The biggest risk to your venture is your inability to focus. By allowing yourself to be distracted by new opportunities you fail to capitalize on the one right in front of you. It can often be difficult, as each new idea has potential, but remember that every time you deviate from the path you have already developed, you are delaying your own ultimate success.

Keep a notebook of ideas you develop along the way, but leave them there. Get your current project through to completion, optimize it, reiterate through it until it succeeds. Then choose the next most viable opportunity and do the same. Many entrepreneurs are fearful of passing on the “Golden Opportunity” and along the way that might happen, but if you try to develop each one you will never complete any of them. So stay focused, keep on the road map that you have developed, and give it everything you’ve got.

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• Online Marketing Tips for the Entrepreneur Online Marketing Tips for the Entrepreneur Over the years I have compiled a wide and varied list of marketing tips. Online marketing is a challenging and ever changing business that can often feel overwhelming for the lone entrepreneur. For this reason alone I usually recommend that you outsource much......
• Unique Positioning - Standing out From the Competition - Marketing Tips Marketing Tips - Unique Positioning One of the best marketing tips, is the concept of developing unique positioning for your product or service. In this podcast Murray Smith and I talk about the creation of your corporate marketing plan by defining your unique positioning in the marketplace. Defining your......
• Life Lessons of a Successful Entrepreneur Thinking Like a Successful Entrepreneur Murray Smith joins me on another Success U podcast, and shares with us some of the life lessons this very successful entrepreneur has found the hard way. These lessons are hard learned, and often painful and expensive to experience. One of the simplest to......
• Determining The Right Price For Your Product Or Service Top marketers are constantly tweaking, testing, and making adjustments to the prices of their products. Price is one of the important factors involved in how well any given product or service is converted into sales. There are some important considerations you must take into account when deciding on the price......

• PageRank 0 to 3 in Under 30 Days Less than a month ago, I set out to create this blog.  GeekLad was "born" on September 3, 2008.  Although I had learned quite a bit about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) when I created my personal finance blog back in January, I've learned quite a bit more with my launch......
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• Is It Possible to Have Too Many Opportunities? Are you sitting around waiting for that next big opportunity that just never seems to arrive?  Or are you surrounded by new and wonderful opportunities every day? It’s kind of a rhetorical question really… I spent the bulk of my life waiting for opportunities to come to me, and......
• Tips for Junior Tennis Player Coaching If you’re trying to get your child interested in tennis, there are a few things that you should know about ahead of time to make sure that they get a solid foundation in the sport. Whether you’re teaching them on your own, or they are going to actual lessons, these......
• 7 Reader Friendly Corporate Blogs Tips You want your blog to be engaging, but that may not always be easy. Here are some great tips on how to keep your corporate blog reader friendly. 1. Pick your design well. One of the biggest problems for corporate blogs is design. You can need to make sure that......

To become and act successful often the first person we must convince is ourselves. I have not yet met an entrepreneur who reached a high level of accomplishment without first being confident in what they were doing and what they were capable of.

It is often amazing how much influence in others we can create by exuding inner confidence. But to look at the inverse, if you do not believe in yourself why would anyone else? Putting it that way it is very clear that you are destined to fail if you do not completely buy-in to your own product.

This sense of self-confidence is often hard to imagine after you’ve been denied, or stalled on one front after another. A simple way to regain your inner strength is to visualize the positive outcome. It might sound silly but it actually works. See yourself reaching the goals, see the hurdles and see yourself overcoming them. See the end positive outcome. Not only does this help you gain confidence it can also point out the pitfalls you might face in getting there.

• Physical Fit = Business Fit Staying physically fit has more benefits than just helping you look better. By exercising at-least half an hour a day you will dramatically increase your mental acuity, lower stress and increase your productivity. Companies that provide a gym and allow time for work outs see a significant rise in......
• Life Lessons of a Successful Entrepreneur Thinking Like a Successful Entrepreneur Murray Smith joins me on another Success U podcast, and shares with us some of the life lessons this very successful entrepreneur has found the hard way. These lessons are hard learned, and often painful and expensive to experience. One of the simplest to......
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• Yakezie Blog Swap #10 Hello and welcome to the 10th Yakezie Blog Swap. This time around my fellow bloggers and I were to share our Best Go Green Method To Save Money. As always, I was amazed at what people came up with and shared. Please check out the different tips below on......
• Lessons in Personal Finance The past few years have been especially tumultuous for many people as far as personal finance is concerned. There are a number of lessons that can be gleaned from this, and if you can take these lessons away from the past few years of losses, you may be able to......
• Improve Your Personal Results - Jim Rohn Video In a previous post I showcased the first of three short videos by Jim Rohn about how to improve your personal results. In this second video, Jim Rohn touches on how to improve your situation in life...suggestions like reading more books and upskilling your abilities may seem trite, but they've worked......
• Take Small Steps Towards Great Financial Health Today I wanted to take a moment to remind you to take smalls steps towards improving your financial health. We can often get ambitious and take on more than we can handle which only leads us to feelings of disappointment and failure. Don't be too hard on yourself as......