Fire Your Employer

Friday, May 8, 2009

Live Your Own Truth

3 Simple Steps to Get out of the Rat Race

Article by Erfan Hettini

We live in the most exciting time of human existence. Never has been a time before with so many opportunities for people to prosper than it is today. We are virtually at the cusp of entering a full fledge online economy. Not only that, but we also have many opportunities still offered today from the industrial age which have reached maturity over a decade ago.

Whether, you realize it or not, the internet economy which started with the birth of the computer, still has a long way before reaching maturity, which means you can ride the wave to maturity which will take at least another decade or two and profit from it to create the life of your dreams.

In close analysis of the trends taking place in today’s economy, you will notice a pattern that is similar to the pre-industrial age. Many people are reverting to their natural aptitude and starting their own business.

In the pre-industrial age, most people were small entrepreneurs, exchanging skills and products for other products or money. Employees were a rare thing, and it was the industrial age that invented organized labor and corporations where you have to punch in and out. And what’s happening today is nothing short of an entrepreneurial awakening. People are reactivating their entrepreneurial soul and taking their product to the world’s online market through their computers and that’s revolutionary.

If you are sick of the rat race and want out, you would first need to follow three simple steps to be successful as outlined below.

Step 1: Discover your true passion

What do find yourself doing when you are not on the job?

The next time you go home after work, pay very close attention and break your routine, whether it’s watching T.V., drinking or any mundane activity.
What do you naturally gravitate towards doing, and not born out of habit and learned social behavior? Is it writing something, reading something, fixing something, building something, or talking about something? What’s that one thing that just makes you feel joyful and childlike?

Ask yourself this very crucial question and answer it with all honesty. If you had all the money you need to pay all your living expenses for the rest of your life, what would you get up and do for FREE every morning for the rest of your life that would be in service to other people?

Step 2: Connect to your passion

A) Tally all the free time you have before going to work and after, including weekends and create a schedule of it such as 5-7 am, 7-9 p.m. and more hours on the weekend to practice your passion.

B) Dedicate your new schedule to practice your passion and strengthen it on daily basis. If you do that, you find that you are gaining clarity and deeper insight about yourself that you didn’t know existed. You will also feel more focused than ever before and a great sense of joy.

Step 3: Embrace and live your passion

A) Follow your new passion schedule for at least 90 days and until it becomes a second nature to you.

B) Search the internet and find out how you can build a successful online business around your passion. Chances are they are successful people out there who are living the same passion full-time and with a web-based business model. Find that one person that makes so much sense to you and attend their seminars, workshops and sign-up to their newsletter if they have one.

C) Find a way that you can emulate their business model, but with your own flavor and personality. Meaning, how you present and do your passion must incorporate elements of your personality. For example, you can get from one destination to another, by a car, train, bus, airplane, walking, jogging or on a ship, which method would you choose if you have the option? There’s only one of you, and only you can deliver that product or service in that one certain flavor, and the internet is your gateway to the world’s market.

d) Keep your job till your part-time passion start generating twice as much as your job for at least a year, and don't raise your living standards, but actually stash the extra income to give you enough living expenses for at least a year or two.

e) Congratulation, you are free to vacate your job and do your passion full-time with minimal downside.

f) Focus on expanding your business and teaching other daring souls how to break free from the rat race.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Art of Intuitive Networking®

The New Paradigm for Building a Golden Rolodex

Learn the 5 Success Principles that Lead to Enriching Relationships

You probably have heard the term”the size of your network determines the size of your net worth”. Now if you are an online business owner, you’ve heard it “the money is in the list”. With that said, both online and offline business owners realize that building a network is essential to sustaining a viable business in the long haul. Every successful entrepreneur ever existed got there, by first building a loyal network of clients and friends that led him/her to an increasing number of opportunities and influence. After all, it’s not who you that matters, it’s who knows you. The Art of Intuitive Networking differs greatly from the methods of Traditional Networking in many ways, and is a great deal more effective.

The traditional and prevalent networking method you see taking place at events and business seminars is based mostly on the Law of Numbers and Averages. The traditional networker is usually handing out his/her business cards like a sales person on the roll to meet a sales quota with minimal human bonding. Typically, the effects of the psychological pressure that manifest on the traditional networker’s demeanor as neediness, and stiff body language. Not to mention, feeling drained, and exhausted like you’re climbing a mountain, are all the outcome of networking with the mindset of a sales person. While networking the traditional way can produce some random and sporadic results, it will for the most part reduce your efforts and time to nothing more than a pile of collected cards of warm leads.

Intuitive networking is an art that builds a rolodex that’s ultra-responsive, warm and ever –expanding, in a way that’s effortless, joyous and has real-human connection at its cornerstone. Its success depends on implementing five different factors in the following order-Mindset, Attitude, Clarity, Intuitive Action, and Acts of Service.

Here’s an explanation of the five success factors of Intuitive Networking that you must use to build a Golden Rolodex, which will enrich your life with many rewards beyond your imagination.

1- Mindset: Always come from a place of abundance, giving and service first, not from a place of selling or qualifying potential clients, when approaching people.

2- Attitude: Check your attitude to make sure you’re turned on positive; no one wants to connect with a grouch, except for negative people.

3- Clarity: Be clear on your intention. What goal are you seeking to accomplish before you go to an event. What answers and solutions are you searching for?

4- Intuitive Action: Be open to possibilities and make a declaration that you will connect with all the souls that you’re supposed to connect with, and with the highest good for all parties before you enter the event. Then, relax and just go about your business without actively looking to connect with anyone and you will intuitively attract to you the right connections. Listen to your heart and it will tell you where to go and when to act.

5- Acts of Service: When you connect with someone, think of ways you can help that person accomplish his/her goal without expecting anything in return. Not only it’s a very rewarding experience, but you’ll initially make new friends and later clients, and very possibly for life, if you’re consistent at follow-up and keeping in touch.

Erfan Hettini is a Master Intuitive Networker, a Movie Producer, an Entrepreneur and the Author of the powerful book 101 Reasons You Should Fire Your Employer & Start Your Own Business. He’s one of America’s most renowned business experts on Entrepreneurial Empowerment at www.selfgrowth.com . He regularly helps aspiring entrepreneurs awaken the entrepreneur within, and show them the way out of the Rat Race, towards financial abundance, happiness and peace of mind. For more information, go to http://www.fire-your-employer.com

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