The X Factor

Dictionary's describe the term X-factor, as an indescribable quality or something about a person that you cannot put your finger on, but it attracts people. It is important that, your idea, service or product has a quality to it, that makes it stand out in the marketplace. It will be vital to the success of your attempt. You, your product or service representative must have a quality that attracts people. This attraction will result in clients, customers, and business. As an entrepreneur that X-factor will most often be yourself and or your team. Develop the strength of your idea, service or business on the shoulder's of this factor. Every aspect of your attempt must carry this idealism.

Question

1. What product or service do you use often?

2 What attracts you to it?

3. What product or service do you dislike?

4. Why do you dislike it?

Water, Wishing, Wellness

Think of your endeavor as a seed, planted in a garden, and your dedication is the water. Wishing is one thing, but watering and nurturing your idea is another. While wishing is a wonderful, part of your journey to fruition, working towards it is the reality. Your personal, professional, and financial wellness will be imperative to your ultimate success.

Question

1. How will you water your idea today?

2. What does watering your idea entail?

Activity

1. Set up a watering schedule for your attempt. Create a weekly list of assignments and duties to keep your endeavor invigorated, commit to this list and follow-through

Vision, Velocity, Victory

Any endeavor taken as an entrepreneur must come from vision. You must see the success of your attempt as long-term a long-term project. The passion behind the vision creates velocity for your effort to first take shape, then form, and eventually grow. That growth in itself is victory. Capitalizing on that victory is the American Dream. When our best entrepreneurial spirit manifest and shines beyond our immediate expectations, the American dream is realized. Coupled with this there must be a world vision that mirrors your success. This world vision must encompass the current state of affairs, enviromentalism, and create a small space for making a change in the world. Failure to incorporate a World Vision is why many once successful enterprises are failing miserably.

Questions

1. What is your short-term vision? What is your long-term vision? What three ways can you create velocity in your vision today?

Uniqueness, Unity, Ubiquity

In a sea of great minds, wonderful inventions and other curiosities, you just be unique in our approach. Getting stakeholders, investors, and customers to rally and unify around your concepts will be imperative to your success. You want to create a sense of ubiquity while you're marketing and selling your ideas. Be careful that this ubiquitousness is not just a fad but that it can have a lasting presence. A good example of a ubiquitous product is pantyhose. They are found everywhere, new upstart companies are constantly improving them and creating newer products from them like Spanks and undergarments the likes of what Ardyss Life produces. Men are secretly wearing pantyhose for everything from back problems to fetishes. It's something simple and long lasting that makes the best use of your time. This is why your passion and personal belief in what you are doing will be important. If you like and would invest, or buy into it, you have a much better chance of convincing others of your endeavor's merit.

Questions

1. What three ubiquitous products or services do you use and or like?

Activity

1. (In learning) Gather in groups of 3 or more. Each person should come up with one idea present it to one another in groups. Each group should rally around one person's idea, based on merit, usefulness, and uniqueness.

2. (In Practice) So how many people you can commit to to form a solid team. Repeat Activity One with commitment and follow through. Remember to commit to a certain amount of time to pursue your endeavor, reevaluate that pursuit often. Fine tune your attempts.

Truth, Trust, Think, Thoroughness

You must tell the truth, to yourself as well as others. False promises will get you nowhere and will become frustrating for you and everyone that you make a false promise too. During these stages of your attempts, you must build trust between yourself and others. This trust will be important as you move forward and progress with the process. Your thoughts are the most valuable tool to create success. Think about what you want, how it will work, and every other detail. It may be challenging to find the time to think, coupled with life's responsibilities. Make the time because your thoughts are assets. Keep accurate track and record thoughts, meetings, and other details with thoroughness. Forgetting one thing can be the difference between success and failure.

Questions

1. What are the fundamental truth's of your idea?

2. Do you have trustworthy relationships that you have cultivated personally and professionally?

3. What are your thoughts on your endeavor?

4. What are other's thoughts?

Activity

1. In a group setting or alone create a list with the fundamental truth of your attempt as your heading and then group your thoughts as others as steps. After recording the steps put them in order for execution

Sacredness, Sacrifice, Spirituality, Surrendering

Your investment, idea, or endeavor, must be held as a sacred trust between it and yourself, your partners, and stakeholders. It must be so delicious to everyone that it actually has a taste. In order to achieve the taste of success that you desire there will come many sacrifices that must be made. Many entrepreneur's will make these sacrifices from birth or very young in life, and these experiences serve to create the entrepreneurial spirit. Some will be new to the experience of sacrifice. Experiencing sacrifice does not have to be negative if you remember the purpose. Spirituality should be a source of comfort and surrendering your experience to the divine presence or God. If you are an atheist, disciplined exercise or rituals may serve as the same.

Question

1. What is the definition of sacred?
2. Is your idea sacred?

Activity

1. Identify what is sacred about your idea?
2. Identify what may not be sacred and adjust accordingly

Remembrance, Reality, Realty, Royalty

The act of remembering is important. Callbacks, follow up, keeping promises, phone numbers, locations, your personal and professional actions, there are moral, social, and physical obligations that will enable the success of your entrepreneurial endeavor. We will refer to these steps as the rungs on the ladder of success. The reality of your potential to succeed is based on your daily dedication to the steps on the ladder. Your personal measure of success is based on what you utmost wants, desires, and dreams are. You cannot be afraid of your own dreams. These dreams are the beacons that will guide your course.

"My personal utmost dreams are land ownership, and to create an environment for my grandparents to retire in that is befitting of their familial royalty"

QUESTION
1. What are your utmost wants? What are your utmost needs? What do you dream about?

ACTIVITY
1. Create a list of what you must remember to do today to forward your idea/endeavor.
2, Take that list and begin to cross things off one at a time.