OK, I did a really dumb thing last night, filmed it and found a way to squeeze a valuable lesson out of it…

P.S. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you’re going to let go of as a result of watching the video.

P.P.S. If you missed the incredibly valuable teleseminar I recorded with Hannes Dreyer and Mike Handcock last week, make sure you listen to it or download it here.

Do you know where your business is in its life cycle?

Most entrepreneurs have no idea that there is a cycle of stages that their business will go through. When you know where your business is in the cycle, you’ll know what you need to do next.

In the video below, my good friend Mike Handcock explains the cycle of business. If you’re an entrepreneur, I know you’re going to find this valuable.

If you live in South Africa, I’ll be a mentor on Mike’s Rock Your Business training. It’s an interactive, hands on 3 day event that will explode your business success.

Talk soon,

P.S. If you own a business, and want to get some incredible coaching from me and 3 other mentors, do yourself a favor and check out Rock Your Business here. See you there.

I was working next to my girlfriend on my laptop this morning when I heard her exclaim “Oh crap!”

“What’s up, honey?” I asked, sensing she was really upset?

“I just missed a Skype call with an important client,” she confided.

Tears began to well up behind her eyes and I knew she was beating herself up for missing the call and probably thinking that she had potentially tarnished her professional reputation in the eyes of an important new client…

“What’s wrong with me that I can’t even make a simple call on time?” she exclaimed in exasperation…

This was the second time in one day she had missed a scheduled call and she was understandably frustrated.

Here’s how I coached her back to the point where she was smiling and laughing again…

“Honey, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with you…

Instead of thinking about this as a problem with YOU, let’s approach it in terms of a problem with the SYSTEM you use to schedule calls across time zones…”

It was her 4th week traveling on the road with me and she was still not used to scheduling her business calls across multiple time zones.

“How come you missed the call, honey?”

“Well, he’s on Central Standard Time and I’m on South African time, so I proposed a time to him and then added on 7 hours to figure out the call time here in South Africa… except, I counted wrong and entered the wrong time into my calendar, and then missed the call… Dumb, dumb, dumb!”

I suggested we leave ‘dumb’ out of the equation and just look at the system…

“Where was the point of failure in your scheduling system?”

“In relying on my math to calculate the time difference between CST and South Africa time.”

“So, what could you do in future to ensure that you calculate the correct time?” I asked.

“Well, I guess if I entered the time of the call into my Google calendar in Central Standard Time, Google can display it accurately in my local time zone and I won’t have to do the math…”

“Exactly!” I shouted with delight.

“With that new SYSTEM for scheduling calls across different time zones, you’ll always know the right time for the call in your time zone…”

I could see the color returning to her face and she leaned over and hugged me (I like hugs).

“See how changing an element in the system is a more effective approach to fixing a problem than trying to fix yourself?”

“Yes!” She exclaimed with a grin on her face, “I feel soooo much better.”

So, the moral of the story here is this:

If you approach your everyday breakdowns in terms of a system failure instead of a personal failure, you not only bypass the bad feelings of beating yourself up, but can look at your problems objectively and create solutions that would never have emerged had you given in to the trap of trying to fix yourself.

Trying to fix yourself assumes that something is wrong with you… and nothing could be further from the truth.

Here’s the unconscious logic that occurs in your brain when you try to fix yourself:

• Something is wrong with me
• If something is wrong with me, I must be broken.
• If I’m broken, then nothing I try will ever work…
• If nothing will ever work, I will always be a failure…
• If I’ll always be a failure, then what’s the point in trying anything ever again…

THE RESULT: Endless self doubt, depression and no action – not exactly a recipe for success…

Sound familiar?

So, next time you think you’ve screwed something up, STOP – then approach the breakdown in terms of a system fault instead of a personal fault. See if you can fix the system, and then go reward yourself for being so smart!

That’s all for this week…

Your partner in success,

P.S. If you want to create a system for success in the area of money this year, make sure you watch this video about the SYSTEM OF MONEY from my mentor, Eben.

P.P.S. Please leave a comment below and let me know what you learned from this article…

I just did an action-packed teleseminar with possibly the highest paid executive coach in the world. He has earned more than $10m coaching execs from Apple to Google to LinkedIn and lots more.

Download the call as an .mp3 file

Listen to the recording above to learn:

• Why trying to stay positive all the time will actually sabotage your success
• The one thing you need to do to create an abundance mindset fast – and it’s NOT what you think it is – it’s worse!
• The three essential areas you must master if you want to become successful in business

Listen all the way to the end because Bryan and I dig in with the callers and provide some really valuable coaching for anyone in business or thinking of starting one.

Click here after the call to register for your consultation session with Bryan and get your iPad.

Enjoy…

P.S. Please leave your comments below and let me know what you learned form the call…

Ever wished you had an influential mentor on speed dial for those moments when you get overwhelmed and don’t know what to do next?

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I’ve written you a special report telling you exactly how I’ve enrolled world class leaders and celebrities to mentor and coach me, without paying them a dime!

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• How to accelerate your success by upgrading your troop of chimps and feasting on bananas…
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• Three easy ways to assess any coach or mentor before you spend your hard earned bananas taking advice from them…

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Napoleon Hill in his classic book "Think And Grow Rich" discovered that the 500 wealthiest people in the world (at the time) all had trusted advisers or mentors of some kind. Coincidence? I think not…

If you don’t have a mentor or at least a few trusted chimps in your circle of influence, you’re flushing your chances of success down the toilet.

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Your partner in success,

P.S. This report is my baby. It took me 2 weeks to write and it’s pure gold. Download it or you won’t get any bananas for dinner.

P.P.S. Once you’ve read the report and you’ve have the aha, please let me know what you learned by leaving me a comment.

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If you’re wondering if luck is by chance, then I can wholeheartedly recommend Dr Richard Wiseman’s research on luck in his book The Luck Factor. I took a few minutes to summarize what I learned from it for you…

In this uncut video you’ll learn:

• The 4 luck principles Dr Wiseman discovered lucky people have in common
• That even lucky people like me can stumble my words and “Um” and “Uhh” all over the place!
• How to get lucky at the end…

Enjoy watching…

Can’t see the video playing? Watch it on “The Luck Factor: Is Luck By Chance?” on YouTube.

You can get your lucky paws on one of the last “Luck Bundles” here. www.LuckBundle.com

You can listen to the full interview I did with Damien Senn on “How To Get Lucky” here.

P.S. As always, I want to hear what you learned from this video. Please leave your comments below. I read them all.

P.P.S. As of typing this, there are only a few Luck Bundles remaining with the amazing bonus I offered. Don’t miss out…

Have you ever experienced the frustration of attracting the same negative experience into your life over and over again, and not knowing why or what to do about it?

Perhaps you keep attracting romantic relationships that never turn out the way you’d hoped they would… or business partnerships that always seem to turn sour…

Whatever it is, the technique I’m going to share with you in this article will help you destroy your destructive patterns so they never haunt you again.

Read the rest of this entry »

In this article, I’m going to unravel why you’re not manifesting the kind of miracles that you know you’re capable of and how to use 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques to do to make sure that you become a miracle magnet again.

One of my favorite things in the world to do is to take my motorcycle, pack a tent on the back and go on a two week adventure ride exploring places I’ve never seen before.

One of the problems I face on the way is that after a few hours of riding, my visor has collected so many dead bugs, that I can barely see the road and I’m forced to pull over at the nearest gas station and use the windshield cleaner on my helmet to clean off the road kill.

This got me thinking about how the bugs on my visor are a great metaphor for how we clog up our life with our personal baggage and then wonder why we can’t see the wood from the trees.

The windshield cleaner is a great metaphor for the Emotional Clearing Techniques I’m going to explain later on.

Have you ever wondered why the Law Of Attraction is not working for you like it could be?

Perhaps you’ve heard amazing stories of others who are manifesting miracles left, right and center, but the only thing you’re able to manifest is an empty parking space every now and again?

If you can relate to this, chances are that there is some area where your life is clogged up with dead bugs and you need to use some Emotional Clearing Techniques to clear them out.

Consider this…

When you were born, you came into this life with a blank canvas. Anything was possible for you. Your metaphorical motorcycle visor was spotless.

As you grew up, stuff happened to you and bugs collected on your visor.

• Perhaps you were teased or bullied at school and you decided that the world is not a safe place to be.
• Then your first love broke up with you and you decided that people can’t be trusted.
• Then you discovered that achieving success was not as easy as you hoped it was going to be and decided to put your dreams on ‘hold’ ?

By the time you became an adult, you had so many bugs on your visor that you couldn’t even see where you were going anymore. Read the rest of this entry »

>>> If you don’t know the million dollar difference between money and wealth, you’ll always struggle to have any of them. Read on to find out…

One of the most common mistakes I see entrepreneurs making is that they are trying to make money instead of focusing on creating wealth.

As I see it, there are TWO fundamental problems with trying to make money:

1. Money itself has no inherent value and it does not actually exist AND
2. Your brain struggles to visualize concepts like ‘money’

Lets delve a little deeper into these two problems…

PROBLEM #1: Money Has No Value And Does Not Exist

Money is a man made concept that we all use to measure value, but does not have any value itself. These days it’s even more intangible because money doesn’t even exist in reality – it only exists as numbers sitting in some computer system somewhere.

So trying to make money is as fruitless an activity as trying to see air. You can see the results of air moving as the trees sway in the breeze, but you can’t see the actual air itself. Read the rest of this entry »

> BEWARE: If you’re a card carrying Law Of Attraction fan, then this article is going to shock and annoy you…

I’ve had enough!

I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with all the CRAP written on the internet about how to attract money using the Law Of Attraction.

Not because I don’t think it’s possible to attract opportunities to make money, but because most of the information is just plain USELESS! By useless, I mean that it is not actionable and you can’t do anything with it.

I searched Google for “attract wealth” and here are some of the gems I found:

“Step into the flow of the Universe and ask for money help…”

At first glance, this looks like an innocent enough premise, but when we dig a little deeper you’ll discover that statements like this often leave us more confused that before we read them.

Check this out… Could you please tell me exactly WHERE I find this universal flow. Once I’ve found it, HOW do I step into it and HOW do I ask for money help? Read the rest of this entry »