I’m going to share it with you in the simplest way possible. Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on at this very moment. That’s it. So try this during your day today. Whenever your mind goes somewhere – and you’re typically deep into something – and you’re almost unconscious, but at some point your mind pops back into awareness. At that moment, ask yourself, “Where am I?,” or “What am I doing?” In that moment, your experience is transformed…

You can do this by reviewing your goals once or twice daily: end of day to prepare your subconscious for sleep, and the beginning of day for obvious reasons.  An even more powerful strategy is to have a daily (weekly, whatever) ACCOUNTABILITY CALL with a partner. Use my four questions: what’s working, what’s not working, what’s missing, what’s next as an easy way to keep the conversation focused. (See the post here: http://www.paullemberg.com/unstuck/)

THEN… and this step is super critical — make sure that to the degree possible, all your actions, moment to moment, are in support of those goals.  Do that and the magic happens. Do that and your results will be magnificent.

It helps to be clear about the purpose of your goals and the meaning of achieving them. When purpose, goals, and actions are aligned everything becomes easy…

When “normal people” stop there’s a pause.  And you can see it.  It’s a break in the action. Sometimes, they stay like that for a long time – like a still photograph.

But unstoppable people?

It’s not the same thing at all…

They might stop for a short bit of time, they just don’t stay that way.

They don’t get stuck.

What they do is completely different and it can mean the difference between outrageous success and a lifetime of mediocrity…

By the way, if your business has sales of more than a quarter million and less than a million, and you’d like to find out about serious business growth coaching for your company, take a look at http://www.paullemberg.com/emerging-business-coaching/. I’ll be doing a small promotion for this in a few days and as you can imagine, there aren’t too many spots. If you’re interested, jump on it right away.

My immediate answer is YES.

But aren’t entrepreneurs, and especially entrepreneurs who work alone supposed to do whatever it takes?

Well, yeah…

But “doing whatever it takes” isn’t the same as doing everything.

Doing everything is a bad idea, it costs you money and it costs you growth, and I can prove it.

Watch the video to get the whole scoop.

When you’re done leave a comment with your insights and if you’re up to it, your next steps.

PL

It might be time for you to face the facts…

Roughly half of whatever is rolling around in your head got there by accident and probably isn’t doing you much good.

But when you try to figure out what’s what, it tuns out the situation is a much like something David Ogilvy said while talking about advertising…

Half of it worked, half didn’t.

He just wasn’t ever sure which half was which.

 
Beliefs are scarily like that…

Until you take a closer look it’s tough to figure out which are “true” and which are garbage.

The good news?

You can do something about it, and the effects are phenomenal.

Watch the video.

And when you’re done, add to the conversation.

Comment on the things you used to believe and the things you now believe. Or comment on whatever you feel like.

Maybe grow your profits 27%, maybe lose 36 pounds, maybe change your life… Whatever.

You had a plan and you worked out the steps, but you weren’t taking the actions necessary to get anywhere.

What do you think would happen?

Duh… Nothing.

Of course, nothing would happen, because you weren’t doing anything. How could it possibly be any different?

But that doesn’t make any sense…

You knew what to do but weren’t doing it? Why not? That’s never happened, has it?

Well it may NOT make any sense, but for a lot of people this happens every single day.

Here’s why:

When you’re done, take a minute and post your comments on the blog, because going public with this sort of thing can really make a difference.

Seriously…

BE BOLD

Now I don’t know whether Buffet really told this to the pilot, but if he didn’t he should have. Either way, it’s solid advice.

The things you choose to focus on obviously have loads to do with what you achieve, but the things you choose not to focus on? Those things make focus possible.

Watch this 4-minute, 16-second video for a simple exercise to dramatically increase your focus and your results.

To your outrageous success.

Paul

P.S., take a minute and tell me what you think in the comments. Does this work for you? What are some of the things you’re going to avoid like the plague? Watch it now…

Now in the interests of full disclosure my friends will laugh because everyone knows I know next to nothing about sports. But I know this much: top pro athletes have a ton of experience with peak performance, so I figure that what they know would be useful for entrepreneurs.

Todd shared what he believes is the key secret champions use to be champions. I’ve distilled it into a 3-minute-15-second video.

Watch it below

When you’re done tell me what you think. Also, if you could do me a favor and let me know if you prefer video posts or written ones and why.

Thanks.

-pl

It’s something I use with my private coaching clients, and it’s also part of Blueprints to Profits. It’s called the Personal Strategic Blueprint.

Now if you’ve spent any time in that weird place called Corporate Planning, you might recognize this as a deviant, somewhat casual form of a S.W.O.T. analysis.

But don’t let that scare you, because it works! Follow along and you’ll get the key to taking full advantage and getting maximum leverage from your strengths and your assets.

The video is a quick 28 minutes. I know… A bit long for most attention-deprived internet surfers. Hang in there, it’s worth it. You can also download the mindmap of the video and use it as a guide to the personal strategic blueprint, as well as a two of the tools I use with my private coaching clients. Set aside some time and do this.

Make sure to post your thoughts and comments below.

Download your mindmap and worksheets here

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It isn’t, and I can prove it.

Everyone knows someone who has a PhD or a monster-sized IQ and can’t earn a dime, because it’s not what you know but what you do with it.

So why don’t most people do MORE with what they know?

Because it’s too hard…

Or it’s too complicated…

Or they don’t have the time to get it right.

Which brings us back to making small, easy changes.

Here are a few more case studies of companies that took some very simple ideas and turned them into giant-sized profits.

Watch and profit, and leave your comments and questions on the blog below.

Implement something new every week. Some little tweak or upgrade or new marketing partner or even a new channel or change to your website… Those kinds of things, and sometimes perhaps, a change that’s a bit larger: something strategic, a change to how you sell or a change to your thinking…

Implement those as often as you can manage and you are guaranteed to grow…

That you had to learn a whole bunch of new things, with lots of skill building and learning curves, and lots of time getting it right…

That you had to have these broad, sweeping initiatives that involved lots of people and turning things upside down and so on…

And of course, lots of risk.

Check out my newest 4-1/2 minute video and find out what it really takes.

When you’re done, leave your thoughts on the blog below.

Maybe you should stop setting goals that basically don’t work
anyway. This quick 6-minute video tells you what will work
better.  It’s short, and it’ll give you a few ideas.

Take a look and let me know what you think in the comments.

If so, watch the video below, it’s a short 6-1/2 minutes.

And be sure to leave your comments when you’re done.

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It’s only 4 minutes.  You may be familiar with the ideas – it’s about accountability, but NO MATTER WHAT, I promise that applying this in your life and business will cause a shocking improvement in how effective you are.

By the way, I did the post production on the plane down to Orlando, and fooled around with some geeky video stuff.  That may explain it’s quirky nature…

No matter;  go watch the video now and leave your comments on the blog.

People don’t like to admit it but I believe the number one thing holding them back is fear.

Most people just assume that the fear could be one of failure but my experience tells me it could be fear of success as well.

In my studies, I’ve found in many cases the problem is not that people don’t know what to do.  Rather, it’s that they just don’t do it.

They sit back passively and wait for something to happen.

And the only thing that happens is they get more frustrated with themselves.

From what I’ve seen, people often have a clear overall idea of what they are supposed to do, but they often lack the step by step plan of how to go from Point A to Point B.  Or they may even have a plan, but haven’t figured out the steps in sufficient detail to know how to execute them… Perfectly…

In other words, people build up incredible expectations of themselves as if they are afraid to fail – when in fact they are setting themselves up for “failure.”

But I’ll go you one further.  I think people are secretly afraid of success.

What do you think?

Take a moment and put your thoughts in the comments below.

-pl

Please post your comments and thoughts along with any new ideas you come up with.

Pay close attention to figure out where your time goes.  Develop the Time Management Mastery mindset and understand what “Context is Decisive” means.  Take charge and become opportunity cost-conscious.  Use the Ivy Lee 7 to make a lot more money from your time.

Check out the sections on Chronotypes, larks and owls, time logging, energy maps, and taking charge of your awareness… Priceless.

How working in time chunks will supercharge your ability to get more done, and if you want to guarantee incredible delegation, make sure to stay with it until the very end.

Make sure to put your comments below and let us know what you think.  And if you’ve got more ideas – make sure to share them.