The Daily Helping

Today our expert guests are Stephen Klemich, leadership consultant, speaker, and CEO of Heartstyles, and Dr. Mara Klemich, a consulting psychologist with degrees in clinical psychology and neuropsychology and co-founder of Heartstyles.

Stephen has worked with teams across the globe, and is an avid mountain climber. He’s incorporated some of the lessons he’s learned from these mountains into what he’s doing with the Heartstyles program. Mara Klemich has over 10 years of clinical neuropsychological experience working with patients including neurosurgery, alcohol related brain damage, psychiatry, pain management, and trauma consulting.

Over 30 years ago, they were using personality profiles while working with people to typecast them. These were helpful, but they didn’t capture the things that really led to people making change and become more effective in whatever it was they were doing. Those changes came from their character strength: From their heart.

As they worked with these people, they started to look for a way of helping people understand their character and what drives their behavior. The process of designing this framework took them 18 years to build, as well as the language to talk about it.

In this framework, there are two ways of operating in life: confident in ourselves and secure in who we are (above the line), or not very secure and filled with anxiety (below the line). Both of these are very normal, because people can switch between operations depending on the circumstance.

When we are operating above the line, we can show humility and love and still drive results. But when we are below the line, we are driving with our ego, pride, and fear. We need to learn to recognize these behaviors so we can begin to shift our behaviors to be more above the line.

When we talk about making that shift, the goal is to strengthen our character. To do that, we need to start finding more self love and self belief within us. Most of the time we focus on our shortcomings, our wounds, instead of noticing what we are bringing to work and to life, all of our goals and aspirations.

Stephen and Mara’s book, Above the Line: Living and Leading With Heart, includes a personal development guide to aid in this understanding. With that, you can learn to take all the steps you need to push your thoughts and behaviors above the line.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Understand why we do what we do, why we behave the way we behave, based on the attitude of our heart.

“Know that all of us are capable of moving outside of our behavior patterns. When we know why we behave the way we do, we don’t have to live that way. We are all capable of making that choice.”

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Resources:

-Learn more at: https://www.heartstyles.com

-Read: https://www.heartstyles.com/book

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heartstyles

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartstylesindicator

-Twitter: https://twitter.com/heartstylesind 

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Today our expert guest is Gary Sanchez, a dentist, inventor, author, or speaker who is always in search of a better way. Struggling to stand out in the crowded dental marketplace led him on his quest to learn about the power of why. Many experts talk about the need to know your why, but none helped him discover his. His obsession with why led him to discovering his own why, as well as the process for helping others help theirs.

Applying his why to his dental practice took his practice from just getting by to having abundance, and the development of the Why Institute to help other businesses have a bigger impact. They have now worked with over 40,000 individuals, as well as 500 companies, from small yoga studios to Fortune 500 companies, helping them get clear, stand out, and play big. His podcast, Beyond Your Why, has over 1.2 million listeners.

After putting so much time, energy, and effort into his practice, he wondered how this could have happened to him. It just wasn’t growing like he expected. Wandering around a bookstore, Gary noticed a book called The Answer by John Assaraf. He read through that book, and ended up hiring John as his coach.

Gary learned from John all the methods for getting his message out into the world. The only question was, what was he going to say that separates him from everyone else? He stayed quiet until he discovered Simon Sinek, and he became obsessed with finding his why. He finally figured out that his why was to find a better way, and then share it.

He took what he learned from John Assaraf and Simon Sinek and applied it all to his practice. Instead of talking about what he does, he talked about why he does it. And his practice took off.

Knowing about the concept of why is important, but where it really gets powerful is when you know about your own why. So how can you discover your own why?

During Gary’s obsessive search for his own why, he discovered that there are only 9 types of why. From finding this, he was able to build a software program to help people determine what their why is.

These are the 9 different types of why:

-Contribute to a greater cause

-Trust

-Make sense

-Better Way

-Right Way

-Challenge

-Mastery

-Clarify

-Simplify

Knowing your why is essentially to understanding who you are and what you believe. And when you share your beliefs, you attract others who believe the same things you do.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“So many of life's challenges are called challenges because they are hard to figure out until you know your why. Knowing your why is that essential and critical first step, and if you don’t have that, you’re starting at the wrong level. And when you do have that, it makes all of the rest of those decisions and choices so much easier.”

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Resources:

-Learn more at: http://www.whyinstitute.com

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whyInstitute

-Twitter: https://twitter.com/whyinstitute

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Today our expert guest is Larry Levine, the international best-selling author of the book Selling From The Heart and co-host of the Selling From The Heart podcast. He knows what it takes to be a successful sales professional.

Larry now coaches and inspires sales leaders and their teams to do what he did. Since 2016, Larry has coached sales professionals from across the world, from tenured reps to millennials entering the workforce. They all appreciate the practical, relevant, and street savvy nature of his coaching.

Larry spent over 28 years in the copier industry, with over 20 years at a single company, working his way up within the ranks. One day, he read the book Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, and he couldn’t get past one: absence of trust. It was then that he knew he had to create an exit plan and move on.

Within a year at a new company, he was able to rise from the #18 employee to #2, just by being able to articulate the value he could bring to them and share a great story. He eventually left that company to set out on his own and spread his story.

The story he wanted to tell was that regardless of what you are doing, if you want to succeed, you have to become the best version of yourself. That is what became Selling From The Heart. 20 years ago, he was talking with the CFO of one of his dream accounts, and 10 minutes into their meeting the CFO called it short and made it clear he wouldn’t be purchasing from them. Larry was about to shut his book and go home, but instead he decided to turn it into a learning moment, and he let the CFO school him for 45 minutes about all the things he was doing wrong.

He knew that the lessons he learned in that moment, and the learning moments that it led to, were worth sharing with the world.

-Focus on the concerns of your client and their company, not your own needs and concerns.

-Really learn who you are. Self-reflect who you are and why you exist to become the best version of yourself.

-Be true to yourself in your interactions with others, and allow yourself to be honest and vulnerable. You can’t hide behind a facade.

-Be consistent with your growth and the actions you have to do. When you are consistent, great things happen.

-Create content that sparks conversations. Make content that is educating, engaging, and exciting people into a conversation. Be yourself in your communication.

The key to your growth is how well you create and drive more meaningful relationships. You have to be proactive to build those relationships.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want people to be sincere with how they open up and build relationships with people, I want them to bring substance to the table, and I want them to bring their heart to the forefront. If you can do that, I promise it will set you apart. But we have to really look inward and say ‘What is sincerity? What is substance?’ We’ve got to be kind, we’ve got to be genuine, we’ve got to be real, and we’ve got to bring the goods. That’s what people are expecting and if you can sprinkle your heart on top of this, great things will happen.”

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Resources:

-Learn more at: http://www.sellingfromtheheart.net

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrylevine1992

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sellingfromtheheart

-Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/sellfromtheheart

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Today our expert guest is Mitchell Levy, a global credibility expert, TedX speaker, and international bestselling author of over 60 books. He helps extract the genius from your head in order to ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestseller in just 4 months.

Why should we care about being a thought leader or credibility? Just 20 years ago, thought leaders were brought to us by the industry to tell us who the experts were in that field. Now, because of the democratization of technology, everyone has the opportunity to grow a following. And when you have a following, you can get to know them and learn from them and give them what they want.

Do you want to be that thought leader in your field? You have to be credible. You need to find out the people who you are trying to serve, and you need to find the problem that you can solve for them. The absolute quickest way to establish credibility is to find clients, solve their problems, and get a testimonial from them.

You can really jump start your credibility by following one key piece of advice: When you show up, show up fully. What does that mean, exactly?

• Make sure you are showing up on time, or even early.
• Do research ahead of time.
• Speak with your heart.

Credibility is just one (incredibly vital) part of thought leadership. But Mitchell also has for us five steps to becoming a thought leader:

1. Show up well. What shows up when someone Google’s your name?
2. Consistently share good, compelling content. Pay attention to what’s happening in your space.
3. You need a book written for your audience/clients.
4. Create your own channel for sharing your own content, or on another credible platform.
5. Create a best-of list

With how important a book is to being thought of as a thought leader, but how time intensive the process is, hiring a ghostwriter is something to consider! A solid 120 page book will take around 120 hours to write, and to do all of the things a publishing company can do will take around 200 additional hours. That’s all time away from your business.

Being a thought leader today is less about being a household name, and more about being known within a specific community or for your skillset. It’s about being recognized as a trustworthy person. And it is one of the biggest ways to transform your career, business, and life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When you show up, make it a point to show up. In this world where we’re multitasking, mutli-threading, and always looking at our phone, I’m just going to encourage you to, for the time that you’ve allocated to be with another human, be with that person. And prepare ahead of time.”

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Resources:

-Learn more at: http://www.mitchelllevy360.com

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchelllevy

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/happyabout

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mitchell.levy

-TedX Talk: https://mitchelllevy.com/tedtalk

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Today our expert guest is Marissa Levin, a 25-year entrepreneur, speaker, and globally-recognized growth strategist. Her lifetime legacy mission is to educate, equip, and empower a hundred million entrepreneurs and leaders with the skill sets and mindsets they need to reach their greatest potential.

She wrote the #1 best-selling book Built to Scale: How Companies Create Breakthrough Growth Through Exceptional Advisory Boards. Using her model, her organization has helped CEOs select and implement highly effective advisory boards, which is essential for any business looking to grow exponentially. She is also the author of My Company Rocks: 8 Secrets to a Growth-Driven Culture and a contributor to You at Work: Unlocking Human Potential at the Workplace. She is also a leadership columnist for Inc. Magazine.

Inspired to start her company because she worked for someone who didn’t value her. She wasn’t going to make any more money working for the company she was with, and she knew she was worth so much more, so she decided she needed to start her own company.

Marissa’s masters degree was in Human Resources and Organizational Development. The company she built had to pivot multiple times in order to stay relevant. When she launched the company, the only place that people were learning were in classrooms. She took that online by developing user guides, online help systems, and materials for instructor-led material.

John Chamber, the CEO at the time at CISCO, announced that e-learning would be the “killer application” of the internet, and Marissa had to change her business overnight. In order to become what the market needed, but still be true to who they were, they had to become a web-based training company. That required her to bring on a lot of creative talent and allow them to expand their offerings into different fields.

When social media really started to take a foothold, Marissa knew that it was going to change everything. Where traditionally the CEO of a company controlled all messaging, once everyone in the company could make a LinkedIn or Facebook page, it began to flatten organizations because everyone in the company had a voice.

Why is building community in organizations and in life so critical? One of the most important factors for a successful life is to belong to multiple communities. It creates a feeling of belonging. One of the ways this gets applied to the corporate world is to build an advisory board made up of people from different communities.

Marissa eventually wrote a book, Built to Scale, around the power of advisory boards. In that book, she introduced the SCALE Model, which stands for Select, Compensate, Associate, Leverage, and Evaluate, Evolve & Exit. It’s a 5-phase model that leads a business owner through the process of how to strategically and intentionally select the advisors around them based on the holes and goals of their organization.

This is what each phase looks like:

-Select: Analyze your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as it relates to your advisory board. Be intentional about who you are bringing in to fill in those holes and reach those goals.

-Compensate: You need to show your advisors that you value what they do and are willing to make an investment, whether that’s cash, trade, or stock.

-Associate: How you associate with your advisors, including legally (non-compete, NDA, etc.) and process of integration.

-Leverage: This is all the different ways you can take advantage of your advisory board. There are over 70 of these in the book, and there are even more than that if you can get creative.

-Evaluate, Evolve, and Exit: Arrange to revisit each advisors involvement, evolve your board as your company grows, and if you find you’ve outgrown an advisor, make sure to give them a gracious and grateful exit.

Just like communities are important to us as individuals, advisory boards act as a place for diverse opinions from different communities to come together and improve upon each other. Use the SCALE model above, as well as the tips in her book, to build the advisory board that can blow up your business growth.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“For leaders, never underestimate the influence you have on the people who work for you. And for employees, know that you have a voice in your future and your outcome, and always take responsibility for that.”

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Resources:

-Learn more at: http://builttoscale.info

-Successful Culture International: https://www.successfulculture.com

-The Culture Podcast: https://www.successfulculture.com/podcast

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuccessfulCulture

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5071793

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marissalevin1

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Today our expert guest is Bill Protzmann, whose volunteer work includes board positions with Guitars for Vets and the San Diego Veterans Coalition. He has been instrumental in connecting thousands of military service members and veterans with honor tickets to the largest healing organization involving music. You can read his articles online in places like Fox News and Psychology Today. For his foundational work establishing music as self care, he received an Inspiring Hope Award of Excellence from the National Council for Behavioral Health.

Bill’s behavioral healthcare began when he started playing music. His mom started him off with piano lessons very early, and he found that he was giving himself a place of peace and being okay with emotions from that day.

The ethos of bringing music to people in unusual situations opened him up to the idea that music could help people who are dealing with behavioral issues.

Sound and rhythm are fundamental to who we are. We are all set up to respond well to sound, and it’s an amazing skill that we have to trigger certain functions. Sound and music can activate our lizard brains and really reach us in a way that our cerebral cortex won’t allow.

How are we supposed to apply this into our own lives? Use music for a purpose. Do you have a song that makes you feel grateful? The feeling that’s triggered by that music is often the missing component from saying “thank you” and meaning it.

If you can find a song for each of the major four emotions: fear, anger, joy, and sadness and attribute the energy from those songs to those emotions, you can let the music help you make sense of those feelings.

In Bill’s latest book, More Than Human: The Value of Cultivating the Human Spirit in Your Organization, he talks about taking these musical therapy into a corporate setting. It is a good practice to have gratitude and appreciation in business now, and they are things that are innate to us as humans. The book is an attempt to soften the hard edge of business in a way that is evidence based and intrinsic to us.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Remove the connotation of negative or positive emotions. Emotions are just guard rails on our road. At the basic core of them, they’re just brain chemistry. If you’re too angry, keep your game face on, but that emotion is there for a reason. If, like me, you stuff those for 30 years, it’s not a good practice. Music gives us a safe way of experiencing it. Take a moment that fully lets you feel angry, experience it, and it will flow away from you if you allow it to.”

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Resources:

-Learn more at: www.billprotzmann.com

-Quest: quest.musiccare.net

-Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Bill-Protzmann/31362093115

-Twitter: www.twitter.com/billprotzmann

-LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/billprotzmann

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Today our expert guest is Chris Krimitsos. He is the organizer of Podfest Expo, one of the top podcast conferences in the world. He has created a podcast documentary called The Messengers, and author of the recently released book Start Ugly, which encourages people to get over their perfectionism.

Chris grew up in a large, supportive family, and his next door neighbor was a firefighter. He had the model of helping people all around him throughout his life. When he came of age, he wanted to do really well in business so he could help people.

In his late 20’s, he would ask himself, “What would I want my life to be if you take money out of the equation?” His answer was, “Help people.” Then he had to figure out through what vehicles he would be able to help people, and that ended up being by creating facilitated environments and communities.

When he made this decision, we were just in the middle of transitioning from living our lives in the physical world to creating more community in the digital world. We are shifting a bit more to going to yearly events as opposed to local communities. The incredible thing about these is that because of their reach and importance, they are all incredibly niche. People travel from all over to get that in-person interaction they crave with other like-minded people.

If you are trying to start a community, whether it’s online or in person, here are some tactics you can use:

-Forget about numbers. Worry about making an impact for the people that do show up, and more will come.

-You might think a big speaker will draw, but a local expert within your niche might draw much better.

-Let the keynote be as long or short as it needs to be for the content to be shared effectively. Don’t put an arbitrary time constraint on it.

In Chris’ new book, Start Ugly, he talks about wanting to give people the permission to get started without guilt or perfectionism. He believes that if everyone stopped worrying about getting everything right and just start working towards their goals, we could all accomplish incredible things.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When I was a young kid growing up in Long Island, New York, Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was buried a mile from my house and I would go and visit his gravestone. There was an inscription there that was, “Keep your feet on the ground and your eyes on the stars.”

I believe if we can keep our feet on the ground, take it step by step, with our eyes on the stars, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish. I believe that anyone that’s listening to this is able to start ugly and do great things with their lives, they’ve just got to take it one step at a time.”

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Resources:

-Learn more: chriskrimitsos.com

-Buy Start Ugly: juststartugly.com

-Facebook: facebook.com/chriskrimitsos

-Twitter: twitter.com/chriskrimitsos

-LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chriskrimitsos

-Instagram: instagram.com/chriskrimitsos

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Today our expert guest is Nathan Hirsch, a 30 year entrepreneur of 10 years and an expert in remote hiring and ecommerce. He started his first ecommerce business out of his dorm room, and now he’s the cofounder of FreeeUp.com, a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted virtual assistants, freelancers, and agencies in ecommerce, digital marketing and much more. He regularly appears on leading podcasts such as Entrepreneur on Fire, and speaks at live events about online hiring tactics.

Nathan’s parents were both teachers, so he grew up with the mentality that he would go to school, get good grades, graduate from college, get a good job and then retire in 30 years. They raised him with a sense of good work ethic, so from the age he could legally work he had a full time job.

He learned a lot about business, marketing and customer service, which was great. But he also quickly realized that he hated working for other people. When he got to college, he saw this as his chance to start his own business before entering the real world.

Nathan had an experience many college students know well: you buy brand new text books for hundreds of dollars, and sell them back at the end of the semester for a small fraction of that. He thought, “I can do this better.” He started buying people’s textbooks and reselling them on other platforms (including Amazon.com). This took off so well that he eventually received a cease and desist letter from his college.

He didn’t want to get kicked out of school, so he pivoted. He was excited about what he had already managed to build, so he just had to figure out what else he could sell. He experimented with a ton of different products he was interested in but nothing else was gaining traction. It wasn’t until he branched out and found the baby product industry that he started to see some success.

Nathan started to get job offers, and he was faced with making a decision: do you take the safe bet and accept a job with stable pay and benefits, or do you take the risk of entrepreneurship? Eventually he came to the conclusion that he was young, and those jobs wouldn’t suddenly disappear. If he was going to take this leap, this was the best opportunity to do that.

He was spending a lot of time hiring people through other freelancer platforms like Fiverr and UpWork, but he thought he could build a better platform that worked better for people like him. As Amazon drop-shipping got more competitive, sales began to stagnate, so Nathan built up FreeeUp on the side. Eventually that brought in more money than his Amazon business, and he decided to take it full time.

Freelancing is going to be a huge part of our workplace in the future, and whether you’re a business owner or an employee, you are going to need to learn to adapt to that. When you’re looking for people to work with, you need to make sure you know what you need:

-Do you have the systems in place that you need people to operate in? You need a follower, someone who can follow that process.

-Do you need some work done that you’re not an expert in? Hire a specialist, like a graphic designer or a bookkeeper, to do tasks that you’re not as good at.

-Do you need someone to establish a process for you, strategize, and consult? Then you need an expert.

Once you’ve figured out what you need, you can hire the right person for the task.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Diversify across hiring. I see so many entrepreneurs who make a bunch of bad hires, and then they finally find somebody they like and they just load that person up with everything, and they don’t realize how risky that makes your business. Just like you would diversify your revenue streams and diversify your suppliers, make sure you’re diversifying your hires as well.”

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Resources:

-Learn more: FreeeUp.com

-Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/outsourcingmasters

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Content Warning: This episode discusses thoughts of suicide in detail. The Suicide Prevention Hotline is located in the resources below.

This is our third annual Veteran’s Day special, where we highlight a courageous veteran who is doing something extraordinary to make a difference in the lives of the people who served for the armed forces.

Today our expert guest is Conrad Jeffries, former coast guard who worked with the marine security strike team and counter-terrorism. He also served as a combat engineer for the national guard where he logged nearly 350 missions as part of a joint special ops personal security detachment team.

Everything changed for Conrad after being discharged following a DUI, which began a downward spiral for his life and ultimately led to him finding a new purpose.

Conrad grew up in a small farm town in Idaho in a strong working class community. He was very proud of the work ethic that comes out of these communities. However, he struggled with confidence in his teenage years, and when he took his first drink of alcohol at the age of 14, he found confidence in it. Slowly over time, alcohol crept into his life in other ways to deal with other emotions.

He joined the coast guard in 2001, and had managed to refrain from drinking and clean himself up. When he was surrounded by that, it elevated him as a person. But when he got out and moved home to Idaho, he started drinking again.

Conrad needed to make some money, so he joined up with the National Guard. He found more confidence in himself again, but the drinking never went away. He was performing great in the army, but when he got a DUI, all of that was thrown away.

After that, he had to accept where his life was headed. His marriage was starting to fail. He wanted to become sober and get his life back on track. He went to a rehabilitation center and started working really hard on his sobriety.

While he was there, he started the early stages for the Shot at Dawn Project. He didn’t know at the time that it was a suicide facility, but he knew there were some issues in the way discharge was handled that could be done better. It wasn’t until his own brush with suicide, after his wife had left him and his confidence issues reached an all-time low, that he saw the direction this ultimately had to take.

That is how the Shot at Dawn Project was formed. Conrad wanted to make a facility that would combat all the issues that veterans face after being discharged. They flag people early, and they try to find the underlying problems besides the substance and attacking the problems logically.

It was through his own struggles, and those he witnessed in others, that Conrad took it upon himself to create something that veterans desperately needed. He may not have wanted or expected to see this project through, but now he hopes to be an inspiration for others going through their own struggles.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I didn’t want to own this project. I believed in the work in it so much that when people looked at it they would just get it done. I thought I could hide behind who I really was. But this journey has broken me so many times, that I’m going to finish this project. I’m going to set a standard for every veteran. You can be convicted of a crime, you can be left by the person you love, you can lose it all financially, and you can come back. So now I own this project and who I am in my past, and I know that by doing that I’m going to help guys become better.”

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Resources:

-Learn more: https://www.shotatdawnproject.org/

-Crisis Hotline: Call 800-273-8255 or text 838255 to get help immediately

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Today our expert guest is Hal Elrod, the best-selling author of The Miracle Morning, who is on a mission to elevate the consciousness of humanity one person at a time.

He’s here today to talk about his new book, The Miracle Equation, the next step in his mission to take your life to the next level.

Hal has had not one but two near death experiences in his life. We went into depth with his first one, where his car was hit by a drunk driver at 20 years old, in episode 50 of The Daily Helping. That was enough of an experience for most people, but that wasn’t all Hal had dealt with.

3 years ago, Hal was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer. He was rushed to the hospital with several organs failing, and told he only had a 20-30% chance of survival. After being diagnosed, Hal was quick to come to the decision that this was the best thing that ever happened to him.

He was 100% confident that he would beat the odds, and it was because of the miracle equation, that he had been living since he was 20. It was how he had overcome his car accident and recovery, and accomplished incredible goals that he never thought he would before. And he did beat the cancer.

Was this a miracle? Hal defines a miracle as “any meaningful outcome beyond what you believe is probable for you.” Not what’s possible, but anything that feels outside of the realm of what you’ve done before.

So what is the Miracle Equation? It’s the two decisions that the most successful people in the world make when they approach a goal: Unwavering faith and extraordinary effort.

The most successful people in the world establish the faith in themselves that they can accomplish something they have never accomplished before, and they maintain that faith for as long as it takes until they achieve the outcome they are working towards.

Once you establish the faith, you must put forth extraordinary effort until the outcome is realized. This doesn’t mean just working 60-80 hours a week, but putting in consistent effort that moves you in the direction of that outcome.

If you maintain those two decisions, your success moves from possible, to probable, to inevitable. You will eventually get there if you maintain those two decisions.

The idea is deceptively simple, but obviously much more complicated. There are so many things holding us back from making and sustaining these two decisions. The first, most glaring complication is one that all of us face: Fear.

Fear often shows up for us in the form of self-doubt. When we set a big goal or dream, we often look back at our history to come up with evidence for how plausible this dream actually is. And when we don’t come up with enough, we stop ourselves right there.

How do you move beyond fear? You move beyond fear with faith in yourself. Instead of living your life based on your past, you have to live based on your potential.

But even then, we don’t pursue goals that we think are possible, we pursue those we think are probable. To move yourself from possible to probable, you establish unwavering faith in writing. When that’s in writing, and you read it every day, you reprogram your unconscious mind to move from a place of fear to a place of faith.

From there, you give yourself the fuel to step into that second decision, extraordinary effort. And what that really means is consistency over an extended period of time. If you extend those decisions for as long as it takes to achieve your outcome, you will get there.

Human beings want what we want right now. We’re very impatient. When you finally get to the place in your life that you’ve been working for, you look back, and you realize that you would never have wished for it to happen to you anytime sooner.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I believe to experience love in each moment is what we’re after. Why do we work hard to achieve a goal or a dream? It’s because we think that will bring us joy. We go through our entire life pursuing that which we believe will bring us joy, or love, or peace, or God. And I’m here to tell you, it’s not in the future. It’s not in the thing. It’s available to you right now in every single moment, including this one.”

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Resources:

-Learn more: https://halelrod.com/

-Read: The Miracle Equation: The Two Decisions That Move Your Biggest Goals from Possible, to Probable, to Inevitable

-Episode 50: https://www.thedailyhelping.com/ep-50-elevating-consciousness-one-miracle-morning-at-a-time-with-hal-elrod/

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