We are all incredibly gifted and talented in our own way.
Where are you trying to go with your life?
A lot of people don’t know.
What?! Why?
Because they are operating out of fear. If you don’t know where you want to go, it is almost always due to:
No matter what you believe, if God does not guide you towards a decision for a higher purpose towards prosperity, it’s because you haven’t made a choice.
You will never know if you have made the right choice until you GET MOVING.
The moment that you decide to go, then you will know whether or not if was the right decision. A bad decision is still better because you tested it compared to a good decision that you never acted on.
Prosperity is a CHOICE, just as scarcity is.
Ask yourself:
* Where am I trying to go with my life?
* What can I do today to continue the push beyond the fear that has been holding me back?
* Where am I still waiting to make a decision in my life?
Make a choice and then go do it. MOVE. You will not be able to grow unless you move.
One of my consultant team members wanted to put more gas on the fire to get my business to expand. I’ve invested a lot of money in a very short amount of time, which may seem like a brash decision to some.
But look at the alternative:
I was trying to build a quarter million dollar business by reading ebooks. ebooks!
It doesn’t work!
If you’re wanting to build a 6 figure business, you’ve got to invest into making it a quality over quantity experience by paying for the professional skills required.
Who would you rather go to? A doctor that has put in years of graduate work putting in clinical hours in various hospitals, or someone who got their doctorate online and relies on apps to help him diagnose, having never been in a hospital until he received his title?
The piper will get paid, which you can either pay now or later. There’s a price to be had for success. You either pay the price now, or later, which will be even more costly because you’ll be paying off other issues.
This goes for health just as it does for business. Invest in your relationships just as you would for anything else you want to see prosperity occur.
Ask yourself:
* What do I need to do to pay the piper today?
* How can I invest in myself in order to reach the success that I want?
* Am I willing to pay for what I need in order to receive what I desire?
Investing in your body, health and power, it will help you grow your business, but you have to pay the price. Invest or die.
There was a time in my life that I had the highest level of confidence.
It was in football.
I practiced over and over again, so I had confidence in that familiarity. I was able to beat my opponent mentally before the game even started.
However, I went from stone cold killer on the football field to the business setting and off the field and feeling inadequate, wondering what they would feel about me.
How you view yourself matters. It will determine how you feel about yourself and perform, which translates to the results you’ll get in your life.
I had a positive shift with the question, “What must I believe about myself in that situation in order to succeed at the highest level?”
If you take the mentality that you had in an area that you are strongest in, it carries over to every other aspect of our life.
You were born to be great. If we view ourselves as small, that is how we will perform.
KNOW that you are going to unleash the fury of your greatness as a stone cold killer in viewing yourself powerfully.
Who would you have to be today in order to get your prosperous life?
Ask yourself:
* How do I view myself?
* What do I need to believe about myself in order to succeed at the highest level?
* Do I think that I have a chance if I ask myself if I have a chance?
Choose greatness and power. Don’t give in to the lies of humility and burying your talents.
There are times that I start to buy the belief that something is wrong with me.
Have you ever gone through that?
When we don’t feel 100% motivated and inspired, we then think something is wrong or broken.
Let me tell you right now:
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU
You will face opposition in all things, but that doesn’t mean that anything is wrong with you.
YOU ARE JUST FINE THE WAY YOU ARE.
The problem is what you THINK about the problem. You don’t need to be fixed.
Imagine what would happen if you stopped that way of thinking and just said, “Cool. This is how I am right now. Nothing is wrong with me.”
Take responsibility for what’s going on in your life. Reading Byron Katie’s Loving What Is will help you know the difference between what is true and what we make up in order to remain feeling inadequate.
Ask yourself:
* Why do I think something is wrong with me? This is life.
* What did I do to result in this consequence? That doesn’t mean something’s wrong with me, it means there’s something that’s causing me to feel this way.
* Is this feeling of inadequacy true? Is it really true?
You are powerful. There’s nothing wrong with you and you don’t need to be fixed.
4:45 AM
I wake up.
Why?
Because my body naturally wakes up between 4:45 and 5:15 every morning.
What is the relevancy in sharing this?
If you want to live a life of significance and contribution, feeling fulfilled with your role in society, what’s required is some type of morning ritual, routine or rhythm that puts you in a state to win.
Think about athletes and what some call superstitious routines.
They have all types of rituals and rhythms, which may seem silly to some, but ultimately it’s the continual rituals that create favorable positions which will put us into power.
If you want to have a life of REAL power, or the capacity to handle stress to be more so you can do more in order to have more, you need to set up a firm foundation with a morning routine.
Countless studies show that the people that have high levels of production start it out with a morning ritual.
I call it “Climbing the Mountain” as a symbolic way of starting my morning.
However it’s defined, strong morning routines puts us in a favorable position to create power.
Ask yourself:
* What is my morning routine?
* How can I activate my body in the morning to set the day off right?
* What works for me within my morning rituals that puts me in power?
If you’re going to prosper and succeed in living a life you truly want, your power routines in the morning matter.
In the spring of 2007, I had money pouring in and driving around in an Escalade, operating under the mentality that I was always going to live with this large sum of money.
Within months, all of my businesses began to implode, and what was once a filled lake became a dry desert. By the end of 2008, I had nothing left.
I was stuck inside stories that it’s too hard when everything burned to the ground.
Why do I share this with you?
I learned some very tough lessons from this.
I am a coach that has lost everything, only operating with questions at one point. I was pretending all was well on the outside, while on the inside I was deeply depressed. I’ve been there. I know how it feels.
Maybe you are experiencing something like this yourself: You didn’t sign up for whatever you’re going through right now.
But know this:
THIS TOO SHALL PASS.
Keep moving forward.
The reality is that sometimes you just need to go through hell so you can learn lessons about YOU.
I’ve been there.
Like Joseph of Egypt that had patience and leaned on a belief system to get him through trial after trial, eventually raising up to becoming one of the most powerful men in Ancient Egypt, we don’t know what’s coming with this test.
We need to learn something when we go through hell. Sometimes it’s the only way.
But this too shall pass.
Keep moving forward. Sometimes you simply need to go through a deep, dark hell so you can learn and grow into the person you were suppose to become.
Sometimes it’s only through the tribulations that we become the person we’re supposed to be.
DO NOT GIVE UP! DO NOT QUIT!
Keep moving forward, no matter how tough life is, keep getting up.
Ask yourself:
* When have I gone through a hard time and risen up from it?
* Am I the type of person that has survived hardship before? I’m still here…
* What is a simple thing I can do today to not stay knocked down because of a stress in my life?
When we’re going through hell, keep going. There are people relying on you and YOU have a purpose. Push through.
I coach people to get the things that they truly want and get rid of the things they don’t want. Sometimes that requires a reminder that they have no one to blame but themselves when they are viewing their results.
When results don’t go the way you want them to, it’s easy to play the victim by blaming others for your lack of responsibility, when the reality is:
IT’S ALL ON YOU!
We try to shift the responsibility onto other people, when WE are the one’s responsible.
Here’s the reality: You CHOSE them!
When dealing with people you hired that you don’t think are performing the way you expected them to, take responsibility for the actions you did of hiring them in the first place.
This is the reality:
I am the core cause and reason for where I’m at right now, and so are you, my friend.
Victims shift responsibility. If you aren’t making money, you haven’t figured out how to market and lead your company. You haven’t figured out how to lead yourself.
It’s all on you.
That’s a positive and negative thing.
Get off your ass and quit blaming others for your results.
You are responsible for what and who you choose to get the job done. Get clear and then move forward.
Take responsibility.
Quit wishing for magical things to happen because it’s all about doing the work.
YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE!
Ask yourself:
* Where have I tried to shift the responsibility onto other people?
* Who am I blaming for my results?
* Who is responsible for my life? ME!!!
No longer will you be leaning on others to bring you prosperity. Take your life back by owning and claiming it.
The Number One Commodity that is being marketed right now is….
ATTENTION.
Wherever your attention is, that’s where you mind is, that’s why marketing it so crucial and successful.
We live in an ADD world in which we’re constantly bombarded with one piece of eye candy after another, overwhelming us with things demanding our attention.
What are we lacking as a society on an individual level?
FOCUS.
We have demands on our time that is never going to stop, so the fight for our attention is never going to stop.
So, what’s next?
How do we maintain focus in a distracting world?
Taking the time to sit down and ask, “What’s next?” and focus on One Thing, as described by Gary Keller.
What is the ONE THING that we must do that would radically change the way we function on a daily basis?
Knowing what’s next is all a matter of perspective and questions, slowing down to go fast.
Instead of running around like a chicken with its head cut off, when we slow down and take life one step at a time, we will be able to get more done in less time.
Ask yourself:
* What has my attention right now?
* What is the One Thing that I could focus on in order to live a more prosperous life?
* What’s next?
Life is hard by the yard but a cinch by an inch; know what the One Thing is that is important to choose today.
Let’s just get this point clear right now: You don’t get what you want.
Lots of people want, want, want.
Wanting something is different than doing the required work to do it.
We can want something all day, but it ultimately comes down to this reality:
YOU DON’T GET WHAT YOU WANT.
We get what we are ruthlessly committed to.
You only get what you commit to, which shows in your current reality.
The secret?
GET COMMITTED.
No matter what you’re facing, you’ve got to do what you said you were going to do. The stories in your mind will keep telling you one excuse after another, but by not following through with commitments, you get what you didn’t do.
You want prosperity? Decide what it is, commit to it, and then DO IT.
It really is that simple.
Ask yourself:
* What does it mean to me to be committed?
* Am I committed?
* How can I turn my brain on and leap into commitment?
I help highly committed people get what they want. Who are these committed people? They show up and play differently and stop stopping from what the stories tell them are the excuses holding them back.
Sometimes we need to be told what we don’t want to hear.
Why?
Sometimes it’s the only way to get to the root of the problem.
Even though we may have systems to organize responsibilities in life, we still shoot from the hip at times.
A written plan TRUMPS any ideas from the hip.
Taking the time to organize how we operate instead of rushing from thing to thing to thing leads to a prosperous life.
In the book, The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, you are able to plan out a life that leads to operating the most from your day.
The written plan is based upon what you want. It supports the why for what you want. If you’re not operating from some type of structured plan, you can still operate in audible (planned) mode, but it’s not as fluid.
Powerful people declare what they’re going to do and then they do it from a written plan.
It’s amazing what taking 5 minutes in the morning can do to lead you towards a life that you LOVE as you collapse time with a more productive day.
Ask yourself:
* Sometime over the weekend, what is a time that I can set aside on a weekly basis to form my written plan for the upcoming week in my General’s Tent/Queen’s Quarters?
* What are the things that matter most in my life?
* What would my life look like if I put important things into an automatic plan of action?
Highly successful and highly committed people have a written plan.
We all have stories, and our mind will tell us to stop long before our capabilities can complete something.
In terms of our body, we have stories about what we think we’re addicted to with sugar and working out.
What about your spirituality? What are the stories that your mind has been telling you about religion?
In regards to your relationships, YOU are in charge. What lies have you been telling yourself about how you interact with your significant other and children? Challenge those stories!
In your business, what lies have you been telling yourself that is holding you back from prosperity?
God can be involved in our most intimate purposes.
You can ALWAYS work harder and work smarter. Don’t buy the lies and the stories; Dollars follow value.
Challenge everything!
You’ll surprise yourself with how much you can really do.
Ask yourself:
* Where in my life am I telling lies about my physicality?
* What lies have I been telling myself about my spirituality?
* What lies have I been telling in business that keeps holding me back from prosperity?
YOU, my friend, can do more. Challenge the stories that have been holding you back from who you truly are.
I love watching the Super Bowl, which always brings me back to my experience with Super Bowl 36.
With the most recent one, Super Bowl 50 didn’t disappoint, that is, until Cam Newton received a bunch of backlash for his behavior in the post-game interview.
Which got me to thinking about business.
No, not business as a company; but business as an opinion.
What do I mean by that?
My Business is what I’m in control of that directly affects me.
Other People’s Business, whether it’s Cam Newton’s, your neighbor, or a random person in the supermarket doing their thing.
And then there’s God’s Business, acts in the universe that are beyond our control.
Cam Newton was criticized for his behavior, compared to other Quarterbacks after they loss, etc…
But you know what?
He aint nobody’s business but his own.
Anytime you get involved in anyone else’s business, you LOSE.
You don’t have a say in how he acts, nor should you compare him to anyone else but himself.
You control you.
Clarity is power.
We’re all going to have situations in which we’re going to deal with losses and failure. We’ve got to learn how to handle them.
Learn to stay in your business. We all judge, but realize that we need to focus on our own life and see the lesson reflected back on ourselves.
Ask yourself:
* Am I handling myself professionally when I’m focusing on me and not anyone else’s reactions?
* The judgments that I’m putting on others, am I turning around and putting them on myself as well?
* Am I being productive when I put myself into other people’s business?
We can learn from others, whether they win or they lose, but it’s none of our business how they act.
Is it a waste of time to do something that we love and find enjoyment doing?
Whether it’s watching football or reading a book, if you find something inspiring from doing the action, it gives you a life lesson worth learning. But remember that context matters.
What do I want?
I want to become a powerful, truth-speaking catalyst of a game changer for making other people’s lives better.
Perspective creates possibility and power.
So what do you want?
Once you’re clear about what you want, then you’ve got to specifically ask, “Does this action lead me to getting what I want?
Take the lesson and then move on. Don’t continue wasting time if you’ve already learned your applicable lesson.
If you’re not doing directly required actions based off of what you want, you’re wasting your expansion. Imagine a world in which people create based off of this principle.
Ask yourself:
* Are my daily actions leading me to what I want?
* What is the lesson to be learned?
* What are some actions that I enjoy doing that will help me get to what I want?
Imagine a world in which people create value based off of the principle that the content of their actions matter.
The positive thing about having a dishwasher break is that you have to hand wash the dishes yourself.
Which is exactly what happened in our home recently.
I grew up without a dishwasher, so I was used to it, but it was a struggle for my kids.
What does this have to do with anything?
EVERYTHING!!!
Honoring your word, even if it’s saying that you’re going to do the dishes, is about fulfilling an agreement or commitment that you make to something. This carries over to every aspect of your life.
Your business problems are really personal problems.
When everyone knows that your word doesn’t have a lot of staying power, you are no longer trusted to see things through.
If you know that you want more power, than honor your word and follow through on the things that you say you’re going to do.
Honor your word.
Ask yourself:
* Where am I losing power in my life because I’m not keeping my word?
* Where can I honor my word more?
* What do I need to do to live a life that others can trust me in seeing things through?
If you want power; keep your word. Keep your integrity. Follow through and become the person that everyone knows will see things through.
In the game of expansion, what ends up happening is that there are days that we just don’t feel like doing the required work we committed to.
This is normal.
If you want to have it all, you must get used to “I don’t feel like it” and push through.
Here’s the dirty truth:
Most of the times you won’t feel like it.
There is opposition in all things, but once you get radically clear in what you want and resolve to acting decisively in spite of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and moods.
Some days you won’t feel like doing the work, but all you need to remember is to take the first step.
Do the work regardless.
I think back to my WHY. Why did I think this? Why did I commit to this? I hone in on that holy cause and because I committed, I push forward. Despite unwanted thoughts and feelings, the more you do the required work, the more powerful you become and you begin to create a life of real results.
Ask yourself:
* What is it that I don’t feel like doing today?
* Why did I commit to this item, even though I don’t feel like doing it?
* What can I do today to shift not feeling like doing something to being motivated to get it done?
It doesn’t matter what your past was. Leave it there; be honest about where you are today and learn to do things regardless of how you feel.
I have some special guests with me today: two of my boys. They share what they’ve been trained to say in what it is I want for my children.
The world is brainwashing our children, so brainwash them back to remember what it most important, which is that their parents are their leaders.
The story that your children believe the most is the story that your children hear the most.
Life is full of teachable moments everyday.
So what messages are you communicating to your children?
What story are you communicating the most to yourself?
Will they have to course correct their paths as adults, or are you doing what needs to be done now that they won’t have to do that?
Consistent communication is key in using every moment possible to teach them as the primary messenger.
Listen to your children.
Be present.
Let them know you care, and that will become the story that they believe the most.
Ask yourself:
* Do I want my children to be able to open up to me?
* Why does it matter to have consistent communication with them?
* What type of life do I want to create with my children?
Get clear about what type of relationship you want to build with your child. It’s never too late.
My wife and I go on weekly dates.
It’s not always easy to find the time every single week, but it’s vitally essential. I used excuses about not being able to find babysitters, but one of my coaches showed how silly that excuse was.
My wife is my Goddess, and she is worth finding and paying for a babysitter so I can cultivate a lasting marriage.
How do I do that?
I get present.
Whether it’s putting my phone aside, into airplane mode, or turn it off, I’m not building a relationship with my phone; I’m cultivating the greatest gift I can give my loved ones, which is my time and attention by focusing on them, not the most recent notification.
You will notice a power that comes from being present with others.
When you give the gift of your time to others, you will produce the highest amount of value for yourself and those around you.
Ask yourself:
* Who matters the most in my life?
* What do I need to put away so I can give time and attention to those who matter?
* What would happen if I was present with my individual family members?
Be focused on the present moment by being there for those that matter.
Being compared to the guy that I was in high school, I HOPE that I’ve expanded and become a different individual then the guy I used to be.
We are constantly expanding or contracting.
When we’re going towards prosperity, you must continually expand and grow, even though there are people that want us to stay the same because they haven’t expanded themselves.
It has nothing to do with greed.
It has everything to do with expanding on a daily basis. You become and increase within your skill sets which will naturally result in increasing your balance in your bank account.
There are beliefs that run your life that you believe to be true but are untrue. How do you know? Whether or not it’s leading you to expand or causing you to contract.
Ask yourself:
* Am I expanding or contracting?
* Who do I need to “unsubscribe” from?
* Am I producing results that will lead me to further expansion?
Unsubscribe from the people or goods that are holding you back.
What would it take for full commitment in living a life to be who you need to be?
Does it take the threat of death for us to wake up ?
If you follow a simple formula, you will be able to avoid the hurt that comes from not waking up in time:
Ask yourself:
* Where am I at?
* What will it take for me to wake up?
* What would happen if I stopped stopping in my life?
Will it take death or can you wake up?
Manifestation is more like a mental masturbation because it’s only a thought which hasn’t been put into action. It’s not the real thing, even though it feels kind of like the other, but there is no magic in the word manifestation without doing the necessary actions.
Unless you do the work, manifestation doesn’t occur. You have two choices: do the work required and that’s necessary, OR you can hope and wish that money will fall from the sky. Which do you think will produce the best result?
Ask yourself:
* What is the work required or necessary to manifest prosperity in my life?
* Where have I been looking for a magic solution instead of doing the work?
* What is a lie that I continue to feed which is actually holding me back from doing the work to manifest the results I seek?
Manifestation is only power if you do the necessary work.
While taking my kids to school one morning, I saw an example of the Law of the Harvest/ karma: going to bed late will result in tired children the next day.
When we realize that we make choices on a daily basis, we will also see that there is a consequence that follows.
In the Revolution, it is realizing that we are all living a game of agency and having the freedom to choose.
Ask yourself:
* Who am I serving today?
* What is the consequence that will follow my choices I make today?
* What can I do today to result in consequences tomorrow that will lead to a prosperous life?
Get out of the mode of blaming other people and instead “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.”
There’s an obvious difference between those believing in attracting money by waiting for it to come along after visualizing it and those getting themselves out there to create the vision of prosperity.
The Law of Attraction isn’t just simply thinking positively and putting together Vision Boards then wait for prosperity to come:
If you want it, declare it, then do the work necessary to get that which you desire.
Money is a result of creating value within the marketplace. Are you the guy that’s trying to magically attract money without committing to any action?
If you want the money, you’ve got to do the activity to help you receive money from another person’s account because what you have to offer is worth more to them than the money they have.
Ask yourself:
* Who am I serving today, and what’s the program, product, or service that allows me to bring in more money?
* Do I have the mindsets and skillets required to build an empire that brings prosperity?
* What is the necessary work required today so I can see prosperity manifest itself into my bank account tomorrow?
Quit lying to yourself on how to get to the top of the mountain and DO THE WORK.