5 Ways Millionaires Approach Their Careers

imagesHey, it’s 3:43am in Nigeria and I am excited because I just stumbled on this great piece written by Ken Sundheim on the entrepreneur webpage and I just know you will love it! Enjoy this read:

In the majority of cases, it’s not luck that makes people money, nor is it who they know. Rather, the people who make the most money in their careers are the ones who display discipline, and who have a definitive sense of purpose and heavy duty resiliency.

The positive news is that even if you don’t possess these skills now, it is very possible to obtain them. The first step in doing so is to analyze how millionaires approach their careers and begin to alter your thought processes, practices and overall professional approach.

To get you started, here are five ways the highly successful approach their careers:

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1. Maintain an Open Mind and Active Imagination – Effective job seekers and entrepreneurs understand that tolerance and maintaining an open mind are necessities for anyone seeking wealth and prosperity from their job. They are not afraid of new ideas and understand that closed minds do not inspire faith, courage or belief.

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The Art of Branding

There are two Major schools of thought regarding Branding: The first holds that it’s an incomprehensible voodoo that marketers practice. I Belong to the second, which Contends that it’s a simple matter of the classic Ps of Marketing: Product, place, price and promotion.

To this List some people added another P: Prayer. They are not far off- but instead of Prayer, I prefer proselytization, which is the process of converting others to your belief, doctrine or cause. Proselytization or Evangelism, represents the core of branding for start-ups in Today’s Highly competitive world, in which information is free, ubiquitous and instantaneous.

The art of Branding requires creating something contagious that infects people with enthusiasm, making it easy for them to try it, asking them to try it, asking for their help in spreading the word, and building a community around it.

  • CREATE A CONTAGION: Herein lies the secret to building a successful brand; Align with a product or service that is gold-or enhance it until it is Gold. Then Successful Branding is easy if not unavoidable. If you have a product that is Gold, you can make a lot of mistakes with it and still succeed. If you do not, you’ll have to do almost everything right.

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