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In life, we are looking for leaders. Someone that can show us the way to success and guide us through the obstacles. I’m asking you to step up and become that leader for others and in doing so explode your income.

There is a tendency for people to want the most money whilst doing the least work in online marketing. These are the people that will be broke forever. You need to realize you are not the person giving you the money. You have to find who has it and get them to give it to you.

Why would they give you the money? Because you offer them a net benefit. Look at becoming a leader in an area they want to progress in and lead them where they want to go.

Fear is one of the main factors stopping people from stepping into leadership roles. I often hear ‘I don’t know everything all the time.’ I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to know it all. Your responsibility is to be an advocate for your client and defend them when needed. If you don’t know the answer, admit it but tell them you will seek it out.

Approach your business with a team mindset. Change your language from ‘I’ to ‘we’. You are there to provide value to everyone, not just the customer. Money is a byproduct of leadership.

Make sure you spend time on vision. You need to be able to step back and evaluate the market and your competitors, as well as getting to know your customers. Look to the future and plan for where the next trends will be and where the industry is headed. Stay one step ahead.

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Friction is one of the number one success killers. Anyone that has achieved great things will tell you, it’s about pragmatism and consistency. If you start going to gym but it’s way out on the other side of town, eventually that distance becomes an impediment to going - that’s friction. Today I’m going to tell you ways to remove friction from good habits and add it to bad in order to jumpstart your success.

Firstly, you need to assess what is going to get you what you want on a daily basis.  Look at those necessary activities and figure out how to make them easier. Set up a schedule, clear out and organize your bookmarks or simply set alarms and reminders.

Life admin is another way we experience friction. Everyone needs to get groceries and clean, but have you thought about outsourcing it? Hiring a housekeeper or getting your groceries delivered doesn’t make you lazy, it frees your time up to take advantage of opportunities.

If you are looking to build new habits, the temptation is to go all in right off the bat. I’m telling you it takes small steps to build sustainability and create manageable, daily habits. On top of that, add friction to the bad habits in your life. Put the junk food in a hard to reach place, lock up the cigarettes, just make it that much harder to carry out the bad habits over the good.

Finally, look at implementing automation. Put the work in to create simple systems and SOPs that make it easier to delegate to the rest of your team. Follow these steps, start small and you will be growing into success in no time.

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Any time we want to improve our business, it’s better to break things down into a simple format rather than trying to juggle complex aspects. Simplicity is key. In this episode, I’m going through the 3 business levers that are going to grow your business and your income.

You have to prospect for customers; reach out to more people. You can’t do it once and expect permanent results, this needs to be a fundamental part of your business. Make sure it’s sustainable. Either hire someone to do it for you and pay them a commission, or learn advertising that will automate prospecting for you. Note, you have to get really good at advertising for it to be effective. 

Charge more for services. This one freaks people out and they think they will be beat out by their competition or lose sales. Look at who you are offering your services to. Ideally, you want to have fewer, higher paying clients as opposed to a bunch of clients who are paying lower stipends. Work with clients who are already successful without you and offer them value. 

If you have recurring clients, you’ll make more money in your business. Focus on client experience and ask if they recognize success when they see it. Make sure you define success to them and make sure you report the success to them on regular intervals. Always be solving problems and anticipating new ones.

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CEOs get paid so much because they make hundreds of decisions every day based on the survival of the company and making the company millions of dollars under pressure. How can you make better decisions?

There are probabilities in everything, just like gambling. If you want to win some bets, you have to play the game. It also can be based on the luck of the draw. Practice making small decisions first and get used to the possibility that you might make the wrong decision. A bad decision is better than no decision at all in business. 

Try to play out a decision in your mind, like a movie. Think through the things that could go wrong before they happen and address them preemptively. This way, if a problem arises, you’ll already have a plan in place to deal with it, or you may avoid it altogether by having addressed it before it happened. You can also switch it up and think about things that would lead you to successful outcomes and desires. 

Determining expected values is a way to evaluate projects. If you’re working on a project that could make your business $100,000 and you have a 50% of accomplishing that, the expected value of that project is $50 000. Look at the worst-case scenario or go with the project with the higher expected value and the least catastrophic result. 

Look back on your decisions as a portfolio of risk and develop a pattern of making good decisions over time. This is going to set you ahead as you’re going to be able to move faster than your competitors. 

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Today, we’re going to talk about 3 non-business-related activities that make me more money. Why is this important? You have to work on yourself first when you’re running a business. If you don’t, it’s kind of like being in a professional race car race without a pit crew. 

Getting an edge in business can be weird and hard. All of the following steps have been crucial to the success that I have had in my business. 

Meditation. Before you run away, picture a scenario. If you’re a weak person and you try to bench press a heavy weight in the gym with no experience and leave when you can’t do it, that would seem odd to other people. You have to practice it, the same as meditation. In today’s society, everyone is addicted to their phones and it’s important to strengthen your focus. After 6 weeks of consistent meditation, it’s scientifically proven to help your brain. Try it for even 1 minute a day and add 60 seconds each day.

Yoga changed my life. It’s similar to meditation on steroids, but it unites movement with your breathing. This exercise helps me to feel uncomfortable and breathe through discomfort. This can be a great asset for your business when you are stressed or dealing with uncomfortable situations.

CrossFit is strength training combined with aerobic activity. It helps with a lot of aspects: endorphins, exercise, being healthy and discipline. Exercise is going to give you energy and enthusiasm. 

If you want to be happier and drive your business car faster, these have worked wonders for me in terms of being a more effective person in life and a better business leader. 

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‘The Secret’ left everyone thinking they can sit back, do nothing and visualize what they want in life and it will happen. I’m here to tell you that it is not a passive process. Today, I will let you in on the three steps to utilizing positive visualization effectively without setting yourself up for failure.

Every day, for 30-days, I visualized what I wanted from my business, my life and my relationships. I visualized how it felt to achieve those outcomes. I found that at the end of each day, I had less motivation to do the work required to get where I wanted. As humans we are averse to sacrifice and enduring pain, but it is needed for accomplishment.

How do you utilize visualization in a meaningful way? There are three steps. The first step is positive visualization. Think about what you want, where you want to be and how it will feel. A good exercise to try is visualizing your perfect day in every aspect. Doing this helps get your nervous system used to doing it, preventing the negative reaction to uncertainty that leads to self-sabotage.

The second step is to reverse engineer what you want and plot what it takes to achieve. Understand the process and understand that it is not always a good time. Become comfortable in the process and don’t ignore the hard aspects.

The final step is to utilize mental contrasting. This is the process of picturing the positives and the negatives of the journey. Having realistic expectations is key to your future success. Prepare for what you don’t know so you can better overcome it when it happens, because it will.

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People often think that by working in what you love, you are always excited about your business. Many find that isn’t the case. How often do you have to fight to stay motivated? Today I’m going to talk about the six basic human needs that have to be met in order to keep you motivated and loving what you do.

This doesn’t just apply to business; it applies to life and relationships as well. The six human needs are: Certainty, Variety and Uncertainty, Significance, Love and Connection, Growth, and Contribution. 

The first two needs, Certainty as well as Variety and Uncertainty, may seem like they contradict each other. However, you need a balance of both. A reliable routine ensures that you avoid pain or fear and variety stops you from self-sabotaging to create drama and keeps things engaging.

The third and fourth needs, Significance and Love and Connection, are also closely tied together. As humans, we need to feel that what we are doing is important or impactful. We have to feel that we have achieved success or can be the hero in the customer’s eyes. This goes hand in hand with our need for tribe approval and community. 

The final two needs can only be met if the first four are. Growth is not just about expanding your business, it’s about personal growth and achievement. Finally, Contribution. If you aren’t sure how to start making a contribution, look to where you can coach others and help to make a difference in their lives.

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Building a brand is more than business cards, logos, and websites. That’s the image of your brand, but not the fundamentals. Today I’m going to tell you the three main ways to build the foundation of your brand, cut the chasing, and have sales come to you.

My first tip is to make promises and keep them. It is a slow, continuous process to build a brand. Strong brands have a smaller chance of being a mistake in the eyes of the customer. If you continuously make promises and deliver on them, you are building trust with your audience and they will do the marketing for you by spreading the word.

The next step is to be memorable. This doesn’t mean being off the wall, it means having an easily communicable message. You want a short, succinct way of telling your audience what your core message is. You will need to workshop what works, test the market, and collect responses to find the results. Find something good to say, say it well, and say it often.

The final step is to show results in advance. Customers want brands that can help them. Prove that you are the one to help them with free content, samples, and resources. Make sure they know that you are there to support them throughout their journey. People are loss averse, and taking risks doesn’t come naturally. Position yourself as a safe prospect.

Don’t be afraid of failure. If you fail, learn from it and try again. Why should your customer take risks if you won’t?

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Starting out in a new market can be scary. It’s natural to look around at the competition and be discouraged. What if I told you that you can outperform your competition as an underdog? All it takes is hard work and strategizing. You can niche down and corner your market.

It’s up to you to stand up for yourself and prove that you can make it. Today I’m going to share five tips to overcome that competitive anxiety.

The first piece of advice I have is to make your biggest weakness your biggest strength. If you’re a small business, capitalize on that. Position yourself as different and unique. Chances are you can dedicate yourself to the client experience more than a big company that’s just looking for results.

Secondly, you want to niche down. Hone your specialities. Sell your differences and make yourself the biggest fish in the smallest pond. Once you have a solid foundation, you can expand.

The third point is to use story. Relate your truths and identity to your audience. Build your community and your bonds with your audience. Show them who you are.

My fourth tip is to build a competitive moat. Look at what others in your market aren’t willing to do because it will be a long process or it’s expensive. Then, do it. Customers are looking for these problems to be solved, and big companies often won’t take the time to do it.

Finally, the fifth piece of advice I have is to outlast the competition. All the previous tips I have given you will help you to stay the course and build that solid reputation. It will take time.

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Self-sabotage is an all too common obstacle in many of our day to day lives, whether it’s in our careers, relationships or health in general. What do you do when you start talking yourself out of success just as you reach the precipice? 

To unravel why we self-sabotage, you first have to understand that humans are more often than not operating on autopilot. We learn behaviors that protect us from what we fear. To overcome this, you have to be open to asking questions about why we behave in this way.

Acknowledging and being conscious of when you are self-sabotaging is an incredibly useful tool that I employ. If you catch yourself in the sabotage spiral, tell someone how you are feeling. That alone can help to break habit patterns.

In order to reprogram these behavior habits, I believe you have to change your mindset by changing your inputs. Look for peers or role models that believe and think differently to you. Break the cycle of safe behaviors by being unsafe and taking those risks that you are afraid of.

Don’t take advice from someone who hasn’t done what you want to. Seek out those that have consistently proved they know how to achieve what you are after. Once you find your inspiration, put yourself in their shoes. Ask yourself what they would do in your situation. 

Set your fear goals. Look at what you are afraid of and meet it head on. Remember that we create the circumstances that we fear the most, which means we can create the solution too.

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