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4 Entrepreneurial Traits That Will Accelerate Your Success

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As you reflect back on your year, thinking about the events that took place, the opportunities you received, the incredible people you met, the type of work you do, spending quality time with family and friends, the clients you helped, insights you learnt at a conference, the deal you signed or taking time out to travel overseas.

What are the words that immediately come to mind that accurately describe your year?

The word that comes to my mind is “challenging”. I have to say on a personal and professional front, 2015 was one of the most challenging years I have ever encountered. Let me be straight with you, it was neither good nor bad. Challenging describes it best mainly due to the fact it was the year for many ‘firsts’.

Let’s face it; entrepreneurs understand how different the business world is when you work for yourself versus an employee working for a company and receiving a paycheck every week. That said, I love challenges and no matter how many I encounter along the way, for every step I took, every decision I made, every client I helped and every person I met was worth every second of my unbelievable journey this year.

I can honestly say without a doubt the best part was the astronomical growth factor that impacts both your personal and business life. Although most days throughout the year, it felt like I was constantly moving through a dark thunderstorm in the hail without shelter. There were days when the rainbow appeared even if just for a moment. It was in those moments that the tiniest things in life you very quickly learn to appreciate; taking one step forward, deliriously delighted by your team member’s creativity, the joy of working with a new client, or that minute win no-one else notices. All of these things become a cause for serious celebration and occasionally tears of joy.

“From struggle, all greatness is born” – Jack Delosa


Not so long ago I learnt one of the most valuable lessons of my entire life when someone special came in and changed my perspective on the world. There is no greater joy than filling your life with exceptional experiences and beautiful memories rather than things.

So, if you are thinking of starting a business or in your first years of business I want to share with you my greatest lessons in the form of the 4 P’s.

These 4 P’s are the critical foundations required in business:

1. Pushing or forcing things doesn’t work

Being a determined, action taker I believed achievement of my goals was solely dependent upon the action I took. This is true to a point. However, when you push or force things to happen there is little room for flexibility and if you are too attached to a particular outcome it can mean nothing else can take place. If that is the case, you may receive nothing in return as you are wanting something to occur that cannot occur in the way you want it to.

The key is to go with the flow of life. Look at your business and find where there is the greatest amount of flow. What areas do you find work with very little effort on your part? When do you not notice the time? Identify where things are flowing in your business and start there. When you are pushing or forcing something to happen, you end up wasting your time and energy thus making it ten times harder than it needs to be.

“Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life”. – Leon Brown

2. Patience

This was by far my biggest lesson this year. The universe works in magical ways and despite your best efforts it does not work on your clock. Being an impatient action taker, I honestly believed the goals I wanted to achieve would not take as long as they did. My philosophy was I completed the work and make things happen so why isn’t it? This lead to frustration with every little delay or obstacle that arose. It is important to remember, you are not working alone, as an entrepreneur you may be involved with a team or working with other professionals in order to make things happen.

So I worked 7 days a week thinking this would help. In hindsight, it only served to kill my creativity and clarity and left me feeling exhausted with insomnia. My point is take my advice and avoid learning the ‘hard way’. Be sure to learn the art of being patient in business.

 

3. Perseverance

Persevering means to continue working towards your goals despite adversity and minus any guarantees whatsoever that you will succeed. Perseverance requires you to develop a colossal amount of self-belief and develop an inner strength you never knew you had.

We all have challenges and this year they have not been in short supply from my book launch, editors, education providers, website designers, family members, friends, finance providers, mentors, singing teachers and even strangers. Trust me, when I say these challenges were all required for me to grow and I managed to find the blessings from most of these encounters. Some I am still working out.

 

4. Preparation

I am a highly organized person so I consider being prepared as one of my strengths. Unfortunately, in business it takes on a different meaning for when you encounter new situations, you don’t know what you don’t know. Sometimes, you only learn how unprepared you were after the fact.

Remember, when engaging in new activities you have no or little experience in, things tend to take a lot longer than you were hoping for. There are things you may not have considered or questions you failed to ask before engaging a team member, or things you learn along the way that can extend your timeline for a few days, months and on occasions, years.

My advice is to do everything you can to be highly prepared. Ask those who have gone before you, call a friend or mentor who has experienced what you are planning to do, do some research or read a book on the subject. The bottom line is to do the work and take the time to prepare yourself and show up every day as the best version of yourself.

“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation” – Zig Ziglar

I wrote this article to help you shortcut your own learning process and I sincerely hope you take action today to appreciate the 4 critical P’s in business. Take the time to understand what they mean for you and more importantly how you can implement them into your daily life.

Which of the four do you believe is the most important and why? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below!

Angelina Zimmerman is a Head Coach & Trainer who specialises in mindset coaching and workshops to help people shift their mindset from a fixed to a growth mindset in order to promote exponential growth to achieve personal and professional goals.

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How to Break the Cycles of Mediocrity and Manifest Your Greatness

There is no greatness without becoming and there is no becoming with authenticity

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In just a few weeks, we will be wrapping up 2023. Can you believe it? This year has been absolutely incredible for me.

I have seen amazing doors opened, new relationships formed and I am seeing dreams realized in my life. While this seems like the hallmarks of a great year, this has also been the most challenging year of my life. With all of the change happening in my life, I have been forced out of my comfort zone and challenged to grow in every area of my life.

I can truly say that I have made the most of my moments this year and I have used everything as a catalyst for maximizing my greatest potential.

As a revolutionary leader, I have the pleasure of consulting and advising leaders around the world to fulfill purpose, realize their greatest potential and make an impact.

I want to share some insights with you that will help you to break cycles of mediocrity and manifest your greatness

Everything legal must come through the matrix

I am sure that some of you are wondering why I am using the term matrix. However, what you have to understand is that I am trying to make a highly complex spiritual principle practical to understand.

Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, every life has an origin and I believe that origin is divine and begins with eternity. You are birthed from eternity and into time to fulfill a unique purpose and assignment in your lifetime and generation.

The matrix is simply the portal or vehicle that brings something out of the invisible realm and into tangible form. The problem with much of the teaching today is that it excludes the matrix. We are told to believe that success is instantaneous and overnight.

Nobody talks about how a dream progresses through stages beginning with visualization and ultimately culminating in manifestation. Without a matrix or portal then everything that you attempt to birth and build will be illegal.

The matrix not only makes you legal but it gives you the authority and power to function as the greatest expression of who you were created to be. 

Every matrix has an incubation process

While many people admire and respect me today, I remember a time when nobody knew who I was or the significance of my message. How did I get to where I am today? I got here through an incubation process.

In other words, everything that has been destined for your life is incubating and awaiting a set time of manifestation. The problem is that most people live their entire lives idle and never initiate the incubation process.

What do I meany by that? Most people are living reckless and very few people are living intentionally. I am amazed at the number of people I have conversations with that have no vision, goals or strategies for their lives. They show great promise and they have undeniable potential.

However, without development they will die with their dreams still in them.

Everything that has been destined for your life must be incubated and converted to become realities born to time. 

“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin to build.” – Robert Collier

You must give expression to that which is not yet born to time

When you think about a matrix or a prophetic incubation process, you have to understand that potential is often unrealized and untapped. In other words, your potential is in raw form and your potential cannot serve you as long as it is untapped.

The thing that makes me valuable is that I have the ability to convert potential into power. I have done it in my own life and I have empowered leaders around the world to do the same. How do you convert potential into power?

First, it is important to note that you have to perceive potential. If you cannot perceive your potential then you can never cultivate your potential. In addition, you must take the time to cultivate your potential. We often get excited about our capabilities; however, we never expand our capacity in order to realize our greatest potential.

In other words, the strength of your potential is only discovered through your willingness to stretch. The more we are challenged the more we are empowered to expand our capacity for greatness. Most of all, you must begin to express your potential. The expression of potential is different for every person.

For example, the expression of my potential is best demonstrated through the thoughts, ideas, products, services, books, etc.

For another person the expression of potential may look like a screenplay, artwork, sports, scientific discoveries, medical breakthroughs, etc.

Regardless of the form of expression, I know that you will live empty and unfulfilled until you make the decision to express your potential. The expression of your potential gives voice to your dreams, life to your vision, significance to your moments and activates your true power.

You must manifest your greatness

As a revolutionary thinker and leader, my work has impacted people around the world. I am grateful that my life is a source of empowerment to so many people. However, before anyone could ever benefit from my life, I had to make a non-negotiable decision to become who I was born to be.

I wish I could tell you that this journey is easy and that you will get there overnight. However, in a world that celebrates us for doing we are often criticized for being. As a result, I wasted a lot of time trying to be who other people wanted me to be instead of being who I was born to be.

There is no greatness without becoming and there is no becoming with authenticity. It is through our bravery to be vulnerable that we ultimately manifest our greatness. We do not bless the world by being a duplicate. We bless the world when we honor our difference. When you honor your difference you honor your potential.

Ultimately, your difference is how you manifest your greatness.

When you present anything but your authentic self to the world, you are playing small and you are robbing the world of your significance. Manifesting your greatness requires you to master your gifts.

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