Bill Britt – Brilliant or Bogus?

No matter what you’ve heard about Amway Global, it’s impossible to deny that Bill Britt has created one of the most successful MLM home business careers in the history of this company. Britt’s name is synonymous with MLM stardom.

Through adversity and controversy, Bill Britt is brilliant at what he does. Born in North Carolina the oldest of eight children, Bill Britt rose from early family challenges to earning an advanced degree in public administration, serving in Korea and holding a full time position as a City Manager. A man of guts and clarity, Bill soon realized that the financial efforts of a single man could only go so far and he wanted more. With his eye on the prize, he decided to go for the gold: Show me the money! was his mantra. Choosing to leave the 9 to 5 job grind in hopes of building a more lucrative entrepreneurial business, he borrowed $10,000 for his first venture. It turned out to be a scam and left him disillusioned and in debt.

Still reeling with disappointment, Britt was soon introduced to a another compensation plan based on how hard he was willing to work. Reluctant to try again, he investigated the new MLM home business and determined he would have the potential to be highly compensated for his efforts.

This rest is network marketing history.

Bill Britt seized the new opportunity of the 60s and 70s and utilized traditional marketing techniques such as Home Meetings, Saturday Trainings and Hotel Meetings to develop a legendary empire, and build a dedicated and loyal MLM downline team of distributors.

His driving work ethic and captivating personality helped him amass a fortune in the network marketing industry over 30 years, with over 90% of his income derived from the sale of books, CD’s, tapes, and personal development tools, etc.

The Mission on his website suggests that the best method for achieving success is to walk in the footsteps of those who are already where you want to be in life.

But how many of us can duplicate Bill Britt?
Duplicating Bill Britt’s MLM Success

It’s a valid question. Most of us know folks who’ve struggled with the more traditional business building techniques and failed miserably. Starting in 2004, I toiled daily for 2 years and bombed in Quixtar while working like crazy. I did weekly presentations and meetings and it just didn’t work for me like it did for some in the 1970s. Out of disappointment, I quit the Amway business and found a great new way to approach MLM home business building, plus a user friendly company with a compensation plan designed to help regular folks like me make money.

My new results have been nothing short of phenomenal.

Regardless of what you think about Amway, Bill Britt taught me to never give up on my MLM home business. There’s much to learn from his accomplishments and he’ll always be an industry legend.

If 2010 is the year you’re ready to take massive action to succeed, I’ve worked with a great leader. His name is Drew Berman. He teaches the best of the old and the best of the new – high tech and high touch – and makes it work in today’s economy.

Drew is the right leader, with the right tools, at the right time. He’s an expert in showing folks how to create six and seven figure legacy fortunes. If I can do it, you can, too.

Don’t give up! Take massive action in the New Year. Just like Bill Britt, you can do it!

Contributed by Stephanie Weems.

After reading Jordan Adler’s book Beach Money, I felt inspired enough to write a quick overview of the book and also a few words about the author. I also realized how similar Jordan Adler is to my own success coach and personal mentor, Drew Berman. Many of Jordan’s views and strategies are reflected in Drew’s teachings and all have served to educate and inspire me to set my success bar high and achieve that goal.

Beach Money is a book that, in a broad scope, offers advice about MLM marketing especially geared toward the newcomer and the inexperienced. Jordan starts by taking the reader through the experiences of his early years in the network marketing industry. He started from basically a bare bones place in his life, proceeded through the trials and errors of researching and learning, and eventually mastered and perfected his own “system” of MLM success. Here is an average guy who joined and worked in over ten different network marketing companies, only to find failure after failure, before finally joining his twelfth company.

Realizing what he had been doing wrong, he was able to create and build a very effective and successful MLM marketing strategy that wound up taking him to an elite level in his company and in his industry. Many of the examples of his experiences in very real terms resonated with me and caused small mental barriers (some I was not even aware existed) to finally be broken down. Confidence building was one of the biggest rewards I received from this book and the reminder that in order to build a successful business in the network marketing industry you must be keenly aware of who your prospects are and of the extreme importance of the relationship that you build with them.

There are a few inspirational quotes that I would like to share with you from Jordan Adler that go hand in hand with the material in Beach Money and the very personal process of building a successful business in the network marketing industry.

* “Appreciation (of your people and prospects) over self-promotion”
* Be a “Go Giver” (as opposed to obviously a go getter)
* Maintain “razor-sharp focus”
* “Every thought that keeps you from taking action towards your dreams is a brick in the fortress of your own prison”

These are words of obvious wisdom spoken from someone who has “been there and done that” and is willing to share his knowledge and advice in MLM marketing to anyone who may be open to it. I have definitely found value for myself in this book and I feel especially fortunate to be in a place where I have access to my own success coach Drew Berman who’s advice only further solidifies that which I have learned through reading.

This is, of course, not to mention the idea of earning a comfortable income while reclining on a beach chair under the shade of a palm tree with the ice slowly melting in a nearby drink while not-so-attentively keeping an eye on the inbox displayed by the nearby laptop notebook.

Now that’s inspiration for lifestyle!

Contributed by Al Davis.

OK … so you got started in the network marketing industry, picked an MLM company, and began to enroll as many distributors as you possibly could. You thought you were on the road to financial success until that dreaded day when you realized that you weren’t producing the income stream you were banking on. In fact, it has come to a screeching halt! What went wrong? You had built an impressive MLM downline. Isn’t this how you successfully build a network marketing business? Sound familiar? Has this ever happened to you?

In the above scenario, the MLM downline team more than likely failed due to inadequate training and lack of direction. They were doomed to fail from the onset. In Kathy Robbins’ words, Just recruiting a new person doesn’t make you successful. You’ll only become successful if they become successful and their first 90 days are the most critical time in their career.

Building a successful and independent MLM downline team of distributors is exactly the concept that Kathy Robbins discusses in her The First 90 Days Made Simple 3-CD set. She is one of the top MLM training professionals in the network marketing industry with a background in teaching and financial planning. She has achieved ultimate success in network marketing business due to her no-nonsense style.

Kathy strongly believes that a successful team leader should assume responsibility for a new distributor by sponsoring the new distributor and not by simply enrolling them. A new distributor should be provided with a simple, proven, duplicable plan which they can easily implement and use with their own MLM downline teams.

Kathy’s MLM training program consists of the following:

* Two audio training CDs
o CD #1: Getting a New Person Started
o CD #2: Designing an Action Plan
* CD #3 – Comprehensive resource guides including sample action plans

The focus on CD #1 is on how to keep a new distributor in the business and helping them to become self-motivated, knowledgeable and self-sufficient enough to build their network marketing business without you being there every day. Kathy strongly encourages that you should conduct a business planning session within the first 48 hours of enrolling a new distributor into your MLM downline to create a 30-day checklist of activities and discuss a 90-day plan of action. The goal for these first 90 days is to get a new distributor into a habit of doing income producing activity every day and to help them slowly become independent of you. You need to make sure your new person has the knowledge, skills and tools to be successful. You need to monitor your new distributor’s progress, correct their behavior when necessary and reward them when they succeed. This strategy will help to retain the people you recruit in the business and help you earn the big prize — residual income.

The focus on CD #2 is on outlining a step by step process of designing a plan of action for the new distributor to follow during their 1st 90 days of enrollment. The sample action plans found on CD #3 are very useful for this step. The key to success for any plan is that it must be set on realistic expectations.

My own sponsor and team leader, Drew Berman, has been successfully implementing these very same steps with me and the team that we have been building.  He presented these CDs to me so that I can learn the process and become self-reliant in the network marketing business.  It is important to find a leader and mentor who is willing to take the time to work side by side with you in the beginning phases of your new business.

To conclude this MLM review, I feel that this MLM training program provides an easy to follow roadmap to implementing duplicable strategies for your new distributors which could bring much success to growing your network marketing business.

Contributed by Vivian Buchla.

Today’s guest post is from Robert Lawrence Friedman, MA, president of Stress Solutions, Inc., who has been providing stress management programs to Fortune 500 corporations since 1993. He has appeared on the Discovery Health Channel for a year long program as the stress management expert, as well as NY1 News, Fox News and The Morning Show on Today. His software application “Relaxation On-Demand” is currently available for the iPhone, iPod and as a desktop application for the computer. Please feel free to visit his website at www.stress-solutions.com or email Robert at rlf@stress-solutions.com.

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Are you stressed right now?

How often do you get stressed during your day?

How would you know?

As a corporate stress management trainer for the past 27 years, I’ve developed a term for your stress. I call it your “stress signature.” Your stress signature is the place(s) in your body where you store your stress, where your stress effects. Generally speaking, stress effects the same areas in your body over and over again.

Believe it or not, there are a number of stages that occur to create stress. Read on…
Stress Stages

Generally speaking, the first of many stress stages begins with an event. For instance, you might be late for an appointment.

The next stage is an internal one as this event begins to trigger your thoughts.

If your thoughts are “everything will be okay” or “I’ll make a call and let the person know I’m running late” the stress effects might end right there.

But if your thoughts are “I’ll never make it to my appointment on time.” Or “I am really going to be get into trouble now,” your stress effects will then increase and the stress stages continue.

The next stage involves the physical problems that arise in relationship to which thoughts you are having. If you are having more of the second type of thoughts, the negative ones — your stomach may get tense, your forehead might crease up, your breath may shorten, your back may get painful, or your teeth may clench.
Managing Stress

With each of the stress stages, you have a choice. Either go on automatic, also known as being unconscious, or get in the driver’s seat, make new choices, and become conscious.

In the world we live in there are many stressors, so there are many opportunities for managing stress. This past statement is a mindset you can have. It is based on the premise that you can change the negative stress effects to positive, pain to pleasure, sadness to happiness and that it begins with the direction of your thoughts.

The next time something negatively happens to you, stop, and ask yourself how you can reframe that experience into something positive. The question you need to ask is, “what can I learn from this experience?” What is extraordinary is that when you change your negative thought to a positive one, the experience in your body changes also — the stress effects lessen. There may even come a point where you look forward to stressful experiences in order for you to learn how to better cope by managing stress.

In addition to learning to change the way you view stressors, there are natural physical triggers or antidotes for managing stress. For instance, the next time you experience stress effects on your body, drop your shoulders. When your shoulders are up, you are doing something called “bracing.” Dropping your shoulders is becoming conscious of this reaction and will relax you. Another natural antidote for managing stress is separating your lips slightly. When you open your mouth very slightly, separating your jaw, the body relaxes. Simply by taking a long slow deep breath in, or practicing even breathing (breathing in for the count of four and out of the count of four) the body will relax you. The more you practice these strategies under stress, the less stressed you will be. Good luck and Happy New Year!

When I began in MLM under the leadership of Drew Berman and was at ground zero on learning about network marketing, Drew strongly recommended that I start by viewing Mike Dillard’s 7-Video Series on Attraction Marketing…and so I did. Though this is not a perspective of a company in the MLM space, my MLM Review of this fantastic tool set follows.

Mike Dillard is an expert in direct marketing and MLM training who runs a multi-million dollar business by implementing what he refers to as Magnetic Sponsoring techniques.

His main philosophy is that the “old school” of sponsoring/recruiting, such as creating a list of friends and family and cold calling prospects, are no longer effective and should be replaced with the “new school” techniques which take advantage of what the internet world has to offer. He claims that these techniques will ATTRACT an endless stream of leads which will be seeking you and anxious to sign up with your company regardless of your product – hence, the Attraction Marketing concept. In the words of Mike Dillard, you will become the “Hunted not the Hunter”.

The video training consists of the following 7 videos:

Video	Key Message
#1: “How To Get Invited – Why Cold Prospecting Methods Are Dead, And What To Do Now”	If you are viewed as an expert, prospects will seek you to learn from you and ultimately will want to join your business and buy your product – strive to continuously increase your level of knowledge through ongoing mlm training.
#2: “How To Get Your Prospects To Buy Anything You Want To Sell”	Need to promote your business as a solution to their problem and stop concentrating on selling your product.
#3: “The Two Types Of People To Recruit For Your Business And How To Find Them”	Target prospects are either product consumers or potential business partners.
#4: “How To Turn The People Who Said ‘No’ Into Profit”	The conversion of a prospect needs to be their idea not yours – stop high pressured sales techniques.
#5:“How To Get Paid To Prospect”	Need to build a marketing pipeline by implementing direct response advertising techniques to make a steady stream of income which will subsidize your ongoing recruiting costs.
#6: “How To Write Effective Ads”	Use effective trigger words that provide solutions to problems. Inclusion of testimonials is very effective.
#7: “How To Attract Wealth and Distributors To You’’	Do not concentrate efforts on selling your product or company’s compensation plan. You should market your expertise and solution to their problem.

I found that each video left me with a sense of eagerness and anticipation for the next one. On average each video was 8 minutes long. Drew Berman was right – there is a lot of mlm training and insight to be gained from these videos on attraction marketing whether you are new to network marketing as I am or part of the “old school” MLMers who are open minded to learning and implementing new online marketing strategies. At the end of the video series, you can elect to purchase the full Magnetic Sponsoring Course for just $39.95 which is the in-depth follow-up training course.

I’d like to end my MLM review with a quote from Mike Dillard, Take every opportunity you can to LEARN. School is never out for a pro. So what are you waiting for? This link will lead you to a page where you can enter your name and email information and be scheduled to receive 1 video for the next 7 days directly to your email. The videos are FREE — you have nothing to lose, but knowledge to gain!

Contributed by Vivian Buchla.

David Wood is considered one of the best in MLM training. He has aligned himself with some of the greatest minds in the arena of personal growth, financial freedom and MLM. He works with legends like Les Brown, Jack Canfield, T Harv Eker and other extraordinary leaders. David Wood recomends one of the best leaders in the network marketing industry – WOW! Check this video out!

It was recently suggested by a mentor that I read The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Funny thing was, I had read the book a number of years ago. Amazingly, the words on the pages changed while it was sitting on my bookshelf. This time, as I read the book, I was getting a whole new meaning. I understood that for so many years I had been held hostage to beliefs that I had agreed to unconsciously.

What an eye-opening experience I had when I understood that without any fight, I had given up my individuality, my independence, my self-determination, my self-esteem. I had heard what people around me said to me and about me – and since I didn’t disagree, the words that were said implanted in my brain and in my mind, and I continued to live under the assumption that they were right. Suddenly I knew where all those little voices came from that I had heard rattling around in my head whenever I wanted to step forward, make my move, step away from what was expected of me.

I’m not blaming anyone. I take full responsibility for allowing those voices to continue. But now I had the key – I had the answer – how to dismiss the little voices, the thoughts that held me back, the disempowering feelings in my gut. I could make new agreements with myself – consciously.
These are The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

1. Be impeccable with your word. If you say it, mean it. Carry through and make it happen. To paraphrase another mentor, if you allow your word not to matter today, each day it will be easier and easier to let things fall by the wayside. Cultivate new habits by never making exceptions to what you have said you will do.
2. Don’t take anything personally. How many times do we say, I don’t want to deal with rejection? Rejection of what? Is it really you that is being rejected or is it an idea that someone else cannot comprehend because of where they are coming from? Once you know that everyone carries around their own dictionary of definitions, you can redefine the word rejection to another word which will lessen the intensity – perhaps even to substitute the word decline as opposed to reject. It feels better already.
3. Don’t assume. Again, with our own dictionaries we can’t truly understand what someone means without further exploration. If I say the word dog in a group of people, most likely no two people would have the same picture of a dog in their minds. The key is asking questions.
4. Do your best. What does that mean? It doesn’t mean be perfect. It means do the best you can with what you’ve got for today. Know that when your task is completed, you personally couldn’t have given it more of yourself. Walk away with the knowledge that it was a job well-done and not incomplete.

I would encourage you to read The Four Agreements. Determine for yourself what little voices you have been hearing that have been keeping you back – agreements you made unconsciously. And then make new agreements with yourself so that you can live powerfully.

Contributed by Ellen Reach.

Dr. Wayne Dyer, author of the famous book “Excuses Begone!”, is quoted as a saying “Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don’t like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don’t know how to change.” – September 2009, Natural/AwakeningsMag.com.

What is he talking about? We all know, somewhere inside of our minds – that little voice. Here is how that happens.

“I think that I can do this thing. I know that I can do this thing. I can see the steps it will take to make this thing happen. I can break down these steps into actions that I believe I can do and by doing them I know that I can make this thing happen.” So, am I doing them? That is where my thoughts and my actions may not always be the same thing. It is pretty easy for me to see what actions I need to take to make this thing happen, but I have to admit that these actions may appear daunting when it comes to making the motions and I am a master at making excuses, even if I don’t realize it.

What am I talking about?

How about calling my neighbor? I talk to them often, but why can’t I just call them to ask them a few questions about their lives to see if there is an opportunity for improving their lives? It is an action step that I need to take if I am going to follow my plan, but there seems to be a wall between me and the phone – a wall of excuses. I don’t actually see it there, but I certainly find all of the ‘other things’ that I have to do before I can make that call and that’s my wall. Things like telling myself that “they won’t be home right now, so I will have to call later”, which never seems to come. Things like telling myself that “I don’t know the words that I need to use to talk to them, so I will have to wait until I get better at it”. Oh yeah, by talking to whom? Things like “I don’t want to approach my friends and neighbors like a salesman, so I better wait until I know how to just be a friend talking to them about something that I know is great, but in truth I am trying to sell to them”. Things like “I will talk to them next time that I run into them, when the timing is right”. Do I hear this voice inside of me? Sure, that’s that one that is explaining to me how these things are very important to consider before taking action. Hey, they are more important than just about everything else, right? Probably more important than watching my business grow? Definitely! That’s why I know that I can do this thing, but, maybe after I have taken care of a few other things first. Right? Sounds to me like I am making excuses.

Dr. Dyer goes on to say “Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you’ve never had before, then take responsibility for it.”

How hard is it to make that call? How hard is it to start a conversation with your neighbor, your doctor, your favorite store owner, your favorite restaurant owner? Very! Until, of course, you do it. Hey, then it isn’t hard at all. Hey, then it is easy. Hey, I just remembered, these are my friends and some of my favorite people. I would love to see them more healthy, more wealthy, and free to do the things that they would really love to do. Hey, I do know how to talk to them, because I love to talk to them. So why is this any different? It’s not! It is just another awesome thing to talk about. If they want to know more, they will ask for more. Do I trust them to talk to me? Yes! Then they trust me to talk to them, so there is nothing that I can say or do to discourage them from my trust and friendship if I treat them with respect and love, like I always do. I am not trying to sell them anything, I am giving them an opportunity for which they will thank me for and go on their way, or to thank me for giving them to take them to a new place in their lives. They can’t decide that if I don’t offer it.

So, I can see the actions that I need to take, because I tell myself about them all of the time. That little voice inside my head is me making excuses… and the one who is actually doing something? …Hey, that’s me too.

“I believe if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Contributed by Seth Lefferts.

Plain and simple…you’re going to get those confrontational questions from quality leads and prospects. While listening to The Psychology of Asking, by Jeffery Combs, I heard something that stood out, “think of your prospect’s questions as carefrontational questions”. It’s where you care for yourself enough not to get confrontational with your quality leads. If you confront your leads each time they ask a question, you might as well stop prospecting, call it quits on Network Marketing and just declare it a scam like so many others have. Remember, like you may have been, your leads and prospects may not be educated enough to fully understand everything that the Network Marketing business model offers. Many people pass a negative judgment on the Direct Sales industry based on what they may have heard rather than personal experience. Others may have had an unskilled leader who left a negative but lasting impression upon them. Knowingly or unknowingly, leads and prospects are looking to align with a leader who can answer their questions in a relaxed, informative and fun manner. If you can’t lead them to the point where they want to be around you, how can you lead them to build a business? After all, they’re looking for someone to build a business with and everyone knows that means spending a lot of time together.

Are you someone people want to spend time with?

So, make the questions and answers fun! So many people ask me, “What do I say when someone says _______?” I really don’t know. There’s tone, attitude and a number of other elements that I’d have to see, feel and experience before knowing what I would say. I do know I wouldn’t go into defense mode. I also wouldn’t just “read from a canned script” like outsourced customer tech support? Answer questions where the person may say to themselves, “I never thought about that”, “I didn’t know that” or “that’s funny”. Worst case scenario, make it so the person thinks to them self, “they seem pretty confident, relaxed and didn’t get defensive, maybe I should look into this.”

Also, find information and then make answering questions fun! Take the “SCAM” question/comment for example. You know that anyone raising that question is going by “hearsay” rather than personal experience. If it were experience, then it wouldn’t be phrased in the form of a question. Can you think of at least one industry that people generally trust which also has some scandal, corruption, or some flavor of cheating and scamming within it? Then, put the SCAM question back on them and make it informative and fun rather than defensive and crabby! I’m interested to hear if you know of one industry that doesn’t have some issues and please let me know if you do! Please comment below!!!

The key is to find interesting facts and put the questions back on the prospects but don’t do it confrontationally. I aligned with an incredible nutrition company in the MLM industry so I connect with many people concerned about their health and making sure they know what goes into their body. I even work with professional athletes now. It is often that the SCAM question comes up when prospecting in this niche, “Isn’t Network Marketing a SCAM – How do I know what’s in these products?”

Here are only a few of 20-30 plus disturbing facts about restaurants from waiters that I can pull from to put enough concern into them about the rest of the world’s industries and to have them realize I care. Again, because I’m with a nutrition company, I often use restaurants. Do you know anyone who eats at restaurants???

If you’re a vegetarian and you ask if we use vegetable stock, I’m going to say yes, even if we don’t. You’ll never know the difference.
-Anonymous

At a lot of restaurants, the special is whatever they need to sell before it goes bad. Especially watch out for the soup of the day. If it contains fish or if it’s some kind of “gumbo,” it’s probably the stuff they’re trying to get rid of.
-Kathy Kniss, who waited tables for ten years in Los Angeles

Now that I’ve worked in a restaurant, I never ask for lemon in a drink. Everybody touches them. Nobody washes them. We just peel the stickers off, cut them up, and throw them in your iced tea.
-Charity Ohlund, Kansas City waitress

Skim milk is almost never skim milk. Very few restaurants outside Starbucks carry whole milk, 2 percent milk, skim milk, and half-and-half; it’s just not practical.
-Chris

Waiter Source is from ReadersDigest .com
Contributed by Mike Gruber.

Sometimes our biggest life goals seem so overwhelming. We rarely see them as a series of small, achievable tasks but, in reality, breaking down a large goal into smaller goals or tasks—and accomplishing them one at a time—is exactly how any big goal gets achieved. After you have decided what you really want, with specific deadlines, the next step is to determine all of the individual action steps you will need to take to accomplish your goal.

How to Break It Down

There are several ways to figure out the action steps you will need to take to accomplish any goal:

• Consult with people who have already done what you want to do and ask what steps they took. From their experience, they can give you all of the necessary steps as well as advice on what pitfalls to avoid.
• Purchase a book or manual that outlines the process.
• Start from the end – as if the task was completed – and look backward. Simply close your eyes and imagine that it is now the future and you have already achieved your goal. Then just look back and see what you had to do to get to where you now are. What was the last thing you did? And then the thing before that, and then the thing before that, until you arrive at the first action you had to start with.

Remember that it is okay not to know how to do something.

It’s okay to ask for guidance and advice from those who do know. Never fear asking questions. Sometimes you can get answers for free, and sometimes you have to pay for them. Get used to asking, “Can you tell me how to go about…?” and “What would I have to do to…?” and “How did you…?”

Keep researching and asking until you can create a realistic action plan that will get you from where you are to where you want to go.

Potential Questions To Research

• What will I need to do?
• How much money will I need to save or raise?
• What new skills will I need to learn?
• What resources will I need to mobilize?
• Who will I need to enroll in my vision?
• Who will I need to ask for assistance?
• What new disciplines or habits will I need to build into my life?

Another valuable technique for creating an action plan for your goals is called mind mapping.

How to Use Mind Mapping

Mind mapping is a simple but powerful process for creating a detailed to-do list for achieving your goal. It lets you determine what information you’ll need to gather, who you’ll need to talk to, what small steps you’ll need to take, how much money you’ll need to earn or raise, which deadlines you’ll need to meet, and so on—for each and every goal.

To mind-map your own goals, follow these steps

1. Center circle: In the center circle, jot down the name of your stated goal—in this case, Create an Audio Educational Program.
2. Outside circles: Next, divide the goal into the major categories of tasks you’ll need to accomplish to achieve the greater goal.
3. Spokes: Then, draw spokes radiating outward from each mini-circle and label each one.
4. On a separate line connected to the minicircle, write every single step you’ll need to take. Break down each one of the more detailed task spokes with action items to help you create your master to-do list.

Next, Make a Daily To-Do List

Once you’ve completed a mind map for your goal, convert all of the to-do items into daily action items by listing each one on your daily to-do lists and committing to a completion date for each one. Then schedule them in the appropriate order into your calendar and do whatever it takes to stay on schedule.

Do First Things First

The goal is to stay on schedule and complete the most important item first. In his excellent book, Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, Brian Tracy reveals not just how to conquer procrastination but also how to prioritize and complete all of your action items.

In his unique system, Brian advises goal-setters to identify the one to five things you must accomplish on any given day, and then pick the one you absolutely must do first. This becomes your biggest and ugliest frog.

He then suggests you accomplish that task first—in essence, eat that frog first—and, by so doing; make the rest of your day much, much easier. It’s a great strategy. But unfortunately, most of us leave the biggest and ugliest frog for last, hoping it will go away or somehow become easier. It never does. However, when you accomplish your toughest task early in the day, it sets the tone for the rest of your day.

By breaking down your goals, and then taking daily action on them, you create momentum and build your confidence, both of which move you farther and faster toward the achievement of your goals.

Now go take action!

Adapted from the writing of Jack Canfield, America’s #1 Success Coach. He is founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul© and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. If you’re ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: http://www.jackcanfield.com/