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Business, Darren Hardy - Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:49 - 3 Comments
Part 16: ACTION!
Review: INTRO, GETTING READY & Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
“I think there is something more important than believing: action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.” —W. Clement Stone
The Final Step: Action—Yes, You Have to Actually Work
Contrary to movie lore, you can’t just sit on your tush on your couch and imagine checks coming into your mailbox. If you do, you won’t have that couch for long. You have to act on your plans. You have to get off the couch, walk out your door and work that tush off to get what you want in life. Doing must follow planning.
All the planning, pondering and philosophizing in the world won’t produce your desired results. All the contemplation, envisioning, affirmations, chanting, positive thinking and meditation won’t materialize your goals if you do not take action.
“Affirmation without action leads to delusion.” —Jim Rohn
Napoleon Hill once asked an audience, “What is the average number of times that a person tries to achieve a new goal before they give up?” After several guesses from the audience, he gave the answer: Continue…
- Part 15: How to WIN—Every Time!
Review: INTRO, GETTING READY & Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
As we head into the final stretch of this incredible journey, I want to offer you one final gift. It’s one of my greatest strategies for creating extraordinary success, and now–if you choose– it can be [...] - Part 14: S-T-R-E-T-C-H Yourself
Review:INTRO, GETTING READY & Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13If you are going to achieve goals you have never achieved before, you must be willing to do what you have never done before.
One of those things is to allow, no actually push, yourself to FAIL. And if you want to succeed big, you have to fail big. There is no way around it.
When I was only 20 years old, I got into residential real estate sales. It was the early ’90s, and the real estate market was as tough as it is right now. I knew nothing about the real estate business; I had no prior experience, clientele or even credibility—I wasn’t even old enough to drink! But in just 90 days, I was outselling (new listings and pending escrows) an entire office of 44 veteran agents—combined!
The strategy I am going to reveal to you made that possible and is one of my personal-achievement secret weapons. I now offer it to you…
When I went to my first real estate seminar, I asked the lecturer to lunch. I asked him for his best tip on being successful in real estate. His answer was, “Go fail—a lot.”
“What?!” I said. “I thought the whole idea of success was to avoid failure.” “Quite the opposite,” he said. Then he told me a quote from Tom Watson of IBM: “The key to success is massive failure.” He said, “Your goal is to out-fail your competition. Whoever can fail the most, the fastest and the biggest wins.”
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- Part 13: Success Cycles
Review:INTRO, GETTING READY & Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 10, 11, 12We are human. We cannot be 100 percent 100 percent of the time. We cannot improve every area of our life simultaneously. We cannot do everything at the same time. When we try is when we fail, burn out or blow up.
Nature works in cycles. As with the seasons, there is a time to learn, a time to produce, a time to harvest and a time to rest. Farmers, schoolchildren, and even professional athletes operate in seasons. That approach to life can help you excel, too.
I want to explain an advanced achievement strategy that will help you make greater progress toward your goals—faster. It’s a concept called: Working in Success Cycles.
Let me give you an example. Let’s say you and I are going to race from Los Angeles to New York City. We both have planes. You have a 747, which travels at a cruising speed of 875 mph. I have a mere Learjet, which travels at 400 mph. Now, if I fly straight through, but you have to land and take off in the 10 states in between—taxiing, parking and going through your preflight checklist before taking off again—who is going to win? CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING
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- VIDEO: Final Keynote at Jim Rohn Tribute Event
VIDEO: Darren Hardy’s Final Keynote at Jim Rohn Tribute Event
On Saturday, February 6th, 2010 1,300 people attended a special tribute to celebrate the life and legacy of the renown leader and business philosopher, Mr. Jim Rohn.
Shown in photo: Harvey Mackay, Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Tony Robbins, Darren Hardy, Denis Waitely and Chris Widener
CLICK HERE to watch Darren Hardy’s final keynote to honor and wrap up the tribute to Jim Rohn. - Part 11: Building Your SUPPORT Systems
Review:INTRO, GETTING READY & Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 10So you now have your well-designed goals—fantastic!
You also have your plan of action to achieve them—hooray!
You even have your achievement-management system set to keep you on track with that plan—bravo!
What could possibly get in your way now?
Actually, 6,692,030,277 things (the world’s current population), or at least those people whom you circulate with regularly.
This reminds me of the title for one of Connie Podesta’s books: Life Would Be Easy If It Weren’t for Other People. So true, so true.
Your associations are one of the most powerful influences (I will discuss the most powerful influence on Thursday) that determine whether you will stick to your goals or get forever derailed.
Dr. David McClelland of Harvard University concluded after 25 years of research that the choice of a negative “reference group” was in itself enough to condemn a person to failure and underachievement in life. Whoa! Scary, isn’t it?
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- Video Update from Darren Hardy–End of Week 5
Here’s a summary of week five in our journey towards Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life where Ianswer your questions and give you a course update.I’ve also selected some of your questions and observations left in the comments sections along with some of my responses. I hope you find it helpful to peruse through the common questions and insights shared by others experiencing the process along with you.
- Part 10: Remain F-L-E-X-I-B-L-E
Review:INTRO, GETTING READY & Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9
Have you ever heard the adage, “I will accomplish this even if it kills me”? Well, in my early years of goal setting and achieving… I came pretty darn close to “crossing over” just to meet the goals I had set for myself! I also missed a lot of other opportunities along the way.I became so focused, so dogmatic about the goals I had set and my specific plans to achieve them that my blinders kept me from 1) seeing easier and faster routes to my destination, and 2) that some of the goals that were important earlier in the year or at the beginning of the decade were less important than I originally believed.
One of the greatest challenges to success is learning how to stay focused on your goals while remaining flexible enough to adapt to needed change.
Even though we have declared S.M.A.R.T. goals and designed a very specific strategic plan to achieve them, it is equally important to remain open and flexible along the way. If you look back at most of your defining moments, or the pivotal events that transformed your life, I bet most were unplanned and happened unexpectedly. Life is a mystery; you never know what might show up and you can’t be so myopic that you miss opportunities and solutions you couldn’t have even fathomed before.
Murphy’s Law and the T-shirt Philosophy
You know ol’ Murph right? The oh-too familiar friend who always seems to show up at your party at the most embarrassing and worst-possible times. Well Murphy lives to teach us this: If something can go wrong, it will. Don’t be too attached to the route you first charted, as you will undoubtedly be reevaluating and readjusting all along the way. Imagine CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
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- Part 9: Your Achievement Management System
You have your ambitious and appropriate goals that are based on your strengths and opportunities and have been whole-life balanced. You know who you want to become, who you want to serve and you have the strategic plan of action to achieve all your worthy goals.
Now it is time to create an execution system to implement your plan in the real world—your world.
Some of the best of intentions and greatest plans have failed because there wasn’t a system of execution to see them through. When it comes down to it, your new plans, your new actions, your new behavior, have to be implemented into your monthly, weekly and ultimately daily routine. A routine is something you do every day without fail… and eventually without thinking about it.
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- Video Update from Darren Hardy–End of Week 4
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Here’s a summary of week four in our journey towards Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life where Ianswer your questions and give you a course update.
I’ve also selected some of your questions and observations left in the comments sections along with some of my responses. I hope you find it helpful to peruse through the common questions and insights shared by others experiencing the process along with you. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO
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- Part 8: Your Strategic Plan of Action
Review:INTRO, GETTING READY & Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
The difference between a dream or fantasy and a goal you will achieve is:
1) writing it down (what we have already done) and,
2) outlining a specific plan to achieve the goal (what we will do in this installment).Now it is time to formulate your strategic plan of action.
I explained early on in this series how goals work (you can review here). When you know what you are looking for, it gives your mind a ‘new set of eyes’ to see the world around you. You begin to notice the people, resources and even ideas needed for achieving your goal. But if your goal is defined only by an audacious and distant destination, your mind may be thrown off by elusiveness and ambiguity. It doesn’t know what to look for to help you get there.
The mind operates best with precise instructions. A three-digit lock has 18,333 potential combinations. When you have the specific three numbers in the right sequence, opening the lock is easy. If you don’t have the combination—or precise instructions—opening the lock is almost impossible. Making a specific and strategic plan of action provides the mind with the instructions it needs to get you to your desired destination.
Making a plan to accomplish your goals can be compared to planning a cross-country road trip. If you were going to travel across the country, say, from my hometown in San Diego to Manhattan, you would consider the following: CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
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- Part 7: GIVE what you WANT
Review:INTRO, GETTING READY & PARTS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
On your journey to achieving your goals, this one shift in your mindset can radically change how the world around you responds to and receives you.
The process of goal-setting can make you very myopic and ME-focused. If we really want to get what we want, we have to remember one of the oldest success principles: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Or as Zig Ziglar puts it: “You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
What if that is true?
What if you knew for sure that everything you gave you would receive back tenfold? How much would you give? What would you give? How fast would you give it?What do you want? What attributes do you need to accomplish your goals?
Do you need more courage? Who can you encourage?
Do you need more strength? Who can you help strengthen?
Do you need more belief? Who can you believe in?
Do you need more confidence? Who can you instill confidence in?
Do you need more love? Who can you love?In the last installment we discovered CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
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- Video Update from Darren Hardy–End of Week 3
Here’s a summary of week three in our journey towards Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life where I answer your questions and give you a course update.I’ve also selected some of your questions and observations left in the comments sections along with some of my responses. I hope you find it helpful to peruse through the common questions and insights shared by others experiencing the process along with you.
Please watch the video: CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEOIn case you missed any of the worksheet downloads: - Part 6: The MAGIC Factor to Achieving Your Goals
Review: INTRO, GETTING READY & PARTS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Typically, the first thought that comes to mind after writing down a goal is, “What do I need to do to accomplish this?” That, unfortunately, is not the right question to ask.
Let me give you an example—When I was single and ready to find my wife and be married, I made a long list of the qualities of the perfect woman (for me). I filled up more than 40 pages describing my wife to be in great detail—her personality, character, key attributes, attitudes and philosophies about life, tastes, interests, even what kind of family she’d come from, culture, and of course physical makeup down to the texture of her hair, etc. I wrote in depth what our life would be like and what we’d do together.
I then had my goal and it was specific, measureable, attainable (I hoped!), relevant and time-sensitive. If I then asked, ‘What do I have to do to find and get this girl?,’ I might still be on that butterfly chase. Jim Rohn taught me, “Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue eludes you. Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more.” So what I did was CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
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- Part 5 — The GRAND DESIGN!
Review: INTRO, GETTING READY & PARTS 1, 2, 3, 4
Ready to write (and right) your future?Ready to be bold, dream big and put it (your aspirations) on the line (literally)?Ready to proclaim your BHAGs (Big, Hairy and Audacious Goals)?
This is it. It’s time for the GRAND DESIGN.This is actually the easy part. You knew about goal-setting before this course—how to make a list of what you want to accomplish in the next one to 10 years.The difficult part has been the process we have gone through to get here—figuring out who you really are, assessing how you’ve done in life so far, and most important, what assets, strengths and opportunities you have to work with going forward. We’ll come to another big challenge later in the series when we work on figuring out how to take the dreams, ambitions and big goals from your Grand Design and develop the plan of action to achieve them. But right now we’re going to focus on developing your Grand Design. And as a result, you’ll identify the person, the accomplishments and the life you have always wanted to have. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE - Part 4: Your BALANCE Sheet
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Review: INTRO, GETTING READY & Parts 1, 2, & 3
In the previous installments, we inventoried your current assets, liabilities, strengths and weaknesses. We also looked at your potential opportunities and threats to your future. [...] - Part 3: Finding Your Unique Advantage
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Review: INTRO, WHY & HOW, PART 1 and PART 2
We’ve examined your life thus far and have looked into your future and established what direction you want your life to take from this point [...] - Video Update from Darren Hardy
A VIDEO MESSAGE FROM DARREN HARDY:
Here’s a summary of week one in our journey towards Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life.
Darren Hardy answers your questions and gives you a course update.
Please watch the video below:NOTE:In order to access the worksheets/documents, click on the links at the bottom of the e-mails you receive through [...]
- Why You Exist — Finding and Defining Your Major Purpose
Review: INTRO, HOW and WHY and INSTALLMENT #1
This is one of the most important installments of the process.
Here, we will delve into some of the great questions of our humanity and individual lives: Why are you here? What is your life’s purpose? What difference will you make? How will you be remembered? Who [...] - Review & Gratitude
Ahhhh, smell that?
That is the smell of rarified air.
Welcome to the top 3 percent!By choosing to participate in this program and go through this process, you have separated yourself from almost everyone else—or at least from the remaining 97 percent of the population that doesn’t give thoughtful contemplation to their life’s desires and chart a [...]
- Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life - WHY & HOW…
Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life:
Your Personal Strategic Plan for Achieving Lifelong Goals by Darren Hardy
Starting January, 5th 2010
Before we get started next week, I wanted to share with you a personal message about WHY I am doing this program… and why for FREE (I always like to know someone’s motivation)… and a [...] - The Life Changing Process of Goal Setting
Next week we start the process of Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life.
This program is jam-packed with information to help you unearth your greatest dreams, desires and inner potential.
You’ll learn how to accelerate your life faster, go farther and live grander than you ever dared imagine.
In fact, we have so much ground [...] - The Art of Chitchat
I hate chitchat. Hate it.
I know I am probably (not probably, definitely am) an overly intense person. I want to be engaged in something that is meaningful and “on purpose” at all times—even when I am “off” and not working. To sit around and shoot-the-(well, you know) and talk about the weather, football scores or [...] - Designing the Best 10 Years of Your Life — Introduction
We are entering a brand new decade.
Think about where you were 10 years ago, when we began a new millennium, the year 2000. Seems like only yesterday, right?
Are you where you’d thought you’d be 10 years later, when you looked forward back then?
Are you leading the life you envisioned?
Do you have the income, lifestyle, [...] - To Sell or Not To Sell, That Is the Question
Two of the most important aspects of selling are asking questions and listening.
The proper questions will make the prospect tell you everything you need to sell him or her. Effective listening skills will give you the power and self-discipline to uncover facts/needs and then formulate a response that moves the buyer to a decision.
Man [...] - How to Sell or Why They Buy
(download free Buying Motives e-book below)People don’t like to be sold, but they love to buy is my #1 (trademarked) rule of selling. It is an undeniable rule that on the surface seems relatively simplistic, but when you dig deeper, you’ll find the complexity lies in uncovering the MOTIVE of why people buy.
Uncovering buying motives goes against the strategy [...]
- Declaration of Windependence:
The SUCCESS Sales Challenge Begins!Register for the Success Sales Challenge with Jeffrey Gitomer here >>>
After is a self-defeating word. It robs you of the present, and resigns you to wait without taking any action.
You convince yourself that life will be better after something: After you get a new job, after you get a better job, after you get [...] - What Difference Do You Make?
It’s said you will only be remembered for one of two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
Abraham Lincoln made a difference that changed the world forever, but so did Hitler. Both men are equally remembered, but for which problems do you want to be remembered? The ones you solved or the [...] - Even the Most Fearsome are Fearful
Ever wonder what drives people to be mean, vicious, violent and cruel? Is it a lack of humanity, “bad genes” or the “the devil” at work? There is a simpler answer: FEAR. I saw the documentary Tyson this weekend. Mike Tyson was once the most feared human being on the planet. What was behind his ferociousness? His own inexorable fear.Tyson grew up on the meanest streets of Brooklyn, where he was robbed, bullied and humiliated by older boys. At the time, he was too scared to fight back, and as he later candidly admitted, “I’m afraid of being that way again.”When a thug gratuitously killed one of his pet pigeons, Tyson went wild and beat the kid up. Once he learned to fight, he was never going to let himself be “bullied” again, “because if anyone tried to humiliate me again, I would kill them.”The director of the film explained in an interview, “Fear was CONTINUED HERE
- FREE Audio Excerpts — Mark Sanborn
This is a continuation (listen to segment #1 here) to the additional audio experts we are releasing from our Mark Sanborn audio interview, originally recorded for our October issue of SUCCESS.
SEGMENT #2 – In this segment Mark discusses why you need to have passion and process in order to be successful. CLICK HERE
SEGMENT #3 –In this segment Mark explains why you need to think beyond your current experiences and influences if you want to achieve greatness. CLICK HERE
- Pinching from Across the Pond
I just returned from several glorious weeks of travel throughout Europe. Like all experiences, I want to observe and assess what I might learn, share and use to enhance my own life and further my insight. Below are a few lessons I gleaned from our jovial kin across the pond.
1. Service is a profession. In [...] - FREE Audio Excerpts: Dr. Rao & Mark Sanborn
This is a continuation (listen to segment #1 and #2 here) to the additional audio experts we are releasing from our Dr. Rao audio interview, originally recorded for our October issue of SUCCESS.
Dr. Rao was featured in our September issue and is the former professor who taught a personal-development course at both the Columbia University [...] - Become a Laughingstock
Have you heard the joke about… the guy who wanted to sell water (the stuff we were used to getting for free!) for more money than sodas or even beer? Or how about the one who wanted to start a new airline, the bloodbath of competition, during the dot-com crash? Then there is the one [...]
- FREE Audio Excerpts - Dr. Srikumar Rao
If you read SUCCESS (I hope you do!), you saw Dr. Rao featured in the pages of our September issue. The response was so great that we were compelled to bring him back and interview him live for everyone to hear on the CD inside of the October issue of SUCCESS.
Dr. Rao is the former [...] - Rise Up and Take Control
This month we want to help you take control of your life. When I was 18 years old, I was invited to a seminar that I believe really flipped on the light switch of my potential. That day, those ideas changed my life forever.
There is one idea in particular I’d like to pass on to [...] - Pick a Fight
The phrase “life balance” is malarkey. Here is another one: “LOVE is all there is.” Ah, no, there is HATE too.
Everyone needs an enemy.Luke had Darth Vader.
Batman had the Joker.
David had Goliath.
Twenty-somethings rage against “The Man.”
Rush Limbaugh has the liberals.
Lance Armstrong has cancer.
Apple has Microsoft.
Rocky had Apollo [...] - The Hollywood Illusion
It’s my and my wife’s weekly date night, and I think I’m doing pretty well so far so I ask my wife, “On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rank this date night?” (a practice I picked up from Jack Canfield). She says, “An 8.” So I ask, “What would it take [...]
- Unhook Yourself from the Matrix
Do you ever get…?
Joint pain
Stiff back
Dry eyes
Runny nose
Restless legs
Tired in the afternoon
Angry while sitting in traffic
A craving for chocolate
Unruly hairIf you experience any of these symptoms, consult your doctor. You may be suffering from—BEING HUMAN!
Last night I walked into the kitchen where my wife was preparing dinner and the TV was on in the background [...] - Extreme Leadership–Steve Farber Interview Follow-up
Last month I interviewed bestselling author, speaker and leadership coach Steve Farber for our exclusive SUCCESS Audio Series. The response has been so great that Steve and I decided to offer some free follow-up ideas and material here for everyone to benefit from.
During the interview we discussed the concept of Steve’s book: Greater Than Yourself: [...] - “Life Balance” is a Crock
What does…
A pot of gold at the end of a rainbow
A “functional” family
And “life balance”
… all have in common?
They all sound neato, but none of them really exist.
As a follow-up to the Forgotten “Secrets” to Success and our decline of hard work ethic, one of the great misnomers I continually hear touted by toga-wearing “life [...] - FREE BONUS SUCCESS AUDIOS
Interviews between SUCCESSPublisher, Darren Hardy and Jack Canfield
For the CD bound into the August issue of SUCCESS I sat down with success expert and bestselling co-author of the billion franchise Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Canfield, to get his insights on a few important topics.
These exclusive interviews are usually only available to our SUCCESS [...] - If You Don’t Fall, You Aren’t Getting Better
No Pain, No Gain
My dad taught me to snow ski when I was 6 years old. By the time I was 8, I was skiing on my own. At the end of a full ski day, I eagerly announced, “Dad, I didn’t fall once all day!” My dad replied, “If you didn’t fall, you didn’t [...] - The Forgotten “Secrets” to Success
Over the next several posts, I’d like to help clear up some of the very dangerous illusions I think our current culture has created about what it takes to be successful.
Hollywood, commercialism and our own decadence has falsified our reality and is leading us into a form of self-destruction.
What Ever Happened to HARD WORK?
I interviewed [...] - You Lose One-out-of-Five for Being Too Aggressive
When I was in real estate there was this mega successful mortgage broker named Mari Mahoney. She did more business than any ten “successful” mortgage agents combined.I asked her how she did it; what was her key to success. She rapidly responded with, “I lose one out of five for being too aggressive, but I get the other four!”
This statement, this philosophy, this testimony changed my life.
- Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 12)
Learn Less. Study More.
As the chief champion of self-education and continual learning, this probably sounds like an odd statement, but here is the conundrum I think we find ourselves in. For any SUCCESS reader, and certainly anyone reading this blog, learning is not what we lack; in fact, it might be what’s bottlenecking us.
Beyond CDs, DVDs and books, we also live in an age of e-zines, blogs, RSS feeds, personalized readers, Digg, Facebook, Twitter, et al. We have a never-ending flow of ideas, tips, quotes, suggestions and advice being constantly pumped at us. Swimming in a sea of infinite information, we paddle like crazy just to keep our nose above water. It can be exhausting, right?
- Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 11)
Refueling the jets… Learning to Value Time Off
How does America regain its supremacy in the productive world? How do you improve your personal productivity?
ANSWER: Go on vacation.
438 million. That is the number of vacation days American’s failed to take in 2007 according to Harris Interactive research group. More than any other industrialized nation. - Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 10: How To)
This post is to outline the best practices I have learned in hiring virtual and local assistants to help me stay focused on high-value functions in my unique strength zone.
- Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 10)
Promote Yourself from Soldier to General of Your Own Life
As stated in Step 7 we all have exactly the same number of days in a week and number of hours in a day. Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump and the checker at the grocery store have exactly the same amount of time each day. [...] - Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 8)
The Sharpening of Your Ax
Winning is determined by what happens before the game.
Discovering methods to achieve substantially more in your life—in the same or less time—is the purpose of this 12-step program. Each step offers solutions to do more with less effort and stress. In our current work culture, we create so many tasks that [...] - In a Word—WOW! Lessons, Laughs and Key Takeaways from This Weekend’s SUCCESS Symposium
What a sensational event! More than 2,000 people came from all over the world-20 countries in all! What an honor it was to meet and host people from the Netherlands, Australia, England, India, Bulgaria, Norway and Germany, as well as people from all over the United States and Canada who came in just to attend [...]
- Workaholics Anonymous – A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 7)
This step has been called “the greatest secret of the rich.”
There is one force in our life that makes everyone equal. You are given the same amount as Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump. How you handle and treat this force is the single most important contributor to the income you will have and [...] - Recession Gives Rise to the NEW Wealthy
Strike while the iron is hot!
THIS IS the time of greatest opportunity for entrepreneurs.
I am serious – you need to heed this call to action. This is not some Pollyanna, head-in-the-clouds statement – this is a fact of history.
“Old money” failures give way to “new money” opportunities:
Every so often our capital structure “purges” and the existing [...] - Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (2nd-Quarter Checkup)
Time for a midcourse review… Have you been enjoying the journey? Have you started to gain some sanity in the chaos of our always “on” culture? Are you producing more with less stress and bigger results?
Here is what’s important to assess: It’s not what you know, it’s what you do. Information is not power; it [...] - Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 6)
In this step I am going to reveal one of my greatest weapons for beating the competition and achieving in every area of life.
AND I am going to answer one of life’s greatest age-old questions: How does the tortoise always beat the hare in a race?
I used to get frustrated when starting a new venture [...] - Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 5)
In Step 4 I reminded you of the importance of being selective with the input you allow to feed your mind. It is a never-ending battle to stand guard against input that can derail your creative potential. Controlling the input that gets into your head has a direct and measurable impact on your productivity and [...]
- Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 4)
The purpose of this series is to awaken ourselves to the potentially harmful behavior patterns modern society has inflicted upon our psyche and ultimately our lifestyle. Many of these new patterns potentially derail us from the ambitions and achievements we desire. In the next two posts I will discuss the two most powerful influences that [...]
- Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 3)
WARNING… you might be successfully failing! Even a finely tuned and designed Ferrari will fail if driven in the direction of a brick wall.
STEP 3 – Separate Efficiency from Effectiveness
What if you are doing the WRONG things RIGHT?
Here is where we are so far:
In Step 1 we figured out the things we needed to stop [...] - Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 2)
The speed of life has never been faster than it is today… and it is speeding up exponentially.
Consider this:
• There is more information in a daily edition of The New York Times than a person experienced in their lifetime in the 18th century.
• More information is added to the Internet in one week than was [...] - Workaholics Anonymous – Your STOP Doing List (Comments from Step 1)
It was difficult to select from your excellent STOP DOING suggestions. Below are 10 great ones with bonus suggestion I particularly like!
1. STOP doing tasks that do not pay me my appropriate hourly rate.
2. STOP trying to make everything perfect.
3. STOP letting my days go on forever. Get a good night’s rest.
4. STOP checking email [...] - Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 1)
In my last blog post (read here) I took a major step in making this my best year ever: I admitted that I’m a workaholic in need of intervention. I know many of you out there are like me—in constant motion but never quite able to move beyond relative success.
So, as promised, I’m going to [...] - Hi. My Name is Darren Hardy and I am an Addict.
My 12-Step Program to Recovery and Life Revival
I am a card-carrying workaholic. Don’t get me wrong; I love to work - that’s my problem. I have discovered that my addiction to work is actually costing me achievement. I have recently had some insights into superachievement—several behaviors that separate the hardworking, ambitious-minded person from the superachiever.
Over [...] - I Double-Dog Dare You To Try This…
WARNING: This can be very scary and NOT for the faint-of-heart.
Do you want to face a real challenge, one that might strip you bare and leave you exposed? How committed are you to your personal growth? Do you want to break out of your rut and take your life to the next level? Try this… [...] - 5 Ideas for Making Meaningful Memories This Holiday
Something Jim Rohn taught me is—it’s not the time you invest, it’s the investment you make in the time you spend with those you care about that makes the difference. You can leave creating a great time and wonderful memories to chance, or you can weave the tapestry of a wonderful experience through great design [...]
- Important Video Messages from Darren Hardy
Important Message 1 — Media Madness
STOP THE INSANITY! It is time to take back control of your brain. You are continually being pumped with fear, worry and anxiety riddled messages. This could be having a profound impact on your creative potential and hindering you in ways you might not even be aware of. Watch the [...] - The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch Show This Thursday
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The show topic is “How to Make Good Money in Bad Times” Plus, get key tips and entrepreneurial ideas about how to recession-proof your income.
Their demographics: CNBC airs in 95 million homes [...]
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