“Marketing is NOT a separate entity; it is part of being who you are and offering ways to be of service to those who are naturally attracted to who you are as a Creative Person. Marketing is making yourself known to as many people as possible in as many creative ways as
possible to make them aware of what you are doing – while you are just having a darn good time.”

Now my daily marketing plan is simply getting myself in front of as many people as possible in as many creative ways as possible so that those people who are looking for what I am offering can find me.

The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don’t do what you’ve always done before. Don’t try to think your way around it. You no longer want a way around your troubles because what goes around, comes around! What you want is to grow beyond the level of that disturbance. And to do that, you must not act from it.

So don’t allow yourself to be pulled down into any anxious concern or confusion over not knowing what to do about your present condition. What you really want is an insight into your situation, not a fight with it. The two have nothing in common. So make it clear to yourself once and for all: nothing that hounds you can help you.

Draw yourself back from your usual thinking. Quietly observe it race around looking for the shelter of a conclusion it can recognize. Have nothing to do with its frantic motion.

You’ve gone as far as you can go with what you know. Now it’s time to know that, so that you can let what you know go, and let something unthinkable occur to you. Just relax.

Pressuring yourself to come up with a happy ending to a sad or shaky situation only goes to show you still believe that you can resolve these troubles. But if you could have, you would have by now. Besides, your lower nature wants you to confuse these feelings of pressure for being some kind of proof of personal progress. It’s done its job well. After all these years you’re afraid to live without this feeling of habitually prodding yourself, for fear that without it, you might get stuck! The solution here is to see that, in fact, you are stuck! This powerful insight releases you from the pressure of wanting anything from yourself.

Now you’ve done what you can do. You’ve prepared the stage, your own mind, for the arrival of a higher nature and a new kind of freedom. But learn to expect it in the unexpected. To paraphrase the New Testament: be ever watchful for you don’t know when — or how — something higher will make itself known to you.

There may come a flash of insight, a clear glimpse into some self-created cause of your own continuing inner captivity. Or, perhaps, a sudden and sweet deep sense of wholeness will sweep through you, a quiet but profound intuition, wherein you know yourself, for that moment, to be one with all of that life pulsating around and within you.

However that Light breaks into the darkened room of self, consider each brief illumination as an appointed messenger, a heavenly herald sent in advance of a greater freedom to come. Learn to embrace each appearance, for regardless of what may be revealed — to you or about you — these insights are not unlike the sound of the shouts of liberation heard always just before the arrival of the liberating forces. A new freedom always follows. Now, follow it.

– Guy Finley

If you’re trying to be a leader and be a success, don’t lose your fire and your desire to continue. When you have these things you have the winning spirit that you need to move forward, even when things seem difficult. If you lose them, though, you really have nothing, even if you’re making money. Not having a passion for what you do will kill a business, so you have to do something that matters to you if you really want success.

Leadership isn’t about telling people what to do. The main principle of leadership is to be a quality person who doesn’t need to tell people what to do – those people simply follow you because they see your value and they want what you have. If you can be that kind of person (and it can be learned) you can be a good leader and show the world what you have to offer. Adhering to that will bring you success.

There are many ways to be successful. The people who are successful the fastest (and with the smallest amount of effort) do three things. They are passionate about what they are doing. They are committed to completing their task no matter what kinds of problems and challenges they might encounter. They make others want to follow them without coercion or demands. When you honestly have these things, you have what you need to be successful.

The human brain is amazing. It does so much that we don’t understand, and among those things is the way that people become what they think about the most. You need the right mindset if you’re going to be successful, and that means you have to think about being successful. If you always think defeat and doom and gloom your brain will become fixated on that and your mannerisms will match. You won’t get anywhere.

When you try to do something, like start up a new business, it doesn’t always go well. If that’s the case, and you can’t get anywhere, don’t simply give up. Take another street, another path, or another road to get you to where you want to be. That might mean a different style of business, or just a different take on the business that you’re planning on starting up. The options really are endless.

Even if you weren’t a leader when you were younger, that doesn’t mean that you can’t be one now. You don’t have to be ‘born to be a leader,’ because no one really is. People learn to be leaders through their life experiences, the kinds of work that they do, and how they are treated by family, friends, and society in general. If you want to be a leader you can learn to do it right, even if you weren’t taught to do it when you were younger.

Opening and running a business can be very difficult, and with that in mind you have to think about it correctly. If you aren’t really focused on the business that you’re opening and you aren’t passionate and committed, your chances of success are much lower than they would otherwise be. How you think about yourself and the business that you’re running can really affect how well that business does, both now and in the long term.

Too many people think that they can’t learn to run a business or be successful. They worry because they ‘wasted’ their youth or they didn’t do enough with the gifts that they had in the past. It’s never too late, though, and business success is something that can be learned. You’re not born with it, and you didn’t lose it because you didn’t use it. You can learn to be successful in business if you’re willing to put the work in.