FOCUS

from Liz Uible

Leigh, a WomenForWealth.com member, was telling me last week about Robert Kiyosaki's "FOCUS- Follow One Course Until Successful." As she pointed out, obstacles are overcome and objections melt away when focus is combined with determination, as in Kiyosaki's formula, above.

And that is where so many entrepreneurial minds get hung up. Instead of "following one course until successful," sometimes we follow-one-course-until-another-looks-better and then keep-on- that-course-until-another-interesting-business-idea-comes-along.

If that doesn't sound familiar to you, Congratulations.

I am continually amazed by how many entrepreneurs, myself included, create confusion, chaos and mediocrity in our lives simply by forgetting the original course and following bunny trails instead.

Follow One Course Until Successful applies to all areas of business.

Investing in Real Estate? A focus helps you learn a niche and talk with agents, sellers and other leads without confusing yourself or feeling overwhelmed.

Running a business? Do it without a Business Plan or 'Focus,' and it is like throwing darts in the dark... no telling what you will hit.

Training Employees? Choosing a course for them and sticking with it will help your employees be stable and effective.

Raising a family? Ditto.

Sometimes people resist creating a plan for fear that it will stifle their creativity or take too much time. I have certainly been guilty of this at different times in my business and investing. In reality, a business plan allows the details of running a business to be covered so that you can release your creativity in totally unexpected ways.

At WomenForWealth.com, a basic business plan has allowed Christine and me to have fewer meetings and to have the flexibility to do off-the-wall-creative adventures and know that our business is on track. FOCUS creates space for creativity.

That's why we are leaving for East Africa on Saturday... Stay tuned, this will be fun!