“Concentrating On Too Many Things Gets Nothing Done…”

No, not an ancient Chinese Proverb, just an Andrew Anderson one.

This axiom has been said in many different ways and no matter which way it is said, it is still true. It does not matter if we are talking your Business, the latest project, or even dating.

Not concentrating on one thing and getting it completed or at least to the next level will in the end more than likely spell disaster almost every single time.

While I know this and operate this way almost always in my business life, sometimes I still slip and I also have to ride hard on the people that I work with at times as well.

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Quotes often help me get a better perspective on things. Here a few that I thought you might enjoy.  If you have any that you would like to share, please post them in a comment.  If they are yours, make sure you let everyone know!

Cheers, Andrew

“Life’s tough……it’s even tougher if you’re stupid.”    –  John Wayne

“Inefficiency is solved in the quickest and best way when someone figures out how to make a profit from solving it and is rewarded for doing so.  This is why Capitalism is the only system that has proven to work over the centuries for people to interact with each other peacefully.  This is also something that the Communists, Socialists, and most Politicians have never figured out.”   –  Andrew Anderson

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.”  — Milton Friedman

“It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.”  Ayn Rand

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ” –   Ayn Rand

“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”  — Ayn Rand

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.”  — Ayn Rand

“Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it”  –  Somerset Maugham

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

And here are some quotes from Teddy Roosevelt that are relevant today.  While he was a trans-nationalist and somewhat Anti-Capitalist he did have a way with words … and was a smart guy and what he said over 100 years ago still rings true today. Hope you enjoy these.

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Theodore Roosevelt

The one below has far too much relevance in today’s world.

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.
– Theodore Roosevelt

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
– Theodore Roosevelt, speech at New York City (September 6, 1918)

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
– Theodore Roosevelt

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
– Theodore Roosevelt

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not guilty.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
– Theodore Roosevelt

The eighth commandment reads, “Thou shalt not steal.” It does not read, “Thou shalt not steal from the rich man.” It does not read, “Thou shalt not steal from the poor man.” It reads simply and plainly, “Thou shalt not steal.”

– Theodore Roosevelt, speech, “The Man With The Muck Rake” (April 15, 1906)

This is one of my faves…

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

– Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” speech at the Sorbonne, Paris (April 23, 1910)

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
– Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
– Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas City Star (April 27, 1918)

‘I have always been fond of the West African proverb: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” ‘ ”

“…the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.” (1891)

“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.” (1894

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How To Improve Your Chances of Success In Anything That You Want To Do By 228%

Would you like to know what is holding you back from Success? There are more than likely only 3 things that are doing it and I am going to show you how to overcome them in the next 5 minutes.

Here goes….

So what is holding you back from doing starting your own business or expanding your existing one, or accomplishing practically anything for that matter?

I have seen this hundreds of times with people including myself in that the only thing holding people back from being successful are totally wrongly held beliefs in their very own head that they created (sometime on their own or sometimes with A LOT or a little help from other people) that keeps them (and you and me) from being successful at a task or even a whole business.

That belief often will show up before they actually do anything or right before they are successful and finishing and accomplishing what they started.

I am going to give you three tools and techniques that you can use to combat this that will improve your chances of success by 228%. They are not highly technical, expensive, or hard to do.

#1 – The first is to get out either a piece of paper, napkin, papyrus, chalk or white board and a writing instrument. Could be a crayon, a piece of charcoal or a pen or pencil. This can even be accomplished with one of those new fangled things called a computer.

The first wonderful technique from Anderson’s Arsenal is: To write down what you are going to do and the specific steps you need to take to make it happen. This can usually be accomplished in as little as 2 minutes. Yet those 2 minutes can be the most important 2 minutes of the whole project.

I know it is monumental and shocking, but if you don’t write it down, I can almost guarantee that you are going to fail at whatever it is that you are going to do period. There are numerous studies backing up this very simple technique for success.

Now when you do this it is very important steps that need to be done and state them in such a way that there definitive and actionable.

Here is an example…

#2 – Do something toward that goal on a scheduled basis for at least 30 days so that it can then become a habit. What this means is that you can do a little bit one day, and then wait three or four days and then do something else. You are better off spending 15 minutes each day or every other day doing something that gets you closer to your goal. If you don’t do this, again, your chances of success are dismal.

#3 – Now unless you are an athlete that had an exceptional coach you may have not done this one. Perhaps you have heard of it, but the big secret number 3 is visualization.

This is where you visualize you having succeeded at whatever it is that you started off to do. While it may sound like mumbo jumbo, again, it has been proven to work even better that actual physical practice.

In order to do this, you simply need to get comfortable in a quiet place and see yourself actually accomplishing the goal and play it through your head each day for say 5 to 10 minutes (more if you can) Try and make the experience as sensory rich as possible. If you can add sounds, colors, smells, to the scene that is great. But the most important thing is to see yourself actually having accomplishing the goal.

Now as far as increasing your percentage of success, I have to tell you that I sandbagged on the on the 228% figure and here is why, because it is actually closer to several 1,000% more but you probably would not have believed that.

You may have noticed that I did not address the whole wrongly held beliefs that I first mentioned yet either.

Well, here again that is pretty simple as well. If you believe that you can do something, you have a good chance to doing it. If you believe that you can’t, you are probably going to be almost 100% right.

This is because your subconscious will make sure that you don’t accomplish the task you have set for yourself and you won’t even know that you are doing it to yourself.   On the other hand, if you truly believe that you can do something, your chances of success increase many, many times. This is called the Pygmalion Effect (see my other post on this).

So you need to get your head around letting yourself obtain success. I have mentioned this book before but it is worth mentioning again. Snag a copy of T.Harv. Eker’s book “ Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind” if you are even thinking about doing anything involving money.

Once you read it, you will know exactly what I am talking about.  In the meantime, if you are not a multi-millionaire, or are successful at everything that you do, go ahead and try the things I mentioned and you will find that they do indeed work.

Cheers,

Andrew Anderson

Tags: Inner Game, Profit, Pygmalion Effect, Success

What is your Edge? What makes you different, unique, or better than everyone else?  Find it and success will find you.

Because of the frantic pace that I often push myself, I know that have a tendency to forget this.  So take some time to chill out, grab a pen and paper and figure out what really makes you different.  Do that and the money will follow faster than you can imagine.

Continued Profits,

Andrew Anderson

PS  I have to thank Bob Parsons founder of GoDaddy.com for reminding me of this fact…  Thanks Bob!

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Well for some time now I have wrestled with having a public version of the blog and I have come to the conclusion that if I can save just one person from the grief of the metaphoric skinned knee, then so be it.  So I will be making most of my customers only blog available to the public.  I will post a couple of the posts every few days as time permits.

Plus, I can do my part to perhaps shift the way business is done by just a little bit by the right people and then we can shift the level at which it is conducted worldwide.

If you have not run into 21to21.com before, we are “Profit Consultants” that Guarantee our clients a certain amount of profit from our assistance or we do not get paid. Wouldn’t it be great if every company did that?

Well the truth of the matter is that will never happen, which is why we have a waiting list for customers.

Many Companies Should Get Rid Of 80% Of Their Clients

One of the other differences is that we advocate that many companies should get rid of 80% of their customers. This is not a typo, many companies would benefit from getting rid of 80% of their customers and concentrating on the 20% that bring in 80% of their business.

By doing so you can usually raise net profit by 21% and lower expenses drastically. While on one hand is may seem counter intuitive, on the other hand if you think about it, it makes perfect sense.  While most companies will never do it, that is OK .  It makes our job that much easier.

While many of our clients wish to remain private about our services, some do not and in the near future we will be discussing some of the things that we are doing with them and why we decided to work with them.

The simple answer is actually very simple surprisingly enough.

• First off they have integrity and when I say integrity, that means they will follow through with a handshake better than most people do with signed contracts. Their word means something to them
• They are smart and innovative and care about their products and services, as well as their clients
• They are in a unique niche market that is being under served
• They love what they do and know how to have fun while doing it

So there you have our client criteria and perhaps you can make use of it as well.  It is good to get rid of some clients and occasionally it is good when they get rid of you too.

I look forward to sharing some of our concepts and procedures that allow our customers to thrive even in this economy and I hope that they can help you do the same.  Our goal is for you to see and experience Profit Consulting at its best.

Andrew Anderson

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