12 LAWS FOR WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN

 
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1. A business plan is a marketing action.

A well-thought-out and presented business plan demonstrates to yourself and others that you are serious about your business idea, you  have  the  passion  and  persistence  to  develop  the  strategies  and  tactics  so  your business  idea  will  be  successful,  and  you  have  converted  a  general  idea  into  a realistic and believable business.

2.  Know  your  audience,  and  write  the  plan  in  a  style  and  with  information  they need for the action(s) you want them to take.

To achieve the decisions and actions you wish taken, you must provide your readers with the information in a style they are familiar  with  and  can  understand.  Maybe  this  is  your  banker,  angel  investor,  biggest client,  prospective  employee  or  board  member,  or  just  yourself.  Make  it  easy  for readers to take positive actions—make your case in their language.

3. Business planning should focus on the customer, not on the entrepreneur.

For- profit  businesses  and  nonprofits  alike  are  established  to  fulfill  a customer/client/society  need.  The  better  the  need  is  served  or  problem  solved,  the more  successful  the  entity  can  be.  Therefore,  focus  on  satisfying  the  customer/client need and demonstrating how you are doing it uniquely from the competition.

4. A  small  business  is  usually  a  bet  on  the  entrepreneur,  so  provide  a  biography that demonstrates you have the technical and leadership experience to drive your idea  to success. 

Either  demonstrate  you  have  the  experience  or  you  have surrounded yourself with others who  have  it.  Financiers,  a  personal  friend,  a  stern banker,  or  a  demanding  angel  know  they  are  investing  in  you  as  the  owner. You  are contributing  most  of  the  “assets”—your  time,  talents,  and  passion  for  birthing  this business  idea  into  the  marketplace.  Your  biography,  therefore,  should  not  be  just  a LinkedIn-type listing of your education and previous positions. Instead, make the case for why you are the right person at the right time to own and operate this business.

5.  The  executive  summary  is  the  most  important  plan  section.  It  delivers  the message and sets the tone. It should be enthusiastic, concise, professional, and no more  than  two pages  long.  


Just  as  in  the  first  few  paragraphs  of  any  book,  many people  will  not  read  past  the  opening  section  if  they  lose  interest.  In  these  first  two pages,  you  need  to  convince  the  reader  that  this  business  idea  will  be  successful  by describing what customer needs are being fulfilled, how this  business  idea  sets  itself apart from all the other competing investment alternatives in the marketplace, and the financial  and  other  rewards  to  be  obtained.  Focus  on  writing  this  compelling  short story  in  two  pages  or  less.  As  a  summary,  it  should  be  written  last;  this  ensures  it represents the full plan.

6.  Have  sales  goals  that  are  supported  by  research  and  an  actionable  marketing plan. This is your first and most important sales job.

Where and how are you going to capture revenue? Describe your sales goals, make a convincing argument, and provide tangible  support—names  of  first  prospects,  sales  pitch,  competitive  analysis,  market awareness,  and  so  on.  If  the  argument  and  support  is  not  convincing,  then  the  banker, angel  investor,  vendor,  or  customer  will  arbitrarily  give  the  sales  goals  a  “haircut,” which  will  result  in  a  decrease  in  cash  flow  (and  maybe  doom  their  investment participation)—and you will not be in the room to defend your analysis.

7.  Request  funding  in  the  amount  you  truly  need,  and  support  your  request  with financial statements. 

A  funding  request  supported  by  financial  statements  (cash generation  and  expenditures)  demonstrates  you  have  thoroughly  thought  out  the business  and  you  consider  the  financial  aspects  important.  This  provides  some assurance that you will look out for the best interests of those providing funding.

8.  Use  of  funding  proceeds  should  be  primarily  for  investments,  purchases,  and marketing activities that will generate the products, services, and sales. 

Investors assume you will contribute “sweat equity.” While some of the funding may be needed for  critical  staff  salaries,  the  majority  should  be  used  for  activities  that  will  generate sales. A growing sales pattern with positive net margins means you will have the cash flow  to  pay  back  loans  and  eventually  have  a  sellable  business.  Examples  of  typical funding  requests  are  for  protectable/proprietary  software  development,  product production  equipment,  and  marketing  programs  with  a  direct  or  channel  partner  sales focus.

9.  Surround  yourself  with  advisors  and  mentors,  and  talk  through  your  business ideas with them. 

Starting and growing a business is difficult, and more than half of all startups  fail  in  their  first  five  years.  No  one  person  can  have  all  the  knowledge, experience,  or  even  perspective  to  handle  every  business  situation.  Gain  from  the skills  and  experiences  of  others. Ask  for  advice  from  similar  companies  in  different geographic  markets  or  noncompeting  suppliers  in  your  same  market  segment.  Talk with  experts  in  areas  such  as  marketing,  sales,  finance,  and  operations.  Join  industry groups or entrepreneur mastermind teams. Express your questions and roadblocks, and then  listen  openly. You  will  feel  less  isolated  and  confused,  and  investors  will  feel confident they have a complete team of resources to grow the business. Often, family and  friends  are  not  able  to  provide  the  kind  of  feedback  and  advice  you  need.  Some people find it difficult or do not know how to ask for help; just try it, and you will be pleasantly surprised how willing others are to assist.

10. A  business  plan  is  never  perfect  and  never  finished,  so  do  not  procrastinate writing  it or obsess about creating the ideal plan. 

At some point, you need to stop writing  and  start  satisfying  a  customer  need  and  making  money.  Set  a  personal deadline, stop planning, and get to work.

'11.  It is  all  about  the  money.

Every  decision  and  action  you  take  will  have  a financial  impact—be  it  cash  flow  or  profit.

While  many  entrepreneurs  have  multiple bottom lines (lifestyle, mission, causes they believe in, and so on), if you do not have sufficient  financial  resources,  you  will  not  be  able  to  accomplish  your  mission  and goals, or even stay in business. Sometimes this singular fact helps cut through the fog of what to focus on next.

12.  Focus,  Focus,  Focus. 

 You  will  triple  the  value  of  your  plan  and  dramatically improve  your  credibility  with  a  potential  funder  if  you  can  answer  these  three questions clearly and thoroughly both in your text and financials.

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SECRETS TO WRITING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PLAN

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 What Is a Business Plan and Why Do You Need One?

Many  consider  a  business  plan  to  be  a  formal  document  containing five key elements:
1) Business goals,
2) The reasons why these goals are attainable,
3) A  plan  for  reaching  those  goals,
4)  Data  backing  the  uniqueness  of  the  products  and services  to  be  sold,  and
5)  Supporting  information  about  the  organization  and  team attempting to reach those goals.

A  business  plan  is  comprised  of  these  elements,  but  it  is  much  more  than  a  physical document; it is a structured process to test ideas to determine if they are feasible and financially  attractive.  Viewed  this  way,  a  business  plan  becomes  a  road  map  to successful  implementation  of  the  business  idea.  This  road  map  then  morphs  into tactical  plans  and  budgets.  During  the  process  of  developing  a  business  idea,  you develop  a  consistent  set  of  messages,  based  on  facts  and  analysis,  describing  your business  idea,  which  will  be  used  in  discussions  with  funders,  investors,  customers, board members, advisers, vendors, and employees.

Some events that trigger the need to write a business plan include:
1. Starting a new business (the classic reason)
2.  Growing  an  existing  business  through  new  products,  new  channels,  and/or  new markets
3. Acquiring a business or franchising your existing business
4. Exiting from the business and the need to provide potential buyers with information about the company. They will be interested in the past as a benchmark, but as you have already  reaped  the  benefits  of  these  accomplishments,  potential  buyers  are  interested in the future as you see it. What is the potential they may buy into?

Who Is a Business Plan Written For?

Although most people think the goal of business plans is to seek funding, ultimately, a business plan is written primarily for yourself—to help you decide whether or not to start  or  grow  a  business,  to  set  goals  and  benchmarks,  to  use  the  process  for developing a set of compelling and consistent messages describing your business and why  you  will  be  successful,  and  to  understand  the  two  roles  you  have  as  owner  and employee.



Factors To Consider When Writing a Business Plan :

1. Clarity
The  person  reading  your  business  plan  is  busy,  often  has  other problems to deal with, and is consciously or unconsciously judging you by the way in which you express yourself. Therefore:
● keep your language simple;
● avoid trying to get too many ideas into one sentence;
● let one sentence follow on logically from the last;
● go easy on the adjectives;
● tabulate wherever appropriate.

2. Logic
The facts and ideas you present will be easier to take in and make more impact if they follow one another in a logical sequence. Avoid a series of inconsequential paragraphs, however well phrased. Also, make sure that what you say under one heading chimes in with all you have said elsewhere.

3. Truth
Don’t overstate your case.

4. Figures
The banker or investor reading your plan is numerate, thinking in terms of numbers. Words will not impress a banker unless they are backed by figures that you have made as precise as possible. So try to quantify wherever you can.

4. Designing the business plan
 The  layout  of  your  business  plan  can  help  greatly  in  keeping  the  a logical pattern.  You could present your material in the sequence shown here, using headings, so that the reader can survey your plan and navigate without difficulty.

 
Steps to follow when preparing a business plan:

1  A brief statement of your objectives.
2  Your assessment of the market you plan to enter.
3  The skill, experience and finance you will bring to it.
4  The particular benefits of the product or service to your customers.
5  How you will set up the business.
6  The longer-term view.
7  Your financial targets.
8  The money you are asking for and how it will be used.
9  Appendices to back up previous statements, including especially the cash flow and other financial
    projections.
10  History of the business (where applicable).

Tackling each section

1. The brief statement
This should be to the point, just something to show the reader what it is all about. Say what you do in one sentence. In a second sentence, state how much money you want and what you want it for.

2. The market

When you come to the main body of your document, start with the section  that  is  most  likely  to  impress  your  reader.  The  majority  of  people  lending  money  believe  that  what  makes  for  success  in business  is  finding  and  exploiting  a  large  enough  market.  So,  as  a rule, the ‘market’ section should be the one with which you lead off.

Although your product may be the best since the invention of the motor car, and you may have the talents of a Henry Ford, you will get nowhere if there is no call for your brainchild or you lack the means of  projecting  your  product  into  the  market.  The  person  reading  your  plan  will  know  this  only  too  well,  and  will  want  to  find  out whether you are aware of these facts and how well you have done your homework. Your market research is crucial.

Note that where figures are given, and they should be given freely, the authority for the figures should be quoted. If your figures can be checked, this will promote confidence.

3. The skills, experience and resources of the persons involved

A lender or investor will want to know the track record of the per- sons to whom his or her own or clients’ money is to be entrusted. Therefore, you must give a fairly full account of your own business career  and  those  of  your  co-directors  or  partners.

School  and  technical qualifications, technical qualifications, on the other hand, are. Of almost equal importance is the degree of your financial invest- ment.  You  cannot  expect  others  to  risk  money  in  an  enterprise  to which the founders themselves are not financially committed in a big way.

4. The benefits of your product

This is the most difficult part about which to comment because it is the section in which you are likely to wax most enthusiastic. Human progress depends on new ideas, and people with good ones need all the support they can get. That having been said, you must face the fact that only a minority of innovations can be made commercially viable.  Your  banker  or  financier  has  probably  seen  hundreds  of  absolutely  brilliant  ideas  come  to  nought,  and  for  all  kinds  of  reasons. So this is the section you will have to write most soberly.

A famous American writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson – a writer, not  a businessman – once said that if you made a better mousetrap, all the world would beat a path to your door. This is just not true. Any successful  business  person  could  have  told  Emerson  that  simply making a better product is only one step on the way to success, and not even the first or the most important step.

Do not get too disheartened. You have, you believe, a first-class product,  and  as  you  demonstrated  (under  number  2  above),  the  market  for  it  is  there.  What  you  must  do  now  is  to  persuade  your reader that your product is a good one and that it will have the edge to help you exploit the opportunities set out in ‘the market’ above.

Stick firmly to hard facts! ‘Puff’ sentences, such as ‘This is the best widget-grinder on the market and will be the cheapest too’, cut very little ice. Show, with figures, why it is the best and why, despite this, it  is  not  the  most  expensive.  If  you  have  some  independent  test results, say so, and give at least a summary of them in an appendix. A few genuine figures are worth a page of adjectives, on which, as was stated earlier, you must go easy.

 

Information that could be included in this section is: 

● A brief description of the product or idea;
● How it works;
● Why it is better than its rivals;
● Any independent appraisal (with details in an appendix).

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SECRETS TO WRITING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PLAN

 What Is a Business Plan and Why Do You Need One?

Many  consider  a  business  plan  to  be  a  formal  document  containing five key elements:
1) Business goals,
2) The reasons why these goals are attainable,
3) A  plan  for  reaching  those  goals,
4)  Data  backing  the  uniqueness  of  the  products  and services  to  be  sold,  and
5)  Supporting  information  about  the  organization  and  team attempting to reach those goals.

A  business  plan  is  comprised  of  these  elements,  but  it  is  much  more  than  a  physical document; it is a structured process to test ideas to determine if they are feasible and financially  attractive.  Viewed  this  way,  a  business  plan  becomes  a  road  map  to successful  implementation  of  the  business  idea.  This  road  map  then  morphs  into tactical  plans  and  budgets.  During  the  process  of  developing  a  business  idea,  you develop  a  consistent  set  of  messages,  based  on  facts  and  analysis,  describing  your business  idea,  which  will  be  used  in  discussions  with  funders,  investors,  customers, board members, advisers, vendors, and employees.

Some events that trigger the need to write a business plan include:
1. Starting a new business (the classic reason)
2.  Growing  an  existing  business  through  new  products,  new  channels,  and/or  new markets
3. Acquiring a business or franchising your existing business
4. Exiting from the business and the need to provide potential buyers with information about the company. They will be interested in the past as a benchmark, but as you have already  reaped  the  benefits  of  these  accomplishments,  potential  buyers  are  interested in the future as you see it. What is the potential they may buy into?

Who Is a Business Plan Written For?

Although most people think the goal of business plans is to seek funding, ultimately, a business plan is written primarily for yourself—to help you decide whether or not to start  or  grow  a  business,  to  set  goals  and  benchmarks,  to  use  the  process  for developing a set of compelling and consistent messages describing your business and why  you  will  be  successful,  and  to  understand  the  two  roles  you  have  as  owner  and employee.



Factors To Consider When Writing a Business Plan :

1. Clarity
The  person  reading  your  business  plan  is  busy,  often  has  other problems to deal with, and is consciously or unconsciously judging you by the way in which you express yourself. Therefore:
● keep your language simple;
● avoid trying to get too many ideas into one sentence;
● let one sentence follow on logically from the last;
● go easy on the adjectives;
● tabulate wherever appropriate.

2. Logic
The facts and ideas you present will be easier to take in and make more impact if they follow one another in a logical sequence. Avoid a series of inconsequential paragraphs, however well phrased. Also, make sure that what you say under one heading chimes in with all you have said elsewhere.

3. Truth
Don’t overstate your case.

4. Figures
The banker or investor reading your plan is numerate, thinking in terms of numbers. Words will not impress a banker unless they are backed by figures that you have made as precise as possible. So try to quantify wherever you can.

4. Designing the business plan
 The  layout  of  your  business  plan  can  help  greatly  in  keeping  the  a logical pattern.  You could present your material in the sequence shown here, using headings, so that the reader can survey your plan and navigate without difficulty.

 
Steps to follow when preparing a business plan:

1  A brief statement of your objectives.
2  Your assessment of the market you plan to enter.
3  The skill, experience and finance you will bring to it.
4  The particular benefits of the product or service to your customers.
5  How you will set up the business.
6  The longer-term view.
7  Your financial targets.
8  The money you are asking for and how it will be used.
9  Appendices to back up previous statements, including especially the cash flow and other financial
    projections.
10  History of the business (where applicable).

Tackling each section

1. The brief statement
This should be to the point, just something to show the reader what it is all about. Say what you do in one sentence. In a second sentence, state how much money you want and what you want it for.

2. The market

When you come to the main body of your document, start with the section  that  is  most  likely  to  impress  your  reader.  The  majority  of  people  lending  money  believe  that  what  makes  for  success  in business  is  finding  and  exploiting  a  large  enough  market.  So,  as  a rule, the ‘market’ section should be the one with which you lead off.

Although your product may be the best since the invention of the motor car, and you may have the talents of a Henry Ford, you will get nowhere if there is no call for your brainchild or you lack the means of  projecting  your  product  into  the  market.  The  person  reading  your  plan  will  know  this  only  too  well,  and  will  want  to  find  out whether you are aware of these facts and how well you have done your homework. Your market research is crucial.

Note that where figures are given, and they should be given freely, the authority for the figures should be quoted. If your figures can be checked, this will promote confidence.

3. The skills, experience and resources of the persons involved

A lender or investor will want to know the track record of the per- sons to whom his or her own or clients’ money is to be entrusted. Therefore, you must give a fairly full account of your own business career  and  those  of  your  co-directors  or  partners.

School  and  technical qualifications, technical qualifications, on the other hand, are. Of almost equal importance is the degree of your financial invest- ment.  You  cannot  expect  others  to  risk  money  in  an  enterprise  to which the founders themselves are not financially committed in a big way.

4. The benefits of your product

This is the most difficult part about which to comment because it is the section in which you are likely to wax most enthusiastic. Human progress depends on new ideas, and people with good ones need all the support they can get. That having been said, you must face the fact that only a minority of innovations can be made commercially viable.  Your  banker  or  financier  has  probably  seen  hundreds  of  absolutely  brilliant  ideas  come  to  nought,  and  for  all  kinds  of  reasons. So this is the section you will have to write most soberly.

A famous American writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson – a writer, not  a businessman – once said that if you made a better mousetrap, all the world would beat a path to your door. This is just not true. Any successful  business  person  could  have  told  Emerson  that  simply making a better product is only one step on the way to success, and not even the first or the most important step.

Do not get too disheartened. You have, you believe, a first-class product,  and  as  you  demonstrated  (under  number  2  above),  the  market  for  it  is  there.  What  you  must  do  now  is  to  persuade  your reader that your product is a good one and that it will have the edge to help you exploit the opportunities set out in ‘the market’ above.

Stick firmly to hard facts! ‘Puff’ sentences, such as ‘This is the best widget-grinder on the market and will be the cheapest too’, cut very little ice. Show, with figures, why it is the best and why, despite this, it  is  not  the  most  expensive.  If  you  have  some  independent  test results, say so, and give at least a summary of them in an appendix. A few genuine figures are worth a page of adjectives, on which, as was stated earlier, you must go easy.

 

Information that could be included in this section is: 

● A brief description of the product or idea;
● How it works;
● Why it is better than its rivals;
● Any independent appraisal (with details in an appendix).

More are coming soon! ......

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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR .....! AND LISTEN TO THE ANSWER .

One of the primary secrets to getting the best answers and solutions in your life is to draft the right questions – because you always get an answer to every question you ask. For instance, ask yourself: What is the positive side of my job? The answer that comes to you will give you new power and energy. If you are in the habit, however, of only asking about what is bothering you or what is wrong with your job, then just the opposite will happen. Your answers will come, but they will not be empowering or filled with positive energy … they will be negative and depressing. In both cases, the answers you receive to the questions you just asked will affect how you view your workplace!

Let'’s get just a little more personal. You could ask, “How is my partner unique from anyone else I know? What do I enjoy that he or she gives me – which I cannot give myself or get from anyone else? What does my spouse or “significant other” do for me that makes my heart sing?” 

The answer that comes to you is sure to be a positive one. On the other hand, walking down the street and thinking about what you are missing from your relationship will only bring about negative emotions regarding your partner.

One viewpoint gives you pleasure and positive energy, while the other brings only grief, sorrow and a negative outlook on your life. Further, whatever mind-set you wind up in attracts more of the same!

Can you see how much faster your relationship will improve by focusing on the positive and how quickly it will go downhill if you bury yourself in negative details and relive everything you don’t like about it?

All great people know they create their own fate! They have the courage to take responsibility for everything that happens in their lives. They do not criticize others when something goes wrong; they simply find the best and most efficient course of action to correct the situation and learn from the unexpected circumstance they find themselves in.

How do we know that taking responsibility is something all successful people do? Because if they blamed other people or circumstances for their setback or failure – their boss, partner, children, lack of time, the government or others – they would never do anything to improve! Why should they improve, when the blame falls somewhere else?

Instead, they would think that others should improve to make their circumstances and life better. This is a great example of a “lose-lose” situation. Not only does nothing improve, but also in denying responsibility they lose the only opportunity they had to learn from the event to prevent it from repeating itself.

If only the unsuccessful people knew how empowering it is to take responsibility for the events in their lives, how good it feels to create your own fate. Don’t you make the same mistake

The leading psychologists and psychiatrists have found, not surprisingly, that most people, in fact, do not want to change. Not that they resist change or prefer not to change, but rather that they don’t want to change. In fact, most people crave, instead, for comfort and relief. They want to hear that they are not guilty for what is happening to them. They prefer to believe they have no control over the events of their lives, believing instead; there isn’t anything they can do to change them. They want to feel they are not responsible for their current situation or the overall circumstances they find themselves in.

Change demands action, “to get up from the warm bed of habits and commonplace and go towards the unknown,” says DeMello. When you realize your choices and their resulting actions are behind everything that happens to you, you can pose the following question in a positive way and be ready to receive the wisdom of the answer that comes to you. “What happened to produce this unexpected outcome … what can I learn from this and how can I quickly move beyond it?”  Not, “Why did this go wrong,” or “Why did I fail?” Focus on what you want to hear for the answer, the solution that will move you forward! 

Posing the question properly is the only way you to receive the positive response that allows you to learn, grow and correct the situation. Ask a positive question and you’ll get a positive answer!

How does this contrast to what the average person does? 

Average people take responsibility for all the good events that happen to them, but they forget to take responsibility for everything else that did not turn out according to expectations or wasn'’t as successfully planned and carried out. Instead, they blame their worsening financial status on the economy or their boss. If their car breaks down – they blame the dealer that sold it to them or the mechanic that worked on it last.

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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR .....! AND LISTEN TO THE ANSWER .

One of the primary secrets to getting the best answers and solutions in your life is to draft the right questions – because you always get an answer to every question you ask. For instance, ask yourself: What is the positive side of my job? The answer that comes to you will give you new power and energy. If you are in the habit, however, of only asking about what is bothering you or what is wrong with your job, then just the opposite will happen. Your answers will come, but they will not be empowering or filled with positive energy … they will be negative and depressing. In both cases, the answers you receive to the questions you just asked will affect how you view your workplace!

Let'’s get just a little more personal. You could ask, “How is my partner unique from anyone else I know? What do I enjoy that he or she gives me – which I cannot give myself or get from anyone else? What does my spouse or “significant other” do for me that makes my heart sing?” 

The answer that comes to you is sure to be a positive one. On the other hand, walking down the street and thinking about what you are missing from your relationship will only bring about negative emotions regarding your partner.

One viewpoint gives you pleasure and positive energy, while the other brings only grief, sorrow and a negative outlook on your life. Further, whatever mind-set you wind up in attracts more of the same!

Can you see how much faster your relationship will improve by focusing on the positive and how quickly it will go downhill if you bury yourself in negative details and relive everything you don’t like about it?

All great people know they create their own fate! They have the courage to take responsibility for everything that happens in their lives. They do not criticize others when something goes wrong; they simply find the best and most efficient course of action to correct the situation and learn from the unexpected circumstance they find themselves in.

How do we know that taking responsibility is something all successful people do? Because if they blamed other people or circumstances for their setback or failure – their boss, partner, children, lack of time, the government or others – they would never do anything to improve! Why should they improve, when the blame falls somewhere else?

Instead, they would think that others should improve to make their circumstances and life better. This is a great example of a “lose-lose” situation. Not only does nothing improve, but also in denying responsibility they lose the only opportunity they had to learn from the event to prevent it from repeating itself.

If only the unsuccessful people knew how empowering it is to take responsibility for the events in their lives, how good it feels to create your own fate. Don’t you make the same mistake

The leading psychologists and psychiatrists have found, not surprisingly, that most people, in fact, do not want to change. Not that they resist change or prefer not to change, but rather that they don’t want to change. In fact, most people crave, instead, for comfort and relief. They want to hear that they are not guilty for what is happening to them. They prefer to believe they have no control over the events of their lives, believing instead; there isn’t anything they can do to change them. They want to feel they are not responsible for their current situation or the overall circumstances they find themselves in.

Change demands action, “to get up from the warm bed of habits and commonplace and go towards the unknown,” says DeMello. When you realize your choices and their resulting actions are behind everything that happens to you, you can pose the following question in a positive way and be ready to receive the wisdom of the answer that comes to you. “What happened to produce this unexpected outcome … what can I learn from this and how can I quickly move beyond it?”  Not, “Why did this go wrong,” or “Why did I fail?” Focus on what you want to hear for the answer, the solution that will move you forward! 

Posing the question properly is the only way you to receive the positive response that allows you to learn, grow and correct the situation. Ask a positive question and you’ll get a positive answer!

How does this contrast to what the average person does? 

Average people take responsibility for all the good events that happen to them, but they forget to take responsibility for everything else that did not turn out according to expectations or wasn'’t as successfully planned and carried out. Instead, they blame their worsening financial status on the economy or their boss. If their car breaks down – they blame the dealer that sold it to them or the mechanic that worked on it last.

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CRITICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINNERS AND LOSERS

If, you are feeling hopeless and cannot see a way out of your current circumstances, do not fall into despair. Not giving up is the critical difference between winners and losers.  Do not allow your “negative” emotions to overcome you. You can achieve everything in life, but only you have the power to make it happen. If you give up now, you will automatically fail and therefore never know what you could have achieved.

Do you remember receiving your first bike as a child? No doubt you were excited, but the first time you held the handlebars in your hands and sat on the seat, your first thoughts may have been, “I will never get the hang of this. I’m going to fall down and hurt myself.” Was your fear confirmed? No.  You kept practicing and you did get the hang of it; not only that, even if you haven’t ridden a bike in years, if you got back on one today, you would still remember how to ride. If you do not try, you will never know the satisfaction of accomplishment, the vibration of winning or the positive energy of your own success.

“If you suppress the desire in you or you do not behave according to “who you are,” you reject experiencing God,” says Keller. Your solutions come from the same place as your dreams and desires. You will never feel a desire or dream that you cannot, in some form, achieve. Don'’t ever lose your hope!

If the opinions of others do not motivate you when fulfilling a task, then don’t let their ideas mislead you – search for your own happiness, health, and welfare.  Do not feel bad about being different, or unique, as this too is a quality of winners. Do not deny the reality of the world around you, but don’t fall victim to it either. The winning vibration is one that allows you to act in harmony with others, while remaining loyal to you. This way, even in “bad” conditions, you won’t feel like you’re losing or denying yourself, but only the positive feeling of “adapting to new circumstances.”

CRITICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINNERS AND LOSERS

If, you are feeling hopeless and cannot see a way out of your current circumstances, do not fall into despair. Not giving up is the critical difference between winners and losers.  Do not allow your “negative” emotions to overcome you. You can achieve everything in life, but only you have the power to make it happen. If you give up now, you will automatically fail and therefore never know what you could have achieved.

Do you remember receiving your first bike as a child? No doubt you were excited, but the first time you held the handlebars in your hands and sat on the seat, your first thoughts may have been, “I will never get the hang of this. I’m going to fall down and hurt myself.” Was your fear confirmed? No.  You kept practicing and you did get the hang of it; not only that, even if you haven’t ridden a bike in years, if you got back on one today, you would still remember how to ride. If you do not try, you will never know the satisfaction of accomplishment, the vibration of winning or the positive energy of your own success.

“If you suppress the desire in you or you do not behave according to “who you are,” you reject experiencing God,” says Keller. Your solutions come from the same place as your dreams and desires. You will never feel a desire or dream that you cannot, in some form, achieve. Don'’t ever lose your hope!

If the opinions of others do not motivate you when fulfilling a task, then don’t let their ideas mislead you – search for your own happiness, health, and welfare.  Do not feel bad about being different, or unique, as this too is a quality of winners. Do not deny the reality of the world around you, but don’t fall victim to it either. The winning vibration is one that allows you to act in harmony with others, while remaining loyal to you. This way, even in “bad” conditions, you won’t feel like you’re losing or denying yourself, but only the positive feeling of “adapting to new circumstances.”