Word of the Day: IMPLEMENTATION - to put into effect according to or by means of a definite plan or procedure.

I was on a brilliant training call this morning, took so many notes and got a lot of tips that I can really use in my business.  The word Implementation was used along with commitment and passion to describe one of the top leaders in our business who is very focused on getting the results she wants. This really got me thinking about myself and asking the question: Do I implement what I learn?

I see myself as a student.  I am always on the look-out for little gems of information, little golden nuggets of inspiration, success tips or life lessons that I can take and apply to my situation, to my circumstances and my life.  One of my favourite quotes is from Zig Ziglar: "People often say that Motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing.  That's why we recommend it daily".  I truly believe that doing some form of personal development on a daily basis is vital if you are looking to achieve any goals, or get any kind of results in life.  There is so many sources out there as my bookshelf can attest to.  I have read many books from great minds such as Jim Rohn, Steven Covey, Robert Kiyosaki, Jeff Olsen, Darren Hardy and the list goes on.

But it is one thing to read these books and put them back on the shelf to collect dust.  It is an entirely different thing to take some of the gold nuggets you find, and apply them in a practical way that you can use each and every day to actually deliver on the results you want.

The success education curriculum that I sell and use in my daily life has the added benefit of thought-provoking questions, exercises and activities that build on what you are learning and assist you to implement them into your life. I am truly grateful for having found this company and this curriculum as it has made a huge difference to my effectiveness and happiness in getting more out of life. (Send me an email via my website with this link if you want to know more about this life-changing curriculum - 'email Susan')

Now when I read a book I like to have a pencil and a highlighter with me so I can mark points that I can use and make notes. If it is a book I do not want to mark, then I have a notebook that I can jot down the main points and page numbers. The last couple of books I have been reading I have endeavoured to implement at least one thing from each book.  It's not always easy, and I don't always get it done, or get it right, and it is something that I know I can improve upon.  But it is something that I am more aware of doing now.

So, my challenge to you is to implement just 1 idea/concept/action into your life from the next personal development book or e-book you read.

Here's to your Success!

Susan Dorrington
Personal Leadership Development Business Consultant

Learn more about me at www.susandorrington.com

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Unrealistic Expectations?

I have to admit that I am not a fan of the phrase "be realistic".  It's not that I want to live in some fantasy world and not know the truth of matters.  It's just that I think too many people like to squash people's dreams by telling them to be realistic.  Dreams that with a bit of hard work...some persistence..ok...a lot of persistence, some self-belief and some tenacity could actually be achieved. It does us good to have big bold 'unrealistic' dreams, and they should be encouraged.

But that being acknowledged there is something that I think it pays to be a bit realistic on - and that is the effort it takes to earn an income from a home business. There are so many phrases used on the internet about some work from home jobs/businesses - Get Rich Quick schemes, Set and Forget, Money for Nothing, Earn Millions while you Sleep, Massive Returns for Little Work - these are often the unrealistic expectations people can have about online or work at home businesses - that you can earn loads of money on the internet without having to do very much. The odds of that happening are likely to be much like the odds of you winning the lotto - currently around 2.5 million to 1.

Wake up and smell the coffee people!....you cannot expect to start a home business, set up a website and then expect to be an instant overnight success without a little bit of effort. Ask any successful business person - even the ones who seem to have come out of nowhere and created massive results 'overnight' - they will all tell you about the hard work they put in to get there - like the duck's feet paddling under water when everything seems calm above the water.

There are so many home-based businesses on offer these days - really good businesses that allow the average person with a dream to break out of the traditional job and really create the kind of income they have only ever dreamed about. Having these kinds of dreams are helpful, if not necessary to launch you out of what is considered 'normal' and to take a risk. Dreaming about or visualising your income goals - keeping focused on what you are working to achieve is important.

But this is where we need to wake up for a minute and ask ourselves what are our expectations about the amount of work it takes to achieve our goal - the money, the effort and the time? How much do we want this goal...and are we willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it?


There is a huge difference between having a big income goal, and expecting to reach it without working for it.  


A business requires some effort - you get out of it what you put into it.  If you put in a normal work day at a job you get you set paycheck at the end of the week.  If you work really really hard at the same job, if you are lucky you might get a thank-you, but you'll still get that same paycheck.  The potential with a home business is so much greater.  If you don't work hard you will get little or no returns.  If you put in a massive effort the potential is outstanding...and this is being done by ordinary people - no different than you or I every single day.  What is their secret to success?  Consistent effort - small disciplines practiced every single day.  Nothing too amazing - just simple little things done each day - things that are easy to do...but also very easy not to do.

I personally love the industry I am in.  I am proud of my home based business and love to see others succeed - either in our team, or in whatever business they are in.  But I am sad to see so many give up on their dreams so quickly, after just a week or a month because they had an expectation that they would achieve success quickly and without too much effort.

It might just be the time to bring back some old fashioned values - work ethic, tenacity, discipline, goal-setting and achieving and my favourite - persistence!

Do you care what other people think?

I came across this picture today and it really resonated with me.  This used to be me - so worried what others thought of me that I was making myself miserable.  

What got me thinking though was how I came to that kind of limiting belief in the first place?  

It is normal to want people to like us, but if you continue on that path it can become such a limitation in our life.  Does it come from our parents or siblings? Or from bullies at school?  How about work colleagues or bosses making you feel it is impossible to measure up?  

I was brought up in a Christian home and instilled with good values like "do unto others as you would have them do to you", and "love your neighbour as yourself"....but somehow I became unbalanced in my view of thinking other people's viewpoint of me were more important than what I thought of myself.  

Wherever this belief came from it was very damaging and limited the experiences and relationships I was having in life.

Over the years and through much personal development, I have become more balanced, realising that it is not selfish to have a measure of self-confidence and belief in yourself.  

It is a good healthy thing, and in fact if you do not have this you are almost a liability to society and those around you, instead of being a positive asset who sets an example and empowers others to do the same.

Shhhhh it's a SECRET!!!

Shhhh....can I tell you a Secret?

It's the key....it's the fairy dust......

the secret ingredient....the magic sauce.....

the one thing you're searching for....

the thing that all the successful people seem to possess.....

it's that elusive one thing that if you could get your hands on you could be successful too - at whatever you want to do....

it sounds SO simple, but don't underestimate it's power!

Do you want to know what it is?

The secret is.......

CONSISTENCY!

Yup, it's easy to do, but just as easy not to.

Consistency at anything is the secret....

the magic fairy dust...to creating any result...

in anything in life!

Use this secret wisely!

It's taking a simple positive action and doing it every single day. 

Want to lose weight? You don't have to be powerfully motivated, or do massive amounts of exercise, or go on the latest fad diet.  Take a couple of positive actions - cut out junk food, cut out sugar, exercise 30 mins a day.  Simply, hey?  But so simple it's easy not to do.  Compound those simple couple of actions by a couple of months and you have yourself some results!

Want to learn something? Too busy to do a course, or study? Start by reading the books - 10 mins a day.  10 minutes is easy to find for even the busiest of people.  At the end of a month you would have read for 5 hours.  At the end of 6 months - 30 hours of reading time.  After 1 year of still only reading for just 10 minutes a day you would have read for over 60 hours!  Imagine what you could learn in 60 hours!!  That's the compound effect!

So...if it's that simple...then why aren't more people having success with it?  

Well, it's just that - it's so simple to do....that it's easy to say, oh it won't matter if I skip it today.  It won't matter if I just do it once a week, instead of every day. But you know what?  It DOES matter! It's so easy NOT to do, that most people just don't do it!

So, here's my little challenge for you. Pick something that you want to do. Schedule time every day to do it - don't make it so big that it's not achievable.  It may be as simple as clearing up some paperwork - spend 5-10 minutes a day for the next month doing just that.  Keep it to your 5-10 minutes.  Don't get bogged down with it and say you are doing it so you may as well keep going.  Stick to the 5-10 mins.  Walk away and smile knowing that you have done it for the day.  Come back tomorrow and do it again.  And the next day...and the next.  For 1 month...make a commitment, and follow through.  See just what you will achieve.  Celebrate your wins...enjoy what you have been able to achieve. 

Then take this lesson and apply it to anything in life you want to see results!

Susan Dorrington

Personal Leadership Development Business Consultant
www.liberty2live.com.au