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Episode 040: What Are You Committed To?

What are you committed to?

If you want to know what you are truly committed to, take a look at your life.

You’re not committed to what you say that you are committed to necessarily. Whatever the result are that you are getting in life… that’s what you are committed to.

If you want different results, you have to commit to those results.

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2020 has been an amazing year. We've been through more than we could have ever guessed we could. There have been a lot of challenging things and many bad things happen. But that does not change the fact that we are living in the best time in history to be alive. 

Yes, this is tough. But life is good. We are going to get through this and we are going to have more opportunities available to us than any time in history.

if you think that life sucks, take a look at life and re-evaluate how you're judging it.

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Be Your Future Self  

"Who you want to be in the future is more important than who you are now" Benjamin Hardy  

As you start your day with your success journal. Answer your questions the way your future self would answer them. That's where you want to go. That's who you want to become.   

If you don't know what that future self looks like yet, go to www.JeffHeggie.com and get my FREE Momentum Series training that will help you figure out where you are going and how to get there!

I’m white

I don’t get it

I might say I do

I know how terrible racism is, and I understand that.

You might say the same thing.

But we don’t really get it.

If I go for a walk through my neighborhood, people aren’t looking at me through their windows wondering what I’m doing and what my intentions are.

I’ve been pulled over, and as the police officer approached my window I was digging through my console looking for my insurance without even thinking twice about it.

I’ve walked down a dark street with a hood on and my face covered to keep warm. I didn’t have to think about it

I do a lot of things, a lot of things that I’m not even aware of, that I wouldn’t do if I were black, because I don’t get it. Because I don’t have to live it.

I’m white, I’ll never fully “get it”

But the more we educate ourselves. The more we do our part to understand. The more we are willing to speak out about racism and the things in this world that are wrong. The more we will be able to help.

I might “get it” a little more than a lot of white people.

I knew one day we would have to have the conversations. I was hoping he would be older.

Yesterday we explained to our son how some people will look at him different, and treat him different because he is black.

I’m scared

I’m scared that one day this beautiful, happy, kind boy that is filled with so much love, could have something bad happen to him…

Because he is black

He’s the most amazing kid. Everyone that knows him LOVES him. But there are going to be times in his life that someone doesn’t see that beautiful, loving boy. They just see the black kid and all the stereotypes that live in their head.

Nelson Mandela said, No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than it’s opposite.

“I can’t end racism. I can’t change what happened to George Floyd. I don’t even know a black person, there’s nothing I can do.”

If that’s what you’re telling yourself, you are wrong.

We are all in this.

Your voice matters

Your silence hurts

“If people can learn to hate, they can be taught to love”

Change will only come from a place of love and it starts inside each and every one of us.

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Daily Success Strategies Episode 036

If you don’t know who Sara Blakely is, you have probably heard about her story. Starting with $5,000 of her own savings she has become the first self-made woman billionaire that didn’t get any of her wealth from a spouse or inheritance. As the story goes, she cut the bottoms out of her pantyhose, created Spanx and became a billionaire. But there’s always more to the story.

When Sara grew up she wanted to be a lawyer, like her father. But after failing the LSAT miserably, twice, she knew that law was not in her future. As she tells the story, she took the next logical step. She travelled to Disney World to try out to be Goofy! But to be Goofy, you need to be 5’8” and she’s only 5’6”, which was the perfect size for a Chipmunk. After three months as a Chipmunk, she took a new job selling fax machines door to door. This became her life for the next seven years in Clearwater, Florida.

Anyone who has had to do any cold-calling knows how difficult it is, but she stuck with it for a long time. One day, she was so upset with her life, she pulled over to the side of the road and said to herself, “I’m in the wrong movie! Call the director. Cut! This is not my life.”

That night she made a list of her strengths and weaknesses in her journal.

She asked herself what she was good at and and how that could help her to create a better life.

She identified sales as one of her biggest strengths and committed to herself that night, “I’m going to invent something that I can sell to millions of people that will make them feel good.” She didn’t have any idea what it was at the time, but she continued to ask herself, “What can I invent and sell?” She said out-loud, “Universe, give me the idea and I won’t squander it.”

Two years later she was still selling fax machines and asking herself, “What can I invent and sell?"

One evening as she was getting ready for a party, she cut the feet out of her control top pantyhose to go to a party. That night when she got home she thought, “This might be my idea!”

Sara asked persistently with the expectation of receiving an answer. So when the opportunity presented itself, she saw it.  She said, “Because I had asked myself the question and set my intention two years prior, that’s the reason I am where I am rather than the millions of other women who had been cutting the feet out of their pantyhose to solve the same undergarment issue.” She had been spending two years questioning, manifesting, visualizing and setting intentions.

There are many things we can learn from Sara’s story. But what I want to discuss is summed up well in The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale when he says, “To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently.” It didn’t happen immediately, but when Sara started to ask herself specific questions, with the expectation of receiving her answers, she started things in motion that changed her life. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

I share this story because I think Sara is amazing. But I also share it because this is one of the stories I'll be sharing in my presentation at the June 6-7 virtual summit, Turn Your Fear Into Fuel.  Find out more and register at: https://jeffheggie.com/2020/05/30/turn-your-fear-into-fuel-summit/

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Daily Success Strategies Episode 034

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Today I posted an article on www.JeffHeggie.com

“5 Ways I Became More Productive In Quarantine”

Today I talk about the last three of the five habits.

3. Journaling

4. Block Time

5. Noise Cancelling Earphones

Journaling

A new practice that I started during quarantine was daily journaling. I’ve always been one who keeps a personal journal, but this is a different kind of journaling.

I’ve heard Brendon Burchard, Darren Hardy, Michael Hyatt, and others all talk about daily journaling and the benefits to your productivity. I decided to give it a try with Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Planner. This is a practice that I quickly grew to love and appreciate. The process helps me to be more intentional with my weekly and daily plans. It’s also an incredible tool for me to start and end the day with because it helps me to be in the right mindset.

First thing in the morning I sit down and plan my day. I determine my top goals and priorities and figure out the “must-do” tasks for the day. But my favorite part is going through a list of ten questions every day and my answers set me up for a powerful day. They are questions such as:

I end the day the same way it began. I go through a list of questions and reflect on my day. Questions such as:

However you set yourself up, if you will take the time every single morning to intentionally plan your day, and then every single evening to reflect on your day, your productivity and results will soar. If you are skeptical, I challenge you to try it for a month. If at the end of the month you don’t see the benefit, stop. But by then, I know that you have seen an amazing impact on your life.

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Daily Success Strategies Episode 034

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Today I posted an article on www.JeffHeggie.com

“5 Ways I Became More Productive In Quarantine”

Today I talk about the first two of the five habits.

Get Up Early

Getting an early start on the day has always been a habit that has helped me with my productivity. Back in my days as a bank manager, my most productive time was early, when I was the only one in the office. When I was there early, I was able to focus on what needed to get done without having any distractions. Once my staff arrived and the doors opened, I never had the opportunity to stay laser focused on a single task.

For years I’ve been getting up early and going to the gym to workout. Before quarantine, I would be up at 4AM and then be home in time to help get the kids ready and off to school. When we went into quarantine, they gyms were closed and the kids were not leaving the house to go to school.  The easiest thing to do would be to enjoy those extra hours and get some quality sleep!

But to stay productive during quarantine, I made the decision to keep an early morning routine. Since I was developing my Marketing Accelerated course, this was often a necessity. Most of the video made for the modules was done very early in the morning so that I could have it completed before anyone else in the house was awake. Like at the bank, the early mornings also gave me time to get laser focused on a project without having any distractions.

The early mornings also included exercising. The best part has been doing it as a family. We all started a running routine together each morning.

Exercise

It doesn’t matter the time of day you do it, but exercise should be part of your routine. Everyone is different and you should consult your doctor before starting an exercise program, but your overall success and productivity will improve if you implement the right exercise program into your life.

I’m not going to go into all of the details, but it has been proven that exercise will improve your health, focus, anxiety, stamina and a lot of different areas of your life. As I mentioned, my exercise routine was interrupted when our gym got shut down because of quarantine, but there

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Overcoming Fear To Gain Confidence

Overcoming Fear To Build Your Confidence  I'm a firm believer that you can build your confidence in something that you are not comfortable with by doing it.   

"...many American teenagers are becoming increasingly inflexible. Many students across the country are demanding that they no longer be required to give in-class oral presentations, claiming their issues with anxiety make them "uncomfortable" with presenting in front of an audience. They believe they shouldn't be required to do something that feels so unnatural." - Benjamin Hardy  

You'll understand in my podcast today that my response would be something along the line of, "that's life, suck it up..."

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Episode 032 - Would You Believe You Made It?

If your future self came to you and told you about your future and how you've achieved everything you've ever dreamed of, plus so much more. Would you believe it? I'm hoping that your answer is YES!

For you to achieve the goals you have for yourself, you first have to believe that you can do it. Even if at this point you have no idea how you could possible do it, you need to have full faith and belief that you're going to figure it out.

Get your free Momentum Series training at www.JeffHeggie.com to help you start down that path.

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Are you really committed to your goals?

“Look at your life right now. Whatever you see, that’s what you’re committed to. Whatever you currently weigh, that’s the weight you’re committed to. However much money you make, that’s how much money you’re committed to make. Your commitment in life is reflected, 100%, by the results you’re currently getting. If you were committed to something else, you’d have different results.”

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