Author Erica Nelson’s Top 10 Strategies for Success in 2008

November 28, 2007; 04:25 AM

San Jose, CA --– When Kalispell, Montana realtor Joel Brann got into a slump in summer 2007 he stopped and took stock. Brann realized that he was focusing on everything that was wrong in his career. The sluggish market didn’t help. When he met success coach Erica Nelson on an introductory coaching call, he was inspired to change his mindset.

Within a few weeks, he began to experience new real estate appointments, listings and sales, and began to operate from “inspiration,” he says. 

“When you are inspired, you experience more success,” says Nelson. “When you feel good about yourself and your business, synchronicity happens, and you begin to experience greater return on all of your energy investments.”

Focus, vision, inspiration and success are all a function of being on track, Nelson says. As the year 2007 ends, the time is perfect to create an inspirational vision for 2008. “The job of an inspirational vision is to get you up, get you feeling good. Focus on the outcomes. What would you like to see happen in your business? Your life?” poses Nelson. When you are clear on creating positive outcomes, your business results flourish. The market climate nearly becomes irrelevant.

Erica M. Nelson, author of the new book Prospect When You Are Happy Move the Law of Attraction into Action, is a Law of Attraction and success coach.  The Law of Attraction emphasizes the idea that people have the power to create intentional outcomes.  She teaches practical approaches to implementing the Law of Attraction to produce significant results, particularly in work situations. 

What is the best way to generate success in 2008?  Here are Erica Nelson’s top 10 recommendations:

1.                Create intentions for each quarter. Create a clear picture of what success looks like and feels like in your life.

2.                Look at the infrastructure around you. Are you prepared for success? Begin to expand your infrastructure to allow success, or think about how your infrastructure could expand when it is right.

3.                Create a two-sentence definition of your vision. What are you aiming to achieve? Tell at least five new people every day where you are going in your business.

4.                Write what you want to happen in 2008 as though it were already December 2008, in the present tense. Example: It is December 2008 and my net worth increased 100 percent over December 2007.

5.                When a tiny good thing shows up express flipped out excitement about it.

6.                Before you call a client or prospect, get clear on how delighted you feel about your business direction. The ideal result will be an almost unconscious communication of your own success, confidence in your competence, and a relaxed sense of not truly needing any one deal or any one client.

7.                Think big, then think bigger. Focus on where you want to be in five years. Get inspired about your life five years from now.

8.                To know if your vision is working, give it this test. When you think about it, does it make you feel energized? Happy? That is the test. Get happy about your vision.

9.                Relax and let it go. Declare everything that happens perfect even when it cannot possibly be.

10.           Enjoy today. Smile when you can. Be of good cheer, when you have a vision, life falls into place.

The block that many people encounter is thinking too small.  The result is not acting from inspiration.  The answer to this challenge is this:

1. Know exactly what you want and seek it, then allow whatever happens to be perfect.

2. To attract amazing people, become what you wish to attract.

The potential downside is that inspiration causes change, and this often feels uncomfortable, Nelson says. For San Jose, CA realtor Joan Banks, change meant not only changing how she did her business – but changing her entire business. This pretty much changed her entire life. “When Erica asked me what brings joy, I thought about travel,” said Banks. At 72, Banks opened an online travel business and she has never looked back. “I’m earning money doing what I love. I don’t miss real estate, but the change was a shock in my life” she says. Getting clear on her vision turned into a lot of change.

“When you open yourself up to success, you may be surprised by what that ends up happening in your life,” says Nelson. “It isn’t always exactly what you had in mind.”

For more information visit www.ericamnelson.com

About Erica M. Nelson

Erica Nelson became a top 5 percent realtor in a field of 12,000 Silicon Valley realtors in her first full-time year in the business. A former news writer for the Sacramento Bee, Santa Barbara News-Press and other California newspapers, Nelson presently writes about, coaches and teaches success nationally. She lives in Northern California with her husband and three children under age 7. She wrote “Prospect When You Are Happy” in response to students’ wishes for tools to generate immediate success in their business while working on long term plans and improvements.