What is your get up and do it power mantra? Does your team have one? Does your business have one? Do you have one?

Sow the seeds of your success daily with a Mantra and drown out negativity and any dragging of feet.

I’m a great fan of mantras and often chose one for a particular moment. One sticks in my mind as I struggled on a long swim in a Lake District challenge. I found myself repeating ‘ Water is my friend’ as I spluttered and gasped for air after sucking in a fair bit due to a wave. It kinda helped me through.. I use another one regularly when I don’t feel like training taken from Apocalypse Now and a Martin Sheen scene when he is on R&R in Saigon he says. ‘ Whilst I sleep the enemy gets stronger. Basically get my arse together and get on with it sort of approach, stop messing about!

Try not to let negative thoughts crush your momentum and lead to the loss of enthusiasm and hope. Once we lose hope we stop striving. This is not you!.. Maybe this is a mantra itself its infectious!

I had a quick google of top business mantras and some I felt were a bit weak, one listed a top 25 and these were the best?? ummmmm???

? Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes

? You Get What You Focus On

? Find a Way, Not an Excuse

? Don’t Wait For Opportunity, Create It

? Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You

? Your Attitude Will Determine Your Altitude

? Build Your Dreams, Or Someone Will Hire You to Build Theirs

Mantras can be massaged to apply to any situation, the psychology behind them is very powerful. And who knows, you may find yourself repeating them under your breath each morning. You can always create your own or turn finding your team mantra into a fun ‘we are one’ activity.

Succeeding and getting through every day in business is no easy task, there are more moving parts and its tiring, the road to entrepreneurial success is bumpy, has many setbacks, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and frustrations. Lots of frustrations. So turn to positive thinking and emotive mantras. A few beers on a Friday also helps frame the mind of course.

Earl Nightingale an American Radio speaker and author said, ‘Whatever we plant In our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality’.

Team Mantras? - Introduce one into your next team meeting and ask each person to how they are going to go about it? I have discussed a business in another article who changed the dynamics of all future meetings by saying everyone attending a meeting had to come with game changer ideas and options.

I highlight a few other team mantras I came across -

Eat the Frog – or do the worst, first. Find the one thing for the day you’re dreading doing and then get it out of the way. A team that’s willing to tackle the hardest problems first will prosper.

Make Your Way – Either I will find a way, or I will make one. Entrepreneurs leading teams into unknown territory without a roadmap may especially feel this one.

So, the next time you’re feeling low or discouraged while on your entrepreneurial journey, employ an empowering business life mantra to get yourself back on track for success. And or call me the Printboosterologist and get much more across a wide range of areas.

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