How to Become an Intelligent Risk Taker

March 29, 2010

Are you afraid of making mistakes or do you learn from your mistakes?

It may not be the most fun way to learn, but super successful people turn lemons into lemonade by finding the positive lesson in everything that happens . It’s just a part of continued growth.

Anyone that tells you they don’t make mistakes, isn’t really living. Don’t settle for being average and secure by never trying anything new. Always be learning. The more you continue your education, the fewer mistakes you will actually make and the quicker you will know how to correct them.

Are you on the cutting edge of your profession?

Are you a reader?

Do you attend events that would sharpen your skills on a regular basis?

Just imagine how different your life will be a year from now when you have read and implemented additional information on a regular basis.

What would that level of information do for your ability to be an intelligent risk taker?

Implementing is the key. Reading the book may be intellectually stimulating, but you’re wasting your time if there is no practical application that follows.

Be flexible, resourceful and resilient. Super successful people respond creatively and imaginatively by seeing the big picture. They are able to bounce back from resistance rather than be broken by it. Think outside the box by being flexible enough to look at other perspectives and options.

Greatness comes from continuing through to the finish in the face of resistance. Flexibility gives you the power to return to your center. Your personal manifesto keeps you focused on who you are and what your purpose is.

Get expert advice and then follow your own intuition. Almost 20 years ago a respected person in my community was involved in a gold mining investment. They said they had gotten a lot of money out of it in the previous year. I had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right, but I dismissed it because they knew more about this kind of thing than I did.

It was my first investment and it was substantial. I trusted this person and felt even better about it when I found out a couple of my coworkers were investing as well. Based solely on their recommendation, and doing no research on my own, I invested. Long story short, about a year later, I received a letter from a government agency telling me the whole thing was a scam. I was so embarrassed and felt so stupid, I never told anyone (except for you).

That experience held many lesson for me beyond investing. I highly recommend spending the money to be mentored by an expert. Every new thing I’ve learned in the last few years I have taken the time and spent the money to be mentored by an expert. In the end I have saved immeasurable time and tons of money! Now I have profits instead of losses.

Mentors are invaluable. There is no such thing as a self-made millionaire. Everyone has help. You can go a long way toward super success with books and audios. Eventually you will want to have mentors that you communicate with and interact with on a regular basis.

*This article is an excerpt from the Success Action Guide “11 Secrets of Super Success” available on http://www.LynnPierce.com

Until next week, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Just comment on this post on my blog at http://www.LynnPierce.com

If you would like personal mentoring, send me an email detailing what you would like help with. As your mentor I hold a bigger vision for you than you hold for yourself. When you have faith and a team that believes in you, it gives you courage. When you don’t have to do it all yourself, all things are possible for you. Commit today to go for your dream 100%.

With 32 years in sales and marketing, along with 38 years studying human behavior, Lynn Pierce, “The Success Architect”, mentors entrepreneurs and information marketers to reach the pinnacle of success. Tell Lynn what the life of your dreams looks like, and she’ll create the blueprints to get you there, along with the sales system to fund it. Lynn Pierce’s personal growth and business acceleration systems help her clients get three times the results in half the time with one tenth of the effort. Claim your free special report, “What Do You Stand For; A No B.S. Guide to Creating Your Own Personal Manifesto” at http://www.LynnPierce.com .

Haiti VitaMeal Donation Update

February 13, 2010

***See bottom of this post for the direct link to donate without being in the company***

I received this great news of what your donations, as one of my subscribers, have helped to accomplish. It comes directly from the company I work with on this VitaMeal program, so I’m posting their message to me here for you:

Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Nu Skin family has demonstrated its force for good culture with an outpouring of support for those affected by the tragedy. On behalf of Nu Skin Enterprises, we want to thank our distributors and employees for their generous donations of VitaMeal and monetary contributions to the Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation. To date, the company and its distributors are donating more than $1 million in cash and product to the Haiti relief efforts.

The Nourish the Children Initiative

Our charity partner, Feed the Children (FTC) has been working through their network to get VitaMeal to those in need as quickly as possible. In fact, the more than 150,000 meals that were at the FTC medical clinic were pulled from the damaged building and have already been distributed to those in need. Another 180,000 meals will arrive in Haiti this week and will be distributed from six locations to earthquake victims. Over 200,000 additional meals are being delivered each week to FTC for delivery to projects in Haiti where they are feeding about 15,000 people every day. We are pleased that Nu Skin’s Greater China region, an area that has also suffered from the devastation of an earthquake, has also earmarked all of its January VitaMeal purchases, along with an additional corporate donation of product, to the relief efforts.

Because of your generous donations we expect to provide more than 1.5 million meals for Haiti by the end of February. And we will continue to send monthly shipments of VitaMeal to this earthquake ravaged country on an ongoing basis. VitaMeal was in Haiti before the earthquake and VitaMeal will be there for the long term.

For more information on the Nourish the Children initiative or to purchase and donate a bag of VitaMeal (30 meals; US$22) please visit http://budurl.com/VitaMeal . We appreciate the generous donations of our distributor force to meet the disaster relief needs in Haiti which are above and beyond our ongoing VitaMeal distribution projects around the world including in China, the Philippines and Malawi.

I am happy to answer any question you have about this program or help you make a donation of 1 bag or 100 bags. It’s up to you. You can also pass this information along to help spread the word. We have a matching program in place that starts with an extra bag for every 5 bag donation and goes from there. So every little bit helps.

Thank you for caring!

And thanks to Steve Pohlit for posting on his blog!  http://manifestmastermindblog.com/2010/02/new-version-we-are-the-world-to-help-haiti/

***FYI: Use this link  http://budurl.com/VitaMeal to donate directly. There isn’t a link on the NTC site that will work for you because you need to fill in a sponsorship number. http://NourishTheChildren.com has information on the complete worldwide program and is not specific to Haiti. You will need to create a customer account and it does not commit you to anything but this one-time donation. If you are interested in donating on a monthly basis, please contact me using the “contact us” form on this site.***

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