Personal Development in Business and Why It Shouldn’t Be Neglected
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Are you working on personal development in business? If not, why? If you ask any successful person in business when they started having breakthroughs, they’ll reply with, “when I started doing personal development.” It is the one of the secrets to personal as well as business success.
Personal development starts by creating the ideal mindset for prosperity. Prosperity is a powerful state of being. It means optimal health, wealth, and happiness.
Even if you’re in business or not, these three parts of the prosperity mindset are what you should be striving for in life, because just about everything can be summed up by one of these three words.
How do you work on personal development in business?
You create the mindset of prosperity.
How?
Ditch your negativity and negative people – This is a great place to start because many times this is what holds people back. You must believe in yourself and have faith in your ability to create prosperity.
Live in the now – Don’t worry too much about the past or the future. If you keep saying it will happen in the future…what happens in the now?
Stop worrying – most things work out and get better in time.
Work on your relationships – nurture your relationships overtime.
Laugh more – laughing is extremely therapeutic.
Everything mentioned above created more happiness for me, which helped with personal development in business. What is the true meaning of happiness? This is a subjective question and completely up to you.
Listen to your leaders – It doesn’t matter what business you’re in, someone is at the top telling other people what to do to get what he/she has.
Get healthy now – don’t wait until tomorrow start making changes in your life today. For example drink one less diet coke than yesterday or smoke five less cigarettes than yesterday.
Start working out – start slow and steady. If you’re completely new to working out, start by walking a half hour per day. The point is to start doing something to move more towards health.
Begin eating a better diet – If you don’t know how, hire someone. This will be worth it now and in the long run. I’ve spent a lot of time studying health and nutrition (it’s my real job) and I always recommend five things to my patients to start feeling better: lean meats, fish, nuts, fruits, and vegetables.
Everything mentioned above is aimed at helping you feel great, increase your vitality, and increase your longevity. This is a big step in working towards personal development in business. Feeling great when you get out of bed can lead to an array of good things. Your days can truly become magical.
Recap: When working on personal development it’s important to get into the mindset of prosperity. When you hear the word “prosperity,” what do you think of? Most people link prosperity strictly with being wealthy, and that’s just one piece of the pie. You see, prosperity means ultimate health, wealth, and happiness.
So far, I’ve mentioned various ways I’ve found happiness and health and I think they can work for you as well.
The final aspect working towards personal development in business is wealth. What do you think of when you hear the word wealth? Being rich, having a new car, maybe a big home, having more time to do what you please, more family time, the point is the meaning of wealth takes on a new meaning to each of us.
How do you find wealth?
This depends on what you seek. Do you seek more money or more time? Starting part-time in internet marketing can help you get both.
Do you think you will obtain wealth in your current job or your current business? If you feel as though you’re at a dead end and can’t possibly move towards wealth you need to change something. Getting started in internet marketing essentially has almost no risk and the potential payout can at times be limitless.
Today, with millions of offers to promote online a few companies have separated themselves from the pack and started paying out 100% commissions. I recommend you only go after these 100% commission companies to move towards wealth and eventually total prosperity.
A part time career in internet marketing potentially could free up your time to travel, spend more time with your family, and eventually retire very young.
Here are some resources to help you work on personal development in business:
1. Read at least a half hour per day of a good book to get you into the prosperity mindset.
Book list:
1. Napoleon Hill: “Think & Grow Rich” (wealth)
2. Noah St. John: “The Secret Code Of Success” (get your foot off the break)
3. Dale Carnegie: “How To Win Friends and Influence People” (people are your product)
Other books:
4. Og Mandino: “University of Success”
5. Paul Zane Pilzer: “God Wants You To Be Rich” (awesome book!)
6. Charles Haanel: “The Master Key System”
7. Robert Kiyosaki: “The Cash Flow Quadrant” & “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”
8. Robert Kiyosaki: “Rich Dad Poor Dad”
9. James Allen: “As a Man Thinketh”
10. Wallace Wattles: “The Science of Getting Rich”
11. Timothy Ferris: “The 4 Hour Work Week”
12. Napoleon Hill: “The Law of Success”
13. Dr. Thomas Murphy: “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”
14. Eckhart Tolle: “The Power of Now”
2. Listen to at least a half hour of inspirational and motivational audio recordings everyday.
Tony Robbins is a professional motivational speaker and has tons of great audios available to be downloaded on your smart phone or tablet to listen to while working out, walking the dog, cleaning the house, etc.
Personally, I am a walking testimonial to working on “personal development in business” because as soon as I started following all the principles mentioned above and I started seeing life more abundantly, better things started happening in my life…it really does work, and it’s well worth the time you put into creating the mindset of prosperity.
To Your Prosperity,
Steve Smiley
http://drstevesmiley.com
sdsmiley@gmail.com
P.S. Working on personal development in business can make your days more productive and fun and remember prosperity means ultimate health, wealth and happiness.
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