61 Universal Success Tips For a Better Life and Business

Posted on May 29, 2009 By Bedros

universaltips I don’t know how you define success, but for me, it’s being able to do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want…

and if I could add just one more tiny little thing to my definition of success - it would be to have positively affected humanity in one way or another, no matter how small, before I kick the can.

But hey… that’s just me.

Earlier today I just started jotting down ideas as quickly as they came to me. When I was done I ended up with this list of 61 success tips for a better life, business, and general world domination stuff.

Here they are… in no particular order…I hope you like’em.

1. Serve a starving crowd. Don’t be everything to everyone. Find your niche, the things you’re passionate about, and the people you like working with. Life’s too short to just “get by”.

2. Create multiple income streams. Gone are the days of linear income. Today the most successful have multiple income streams. If you want reliability, REAL security and stability in your business… think multiple income streams.

3. Leverage time, technology, and others, and by that I mean VALUE your time and do the things that move you forward and outsource everything else.

4. Create recurring income streams because who wants to only be as good as their last sale?

5. Thank you parents. Seriously. I’m thankful to my parents for bring me to this awesome country at such a young age. The opportunities I have here are ENDLESS. When was the last time you thanked your parents?

6. Pay it forward. It just flat out feels good. And when you do, without expecting anything in return, the universe somehow pays you back in spades.

7. Be thankful for what you have. No one is entitled.

8. Build, nurture, and cultivate your list. The list is king. Always has been… and always will be. Abuse or neglect your list and pay the price.

9. Never give up - you don’t know if you are just one more step away from success.

10. Focus on the critical 5% because these are the things that leap frog you forward in life and business. Outsource the other 95%.

11. Don’t major on minor things.

12. Always up sell, because if you have a decent product or service then you have an ethical obligation to give your clients the best you have.

13. Charge what you’re worth. Never undervalue yourself. Don’t compete on price. Raise your rates NOW and increase value. It’s really a simple formula.

14. The money’s in the backend. If you don’t or won’t sell your clients more of what they want - they’ll give your money to someone else.

15. Solve a problem. It’s really that simple. Be the solution to a specific program.

16. Never lie, cheat, or steal. Its short sighted, gets you nowhere fast, and once again the universe will pay you back in spades if you do.

17. Get a little bit of money from a lot of people. This advice was the biggest “ah ha” moment of my life.

18. Guarantee everything. People are skeptical these days and rightfully so, there’s so much crap out there. Do you believe in your product or service? Put your money where your mouth is and guarantee it.

19. Keep your word. ALWAYS

20. Live in abundance. It’s a state of mind and a way if life. There’s enough for everyone.

21. Avoid crabs and vampires. You know who they are in your life. The folks that are like kryptonite when they come around you. AVOID THEM AT ALL COST.

22. Read two books a month.

23. Blog about it. It’s your platform to your market and followers. But don’t deliver shitty content unless you want to create a MASSIVE disconnect.

24. Buy speed. Specialized information has never been as easy to get as it is today. All you gotta do is invest in the stuff and you’ll buy yourself years of speed.

25. Ready - shoot - aim. NOT Ready, aim, shoot.

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26. Study Direct response marketing because unlike ‘traditional brand marketing” it delivers results that you can track.

27. Master crafting killer sales copy if you want to sell a shit pile of stuff.

28. Action trumps knowledge - period. It’s a lie… knowledge is not power. Knowledge APPLIED is.

29. Don’t wait for perfect. Perfect will never happen.

30. Learn to sell. This is the single most HIGH DEMAND skill ever. Nothing happens until a sale is made.

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31. Model success, study others, learn from those who have already done it right.

32. Take time off to decompress, bring back down to neutral once in a while.

33. Try new things.

34. Network often. It’s not WHAT you know; it’s WHO you know, and how THEY feel about you.

35. Ask for help. No man (or woman) is an island.

36. Look for mentors, people you can learn from, people you look up to, people who are already where you want to be.

37. Less talk more action. Just get it done… anyone can talk big.

38. Make it new and improved. If you want more sales, reinvent yourself and your products. Look at what happened to Coke when they introduced the fridge pack or Trident gum when they repackaged their product - both products increased sales virtually overnight. People want new and improved… so give it to them.

39. Exercise you body. Some of the best business ideas I get come to me while I’m working out. It’s proven that workouts release “happy hormones” into your bloodstream and working out alters your state-of-mind and makes you more creative.

40. Exercise your mind. Challenge yourself. Take in new information, thoughts, ideas, and concepts. Expand your mind.

41. Publish a book - become an instant authority.

42. Success happens in chaos, a line from Dan Kennedy. And it’s true.

43. Catch the big fish. You’re going to work just as hard to get the big fish as you do with getting the small ones. The bigger fish are way more profitable and require much less maintenance.

44. Repel riff-raffs. Inevitably you’ll attract riff raffs, tire kickers, people who can’t (or won’t) afford what you’re selling. Learn to spot them quickly and set up systems to repel them. Let them go to your competitors.

45. Come with a giving hand. Zig Ziglar says “when you help enough people get what they want… you’ll get what you want.” Eben Pagan says be a value ADDER to other people’s lives and not a value EXTRACTOR.

46. It’s about what you KEEP not what you EARN. Manage your business, your profits, and your expenses.

47. Fail forward. I’d rather reach for 10,000,000 and only hit 5,000,000 than reach for 100,000 and make it.

48. Protect your time. You only have so much of it and there are way too many vampires trying to take it.

49. Listen. Don’t “wait to speak”… actually listen.

50. Have unreasonable expectations. Dream big… no matter how stupid it seems to others.

51. Be humble.

52. Know what you want. Forget about keeping up with the Jones’. What do YOU want?

53. Know your numbers. You can tell me anything you want about your business, but nothing will tell a more truthful story than the actual numbers.

54. Be unique and original.

55. Make it irresistible. Give them a compelling reason to BUY IT now.

56. Pre-sell. Don’t wait for the doors to open or for the site to be up. See it now.

57. Cross-sell. What else can you sell them? What else do they WANT?

58. Think high profit low risk.

59. Strike while the iron’s hot. Don’t think about, kick it around, or get to it later. If you have a good idea… there’s no better time than NOW to get on it.

60. Understand how money moves… because it’s always moving… to… or away from you.

61. Enjoy life. This is not a trial run.

What tips do you have to add to this list? Leave them below in the comment box.

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May 29, 2009

Kevin Moses @ 2:58 pm

Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing.

George Burroughs @ 3:00 pm

Bedros, Awesome!!!!

Here’s my contribution: “If what you do doesn’t bring a sense of Love, Joy, and Peace then there is either a problem with what you are doing - or a problem with YOU.”

Dr. George Burroughs http://www.TryAtlasChiropractic.com

wayne large exercise nutrition coach (UK) @ 3:16 pm

As always Bedros, you are inspiring

Michael Duivis @ 4:02 pm

My 1st tip would be to print this out and hang it up where you see it EVERY day.

Steve Hochman @ 4:11 pm

Dude. Get and apply anything that the GREAT Bedros offers… Anything he touches turns to PURE GOLD -I have personally experienced this… BIG TIME!

Here’s my two cents… Refuse to say the most OFFENSIVE 4-letter-word in the human language - “CAN’T”

Keep ROCK’N dude
Steve

John Thompson @ 4:21 pm

Awesome stuff Bedros…

“To go somewhere you’ve never been you have to do things you’ve never done”

Take action.

Holly Binkley @ 4:21 pm

Thanks Bedros…printing it out and hanging it in my office!!

Georgette Pann @ 4:59 pm

Thank you!

Marc Kent @ 5:22 pm

Numbers 50 and 51 are something to live by.

Its always brings a smile to my face when I tell people how much money I want my business to earn me, they look at me with a “get real” glint in their eyes.

Such small minded people! Thats why they will work for the man and I’m out there pushing my envelope

Bedros @ 5:30 pm

exactly right Marc!

Joshua Carter @ 6:19 pm

Awesome as usual.

Luke Wold @ 7:36 pm

Yo Bedros!

Freaking great post! I’m copying it into my Jim Rohn journal

Steve re:”Can’”

Bro, I make my clients replace “can’t” with “cuddle.”

Sounds crazy but it works. I make ‘em stop and shout out “I CUDDLE do this!” Then they laugh and bust ass to make it happen.

Great stuff,

~ Luke

Brad @ 8:21 pm

It’s funny how some clever lil sayings can totally help us take our heads out of our butts and regain focus. Thank you for sending me into the weekend on a more positive note. Another extremely toxic word…..TOMORROW! I think that word alone has shattered millions of dreams and aspirations…most “tomorrows” result in NEVERS! I’m off to focus on the 5%…

-b

Mohamed Ali @ 9:17 pm

Quote from the post:
“25. Ready - shoot - aim. NOT Ready, aim, shoot.”

Does this sound insane to anyone?

Andy Whitson @ 11:17 pm

I’m glad there are motivating and successful people out there like you Bedros.. You know the equations for success, so I don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Thank you for your awesome leadership!

Mike Rustler @ 11:22 pm

hey Mohamed, every successful person I know lives by ready, shoot, aim. How many times have you waited for the perfect time to pull the trigger and the time was NEVER perfect.

Ever since I learned ready, shoot, aim from Bedros I get things done way faster. Sure its not ‘perfect’ when I roll it out, but once you have customers paying you the urgency is so great that you make it as perfect as it needs to be.

Perfect as it needs to be… another Bedros quote.

Great post B. I’m printing this one…

Mike from Texas

Fred Sassani @ 11:40 pm

I would like to add something that has change my life. I JUST FIGURED OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND INSPIRATION. I THOUGHT I KNEW THE MEANING AND DIFFEENCE BETWEEN THEM IN THE PAST, BUT NOW IT’S CLEAR TO ME

MOTIVATION IS WHEN YOU GET A HOLD OF A THOUGHT OR ACTION AND YOU DO IT (LIKE CLEANING YOUR HOUSE, OR MOWING THE LAWN). WHEN YOU HOLD SOMETHING IT’S EASY TO LET IT GO, THAT’S WHY SO MANY MOTIVATED PEOPLE CAN EASILY GET UNMOTIVATED

INSPIRATION IS WHEN AN ACTION OR A THOUGHT GETS A HOLD OF YOU. IT WILL NOT LET YOU GO. YOU JUST DO IT, LOVE IT TALK IT, SHARE IT, AND CAN NOT LIVE WITH OUT IT (EXAMPLE: TIGER WOODS, AND GOLF OR ME AND FITNESS

WHAT HAS GOTTEN A HOLD OF YOU, AND WHAT DO HAVE A HOLD OF THAT YOU CAN LET GO EASILY. THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN LOVING WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE LIVE. LET SOMETHING AMAZING GET A HOLD OF YOU TODAY AND LET IT EMBRACE YOU.

May 30, 2009

Aly Bevers/ATP @ 12:02 am

Smile.Smile whether it’s a good day, or if you haven’t closed
a deal all week.When you smile, they’ll want to know why, but
if you never smile they will always think you’ve lost-and the winners will avoid you!

Eyad @ 1:27 am

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wowwww!!!

This is amazing, thanks a lot, must have taken you a long time to write all this down!

You’re the best Bedros!!

Michael Wolfe @ 2:01 am

Excellent post!

Leanne Ellington @ 4:22 am

One thing that Bedros mentioned at FBS is get rid of those damn limiting beliefs. It goes right along with that yucky word “can’t”. It’s amazing how easily we can commit self-sabotage when we think it’s out of our reach or too hard or impossible to overcome. Don’t forget that we can be our own best friend or our own worst enemy.

Awesome post as always Bedros. I “cuddle” have said it better myself =)

Freeda @ 8:12 am

I think everyone should see something here that they can learn from,on their way to success. I also think it is important to live in the moment, because it is all that you really exist. So, live, love and laugh each day as if it were your last.

Brian Meisenburg @ 9:01 am

Bedros,

Awesome. Thanks for the motivation. I needed a kick in the a@%

Brian

John @ 5:25 pm

Wow ..have read this a couple of times now. Going to go through and turn them into an action list .

John
Personal Training Southend

Robert Foster @ 6:46 pm

Amazingly awesome post - WOW again! I am sending it to my team!

May 31, 2009

Michael Todd @ 12:50 am

I have a few to add :0)

“We should be ashamed to leave this world without making some great contribution to mankind. What great idea, concept, invention, service…what great contribution do YOU have to offer?”

and…

in addition to 47: by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale “You can do more than you ever imagined. Shoot for the moon! For in case you miss…you land among the stars.”

Great quotes and great motivation. Would love to have you as a guest speaker at one of my upcoming seminars. Get in touch!

anja @ 6:37 am

Nice post. The ‘ready, shoot aim…’-part did sound weird to me too, but I think I egt the point. Don’t over-plan. In most cases you can actually aim after you have fired.

I especially liked the fail forward part. I’d rather miss but almost make it than never have tried.
That way you can have no regrets even if you are disappointed at the time.

Shelton Matsey @ 7:38 am

Great stuff as always Bedros as well as everyone else. One of my new favorites that helps to keep my scatter brain focused is “you get paid for done.”. It goes right along with 29 and 37. Thanks again!

Callie Durbrow @ 10:53 am

Great post! I love how you keep it simple but create a really motivating list. It’s always great to step back and look at things piece by piece as it’s so easy to get worked up by all of the “little things” we should be doing. Focusing on the big things and really kicking ass at those always works best!

Kaiser Serajuddin @ 7:06 pm

Damn this was a good post - no bullshit -

sam @ 10:43 pm

Bedros,

I had to print this one and put it on my wall. This is a kind of stuff that needs to be read once a day. SUPER

Bedros @ 11:14 pm

Hey thanks for all the comments everyone!

A few people asked me if they could share this list on their blog or website… sure, go for it. As long as you give credit back to my blog along with a link.

Something like; “This list was compiled by Bedros Keuilian and originally posted on http://www.PTPower.com”

Rock on!

Bedros

June 1, 2009

Daniel Munday - Sydney's Fat Loss Expert @ 12:10 am

Nice stuff Bedros - re #39 I couldn’t agree more on ideas from exercising.

Backtrack 4 years I was working out the morning after a chance meeting with my now fiance. I wasn’t going to get her digits until while working out I got the inspiration, got motivated and said stuff it. Now we’re getting married in November and that wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t of worked out that day and took action on my idea.

Adam Toohey @ 12:17 am

Hey Bedros,

This is a KILLER list mate… Some points here really stick out and will be a constant source of motivation for me which I will condition within myself and put to great use.

Awesome stuff and look forward to seeing you again soon

Adam Toohey

victoria boer @ 4:12 am

Great stuff
Dont wait to get approval from anyone ,always follow instinct always do what makes you happy.most importantly always get plenty of sleep.

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Bonnie Hardie @ 5:27 pm

Great post as usual Bedros!!! You,Steve and Chris are awesome!!
Your posts are always informative and well written.

June 2, 2009

mike g @ 9:10 pm

Very powerful and inspiring post. I have been having a crappy year so far and reading your post has made me realize that you have to keep on trying and move forward. If you don’t and only dwell on the negatives in life, then you’ve alway lose the game of life. Thank you for your words of encouragement as I will keep plugging along and change my life for the better.

June 4, 2009

Donovan "DFitnessguy" Owens @ 2:46 am

Damn Bedros, you killed it on this post. I had to copy this one and leave you with one of that I read in the book called “The Go-Giver”

Here it is:

“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving…Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”

Take it or leave it…it will still be true either way!

Donovan “DFitnessguy” Owens