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The Art of Life’s Experiential Learning: 15 Tips for Creating Success + Leadership
By Tara Connell

“Your experience need not be first hand, to glean monumental inroads to learning, success and leadership.  It’s about taking mental notes, fierce planning, loss of fear and simply executing.” – Tara Correll

Tips for success: the tried +  the true… In no particular order.

Proximity = speed:  Seek out life mentors and draw from their wisdom.  Study the habits that have led them to success: how do they do what they do? What makes what they do so seemingly effortless?  Ultimately, with the right tools, hard work + habits, you will achieve your goals more expeditiously.

Model who you admire: There are great people in the world that possess positive qualities you may lack: study, exemplify and embody those qualities that feel authentic and work for you.

Charisma is an inherent quality that leaders are born with:  Sorry, it’s not a skill that’s learned. Without naming names (His Holiness, the 14th Dahli Lama) charisma is an inherent gift. Those magnetic individuals who embody this quality attract followers and fans. You charismatic people know who you are, so please use responsibly.

Who’s on your board?: Your posse, your tribe, “your people”, identify exactly who they are. They are the trusted folks you defer to + surround yourself with. They will lovingly give you the real scoop, the skinny + the what’s what, but only if you ask. Side note  :: They sometimes are not your close friends or family.

With every challenge, there’s a solution: Feeling a bit “stuck”?  Reach out to individuals who are getting things done, ask questions. BUT, know their time is valuable; offer to pay them a consultation fee, take them to coffee or lunch in exchange for their valuable expertise.

Be a student of life:  Life is a classroom. There are opportunities for learning everywhere, everyday: be open to and conscious of what life presents. This includes personal adversity with people and situations. See it as gift from the universe created especially for your growth.  Decipher + extract what’s to be learned, apply it and let it go. If it doesn’t make sense, it will later. Promise.

Practice proactive listening:  As individuals we have lessons to learn and skills to acquire.  I’m a huge fan of the “shut up, listen and learn” approach.  Take notes, enough said. BTW: I am still working on this one.

Get clear about personal goals:  Be realistic about what you set out to do, define expected outcome. Be systematic and clear about each action you take. Break tasks into small “doable” parts, stay on task.

Define what success means to you:  How do you measure personal success?  Are you money motivated?  Love worthwhile causes? Require quality personal time?  Get straight on your priorities.  Define + create measureable benchmarks so you have a continual, quantifiable sense of accomplishment, whatever it may be.

Let go of tired inner + outer dialogue: Words + thoughts hold power. Let go of negativity and criticism toward others and self loathing toward yourself.  Know that this behavior can create barriers to your ultimate success. Instead, practice using language that’s positive and nurturing. Who wants to be around someone who sucks the life out a room?  Tip :: Take an inventory of the people in your life, positive people foster a healthy environment.

Don’t kick the tires in the name of perfection: Opportunity can be fleeting, better to have leaped and held on for dear life, than risk a missed opportunity. Please, when passionately pursuing your dream, go for it!  If it’s meant to be, it will all play out favorably, it’s all a part of the learning curve. Believe me, I know firsthand.

Listen to your inner voice: Aka “your gut instinct”. It’s there for a reason: so listen + take heed. It’ll save you time and keep you from taking an unfavorable detour.

Stay focused, stay flexible:  Progress is not always sequential, learn to be flexible and reprioritize if you hit a roadblock. Accept that as much as we wish to push forward, sometimes now is not the time.

Lead with your authentic voice, true intention + be clear about your motivation:  If intention is King, then motivation is Queen. The universal law of attraction rewards authentic thought and action i.e.; if you’re doing what you are truly meant to do, in the manner you’re meant to do it, they’ll be lots more success + rewards coming your way.

Be a champion for others:  Successful people give back: help without hesitation. Money, time, knowledge – offer up your talent + resources, help others better themselves.

For one-on-one coaching, as well as workshops, please visit my coaching page here:  www.SeeNoColor.org

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: My name is Tara Correll I am a Certified Empowerment (Life) Coach, Social Activist, Wife and Mother. Like many of you, my life’s journey has taken plenty of round-a-bout routes, loaded with twists and turns. All seemingly accidental but deliberate for certain: as we’re aware, there’s no such thing as accidents. My prior work experience in the business world was something I mastered, it was part of my growth: working with and for fortune 500 companies: selling, training, marketing and the like.

My life has come full circle, I’ve finally + authentically returned to the source of who I am and the person I was meant to be. I’ve created a unique entrepreneurial business model that is multi-tiered and multi-layered; one branch that allows me to make a living through my passion for coaching. The other: social justice and advocating for the underrepresented. My site: www.SeeNoColor.org.

I hope my story will inspire you, as I will continue to look to you for inspiration.

Social Networking: Are You Really Doing It Effectively?
By Katrina Sawa

Are You Ready to Stop Wasting Time on Social Media Sites and Finally PROFIT From Your Efforts??   

Here are some common mistakes I see people making on their social profiles and websites:

1. You've been told that you want to automate everything you can and only spend 15-30 minutes a day on your social media marketing

2. You're using Hootsuite, or a similar platform, to update pretty much everything on all the sites you're participating on

3. You're not mixing your business pages and posts with your personal pages and posts

4. You're sending more than 2-3 mass update emails to your friends or fans per month

5. You have profiles up on many different sites but you hardly ever go on them or interact

6. You are listening to social media experts out there who are telling you to do things a certain way but they aren't even making money from the strategies they suggest.

Are you making any of these? If so, you may want to pay attention. As a very successful business and marketing coach who has been on these sites pretty much since their popularity became mainstream, I teach a very different approach to social media marketing than many of the so-called experts out there. And let me preface this by saying that my Social Media Messaging System brings in new clients for me and for almost every client who uses it every month.

What you want to do on your social media sites and how I teach it is to treat your social sites like a real networking event. (hence the term social networking!)

You wouldn't walk into a room full of friends or strangers at a networking event and just throw them a flyer in their face of your upcoming event or teleclass, would you? Yet that's what so many people are doing online - throwing info at people. What you want to do is spark up a conversation online with someone just like you would in person at a networking event.

At a networking event you would ask them questions, find out what they do and dig a little deeper to find out if or how the two of you could connect right? (At least I hope that's what you'd do!) You want to do the same thing online as well... BUT that takes a ton of time right?

Yes it does. But if it gets new clients just as easy as networking - wouldn't it make sense that you'd want to spend MORE time doing it, not less? And it's FREE!

The key is though to have templates and systems to make this easier and quicker to accomplish.  You need to know how to reach the number of people you really need to reach out to online however in order to make the numbers work and you to actually get a good amount of people to have a conversation with. I recommend interacting with 250 NEW potential prospects every week - YES, every week!

This is why it's important that you have a pre-written template of what to say, a system on how to connect with that many and even delegate this initial task so that you can concentrate only on the responses when they come.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Katrina Sawa is an Award-Winning Author & Speaker who's helped hundreds of small business owners take dramatic steps in their businesses to get them to the next level in business, revenues & their personal life. Click Here to Get her Free Entrepreneur's Success Kit

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