Thursday, February 24, 2005

The Power of Focus

Whatever we focus on expands.

Here's an analogy from Tony Robbins to keep in mind:

In professional race car driving, the most accidents occur when rounding the curbs. Many less experienced drivers, in trying to avoid the curb, end up smashing right into it - because their focus is ON THE CURB, on trying to avoid hitting the curb. And whatever they focus on they get! The more experienced drivers, when rounding the curb, turn thier head and look in the opposite direction of the curb, thus avoiding the curb and getting themselves out of danger.

Where is your focus? Are you focusing on the problem or the solution? Are you focusing on what's wrong with your life, or what can be made right and all the blessings in your life?



Sharif Khan
www.HeroSoul.com
Speaker, Coach, Author of Psychology of the Hero Soul
Delivering Inspirational Keynotes and Leadership Seminars that Energize, Educate, and Empower audiences to unleash their inner hero and live their highest life






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Saturday, February 19, 2005

The Incredible Power of Serving.

I just attended a Millionaire Mind seminar put on by Harv Eker at the Westin Harbor Hotel in Toronto and had a blast! I just wanted to share with you the most important Key insight I got from the seminar so you can benefit immediately and begin substantially increasing your earning power:

In the seminar, Harv equates an entrepreneur as a problem solver. Entrepreneurs are people who solve other people's problems for profit. Just by taking this approach, your on your way to greater success.

With this in mind, write down a strategy for helping TEN TIMES as many people as your helping now. By doing this you are preparing to increase your wealth by TEN FOLD!

It all comes down to the law of serving: She who renders the greatest service, recieves the greatest reward.

BIG MONEY = BIG ACTION! Find a way to help TEN TIMES as many people as you are helping now, and GO DO IT NOW!

Can't you tell I'm pumped! :)

DREAM BIG!!!






Sharif Khan
www.HeroSoul.com
Speaker, Coach, Author of Psychology of the Hero Soul
Delivering Inspirational Keynotes and Leadership Seminars that Energize, Educate, and Empower audiences to unleash their inner hero and live their highest life




Leadership Training * Success Coaching * Meeting and Workshop Facilitation * Problem Solving * Entrepreneurship * Creativity * Ideas * Motivational Books * Reward and Recognition * Human Resources and Personal Development * Network Marketing Business Motivation

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Awaken the Leader in You

Ten Easy Steps to Developing Your Leadership Skills
by Sharif Khan



1. Humility. Leadership starts with humility. To be a highly successful leader, you must first humble yourself like a little child and be willing to serve others. Nobody wants to follow someone who is arrogant. Be humble as a child – always curious, always hungry and thirsty for knowledge.

2. SWOT Yourself. SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Start by listing all your Strengths including your accomplishments. Then write down all your Weaknesses and what needs to be improved. Proceed by listing all the Opportunities you see available to you for using your strengths. Finally, write down all the Threats or obstacles that are currently blocking you.

3. Follow Your Bliss. Regardless of how busy you are, always take time to do what you love doing. Being an alive and vital person vitalizes others. When you are pursuing your passions, people around you cannot help but feel impassioned by your presence. This will make you a charismatic leader.

4. Dream Big. If you want to be larger than life, you need a dream that’s larger than life. Small dreams won’t serve you or anyone else. It takes the same amount of time to dream small than it does to dream big. So be Big and be Bold!

5. Vision. Without a vision, we perish. If you can’t see yourself winning that award and feel the tears of triumph streaming down your face, it’s unlikely you will be able to lead yourself or others to victory. Visualize what it would be like accomplishing your dream. See it, smell it, taste it, hear it, feel it in your gut.

6. Perseverance. Victory belongs to those who want it the most and stay in it the longest. Now that you have a dream, make sure you take consistent action every day. I recommend doing at least 5 things every day that will move you closer to your dream.

7. Honor Your Word. Every time you break your word, you lose power. Successful leaders keep their word and their promises. You can accumulate all the toys and riches in the world, but you only have one reputation in life. Your word is gold. Honor it.

8. Get a Mentor. Find yourself a mentor. Preferably someone who has already achieved a high degree of success in your field. Don’t be afraid to ask. You’ve got nothing to lose.

9. Be Yourself. Use your relationships with mentors and your research on great leaders as models or reference points to work from, but never copy or imitate them like a parrot. Be yourself, your best self, always competing against yourself and bettering yourself, and you will become a first rate YOU instead of a second rate somebody else.

10. Give. Finally, be a giver. Leaders are givers. By giving, you activate a universal law as sound as gravity: ‘life gives to the giver, and takes from the taker.’


Sharif Khan (http://www.herosoul.com/) is a freelance writer, speaker, and author of Psychology of the Hero Soul, an inspirational leadership book on awakening the hero within.

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Billionaire J. Paul Getty

Billionaire J. Paul Getty once said, "I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."

This may sound simplistic and trite on the surface - but it's a very powerful and profound statement. The moment you shift your role to a higher leadership position by taking a train-the-trainer or teach-the-teacher approach by empowering and educating people to empower and educate others on your behalf, is the moment when you will soar like an eagle with a lofty vantage point.

Likewise, working on your own can only get you so far. By taking a TEAM approach Together Everybody Achieves More. You need a Dream Team to help you get to where you want to go. I highly encourage you to form a team that is commited to eachothers success, shares a common purpose, and meets on a regular basis. And I encourage you to take on more leadership roles by teaching other people what you have learned along the way. It's actually the best way to learn a concept yourself - by teaching others.


Sharif Khan
www.HeroSoul.com
Speaker, Coach, Author of Psychology of the Hero Soul
Delivering Inspirational Keynotes and Leadership Seminars that Energize, Educate,
and Empower audiences to unleash their inner hero and live their highest life


Leadership Training * Success Coaching * Meeting and Workshop Facilitation * Problem Solving
Motivational Books * Reward and Recognition * Human Resources and Personal Development

Sunday, February 06, 2005

Just Be Yourself

The real secret to success is being yourself. So many people are miserable and failing because they're trying too hard to be someone else or live up to other people's standards.

We are afraid that if we reveal our true self, people won't like what they see inside. And there's some truth to that. Some people won't like you for who you are and some most definitely will. And that's okay. Because if you try to please everyone, you please no one. But by being true to yourself you lift a lot of anxiety, worry, and stress off your shoulders.

I was watching the made for TV movie "See Arnold Run" on Arnold Schwarzenegger's life. The younger Arnold just starting out in his body building career told one of the best acting trainers in the world that he wanted to be a movie star. The trainer told him: 'be yourself, and you'll become a huge star.' Fortunately Arnold followed that advice. I was watching Steven Segal's A&E biography and when he came to America after years of Aikido and martial arts training in Japan, the top hollywood brass wanted him to act on screen. And so he began acting. He asked one of his students, actor James Coburn, about advice on acting. Coburn told him that the secret to acting is 'be yourself.' Segal followed that advice and became a huge star!

The same advice applies to success in any field: be yourself! Instead of trying to be a second rate Hemmingway, Brando, Gates, Sinatra, Elvis, or Kennedy be a first rate YOU!

I recently saw the movie "The Terminal" with Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones. Some people liked it. I thought the movie sucked - big time! The acting with Tom Hanks was plastic and watching him try to play this Russian passenger stuck in the terminal, with this silly russian accent throughout the film, was difficult to watch. His performance was not believable. What made it worse was that the film was directed by non other than Steven Spielberg. Goes to show you that even two big names in hollywood can flop big time.

Just be yourself.



Sharif Khan
Author, Psychology of the Hero Soul
www.herosoul.com


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