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Attitude Is The Foundation 🚪🔑

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Brian talks about Bible verse Matthew 7:7-8 and the power of belief.

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Attitude is the foundation.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

We talk a lot here about business I’m business investor. And we talk about the principles behind business the strategies and the tactics.

Today I want to go hardcore principles on, yeah, we’re going to talk about the these passages happen to be from the Bible. But I’m not going to get super religious on your anything but these interesting ideas, okay, regardless of whether you even believe in anything, right?

This is regardless of that. I hear a lot of people. Well, there was a book I read years ago called, Attitude is Everything. And that’s a very common phrase that people use attitude is everything.

A person could take that a bunch of different ways that I heard one person say, it’s really not the truth attitude, is the only thing he said.

I get that, too. I totally get the purpose of that. But really, I think attitude is the foundation of everything that you do. That you need action, you need everything that goes along with that you need the actual doing of the thing.

Attitude, cannot be it, you can’t do it without attitude, it’s the first thing, the first thing you’ve got to achieve is attitude. What I have written here on this, it’s a three by five card and it’s not laminated, it’s in this little soul case.

Years ago, I heard Earl Nightingale The Strangest Secret, and he had a couple tips on there are things that you should do every day.

One of the things is he said, You ought to read this out loud to yourself on a regular basis. Though I don’t necessarily read it out loud to myself, it is something that I always go back to, this is from Matthew 7:7-8, I believe it is.

There are different versions of this, but we’ve all heard it somewhere before that, I want you to think about it, not necessarily in terms of religion because there’s a whole you go off on a whole different area.

Now, I want you to think of this in terms of attitude, for everything in life, okay?

“Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find, knock, and it will be open to you, for everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be open.”

Now oftentimes, you know, when it comes to religion, people talk about this in terms of salvation, and you know, heavily, salvation and all that. And I’m sure that’s, in general, what it’s meant to mean.

But I found that the same thing is true throughout all of life and especially in terms of business. If you do not have the attitude that you need to ask and seek and knock that you have to. And these are all action words.

They’re not things that were just sitting still, I mean, these are, these are very specific things. But it’s not necessarily a specific thing that you need to do. It’s not saying you got to go knock on doors, but you have to expect in a sense that good things are possible and it doesn’t matter.

If you’re in a war-torn country, or whether you’re in a horribly depressed economy, or whether you’re starving to death or anything else, that the concept is the same.

Asking and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be open to you.

You have to believe it’s possible.

You have to believe that whatever you’re after in life, whatever you’re interested in, or going toward whatever desire that you have that’s in your heart, that’s something real, it’s not just something, you know, a temporary thing or something just to scratch an itch, something deep down, that gets you it’s real, it’s there.

There’s a reason behind it but you have to believe that it’s possible.

You have to believe that it’s out there for you that it’s possible, not just for anybody, but it’s possible for you. simple, so simple idea. So uncommon that we even discuss it person to person, and we talk about it on shows like this.

It’s not about getting all the greedy desires of all the stuff that you you want, but you probably shouldn’t have. I’m not talking about that.

I’m talking about the real deep down stuff, the stuff where you feel like you’re almost set on a path to get like this is this is what you’re meant to do.

If you don’t have anything in your life like that, I recommend you look for it. seek it out, you know, because I think we all I think there’s something for everybody out there. And maybe it’s not, maybe it’s not anything good for you, I don’t know.

But I know for me, I’ve always had certain things that I expected. And for the longest time, I doubted that they were possible. But the more I pull away from that, and don’t get caught up in that, and just wait and see attitude on things.

At the same time, expecting that they’re possible, expecting that it could happen, things have gotten better and better.

Things keep moving more and more in that direction. If that makes sense. It’s an attitude thing. You can’t go out and start a business and get going with a business. If you expect it not to work.

You have to expect it’s going to you have to expect that it can work that it can go in the proper direction, that even if your business fails, it will lead to something better that you’re meant to go into.

So hopefully that makes sense to you. It’s a simple idea but not that not that easy to wrap your mind around. I think it really does take a lifetime. It’s something that I always pull myself back to. And it doesn’t take that much willful effort.

What it does is it takes that initial belief and the initial belief, I think will set a fire under you to go the next level where whatever that is for you.

Oftentimes, I’m speaking directly to business owners, but even if you do not own a business, I think the same thing applies to you.

If this makes sense to you, hey, leave a comment down below and just let me know that it makes sense and or that you agree or that you think you might agree I’d love I’d love to find out even if you think I’m completely full of it. Leave a comment.

I’d love to hear it wherever you’re watching or listening to this love to love to hear from people. And while you’re at it, go download a free copy of my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

That’s all I have for tonight. You have a good one.

Get out there and let the magic happen.

Your Company is Stuck, Because Your A Selfish Jerk

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Your company is stuck because you’re a selfish jerk.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today we’re going to be discussing how selfishness might be getting in the way of you growing your company from where it’s at right now. Even if you’re still in a growth mode, sometimes you can’t quite grow faster or you might be going a little bit backwards or you might be kind of stuck one way or the other.

If you’re wanting to grow faster.

One of the big pieces might be you and it might be in an area that you’re not quite aware is there.

Now this comes back to attitude.

I was having this discussion with some very young business owners. This was a couple out of Canada and I was working with them on their business and talking to them about some of the things that might hold them back.

And I don’t know if this is holding them back or not, but a lot of it comes down to.

First one on one posture, a term that’s used quite often. I’m not talking about how they hold themselves, physically, but how they hold themselves basically their energy in front of others and that posture, that attitude can really make a huge difference.

It depends and you could see it manifest itself in the wrong way.

When a person comes off too needy, when a person comes off too excited, when a person comes off like they’re trying to make a sale type of deal, and we’ve all been in front of those people who are just trying a bit too hard to get on our good side.

Or to get us to purchase something or to try something out or whatever it is, selfishness is what is what we’re feeling.

When you’re feeling that from someone else, you’re feeling someone who’s thinking about themselves, someone who’s trying to hit the bottom line, they’re trying to get the next number and you’re just another one in the long line up.

Take that aside and think about the situations that you have with people that you enjoy being around the most.

I guarantee the people you enjoy being around the most are the least selfish.

These are the people that spend more time talking about you more time, wondering where you’re looking at going and then possibly helping you to get there through their products and services, but it’s based on you, not on them.

It’s less selfish.

Now that’s a one on one situation, but you can also see this happening in a large scale with most companies. When they really start moving along, eventually selfishness creeps in. It creeps into the pure bureaucracy of the company and they start focusing more on more on what the company’s needs are and where the company wants to go and less and less on anyone that could possibly be considered a customer.

Even someone that’s not a traditional customer.

Sometimes your vendors, sometimes your partners, if you’re not focused on them and where they’re going, that could be slowing you down because all it takes is a little bit of extra time and a little bit of extra effort to consider their point of view and all of a sudden everything changes because the attitude changes.

People get a different vibe off of you and your company and your company culture and everything changes.

I’m going to give you an example of this. This was a book I had read a number of years ago, but really enjoy it and it’s one that I’d love to recommend to others out there, and if you’re somebody that I work with, and I haven’t mentioned this to you, let me mention it to you right now.

Customer Centricity by Peter Fader.

It’s a very short book, tiny little book, large print, and has some amazing gold nuggets.

He talks about the concept of being customer centered, not from the, “customer’s always right.” Because honestly, I mean we should all know that’s a lie.

The customer is not always right and you’re going to be in a big trouble if you try and please every customer that comes to you, but like he says, I’m here. The right customer is always right, meaning the best customer, the people that you know are the ones that you want to be with over the long haul.

Those are the ones that you have to pay attention to. Their point of view. Otherwise you’re ruining your entire business. That’s what customer centricity is all about.

This a great book that specifically deals with the data involved and paying attention and tracking where your customers are at, whether you have a large business or a small business, this is a huge deal, but if you think of the philosophy behind it, it will change everything that you do and how you handle things, and when you go into something that you would normally consider a sales meeting, those type of one on one situations.

You should be spending more time asking them about what their needs and where they’re looking to go, and then you’ve got to get good at seeing where your products and services can help them and come up with new products and services to be able to help them.

Here’s a, here’s a great line out of out of this book. He says, customer centricity is a strategy to fundamentally align a company’s products and services with the wants and needs of its most valuable customers. That strategy has a specific aim, more profits for the longterm.

In the end, it’s a selfish need that you’re trying to get, but you’re going to help more people, as we’ve talked about before, one of the greatest sales tips of all time. The more you help people, the more you get back and as a car karma, call it karma or what have you. It’s a law of the universe.

It’s just how it works.

You do it with the right energy and it can be from your own selfish intent. That’s fine. As long as you do it with the proper energy and you’re actually listening to what they’re saying and doing your best to get them what they want.

If you’re doing that, it’s okay. If you get a little bit of gratification in the long run, that’s all right. That’s what, that’s what freedom is all about really, if you think about it, so here’s customer centricity.

Great book, great concept more than anything else.

If you can realize that a lot of what’s holding your company back is you’re not putting enough emphasis on first finding out what the customer wants and secondly, doing everything you can to get that in front of them. You do that, you can turn around any company.

Honestly, it seems to be the number one thing that I run into when I’m going into companies that are having a tough time getting past their initial successes.

Hopefully that’s helpful for you. If you’d like to get past your initial successes. I only work with a successful companies, but if you’re interested in talking about some of these concepts, go to dream biz chat.com especially if you’re on the self-reliance field and a meaning you have products and services that help people become more self reliant.

Go to DreamBizChat.com the link is in the description. Hope you had a great one today and we’re gonna catch you tomorrow. Talk about similar concepts. Have a great night and get out there and let the magic happen.