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Success It’s a Mind Game: Ohio Center for Sports Psychology Mental Skills for Success Part 2

by Greg Lancaster

If you knew the secret to success, would you want it? Yes! The secret to success is your mind! Success is a mind game. If you can’t win in your mind, then you can’t win anywhere else! Winning is a matter of your mind and your thoughts. We look at sports figures to see how we can be successful in our lives by what we think. This is necessary for your success!

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” Proverbs 23:7

You win in your mind, or you lose in your mind. This is why it is important what you speak over your children. They need to hear positive things spoken to them, and you should speak blessings and destiny over them! You will be surprised how this can change your child’s life as they have words of life spoken over them. Help your children reach their destiny!

This is Part Two of Success it’s a Mind Game, and we continue with mental skills that athletes use from Ohio Center for Sports Psychology. These are mental skills that anyone can use! The fourth mental skill is to deal effectively with people. No matter how successful you are, you cannot do it alone. We all need people around us, and we need the skill of how to deal with people the right way. As a leader, business owner, you need to share your vision with your team and communicate with your team. Build them up and inspire them to carry your vision out! Dealing effectively with people is a God thing because in the Bible it says; however, we treat people is how we treat God. Many times, people get skipped over for a job or lose their business because they can’t deal with people! As an employee, if you work effectively with people and you help other people succeed while meeting the needs of the business, you are the future leader in that company. If you do have trouble dealing with people, recognize that you need people for your business to be successful, and know that Jesus loves people. He loves you, and you are called to love and care for other people too!

The fifth mental skill is to use positive self-talk! It may sound basic, but it is not at all. You may need to ask those around you to see if you are positive in what you speak. Speaking positively is not only for your success but as a believer, we are called to impact others as we bring light into our conversations, which can only be done by staying positive. How do you speak to yourself in your mind? You need to write things down that are true things that God says about you. Write down your vision so that you can remind yourself of why you are doing what you are doing. Greg shares that he recorded what God says about him and what God has shown him that will take place. He listens to this to remind him of who he is and why he is doing what he is doing! We all need positive self-talk. Summarize what God has shown you so that you can have a short reminder of what He has said so you can quickly be reminded and empowered to stay positive. It will help you to prepare and make good decisions to keep moving towards your vision. Speaking God’s Word over yourself will not return void! Memorizing God’s Word leads to meditation, and meditation leads to it manifesting in your life!

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Joshua 1:8 ESV

The sixth mental skill is to use positive mental imagery. According to The Conversation, Nicole Forrester, a Canadian high jumper, says, “As an Olympian, imagery was one of the mental skills I relied on the most. In my preparation for competition, I would spend hours envisioning what I wanted to execute and how it should feel. I would even create bad scenarios that could occur, feeling the pressure and discomfort, and rehearse what my appropriate response would be. When it was time to compete, I felt ready for any and every situation. This was easily the hardest area of my preparation but something critical to perform well when it counted most.” This is important because if you can’t see it, then you can’t have it! Visualizing what you need to do has been proven to bring you success.

As reported by Conover Life Skills, Judd Blaslotto, who is a University of Chicago researcher, wanted to prove a theory about mental rehearsal and visualization. He took three groups of students to find out how many basketball free throws they could make. The three groups practiced for 30 days. Group one practiced every day for one hour, group two visualized making free throws, and group three did nothing. The results were that group one improved by 24%, group two by 23%, and group three did not improve at all. So just by visualizing group two met success almost the exact same success as physically practicing!

This takes practice so you must see yourself doing what you need to do, and the more you can see it, the more you will be able to do it! As you begin to see yourself being successful, your faith will line up! The universe is designed by God to respond to bold unwavering faith!

The seventh mental skill is to manage anxiety effectively. Things will happen in our life that will rock our faith, but we can’t give in! You must not give in to the spirit of fear as the Bible tells us to be anxious for nothing. God is in control, and we need to trust Him with every outcome. Also, as you begin to focus on other people, you will realize that your fear begins to leave because fear causes you to look inward but as you think of others above yourself that fear will be gone!

The eighth mental skill is to manage your emotions effectively. Everything that happens to you, you first have an emotion about it. Ask yourself what you are feeling right now, and why? Manage your mood because it can get you going in the wrong direction and can affect your destiny. Get in a good mood, having your emotions in the right place, by having the right thoughts!

To find out what the ninth mental skill is and more join the VFNKB Community HERE to watch! Do you have any mental skills to add to the list? We want to hear from you! Write to us in the VFNKB Community or at Friends@VFNKB.com. Greg and John shared in this segment.

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WATCH! Success It’s a Mind Game: Ohio Center for Sports Psychology Mental Skills for Success Part 2

by Greg Lancaster

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Success It’s a Mind Game: Ohio Center for Sports Psychology Mental Skills for Success Part 2

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” Proverbs 23:7

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VFNKB’s 5 Keys for Success Principles for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

by Greg Lancaster

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At VFNKB we are here to help you! We want to help small business owners and entrepreneurs by giving you strategies for success in your business ventures, and it can also be applied to your personal life to help you to have personal success. At least 90% of what we do, we do in our heads so if we get our minds set in the right direction then we can accomplish so much more! Running your own business can be exhausting, and that can make it hard to have the time and energy to get the wisdom you need to keep your business successful. We are here to help you with that! Business owners share the wisdom they have concerning business practices, and Greg and John discuss these success strategies and how you can implement them into your life and business. Be encouraged through this program and know that you are not alone!

The first success strategy we look at is that YOU ARE THE ONE TO DRIVE THE VISION! Tamara Lohan, the founder and CTO of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, shares this wisdom. “You are the one to drive the vision. You can delegate the tasks, but the vision and the purpose of the company has to be yours.”

The first thing you must have is a vision. It is easy to get excited about starting a business, but an idea is not a vision. A business does not just happen, it takes work, and to have a successful one, you must have a vision. A vision is what you are going to do and how you will accomplish it. This will drive you!

“And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.” Habakkuk 2:2-3 ESV

The vision needs to be easy enough that other people can run with it. It can be written in a few lines; very specific and direct. It should motivate you and remind you of why you are running your business! A vision will also bring order to your business, and since you are the one who drives the vision if you see disorder in your employees, then you need to evaluate things. Maybe you forgot the vision, or you are not sharing your vision with your employees. You can add it to your team meetings maybe once a month to share your vision.

“Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint but blessed is he who keeps the law.” Proverbs 29:18 ESV

Maybe you recognize that your business started with an idea and you don’t have a vision? With VFNKB Coaching, we can help you to find out what your vision should be and see what it looks like for you. You will have someone with you helping you to write out your vision and write it in a way that others can carry the vision as well. We offer coaching virtually, physically, and we also have our VFNKB Community where you can connect with other like-minded business owners who want to be successful and you can find other success strategies. Find out more HERE.

The next success strategy is shared by Kevin Davis, CEO of The Vine Trust Group. PERSEVERANCE! “If you persevere you can realize your dreams, and it may not always look like it will be from the beginning, but if you keep at it, you can achieve what you sat out to be.”

The difference between success and failure is often only five more seconds! Some people want to know how others were successful in business thinking they were smarter, but the reality is they didn’t quit! Quitting should not even be an option! One way to help yourself is to plan for how you will persevere in the moments when you will want to quit. You can also get your free copy of I Will Fight. Greg wrote about not quitting in this book, and it has many more strategies for your success. Get your free copy HERE today!

A question to ask yourself is how big is your dream, and how badly do you want it? You must want your dream more than the next person and more than the pain, struggles, and disappointments. Once you refuse to quit, your odds go up dramatically for success because if you quit it is 100% chance that you will fail.

Sahar Hashemi, the co-founder of Coffee Republic, shares the next success strategy that you must STEP INTO YOUR CUSTOMER’S SHOES! “Stepping into your customer’s shoes is where all the opportunities are there. All the answers are there; headaches begging to be solved are there. Keep your focus always on the customer no matter how big your business gets.”

When you step into your customer’s shoes, picture how you want to be treated. What problems do you solve for your customers? Think about how you would feel if that problem was solved for you. This is empathizing with your customers, which will show them that you care. Even Jesus Christ empathized with us by coming to the earth and living as a man. Even though He didn’t sin, he understood us and knew what it was like to walk in a sinful state and now He can explain us to Father God.

In the same way, you need to get to know your customer and build that relationship with them. What will differentiate you from other businesses? It is your customer service! It is how you value your customer and how you verbally communicate with them to make them feel special. Every employee must also recognize that the customer is the whole reason why they have their job. Businesses that do this will succeed! This will also put your business as one that people will refer their friends and family to because you have proven that you value your customers — empathizing with your customers matters!

“Build your network of other high growth small business owners. Nobody’s going to understand what you are going through like they do. The lows are so incredibly low that sometimes they can last days, weeks, months and you are literally on the floor sobbing. They can pick you up, build you up and give you the strength to carry on…,” shared founder and director of Onefile, Susanna Lawson. BUILD OR JOIN A COMMUNITY OF LIKE-MINDED BUSINESS OWNERS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT AND SURVIVAL!

Community is important. Greg shares that when he has had low times in his life, he was able to persevere because of the community he had in his life of like-minded people that he had built relationships with. You need to build relationships now so that when your next low moment happens, you have someone there to help you not to quit! We have built a community where you can build relationships before you face a tragedy in your life. You can join the VFNKB Community HERE. Interact with the other business owners, encourage them, and be encouraged yourself! We will also share more success strategies that you can only find in the community, and you can find the fifth strategy from this program in the VFNKB community.

When have you persevered in your business and not given up? What do you think about writing a vision for your business? We want to hear from you! Connect with is in the VFNKB Community HERE or write to us at Friends@VFNKB.com. Greg and John shared in this segment.

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“Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint but blessed is he who keeps the law.” Proverbs 29:18 ESV

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VFNKB #SuccessSecrets: MAGIC JOHNSON, Key Principles for Success in Business & Life. LA Laker & Entrepreneur

by Greg Lancaster

LISTEN NOW! Or WATCH FULL PROGRAM! God cares about your success and wants you to be able to have the wisdom of those who have gone before you. In the business realm, it is often difficult to see the breakthroughs that you are desiring. Magic Johnson knows this intimately well. After a prestigious career in the NBA, with the Los Angeles Lakers, Johnson progressed onto an accomplished career in business. When speaking to a classroom of attentive students at Stanford’s Graduate School for Business, Johnson shares some wisdom that he has learned in his journeys.

Simply put, Johnson shares that the one truth that has helped in his relations with his customers is to “overdeliver”. He continues to explain, “if you are going to be in business, and especially today’s marketplace, you gotta overdeliver to the consumer.” It was this application of overdelivering that allowed Johnson to overcome the repeated responses of “NO” from those he was desiring to do business with. This is such an important truth in business. Why do people underdeliver, or simply deliver to meet expectations at all? Don’t settle for providing or producing 100%. If you want the promotion, if you want the raise, you must give %110. You must give beyond what is expected. You must overdeliver. It doesn’t matter if you are working with the owner of a company. When you overdeliver and exceed their expectations, that is going to be a memorable encounter they will never forget. How are you overdelivering? What strategies are you implementing to overdeliver with your customer base? We want to hear what wisdom God has shared with you. Hear Magic Johnson share the full details of what he has learned by overdelivering, and so much more. Also shared in this segment: business, Stanford’s Graduate College of Business, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, National Basketball Association, Magic Johnson, customer relations, communication, customer service, exceeding expectations, and business plans. Greg and John shared in this segment.
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