Focus on Problems vs. Focus on Solutions

1) When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that
the pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity (Ink won’t flow down to the writing
surface).In order to solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12
million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down,
underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a
temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C. And what did
Russians do…………………………………??
The Russians used a Pencil!!!
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2) One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the
case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan’s biggest
cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had
bought a soap box that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the
problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of
soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soap box went through
the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the
problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine
with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap
boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No
doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount
to do so.

 

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the
same problem, did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead
came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan
and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each
soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
Moral of the story: KISS (Keep It Simple,Stupid) i.e. always look for
simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the
problem So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems

“If you look at what you do not have in life, you don’t have anything”
“If you look at what you have in life, you have everything”

 

Subconscious Mind Idea Generator

Here’s a proven technique to generate ideas…Before going to bed, write down all of the main benefits and features of your product / service. Just do a total brain dump and let all ideas and thoughts flow. Write them down. You could also do this when brainstorming headlines.

Really let it all hang pout, and spend some quality time doing this. Before you do any of this, ask yourself a question like, “What are the most hard hitting benefits of what I’m offering?

It’s VERY important that you write this down. Also be as specific as possible with your question. Then begin to immediately write down the best ideas that come to mind.

You need to do at least 25 of these for starters. The more the better. Don’t worry about qualifying your answers, that can come later. The important thing is to make your mind stretch a bit to come up with the answers.

Spend at least 30-40 minutes doing this. The closer to bedtime that you do this, the better.

After you complete this little exercise, give it a rest. Go to bed or do something else. What you may not realize is that your subconscious mind will continue to work on this long after you have stopped writing.

It’s one of those things that is so wonderful about the power of the human mind. Really.

After awakening the next morning, it’s important that you begin writing your sales letter. You’ll be fresher, more alive, and have the power of your subconscious mind in your corner which has been working on your behalf all the time that you’ve been sleeping.

You will receive intuitions and creative thoughts about how to craft your sales letter like never before.

Why?

This is the power of the subconscious mind at work with what Napoleon Hill referred to as “Infinite Intelligence”. You must realize that entire books have been written about this subject, but I’m condensing it here so you get the main theme.

What you’ll also notice happening throughout the day as you focus on other things, is that new ideas that answer your original question will suddenly appear in your head that seem to come from nowhere.

Here’s a very important point…

Make sure you are in a position to write down these little intuitive thoughts or summarize them RIGHT AWAY because they will fade as quickly as they come. Wait even 30-60 minutes and you’ll probably have trouble recalling what came into your mind before.

You certainly don’t want to miss these little gems.

They can be worth thousands, even millions to you if you apply them properly. Everybody has them, but they don’t always pay attention.

**Note** This technique can also be applied to everyday problems in your own life. Just start with as specific a question as you can, and generate a volume of answers with a very focused session, and LET IT GO.

I guarantee that if you use this technique on a regular basis, you’ll not only experience better results with your copywriting, but you’ll be able to solve problems quicker and easier than ever before.

It works! Do it today and let me know how you came out:)

If not now, when?

It’s so easy to put things off. Sometimes we’re like Scarlet O’Hara, who hoped and dreamed for a better life by saying, “There’s always tomorrow.” But is there always a tomorrow? If we live too many of our days counting on tomorrows, we may find ourselves putting off achievements and growth now.What if tomorrow never came?

What if all of our time to do what we wanted was put in the hours left in today? We’d be scurrying around like mice trying to cram as much as we could into this short period of time. But today, not having such a deadline, we believe our time is endless and no goal or task is so important that it can’t be put off.

The time to achieve is now. The time to live is now.

For as long as we believe tomorrow will come, we’ll be living for tomorrow. If we don’t believe today is the greatest gift we could receive, we’ll never know how to live for today. Everything we want to achieve, to learn, to share can begin today.

If we don’t live the best we can right now, then when?

The time flies no matter what. Each day we all get CHOICES.

What choices have you made that have taken you farther away from your goals or gotten you into troubled waters?

What would you do differently? Now is your chance.

As long as you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always gotten!

The Ideal Year?

 What’s your life going to be a year from now?

How about, try getting a clearer picture of your life as you ideally would want it to be. Try to imagine what your life would be like in a year, if EVERYTHING were to work out wonderfully. Get into the details of what your ideal life would be. Imagine, every day for a year, you’ve made the most wonderful, positive strides in every area of your life. For example, it’s Sunday afternoon, one year from today. Everyday, for the last year, everything has worked out perfectly for you. You are now one year ‘down the road’ and able to see your what your life would be like, if EVERYTHING has worked out wonderfully.

What are you doing? Where are you? What are your circumstances? How do you feel about yourself? What did you do this morning or afternoon? What are you planning for this evening? And, very importantly, what are you looking forward to tomorrow, Monday morning? What is your schedule like for the upcoming week? What other plans are you making?

Get a vivid, clear, full-of-wonderful-feelings, images, even smells, sounds and tactile experiences of the life you really want to be living. Imagine what your IDEAL life would be like.

Affirm this to be true. Accept it, and start being thankful for it, even now before you can see how it could possibly come to be. (Exercise FAITH.)

Plan Backwards
Now, instead of planning forwards, plan backwards. In other words, take the END you want to experience – your IDEAL LIFE, one year from today – and imagine backwards. Ask yourself, in order for me to have this Ideal Life, what MUST have occurred in the last year?

For example, if you wanted to give birth to a child, you probably must have gotten pregnant more than nine months ago, right? And if you want to be successful selling photographs, then you must have done __________ . (You‘ll want to find out what this takes. Would it have taken meeting someone who already knew how to do this, and was willing to show you? Would it take you having a different attitude about the worth of what you do? Would it take you spending time to get business sense, or hiring an agent to handle this end?) Are you living in a beautiful home of your own? Then again, ask yourself what must have occurred in the last year for this to be true? Did you win the lottery? Maybe not.

Maybe you got a large grant? Or, maybe you found or created a way to earn a very lucrative income from doing things you already LOVE doing? And if you’ve handled your income and finances successfully, you must have created a successful budget, savings and spending plan. If you’re in excellent health, you must have created a lifestyle that is conducive to this. If you’re in a successful relationship, you must have found successful ways to resolve your differences (because even the best of relationships are going to have some differences).

The point is, when it comes to having the IDEAL LIFE that we want, we must understand that this life is foreshadowed by certain events, personal habits and disciplines. In order to have the ideal life we want, we therefore need to incorporate these into our plans, even if we have no clue as to how we are going to make it all happen. (Note: Making it all happen is mostly up to the Universe. Our ‘job’ is to have the FAITH that will impel and allow the Universe to make it so, and to mold us into who we need to be.)

Insurance
No matter what we IDEALLY picture and desire for ourselves, we cannot possibly know everything in the Universe that bears some relationship to our life. In other words, we are not in a ‘See All, Know All’ position. Because of this, it is wise, when affirming whatever it is we want, to add, “This or something even better, for my highest good and the highest good of all concerned.” Doing this, we are not constraining the Universe. In essence, we are saying, “Universe, I know what I think would be best and most wonderful for me, but I also know that I don’t know everything. So, if there is something EVEN BETTER for me, go ahead and give me that.”

In other words, by dreaming and coming up with visions of an Ideal Life, we are telling the Universe we are open to more life, joy, love and happiness. And by adding the above ‘insurance phrase’ we are also telling the Universe that we trust it, and we are open to even greater possibilities than we can even imagine. (It helps us from so-called ‘shooting ourselves in the foot’.)

Intuition & Guidance
You – what you believe and therefore see as possible – who you are today, will naturally know less than the you of a week from today, and so on. So, even if you know what you want, say, a year from now, your knowledge of how this is to take place will change over time. By being open to intuition and guidance, you enable yourself to grow, sometimes by leaps and bounds,

Intuition and guidance happen in myriad ways. But certainly, intuition incorporates having faith, and listening to and for constructive ideas and opportunities. To me, intuition and guidance are conducive to inner peace, love and well being. They tend to take us beyond, or through, around or over our fears.

For example, I have a couple of friends into real estate. They both have their licenses, yet one is on the verge of quitting, and the other is making great forwards strives. One is constantly criticizing the field of real estate and telling me why he must fail at it, and the other, well,… most recently she told me how she just ‘happened’ to meet a very successful realtor who just happened to be looking for someone to train and run his office, someone who would be a partner to him.

What causes such happenstance? Is it luck or coincidence? What do you think?

cheers,

BobbyWan

THE 10 THINGS in LIFE YOU CONTROL

There are just a few aspects of life that we can truly control, and it’s useful to know just what those areas are. If you don’t know, you’ll spend a lot of time blaming others for your own failings. Try and exert too much control in areas you shouldn’t and the universe will create some interesting ways to remind of your place.So be prepared an learn the 10 things in life that you DO control:

1. What you do.

Your actions are yours alone. You choose to make them or not make them and you are responsible for the effects of those actions.

2. What you say.

Likewise, the words you speak (or write) are also consciously chosen. Like actions, they have an impact on your life and the lives of those you contact.

3. What you think.

Yes, there are some subconscious thoughts that you can’t control. But the things that you really think about, your beliefs, your ideals, etc. are concepts you have chosen to accept and believe in.

4. Your work.

Many people like are all things you can control, although some to a lesser degree (i.e., you decide to tolerate them or move someplace else).

8. Your fiscal situation.

Having or not having enough money is a factor of what you make versus what you spend.

9. Your time.

You choose how to “spend” your time and how much of your time to give to various activities. You’ll never get more time than the 24 hours your given each day.

10. Your legacy.

All your actions, words, and knowledge that you share while you are living become the gift that you leave when you are gone.

The Top 10 Time Wasters

Time is a very precious resource. The fact is that regardless of how well you manage time, at the end of a day, you will still only have had 24 hours. In one year there are still only 8,760 hours. The key is using your time efficiently and eliminating time wasters from your day. Your attitudes and behaviors affect how you use your time. Below are some examples of ineffective use of time. By substituting what’s not working for you with a more effective behavior and/or attitude you’re on the road to managing your time.

1. Interruptions/distractions     

If you have a constant stream of well-intentioned colleagues, subordinates and/or family members interrupting your concentration and focus, stop them by communicating when it’s okay to interrupt and when it’s clearly not.

2. Poor planning     

Planning is so critical when you want to accomplish something.Planning in advance provides direction before proceeding toward a goal.

3. Perfectionism     

Although perfectionism is a behavior, it’s also an attitude. By striving toward progress rather than perfection, you will free up a lot of your time and energy. 

4. Procrastination     

Like perfectionism, procrastination also is both a behavior and an attitude. Waiting until the last minute or otherwise putting things off tends to create a crisis or problems that may not otherwise exist. In addition, by not doing something you’re procrastinating about, you also end up wasting considerable time worrying about how much you’re procrastinating. Just do it.

5. Trying to do everything yourself     

Taking on the world all by yourself will not serve you or the people around you. Learn to say “no” and to delegate tasks others can do for you (even if it’s not up to your standards).

6. Taking on too much     

Biting off more than you can chew is a prime example of taking on too much. Not having strong clearly communicated boundaries is another example.You do not need to volunteer to be on every project, organization, taskforce, association, etc.

7. Crisis management     

A crisis is an unforeseen emergency. By planning and asking yourself whether or not something is truly urgent, what will happen if it’s not handled immediately, you will eliminate a great deal of this fire fighting behavior. Remember the old adage, “haste makes waste.”

8. Too much socializing     

Although we all love to have friends and enjoy our relationships, by allowing yourself too much freedom in this area you’ll wind up spending a large percentage of your ‘work’ time socializing and will be pressing to meet deadlines.

9. Not valuing your own time     

Others will not respect or value your time if you don’t send the message that your time is important. Watch your actions, behaviors and commitments–are they communicating the right message? 

10. Lack of skills     

Organizing, prioritizing, decision-making and problem solving skills are all critical in supporting effective use of time. Strengthen these skills and you’ll see a remarkable difference in how you use your time.