A Test.....

Are you willing to participate 100%?

Here’s your test…..

I want you to take 5 minutes RIGHT NOW, and list your 5 BIGGEST GOALS for 2008. These are the goals that IF YOU ACHIEVE THEM you will KNOW that 2008 was a successful year. DO IT NOW.

DO NOT READ FURTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE ACTUALLY DONE IT.

TAKE 5 MINUTES RIGHT NOW AND DO THE TEST.








If you’ve actually done what I asked you to do, then I congratulate you. If you’re still reading, and didn’t do the test, let’s examine why this happened, and what it means for you and your chances of success.

The BIG lesson here, is that the truly successful people in life aren’t content to just read and think about successful ideas. They are focused on action. They are focused on DOING.

You read the test. And if you didn’t do the test, why didn’t you do it? Did that little voice inside your head say…..”I don’t actually have to do it, let’s just see what Jeff writes next”, or maybe……..”that’s too much thinking, I kinda know what I want, that’s good enough”, or maybe…..”I never accomplish any of my goals anyways, why would I even want to bother anymore”. Whatever that little voice inside your head did to stop you this time, is THE SAME STORY IT TELLS YOU TO STOP YOU ALL THE TIME.

Virtually all of my clients say they want to be financially free. Yet none of them are doing the steps and taking the proper actions that will give them a chance to win that game.

If you really want to be successful, really, really, really, really successful, learn this lesson well.

Successful people are DOERS. They’ll spend 90 minutes a day planning and thinking and working ON their business, and then they spend the next 14 hours working IN their business. Unsuccessful people will plan and study for 6 months, prepare for every contingency, anticipate every possible situation, and never actually DO anything.

My friend and mentor Harv Eker said it best a long time ago. He said that when it came to successful people, their mindset is Ready, FIRE, Aim. Fire immediately and fire often. Once you fire, you can see if you’re close to your target, or if you need to aim better for your next shot. Plan on firing over and over and over and over and over again. Plan to never stop firing until you are right on your target and hitting it every time.

Now, let’s talk about YOU.

If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, I ask you to do certain exercises from time to time. You’ve learned a money management system that is easy to implement. You’ve learned the attitudes of an Enlightened Warrior and the daily declarations you want to repeat to cement these attitudes within you. You’ve learned the principles taught by Napoleon Hill for “Thinking and Growing Rich”.

Let me ask you something. Are you DOING the money management system, or was it too hard…too much work…..never got around to it….or fill in YOUR excuse here.

Are you doing the Daily Declarations of an Enlightened Warrior and laying a new foundation for your ways of thinking, or was it too hard….too much work….never got around to it….or fill in YOUR excuse here.

If you’re reading my blog for entertainment value, then you’ve completely missed the boat. If you’re reading my blog for information, then you’ve only gotten 10% of what we’re trying to accomplish here. BUT, IF YOUR READING MY BLOG FOR INFORMATION THAT YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY IMPLEMENT IN YOUR LIFE, then you have figured it out.

If you haven’t done the exercise I asked you to do at the beginning of this post, do it now. More important, reflect on the fact that until you change your habit from being a passive learner to an ACTIVE DOER, you will NEVER see success at the levels we’re talking about here.

Namaste.

Jeff

How You Think Determines EVERYTHING....

Your life will improve 1000% when you understand this message.

What you think, and how you think, is the one key ingredient to success in your life.

I know this is true, because I have studied this area for over 38 years, and have applied my knowledge to accomplish everything I’ve ever really wanted.

Look at everything you have in your life today. It is ALL the result of your thinking and your choices. What you have thought and chosen in the past has provided you with everything you have today.

The great thing about understanding this is that once you do, you realize that you can create a completely different future for yourself than the life you have today, simply by changing the way you think!

You have been introduced to the “Attitudes of a Warrior”. For the past month, I have written specifically about changing the way you think so that you can adopt these attitudes.

Every person I have ever known who has adopted these attitudes has gone on to achieve incredible results in their life.

Today we are going to discuss the final 2 declarations that are repeated throughout the Enlightened Warrior Training program offered by Harv Eker and Peak Potentials Training.

Here they are….

I AM A WARRIOR…
I SUCCEED IN SPITE OF ANYTHING

I AM A WARRIOR…
I NEVER GIVE UP

When you act with DETERMINATION, and raise your standards, you will begin to think about how you can achieve whatever you want, no matter what challenges stand in your way.

If there are others out there doing what you want to do and accomplishing what you want to accomplish, so can you.

But you have to think like the warrior, and reach a point where you will never give up. Those who have an attitude of determination, who will get right back up when they’re knocked down, and keep moving towards their goals regardless what happens to them are the true winners in life.

I encourage you to go back through the past several entries and make sure you know and understand all 8 declarations. Study them, meditate on them, and adopt them as your own.

When you do, just as sure as you’re reading this today, your life will never be the same tomorrow or ever. It will be a turning point in your life.

Namaste.

Jeff

Are You Bigger Than Your Obstacles?

Here’s a secret that will change your life as soon as you realize it and understand it.

If you want to be the very best you can be, live the best life you can live, have all the things you want to have, this secret will transform you forever.

Everyone, without exception, has problems in their life. Even the richest people in the world have problems. Even the most successful people in the world have problems.

The difference between the world’s most successful people and the rest of the world is that these people know this secret, and have learned to apply it in their lives to achieve everything they truly want.

The most successful of all people start off by KNOWING what they want in life. It isn’t a coincidence that they are successful.

Unfortunately, 98% of all people simply DON’T KNOW what they want. And until they KNOW what it is they want, how can they possibly get it?

Let’s say that you decide that you want to be financially free. Most people say that they want that.

When asked why they aren’t financially free, they have every excuse imaginable. They’ll talk about their childhood. They’ll talk about their lack of education. They’ll talk about their lack of opportunity. They’re too old, or too young, or too short, or too tall, or too fat, or ……….

The fact is, these are all excuses.

If you truly want to become financially free, and you aren’t, all that means is that the obstacles to becoming financially free are bigger than your ability to overcome them.

On a scale of 1 to 10, your ability to become financially free is a 1, and the obstacle of becoming financially free is a 10.

But, what if you dedicated an hour a day, every single day in learning how others are becoming financially free? It’s happening every day. There are books, and tapes and seminars available to show you countless ways to achieve that goal.

At the end of a year, you’d have 365 hours concentrated on GROWING yourself in this area to the point where you are now a 6 or 7 on that scale. More importantly, over time, if you are COMMITTED to achieving this goal, you will GROW yourself into a 10 on the scale, and eventually, you will be as big as if not bigger than the obstacle.

You will always have obstacles to achieving anything worthwhile in life. They will not go away.

Your choice is to decide if you are willing to GROW yourself into some
one who is BIGGER than your obstacle.

Understand this secret, and you will never be the same person.

At Enlightened Warrior Training offered at Peak Potentials Training, my good friend and mentor Harv Eker demonstrates this secret throughout the program.

Included in the daily declarations repeated throughout the program is this one….

I AM A WARRIOR…
I AM BIGGER THAN ANY OBSTACLE

Read this post over and over until you grasp the significance of it, because when you do, you will never be the same person again.

Namaste.

Jeff

Another Major Key.....

How can you tell if you are on the path to success?

What is the difference between those who achieve outstanding results, and those who don’t?

If you could change just one thing that could alter your life dramatically, would you?

Read the following carefully, and you will discover a most important secret that you must apply to reach your full potential.

Your HABITS are the keys that unlock the door to everything you truly want out of life.

By nature, we tend to sleepwalk our way through life. We actually spend very little time thinking at a conscious level.

Once we develop a habit, we continue to do it over and over without much thought.

It becomes so much a part of us, that eventually, even if we want to change that habit, it is nearly impossible to do.

That’s why it’s so hard to quit smoking. That’s why it’s so hard to lose weight. That’s why it’s so hard to get into shape.

We are all creatures of habit. And all of us have 2 kinds of habits. We have DOING habits, and we have NOT DOING habits.

Everything we’re not doing, we have a habit of not doing.

For example, most people do not work out. And, they have a habit of not working out.

Until they change that habit, they will never get into shape.

Most people are not nearly as successful as they can be, as they should be.

One of the biggest reasons is that they have the habit of not acting when they’re not in the mood.

We all know what we should be doing to be more successful.

If getting into shape is a goal, but we have the habit of sitting around at home watching television or playing on the computer, we will never get into shape.

If becoming wealthy is a goal, but we have the habit of wasting time doing meaningless things, we will never become wealthy.

The biggest obstacle to real success is to overcome the habits we have of procrastination and not being in the mood.

Do you really want to be a success? If you do, then the first thing you have to do is create the habit of getting out of your current situation, and creating the HABIT of doing whatever needs to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the MOOD you’re in.

If you wait until you’re in the right MOOD, you will never do the things you need to in order to achieve success.

At the Enlightened Warrior Training program offered by Harv Eker and Peak Potentials Training, there is a major focus on this concept.

In fact, it is a part of the daily declarations repeated throughout the program.

So remember this declaration well, and make sure you really do understand it,

I AM A WARRIOR,
I ACT IN SPITE OF MY MOOD.

Namaste,

Jeff

The Mindset of Success Continued.....

I am a Warrior…….

I am willing to do what’s hard.

If you aren’t as successful as you want to be;

If you aren’t as happy as you want to be:

If you aren’t as wealthy as you want to be;

If you aren’t as healthy as you want to be…..

Then the next few minutes will have a profound impact on your life.

We live in a world filled with Universal laws.

If you learn these laws and work with them, you can achieve extraordinary results.

But if you work against them, or ignore them, or try to alter them, you will never achieve the kind of success you want for yourself.

This blog is dedicated to everyone who wants to rise above the average. It’s for the people who want to join the elite top 5% who are achieving incredible results and have a burning desire to accomplish everything they truly want in life.

If you’ve been following along with the past few articles, you know that I’ve been writing about the declarations repeated throughout the Enlightened Warrior Training Program offered by Peak Potentials Training and my good friend and mentor, Harv Eker.

One thing I can tell you for certain is that for you to achieve great success, you have got to think in a very different way than the average person. Your mindsets, your attitudes, are everything.

Enlightened Warrior Training is all about creating the mindset of a winner. For you to become a true winner, you not only have to learn this mindset, you have to study it, and adopt it as your way of thinking from now on.

There’s an expression…..”Before you can DO something, you must first Be something”. Before you get the results you want in the physical, material world, you must first create the thoughts in your mental, emotional and spiritual world.

Success on a grand scale isn’t easy. If it was, everyone would be incredibly successful. But the facts are that most people aren’t even close to being really successful.

In my financial practice, less than 1 out of every 10 prospects I meet are good money managers. Their personal financial life is a disaster. They are living on the edge, and their dreams for retirement are exactly that, just dreams.

One of the biggest challenges most people have is that they don’t get what they want. And the reason they don’t get what they want is because they don’t know what they want.

But even when they do know what they want, many never achieve it.

Why?

Because there’s a huge difference between wanting something and having something.

Ask most people if they want to be rich and they’ll all say yes.

When you tell them what they have to do to get rich, they back away in a hurry.

Ask people to go out of their comfort zone, and they’re gone.

We all want to stay in our comfort zone. We all want to be “comfortable”. Unfortunately you will never grow when you are in your comfort zone. It’s only when you push yourself, when you do the uncomfortable, when you do what’s hard, that you grow.

Until you are prepared to do the uncomfortable, the hard, you will never see huge success.

Like almost anything new, at first, it’s hard. But the more you do that thing, the easier it gets. As Harv Eker says, “Every master was once a disaster”.

Do you want to achieve great success in your life?

If you really do, remember this declaration….

I am a Warrior……..
I’m willing to do what’s hard.

Namaste.

Jeff

Back From Down Under.....

One of my greatest pleasures in life is travel, and Sue and I have just returned from a terrific trip to Australia and New Zealand.

It’s a long trip, but if you ever have the chance, go for it.

We had 19 wonderful days seeing the sites of the 2 countries, and we were only able to scratch the surface of all there was to see. Getting to pet and feed the kangaroos and wallabies was really special, something you can only do in Australia. New Zealand’s natural beauty was something I will never forget.

It didn’t take long to get right back into the swing of things once we returned, and I realized just how much I missed my writing.

The purpose of my blog is to share 38 years of knowledge from studying and applying the success principles of the greatest minds in recorded history. It has been a passion of mine since I was 15, and it is still true to this day. I know that these principles work because I have used them to create financial and personal success for myself, and I’ve seen hundreds of others achieve extraordinary results from applying these same concepts.

Even more important than sharing these concepts with others is to remind myself of things I already know but sometimes forget.

Before leaving on vacation, my focus was on solidifying my “Warrior Mentality”.

If you’ve been fortunate enough to have attended Peak Potentials Trainings “Enlightened Warrior Training” Camp, you know what I am referring to. If you haven’t, do everything in your power to make it to one of these camps. It’ll truly transform your life.

During the camp, a series of declarations are repeated daily.

The 3rd of these declarations goes like this….

I AM A WARRIOR….
I DO EVERYTHING AT 100%

Is this true in your life?

Do you do everything at 100%? Do you do ANYTHING at 100%?

To be successful, to become all that you can be, you can’t put a half hearted effort into what you do and expect optimal results. The world just doesn’t work that way.

When you develop the HABIT of doing everything with energy and enthusiasm, you are on your way to transforming yourself into a special individual.

The problem is that virtually no one is living at that level. AND THAT’S THE KEY. That’s why there are so few truly successful people. Success is rare. We all do what everyone else is doing, and we get the same results as everyone else.

I love the quote that my mentor and friend Harv Eker quotes from writer Stuart Wilde….”The key to success is to raise your energy level. And when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, Bill ‘em!”

You will never be truly successful as a half effort kind of person. Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Become a warrior. Develop the HABIT of doing everything at 100%. When you work, you work at 100%. When you play, you play at 100%. When you relax, you relax at 100%.

Your life is an adventure. Don’t settle for average. Go for success in every important area of your life. It’s no harder than living in mediocrity, and it’s a whole lot more fun.

Namaste,

Jeff

Keeping With the Theme.....

My last post, and next few, are dedicated to all of you who are committed to joining the top 5% of all achievers in life.

If you are completely satisfied with your current situation, and have no drive or desire to reach you full potential, then sadly, there is nothing I can do or say, or anyone for that matter, that will help you become more than what you are today.

But if you want more out of life, more health, more happiness, more success, more money, more of ANYTHING that is truly important to you, then the next few minutes will be of incredible value to you.

I mentioned previously, that one of the most life changing programs I have ever witnessed is called Enlightened Warrior Training, offered by Harv Eker and Peak Potentials Training.

During this course, participants are forced to face their fears, and take action regardless. The philosophy behind all of this is the fact that even successful people have fears, they simply don’t let those fears interfere with their accomplishing everything they want to accomplish in life.

The second in the series of declarations that are repeated throughout the program is the following…

I AM A WARRIOR….
I AM WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.

How many of us quit or give up on our goals as soon as we encounter problems? It happens everyday, and it separates the haves from the have-nots.

There is a huge difference between wanting something and having something. Until you want something bad enough to COMMIT to having it, your desire will never be strong enough to carry you through the challenges that lay ahead.

Very few worthwhile things in life come easy. If success was easy, most people would be successful all of the time.

Unfortunately, the exact opposite is true.

Success is rare, because it is hard, and few are COMMITTED to DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve success.

One thing I want to make clear is that when I say “whatever it takes”, it always includes the idea that you never violate the rights of your fellow man.

Lying, or stealing, or cheating, is not the way to reach your goals. You must have an unquestioned moral and ethical standard to live by.

“Whatever it takes” means going the extra mile. It means accepting setbacks as temporary defeats, not permanent failure. It means acting when your tired, or frightened, or not in the mood. It means having a mindset that no matter how many times you have to start again, you will NEVER quit until you reach your goal.

While running Peak Potentials Training, I saw first hand, incredibly successful people. And this one quality, to do WHATEVER IT TAKES was apparent in all of them.

If you want to become financially free, I guarantee you that it won’t happen by accident. But it will happen if you are COMMITTED to doing WHATEVER IT TAKES.

If others can become financially free, why can’t you? All you need is a SYSTEM, and a commitment to following that SYSTEM until you too get the results you want.

I teach my clients a money management SYSTEM that works. If you simply follow the SYSTEM, and commit to it, you can become financially free.

This system has brought me more financial success than I ever dreamed possible, and it continues to get better every day. I live this system every day.

No matter what area of your life, there are successful people who are accomplishing what you want for yourself. Find these people. Learn their system. And COMMIT to doing WHATEVER IT TAKES until you get the results they’re getting.

I AM A WARRIOR...
I AM WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.

I hope you get it.

Namaste.

Jeff