Thread: 50 Fastlane Principles To Live By

I've been rereading a few issues of success magazine and had the idea to make a list of all the things that aid in traveling the fastlane or just towards having a successful life. This way when we get a full list, it can act like a checklist that we can use in our day to day actions. I'll start it off. (I searched and haven't found a similar list, I may be wrong).

1. Anti-Procrastination

Stay away from the dreaded P-word. Remember, putting things off only slows down your success.

2. Empathy

If you don't understand your customers, how can you know what they want?

3. Optimism

People who say "no" don't know what you are capable of achieving.

4. Keep a Journal/Log Book

A life not documented is one that won't be remembered. You can refer to your Journal from time to time to see how you've progressed...or how you've procrastinated.

5. Identify your goals.

Until they're put on paper, they are only dreams.


Let's see what you come up with

Originally Posted by RichKid

2. Empathy

If you don't understand your customers, how can you know what they want?

This is an important idea that is often overlooked in the 90% of sm. biz that fail b/c in order to overcome objections you need to understand the needs/desires of your customers(moreso than your own!)... pretty much in order to convince someone to agree with you, you have to see things from their point of view instead of forcing yourself on them.

And oh yea-

6. Work smarter not harder.

Hard work is necessary, but it's like banging your head against a brick wall and trying to knock it down, the smarter alternative is using a hammer and requires less work or for a real-life example is trying to solve a coding issue for a webpage by trial and error instead of using the proper resources to solve the issue... both require effort and both can lead to the solution, but the latter will most likely get you there first.

Learn to listen and listen well. Most people just wait to talk. How can you tell if you are a good listener? At your next dinner party or first date, ask yourself if you left the meeting knowing more about other people, or did they learn everything about you? ...Listening takes practice, and is the foundation to becoming good in sales.

Throw away your ego. Think starting or running a business is glamorous? It isn't. The entrepreneurial world really doesn't care about your formal education, how valued of an employee you were or how much you are used to making an hour. You've gotta be willing to do things that are "beneath" you.

Get organized. The more organized you are the more success you can handle. Down the road you will want to delegate tasks. Those tasks will be hard to delegate if you don't know what they are or how they need to be done.

Great thread. ++rep

11. Ideas are a dime a dozen, action is priceless!

A lot of advice we get is nothing new, but usually isn't something we readily think of. Anyone can come up with a great idea, most do, but the difference between the thinkers and the doers is just that, the action to implement and follow-through.

Unfortunately I still "resemble" that concept, in fact in my sales job I see those around me who are having success just doing it, while I have been having trouble overthinking myself, I think it has to do with spending less time here and not quite having the same motivation I had a couple weeks ago.

Originally Posted by yveskleinsky

Throw away your ego. Think starting or running a business is glamorous? It isn't. The entrepreneurial world really doesn't care about your formal education, how valued of an employee you were or how much you are used to making an hour. You've gotta be willing to do things that are "beneath" you.

The toilets still need to be cleaned...

Originally Posted by PhxMJ

No one ever got rich laying on the couch watching American Idol, Lost, and 24.

Well thank god I don't watch Lost

But TV is starting to get back in the routine, a bad habit I need to break