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When I first started my online business, I was a lot like many of you.

I worked hard to get my website up, spent endless days trying to identify my niche market, labored to create a great product and service, and struggled to build my client list. And when it came time for clients and customers to take action… they didn’t.

Have you ever looked around at successful businesswomen and wondered how they got that way? When success didn’t happen for me quickly enough, I certainly did.

What I’m about to tell you turned my wretched business start-up into a thriving success. And it’s also turned many of my unsuccessful clients into lasting business successes.

I’ll tell you my secret—right here—and show you how you can do the exact same thing. There’s nothing magical about it. It’s not a quick fix or get-rich-quick scheme. Instead, it’s what every master of business success does. It’s the three-part key to long-term, sustainable business success.

The Three Ps of Lasting Business Success

1. Persistence

Persistence means that you keep at it day-after-day, month-after-month, and year-after-year. You keep keeping at it, even through the occasional fumble, intermittent failure and repeat mistake. Persistence means you stay with it and are unrelenting in your pursuit of business success.

Follow the example of other successful businesswomen. Look to Oprah Winfrey, Indra Nooyi, Chair and CEO of PepsiCo, and Marissa Mayer, Vice President at Google, for your inspiration. They aren’t successful just because they’ve applied themselves for one year or even ten. By the time they became successful, they’d already been at it for a very long time. They made it look easy because they’d already built success momentum.

Start now to act as if you are currently successful and will be for the rest of your life. Then be persistent. 

2. Patience

Be patient. Just about every woman I’ve helped start up a business has been impatient for results. Many of them wanted to start up a business right away, turn a profit in less than a year, and franchise in two. 

Often this lack of patience is characteristic of women who’ve had an unsuccessful mindset for many, many years. Now they are desperate to turn their thinking around and be successful immediately.

Changing an unsuccessful mindset, though, takes time. Be patient. Think like a baby learning to walk. You will fall down many times before you’re able to string a succession of steps together. Focus on the goal. Be patient with the results.

3. Practice

Masters are people who understand what it takes to be successful. If you examine the lives of professional dancers, Olympic gymnasts, concert pianists, or anyone who has gained mastery in a specific area, you’ll discover that they have one thing in common: They’ve had a lot of setbacks.

What made the difference was not how they dealt with those setbacks but how they practiced success. Mastery in any area, including business, comes from daily practice. So, focus on what will lead you to business success. Then practice.

Persistence, patience, and practice are the three Ps of lasting business success. Every successful businesswoman knows this. It’s what made Oprah, Indra, and Marissa successful. It’s what will make you successful, too. What’s your plan to start building success momentum and set your course toward thriving business success?



By: Susan L Reid

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Successful entrepreneurs hone their character and leadership traits over time to keep reaching for new horizons and to achieve ever-shifting goals. Success, therefore, is a journey and not a destination. What are the traits that you need to work on to achieve sustainable success? 

Gain the respect of your peers….. With an attitude of respect for others, successful entrepreneurs gain respect   from everyone they encounter. Strategies, attitudes and methods filter down to each person they work with. Successful entrepreneurs give everyone the space to be great.  Trust and believe in yourself…..Wise Entrepreneurs are good at trusting their own ideas and instincts. Successful entrepreneurs have persistence, determination and a high level of self-discipline. Success is all about a strong code of ethics, a strong belief in your self, desire and passion.  Follow a plan….. No one reaches their destination without a map to follow. Successful entrepreneurs start out by writing a basic business plan to guide them. It should include marketing strategies, goals, intentions, ideas and why you can outdo your competition. Review and update your business plan periodically as new ideas inspires other ideas.  Think Creatively….. Successful entrepreneurs think creatively. Whether or not a business idea has already been tried makes no difference to them, they just find better ways to do things. Successful entrepreneurs are willing to think outside the box, using their imagination and expanding on a vision.  Explore your skills….. Successful entrepreneurs explore their skills and find the ones that match their ideals. They don’t try to be and do everything. They ask for support.   Envision your success…..Successful entrepreneurs visualise their success. Intention is a powerful tool. Get in touch with the feelings you have as a successful entrepreneur. Practise a sense of empowerment and the joy of success.   Never give up…..Giving up is not part of the vocabulary of successful entrepreneurs. But smart entrepreneurs realise that there are good, and not so good days. Successful entrepreneurs are open for change and they seek out the support of those who bring out the natural enthusiasm in them.   Inherent leadership characteristics…..Traits that define effective leaders: Emotionally stable, dominant, enthusiastic, conscientious, socially bold, tough-minded, self-assured and compulsive. Leaders of the future must envision the future and convince others that their vision is worth following. To do this they must have the following personality traits: High energy, intuitiveness, maturity, team orientation and charisma.  

Leaders are rarely, if ever born. Circumstances and persistence are major components in the development process of any leader. So, if your goal is to become a successful entrepreneur, focus on those qualities you need to incorporate into your make-up.  

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By: Hantie Schutte

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