Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Wednesday 23rd December, 2009

Creating a feeling of value & self-worth!
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“Our individuality is all, all that we have. There are those who would barter it for security, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures and rides it, in grace and love and wit.”

~ Anthony Robbins

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A Sense Of Direction

The Law of Integrity . . .

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Dear Fellow Achiever

Great business leadership is characterized by honesty, truthfulness, and straight dealing with every person, under all circumstances. This law requires that you be impeccably honest with yourself and others. As Emerson said, “Guard your integrity as a sacred thing. Nothing is at last sacred by the integrity of your own mind.” Integrity lies at the core of leadership, at the heart of the leader. Everything you do revolves around the person you really are inside. And the person you are inside is always demonstrated by your actions, the things you do and say.

Leadership Definded

Leadership has been defined as the “ability to get followers.” For people to follow you, to subordinate their interests to yours, they must be able to believe in you and be willing to commit their time, money, and energy to you. Leadership is therefore a trust conferred upon you by others. To earn this trust, to deserve this trust, you must be true to yourself. Only then can you live in truth with everyone else in your life and work.

Be a Good Role Model

Perhaps the most important thing you do as a leader is to be a good role model. Lead by example. Walk the talk. Live the life. Always carry yourself as though everyone is watching, even when no one is watching. Good leaders are completely reliable. People can take them at their word and trust that they will do what they say. They make promises carefully, and then always keep their word.

Consistency

A key mark of integrity in human relations is consistency, both internal and external. The best leaders are consistent from one day to the next, from one situation to the next. Because of this internal consistency, these leaders are trusted. People know what to expect. There are no surprises.

Two Basic Types of Leadership

There are two basic types of leadership in business today, transactional and transformational. Transactional leadership is the ability to direct people, manage resources, and get the job done. But transformational leadership, the most important form of leadership today, is the ability to motivate, inspire, and bring people to higher levels of performance.

Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership is the ability to touch people emotionally, to empower them to be more and to contribute more than they ever have before. This ability enables transformational leaders to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.

Action Exercise

Resolve to live in truth with yourself and with every person and situation in your life. Listen to your body and trust your intuition. Identify the main stress points and people problems in your life and then ask yourself, what is the right thing to do in this situation to resolve this problem and alleviate this stress?

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THINKING: Is the process of asking and answering yourself questions.

Are you building an “Income for life?”

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Dedicated To Your Success!

Live with passion,

Gerald Alexander

Personal Development & Leadership Coach

P.S. Take control of your life TODAY!

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

BEGIN HERE

The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

Xqisit Lifestyles
Website: www.ASENSEOFDIRECTION.co.uk
Tel: 07940 220 283
Email: gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

MAKE YOURSELF MORE VALUABLE!

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(c) Copyright, Gerald Alexander & Xqisitlifestyles.com (R) 2009

Gerald Alexander

http://Xqisit-Lifestyles.co.uk (R)
11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

www.asenseofdirection.co.uk (R)

Any purchase you make from this website is fully backed, no-hassle, satisfaction guarantee… so you have nothing to lose but your old ways! Take advantage now.

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After all, where you will be on 23 December 2010 will be a direct result of the choices you make today.

Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Tuesday 22nd December, 2009

Creating a feeling of value & self-worth!
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“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”

~ James Allen

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A Sense Of Direction

Achieving Personal Excellence . . .

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The Perfect Business

www.FreeRKCD.com

Listen to Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Education) reveal a simple business plan.

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Dear Fellow Achiever

Personal excellence is perhaps the most important of all invisible and intangible assets that you can acquire. Achieving personal excellence in your business or industry requires lifelong dedication. But once you get into the top 10 percent of your field, you will be one of the highest paid people in the country. You will enjoy the respect and esteem of the people around you. You will be able to live your life the way you want to live it. You will enjoy high levels of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride.

Build Your Intellectual Assets

Each person has or can acquire three forms of intellectual capital. These require an investment of study and hard work, but they pay off in higher income for the rest of your life. The first type of intellectual capital you can acquire consists of your core knowledge, skills, and abilities. These are the result of education, experience, and training. They determine how well you do your job and the value of your contribution to your business.

Build Your Internal Knowledge

The second form of intellectual capital that you posses is your knowledge of how your business operates internally, in comparison to that of your competitors or any other business. Each business develops a series or systems, procedures, methods, techniques, and strategies to market, sell, produce, deliver products and services, and satisfy customers. Each business has internal systems for accounting, administration, and financial controls. These systems take many years to develop and considerable time for a new person to learn. A person who knows and understands these systems intimately has a form of intellectual capital that is difficult for the company to replace.

Build Your Ability to Get Results

The third form of intellectual capital that you possess, and that is perhaps the key determinant of your earning ability, is your knowledge and understanding of how you can get financial results in a competitive market. This includes your knowledge of your products and services and how to sell them. It includes your knowledge of customers and suppliers and how to deal with them. It embraces your familiarity with bankers, lawyers, accountants, and government officials and how to interact with them effectively. This form of intellectual capital may take years to build, and it is extremely valuable to your organization. You first responsibility to yourself is to develop your earning ability to a high level. You do this by continually increasing your intellectual capital, by upgrading your ability to do your job, by becoming a valuable part of your organization, and by getting more and better financial results for your organization.

Action Exercise

Take time to get to know every component of your business. Get to know your customers and learn everything there is to know about your products and services.

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THINKING: Is the process of asking and answering yourself questions.

Are you building an “Income for life?”

=> http://www.my.ws/xqisit1

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Dedicated To Your Success!

Live with passion,

Gerald Alexander

Personal Development & Leadership Coach

P.S. Take control of your life TODAY!

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Sponsoring this blog: http://www.my.ws/xqisit1

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

BEGIN HERE

The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

Xqisit Lifestyles
Website: www.ASENSEOFDIRECTION.co.uk
Tel: 07940 220 283
Email: gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

MAKE YOURSELF MORE VALUABLE!

I’d appreciate your help in making this a better website in 2010. What additional services would you like to see on this website? Please leave your suggestions in the comment box below.

Remember: If you have enjoyed this inspirational message, pass it on to a few of your friends and business associates, and if you have any comments about this message, PLEASE “” leave them here on my blog “” it”’s important you let me know your thoughts!

(c) Copyright, Gerald Alexander & Xqisitlifestyles.com (R) 2009

Gerald Alexander

http://Xqisit-Lifestyles.co.uk (R)
11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

www.asenseofdirection.co.uk (R)

Any purchase you make from this website is fully backed, no-hassle, satisfaction guarantee… so you have nothing to lose but your old ways! Take advantage now.

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After all, where you will be on 22 December 2010 will be a direct result of the choices you make today.

Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Monday 21st December, 2009

Creating a feeling of value & self-worth!
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“Human beings can alter their lives, by altering their attitudes of mind.”

~ William James

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A Sense Of Direction

Personal Success . . .

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Persist Until You Succeed

Dear Fellow Achiever

The most important single quality of success is self-discipline. Self-discipline is having the ability within yourself, based on your strength of character and willpower, to do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution after the enthusiasm with which the resolution was made has passed.

Persistence is Self-Discipline in Action

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Persistence is the great measure of individual human character. Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence. You build pride, power, and self-esteem in your character and your personality. You become stronger and more resolute. By persisting, you become more self-disciplined. You develop within yourself the iron quality of success, the one quality that will carry you forward and over any obstacle that life can throw in your path.

Get Going and Keep Going

Orison Swett Marden wrote in his book, “There are two essential requirements for success. The first is ‘go-at-it-iveness’ and the second is ’stick-to-it-iveness’” Referring to the quality of persistence he wrote, “There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.”

Persistence is Your Greatest Asset

Perhaps your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay at a task longer than anyone else. B.C. Forbes, who founded Forbes magazine and built it into a major publication during the darkest days of the Depression, wrote, “History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeat.”

Adversity is What Tests Us

Throughout history, great thinkers have reflected on this paradox and have concluded that adversity is the test that you must pass on the path to accomplishing anything worthwhile. Herodotus, the Greek philosopher, said, “Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence.” The very best qualities of strength, courage, character, and persistence are brought out in you when you face your greatest challenges and when you respond to them positively and constructively.

Action Exercise

Your greatest successes almost invariably come one step beyond your greatest failures, when everything inside you says quit. Think of failures in terms of how you can make them successes.

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THINKING: Is the process of asking and answering yourself questions.

Are you building an “Income for life?”

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Dedicated To Your Success!

Live with passion,

Gerald Alexander

Personal Development & Leadership Coach

P.S. Take control of your life TODAY!

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

BEGIN HERE

The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

Xqisit Lifestyles
Website: www.ASENSEOFDIRECTION.co.uk
Tel: 07940 220 283
Email: gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

MAKE YOURSELF MORE VALUABLE!

I’d appreciate your help in making this a better website in 2010. What additional services would you like to see on this website? Please leave your suggestions in the comment box below.

Remember: If you have enjoyed this inspirational message, pass it on to a few of your friends and business associates, and if you have any comments about this message, PLEASE “” leave them here on my blog “” it”’s important you let me know your thoughts!

(c) Copyright, Gerald Alexander & Xqisitlifestyles.com (R) 2009

Gerald Alexander

http://Xqisit-Lifestyles.co.uk (R)
11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

www.asenseofdirection.co.uk (R)

Any purchase you make from this website is fully backed, no-hassle, satisfaction guarantee… so you have nothing to lose but your old ways! Take advantage now.

CLICK HERE

After all, where you will be on 21 December 2010 will be a direct result of the choices you make today.

Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Sunday 20th December, 2009

Creating a feeling of value & self-worth!
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“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

~ Robert Byrne

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A Sense Of Direction

The Law of Advanced Planning . . .

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Sales Success

Dear Fellow Achiever

The best salespeople prepare thoroughly before every call. This principle is so simple that it is often overlooked. The hallmark of the true professional is thorough preparation, reviewing every detail, before every sales meeting. The very best salespeople are those who review their presentations and study the details of their products and their sales materials repeatedly prior to every new sales contact.

The Customer’s Situation

The salesperson with the best knowledge of the customer’s real situation will be the one most likely to make the sale. The more time you take to thoroughly understand your prospective customer and your prospective customer’s situation, the more likely you will be in a position to sell at the critical moment.

Sales Professionals Plan their questions in Advance

There is a direct relationship between the quality of the problem focused questions that you ask a customer and the likelihood of a sale taking place. The only way of assuring that your questions are clear and penetrating is by writing them out, word for word, in advance. Some of the most successful salespeople who have ever lived have been “question experts.”

Notes

The power is on the side of the salesperson with the best notes. Plan your sales-call objectives thoroughly in advance of meeting the client. Write down and itemize exactly what you hope to accomplish in this visit. After the call, quickly write down everything that was said. Don’t trust it to memory. Remember the Chinese saying, “The palest ink lasts longer than the finest memory.” Prior to every sales call, and no matter how many times you have visited this same customer, take a few minutes to review the customer’s file, the customer’s situation, and your own notes on what has taken place in the past. You’ll be amazed at how impressive you sound when you go into a sales interview having just reviewed the customer’s file a few minutes before. And customers always know if you have done your homework.

Prior to Closing a Sale

The top salespeople in every field prepare exhaustively prior to selling, prior to their presentations, and prior to closing. They think everything through in advance. And they leave nothing to chance. Remember, it’s the details that make the difference. The salesperson who has taken the greatest amount of time to acquaint himself or herself with the most specific needs of the customer is the one who builds the highest level of trust and the best sales relationship. Thorough preparation is the essential precondition for successful selling.

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THINKING: Is the process of asking and answering yourself questions.

Are you building an “Income for life?”

=> http://www.my.ws/xqisit1

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Dedicated To Your Success!

Live with passion,

Gerald Alexander

Personal Development & Leadership Coach

P.S. Take control of your life TODAY!

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

BEGIN HERE

The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

Xqisit Lifestyles
Website: www.ASENSEOFDIRECTION.co.uk
Tel: 07940 220 283
Email: gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

MAKE YOURSELF MORE VALUABLE!

I’d appreciate your help in making this a better website in 2010. What additional services would you like to see on this website? Please leave your suggestions in the comment box below.

Remember: If you have enjoyed this inspirational message, pass it on to a few of your friends and business associates, and if you have any comments about this message, PLEASE “” leave them here on my blog “” it”’s important you let me know your thoughts!

(c) Copyright, Gerald Alexander & Xqisitlifestyles.com (R) 2009

Gerald Alexander

http://Xqisit-Lifestyles.co.uk (R)
11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

www.asenseofdirection.co.uk (R)

Any purchase you make from this website is fully backed, no-hassle, satisfaction guarantee… so you have nothing to lose but your old ways! Take advantage now.

CLICK HERE

After all, where you will be on 20 December 2010 will be a direct result of the choices you make today.

Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Saturday 19th December, 2009

Creating a feeling of value & self-worth!
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“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

~ Alvin Toffler

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A Sense Of Direction

Achieving Personal Excellence . . .

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Dear Fellow Achiever

Personal excellence is perhaps the most important of all invisible and intangible assets that you can acquire. Achieving personal excellence in your business or industry requires lifelong dedication. But once you get into the top 10 percent of your field, you will be one of the highest paid people in the country. You will enjoy the respect and esteem of the people around you. You will be able to live your life the way you want to live it. You will enjoy high levels of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride.

Build Your Intellectual Assets

Each person has or can acquire three forms of intellectual capital. These require an investment of study and hard work, but they pay off in higher income for the rest of your life. The first type of intellectual capital you can acquire consists of your core knowledge, skills, and abilities. These are the result of education, experience, and training. They determine how well you do your job and the value of your contribution to your business.

Build Your Internal Knowledge

The second form of intellectual capital that you posses is your knowledge of how your business operates internally, in comparison to that of your competitors or any other business. Each business develops a series or systems, procedures, methods, techniques, and strategies to market, sell, produce, deliver products and services, and satisfy customers. Each business has internal systems for accounting, administration, and financial controls. These systems take many years to develop and considerable time for a new person to learn. A person who knows and understands these systems intimately has a form of intellectual capital that is difficult for the company to replace.

Build Your Ability to Get Results

The third form of intellectual capital that you possess, and that is perhaps the key determinant of your earning ability, is your knowledge and understanding of how you can get financial results in a competitive market. This includes your knowledge of your products and services and how to sell them. It includes your knowledge of customers and suppliers and how to deal with them. It embraces your familiarity with bankers, lawyers, accountants, and government officials and how to interact with them effectively. This form of intellectual capital may take years to build, and it is extremely valuable to your organization. You first responsibility to yourself is to develop your earning ability to a high level. You do this by continually increasing your intellectual capital, by upgrading your ability to do your job, by becoming a valuable part of your organization, and by getting more and better financial results for your organization.

Action Exercise

Take time to get to know every component of your business. Get to know your customers and learn everything there is to know about your products and services.

Sponsoring this blog: http://www.my.ws/xqisit1

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THINKING: Is the process of asking and answering yourself questions.

Are you building an “Income for life?”

=> http://www.my.ws/xqisit1

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Dedicated To Your Success!

Live with passion,

Gerald Alexander

Personal Development & Leadership Coach

P.S. Take control of your life TODAY!

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

BEGIN HERE

The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

Xqisit Lifestyles
Website: www.ASENSEOFDIRECTION.co.uk
Tel: 07940 220 283
Email: gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

MAKE YOURSELF MORE VALUABLE!

I’d appreciate your help in making this a better website in 2009. What additional services would you like to see on this website? Please leave your suggestions in the comment box below.

Remember: If you have enjoyed this inspirational message, pass it on to a few of your friends and business associates, and if you have any comments about this message, PLEASE “” leave them here on my blog “” it”’s important you let me know your thoughts!

(c) Copyright, Gerald Alexander & Xqisitlifestyles.com (R) 2009

Gerald Alexander

http://Xqisit-Lifestyles.co.uk (R)
11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

www.asenseofdirection.co.uk (R)

Any purchase you make from this website is fully backed, no-hassle, satisfaction guarantee… so you have nothing to lose but your old ways! Take advantage now.

CLICK HERE

After all, where you will be on 19 December 2010 will be a direct result of the choices you make today.

Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Friday 18th December, 2009

Creating a feeling of value & self-worth!
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“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.”

~ Betty Reese

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A Sense Of Direction

Financing Your Business . . .

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Dear Fellow Achiever

Your ability to do accurate costing for your products and services, and then to set proper prices for what you sell, can make all the difference between profits and losses, success and failure.

The name of the game is “profit.” Everything you do in your business, every number that you calculate and consider every point of focus and concentration must be aimed at generating profits of some kind.

Become a Numbers Person

Most entrepreneurs are not “numbers” people. They have little patience for the details of financial statements and accounting. In order for you to be successful, you must master the numbers in your business.

You can hire bookkeepers, accountants, and financial advisers to help you, but you can never abdicate the responsibility of fully understanding every penny and every dollar that comes in and out of your business.

Determining Your Costs

Often the person who makes the fewest mistakes in business is the one who succeeds the most. You don’t have to be an entrepreneurial genius to be successful. You just have to master what you are doing.

One of the entrepreneurial successes is to offer a high margin product or service of some kind. It is to produce, acquire, sell, or distribute a product or service from which you earn high profits on the sale of each one. In this way, you have a substantial cushion built in to protect you from losses.

Direct Costs

These are the costs of goods sold. If you make a product or buy it from a manufacturer or distributor for £5, including all costs of shipping, transportation, insurance, and delivery, and you sell the product for £10, your cost of goods sold is £5. This is fairly easy to calculate.

Indirect Costs

These are the costs that are not attributed to all of the products or services that you sell, not any specific ones. Indirect costs can be costs of salaries, rent, telephones, utilities, marketing, advertising, shipping, delivery, and many others.

Fixed Costs

These are the costs that you incur each month whether or not you sell a single item or generate a single dollar of revenue. Your fixed costs include salaries for your permanent staff, rent, utilities, many operational costs, and the costs for outside services, plus your own personal income from the business.

Variable Costs

These are the costs that increase or decrease depending on your level of business activity. These costs are incurred only when a sale takes place. They can include costs of goods sold, sales commissions, delivery costs, and other costs that can be attributed, directly or indirectly, to the cost of each product or service you sell.

Semi-Variable Costs

These are costs that are partially fixed and partially variable. They can include part-time labour when you are busier than normal, additional utility, telephone, and mailing costs, and additional costs for outside services.

Sunk Costs

These are expenses that you have incurred that are gone forever. They can never be recovered. They are like an unattached anchor thrown overboard that sinks to the bottom of the ocean and is irretrievable.

Action Exercise

Decide what constitutes a “sunk cost” and resolve today not to spend another dollar or minute trying to recoup it.

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

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The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

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Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Thursday 17th December, 2009

Creating a feeling of value & self-worth!
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“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.”

~ Richard Bach

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Prepare Thoroughly Before You Begin . . .

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Dear Fellow Achiever

One of the best ways for you to overcome procrastination and get more things done faster is for you to have everything you need at hand before you begin. When you are fully prepared, you are like a cocked gun or an archer with an arrow pulled back taut in the bow. You just need one small mental push to get started on your highest value tasks.

Clear Your Workspace

Begin by clearing off your desk or workspace so that you only have one task in front of you. If necessary, put everything on the floor or on the table behind you. Gather all the information, reports, details, papers, and work materials that you will require to complete the job. Have them at hand so you can reach them without getting up or moving. Be sure that you have all writing materials, computer disks, access codes, email addresses and everything else you need to start and continue working until the job is done.

Make It Comfortable

Set up your work area so that it is comfortable, attractive and conducive to working for long periods. Especially, make sure that you have a comfortable chair that supports your back and allows your feet to sit flat on the floor.

The most productive people take the time to create a work area where they enjoy spending time. The cleaner and neater your work area before you begin, the easier it is for you to get started and keep going.

Assume The Position

When you sit down, with everything in front of you, ready to go, assume the body language of high performance. Sit up straight, sit forward and away from the back of the chair. Carry yourself as though you were an efficient, effective high performing personality. Then, pick up the first item and say to yourself, “Let’s get to work!” and plunge in. And once you’ve started, keep going until the job is finished.

Action Exercises

Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, take a good look at your desk or office, both at home and at the office. Ask yourself, “What kind of a person works in an environment like that?”

Second, resolve today to clean up your desk and office completely so that you feel effective, efficient and ready to get going each time you sit down to work.

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Dedicated To Your Success!

Live with passion,

Gerald Alexander

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

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The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

Xqisit Lifestyles
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Tel: 07940 220 283
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

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11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
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Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Wednesday 16th December, 2009

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“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.”

~ Albert Einstein

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Prepare for Your Journey . . .

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Dear Fellow Achiever

Preparation is the mark of a professional. Preparation is also the mark of a successful person in any field. As you move upward in any occupation, you will find that the top people spend far more time in preparation than the average person does. The top 10 percent in any field are always more thoroughly prepared in every detail than those who struggle for a living in the same occupation.

Guard Against the Worst

For me, as a professional speaker and seminar leader, the worst thing that could happen would be for my luggage to be lost and for me to arrive without the clothes and seminar materials that I need for my speaking engagement. To guard against this situation, I carry all my essentials on board with me, never out of my sight. Because of this habit of advance planning, I have never had an insurmountable problem because of baggage delays or losses. On the way to your destination, in the achievement of your most important goal, continually ask yourself, What are the worst possible things that can happen? And then guard against them.

Plan for Any Eventuality

The mark of a superior thinker is that he or she assumes that the worst will happen and makes provisions against it. Napoleon Bonaparte was once asked if he believed in luck. He replied, “Yes, I do. I believe in bad luck. I believe I will always have it, and I plan accordingly.”

Refuse to be Passive

My traveling experiences have taught me two things. First, prepare for the worst. No matter what anyone tells you, be prepared for the possibility that he or she will not follow through. Second, be proactive, not passive. Instead of becoming angry or depressed, get busy and get going. Find an alternative. Refuse to accept the current situation if it is not satisfactory. Instead of waiting for things to happen, make things happen.

Prepare a Checklist

Pilots carefully review a checklist prior to every flight. Even if they have flown thousands of hours and have been active pilots for twenty years, they still go through the checklist every single time. You should prepare a checklist as well. No matter how many times you have made the same trip, you should review your checklist once more. Never trust to memory. The failure to check just one critical detail can leave you stranded and maybe even put your destination out of reach. As you proceed toward your personal destinations and struggle toward your goals, the consequences of not following your checklist will not be as severe. But it is not unusual for a business to go broke or a person to lose all his or her money because someone failed to pay attention to a critical detail.

Action Exercise

Get in the habit of making checklists for big and small tasks. Make checklists for travelling and for work related tasks.

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

BEGIN HERE

The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

Xqisit Lifestyles
Website: www.ASENSEOFDIRECTION.co.uk
Tel: 07940 220 283
Email: gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

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Gerald Alexander

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11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
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Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Tuesday 15th December, 2009

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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Mastering Your Fears . . .

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Dear Fellow Achiever

Perhaps the greatest challenge you will ever face in life is the conquest of fear and the development of courage. Fear is, and always has been, the greatest enemy of mankind. When Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was saying that the emotion of fear, rather than the realty of what we fear, is what causes us anxiety, stress, and unhappiness. When you develop the habit of courage and unshakeable self-confidence, a whole new world of possibilities opens up for you. Just imagine-what would you dare to dream or be or do if you weren’t afraid of anything in the whole world?

Develop the Habit of Courage

Fortunately, the habit of courage can be learned just as any other habit is learned, through repetition. We need to constantly face and overcome our fears to build up the kind of courage that will enable us to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life unafraid. The starting point in overcoming fear and developing courage is to look at the factors that predispose us toward being afraid. The root source of most fear is childhood conditioning, usually associated with destructive criticism. This causes us to develop two major types of fear. These are the fear of failure, which causes us to think “I can’t, I can’t, I can’t,” and the fear of rejection, which causes us to think “I have to, I have to, I have to.” Our fears can paralyze us, keeping us from taking constructive action in the direction of our dreams and goals.

The More You Know, the Less You Fear

Fear is also caused by ignorance. When we have limited information, our doubts dominate us. We become tense and insecure about the outcome of our actions. Ignorance causes us to fear change, to fear the unknown, and to avoid trying anything new or different. But the reverse is also true. The very act of gathering more and better information about a particular subject increases our courage and confidence in that area. You can see this in the parts of your life where you have no fear at all because you know what you are doing. You feel competent and completely capable of handling whatever happens.

Analyze Your Fears

Once you have identified the major factors that cause you to feel afraid, the next step is to objectively define and analyze your personal fears. At the top of a clean sheet of paper, write, “What am I afraid of?” Remember, all intelligent people are afraid of something. It is normal and natural to be concerned about your physical, emotional, and financial safety and that of the people you care about. A courageous person is not a person who is unafraid. As Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear””not absence of fear.”

Action Exercise

Begin your list of fears by writing down everything, major and minor, that causes fear, stress, or anxiety. Think about the parts of your work or personal life where your fears might be holding you back or forcing you to stay in a job or relationship in which you are not happy. Once you have written down your fears, arrange them in order of importance, and then pick them apart one by one.

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Dedicated To Your Success!

Live with passion,

Gerald Alexander

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

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Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

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The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

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Tel: 07940 220 283
Email: gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

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Gerald Alexander

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11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
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Your Xqisit Inspirational Quote
Monday 14th December, 2009

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“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.”

~ Winston Churchill

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Who Are You Really?

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Your Self Ideal

Dear Fellow Achiever

The first part of your self-concept is your self-ideal. This is the ideal image or picture you have of yourself, as if you were already the very best person you could possibly be.

Your self-ideal is made up of your wishes, hopes, dreams, goals, and fantasies about your perfect future life, combined with the qualities and virtues that you admire most in yourself and in other people.

Your self-ideal is a composite of the very best person you could imagine yourself being, living the very best life you could possibly live.

Develop Positive Role Models

In one study conducted some years ago, the researchers found many men and women who accomplished great things had–when they were young–been avid readers of the biographies and autobiographies of successful people.

It seems you have a natural tendency to identify with the hero or heroine in any story you read, watch, or hear. When you continuously immerse your mind in the stories of men and women who have accomplished wonderful things with their lives, you unconsciously identify with those characters and actually absorb their values, virtues, and qualities into your own personality.

Your Values Shape Your Personality

The values you choose to live by, and the way you define those values, shape and influence your personality and your achievements as much or more than any other single factor.

When you take the time to think through and develop absolute clarity about the key values and qualities you admire the most and wish the most to incorporate into yourself, you begin to shape and direct your whole personality and determine the results you achieve in the future.

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Are you building an “Income for life?”

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Dedicated To Your Success!

Live with passion,

Gerald Alexander

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P.S. Take control of your life TODAY!

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Always believe in yourself and your dreams!

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Appreciate The Journey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain … an occassional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind … but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.

Enjoy browsing – and here’s to making 2009 YOUR best year yet!

BEGIN HERE

The Success Decision: How to Decide to Be Rich!

Xqisit Lifestyles
Website: www.ASENSEOFDIRECTION.co.uk
Tel: 07940 220 283
Email: gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

MAKE YOURSELF MORE VALUABLE!

I’d appreciate your help in making this a better website in 2009. What additional services would you like to see on this website? Please leave your suggestions in the comment box below.

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Gerald Alexander

http://Xqisit-Lifestyles.co.uk (R)
11 Jura Quadrant, Netherton, Wishaw
Lanarkshire, ML2 0TD, United Kingdom
gerald@xqisit-lifestyles.com

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Any purchase you make from this website is fully backed, no-hassle, satisfaction guarantee… so you have nothing to lose but your old ways! Take advantage now.

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After all, where you will be on 14 December 2010 will be a direct result of the choices you make today.