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Someone recommended Jay Abraham to me. I browsed the Internet and found his website - http://www.abraham.com. He seems to be some marketing guru. I looked through the site and discovered some fine reviews about him. I read a recommendation by Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

There is a free 35- page first chapter excerpt from the book ?Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got?. I devoured it and it left me craving for more. When I had a chance to listen to some audio-books from Jay Abraham Mastermind Marketing Seminars, I grabbed it.

I discovered that Jay had quite a line-up of people that worked with him. Speakers in his seminar included Brian Tracy, Fran Tarkenton and even Marc Victor Hansen. Fran Tarkenton was a popular American football quarterback. Brian Tracy is a self-help author who released a number of audio books. His talks and seminar topics include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness, and business strategy.

One of the topics that Brian Tracy discussed involved around what is the quality trait of successful people. First, he states ?you are what you think about most of the time.? If you think about sports like basketball and soccer, you are probably a sportsman. If you think about computer games a lot, you are most likely a gamer. If you think about business most of the time, you?re probably an entrepreneur.

Tracy indicates that that there is a study that asked 350,000 successful American entrepreneurs what they thought about most of the time. The study showed that happy, successful people think about what they want and how to get it — all the time.

The basic question that an entrepreneur tries to answer is ?how.? Tracy says, when a person keeps asking ?how?, he/she becomes solution-oriented. Successful people are solution-oriented.

What does that mean? It means whatever a successful entrepreneur doesn?t know, he figures out a way to learn it or hire somebody who does know about it. He continuously asks ?how can I solve this problem??

I suddenly realized that the entrepreneurs I knew were,in fact, problem-solvers. Tracy has a point here. My friend, for instance, wanted to sell online. She had a lot of experience in import-export. She gathered a team of people that could help her achiever her goal. She had some trouble at first but now, she has an online store. She found a way to reach her goal.

I remember reading Kiyosaki?s Books and somewhere there he also mentions that the greatest asset of anyone is their mind. You can have practically nothing and still earn money by simply asking ?how can I become wealthy.? One story Kiyosaki tells is when he was still a kid, he and his friend wanted to ?make money?. They thought about this and literally made a penny by molding metal to look like one.

Given the right motivation, people will generally find a way to make money. Just a moment ago, I was chatting with my friend from the states. Her stepdad?s friends earn around U$90 a day just to advise/help people with website design. Another simply cleaned windows for different establishments and gets US$20 in ten minutes.

I found Brian Tracy?s last anecdote about motivation quite entertaining:

A man was in a rush to go home. He promised to be home by dinner and was a bit late. He followed a shortcut that passed by a cemetery. In his rush, he didn?t notice a newly-dug open, empty grave and fell right into it. The ground was soft and he wasn?t hurt. He shouted for help and tried to climb out. The night was getting late, and after several hours of trying he became quite tired. He felt quite stupid for falling into the empty grave and thought the worst that could happen was that he be stuck there overnight. He decided to just sulk quietly in a corner of the grave for a rest. By this time, his eyes had already adjusted to the dark. Soon he heard a ?Thump!? — Another man fell just at the other end of the grave. He thought
? ?Hey, that?s just what happened to me!? He just kept silent and watched the other man try to climb out, go through the same frustrations as he had. He thought, ?That?s exactly what I did! Hmm, might as well walk to him and tell him the bad news? ? He put his hand on the other man?s shoulder and said ?Sir you are not getting out of here.?

The other man got out of the grave instantly.

Anyway, you get my point, right? To be a successful entrepereneur you have to be motivated and be a problem-solver. That’s what the gurus indicate. There just might be some value to what they say.

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