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by Team Contributor – ALLISON TIBBS
August 6, 2012
Staying Motivated is Key to Being Successful
The journey towards your success
is one that can be a bit challenging, as it will require you to make
sacrifices, step out of your comfort zone, and make big changes in your life.
There have been times in my life when I wanted to throw in the towel and give
up. However, it was in those moments
that I had to tap into something deep to keep pushing on – ultimately, I tapped
into my “WHY?”.
In order to stay motivated, I
encourage you to truly identify your “WHY?” or your reason for doing what you
are doing. For me, it’s simple. I want
to be able to create a life of freedom where I can travel, not worry about
money or debt, spend time with my loved ones, and create a legacy that will
impact the world in a big way. When I think about my legacy, I think about how
my companies, Marquise LLC and Allison Tibbs International, will allow me to
help millions of people have success in their businesses and their lives. I also think about how my non-profit
organization, The Empower A Girl Foundation, will empower at least 1 MILLION
girls across the globe.
When I put it all in perspective,
it becomes a mission, a life purpose, and a responsibility to be successful,
because every moment that I’m not living in my full potential businesses are
failing, people are struggling, and young girls are dealing with self-esteem
issues.
I keep my “WHY?” in the forefront
of my mind and it serves as a reminder for me daily. I have even created a vision board where I
cut out photos and words and glued them to poster board that I hang in my
office. When I am having a moment, I look at that board the motivation to push
through kicks into high gear.
I encourage you to take a moment
to stop and think about your “WHY?”.
This must be something that is very personal to you, like your
definition for success, and there is no right or wrong answer. The only requirement is that you make it
meaningful to you, because if you don’t care it won’t matter if you succeed or
fail.
These questions will help you to
determine and understand your “WHY?” and help to keep you motivated.
·
What are your reasons for wanting
more success in your life?
·
How will your life change as a
result of your success?
·
How will you feel when you have
achieved your success?
·
How will your success impact the
important people in your life?
·
How will your success impact the
lives of your community?
Your success doesn’t just affect you, so keep that in
mind when you want to throw in the towel. Having a mindset of a champion, where
failure is not an option, is necessary when you are positioning yourself for
success.
July 23, 2012
Setting Effective Goals..
One of the most important things that you will
need to possess is the ability to set effective goals. As you work towards your success
breakthrough, setting goals will be critical for keeping you focused and on
track to succeed. When creating goals there are a few things that you should
consider.
First, your goals should be very clear and
include specific metrics of success.
Let’s say that you want Financial Success and you defined that as being
able to pay off your debt and have enough money to purchase a car in cash. Based off of this, your goal should indicate
how much money you will need to save to pay off your debt and purchase your
car. If you don’t have a clear number in mind, how will know how well you are
doing to reach your goal. More importantly, how will you know when you have
reached your goal?
Next, you want your goal to have a time
limit. When you put a date or a time
limit on a goal it automatically puts a sense of urgency with the goal. When I decided to quit my job and start my
own company, I gave myself a date – December 18th, 2009. When I sealed that date into my heart, I
began to work diligently to make sure that I was prepared to actually leave my
job on December 18th and luckily, I was able to. There was an urgency, which prompted me to
take the necessary actions needed and to avoid procrastinating.
Last, you want to make sure that your goal is
challenging. This is important because in order to reach a goal, it will
require you to make certain changes in your life and create new habits in order
to have the success that you desire.
Let’s go back to the financial goal of saving money to pay off your debt
and purchase a new car. For the sake of this example, let’s say that you need
to save $50,000 to achieve your goal.
Yes, it is possible to save this amount of money, but it will require
you to start eliminating some things like eating out and shopping every
weekend. This might be a challenge for you, but it will be necessary to reach
your goal in your allotted time frame that you set for yourself.
This week take some time to write down a few
goals that you want to achieve. Create
three long-term goals that you would like to achieve over the next 3 – 5 years.
Also, create 10 short-term goals that you would like to achieve over the next
18 months. As you create your goals,
make sure that they are specific with a metric for success, include a time
limit, and are challenging.
July 9, 2012
Commit To
Taking Action If You Want Success
In my last article, we
discussed your Personal Mission Success Statement. I like to compare this to
your GPS to help you get to your success breakthrough. Now that you have
a set direction in where you want to go and what you want to achieve, it will
be important to put the actions in place to get you moving. Action is one
of the key differentiators between people who say that want success and those
who actually achieve it. Then I think of successful people, one thing I know
that they all have in common is that they didn’t wait for things to
happen. No, they went out and made it happen by taking action. If
you want success in life, I mean really want success; you have to commit to
taking action and putting in the work that is required. As you begin on
your journey, it may require you to do things that are uncomfortable (but
that’s where success lies – outside your comfort zone) and it will require you
to make sacrifices
Here is a little assignment
that I want you to complete to help jumpstart your action plan. On a
clean sheet of paper, write down your Personal Mission Success Statement on the
top of it. Next, jot down the following action items:
· 3 Things that you should do everyday that will bring you closer to your
success breakthrough
· 3 new habits that you can develop over the next
30 days
· 3 distractions that you need to eliminate that
may prevent you from reaching your success breakthrough
· 3 people that you should speak to once a week that will motivate and
keep you accountable
· 3 people that you should limit communication with because they are
negative and unsupportive
These
action items will help you to start to develop the behaviors that you will need
to reach your success breakthrough. By committing to taking action, you
are putting one step forward to finally having the success that you not only
want, but also that you deserve. Next, article we will take some time to
do a bit of self discovery to identify what you can bring to the table to help
you achieve your success breakthrough!
June 25, 2012
Your Personal Success Mission Statement
Your Personal Success Mission Statement
In the last article
we discussed defining success on your own terms. I think that is such a powerful thing for a
woman to do, because it gives you freedom in charting your own course to
success. Ultimately, it is setting you up to live the life of your dreams. As we continue with the “Position Yourself
For Success” series, I want you to now take time to develop a Personal
Success Mission Statement.
In the same way
that entrepreneurs and corporations create mission statements for their
businesses, I want you to do the same thing for yourself. A mission statement provides a nice guide or
summary of what you want to accomplish.
For example, my mission statement is “Educating, Exposing, and
Empowering people to live a life of passion, power, and purpose.” This is so powerful for me, because it sums
up how I want to live my life everyday.
Education is so important to move forward in life and so I make it an
obligation to create tools, resources, books, and programs based on my areas of
expertise that will help educate people.
Exposure is critical as you grow because it opens you up to new things,
people, and experiences. In my coaching
business, I aim to push my clients to try and do new things and the results
have been amazing for them. Lastly,
empowering people is the key to ensuring that you are making progress in your
journey, especially when obstacles and challenges come your way. Empowered people empower others, so I aim to
empower as many people as I can.
However, the ultimate reward of this mission statement is that it
reminds to live my life in passion, power, and purpose. I can’t expect to help others reach success
breakthroughs in their lives and businesses, if I am not implementing
education, exposure and empowerment in my life.
Your Personal
Success Mission Statement is great because it becomes to be a part of who you
are and how you live your life. It is a
constant reminder of what you should be focusing on and ultimately, it gives
you a keen sense of purpose and responsibility – to yourself, your success, and
to others around you. As you build your
Personal Success Mission Statement, consider the following:
- · What do you want to achieve?
- · How will you get there?
- · Who will help you to get there?
- · How will you know that you have reached success?
The answers to your questions
will help you to create your Personal Success Mission Statement. In the next article, we will put some action
items in place to help move you forward to your success breakthrough!
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