If you've been watching the news lately, you've seen all sorts of coverage on the stock market crash, the housing bubble bursting, the government bailout package, the credit crisis, and the overall recession that we are in.  With all these economic issues occurring, and the uncertainty of the upcoming election and what it means for you and your business, I'm guessing that you're feeling a little uneasy these days. 

As a business coach, I always welcome problems and frustration.  The reason for this is that when these things happen, they are always great opportunities to learn and grow!  In order to be a successful business owner, you have to be constantly learning and growing to be successful.  One of the quick ways to grow is to learn from others.  One of the key things that I have learned that all successful business owners do is this:

Do you find yourself wasting more and more time on e-mail?  While e-mail is a great tool to communicate, it can also be a huge time waster!  You can easily waste hours of time a day reading and responding to unnecessary e-mails.  If you are interested in becoming more effective and efficient with your e-mail communications, follow these simple steps and you can easily double your effectiveness in this area:

I’m going to let you in on a little secret.  If I told you that you could build massive amounts of referrals for your business in 5 minutes a day, right from the comfort of your home office, would you be interested?  Would you like to know how?   

I’m about to show you a way that you can create 520 great relationships with potential clients and referral partners simply by following a simple process that will literally take you 5 minutes a day!   

Here’s my secret:

Have you ever noticed that when you focus your mind on what you don’t want, you almost always attract exactly what you are trying not to?  Since most of us are visual people, the only way to focus on what we don’t want is to actually picture what we don’t want in our minds.  For example, if you tell yourself not to drop something, you have to actually picture yourself dropping it in your mind, and then try to focus on not doing that.  The end result is that your mind doesn’t recognize the fact that you don’t want to drop it, but rather focuses on what you picture in your mind, which is dropping the object, and, of course, that’s exactly what you do! 

To avoid this problem, you have to focus on the positive outcome you want, not the negative one.  In this example, you need to focus on holding onto the object, instead of not dropping it.  So, how do you end this problem once and for all?  Simply remove the following words and phrases from your vocabulary: