1440 Simple Steps to Personal Success

By Lisa Almeida

For many business owners, checking email is one of the first tasks of the day. What if you checked your email one morning and found something like this?

Good Morning!

Today is your lucky day! If you check your bank account, you will find that $1440 dollars have been added to it while you were sleeping. This is not a trick. This money is yours to use in any way you like today. But at the end of the day, whatever you do not use will disappear - forever.

I think you'd agree that this is a very generous offer. However there are some restrictions:

"You can exchange the money for anything you like.

"You can buy things for yourself and others.

"You can invest it in things that will bring a future return.

"But you cannot save it - at midnight each night the balance of the $1440 will go to zero.

"However, at 12:01 another $1440 will appear with the same restrictions as the previous day.

Enjoy this gift and use it wisely!

What would you do with an opportunity like this? I challenge you to stop for a moment and really consider what you would do with an endless daily supply of $1440.

Ah, what a nice fantasy. Too bad it isn't real, right? Oh, but it is. Except that the 1440 you receive everyday is not money - it's minutes.

Everyday you get 1440 minutes to spend or invest any way you like. How you use your daily allotment of minutes is entirely up to you.

"You can spend your minutes engaged in activities that bring you and those around you joy and pleasure.

"You can invest your minutes in endeavors that will generate a return of wealth in countless ways down the road - including financial rewards.

"But you can't bank them because at the end of the day, the minutes that made it up are gone forever.

This is a really interesting concept, but the frosting on the cake comes when you realize that everyone gets the same deal everyday. Everyone - regardless of age, social standing, education, bank balance, shoe size, height, weight, gender, race, geographical location or any other classification you can come up with - gets a daily package of 1440 minutes to make the most of.

So how have you been using your 1440 each day? Have you been investing in yourself - your physical, mental or spiritual health? Have you been investing in your business - reading and learning how to grow your strengths and minimize your weaknesses? Have you been pursuing your passions? And what about your progress? Have you been measuring your success against your own yardstick or someone else's?

If you are able to place your head on the pillow most evenings and drift peacefully off to sleep, then chances are you're spending your minutes well and wisely.

However, if swift and sound sleep evades you because you are fraught with fear, anxiety and doubt, then you may want to re-assess the use of your 1440 and consider making some adjustments to your priorities and choices. It could be that a bit of fine tuning is all that's needed to bring you face to face with bliss.

Lisa Almeida is a Holistic Marketing Mentor and owner of Planit Production. She teaches business owners how to apply do-it-yourself techniques to powerful marketing methods to get big business results with small business resources. If you are in the market for strategies that can deliver the results you want while honoring you vision and values visit http://www.PlanitwithLisa.com today and sign up to receive the weekly ezine, Going Soul-o.

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Luck - How It Impacts Success in the Business World

By Osric Baugham

To make it in the business world right now you need three things: money, knowledge and luck. Money and knowledge are self explanatory because you need money to invest in the business. You also need knowledge of the product you are selling or the service you are providing. Alas, how do you acquire luck? Let's explore what luck is and you will find that luck may really be within your control. Let's first define Luck. In Webster's dictionary, Luck is an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance". Based on that definition, luck is out of your control; but it really is not. We will break Luck down into two parts: Preparation and Opportunity.

Before we explain preparation, let's go down memory lane. Take a minute and think of a time when you felt unlucky (got passed over a promotion, did not make the basketball team, etc). Now think of a time when you were lucky. Hold those thoughts; we will come back to them. Preparation is the component of luck that you control completely. Regardless of what you do in your life, there has to be some level of preparation. Whether it is laying out your clothes for the next day to studying for an exam to preparing a presentation at work, preparation is a key factor. Now, let's go back to a time when you felt lucky and unlucky: the situation that you felt unlucky, were you prepared? Had you done everything in your power to be ready for that situation? If you were indeed not ready nor prepared, then you can easily fix that component of luck. Remember, always be prepared for whatever!

Opportunity is the other component of luck that to the naked eye you can't control. However, let's explore opportunity. Opportunity is basically the vehicle of the event, situation or circumstance that you would like to benefit from in a positive manner. Opportunities are around us everyday. It all depends on what your interests are. Haven't you seen a situation or event and said to yourself, "if I was...., I could use that"? Opportunities are always available, but it depends on you. Opportunities can also be created, in a sense. You can put yourself in a situation, event or circumstance that you have prepared to take advantage of when the opportunity presents itself. Instead of being at the right place at the right time by chance, you can place [yourself] at the right place and wait for the right time to present itself. Therefore you can create your own luck after preparing adequately.

The bottom line is simple: In today's business world of entrepreneurs, you have to be savvy, creative, knowledgeable and lucky. Of the four characteristics, luck is one that you would think you could not control but as I have shown you, you can! Preparation and Opportunity is all Luck is. To be successful, you always have to have a plan (be prepared). Successful people are typically viewed as being lucky but all they do is take advantage of opportunities by being prepared. So do you want to be lucky? Start by being ready!

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