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By pl 23 Comments

Okay isn’t

You know how there are some things to which you’ve given thought? They seem clear to you in your mind, but they haven’t actually become part of the you that’s living your life?

This is common for many people…

You may know something but that “knowing” has no real meaning to you. Knowing it doesn’t in any way change how you live or work. Some people call this the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

Knowledge is just another thing you have, waiting to be used…

Wisdom changes your life.

Something has to happen to drive those things from your head into your heart, into your life. It could be anything…

It could be a full-on shock to your system that does it. A kind of emotional cataclysm – the end of an important relationship, going bankrupt, or the death of a loved one.

It doesn’t have to be a negative thing. It could be the birth of a child or selling your company that does it.

It could be something neutral like simply growing older. Although all by itself that doesn’t seem to make anyone much smarter or aware.

It could even be something seemingly trivial, like getting the right email at just the right time, or a “chance” conversation with a friend or trusted advisor.

I have lived with knowing lots of things that didn’t make a damn bit of difference, but over the last few weeks whole giant aspects of my life and business have shifted.

In my “Rhonda” video – if you haven’t seen it you can watch it by clicking here (fair warning, it’s kind of rough) – I talked about an earlier time in my life when I had this extraordinary job. For a job, it was perfect in almost every way. High pay, smart colleagues and clients, interesting, challenging work, international travel… Everything.

And yet I woke up one day and realized that while it was all okay, I wasn’t doing my life’s work. I wasn’t living the way I’d hoped to.

When I finally woke up (and it literally happened waking up one morning) I had no choice but to act.

I turned in my resignation by the end of that week…

Maybe there’s nothing wrong for you with okay, but for me okay is a four-letter word. Now, I’m not saying you have to feel the way I do. For many people okay would be an upgrade…

But one of the problems with living an okay life is that it lulls you…

And you can end up sleepwalking through your okay life and wake up 20 years down the road to the sudden horror that it’s too late to live the life you’ve longed for.

You’ve survived instead of flourished, you’ve settled for existence when you could have had transcendence.

If you’ve read this far, okay probably isn’t for okay for you.

For me, it’s crystal clear: okay isn’t.

I want spectacular.

What about you?

Filed Under: Beliefs, Mindset, Personal Story

By pl 20 Comments

Independence Day

Everybody has their own definition of freedom. For many it means doing whatever you want whenever you want.

For others it is more specific – it means independence from having to create current income – independence from work.

That could be a tall order. Most of us have to work at one thing or another our whole lives and it’s only a question of what we’re going to work at.

This is a crucial question, because whether you love your work or not determines whether your life is one of freedom or something much darker.

Watch this video and leave your comments on the blog.  I want to hear what you think…

Filed Under: Business Coaching, Business Strategy, Goal Setting, leadership, Mindset Tagged With: business coaching, business strategy, do what you love, leadership, Mindset, well-being

By pl 5 Comments

The Danger of Doing Nothing…

Last week I ran a business-building workshop for 14 consultants and coaches to help them grow their businesses to high-six and low-seven figures..

On the second day during a break, one of the attendees pulled me out on the terrace. He wanted to ask a really important question.

“Which strategy should I run next to guarantee new clients quickly?”

Naively, I fell right into his trap…

“Tell me about how your marketing system works now,” I asked.

“I don’t have a system,” he responded, a little too quickly.

“Okay, so what kinds of things have you been doing to bring in business?”

“I’m not doing anything. I was waiting for your workshop.”

(You can see where this is going, can’t you?)

“How long have you been waiting…?”

“It’s been about four months. I launched my practice with a few referrals, but now I really need new clients…”

Since January…

Doing nothing…

Waiting four months…

Do you know the right answer to this guy’s question?

If you’ve been reading my posts or watching my videos, you know I’m a big fan of DOING ANYTHING.

Yes, that’s right.  That’s the answer: DO ANYTHING.

It doesn’t really matter what you do, as long as you are always doing something to promote your services, your products, your ideas… 

You see, you have no way of knowing what’s really going to work.

So instead of trying to figure out the perfect strategy, your best bet is simply to take some kind of action.

Do something and see what happens. If you get good results, keep doing it. If you don’t get the results you want, fix what you’re doing or do something else. No matter what, keep doing something.

Of course, there are things that generally work well, and you should be doing those.  But really, who knows?

The best course of action, the most powerful one, is to layer all the various strategies available one on top of the other in a synergistic model. That’s the strategic system I teach.

But in lieu of knowing all those things, you just have to do anything.

Because the outcome of doing nothing is predictable.

By the way…

Can you guess how many new clients that guy enrolled before my workshop?

Yeah… That’s right…

My advice?

Get busy!

To your outrageous success,

Paul

P.S. What are you going to do today to create new business opportunities?

 

 

Filed Under: Business Coaching, Business Strategy, Decision making, leadership, List building, marketing, Mindset Tagged With: business coaching, decision making, leadership, marketing, Mindset

By pl 28 Comments

Replace Yourself

What’s the one truly scarce resource in your business?

What’s the one thing…

Totally irreplaceable…

That no matter what you do you can’t get more of?

You, of course.

And you knew that already…

You didn’t need some business guru to tell you.

But what you may need to know is what to do about it.

You might have figured this out already and forgotten.  Or you may have thought you figured it out but still aren’t getting the results you want.

Watch the video. It’s under five minutes….

And if you have something to share, put your comments below.  Okay?

 

Filed Under: Business Coaching, Mindset, Time management Tagged With: business coaching, delegation, Mindset, outsourcing, strategy, Time management

By pl 5 Comments

Is Your Business At Risk

My guess is that you know someone with a story like this…

Everything seemed rosy.

Business was humming along, money being made, the future looking bright…

And wham!

 

All of a sudden the whole thing is tanking, and before long, the business is DEAD.

Do Not Let This Happen To You…

Watch the video now.

Filed Under: Business Coaching, Business Strategy, marketing, Mindset, Sales Tagged With: business coaching, marketing, planning, sales, stragegy

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