An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Lifestyle Freedom: Episode 27

To be quite frank, nothing frustrates me more than a leader who cannot make a decision to act. With that being said, the fifth Unemployed Millionaire Leadership Law is: Be a strong decision maker.

Theodore Roosevelt once said: “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”

Managers are  often concerned with doing things right.  Too many managers focus on analyzing every decision to the nth degree and continually miss opportunities because they were simply too slow to act….

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Lifestyle Freedom: Episode 26

Another cardinal rule in leadership is that “the speed of the group is determined by the speed of the leader.” A manager tells others how to do it and sits back and watches. A leader shows people how to do it and sets the example.

To set the right example for your organization you must take the lead!

Early on in my career, I learned this law the hard way…

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Lifestyle Freedom: Episode 25

One characteristic of truly great leaders is that they have an unyielding positive attitude toward the success of their organization.

Have you ever heard this statement: “50% of your success is attitude. The other 50% is attitude.”?

Well, I can promise you that it’s absolutely true…

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Lifestyle Freedom: Episode 24

Over the years, I’ve learned that great leaders are not only comfortable sharing their vision, their passion overflows and spills out to others in such a way that everyone they share their vision with can’t wait to be a part of it. When you share your passion, you transfer that passion to others and inspire them to be part of something that makes them feel good about themselves.

So Leadership Law 2 is Convey an Inspiring Vision. The first step is to create a vision for all facets of your life (your company, your family, everything)… A vision doesn’t have to be strictly related to your business. I’ve created a vision for my family as well because I strongly believe that families rise and fall based on leadership…

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Lifestyle Freedom: Episode 23

Big dreamers inspire others to dream big so the first law of leadership is: Have a Dream Larger Than Those You Lead. A leader has to be comfortable communicating his or her dreams through the power of emotional intelligence – the ability to transfer emotion to your organization.

People are propelled to action by the height of your passion and inspiration. Most people want to be more than they are and they look for a leader who has a passion for greatness that will inspire them to greatness…

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Lifestyle Freedom: Episode 22

Over the last 14 years of my entrepreneurial career, I’ve built several million-dollar companies and lead well over 100,000 independent salespeople. I say this not to impress you, but to impress upon you just how many leaders I’ve been surrounded with over the last decade.

One thing I know for sure is that you don’t become successful before you become a great leader. You reap the benefits of success after you’ve already become a great leader.  If you’re really serious about reaching new levels of success, I can’t stress enough the importance of developing the leader within you first…

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Yesterday, I introduced a brand new Unemployed Millionaire Blog series on leadership a.k.a. The Secret Character Trait of the World’s Most Powerful People.

Let’s briefly revisit the final portion of yesterday’s post, Understanding How Others Perceive Leadership. How do leaders instantly project the  type of confidence that everyone around them can feel?

It’s all in the way a leader greets someone, their voice, their posture, their facial expressions, and of course, their wrapping…

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You may be the most talented, the most skilled, and the most educated person in the world, but the pinnacle of what you can ultimately accomplish is limited by what you can personally do and achieve every day.

The skill that will greatly multiply your success, and the success of those around you, is… Leadership!

The amount of success you’ll experience is largely determined by your ability to lead and influence others. Since leadership is such an imperative Unemployed Millionaire skill, I’m dedicating nine Unemployed Millionaire Blog posts to a series on leadership starting now….

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Motivational Monday #18

With everything that’s going on in the world today, it’s so easy to begin to think “I am just one person so how can I really do anything to change this world for the better?”

Most people decide early on that as just one person, they really can’t do anything that will make a real impact on the world and they quit dreaming of how they can change the world (or in many cases, they quit dreaming all together!)

Unfortunately, what most people forget is that change in this world actually begins with just one person….

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Many of you reading this may already have a business or at least an idea of what type of business you’d like to start in the future.

If you’ve read Chapter 8 of The Unemployed Millionaire,  then you already know that I actually had no idea what business I wanted to start when I first began my career as an entrepreneur… All I knew initially, was that I wanted to be in business for myself!

Soon after deciding that I wanted to be in business for myself, I determined that I would start an Internet marketing business for my first entrepreneurial venture. Keep in mind, I had absolutely zero experience with Internet marketing… Honestly, I had never sold anything online – let alone a product I personally developed.

I chose internet marketing as my first entrepreneurial venture because it was something that interested me and excited me!

I didn’t mind working the extra hours or making the sacrifices necessary to reach success as an entrepreneur because I loved Internet marketing!

One of my favorite things about my first mentor, Wayne Nugent, is that he lives his life by cliches. One of the cliches he always says is “When work is a pleasure, life is a joy.”

I couldn’t agree more! The first key to success as an entrepreneur is definitely choosing to start your business based on something that interests and excites you.

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