3 Deadly Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make and the 3 Secrets that Will Change Your Results!

by Jade Sund on June 4, 2010

Whether you have been an entrepreneur for three months or 23 years you have a few things in common:

  • Not enough hours in a day to accomplish everything you want to do. Mistake #1- Overwhelm. The energy created by going into overwhelm is like a kill switch for productivity and profit!
  • So many ideas, opportunities and possibilities that focusing is a challenge. Mistake #2 – No Concentrated Focus. Lack of focus allows you to feel like you are doing business, but are you? Without concentrated focus you are just busy doing whatever comes up instead of doing business, getting results and creating an income!
  •  The state of your business is the driving factor of your attitude, emotions and level of happiness. Mistake #3 – I AM my Business, My Business is ME. Stop! You are separate from your business. When you decide to make your business a choice of what you do with some of your time, you will have the wisdom to know you are so much more than what you do. Your business is a construct outside of you instead of who you are and what you do.
    Ok, so everyone has the same amount of hours in a day, week and year. Right? Then why is it that some people seem to get everything done and others struggle each day to cross even a couple things off their ever growing list of “to do’s”? The answer from where I sit as a coach, trainer and entrepreneur myself is simply three words: decision, discipline and focus.

Secret #1 DECIDE!!! I know it sounds simple, but is it easy for you to decide, as your own boss what you need to do next? The true number of self motivated people may be smaller than you perceive. Many people naturally need a sounding board to reflect and receive the ideas and concepts they are considering. If that is you, then find a mastermind partner to spend 15-30 minutes each week with on the phone or in person DECIDING what you will accomplish that week. Then DECIDE to be held accountable to what you committed to doing!
Do you have your business systemized, so you know what comes next in the process of moving a prospect to a client or sale? Next, DECIDE to have the discipline and focus to track what your natural processes are in your business and then write it down. Now, determine what steps are crucial and follow them with the next prospect. Now you have a system! A system is fluid and can change easily when you learn a new skill or discover a better way of doing something.

Idea, idea, ideas oh boy! As an entrepreneur you are presented, read about or are inspired with new concepts, processes and possibilities every day. Secret #2 CHANNEL. Your creative flow can be CHANNELED into what you are already doing. The idea or concept can be adjusted to work with what you already have rolling. What if you CHANNELED the energy of possibility into how easily the projects you have already started can be completed or the marketing pieces that are in progress finished? Focus your creative juices and see the results CHANNEL into profits for your business!

So when someone asks you who you are in a social situation, what do you answer? I notice often that entrepreneurs will say I am John Anderson with Excite.com we . . . I wonder did the person at the dinner party really want to know all that information. Or were they thinking I wonder who that is and how they know the host? Secret #3 – RECOGNIZE!! You and your business are separate. If you want to have a life outside of your business you must take the time to be who you really are some times. Over identification with your business creates undue stress on you. RECOGNIZE that you are so much more than your business and that entrepreneur and business owner is a role you play. Understanding that role will allow you to feel happy even when there has been a failure or set back in business. It will also allow you the freedom when and if you are ready to sell your business because it will stand alone! Now that is a result you can take to the bank.
So I ask you, “Who are you and what are you here to do?”
Jade Sund, is a Magical tour guide who shines a light for you to step further into your power and possibility. Jade Sund is an incredibly accomplished source for self help motivation, energy and emotion management. Her accomplishments include co-owner of a successful multi million dollar business, Master ASK Trainer, Certified ASK Energy Coach, and Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Jade is the originator of the highly successful Get Off Your ASK and Awaken to the Power Within training programs and introduces clients to the more than 60 ASK Self Coaching exercises that shift energy, attitude, focus and feelings. She has recently launched AwakenSister.com, a resource for people making their move to living their purpose, passion, and in their power while embracing their life’s work. Awaken Sister is a resource to connect women to spiritual solutions for business and life excellence.

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ASK to Feel Comfortable During Your Business Presentation

by Jade Sund on February 19, 2010

ASK to Feel Comfortable During Your Business Presentation! Have you entered a room and heard the critic inside say, “What am I doing here? I am not good enough to do a business presentation for this caliber of audience?” Have you practiced your presentation, know the information and learned the business presentation skills to keep any audience engaged, just to find that voice in your head reminding you of the what if’s? Has the full color, digitally enhanced movie you have created of the worst case scenario of how the business presentation will go started to loop, just as you are introduced?

Business Presentation Skills

Business Presentation Skills

What if you decided, before you left for the event, how you were going to feel, what you were going to think, along with your well practiced what you were going to say? Your intention is a major factor in what you experience, in any situation. When you expect to be nervous or feel uncomfortable, you are!

What you expect is a self fulfilling prophecy. You spend time to select just the right thing to wear, practice what you are going to say, create your visual ideas and handouts or binders. Great! Now take the time to select how you are going to feel and what you are going to say to yourself before, during and after your business presentation.

Take two or three minutes and ask yourself, “What do I want to feel when I get there?” “How do I want to feel when I am introduced?” “How do I want to feel when I am asked a question from the audience?” “How do I want to feel and what am I going to say, if I don’t have the answer to audience members question, right at the tip of my tongue?” “How do I want to feel after the presentation is complete?” “What do I want to hear from the audience after the presentation?” “What do I to be telling my co-works, friends and family after I have done the presentation?”

Now, here is the ASKing secret, take the answer from the last question, the way you want to feel through this sequence:

  1. Remember when you have felt the way you want to feel at the event, a specific time in the past. Bring that event into your mind’s eye like a movie. Good.
  2. See yourself experiencing the specific occurrence from the past. Hear what positive self talk you had about feeling this way.
  3. Feel really, really feel that specific feeling.
  4. Now you have created the feeling you want in the present and can access it by just ASKing.

That was easy, wasn’t it?

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