More Fun Than Competition

I have this weird flaw, or at least some people call it a flaw. I’m not especially competitive. I can be. But more often, I’m in a completely different race than the people around me. I’m not sure when I started thinking this way, but it’s fairly evident from my life from as far back as I can recall that I never did care about who came in which place.

Instead, I prefer to compete with myself.

When I win business that other digital media groups were also trying for, I never think of it as winning from them. Instead, I just feel like I finally got a proposal to sound even a third as enthusiastic as I sound in person. When someone else gets a great big feature in a magazine, instead of feeling angry or sad or like I lost, I think to myself about how I can achieve more and deliver more results, so that it’s obvious next time that I be called for a story.

Competing with one’s self is far more fulfilling. You control more of the variables. If you want to find more success, throw yourself into your work, into doing big things that matter, into helping your clients succeed. That’s so much easier to conceptualize than thinking about racing against some other person or group.

If you’re trying to catch up to my numbers (and ask yourself why, because the numbers aren’t what matter as much as how you leverage them), you can’t control what I’m doing. So, every little variable I add messes up your effort to catch up or pass. Meanwhile, you’re not paying as much attention to you as you are to me, and are thus not focused on the part you can change the most.

No one ever won a race looking sideways.

Remind yourself of this often. Competition was given to us by our overlords. It was put in place because in situations where someone fabricates a competition, invariably, a third party benefits from BOTH parties’ efforts more than you. Most times, when you’re feeling competitive, you’re being played.

So instead, work within yourself. Work your variables. Work on those things you can change. Work to improve your skills, your thinking, your ability to serve, and your capacity to complete more than you could before. Execute. There are so many talkers that by just doing, you get the chance to win.

It’s much more fun this way. Believe me.

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This article was written by one of my very favorite bloggers, Chris Brogan.  He always has incredibly insightful and thought-provoking articles…do check him out if you haven’t already.

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/more-fun-than-competition/

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When I created my first Website, several years ago, I was so excited and motivated I couldn’t stand it! I knew my site contained good, useful information and I was ready to let the world know.

I figured all I needed to do was submit my site to the search engines, exchange a few links with other Websites and the traffic would just start pouring in!

Oh, how naive I was! It didn’t take long at all for me to realize it’s not that easy!

I eventually came to the realization that promoting a Website took loads of hard work and dedication…it’s not easy at all!

But then I heard about a traffic generation technique called “Article Marketing” that made everything a whole lot easier. You just write a short article, put a link or two in there pointing to your Website, then you submit the same article to hundreds of article directories…

Easy and effective right?

Wrong!

I wrote and wrote and wrote…I submitted and submitted and submitted and for what?  Only a few visits a day!

You see, although article marketing is an extremely effective traffic generation technique, there is more to it than just composing an article and submitting it all over the place.

It took me a great deal of time to figure what actually worked and what didn’t.

But, fortunately for you one of the most successful article marketers on the Internet has written an ebook revealing the exact technique he uses in order to conquer just about every niche he touches. It’s call “Article Marketing Domination.”

Josh’s ebook is the most popular product on the subject of Article Marketing on the market, and for good reason, it simply WORKS!

In “AMD” Josh explains exactly how to craft a traffic pulling article, from the title to the “signature” and he puts to rest many of the common misconceptions associated with article marketing like “duplicate content.”

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You’ll be glad you did.

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How often have you purchased a new program with high hopes of it being THE answer to your current problems, and before you know it you’ve moved on to 3 new ones before you even checked everything out with the first one?!  Sandra’s been there too…

Are you throwing money out the window?

1. Review the program and make a decision about what you’re going to accomplish as a result of it BEFORE you sign up.
2. Review the program benefits and determine how and when you’re going to use them.
3. Recognize that you have to work IN your business so that you have a business to work ON — too many people advise against working “in” your business and, quite frankly, that’s a mistake.
4. Do the work.  Whatever program you sign up for is going to require you to do more than simply show up to the calls, take info in via osmosis and have instant results.

Sandra Martini is a strategic marketing and productivity consultant who helps entrepreneurs create and implement the systems to achieve their visions, with services such as coaching, client systems development, consulting and Team Sandy Done 4 You Online Business Marketing & Management as well as a variety of informational products.

For more business building strategies and to get your free audio series “5 Simple & Easy Ways to Put Your Marketing on Autopilot”, visit Sandy’s site at http://www.SandraMartini.com today.

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