What is a Personal Vision Statement and How to Create One

What is a Vision Statement

What is a Vision StatementCreating a compelling vision for the future for yourself and your business can be the difference between achieving your greatest success and falling flat on your face in failure.

Do you know what a Vision Statement is?

A Vision Statement is a picture of the future we wish to create. So many people confuse a Vision Statement with a Mission Statement.

What is a Mission Statement?

A Mission Statement is a statement of how your vision statement is going to be achieved. The vision is where you are going and the mission is how you are going to get there.

Motivation Killed Your Success

Have you ever gotten motivated to do something?motivation

Of course, but what did you stop doing to follow your motivation.

You see, the only thing that is equal to all of us is time, we all have the same 24 hours to work with each day. How you spend those 24 hours will determine everything in your life. And in order to start doing something you have to have stopped doing another thing. Whether you stopped watching TV to read a book or get on a webinar to learn something new you had to stop one to do the other.

Now Motivation is typically great. But…if you are constantly looking to get motivated and continuously stop doing things, you may be in an endless doom loop where you are getting nowhere.

If you are constantly getting motivated to do something new, you most likely have acquired ADD.  You lose focus and constantly look for the next thing, when you have never completely followed through on that business that idea. The cure for acquired ADD and jumping from opportunity to opportunity is Vision and Persistence. You first have to have a clear vision of what you want then go after it until you get it or have exhausted all ways of attain it. That is discipline, it is persistence, it is not giving up and not quitting.

You don’t have to be motivated inorder to get things done, most things get done because they have to, not because you were motivated to get it done.

Motivation is not about someone standing over you telling you that “You can do it.”

Motivation is different than inspiration

Staying disciplined is where you need to live, this is defined by your habits and changing directions constantly can become a bad habit to form. It can actually become detrimental to your success.

Great motivators can easily sway and derail an undisciplined person and that is ever apparent in network marketing and any kind of marketing.

People are wining that they just are not motivated to do something… Stop wining.  If I wanted to here wining I would just stay home and listen to my kids during the day.

Stop looking to get motivated, start looking to be disciplined.

Everyone likes variety and so many people get bored to fast on the track for success. So the constant new motivation can derail your success just because you get noticed to do something different. (Oh, Look at the Bunny)

Learn to fail forward trying different things that are in line with what you ultimately want to do is great, motivation in different directions gets you nowhere.

Look at what you are doing, and look at your habits. Are they in line with where you want to go? Are you easily motivated to try different things that don’t have anything to do with where you are heading? If yes… Then motivation can be killing your success.

Develop a clear vision of what you want

Get motivated…then stay disciplined

Get motivated to stay disciplined

5 Critical Questions About Your Email Marketing

5 Critical Questions About Your Email Marketing

5 Critical Questions About Your Email Marketing

Why are we still talking about email marketing? It’s 2012! Facebook has almost 900 million people on it. LinkedIn over 170 million people. We have smartphones…

Not sure about you but I feel compelled to check my email every 5 minutes, just because I can get it on
Email is still the preferred method of communication for a wide range of audiences. For that reason it is crucial that you test, measure and pay particular attention to your email marketing. Here are the top 5 Tips to Reviving your Email Marketing.my phone. It is always with me, and that is exactly why you need to be using it more strategically. We are bombarded with emails, messages on social networks, and texts all day. Why should anyone open, not to mention read your emails.

First, look at your email marketing and say, “What’s the Point? Who Cares?”  Look at it if you got your own email to your inbox, would you open it, would you read it, would you click on a link? If you answered “nope” to any of these questions, it is time to redevelop your email campaign. Start with your customer in mind and what value it brings to their business or their life.

Once you have a reason to send them an email, think about how you are going to get them to open the email. This is your subject line. You measure the effectiveness of your Subject Line by the open rate on the campaign, the more people that open the email, the better the subject line. The most effective subject lines are very specific, offer a benefit to the reader, pique their curiosity, or utilize scarcity.

Now that they have opened your email, what’s next? Think about how many people may be opening it on their phone…Totally different experience reading it on a phone than a laptop or desktop. Does the call to action send them to a page on your website, now you have to see how your website performs in a mobile environment. Is it slow to load, do you have a separate mobile site? Mobile devices are changing the way we look at all marketing.

The content of the email is crucial to getting them what you want them to do next. Is it impactful, persuasive and meaningful? Does it help them with a problem they are having? Does it move them in the direction of contacting you to utilize your product or services?

Are you telling them what to do next, a strong call to action often misused in email marketing. To many businesses just put the call to action as “Buy From Me Now” without ever really giving any value or reason to buy from you.

One last comment, how does your email plan fit into the rest of your marketing? Yes it’s 2012 and there are many ways to communicate with your audience, you have to communicate with them the way they want to be communicated with.

To recap and review your email marketing campaign here are the 5 tips

  1. Does your email add value?
  2. Test Subject Lines to get more opens
  3. Are you messages mobile friendly?
  4. Is the body of the email compelling?
  5. Do you tell the reader what to do next?