Rodney Gainous, Jr.

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Power is defined by Merriam-Webster as the ability to act or produce an effect. What effect are you trying to produce in your life? Are you trying to produce prosperity, happiness, peace or freedom? You should be especially if you are in business for yourself. Everyday you should be trying to build that lifestyle you’ve always dreamed of.

Power is also defined as possession of control, authority, or influence over others. Now if we were to tell the truth, having power over others is important in business. I’m not talking about a dictatorship, repressive type of control but what I am referring to is being in a situation where you’re able to influence people in order to make sales. Sales equals profits and profits equals a happy lifestyle.

Lastly power is defined as physical might. In life you must be able to get things done. You must be out and about making contacts, talking to prospects, giving presentations, conducting teleseminars, and marketing on the Internet. In a nutshell you must go out and do some work. Having power does not entitle you to be successful but using your power properly gets results.

If you have power over your life YOU control things. You are the one who determines how successful you’ll be. You are the one who determines how much money you make. You determine how many people join your business.

What areas in your business are you struggling in? Sit down and do an assessment and see where you’re lacking and what needs improvement. Once you find out what improvements you need, you can gain control. You can have power over that situation because…

Nothing has any power except the power you give it.

So if you give laziness power in your life, it will over take you. If you give excuses power in your life, it will control your outcomes. If you give the television power, you will watch it when you should be doing some personal development. Those things that you don’t want to have power in your life don’t have to. It is totally up to you.

You have control over what runs your life, no one or nothing else.

You have the power! Use it wisely.

To YOUR Success,

Rodney

I was listening to hypnotist Marshall Sylver on a DVD series titled “Power Programming Live” as he talked about the five steps to creating total Self Mastery. It was great! It really answered a lot of questions and gave me a lot of insight.

The five steps are as follows:

Belief

Marshall stated that in order for things to change, we must change.

We can’t expect to keep doing what doesn’t work and expect to get good results. This goes back to the definition if insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

In order to get better results in any area of our lives, we must be willing to change and do things differently. Different actions equal different results.

Personal Programming

The best way for me to explain this is to use the analogy of a computer. A computer only does what we program it to do. A computer will not do any type of calculations unless it has a software program installed that makes it do it calculations.

Same with people. You won’t do what you’re supposed to do unless you program your self to do it. If you want to be good at running a business, you must study, read, work with a mentor or do whatever it takes to program yourself to be good in business. Just saying it will not make it happen so you must take steps to reprogramming yourself for success.

Planning

When I find the need to get back on track, I know I must take some time out and plan. I must get refocused on my goals and write out what I need to do to make it work. If I don’t plan, I’ll be all over the place and I won’t get anything done which is counterproductive.

Planning puts things in black and white and let’s me visualize what I need to do to be successful.

Discipline

This is a tough one for most people. Discipline is defined as a pattern of behavior. If people were more disciplined, they would be so much more successful than they are now. People would set in their minds to do what they needed to do and it would get done. I think this is the core principle to Self Mastery.

Passion

You should be passionate about everything that you do especially if you’re starting your own business. Passion will give you the determination to get up and make things happen. Not because you have to but because you want to. Passion is what makes life fun.

Now that you know what it takes for Self Mastery, go out and make things happen!

To YOUR Success,

Rodney

Today is all about PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

What exactly is personal development?

Personal Development is individual self-development where you have goals, plans or actions oriented towards:

• improving self-knowledge
• developing your strengths or talents
• identifying or improving your potential
• enhancing your lifestyle or the quality of life
• realizing your dreams
• fulfilling your aspirations

In this business we have the opportunity to do great things but we sometimes let ourselves get in the way.

We let our bad attitudes and experiences cloud our minds and therefore don’t succeed. That’s where personal development comes in.

We must be consistently working to improve ourselves in order to be the best that we can be. We must take action daily to reprogram our minds with good information and remove all of the bad stuff.

If you haven’t set your goals for this week, make sure you set a goal where personal development is involved. And then make sure it’s a part of your weekly routine to work on self. Don’t let those dormant talents and skills go to waste. Ignite them, jump start them, give them a boost or whatever you have to do, just do it and get it going.

To YOUR Success,

Rodney