We are often trapped exactly where we don’t want to be simply because we fail to take a decision. We are told to do our research and figure out the best path before moving on. Is that research stopping us in our tracks?

I am not advising anyone to put their research aside. We all need some research to figure out what to do next, to figure out how to proceed to the next step towards our success. But for the majority of people, that same research keeps them exactly where they don’t want to be.

When we are forced with a decision, any decision, we have 3 choices. We either take action right away. Analyse the situation or do absolutely nothing about it. Take a look around you, at all those successful people. What is the one choice they take almost everytime? It is the same for all the successful companies.

I read a story about Michael Eisner a few weeks back. Michael took over the title of CEO at Disney when the company was struggling. It was only worth 2 billion dollars at the time. After only 15 years, it climbed to 100 billion. He took action rather than analyse forever. Only a couple of years after he had joined the company, the executives were contemplating opening retail stores to sell Disney products. It was a long debate and a much divided team of executives. Eventually, Mr. Eisner decided to just open 1 store in a mall for a short period of time. He stopped analysing and he acted.

What Mr. Eisner did is weigh the positive and the negative. If this idea worked, they stood a chance to make millions. But if it failed, the only loss was a bit of time and the cost of one store, which is not much for a huge corporation like Disney. The positive highly outweighed the negative. We tend to over analyse and research more than we need to in life and business. While we analyse, our research keeps us exactly where we are, which is usually not where we want to be. If it was, we would not consider change.

Research is good, but when you think about it for a few minutes and start balancing the plusses and the minuses, in most cases we act faster. Do enough research to get you started and act right away. Learn and analyse as you are going ahead with your decisions and adjust along the way. The best research Mr. Eisner did in this case is to open a store and learn from the results. Of course we all know those results are great. Disney now has over 250 million people visiting and buying in those stores every year. What would be the results of analysing more in the boardroom?

Here is another example. I have readers of our newsletter for new marketers who, after months of following, are still stuck at the start position. They are still analysing the process, saving all the articles for future use, gathering information. All these free steps could be started right away and those actions will give results. But instead, they will gather up information and do their research which stops them in their tracks and they are not progressing. Aside from a bit of time, they have nothing to lose, but what they can gain is much bigger.

Before we do research on the steps to use to achieve success, before we do research on whether an idea is great or not, lucrative or not, we must analise the plusses and the minuses. What have you got to gain by acting right away? What have you got to loses? And maybe our decisions to act faster won’t prevent our success from happening.

Stephane is now retired and helping new marketer get started online and get the Freedom of not having to work anymore.

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We never totally put a full stop to the silent conversations that regularly go on inside the mind. What we think about the most also determines how we think, and then we proceed accordingly.

If you teach your mind to think optimistic then it will do so and vice a versa.

How you think about things is your mindset, and your thoughts in turn influence how you can influence your mind. Our mindset is developed right from childhood hence our upbringing and schooling can play a key role in this.

If you are an optimist, then carry on watering the feelings and thoughts, whereas if you tend to be a pessimistic person, it’s time for you to modify your mindset.

Here are 5 ways you can use to help adjust your mindset…

1: Read Inspiring Books

A person whose mind is continuously engaged in constructive thoughts and ideas will find it hard to even think negative. A well-chosen book always encourages a person to think positive as the conclusions always have morals (hidden or apparent) attached.

If the book is filled with encouraging ideas we tend to store some of them in mind. A person possessing negative feelings towards success ought to always pick a good positive and inspiring book to read.

Here is a great book to start with power of the mind

2: Use Affirmations

Affirmations are things that you say, believe and feel. Affirmations are used to annihilate bad habits, stay focused on your goals and also speed up the process of achieving your set goals. Affirmations, that are encouraging in every aspect, can produce great change in your mindset as a result changing your life.

This can be used as an helpful tool to activate feelings within you and inspire your mind.

Here are some motivational mind power videos.

3: Spend Time With Your Family And Friends

Always spend some time with your near and dear ones and also the people whom you look up to the most. Their expectations from you can influence your thinking and therefore help you to witness the world in a different light.

4: Meditate

Stress is a everyday subject in today’s world, and can also create blunders if you do not make attempts to eliminate it. Inferiority complexes and other psychological problems follow stress, which in the long run obstruct the passageway of positive thinking.

Meditation is a good solution for this. Meditation can be performed at any time of the day in solitude and will not only make you feel stress-free, but also help you to think positive.

5: Always Practice Your Skills

Recognize your effectiveness and skills and continuously try to make work of these skills. Put into practice your skills to improve your self-belief. This activity will not only help to sharpen your skills but will also increase your self confidence.

Anyone of these 5 can be used as a powerful tool for changing the way you think about things and this in turn will help to change your mindset.

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Breaking The Restricted Thinking Process

Restrictive thinking is so widely spread among the human race, that it is seen by many as a natural way of thinking.  As a matter of fact, people who are not affected by it may seem strange to the people who are.

A very good friend of mine had an extreme talent as a tailor.  she could saw the most beautiful garments you’d ever seen.  Yet, every time  would tell her that she could have her own business and make a fortune with it, she would say that she couldn’t for some kind of reasons.  She kept on making money for her boss until she retired.

Her thinking was so restricted that she would almost convince me that she really couldn’t own her own business.  Of course, I know now that she could.  However, because she thought that she couldn’t, that strong thought of hers manifested in her reality.

Your successes or failures are brought about by your way of thinking.  In turn those thoughts become the driving force of your actions.  Restricted thinking leads to restricted actions.  Restricted actions lead to restricted success or even complete failure.

If you accept your limitations so strongly, you will make them valid.  Therefore, your actions will be based on that restricted belief.  That is why so many people live a life of limitation.  Their life is as restricted as their thinking.

On the other hand, many people who have understood the thought process and how it is directly linked to their life, have been able to overcome enormous challenges and come out victorious.

Those people are the ones able to turn a bad situation into a good one.  Those people are the ones able to overcome all the odds that were against them.  They are usually the people that restricted thinking folks call “lucky”, because they are completely unaware and so foreign of the power of thoughts, and the attitude of “knowing that you can”.  This is a powerful way of thinking, which could carry you to the fulfillment of your dreams and live a satisfying life.

Those people that the masses like to call lucky, are not any luckier then anyone else is.  They just have been able to break through their restrictive thinking, and learn how to think in order to get what they want in life.

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