10 Secrets to Motivating Yourself to Great Accomplishments

Written by Ed Sykes


10 Secrets to Motivating Yourself to Great Accomplishments by Ed Sykes ©2004

1. Positive Affirmations Our subconscious mind is a wonderful tool for success or failure. It will do what we tell it to do. It all depends on what thoughts we feed it. So why not feed your inner mind with only positive thoughts. The following are some examples of positive affirmations you can feed your inner mind for success:

* “Today, I will win because I have faith, courage and enthusiasm.” * “I see failure only as a signpost on my road to success.” * “When I feel stress, I will relax and release my stress before I take on my next task.” * “I always write down my priorities, thinking of my responsibilities. I may not get everything done, but I will dorepparttar most productive thing possible at every given moment.” * “I am a winner, I work for a winning organization, and because of my contribution and cooperation we will keep on winning.” * “Today, I will see opportunity in every challenge offered to me.”

2. Positive Language Recent research has come out that 75% of daily conversation is negative. Whether it isrepparttar 103896 words we use orrepparttar 103897 body language, we need to communicate in a positive manner allrepparttar 103898 time.

The following are some examples of how you can turn negative words into positive communication:

* Instead of saying “problem,” call it “opportunity.” * Instead of an action being a “failure,” describe it as a “learning experience.” * Instead of “I have to,” say “I choose to.” This gives control for your actions back to you. * Instead of saying, “There’s nothing I can do,” say, “Let’s look at our alternatives.” * Instead of saying, “That’s justrepparttar 103899 way I am,” say, “I choose a different approach.” * Instead of saying, “He makes me so mad,” say, “I control my own feelings.”

If you notice, by usingrepparttar 103900 positive response, you have control over your actions and life.

3. Exercise A Gallup survey foundrepparttar 103901 following among men and women who have taken up exercise recently:

* 66 percent report a more relaxed life * 62 percent a new surge of energy * 55 percent less stress * 51 percent better looks * 46 percent more confidence * 45 percent better love life * 44 percent greater job satisfaction * 37 percent more creative on their jobs

These are great motivators to exercise! Next time you feel demotivated, give your body a workout. Recent research reports that as little as fifteen minutes three times a week has profound effects. Get moving. Get motivated.

4. Take Risks We all live our lives in comforts zones, avoiding risky situations, avoidingrepparttar 103902 potential to fail. It’s real safe for us. But in order to get ahead of your competition and masterrepparttar 103903 ongoing change in your life, you must go out of your comfort zone. Start one step at a time. Try that little new thing, that different approach. It could be as simple as taking different routes to and from work. Once in a while I like to “takerepparttar 103904 road less traveled” to stir up my creative juices. Then, keep stepping out of your zone. It may seem uncomfortable at first. Butrepparttar 103905 more you do it,repparttar 103906 more it will seem natural and you will see an increase in your creative juices and opportunities you never thought about before.

5. Positive Reading Read aboutrepparttar 103907 lives of successful people. Make sure you read only those people that embracerepparttar 103908 timeless values that make them truly successful throughrepparttar 103909 ages. Notrepparttar 103910 “success today, scandal tomorrow” success stories that we are experiencing today. People like Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, Fred Smith of Federal Express, Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are good examples. These are people who overcame enormous challenges, created real value for others, or changed other people’s lives forrepparttar 103911 better. 6. Positive Visualizations Condition yourself to paint your vision for success. One ofrepparttar 103912 best ways to do this isrepparttar 103913 following:

* Go to a quiet place in your home or elsewhere. Turn off all radios, televisions, etc. * Find a comfortable chair and get into a relaxed state of mind. * Start thinking about one goal you want to accomplish. Remember, visualize as if you are already accomplishing this goal. * Visualize taking allrepparttar 103914 necessary steps to successfully complete these goals. The better your visualization, where you can actually see, feel, hear, and touch your vision,repparttar 103915 more real it is to you. * Visualize any challenges to your successful completion of this goal and how you will eliminate this challenges. * Visualize how good it feels to complete this goal. Visualize what benefits it will bring to you, your family, friends, co-workers, etc. Enjoyrepparttar 103916 moment!

How Do I Improve My Web Site Conversion Rate? Part 1

Written by Steve Jackson


In a recent teleconference, I was asked a number of questions about specific problems people were having and what I would do if I were in their position. This isrepparttar first article in a 3 part series that we'll publish overrepparttar 103895 next few weeks. It will answer specific queries fromrepparttar 103896 teleconference, inrepparttar 103897 belief thatrepparttar 103898 answers will also help you to solve some of your issues.

Question1. What do you mean by conversion? Do you mean getting someone to answerrepparttar 103899 simplest call to action such as "read more here" or actually selling a product or service?

What you're talking about here are two different ways to measure your website. "Read More Here" is what I would call a variable affecting your conversion rate. I call these kinds of variables "Micro Conversions" because they are all small (microscopic even) steps toward a full conversion. A micro conversion is something that you should test and measure. "Read More Here" might get a worse click-through rate than "Click here to find out how to win a month's supply of vintage wine." So by improving this click through, you getrepparttar 103900 person browsing to take another small step toward your final website goal. By doing this, you improve your overall conversion rate, which in this case is to get someone to register or subscribe to win a month's supply of vintage wine. Micro conversions can be tracked by measuringrepparttar 103901 click through of links, orrepparttar 103902 read time for content, orrepparttar 103903 bounce rate for headlines and copy. Full conversion is persuading your visitors to do what you want them to do. In my example, it would be registering to win wine, but it could be subscribe to a newsletter, download an audio file, buy a product, sell a service or whatever, but it should reflect what your website's business objective is.

Question2. What strategies would you suggest when there is no "online" conversion possible? I need them to call me for more info, to learn more and to eventually give them a proposal.

There is no such thing as "no online conversion". You're looking for leads who will eventually phone you butrepparttar 103904 visitor isrepparttar 103905 one withrepparttar 103906 power. If you don't give your visitors a reason to let you continue to have a dialog with them, then they won't. Using opt-in is one answer. If, for instance, you ask for a name, email address and telephone number from your visitor so that he can then get useful information from you inrepparttar 103907 form of a free report or audio file, you do two things. First, you qualifyrepparttar 103908 visitor as someone who is interested in your services, and second, you get permission to contact him/her again. You need to build into your website a powerful reason for your visitors to give you permission to email or talk to them rather than expect someone to pick uprepparttar 103909 phone. In your case, you say they need to ring you to learn more. Put what they need to learn into some form that they can opt in to get, such as a white paper, report or audio file. Then you have a conversion rate that isrepparttar 103910 percentage of people who give you permission to continuerepparttar 103911 dialog with them by giving you their email address or phone number so that they can learn more about your offering. People visit a website to get information, so give themrepparttar 103912 means to get it.

Question3. What ifrepparttar 103913 product you sell is also sold by several others on other websites? How do you get someone who is browsingrepparttar 103914 Internet to notice your site and want to order from you?

In offline marketing, a successful tactic is differentiation. It's no different online. If you stand out from your competition, then you get noticed. What makes you different (not necessarily better, just different) from your competition? A USP makes an enormous difference to conversion rates. We improved subscriptions by 11% per month for six months by differentiating ourselves. The second point is that your site should be of use to your visitor. The one thing that all people online have in common is that when they browse they are looking for information. So give your visitors what they want inrepparttar 103915 form of education. If your potential customers become educated about your offer and take away something useful from your website, they will remember you over your competition.

Question4. How do you getrepparttar 103916 address, telephone number and name ofrepparttar 103917 owner of any company that you're trying to get in touch with to see if they would be interested in what you sell?

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