So far in this 5 part article series, I have introduce the first 3 of the 4 Success Saboteurs & How to Capture Them.

#1 is Multi-tasking - Trying to accomplish more than one thing at a time and getting sparse results.

#2 is Distraction and interruption - Losing 20 to 40 minutes of production for each interruption

#3 is Friction - Being subject to anything that does not support you

The last of the top 4 is one every successful entrepreneur I know identifies as most persistant challenge:  Mind Chatter

Do you ever try to sit quietly and find it difficult to concentrate on one thing for more than 15 seconds?   Do thoughts, ideas, conversations, and memories race through your mind like a film running at high speed? 

Some describe this like standing in a dark room full of people all of whom are speaking to you at once.

Regardless of your experience with this, Mind Chatter keeps you from focusing your thought energy on the desired outcome and inhibits the realization of success. 

It turns out that Mind Chatter is actually most often caused by a collection of subconscious memories playing in a constant loop all at the same time.  Sort of like listening to 10 radio stations all at once, while you are trying to play a musical instrument of your own. 

What we know about subconscious memory is that it can, in fact it must, be cleared and so silenced.

“Any conscious intention you set to succeed, can and will be frustrated and possibly completely thwarted by one or more ‘counter-intentions’ that are lurking within a subconscious (limiting) belief that you cannot, will not, or do not deserve it.” - The Secret to Astonishing Entrepreneurial Success.

Mind Chatter not only keeps you off balance and in constant interrupt, but it also disrupts the flow of subconscious energy so vital to the manifestation of your success.

It is the 4^th success saboteur.

In my next post I will provie you 3 simple steps you can take to capture and disable all 4 of these success saboteurs.

In the mean time, I would appreciate your comments. 

As you scan back through each of the 4 success saboteurs, consider how they effect you and your productivity. 

I would be interested in hearing how you deal with them now, before I give you the magic keys.

As always, I am standing for all that is possible for you.

With sincere gratitude,

Steve

Your Success Champion

PS - Watch you email for the launch of 2 fantastic new products my team and I have been working on.

Before we get to the free interview, let me tell you what I am up to. 

I am in the process of creating an amazing new product which compiles one on one interviews I have conducted with many of the top entrepreneurial success gurus of our time.

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You will learn how to build and grow your business from people who have done it.

This week I had the amazing opportunity to interview, author, motivational speaker, entrapreneurial/intrapreneurial success coach, Christine Comaford-Lynch.

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Christine Comaford Lynch is a 5 time CEO and company founder - and all five businesses grew to be either acquired or taken public with an average 700% return on investment.  She has served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups as a venture capitalist or angel investor. 

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            Christine Comaford Lynch 

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This event will give individuals who want to start living the life they have always dreamed of, a head start in the right direction as well as provide them with invaluable tools and mentors to aid them for the best chance of success. Not only will she be there to teach you LIVE, she has invited some of her good friends and inaccessible mentors and masterminds to the event as well to reveal their wisdom. 

I’ll be there and I am bringing my entrepreneur-bound daughter, Emily.

Let me encourage you to register for the Rule For Renegades Summit right away.  Seats are going fast.

I will keep you posted on the progress of the Entrepreneurial Success Gurus audio series.  I may even post a few more interviews on my blog.

You know what would really help?  Your comments. 

Please let me know what you think of the interview and how I can provide more of what you want to help you accomplish more and win big in life.

Sincerely and gratefully,

Steve

Your Success Champion

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In the last two weeks I posted the first 2 parts of this 5 part article series, the 4 Success Saboteurs & How to Capture Them.

#1 is Multi-tasking - I heard lots of resonance with that one.

#2 is Distraction and interruption - I heard that email is a big problem for people.

This week is #3 Friction:

Friction is an inefficiency created by anything that is not supporting you.

It can show up in a variety of ways.

A poorly performing computer or communication system creates efficiency friction.

Poor or ineffective interpersonal communications within your team or organization creates multiple kinds of friction.

An uncomfortable, noisy, or cluttered working environment can create yet another kind of friction.

These, and literally hundreds of other causes of friction. While you think of areas where friction might show up for you….

I like to use athletic analogies.

Imagine an runner competing in the 100 meter race. It is a flat our, hold nothing back sprint to the finish event.

Jamaican Asafa Powell, set a new 100-meter world record in Italy, at the Rieti Grand Prix in 9.74 seconds despite easing at the end on September 10th 2007. Check it out, it only takes 9.74 seconds:

Now imagine Asafa trying to run tha race dragging a 100 lb sack of sand.

Friction will rob you of creative energy, curtail your productivity and inhibit your success.

Have you thought of any people, places, or things that create friction for you?

I would love to hear what yours are. Please share them by commenting on this blog.

Next I will give you the 4th and final of the 4 Saboteurs.

Until then, keep learning,

Sincerely and gratefully,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

Are you paying attention to the outside forces that can have a big impact on your business? 

Or is your head in the sand?

As an entrepreneur, it’s your responsibility to be aware of the external forces that can make or break your business.

In the March 2008 edition of Entrepreneur Magazine, Andrea Cooper wrote an excellent article entitled, “The Influencers: What forces will affect your business in the coming year?”

She outlines the top 25 Influencers; the individuals, groups and trends that will have a substantial impact on business this year. 

Here are 6 that I thought were particularly interesting:

Mortgage Crisis

Continuing fallout from the mortgage crisis will undoubtedly affect you and your business in 2008. As banks wrestle with the problem of bad home loans, it may reduce their capacity or willingness to hand out money to entrepreneurs.

A Generational Shift

The first baby boomers are becoming eligible for retirement, and the nation is on the verge of a generational shift as those under age 44 assume more power. Boomers are itching to leave corporations and start their own businesses. Services that help them, such as small-business counseling, mentoring or virtual back-office support, should fare well. Older boomers are looking for meaningful part-time work that helps them leave a legacy; savvy entrepreneurs who create flexible opportunities can reap rewards from their talents.

Shrinking Middle Class

Working longer, commuting farther, sinking financially–that’s how The Trends Journal described the average member of the U.S. middle class last year.  What can entrepreneurs do? Believe that the high cost of oil will have real consequences on buying power, and make it easy for clients to work with you, whether it’s with convenient locations or via the internet and other technologies.

College Entrepreneurship Programs

Used to be, people didn’t think about going to college to learn how to be an innovative business owner. That was before the rise of college entrepreneurship programs. The latest trend on campus is teaching entrepreneurism outside of business school, even to English majors.

Socially Responsible Companies

Consumers care more than ever about corporate social responsibility. The “Edelman Trust Barometer 2007″ found that top concerns include employee treatment and open communication about a company’s conduct and impact, whether good or bad. “People are looking for responsible products, and they’re willing to pay a premium,” says Chris Deri of PR firm Edelman. “Take advantage of your smaller size and be nimble enough to be responsive to those demands.”

The 2008 Elections

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization surveyed its U.S. members about the presidential elections. Nearly 50 percent of them ranked the contest important or very important. The survey found that affordable health care is at the top of their wish lists, but it’s just one key item among many in this presidential race. “Everybody’s concerned about the economy,” says Alan Carsrud, executive director of the Global Entrepreneurship Center at Florida International University. But the presidential election isn’t the only one to watch. What happens in Congress and the state legislatures can have just as much of an impact on your business.

Let me encourage you to read the entire article

You can read it here: 

                                    The Influencers

Keep Learning!

Steve

http://www.championsuccess.com/

PS - As always, I welcome your comments

The 2nd Saboteur

Last week I introduced this article series and the 1st Success Saboteur, Multitasking.

I heard form a fair number of people throughout the week about how they could really identify with that one.

Here is the next one: 

Distraction & Interruption:

Whether you work in a busy corporate office space or at home on the dining-room table, you are subject to a wide variety of distractions and interruptions.  In the office, coworkers stop by to ask a question or impose their coffee break on your schedule or calendar.   When working from home you can become subject to children coming and going, pets needing attention, package delivery or just the call of the coffee pot right in the next room.

The most pervasive distraction and interruption by far is email.  Before I recognized it I have been known to hit the ‘Send/Receive’ button a hundred times or more in a day.  It was almost like my entrepreneurial mind was subconsciously hoping to be interrupted by another new project opportunity to hit my inbox. 

Those of you who have worked with or around me for any length of time know I am always up for taking on a new project.

I read a productivity study some time ago that reported that with each interruption you lose between 20 and 40 minutes of productivity.  WOW!

The essence of the study was that it takes your mind between 1o and 20 minutes to “ramp down” for the shift in attention the interruption caused and another 10 to 20 minutes to ramp back up to productivity on either the original or a new focus. 

With that little tidbit of information you can imagine that 3 or 4 interruptions can cost you an entire day of productivity and rob you of your success edge.

Take a moment to reflect on your week. 

How many instances of distraction or interruption do you see? 

Multiply by 20 minutes each and consider what more you might have accomplished if you had that time back.

Stay tuned.  I will cover the final 2 Success Saboteurs on Monday and will move on to telling you what you can do about them before the end of the week.

Now that you are aware of them, maybe you would be willing to share how do these first two success assasins show up in your day.

I welcome your coomments.  Subscribe to the feed for this blog and you be automatically notified when I post something new.

Gratefully,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - Watch too for an update on the forthcoming hit movie, The Shift.  The production team is traveling and filming extensively this and next week.

Often heralded as crusaders committed to improving society and making money in the process, entrepreneurs are people who operate a new enterprise or venture and accept full accountability for the inherent risks associated with it. 

By their very nature successful entrepreneurs are wired a little differently from most. 

They often operate outside of the conventional and blaze radical new success paths for others to follow. 

Usually beginning with nothing more than an inspiration or an idea they often “go it alone” for a time developing a strategy, researching the market and so forth. 

Understanding the universal Law of Attraction they intuitively know to focus their internal energy through affirmative focused thought, visualization, and meditation to engage a deep subconscious purposeful commitment to an accomplishment. 

As the idea takes shape, they share the idea openly to enroll the energy of others to aid in the manifestation of the desired outcome.

However, because of these traits, entrepreneurs are particularly susceptible to an insidious assortment of challenges to productivity and accomplishment. 

The key difference between highly successful entrepreneurs and others is that they do not become subject to them to these challenges.  

Instead, they innovate personal behavioral practices that equip themselves to conquer them.

In this multipart series I will identify the 4 of the most common success saboteurs and offer 4 techniques that will help you prevail over them:

Saboteur #1  Multitasking

It is in an entrepreneur’s nature to enthusiastically take on a continuously growing collection of projects and tasks.  The urge to multitask can be overwhelming at times. 

Do you find yourself clicking from window to window on your computer writing articles, checking and responding to emails and browsing the web in frenetic time slices? 

Is your office cluttered with 3, 6, 12 or more projects in progress? 

Are you proud to identify yourself as a “multi-tasker”?

The fact is multitasking is not a badge of honor. 

It is instead a silent saboteur of your productivity and success.

While it may feel like you are busy and doing a lot of work, I believe at the end of the day you will find that, while there may be lots of checks on a task list, the accomplishment of your purposeful commitment will be completely lacking.

Have you ever gotten to the end of the day feeling exhausted and spent, looked back and felt like, even your did a lot, you did not accomplish much?

If so, you have been a victim of the Multitasking saboteur.

Multitasking is clearly the most prevalent and insideous saboteur.

Stop back next week to learn how you can, once and for all, defintively capture this success assassin.

Please share your comments.  I would like to hear you ‘multi-tasking’ story.

Gratefully,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

Beginning in early childhood, we are taught that success in life, especially entrepreneurial success, requires hard work, long hours and sacrifice. 

This set of attitudes and beliefs are reinforced throughout our lives, into adulthood, and unfortunately significantly impact the decisions we make about pretty much everything in life, especiall when choosing a profession or vocation.

People often envision entrepreneurial successes as people who are particularly talented, exceptionally intelligent, and/or more committed and productive than most.  While successful entrepreneurs may indeed exhibit many of the attributes, these are actually not the characteristics that ultimately determine their success. 

Whether they realize it or not, highly successful entreprenuers have an incredibly powerful secret weapon hidden deep within their subconscious minds.

In the free report, “The Secret to Astonishing Entrepreneurial Success” I provide evidence that the beliefs that determine what manifests in your experience are not your conscious beliefs.  Instead, the subconscious mind is in determining the outcome.

In his most recent book, The Key, Dr. Joe Vitale writes; “In short, you live in a belief-created universe.  To change your results, you have to change your unconscious beliefs.  That’s the area where you have to get clear.”

While conscious visualization and affirmation may be good and useful activities that help inspire and motivate you into action, these thoughts are not directly responsible for accomplishing the outcome you envision.   It is not sufficient to think positively, visualize, and meditate about what you want.

Any conscious intention you set to succeed, whether in business or otherwise, will be frustrated and possibly completely thwarted by counter-intentional beliefs that are lurking within your subconscious mind. 

If your subconscious beliefs are not aligned with your conscious intentions, success will continually allude you.

As I pointed out in my previous post, “The You in Success“, attending to developing yourself is of primary significance in the pursuit of success.  

Certainly this involves developing the professional skills necessary to perform certain tasks.  And, it indeed does involve regular and consistent visualization and affirmation of your desires. 

But ALSO requires the regular and consistent discipline of clearing or eliminating subconscious counter-intentional beliefs as an activity of primary importance.  

When you are clear of subconscious limitation, literally anything and everything is possible for you.  

Once clear of subconscious limiting belief your astonishing success is assured. 

There are dozens of clearing techniques available to you.   

The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is widely recognized as being particularly useful in clearing subconscious negative emotions that manifest as physical illness or ailment.  It is equally as effective in clearing the subconscious of limiting beliefs about your ability, worthiness, or deservingness to succeed.

There is a fabulous new DVD available entitled “Try It On Everything”.  My wife, Kimberly, my daughter Madeline, and I watched is this morning over breakfast. 

You should definitely get a copy.  It is just another tool in your arsenal for attaining the astonishing success you desire.

Pick up a copy at:  http://www.tryitoneverything.com/

I wish you limitless abundance,

Steve

http://www.championsuccess.com/

PS - Once you have watched the film, please come back by and comment here on my blog.  You will be helping others achieve the success they desire by doing so.

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If you have ever attended persional development seminars hosted by masters like Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar, or Tony Robbins, there is no doubt you have heard the saying:

“You must work on yourself more than you do your business.”

I can almost hear you nodding your head in recognition.  Bet let me ask you; what does this really mean?

What you actually DO to accomplish this?

This is what I mean:

A knowledge worker is, in brief, someone who works with his mind.  His work environment is either an office or home office.  His work consists of the application of knowledge skills in the production of output that contributes to the growth of a business of some sort.

The average knowledge worker works between 8 and 10 hours a day.  He typically rises at 6, completes a morning routine of some sort, showering, shaving, grabbing a bowl of cereal and/or coffee and gets to work at about 8.  He works throughout the morning on various projects attending meetings and the like, takes a break in the morning, lunch mid day, a break in the afternoon, and quits for the day some time between 5 and 7 in the evening.  He commutes home, greats the wife and kids, has a little dinner, watches a few sitcom reruns and hits the sack between 10 and 12.

Generally speaking this works out ok for the knowledge worker.  He gets his work assignments from his manager, does what needs to be done to keep his job, gets his pay-check and lives happily ever after, or not.

Unlike the seasoned entrepreneurial success, upstart entrepreneurs often model their days from this circa 1960’s model of business.  They may make one exception.  They may work longer hours.  More like 12 to 16 a day instead of 8 to 10.  And they typically do it because they think they have to.

If you fall into either of these catagories and can even remotely identify with this description then let me ask you:

If you accept the adage above about working more on yourself than on your business, and if your schedule is similar to what I described, then where is the time required to work on yourself ?

I mean, how do you work more on yourself if you never take time to do it?

Often times, as I work with new coaching clients and begin to encourage the use of daily personal development disciplines like meditation, visualization, or journaling, I hear, “I don’t have time to do that.”

What would you say if I told you that you should invest a minimum of 4 hours a day developing yourself?

This is what I know to be true.  You do not have time NOT to develop yourself.

If you invest the majority of primary energy in developing yourself, you will automatically live a more abundant and successful life.

You will be healthier.

You will be happier.

You will be well rested and alert.

You will be stress-free.

You will be more productive.

You will be more accomplished

You will be more present.

You will be more accepting and loving of others.

You will live more abundantly.

You will be the person you dream of being.

You do the things that person dreams of doing.

You will have the things that person dreams of having.

It is not an exhageration to say that your success begins  and ends with YOU.

I wish you success beyond measure and peace beyond all understanding.

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - In my next few posts I will expand on this idea of daily disciplines for success.  I would enjoy hearing yours.  Please share them by commenting on this post and then check back on Tuesday for my Monday post.

While doing research for some new projects I am starting I came across this video.

I can not state these 4 steps to productivity and success more clearly than Tim. 

He consolidates the key changes you must make in order to accomplish more and win big in business.

Enjoy, comment and share this blog article.

To your success,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - If you want to learn how we can help you develop a mind set which literally attracts success to you, visit:  www.secretforentrepreneurs.com