Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category

Ivan and Julie are a highly motivated business team. They have owned several businesses together and have a genuine passion for helping others get out of their day job by generating passive and multiple streams of income.

Here’s a heartwarming story of a husband and wife who discovered their passion by showing up, networking and then capitalising on their relationships. With modest beginnings on a farm and not knowing anything about event management and filling up big rooms, they shared their journey’s greatest setbacks, lessons and triumphs.

In this interview you will discover:

- How to break free from years of bad financial conditioning and take the leap

- How to make the shift from doing what you hate (that pays the bills) to doing what you love (that pays for your living expenses and allows you to go on regular holidays!)

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Mentors should play a strong role in your progression towards your goals. Every successful person I’ve met, interviewed or read about at one point had someone who was smarter, more experienced and wealthier than they are, regardless of how successful they are.

But guess what? Even mentors get blocks! That’s right. They’re human. They get held back by their own ‘stuff’. So, don’t be too hard on yourself if you know if you’ve been holding yourself back. The first step, is to identify that is even the case!

What I have for you in today’s post are the lessons I learned from a private coaching call I had with a mentor of mine (who wishes to remain anonymous). He shared freely and unreservedly about his own journey and growth through his projects. It’s quite amazing, because what I noticed is the same sort of ‘junk’ runs through most peoples heads regardless of whether it is only a small project or if they are playing a bigger game! It’s how you deal with it that counts.

For anonymity, we’re going to call my mentor Mystery Mentor (MM)

Distinction #1 – Don’t sit and hatch

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The motivational material out there is many and varied. You’ll find thousands of books and programs on the topics and seminar speakers everywhere talking about it.

But motivation implies that it’s a temporary emotional state. That’s why you feel energised after reading a book or attending an event, but the next day it wears off and you’re back to where you started.

Why is that?

I believe it comes to finding your deeper core motivations, ones that aren’t affected by day to day activity.

Jim Rohn once said ‘If you find the why, the how becomes easy’. And that’s exactly what I’m referring to.

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BRW Young Rich member, Founder Australian Institute of Fitness and Max Fitness, Author, Speaker and Australian BodySculpting Champion

Rowena and I spoke about her journey from immigrant to making the BRW young Rich List. She shared some little known strategies you should implement in your business (that enabled her to buy her first Ferrari within a few short years) and how to balance your own lifestyle with your professional success. You can’t help but smile when you hear how passionate and happy she is about…. LIFE!

In this interview you will discover:

- How to build lasting wealth, and stay balanced in other areas

- How to help others to be happy and successful

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You’ve heard me talk a bit about outsourcing in previous posts.

If you’re doing it alone, eventually you’ll be doing stuff that’s just treading water, and treading water is not a percentage of the growth of the business. It’s hours. There’s only a certain amount of hours in a day, and if you’re doing things that directly generate revenue, you’re not only losing time but money aswell.

It will get to the point where it becomes three hours a day, four hours a day, five hours a day, six hours a day and eight hours a day where all you’re doing is treading water and remember, if you’re not swimming forward, eventually, it will kill your business.

Concentrate on your strengths. Know what your strengths are and that’s what you want to focus on in your business, and try to delegate everything else.

Know the value of your time. This is very important!! Here’s a quick little exercise that we can do.

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Founder of Budget Rent-a-car, Entrepreneur and Best Selling Author of 2 Books, Patron of UQ Enterprize Competition

Bob revealed the grassroots of his early journey into business, and how he built and created a multi-million dollar business (Budget Rent-a-Car) from scratch with a ‘can do’ philosophy in a competitive industry and financially uncertain economic climate. You’ll also learn a bunch of leadership principles and how to think outside the box to give your team the edge and your business an advantage over your competitors.

In this interview you will discover:

- How he structured and nurtured his business and what steps he took to achieve it

- The winning philosophies of his company that created strong staff morale and differentiated him from the competition

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This is part 2 in a 3 part series. Read Part 1 here.

Consider getting a tech person. That is the #1 area that you should first look to outsource. So what skills should they have? when I first started looking, I had no idea.

I asked some of my colleagues who were doing it, and they shed some light on what’s worked for them. Here’s what’s worked for me, and with this range of skills, I’m confident your worker will be able to fulfill most if not all of your technical requests:

You could ask for a ‘Web Developer’. This title encompasses a range of skills. The main ones you’ll need are:

– Skills in coding php, html, css

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As part of my MBA, I studied a great book titled ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins.
The book explores the foundations of some of the biggest and longest lasting companies that have impacted human society in recent history, and I’d like to give you the essence of it today.

Me with a Hedgehog in Bali!

One of the major concepts in the book was the Hedgehog Concept:

When a hedgehog gets into trouble, it rolls into a ball, sticks its spines out, and it does that one thing really well.

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Recently, I attended Tony Robbins last ever UPW event in Sydney.

I wanted to share with you all the amazing lessons and reflections learned from the event.

Experiencing Anthony Robbins live was out of this world. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t see Tony as a ‘motivator’ – he has helped me improve all aspects of my life ever since I started to listening to him on audio a few years ago. It became a life goal of mine to go see him live, and when an opportunity came up I bit the dust and threw a few thousand $$ on the table for a front row seat.

The first day included the FIREWALK. But here’s the thing – it’s not really about the firewalk. The firewalk is irrelevant. It represents a metaphor – getting into such a peak state that any obstacle in front of you doesn’t exist. If you’ve ever played sport at a high level or done anything where you’ve been totally in the zone, this would compare to the state Tony helps put you in before the walk.

As we stormed out clapping in unison, chanting ‘YES, YES’ the whole crowd bonded and there was an atmosphere that I’ll never forget. Most of us had been totally starved for the whole day by now (Tony hadn’t given any breaks for 8 hours straight) dehydrated, emotionally smashed and beat up and many still coming to terms with potential ending up with severe burns on their feet…. but everyone was so revved up and the collective energy was a rare occurence that I might only have felt on the most memorable of New Years celebrations when the clock struck midnight.

By my calculations by nights end over 99% of the 5000 had done the walk, many 2 or 3 times. I saw elderly women aged 70+ do it and I also saw 10 and 11 year olds choose to conquer their inner demons. It was a liberating experience. Hell, after walking on fire, making a few bucks online doesn’t seem so daunting anymore.

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All successful people know one important fact and live by it:

You earn money only through satisfying the needs and wants of others.

Think carefully about that last sentence before you shake your head. Nothing is bought, sold or traded that does not satisfy some need or fulfill someone’s desire. Make the welfare of others a chief priority in your life and you hold an important key to lasting success. Find ways to better serve your customers, business partners, colleagues, friends, family and others to the best of your ability. This must be foremost in your mind and reflected in your daily decisions and actions.

It is only by helping others to their success that you guarantee your own.

Trouble only arises when you change your focus from cooperation with others to focusing strictly on yourself; when your thoughts turn towards problems or your own profit then trouble begins.
Just learning to dedicate yourself to the person you are talking to or dealing with, will increase your success in business immediately and substantially!

If you enjoy doing this, you will be not only successful, but happy as well. This is the only way to true happiness: find a need (that unfulfilled, bothers many people) and enjoy filling it. If people do not want or need what you offer (we are not talking only about products and services, but your ideas as well!), you can waste much energy without any (or very little) success.
This idea is easy to understand. When you act in the best interest of others, people recognize and appreciate your commitment to them and reward that commitment by giving you their energy (business, time, attention, loyalty, money) back. Its as easy as that.

Always remember: Your problems are of no interest to the vast majority of people, however, you can solve the vast majority of your own problems by simply helping others solve theirs.

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