Passive Income Can Be Difficult, How to Make the Most of your Mistakes When Starting a Passive Income Business

When you start any venture it can be difficult, especially when it comes to starting a business where you get passive income.  Passive income is the best kind of income to make but it is difficult at best to achieve.  There is a high failure rate when it comes to making passive income.  Could it be because if the way people handle their failure.  Failure is actually good for success, but we have to be able the handle it and learn from it.

We must examine our failures with an eye toward future success.  Reflective thinking is a way that we can reflect on our failures and push ourselves forward.  We can always get better, and reflective thinking is a way to do that.

Here are five steps to a reflective thinking technique that I found by John Maxwell.

1.    Review, Look back at the events of your past.  Set aside time when you have failed to review what happened.  What caused you to fail and how did you learn from that mistake.

2.    Reflect, Have a place where you can think about what worked and what didn’t.  Examine it in more detail.  What plans worked?  What decision yielded good results?  What decision ended up being wrong?  If I were to approach the situation again, how would I do it differently?

3.    Recover, When things don’t turn out as planned you need time to recover.  Everyone makes mistakes.  Letting yourself feel bad for a short time can motivate you to fix what needs to be fixed.  Don’t stay there though you have to move on.

4.     Rearrange, Get clarity about your priorities.  Now that you have failed, decide which way you should go and start down a new track.

5.    Recharge, Dwelling on the past with an eye toward the future allows you to rebound.  It often reveals the humor in a situation.  Go ahead a laugh at yourself.  Get going again and work toward avoiding previous mistakes.

Reflection can be a time of excitement and creativity.   It’s a chance to brainstorm about the future and what it could be like.  It inspires you t continue improving.  It keeps you progressing as an individual and as a leader.  So reflect on your mistakes just long enough to shape your future in positive ways.  You can become successful in your passive income venture if you just never give up.

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Mental Blocks, Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?

Creative thinking is necessary in many cases.  Whether your trying to solve a tough problem, start a business, or write an article creative thinking is critical.  People need to “think outside the box” when it comes to creative thinking.  We are such creatures of habit.  We don’t like to think differently than others because we don’t want to be thought of as strange or different.  But it’s those strange and different people that make a difference in this world.

Here is a list of 10 metal blocks that will keep you from being creative.

1.    Trying to Find the “right” answer. One of the worst aspects of formal education is we have been taught to find the right answer.  In real life there may be more than one right answer.  Many of us form mental blocks when looking for the right answer when more than one answer is available.

2.    Logical Thinking.  Not only is there more than one right answer, life can be very illogical.  If you are a logical thinker it is a mental block to your creativity.  Think in metaphors and it will help you communicate the illogical things of life.

3.    Following Rules.  Rules are very important at times, but they can also be a destructive force and a mental block to creativity.  People don’t like to think outside the rules.  Many celebrate the rebels of life but few are brave enough to emulate them.

4.    Being Practical.  I am a very practical person.  I will not do something if it doesn’t have a practical use.  This is good sometimes but it can also be a mental block to creativity.  Try to approach a problem with “what if” and go out and do the crazy thing instead of being so practical.

5.    Play is not work.  Allowing your mind to be at play is perhaps the most effective way to stimulate creative thinking.  Most people, however, disassociate play from work.  You’ve heard the expression “work hard and play hard.”  All you have to do as a creative thinker is realize they are the same thing.

6.    That’s no my job.  We live in a very specialized world it is so easy for us to think, “that’s not my job.”  When you are in business for yourself and getting those creative juices flowing everything is your job.

7.    Being a “serious” person.  I am a very serious person.  Sometimes it is a mental block for me.  I get too serious and I’m not able to think.  If you have to take on the persona of a fool to be creative, then do it.

8.    Avoid Ambiguity.  We are all ambiguous to some degree.  However, we want to divide complex situation into black and white boxes.  This can lead to disaster.  It’s an innate characteristic of the human psychology to desire certainty, but it’s the creative thinker who rejects the false comfort of clarity when it’s not really appropriate. 

9.    Being wrong is bad.  Because of the way we are taught in school, we hate being wrong.  Thomas Edison was wrong 1,800 times before getting the light bulb right.  The best thing we can do is learn from our mistakes.  But we let being wrong become a mental block and we don’t learn from the mistakes we make.  Ask yourself, what can happen if I’m wrong?  Not much.  But great things can happen if you dare to be wrong and learn from your mistakes.

10. I’m not creative.  You are denying that you are human if you deny that you are creative.  We’re all limitlessly creative, but only to the extent that we realize it.  Stop telling yourself that you aren’t creative.  It’s a lie.

Of you want to have success in your life you need to overcome the mental blocks that keep you from that success.  Being a creative thinker is one sure way to success.

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Residual Income, 5 Mindset Traps That Derail you From your Success in Making Residual Income

How many of us have tried to make a residual income only to fail?  I know that I have failed so many times.  For the last five years now I have tried to make residual income only to fail.  It isn’t until recently that I discovered the true secret to making residual income from home. 

When it comes to making a passive income you will have several mindset traps that keep you from being successful.  Many of them are just things we tell ourselves that aren’t really true.  They aren’t true but we still tell ourselves these things that keep us from achieving success. 

Here are five mindset traps that will derail us from our success.

1.    Comparison!  We are social animals and we all compare ourselves to others as we seek success.  This is very prevalent now with social media.  We all like to share good things the happen to us on social media.  Whether it’s a business win or something inspiring we want to share it.  This is good in a way because it can inspire you to keep taking action in your life.  In another sense, it can frustrate you for your lack of perceived progress.  Your journey is personal so you can’t measure it against some else’s progress.  Set your own goals and seek to achieve them.

2.    Self-doubt.  Doubt and fear are in each of us.  We all fear failure or looking bad when we make a mistake.  These self-limiting beliefs can easily derail your progress.  You can prove yourself wrong by ignoring the noise and taking action.

3.    Negative people.  You have probably heard that the people you associate with will affect what you believe and what your do.  It’s true.  Negative people can’t see what they are doing to other people.  If you listen to them over and over again it will affect your mindset and attitude.  Cut the negative people out of your life if you want to make progress on your journey to success.

4.    Lack of Inspiration!  The road to success is long and you need constant motivation to keep you focused.  Because of the internet there is an endless supply of inspiration.  There are blogs, podcast, YouTube videos, and much more.  You need to set aside some time each day to get inspired and stay motivated.  This will help with the negative influences and self-limiting beliefs.

5.    Waiting!  We know that we are going to die someday.  We don’t know when that time will be.  All we have is today, right now.  Today is the day to start, to push forward.  Don’t tell yourself that you’ll take action later.  That will not lead to success.  TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW!

The only way to become successful in any residual income business is to get rid of the mindset traps that keep you bound.  Now is the time to change your mindset and get started.

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Blocking Your Potential, What’s Blocking Your Potential as an Entrepreneur?

Do you actually like working for someone else?  So many of us want to break free of the work a day world and go out on our own.  Is that you?  But what is blocking your potential?  What’s keeping your from becoming that great business man or woman and getting that dream that you aspire to?

One of the things that are blocking your potential as a possible entrepreneur is your own attitude.  Let’s face it being out on your own is a very scary thing to do.  You are solely responsible for everything.  That’s a scary thing.  Could it be that the one thing that is blocking your potential is your own thinking?

I worked for a living for many years.  I was told when I was a child that the only way to make it in the world was to work hard.  My parents were ranchers and the hours were long and hard on a ranch.  But they wanted me to go into corporate America.  It was the 1970’s and corporate jobs were in ample supply.  I worked in corporate America and I was very successful at it, but my own mindset poisoned me for achieving the success that I desired in business.

You become a prisoner of your own thoughts.  One of the things that you learn in corporate America is just to do the minimum.  You don’t go out of your way to do any more that exactly what you have to do.  That is the employee mindset.  Check you thinking and see if that’s what is really happening to you?  Is that your way of thinking?

We have to get out of the employee mindset in order to be successful in business.  Here are three clues that you are trapped in an employee mindset.

1.     You resent your clients.  Everyone gets a bad client now and then, but if you resent most of your clients and blame them for your lack of money or success then you need to stop blaming them.  Here’s the issue the problem is you!  Your success is all about the choices you make on a daily basis.  The responsibility is yours.  Here’s the good news, your choices can make you miserable or the can make you happy.  The choice is yours and you can change it.

2.     You lead with the problem.  When someone asks you how you’re doing in business do you start with how bad things are going?  If you have a problem-based dialogue this is a symptom of a greater problem: your mindset.  If you start every conversation with what’s going wrong then you are likely using that problem as an excuse not to be your best.  Whatever the problem is your thinking of right now you need to start with writing down three ways you can improve this problem and ask for help seeing it in a new way.

3.     You long for the days when you were employed.  Do you ever wish for the “good ole days” when you were employed?  Do you long for the security of a regular paycheck and having someone decide when you work, what you do, and how long you do it?  If you spent years wanting out of the job and now you want back there is probably one thing holding you back and that is fear.  The only way to get over the fear is to work your way through it by doing the thing you fear the most. 

You need to take responsibility for you own circumstances and realize that being an entrepreneur means that you are going to have to change your mindset, get over the fear, and just go for it.  You are the one that is blocking your potential, not someone else.

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Worthlessness, Worthlessness is a Limiting Belief that will Kill Your Dreams

Worthlessness, we have all felt worthless at times.  But that feeling of worthlessness will kill your dreams faster than almost any other thing.  This feeling usually comes from our childhood.  We were trying to do something good and someone broke our heart by telling us it wasn’t good enough.  They made us feel like we were not special.  We felt worthless because we could never do anything right.

That was how I always felt as a child.  My dad always made me feel worthless.  I could never do anything right.  I was always a good student but if I came home with a B why wasn’t it an A.  If I had an A there was always something wrong with the paper.  He would search it until he found something wrong with it.  He did that because of feelings of worthlessness that he had.  We can’t give what we don’t have.  My dad only felt worthlessness so that is what he passed on to me.

When we are treated like we are worthless then we get the “I’m not good enough” feelings that re-emerge all the time.  Luis Haye said, “The roots of our problems in life are contained in the feeling that I’m not good enough.”  The outcome of telling yourself that story is that after you join an opportunity of network marketing company at the first sign of rejection or disapproval, you out of there.  All of those feelings of worthlessness come back and a rejection just fuels the feeling of “I’m not good enough.”

What can you do to overcome the feeling of worthlessness?  You have to put an end to this feeling altogether.  The belief that “I’m not good enough” is a lie.  When you were born you didn’t have any opinion about yourself or anything else.  You were conditioned by your parents and your environment to believe one thing.  They were conditioned by their parents and environment to believe the thing they passed on to you.  You can break the cycle.

If you can learn one thing, you can unlearn it and believe something else. You can unlearn that belief so that you can grow beyond the belief system you currently hold.  Change you beliefs and change your life.

 You do that by getting over your fear of rejection.  You get over your fear of rejection by not allowing the fear to rule you.  You need to lean into the fear.  That means you do the thing that you are afraid of.  Courage is not the absence of fear.  Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.  If you are afraid to talk to someone then go talk to him or her.  If you are afraid to get up on stage then do it anyway.  Lean into the fear and you will overcome the fear and the feeling of worthlessness.

In order to become a success we need to get over the feelings of worthlessness we tell ourselves on a daily basis. I am taking 10 people on the journey of a lifetime into world of residual income.  If you want to see if you qualify for this journey go to www.incredibletransformation.com, give us your information so we can see if you qualify.

Helplessness and Fear, How Helplessness and Fear Keep us from our Victory

Helplessness and fear are two things that keep us in a cycle of failure and defeat.  We all have fears that keep us from achieving the success that we were born to achieve.  Most of our fears lead to helplessness that we think we can’t overcome.  It’s a cycle called the FHF cycle and here is how it works.

Have you ever told yourself that you don’t have the ability, you’re not smart enough, talented enough, don’t know enough people, or don’t know the right people.  All of these limiting beliefs lead to failure when it comes to an opportunity to be successful.

You join an opportunity and once you run into an obstacle you quit because you allow your self-doubts and fears to overcome you.  Then you use the same old excuses that everyone else uses.  I can’t do this because my friend tried that and failed.  I can’t because it’s a scam or I can’t because I haven’t got the skill and no one showed me the skill.  All excuses.

So how do you overcome these excuses?  You have to draw a line in the sand and just start doing the thing that you are afraid of.  I was terrified of cold calling for many years.  I would not pick up the phone, but now I do it all the time.  I still have fear but I have learned how to lean into the fear and take it on head on.  The first four or five people that I call I might mess up because I am afraid but after that I become confident and then I get over the fear as I call more and more people.

You have to take action steps if you are afraid of talking to new people.  Write out the action daily. 

·      ACTION:  I will call 100 people today

·      ACTION:  I will write on article a day for the next five days.

·      ACTION:  I will connect with people at the party when I used to shrink back.

After you have the action then you need to set another goal so you don’t procrastinate.  What is your goal for calling 100 people every day.  Is it to get 20 people into your business?  What is it?  Stop putting it off, become focused and start doing it. 

How many hours a day will you spend on building your business?  That is what gets you totally focused.  You need to set hours in you home based business.  Make it like a job.  So many people say, make it like a business, but you need to make it like a job and have office hours.

You need to lean into the fear.  If you fear doing something like cold calling, contacting people, or talking with them, you need to just do it.  Draw a line in the sand and just do it.  This will get you over the feelings of fear and hopelessness that you may have. 

In order to become a success we need to get over fear and helplessness we tell ourselves on a daily basis. I am taking 10 people on the journey of a lifetime into world of residual income.  If you want to see if you qualify for this journey go to www.incredibletransformation.com, give us your information so we can see if you qualify.

Limiting Beliefs, Shocking Story, Limiting Beliefs are Killing Your Success

What are limiting beliefs?  They are the stories that you tell yourself over and over again that keep you from being successful.  What do you tell yourself?  I know I have told myself many things over the years that have kept me from being a success.  I was never raised around successful people so I never became a real success.  

My parents were hard working people, just not successful in business.  They taught me one thing and that was to work hard.  Work hard and you will have a good life is what they always said.  Hard work is definitely a great quality to possess, but there is more to it than that.  You have to have a belief system that will allow you to be successful in whatever you do.

What is one of the limiting beliefs that kill our success?  It’s called hopelessness.  Hopelessness is when you say to yourself “it won’t happen for me.”  Then you don’t even try because you think that there is no reason to try.  Perhaps this is for someone else but it isn’t for me.  

Here’s what happens when you have the limiting belief of hopelessness.  You get excited about an opportunity or adventure but you don’t join because you start to make excuses.  You say to yourself “this worked for other people, but it won’t work for me.”  Or you say “my neighbor got involved in this opportunity and it didn’t work for him so it won’t work for me!”  That is what fuels you. 

These excuses become limiting beliefs that keep you from joining a great opportunity or business.  These excuses are what your fear has sold you on so that you won’t join an opportunity or become a part of something that would absolutely change your life. 

How do you eliminate the limiting belief of hopelessness?  You do it by feeding your brain with positive things.  We are sold the fact that the world is dangerous, everyone is out to get us, the economy is tough, politics are corrupt.  That is what the media and the press try and tell us.  That will limit our ability to be successful.

In order to be successful we need to tell ourselves a different story.  We need to fill our thoughts with positive things in what we put into our lives, what we read, what we listen to and whom we hang out with.  We are the five people we hang out with.  That is what we are told and I believe it to be true.

In order to become a success we need to get over the limiting beliefs we tell ourselves on a daily basis. I am taking 10 people on the journey of a lifetime into world of residual income.  If you want to see if you qualify for this journey go to www.incredibletransformation.com, give us your information so we can see if you qualify.