Stay focused, and keep it simple,
with these 3 basic steps for creating success.
Today, I’m fired-up by the words of Nick Segal. This morning I witnessed one of his charismatic presentations and I’m feeling impacted by his motivating words on the topic of prosperity and success.
“Understand that relationship-building is not
a temporary campaign, it’s a lifestyle choice.”
Segal is President of Partners Trust, a boutique residential real estate brokerage in Los Angeles that specializes in helping high-end clients buy and sell luxury homes.
Social Media for Success
Nick’s talk today on utilizing social media to create new relationships and deepen existing ones, reminded me of 3 essential and effective success strategies. It doesn’t matter if you are a CEO of a Fortune-500 company who wants to increase profits, or a state-of-the-homemaker who wants to model for her children how to cultivate meaningful, reciprocal relationships. These strategies will benefit anyone who engages with them:
Step #1.
- Become accurately and tenaciously
aware
- of how you actually spend your day.
Step #2.
- With that increased awareness, determine where you can
habituate
- your “future business activities” (i.e., providing value to others with whom you’re not in a current business transaction).
Step #3.
- Choose to
have faith
- that your reach-out-and-touch habits will enrich your life,
if
- you are consistent and if you persevere. Understand that relationship-building is not a temporary campaign, it’s a lifestyle choice.
That’s it. Hey, I said it was simple.
The key word in these 3 steps is, “habituate.”
As you go about your usual routine, I suggest watching yourself with a third eye: witness yourself objectively as you go from task to task, and see if you can recognize patterns and habits.
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If I had one piece of advice to give a new adult starting out on her own, it would probably be:
“be tenacious and brave in looking for patterns in your own life — in your choices, in your habits, in everything.” Look for patterns!
Love step #3! Building relationships is a lifestyle choice, not a campaign, and it can enrich your life!
Make a blueprint. What you think about you create.
Always think out of the box. Be unique! Be kind. Offer something your competition has overlooked.
Follow up. Follow up. Follow up.
Plant a seedling in a small container. Water it. Give it plenty of sunshine. Till the soil.. watch it grow…. pretend this is your career…once you see a leaf crusting the top of the soil re-evaluate re-do re-examine and re-plant if you need to. Try it..this little plant will teach you the valuable lesson of abundance.
Peter, I love the gardening metaphor for helping relationships to grow and thrive. Relationships need regular tending… just like gardens!
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My personal and professional motto: the Golden Rule (and I’m not even Christian). It inspires loyalty in my staff, and faith from my superiors.
Finding the value in what you have set before you, to accomplish on a given day, is quite near the fountainhead of a fulfilling existence.
The best tips I can offer up are really simple:
1. Dance with the one who brung ya- those people who helped/mentored you when you were 1st starting don’t forget them once you’ve launched
2. Be yourself in all settings — home, work, and in social media
3. Our time is the most precious thing any of us have, are the things you’re doing with your time worthwhile, meaningful or fun? if not, time to reevaluate.
Thanks Dane for providing me with some food-for-thought today!
Just keeping giving freely, it will all come back to you.
you bet, @magnus — that’s one of the things about the internet that I enjoy: everyone sharing information, and everyone having access to it!
I love the uplifting and beneficial tone and content of this site. Appreciate the fact that I was able to offer inspiration but the fact that you offer it daily with tips and tools to make each person that reads your site better. I’m grateful for your insights…InstantDane!
thanks, @Nick! We live in exciting times, yes?