Brian Tracy's Blog, page 47

Strategic Planning Process: How To Set Long-Term Goals

Your ability to set long-term goals and constantly be thinking about the future of your business has an inordinate impact on the success and profitability of your enterprise. All top executives are long-term thinkers. They project forward five years and they think about where they want to be and what they will have to be doing at that time in order to achieve their long-term goals. They are constantly asking themselves how to set goals and better their strategic planning process to further th...

How to Make Money and Develop Long-Term Financial Goals

For accurate financial planning, calculate your net worth today and then subtract that amount from your long-term financial goals. Divide the results by the number of years you intend to spend to achieve your financial goals. In this way, you will know exactly how much you have to save, invest, and accumulate each year in order to become a millionaire.

Determine Your Hourly Rate

If you want to earn more money and become a millionaire, the first step you take is to sit down and determine exactl...

Be an Excellent Time Manager Through Personal Time Management

The way you use your time largely determines everything that happens to you in life. All really successful people know that in order to achieve their goals they must be an excellent time manager. Your job is to become one of these high achieving men and women through personal time management.

Learn Personal Time Management

Perhaps the greatest single problem that people have today is “time poverty.” Working people have too much to do and too little time for their personal lives. Most people fee...

Be an Excellent Time Manager through Personal Time Management

The way you use your time largely determines everything that happens to you in life. All really successful people know that in order to achieve their goals they must be an excellent time manager. Your job is to become one of these high achieving men and women through personal time management.

Learn Personal Time Management

Perhaps the greatest single problem that people have today is “time poverty.” Working people have too much to do and too little time for their personal lives. Most people fee...

Save Time When Dealing with Others

Your interactions with others consume as much time, if not more, than any other part of your day and if done wrong, can it be a huge time waster. Even technical workers spend up to 75 percent of their time communicating with coworkers. You can greatly increase the efficiency of your interactions by improving the quality of your communications.

Common Misunderstandings: A Major Time Waster

A major time waster is caused by misunderstandings between people about roles, goals, and responsibilities....

Create Your Daily Personal Growth and Development Schedule

There are seven personal growth disciplines you must develop if you want to achieve all that is possible for you. You can learn these high value disciplines through practice and repetition until they become automatic.

Goal Setting

Every morning, take three to five minutes to write out your top goals in the present tense. Get a spiral notebook for this purpose. By writing out your ten goals at the beginning of each day, you will program them deep into your subconscious mind.

Goal setting will act...

Marketing vs. The Sales Process

Marketing and the sales process are two separate activities. Marketing is the process of lead generation. Marketing embraces everything you do up to the point of sale. The design, development, and determination of the exact product or service that you are going to sell are the first part of marketing. The second is to think through every element of the marketing mix before you begin. These elements are product, price, promotion, packaging, positioning, and people.

Product/ Service

What exactly...

3 Qualities of the Most Effective Leaders

If you aspire to become an inspirational and effective leader, you must develop continuously work on yourself and improve your management skills. No one starts off as an effective leader, but you can aspire to improve your skills by learning what leaders do, and how they think and feel, and then by copying them until you become one yourself. I’ll discuss with you some qualities of successful leaders you can focus on to strengthen your leadership skills.

Effective Leaders Focus on Strengths

The...

4 High Profit Tips for Your Business

The race is on and your customer knows it. There has never been more competition for profit in business than there is today. And the competition is going to get even more intense in the months and years ahead.

You can save yourself years of hard work and frustration by applying these 4 great ideas for higher profitability. They can change your business life forever.

1) Develop a Clear Mission for Your Business

For you, your business and your people to perform at a high level everyone needs a cle...

6 Simple Steps in Real Estate Investing

If you sincerely desire to enter the real estate field, to purchase property as your investment, there are many ways that you can do it. Perhaps the simplest way of all, and the starting point of many real estate fortunes, is called the “Buy’em, Fix’em Method.” This refers to the strategy of buying properties needing work and fixing them up to increase their value.

There are several steps for you to follow in the buy’em fix’em method.

1. Do Your Real Estate Research

Do your research, in advance....