For me, the do-it-yourself disease started at school. In order to graduate from school, I had to pass a plethora of different subjects. Unfortunately, during exam time, we were not allowed to ask the person sitting next to us for the answer to the exam question, so I learned that if I wanted to succeed, I had to know all the answers and do it all myself.

I also remember being told to focus on Afrikaans because I was weak at Afrikaans. The Afrikaans language did not come naturally to me, and I always ended up with a C or D grade. So, instead of focusing on Mathematics, which I loved, I began working on improving my Afrikaans.

Despite my love for Mathematics, I never reached complete mastery of it because I spent so much time improving my Afrikaans. I ended up leaving school as an average all-rounder, both in Mathematics and Afrikaans. By the time I entered my early 20s, it was official - I was a jack of all trades, master of none...

In contrast, if you look at successful people in any walk of life, be it business, music, art, investing or sport, you will find that each and every one of them chose to focus on doing what they were good at, and only then did they become became great at it and only then did they become outwardly successful at it.

One thing I love is music. Not surprisingly, I ended up as a successful musician with a no.1 hit under my belt. This was no accident. It was the inevitable result of strengthening my ability in music.

Most of us focus on improving our weaknesses.

Can you imagine Bill Gates coming home from Microsoft and doing a little bit of network marketing in his spare time? Never!
Can you imagine Tiger Woods having a career in rugby and golf? It seems absurd!
Can you imagine Nelson Mandela trying to trade the stock market while freeing South Africa? Hardly...

All these people became great by focusing on their strengths. Tiger Woods is great at golf. Bill Gates is great with creating technology. Nelson Mandela was passionate about freeing South Africa.

If you are reading this newsletter, you probably want to become more successful in some area of your life. My questions to you are, "What are your strengths?" and "Are you spending most of your time focusing on them?"

Do you wash your own dishes, iron your own clothes, do your own housework, and then find that you don't have enough time at the end of the day to do the things you really love?

Are you trying to trade the stock market, develop a new Internet web site, invest in property, dabble in network marketing, and wonder why your career as an artist is not taking off?

Focus on your strengths.

Doing anything else dilutes your focus. Delegate your weaknesses - and delegate your weaknesses to people who love doing what you are weak at.

When you do this, you become highly attractive.

I’m not talking about beauty; I’m talking about being attractive to success. Focusing on what you love doing every day, keeps you in a state of joy and happiness. In a state of happiness, you attract more happy experiences and more success into your life.

When you are surrounded by a team whose players are focusing on what they love doing and what they are good at, the team becomes even more attractive. An inspired team, fueled by passion, focusing on their talents is unstoppable.

In order to focus on your strengths, you need to know what your strengths are , and perhaps even more importantly, you need to know what the strengths of the people around you are. One way to find out what you should focus on is to write down all the things you are passionate about and areas that you are talented in.

An even easier way is to take Roger Hamilton's wealth dynamics profiling test. It takes 15 minutes and you'll get a 17 page report detailing what you should be focusing on in order to create massive success. Not only that, but you will find out what kind of team members you need to have playing alongside you.

Some of you may have heard me rave about Roger’s profiling system before. It has totally altered the way I do business, shifted my focus, and as a result,
I am experiencing 1000% more success (no exaggeration) than I ever could have on my own.

Another benefit of having a team who do love what they do, is that life becomes so much more fun when the lonely days of DIY are gone!

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Blueprinting

Would you like to have a Designer Life workshop in your home town?

Contact us on info at designer-life.com to arrange an informal chat about how you can put your goals and your community's goals on autopilot.

"Six months ago, I returned home to New Zealand, having quit my job. I had no where to live, no job lined up and a maxed out credit card. Having just completed a Designer Life workshop, I wrote a VAKGO* program to attract the job I wanted, imagined it for about a month and then let it go.

I applied for all the jobs that I could find that seemed to match my criteria. After many responses of "You don't have the relevant skills or experience," I managed to gain one interview, but didn't get the job. I began worrying about how I was going to find the right job and was just about to give up and apply for a low paid cafe job when I heard that I had been given another interview.

The salary for this one was a few thousand more than I had been told I could expect to get at entry level . Within half an hour of leaving the interview, I had a phone call to say that they wanted to offer me the job with a salary that was $4k more than what I had been told I could expect before the interview!!!! 

One day I was standing in one of the rooms at work, I looked out the window and watched the sea... A view of the sea was the last thing on my list of things I wanted from a job. It seemed like a miracle to me!

One if my goals was to earn $50k before the end of 2006 (having earned nothing until September 2006 this seemed unrealistic). Well, in March, I take over being manager with a salary of $58k - a $19k increase!

In just six months, I have gone from being jobless and earning nothing to earning more than I've ever earned in my entire life. Now I'm looking for a house to buy. Life is so much fun and I live in abundance,

Its amazing to think that by doing a simple VAKGO* program, I've changed my life so dramatically."

* A VAKGO program is a way of programming your mind for success taught in the Designer Life workshop.

Did you know that we’re all programmed with a Wealth Blueprint?
Did you know that this Blueprint controls and can limit your financial success?

If you are struggling to create wealth, it is almost certainly because your Wealth Blueprint is not set for success? I have designed a workshop especially to deal with this frustrating issue.

You will learn to:

I am leading the first of these workshops in South Africa in April on the following dates.
Johannesburg: 23 April 2007
Cape Town: 25 april 2007

To find out more about how you can transform your Wealth Blueprint, visit http://www.entrepreneur.co.za/wealth.