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<br />How to get your Mind OVER Mattress and Wake Up Early!</h2>
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The average person wakes up at 7am so if you get up at 6am you are up before 80% of the population, if you are up at 5am you have 2 extra hours a day to get ahead of the competition. That’s 14 hours extra a week. In the morning you are far more productive because your brain waves are slower to start and your stress hormones are at their lowest and there is just less distraction from the outside world.<br />
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No 1: Have a big why. 80% of success is why and 20% is how. If you have a big enough why about anything you brain finds the resources to do it. I think your motivation for waking up early is very important. Motivation comes from the word motive. So what is your motive for waking up early? You have to get your mind over mattress. A why could be because you want to be the biggest in your field you want to get ahead of the rest of your competition or you want to help the most people.<br />
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No 2: Is commitment! You must make your mind up about it. It’s not I’ll try to wake up early , its I will wake up at this time. That means putting your phone in another room and deciding to wake up at that time. There is no debate in your mind about it. It’s as if you had to catch the most important flight of your life.<br />
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No 3: Use the 5,4,3,2,1 strategy and don’t think. What this does is it stops your brain from asking the question do I feel like getting up? To ‘I am getting up.’ Taking out this thinking time causes you to act because you know on the count of one you must get up. That takes you from the basal ganglia which is the habit part of your mind running your behaviours to the prefrontal cortex which is the decision making part of the brain. That means NO snooze button.<br />
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No 4: Move your body immediately! I studied successful people and saw they all moved the body immediately after waking up. Tony robbins jumps in a cryotherapy chamber or takes a cold shower then jumps in a hot tub , Richard branson goes surfing, Arnold Schwarzenger goes to the gym. Many of you are still asleep many you wake up that’s why people go back to bed.<br />
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No 5: Make it your identity! Call yourself a 5amer or a 6amer or an early morning riser. That will cause you to stay consistent.<br />
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No 6: Get a good nights sleep! No technology for 30 mins before bed at least is ideal. This allows Melontin to be released so you can sleep easy.<br />
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And remember every night Plan for the following day, that will make it easier for your brain to relax!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11455452802899790662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-44625222576251476892017-04-30T20:34:00.002-07:002017-04-30T20:36:19.915-07:00Our FIRST EVER Video Release + How To Squash ProcrastinationFirst of all I want to THANK everyone for the amazing response and all the shares for our first public video in a series called 'Decide To Feel Good.' If you haven't seen it yet then <a href="https://business.facebook.com/luke.hawkins2/posts/10154307405436761">click here to watch!</a> Over 4.6K views and over 50 shares in 3 Days is Outstanding!! Thank YOU so much!<br />
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One of the biggest things that hold people back from success is waiting to feel like taking action before you actually take it. So many are waiting to feel 'ready' or feel motivated or feel confident or feel courageous before they act and the truth is that feeling may never come. Our thoughts can be the biggest dream killers or dream builders and the second you hesitate from what you know you should do your brain is actually designed to magnify that feeling and stop you from doing it the longer you hesitate. This is called the 'spotlight' effect.The longer you wait to take action the more that feeling of hesitation gets magnified and the harder it is to take action. So if you are waiting to feel 'ready' or confident before you do that facebook live or do that presentation or whatever it is outside of your comfort zone you are simply sabotaging yourself.<br />
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I talked about it this week in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/luke.hawkins2/videos/10154304917111761/">my facebook live</a> and what you want to do is implement what is called the '5 Second Rule'. This was developed by a lady called Mel Robbins where she though instead of just trying to get herself to feel motivated to get out of bed she simple gave herself a 5 second countdown and just jumped out of bed. Not only was it used for this but it was also used for anything you procrastinate on and for anything you know you should do but you dont feel like doing. I have already used it this week and have had an amazing week giving myself a 5 second countdown on anything I know I should do and then act.<br />
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I highly recommend this week whenever you notice yourself procrastinating or hesitating on what you know you should do just count backwards 5,4,3,2,1 and then do whatever you said you would. This will wake up your prefrontal cortex and cause you to act. This is the part of your brain where you decision making takes place and all your power is while the basal ganglia which is the part of your brain that maintains your habits is designed to just maintain the habits you already have. So there you go!<br />
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#Thehungrylions #Theunlimitedlife #Decidetofeelgood #GreatnessisyouAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11455452802899790662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-61109274983068186092017-04-23T06:38:00.001-07:002017-04-23T06:38:44.478-07:00The Biggest Learning I have got this week!! <div>
<span style="font-size: 14px;">I have been a hunter for human excellence in order to find out what makes people succeed and what makes people struggle. I had a big learning last week in that I had realised that the only difference between those that succeed and those that struggle really comes down to their <strong>standards</strong>. It’s easy to fall into the trap of the ‘poor me’ syndrome or ‘why is life so hard’ or ‘why don’t other people get it’. The only thing is if we do that we sabotage our success. If you are not getting the results you want right now the universe is telling you one thing, and that is <strong>Raise Your Standards! NOTE: DO NOT </strong>do the same as last week and expect a different result. Thats insanity according to our friend Einstein. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">“All that matters is how you see yourself, if you see yourself as having the success you want, then so it shall be.” Conor Mcgregor</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11455452802899790662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-40276268635766796992017-04-16T02:10:00.000-07:002017-04-16T02:10:31.400-07:00How do I improve the relationship with myself?<div class="MsoNormal">
I was thinking today, ‘what has the greatest impact on the
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Then I started to think, ‘is it your health? is it the
amount of money you make? is it how much success you have? is it who you are in
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And then the answer came to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is the relationship you have with yourself. You could
have all the money in the world, you could have all the success in the world,
you could have your dream body or even your dream partner but ultimately what
has the greatest impact on the quality of your life is the <b>quality of your relationship with yourself.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I then asked myself these questions:<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘How could I improve the quality of relationship with
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‘How happy am I with the relationship I have with myself on
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‘What would it take for me to be a 10?’<o:p></o:p></div>
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For you to be a 10 I can say you have to let go of any
limiting or negative thoughts you have about yourself that cause you to feel
bad.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once you’ve discovered the limiting or negative thoughts
that pop up in your mind I recommend you simply……let them go. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As Wayne Dyer says… ‘have a mind that is open to everything,
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I recommend you make two empowering decisions today that
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This is doing what I call, thinking outside the box!<o:p></o:p></div>
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How you feel in any moment in time is a decision, and only
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Maybe you could make the decision that no matter what
happens this week, you’re going to be happy no matter what. Or maybe it’s I
decide to love myself no matter what, or I decide to accept myself. Another decision
this week could be <b>not one negative thought is allowed in your mind</b>. A great exercise
to do is the second you notice the negative thought come up, you say to
yourself ‘erase! what I really mean is…. (and then tell yourself your new
truth).’ I can tell you this really works! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Your self esteem is directly related to how much money you
make by the way. So the higher your self esteem is, the greater the amount of money
you make. Also the higher yourself esteem, the more you are going to enjoy your
life. Life is always supporting your return to love. Always.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I want to wish you an outstanding week, treat yourself how
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P.S If you are interested in letting go of any limiting
beliefs from your mind or cultivating self love we have super exercises for
this in our online course. It is still at 50% off, click here: <o:p></o:p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://lukehawkinscoaching.com/offer"><span style="color: blue;">http://lukehawkinscoaching.com/offer</span></a></span></div>
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Happy Easter… Love and Light from me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11455452802899790662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-91041290522731039692017-04-08T05:41:00.002-07:002017-04-08T05:41:21.475-07:00Appreciating The Beauty Of Cracks<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This topic
is important because there is a big cost to not taking action for the price of
waiting for things to be perfect. The only problem with waiting for things to
be perfect is that no matter what you do anyway, it can always be improved. If youre
waiting for things to be perfect for example the book you’re writing to be
perfect the facebook live your planning to do to be perfect, the coaching
session you plan to do to be perfect or the sales call you know you want to
make to be perfect or your presentation or public talk to be perfect, you could
be waiting for a very long time and even forever. And delay or waiting will
kill your dream and it will destroy your ability to help people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">For some
people perfectionism is something that pops up every now and then for them and
they don’t use it as a road block to taking action so they make progress
relatively fast. This is in comparison to the compulsive or chronic perfectionist
who plans and plans and plans, and then is planning to plan, but never acts
because they are still perfecting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Which person
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Regardless of
where you are on the scale of perfectionism, 0 being not at all and 10 being
the compulsive chronic perfectionist if you want freedom from perfectionism, we
have to make the long journey from, what will people think? To I am enough! You
have to claim the truth of who you are and know who you are is separate to what
you do and its separate to what you have. You also have to be willing to give
yourself a break and appreciate the beauty of the cracks or imperfections. It’s
a decision to to be kind to yourself and talk to yourself in the same way you’d
talk to someone you care about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">You want to
own the parts of yourself that don’t fit in with who or what you think youre
supposed to be. You must give up striving for other peoples approval of your
worthiness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Don’t let perfect
be the enemy of done. A 20 minute walk done is better than a 10 km walk that
you don’t do. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect
book that never leaves your computer. The sales call that you make is better
than the sales call you don’t make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The best quote
that I love about perfectionism is ‘there is a crack in everything that’s how
the light gets in.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Give up perfectionism and get it done! You'll be glad you did!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11455452802899790662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-27224951955485419682016-06-29T04:50:00.000-07:002016-06-29T04:50:09.732-07:00The 5 Steps To Create The Success That You Want Now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You have heard before by the wise Aristotle that excellence itself is not an act, but a habit. Its your daily habits that are controlling your destiny right now. We all have 24 hours in a day. The question is, How do we use it? The ability to maximise your time and make every minute count is so important in business. Whether you are Richard Branson, Warren Buffet or any person working in a 9-5 Job it is important to use these 5 steps to get from where you are, to where you want to be!</div>
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1. Know your Purpose/Goal. Your purpose is not something that stumbles across you, nor it is something you find. Your purpose is something you decide upon. Everything in life has a purpose and if you are going to have the level of success you deserve then you must know clearly what that it. This is the internal compass that is going to drive all of your decisions. So whenever you are uncertain about something, or whenever you dont know what to do, it is your purpose that will guide you forward. It will also provide you with massive motivation provided it is something you feel deeply about and strongly believe in. Then you must also know specifically the goal you are wanting to achieve. This must be something you revisit often and are fully conscious of at all times!I highly recommend you read your goals both in the morning and at night!</div>
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2. Get super jacked motivated- It is extremely important you feel motivated daily. It is your responsibility to motivate yourself, no one elses. If you are not super motivated you wont take all the actions necessary to succeed. To motivate yourself I recommend you wake up with gratitude each morning, read your goals, connect to your purpose, listen to some personal development and then workout each day, preferably in the morning is best. When you break through physical barriers you also break through mental barriers as well!</div>
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3. Remove blocks- this is essential if you are to succeed at the level and rate you deserve. Blocks include fears, limiting beliefs, negative emotions from the past and any inner conflicts you may be experiencing. Personally I have used hypnosis and NLP to clear these out for myself and it has changed my life. Life is a dance between what you fear most and what you desire most. So if you focus on what you desire then you'll dance the dance much better. Do what you fear and the fear will disappear!!</div>
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4. Add Skills - the less you learn the less you earn and the more you learn the more you earn. Warren Buffet was right when he said this. You must add skills if you are going to continually grow and improve. Skills can include those in sales, social media, speaking, communicating, influencing etc. You can never have enough skills. Skills make the difference between someone who is average and someone who is a master. Repetition is the mother of skill. So the more you repeat it, the more skillful you become. Bruce Lee said I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 different kicks, but the man who has practiced the same kick 10000 times!</div>
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5. Action or commitment - those that succeed that fastest simply take the most action. If you're interested you'll do whats convenient, if you're committed you'll do whatever it takes. So go out there and make mistakes. The more mistakes you make, the more you will learn, and the more you learn the more you will grow! Progress = Happiness! You must know that any action is better than inaction!! </div>
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Greatness Is You!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11455452802899790662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-82130698438891472802016-03-21T02:50:00.002-07:002016-03-21T02:50:42.785-07:00The Power Of A True Decision<div class="MsoNormal">
Have different thoughts this week and you will produce
different feelings this week. have different feelings this week and you will
produce different behaviours. which will equal different results. crazy.</div>
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***If you do not CHANGE NOW you are going to wake up where
you are headed.***</div>
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Most people have a life they dont want because they have
been focusing on what they DONT want. if you focus on what you dont want long
enough you you are actually guaranteed to create it. if you focus on what you
do want and take massive consistent fearless action then you will actually
create what you want. its no big secret. its just a law of the universe that
whatever you focus on expands in your life.</div>
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If you make a decision on something and change your mind you
are saying to the universe not only a) Dont bring me what i want but also b)
you are giving an imbedded command to your unconscious mind to associate pain
to what you want in your life (which means you'll sabotage yourself) and......
you are telling your unconscious mind that you cant have what you want. this is
the most destructive thing you can do.</div>
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Make different decisions this week and you will produce
different actions. if you produce different actions you will produce different
results. If your decisions are toward what you want and if you take massive
consistent action you WILL actually set a new standard for yourself and change
your life, permanently. </div>
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If you want to lead your own life and actually be a leader for others then make
a decision and commit to it!! That means go all chips in, leave no stone
unturned and decide to act upon what is going to be your new chosen direction.
You will create a new destiny and people will also follow you because you are
certain in your direction.</div>
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Nelson Mandela didnt say I have a dreammm... and then go
"wait no I dont." Muhammad Ali didnt step into the ring and say
"actually can I just jump out now." Oprah Winfrey doesnt go on
air and say to the audience go home everyone I've changed my mind. </div>
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The word decision comes from the latin, incision. Which
means to cut off from. a true decision is where you cut off from any other
possibility EXCEPT for the thing you are committed to.</div>
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Your life is where it is right now because of the sum total
of your conscious and unconscious decisions up until now. It is important for
your future to ask yourself these questions.....<br />
1) What is my intention in this life?</div>
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2) What do I really want?</div>
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3) Where do I really want to be in 5 years,. 10 years and 20
years time?</div>
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4) What do I have to believe to get there?</div>
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5) what do I have to do consistently day in and day out to
get there?</div>
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6) how will i celebrate as I achieve greater success?</div>
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For things to change you have to change. For things to get
better you have to get better. May you create the life of your dreams!</div>
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To your success and to your greatness...</div>
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Love and Light, Luke</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;">#SundayNightRant</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;">#TruthTalk</span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;">Have different thoughts this week you will produce different feelings</span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">this week. have different feelings this week and you will produce different
behaviours. which will equal different results. crazy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;">***If you do not CHANGE NOW you are going to wake up where you are</span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">headed.***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Most people have a life they dont want because they have been focusing
on what they DONT want. if you focus on what you dont want long enough you you
are actually guaranteed to create it. if you focus on what you do want and take
massive consistent fearless action then you will actually create what you want.
its no big secret. its just a law of the universe that whatever you focus on
expands in your life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">if you make a decision on something and change your mind you are saying to
the universe not only a) Dont bring me what i want but also b) you are giving
an imbedded command to your unconscious mind to associate pain to what you want
in your life (which means you'll sabotage yourself) and...... you are telling
your unconscious mind that you cant have what you want. this is the most
destructive thing you can do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Make different decisions this week and you will produce different
actions. if you produce different actions you will produce different results.
If your decisions are toward what you want and if you take massive consistent
action you WILL actually set a new standard for yourself and change your life,
permanently. <br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">If you want to lead your own life and actually be a leader for others
then make a decision and commit to it!! That means go all chips in, leave no
stone unturned and decide to act upon what is going to be your new chosen
direction. You will create a new destiny and people will also follow you
because you are certain in your direction.
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nelson Mandela didnt say I have a dreammm... and then go "wait no I
dont."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;">Muhammad Ali didnt step into the ring and say "actually can I just</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">jump out now."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 13.5pt;">Oprah Winfrey doesnt go on air and say to the audience go home everyone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">ive changed my mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The word decision comes from the latin, incision. which means to cut off
from. a true decision is where you cut off from any other possibility EXCEPT
for the thing you are committed to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Your life is where it is right now because of the sum total of your
conscious and unconscious decisions up until now. It is important for your
future to ask yourself these questions.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1) What is my intention in this life?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2) What do I really want?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3) Where do I really want to be in 5 years,. 10 years and 20 years time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">4) What do I have to believe to get there?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">5) what do I have to do consistently day in and day out to get there? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">6) how will i celebrate as I achieve greater success?<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">For things to change you have to change. For things to get better you
have to get better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">May you create the life of your dreams! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">To your success and to your greatness,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Love and Light, </span></div>
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“Is your weight loss emotional?” – Guest Blog by Firecracker Luke Hawkins!</h1>
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Luke Hawkins the NLP Man and Firecracker. He has made some points that have impressed me lately and I trust you enjoy his blog right here on ‘The Edward Files’ !!</div>
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Last year some time I was very lucky to be referred to a “Good looking Young Guy” through a client. This guy was full of beans and we further got to know each other through the 4Networking Business Community.</div>
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I watched him in a few networking meetings, spent time with him over lunches & breakfasts, got to know each other over Facebook – and I have been quite impressed at his eager freshness to hit the market hard as a new entrepreneur.</div>
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Luke Hawkins is his name and as we spoke, he said a few things that really got my attention when it comes to dealing with issues of the mind.</div>
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I then just had to invite him to Guest Blog on “The Edward Files” and he came up with this great article looking at weight loss and emotions. I trust you enjoy and thank you Luke!</div>
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When it comes to weight loss, we have been sold time and time again that the latest diet, pill or ’30 day cleanse’ or ’30 day exercise challenge’ is the answer. Why is it that so many of these quick fixes simply do not work? For instance, we know that 83% of the people who go on diets regain any weight they lose plus more within as little as 2 years. Yet it is reported that up to 50% of women are on a diet at any given time. So what is it that causes someone to lose weight and keep it off forever as opposed to someone who does the latest diet, fitness challenge or cleanse only to put it all back on? The answer comes in three words YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM!</div>
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Every decision the brain makes is based on emotion. It does not matter what pill you take or what diet you go on, if you do not associate pleasure to the behaviours that would cause you to achieve your ideal body and pain to those behaviours that cause you to gain weight, then you are fighting against the current that is much stronger than you… your nervous system! The only way to make any permanent change in your behaviours is to do so in your unconscious mind where all learning and behavior change is unconscious. Why? Because 90% of our behaviours are controlled by the unconscious mind, and only 10% by our conscious mind.</div>
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When someone is having trouble losing weight it’s not the weight that is the problem, it is their unconscious mind which perceives that by you holding onto the weight it is actually providing you some positive benefit. You may think….what!! I don’t see any benefit to holding onto this weight. It is important to know that one of the most important roles of the unconscious mind is to preserve the body and keep you safe. If you have tried losing the weight and you still haven’t succeeded then you can be sure that out of need to avoid pain and gain pleasure you have decided on some level to hold onto that extra weight due to the positive benefit it is providing you. It is meeting one of your needs and being overweight actually represents a need for protection. Your weight is actually a resource as means of protecting yourself.</div>
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There are a variety of possible self protection scenarios. One example is that by holding onto the weight you are creating a barrier of separation between yourself and what you fear. That could be rejection from a potential partner again due to the pain associated with a past relationship breakup, or the fear that if you lost the weight you might attract too much attention and that would place you in a position where you wouldn’t be able to trust yourself or trust the people that you put yourself around (this can stem from childhood).</div>
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Other deeper reasons could be if someone was sexually abused they can create this barrier of separation to limit the chances of them being sexually abused again by holding onto the weight. Another reason could be if you are in a relationship and you are not happy you know by holding onto the weight you are able to punish your partner and can create a barrier of separation between the both of you. The bottom line is we all can seek protection from our fears, hurts, past pain, criticism, the unknown and judgment. When people feel insecure and not at ease, kilos will add on. When the threat is gone, the excess weight goes away by itself. Fighting fat is a waste of time and energy. Diets do not work. The minute you stop the diet, the weight goes back up. Loving and approving of yourself, trusting in the process of life and feeling safe because you know the power of your own mind make up the best diet. Go on a diet from negative thoughts, and the weight will take care of itself.</div>
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The most effective tools for change that I use for having people lose weight and keep it off forever is through the power of Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming. These tools allow somebody to change the behaviours that they link pleasure and pain to in their nervous system at the unconscious level, which is where all permanent behavior change occurs. My clients have lost a minimum of 5 kilos using these techniques in as little as one session. If you would like to shed those kilos forever then get in contact with us at Luke Hawkins Coaching Today!</div>
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Even though my weight is under control and I work out 3 – 4 times a week now, for years I struggled with my weight for a long time. Like many I am sure, I was an “Emotional Eater” which did me no good. I would work long hours and then turn to “Food” to help me, only sacrificing my future with every bite.</div>
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Luke makes a good point, don’t fight your nervous system – change it so it happens on autopilot. Like what you are reading? Give Luke a Call and love your work. Thank you for the read!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11455452802899790662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-48262417656361047212015-01-13T04:47:00.001-08:002015-01-13T04:49:53.078-08:00Robin Sharma - How I Beat Procrastination<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bLp9EimaEQI" width="480"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">'The Jim Rohn Guide Series' explores communication, leadership and more</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">To the untrained ear, the advice given to Jim Rohn by his mentor Earl Schoaff sounds contradictory.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job,” the late philosopher says with his unique cadence and tone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But listen to the words from Rohn’s mouth and you know that this man’s advice is anything but contradictory. He’s not saying you shouldn’t work hard at a job you love. The hard work comes naturally when you love what you do. What Rohn is saying is that personal development—the building and strengthening of you—is how you become better at everything else. Communication, time management, goal setting, leadership—these all improve when you do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SUCCESS </em>has compiled a series of five guides on communication, time management, goal setting, leadership and personal development, based on the transcripts of Rohn’s most popular lectures and writings. Released this month in the SUCCESS Store, <a href="http://store.success.com/catalog/category/view/id/1422" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Jim Rohn Guide Series | Store.SUCCESS.com"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Jim Rohn Guide Series</em></a> comprises curated, 20-minute infusions of wisdom you’ll not likely find elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here we share the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SUCCESS </em>editors’ five favorite lessons from the series:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“In order to be effective, your communication should be on purpose. Yes, occasionally you may say something off the top of your head and that can hold weight with others, but this is the exception and not the rule. Know what you want to communicate, when you want to communicate and how you want to communicate.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> —from <a href="https://store.success.com/by-topic/the-jim-rohn-guide-series/the-jim-rohn-guide-to-communication.html" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Jim Rohn Guide to Communication | Store.SUCCESS.com"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Jim Rohn Guide to Communication</em></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“The quest for personal development is the solving of problems. Success is simply solving problems. Sure, some things are complicated, but if you take it one piece at a time--solve the problems, put it back together--you can’t believe the enterprise you could build. Take it a piece at a time, master it, and then put it back together to solve it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> —from <a href="https://store.success.com/by-topic/the-jim-rohn-guide-series/the-jim-rohn-guide-to-personal-development.html" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Jim Rohn Guide to Personal Development | Store.SUCCESS.com"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Jim Rohn Guide to Personal Development</em></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That’s okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> —from <a href="https://store.success.com/by-topic/the-jim-rohn-guide-series/the-jim-rohn-guide-to-goal-setting.html" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Jim Rohn Guide to Goal Setting | Store.SUCCESS.com"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Jim Rohn Guide to Goal Setting</em></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Be strong but not rude. Be kind but not weak. Be bold but not a bully. Be humble but not timid. Be thoughtful but not lazy. Be proud but not arrogant. Have humor without folly.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> —from <a href="https://store.success.com/by-topic/the-jim-rohn-guide-series/the-jim-rohn-guide-to-leadership.html" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Jim Rohn Guide to Leadership | Store.SUCCESS.com"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Jim Rohn Guide to Leadership</em></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> —from <a href="https://store.success.com/by-topic/the-jim-rohn-guide-series/the-jim-rohn-guide-to-time-management.html" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="The Jim Rohn Guide to Time Management | Store.SUCCESS.com"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Jim Rohn Guide to Time Management</em></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here, 2014’s most influential leaders in personal development share their insights and strategies in their own words—all (save for a noted few) taken from new, exclusive interviews.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">1. Get your breathing to go low and quiet. Nothing can be done well from a state of tension.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">2. Look for tracks that lead to your purpose. When did you last feel deep joy, serenity and contentment in your body? That’s the track: joy in the body. How long ago was that? Then find another time and another one.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">3. Where in your life have you scheduled things that bring you joy? What can you do in the near future? It can be doing those same activities again, or any one of those, or trying something completely new—but it has to give you that same sense of joy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">4. Trust that this is more important for your future than an extra couple of hours of work. Because if you follow joy, it will bring you to more joy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Write a personal mission statement that tells you what your purpose is and what values are going to guide your journey. It should be a personal, compelling vision so you know where you’re trying to head and what you want to leave. Something that’s helpful is writing your obituary; that process gives you a sense of what you want to be remembered for.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Look at your mission statement every morning to start your day and set your intention, and then at night, look at it again and ask, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How did I do today? Were there some things I could’ve done better?</em> Maybe you need to reach out to some people tomorrow to ask for feedback or give an apology. I believe what Socrates said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” You constantly need to be proactive about what you’re trying to accomplish.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">• Train your mind to serve you. How we live our lives is a result of the story we believe about ourselves. We have to consciously create and recreate our thinking with seminars, reading and the goals we set. It’s important that we develop an achievement-driven mindset.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">• Work on communication. The skill set that gives you a passport to the world is your ability to communicate. A high school teacher said to me: “Develop your mind and your communication skills, because once you open your mouth, you tell the world who you are.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">• Create supportive, achievement-driven relationships with people you can learn from. If you’re the smartest one in your group, get a new group. Look at your relationships and evaluate, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is this an asset or a liability? Who should I count on or count out?</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">If you want to live long, if you want to make a contribution to the world, if you want to be successful in your career, if you want to have happier relationships, if you want to have great intuition and imagination, here are the things you cannot miss out on:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Dyer: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. There are three routes to enlightenment:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">How does a person become indispensable—the linchpin in his organization?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Most people fail because they become paralyzed by their fear. You have to choose: “Am I going to face my fears and go see what my life can <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">really</em> be?” or “Am I going to succumb to my fears and do exactly what I’ve always done?” When you go with the latter, you’ve set yourself up for failure yet again because you didn’t even attempt to win. How many times do we allow ourselves to avoid getting things done in our lives simply because we fear what we think the outcome is going to be?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I have taught myself to go try something if there is even a remote possibility of something great happening for my life and my career. You have to learn to convince yourself that the possibility is greater than the inevitability of doing nothing.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">(Excerpted from <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062220322/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062220322&linkCode=as2&tag=sm0fe-20&linkId=NYNAINMWCQA4QIZE" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success</a></em>)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">For far too long, too many of us—including you and me—have been operating under the collective delusion that burning out is the necessary price for accomplishment and success. Recent scientific findings make it clear that this couldn’t be less true. Not only is there no tradeoff between living a well-rounded life and high performance, performance is actually improved when our lives include time for renewal, wisdom, wonder and giving.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I wish I had known this when I was your age. I’m convinced I would have achieved all I have achieved with less stress, worry and anxiety. In college, just before I embarked on a career as a writer, I wish I had known that there would be no tradeoff between living a well-rounded life and my ability to do good work. So I’m writing to tell you, “Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Jakes: It’s that ingrained wonder we have. Those activities in which we find fulfillment. It’s being true to your core, what moves you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Jakes: We’re influenced by so much information, which gives us a view of the world around us, but it doesn’t give us any indication of the world within us. If you’re going to be successful, you can only inventory from your own warehouse. When you’re aware of your instincts, you’re able to see—out of all the possible things you could do, be or say—which is most harmonious to your core.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Jakes: You need to set aside time for reflection, from which you can evaluate, out of all the busyness that has cluttered your life, what the most fulfilling activities are in your life. What makes your adrenaline race? What do you really care about that you would do for free?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Intelligence is being on the edge of the coin and seeing both sides, and you can decide which is best for you. My insights from the edge include:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The rich don’t work for money</strong>. The reason most people are in trouble is they are working for money. The government is printing trillions. What the rich work for are assets. If you work for assets, you’re never taxed. If you work for money, you’re taxed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">There’s no question that everything I am today is because I decided to grow every day of my life. We cannot go any further than our growth. In the 1970s, my friend Curt Kampmeier asked me what my personal growth plan was. I had none. He said to me, “Growth is not an automatic process.” That was life-changing. He set me on a course of intentional living.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I came to the conclusion that four things would make a person successful: relationships, attitude, the ability to train and equip people, and the ability to lead. I decided to grow in these areas. I also realized I needed to grow my strengths: connecting and communicating with people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I had these essentials that I would grow in, and then I purposely began to interview people who had these strengths. I began to read books about these subjects and to focus on things that would bring a high return in my personal growth. I do that every day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">When I meet people, I ask questions to help me learn: Are there people you know whom I should know? What book have you read that I should read? Where have you been that I ought to go myself?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Anyone who wants to continue learning daily must be intentional. They have to set aside time. They have to prioritize.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Orman: You’ve got to take care of who you are first. Money comes from your efforts to go out and work, save, invest—all of that. So money really starts with you, and without you, there is no money, and without money, there are no things. You’ve got to take care of you, and the way you take care of yourself is by having money. And when you then have enough money, you can buy the things you want.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Orman: Live below your means, not within your needs. Before you buy anything or spend money on anything, ask yourself whether this is a want or a need. And you need to get as much pleasure out of saving as you do from spending.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I’m positive that personal finance is 80 percent behavior and only 20 percent head knowledge. Our concentration on behavior—realizing that most people have a good idea of what to do with money but not how to do it—has led us to a different view of personal finance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Most financial people show you the numbers, thinking that you just don’t get the math. I am sure that the problem with my money is the guy in the mirror. If he will behave, he can make the money thing work.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The math of wealth building is not rocket science. It is simple, but you have to do it! The principles I teach are common sense, which isn’t so common anymore. They are the principles that helped my wife, Sharon, and me survive going broke and helped us prosper later.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Nowadays I look into the eyes of a gazillion people who have followed these principles and experienced, as we did, excitement, hope and gratitude. I am so thankful that I have not only given them a proven plan for their money but have inspired them to change their family’s future.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life 30 years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Think of the far-reaching consequences set in motion by men and women who raised their standards and acted in accordance with them, deciding they would tolerate no less. History chronicles inspiring examples of people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Albert Einstein, Cesar Chavez, Soichiro Honda and many others who took the magnificently powerful step of raising their standards. The same power that was available to them is available to you, if you have the courage to claim it. Changing an organization, a company, a country—or a world—begins with the simple step of changing yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I bet if we all threw our problems in a huge pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about. That’s why I always give people the benefit of the doubt; it’s one of my rules to live by. There may be a reason why someone is having a bad day; there’s often something we can’t see: She’s not necessarily a bad person, just someone facing a bad situation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We all have doubts and fears. The thing about fear is that it only needs the tiniest space, the size of an eye of a needle, to get through and wreak havoc. Maddening, but true. So when I was struggling and in doubt, I would simply take the next small step. I would stop and think: “No, life is not tied with a beautiful bow all the time, but it’s still a gift. I’m going to tear away the wrapping like a little kid at Christmas.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Women face huge institutional barriers. But we also face barriers that exist within ourselves, sometimes as the result of our socialization. For most of my professional life, no one ever talked to me about the ways I held myself back. I’m trying to add to that side of the debate. There’s a great quote from Alice Walker: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” I am not blaming women; I’m helping them see the power they’ve got and encouraging them to use it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Every day, I handwrite my 10 most important goals. When you compose yours, write them in present tense as though you’ve already achieved them and attach a date. For example, “I earn [this amount] per annum by Dec. 31, 2015.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The simpler the statement, the faster your subconscious can go to work on it. The rule is a child should be able to understand your goal and tell it to another 6-year-old child, and that child should be able to tell it to another 6-year-old child. Only write in the positive. Don’t say, “I will quit smoking.” Say, “I am a nonsmoker.” Your subconscious mind cannot conceptualize a negative.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Every time you write your goals, you program them deeper into your subconscious, and you activate the Law of Attraction. You start to attract people of a certain status into your life. You start to see possibilities you haven’t seen before. You start to hear ideas you wouldn’t have noticed before. It’s the most amazing thing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It doesn’t matter how far you might rise. At some point, you are bound to stumble. If you’re constantly pushing yourself higher and higher, the law of averages predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Now, when you’re down there in the hole, it looks like failure. When that moment comes, it’s OK to feel bad for a little while. Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost. But then, here’s the key: Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.</span></div>
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</article>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-49544258908581776502015-01-07T22:04:00.000-08:002015-01-07T22:05:09.404-08:0020 Successful Habits I Learned Working For Two Billionaires (Part 2)<span style="background-color: white; color: #717171; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">In </span><a href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/01/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-1/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0054a6; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="20 Successful Habits I Learned Working For Two Billionaires (Part 1)">Part 1</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #717171; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">, we looked at general lessons I learned working for billionaires </span><a href="http://www.oprah.com/index.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0054a6; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Oprah Winfrey</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #717171; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> and </span><a href="http://enveryucel.com/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0054a6; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Enver Yucel</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #717171; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">. In Part 2, I continue with deeper insight into </span><strong style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #717171; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">successful habits</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #717171; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> – specifically for business-minded readers seeking to understand how extraordinarily successful people reach the top of their fields.</span><br />
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It’s my honor to share with you Part 2 of successful habits I learned working for two billionaires:</div>
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Oprah, Enver, and most of the world’s billionaires got rich not from a complex idea, but from a very simple one. Sure, there are several who do something technical – like create complex hedge funds. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But most billionaires figure out how to take something we all like to do, simplify it, and bring more value to the bottom line.</em> So, next time someone asks you to invest in a lemonade stand, don’t dismiss it so easily :-).</div>
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Billionaires realize nothing happens overnight. As a matter of fact, it takes most billionaires decades to become successful. While patience is used for their long-term goals, I’ve witnessed deadlines for day-to-day, short-term goals articulated by my former bosses as “due yesterday.” <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Being nimble and <a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">having the ability to deliver faster than your competitors is what often makes the difference between success and failure. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://paulcbrunson.com/wp-content/plugins/inline-tweet-sharer/twitter-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;"></span></a></em>. Think about Oprah often beating a competing TV network to a coveted interview, or Enver launching a school in a country before anyone else. <a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">Don’t play with time. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://paulcbrunson.com/wp-content/plugins/inline-tweet-sharer/twitter-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;"></span></a></div>
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Ask any 10 people to describe Oprah and Enver, and I bet words like “tenacious” and “relentless” top the lists. Billionaires don’t let obstacles or pitfalls keep them from achieving their goals. <a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">Just because you fail 100 times, doesn’t mean you can’t succeed on the 101st try <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://paulcbrunson.com/wp-content/plugins/inline-tweet-sharer/twitter-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;"></span></a>. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The key is not just having the stomach for failure, but having the strength to face what feels like an endless amount of resistance… and still move forward.</em></div>
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I’ve never seen better live speakers than my previous bosses. Coincidence? I think not. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you can’t articulate your ideas and your vision (in a compelling way) you can’t galvanize the support required to make things happen.</em> This concept was underscored in a <a href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/01/mentormonday-marshawn-evans-public-speaking/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="#MentorMonday Recap: The Secrets to Making the Big Bucks as a Public Speaker with Marshawn Evans!">recent interview</a> I did with one of the word’s leading public speaking experts, <a href="http://marshawnevans.com/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marshawn Evans</a>. She stated, <a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">“the more effectively you speak, the higher your chances of career success.” <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://paulcbrunson.com/wp-content/plugins/inline-tweet-sharer/twitter-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;"></span></a></div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The higher your heights, the greater number of detractors you will have AND the sharper their attacks will be.</em>This is a basic truth for everyone, but literally watching thousands of people hurl insults at my bosses (without impact) made me realize they possessed an extraordinary layer of emotional resilience. I recall when we filmed the opening scene of <a href="http://www.oprah.com/own-lovetown-usa/lovetown-usa.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lovetown U.S.A.</em> </a>(and Oprah arrives on a Naval vessel), while thousands cheered, hundreds complained (and ridiculed) her for wasting tax dollars by using a military vehicle. <a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">Developing a “shield” is critical <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://paulcbrunson.com/wp-content/plugins/inline-tweet-sharer/twitter-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;"></span></a>. First Lady Michelle Obama said it best: “never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so, when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your ability to be of influence within your community is directly related to your ability to make connections outside of your community</em>. The technical phrase for this is called “bridging structural holes,” and is eloquently written about in this <a href="http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ronald.burt/research/files/scsh.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">research</a> by professor Ronald Burt. Both Oprah and Enver possess tremendous bridging capital. They spend a disproportionate amount of their time gathering information from communities of people <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">outside</em> of their core (different age groups, different social class, different ethnicity, different education levels, different careers, etc) and then they share that information <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">within</em> their community. This is where their ability to influence and have power comes from.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7) Over-Communicate Your Message</strong></h2>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">It’s not just about speaking loudly, it’s about speaking often. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://paulcbrunson.com/wp-content/plugins/inline-tweet-sharer/twitter-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;"></span></a> </em>I learned this from my favorite professor at the illustrious McDonough School of Business (shout out: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya_Saxa" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hoya Saxas</a>!). He floated this concept in class one day and it stuck with me. Don’t make people guess or assume, make sure your community understands your message, precisely. Given the abundance of content produced in today’s world, this concept has taken on even more relevance (<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/schmidt-data/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Note</a>: more content is published in 48-hours now than was published from the beginning of time until 2003. Amazing, right?!). Watch Oprah or Enver closely when they speak for a short or extended period of time. Their format is always the same. They begin by: telling you what they’re going to tell you, then they tell you, then they summarize by telling you what you just heard. We live in a noisy landscape and repetition, repetition, repetition is necessary.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8) Learn to Laugh at Yourself</strong></h2>
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Most of us know from experience that having a sense of humor about things can make life a little easier. And, there’s <a href="http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/09/why-laughing-at-yourself-may-be-good-for-you-first-ever-study/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">science</a> to back that up: being able to laugh at yourself may be a sign of an optimistic personality and it might even improve your mood. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Humor has also been identified as a possible factor in the development of <a href="http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/viewFile/464/354" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">personal resilience</a>.</em> <a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">“If you can laugh at yourself, you can forgive yourself,” <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://paulcbrunson.com/wp-content/plugins/inline-tweet-sharer/twitter-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;"></span></a> says Rev. Susan Sparks. “And if you can forgive yourself, you can forgive others.” You can’t go more than 2 minutes in a conversation with either Oprah or Enver without them smiling and belting out a laugh (typically at their expense).</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9) Be Great at One Thing, First</strong></h2>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By focusing on <a href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2013/10/whats-your-one-thing/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="What’s Your One Thing?">one passion</a> or strength, you can actually be more innovative.</em> The deeper understanding you gain by doing one thing opens up creative new ideas. <a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">Ironically, limitations can lead to liberation. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://paulcbrunson.com/wp-content/plugins/inline-tweet-sharer/twitter-bg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;"></span></a> As I mentioned in <a href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/01/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-1/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="20 Successful Habits I Learned Working For Two Billionaires (Part 1)">Part 1</a>, billionaires like Oprah and Enver aren’t necessarily great at many things, but they’re damn good at (at least) one.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10) Know a Higher Power</strong></h2>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Developing a relationship with a Higher Power will provide you with guidance for making decisions and solving problems.</em> When you connect with a higher power, you can draw upon greater wisdom to help you resolve your problems. I find it fascinating in my analysis of Oprah and Enver, that while they practice different religions, they possess an unwavering faith. I believe that faith is why they strive to have a positive impact on people and society, value integrity and hold high ethical standards for themselves and their organizations.</div>
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I sincerely hope <a href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/01/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-1/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parts 1</a> and 2 of 20 Successful Habits have helped and will continue to help you blaze your own trail of accomplishments. Putting these things to work in my life has yielded not only more success than I ever dreamed, but more <a href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2013/08/14-proven-ways-to-create-your-own-happiness/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">happiness</a> and fulfillment, as well. If you’re ready to learn even <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more</em> about making your dreams a reality,<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em>read <a href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2013/09/30-steps-to-a-better-you-step-4-how-to-make-a-vision-statement-reality/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0054a6; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this</a>. And remember, <a class="inline-twitter-link" href="http://paulcbrunson.com/2014/02/20-successful-habits-learned-working-two-billionaires-part-2/#" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(233, 235, 228); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tweet This!">dreams don’t work unless you do! </a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-16920792970915744962015-01-06T04:28:00.001-08:002015-01-06T04:31:25.753-08:00Tony Robbins Shares 3 Steps To Creating A Life-Changing Breakthrough<div id="story" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">
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Everyone wants to change something about his or her life.</div>
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Whether you want to find love or improve your relationship, master your finances, or finally get in shape, celebrity life coach Tony Robbins says it’s absolutely possible — if you have the right approach.</div>
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“There are three steps to creating a breakthrough: three forces that, together, can massively change any and every aspect of your life,” Robbins writes in his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/MONEY-Master-Game-Financial-Freedom/dp/1476757801/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00709a; text-decoration: none;">“Money: Master the Game.”</a></div>
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1. Find the right strategy.</h2>
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To make a lasting change, you have to start with a proven strategy, Robbins says. Planning to eat 500 calories a day to lose weight or trying to get rich off one hot stock tip will not be sustainable over the long term, he says.</div>
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How do you find a strategy that works? “I’ve always believed the best way to get a result, the fastest way, is to find someone who has already accomplished what you’re after, and model his or her behaviour.”</div>
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Even if you have the right strategy, you won’t get anywhere if you don’t follow through. It’s the stories we tell ourselves that make or break our best-laid plans, says Robbins. If you’re not taking action, he advises you consider the story you’re telling yourself.</div>
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Someone trying to save more might limit themselves by thinking deep down: “I don’t make enough,” “I can’t save more,” or “That’s only for rich people.” Is your story holding you back or empowering you? “I always say 80% of success in life is psychology and 20% is mechanics,” he writes.</div>
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“Your mental and emotional state colours your perception and experience of everything in life,” Robbins says. If you feel afraid or insecure, it’s hard to make a big change, but if you feel like a million bucks, you’re ready to conquer the world.</div>
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To put yourself in a strong, determined, and empowered state, he suggests you change your physiology. Research by Harvard’s Amy Cuddy shows that adopting “<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/power-posing-at-work-2014-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00709a; text-decoration: none;">power poses</a>” alters your biochemistry, making you feel more confident and less stressed.</div>
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“That’s how you create a real breakthrough — a new state with a new story and a proven strategy,” Robbins says.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-63429941821846204992015-01-04T19:11:00.000-08:002015-01-04T19:11:11.288-08:0020 Habits for Success I Learned Working for Two Billionaires<img alt="2014-02-06-OprahEnver1024x512.jpg" height="200" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-02-06-OprahEnver1024x512.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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I have spent decades "being educated" -- in college, graduate school, numerous professional certifications, and now a Ph.D. program. All of that schooling and training helped shape the person I am today, but at no point in my life has there been a more profound education than my time working for Enver Yucel and Oprah Winfrey.</div>
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Enver and Oprah are two extraordinary people. And on top of that, they're both billionaires. On the surface, they appear to be totally different people. They are in different industries, have different family structures, practice different religions, and speak different languages. However, once you get past their written biographies and dig deeper, you will notice they possess many of the same <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">successful habits</strong>.</div>
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I had the opportunity to work with both Oprah and Enver for six years collectively and those were, hands down, the best professional experiences of my life. I worked my ass off for them and in doing so absorbed everything I could.</div>
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It's my honor to share with you what I learned from them. Here is Part 1 of the 20 successful habits I learned working for two billionaires:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Invest in Yourself</strong></div>
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This is a very simple concept, but something you would think someone who has "made it" would stop doing. Not at all for these two. I saw them both spend a significant amount of time dedicating their resources to self-development (whether it be a new language, exercise, social media classes, etc.). The moment you stop investing in yourself is the moment you have written off future dividends in life.</div>
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What the average person sees as mundane or overly complicated is not viewed the same way with a billionaire mindset. I once had a 30 minute conversation with Enver about the height of the curbs in Washington DC versus Istanbul, Turkey. Billionaires are incredibly curious; what the rest of the world thinks is a problem and complains about -- that's what these people go and work on.</div>
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I hope this is why they kept me around. Seriously, I never knew my bosses to keep anyone less-than-stellar in their inner circle. There were many times I thought to myself, "Damn, they have dream-teams built around them." Jim Rohn had it right, "You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with."</div>
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The last time I had dinner with Enver, as well as the last time I ate dinner with Oprah, there were easily 15 people at our tables, respectively. Coincidence? While most of us derive our key information from blogs or the newspaper, power players get their information from the source (other power players), directly. However, just because you can't call up the Obamas and break bread with them doesn't mean eating with others in your circle doesn't carry value. In one of my favorite reads of the last few years called <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Never Eat Alone</em>, author Keith Ferrazzi breaks down how you can identify "information brokers" to dine with you. I've seen first hand how enormous the benefits are of this strategy.</div>
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I was working for Oprah during the time she was taking heat from the media about poor network ratings. I was also working for Enver during the closing of one of his prized divisions. What I witnessed them both do in response was powerful. Opposed to covering the losses up with fancy PR tactics, both stepped to the stage and <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oprah-winfrey-forgoing-motherhood-being-664550" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">said</a> in essence "I own it and I'm going to fix it" and dropped the mic. Guess what? They sure did fix things (It's widely noted Oprah's network is realizing ratings gold and Enver's assets have probably doubled since the division closing).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Understand The Power Of "Leverage"</strong></div>
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This is something that was quite a shock to me. From afar, a billionaire appears to be someone who is a master at everything. But, in truth, they're specialists in one or a few areas and average or subpar at everything else. So, how do they get so much done? Leverage! They do what they do best and get others to do the rest. Here's a <a href="http://training.tonyrobbins.com/the-power-of-leverage-the-principle-of-maximum-achievement/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">great article</a> on leverage. Keep in mind I see this done with wealthy people and their money all of the time -- they use OPM (other people's money) for most or all of their projects.</div>
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I recall going on vacation with Enver several times, yachting up and down the southwestern coast of Turkey (also known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cruise" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blue voyage</a>). Sounds ballerific, right? No doubt we had a great time, but mixed in with all that swimming and backgammon was discussion of business, discussion of strategy, planning and plotting. The best way I can describe this habit is thinking about your business or your idea like your literal baby. No matter your distance, you don't stop thinking of him/her (and after just having a <a href="http://instagram.com/p/hV4JmZkCwF/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">second son</a>, I can attest to this).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8) Focus On Experiences vs. Material Possessions</strong></div>
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When you have money, your toys are big. However, the vast majority of money I saw spent on their "leisure" was on actual experiences versus the typical car, jewelry, and clothes we're familiar with seeing in music videos and gossip blogs. I recall one time at dinner with Oprah, I spotted a table of about 20 girls off to the side. I later found out Ms. Winfrey was treating some of her graduating girls from her school in South Africa to dinner in NYC. Experiences create memories, and memories are priceless.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9) Take Enormous Risks</strong></div>
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This is another one of those successful habits every entrepreneur can attest to. A matter of fact, Entreprenuer.com created a <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226514" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">great infographic</a> outlining commonalities of the world's billionaires and one of the most prominent was this characteristic: billionaires are not adverse to risk. What intrigues me even more about Enver and Oprah was that even at their high financial status and success level, they still possessed a willingness to risk their most precious asset (their name and legacy) on new and bolder projects. If you're not taking risks, you're not making moves!</div>
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Nothing great in life is achieved alone. Especially in business, success isn't a solo act. This character trait is akin to "surrounding yourself with better people." It takes teamwork to make the dream work.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"The key is not to worry about being successful but to instead work toward being significant." — Oprah Winfrey, media mogul. (Net worth: $2.8 billion) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss in enthusiasm." — Donald Trump, business magnate. (Net worth: $3.2 billion) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal. I've always had a tough time proving that to people." — Steven Spielberg, filmmaker. (Net worth: $3.2 billion)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"Success is how well you do what you do when no one is looking." — John Paul DeJoria, co-founder of Paul Mitchell and The Patron Spirits Company (Net worth: $3.2 billion) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing, sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I like high intensity." — Elon Musk, business magnate. (Net worth: $2.7 billion) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"My definition of failure became not trying." — Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx. (Net worth: $1 billion) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." —Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. (Net worth: $67 billion) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be." — Leonard Lauder, former chief executive of The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. (Net worth: $8.1 billion) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"My definition of success? The more you're actively and practically engaged [in your business], the more successful you will feel." — Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group. (Net worth: $5 billion) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 26px;">"I've never run into a guy who couldn't win at the top level and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had." — Ted Turner, media mogul. (Net worth: $2 billion) </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-16440600953382429172015-01-01T16:48:00.000-08:002015-01-01T21:55:47.007-08:00How to Ask for (and Get) Everything You Want<img src="http://www.success.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_main/public/main/articles/How%20to%20Ask%20for%20Everything%20You%20Want.jpg?itok=trrUCNXo" height="291" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" typeof="foaf:Image" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The best way of getting what you want is thinking about your request before you actually make it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The big reason many people fail to get what they want is that they are too afraid to ask or they view their requests as all-or-nothing gambits—instead of a series of negotiations and compromises.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But there is a middle ground. Here are strategies to help you begin the “asking” process and avoid becoming upset if things don’t go exactly as planned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Strategy:</strong> Before making your request, take plenty of time to remind yourself of the importance of what you are asking for. Tell yourself the only thing that matters is whether or not you are making good and well-articulated points. By focusing on the merits of your request, not on how you will appear to others, many of your initial fears will fade away.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Before you try to sell others, sell yourself.</strong> Two of the most important elements involved in asking for what you want—and-getting it—are <a href="http://www.success.com/article/6-confidence-boosters" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="6 Confidence Boosters | SUCCESS.com">self-confidence</a> and determination. Unless you believe in your heart that you will eventually win over the other side, you will likely falter or become troubled at the first sign of resistance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Tell yourself from the outset that you may not immediately get what you want. The statement is not the same as saying that you will never succeed, which could hurt your morale and determination. Instead, you are merely facing reality—accepting the fact that you may face a setback. By acknowledging this possibility, you will not be surprised or upset if you are turned down.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive. It will also keep you from holding a grudge, which is difficult to hide and only works against you in the long run.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.success.com/article/how-to-ask-for-and-get-everything-you-want" target="_blank">http://www.success.com/article/how-to-ask-for-and-get-everything-you-want</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-32251834315866057832015-01-01T04:12:00.000-08:002015-01-01T04:12:04.690-08:00Change Your Mindset to Overcome Your Fears<h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #336699; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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There’s a lot of fear out there when it comes to doing something new in your life. Fear of the unknown. Fear of failure. Fear of what other people will think of you. Most people start with the mindset that there’s a lot to lose, so they never take the plunge or even try to take the plunge.<br />
Why is this so often the case?<br />
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<span style="color: #333399;">Is it easier for those who start with little or nothing to succeed?</span></h2>
There are A LOT of blogs out there today focused on lifestyle design and creating the life you want. I’ve noticed a trend with these sites. Most are started either by young people (early to mid 20′s) or those who were forced into situations where they were required to make a change, such as an unexpected loss of a job.<br />
For these people there’s a higher chance of success because <strong>the fear is not contemplated, it’s addressed and overcome</strong>. So, what do I mean by this?<br />
People who are young don’t have a lot of the responsibilities that their older peers might have, including: large amounts of debt, a spouse and a steady job<strong></strong>. It doesn’t take a whole lot for someone just out of college to say ‘hey, screw getting a traditional job, I’m going to travel the world and see what’s out there.’ For someone who has a family and a steady job, <strong>it doesn’t even seem like a possibility</strong>.<br />
I don’t want to be presumptuous and say that younger people don’t have any fears, it’s more that they have less responsibilities and financial obligations than what the typical 30 or 40-something has. There’s less fear because there’s less to lose and <strong>young people smartly use this to their advantage.</strong><br />
What about those who lose their jobs?<br />
Well, this is a little bit different. There sure as hell is fear there, however, <strong>there’s no option to ignore it.</strong> If you have kids you need to support and a mortgage to pay, then you need to do something. Sometimes those who had traditional jobs and worked their asses off don’t want to go back to another corporate job. The business idea or dream that was once sitting in the back of their mind suddenly seems like a possibility. <strong>Now that there is urgency, action is taken.</strong><br />
There is no contemplation, whining and thinking about what if scenarios. It’s do or die time. This is why the success rates are higher. <strong>Failure is not an option</strong>.<br />
What can we learn from the above?<br />
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<span style="color: #333399;">You need to change your mindset if you want to succeed</span></h2>
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<li style="list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Address the fear</strong>. Young people have little to no fear because there’s not much to lose. Those who find themselves in unexpected, dire situations don’t have time to worry about their fears. They have to overcome it. So, try to find the middle ground. Face your fears. Write them down. When you spend time to really address what you’re scared of you often realize that your fears are irrational or can be dealt with.</li>
<li style="list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Start living uncomfortably. </strong>You might not like what you’re doing, but once your paycheck is automatically deposited every two weeks you sure feel comfortable. It’s safe. It feels good. Get over this and do something that makes you feel uncomfortable. Maybe it’s starting a blog. Maybe it’s learning a new skill. Maybe it’s talking to someone in the field you’re interested in to see how they got to where they’re at. <strong>Whatever you do, start mixing it up.</strong></li>
<li style="list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Plan and set goals. </strong>While you might be in a difficult financial situation, don’t think you’re trapped because of it. Cut back on expenses. Carefully plan out how much income you need to bring in monthly to safely cover all of your expenses. <strong>Figure out what it is you want out of life</strong>. It’s crazy how many people don’t do this. You might not be able to quit your job right this moment to travel around the world, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it at all. Make this goal your priority. Start cutting back on other stuff you don’t care about so you can save for travel.</li>
<li style="list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Screw societal expectations. </strong>You’re never going to do anything if you’re always concerned about what other people think. It’s very hard for people to get over this and I fully admit that this is a tough one for me as well. The thing is, you have to stop thinking about what other people think. If you look at the most successful people out there, they are doing what they want to do <strong>on their own terms</strong>. Don’t wait for validation from someone else to do something. That’s just a cop out.</li>
<li style="list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Don’t set yourself up for failure when you haven’t even tried.</strong> Don’t think you can’t do it. Don’t make excuses and tell yourself, ‘I’m not young, I can’t do what that person is doing.’ That’s just BS. You were once young and you could have done the same thing then, but you didn’t, so take responsibility for it. There may be some extra hurdles to get over now, but don’t spend a second thinking it’s not possible. There are plenty of people out there making a go at it and doing great.</li>
<li style="list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Act with a sense of urgency.</strong> People always think ‘I can start/do that later,’ ‘I’ll wait for next year,’ or even ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ These are all just excuses to not do anything. Start living each day with a sense of purpose. Steve Jobs said it best at his commencement speech to the 2005 graduating class at Stanford: <em>‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?’</em></li>
<li style="list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Take calculated risks.</strong> You might not be able to up and leave your current job to start your dream business if you have a family support. That’s ok. Start working on it on the side. Make sure you’re generating some revenue. Take risks, but make them calculated risks. Above all, <strong>take action. </strong>I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You have to actually do something if you want to change. Even if it’s starting with something small, that’s fine. Get out there and take some sort of action, however small you think it is.</li>
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What are some of your fears? Do you think it’s easier for those who start with nothing to succeed or is it the opposite? I’d love to hear what you have to say.<br />
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Source<br />
<a href="http://www.fearlessendeavors.com/change-your-mindset-to-overcome-your-fears/" target="_blank">http://www.fearlessendeavors.com/change-your-mindset-to-overcome-your-fears/</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-14896755695789510442014-12-30T02:46:00.000-08:002014-12-30T02:46:57.382-08:007 Ways You Can Create a BIG Life – Carl Harvey<img alt="Carl Harvey Awesomeness Fest The Big Life" src="http://naqyr37xcg93tizq734pqsx1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/me-afest.jpg" height="246" width="400" /><br />
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As host of <a href="http://www.thebiglife.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">The Big Life</a> I host weekly private training sessions with the biggest personal growth experts on the planet – including Bob Proctor, Dr Joe Vitale, Christie Marie Sheldon, Lisa Nichols, Robert Greene, Vishen Lakhiani, Laura Silva, Carol Tuttle, John Assaraf… <i>and many, many more</i>.</div>
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All of this awesome training is geared to help you achieve one goal:</div>
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<b><i>To help you create YOUR version of a “Big Life” – a fun life filled with abundance, happiness, purpose, passion, success, joy and more love than you can handle.</i></b></div>
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And – yes – champagne <img alt=":-)" class="lazy wp-smiley" src="http://addicted2success.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" data-original="http://addicted2success.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></div>
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Here are the 7 biggest lessons I’ve learned from these amazing teachers so far:</h1>
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1<span style="color: #ff6600;">. </span>You need to have a vision (<em>and be in love with it!</em>)</h2>
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If you want to create a big life – filled with more abundance, happiness, passion, love and success – the first thing you gotta do is <b>decide what you really want</b>.</div>
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Problem is, most people’s <a href="http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/how-to-create-the-perfect-vision-for-your-success/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;">idea of a “vision”</a> is focussing on what they <i>don’t want</i> – from “I don’t want to be in debt” to “<em>I don’t want to be overweight anymore</em>”.</div>
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Here’s why this sucks:<i> we get more of what we focus on</i>, so focussing on lack only creates more lack. Avoid this approach at all costs!</div>
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The key is to have a vision that inspires you… a vision so exciting and sexy and YOU that you simply <b>fall in love with it</b> and can’t stop dreaming about it. (<em>It’s <span class="s2">gotta</span> be this exciting to help you overcome the inevitable challenges you’ll encounter on your road to success</em>.)</div>
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Also, write your vision down. Bob Proctor told me there’s magic in getting your goals on paper.</div>
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Just try it. And go back to your goals some time later. You’ll see!</div>
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2<span style="color: #ff6600;">.</span> Work with your subconscious mind</h2>
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The <i>worst</i> advice I’ve heard in personal growth is to simply “take massive action” – because, until you’re ready to succeed, this usually leads to self-sabotage, procrastination, and deeper feelings of inadequacy.</div>
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This isn’t your fault… it’s because of a fundamental misunderstanding of how our minds work.</div>
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Here’s the problem: most people only set goals at the <i>conscious</i> level, which neuroscience is proving to limit us to just 1-5% of our total resources. <b>This means that</b> <b>95-99% of our resources are accessed through the subconscious mind – yet most of us ignore this completely!</b></div>
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What this means is if we want to create MORE income, love, happiness – or anything else – in our life, we<span class="s2">first need to work on our subconscious beliefs</span>. That’s where we’ll get the most leverage and biggest results.</div>
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As Dr Bruce Lipton from Stanford University says – your subconscious mind “ultimately casts the deciding vote” on your level of success and happiness, because it’s “a million times more powerful”. Imagine that!</div>
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So, all you gotta do is make sure you’re working on a plan to reprogram your subconscious mind.</div>
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Speaking of which…</div>
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3<span style="color: #ff6600;">.</span> Practice Creative Visualization (<em>daily</em>)</h2>
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Creative Visualization is the art and science of imagining what you want to create – in vivid, sensory-rich, “high definition” levels of detail.</div>
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The reason this is so powerful is because – as Dr Maxwell Maltz wrote in his classic book <i>Psycho Cybernetics:</i></div>
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Your subconscious mind “Cannot tell the difference between what’s real, and what’s imagined.”</div>
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What this means is <b>you can TRICK your subconscious mind</b> into believing you’re more successful / happy / rich / sexy / loveable than you actually are – simply by imagining yourself that way, in vivid detail.</div>
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It’s a wonderful quirk of our nervous system, but it really does work. You can use visualisation to boost your<a href="http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/9-ways-to-build-unbreakable-confidence-from-the-outside-in/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank" title="confidence">confidence</a>, skills, happiness, abundance, energy – and more.</div>
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The keys are repetition (<em>practice every day for a few minutes), vividness (use ALL the senses when you imagine – including touch, smells, hearing etc) and emotions (the stronger the positive emotion you can summon, the better results.</em>)</div>
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More than 200+ studies prove that visualisation works… so get visualizing!</div>
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This is where things get really FUN.</div>
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Most folks worry themselves silly and give up on their goals, because they “don’t have a plan” to get there.</div>
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But here’s the good news: when you have a compelling vision, and you work on your subconscious beliefs by visualizing every day (steps 1-3), <b>you open yourself up to receive ideas, insights, hunches and “flashes of inspiration” from the universe</b> – ideas which you can quickly and effortlessly put into action.</div>
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“The next step is always revealed”. Always. ALWAYS!!</div>
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<b>So don’t worry about having a master-plan</b>. Instead, focus on your vision, and take action on the ideas that inevitably float into your consciousness.</div>
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Then rinse… repeat… and keep following the hunches ‘til you reach your goal. Simple!</div>
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5<span style="color: #ff6600;">.</span> Go Zen</h2>
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I’ll keep this one short and simple:</div>
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More than 2000 studies prove that <a href="http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/21-reasons-why-successful-people-meditate/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;"><b>meditation</b> has countless benefits for body and mind</a>. This is indisputable – it will have a HUGE positive impact on your life.</div>
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But it’s not just good for your <i>wellbeing</i> – from a “success” perspective, meditating puts you in flow, increases your creativity, makes you feel mentally stronger, helps you become more present, boosts your focus and productivity – and makes you a nicer person to be around. (<em>And much more.</em>)</div>
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That’s why if you want to be the best version of yourself, I invite you to make meditation part of your daily routine.</div>
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(<em>And if you think meditating is tough, consider the alternative – that the voice in your head you can’t seem to shut up during meditation will be running your life; unchallenged; on autopilot, FOREVER … unless you learn how to quieten it down – by meditating! Pretty humbling, right?</em>)</div>
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6<span style="color: #ff6600;">.</span> GIVE More</h2>
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When <i>The Secret’s</i> Bob Proctor came on my show he revealed about 1000 ideas which blew my mind and made me wish he was my grandfather.</div>
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But the best of all of them was <b>“<i>you cannot out-give the universe</i>”</b>.</div>
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I love this idea – at its simplest it means we should stop chasing what we want, stop trying to GET it, and instead <b>focus on giving as much value as we can</b>.</div>
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Give love. Give appreciation. Give better service. Give a better product. Give more time. Give more attention. Give more awesomeness. Give more compliments. Give give give give give.</div>
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<i>Give whatever you want to receive more of.</i></div>
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When you shift to that level of focus, abundance starts to magnetize in your life.</div>
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It took me a long time to truly *get* this, but the more value you provide, the more money you’ll make (<em>and the better you’ll feel about it</em>.)</div>
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7<span style="color: #ff6600;">.</span> Have A Kick-Ass Daily Routine</h2>
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I wish this final strategy was <i>sexier</i>, but it’s crucial – literally every guest I’ve had on The Big Life, from John Assaraf to Lisa Nichols, has stressed to me the importance of having a kick-ass daily routine.</div>
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Why? Because it <b>builds confidence, progress, flow… and MOMENTUM</b>.</div>
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My daily routine includes meditation, visualization, writing down a page of things I’m grateful for, and heading to the gym to get my sweat on. Oh – and gangsta rap. (<em>It always gets me psyched up and ready to take action</em>.) But yours can <a href="http://addicted2success.com/life/dare-to-be-different-4-insights-to-start-living/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank" title="be different">be different</a> – obviously, the hiphop is optional – but <b>the key is to do something EVERY DAY that puts you in a PEAK state</b>.</div>
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Then, from that level of “higher” consciousness, you can go about your day, kicking ass and being the best version of you you can be.</div>
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Do this enough times…. and you’ll end up with your “Big Life”, filled with abundance and purpose and passion and all the other awesomeness you desire.</div>
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Peace!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The holiday season has officially graced us with its presence. It’s a time of celebration and bliss, and the pure magic of these December days is something I anticipate and enjoy <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">each and every</em> year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">For some, though, the holidays have lost the delight and excitement it once had. The pace of life has grown so fast—much faster than those first holidays I remember in my life—that some people don’t enjoy the time they get to spend with family and friends during what are supposed to be days filled with pure joy and peace.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Why is that? Probably a lot can be laid at the feet of how fast-paced our times are, but that isn’t all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I believe our holiday times should be <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wonderful</em> and filled with lasting and enjoyable moments and memories. So how can we ensure that we come out of the holidays in January with great memories of the past month? Here are six thoughts that will help you experience the holidays the way they were intended to be experienced:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Holidays can be days of excess for many—too much food, too many sweet treats, schedules that are too busy. One thing that will help you enjoy the holidays is to be temperate. Enjoy the food. Enjoy the treats. Enjoy the busy schedule of activities and parties. But also be disciplined enough to know when to hold back, when to say <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">no</em>. When we go overboard, we regret it and lose the opportunity to fully experience that moment. But when we <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">enjoy</em> a little and refrain from going too far, then we can enjoy all that little piece of time has to offer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Much of the frustration people experience from the holidays is from setting their expectations too high. They expect too much from friends or family, and when they don’t get what they want, they get upset. They <a href="http://www.success.com/blog/ask-the-success-editors-whats-the-best-gift-youve-ever-given" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Ask the SUCCESS Editors: What's the Best Gift You've Ever Given? | SUCCESS.com">expect presents to be perfect</a>, and when they aren’t, they get disappointed. Instead of having huge expectations this holiday season, just take it as it comes. So…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Go with an attitude of knowing that things will be what they will be. You can’t control other people or their actions. If a family member pushes the limits of your patience, ignore that and instead focus on how much you can enjoy the time you have with other family members. If things don’t go perfectly—and they won’t—then enjoy what you can and let the rest slide. You will feel a lot better about life if you can take all things a little easier.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Debt is a killer. It will steal your enjoyment of life. Be sure to <a href="http://www.success.com/article/dont-overspend-follow-these-3-gifting-guidelines" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Don't Overspend... Follow These 3 Gifting Guidelines | SUCCESS.com">stay within your financial boundaries this holiday season</a>. The last thing you want is to start the new year with a deeper financial burden. Know where you are financially and stay within those limits. You don’t have to impress anyone; just buy gifts that you can afford and express your heartfelt feeling in the giving of the gift.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Be sure that no matter how busy you get, you take time for yourself. <a href="http://www.success.com/article/5-ways-to-read-more-books" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="5 Ways to Read More Books | SUCCESS.com">Take time to read.</a> Take a long bath if that relaxes you. Take a walk. Spend some time of quiet in front of a fire. Don’t rush through the holidays and zap all of your energy. Your mind and body need to be reenergized, so be sure to take time to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Ultimately, no matter what tradition you come from, the holidays are historically days in which we focus on the spiritual. Men and women are created with a natural draw toward spiritual life. However, our culture today tends to stay away from a focus on the spiritual, and that has even crept into our holidays. Placing an emphasis on building your spiritual life and growing in that area will help keep you grounded and able to deal with anything that might come your way.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Friends, we are coming to the end of another year. This time is another chance to remember the important truths of life and to enjoy time with dear friends and family.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">May you experience the very best this holiday season and move into January better than ever!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.success.com/blog/unwrap-laughter-and-ditch-the-grinch-attitude" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self" title="Unwrap Laughter and Ditch the Grinch Attitude | SUCCESS.com"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laughter is one of our greatest nonmaterial gifts. Find out why you should unwrap a little humor—and ditch that Grinch attitude—this holiday season.</strong></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.success.com/article/rohn-6-secrets-for-thriving-not-just-surviving-through-the-holidays" target="_blank">http://www.success.com/article/rohn-6-secrets-for-thriving-not-just-surviving-through-the-holidays</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-77406491029402502912014-12-28T03:14:00.000-08:002014-12-28T03:14:58.391-08:00Rohn: 7 Personality Traits of a Great Leader<img height="291" src="http://www.success.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_main/public/main/articles/Personality%20Traits%20of%20a%20Great%20Leader.jpg?itok=QViMKX8L" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The qualities of skillful leadership</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. Jim Rohn calls leadership the great challenge of life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">What’s important in leadership is refining your skills. All great leaders keep working on themselves until they become effective. Here’s how:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Learn to be kind but not weak.</strong> We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn’t weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength. We must be kind enough to tell somebody the truth. We must be kind enough and considerate enough to lay it on the line. We must be kind enough to tell it like it is and not deal in delusion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Learn to be bold but not a <a href="http://www.success.com/article/bullies-at-work" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Bullies at Work | SUCCESS.com">bully</a>. </strong>It takes boldness to win the day. To build your influence, you’ve got to walk in front of your group. You’ve got to be willing to take the first arrow, tackle the first problem, discover the first sign of trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. You’ve got to learn to be humble but not timid.</strong> You can’t get to the high life by being timid. Some people mistake timidity for humility. Humility is almost a God-like word. A sense of awe. A sense of wonder. An awareness of the human soul and spirit. An understanding that there is something unique about the human drama versus the rest of life. Humility is a grasp of the distance between us and the stars, yet having the feeling that we’re part of the stars. So <a href="http://www.success.com/article/maximum-leadership-humble-pie" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="John C. Maxwell: Humble Pie | SUCCESS.com">humility is a virtue</a>, but timidity is a disease. Timidity is an affliction. It can be cured, but it is a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Be proud but not arrogant.</strong> It takes pride to win the day. It takes pride to build your <a href="http://www.success.com/videos/youtube/how-to-activate-ambition" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="How to Activate Ambition | SUCCESS.com/Videos">ambition</a>. It takes pride in community. It takes pride in a cause, in accomplishment. But the key to becoming a good leader is being proud without being arrogant. In fact, I believe the worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. It’s when you don’t know that you don’t know. Now that kind of <a href="http://www.success.com/videos/youtube/a-leaders-biggest-mistake" style="border: 0px; color: #7b0c23; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="A Leader's Biggest Mistake | SUCCESS.com/Videos">arrogance</a> is intolerable. If someone is smart and arrogant, we can tolerate that. But if someone is ignorant and arrogant, that's just too much to take.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.success.com/article/7-personality-traits-of-a-great-leader" target="_blank">http://www.success.com/article/7-personality-traits-of-a-great-leader</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-23231055585571447592014-12-25T23:39:00.002-08:002014-12-25T23:39:55.614-08:00Rohn: This is how you leave a legacy<img src="http://www.success.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_main/public/main/articles/This%20Is%20How%20You%20Leave%20a%20Legacy_.jpg?itok=9oPme0y_" height="291" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Here are the principles he says we must commit to in order to leave the legacy we desire: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">1. Life is best lived in service to others. This doesn’t mean that we do not strive for the best for ourselves. It does mean that in all things we serve other people, including our family, co-workers and friends. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">2. Consider others’ interests as important as your own. Much of the world suffers simply because people consider only their own interests. People are looking out for number one, but the way to leave a legacy is to also look out for others. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">3. Love your neighbor even if you don’t like him. It is interesting that Jesus told us to love others. But he never tells us to like them. Liking people has to do with emotions. Loving people has to do with actions. And what you will find is that when you love them and do good by them, you will more often than not begin to like them. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">4. Maintain integrity at all costs. There are very few things you take to the grave with you. The number one thing is your reputation and good name. When people remember you, you want them to think, “She was the most honest person I knew. What integrity.” There are always going to be temptations to cut corners and break your integrity. Do not do it. Do what is right all of the time, no matter what the cost. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">5. You must risk in order to gain. In just about every area of life you must risk in order to gain the reward. In love, you must risk rejection in order to ask that person out for the first time. In investing you must place your capital at risk in the market in order to receive the prize of a growing bank account. When we risk, we gain. And when we gain, we have more to leave for others. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">6. You reap what you sow. In fact, you always reap more than you sow—you plant a seed and reap a bushel. What you give you get. What you put into the ground then grows out of the ground. If you give love you will receive love. If you give time, you will gain time. It is one of the truest laws of the universe. Decide what you want out of life and then begin to sow it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">7. Hard work is never a waste. No one will say, “It is too bad he was such a good, hard worker.” But if you aren’t they will surely say, “It’s too bad he was so lazy—he could have been so much more!” Hard work will leave a grand legacy. Give it your all on your trip around the earth. You will do a lot of good and leave a terrific legacy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">8. Don’t give up when you fail. Imagine what legacies would have never existed if someone had given up. How many thriving businesses would have been shut down if they quit at their first failure? Everyone fails. It is a fact of life. But those who succeed are those who do not give up when they fail. They keep going and build a successful life—and a legacy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">9. Don’t ever stop in your pursuit of a legacy. Many people have accomplished tremendous things later on in life. There is never a time to stop in your pursuit of a legacy. Sometimes older people will say, “I am 65. I’ll never change.” That won’t build a great life! No, there is always time to do more and achieve more, to help more and serve more, to teach more and to learn more. Keep going and growing that legacy! These are core principles to live by if you want to become the kind of person who leaves a lasting legacy. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-9261150097585741082014-12-22T15:52:00.000-08:002014-12-22T15:52:50.881-08:00Some Lessons in Life MasteryThe following is adapted from some audios delivered by none other than Tony Robbins. I hope this inspires you as we move towards Christmas...<br />
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we are, is not going to take us to where we want to go. To get where we want to
be we have to take on a new level of thinking. To get to the next level we have
to look at the world in a different way. One of those is you must perceive
yourself in a different way, not just your capability but who you are right now, today! That shift begins the minute you decide to consciously
define yourself, instead of letting the environment do it for you. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">In order to achieve all that you want ask yourself who
would I have to become? More fun, playful, passionate, outrageous, disciplined?
What would I do when I wake up in the morning? How would I have to look at
myself in the mirror? What would I have to see in myself and in others? How would I need to treat people? How would I
breathe? How would I walk and talk? How would I speak to myself? What would I
think about life? What would I believe about myself?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Now imagine stepping into this person and
fusing with this person and immediately go out and act that way. Then go out and conduct your
life as if you were a public figure. This will make you totally transparent which is one of the qualities of influential people. </span>An increase in the quality of beliefs creates the increase in the quality of life.</div>
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proportional to your level of commitment to Constant and Never Ending Improvement (CANI). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Also, your level of personal and professional
success is in direct proportion to your level of commitment to CANI. This has
to be measured. We must know that problems are opportunities for growth and it is best to solve them before they
exist. We must find the deeper meaning and higher purpose in our perceived problems so that we can move forward and become greater as people. The toughest times of our life provide us with the greatest resources to change our life. Remember to trust yourself and have faith that all is happening for you to experience the truth of who you really are. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Have a beautiful and powerful day!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-89459386717778415372014-12-21T17:15:00.000-08:002014-12-21T17:15:16.727-08:003 Powerful Life Lessons From the Multi Millionaire “Tim Ferriss”<header style="background-color: white; color: #4b4b4b; font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 14px; position: relative; top: -16px;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', sans-serif; font-size: 34px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 40px; margin: 17px 0px 7px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-wrap: break-word;">
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He’s one of the only people in the world whose other accomplishments completely dwarf the fact that he’s a Princeton alumnus.</div>
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But aside from his laundry list of achievements, Tim is also the world’s leading authority on Lifestyle Design.</div>
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<strong>What exactly is that?</strong> An entirely new and rapidly growing category of blogs, businesses and books focused on challenging traditional assumptions and living a richer life.</div>
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In his debut novel, The 4-Hour Workweek, Ferriss begs the question: Why should you have to wait until you’ve worked 40+ years and you’re 65 years-old to start traveling, spending quality time with friends and family, and taking up new hobbies?</div>
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<strong>Why not live the life you want right now? </strong>Why not enjoy every waking moment to the fullest?</div>
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Ferris firmly believes in turning the traditional American retirement plan upside down. And rather than deferring all your happiness to the future (<em>65+ years old</em>), he presents the case for us to streamline our lives,<a href="http://addicted2success.com/startups/the-10-most-important-things-to-consider-before-you-start-a-business/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">build our own business</a>, find joy, <a href="http://addicted2success.com/videos/this-guy-will-inspire-you-to-travel-the-world/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" title="travel the world">travel the world</a> and <a href="http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-your-passion/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;">be passionate today</a>.</div>
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As we gear up for the New Year with resolutions and goal setting on our mind, it may be time to revisit a few of the powerful life lessons embedded in his timeless classic, The 4-Hour Workweek.</div>
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By applying Ferriss’s philosophies to our next-year’s goals, we’re certain to kick start the year off right and catapult ourselves to greater levels of success.</div>
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So let’s dive right in and begin designing the lives we want, <strong>TODAY</strong>, using these potent principles.</div>
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Otherwise known as Pareto’s Law, the 80/20 rule says that <strong>80 percent of the results </strong>for any given activity<strong>come from just</strong> <strong>20 percent of the inputs</strong>. This is the foundation for many of Ferriss’ guiding tenants. One example of the rule in action for entrepreneurs is 80 percent of your business’s revenue typically comes from just 20 percent of your client/customer base.</div>
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Ferriss argues that you should eliminate the 80 percent of things you’re doing that aren’t yielding significant results. And instead you should <strong>focus exclusively</strong> on the 20 percent of activities that are. In doing so, you free up A TON of your time to focus on duplicating those actions/clients/processes that yield high returns. The 80/20 rule works in the opposite way as well.</div>
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Normally, you’ll see that 80 percent of your problems in business or in life come from just 20 percent of the people and clients you interact with.</div>
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Remove the 20 percent, and the majority of your problems disappear. Especially as we gear up for the New Year and new goals this principle can be very powerful in terms of showing us the best areas to focus on for maximum results.</div>
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<strong>However, 80/20 isn’t set in stone</strong>; it’s simply a starting point for your analysis. Sometimes you’ll find the ratio to be even higher at 90/10 or even 99/1. Whatever the case, you can channel your energy and stop wasting time on fruitless goals with this in your arsenal.</div>
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2<span style="color: #ff6600;">.</span> Never underestimate the impact of time and mobility on your happiness</h2>
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A lot people (<em>especially us entrepreneurial types</em>) like to think that money alone will make us happier. Even if we intellectually know that money by itself doesn’t lead to happiness, we still have a tendency—year after year—to make higher income one of our top goals.</div>
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This <strong>can be </strong>very powerful and beneficial,<strong> IF</strong> done the right way. But for most of us, we just arbitrarily pick an income goal that’s higher than the last year. Instead, we should be picking an income or revenue goal that allows to do the things we want with our lives.</div>
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<strong>What does that mean? </strong>Here’s an example: Let’s say we run an online merchandising business that typically profits $100,000 per year. At that level, let’s say the owner spends 30 hours per week on the business and has time to take three, 2-week vacations throughout the year. The business stays running and automated just fine. However, what most people would do in this situation is raise the goal above $100,000 in profit to $200,000 in profit. Now, instead of 30 hours per week, let’s say the owner spends 80 hours per week on the business (<em>more time acquiring new clients, dealing with customers, and processing orders</em>) and has <strong>ZERO </strong>time for a vacation.</div>
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<strong>Which life would you prefer?</strong> If we truly look at it, the person making $200K is poorer in terms of time and mobility than the person making $100K. Now am I saying you shouldn’t be ambitious and raise your goals?<strong>Absolutely not!</strong> But what you MUST always do is consider WHY you want the goals your setting. If your income is going to provide a certain lifestyle for you, but achieving that level of income doesn’t allow you ANY free time, should you really have that goal? We must always remember that being in control of our own time and destiny is essential to long-term happiness, and understanding this is crucial for setting your next year’s goals.</div>
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3<span style="color: #ff6600;">.</span> Always push yourself outside your comfort zone.</h2>
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Throughout the 4-Hour Workweek, Ferriss lists Comfort Challenges at the end of nearly every chapter.</div>
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These challenges range from walking up and getting a guy or girl’s phone number to testing your skills in negotiation at flea markets.</div>
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<strong>Why did Tim choose to scatter these throughout his book? </strong>He summarizes the answer in this quote:</div>
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“Success can be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.”</div>
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Essentially, he’s saying get outside your comfort zone and keep pushing yourself. That’s how 26 out of 27 publishers turned down Ferriss’ idea before he finally got his book published—he kept pushing past doubt and his comfort zone. And when his book launched, it became an instant best seller.</div>
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Ferriss’ message for entrepreneurs is you have to get outside your comfort zones and develop socially so you can effectively present and sell your ideas and concepts. But more importantly, the key to a rich life is connecting with people and forging lasting friendships. To do that you have to know <a href="http://kickstartyourdreamlife.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">how to talk to anyone</a>, with <a href="http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/9-ways-to-build-unbreakable-confidence-from-the-outside-in/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank" title="confidence">confidence</a> and be persuasive. If your 2015 goals don’t include an element of that, you should revisit and refine them until they do.</div>
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Crush it in 2015! And if you haven’t already pick up a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek or any other of Tim Ferriss’ masterpieces.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250921803747397364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266002695814578027.post-76803116312698634992014-12-19T19:51:00.000-08:002014-12-19T19:51:34.235-08:0037 Quotes that Will Super-Charge Your Motivation<div class="td-post-featured-image" style="background-color: white; color: #4b4b4b; font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 23px;">
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<span style="line-height: 23px;">Have you ever felt the sting of failure so deep that you couldn’t see past the pain to keep moving forward?</span></div>
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<em>Or doubted that you could even achieve what you set out to accomplish?</em></div>
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We’ve all been there.</div>
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So reflect on those low moments, but don’t dwell on them or you risk putting out the spark within that drives you. And don’t give up and settle with a mediocre life, always thinking of the “<em>What If’s</em>“.</div>
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Separate yourself from the average by staying in the game and reaping the rewards of persistence and hard work with a never say die attitude.</div>
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Granted, it’s tough to maintain that attitude, so to help you stay inspired, <strong>checkout these 37 <a href="http://addicted2success.com/quotes/20-motivational-quotes-to-break-your-doubts-build-you-up/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank" title="motivational quotes">motivational quotes</a> that will super-charge you to hit your life goals.</strong></div>
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<strong>1.</strong> “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us.” – <strong>Voltaire</strong></div>
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<strong>2.</strong> “If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” – <a href="http://addicted2success.com/motivation/video-muhammad-ali-shares-his-most-powerful-quotes/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" title="Muhammad Ali Motivational Quotes"><strong>Muhammad Ali</strong></a></div>
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<strong>3.</strong> “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – <strong>Anais Nin</strong></div>
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<strong>4.</strong> “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – <strong>George Eliot</strong></div>
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<strong>5.</strong> “If you’re going through hell keep going.” – <strong>Winston Churchill</strong></div>
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<strong>6.</strong> “Take the first step in faith, you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – <strong>Martin Luther King, Jr.</strong></div>
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<strong>7.</strong> “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – <strong>William Feather</strong></div>
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<strong>8.</strong> “If you’re only willing to do what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you’re willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.” – <strong>T. Harv Eker</strong></div>
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<strong>9.</strong> “<a href="http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/the-top-10-fears-that-hold-us-back-from-success/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;">Do the thing you fear most</a> and the death of fear is certain.” – <strong>Mark Twain</strong></div>
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<strong>10.</strong> “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – <strong>Alexander Graham Bell</strong></div>
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<strong>11.</strong> “Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” – <strong>Brene Brown</strong></div>
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<strong>12.</strong> “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – <strong>Wayne Gretzky</strong></div>
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<strong>13.</strong> “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – <strong><a href="http://addicted2success.com/motivation/5-motivational-lessons-michael-jordan-taught-us/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a></strong></div>
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<strong>14.</strong> “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – <strong>Bruce Lee</strong></div>
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<strong>15.</strong> “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” – <strong>Henry Ford</strong></div>
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<strong>16.</strong> “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” - <strong>Winston Churchill</strong></div>
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<strong>17.</strong> “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – <strong>Kyle Chandler</strong></div>
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<strong>18.</strong> “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – <strong>Robert Kennedy</strong></div>
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<strong>19.</strong> “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – <strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></div>
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<strong>20.</strong> “It’s always darkest before the dawn.” –<strong> Unknown</strong></div>
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<strong>21.</strong> “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” – <strong>Brian Tracy</strong></div>
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<strong>22.</strong> “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – <strong><a href="http://addicted2success.com/success-advice/6-lessons-of-success-we-can-all-learn-from-dale-carnegie/" style="color: #4db2ec; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank" title="Dale Carnegie">Dale Carnegie</a></strong></div>
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<strong>23.</strong> “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – <strong>Mahatma Gandhi</strong></div>
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<strong>24.</strong> “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – <strong>Winston Churchill</strong></div>
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<strong>25.</strong> “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.”– <strong>J. Gitomer</strong></div>
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<strong>26.</strong> “Fortune favors the bold.” - <strong>Virgil</strong></div>
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<strong>27.</strong> “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – <strong>Marilyn vos Savant</strong></div>
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<strong>28.</strong> “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.” – <strong>Buddha</strong></div>
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<strong>29.</strong> “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – <strong>Napoleon Hill</strong></div>
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<strong>30.</strong> “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – <strong>Samuel Beckett</strong></div>
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<strong>31.</strong> “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” – <strong>Elbert Hubbard</strong></div>
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<strong>32.</strong> “Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.” – <strong>Napoleon Hill</strong></div>
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<strong>33.</strong> “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” – <strong>Oprah Winfrey</strong></div>
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<strong>34.</strong> “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – <strong>John Wooden</strong></div>
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<strong>35.</strong> “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – <strong>Confucius</strong></div>
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<strong>36.</strong> “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” – <strong>Seneca</strong></div>
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<strong>37.</strong> “There is no education like adversity.” – <strong>Benjamin Disraeli</strong><br />
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