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

Develop and Expand Your Inner Circle

You must have heard the the rule of "Your net worth is the average of the five people you spend the most time with."

By following this principle, you can raise your level of success simply by surrounding yourself with successful people and/or millionaires.

Sounds easy enough right? But how do you go about finding millionaires, or whoever it is that you you want in your life, want to emulate, to grow to be like?  

Take a moment now to check in with yourself to review your inner circle.

Do they have the income and or wealth that you desire?

Do they have the relationships that you crave?

Do they have the health and body shape that you want?

Do they have the skills you wish to acquire?

Do they have the lifestyle you aspire to?

We are continually evolving and need to continually review of who and what we bring into our lives. This doesn’t mean you have to drop all your old friends, however, it is sometimes necessary to remove negative influences that bring you down.

Don't be a S.N.I.O.P!

First, you need a target to aim for.

Make a list of 20 wealthy and/or successful people you want as a part of your inner circle. Maybe people you have not thought of yet...

Once you have your list, determine 2-3 people who inspire you and focus on making a connection with them, right away.

You must become intentional about creating new, beneficial relationships.

Reading about someone's success, and how they achieved it is extremely beneficial, but being able to pick up the phone and make a call, or send an email, or go for coffee, is way better.

One way to do this is to think of the most successful person in your community. Now think of how you can make a connection with them...

What clubs are they apart of? What events do they attend? What charities do they sponsor? These are all great opportunities to make a connection and break the ice.

When reaching out always remember to provide value. No one likes to feel like they are being used, or to be pestered by someone who wants something for nothing.

Spend some time focused on making new connections that will help you reach your success goals. This will be time well spent, and could lead to new lifelong friendships, and even partnerships.

This is not about finding a mentor or coach. We’ll cover in a future blog.

Go and meet and connected with even more people… YES! More! We can never have too large of a network, especially in this “small world.” You just never know what will come of one connection that you make at one event. (Consider this a "kick in the pants" to get crack'in on your network expansion for 2015!).

How is this relevant to your future success? Well, a successful brain is trained to constantly expand and evolve. It’s never too shy to reach out and make new connections with people of influence.

Like they say… “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

I once attended a free seminar that was selling speaker training. I had no intention of buying the training, however the guy I was sitting next to turned into a business partner. It was certainly worth going out of my way to meet new people.

So right now in this moment, sit up taller, shine your confidence forth to the world, act from where you want to be, and the next time you go to an event, approach those people who you may have turned away from introducing yourself to in the past because you didn’t feel confident enough.

Step into your power. Step into the knowing that you are already successful.

To your success,

Trevor Long

Learn anything in 10 or 20 hours

Learn anything in 10 or 20 hours

I want to show you how to teach yourself any skill extremely quickly.

We get better at we repeatedly do. For example, if you want to learn to write, the best way is to start writing (just as I did with this blog!).

'They' say, if you want to be an expert in anything, there's a rule that you need 10,000 hours doing that thing. 10,000 hours equates to years of your life to master a skill. Not very cool is it?

That's rather daunting too. And it's not really necessary unless you want to be at the level of Andy Murray or Roger Federer. Well, what if I told you there was a 1,000 hour rule, a 100 hour rule, and even a 10 hour rule? (And a 20 hour rule according to Josh Kaufman).

If you practice something for 1,000 hours straight, you will most likely be in the top percentage in the world. You won’t be a Novak Djokovic, but you will be extremely better than the average person at whatever you do.

Most people don’t have the patience to stick at something for this long. In fact, the majority of people don’t have the patience to stick with anything for too long. Most people don't finish reading a book, or completing a course, there is an awful lot of 'shelf help' out there. So here’s where you get a leg up… by doing what the majority is not willing to do, so that you can have what others can't.

If you practice something for 100 hours straight, you will most likely be “good” at whatever you are doing. Our brains quickly adapt.

If you practice something for 10 hours straight. You will most likely be “OK” at whatever you are doing.

Our brains make the first gains in the first 10 to 100 hours of practicing a new skill. After that progress is much slower.

So put in the first 10 or 20 hours into a new skill (less than a day!) to impress yourself, your friends and colleagues, with whatever new skill you want to develop.

Put ten hours into that new skill you want to learn. You will be surprised how fast you can get past that initial “newbie” phase.

What is the one main skill that you want to learn and master in order to advance yourself and increase your value?

Put in 1 hour right now. Everything is hard in the beginning. Get past the beginning.

This will take you...

To your success,
Trevor Long

Off the Court

The Australian Open Tennis Championships are dominating the media and conversations this Australia Day.

Just like any major sporting event, we see the best of the best of the best of the best congregate to do battle.

With the exception of one player, all of the players in to the top 8 Men's singles are in the top 10 ranked players in the world.

The cream floats to the top.



We look at what they do on the court and are impressed with their skills and determination.

But what about what they are doing off the court? How did they get to enter such competitions in the first place?

Well, the majority of them started very young, they played, they persisted and continued playing.

They traveled away from home over 30 weeks a year, and spent another 15 or so in off season training. They shared rooms with other players, they ate junk because that was all they could afford, yet they had a dream, goals, and they persisted.

And even when they've 'made it', they are still training about 4 hours a day, even when they have a grueling match. They've got strength training, endurance training, and that's on top of tennis training.

There are no overnight successes. There is no success without hard work and commitment.

What are you doing 'off the court'?

To your success,
Trevor Long