Episode 648: Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Synopsis

Jack Canfield returns to the BNI Podcast to share some material from The Success Principles Workbook, which is coming out at the end of March.

The Success Principles is a best seller, but a lot of people would read the book but not do what it says. The workbook takes you through 17 of the most important principles, with worksheets and journal prompts.

It's easy to talk about things like taking 100% responsibility and giving up blaming and complaining, but to actually do that requires some interaction with you and your thinking process.

Example Exercise: Difficult & Troubling Experience

What's a difficult or troubling experience you're having?

What are you doing to create it?

What's the payoff?

What's the cost of keeping it like it is?

What would you rather be experiencing?

What actions would you need to take to create what you really want?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to do that?

More Success Principles Exercises

Getting clear about your life purpose

Creating a vision for seven different areas of your life

How to turn your vision into goals

How to create affirmations for your goals

How to create a mastermind group

How to work with a daily accountability partner

There are also guided meditations you can access with your phone through QR codes. Work through one principle a week and you can radically change your life in a few months.

Get your copy of The Success Principles Workbook today.

Complete Transcript of Episode 648

Priscilla:

Hello everybody, and welcome back to The Official BNI Podcast. I'm Priscilla Rice, and I'm coming to you from Live Oak Recording Studio in Berkeley, California. And I'm joined on the phone today by the Founder and the Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, Dr. Ivan Misner. Hello, Ivan. How are you and where are you?

Ivan:

Well, I just got back from the founding region of BNI a few days ago, and that's in Southern California. And it was incredible to see the BNI Founder Chapter, which is still around after 35 years, to have long-term members. We still have two people from the original chapter that are still active and big and yeah –  it's just amazing. It's exciting to go back and to see how well that chapter in the region is doing so I've got a guest again today and I had him back in January and I know Jack Canfield really well.

He's known as America's number one success coach. He's a best selling author. He's the Founder and CEO of the Canfield Training Group and has co-authored hundreds of books, including two that I'm sure most of you know about, The Success Principles, and definitely the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has sold over 500 million copies. I always find that amazing. Jack's been on lots and lots of shows and this is his second appearance here on BNI Podcast. He's the Founder and Chairman of the Transformational Leadership Council where I've really gotten to know Jack very well. And as I said, in my last introduction back in January, I love Jack, he definitely is a person who walks the talk. You know, I meet a lot of people who are very successful, and who they are on stage is not who they always are off stage. And that's not Jack. Jack is very much the same person that I see on stage and off. And he invited me into TLC, I will forever be grateful for that. And we've got him here today to talk about a great subject, how to get from where you are to where you want to be. Jack, welcome back to BNI Podcast.

Jack:

Thank you, Ivan.

Ivan:

It’s good to have you here. And we're going to talk about some material from The Success Principles Workbook, which you've got coming out really soon. And in there, you help people learn how to integrate the principles that are in The Success Principles Workbook into their personal and professional success stories. So tell us about that and why you decided to create it.

Jack:

Well, basically,