If you are hoping to achieve unlimited success in life or in business, it is important for you to take a close look at your mindset and to make any changes necessary in order to get you where you want to be in life.  Unfortunately, most of us are taught from a very young age to have a closed mindset.  As a result, we have a very limited idea of what we are capable of achieving. 

To a certain degree, this mindset is taught to us in school, where we are rarely taught to see “outside the box.”  On the other hand, the role models we have in our lives also indirectly fail to teach us how to work toward achieving unlimited success.  Therefore, you must break free of this mindset and realize your true potential.

The Dreaded “F” Word

When it comes to achieving unlimited success, you must eliminate one four-letter “F” word from your vocabulary:  Fear.  If you allow yourself to have fear, it will prevent you from taking the action necessary to gain unlimited success.

Some people who have learned to change their mindset consider the word FEAR to be an acronym meaning False Evidence Appearing Real.  When it comes to changing your mindset, however, it is better to think of the word as meaning False Education Appearing Real.  In other words, you need to realize and to understand that the education you have received – whether it be through formal schooling or through informal and indirect learning by the role models around you – may have provided you with a false sense of reality.  As a result, you have actually learned to fear trying something new because you are afraid of failing.

Putting a New “F” Word in Your Vocabulary

If you wish to achieve unlimited success, you need to replace fear with a new “F” word:  Faith.  Having faith in yourself and in your abilities to succeed helps encourage you to take action.  Yes, it is possible that you will fail in your first attempt.  But, no one that has achieved unlimited success was completely successful the first time he or she tried something new.  And, if you do fail, you will likely discover that failure isn’t quite as bad as you once thought it to be!

Instead of looking at failure as a roadblock, you should consider it to be a learning experience.  From your failure, you will discover what things worked and what things did not work.  As a result, you will have a greater chance of being successful the next time you try.

Don’t Be a Thinker or a Talker – Be a Walker

When it comes to being successful in business or in life, you need to take a long and hard look at yourself and identify your mindset.  Every person on the planet falls into one of three categories:

• Thinkers – people that think about becoming successful
• Talkers – people that talk about becoming successful
• Walkers – people that get out there, get things done, and make it happen

If you are a thinker or a talker, life and all of its potential successes will simply pass you by.  If you are a walker, on the other hand, you won’t just sit around thinking and talking about becoming a success.  Rather, you will start taking action. 

Remember, 3% of the population is responsible for 97% of the success stories in the world.  The difference between the 3% that make it happen and the 97% that do not is that their fear prevents them from moving beyond being a thinker or a talker and becoming a walker.  Don’t let fear hold you back.  Change your mindset and start walking.  Before you know it, unlimited success will be yours for the taking – and you will no longer be just walking, you will be running every step of the way!

Warm Regards,

Hans Thorn
Personal Coaching Online
http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

If you wish to succeed in business, you must take steps to avoid many of the most common business mistakes.  By following these seven tips, you will increase your chances for achieving business success and you will get there in a much shorter period of time.

Tip #1:  Remember That a Business is a Game

The first key to business success is to remember that running a business is just like playing a game – there is no second place.  If you are going to play, you need to play to win.  Don’t treat your business like a hobby and just “dabble” in it.  If you are going to succeed in business, you need to get out there and make it happen every day.

Tip #2:  Stay Focused

If you are going to play the game of business, you must also keep your head in the game at all times.  This means always knowing how your business is performing and what services or products are successful.  Don’t allow yourself to get distracted along the way.

Tip #3:  Believe in Yourself

If you don’t believe in yourself, in your business, and in your ability to achieve business success, no one else will either.  If you hope to get other people on board with you and your business, you need to be confident and project an image of someone that is already successful.  In addition, the more you believe in yourself, the harder you will work at moving forward.  Know that you are worth it and that you can truly make it happen.

Tip #4:  Know the Difference Between Revenue and Profit

One of the most common business mistakes to avoid is confusing revenue for profit.  Revenue is the amount of money your business brings in, while the profit is the amount of money you get to put in your pocket.  A business making $700,000 every year in revenue may only provide you with $30,000 profit.  While $30,000 is a decent wage, it most likely is not the income you dream of when starting your own business.  Therefore, you need to find a business venture that will increase your profits.  Or, you must find a way to decrease your spending so more of that revenue can translate into profit.

Tip #5:  Resist the Urge to Come to the Rescue

Many people starting out a business want to help everyone else around them be successful to.  You need to resist the urge to rescue those around you.  Instead, focus on your own business success.  You cannot succeed in business if you are spending all of your time worrying about whether or not those around you are successful. 

This may sound self-centered and greedy, but it is not.  In fact, by allowing those around you to fail, you give them a chance to learn from their mistakes – just like you did as you were climbing your way to the top.  Remember, most of today’s millionaires have been flat broke at some time or have gone through major changes in their lives.  Although failure is not a pre-requisite to success, it certainly teaches you to no longer fear failure – once you have been to the bottom, you realize that it isn’t as scary as you thought it would be!

Tip #6:  Know Your Numbers

In order to achieve business success, you need to know the numbers – both personally and professionally.  Before getting started with your business, calculated your financial freedom number.  This number is how much money it will take for you to pay all of your expenses.  You have not achieved financial freedom until your income is more than your expenses.  Determine what this number is and set it as the goal for your business profit.  Of course, you can always raise that goal later!

Tip #7:  Invest in Yourself

Another of the business mistakes to avoid is failing to realize the importance in investing in yourself.  Many business owners put a great deal of money and time into their businesses without spending any time improving themselves.  Seek the expertise of coaches, teachers, and mentors so you can become better educated in the world of business.  Remember, your life and your business is a mere function of you.  Invest in yourself and the rest will follow.

Warm Regards,

Hans Thorn
Personal Coaching Online
http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

Warren Buffet, one of the smartest, richest and most successful
businessmen in the world, was recently asked what he thought
as the best investment anyone could make in these financially
diffucult times.

His answer was clear and concise:

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”

This simple answer is valid in all times, good as well as
bad times, and it’s the same advice most of the successful
men and women of today would give anybody.

It could be the very best advice you have ever got. If you
also want to invest in yourself, start here:

Invest In Yourself

Never before have we faced such times of uncertainty. What
will happen with the global economy? How will it affect your
situation? Your job or your business? How long will the
recession last?

The questions are endless and no-one has the answers. Time
will tell.

However, instead of waiting for what will happen, why not
take action yourself and take the necessary steps to control
your own destiny? Isn’t it better to be in the driver seat
instead of being in the back seat? Isn’t it better to be
pro-active instead of re-active?

If you ask the most successful businessmen and women,
they will assure you that there are more opportunities
in bad times than in good times, and that this is an
excellent opportunity to become (more) successful.

If you don’t grab the opportunity, someone else will.
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Invest In Yourself

Warm Regards,

Hans Thorn
Personal Coaching Online
http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

2008 has finally been closed. For some it was a year of
challenge and for others a year of opportunity that brought
new exciting experiences.

2009 is going to be ….. Yes, what will 2009 be for you?
Have you given any thoughts of your vision for 2009? How
will your finances be? Will you have the same economy as
you had 2008? Will it improve or, god forbid, be worse?

What will you do about it? What goals, plans and actions
do you have for making 2009 your best year ever?

What about your health?
What about your relationships?
What about your self confidence?
What about your self esteem?
What about your personal development in other areas?

Take some time and think about this. How would you like
to live your life and how shall you achieve that?

Remember that it is all the small actions that count. It
is not possible to go from 0 to 100 in one giant step!

You can get help, advice, information and tools to help
you accomplish whatever you want for 2009, and beyond… It’s
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If you want to kick-off 2009 with a bang, check this out:

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish
you and your family a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!

Best of Success in 2009!

Hans Thorn
http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

Did you know that your outer need to control is holding an iron grip on all of your inner development, wherein you are not allowing yourself to truly create what you want? 

All people, more or less, have the need to control within their finances, health and relationships.  Some of us have an overzealous need to control that can do harm to these important areas within our lives.  How do you find out if you have these control needs?

Take a look at your current situation in for example, your finances your health and your relationships.  If they are not in balance, as in 99 out of 100 cases, it is a control need that hides an internal reason for your extraneous symptoms.

Say, for example, that you have poor control of your finances and try to get balance and control of it through many outside actions.  Unfortunately, your financial situation only gets worse and worse, without you knowing why.  The key now is to find the internal reason that often is deeply concealed within your subconscious.  When you figure out the reason for your poor financial situation, the need to control is gone and you can now do the extraneous action with extraordinary results. 

Three tips to rid yourself of the need to control:

1. Figure out where you have extraneous symptoms that you know you cannot solve
2. Look deep within to find the inner reason for your problem.  You will know when you have found it for it is the painful feeling that lies there and hurts the most, that you have never dared look for earlier
3. Let the negative feelings come to the surface so that they cannot control you from deep within.  Now you are free to create what you want within that area.  You are now released. 

Good luck with the exercise. 

When you have got rid of the need to control, you can start working with your outer goals. To do this, follow these steps:

1.       Perform a reality check and find out where you are right now with you finances, relationships and health

2.      Are you happy with the results you have accomplished so far, i.e. where you are right now? If not, define your goals for each area and write those down as detailed as possible with a due date for each goal

3.      If necessary, break down the goals into sub-goals with due dates for the sub-goals

4.      Define an action plan with the steps necessary for you to take to reach each goal and sub-goal

5.      Take action

Good Luck!

Hans Thorn, Success Coach

http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

Imagine yourself wakening up every morning full of energy and ready for the challenges of the day. Lots of exciting things are happening and you manage them with success. You turn around the negative to the positive and with the positive you create balance and success within all areas. Would not this be wonderful?

This scenario could be yours, but the question is: Does your life look like this? Most likely most people would like to have a life like this, but the reality for many people is not as positive as the scenario above. A lot of people struggle with bad finances, bad health and bad relationships. How come?

No-one is born with a negative approach or negative thoughts of herself. However, when the years pass by, a lot of people create a negative pattern of thoughts that leads to negative feelings, which always leads to poor results. There is nothing wrong with that and it is pure naturally if you understand the law of cause and effect, where every effect has a cause and every cause has an effect.

The reason for that we think positively or negatively about ourselves and what we can accomplish is to a large extent shaped of what we have seen, experienced and heard as a child. If you have grown up surrounded by harmony, the chances that you have life balance are greater than what you would have had if you had grown up under tougher circumstances. Maybe it sounds unfair, and maybe it is, but you cannot change the past.

However, you can change what you think and feel about yourself now. What has been programmed in your past can be replaced with a new program where you get positive results, all according to the law of cause and effect.

How is this done? The first thing we need to do is to let go of the emotional connection to what causes poor results. To let go of everything that is negative and forgive those who might have done this. Not so much for their sake as for you to be able to be free from the strong bounds that creates your unwished results.

When you then feel free and released from the negative, it is time to program your brain with your dream scenario with assistance of new messages, for example:

1. I love myself
2. I am running a successful business
3. I have many excellent relationships

Read your sentences 10 times each morning and evening during three weeks and continue thereafter with new positive sentences that you want to experience. This will become you new cause and the results will be positive and totally different from your previous results.

Good Luck!

Hans Thorn, Success Coach

http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

Have you ever thought of how you can create the life you want? Maybe you have a number of different dreams you would like to realize, but you think they are impossible to achieve. Then I have good news for you. Nothing is impossible if only the will and understanding are large enough for how you shall achieve what you dream about.

The difference between a multi millionaire and a poor person might seem to be huge, but the big difference is that the rich person has the consciousness to make money while the poor man has the consciousness to make no money at all.

Imagine if one could teach everybody how to make a consciousness of good finances, health and relationships instead of the dejected feeling that many people carry around. I mean that this is possible. The thing that differentiates us from each other is our inner images we carry around in our unconsciousness. These inner images of success or failure decide what kind of decisions we take and what results we get.  

What kind of inner images do you carry around? Make an analysis of your present situation and your inner images, when it comes to your finances, health and relationships. These are the images that control your life, in the same way as your software programs control your computer and what it can do. Are these the images you want? Would you rather replace your programs? Just like on a computer you can add programs that you use, and delete or remove programs that you focus less on or do not use at all.

What kind of images do you want to have in your data bank when it comes to finances, health and relationships? Write them down and focus on what you do want to have.  Remember to live with these images like they are happening right now, as in present mode. Sooner or later the result you want will be created outwards. A positive image creates a positive result, while a negative image creates a negative result.

You decide how conscious and successful you will be. You are the one who decide what programs your computers shall have and what kind of result they shall generate. If you apply this technique you can create the life you want!

Do you know that almost all people create their life around their job and the salary they get from that? Why not apply another approach? Start with defining what kind of life you want to life and create your work around that. When you have identified the life of your dreams, create your inner images of that life and start working with your mental picture of this life. At the same time, write down what steps you need to take to achieve the life of you dreams. The power of both your mental inner images and a practical action plan will take you to your goals even faster.

Good Luck!

Hans Thorn, Success Coach

http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

Today we shall look into what kind of unique qualities you have that can improve your chances in your work or in your business. We all have a number of unique qualities which we often are not aware of. This is often referred to as your USB or Unique Selling Proposition. To really appear as unique in what you do, makes it easier for a potential customer or manager to judge if they want what you offer them or not.

Let us take an example: We have John, 38 years old, who run his own business as a specialist in web design. As you might be aware of, there are plenty of companies offering web design which makes it difficult for the customer to choose who to hire. John contacts me since his business does not perform according to his intentions and plans.

John knows that he is really good at what he does, but he has mediocre sales results. We discuss the problem and I ask John what he does. After a while it is clear for me that John does not differ himself from the rest when he has meetings with potential clients. John does not market himself in a way that differentiates him from his competitors, which makes it impossible for the client to understand why they should choose John instead of any other web design company.

I ask John what makes him so good, what he is really good at within his niche. He says: I am quite good at everything but there is nothing special with me. However, I know that this is not true since I have seen Johns web design work and it is really good. After a lot of discussion and digging into Johns work, we find three things that differentiate John from the rest. These unique things, also called the Unique Selling Proposition (USP), are;

1. John is reliable above the usual. He delivers what he promises and he makes sure the customer is happy with the result.

2. John offers web solutions that the customer himself can administrate, which makes his products very flexible.

3. John has a competence level within his niche that is second to none. All this is offered to a very competitive price.

When John presents his services with these unique qualities it is much easier for the customer to compare Johns offer with the competitors offers, and choose John.

This is a rather simple way to increase your turn around when you know what you are good at, i.e. to market and present your Unique Selling Proposition (USP).

So, my question to you my friend is;

-         What kind of unique qualites do you have that differentiates you from the rest in your work or in you business?

-         Make a list of at least three things that differentiates you from the rest.

-         This is your Unique Selling Proposition/your USP.

Do your customers or your boss know what your USP is? If not, make sure you communicate this when you are marketing and selling your product or service.

At the Olympic Games in Montreal Canada 1976, the difference between the winner of 100 meter and the guy who came last, was 1/10 of a second. The winner had certain unique qualities that differentiated him from the rest. He became famous and his name was printed in the history books for ever, while the other names were forgotten only a couple of weeks after the competition. It is on people with these kinds of values the companies choose to sponsor with millions of dollars. The same apply for customers; they bet their money on the people or companies that stands out from the rest and offers unique values.

Good luck with these exercises and do not forget that you are unique. Use your Unique Selling Proposition (your USP) and improve your chances.

Good Luck!

Hans Thorn, Success Coach

http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

Today we shall take a look at how to choose success in life. Since long I have thought about and been astonished over why some people seem to get everything in place whilst others have to fight so hard to reach success.

My first advice to you is to focus on what you want to achieve in life. What others do or do not do does normally not affect you success, so why focus on them. Avoid all these endless discussions of why this or that person were so lucky and got successful, when it actually ought to be you who should be successful. These kinds of discussions do not lead anywhere except they will drown your own power to act and to create something useful and successful.

Instead, imagine yourself standing in front of two doors and you have to choose which door to enter. One door will let you through if you think positively and really commit yourself to realize your dreams. The other door will let you in if you are prepared to see everything that is negative in life and not go for anything, since there always is a risk that you will fail.

Which door do you choose? I am sure you choose the first door where you create the success in life you want!

Unfortunately, most people choose the other door unconsciously and continue to whine over everything that not is good. There is no room for happiness, goals, visions and success.

If you know that you want to choose the first, positive, door but anyway will end up with going through the other, negative, door, do not give up! There is hope. First of all you have become aware of what you want and what you do not want. You want success in life, right? Since your choices no longer are unconscious you can choose the positive door for all future.

-         What door have you so far in your life entered?

-         What door do you want to enter?

-         What kind of thoughts and dreams will you take with you?

You can make up your mind right now and choose your thoughts and actions. If you wait too long, everything is postponed to the future. Remember that to act now is power here and now, whilst everything that is postponed to the future often creates frustration until it is realized, if ever.

When will you act and what door do you choose? Start your journey towards success in life today!

Good Luck!

Hans Thorn, Success Coach

http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

Are you using all of your capacity? Are you using it the best way it can be used? If not or if you are unsure, have you ever thought of hiring a coach who can help you get your life and/or your business to take off? What if you already are doing well, but yet only make use of a fraction of your true capacity!

Probably you have built your business or work with help of what you are good at. Maybe you have applied qualities like a good social competence, excellence in closing business deals or something else to get you where you are today. All this is fine, but the question is, are you where you really want to be? Maybe you have totally different dreams and goals you want to achieve, but feel you’re not reaching all way through.

All leading athletics, business managers, pop musicians and other successful people have one thing in common. They have people around them helping them grow and get better at what they are doing and therefore reaching amazing results. The thing is that they did not get the amazing results first and then got themselves a coach, instead the got themselves a coach first who coached them to reach amazing results.

Here are a couple of tips you can use when looking for the right coach for you.

Excercises:

1. What areas of yours do you need to develop to really get your life and/or business to take off. Write down a list over these areas

2. Write down 3-4 names within each area that you know has the competence to support you

3. Contact these people in priority order and ask if they want to coach you

4. Remember to always offer them something to help you (you do not get something for nothing)

5. If the reject the offer, continue to the next person on the list until you have found yourself at least one coach in each area

6. If you do not find anybody, or if you do not want a coach in person, you can use books, CD’s, DVD’s, etc. containing the information you are looking for

7. Another way to find people than can help you is to search for them at different sites on the Internet. For example in different forums relating to the areas you want to find coaches in, or at sites where people offer their services for a fee. Examples of such sites are www.elance.com, www.guru.com, www.getafreelancer.com. These sites are primarily for help within Internet related tasks. The good thing here is that there is a rating system so you can see what other people think of them and their services.

You have to pay for their services but usually you end up in paying for a mentor or coach one way or another, if you do not have a close friend that can help you or if there is a kind of sponsored business accelerators who can help you with your business idea.

Start today to make use of ALL your capacity!

Hans Thorn, Success Coach

http://www.personalcoachingonline.com