Prosperity Tips #116
In This Issue
+ Article: Strategize for Success in 2008
+ Prosperity Groups Now Forming
+ Hot Links
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HAPPY Holidays and Wishes for a Fabulous New Year!
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Strategize for Success in 2008
The end of the year lends itself to taking stock of what you've accomplished and strategizing for the future. Strategizing is not the same as setting goals, rather it means developing a pathway to reach your goals.
If you want to improve your earning power in 2008 and you have set a realistic goal of making 10 to 20 percent more than you made in 2007, then take some time to map out some actions that will help you reach your goal. Here's what I suggest:
1. Set a realistic, measurable, and attainable income goal for the next year. (See Exercise 4 in Build Your Money Muscles to help you do this).
2. Make a list of the possible ways you can achieve this.
If you have a job, then your possibilities might include getting a raise, finding a better-paying job, working more and getting paid overtime, starting a business on the side, or selling things online.
If you have a business, then you'll want either more customers, higher prices to the customers you have, or more sales to your current customers.
3. Examine each option and choose one to pursue. Make a list of actions you can take in order to pursue that option. These will be the tactics that you use to carry out your strategy.
4. Make a list of your feeling goals for the next year. You might, for example, want to feel more satisfied with your life, more connected to other people, happier, etc. Are the actions you choose to take in #3 congruent with your feeling goals.
5. Make an effort to change your feeling habits to match your feeling goals. For example, if you want to feel satisfied with your work, but you often feel dissatisfied, remember a time you felt satisfied and when you feel dissatisfaction creeping in now, make the shift the feeling you want to develop by focusing on something that you feel satisfied about.
A lot of people are afraid that if they are satisfied with what they have now, they'll never have more. The paradox is that the more satisfied you are now, the more easily you can maintain a state of satisfaction because that becomes the feeling habit from which you create your life stories. For more information about altering emotional responses, see Exercise 6 in Build Your Money Muscles.
6. Make a written plan as to how you are going to implement the list of actions you chose to pursue in #3. If necessary, get a prosperity buddy to help you stick to your plan. Getting support from someone else is always a good idea.
For Build Your Money Muscles visit
http://ProsperityPlace.com//bymm
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Start a Prosperity Group in Your Area
In the last few weeks, a number of people have decided they want to participate in the Build Your Money MusclesŪ Support Group facilitators training. As a result, we will be creating group activities for the facilitators to help them stay connected to each other for support and to learn the skills necessary to run a successful group.
The biggest advantage facilitating a group is that you get to work through your money issues with others on the same path. There is true power in doing the work outlined in Build Your Money Muscles with other people.
Read about the facilitators training at
http://ProsperityPlace.com//groups
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***Hot Links***
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