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Opportunity Won’t Fall In Your Lap: 5 Ways To Go Out And Get What’s Yours

            

Opportunity knocks on all of our doors; we just aren’t always home to receive it.
I’ve always found the old adage of “right place, right time” to be something of a flawed theory. Sure, I believe in some element of circumstantial luck, but there has to be something more.
There has to be some element of this equation that gifts us some control over the whole thing. You can be in the right place at the right time, with opportunities all around you, but if you aren’t open to it on every level, then it’s really just a waste.
In this life of the unexpected, we simply cannot (nor should we try to) control everything. However, if you find yourself sitting in all the “right scenarios” and always coming up short, it could be true that you are unwittingly sitting there with blinders on. Here’s how to take them off:

Know What You Want

This one sounds obvious, but in actuality, most of us have yet to figure it out. And there’s nothing wrong with that. In all likelihood, if you’re doing it properly, what you want will never be a constant. You will always find yourself tweaking the dream, adding frills and trimming fat.
However, it helps to establish mini goals and successes. Look to short-term plans for guidance and motivation and ensure that some aspect of each day, no matter how small, is dedicated to achieving the goals.
Knowing what you want, on any level, sets coordinates in your brain and triggers action and thoughts, even if just subconsciously. You will always be headed toward what you want if you have some clue as to what that is.

Visualize Getting What You Want

Take the time to find a peaceful space to reflect on what you want.  You can know what you want with every fiber of your being, but if you can’t visualize having it and living it, then it’s all just an out-of-reach pipe dream.
See your finish line in your mind; taste the success and relish the moment as if it is just around the corner.

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Embrace Hidden Opportunities

While there’s something to be said for maintaining focus and staying on course, never forget to keep a corner of your mind open to the unknown. Take every chance you can and turn over every stone that piques your interest and explore every possibility.
Not every opportunity that presents itself will seem like an ideal fit to the master plan, and that’s okay. Try it on for size and find out for sure. Never pass something over simply because it doesn’t meet the ideal criteria – doing so might be the biggest mistake you ever make.
As we journey through our lives, it’s often the long shot that completes the picture.

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Get Up And Go Get It

Most great success stories don’t start with, “So there I was, sitting around, doing nothing, and the chance of a lifetime fell into my lap…” While putting yourself in positive situations with some advantageous timing can certainly help, nothing beats going out into the world and consciously seeking out opportunities.
No one has more to gain from your success than you do. No one will ever work as hard to see you get what you want in life because, quite frankly, everyone is busy working on him or herself. Create your own “right time, right place.”
Know in your heart what you want out of life. Picture yourself on the right path, enjoying the fruits of your labor and seeing it all come together. You have everything you need to chase a dream — after all, you designed it.

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Maintain A Positive Attitude

Smile — it’s simple. I suppose it’s also a little over-stated in motivational literature, but it’s the truth. When you exude positive energy, people cannot help but be drawn to you. There are zero benefits to a negative attitude.
Carry yourself with the same joy you envision yourself feeling when it all comes together. Every day you wake up is a gift, so stop looking for the receipt and make the most of it.

Courtesy of Susy Alexandre from elitedaily.com

Meet Carolyn! Taylor Made Marketing’s MVP for March!

Meet Carolyn! Taylor Made Marketing’s MVP for March!

 Where are you from?  Hamilton, NJ

What’s Favorite thing to do for fun? Play Soccer

What’s your favorite Food?  Pizza

What’s your favorite sports team? RedSox

What is the most rewording aspect of your role as Account Consultant?  My whole job is pretty rewarding, but I’d have to go with the most rewarding part is helping to coach and mentor others who have similar dreams as myself.

What are the most valuable things you’ve learned while working at Taylor Made Marketing? Some of the most valuable skills I’ve learned are how to train and develop others as well as becoming better at public speaking.

How would you describe the work culture and environment at Taylor Made? Fun and Energetic!  Sometimes I forget I’m at work.

What type of person would thrive at Taylor Made Marketing?  Someone who is hardworking, motivated, self-driven, as well was energetic, friendly and competitive.

Why did you decide to run this meeting for the other Taylor Made Marketing employees?   I chose to run 15 success principals because everyone wants to succeed, but in order to do so you MUST have a plan and goals to get there. 

Carolyn’s Meeting:

The 15 Success Principles You’ll Never Want To Forget

1 – Prepare

The first success principle is preparation. It’s the foundation of success. With preparation you create your own opportunities. Once you have all the different elements lined up, it only takes a small opening to realize your goal. At the same time, taking advantage of big opportunities without enough preparation means risking your success, as you’re building without a well-laid foundation.

2 – Do something you love

You have to work very hard whatever it is you choose to do. Your work or your project will dominate much of your time and your life. Therefore, find something that you enjoy doing and do that. 

3 – Get started

You have to start somewhere. Today is as good a day as any to start. Get into action today and start moving in the direction you want. Putting it off can only lead to failure, whereas if you start and see an early setback, at least you conquered that setback early on.

4 – Move in the right direction

Keep everything moving in the direction you want. It doesn’t matter if things go slowly initially. As long as the overall direction is favorable, you’ll get where you want to go eventually.

5 – Use the power of dreams and your imagination

What you dream and visualize today will become true tomorrow. You just have to work on turning it into reality. Just as your dreams can only influence your life if you let them, the cities you build in your imagination can only become real if you build them.

6 – Think big

If you set your aim a bit too high you might fall short. If you set your aim too low you might achieve your goal… and miss out on the other opportunities. By thinking bigger, the only limit is what is possible. You’re no longer limited by what you think is possible.

7 – Focus on growth

Seemingly impossible challenges are just cleverly disguised opportunities for growth. If you take those challenges and, in solving them, improve yourself, you’ll find yourself continually moving in the right direction.

8 – Maintain your determination

With enough determination, you can succeed through almost any odds. Enough determination means you’ll find a way no matter the situation.

9 – Set a clear vision

Think through where you’ll want to go. Develop a clear sense of what your final goal is, and keep this with you. By knowing the destination you want to reach, you can continually look at your current path and decide if it’s a route that will help you get where you want to go.

10 – Set goals along the way

A final goal isn’t enough. You need intermediate goals that set the path. These goals should be specific, measurable, realistic, attainable, and timely. These intermediate goals define the steps that you need to take to get to the final one.

11 - Work out plans of action for your work

For each goal, it helps to have plans to reach them. Your plan describes how you can reach each step from where you are, or where you will be. Keep in mind that the future is never certain. Things rarely work out exactly how you plan. Therefore, see these plans as showing one or more possible routes, not necessarily the route you’ll end up taking.

Still, knowing the plan means you can avoid long detours that might compromise your chances of reaching a goal on time — or at all.

12 - Commit to taking action

Once you start going, keep going. Never, never, never give up. If you find an obstacle in your way, chip away at it or go around it. The only way to really fail is to give up. If you keep going you’ll succeed. If you hit the limits of what’s possible, you can regroup and find another way.

13 - Use affirmations

Affirmations are just short, positive, and above all direct phrases in present tense. Things like “I’m getting more and more successful.” The idea is that they reinforce a positive world view. With affirmations, you are defining your own reality. By transmitting a positive world view to your mind, it adopts this view. As your mind adopts this view, it helps shape the world around you to fit it, which means it helps make the world around you one that reflects a reality of you getting more successful every day.

14 - Get rid of negative influences

Avoid harmful influences around you that might shake you from your goal. Keep people and ideas around you that support your success and your belief in yourself.

15 - Be grateful and appreciate what you have

The final success principle is to appreciate what you have already. Realize that — by sheer virtue of the fact that you can be reasonably certain you’ll live from one day to the next — you already have enough. Enjoy it! Appreciate what you’ve achieved so far, and see that what you want, where you’re going, is not what you need or what you must do. Rather, these are things and actions that will make your situation even better.

Article By James Meyer | Addicted2Success.com

MVP - Nick - No Plan B only Plan A in Success

 Nick (Junior) - MVP of the week

What’s your favorite color? Blue

Who your favorite sports team? The Pittsburgh Steelers

What’s your favorite food? Chimichangas!

What do you like most about working for Taylor Made Marketing? 

The people I work with are great.  They are energetic and fun to be around all of the time.  They are constantly uplifting and I love the team environment the office has. 

Nick’s Meetings

There’s No Plan Be there’s only Plan A to be Successful

Red Beard the Viking traveled the distant land so he could be able to provide for his tribe, but when he got to the island he realized that it was already inhabited by another tribe.  So in order for him to succeed he needed to bring his warriors there to battle them.  When they got there they got off their ship with their warriors they realized they were outnumbered 10 to 1.  When they turned to run to their ships in fear to get away, Red Beard had already burned their ships.  The warriors looked at him like they were crazy and he said, “we can either fight and die here today and we know we can save our tribe or we can go home and die slowly where we will still die of starvation and plague.”  So the men battled and fought and beat the other tribe which outnumbered them.  The moral of the story is that you can’t have a plan B because you’re already assuming that plan A is going to fail.  

Will Smith grew up always knowing he that he wanted to be successful.  It started at school where he worked harder than anyone and got into MIT for engineering, but he knew that to truly be successful he needed something harder and more challenging.  So Will then got into Rapping and then started with the Fresh Prince of Bell Air, which lasted 6 seasons. Again though, he felt like he needed to be more challenged.  He broke out into the movie world in Independence day in 1996, with many many other great movies to follow.  Now, Will he grosses over $20,000 a movie and his movies have a combined gross of over $750 million.

Will never really viewed himself as particularly smart or talented, but where he excelled was work ethic.  While everyone is relaxing and others are on vacation, he’s working.  He says you don’t try to build a wall of success.  You don’t say I’m going to building the biggest, baddest wall of success that has ever been built.  You say “I’m going to lay this one brick at a time, and each and every brick I lay, I will lay down perfect”.  You do that every day and you will have a successful wall.  You must do your best and not stop moving forward every single day.  You have to approach life like there is no plan B and you will make what are doing work and you will be successful.  

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