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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

" You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go. " -
Dr. Suess



Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short

Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short



What are you going to do?  Hope it gets better?  That's not a good plan.
Get a job?  How long do you want to work and can you work?  Until 70+? This is not how most of us would define a good Retirement. 
If you think your financial security is the responsibility of a company or the government, you’re going to be sorely disappointed in the coming years.
Robert Kiyosaki said "Take a look at the difference, for example, between an industrial age pension plan and an information age retirement plan. In the industrial age, companies would employ people for life and give them pensions once their working days were over. Today companies aren’t giving out pension plans the way they used to; less-generous contributions to retirement plans are more common now. And people are retiring earlier and living longer lives. The rules have changed. Retirees need more financial security and thus more-sophisticated ways of building assets than were offered by the pension plans of the industrial age. Unfortunately, most people—those who can least afford to keep their heads stuck in the sand—are acting as if the rules haven’t changed.  The times are rapidly changing, and if you want to be rich, your approach to money and investing has to change too."

Robert goes on to explain the 90/10 rule.
"Throughout history, 90 percent of the money has been made by 10 percent of the people. For instance, 10 percent of the athletes make 90 percent of the money made by all athletes. This is one of the rules of money that Rich Dad taught me. One reason the 90/10 rule has applied is that 90 percent of the people choose comfort and security over being rich. Most of these people do not realize they could choose to be rich.
While the 90/10 rule still holds, it’s being challenged by the changing circumstances that the information age introduced. Thanks to the electronic revolution, it is now possible for more and more people to gain access to the world of wealth, for wealth now resides in information that flies over the airwaves and through television and computer networks. Information is not restricted to the few, as land and resources were in past ages.
The Internet epitomizes this new avenue toward wealth, for it enables the masses to gather information and interact with one another in almost complete freedom. Today it’s possible for people to take their ideas and, with the help of this new-age medium, build products or services around them. Network marketing, the selling of consumer goods, investing, publishing—these are only a handful of the thousands of on-line activities that have been launched by aspiring entrepreneurs and savvy investors.
We’ve only just begun to see what kind of world is possible in this new age of information, but I’ll wager that in the near future, the pressure of the information age is going to shatter the old 90/10 rule. It has never been easier to choose to be rich"
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

The best personal reward is helping others achieve their goals

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The best personal reward is helping others achieve their goals.

If you help someone and it results in a smile and a thank you, that makes both of you feel good.  And feeling good about ourselves is what we humans strive for isn't it?

The selling environment is no different. If you feel good about helping a customer achieve his or her goals you are personally rewarded by feeling good about yourself.

Think about how you feel if you sell your customer something they don't want or need and they call you to return the product. How does that make you feel? Probably rejected and not very good if you have any conscious at all. Moreover, what do you think that person will say about your product, your business, or you as a business person? It will probably not be good. It is often said that if a product is good the customer tells a couple of their friends. If the product is bad, they tell all of their friends. In business, you don't want to be 'that guy.'

You need to keep this in mind - People don't want what you are selling but they will buy what will help them achieve their goals and desires. People do like to be sold to however. They like to be treated fairly and have their needs met. And they also like to spend money on new and different things that provide them with value or make them feel good about themselves.  You should always look at it from the viewpoint of the customer and how can you help them.  As Dean Reick states in his 12 tips for Psychological selling:  You can't force people to do anything.  When people buy, it's not because you wield some magical power over them.  You can urge.  You can push.  You can entice. But ultimately, people do what they want to do. This means your job is to show how what you're offering meets your prospect's needs.

A great analogy is this: Thousands of 1/4 inch drills are sold every year, however people don't want a 1/4 inch drill, they want a 1/4 inch hole.

So strive to help others achieve their goals, that's where the rewards are.

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. - Philippians 2:4

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