roger’s second test is Wealth Dynamics, which helps you to follow your own personal path. The key to become a successful entrepreneur is to identify your personal strengths and put more focus on the same point, and have others work at where you are weakest.
Roger James Hamilton is a student of self-knowledge which, he states, is the great path to multiply wealth. According to him, instead of working harder on the weaknesses of a person to get better, it is best to work on the strengths, as it will grow easily. To understand not just what your strength is, but also what mentors and role models have the same strengths (and weaknesses), Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics test is the leading test in self-knowledge for entrepreneurs.
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