Five Steps to Manifesting Your Goals - by Gini Grey

What do you want to manifest for yourself over the next year? Here some steps to follow which will support you in achieving your goals.

1) Know What You Want: If we don't have a destination in mind, we are likely to stay where we are. Use your imagination to envision your ideal lifestyle, dream job, fulfilling relationships, balanced health or whatever your heart desires. To help motivate you towards your goal ask yourself why you want it. What will it do for you? How will you feel when you get it? Spending five minutes each day imagining having your goal and what it would look and feel like will inspire you to move towards it as well as start attracting it to you.

2) Take Action with Ease: Even with the best laid plans of action, glitches can occur, blocks can pop up and obstacles can threaten to halt our progress. When we move into resistance or try to deal with the situation from an attitude of struggle, the problems usually loom bigger than before or get lodged into place. By maintaining an attitude of trust and taking action from a place of effortless ease, obstacles miraculously melt away or new opportunities reveal themselves. Simply notice if your body is tense or your mood grumpy and take this as a signal to take a break, breath deeply or find something to laugh at as a way to move back into a state of ease.

3) Let Go of the Process and Outcome: Planning action steps toward our goals is very important, but if we get fixated on them or on the final outcome we can actually impede our own progress. Focusing too specifically on how something is supposed to occur creates tunnel vision and blocks the abundance of opportunities waiting on the outskirts. Practice being flexible and open to new ways of doing things and see how much more quickly and simply you achieve your goals.

4) Be Able to Have Your Desires: Feeling undeserving, guilty or not good enough will keep our goals from manifesting. Even if on the surface we feel great about having our desires, if we harbor any underlying doubt or limiting beliefs we will find a way to sabotage our own best interests. Use your imagination again to envision actually having what you want in your life and notice if any uncomfortable feelings or thoughts come up that say no to this. Imagine releasing them right out of your space and see them drift away into nothingness. You can learn to shift and release any blocks in order to create whatever you want in your life.

5) Maintain a State of Abundance: Like attracts like so if we want more of anything in our life we need to be in a state of abundance, feeling grateful for all the wonderful things we already have in our life and feeling optimistic about attracting more greatness into our life. If we focus on what's missing or going wrong in our life, we'll simply attract more of that, so use your imagination to inspire you into an uplifting mood in order to manifest all your goals.

All are golden words for life and to manifest our goals.Follow on,live a successful life,cheers.

Sharpening our skills - KEY 2 SUCCESS

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant, and he got it. His salary was really good and so were the working conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.

His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was supposed to fell the trees.

The First day, the woodcutter brought 15 trees.
“Congratulations,” the boss said. “Carry on with your work!”

Highly motivated by the words of his boss, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he only could bring 10 trees. The third day he tried even harder, but he was only able to bring 7 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees.
“I must be losing my strength”, the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.

“When was the last time you sharpened your axe?” the Boss asked.
“Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees…”

Most of us NEVER update our skills. We think that whatever we have learned is very much enough. But good is not good when better is expected.
Sharpening our skills from time to time is the key to success.

Client Relationship

Clients are the most precious assets for a business. Without clients, there can be no business. With poor quality of clients, the business will be poor and if you manage to get very good clients and retain their loyalty, your business will only go up and up. This all sounds very exciting. But it is not easy to get very good clients and all the more difficult to retain them. After all, whatever you do, your competition is trying the same and may use better techniques to get business. Are there any innovative approaches to client relationships?

We are talking about direct sales in this discussion and not about selling merchandise to large consumer base. For example if you are a contractor maintaining air conditioners in clients work places. Or a direct seller of computer hardware to business buyers, and all such businesses where your sales to individual clients are large, and you are in direct contact with clients.

The first need is of course client satisfaction. If the client is satisfied with your response time, after sales service and can depend on you, pricing may become secondary. All clients do not buy from a supplier whose sales at the lowest price. If your product cost is a small percentage of clients total expense or if your product is essential for your clients, you are onto something good. How to retain such clients despite all the competition? What are the other factors than client satisfaction?

Relationship is one such other major factor. Do you relate with your clients only professionally, or are very good friends? Both these extremes can hurt. For a long-term business relationship, good friendship is not good for health of your business. Any problem in the personal friendship will directly affect your business. What if you relate to your clients mechanically in a professional style totally devoid of personal touch? You know the answer yourself.

What is needed is a relationship that does not border on personal friendships, but crosses mechanical approach. A fine balance between personal and professional.

Have good sales!

Public Social Networks

As a Marketing person Public social contacts is very essential to make good sales and achieve company targets.

External public social networking services, such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Friendster, can be valuable sales, marketing, and support tools. These services comprise extensive networks of users who are self-organized into groups and communities.

Users establish connections directly with other users to form a personal friends network. Users also join groups and communities that are organized around attributes such as products, lifestyles, entertainment, institutions, politics, and geographic locations.

Social network users also build their own extensive demographic profiles by connecting to dozens or hundreds of affinity groups, not just connecting to other users. This self-segmentation phenomenon is why social networks present marketers and advertisers with such a potentially lucrative audience for promoting goods and services.

There are several ways an organization can benefit from using public social networks, including:

* HR recruiting
* Product marketing
* Services outreach
* Promotional application
* Market intelligence
* Professional networking

Companies are exploiting public social networking sites for valid business purposes. However, a lack of enterprise-class controls makes management of users akin to herding cats. By adopting strong policies for business use of public social networks, small and midsize businesses can maximize value and safeguard against inappropriate connections between personal and business contacts.