Make Your Own Luck with Karen Brook

If you want everything, but need none of it, what is there to be afraid of?

Whenever you make a decision to pursue something you've never achieved before, you're stepping beyond your present conditioning and into the unknown. It's natural to experience fear, doubt and worry, particularly when the goal requires you to think, feel and act in ways that are unfamiliar.

This is what Bob Proctor taught as the Terror Barrier, the psychological conflict between your existing self-image and the person you are becoming.

The fear doesn't necessarily mean you've made the wrong decision. It may be a sign that you're growing.

Every time we move through the Terror Barrier, we develop the confidence and capacity to handle bigger ideas, unfamiliar experiences, and we discover more of ourselves in the process.

In this episode of Make Your Own Luck, I explore the relationship between fear and faith, why successful leaders need to consciously seek opportunities for growth, and how to move through the Terror Barrier without allowing your old conditioning to pull you backwards.

Because you don't need to eliminate fear before you move forward. You can move with it, and freedom is on the other side.

🎟️ JOIN ME AT ELEVATE 2027 5-6 February 2027 | The Langham, Gold Coast

Brian and Cory Proctor will be joining me in person for two days of high-performance mindset, leadership and thinking differently about what's next.

Early Bird VIP and General Registration pricing ends 31 October 2026, unless tickets sell out earlier.

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Who has your ear, and who are you allowing to influence what you believe is possible for your life?

In this episode of Make Your Own Luck, I'm exploring why the people you learn from, the conversations you have and the environments you put yourself in can have such a profound influence on your goals, self-image and results.

In 2015, I made a decision to fly from Australia to Toronto to attend a week-long seminar with Bob Proctor, someone I'd never met but knew I wanted to learn from. That decision changed the trajectory of my life and business.

We have more access to information than ever before, but consuming content isn't the same as studying, applying what you learn and surrounding yourself with people who challenge you to think beyond what you already know. This is especially important when you're a successful business owner or leader and everyone else is looking to you for answers.

Who are you going to for new ideas, greater perspective and the thinking required for your next level?

I'll share why proximity has been so important throughout my own life, including my recent visit with Brian and Cory Proctor in Washington, and why I believe there's nothing quite like getting yourself into the right room.

🎟️ JOIN ME AT ELEVATE 2027 5-6 February 2027 | The Langham, Gold Coast

Brian and Cory Proctor will be joining me in person for two days of high-performance mindset, leadership and thinking differently about what's next.

Early Bird VIP and General Registration pricing ends 31 October 2026, unless tickets sell out earlier.

Secure your place: https://www.karenbrook.com/elevate

Subscribe to the weekly episodes of Make Your Own Luck: www.karenbrook.com/podcast

Show Links - For Leaders Who Know There's More.

Access my free trainings here: www.karenbrook.com/free-trainings

The GPS for New Success: https://karenbrook.com/the-gps-for-new-success

Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club - A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth: https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook

Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook

Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download

Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog

Start the 5-Day Mini Course - The Invisible Side of Success for only $97!: https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success

Success is never an accident. Make your own luck.

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What have you become so used to tolerating that it's simply become normal? In this episode of Make Your Own Luck, I'm exploring the connection between what you tolerate, your standards and the self-image you're creating.

As I prepare to move house this week, I've been thinking about how easily we can adapt to things that no longer work for us because there's nothing terribly wrong.

The same thing can happen in business, our environment, relationships, habits and results. Something doesn't have to become unbearable before you decide it's no longer what you want.

I'll also take you through a simple practice to identify where you may have adapted to something that no longer matches the person you're becoming, and ask an important question: What does that version of you no longer tolerate? Your standards aren't only reflected in what you say you want; they're expressed through the decisions you make. You raise the standard first, and the results follow.

🎟️ Join me at ELEVATE 2027 | 5-6 February 2027 | The Langham, Gold Coast Brian and Cory Proctor will be joining me in person for two days designed to help you step outside the day-to-day, think differently about what's next and create your next level. Book your ELEVATE 2027 tickets: www.karenbrook.com/elevate

Subscribe to the weekly episodes of Make Your Own Luck: www.karenbrook.com/podcast

Show Links - For Leaders Who Know There's More.

Access my free trainings here: www.karenbrook.com/free-trainings

The GPS for New Success: https://karenbrook.com/the-gps-for-new-success

ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more: https://karenbrook.com/elevate

Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club - A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth: https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook

Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook

Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download

Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog

Start the 5-Day Mini Course - The Invisible Side of Success for only $97!: https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success

What did you say you wanted to achieve this year, and are you still actively pursuing it? As we move into the final quarter of the year, it's time to review, rethink and reset.

Go back to January for a moment. What did you want for this year? What goal did you set or carry forward from 2025? What did you imagine would be different by the end of this year? Maybe there was something you wanted to start, finish, change or create?

Are you still emotionally involved with it or did you take your eye off the goal? As we move into the final few months of the year, it's very easy to start doing that and push it already into the new year. I want to say this to you - DON'T MENTALLY FINISH THE YEAR BEFORE IT'S FINISHED!!

Do not wait to make the changes you desire and deserve, THERE'S NOTHING MAGICAL ABOUT JANUARY!!

We give an enormous amount of meaning to the beginning of a new year. And there's nothing wrong with using the beginning of a year to reset and create a new direction. But January 1st is still just another day. The idea of a new year is something we've created in our mind.

You don't create in January. You don't create in 2027. You create in your mind now the results you will one day physically experience.

That's all you've ever got to work with.

Why would you give away October, November and December waiting for January to arrive? Why would you put an idea on hold for three months simply because we're coming towards the end of a calendar year?

If you know what you want, you can move towards it today.

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Show Links - For Leaders Who Know There's More.

Access my free trainings here: www.karenbrook.com/free-trainings

The GPS for New Success: https://karenbrook.com/the-gps-for-new-success

ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more: https://karenbrook.com/elevate

Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club - A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth: https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook

Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook

Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download

Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog

Start the 5-Day Mini Course - The Invisible Side of Success for only $97!: https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success

What if the very thing you're waiting to change is the thing keeping you stuck?

It's easy to believe we'll be able to move forward when something outside of us changes, when someone else makes a different decision, when the business improves, or when there's more money, more time, more support or better circumstances.

But while we're waiting for something outside of us to change, we're also handing over our power to change the result.

In this week's episode of Make Your Own Luck, I'm sharing a powerful excerpt from our September ELEVATE Frequency Club call on Radical Responsibility: The Key to Freedom.

We explore what it means to take responsibility for where you are and the results you're creating.

There is enormous freedom in becoming clear about what is yours to own, and what isn't.

When it comes to your thinking, your decisions, your actions and what you create from here, you have far more power than you may realise. Responsibility is about recognising where your power actually is.

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Show Links - For Leaders Who Know There's More.

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The GPS for New Success: https://karenbrook.com/the-gps-for-new-success

ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more: https://karenbrook.com/elevate

Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club - A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth: https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook

Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook

Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download

Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog

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How do you know if the voice you're listening to is your intuition... or your paradigm?

Have you ever had an idea come to you and immediately thought: "I should do that" or "call that person" or an idea for a strategy pops into your head while driving or in the shower.

Sometimes it's a feeling that comes with a thought, you can't necessarily explain it logically, but something in you just knows.

Then what happens? Your monkey-mind gets involved and starts dancing all over the place…but "what if it doesn't work"?

"Maybe now isn't the right time" or "I tried that before and it didn't work" or "I don't have the money".

Whatever it is, it comes next to seed doubt or worry and before long, you talk yourself completely out of the idea.

So which one was it intuition or paradigm?

My late mentor Bob Proctor always used to say that "intuition comes first, paradigm comes second to question it".

So that's what this episode is all about.

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Who do you need to become to achieve your goal? Underneath your results sits a self-image. Your self-image sets the boundaries of what you believe if possible for you to be, do, have and create.

You can't outperform your self-image paradigm but the good news is can upgrade and change it and I'm here to show you how.

You can work hard, you can form new habits and roll out new strategies but still not have a self-image that's in harmony with the results you want to create.

In this weeks' episode I talk more about what a self-image paradigm is and how to upgrade and change it.

When we talk about self-image, I want you to understand that there are really two images at play. There's the image you project to the outside world and then there's the inner image in your subconscious mind that influences what you be, do, have or create.

When most people think about improving their self-image, they tend to think about the external image first. For example, how they dress, walk or talk, the car they drive, the house they live in, the job they have etc

While that goes into it the process - it's not the cause of new results, the inner self-image is. That's the image held in your subconscious mind and that inner image sets the boundaries around what you believe is possible for you.

So any time you invest in improving and upgrading your self-image, will be rewarded in better results.

In this week's episode I'll take you through a simple activity you can do to begin to identify what you want your upgraded self-image to include and how to begin writing a new self-image script for your life.

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Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club - A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth: https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook

Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook

Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download

Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog

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What if you don't actually need more time?

My mentor Bob Proctor taught me something right from the get-go that completely changed the way I think about time and productivity.

He said: "You cannot manage time. Time just is. You can only manage activity." You get the same 24 hours as the next person. Time is going to pass whether you use it well or not.

How often have you thought: "If I just had more time, I could get this done" or "If I had another day in the week" or "If I could get through my to-do list, then I could focus on what I really want."

You can very easily fall into the trap of thinking that working harder, putting in more hours and giving more effort is the answer to achieving what you really want.

But you don't need more time, you need to become more selective about the activities you're giving your time to.

Once I really understood that, it caused a productivity paradigm shift for me. Now I ask, what are the most important goal achieving activities for today?

Rather than "What do I need to do today?"

You can work incredibly hard and still not be bringing your goal to life if what your working on is the wrong thing.

Once you begin to clarify what you really want and turn that into a goal then you can start asking: What are the thoughts, feelings and actions that are in harmony with that goal? What are the goal achieving activities that match up with the result I want to create?

In this week's episode I share how to identify six goal achieving activities that line up with your goal and act on them daily, and in doing so begin to make a time and money paradigm shift you really want.

You can begin to close the gap between where you are and what you really want.

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ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more: https://karenbrook.com/elevate

Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club - A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth: https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook

Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook

Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download

Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog

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Is there an idea that keeps coming back to you? Something you've thought about doing for years? Maybe you've written it down, talked about it, started it once and then put it away.

And yet, for some reason, it keeps coming back.

Today, I want to tell you the story of one of those ideas for me.

It was an idea called ELEVATE and it took almost a decade to become what it is today.

The original idea for ELEVATE came to me back in 2015.

I had just started working with my mentor Bob Proctor, and if you've listened to the last few episodes, you'll know this was a period of enormous growth for me. I had written out this C-Type Goal to help 1,000 clients benefit from Thinking Into Results.

My mind was really open to possibilities and all the different ways that could happen.

In May of 2015, I had this idea "ELEVATE" and it was going to be a retreat in Port Douglas.

Well it didn't really get off the ground, but instead of letting that stop me or thinking the idea wasn't very good - I went to work developing myself.

This week's episode tells that story of preparing yourself for opportunities instead of waiting, wishing or hoping you'll get there one day.

I started running seminars to 5 people, then 30, then a hundred. I joined Bob Proctor on stage in Toronto and Los Angeles - all my skills and experience was being put to good use, creating new results and helping others create the success they really wanted.

Then in 2023, when the idea for ELEVATE circled back - I knew the time was now.

As we head into ELEVATE 2027, our fourth year in a row, I have the absolute privilege of Brian and Cory Proctor joining me on stage and in the room.

Brian spent more than 30 years working alongside his father, Bob Proctor.

He taught on those stages, sat in those rooms and he'll be with us in 2027 and now we are preparing to welcome 300 people into the room.

As the great Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly says:

"From little things, big things grow."

Here's what I really want you to take from this story.

Moving before you're ready doesn't necessarily mean you have to build the entire thing tomorrow.

When I had the idea for ELEVATE in 2015, I wasn't ready to produce the event it was destined to become. I moved anyway, right where I was, with what I had.

So my question for you this week is:

What idea keeps coming back to you?

ELEVATE was still a scary idea to commit to when it came back to me, but I trusted my intuition, and I knew I was ready to do it.

What are you waiting for? Make up your mind and make a decision and take the next step.

I'd love to invite you to experience ELEVATE for yourself, on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th of February at The Langham on the Gold Coast.

Brian and Cory Proctor will be joining me in person, and Early Bird VIP and General Registration are now open.

I'll leave all the details in the show notes on how to book your seat in the room today.

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Make Your Own Luck.

Until next time, remember: Success is never an accident - Keep making your own luck.

Show Links - For Leaders Who Know There's More.

ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more and register: https://karenbrook.com/elevate

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Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook

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What is something you know you want, but still haven't made a committed decision to go for? Maybe you're waiting until you have more time, more money or fewer responsibilities.

Maybe you're telling yourself you'll do it when the business is in a better position, when something else is completed first or when you finally feel ready.

I understand that because I did exactly the same thing with something I had wanted since I was a little girl - learning to fly.

In this episode of Make Your Own Luck, I share the story of how I spent years wanting to get my pilot's licence while building my businesses, paying debt and managing all the responsibilities that came with an already full life.

When you make a committed decision, you begin thinking in harmony with it. You notice people, ideas, opportunities and resources you may not have seen before, your subconscious mind goes to work and you begin behaving in ways you simply weren't before you made the decision.

You don't need to know exactly how before you begin.

You need to know what you want, make up your mind and take the next step.

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Subscribe to the Podcast and receive each week's episode direct to your inbox: https://karenbrook.com/podcast

ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more and register: https://karenbrook.com/elevate

Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club - A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth - month after month. $97/Month or $777/year https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook

Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook

Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download

Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog

Start the 5-Day Mini Course - The Invisible Side of Success for only $97! https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success

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