Elevate Your Standards with Derrick Lawter

Live Discipline is much more than just a hashtag: it is a movement that is focused on helping people reach their maximum potential through discipline. A lot of people can be discipline for one day, one week,  or even a long stretch of time. But how many people actually live their life with discipline on a consistent basis? That is the difference between the people who consistently accomplish goals and those who do not. #LiveDiscipline

Marketing and Sales are two completely different concepts that are often grouped into one. Marketing is the first step in the process and involves changing your customer's beliefs in a way that creates a gap. Naturally, you then want to complete the process by selling your product or service that fills that gap. This episode breaks down how you can market in an effective way and the ultimate difference between Marketing and Sales. 

The more time you spend in the past, the less time you have to plan your future. The past can not be fixed and changed, but the future can. Why spend time trying to move an immovable object? Spend your time on the future instead.

Productivity is thrown around a lot in personal development circles.... but what does it really mean? Productivity is really just about getting important things done and moving forward towards a goal. The problem is that most people struggle with getting the right things done and instead make themselves busy with pointless tasks! Learn the three top life-hacks to improve your productivity today!

A lot of people are waiting for 2021 to come around and save them. 2020 still has 3 months. How can you make the most of these last 3 months and set yourself up to hit 2021 with momentum? The key is to set goals and treat each quarter of the year as its own time period. Learn the strategies today to help you maximize the productivity of the last 3 months of 2020. 

One of the most underapreciated emotions in modern society is gratitude. The power of gratitude and being greatfuk for what you have can quite literally change your life. We spend so much time focusing on what we want and what we don't have that we forget to take a step back and realize that we are all incredibly lucky for one reason or another. Gratitude is so important; be sure to find someone today that you appreciate and let them know exactly why. It can change your world and theirs. 

The key to success in any trade-off is adding enough value to the other person that they are willing to do what you want them to. (Buy a product, work with your company, etc) The question then becomes how can we get customers and people in our lives to repeat these tasks and become loyal? The answer is simple: learn to add value and deliver better than expected at all times. 

Many people look at success as being some definitive point in the future, or some amount of monetary value or material wealth. While those are all health goals and visions, it is not really what it means to be successful. Success can be defined many different ways, but in this episode, we talk about success on a daily basis and how you can win each day. If you focus on making each day successful, the long term goals will take care of themselves. 

You have probably heard the term "September Slide" before. It refers to the dreaded month where all the progress we made through the summer is taken back due to being lazy! Almost all of us who work hard during the summer experience the let-up of the September Slide and know how hard it can feel to get back on the right track. In this episode, we go over some strategies of how you can avoid the slide and use September to your advantage. 

A lot of people have a favorite word: Tomorrow. When they have an idea or something they know needs to be done, they always push it to tomorrow. The problem is tomorrow becomes tomorrow again, and before you know it, 10 days have passed. The true power comes In the word today. Starting today is the most powerful thing you can do for ANY idea or plan that you have. Tomorrow is never promised. Start today.