How many books do you read in a year? Most people boast about how they read hundreds of books a year. That’s what I used to do as well. Until I found that I wasn’t really absorbing any information. So is speed reading a bad idea? Well, not entirely, but you need to know when […]
Psychological Marketing: How To Understand The Business Owner Mindset
Does marketing involve psychology? What is psychological marketing? And how do you use psychology to develop a business mindset?
Running any business involves marketing. However, every business owner has to deal with a whole lot of psychological issues—both business and personal.
The articles below will help you realise you are not alone in business. You will read about:
- The imposter syndrome
- How to deal with overwhelm
- How to find your passion
- How to increase energy
- How to persevere even when you are failing
Next Step
Look at the list of articles below, pick the one that gets your attention and start reading. Every article will help you understand a business owners mindset from a psychological angle.
Warm regards
Sean D'Souza
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Articles on psychological marketing from Psychotactics
One-Buttock Passion (How A Simple Redefinition Can Help You Move Forward)
How do you redefine the term “passion”? A definition shouldn’t be a barrier to your progress, should it? Yet, the moment you hear people talking about passion, you’re stuck. And that’s because their definition is all wrong. How do you redefine the term “passion”? And what does one-buttock have to do with passion? Let’s find […]
How To Avoid Overwhelm (And Systematically Complete Projects)
Whenever you have a deadline, somehow you’re able to stagger towards it and get the job done But other tasks never seem to move forward. You fall behind on your reading, your fun projects, even that movie you’d promised yourself. In life we need to complete projects that are urgent, but also projects that are […]
Why Success Is Hindered By The Lack of the Tolerance Effect
How does tolerance play a role in small business? It might not seem like tolerance is the root for success, but if you dig deeper, you’ll find that small businesses struggle without the core concepts of tolerance. So how does tolerance play a part in something like a successful artwork, or music, or the next […]
How To Increase Energy (Even In The Midst of Chaos)
“I wasted too much time getting angry”. So said world-famous tennis champion, John McEnroe. McEnroe and arch-rival, Jimmy Connors had similar temperaments on the court. Both were easily provoked. Yet both of them managed to get to the No.1 ranking in the world for many years consecutively. Yet McEnroe was gone from the tennis scene […]
How To Slow Down (Without Losing Momentum)
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere This is an elaboration/review of the book by Pico Iyer. How do you slow down? What do you mean by going nowhere? And how can we slow down with our busy business and family life? In this episode Sean talks about Part 1: The Passage To Nowhere Part 2: […]
Three Definitions of Talent—And Why They’ll Help You Understand Yourself Better
How do we get talented? Part 2 of “How To Get Talented” is a bit of a shocker. You realise that talent is only the stuff you can’t do. If everyone can do what you can, then it’s not really a talent. Ok, so that’s the spoiler, but listen or read anyway. In this episode Sean […]
Rapid Talent (How To Get There and What Holds Us Back)
Why do others seem more talented than we are? Is talent inborn? Is it just practice? Or is there something else. Incredibly the key to talent is in the way you define talent. Change the definition and you see it in a whole new light. In Part 1 of this episode on talent, you’ll see […]
How To Fight Envy (And Stay Motivated Instead)
Envy isn’t something we talk about, or even admit to openly. And yet it’s the one thing that all of us feel. We feel that others are going places and doing more than us. We even feel we need their spot and somehow that spot belongs to us. So how do we overcome this intense […]
How To Thrive and Succeed In The Midst Of Chaos
Most of us have grand plans to succeed Yet, the moment we start there are a million distractions in our way. Chaos lurches around in our doorway and there seems to be no way out. At Psychotactics, we had managed to get around most of the chaos but then I was in charge of mentoring […]
