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5 Steps to Keep on the Edge

With millions of networks and clients and competitors out there, take your confidence and super-charge it with these thoughts.
1. Take time to build. Time spend on your One Great Idea that separates you from your competitors. What's your unique offering. What can you offer that others dont?
2.  Build people as you build your Network. Building your company of one is essential to arriving at your company network of 1001. Your investment is not only financial, its people. Without your investment into the minds of others with your unique core solutions and ideas, you have no investment or future either
3. Always have an Idea in development. Ideas make a man come alive. You're only as "one fire" as your idea. If my idea don't keep me awake at night thinking about it, I leave it. Take your passion and make that your mission. It keep you awake in the day too.
4. Keep learning. In my network (which is new) I have the motto: "Everyman a leader, everyman a student." In motivating others dont negelct your own personal growth. Find leaders who inspire you and light yor fire too. connect to them befriend them and ask them to mentor you. Yes, mentors are larners too.
5. Give yourself a daily Heroes Welcome. Look in the mirror every day and say. "Wow, todays my day, I'm a shifter and leader. I stand out in the crowd and stand up in my place. Today I lead." Here goes now make it happen.
Regards,
Paul.

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Ning provides a great platform, some have said int he past that Ning is old school, I agree, but Ning works. It works because it attracts those with ideas and those with creativity. Without these two factors dreams remain dormant and die. Taking responsibility for ones creativity is the first step toard sucess. Having the will to find out something when there are no solutions, ask questions when you dont have answers and build people when you dont have a crowd. If one has creativity then nothing is impossible. Ones ability to create is always greater than a platforms ability to provide. Take what you have and make it happen. Refuse to quit until your idea is alive and active. Then keep on going.
Paul

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Creativity is energy, ideas in you come alive, possibilities in you are energised and you get into "do it" mode. This does not happen by accident, but rather takes places as we engage with others doing "better work" Folks who are leaders in their field. Hence the importance of leadership. If ning provides the leaders and leadership, network builders then can build networks that lead. We all need inspiration and its always the leaders that have to inspire first. Find your crowd that inspires you then you will see inspirational leaders. If you dont find such a one, be that one! You are the Leader in your field!

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Build your Idea... Sow your Seed

(1) Ideas have to turn into investments.

(2) To build your idea first sow your seed. There is no "perfect moment" to start other than the moment you start something, only then is it the perfect moment. 

(2) Ideas become rewards for the time you spend investing your creative genius into a seed. That's what an idea is, a seed!

(3) Seeds dont stay seeds. Seeds grow as they are fed and watered, cultivated and nurtured.  The old oak tree you climbed as a kid was once an acorn that fell into good ground. If your idea is plantable, it is growable. (scuse my english!).

(4) Idea's dont fail, we do! We fail because we dont invest ourselves into "thinking time." Every thing is possible when you invest yourself into an idea. There is no such thing as a bad idea only a failure to have a go, work on it and invest yourself into it! 

(5) Start off with one idea, work on it, invest your mind and time into it and work it until you plant it, if that dont work.... dont quit but start again, until you find the right environment and component to add "height" to your seed. 

Just a word of encouragement to you today.. YOU CAN PLANT IT! and Make it BIG
PAUL.

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