“You can do anything if you put your mind to it, but you can’t do everything” (Mark Forster)

This is such a true statement, linking together many elements we have addressed over the past months here in the various blog posts: mindset and marketing tools, focus and determination.

The moment you have your goal clearly set and visualized in your mind, then the road appears in front of you and you just need to follow it, step by step, cautious to adjust direction, flexible to allow for expansion and growth.

Your 6 main steps towards your personal success story therefore are:

1. brainstorm towards success WITHOUT any judgement;
2. order the outcome by topics;
3. matrix it with your goals for success;
4. visualize the whole picture;
5. prioritize and
6. act!

It does not matter that you do not know the full way yet. As long as you always keep your final goal clear and up front in mind, nothing will harm your way. Allow it to come step by step and follow – just as another famous quote teaches us all “when the pupil is theady, the teacher arrives”. Your way path will roll out in front of you in exactly this manner.Just walk open-minded towards it!

To your success

Your Kasia G.

Last week we have discovered the four seasons and how they fit together with the main characteristics of our personalities: some of us are life artists and act like spring, always thrilled by new things, always taking many new blossoms to discover.

Others of us are like winter time, rather calm and very family and friend oriented, very helpful and mission fulfilling.

Most of us have one main season that we reflect in our characters, some elements of the three other seasons for sure come out on different occasions as well.

Today I want to help those of you who are not yet sure about which season reflects the best. A short multiple choice test which should guide you towards your season or simply confirm what you already guess it is.

Take a few minutes and enjoy:

1. My dream holiday is

a. adventure and rafting in Costa Rica;   *

b. beach holiday with my family;   ~

c. no holidays; no time, need to work;   #

d. a perfectly organized city travel   +

2. What describes best your working style?

a. I am keen on each little detail;   +

b. very creative and trying to have some fun as well;   *

c. trying to achieve as much as possible in one day;   #

d. first I help my colleagues, then make my job.   ~

3. In my free time I

a. love being with my family;   ~

b. do training and regular sports;   #

c. enjoy parties and clubbings;   *

d. do some gardening.   +

4. Problems

a. I do not like discussing with others in order to keep harmony;   ~

b. I discuss immediately so they are solved. I don’t like if others have a different opinion though;   +

c. which problems? *

d. I solve immediately as I have no time for them. #

5. What do you eat mainly?

a. controlling strictly calories and nutrition values;   +

b. I enjoy big menus and tasty dishes;   *

c. home made cooking;   ~

d. Snacks and junk food.   #

6. A colleague asks you do his/her job. How do you react?

a. angry: do it yourself;   #

b. I am angry but do not dare saying no;   ~

c. with a smile I pass it on the another colleague;   *

d. with high self discipline I try to accomplish my colleague’s job as perfect as possible.   +

7. You go to a party. Which dress do you choose?

a. “sexy”, being the main point of attention is my goal; *

b. small black dress, always suits well; +

c. my usual dress which I use for these rare occasions since many years; ~

d. take the best I have to demonstrate my success.  #

8. You win the lottery. What do you do with the money?

a. I save it for the education of my children;   ~

b. I plan a trip around the world;   *

c. I invest in real estate;   +

d. I buy myself into my company as a partner.   #

9. You have a free afternoon. What do you do?

a. I meet friends to go to the park;   *

b. I finally have some time to do some work at home;   +

c. I go with the kids to the playground;   ~

d. I network at the golf club. #

10. This fits me best:

a. carpe diem – live the day; *

b. first the work, then the leisure;   #

c. organization is key to success;   +

d. giving is better than taking.   ~

Now go ahead and count the symbols; check which symbol you have marked most. This is the symbol which best reflects your personality.

~ You are a FRIEND and winter is the main season your personality is reflecting;

+ You are a PERFECTIONIST and your season is autumn;

# You are a WORKAHOLIC and your personality reflects summer;

* You are a LIFE ARTIST and your season is spring.

Hope you enjoyed!

To your success

Your Kasia G.

ready for the final spurt to discover which type of person you are? Is your personality more a winter time type or a sparkling spring time character?

Let us first discover the last, the spring which we call the “Life Artist”. The life artist is full of energy, see opportunities and possibilities all over; is attracted by everything; curious to discover all things and all people that he or she encounters. The life artist is difficult to hold back and is always keen to start new adventures, never gets enough of them.

It is like spring, flowers blossom all over, people come out of their houses, the world seems to start moving faster after long winter months.

The life artist just needs to learn to let go at a certain point. As spring allows blossoms to become flowers and fruits and change into summer, the life artist needs to understand that too many things at the same time not necessarily are for his or her best. Actually, usually they get stressed by overwhelming themselves with too many new adventures and taking on new ones without having accomplished or finalized the previous ones.

If you are a life artist people often will admire you for your strength and energy; some will envy you for it. It is wonderful walking through life in such a motivated manner. Just be careful not to stress yourself with too many projects as you risk to feel bad and also to become and seem superficial. Use some meditation techniques and take even just a few minutes a day to calm down and reflect a bit.

Give it a thought and I will be back next week with a short multiple choice test to help you identifying which season reflects your personality and how to make best use of the natural seasons’ power behind it! For sure, we all have parts of all four types reflected in our personalities. It is also quite common to have a business/work life personality which is quite different from the personality type that comes out in private time. Still, one main type is the power behind all our doing and action. Get to know yourself better, listen to your inner self, discover yourself and use the power of the seasons for additional energy to drive your days!

To your success

Your Kasia G.

here I am back for you with some more insight about the four seasons and how we can profit positively in our lives from this natural source of energy.

Did you already think about which type of person you are? Do you feel your personality reflected in winter time or in autumn? In spring or in summer?

Remember, we were saying that winter is the time of reflection and nest building; spring is the energy burst itself; summer is lightness and fast flow; autumn is joy towards achievement and rest.

You have read about the “workaholic” in the past post. Today let us take a closer look at “the friend” and at “the perfectionist”.

Being a “friend” you always feel the urge to help and you do not feel well nor able to relax until you have not helped all people in your “radar”. This is a very positive attitude and helping others is always a very gratifying job. Still, there is a huge BUT to it: you need not forget about yourself!

Learn saying NO. It is like the sun that warms us (not only) in summer … but sometimes says NO and then we find some clouds on the sky … “oh no”, many people might think. We need the sun, to warm the water to grow the plants, to get a sun tan, whatever it is … But just think about it: too much sun means dry flowers and burned skin … and it is the same with you: the more you give the more people expect. The more you give the less they will say “thank you”  and will forget soon how to appreciate all your help; it will become “normal” to them.

Helping is wonderful and very gratifying, as already mentioned above. Just start testing the incremental gratitude that one simple NO can bring to you; how much time for you to relax a single NO may mean, give it just a though, how much energy a single NO can keep within you!

“The Perfectionist”: huge discipline, focus and determination guide you. Well, no doubt that you are a “perfectionist”. Autumn eventually reflects best what the perfectionist looks like. Tearing off old clothes, getting ready for a new start, a next step, whenever it is needed. Obligations and work come in before joy and fun. You never miss out on a date, on a birthday or a meeting.

The perfectionist could be a vivid and walking “Outlook Calendar”. Sports and family are those who lose out most on this as your wish and thrive for perfection is so big that you hardly allow yourself any time out; time to have fun and to reflect; time to be creative and have fun. Easiness and a bright spirit can give you this ultimate energy boost to make you a smiling perfectionist and allow yourself to not only function perfectly but to live … I know this is a difficult process; I have been through it, but it works

Last but not least, the next post, the third one of this short series here on fighting burn-out and enjoying life, will be about the “Life Artist”. So make sure you check back soon and get inspired by nature for a better life!

Have a fantastic day

Your Kasia G.

isn’t it great?! March 1st, spring is coming soon, days get longer, first flowers spread out. This is energy, positive energy that nature uses getting out after all the long and cold winter months – in the northern hemisphere right now.

Look at this natural energy. Isn’t it contagious on your mind and spirit? It for sure is on mine!

Psychologists all around the world ring the alarm bells that there are more and more people affected by burn-out. The good news is that in most cases we can fight it with our own tools; tools that nature has given us and inspires us through the seasons on how to using them:

• Winter is the time of reflection and nest building;
• Spring is the energy burst itself;
• Summer is lightness and fast flow;
• Autumn is joy towards achievement and rest.

How does this reflect in our personalities? How can you make best use of it?

Well, first of all you need to better understand what type of person you are – as a complete burn-out situation for your neighbor might mean excitement and power for you.

So let us analyze this first. Let us divide all humans into 4 main types:

• The Workaholic
• The Friend
• The Perfectionist
• The “Life Artist”

The Workaholic needs work to feel stimulated and mostly will search also extreme activities as mountain biking and extreme sports in his or her free time. Trying to enjoy all achievements, be it the perfect job completion or the highest mountain you reach. Listen to your inner self. Give yourself more time to enjoy and share this joy with others. Inspire them and get additional energy from their feedback and admiration. This is the best to fight burn-out for the workaholic. And some very quiet hours, at least once a quarter – even if you need to force yourself to do so. Mark them like an appointment in your calendar; read a book, go to the SPA, sit on your sofa and watch TV. Allow yourself to NOT functioning at 150% for 365 days a year!

Well, that’s it for today, more about the other three types of people in the blog posts coming later this week. Watch out for them!

here I am back for you with some more details on Social Networking:

Social Networking is not only a great possibility for checking up with old friends and mates, it is also a very powerful tool to find groups of interest. All systems have groups of interest you can sign up to. There you will find people from all over the world that share one same interest. This interest might be singing, painting or online business. It might be cooking, gardening as well as sharing experiences of proud parents. Whatever your interests are, you can be pretty sure to find a team or group in any of the social networking sites. And this is exactly where we come back to the traffic driving aspect of the Social Networks.

Consider the power of a tool that gives you the possibility of having access to a huge group from all over the world interested in let us say golfing. Saying huge group I mean huge group as many of them have over 5.000, even up to 45.000 people (that is I guess the biggest one that I have discovered) subscribed to them! On the other side let us assume that you have a golf course that you are promoting, for instance on “How to increase your score by 10 each time you play”.

Can you already see and feel the power of this? You will just need to look for one of those groups, make friend requests to them (which is quite time consuming but very effective) and then you will not have to do anything else than write about golfing on your social networking site, inform people about and on your blog about all your golfing knowledge and they will come by themselves to get more from you. This will be exactly the moment when they will enter your “traditional” sales cycle, enter your opt-in site (very often known as Magnetizer page) and so on.

In general, it is recommended by renowned Internet Marketers to have a friends list of about 2000 people. I know that this sounds a real lot, and it is. Just consider two important aspects to it:

1)      You will grow your list over time – let us say 6 months to have about 2000 is a challenge but a feasible goal.

2)      These 2000 people will bring automatically new traffic to your site, your friends list will grow steadily.

Questions, recommendations, feedback or other – I always love hearing from you adn receiving your comments!

To your success,

Your Kasia G.

back here after a really busy week

Social Networking is something all people speak about. Social Networking has so many parts to it. It can mean networking with friends , networking for business, networking for information and much much more. It for sure can be seen as an alternative way for griving traffic to your website.

There are many ways to make people aware of your website, homepage or blog. “Traditional” ways include Adwords on Google known also as Pay-Per-Click Method. Further methods are press releases or blogs, ezine articles as well as social bookmarking. Still, there are many more, even if not primarily initialized as traffic drivers. Social Networking is one of these “alternative” powerful traffic driving tools.

Social Networking has been initialized, as the name is self explanatory, to connect with people all over the world. In past times the post office was an important communication center. People used to send birthday greetings, best wishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Some hallo postcards from holidays or for important occasions as births or weddings have been as important as a phone call from time to time.

Since the age of Internet and e-mailing had started, many people stopped writing in the traditional way (postcards for instance) but changed communication to the online version. Businesses switched from facsimiles to e-mails, private persons from cards to mails. But, not all did so. Not all had a PC available from the very beginning, not all used it immediately for both business and private purposes. And this is where a big communication gap started: some people were ahead communicating almost exclusively via online media and tools whereas others still communicated the traditional way. As life progresses, many got married, changed jobs, moved to different towns and people would lose contacts. This is exactly  the ground where Social Networking was  born.

Social Networking allows you to connect with people all over the world. You can find friends from college times or your neighbor from high school times. It is very easy and straight forward to tell the world about you, without having to write the same information one by one to all interested. You simply can write it down once and then tell people to go to your Social Network Site if ever they ask you for updates on your business life, on your interests, want to see pictures of your kids and much more.

There are many platforms out there today, MySpace and Facebook being among the best known and most used. There are further platforms as LinkedIn for instance that address mainly business professionals, where you will find colleagues from former companies you worked for or where you can check to which company a colleague switched to.

Some more to come … in just a few days, so make sure to check in soon!

All the best

Kasia

1)    What am I interested in? Which is the market I am interested in and which I know –> is it finance or gardening, is it cars or the real estate industry?

2)    What do I want to achieve? This question might seem quite trivial or even not necessary, but please believe me, it is essential! You need to know what your concrete goals are: a golf trainer online, a real estate agency might be as valid of a goal as becoming an affiliate marketer or creating your own service online focused on giving tips to people around the world on how to best plant fig trees.

3)    How motivated am I? How much energy am I willing to put into this new opportunity I am evaluating? Mindset is key to your success. You have to have a precise vision of what you want to achieve and how you want to achieve it. You have to have your goal and milestones set. Then, and only then, you will be ready to start with full power and at full throttle towards the future and your success.

Once you have them all answered – and please take your time – then you will be able to walk and work towards your first milestone. I will be here with many proven methods and tips, helping you to reach your success and goals.

To your success,

Your Kasia G.

Valentine’s Day is the day of love. It is celebrated in many countries of the world. Huge hearts, tons of sweets and candies, pink and red being the prevalent color.

But to me Valentine’s Day is not also the day when I show my love to my beloved. I show them my love every say.

On Valentine’s I also like to drop a note to my friends and say Hi. I like thinking of others not as lucky as I am. I love calling people I know they are alone.

To me Valentine’s is just another great occasion for gifting some comfort and chasing some smiles. It is helping the others, it is a kind gesture or a simple look in someone’s eyes.

I want to share with you, here on this Valentine’s Weekend, all my positive spirit and energy. May it embrace you and allow you to spend this special day, exactly as you want it to be.

Happy Valentines and see you back here soon
Your Kasia G.

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It is extremely important to have your goals in mind and keep them clear in front of you:
What do I want to achieve?
Do I want to earn a few dollars of extra income?
Do I want to make a living out of it?
DO I have or plan to develop my own product?
Do I want to distribute a product or service that is already available and earn for instance commissions on it?
Do I want to spend an hour a day, three or even more?

A marketing plan and strategy are exactly what you need as they will make you elaborate in step by step process all these questions! They will put your vision into a format that is easy to follow and will allow you to check off all needed milestones on the way towards your goal, your goal not necessarily always, but very often being steady income streams.
A marketing strategy is a process that allows you to concentrate using your time and resources on those elements and opportunities of growth that best fit your ultimate goal. Concentrate on those activities that can increase your sales, achieve growth and eventually also competitive advantage, depending on what market you are in!

But, your marketing strategy can only be effective if it is an integral component of your ultimate goal, of your vision, of your mission. You never have to lose this picture of your ultimate goal in front of your eyes.

Do you wish to become the best affiliate marketer the world has ever seen?

Do you want to have a few dollars in addition to your “normal” day-to-day life, just to live a bit more relaxed and less worried about unexpected eventualities?

Have invented the best anti-aging and weight loss pill, both in one and want to spread this discovery around the world?

It does not matter what it is. There are only two things you always need to keep in mind:
1) your goal must be like a picture, a vivid frame in front of your eyes all the time
2) you have to clearly define, set and monitor the milestones to your success
If you apply these two seemingly easy rules then you will succeed!
Putting it in more general marketing terms, a corporate strategy, your company/development strategy defines how your project/product/company will become and stay successful. Your clients are the source of your revenue, and therefore your marketing strategy is closely linked with sales.

This is what I define the mindset and heart of a successful strategy.

To your success,

Your Kasia G.