New Peaks

FIRST find a hungry market. THEN decide what product or services that will serve the market best.

Most entrepreneurs focus to much on their own interest and try to find customers that want their products. This is a BIG mistake that puts you on the bottom of an up hill battle to become successful. If you instead look for a demand you will have customers looking for YOUR product. Much easier

You have to take responsible for you own life. To constantly look for excuses or reasons why you can’t have or do something will lock you into that state. To create a new life you will need to take full responsibility for how your life is and come up with an action plan to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be in the next 90 days, next year and in 5 years from now.

We are now one month into 2009. The year that began with you setting yet another set of cookie cutter goals… Committing to stop smoking, loosing weight and make more money. How is it working out?

By now more than 60% of you have put your New Years resolutions to the side. Already being caught up in the same behavior and habits that you had last year. Rationalizing that you have bills to pay, children to tend to and absolutely no time and energy to focus on anything as trivial as a New Years resolution. Don’t despair!!! You are not alone and there is a good reason this happens to you, year after year.

In today’s fast society where instant gratification comes with a click of a button. When a 10 second commercial before an online video drives you absolutely crazy. It is easy to get caught up in the pressure of setting goals on New Years eve. Only to wake up with a slight hangover and the same life facing you as it did before the holidays. A week later you have shaken off the resolutions with a quick notion that; NEXT YEAR! Next year everything is going to be better.

First, know yourself. Many chase dreams that belong to others. Know what makes a happy life for you, and realize that it may be different for others. — Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple

The reason that your resolutions are long gone is that they were not YOURS. You, like most other people, got caught off guard a few minutes before midnight close to panicking. You had no idea what resolutions you were going to make for the next year. You looked around and heard the same familiar chant; Loose weight, stop smoking, more money. So you decided to join in this years chant as you did last year picking one of the three. This is the reason it did not work this year and the reason it will not work next year either. But why?

For you to break the habits and behaviors that has been giving you the life you are currently living you will have to find good enough reasons. Not just loose weight to look better or be healthier, but some REALLY compelling and personal reasons for you to follow through. 5 minutes before midnight on January 31 will not do the trick.

When was the last time you took some quality time to sit down in a peaceful place to ponder what is REALLY important to you? Most of us are so caught up a constant pattern of things that we do not take a time-out for ourselves. Unless you take the time to quietly ponder over your own life, finding out whats really important to YOU. Then you are simply living somebody else’s life, a life designed by commercials and TV ideology. A life that keeps you chasing the latest shampoo and newest car but lacking the core values that will make you feel fulfilled and happy.

You need a written plan of your OWN goals. Running faster in the wrong direction does not get you any closer to where you want to be. When setting goals you have to make sure that they are YOUR goals and that it truly is where YOU want to go.

To improve your life you HAVE to take the time to find your core values and believes. Find what drives you and inspires you. Realize what is really important for you. This does not happen overnight and is a gradual process of which you need spend time with yourself, utilizing both your heart and mind to find out what your new perfect life will be like. During these pondering sessions you will have to completely disconnect from any interruptions, turn off your cell phone, step away from your computer and grab that Do Not Disturb sign.

Once you know what your perfect future will look like you will need to compare it to today. Looking at the future; what will have to happen for it to become reality? What do you have to do today to make it happen? How do you feel when you live your new life 5 year from now? 10 years from now?

Now look at how your life will be 5 years from now if you do not make those changes. How will things be 10 years from now if you have not followed through with the necessary changes? How do you feel? How do people around you feel?

You now what your life today looks like and you know what your future life is going to be like. Write down a list of things that are different. What needs to change for you to have your future life? What do you need to start doing today to create your future life? What do you need to stop doing?

Pick 2 things that you can do TODAY to get closer to your new life. Write down 10 more things that you can do within the next 30 days. And write down 10 core things that needs to change within the next year for you to change your current life and move towards your new life.

Now you know where YOU want to go. You have a reason close to your OWN heart. You are NOW ahead of the 97% of people that does not have a clear personal plan. You are on your way to your new life NOW!