The 2% with Eric Partaker: Recent Episodes
Eric Partaker
Only 2% of people are estimated to operate at their full potential. Join us as we interview peak performers in all walks of life to decode excellence and help you reach your full potential.
Do you want to build the business you’ve always dreamed about? Join Simon Duffy (Co Founder of Bulldog and Waken) and Eric Partaker as they discuss what it takes to launch a product and build a brand in today's environment. Take away tips and insights into how you yourself can join the path to achieving your goals.
KEY POINTS
You can start now - There's a certain mindset where people think they have to understand everything about a problem or a business opportunity before they make a start. You don't need to have all the answers before you start.
You don't need to be an expert - You don't need to be a domain expert in almost any part of what you're doing. You just have to believe that you can be good with people and you can collaborate your way to success, whether that's through building a great team or hiring great consultants and experts to support your vision.
The formula for success - Innovation is a combination of vision, opportunity and desire.
Think beyond the category - High interest products can perform very well in low interest categories of products.
Be Bold - Have the determination and the confidence to give something a go. You don't have to be an expert in the category to launch a brand.
Be Determined - And once you've given it that go, be determined. Have confidence in yourself. If you think you're seeing something that other people haven't seen yet, have the courage to have a crack at something entrepreneurial for a few years.
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Do you want to create the life you’ve always dreamed of? Join Steve Sims (Founder & CEO of Bluefish, and author of Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen) and Eric Partaker as they discuss what it takes to network with some of the world's most successful people. Take away tips and insights into how you yourself can join the path to achieving your goals.
KEY POINTS
Action = Reward - You don’t get slim by buying a diet book, you get slim by actioning that book. If you want a big bank account, you’ve got to have a successful mindset. Professionals know that action creates feeling. Amateurs believe feeling creates action. Be the professional of your life and take action today.
Your Net Worth Is Your Network - Grow your network. Talk to as many people as possible in the position that you want to be in. Find out how they reached the position they are in today.
Begin With Research - Connections aren’t made by chance. If you want to get a conversation going with someone, research them, find out about them, their interests, their work and discover how you could benefit them.
You Don’t Know Me - Limit the confusion at the beginning of networking conversations. Begin the conversation with anybody you don’t know by putting them at ease and letting them know that they don't know you. Instantly they will feel more at ease rather than desperately trying to remember where they might know you from.
What Value Are You Offering? - When going into a conversation with someone, there needs to be a beneficial point to them. Approach every networking conversation with a solution, give them something of value that will benefit them, before you discuss your needs.
Focus On The Client - Stop looking at how good your website is, or how eloquent you are. Focus on the client. Discover the problems that they need solving and solve it for them.
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Is your workplace a happy environment? Are you getting the most out of yourself and your employees? Join Jenn Lim (Author of Beyond Happiness, and CEO of Delivering Happiness) and Eric Partaker as they discuss insights and strategies to get the most out of yourself, those around you, reach your full potential and live an all around happier life!
KEY POINTS
What Brings You Happiness? - Reflect on your highs and your lows. What were they? What did they mean? What did you learn from them? Build a sustainable way to understand yourself. What creates your highs and your lows and how to create sustainable happiness within your life.
We Rise By Lifting Others - To truly reach your full potential you need to help others self actualize. What could you be doing each day to help someone else in their journey to reach their full potential?
Create A Company That Cares - Create a company that goes beyond caring about how an employee is doing in their role. Care about their wellbeing, and teach them skills that may or may not be directly applicable to their role in the company. When you invest in people and not just as cogs in a machine, it elevates people to a whole new level.
Are Your Company Cultures Exceptional? - What company cultures could you initiate that if people heard of them they would leave their company and run to you? Company culture is an integral part of the business and affects nearly every aspect of the company. It is the backbone of a happy workforce. Spend time perfecting yours!
What’s in it for me? What’s in it for all? - Think about how you can make your company a triple win for everyone, not just for your customers and your employees but also your societal and planetary impact.
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a company as successful as Netflix? Join Marc Randolf (Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, serial entrepreneur, author and speaker) and Eric Partaker as they discuss what it takes to create a billion dollar business, and discover tips and insights about how you can become part of the 2% of people reaching their full potential.
KEY POINTS
(Netflix &) Chill - You do not need to know where you’re going right away. Stumble around, and gather experiences until you end up in the right place. Don’t simply pick your dream job and fight like crazy to get it. Get your foot in the door and find out what people really do. What’s the vocabulary? How do they organise? Then you’ll have a better idea whether this is the right path for you.
You Can’t Predict The Future - Stop dreaming about what your company is going to become, because you’re almost inevitably wrong. You can't, it’s impossible. Companies have their own life. There's too many forks in the road to predict the path they will go. The more time you spend trying to figure it out you are simply stalling the process of actually learning where it wants to go.
Look Backwards - What went well? What didn't? Any insights? Leanings? What will I do in future directly as a result? Set yourself periodic goals. Review your progress and take that knowledge to perform better in the future.
People Who Start Companies Are Not Superhuman - If you have an idea, if you have a dream, try it. Stop thinking about it. Stop coming up with reasons why you can’t. Cleverness is figuring out a way to quickly, cheaply and easily start, so you can learn whether it's a good idea or not.
You Are Capable Of More Than You Know - Everything is solvable if you're willing to start and figure it out. Stop dreaming about it, or bumping into the first roadblock and turning away. Everything is possible if you believe in your ability to figure it out.
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Do you spend all day working through your to-do list to then go to bed and feel like you’ve accomplished nothing? Join Tonya Dalton (Author, Business Coach, Podcaster, Speaker and founder of inkWELL Press Productivity co.) and Eric Partaker as they share tips and insights into how you can break free from the 98% and join the 2% of people reaching their full potential!
KEY POINTS
Pause For A Moment And Reflect! - When you look backwards, then can you start moving forwards. It is important to remind yourself of who you’ve been in the past, the good, the bad, the really ugly. All of that will help you find your purpose and grow you into the best version of yourself.
What Doesn't Kill You, Makes You Stronger - The hardest challenges in life cause the most growth. That is your most fertile ground. It’s when you peel back the bandages and allow the wounds to heal that you can really see the life that you have created.
Numbers Don't Define You!. - Whether it's the numbers of followers, the number in your bank account, or the number of likes you have on a post, you cannot let that define you. Constantly striving for numbers is exhausting, it's like chasing after a finish line that is constantly moving. You will never reach it.
Prioritise Your Priority List! - Get rid of your to-do list and start making a priority list. Your to do list is taking you everywhere but where you want to go. The problem with to do lists is your brain naturally wants the high from checking off your wins. So you check things off that aren't important, that are not priorities. So make a priority list. It is essentially a to-do list with intention.
Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail - Spend 5 minutes a day mapping out what your days are going to look like. Create your priority list and prioritize what you want to get done that day and make sure it's attainable.
Work Hard, Rest Often - Periods of rest are not rewards for great work. They’re requirements for work to happen. Stress + Recovery = Growth. Take a break!
Adaptability Is The Secret To Survival! - Life happens. Some days are going to be easy, some days are going to be hard. Allow that to be ok.
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Have you ever wondered what it's like to survive a plane crash? Join Dave Sanderson (Speaker, Author of ‘How To Turn Turmoil Into Triumph’ and Survivor of the 2009 Hudson River Plane Crash) and Eric Parker as they discuss how to be bold in the face of uncertainty, and how anyone can succeed and triumph over adversity.
KEY POINTS
Everybody Has A Story - Judge people on the content of their character, not what you see. Don’t judge people until you know their backstory.
Every Adversity Has A Benefit - Stress builds strength. The problem isn't stress, the problem is how you view stress and deal with it. Don’t try and avoid it, embrace it because that is how you will level up in life and become a better version of yourself.
Triumph Over Adversity - If you’re going to have any triumph, you have to overcome some adversity. Everything worth having, comes with trials worth withstanding.
Your Ability To Succeed Is Related To Your Ability To Adapt - You can have a blueprint in life, but when life hits you, and your strategy goes out the window you need to be able to problem solve quickly. The people who are most resourceful and the ones who are thriving.
Be Bold In The Face Of Uncertainty - Strength does not come from winning, your struggles develop your strength. Real strength doesn't come from certainty, it comes from how you can handle uncertainty.
Who’s In Your Inner Circle? - Expand your network. Put yourself around outstanding people who will stretch you consistently every day. Are the 5 people around you right now keeping you in your comfort zone or pushing you to better yourself?
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What does it take to complete the toughest race on earth? Sonja Wieck knows! Join Sonja (18 times Ironman triathlon finisher, and a member of Team Iron Cowboy on Netflix show ‘The World’s Toughest Race’) and Eric Partaker as they share insight into what it takes to be an ultra endurance athlete and how mental toughness can help you achieve your dreams!
KEY POINTS
Develop Your Mental Toughness - “You can’t dig your well deeper unless you’re standing on the bottom with a shovel.” Be willing to go your limit. Be willing to reach a very uncomfortable place and look around.
Grab Your Dreams With Both Hands - Put it on your heart and soul. Let it envelop you like a blanket and live, breathe, eat and sleep your dreams.
Follow Your Heart - Your purpose comes from within. Your heart dictates your direction and your brain is for problem solving. Don’t think too much about what direction to go in, feel your way.
Let Go Of The Reins - Your purpose in life is to filter all of the beautiful things that come your way, and use those as stepping stones to let your life unfold in front of you.
Conquer Your Fears - There is someone on this planet that is living the exact life that you desire for yourself right now, this moment they are living it because they were able to get over the fears that you’re not.
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Did you know that ANYONE can be successful? Would you like to learn how YOU can break free of the 98% and join the 2% reaching their full potential? Join Jay Samit (Author of the bestselling book Disrupt You!) and Eric Partaker as they uncover tips, tools and strategies that you can use to be successful and win at life!
KEY POINTS
Failing Is Part Of The Process - The great thing about failing is you either win or you learn. Either way you will be propelled forward, you will never end up where you started.
Follow Your Own Path - Ignore the naysayers. People that gave up on their dreams will tell you to give up on yours. Yet every song that moves you, every movie, every painting that you love was created by somebody who never gave up on their dreams no matter the obstacles.
Don't Fly Solo - There has never been a self-made person. Surround yourself with people who will propel you forwards, and help you through all the ups and the downs.
Solve A Problem - Solve a problem for five people, you have five friends. Solve for a million, you’re wealthy. Solve for a billion, you’ve made history. People have changed the world by just solving one problem. What’s your problem solving idea?
Money’s Nice, But Satisfaction Comes From Helping Others - Remove the “This is how it’s always been done” mentality. Most of society runs on autopilot. Open your mind up to new possibilities. How can you get out there today and change the world for the better and help just one person?
Everyone Is Capable Of Success - It's easier today than it has ever been, all the groundwork has already been laid. The internet is already there for you. It's your job to connect the dots.
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Can’t Find Your Purpose In Life? Watch This! // If you are thinking to yourself, “How do I find my purpose?” or “I wonder what to do with my life,” then this video is for you. Peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker, helps you find your true purpose and passion by explaining simple self development steps you can take to build a strong mind, find your inspiration, and finally start living a life of meaning and fulfilment.
KEY POINTS
Turn Your Wounds Into Wisdom - To find your purpose in life, think about where in your life have you experienced pain? Where in your life have you experienced insecurities? How could you use that as your source or purpose?
If You’ve Got Talent, Use It! - Where do you find your strengths? Where are your talents, and how could you weave them together in a purpose that would serve not just you, but also those around you?
Who Do You Admire? - What is it that they are doing? What is it that you admire about them? Use them as inspiration for how you want to live your life and become the best version of yourself.
Good Feedback Is The Key To Improvement - Listen to feedback, listen to what others say about your strengths or weaknesses. Listen to what others say about where you get your energy from, and what you get excited about? Use that as ammunition to propel you to the next level.
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Learn how to ASK your way to achieving your dreams! Join Crystal & Mark Victor Hansen (Authors of Ask!) and Eric Partaker as they share tips on how you can reach your full potential and achieve your dreams through the power of ASKING!
KEY POINTS
Question Everything! - You cannot successfully navigate life without learning to be better. Asking is the only mechanism available to us that has the ability to reveal what is hidden. Asking questions delivers solutions! Any opportunity you have, ask questions and constantly seek to learn.
A Good Relationship Starts With Good Communication - Half the improvement that you seek in any relationships can be improved simply by reacting better to the other person. Next time your partner triggers a negative response from you, insert a pause between the stimulus and your response. Ask yourself how would the best version of you respond to this trigger.
Are You Missing Out On Opportunities? - Next time you’re afraid to do something, step on the fear with some courage and do it anyway. You never know how it may change your life and elevate you exponentially to the next level.
Action Ends Suffering – Professionals know that action creates feeling. Amateurs believe feeling creates action. Be the professional of your life and take action today, don’t wait around for the next day you feel like it, or it will never get done.
Make Each Day Your Masterpiece - At the end of every day ask yourself “Did I do my best today?”. Keep track of the score, give yourself a W for a winning day and L for learning.
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THE CURE TO LAZINESS (This could change your life) // We all have days when we are feeling lazy and unmotivated. A lazy day is not the end of the world, but you don’t want to let too many of these lazy days form in your calendar. If you want to avoid laziness, stop procrastinating and find your motivation, peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker, has some solutions for you. By the end of this video, you will have the inspiration and strategies to combat laziness so you can pursue your goals and reach your full potential.
KEY POINTS
Starting Is The Hardest Part, The Rest Will Follow - Finishing a task can feel overwhelming, but just starting takes only a second. Adopt the mentality “I choose to start for just 5 minutes”.
Get The Right Things Done, Prioritize! - Are you feeling overwhelmed by the number of tasks on your to-do list? What is the one thing that you could do that will help you progress, even just a inch forward? Pick your most important task and start with that.
Perfection Is An Illusion - Often we feel lazy when we are seeking perfection. Perfect is impossible to attain. Instead focus on improving by 1%.
Are You Getting Enough Sleep? - Are you feeling lazy because you are actually tired? Is the laziness of your feeling actually your body wanting to recharge and get energy back? Ensure you are getting a full 8 hours of sleep per night.
It's Ok To Ask For Help - Laziness could be triggered by the fact that you actually need some support. Are you feeling isolated, alone, and not sure how to move forward? There is most likely a lot more support around you than you realize. Pick up the phone, or send that email and reach out and ask for the help that you need.
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Morning Routine 2021 | Healthy & Productive Habits // Do you want to know what the world’s most successful people have in common? They all have a morning routine. A morning routine consisting of personal growth, self development and productive habits. If you want to be healthy and happy then you should follow the success habits of the world’s top performers. In this video, peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker, shares a morning routine of activities you should be doing everyday.
KEY POINTS
I for Identity - Behaviour Follows Identity. Separate your life into three domains, health, wealth and relationships. At the start of every day decide who you are at your best in each of these three domains. What does that person look like and how do they act?
R for Reading - Schedule around 20 minutes per day where you are focused on your growth and development. Do some reading, listen to an audiobook. Open yourself up to learning new things.
E for Exercise - Spike your energy at the beginning of your day. Do at least 20 minutes of moderate exercise. Your body is designed to move. You are designed to be active. Exercise will boost your mood and lead to a happier day.
V for Visualization - Picture your identities on the health, wealth and relationships front. How would those versions of you show up throughout the day? How decisive, inspiring and reliable will you be?
A for Affirmations - Throughout the day remind yourself of your affirmations. They are positive statements, a selection of phases, sentences, or words which when you say them to yourself will increase confidence and help you complete your day as your best self.
M for Meditation - For 5 minutes a day, put your phone away and focus on just counting to 10 and back down again .Create clarity and peacefulness in your mind to enable you to navigate your way through the day as your best self.
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Do you have BIG dreams? Is the fear of failure holding you back? Join Brian Scudamore (Entrepreneur, Author and Founder of O2E Brands) and Eric Partaker as they dive into what it takes to reach your full potential and share tips on how you can succeed at life!
KEY POINTS
Dream Big, Live Bigger - Believe in possibility. Every dream starts with an idea. Dream big, work hard, never give up.
Failure Inspires Winners - The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. Failure is a gift. Not only do you learn how to deal with mistakes but it is a necessary ingredient in the recipes for success. Take the first step. Fail. Learn from that failure then take the second step towards success.
Persistence Is Key To Success- You can have just about anything you want in life, providing you're willing to go through 1000 nos. Collect your nos because yes lives in the land of no, eventually yes will appear, and success will materialise.
Giving Up Is The Only Sure Way To Fail - Set a goal of how many times you are going to fail this week. Imagine the gift of learning you will get from those failures. We all make mistakes, but it's how we learn from those errors in judgement and take steps to rectify the situations that show our true character. So much of failure is not understanding what the mistake was and why you made it.
Failure Is Not Fatal! - Don't let failure come as a shock to you. Expect it, and plan for it. By foreseeing failure and expecting mistakes to be made, you’ll reduce the negative emotional impact when it appears. Learn from it, pick yourself up and reflect.
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How the comfort zone is ruining your life // Your comfort zone is a safe and secure little haven but it’s also holding you back from reaching your full potential and living the life of your dreams. It’s time to get out of the comfort zone and build up the courage to dare to become the best version of yourself. Today, peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker, encourages you to embrace these life hacks to break free and showcases the dangers of living life within the comfort zone.
KEY POINTS
Are You Limiting Yourself? - Staying in your comfort zone increases the risk that you won’t discover your true purpose in life. Finding your purpose requires a degree of risk and exploration. Get up, test your limits, step outside what is comfortable to you and flourish!
Is Your World A Tiny Place? - Your comfort zone is shrinking your world. There are so many experiences out there that are waiting for you to enjoy them. Open yourself up to new experiences and reach a new level in life.
Are You Sabotaging Your Growth? - There are many opportunities out there sitting waiting for you. Open up the doors of fear and step through them. Often you will realise it wasn't as bad as you anticipated.
Are You Destroying Your Confidence? - Are you guilty of turning down opportunities or experiences that are outside what you are used to? If you are, why? Is it because you’re used to staying comfortable? This limits your confidence, and attacks your self belief and can lead to a mundane boring existence.
Is Your Creativity Diminishing? - Often when you stay in your comfort zone, you will be repeatedly doing what feels safe. Try something new that allows your creativity to flourish and increase that excitement for life.
Do Your Friends Think You're Boring? - You may not realise it but your comfort zone builds you a reputation to others of somebody who is not willing to take risks and try new things. Get out, try new things. Organise fun days out with your friends.
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How to Stop Being Tired All the Time // Do you want to stop being tired all the time, feel more energetic and feel great throughout your day? Getting better quality sleep is important, but if you want to truly feel great when you wake up, you have to change up your routine. In this video, peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker, provides some insights and tricks to not feel tired so you are ready to attack and pursue your goals, each and every day.
KEY POINTS
Wake Up And Work Out! - Exercise in the morning spikes your energy for the rest of the day. Just 20 minutes daily gives you a positive mood equivalent to taking an antidepressant.
You Are What You Eat - Whatever we ingest goes into our tissue, it forms everything in our body, it also contributes to us feeling energetic or fatigued. If you eat foods that are unhealthy you will feel more fatigued.
Life Is Better When You Get Enough Sleep - Ensure you’re getting 8 hours of sleep a night. Not getting the correct amount of sleep reduces your ability to focus. In the long term it increases the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, mental illness and even cancer risk.
When You Embrace Stress, You Transform Fear Into Courage - Stress builds strength. Stress is not the issue, often it is your perception of stress that is the problem. Rather than avoiding stress, flip it around and realize that it's our perceptions which cause the problem.
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Timeboxing: Elon Musk’s Time Management Method // Elon Musk is notoriously known for his insane work ethic, clocking around 80 to 100 hours per week. Want to know his time management secret? Timeboxing. Elon Musk's schedule is precisely planned and perfectly executed for incredible productivity, using an efficient time blocking method and relying on the fundamentals of Parkinson’s Law. In this video, peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker, explains Elon Musk’s daily schedule tool, so you can plan your day, get more done, stop procrastinating and reach your full potential.
KEY POINTS
What Is Timeboxing? - It Is the practice of setting a specific amount of time to work on tasks, then integrating those blocks of time into your schedule in your calendar.
What Is Parkinson's Law? - Work will expand to fill the time given for its completion. If you give yourself 3 hours to complete a task, you will take 3 hours. If you give yourself 3 days it will take 3 days. Think about this when setting time for tasks. Get more done in less time!
Think Proactively - At the start of each day look at each task you need to get done and assign an amount of time to complete it. Then hold yourself accountable to completing that task within the given time frame.
Give Yourself Buffer Time - When you complete a task for the first time set yourself a goal for how long you aim to take to complete it. Then add 20% - 30% extra to give yourself a buffer so you can develop an understanding of how long it takes to complete certain tasks.
Bunch Small Tasks Together - Don’t drip feed yourself lots of small tasks throughout the day. Group small activities together into a single block. Your efficiency when completing the tasks will greatly improve.
Do You Single Task? - Minimize your distractions and make sure notifications are turned off on various apps, and that your phone is out of sight. Ensure you are focusing only on the task at hand.
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6 Ways To Get Back On Track When You’ve Lost Your Way // Do you want to know how to get out of a rut? If you are feeling stuck in life, searching for motivation and want to get your life together, then you’ve come to the right place. Today, peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker, will share how you can get out of a rut, overcome procrastination and engage in personal development to regain your motivation and hunger to achieve your goals.
KEY POINTS
Get Up And Get Active - 90% of your psychology is driven by physiology. Exercise releases positive hormones that make you feel good. It can improve your mental health and give you the energy you need to go after your goals.
What's Your Reason Why? - Write it down! Ask yourself why you are doing what you’re doing. What is motivating you to achieve your goals? Constantly remind yourself of the answers to these questions.
Feed Your Mind! - Consume powerful and inspiring content for your mind. Put on your favourite podcast or listen to some inspirational talks. Ensure you’re constantly filling your mind with things that make you feel strong, confident and good about yourself.
Are You Feeling Aimless? - If you don’t know where you’re going, if you don't have a vision for your life, that can lead to feelings of aimlessness. Think about what you would like to be doing to improve your health. Where would you like to be in wealth and work? And how do you see your relationships progressing and improving over time?
Give Your Motivation A Boost! - Maximise your motivation and minimize your likelihood of getting distracted. Check in with why you are doing each task, and highlight the benefits that you would receive from completing it.
Nothing In Life Comes For Free - Everything worth achieving requires some form of payment. You can either pay in through the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Get your head down and work hard!
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Don’t Allow Your Life To Be Controlled By These 5 Things // Do you want to know how to be happier, live a better life and reach your full potential? The truth is that to live the life of your dreams, you must let go and stop letting certain things control you. It may be that you need to develop a strong mind, break free from bad habits or learn how to let go of the past. In this video, peak performance expert and coach Eric Partaker, explains 5 things you should never let control you so that you can take back control of your life, become your best self and reach your full potential.
KEY POINTS
Don’t Let Your Past Define You - The past no longer exists, the future hasn't happened yet. What’s done is done. Live in the moment. Make the right choices at the right time and create the better future that you seek.
Ignore The Naysayers - Don't let other people hold you back from pursuing your ambitions. Ignore other people and do what feels right for you and your life.
The Future Is In Your Hands - Don't let self doubt and limiting beliefs define you. The mind will do what you push it to do. If you tell it to find excuses, what is it going to find? Excuses. Take Action today, and stop making excuses.
Who’s In Your Inner Circle? - Ensure that people you’re spending time with are people that matter to you, and people who will help further your dreams. Take all the relationships in your life and categorize them into either energy drainer or energy generator. Who do you think you should be spending more time with?
Don’t Chase The Money - Focus not on chasing money, but creating value for others. When you focus on others and creating value for them, you’ll be shocked and surprised how your financial situation starts to change very rapidly.
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12 Things You Should Not Do In The Morning // Win the morning and you win the day! While there are plenty of things you should implement into your morning routine there are also things you should not do in the morning if you want to live a healthy, happy and productive lifestyle. Today, peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker, breaks down 12 things you should not do in the morning. These are life hacks and lessons to not only optimise your mornings but to break bad habits, change your life and reach your full potential.
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Stop Hitting The Snooze Button! - Put your alarm clock on the other side of the room, out of arm's reach so that you have no choice but to get out of bed to turn it off.
Five Second Rule - The moment you have the urge to do something you know you should do, give yourself 5 seconds to take action before your brain will try to convince you otherwise.
Put Your Phone Down - Stop using your phone as your alarm clock. Get an old school alarm clock and shut off your phone when you go to bed. This will help avoid temptation when you wake up to grab and start scrolling.
Stop Winging It - Make a plan for your day. Spend five minutes in the morning, seeing what meetings you have, when and where do you need to be? Look at the free space and decide how best you could use that? How could you further your goals?
A Clean Home Is A Happy Home - Ensure you have enough time scheduled into your day to clean up after yourself. Those simple acts of cleanliness will help promote a sense of discipline. It will increase structure and help improve your day.
Time To Hydrate - Begin every morning with two large glasses of water. Replenish the liquids in your body and give your day a well hydrated start.
Do You Make Your Bed? - The simple act of making your bed every single morning helps foster a sense of discipline and structure in your life so that you can get your day off to a good start.
The Best Investment You Can Make Is In Yourself! - Make time to read, study or learn at the beginning of your day. Take at least 5 minutes to visualize your day ahead. Decide how you will show up today with excellence.
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Jim Rohn 10 Things You Must Improve Daily (Best Motivation) // In this video, entrepreneur, author and icon, Jim Rohn, shares the personal development and self improvement habits of successful people. If you practice and improve these things daily then you can improve your life and work to become your best self. Jim Rohn’s healthy habits and lessons are presented by peak performance expert and coach Eric Partaker, to give you the tools and inspiration to develop a strong mind and reach your full potential.
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Direction Is More Important Than Speed! - A clear vision gives your understanding in what direction you are heading. It keeps you moving forward, and helps you not only conquer the peaks but also get through the tough times.
Say Goodbye To Your Inner Critic - If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right. It's up to you to decide whether or not you are going to believe in yourself.
Check In With Your Passion - Are you doing something that you truly love? If the answer is no, how can you bring more passion into what it is that you’re doing?
Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance - Ensure you are working towards what is meaningful to you. Every quarter, every week and every day decide on the top three goals you want to be working towards. Don’t forget to regularly check you are on track!
Who are you at your best? - What does that version of you look like? Check in with that on a daily basis, remind yourself how that person would behave.
Success Starts With Self Discipline - In order to reach your full potential and perform at your best self a payment is required. You can either pay through the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Nothing comes for free. Regret is always more costly that the pain of discipline.
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**Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset // Our minds are the most powerful thing on Earth, but it can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. In harnessing the power of your mind and aligning your mindset with your ambition, it is key to adopt a growth mindset. In this video, peak performance coach and expert Eric Partaker will highlight the difference between a growth and fixed mindset, and show you the characteristics of each, so you can build mental toughness, resilience and develop a high performance lifestyle, helping you to reach your full potential.
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Dreams Don’t Work Unless You Do** - The amount of effort you put in now will correlate with the success you eventually achieve. Don’t give up, keep working hard, no matter how difficult the road ahead seems.
Where There Is No Struggle, There Is No Strength - Embrace obstacles. They are the primary way in which you’re going to become stronger, more capable and more able to achieve your goals in work and life.
Who’s In Your Inner Circle? - Surround yourself with people that will push you to better yourself. Your path to growth lies in surrounding yourself with people who are at a level slightly higher than yourself.
Feedback Is The Breakfast Of Champions - Actively seek out feedback. Find out how you can improve. Discuss what you could be doing better for next time. Be comfortable feeling vulnerable towards people because feedback will lead to personal growth.
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**How To Be Fearless Under Pressure // The powerful feelings of fear, panic and stress can be overwhelming if we do not control them. Harnessing fearlessness and finding your best self under pressure is a skill that can be learned and today is the day to sweep fear to the side and stop holding yourself back. In this video, peak performance coach and expert Eric Partaker will show how you can be calm under pressure, perform at your best and become mentally strong so you can pursue your dreams without fear stopping you.
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Take A Step Back -** What’s causing your panic and stress? Find the root of the cause. Understanding the situation will allow you to reduce the fear when you’re under pressure. You’ll be able to get a better idea of what’s driving the situation and therefore how to correct it.
Knowledge Is Power - Schedule into your calendar time for knowledge and skill development. Identify the skills you need to work on in order to relieve the pressure in your stressful situations. The greater your knowledge and skills the more confidence you will have.
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable - Your growth and future potential sits outside of your comfort zone. You need to step outside of it to grow. Nothing great in life is achieved by staying comfortable. Embrace stress, reframe it as something that is going to benefit you.
Change Your Words, Change Your Mindset - When stressed, and the feeling of nerves creeps up on you. Reframe your mind, Instead of sitting there saying “I’m nervous” say “I’m excited!” The energy that you feel, when nervous or anxious is chemically very similar to the feelings within your body when excited.
Relive The Past - Remind yourself of times when you experienced an equally challenging situation, and remember how you were able to get through it.
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How Successful People Think // When you think about your business, career, or personal life recently, where are you winning or losing lately? Well, whether you think of the pursuit of success as a game or not, success always leaves clues. In this video, peak performance expert and coach Eric Partaker, outlines the traits of successful people and how their mindset can play a crucial role in their pursuit of greatness.
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A Goal Without A Plan Is Just A Wish - Create goals which pull you into action, that allow you to dream big. Then take those goals and break them down into attainable chunks. So that you know precisely what you should be doing to keep yourself on the path to success.
Are You Getting Enough Sleep? - Create a shutdown ritual. Before you go to bed, ensure you have made a plan for the next day. Decide on three tasks you want to prioritize to get done. Then one hour before bed, shut off all electronics to maximise the melatonin which will allow you to get 8 hours of sleep.
Optimize Your Mornings! - Start your day with some exercise to build your energy levels ready for the day ahead. Don't sit on social media or read all your emails. Get up and get active!
Could Your Work Day Be More Efficient? - Divide your day into Maker vs. Manager time. Manager time perhaps in the afternoon where you attend meetings, and maker time is protected time when you work on your top three tasks which you decided on the night before.
Leap And The Net Will Appear - Gather the people, the resources and knowledge you need and believe in yourself. Take the dive. There will never be a perfect time to start your journey, figure it out along the way.
Hold Yourself Responsible - Think constantly about accountability. Accountability for yourself, and for the people you’re working with. Every time you make a promise, ensure you deliver on that commitment.
Embrace Failure - Anticipate it. When you fail, you don’t lose, you learn. The combination of winning and learning will enable you to succeed bigger, better and quicker in the future.
Perfection Is Impossible - Instead focus on progress. It is through taking action and progress that you become closer to the ideal you’re seeking. Ask yourself “What should I be doing right now that I am not? What action will get me one step closer to achieving my goals?”
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The Mindset of a Billionaire – Learn How To Think Correctly // Billionaires are not superhuman, they are not cut from a different cloth or have special abilities. However, their advantage is the way they see the world and how they think. In this video peak performance coach and expert Eric Partaker shares some invaluable insights about how adopting the billionaire mindset can transform your life and help you achieve your goals. Changing your mindset and following with intentionality and deliberate action, can make all the difference and create phenomenal results. Embrace these mindset traits and start thinking like a billionaire now!
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You Don't Always Have To Be Right! - Prioritize decisiveness, speed over precision, make decisions quickly and then act! Part of making a wise decision is recognizing that you don't always have to be right. If you’re wrong, accept it, make another decision, and move forward.
Your Best Teacher Is Your Last Mistake - Mistakes are a fundamental part of your evolution, growth and development. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, embrace them. It’s through mistakes that you’ll collect the valuable learning you need to reach your goals.
Do Your Friends Bring Out The Best In You? - You are the average of the five people that you spend the most time with. Associate yourself with successful positive people who are going to help you reach the next level and bring out the best in you.
Pay Yourself First! - Do you pay yourself first at the end of every month? Decide what you’re going to save, then limit your expenses to what’s left over from that.
Shoot For The Moon - Even if you miss you’ll land amongst the stars. Big goals commit you to action. Start acting now, become hyper aware of your time and whether you're spending it in a positive, productive way to enable you to achieve your goals.
Take Small Steps! - Create milestones that you want to reach, so that you can get a taste of success on your way to achieving your big goal.
Identify With Your Best Self - Who are you at your best on the health, wealth and relationship front? What will that version of you achieve today?
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**THE MINDSET OF A WINNER | Kobe Bryant Champions Advice // As the late great Kobe Bryant said, “Winning is everything!” Kobe was a symbol of mental strength, with his unbeatable mindset, mental toughness, and resilience. In this video, peak performance coach and expert Eric Partaker, explores the habits and lessons from Kobe to help you become the best version of yourself, overcome mental weakness and reach your full potential in life.
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Hard Work Is Not Enough! -** What is your aim? What are you striving to achieve? In order to succeed you need something to shoot for. Intentionality will enable you focus on what's important to achieve your goals.
Rule Your Mind, Or It Will Rule You - Meditation is incredibly powerful. It provides you with the skill of being able to focus on what matters most, eliminate distractions , and all the noises that are competing for your attention. Practice just 60 seconds a day to start developing a calm, focused mind.
Never Stop Learning! - All the expertise and resources that you need to do or achieve anything in life already exist. You simply have to connect your way to them. Find a way of extracting that knowledge and learning from those who are already experts in their field.
Play To Win! - Change your mindset. Instead of competing with others, compete with yourself. Aim to be better today than the person you were yesterday.
Success Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint - Effort and intentionality in the long term will deliver results. But you have to play the long game. Your competitive advantage is that many people are not willing to play the long game. This is your chance to set yourself ahead of those you’re competing against.
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Do you have what it takes to achieve elite level success? Join Katie Hoff (World Champion Swimmer) and Eric Partaker as they disclose useful tips to change your life forever and lead you on the path to achieving your goals.
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Set Small Goals - Chunk big goals into small steps, ensure it's nearly impossible not to achieve them. Little wins will give you the taste of success sooner and keep you motivated.
Choose Your Pain - Nothing comes for free. Everything requires some form of payment. You can either pay through the form of discipline now or the pain of regret later. Discipline is cheaper than the pain of regret.
Action Ends Suffering – Professionals know that action creates feeling. Amateurs believe feeling creates action. Be the professional of your life and take action today, don’t wait around for the next day you feel like it, or it will never get done.
Love What You Do – Become obsessed with your goals. If part of your energy is used convincing yourself to try the idea, you're wasting energy. If you love something, use all your energy to work harder on your goals and achieve them sooner.
Hold Yourself Accountable - Set daily goals. Keep track and hold yourself accountable for your mistakes. It is an important tool for building habits and progressing.
Nobody Achieves Greatness On Their Own – Surround yourself with the people who encourage you to be your best self. Find yourself a mentor, someone who can give you an outside view on your goals and your progress, and can give you the advice you need.
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**How To Master & Control Your Emotions // Do you want to learn how to master and control your emotions? In this video, peak performance expert and coach Eric Partaker teach you how to develop a strong mind, enhance emotional intelligence and control your emotions through a self improvement process.
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Acknowledge Your Feelings -** If you feel negative emotions, don't repress them. Allow them to come forth. Give them a name. By naming the emotion it separates you from whatever the emotion is. That distance gives you the ability to decide what you want to do and feel going forward.
Better Food = Better Mood - 90% of your serotonin is produced in your gut, not by your brain. Eat whole, naturally occurring food. Eat mostly plants, leafy greens, and rich colorful vegetables.
Follow Your Dreams, And Go Back To Bed - Get eight hours of quality sleep. Ensure you shut off all electronics one hour before bed, so that your brain has time to relax and you can sleep deeply and restfully.
Your Attitude Determines Your Direction - What are you thinking about? Dwelling on negative thoughts will put you in a bad mood. If you notice yourself becoming overwhelmingly negative, that’s your cue to start tapping into your positive mindset.
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**Jordan B Peterson – Mental Strength for Overcoming Fear & Building Your Dreams // Do your dreams always seem out of reach? Are you consumed and overwhelmed by fear? Dr Jordan B Peterson may have a solution for you. In this video, peak performance expert and coach, Eric Partaker uncovers the teachings of Jordan Peterson so you can become mentally strong and reach your full potential. Jordan Peterson’s lessons and motivational and inspirational in their ability to showcase the habits of mentally strong people, develop a strong, mind, chase your dreams and destroy mental weakness.
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What Is Causing You Negative Energy? -** Identify and remove the parts of your life that are bringing you down. What are the places, activities and people in your life that no longer bring you joy?
What Gets Scheduled, Gets Done! - Make a list of the top three things that you would like to achieve in the day ahead, the week ahead, and the month ahead. Set them as appointments in your calendar and show up, just as you would an appointment with somebody else.
What Is Your Life Purpose? - What is the compelling, powerful reason that will motivate you to achieve your goals, not just in the good times, but also in the low times? Create a clear vision of where you want to go. Find out and take time working on what you were born to do. When you die, what will you be remembered for?
Self Love Is Your Superpower - Arm yourself with positive self talk. Practice simple affirmations everyday that will empower you, build your self confidence and elevate you to your best self.
Be Bold, Aim High, Dream Big - If you shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll still land amongst the stars. Dare to challenge yourself. Stepping out of your comfort zone will lead to growth and development.
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Are you struggling to reach your full potential? Are you struggling to crack the secret world of marketing? Join Phillip Stutts (Political Marketer, and Author of ‘The Undefeated Marketing System’ and ‘Fire Them Now!’) and Eric Partaker as they discuss some useful tips to change your life forever and help you achieve your full potential!
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Customers first, Brand second! - Dive deep into customer data. Find out exactly what they want, what appeals to them, what digital tools they use. Only once you know your customers inside out can you begin to brand your company. Find alignment between your vision and what the customer wants.
Break Through The Noise - According to Forbes we are now seeing up to 10,000 ads a day. You are no longer competing against other companies similar to you, you are now competing against everybody. Break through the clutter by resonating and connecting with your customers.
Is Your Website Optimized?? - Optimize your website. Statistics show that 88% of all consumers will never come back if they have one bad experience on your website.
Enjoy Your Work - Enjoy what you do, it's a process of climbing a ladder forever. Too often we are focused on our goals and forget to enjoy the process. Get up every day and enjoy the effort, enjoy the struggle, and understand that goals worth reaching take time and effort.
Actions > Distractions - Distractions impede your ability to achieve your goals. Optimize your environment, shut off all notifications, and prioritize your work!
Identify The Kryptonite In Your Life - What is getting you down and causing you stress? Embrace your emotions instead of ignoring them, deal with them so that you can move forward and avoid distraction.
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**5 Common Habits That Make You Mentally Weak // If you want to know how to get mental strength, reach your full potential and become the best version of yourself, then listen to peak performance expert and coach Eric Partaker. In this video, you will see 5 common habits that make you mentally weak so you can eliminate them from your life and chase your dreams with resilience and unshakeable mental toughness.
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Are You Easily Distracted? -** Distractions impede your ability to achieve your goals. Optimize your environment, shut off all notifications, and prioritize your work!
Are You Constantly Waiting For The Right Moment? - Action creates momentum. There is no perfect time. The only right time is when you decide it is.
Feeling Sorry For Yourself? - Don't! Instead feel empowered. Ask yourself ‘What can I learn from experiences that haven’t gone my way?’, ‘How can I use them as fuel for my progress going forward?’
The World Doesn't Owe You Anything! - You are not entitled to achieve your goals. Your biggest source of strength is knowing that you’re delivering your best effort no matter what. That is what will lead you on the path to success.
Action Is Power! - If you find yourself dreaming too much and not acting enough, then you need to rebalance the equation. Dreams are important, but only if they come with the commensurate action that’s needed to bring them to life.
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Are you on the path to success or failure? Are your BIG IDEAS actually the reason you're not reaching your goals? Join John Lee Dumas (Founder & Host of Entrepreneurs On Fire, and Author of ‘The Common Path To Uncommon Success) and Eric Partaker, as they discuss tips on how you can achieve your dreams and reach your full potential.
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Hard Work = Success - It takes hard work and perseverance to achieve your dreams, to get financial freedom and fulfillment. There are no shortcuts. Get your head down and work hard!
Who’s In Your Inner Circle? - Surround yourself with the right people. People who believe in your dreams and push you to be the best version of yourself.
You have That BIG IDEA Inside Of You! - You just may not know it yet! Work out what you are enthusiastic and passionate about. What skills, value and expertise do you have that can help make the world a better place?
Identify A Niche! - Find a void in the marketplace, an underserved market that you can provide not only a solution to the problem but the number one solution to that problem.
Start Small! - Successful companies start small and earn the right to grow and expand. Jeff Bezos started Amazon just selling books. Over time, as you achieve success and notoriety, there will be opportunities to broaden out, to expand and move forward.
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**The 12 Surprising Signs of Mentally Strong People // Are you mentally strong? Well then, check out the signs and habits of mentally strong people brought to you by peak performance expert and coach Eric Partaker. In this inspirational video, you will see how you can reach your full potential and become the best version of yourself by developing a strong mind and building resilience.
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Do You Let People Walk All Over You? -** Where in your life are you allowing someone to take advantage of you? How would the best version of yourself advise you in this situation?
Say NO And Be True To Yourself - Being of service to the world and helping others creates incredible benefits to both you and others, but don't lose yourself in the process. Ensure you can devote enough time and energy to what matters most to you.
Are You A People Pleaser? - Don’t try and please everybody. Ensure you are also prioritizing your happiness and dreams.
Fix Your Own Problem! - Take the lead, take ownership of your situations and find solutions to problems yourself. Don’t wait for others to come in and solve them for you.
You’re Wrong! Admit it! - Acknowledge when you make mistakes. Mistakes are secretly learning opportunities there to help you grow and progress.
Be Patient! - Play the long game. The pain of discipline that you experience today is much cheaper than the pain of regret.
Their Opinions Are Irrelevant - You are resilient! If people say negative things to you, it will only make you stronger!
We Rise By Lifting Others - Do it out of kindness, not obligation. Mentally strong people still have enough energy and drive within them to give to others, purely out of kindness.
The World Doesn't Owe You Anything! - You are not entitled. The success you crave in life requires dedication, hard work and effort.
How Adaptable Are You? - Experiencing stress in situations makes you stronger. Look forward to uncomfortable situations. Embrace them!
Exercise Empathy - Think and feel another person's point of view even if it's not your own. Be able to extend your hand to someone else to comfort and console them to help them through tough times.
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**How to Build Mental Toughness – David Goggins // If you want to learn how to build mental toughness and get mental strength, check out these lessons from the toughest man alive David Goggins. Goggins has created many inspiration and motivational works, including his best selling book cant hurt me. Today peak performance expert Eric Partaker will help you develop a strong mind and divide into the habits of mentally strong people. You will learn about resilience from the best in the business, here are the behaviours of the one and only David Goggins.
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Keep It Real! -** Stand in front of a mirror and ask yourself on a daily basis “Am I showing up at my best today?” You’ll find that you cannot lie to yourself. Hold yourself accountable each day for reaching your goals.
What Makes You Uncomfortable? - Write it down. Review that list regularly, and embrace your discomforts. Growth and development is not within your comfort zone!
Big Goals = Small Steps - Break big goals into smaller steps, It builds confidence and enables you to experience achievement sooner rather than later.
Visualize, Believe, Achieve! - Take five minutes everyday. Visualize what your life will look like when you achieve the goals that you have set for yourself.
Take Souls! - Create the mentality that anything is possible. You will win in the end, because you will persevere and do whatever it takes to achieve your goals and push forwards.
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**10 Daily Practices to Increase Mental Toughness // If you want to learn how to develop a strong mind then check out this motivational video from peak performance expert Eric Partaker. Here are 10 signs and habits of mentally strong people which help provide inspiration for you to build incredible resilience and mental toughness.
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Do You Take Cold Showers? -** Build up your ability over time to take cold showers daily. It provides multiple health benefits, as well as the ability, and mental toughness to handle stress.
Eliminate Digital Distractions - Limit the times when you're using apps. Remove them from your phone, turn notifications off or schedule set times of the day to use them. Constantly engrossing yourself in apps, comparing yourself to others, and being constantly distracted, weakens the mind.
Dare To Move! - Bodies are built for movement. Mobility is absolutely key to maintaining a positive hormone balance. If you're not moving throughout the day it will have a negative impact on your mind.
Exercise Your Mind, Read! - Reading helps you develop your focus. You will be much better prepared to survive challenge, and to get through obstacles when you have the ability to get into focus zone.
Schedule A Meeting With Yourself! - Gather your thoughts, think through, what are the things that are going well today. What's not going so well? How might I change the direction in which things are headed, or the way in which I want to experience the rest of this day?
Be The Boss Of Food! - When you’re hungry, don't eat right away! This is an effective tool in practicing your ability to tolerate challenge. Use it as a way to develop your mental toughness.
Self-Talk Is Your Power - When challenging moments appear, practice the phrase ‘Bring It On!’ Step into the direction of stress. Embrace stress. Look forward to it!
Gratitude Is The Best Attitude - Make sure that you just take a moment to be grateful for the things that you do have. This awareness will help sustain you during the times when you feel like you have nothing to be grateful for.
Your Life Is 100% Your Responsibility! - Take full responsibility and ownership for your life. Whether or not you achieve your goals, your reactions to situations, and whether you showed up at your best. If you fall down, just stand right back up and go at it again.
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**Mentally Fragile to Mentally Strong! You have to listen to this! // If you want to learn how to be mentally strong, develop mental toughness and develop a strong mind then this motivational video is for you. Listen to peak performance expert Eric Partaker show you how to get mental strength by highlighting the habits of mentally strong people so you can reach your full potential.
KEY POINTS
Why Do You Want This?** - What is your deep fulfilling reason for striving to achieve your goals? In tough times, if you have a superficial reason for achieving your goals, you will struggle to overcome your obstacles.
Let It Go! - You cannot control everything, but what you can control is how you react. Success is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to those things. Your reactions are everything. Instead of adopting a ‘poor me’ mentality, say ‘Bring it on, I accept the challenge!’
Who’s On Your Team? - No person has achieved greatness on their own. Support around you facilitates mental strength. Nobody who is at the top of their game mentally has gotten there without the help of someone else. Ask yourself whether you have the right support system around you to get through difficult times.
It’s Not Stress That Kills Us, It's Our Reaction To It! - Stress is good! It builds strength in the body. Having the ability to maintain your emotions under stress is paramount to transitioning from mentally fragile to mentally strong.
Never Give Up! - Adopt unwavering positivity and tenacity. Always look to persevere. There's always a way through every single obstacle that comes into your path. Embrace your obstacles. They are the weights asking to be lifted so that you can become stronger as a result.
Are You Compromising Your Standards? - When times get rough, maintain your standards. By not compromising your standards during hard times you will transition you from mentally fragile to mentally strong. Every single challenge that you experience will strengthen you.
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**Overcome Self Defeating Behaviors // Do you often find yourself running in circles? You make a commitment to stop smoking, binge eating or procrastinating and yet when something goes wrong you find yourself reverting to the same self defeating behaviors. In this video you will learn how to defeat the beast of self destruction and how to build discipline, master self control and have more willpower. If you are saying, “Its time to sort myself out,” then employ these success secrets to help you face your fears, overcome self doubt and achieve anything you want in life.
KEY POINTS
Identify Your Self Sabotaging Behaviours** - What habits shouldn't you be doing that are getting in the way of you becoming your best self? Reach out to those closest to you, and ask, “Where do I sabotage my own success?"
Know What Your Triggers Are - What leads you to engage in self-defeating behavior? Don't try to change the trigger, but change how you react to it. Change and swap in a new behavior, a behavior, which is better than that self-defeating behavior.
Practice Mindfulness - Develop the ability to quiet your mind, especially in moments when you feel anxious, resentful or frustrated. Also in those moments you’re likely then to engage in a self-defeating behavior.
Take Small Steps And Set Realistic Goals - Set small goals. Chunk your big goal down into the small steps. Ensure that it's nearly impossible for you to not be able to achieve it.
Practice Self-Compassion - Be kind to yourself. Sometimes you will achieve what you set out to achieve, sometimes you won't. That reality will give you room to breathe. It allows you to feel kind towards yourself and far less likely to engage in self-defeating behaviors.
Seek Help - If you're really struggling with self-defeating behaviors, seek help from your support group. Seek help from a professional.
Be Persistent - If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again. Don't let your first attempt, and perhaps failure, rule your life.
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**Build Unbreakable Self Discipline With These 5 Rules // So you want to become more disciplined but don’t know where to start? You have come to the right place, as this video will teach you how to build discipline, have more willpower and how you can implement self control in your life.
KEY POINTS
Get Organized! -** Organize your life, use a daily planner, get into the habit of planning out your weeks and planning out your days. You will feel more disciplined knowing what you need to do and when you need to do it!
Plan Your Next Week - Plan out the top three things that you want to achieve in the week ahead and when you will be doing them.
Plan Your Next Day - Plan the top three things you will do within the day ahead and when you will be doing them. Schedule them into your day. What gets scheduled gets done!
Account For Decision Fatigue - When is your decision muscle strongest? At the start of the day! Make sure you are doing my most important tasks at the very start of each day.
Invest In Yourself! - Use rewards to give you something to look forward to, and to provide rest and recovery. During the course of the day, don't work nonstop, make sure that you take breaks, and reward yourself with some time off.
Nourish Yourself to Flourish! - Keep the body and the energy operating at a high level. Stay hydrated throughout the course of the day. Stay away from garbage. Garbage in, equals garbage out. It will hurt your ability to maintain your discipline.
Choose To Start - Rather than trying to finish every task, continually focus on starting throughout the day, the finishing eventually will take care of itself.
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Are you afraid of rejection and failure? Do you wish you had the tools to overcome your fears and lead your best possible life EVERYDAY? Join Jennifer Cohen (Fitness Personality, Author and body image consultant) and Eric Partaker as they discuss tips on how you can reach your full potential and win at life!
KEY POINTS
Get Fit, Don’t Quit! - Exercise gives you energy, and increases your productivity. Exercise first thing every morning, Make it a habit! Beginning your day with exercise increases your ability to stay on track for the remainder of the day.
Happiness Consists Of Getting Enough Sleep! - A lack of sleep causes reduced cognitive abilities and poor focus. Get enough sleep. This will elevate your hormones and improve your mood.
Rejection And Failure Are The First Steps To Success - Are you afraid of rejection and failure? Block out other people’s opinions and perceptions and focus on you. Don’t give up! Every rejection or failure is a lesson learned on your journey to success.
Do It Anyway! - If you are bad at something, or it makes you uncomfortable, embrace it. The only way to overcome fears and progress is to do it over and over again until it becomes benign and comfortable.
Self Awareness Is Power - Be very aware of yourself. Take time to work out exactly what interests you and what you excel at. If you focus your work and life around that success will be the by-product!
Lead By Example - The most effective way to teach others is by showing them the fruit of your labor.
Hold Yourself Accountable - Keep track of your goals and hold yourself accountable for your mistakes. It is an important tool for building habits and progressing. If you have no data, progression becomes difficult.
Practice = Progress - To improve you must practice. Consistency and practice will take you from novice to expert.
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Winners Need Discipline Not Motivation // Which is more important discipline or motivation? This video shows why discipline is one of the key habits of successful people and why mastering self control will help you achieve your goals in life. Stop laziness, stop relying on motivation and learn how to be more disciplined and have more willpower you will become unstoppable because discipline is freedom and a core success secret.
KEY POINTS
Discipline Helps You GET THINGS DONE - By just showing up and doing what needs to be completed for the task at hand, eventually everything gets done. Set yourself small daily windows to work on your tasks and be disciplined enough to stick to it.
Discipline helps you MASTER NEW SKILLS - Practicing the discipline to continually engage in whatever activities you are striving to achieve, will allow you to progress and achieve. Self-discipline becomes your ally on your route to mastery.
Self-discipline builds your SELF-CONTROL - Self discipline allows you to become more in control of your behaviors, your actions, and your feelings.
Discipline = FREEDOM - By being more disciplined, you're able to get tasks done in the right amount of time, in the right place, in the right situation, and that frees you up to focus on other activities.
Discipline Remains STRONG, Even When MOTIVATION WEAKENS - There'll be plenty of times when you do not feel like doing your tasks when you don't feel motivated. But if you've built your self-discipline muscle, you'll stay the course and you'll be able to carry on doing those activities.
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Why You Can’t Stay Disciplined // Ever wonder why you cant stay disciplined? And how the best at what they do are able to master self control, have unstoppable willpower and seem to achieve anything they want in life. Now is your time to join them by incorporating a key habit of successful people and build discipline. In this video, I will highlight why your obstacles to discipline may be holding you back and how you can overcome them to achieve your goals in life.
KEY POINTS
Are You Sabotaging Your Ability To Stay Disciplined? - What bad habits do you have which are holding you back from staying disciplined? Being aware of your habits is the first step to becoming more disciplined.
Are You Afraid To Do What Makes You Uncomfortable? - Growth lies outside your comfort zone. The best way to stay disciplined is to make sure you’re discarding your safety net and pushing yourself outside your comfort zone.
Progress Beats Perfection - The name of the game is progress not perfection. Perfection is impossible to achieve, just get better little by little, everyday, that's your goal.
Respect Your Need For Balance - Your willpower, your discipline, it's like a muscle. You can stress that muscle, but it needs time to rest and recover. Stay balanced by prioritizing sleep, nutrition and exercise, as well as your mental clarity.
Get Some Sleep! - Ensure you are getting eight hours of sleep, or else you are unlikely to be able to stay disciplined. If you're tired and run down you're likely to give into temptation.
Eat The Best, Leave The Rest! - Studies have shown that when you eat sugary, processed food that does not occur naturally within nature it leads us to reduced discipline.
Nothing Will Workout Unless You Do! - Exercise is a fantastic way to stay balanced. If you exercise in the morning it gives you a 12 hour mood boost. When you're in a good mood, you're more likely to be able to maintain discipline.
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The secret to success is simple! Join Peter Taunton (Founder of Snap Fitness) and Eric Partaker as they share their secrets on how hard work and persistence can help you reach your full potential and succeed in life!
KEY POINTS
Life Is Unpredictable - Life is uncertain. In moments of uncertainty, when you face adversity, you can not view it as a failure. Learn from it, grow and move forward better than you were before.
Fail Fast And Learn - Don't get hung up on being a failure. You're not a failure. In fact, if you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough. Anyone can be an all-star if you set the bar at your ankles. Get your head in the game, don't be afraid to fail, and believe in yourself.
Your Deserve Success! - Believe that you are as deserving of success as the person next to you. You deserve it, but it's going to be hard work. Adopt the right mindset to know that there's going to be not only hard work but sacrifice.
Push Yourself To Your Limits - As soon as the work towards your goals gets uncomfortable, as soon as you feel yourself struggling, that's when you have to push yourself beyond your pain or discomfort. If you want to grow in business, you must push yourself.
Anyone Can Run A Business With The Wind On Their Back - It's just smooth sailing. It's easy. Your character is defined in moments of strife. Push yourself, don't give up!
Opportunity Is Usually Disguised As Hard Work - Opportunity, it doesn't knock, it whispers. You have to recognize when opportunities come your way. See it, feel it, embrace it. The biggest failure in life is a missed opportunity.
Surround Yourself With Winners - Winning in business is a team sport. Surround yourself with great people that share in the same passion, the same vision, and they're willing to walk on fire for you. Those are the people who will lean forward and take the shots with you.
Success is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.
Hard Work Works - There are no shortcuts, in life or in business. Get your head down, work hard, and celebrate your successes along the way!
Believe In Yourself! - Every day, look in the mirror and believe in the person looking back at you. In moments of difficulty, you've got to believe that you're capable of powering through it.
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Struggling with Self Discipline? // Your success depends on a number of elements, but one that stands head and shoulders above the rest is discipline. In this video, I will share how you can build unshakeable discipline and sustain habits that will help you achieve your goals and ultimately become the best version of yourself.
KEY POINTS
What's Your Motivation? - Create a strong reason for completing your tasks. Put a date on it and create a deadline. What gets scheduled gets done!
Optimize Your Environment - Optimize your surroundings to support your success. Install conditions that enable you to achieve the discipline that you seek.
Assign An Accountability Partner - It is incredibly powerful to have someone there alongside you. Get them to set your goals and review your commitment on a weekly basis.
Start with Bite Size Chunks - ‘Journey of a thousand miles begins with just a single step’ What is the smallest action that you can take that moves you closer towards your goal?
Expect Bumps In The Road - Expect there to be obstacles, visualize them in your head. Anticipate the inevitable setbacks, but also visualize how the very best version of you would handle and overcome them.
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Have you ever wondered what's the secret to all round success? How can you become a master of not only your wealth but your health and relationships too? Join Mel Abraham (CPA, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Business and Success Strategist and #1 best selling author) and Eric Partaker as they share tips on how you can reach your full potential and win at life!
KEY POINTS
Strong Mind, Strong Body - If the body's ready, the mind is ready. If you are lazy with your body, inevitably you will be lazy with your mind. Get up and exercise, create a healthy routine to stimulate your mind!
Nothing Is More Expensive Than A Missed Opportunity - Recognize opportunities when they reveal themselves to you, take them on, don't let them pass you buy. You will only regret the chances you didn't take!
Life Is Precious, Cherish Every Moment! - Everybody has been given a specific number of slices of life. The question is how are you going to spend those slices? Too often, people flippantly spend them with little care about how many they have left.
Give It All You’ve Got! - When you say yes to something, you are giving up a piece of your life. That means that you have to be prepared to give everything to that moment!
Keep Your Eye On The Finish Line! - Too often people do not define their finish line. If you don't know where you’re going, then you will just keep going faster and harder. Define your end goal, and celebrate your wins along the way!
Live The Way You Want To Be Remembered - You have the ability to shift a life. Smiling at someone, a helping hand, a handshake. The little things create a legacy. Create your legacy everyday!
Things Happen For Us, Not To Us - Don't get yourself down, often the toughest times in our lives provide us with the most valuable lessons. You either win or learn.
Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight - Keep standing back up. When a boxer enters a boxing ring, the name of the game isn't to avoid getting hit, it's about when he gets hit, can he survive the punch? Whatever knocks you down, embrace it, learn from it, and keep moving forward.
Your Journey Is Your Own! - Don’t measure yourself against those around you, those on social media, or those to your right and left. Instead measure yourself against who we were yesterday, and aim to improve yourself a little bit everyday!
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How To Turn Awkwardness Into Confidence // Want to know how to turn awkwardness into confidence and be confident in any situation. We have all experienced awkwardness at some point in our lives and it’s a very uncomfortable feeling. In this video, I’m going to teach you how to put those days behind you so you can build self confidence and self esteem, believe in yourself more and overcome insecurity. Time to learn and apply the habits of successful people to reach your full potential in life.
KEY POINTS
Be In This Moment! - When you’re sitting in a state of awkwardness, focused on yourself, you are not able to engage properly with others around you. Instead, be curious, get into the habit of asking simple curiosity based questions.
Failing To Prepare, Is Preparing To Fail - Take time developing the skills which you struggle with. Translate the awkwardness into confidence and engage effortlessly.
More Proactive - Seek out situations which make you feel awkward. Those stressful situations are the very things which will build your confidence and strength.
Show Your Vulnerability - Openly talk about your vulnerability. Discuss your most awkward moments. Share some of your embarrassing stories. People respect those who are open about their vulnerability.
Their Opinion Is Not Your Reality! - Let go of what others think of you. You cannot control what people say about you, but what you can control is how you react to those statements. Choose not to hear them. Think past them!
Rome Wasn't Built In A Day - Be firm but not too hard on yourself. Behaviour changes take time. Focus on getting a bit better each and every day.
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6 Things CONFIDENT People Don’t Do // What makes confident people so remarkable? The ability to be confident in any situation, believe in themselves and overcome insecurity are all important but it is also what they don’t do that sets them apart. They avoid certain behaviours to safeguard their self esteem so they can develop the confidence to reach their full potential and become successful in life.
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Feedback Is The Breakfast Of Champions - Look at feedback as an opportunity to grow. Seek constructive feedback, a confident person wants to constantly know how to improve.
Are You A People Pleaser? - Confident people recognize they cannot be all things to all people. If you are spreading yourself too thin, you won't be able to deliver your best.
Be Your Own Competition - Instead of constantly seeking the approval of others, seek to improve yourself everyday. Strive to be a better version of yourself tomorrow than you are today!
Do You Play The Blame Game? - Rather than taking on a victim mentality, ask yourself ‘How may I have caused or contributed to the situation that I am in?’.
Challenge Accepted! - Confident people run towards challenges and discomfort. They embrace hardship. Your full potential lies outside your comfort zone!
Don't Give Up Too Easily - Persist, If you shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll still stand among the stars.
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How To Be More Confident // Do you sometimes feel that everyone around you is confident and sure of themselves? If you are wondering what their secret is, it is pretty simple. They understand that having more self esteem and confidence comes from within and that these states are something that you can create. It is a belief in yourself to overcome self doubt and insecurity and you are capable of achieving whatever you want in life.
KEY POINTS
Knowledge is Power - Learn something new everyday. Schedule it into your calendar before the day begins, whether it's taking a new course, reading, or listening to a podcast.
Take Responsibility For Your Life! - Create your own destiny, design your future, decide what it is that you’re going to do and schedule it into your day. What gets scheduled gets done.
Are You Praising Others? - Develop the habit of looking for an opportunity to give praise and recognition to someone else, whether it professionally or personally. It will slowly start to build your own confidence.
Teach and Give Back - The best way to learn a new skill is to teach it to someone else. It embeds the knowledge in your own head.
Do You Put Others Down? - Recognize if you are making comments that are negative on making those around you feel inferior. You do not need to make others feel less in order to feel more.
Take Advantage of Opportunities - Leap at new opportunities and use it to acquire new skills.
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Do you feel like you’re not reaching your full potential? Do you have a burning desire to achieve all your goals? Join Joseph Valente (CEO, Winner of The Apprentice) and Eric Partaker to discover some useful tips to change your life forever and lead you on the path to achieving your goals.
KEY POINTS
Dream, Believe, Do it, Repeat - Don't let anybody tell you, you can't do something. If you decide to go for your goal, then it's going to happen. Don't listen to naysayers who don't believe in what you're capable of.
Who Is Going To Lift You Higher? - We are constantly told ‘Be realistic, don't try and do that, don't be too ambitious, don't work too hard, don't try and overachieve.’ If you surround yourself with people who don't believe in your goals, that is a road to failure.
Connect The Dots - All the resources, people, expertise, everything that you need to achieve already exists in the world. Your job is to connect your way to it.
Learning Is A Gift! - Constantly be learning from other people. Listen to all different types of people, from business people, life coaches to monks. Take a piece from each of those people and create the best version of yourself.
Anything Is Possible - Believe that anything is possible. Believe that you can speak anything into fruition. So many things going on in the world today seem unfathomable 50 years ago, but now they are the norm.
Everything Is Impossible Until Somebody Does It! - If you are struggling to believe in yourself look around for inspiration of what has been done before then relate it to your life and go! If humans can fly a plane and make light come out of a lightbulb you can start your own business.
Be Better Than You Were Yesterday - if you're 0.1% or 10% better than you were yesterday, then that is a step in the right direction. If you are always focused on being better than yesterday then that is constant improvement
Look In The Mirror -That's Your Competition! - Forget about competing with those around you, compete with yourself, be better than who you were the day before.
Believe In Yourself - Believe you can, or believe you can't, either way you’re right.
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5 Bad Habits that DESTROY your Confidence// Every day we do things that are fantastic for our confidence and self esteem, but we also do things that can destroy them. In this video, I will share the unhealthy habits that lower your confidence and hold you back from being able to reach your full potential in life. Choose to stop bad habits now and watch this for a confidence boost, showing how you can achieve anything you want through believing in yourself.
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Do You Spend Too Much Time On Social Media? - Are you spending too much time comparing yourself to others on social media? The only person you should be comparing yourself to is the person you were yesterday.
Optimalist > Perfectionist - The perfect moment will never arrive. You’ll never be quite ready, but it's the act of doing and trying that makes you better, that will increase your confidence. So don't be a perfectionist, be an optimalist.
Do You Allow Others To Make Decisions For You? - Don't allow others to control you and make you feel like you can't do the things you want to do. Nobody can allow you to feel inferior about yourself unless you allow them to do it.
Your Past Doesn't Define You! - Don’t dwell on the past. Look at where you are now, and where you want to go. Make decisions about what you need to do to move forward, and how you can get to that point. Look forward not back.
Align With Your Values - What do you value. Think about your best self on the health, work and relationship front. Give that identity a name. What does your best look like in each of those domains? Allow that best self guide your behaviour each day.
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How To Be Confident In Any Situation// Do you want to know how to have more confidence? Watch this video to learn how to build self confidence, boost self esteem and overcome self doubt and insecurity to reach your full potential in life. Learning how to be more confident will give you the certainty to believe in yourself, so you can achieve your biggest dreams and most ambitious goals.
KEY POINTS
Control Your Emotions! - Pause between a trigger and your response so that you can choose the optimal most courageous response.
What’s Your Value Proposition? - You are unique, you have special strengths, gifts and abilities. Sit down and write out what those are. What makes you special?
Eliminate Self Doubt - Visualize at the start of a day what are the various things that could go wrong? How might your day not go to plan? Picture yourself at your most courageous and visualize how that version of you would respond.
Stress Is A Superpower - To achieve our strongest self physically, we must stress ourselves. Anticipate stress, embrace it and seek it as a way to build your strength.
Practice, Practice, Practice - The best way to become more confident is by practicing. Go ahead, make mistakes and learn from them.
Act As If You Are Confident - Acting as if you are in the state that you want to be will make you enter that state and work through your struggles in a confident way.
Face The Wolves - Walking into discomfort allows us to grow and progress into a confident person. Do the activities that require confidence in order to build it.
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Do you want the secret to success? Learn how to train your mind to achieve your dreams and conquer your goals! Join Tim Storey (Author, Speaker and Life Coach) and Eric Partaker as they dive into the miracle mindset and share tips on how you can reach your full potential.
KEY POINTS
Embrace Your Inner Childhood Dreams - Reignite your childhood dreamlike state where anything was possible. No dream was too big. Become conscious and pay attention to the world around you and let go of limiting beliefs.
What's Holding You Back? - Take proper inventory of how you’re doing, the clarity of your mind, your joy in life, your imagination. Whatever is holding you back from reaching your full potential, work on it!
Partner with Power - Knowledge is power! Educate yourself. Turn on a podcast, read a book, talk to someone that will ignite that fire within you to be the best version of yourself.
You’re Born An Original, Don't Die A Copy! - A dream for somebody else is not necessarily the same dream that is right for you. Follow your own path. It is ok to be yourself. Don't allow someone to make you into something you are not.
Renew Your Mind Everyday - Begin everyday by building your faith and starving your doubt. Read, gain knowledge, repeat positive affirmations. Set yourself up in this way every morning ready to attack the day ahead.
Life is Good! - Mentality is powerful! Cement in your mind that life is good, even when you are having a bad day.
Run Like a Kenyan! - Create so much stress on your body in preparation for what is to come. That when it does come you are so prepared that it feels easy!
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How to Form a Habit - Develop and Maintain Good Habits // Are you sick of setting goals and falling short? Are you tired of making commitments and not pulling through? Watch this video and you will learn how to choose, install, and execute new habits to help reach your full potential in life. Choose to work on yourself, improve your lifestyle habits and listen to the top tips for a high performance life to discover what becoming your best and the greatest you really take.
KEY POINTS
Why Do You Want To Reach Your Goals? - What is it that you are trying to achieve? Why is it important? What are the benefits that you’re going to get from achieving that goal?
Successful People Are Simply Those With Successful Habits! - Create habits that if done well will make the success of your goals inevitable! What are the 20% of habits, which will create 80% of the benefit that you are seeking?
Failing To Plan, Is Planning To Fail! - Create a schedule for your habits. What are the weekly goals and targets you want to hit? And how will you accomplish them? What gets scheduled gets done.
Track and Reflect - At the end of the week, look back and ask yourself, how that week went? Did you perform your habits at the quality level that is required to reach your goals?
Set Up Tools For Success - What, if done well will enable you to carry out your habits easier. For example, If you are going into a certain mode of work, what are the tools you need laid out on your desk ready to enable you to do so.
Seek Help and Guidance - Enlist the support of others. Is there a community that you can plug into, that can give you the challenge and support you need?
Go Public With Your Ambitions - Put yourself on the line and tell people what you want to achieve and by when. Vocalizing your goals makes it more likely that you will achieve.
Implement Rewards and Recognize Achievement - Create micro rewards along the way, little milestones where you can treat yourself when reaching small goals.
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Do you want to know that secret to building a multi-million dollar business with no experience? Join Jeff Fenster (Founder of Everbowl) and Eric Partaker as they share tips on how to reach your full potential, and share the secrets that led to Jeff becoming the successful Entrepreneur he is today.
KEY POINTS
Nobody Is Born With Success! - It is created through hard work, perseverance and resilience.
It's The Little Things In Life - If you eat good, you feel good. When you feel good, you look good. When you look good, you perform good. And when you perform good you get everything you want in life! Success starts with the fuel you put in your body!
Experience is Overrated - Experience is one of the most overrated prerequisites to start a company. Too often people wait to have a wealth of experience. Instead, let go of your ego and surround yourself with incredible talent.
The World Is Your Oyster! - Everything you need to succeed already exists, all the resources, all the expertise. Your job is simply to connect the dots to the person, to the book, to the course, and pull it all together.
What Is Your Purpose? - It is very important to have a clear definitive purpose for striving for your goals. During tough times, if you don't know where you’re going, you're going to fail. Knowing you’re ‘why’ gives you the inspiration and motivation to chase your goals and stay focused.
Not Preparing For Change Is Preparing To Fail - A change ready mindset both professionally and personally, allows you to adapt with the waves and pivot when you need to pivot and continue to grow and develop to the best version of yourself. The world is forever changing.
Big Journeys Begin With Small Steps - Don't strive for perfection. Instead, strive to get 1% better today, 1% better tomorrow, 1% better the next day.
Dreams Don't Work Unless You Do! - Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn't work hard! The secret to success is hard work. Laying back and allowing talent to carry you through will end up with failure.
Embrace Your Feelings - Don't spend too much time in a state of pity, being a victim. Set a timer on your phone for five minutes. Then curse, scream, cry, jump up and down. Go through an emotional reflection period and let your feelings out. But when the alarm goes off it’s done. It's back to solving the next problem.
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Is your self-doubt crippling your confidence? Is it holding you back from reaching your full potential? Too often in life we let self-doubt dictate our moves. Not anymore!
KEY POINTS
Find The Route Of Your Self Doubt - Is the doubt coming from within, or is it being expressed by someone else around you? Finding the route is the first step to fixing the problem.
Take Care Of How You Speak To Yourself - Whether you believe you can or can not, you’re right! Ensure you’re putting your belief into what you want to achieve. Start your day with positive affirmations.
What Is Your Purpose? - Why are you trying to reach your goals? Connecting to your purpose will help you realize your full potential both professionally and personally and in turn reduce your self doubt.
Learn From Others - Self doubt can stem from previous failures. There is a world of wisdom around you. Ensure you are reaching out and connecting with others to fuel your knowledge and reduce feelings of self doubt.
Are You Striving For Perfection? - Perfection is unattainable. Focus on action instead of perfection. It is through action that you become closer to the ideal you're seeking.
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Do you ever wonder how the very best in the world do what they do? How they achieve their most ambitious goals in life and inspire so many people? In this video you will learn some lessons from the world’s top performers so you can become the greatest you, beat self doubt and reach your full potential in life. Check out this lifestyle improvement masterclass giving you a little extra motivation to work on yourself, highlighting what becoming your best really takes.
KEY POINTS
Do You Schedule Learning Into Your Day? - Schedule times during your day to focus on your learning. Work out what skills and knowledge will help you excel and reach your goals.
Surround Yourself With Supportive People - Surround yourself with people who are going to raise you up, who support you and inspire you to achieve your greatness.
What Can You Do To Provide A Service To Others? - Create goals and ideas that serve others. How are you making the world a better place through what you do? Others are more likely to lend a hand if your purpose does not just benefit you.
Greatness Has No Exit Point - Constantly pursue the feeling of greatness. If you can engage in the journey and find joy in that process of mastery, you’ll be pursuing greatness in the same way top performers do.
Keep Going! - Stay persistent, keep trying no matter what comes your way. Never give up, learn from your mistakes, learn from your failures and apply that learning towards your next action.
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How does one man turn a small British family firm into a billion pound company? Join Joe Foster (Co-founder of Reebok, Author of Shoe Maker) and Eric Partaker, as they share tips on how to reach the 2%, and how Reebok became the phenomenal success it is today!
KEY POINTS
Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight - Don’t give up. You can get knocked down repeatedly but if you don't keep standing back up you’ll never succeed.
Ride The Waves Of Success - When the waves come in, don’t question it. Ride it and keep going because you never know when it's going to stop.
Face Up To Your Problems! - Are you trying to dodge your issues? Face them! That is the only way to resolve them and inevitably move forward.
Failure Is Your Teacher Not Your Undertaker - The only way to really find your way to success is to understand that failure is a part of it. Failure will allow you to learn and grow. Embrace it and enjoy the journey.
You Are Not Born With Brilliant Ideas! - Brilliant ideas come after taking steps, and those steps are often failures. However, don't give up because it's one step closer to success!
Never Give up, Great Things Take Time - Adopt the attitude that you will never give up. Build a culture, a winning culture, so that the people that are riding along with you, are suffering with you, but are winners and will eventually succeed with you.
Use What You Have, Do What You Can - What resources do you have? How can you utilise the resources around you for company gain?
Open Your Eyes! - Opportunities often zip by and you don't even notice. Always be on the lookout for new opportunities, don't let them pass you by.
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Stop Wasting Your Life// Are you struggling on the path to becoming your best? Well, the reality is that in life not everyone reaches that pinnacle goal or state, due to the obstacles in their way. In this video, I will be providing some insights on how you can chase your dreams, become successful, achieve your most ambitious goals in life and become the best version of yourself. It’s time to stop wasting your life and follow the top tips for a high performance life, giving you the motivation to work on yourself and showing how you can beat self doubt fast.
Beware the Constricted Mind – A constricted mind keeps you in your comfort zone. Only by becoming uncomfortable, seeking discomfort, will you grow and achieve your best.
Plan and Schedule Your Future Success – If you are going to make your future life better than it is today, what needs to happen? What do you need to learn? Who are the people you need to meet? Once you have decided, schedule it into your calendar. What gets scheduled, gets done!
Process Failure Correctly – Failure is a path to learning. It provides you with valuable lessons that you need for the next time you try. Don’t look at failure as something to avoid, look at it as the valuable lessons that provide you with the tips, tricks and tools to achieve success.
Create Support Systems – If you want to reach your full potential you need to take a hard look at whether you have a support system in place in the form of other people. More importantly, are they the right people? Are they going to propel you to a higher level?
Beware the Doubters – There will always be doubters trying to hold you back. Secretly they are afraid that if you become something greater than what you currently are they will feel bad about themselves. It's not about you. Be careful who you pay attention to.
Subtract to Grow – What is the number one thing in your life right now that is not helping or contributing to your health, your longevity, or your peace of mind? If you subtract that, it is often the quickest way to become a better version of yourself.
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How can one man go from homeless to owning 6 businesses, generating well over 9 figures? Join Stephen Scoggins (Best-selling author, award winning entrepreneur and motivational speaker) and Eric Partaker as they share tips on how to reach your full potential!
KEY POINTS
Run Towards the Bull! – If people are looking to sell during a down market and it is a bit of a frenzy then maybe you should be looking to buy. Find the right opportunities to go against the grain and invest when it really matters.
Save Money, Secure Your Future – Put money away, save It! Make sure you have always got 20/30% of your money being put away for a tough time.
Everything is a Return in Investment! – Don’t waste time and energy in areas of your life that won’t give return on investment. This can be true in all areas of life, from financial, personal, and romantic.
What’s Holding You Back? – Limiting beliefs will hold you back. Take time to work out what limiting beliefs you possess, uncover the root of where it comes from and work to find a solution.
Climb Out the Safety Net! – Limiting beliefs that are taught to you generally come from a place of love. The person projecting them upon you does not want you to get hurt or experience some level of pain that they themselves have experienced. It's your job to figure out when these beliefs are holding you back and break free!
Work On It! – Identify the areas of your life that you need to work on, so that you can grow and become something more.
If Money Was No Object... – What would you do? If you could do anything in the world, what would be your purpose? If you desire a life of fulfillment, you must first discover what is going to make you happy.
Listen to the Signals! – Often, we get off track when working towards our goals. Most likely because we have got distracted and not listened to the signals along the way. Remove distractions until you reach your ultimate outcome.
Stop Hesitating! – Just take a giant step, and then learn from your experience and adjust. There is no such thing as failure as long as you’re learning.
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Habits that will Change your Life //How do I be productive? How do I stay motivated? How do I sustain positivity? I get these questions a lot as everyone wants to be happy, on the work front and the home front. In this video, you will learn some positive habits which will change your life and promote increased productivity and fulfilment. This video will show you how to find happiness in work and life by showing you how to design your life for balance and the habits and behaviours of the world’s top performers and most successful people.
Find Work That Matters to You – Find meaning in your work. Is what you are doing allowing you to express your gifts and talents? If not, can you switch to something else? Push yourself to live the reality that fulfills you in the way you would like.
Morning Routine – Set your day up for success. Within a single hour in the morning, take time to read, exercise, visualize how the best version of you would show up for the day ahead, practice affirmations, and meditate.
Evening Routine – Reduce artificial light one hour before bedtime to increase melatonin before sleep. Turn off electronics to get a more restful deeper sleep.
Declutter Your Life – What are the things that you need to be focusing on rather than trying to do it all at once? Do smaller more finite things that make more of a difference in your life.
Focus on The Small Things – Small habits done consistently over time will lead to great results. If you are doing small daily habits over a long period of time, you will get transformative results.
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How to Improve Yourself Right Now// What does your best really look like? And how do you really achieve your best? In this video, I will show you how to improve yourself, what it really takes to become your best self and highlight how you can design your life to become the greatest you. This will include top tips for a high performance life, reaching your full potential in life, and how to achieve your most ambitious goals through overcoming challenges and self doubt.
Find Your Passion – There’s going to be tough points. If you are not passionate about what you do, if you don’t have a love for doing it, then you’re not going to be compelled to stick with it when things get tough.
Sacrifice Your Old Self – Take a pen, write down everything about your current self, all your beliefs, who you are, your limitations, your fears, dreams, goals. Then write about your new self, 5/10 years from now. How does this new self differ from you? Remind yourself of your new self and create goals to get there.
Demonstrate Your Best Self Daily – Think of yourself as the champion on the health, wealth, and relationship front. Set yourself a daily task of one thing you can do, a behavior or an action, which would show the world that you were being the best version of yourself in those three areas.
Positivity and Optimalism – Don’t approach each day with perfection. That will set you up for failure. Leave room for error and approach your day with positivity from the viewpoint of an optimalist, not a perfectionist.
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How does a man, with one lung, survivor of cancer... twice, defy the impossible to Climb Everest? Join Sean Swarner (Speaker, Author, Peak Performance Coach, Adventurer and World Record Holder) and Eric Partaker as they share tips on how to reach your full potential, no matter the obstacles in your way!
KEY POINTS
No Man or Woman Ever Achieves Greatness on Their Own – If you are surrounded by great friends, the right people, a support of individuals to get you through something traumatic, they become your family. Surround yourself with the people who encourage you to be your best self.
Focus Determines Your Reality – Focus your attention on what you want, on your goals, on your dreams. Not the avoidance of what you do not want.
There’s Always Room for Improvement – Fully understand not just what your personal core values are but also what areas you are lacking so you can focus your attention on improvement.
Strive for Better – Pick a core value. Rate on a scale 1 to 10, how you are living that value. How you feel about what energy you put towards it. If you are scoring low, then you know that you need to put some focus and attention towards that value.
Your Only Limit is Your Mind – Understand why you have goals, the purpose behind them. What does it mean to you to achieve these goals? You can overcome tremendous obstacles if the end results mean much more to you than the difficulties in your way.
Vision is Everything! – Tap into the emotional connection that connects the mind and body. Don’t just visualize the goal, feel it, live it, do it!
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This Is Why You’re Not Happy// We all want to be happy, right? Live inspired and successful lives. But there are many things that will try to stop us when trying to find happiness. In this video you will learn about things you may be doing everyday that can steal your time and happiness. These life changing habits will help you live a happy life, showing you how to design your day for balance and how successful people increase their productivity while finding balance between work and personal life. Also, if you are feeling burned out, this video will stop you from being overwhelmed by everything and show some everyday tips and strategies for managing stress.
KEY POINTS
Technology Interruptions – Turn off your notifications when working. Avoid being constantly prompted by your applications to respond. This will help you feel more relaxed.
Undervalued Time – Stop giving it away! Put value on your time by making sure you are leaving enough time for yourself on the things that matter to you, not just to others.
Busyness is not a Status Symbol – Are you busy for the sake of being busy? Are you spending your time on what is going to generate results, or on what really matters to you?
Stop Procrastinating! – Change the language in your head. Instead of saying “I have to” or “I should” say “I choose to start for just five minutes.” When you feel in control you are less likely to want to procrastinate.
Manage your Meetings – Always have a common outcome in mind for the meeting. Don’t have a meeting for the sake of it. Having the common outcome will cause your meeting to be much more effective.
Unclear Goals – Break down your goals. Do you know what you should be doing in the next quarter (13 weeks)? View each week as a sprint. You have 13 attempts to make progress to your goal.
Personal Disorganization – Have a plan for every single day. The best way to create that plan is the end of the day before. What is going to make tomorrow a win for you? What needs to happen?
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Ever wondered how to be a successful Entrepreneur without starting at the bottom? Join Nick Bradley (Host of the UK’s #1 business podcast, entrepreneur, investor, and 24 Successful Exits) and Eric Partaker in discovering a sneak peek into the world of acquisition entrepreneurs. Apply these tips and reach your full potential!
KEY POINTS
Follow Your Own Path – Don’t let the people around you influence you into what they perceive as the safe option. If your goal is to get a job, get a job! If you strive to start your own company and work for yourself, do it! Do your own thing and let them watch you succeed.
Why Build Your Empire When You Can Buy It? – Consider becoming an acquisitions entrepreneur. Buy an existing profitable business instead of starting your own.
The Secret to Life is Flowing Not Forcing - Just because other high performers adopt certain habits does not mean you need to! Work out what is important to you, only then should you start to think about which habits and routines are going to enrich your life. Ask yourself, what puts you in your flow state? What gives you the energy and focus to be able to perform at your best?
Is Your Business Failing? – Three common reasons for business failure include leadership teams running out of ideas, bad cash management and lack of adaptability.
80/20 Principle – In business 20% of our efforts produce 80% of the result. Equally 20% of your life choices account for 80% of where you are in life.
Take a stand – Decide that you’re not going to fade into the crowd anymore. That you’re going to change your life and achieve your goals.
How Adaptable Is Your Identity? – The mindset of a successful person scaling up their business is vastly different to the start-up mindset. Learning how to evolve quickly to make that transition will determine how successful the business will be.
Optimize Your Health – View eating as intake of energy. Higher energy levels mean you can do more and be more. Ditch the nightly red wine and steak dinners and opt for something that will make you feel and perform at your best.
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`The master in the art of living pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.’ – James Michener. Are you a master of your life? Does what you do bring joy to your heart? Join Randy Garn (New York Times best selling author, entrepreneur, and high-performance coach) and Eric Partaker as they share tips on how you achieve your full potential and discuss the secrets that led Randy being the successful Entrepreneur he is today.
KEY POINTS
Prosperity is a Balance – Prosperity is multidimensional, you need money, happiness, and sustainability to really live up to the full measure or your creation.
How Self Reliant Are You? – Do you feel confident that you can always generate an income on your own? Find that avenue that you love, that means you never have to worry about money again, because you know you can create it.
What’s your Polaris Point? – Create a clear vision of where you want to go. Find out, and take time working on what you were born to do, and what you want to accomplish. When you die, what will you be remembered for?
Create your Own Goals – If you do not have your own goals, somebody else will use you for theirs. Take some time to yourself and write down what you want to accomplish in life and go do it!
You are Unique, Own It! – We all have a unique ability, discover what yours is, and develop it to be the very best!
Fall in Love with What You Do – If you want to become the best version of yourself, you need to love what you do. If you are grumpy at work, your energy will be low, and you will not achieve excellence.
Prioritize your Family – Ensure that you are putting your family and loved ones into your world, and into your joy. Schedule time to be fully present in their lives. The greatest joy and the greatest sorrow will come from the walls of your own home.
Change your mindset! – A huge limiting belief is that you must accumulate a lot of wealth to be successful and live in prosperity. However, knowledge and peace of mind are vital to maintain. Start with what you already have, be happy with that and grow it. Maintain the joy in your heart.
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How to Avoid Burnout// Are you feeling burned out? Are you constantly overwhelmed? Is your mental and physical health starting to suffer? In this video you will learn how to recognise the signs of burnout, combat against them and improve your health by living a balanced lifestyle. You will also find out how you can still increase your happiness and get your productivity and fulfilment on track without sacrificing your personal life. Enjoy simple tactics to design your life and how many successful people have stopped feeling overwhelmed by life and achieved balance.
KEY POINTS
Focus on What You Can Control – Don’t stress and feel anxious about what is outside of your control. Focus on what you can do.
Disconnect – Take a break. Remove yourself physically and electronically from your work. Don’t spend all of your time in your office.
Prioritize Your Sleep – Make sure you’re getting at least eight hours of sleep. Turn off electronics one hours before bedtime, as this will increase your melatonin and help you sleep better.
Exercise- Spike your energy at the beginning of the day with some exercise. This will also spike your mood. Exercise is proven to create a 12-hour mood boost, equivalent to taking antidepressants.
Nutrition – Eat well. Choose the foods you know will be healthy for your mind and body. This will help you feel healthier and stronger.
Clear Your Mind – Could you benefit from re-engaging in a spiritual practice that you have, or a religious practice, or simply meditation to calm the mind and give you clarity.
Ask for Help – Let people know you are feeling down and express that need for help.
Steer Clear of Bad Habits– Alcohol, medications, drugs can make burnout worse. Steer clear of anything that can add fuel to the fire.
Be Social – Put yourself in social situations. We are social beings; we are meant to celebrate and enjoy life with other people.
Make Time for Yourself Everyday – What is the number one thing you enjoy? Make time for it, schedule it into your day.
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What if I told you, you could skip the line? Experience is no longer the key to success! Would you believe me? Join James Altucher (Hedge Fund Manager, Author, Podcaster and Entrepreneur) and Eric Partaker as they share tips on how to reach your full potential and discover how James became the successful Entrepreneur he is today.
KEY POINTS
Skip the line! – There will always be people who want to tell you ‘You can’t do it. You cannot skip the line. Stay in line, pay your dues. It’s not going to happen.’ When someone tells you this, they are imprinting their own goals on you, their truths, not yours.
Efficiency is the Answer – 1% of your focus could generate 50% of the benefits you seek in life. So be aware of yourself when you are doing something mindlessly, or you’re not optimizing your training and your study. Inefficiency is a waste of time.
The Power of 10 - Spend 20-30 minutes a day writing 10 ideas down. Exercise your idea muscle. Use this list to focus on businesses you could start or industries that could be disrupted and changed, or things in life that could be better.
Stress Creates Strength – Stress the muscle to cause it to grow. Put in the effort and work hard in order to level up.
Broadcast Your Ideas – Sharing ideas builds a network, people learn to trust you, people try your ideas. Don’t stress about people stealing your ideas. If you are exercising the power of 10, by tomorrow you will have 10 more ideas. Be abundant with ideas, as opposed to scarce.
Create the Room that Nobody Else is in – If you’re the only one, you are going to get known. Not only will you be noticed but with the skills that you are combining you might be the best in the world.
The Only Failure is Not Trying – Experiment with your ideas using these three rules. It should cost almost nothing, it should be very fast to do, and there should be little downside. In the worst case scenario, even if you do not succeed, you will still learn something. The upside is you could gain a huge business out of it.
Love What You Do – If part of your energy is used convincing yourself to try the idea, that’s energy inefficiency. If you love something, you can use that energy that would have been required to convince yourself to work harder on your idea and do it better.
Plus, Minus, Equals – PLUS: find yourself a mentor to learn about the top echelons of the industry. EQUALS: Find people who are like you, who are interested in your industry, and with whom you are roughly at the same level. Challenge each other and compare ideas. MINUS: Less is more. Learn how to teach and explain your ideas simply. If you cannot explain something simply, then you do not truly understand it.
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How to Manage Your Time Better// Do you want to know how to achieve work life balance? Or show up at your best at work and at home? In this video you will learn how to be productive, set up a daily routine for success and the key strategies to living a balanced life. You will also learn how to stop being overwhelmed by everything, avoid burnout, strategies to change your life and how successful people install better habits for work life balance and improve their happiness. Better happiness and fulfilment can also be paired with methods to increase your productivity, as you learn how to manage your time better between work and personal life.
KEY POINTS
Prioritize Your Day – End your day prioritizing what you’re going to do the next day. Make it an appointment with yourself daily. Reflect on what happened today, update your to-do-list, and decide on the top three things that need to be achieved tomorrow.
Set Clear Goals – Having clear goals and achieving them makes us feel more fulfilled. Check in with your goals on a daily basis. What are they? Why am I doing them? Why are they important to me? What could I work on today that would help with my goal achievement?
Schedule Time to Rejuvenate And Recover – You cannot rev your engine at the highest level throughout the day every day. Eventually you’re going to burn out, be overwhelmed and create greater levels of anxiety for yourself. Schedule breaks throughout you day for downtime and set an end time to your workday.
Have Gratitude for What You Have – Too often we think about the things we don’t have. Take a moment each day to think about what you do have. What are your big wins? What is going well?
Learn to Say No! – Your time is a precious commodity; you can’t do everything. If somebody is making a request on your time, have the confidence to say, ‘I need to prioritize these other things in my work or in my life right now.’
Have Fun! – What is it that you enjoy doing? Schedule downtime into your week. Do some hobbies, watch your favourite movie. Just make sure you have fun!
Spend More Time with Loved Ones – If you’re not spending enough time with the people that matter most to you, it’s going to feel like your life has an imbalance. Schedule it into your week.
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Do you often feel that there aren’t enough hours in the day? Are your goals being delayed because there simply isn’t enough time? Join Jeff Lerner (Founder and CEO of Entre Institute) and Eric Partaker in sharing useful tips to reach your full potential, change your life forever and lead you on the path to achieving your goals.
KEY POINTS
10 Minutes to Success – Maximise your time, make a game out of it. If you have 15 minutes before a meeting, 60 minute lunch break or a 20 minute drive, get as much meaningful stuff done as reasonably possible.
Make Work Matter – A lot of people have a false dichotomy in their mind that they are going to work in order to support the things that matter. For those people work will always be a constant sacrifice to fulfil what matters. Create a life where the work you do can be a part of what matters.
Accomplish the Unaccomplishable – If you push the drill long enough against the wall, eventually it will burst out the other side. Work like a maniac, and don’t give up. The only real failure is a mistake that you don’t learn from.
Gun to the Head – If you are half a million dollars in debt, and you have two years to pay it off or the federal government will seize everything you own, you will find a way. Create a target. If you have an uncomfortable consequence for not achieving your goals, motivation will no longer be an issue.
The Three P’s to Success – Professional excellence is only possible through first accomplishing physical and personal excellence. Take care of yourself, your battery and machinery that allows you to go out into the world and do anything. Then nurture your relationships. Work on your relationship with people who have direct impact on your life.
Structure is my Best Friend – Plan your life, have a solid structure. Keep momentum, increase your energy by being scripted and methodical. You can remove decision fatigue by reducing every decision you make on a daily basis.
Choose your hard – Nothing comes for free, it requires payment of some form. You can either pay now with the pain of discipline, or pay later with the pain of regret. The pain of discipline is always cheaper than the pain of regret.
Own it! – Lean into your weirdness, Lean into your differences. Whatever makes you less palatable and less conforming to the rest of the world. These are your strengths; they create a paradigm for your life.
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How to Design your Life// How to stop being overwhelmed by everything. Watch this video to discover habits for a better work life balance, as well as simple habits for a happy life, and strategies to change your life. We’ll discuss healthy work life balance importance, how to design your life for balance, how to find happiness in work and life, while also sharing the everyday habits for successful people. Stop the “feeling burned out what to do” thinking and learn methods to increase your productivity, tactics and tips for work life balance, and how to be happy in life.
KEY POINTS
Prioritize Health – If you are not healthy you cannot go to work, you cannot go and have fun. If you are not healthy you have no life. Health is an absolute priority.
Wealth – Work sustains us. It provides our income which allows us to accomplish so many other goals in life. It is also a deep source of fulfilment. We are able to set goals and achieve.
Nurture Relationships – If you had 5 more minutes to live what would you want to do? Spend time with somebody that is important to you, that you love. Relationships are critical, nobody wants to end up alone.
80/20 – It’s the 20% of things that you focus on that will create 80% of the life improvement that you seek. Your health, wealth, and relationships. If you focus on maximising your balance and potential in those area, that will lead to a more fulfilling life.
Create a Health Identity – Set an alarm to go off daily before you work out and label it with what represents you in this field at your best. It will inspire you to show up and work hard, even when you don’t feel like it.
Create a Work Identity– Set a second alarm to go off daily before you sit down to work with an identity that inspires you to operate at your best.
Create a Relationship Identity – Set the last alarm for just before family time, or time spent with loved ones. Label it with an identity that represents you as your best when it comes to your relationships. Ask yourself how would this person act when spending quality time with the ones they love?
Score Yourself – Give yourself a daily W for win or an L for Learn. Simply ask yourself, ‘Did I show up as my best self today within the Health, Wealth and Relationships fronts?’
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Do you often feel that you’re not reaching your full potential? Do you want the secrets to achieving your goals? Join Anthony Trucks (Former NFL star, and creator of ‘The Shift Method’) and Eric Partaker to discover some useful tips to change your life forever and lead you on the path to achieving your goals.
KEY POINTS
Upgrade your Mindset – How often do you avoid chasing a dream because of the limiting belief that ‘it can’t be done now because...’ The mind will do what you push it to do. If you tell it to find excuses, what is it going to find? Excuses. Take Action today, and stop making excuses.
Give Yourself a Doomsday Event – ‘If you knew you would die in a year if you did not have $100,000, you would find a way!’ Set yourself an uncomfortable consequence for not achieving your goals. Motivation will no longer be an issue.
Fall in Love with the Day, Not the Destination- Too often we are focused on our goals and forget to enjoy the process. Get up everyday and enjoy the effort, enjoy the struggle and understand that goals worth reaching take time and effort to achieve.
Plan your Next Move – Reduce your stress and anxiety, and increase your motivation. Create a 30-day plan in what you want to achieve over the next month towards your ultimate goal. Soon you’ll start ticking boxes and making little wins.
Make Commitment Part of your Identity – Choose the goal you want to commit to, and stick with it, stay in line. Allow it to be a part of your identity and the motivation to achieve that goal will become effortless.
Action Ends Suffering – Professionals know that action creates feeling. Amateurs believe feeling creates action. Be the professional of your life and take action today, don’t wait around for the next day you feel like it, or it will never get done.
Be in This Moment! - Plan and balance your life so 100% of your energy is put into the task at hand in the present moment. Schedule time for work, time for family and make yourself completely available during these blocks.
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There are so many simple things that you can do to lessen those feelings of stress. And today, you're going to learn not only why you're so stressed, but what you can do about it.
KEY POINTS
Are You Respecting The Fundamentals? - Are you getting enough sleep? Are you eating properly? Are you getting enough exercise? In high stress moments that is when we most need our fundamentals.
Are Your Goals Clear Enough? - Make sure you have clear goals set for the quarter, month, week. Ensure you are clear on what you are doing on a daily basis.
Plan Each Day - Choose the top three things you would like to achieve in the day ahead, and schedule them into your working day. Know exactly what you are doing, when.
Do What's Meaningful To You - Make sure what you're doing is important to you. Are you being challenged appropriately to allow you to grow and develop into the best version of yourself?
You’re Too Busy! - Are you doing too many things and not enough of the right things? Eliminate some of the unessential work and schedule in what you should be doing? What gets scheduled gets done.
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Bad days happen all the time, but with a few simple steps, you can turn a bad day into a good one and get right back on track.
KEY POINTS
Treat a Bad Day as Normal - Smile, bad days happen. If you choose to hold a grudge against the day, the rest of the day will be guaranteed to be bad.
Revisit What Was Important That Day - Did you have a plan? Are you sticking to that plan? If not, what can you do to get back on track?
Schedule, Show Up, Single Task - Create a new plan if you need to and then schedule what it is that you would like to do for the rest of the day. Show up to the appointments, and single task during that time.
Take Breaks Often - Your bad day could be a form of exhaustion. Have you been working hard without taking breaks? Are you burnt out? Get out and take a five minute walk, get the blood flowing again.
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The more winning days you have, the more successful your life will be. So today you're going to learn exactly how to design a perfect day.
KEY POINTS
Are You Well Rested? - If you wake up feeling groggy, not well rested its very hard to have a great day. You need to ensure you have a good evening routine.
Exercise Control Over Your Day - Ask yourself, ‘What do I want to achieve today? When do I want to do it?’ and make sure it is correctly reflected in your schedule.
Plan Your Day - Visualize how you want to day ahead to go, and how will you at your best behave.
Start Your Day With Exercise - Exercising even for just 10/20 minutes will give you more energy so you can work at a higher rate of output throughout the day.
Practice Meditation - Medication will help you get yourself into a calm state, wiping the slate clean before the day begins.
Split Your Day Up! - Have maker time and manager time. When energy is at its highest, do creative work. And when energy is lower, when you're interacting with others that's manager time.
Single Task - Work on one thing at a time before moving onto the next. Its been shown to reclaim up to two hours of your day that would normally be lost jumping around too many tasks.
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In order to live a better life, you have to raise your standards, but not just in any place, you have to raise your standards in five critical areas.
KEY POINTS
Create goals! - Have targets within the domains of life that are important to you. Health, wealth and relationships. Who are you at your best?
Be more disciplined - Take action. The pain of discipline in the moment is far less than the pain of regret later.
Be bolder - The bolder you are, the more willing you are to step out of your comfort zone, the better life you will live. Take at least one bold action per day to move yourself closer to your goal.
Raise your standards - Improve your health. That includes sleep, exercise, and nutrition.
Happiness is a choice - We often forget that our happiness is a choice. We can choose to be happy.
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Achieving success in work and life comes down to following a handful of rules that any successful person knows. Here are the success principles that will serve you for the rest of your life.
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Mistakes are Valuable Lessons - It's through the mistakes that we learn how to grow. It's through mistakes we learn how to make that next round of valuable improvement.
Measure What Matters - What gets measured gets done, what gets measured can improve. Ask what should I be measuring, what relates to the goal and what I am trying to achieve?
Successful People Are Always Learning - Ask yourself, what can I be doing to accelerate my learning? Keep your eyes and ears open to find that next thing that you can be learning.
Successful People Don't Focus on Everything - They focus on the things that matter most. 80/20 principle, 20% of the things we do can account for 80% of the result.
Growth Isn't Within Your Comfort Zone - Success isn't where you currently are, it's just outside your comfort zone. Challenge yourself, take bold action.
Consistency Rules! - It's much better if you don't push yourself as hard and actually just maintain that 80% consistently. Instead of overworking resulting in you burning out.
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Unless you learn how to overcome your fears that dream of yours will remain simply a dream. Today, I'm going to show you exactly how to overcome those fears.
KEY POINTS
Being Scared To Start Your Dream is a Good Thing - It means that you're pushing yourself in the right direction. Just don't let it hold you back!
Don't be Afraid To Fail - If you go through life expecting to not have any failures, you wont get anywhere. Embrace the failures as part of your journey.
Increase Your Knowledge - Too often people starting their dreams fear that they don't know enough. Get out there and learn!
Take Risks! - Nothing is risk free, however ask yourself what is the best way I can insulate myself against these risks.
You Are Good Enough! - You absolutely have what it takes to go after your dream, but it starts in your mind and you need to believe it.
Write a New Story - Take 10 minutes and write down who is the person that could be achieving these dreams, how does this person act and behave and set goals to become that person.
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Achieving your dreams doesn't require any special gifts or abilities. It just requires that you respect four cornerstones of achievement. Today you’ll learn what they are.
KEY POINTS
Plan ahead! - You need a sense of what the vision is you’re trying to achieve. You need to understand where you are heading. The plan should include the ultimate vision that you're trying to achieve, what you need to be doing by when, an overall timeline, and also preempting what could go wrong.
Take Bold Action - Remove yourself from your comfort zone. Put stress on your body and cause it to grow.
Get the Right Things Done - Schedule it, Single task, and Show up. Give yourself the same respect you would give to somebody else.
You Can’t Achieve Greatness On Your Own! - Work with others, acquire skills, expertise and learn from them.
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Until you start something that really matters to both you and the world, you probably won't be living as fulfilling of a life as you could. Here’s a simple framework to do just that.
KEY POINTS
Gather All Your Ideas - Evaluate your ideas by scoring 1-10 to what degree you would love doing each of them. It is so important to do something that you love, that is important to you.
Use Your Skills - Examine to what degree would each of my ideas allow me to exercise my skills. You will be more motivated to succeed if you are using the skills you love and are good at.
Make a Positive Impact - Examine to what degree would each idea make a positive impact in the world. It doesn't have to change the whole world, it could impact a single person besides you.
Challenge Your Best Self - Examine to what degree would each idea challenge me and require me to show up at my best? As humans we get fulfillment out of doing what encourages us to show up at our best.
Achieve Your Goals - Examine to what degree would each idea help me to achieve my life goals.
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Unless you prioritize well, you'll remain overwhelmed, frustrated, or just disappointed with your results. Here’s exactly how you can prioritize like a genius so you can get a lot more done.
KEY POINTS
Focus On The Outputs That Matter Most - Ask yourself “Out of all the things that I'm doing right now, what really matters the most?” You can't do everything, but if you really focus on what matters most you can get the right things done.
Create a Master Task List - Have one place where you keep all your notes, and one place where you keep your to-do-list. If you have post-It notes everywhere you’re going to lose track.
Rank Your Tasks - Create a list of the six most important tasks you want to complete the next day. Any left over at the end of the day put them into the mix for the next day.
Focus On One Thing at a Time - Eliminate all of the distractions and just focus on that one thing until it's complete.
Schedule, Show up, Single task - Treat all work as if you are in a meeting. Schedule your work, Show up, don't get distracted and single task, put all of your attention onto that one piece of work like you would in a meeting.
Look For Leverage Points - Look for the tasks that, if done, might eliminate the need to do other things or create a positive ricochet effect on those things.
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This episode will teach you three secrets to keep your motivation where it needs to be so that you can realize your full potential in work and life.
KEY POINTS
Flip The Script! - Focus on starting rather than finishing. If you just focus on starting, the finishing will take care of itself.
Act like a Professional - A professional knows that action generates feeling whereas an amateur believes feeling generates action.
Clearly Define the Value - Ask yourself, “What benefit does this goal have for me, what benefit does it have for others?” Clarity promotes motivation.
Use Evidence - Reference a similar challenge you or someone else faced as evidence that you can complete what you started.
Minimize impulsivity - Reduce your likelihood of being distracted. Remove the environment that distracts you, e.g. your phone or devices.
Minimize Delay - Break down your goal small enough so that you taste success sooner and stay motivated. If it's too far off in the distance, you are less likely to stay motivated in the long term.
Create Accountability - Not only with yourself but also with the help of others. Break down your goal into something that you can do daily and something you can track. Put it up on a wall and put an X in every single day that you do the activity that you are trying to stay motivated towards
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This episode will teach you how not to set your goals, and will give you a much more powerful framework to use instead of the traditional smart goal setting framework.
KEY POINTS
F = Frequently Discussed - Goals should be discussed within teams, at the beginning of the month at the end of the month, discussed everywhere. Frequent discussion is correlated with the goal having a higher likelihood of achievement.
A = Ambitious - The goal should feel slightly out of reach, ambition inspires you to take action.
S = Specific - Be very clear about what the goal is and when you are looking to achieve it.
T = Transparent - The goal needs to be visible to all so that everyone can see the progress made. The more transparency around a goal, the more likely it will be achieved.
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By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly why you should be thinking as big as possible so that you can tap into that power of ambition and reach your full potential, in your work and life.
KEY POINTS
Being Ambitious Forces You to Commit Before You Are Ready - Too much potential greatness in life is not realized because people sit back waiting to be ready. Being ambitious forces you to commit well before you are ready because you have no choice.
Being Ambitious Gets You To Dream - When you dream, powerful things can happen.
Ambition Increases Productivity - It forces you to become hyper aware of your time which causes you to cut out all the distracting behaviours and meaningless activity.
Ambition Inspires Bold Action - It builds courage and leads to your personal development.
Ambition Provides Personal Growth - When you think big you will be taken outside your comfort zone and that is how you grow.
Ambition Provides a Deeper Sense of Purpose - Which leads to a more fulfilling life.
Ambition Forces You to Take Massive Action - Massive action leads to massive results. This creates a fantastic work ethic. Ambition provides you with grit, perseverance and persistence.
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In today's episode I share 10 techniques that can improve your ability to deal with the inevitable difficult times that we all experience in life.
KEY POINTS
Acknowledge How You Feel - Don't repress feelings, especially relating to the difficult times that you're in.
Talk About It! - Use your network of friends and family, and let out your feelings, don't keep it in.
Remove Anybody Who's Making Life More Difficult - Spend more time with the people that can help you.
Recognize When You Need Some Professional Help - There are some wonderful people out there who are highly trained.
What is Your Number One Self-Care Habit? - Look after your fundamentals, such as your sleep, your nutrition, and your exercise. Focus on Action! - What's the next thing that you can do to combat these feelings?
Center Yourself in the Present Moment - Don't worry about the past or future, take a vacation in the present moment. Remember that time pretty much does heal all wounds.
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Have you ever been in a situation where people start doubting you? By the end of today's episode you'll have five tips for how to better handle the doubters.
KEY POINTS
Opposition is Always to be Expected - Especially when you're doing something that you haven't done before.
There Will Always Be Haters - Remember, they are speaking about their own failures, frustrations and disappointments, not yours.
The Past Does Not Define the Future - Mistakes are to be learned from. What happened in the past doesn't actually mean that that's also going to happen in the future for you.
You Don’t Need Approval - You are free to design your own destiny, so don't seek approval from anybody but yourself.
Upgrade Your Network - Surround yourself with people who support you rather than take away from you.
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Do you want to overcome the three enemies to personal growth? In today's episode I'm going to tell you what those three enemies are, and how you can overcome them.
KEY POINTS
Recognize that Action Generates Feeling - A professional knows that an action generates feeling, however an amateur believes feeling generates action. Identify as a professional and create action!
Minimize Impulsivity - Reduce distractions. Out of sight, out of mind. Distractions will impede on personal growth.
Minimize Delay - Cut down your large goal into smaller milestones to get a taste of success sooner.
Increase Focus - A productive day begins the day before with a good night's sleep. All devices should be switched off an hour before bedtime to increase melatonin. Ensure you are getting 8 hours of sleep.
Embrace Failure - It is a very necessary part of our personal growth. Learn from it, don't let it get you down!
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Would you like to learn how to become more disciplined? I'm going to show you the four secrets to becoming more disciplined so that you can achieve your full potential.
KEY POINTS
Have Clarity About Who You Are - Realise that you are a professional in your life, not an amateur. An amateur believes that feeling generates action, but a professional knows that action generates feeling.
To be Disciplined, You Need Compassion - First and foremost, you need to be nice to yourself. Look after your fundamentals such as sleep, nutrition and exercise.
Get Help! - Make sure that you're not working alone, bring others in to help you, to share the responsibility.
Create Negative Consequences - Human beings are far more likely to want to avoid losing something than gaining something. Create negative consequences for not being disciplined.
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Here is a seven step framework that you can use to overcome the fear of rejection and step into the life that you were meant to live.
KEY POINTS
Focus on Collecting as Many No's as Possible - To overcome fear of rejection recognize that yes lives in the land of no. Send out as many proposals, as many job applications as possible. Eventually the yes’s will materialize provided that you are sending out and focusing on just collecting those rejections.
Don't Think of it as a Rejection - Just think of it as you're going out there to collect data, and we can only learn and move forward by collecting that data.
Rejection is Evidence That You're Stepping Outside of Your Comfort Zone - Growth requires some degree of stress. The stress we feel from rejection leads to growth and development.
Visualize Rejection - Think about the moments that you are most worried about rejection, picture that it will happen and how you at your best will respond to it.
Build Yourself Up - Write a list of all the reasons why you are great and why you deserve to achieve your goals.
Decode Your Fears - Really try to understand what it is that you're actually afraid of with regards to the potential rejection.
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Would you like to know the five rules for the game of life? By the end of today's episode, you'll know the five top rules that in my research and experience lead to a better life.
KEY POINTS
Don't Compare Yourself to Others - Instead compare yourself to who you were yesterday. Keep track of the days you have wins and the days you can learn from.
Decide Who it is That You Want to be Right Now - Whether its health, work or fitness related, find an identity for all three and work at being the best possible version of yourself.
Take Action! - Plan ahead, everyday write three things to accomplish the next day and schedule them into your diary.
Level Up Your Network - Are the people you're spending time with giving you energy? Are they helping you in the game of life or are they taking energy away?
Smile, Laugh, and Have a Good Time! - Allow the space for our favourite moments to happen when we are not in pursuit of our goals.
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Have you ever felt like giving up on your dreams? By the end of today's episode, you'll not only not want to give up on your dreams, but you'll also feel re-energized in pursuing them.
KEY POINTS
You’re Ready Now! - Committing before you think you're ready is a skill. You may never fully be ready so why not commit now? Pursuing your dreams requires you to take action even when you don't think you're ready.
Think big! - Thinking big gets you excited to achieve your goals, you're more likely to pursue them when excited.
Expect Failure - Failure is actually how you learn and grow.
The Only Failure is Failing to Try - Better to have tried and failed than to wonder what could have potentially happened.
What is Holding you Back? - Pursuing your dreams forces you to get real with yourself and confront any deficiencies that might be holding you back.
By pursuing your dreams, you open yourself up to a myriad of successes along the way.
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Do you want to know how to handle money? Today you’ll learn how to handle money better and be in a better position to safeguard your financial future.
KEY POINTS
Get To Grips With Your Cash Flow - Where is your money coming from and where is your money going?
Are You Budgeting Effectively? - Create a budget that reflects the priorities and financial goals of the best version of you.
Create a Savings Plan - Pay yourself first following the equation: income minus savings equals expenses.
Start Investing - Create an emergency fund of 1% of your income, and invest it.
Get Out Of Debt - Start paying off the debt that you could pay off the soonest.
Review Monthly - Schedule a monthly finance review meeting.
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To improve your relationship? By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly what to do to improve your relationship.
KEY POINTS
Are You Communicating? - Ask people what you can do to improve your relationship? Often when you seek to improve something you think in your own bubble and don't take the opportunity to ask others for their point of view
Create Intention - Wake up on a daily basis with the intention ‘I want to improve my relationship with this person’.
Make Some Time - Schedule time to improve the relationship. Take time out of your calendar weekly to focus on that relationship.
Actively Listen! - Ensure you are actively listening, not passively listening!
Practice Gratitude - Set yourself a daily goal to compliment your significant other on one aspect you are grateful for.
Embrace Carefree Timelessness - Be carefree, don't count the cloak and those quality moments will spontaneously arrive.
Demonstrate Affection - It is easy to forget just how powerful affection can be.
‘I am sorry!’ React Better Within Your Relationship - Try being the first to apologize rather than the last.
You! - If you don't have a good relationship with yourself you cannot expect to have a good relationship with others.
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Would you like to know how to design your own destiny? By the end of today's episode, you'll know exactly how to design your own destiny and take your life to an entirely new level.
KEY POINTS
Do You Have a Vision! - If you don't have a vision, you won't know where you're headed, you’ll drift through life.
Why Is Your Vision Important To You? - What is the deeply motivating reason that's going to drive you towards fulfilling your destiny?
Focus on what’s important! - What are the outputs that matter most for the future you’re trying to create? Schedule your time, show up to appointments and single task. Focus on whatever it is that you intended at that moment.
Behaviour Follows Identity - Decide who it is that you want to be. Start acting how that person would.
Expect the Unexpected - By expecting the unexpected you’ll be stronger and a lot more capable of staying on the path to achieving and designing your own destiny.
Upgrade Your Network - Are you spending time with the people who help me achieve my destiny or are they holding you back?
Design Your Learning - Find out what it is you need to be learning to reach your goals, and learn it!
Visualize Your Dreams - Everyday for 5 minutes visualize your dreams and achieve your goals.
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Face Your Fears - A lot of people think that they need to be more confident in order to step into their fears, but they've got it wrong. The key skill to learn is that we step into our fears in order to build confidence.
Practice Curious Listening - Asking curiosity-based questions, will not only deepen your connection with a person, but also teach you things that you never would have perhaps known before. This can be important for your own development as well.
Practice Single Tasking - Did you know that the average person loses 13 weeks a year, an entire calendar quarter, because they are not working on one thing at a time? Eliminate your distractions!
80/20 Focus - 80/20 focus is simply recognizing that things are not all created equal. What are the 20% of the things that you can be focusing on for 80% of the benefit?
Get Some Sleep - A lot of people are not getting the recommended eight hours of sleep. It impacts their productivity. It impacts their ability to achieve their goal. Ultimately it impacts their ability to get to where they want to in life.
Pause! - When something happens that triggers the worst in you, do not respond right away. Pause between whatever is triggering you and responding so that you can choose the best response, the response that's congruent with who you are at your best.
Step into Difficult Conversations - It's not confidence that we need to have a difficult conversation. It's stepping into the difficult conversation that will build the confidence we seek.
Create Consistency - Working constantly at an 80% level is better than on occasion 100%, and then 60% or 50%.
Find an Expert - There are experts out there to help you in your quest to achieve whatever it is that you want. If you can develop the comfort to get out there and reach and connect to them, you can acquire the expertise that you need.
Manage your time well!
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Listen With Curiosity - People want to feel that they’re being listened to. It commands respect from the others because you suddenly are and appear more engaged.
Do What You Say! - You need to be reliable. If you're not reliable, people will not respect you.
Say How You Feel - If you go about a conversation or a relationship and you're not revealing your true feelings, but then those feelings become revealed later through other means people tend to not respect you.
Treat People Fairly and Respectfully - They need to feel that justice is being made available for everyone in the relationship.
Offer to Help Others Achieve Their Goals - If you do that, people will immediately feel a greater bond to you and increase the likelihood of them wanting to work with you.
Look After the Human Side of Someone and Not Just the Work Side - Remind yourself that they're not just there to work or to collaborate with you.
Demonstrate your Vulnerability - When you admit to others that you've made a mistake, it makes you more approachable, it makes you more accessible and it makes it more likely that someone is going to respect you because you're like them in that situation.
Deliver your Best - If you're delivering your best and people can feel that, they are more likely to respect you. Giving your best commands respect from anyone around.
Demonstrate That You are Constantly Seeking to Improve - Asking for feedback, demonstrating that you're looking to continuously improve immediately commands respect from others.
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Identity Creates Behaviour - It's not the other way around. Choose a superhero version of yourself, give that a name and see how your behavior starts to follow suit and match who you're striving to be.
Set Magnetic Goals - Goals that pull us into action. Goals that make us want to be productive. Setting massive goals makes them magnetic.
Focus on What Matters Most - Focus on the outputs that matter most. What is going to create the most amount of positive movement?
Determine What You Need to Learn, and From Whom - When you do something you haven't done before, it requires you to learn something new. 100% of the knowledge that you need to achieve your goals already exists so go out there and learn it!
Schedule time to work on the things that matter most.
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IPA stands for Identity, Productivity and Antifragility. Mastering IPA is the number one thing you need to do to be more successful in life.
I = Identity - Start with identity. Behavior follows who you think you are. You cannot become a better version of yourself if you continue being the person you've always been.
P = Productivity - You must optimize yourself for action. You must have 80/20 focus. What’s the 20% of things that you could do for 80% of the results?
A = Antifragility - Reframe stress; so that the more stress, hardship or difficulty you experience, the stronger you become.
Stress Can Be Helpful - It is not something that you should seek to run away from, stress is positive, if viewed from the correct point of view.
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When To Follow Your Gut - The advice, "follow your gut," can be very dangerous. Make sure that you are aware of when to follow your gut instinct and when you shouldn't.
When to Use Intuition - One of the best places to use your intuition is after you've whittled down your options.
Trust Your Intuition Around People - Very often your intuitive feelings around people and trust, are pointing to something very important. Think twice about ignoring that.
Trust Your Intuition Around Safety - Trust your intuition when you're feeling issues about your physical safety.
Do Something About Your Fear - When fear is masquerading as our gut instinct, it's a really good signal to ask yourself, ‘How could I get some support?’
Stop! - Your intuition is there to help you, but you shouldn't always follow it!
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Create Clarity - An anxious mind is a clouded mind. The first way to create clarity is to develop a meditation practice.
Develop a Simple Planning Routine - Anxiety reduces when you're not worried about what you need to do. Plan and schedule everything into your life.
Get Some Sleep! - An anxious mind is a tired mind. Focus on your energy and recovery. If you're not getting enough sleep, you will be more prone to anxiety.
Start Your Day With Some Exercise - An energized mind is going to be less anxious.
Take a Break - Don't work endlessly with no break at all. Anxiety will reduce if you're taking plenty of breaks throughout the day.
Express Your Ambitions To Others - An anxious mind is a repressed mind. When you keep feelings in, it contributes to your anxiety.
What Are You Afraid Of? - Fears will create anxiety. The act of stepping into the fears will build your confidence.
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Trust Is The Foundation Of Any Relationship - If you do not have trust in a relationship at work or at home, there is no foundation. You must have a solid foundation to build anything of value upon it.
Do You Have Respect? - If you don't have respect from the person that you are in a relationship with, professionally or personally, that's not a relationship.
Do They Have Empathy? - Empathy is simply the ability for someone to put themselves in your shoes so they can feel what you're feeling. If you're in a relationship with someone who doesn't feel empathy, the first step is to make them aware of that.
Is Your Relationship Allowing You to Grow?- Is the person that you're in a relationship with leading to your growth?
Is Your Relationship Fun? - Who wants to be robotic, mechanical, dry, dull, boring, I can't have a laugh, relationship? Nobody. We all want to have fun.
Are you Happy? - Does your relationship make you happy? Does it make you feel good? Does it put a smile on your heart?
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Take 100% Ownership - It's down to you. Nobody else is going to do it for you. Take ownership for your own successes and failures. If your dreams succeed great, if not what is it that you did or didn't do that led to that?
Up Your Game! - Pause for a moment and ask yourself, "Where do I need to be upping my game?" Are there skills you could be developing? Or people you should be surrounding yourself with to learn from?
Schedule Your Dreams Into Your Calendar - Have you ever thought about scheduling your dreams into your calendar? What gets scheduled gets done, and that includes your dreams as well.
Create Some Outside Pressure - That could come in the form of an accountability partner such as a coach or friend. Somebody who is going to recognise whether you are reaching your targets.
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Decide Who It Is That You Want To Be - You get to decide who you want to be right now.
Prove Yourself - Decide what's the one thing that you could do each day that will evidence your success?
Create Powerful Routines - If your day is feeling like it's out of control, then it's probably because you don't have concrete, reliable structures. Create a structured routine.
Goals Give Us Meaning! - If you don't know what you're shooting for, you're going to be feeling that you're flying blind. Set goals, and make sure they inspire you.
Apply the 80/20 rule - When you are overwhelmed trying to achieve everything apply the 80/20 rule. Work out what is 20% of the work that you do that can create 80% of the result.
Reframe stress - Stress is not bad. It's our view of stress, which hurts you, which makes you feel not in control.
Develop a “Bring It On” Mentality - Have the mentality that no matter what the challenge is that you can step into it.
Measure What Matters - Measure the hours/minutes you are spending on your activities to reach your goals. If you are not measuring, they will tend to not get done. What gets measured gets done!
Level up your Team - You could be hanging out with the wrong people or not have the right members of the team working with you, or not have the right people on the team.
Practice Gratitude - When you are not thankful on a regular basis for all the good things that are happening in your life, then you will have a tendency to focus on what isn't happening, or going your way.
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Pursue Your Dreams! - Don’t find yourself in a situation later in life disappointed that you didn't chase what you wanted.
Don’t Work Too Hard! - When it comes to the end of your life you certainly will not be looking back wishing you had five more minutes to clear out your inbox or finish a project, make time for what matters.
Express Your Feelings - Not expressing how you feel can lead you to stay in relationships, business arrangements and situations that you don’t really want to be in.
Friends are the Family we Choose - Stay in touch with friends. Maintain contact with at least one person on a weekly basis.
Choose Happiness - You cannot control all events that will occur in your life but you absolutely can choose your reaction to them.
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Believe in Yourself! - If you are doubting yourself your motivation will be low. Remind yourself of the times you achieved. Look for people around you who have achieved similar things and remind yourself that if other people can do it ‘I can too!’
Zero in on ‘why?’ - Why do you want to reach your goals? If you can understand why, you can ignite the motivation again to continue the journey.
Maintain Positivity - Maximise the fundamentals in life. How is your diet, sleep and exercise?
Give Yourself Some Support - Support yourself through knowledge. Books, courses, articles, whatever you can do to close the gap between what you think you should know and where you currently are. Enlist the support of others, experts or people that accompany you on your journey.
Create Clarity - Clarify exactly what it is you are working on, or your motivation will inevitably suffer.
Minimize Distractions - Remove your phone, close down computer tabs. If you are distracted you are more likely to lose motivation.
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Maximize The Value of Your Work - Remind yourself why it is that you are striving for your goals? Why is it important to you? And what are the benefits that you could be experiencing from doing the work?
Maximize Expectancy - Maximize your belief in your ability to achieve what you are working on.
Minimize Impulsivity - Minimize the likelihood distractions will occur by optimizing your environment.
Minimize Delay - Minimize the amount of time it takes to gain that first taste of success! From your large overall goal create smaller goals to achieve along the way.
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Negativity, it's Holding You Back! - Learn how to reprogram that negative state of mind. Today, learn five steps to reprogram your mind for positive thinking.
Focus on the Story - Reprogramme your mind by writing out your current story. Next, write a new story of how your ideal self would be, how you want to view yourself, and what you would like out of life. Rewrite for 90 days straight to reprogramme your mind.
Adopt a Professional Mindset - Let go of the amateur. Professionals know that actions generate feelings, amateurs believe that feelings generate action.
Today is Going To Be a Good Day! - Start everyday with this positive frame of mind and you’ll see over time how it reprogrammes your mind.
The Dream Team - Three areas of life we seek to do our best in is our health, wealth and relationships. Begin each day thinking about who you are at your best in each of those areas.
Wins and Learns - At the end of everyday take 5 minutes to document what went well, your wins, and what you have learned. This creates a sense of gratitude and positivity within.
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Today we're going to be talking about what makes a great leader, and all of these things are things that you can learn.
Number one, the key thing to becoming a great leader is to build what's called vulnerability based trust. People don't like working with someone who never makes a mistake, right?
The number two area that great leaders excel in is around decisiveness, so the ability to prioritize speed over precision and decision-making. It's much better to make a decision quickly, even if it's the wrong decision, than to sit there and deliberate in analysis paralysis and never move forward.
Number three area that is a hallmark for great leadership is around reliability. Great leaders do what they say they're going to do. If you're not building your personal integrity bank account by doing the things that you say you're going to do, you will not separate yourself from all the want to be great leaders.
Number four thing that great leaders do is that they are productive. They take the time to figure out what are the right things that they should be working on.
Number five, great leaders rally everyone behind a great vision. What is the vision that you could be using to inspire yourself and others?
Number six, great leaders then think about the strategy that's necessary to achieve that vision. How are you going to go about using what's unique about you or your group or whatever to achieve that vision?
Number seven is all about execution. We've got a great strategy. We need to execute. We actually need to get this stuff done.
Number eight, great leaders remember that they're managing or they're leading a team, not a family. There's a big difference between the two because families strive to stick together no matter what, whereas teams are optimized to win at all times.
Great leaders have difficult, tough conversations. They don't shy away from them. They step into them.
Number 10, great leaders mind the metrics. They make sure that everyone knows the metrics, the points, the things that are needed to win the game.
Number 11, great leaders practice anti-fragility. They recognize that stress actually builds strength. They step into discomfort.
Number 12, great leaders make bold moves. When things change, great leaders step into that change. Great leaders don't shy away.
Great leadership is not something that can't be learned. It is learnable. It's something I learned.
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You have no chance of performing at a high level if you keep doing what you're doing. You have to change your approach. And that is a subject of today. What do high performers do differently?
So three things that high performers do differently. They are intentional, they're productive and they're anti-fragile.
Being more intentional is essentially respecting that behavior follows identity, and that we can choose our identities, and that we first start our journey of high performance of reaching our fullest potential by choosing who it is that we want to be.
The other thing that high performers do with regard to intentionality is that they don't let their feelings get in the way. High performers know that it's having intention about what they want to do, and having that intention drive action, which will generate the feelings they're after.
Second thing that high performers do is that they are productive. They have an evening routine to shut down their day.
They have a powerful morning routine. When they start out their next day, they don't start it just doing any old thing. They start it working on what was deemed to be most important the day before.
Another big productivity driver for high performers is they're very good at single tasking. Instead of jumping around to a myriad of different things, they focus, 30 minutes, 60 minutes at a time. And that leads to an incredibly high output, much, much higher than jumping around from one thing to the next, throughout the day.
Last but not least high performers are anti-fragile. They respect that stress builds strength. They step into discomfort rather than shying away from it. And they have an incredible ability to, when they're knocked down, stand quickly back up.
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When someone says that they're a perfectionist, what they're really saying is that they are dominated by fear. They think perfectionism is somehow a good thing, but it actually just means they're afraid.
The other thing that they're afraid of is, they're afraid of failing. They're afraid that, "If I put my work out there and if it's not perfect, then I'm going to fail.
The act of completing something quicker is actually the best way to perfect it. By getting something out the door and in an imperfect state, you can get feedback on that and you can learn how to improve it.
The 80-20 Rule simply states that 20% of the effort will yield 80% of the results. Now what does a perfectionist try to do? They try to put in a hundred percent effort to get a hundred percent of the result.
By focusing on, "What's the 20% of effort that I could put in that would still yield 80% of the result," it's a perfect way to train yourself out of your perfectionism.
Things don't need to be perfect, they need to be good enough. And often what you think is the necessary standard for good enough, is nowhere near what someone actually needs. They need far less than what you're thinking.
Another super powerful technique or tool that you can use to overcome perfectionism, is a simple phrase that I use all the time. And it's just, "I choose to start for just five minutes." It helps you take action.
Starting takes just a moment, whereas finishing takes an indefinite amount of time.
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Today we're talking about how you can tap into the power of personal responsibility so you can take things up a level in your business and life.
You can really up your personal responsibility game and change the results in your life by focusing on just three areas, deciding who you want to be in just three areas, your health, your wealth, and your relationships, and bringing some intentionality into those arenas because those are the three areas which demand our greatest responsibility in life.
The second thing that you can do which follows on from the first is a concept that I call champion proofs. Each and every day, I pick what's the one thing that I could be doing which, if done, proves that I'm stepping into the champion version of me.
Number three thing that I recommend you do to really tap into the power of personal responsibility and get your act together is become a single tasker. The average person is losing 13 weeks a year jumping around from task to task to task rather than staying with things long enough to actually get them done.
Number four thing that you can do to get your act together is turn pro. Make the decision to show up as a professional, not an amateur. An amateur thinks that feeling generates action. Professional flips that around. They know that action generates feeling.
Number five, the game isn’t about avoiding the knockdowns. The game is how quickly you can stand back up. If you really want to get your act together, stop worrying about the knockdowns.
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Fear is something that grips us all. It's something that holds us all back.
If you've learned to be in a fearful state, you can unlearn that state. You can get yourself into a position to get around those fears and you know how to handle them so that they're not handling you.
And today that's what we're going to be talking about. So five things that can help you overcome any fears that you have.
The number one thing that you can do to help overcome fear begins in the mind. It's all about mindset. And specifically about you becoming comfortable stepping outside of your comfort zone.
The number two thing that you can do to help overcome fear is to think about similar experiences. If you can remember back to similar experiences, this helps you overcome fear by giving you evidence that you're capable of doing something like this.
Number three: enlist support. Reach out to friends, family, colleagues, anybody that you can ask for advice who's been through the experience that perhaps you're afraid of.
The number four thing that you can do to help overcome fear is publicly commit. Once you make a commitment to others, then it propels you, and necessity forces you to move forward, to step into that fear.
And the number five way that I've used most often to help me overcome fear is just to get into the habit of taking a bold action. On a daily basis, ask yourself, "What's one bold action that I can take today? Because if you get into that habit, that rhythm of taking bold action every single day, you will become more courageous and less fearful.
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Whether you achieve all the things that you want to achieve in your life, or whether you don't will be strongly linked to your ability to stick to the habits that you know are doing you well.
This is about how you can introduce what are called triggers to increase your ability to stick to your habits.
All habits break down into a 3 part habit loop. And it basically starts with a trigger or you think of this as like the event that happens right before the behavior or the habit.
So you have something that triggers a habit and then you perform whatever that behavior is. And then there's an aspect of it called the reward, which is why you do the habit because you're seeking some kind of reward.
So with this in mind, we can design triggers. We can design events right before the habit that we'd like to be doing. We can design events, things that will happen, such that they remind us to do this new habit.
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The reason you procrastinate is not what you think. You think it's something about you, as if you're broken but it's far easier and simpler to fix than that.
Out of all the stuff that I did with regard to improving my own procrastination tendencies, these were the three that delivered the biggest bang for the buck and I'm pretty confident they're going to do the same for you.
So the number one, most powerful thing that I learned behind the reason why I was procrastinating was simply how I was talking to myself. The moment you say I have to do something, or I should do something. I have to finish something. It just conjures up resistance.
When you say that you are choosing to do something, you're putting yourself in control, you're taking agency of the situation.
The second thing that contributed to my procrastination is not scheduling in my week things to look forward to. Knowing that I had something to look forward to, I found myself less likely to procrastinate because I knew that there was a light at the end of the tunnel.
The last thing I did to conquer my procrastination, to transform from a procrastinator to a producer, is all around timesheeting your day. I developed a hyper-awareness on where my time was going.
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Today we're going to be talking about focus, how you can up your game, how you can stay more focused so that you can get the things done that you know you need to be doing, or that you would like to be doing.
So the number one thing that you can do to increase your ability to stay focused is set goals that inspire you. Who wants to be working on something that doesn't inspire them, right?
Number two, to help you stay focused is to create time in your schedule for whatever it is that you'd like to be focusing on.
Number three thing that you can do is, decide the day before what you want to be focusing on. If you decide those things the day before, you're able to start your day in a much more focused state, because you know what you're going to be doing and when you're going to be doing it.
Number four, you should get plenty of sleep. Studies clearly show that if you don't have the recommended eight hours of sleep, your ability to stay focused, tremendously diminishes.
Number five to help you stay focused: start your day with some exercise. When you spike your energy at the start of the day, it helps keep your energy higher throughout the day.
The number six technique that I use to help with focus is called centering, or you can refer to it as meditation. Whatever works for you to get you into a more relaxed state. Because when you're relaxed you will have the ability to stay focused for longer periods of time.
Number seven technique that I use to help stay focused is to start my day creatively rather than reactively. I encourage you to start your day, at least for that first hour doing something creative.
The eighth thing that you can do to help improve your ability to stay focused, is to take frequent breaks. When groups are put next to each other and one group has no break time at all, and the other group has frequent breaks throughout the day, the group with frequent breaks throughout the day, even though they're working less total time, they actually have a higher output than the group that didn't have breaks.
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Have you ever wondered why certain people seem to be so full of happiness, so full of vibrancy? Well, there's some secrets to happiness that we can all learn.
Number one thing that you can do, I do this on a daily basis, is start your day engineered for happiness. And I do this with a simple phrase, I start my day saying, "Today is going to be a great day." It immediately puts a smile on my face, puts me in a positive mood.
Number two: A good happiness secret is to schedule guilt free leisure or hobby time in your week, time for yourself, time doing things that you know will make you happy. Make sure you're scheduling that guilt-free kind of free time in your week, and you'll generate a lot more happiness in your days.
Number three secret to generate more happiness is to think about your energy generators versus energy drainers. What are the people, places and activities in your life that give you energy versus drain you of energy?
Number four thing that you can be doing to generate more happiness in your life is to look after your health. Without our health, we're nothing. And if we actually invest in our health, it generates more happiness in our lives.
And number five, and this is perhaps the most important of all. To generate more happiness in your life, choose to be happy. And I know that might sound simplistic, but it really is a choice at the end of the day. No matter what happens to you, you can still choose to be upset or happy.
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Have you ever wondered how incredibly successful people think? Because if you could start thinking in the same way, the sky's the limit. Today I'm going to share a set of principles that underpin the way incredibly successful people think.
Number one, the first thing that underpins the way incredibly successful people think is that they take a long-term view on their success. They are not looking for overnight success.
The number two principle that underpins how incredibly successful people think is that they think beyond themselves. "How can what I'm doing be of service to others? How might what I'm doing benefit the world?"
The number three thing that underpins how incredibly successful people think is that they take an 80/20 approach to their lives and to their businesses. They don't try to do absolutely everything. Instead, they look for, "What's the 20% of things that I could be doing that could create 80% of the results?
Number four. Incredibly successful people zero in on the 20% of things they could be doing for 80% of the results. And then they think, "How do I break down those goals?" Incredibly successful people always break down their goals into sub-goals.
Number five. Incredibly successful people realize that they can't get there or do whatever it is that they hope to do on their own. They know that they need to surround themselves with wisdom.
Number six. Incredibly successful people take action. They resist the temptation to overanalyze, overthink. And eventually if you take enough action, the results start to appear.
Then number seven, despite everything that I just said there, successful people expect the unexpected. Now, they don't know what that may be, but they expect that something may happen that they haven't planned for.
Your approach to learning does not work. You're taking way too long to learn all of the valuable skills that you need. Today I'm going to teach you 10 tips to learn all those valuable skills that you need a lot faster.
The first is to respect one of my favorite rules, the 80/20 principle. It simply states that 20% of causes create 80% of the effects.
Get into the habit of quizzing yourself. It's much more powerful than simply taking notes. So what that means is you get to the end of a chapter and before you immediately move on to the next chapter, just pause, pause for a moment and ask yourself, "What did I just learn? What were some of the core concepts, the core principles?"
The number three way that you can learn things much faster is to get into the habit of teaching or sharing what you learn. When we teach or share what we've learned with someone else we more deeply embed that learning within us.
Number four. Quit bad material, or quit things that aren't helping your learning. And I'll go back to the example of a book again. You don't simply need to complete the book because you started it.
Number five is a concept called space repetition. Space repetition is presenting what you've learned back to yourself in space intervals, with each interval increasing over time, because as you're learning the information, you don't need to refer back to it as much.
Number six, to learn faster you need to actually schedule learning into your day and week.
Number seven is taking advantage of the micro moments throughout your day. There's times where we're commuting or moving from one activity to the next or exercising, and those are all learning opportunities.
Number eight is to put some pressure on yourself, and you can do that in the form of looking for a certification or an official course that's tied once again to whatever it is that you're trying to learn. That kind of healthy pressure will force you to learn faster.
Number nine, try learning in a group, with a group of other people, a group of friends, or a group of peers. Try not to learn on your own, but try to learn in a social setting.
And the 10th way in which you can be learning faster is simply choose things that you would enjoy to learn. You're not going to learn anything quickly if you hate whatever it is, or if you don't truly want to learn it.
Your lack of confidence certainly isn't helping you, and it's probably why you're not as far ahead in life as you'd like to be.
But here's the thing: confidence is something that can be built, it's not something that you simply have.
We are all born the same. Nobody's born with confidence. We're all born clean slate. So everything is learnable, including confidence as well.
The number two confidence builder is all around learning, up-skilling. Taking your game up to the next level. If you want to build your confidence, you have to take some time to.
The number three thing that you could be doing to up your confidence game or develop more confidence in a particular area is to ask the experts. There's experts out there for everything.
Number four, if you want to build your confidence, you have to get comfortable pushing yourself just outside your comfort zone. Confidence doesn't happen staying in your comfort zone.
Five, 10%, whatever it is just beyond your current capabilities. And trying and building and seeing how that goes and learning from your mistakes.
The number five thing that you can do to build confidence is anticipate the obstacles. You'd be surprised you could probably anticipate 70, 80% of the obstacles likely to appear before you.
The number six thing that you can do to build your confidence is develop an action attitude, an orientation towards taking action.
So in summary, there's lots of ways that you can be building your confidence. Once again, confidence is something that you build, it's not something that you're born with, it's not something that you simply have.
Today, I'm going to give you a silver bullet that can really help propel your success, one thing above all others, which if you enact, which if you appreciate, will set you apart from all of the rest.
A couple of years ago, I was speaking at a conference, and after I spoke at the conference, an aspiring entrepreneur came up to me and he said, "Eric, what's the one book that you'd recommend that I read?"
I said, "Do you know what your problem is? You're searching for a silver bullet. You're searching for that one thing, that one book, and there is no one book."
"Instead, you should be scheduling in 30 minutes every day to develop a reading habit, 30 minutes every day to continually pour through the things that interest you.
Knowledge compounds, and so you have to develop that habit to let it start growing, to let it compound. It's discipline," I said, "That is your silver bullet."
It's a discipline to do what others don't want to do when they're just messing around. It's a discipline to stay the course when it's easier just to stop.
Where would your life or business benefit from a bit more discipline? Where are you super undisciplined, and where could you make a commitment to show up more strongly, more powerfully day after day in a disciplined way?
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur, but unsure what to start or what to do?
Today I want to talk about three things, three lenses, if you will, three filters that you can apply to your life to unlock the entrepreneurship within you.
So the first lens, the first filter is looking at love. So what is it that you love doing? To what degree would you love doing whatever the idea may be?
I highly encourage you to take all the potential ideas that you might have and just list them all out on a piece of paper. And then you're going to put each of these things I'm going to go through as a column. And you're going to rate each of the ideas 1 to 10 to the degree to which you do that category.
The next thing, the next column on your list is skill. So how skilled are you at each of these things on your list?
And last but not least, I want you to think about the need. To what degree would the world really need this idea, this activity that you have in mind, this new business proposition?
So love, skill, and need, these three together, high scores in all three of these categories really can unlock the entrepreneurship within you or give you that push towards an idea and the myriad maybe of ideas that you have, or maybe even help you generate an idea.
You're letting bad days get the best of you. When you have a bad day, you simply take way too long to recover.
Super simple short message today about how to recover from bad days. I want to give you three things that I always keep in mind to help me rebound much more quickly.
Number one is to recognize that having a bad day is completely normal. If we're constantly measuring our success by only having great days, we are sure as heck setting ourselves up for failure.
Number two, remember to play the long game. The secret to a life with a wonderful positive trajectory or a business that is doing super well is to recognize that over a long period of time, having more winning days than bad is the goal.
And last but not least, when you do have a bad day, never have two in a row. Think very proactively, "What are the things that I could do today to make sure tomorrow is a rebound day?"
So try those three things to help you recover much more quickly from a bad day. Recognize that it's completely normal, play the long game, and make sure that you never have two in a row.
Did you know that some researchers estimate we only retain 10% of what we read? What if I could show you a way to retain 90% of whatever it is that you're trying to learn?
Today's message is super simple, super quick. It's all about how to up your retention game.
Teaching leads to a retention of up to 90% versus reading, where it's only around 10%.
So here's a few simple ways in which you can employ this in your business or life. Number one, after you've read something, rather than seek to summarize it, seek to share it instead.
The second thing that you can do is get into the habit of presenting your information. So this works super well in a work environment. Just the act of preparing for a presentation will lead to much stronger, deeper retention.
Last but not least, an awesome way in which you can get into the habit of retaining more of what you learn through the power of teaching is by sending out a weekly email to your friends, colleagues, to your network. Just simply consolidate your learnings and share some of the things that you're coming across, that you're reviewing, that you're studying, that peak your interest, with those that are important to you.
So in summary, if you want to change your retention from as low as 10% from when you read something to as high as 90%, seek to teach.
Your mistakes actually hold the key to stronger leadership. When was the last time you told your team that you messed something up or that something was your fault?
Today I want to talk to you about how your need to feel safe is actually making your team feel unsafe and is holding you and the team back. Up your leadership game by focusing on demonstrating more vulnerability with your team.
If a leader creates an environment which doesn't tolerate mistakes and the leader, him or herself doesn't ever admit to any mistakes, then the team will be very hesitant to do anything that puts their neck out.
When everyone plays things safe the level of achievement goes down. Why? Because we're staying within our comfort zone. Our success, however, is connected to stepping just outside our comfort zone.
So we need to make sure that we're not coming across as mistake-proof. When was the last time, for example, that you said to your team, "We didn't achieve this goal and it's because of me. It's my fault. You know, I messed that up." Or, "I know we made this decision, but that was the wrong decision. And that came from me. I inspired that decision. I'm sorry, I messed up."
Shine a spotlight on your mistakes so that your team feels okay with making theirs and your results will go through the roof.
We all know that goals are important, but to achieve mastery, we must learn to love the plateaus. The plateaus are those times, when you feel like you're making no progress at all, when you feel like giving up and when you feel like you shouldn't have even maybe started working toward the goal, those are the times that we need to learn to embrace.
Look to treat them as the signals that they are. That if you keep your head down and if you just keep hammering away, keep plowing away at whatever it is, that your next spur of achievement is just around the corner.
Success is not linear. It's more like a stair step, having success for some time and then no success and then some more success.
The path to mastery involves showing up day after day, diligent, persistent, patient practice, day after day.
Most likely, you're building your network and connections in the wrong way.
Today I want to teach you three principles you can use to build stronger connections with the people who matter most.
Today's principles are all around the acronym CPR, like the Health Saving Technique, but the letters stand for something different here. The C is for curiosity, the P is for persistence and the R is for reciprocity.
The first principle is all around curiosity. Be curious, ask why, ask deeper questions. And you'll see that the conversation just naturally flows. When you're curious about someone and you're asking that one level deeper, they will immediately be more engaged with you. They will immediately feel something magnetizing about that conversation, because you're simply being curious about them.
The next is persistence. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. Everyone's super busy, right? You're super busy, so is everyone else. And often when someone gets that first email, when somebody is trying to approach them, they will discount it. Maybe they won't respond right away or they won't respond at all. But you have to just keep trying.
And the third thing is the R, reciprocity. When you're looking to connect with someone, ask yourself, "Well, what is it that you can give? How can you help them?" Don't even ask for their help at first. How is it that you might help them further their cause? Give first and then you'll receive more likely in return.
Your problem isn't finishing things, your problem is that you haven't learned to create enough momentum that will carry you through and complete whatever you’d like to get done.
Today I'm going to teach you three simple techniques that you can use to create more momentum in your business and life.
Unless you create more momentum many of your goals, perhaps even most, will go unachieved.
Number one: Get into the habit of creating momentum by simply “choosing to start for just five minutes.” Choosing brings a sense of control, since you can choose to do anything regardless of whether you would like doing it. Focusing on the start is less overwhelming than focusing on the finish. And my committing to only 5 minutes you virtually always have the time (and you end up never realizing when the 5 minutes was up!)
Number two: Go public. I want you to IPO your ideas, IPO your intent, go public with whatever it is that you're going to do. Because when you create that peer pressure and let the world know what it is that you want to achieve you’re compelled to act.
Number three: Make it painful. We move towards pleasure in life, and we move away from pain. Putting money on the line, in some form, against your goal completion hacks into our natural instinct to avoid loss, which according to behavioral scientists from Yale University can significantly increase the odds of goal achievement.
Today I'm going to teach you three hacks that you can use to complete your work up to five times faster.
Instead of working five hours on something, what if you could be getting it done in just one hour?
If you don't learn these techniques, if you don't learn these hacks, you won’t become all that you’re capable of becoming.
The number one technique to increase the rate at which you work is based on the Pareto principle. The Pareto principle simply states that 20% of the causes typically lead to 80% of the effects, or said in another way, 20% of the effort leads to 80% of the results. Where are the leverage points in your work? What really matters? Focus on the 20% that generates 80% of the result and you’ll save tons of time.
The second technique is to focus on Parkinson's law, which simply states that work will expand to fill the time given for its completion. So we can use this to our advantage by proactively restricting the amount of time we give ourselves to complete tasks.
The final technique is what I call ‘The 96% Solution’. If work remains after applying 80/20 focus and restricting the time available, in light of Parkinson’s Law, then delegate the remaining work to someone else. Ask them to “80/20” the 20% that remains (assuming you completed the initial 80%). Completing 80% of the 20% that remains, mathematically speaking, comes to 16% + your initial 80% = 96% done. And that’s more than enough - considering your initial 80% is often enough!
These three things, in combination, have enabled me to complete my work up to 5x faster.
Today, I want to share a super simple technique inspired by the book Elite Minds that you can use to operate at your best day in and day out.
Perfect is not the goal. What is? It's simply do your best. Each and every day, make it your intention to do the very best you can with what you have that day. If you did the best you could that day, give yourself a 'W' for 'win.' If you didn't do your best, give yourself an 'L' for 'learn.' The goal here is six or less L’s in a month and never two in a row.
What I love about this system is that no matter how big my to-do list is, no matter what the day looks like, or how unusual that day is compared to the normal day, all I can ever do is my best.
By measuring this and keeping it super public and visible, it has a huge effect on my psyche throughout the day. I'm thinking throughout the day, "'What do I need to keep doing for that W?" Or if I start to get slightly distracted, I rein it in much more quickly because I know I don't want to have to give myself an L for the day.
The goal of six or less L’s per month roughly comes to an 80% hit rate, so basically, you're trying to show up as your best for about 80% of the days. I think that's a wonderful hit rate.
No matter how big your list is, no matter how unusual the day is, all you can do day-to-day is your best. I'm super confident that if we just focus on doing our best day in and day out, we'll reach a much higher level of achievement and satisfaction in both our business and lives.
Today, I want to share three success secrets from the late Kobe Bryant, which were inspired by something that I read in the book, Raise Your Game.
The greatest player in the game at the time would start to practice at 4:00 a.m. ahead of everyone else.
During this time, Kobe would practice the most basic offensive moves, the most basic drills. Basic footwork, basic shooting, layups, just the absolute most fundamentals.
The author of Raise Your Game asked Kobe, "Why does the greatest player in the game need to practice such basic moves?" Kobe responds with a big smile "Well, how do you think I became the best player in the game?"
There are three success secrets baked in there that I wanted to share today that we can all really learn from:
1. If we want to achieve our fullest potential in whatever it is that we're doing in our business or our life, then we need to have a schedule. We need to commit to practice. When is it that we're going to show up? What time? Try to make that the same time every day.
2. After we have a schedule, when we show up, we need to show up at our best. Our highest, most deliberate, most focused, most genius attention and effort.
3. Whatever it is that we're doing, whatever skill it is that we're trying to build or work on, we can never forget the fundamentals. We can never forget how important it is to do the basics.
Have a schedule. Show up with your best. Practice the fundamentals… So that brick by brick, you can build the house of your success in your business or life.
SUMMARYToday I want to share with you a nice story and a few simple techniques that you can use to create a strong sense of family values in your home - because leadership starts at home.
One of my clients, a CEO of a local company here in the UK, shared with me a set of values that he and his family had created to guide their behaviors and actions in much the same way that you would create a set of values in your workplace.
This particular CEO with his family would have this habit of asking themselves regularly, "Are we doing this right?" But what was really cool and beautiful about this is that “right” stood for the set of values that they had all agreed on as a family. So it was actually spelled R-I-T with three E's. RITEEE.
The R was for respect, the I was for integrity, the T was for teamwork, and then the three E's were for excellence, environment and enjoyment. “Are we doing this RITEEE?” was basically a question that the family would ask themselves in a given situation or a decision that they're trying to make. It was short for: Are we doing this with respect? Are we doing this with integrity? Are we doing this as a team? Are we doing this with excellence? Are we doing this with respect to our environment? Are we doing this with enjoyment?"
We create a set of values for companies, but we never think about doing that for the most important unit of all, our family unit at home. Where are the values for our family? Where are the guideposts to guide our behavior?
To create a set of family values:
First, sit down with your family members and agree on your values. What are the things that we value in each other? What are the things that we don't value? What are our likes? What are dislikes?" And create a list of words. Five or six words maximum.
Second, play around with synonyms of those words or just reorganize the order in which you lay them out, so that you can create an acronym. A memorable acronym that you'll never forget. Similar to the client's story that I shared, "Are we doing this RITEEE?" Where RITEEE stood for the six family values.
Third, get into the habit of asking the question, "Are we doing this [with whatever that acronym is]?"
Over time you will see that your behavior and the way you operate as a family, as a unit, starts to coalesce and form around the very things which you find to be most valuable, which you value as a family.
To improve communication start by learning how to listen better. Today I'm going to take you through three ways in which you can improve your listening skills so that you can also improve and up your game on the communication front.
Rule number one with improving your communication through mastering the art of listening is to develop the ability to pause. Really focus on relaxing and letting the other person speak. Don't think about the next thing that you need to be saying or cut them off. Just pause. Let them say whatever it is that they're trying to say and fully give the space for that.
Number two, to improve your listening game, to improve your communication game, you need to reflect back what you're hearing. You can use just a simple statement such as, "I think I heard you say," or "I understand that what you're saying is...," and just reflect back. Play back what it is that you've just heard the person state.
Number three, ask the question, "Why?... Why do you feel that way? Why do you think that way? Why don't you think things could be another way?" This will deepen your understanding, thereby improving any communication that follows.
In this episode, I talk about the power of enthusiasm and how you can cultivate it through 3 simple techniques.
"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it, stamp it with your own personality, be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first technique to cultivate enthusiasm is to “act enthusiastically.” Strike a power pose. Stand up tall and straight. Shoulders back, chin down, smile. By behaving in that way, having that kind of posture, it gets us thinking in a more positive, enthusiastic way. We start to become what it is that we're trying to be.
The second thing that you can do to develop your enthusiasm is to flex your “what's going well” muscle. At the end of every day, I just ask myself, "What went well today?" And I make sure I note all of those things.
The third is to learn to say no. Think about the people, places and activities in your life that give you energy. Think about the people, places and activities in life that drain energy from you. Say no to those energy drainers. Say yes to the things that give us energy, because what gives us energy also helps propel our enthusiasm.
Employ these three techniques to generate unstoppable enthusiasm.
Do you feel like you can be doing more to gain more insights and momentum in your business, but you don’t know where to start? I use a 90-day planning technique that has helped me in my own business and life, and today I’m going to be sharing it with you.
How do we reach our full potential when we are faced with a thousand decisions every day that can lead us to different paths in our lives? My answer is in the power of the pause. In this episode, I will teach you the importance of the pause and how it can help you tap into the infinite wisdom you have inside of you.
I’ve learned from my own journey that building a better company doesn’t mean just scaling up your company. There are three pillars that you need to work on side by side to achieve your business’ full potential. In this episode, you will learn the three pillars to building a better company and the questions that you need to be asking yourself.
We often think of leadership only on the work front. However, I believe that what makes a great leader is if they’re also a great leader at home. Today, I will teach you two things that can help you grow your leadership on the home front.
When we're seeking to upgrade our business or life, the path we have in our heads is often too complicated. We come up with complex ideas that most times get all tangled and stuck. In this episode, I will give you the simple yet powerful way of improving your life with two questions. With this super simple technique, you will find what the most important things in your life are and how to keep your eyes set on them.
One of the most powerful and most important skills when you are leading, in your business or at home, is empathy. How can you develop empathy to lead more successfully? How do you create a more empathic communication with the people around you? In this episode, I will teach you two simple techniques that you can do to grow your empathy muscle.
What are the things that truly make a champion? How did legends like Michael Jordan reach their legendary status, and how can you apply the same secrets to your own life? In this episode, I share with you the two secrets to Michael Jordan’s success that will help you win your own championships.
When you are working on something or you’re managing a business, are there decisions that you don’t make because you can’t find the courage within yourself to see them through? Do you feel like you should be taking bold actions but can’t act on them? In this episode, I answer your questions with two simple steps that will help you find the most courageous version of yourself that will ultimately lead to a successful and courageous life without regrets.
Do you and your team often find yourselves in a rut? Do you wish there was a way to increase your team’s performance? I answer that with a simple coaching model called GROW. In this episode, I share with you the meaning of GROW and teach you the conversation you need to have and the different questions you need to ask your team to achieve a higher performance level and produce the best possible results.
Are you easily distracted when you’re working? Do you fail to achieve your tasks for the day because your mind is all over the place and you can’t focus well? How do you achieve your most productive, most creative, and most focused state? For this episode, I’m going to teach you the quick and easy steps in achieving your flow state. By achieving this flow state, you will find yourself accomplishing all the things you need to do within the day.
Whenever I work with CEOs or thought leaders, the question that always comes up is "How do I get better at handling the unexpected?" How do you increase your anti-fragility when it comes to problem-solving and anticipating the unexpected? For this episode, I teach you the two simple techniques, the pre-mortem and the post-mortem, that will help you prepare for the unexpected and increase your learning ability from every problem you encounter.
Almost everything has been said about productivity, but did you know that by taking breaks and recovery time, you are helping yourself reach your peak potential? What are the six necessary breaks that will help you achieve, or even outdo, the productivity level that you want? For this episode, I break down the six breaks you need to be more productive and their benefits.
In the book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, the number one regret people had was that they didn’t allow themselves to be happier. Do you find yourself heading in the same direction? How do we live a happier life and how do we make sure we are always on track to being happy? For this episode, I share with you the two simple techniques that will ensure that every day is a happy one.
Do you have things that you want to change about your life but don’t have the motivation to do so? What’s the one thing you need to change that will have the most effect on the other facets of your life? How do you make sure that you stay on your goal from start to finish? For this episode, I am going to teach you the one simple and effective way to identify the one thing that matters most and how to constantly improve yourself in that area.
Do you find that you're often dwelling on something too long before you get up and start moving on it, or maybe you've been in a situation where you realize that because you didn't take action quickly enough, an opportunity, a huge development or potential reward or benefit in your life just escaped you? For this episode, I'm going to talk about how you can be better at taking action, because that really is where the power is.
When something unexpected happens to you or derails your progress, how do you typically respond? Do you adapt well to change? Do you adapt boldly? Great leaders and entrepreneurs do adapt boldly to change, and even individuals need to adapt boldly to change because change is always all around us and is always happening. Today I want to take you through some simple things that you can do to adapt more boldly into change with positive results. Today's episode is inspired by the book the CEO Next Door, which did an analysis of the key behaviors that are required to transform ordinary people into world-class leaders.
I'm sure you know culture is important for a company, for a team, for a group of people, but maybe you don't know how to go about creating an awesome company culture. Well, in this episode I will tell you exactly how to do that. I'm going to take you through step-by-step how you can go about creating an awesome company culture for your group or team.
Ever wonder what the difference is between a leader versus a manager? Because there is a distinct difference. Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a better leader or to become a better manager? Well, in this episode I'm going to take you through five differences between leaders and managers, and also take you through some of the pitfalls that you can avoid if you're in either of those roles.
Creating positive habits is not as hard as you think. It's not a personal flaw, but rather a design flaw. The way in which you're approaching it isn't right. In this episode I'm going to show you, from a behavioral science point of view, how to approach building habits in a much stronger way, so you can experience success more consistently in whatever areas of life or business matter most to you. I'm going to be drawing on a coaching apprenticeship and certification that I did with Prof. BJ Fogg, who runs Stanford University's Behavior Design Lab.
One of the most powerful things you can do is ask somebody the right questions to elevate them to a higher level of performance, or to get them to think a little bit more deeply about the things that are holding them back. In this episode, I want to take you through some super powerful coaching questions that you can use, whether you're a coach, a leader, or a manager.
Not happy with your goal performance? Wish you were further ahead than you currently are? Well, the truth is, until you master the art of recovering from setbacks, you're never going to hit those goals, you're never going to get to where you'd like to be. And in this episode, I present five simple ways that you can get better at overcoming and bouncing back from those inevitable setbacks that we all experience in our business and life.
Did you know that those who have incredible reliability are 15 times more likely to be high-performing? This research comes from the book, The CEO Next Door, which is a fantastic book on leadership and the key behaviors that create world-class leaders, all of which are learnable. In this episode, we're going to do a deep dive on how to become more reliable because that is the key to our success, especially if we're in a leadership or management position.
There are no perfect human beings on the planet, and you're not going to be the first. Now, if you suffer from perfectionism, if you think that is what’s holding you back, In this episode I’m going to teach you seven things that you can be doing to overcome that perfectionism. So that you can finally break free of not feeling good enough and make the progress that you're seeking in both your business and life.
About 10 years ago, I had a near-death experience while flying. I almost died, 35,000 feet up in the air. At the time I was obsessed about peak performance, about achievement, but I was approaching it the wrong way. As I recovered, I knew then there had to be a way to perform at a super-high level, achieve my dreams, achieve my full potential, without sacrificing my health and relationships. In this episode, I want to share some things that you can do to achieve peak performance without burning out.
Everyone knows the importance of delegation, but very few people know how to actually delegate effectively, so that stuff really gets done. What ends up happening is that they feel overburdened by their word, disappointed with their team's result, and perhaps even burned out. For this episode I’ll be sharing with you seven ways that you can begin to delegate much more effectively with your team and those around you.
You may be going back and forth about whether you should be investing more time or effort into creating a remote working environment for your team or company. Well, here's the thing: if you're able to accommodate remote working, you should clearly do it and there's five very strong reasons behind that. In today's episode, we’ll go through each of those five benefits.
You may think that meetings are boring or a waste of time, or perhaps they don't produce the results you want for you and your team. But the thing is, there's only seven types of meetings and if you can really master these, they can transform the results that you achieve for both you, your team, your company, wherever you're managing a group of people. In this episode, I'm going to go through those seven types of meetings, and what you should expect for each of them.
You could find 10 great ways to get in the best shape of your life and still fail. You could find 10 great ways to increase your productivity and still fail. You could find 10 great ways to improve your relationships and still fail. And you probably will if you don't respect the one common ingredient for success across all of those scenarios. It's less about the great idea and it's more about adherence. If you don't adhere to whatever the plan is, you won't succeed. So, in this episode, I present eight different ways in which you can improve your adherence to the plan and get better results, whether that's on the health front, the work front, or the home/relationship front.
You constantly feel like you have a million things to do, while also continually forgetting things. You're not completely on top of things as you would like to be. The truth is, until you master the art of identifying checklist opportunities and using checklists, you will continue in that fashion and you won't be performing in the level you want. In this episode, I’ll explain why checklists are important, and present six ways you can use checklists to level-up your business.
All of us want to improve, not just in our professional lives, but also in our personal lives as well. We all want to be mentally, physically and emotionally fit. But the truth is, until you master the art of measuring, and think creatively about how you can be measuring all of these different things, you won't improve in any of these areas. In this episode, I present ways in how you can measure what truly matters, and create improvements in critical areas of your work and life.
If you're like many leaders, you probably remember a time when you referred to your company or team as family. But the truth is, it is difficult to achieve high performance running a family instead of a team. That's because families stick together no matter what, while teams are optimized to win at all times. In this episode, I’ll be presenting six ways in which you can transition from running a family to running a team, and perform better as a result.
Do you feel your business should be further ahead than it currently is? Perhaps your company is not hitting its goals, or lacks the edge to become a leader. The answer might just come from the outside. Having a coach could be the one thing that brings your business to its full potential. And there are many ways a coach can help you. In this episode, we’ll be discussing six of these.
While the power of storytelling is all the rage these days, many of us miss the most powerful story of all: the one that we tell ourselves. Our old story hinders us from venturing further; it discourages us from improving ourselves and achieving great things. But we have the power to change all these by simply writing a new story for ourselves. In this episode, I’ll reveal a six-step process that will transform your inner story, to further empower yourself and elevate your business and personal life.
Decision fatigue affects everyone: making tons of decisions each and every day can be quite exhausting. That’s why you need to make faster, fewer and better decisions if you want to succeed in your business and personal life. What’s great about becoming more decisive is it's all learnable. In this episode, I’ll be teaching you eight ways how you can do it.
Have you ever thought about what the most common regrets are for someone right before they die? A nurse by the name of Bronnie Ware looked after many people who were in their final days and hours and documented all of these regrets in a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. In this episode I'll take you through those 5 regrets and give you some powerful tools that you can use to make sure that you're avoiding them and living a fulfilling life.
Do you feel that fear is holding you back in life? That you're not achieving everything that you're capable of achieving because you're too afraid? Do you look at the courageous actions of others and say, “I wish I was like that. I wish I had more courage.” In today's episode I want to teach you what you can do to become more courageous and develop the confidence to overcome your fears.
Do you know what the number one killer in the world is? It's not war or violence – it's high blood pressure because it causes cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes. In this episode I'll share how I went from having high blood pressure, to normal low and sometimes even low blood pressure without the use of any medications at all.
What if I told you there's a path you can take, that would allow you to reach your full potential and live a fulfilling life? For me, this has been an obsession for years and it was for psychologist Abraham Maslow as well. In this episode I'll share my key lessons from Maslow's work and my own experience to help you live a more fulfilling life.
You may want to achieve big things with your life, but until you realize that on a daily basis, success looks unremarkable and is simply about doing small things day in and day out you'll never get there. In this episode I'll teach you about the importance of small habits and show you how to apply them to achieve the big successes you're looking for.
Did you realize that the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers can teach us a lot about how to improve the performance of our teams at work? I had no idea but after reading the book 11 Rings by 11-time championship winning coach Phil Jackson, my approach to managing teams completely transformed. In this episode I'll share what I learned from the book and give you practical tools to take your team to the next level.
Does it feel like it takes you forever to get things done? Maybe you feel you just don't have enough time, that you need more hours in your day. But the truth is you don't need more time – what you need more than anything is to learn how to leverage the power of deep work. In this episode I'll explain the concept of deep work and show you how to work in a focused way on the things that matter most, so you can supercharge your productivity and hit your goals.
Have you ever felt like giving up? Like you just didn't have what it takes or you just weren't smart enough? If so, that's classic fixed mindset thinking and until you learn how to adopt a growth mindset, you'll never achieve your full potential. In this episode I'll explore Carol Dweck's research on the power of mindset and show you how to combat limiting beliefs and develop a powerful growth mindset so you can enjoy success in all your endeavors.
Do you ever feel like things are unbalanced in your life? Maybe all of your attention and effort is on work or your career but your relationships are being neglected and your health is suffering. The story keeps repeating over and over but unless you make a correction, your whole life is going to pass you by. In this episode I’m going to teach you how to achieve your best in your work, relationships and health, without sacrificing what matters most.
Do you feel frustrated with trying to get your team to perform? Sometimes it may feel like you're just beating your head against the wall and you wonder if it's worth all the effort. But as a leader, it's up to you to elicit that performance and if you don't manage to do it, eventually someone else will step in and do it for you. In this episode I’ll teach you five things that I’ve found increase team performance the most. I’ve called upon these principles as a CEO myself and I’ve also seen them create the greatest impact with the leaders that I coach so I’m confident they’ll help you get the best out of your team as well.
In life you’re always negotiating whether you like it or not - whether you're negotiating with your children to do their chores, negotiating with friends about where to go for dinner, or negotiating with our boss to get that promotion. But most people go about negotiation all wrong and leave so much on the table because they don’t understand the principles behind the process. In this episode I’ll teach you the principles of negotiation that have helped me in my business and life so you can get more of what you want and achieve your goals faster.
If you're like me, I'm sure you've come across somebody at a conference or in a meeting and thought you’d love to meet that person. Or maybe you've read a book and thought you’d love to speak with the author one day. That's typically where most people's thinking stops but unless you develop that confidence to go out there and connect to these people, your competition will get ahead of you and you won't reach your full potential. In this episode I’ll share three habits I’ve developed to become a power networker that will help you tap the wisdom, expertise and networks of other people.
Growing up, my parents used to say to me, “Shoot for the moon and even if you miss, you'll still land amongst the stars.” You’ve probably heard this expression before but if you’re like most people, chances are you’re playing smaller than you could. What I've learned in my life is that massive goals truly do generate massive results. In this episode I’ll share my experience with setting ambitious goals that inspired big action and culminated in me becoming the UK’s CEO of the Year. I’ll also teach some practical tools and tips to help you set massive goals that will bring you the massive results you want in your work and life.
Everyone these days wants to have a great start to their day so they think about installing a morning routine, but that's not the place to start. If you want to have a great day, you actually need to start the day before with a great evening routine. For years I focused on my mornings, trying to join the 5:00 AM club and trying to get everything done before my kids woke up. But then I realised I was approaching things all wrong. In this episode I’ll share the evening routine that has helped set my days up for success as well as helping you construct your own.
All of us have heroes or people that we look up to, but we spend most of our time admiring them from afar rather than trying to deconstruct what drives their success and decoding that into actionable practical steps. I recently read the book Elon Musk by Ashley Vance, which is a biography of the legendary entrepreneur and in this episode I’ll take you through six peak performance habits I’ve identified that Elon displays in his life and work. For each of those habits, I’ll give you three practical tools, which if implemented will help bring you more success and help you achieve what matters most.
I'm sure you've heard of sports stars being in the zone where they're totally on top of their game, time, just flies by and nothing can disrupt their focus. They're on, they're hitting every shot, they're winning games. And you may have heard of that flow state when it comes to just ordinary, everyday people about trying to activate a sense of flow, where you can relentlessly focus on whatever you're doing and not be distracted much like a sports star does, or perhaps you haven't heard of this, and you've only associated with sports and didn't realize that a flow state, a state of flow is something that you can activate within you to work more effortlessly at a higher level of production and essentially win more.
Most people don’t think they can achieve mastery. They think it's reserved for Hollywood stars, famous politicians, Olympic athletes and CEOs of billion dollar companies. But they’re wrong. Everyone has genius in them and everyone can achieve mastery in at least something. In this episode, I’ll tell you about a tried and tested process that I've used to achieve mastery, which you can use to do the same and achieve your full potential in whatever it is that you're doing.
Have you ever started working on your goals with the best of intentions, but then suddenly stopped? Or maybe you're making great progress and then something unexpected happens and completely derails things? The truth is, unless you get into the habit of pressure testing your goals, this pattern will never end. In this video I’ll share tips that I’ve learned from some of my coaching clients who are ex Navy SEALs and Green Berets, along with Gabriele Oettingen’s WOOP Framework to help you ‘dirt dive’ your goals to improve your chances of success.
Do you find the process of setting goals for your company great in theory but not so great in practice? Perhaps you and your team set goals, but soon forget about them, or they just don't seem to be properly achieved. Unless you master the process of setting goals, you could be taking years to do what could be done in weeks. In this episode I’ll teach you four simple principles that will make the process of setting goals so much easier so you and your team can make the progress you’ve always wanted to.
If you're anything like most ambitious people, you're probably frustrated because you have so many things that you want to learn, do, or excel at. You keep banging your head against the wall because you're trying to fit it all in, but it's just not working. The truth is unless you learn to focus on just one thing, you will not reach your full potential. In this episode I'll share three things that I've used to bring more focus to both my business and life, which helped me to create a million dollar coaching business in less than a year
Great leaders aren't born, they're made. You don't need to have a leadership or CEO gene to be a great leader and the skills that define these people are all learnable. In this episode I'll outline 4 key behaviors of world-class leaders and discuss how you can build those capabilities into your life, based on my journey from founder to CEO of the Year.
Have you ever felt resistance to selling? You want to be bringing in more sales, but you just don't feel confident in your approach, or when it comes to that moment of making a proposal you freeze up. The truth is that unless you overcome your resistance to selling, your potential is going to be severely limited because it’s such a core skill in so many areas of business and life. In this episode I share four practical insights about selling and discuss how I overcame my resistance in the context of my coaching business.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve experienced conflict at work with colleagues or employees and at home with your family and friends. But shying away from dealing with that conflict won’t resolve it. Unless you really step into and embrace conflict, you will never reach your full potential, and those working with you won’t either. In this episode, I share my journey in dealing with conflict and provide a series of practical tips that you can use to help resolve any similar situations both in business and life.
Stress used to be something that I constantly tried to avoid. How do I avoid stressful situations? How do I have less stress in my life? I was actually starting to stress myself out by trying to pursue this stress-free life, when suddenly I discovered a different perspective on how to deal with it. There's a lot of evidence and research showing that it's actually our view on stress, not the amount we experience that matters most. In this episode I’ll give you 3 practical insights to help you deal with stress better.
How do you brand your product or your business in a simple way? To start with, you need to have a quality product because without that you’re lost. Branding is a layer on top of that, which will allow you to capture even better results. In this episode I’ll show you how to build and grow a successful brand, based on my experience with my Mexican restaurant chain Chilango. You’ll learn how to summarise your brand into one word and hunt for misalignments to keep your customers’ experience consistent.
So many meetings are useless and a complete waste of time - but this doesn't mean that meetings can't be valuable. A meeting is the perfect opportunity for people to think creatively about a problem, engage in productive conflict about a particular topic and create a healthy debate. When people get the chance to lay in with different perspectives, they are more likely to buy into the outcome at the end of the meeting. In this episode I'll share my top tips to make your meetings efficient and effective.
Do you find yourself shying away from difficult conversations? I really struggled with them in the early part of my career, especially as a CEO, telling the team about bad news, or when performance wasn't as great as I would like it to be. After reading a lot and learning from those around me I started to see that there were 4 types of conversation people shy away from - and in this episode I'll provide you with the tools and techniques you need to navigate them effectively.
I've always struggled to maintain balance between the three pillars of my life - work, health and relationships. I was the type of person who would go all-in on work and have bouts of success but then suddenly I'd have some kind of health issue or relationship problem. The way I've managed to improve in all areas, without sacrificing any of them is by introducing a peak performance routine - and in this episode I'll share mine and help you build your own.
Have you struggled to stay consistent with your goals? You're good for a while, but then after maybe two or three weeks, you suddenly lose sight of them and momentum falls away? I'd always be good in short timeframes but when my motivation dropped off so did my habits. That's when I realized I had to bring in insights from science about human nature to maximize the chance for hitting my goals - and in this episode I'll show you how to do just that with your own goals.
Have you found yourself struggling to achieve your goals? You can change the trajectory of your life by adopting the mindset of a professional and ditching that of an amateur. In this episode I explain the difference between an amateur and professional, describe my own experience turning pro and explain how you too can become a professional in whatever field you want to succeed in.
What happens to your dreams and goals in uncertain times? When things don't go to plan it's easy to retreat. Some withdraw into distraction, or mind-numbing entertainment but others press on, making the most of the situation. In this episode I explore the mindsets needed to deal with adversity and explained how I applied them to creating my first virtual event when the pandemic hit.
Some of the questions I get the most with my coaching clients are around purpose. When I look back at my own life, if somebody were to have told me 20 years ago, that I would have gone from McKinsey to Skype, from CEO of Chilango to becoming a high performance coach, I would have laughed. But through that journey, I've developed a unique approach to help people find their purpose, which I share in this episode.
In business and life you can’t focus on everything but most people try to do it all when trying to reach their goals. I used to do this too, putting in long hours, day after day, without being truly effective. The good news is that it’s often 20% of the effort that drives 80% of the results - this is what the 80/20 Rule tells us. The key is to find those high leverage activities and focus on them relentlessly - which exactly is what you'll learn in this episode.
Separating our work and home lives can be tough, especially when there's always so much to do, but unless you make a change, your work and relationships will continue to suffer. I used to struggle with this too, often working late into the night until I implemented a Shutdown Ritual, which led to increased productivity, better sleep and improved relationships. In this episode, I'll show you how to create your own Shutdown Ritual to help you switch out of work mode and into home mode every day.
Have you ever felt unmotivated to complete you work? Or a sense of dread when you think about certain projects or tasks? Have you ever worried that your bouts of procrastination are holding you back in life? I've felt this way too.In fact I used to think of myself as the world's #1 procrastinator. I had my successes, but they came so painfully - with far too much effort, wasted time, and all the stressed-out cramming that comes with leaving things too late. But after reading the The Now Habit by Neil Fiore I discovered a simple little phrase that changed everything for me.
All of the great successes I’ve achieved in my career and life have been the result of time spent in the trenches fielding challenges, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing - but always bouncing back stronger as a result. For this first episode of the podcast I reflect on some of the key moments that have changed the course of my life and give you some practical takeaways for each of them.
The average person loses 28% of their work day to multi-tasking ineffectiveness, which applied to 46 working weeks amounts to a massive 13 weeks lost every year! No wonder people feel behind and over-worked. Instead of playing the game with 4 quarters per year, they're trying to do it in 3. Now imagine if you could add back these 13 weeks? What would it do for you, your family, your team, and your company if you had a whole extra quarter? In this episode I'll show you how to do just that with one simple habit - single-tasking.