Part 2 - How to Set and Achieve any Goal you Have in Your Life - with Jo...

Do your beliefs align with your goals?

Are your habits moving you, in a constructive way, towards your goals?

You can choose your habits and beliefs - use reverse engineering.

Set your goals list, and start preparing your strategies!

To your success,
Trevor Long

http://personaldevelopment1on1.blogspot.com.au/

How to Set and Achieve any Goal you Have in Your Life - with John Assara...

What tools to use to consistently work on achieving your goals?

Start with writing the goals as specific as you can.

Then implement the strategies to achieve them...

John Assaraf provides you with the steps in these two videos.


To your success,
Trevor Long

http://personaldevelopment1on1.blogspot.com.au/

Experience Is A Great Teacher...

...But Let It Be Someone Else's!

80% of small business fail within the first year, and 95% fail within 5 years. Horrifying statistics.

How do you increase your chances of success?

Well apart from doing all the things suggested on this blog...

Get some High Level Mentoring, and create a Mastermind Group.

Find an expert who has been there and done that, someone who's done it all before, and been successful at it. 

Don't reinvent the wheel.

What will it cost you, in time and money, if you have to make all the mistakes yourself, before you learn how to do it profitably?

You might have to pay handsomely for your mentor, but it will be surely worth it.

That brings us to the Mastermind group. 

Surround yourself with people who are experts in all the areas you are weak in.
Take property investment for example, something I am passionate about.

In my first attempt at property investment, I had the idea that I could do it all myself. I'd read the books, been to the seminars, it seemed easy. Well I bought at least one dud property that cost me years of heartache, and probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. I also left a lot of money on the table by not structuring loans properly, not getting depreciation reports, etc. etc.

Luckily I had the opportunity to start all over again. I know a few people who either went bankrupt, or died way too early, from (I hallucinate) the stress caused by bad investments.

Second time around I got a mentor, someone who had done it all before, and was continuing to do it. And I surrounded myself with experts, a mastermind group. I got someone to find the locations, someone to manage the building contractors, a lawyer to handle the legals, a mortgage broker to handle the loans, people to manage the properties, and an accountant to make sure I'm reducing my tax and have the proper financial structures in place. These weren't the cheapest people I could find, they were the best. What do I do, you might be asking? I check my bank accounts once a month, and answer the occasional email from the real estate agent.

I've never been inside my properties, and I don't intend to, that's what I pay the real estate agent to do. If I have any questions or challenges, I pick up the phone and call one of my mastermind group. They deal with investment properties every day. They have the answers. They've done it all before.

Similarly in my business, I surround myself with experts. If I have questions on how to put a package together, or promote a seminar, etc. I call or email a few people, discuss what I want to do, and listen to their advice. I don't try to re-invent the wheel. Yes I'm smart and I could probably figure it out myself eventually. But the really smart way is to find out what has already worked and do that. Once I know how to do that, maybe I can make it better.

Be smart. Get a Mentor. Get a Mastermind Group.

To your success,
Trevor Long

To Train, Or Not To Train Too?

In the previous post we asked if attending trainings and seminars is worth it.

If that's you, did you first determine WHAT DO YOU WANT?

And then after that, did you determine specifically the exact training with the right person who would give you “the thing” you needed to move forward?

No one knows everything. That is why it is so important to always be learning from others who can teach us that which we want to do.

LEARNING IS GROWING

You can be the most talented person in the world, but if you stop learning, your days on top are numbered.

What type of training should you spend your time and money on?

ALL learning is good, but when it comes to creating rapid results, you must determine if you require SKILLS training, or HABIT & MINDSET training

Here’s how to figure out what training to do next.

Spend some quiet time, meditating, mind mapping, journaling, or whatever works best for you, and seriously ask yourself:

How do you want to BE in the world?
What do you want to create and DO in the world?
What do you want to HAVE as a result?
Why?

Then, you’ll notice a GAP from where you are now, to where you want to be.

Now ask yourself, what is going to rapidly close this gap?

What do you need to learn to take you to where you want to be?

Doing the training we actually need is what gets us over our fears.

Last year I overcame a serious fear of my own, by attending a Sales Training. It was a ridiculous and limiting fear. Yet attending the training I realized that sales is just a process using techniques that I already knew, in a specific order. What was there to be afraid of?!

Whether it's Skills or Mindset and Habit training you choose to learn next, make sure you make it a part of your success PLAN. What do you want? And what do you need to step into what you ultimately desire?

If your goal is to become a millionaire, will QuickBooks training get you there? (Hint - no)

Don't just sign up for another training because you got caught up in the moment, and the presenter gave you a sob story, or had you waving your credit card in the air and running to the back of the room for a free prize. Make sure it is specific to your goal and that it will help you close the gap.

You must become intentional about the education you choose to take, and from whom. This will save you time and money, and get you there faster.

To your success,
Trevor Long

To Train, Or Not To Train?

Often I speak with people who tell me something like, “I’ve done all these trainings and gone to all these seminars, and all I feel now is lost, and that I’ve wasted so much money.”

Have you felt like this?

Unfortunately this is all too common. Only about 1 in 20 people will actually do anything with what they learned at a training or a seminar, and only about 1 in 100 will be really successful as a result of the trainings. That is a harsh reality.

Many years ago, when I was doing network marketing, they told me those figures, that I would need to put 20 people into my business before I found one spark, and 100 people into my business before I found someone who would work as hard as I did in the business.

I didn't believe them. I thought that the opportunity was there, the system was there, all you had to do was have a goal, and work the system.

I was right, and so were they.

I had a goal - to achieve a new level every quarter, and I worked the system. They said 'show the plan' and 'demonstrate the products'.  And that's what I did. Almost every night I was out showing the plan on a whiteboard or a piece of paper, or I was covering my hands in boot polish and getting them clean with the products. Then I would go home, shower, wash my only 'business' shirt while I was in the shower, and hang it up to dry ready for the next night.

Pretty soon I was standing up in front of groups of people getting my awards. In front of people who were older than me, more experienced than me, wealthier than me, better looking than me, had better cars than me. But I was shooting past them in the business.

I asked myself why? The answer was simple. They weren't doing the do. They weren't persisting.

Soon I had 20 people in my group, and I found one 'goer'. Then there was a hundred, and I found another 'me'. Then there were 300, and there were three people working the business just as hard as I was. the numbers work.

How do you tip the odds in your favor?

Be the person who has a goal and persists.
Do what the others aren't willing to do.
Then you can Have what they can't.

We'll explore training further tomorrow,

(Oh, btw, I'm no longer in network marketing, so I'm not going to ask you to come to a meeting!)

To your success,
Trevor Long

Feel Like Giving Up?

Let's face it, we all do sometimes.

People may be smarter than you.

They might be better looking than you.

They might have better connections than you.

That's great for them.

But it doesn't mean that they are going to succeed, or that it prevents you from succeeding

Have a dream, write it down, make a plan, work on it, persist, until you hit your target, then keep going some more.

Persist!

Stick To It!

Persevere!

Ever wish you had someone to keep you accountable? Or just to give you a kick in the pants? Your coaches here at Get Centred can help you with that too!

To your success,

Trevor Long

Train Your Brain For Success

Just as its easier to learn a new sport when your body is in shape, the same is true for our brains.

Whether it's learning a new skill, or starting a new business venture, it will be much easier when your brain is fit and healthy.

If your brain is in poor condition, you will have a hard time training it for success.

However, if you keep your brain running at an optimal performance rate then teaching it to start thinking like a success becomes a much easier task.

Let's look at a few areas we can focus on to improve our brain health. 

Improve your physical health
The condition of your body affects the condition of your brain. Keeping your brain active is a great way to guard against mind slip but studies have shown that without regular exercise, extra stimulation doesn't have an effect on our brain health.
You are both mind and body. Both need to be used and kept in shape. 

Improve your diet
The foods we eat have a huge impact on how we feel, perform, and even how well our brains perform. I highly recommend that you study the work of Dr Daniel Amen, who has studied over 80,000 living brains, for a more in depth of all things to do with brain health, especially brain diet.

Improve your sleep
Sleep helps restore the brain by flushing out toxins that build up during waking hours.
 We all know sleep is important, but do we know why? Sleep is crucial for storing memories, as well as having a restorative function. Lack of sleep on the other hand can impair reasoning, interfere with your ability to problem solve, and diminish your ability to pay attention to detail.
As a frequent international flyer, I can attest that a lack of sleep has very similar effects to being drunk.
Studies even show that lack of sleep can cause your brain to shrink. Not good for training a successful brain.

How can you get a better sleep?
Well, it can be as easy as picking up an eye mask and some ear plugs.Light and noise can negatively affect your quality of sleep.
Cut out caffeine after 1pm.
Turn off your email, Facebook, phone, etc at least an hour before bedtime.
Write down all your tasks and ideas for tomorrow, that way they are not bouncing around your brain all night.
List your gratitudes as you drift off to sleep. You cannot be stressed or anxious if you are in a state of gratitude.

Take care of yourself to have the best chance of reaching your success goals. 

Obviously physical and brain health is a huge topic, and a very important topic, this blog post can barely scratch the surface. I highly recommend you make physical and brain health a top goal, and
do your own research, get a coach who specialises in this area, see a chiropractor, a dietitian or naturopath, etc.

To your success,
Trevor Long