31 Secrets to Success in 2007 and Beyond
The first secret to guarantee your success in 2007 and beyond is to review your entire 2006 calendar and look for and write down all of your successful accomplishments for 2006, no matter how big or small in all areas of your business and personal life.
Remember “successful accomplishments” and it is time to take charge of your mind to focus on the positive. Remember, you get what you focus on.
I recommend that you write down all of your successful accomplishments in the following format in your journal: I am so happy and grateful that we completed an upgrade to our web site in 2006 and therefore I feel accomplished, happy, proud and wonderful.
Kim Black is the creator of the architecture for our web site and we thank God for Kim’s recovery from her heart transplant operation and for coming back with more heart and soul than ever.
Appreciation magnifies creation and you will draw good feelings and inspiration to create your 2007 vision when you celebrate the successful accomplishments for 2006. When you feel good you are inclined to create a future that makes you feel good.
Remember to focus on the positive and successful accomplishments and given that you are a Financial Advisor you already understand the concept of appreciation.
The second secret is purchase a journal. Michael Gerber wrote in the E-Myth, “if you see it, you will forget it, if you hear it, you will remember it and you feel it, you will understand it”. Writing will cause you to feel it as you write it because you are body is engaged in the process as well as just your mind and you will see it as you write it and hear it internally as you pay more attention to what you are writing.
The third secret is understand that “thoughts are real forces” to quote John Kehoe from Mind Power. Whatever you think about you make real, especially if the thoughts are fueled by positive or negative feelings. The concept of attraction will attract whatever you are focusing on, so be aware of what you are focusing on. You don’t have to understand the details of gravity or electricity to experience their benefits, nor do you have to understand how attraction works to experience the benefits. Just know that attraction works. One concept of attraction is certain, attraction doesn't care if your thoughts are positive or negative or conscious or unconscious. We do not attract by default and we do have control over what we attract.
The forth secret is your current state of affairs is not who you are and if you didn’t have a banner year, this too shall pass.
Remember to review your entire 2006 calendar and look for and write down all of your successful accomplishments for 2006, no matter how big or small, in all areas of your business and personal life. Remember “successful accomplishments” and it is time to take charge of your mind to focus on the positive. Remember, you get what you focus on.
Write down all of your successful accomplishments in the following format in your journal: I am so happy and grateful that we completed an upgrade to our web site in 2006 and therefore I feel accomplished, happy, proud and wonderful. This will put you in the state of mind to expect a solution and this will help to contribute to change your current reality and lay the foundation to guarantee your success in 2007 and beyond.
The fifth secret to guarantee your success in 2007 and beyond is to master your thoughts and feelings by understanding your values are the source of positive beliefs and positive feelings.
Values, positive beliefs, and positive feelings are the gateway to attracting everything that you want. Values, positive beliefs and positive feelings are one hundred times more powerful than unmet needs which are the source of limiting beliefs and limiting emotions. Yet it is said that values are like turtles and if left undiscovered, values like turtles will only come when it is safe and unresolved unmet needs will dominate your values.
One example of how the unmet need of safety will generate a limiting belief is that you don’t have enough time and the limiting emotion of anxiety which will sabotage the fifth secret.
I would like to thank you for the help you have already provided. Following our first coaching call last week you sent me the Lesson on Unmet Needs. Part A was so powerful that when I came to the realization of one hidden need I got tears in my eyes as I wrote it down. That one realization is worth the price of the whole program. I look forward to the next steps.
You are welcome to quote me if you wish.
Thanks again,Grant McPhail
Rice Financial Group
Brandon, MB
gmcphail @ ricefinancial.com
My values are:
- Attraction
- Currency/Energy
- Encouragement
- Partnering/People
- Professionalism/Quality/Service
- Sense/Wisdom
- Teaching
- Understanding/Empathy
- Venture
The sixth secret is schedule 4 – 8 hours away from your office and home to create your vision for 2007 and beyond.
The seventh secret is to find a place where you can be anonymous.
I have created time with myself doing this exercise sitting on a log beside the ocean, rain or shine. One time I sat on a couple of those big black plastic garbage bags so that my seat didn’t get wet and I had one of those huge golf umbrellas and it worked amazingly well … and this was at a time when I didn’t have the money to afford a creative environment away from my home or office. Just think, a “create your vision picnic in nature in the rain”. Another time I found myself sitting in a revolving restaurant 45 floors above the city for the entire afternoon creating my vision. You could even go to the library.
The point is to schedule 4 – 8 hours and use your imagination and find a place where you can be anonymous. You must create the environment.
As I write this part of the article I am sitting in a well lit room in a beautifully decorated space with 12 foot high floor to ceiling windows with a fireplace with beautiful background music and as I’m appreciating this space a ray of sunlight just flooded the room.
The eighth secret is to remember this process is about creating a vision versus setting goals. Goal setting comes later. If you have heard me present, “Removing Your Roadblocks To Your Success”, you will have heard me state that vision is far more important than goals.
I’m suggesting that this process right now is about vision versus goals and I am finding that the notion of goal setting is a hard habit to break.
As recent as my December 6, 2006 Blog,
I wrote the following about goals and now I am suggesting there is a better way:
I worked on my goals for 2006 on Monday, December 4, 2006.
One of the goals is:Prospect Speaking to associations and companies via Folios, E-Mails & Postcards to Speak at 35 sponsored Financial Advisor association and company events in Canada and the USA in 2007
On Tuesday, December 5, 2006, a very recognizable centre on influence invited us to present our Speaking Folio for consideration for the most significant Financial Advisor Public Speaking Event in the USA in 2007.
I’m laughing at myself right now because I’m noticing a typo, “goals for 2006” instead of 2007 which has since been corrected. It is no wonder that we got the call about the USA Financial Advisor Public Speaking Event the very next day.
Please understand that this writing is a Work-In-Progress of my own development at the same time as I share this with you. You are invited to visit my daily Blog for daily updates on my vision work and on my own progress. Just click the link Blog link www.leadingadvisor.com/blog and then scroll down and look at the right hand menu for Categories and click “Vision 2007” or you can Click Here for the Vision 2007 Category and Vision 2007 Updates.
The ninth secret is “be” versus “do”. Most people in business are hard wired to “do” versus “be”. They are hard wired to get a result and this hard wiring overrides the time that it takes to attract and create a vision that will last a life time. Part of the challenge is if you are a baby boomer you are caught up in getting “the next big thing”. To quote Billy Connolly; “I what some of that, I want all of that and I want it right f**cking now”!
I too have this hardwiring of to “do” instilled in me and while I am expressing this I’m also experiencing the joy of writing this article to be able to share it with you and increase my awareness at the same time. 2007 and beyond are going to be incredible.
The tenth secret is guarantee your success in 2007 and beyond is to stay in a right brain dream state of mind when you are creating your vision.
- V Vision
- I Is
- R Ruled Out
- U Using
- S Systems Of Left & Right Brain At The Same Time
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The eleventh secret to guarantee your success in 2007 and beyond is forget “how”. There is also an even bigger reason to stay out of goals and that is that we get hung up on “how” and this will likely limit or cut off the right brain dream state of mind.
Remember the “SMART” Goal setting strategy:
- S – Specific
- M – Measurable
- A - Action-Oriented
- R – Realistic
- T - Time-focused
A soon as we get into this model there is the chance that You or even worse yet, your dysfunctional ego mind will start to judge.
My dysfunctional ego is no different than anyone else’s … if I let it. And just for fun … Hah! Who are you kidding? You speaking at the most significant Financial Advisor Public Speaking Event in the USA in 2007. Cancel that thought. Cancel that thought. Cancel that thought.
Again, all you want to do right now is create a vision for all areas of your life and I recommend that you write down your visions in the following format in your journal:- I am so happy and grateful that we continue to speak at sponsored association and company events throughout the world and therefore I feel appreciation, fulfillment, happiness, joy, satisfaction and wonderful.
Do you see the difference between the two? Here is the goal that I wrote on December 4, 2006
- Prospect Speaking to associations and companies via Folios, E-Mails & Postcards to Speak at 35 sponsored Financial Advisor association and company events in Canada and the USA in 2007
Do you see that by writing the goal I was limiting my vision by getting into the “How” and too much detail:
- Getting in the How - Folios, E-Mails & Postcards. While these are great marketing strategies, sounds like a lot of work to me, how will I get it all done?
- Setting a number – We must know the number because we may not have enough folios, e-mails and postcards – without a limit, we will blow right past 35
- Setting limits – Why limit myself as I hear that the Million Dollar Round Table are doing an event in Japan and Freedom 55 are doing an event in Monaco. Yeah! Monaco. I could dig that. Me, Laura and Casino Royale … well you may catch us walking through the casino just to look as we are not gamblers and if you have seen one casino, you have seen them all. We have more fun looking at the architecture and the sights.
The twelfth secret is trust your vision. All you need to know is the first step and you don’t have to see the whole staircase. Again, forget how and using the metaphor of driving from Vancouver, BC to St. John’s, NL by night, you can only see 100 feet in front of you and you continue to drive and trust that you will be able to see the next hundred feet, then the next hundred feet then the next … and eventually you will get to the destination.
Well you could say “I don’t have time to drive!” Well then fly! Looking back I counted 33 separate flights on my speaking schedule between September and November of 2006 … believe me I trust.
The thirteenth secret is to forget about time. Worrying about time hooks you back into the unmet need of safety and security and if there is an unmet need then there are limiting beliefs such as “I don’t have enough time” and this triggers limiting emotions that would include anxiety. These limiting beliefs and limiting emotions destroy your creative energy.
Take the metaphor of building a clock in relationship to building your vision. Build a clock that will tell the time for a lifetime versus building a clock that will tell the time for a day.
The fourteenth secret is get out of the way. Whatever your creed … God, the universe, your higher self, your soul knows the shortest, quickest and fastest way to your vision and will create those serendipitous events where the right people, resources and events all harmoniously fall into place to manifest your vision.
Just get out of the way, write your vision, stay awake, step into the harmonious flow of your destiny and let it unfold in harmony versus pushing and pushing!
The fifteenth secret to your success in 2007 and beyond is to write the vision in the now.
Notice that I write the vision in the now given that it is already happening.
- I am so happy and grateful that we continue to speak at sponsored association and company events throughout the world and therefore I feel appreciation, fulfillment, happiness, joy, satisfaction and wonderful.
Many thanks to Chris Barrow who is my business coach. Laura and I met Chris back in the fall of 2004 and Chris has been instrumental in providing me with strength and tough love to push me to find my voice. Chris runs The Dental Business School in the UK and is one of the few million dollar coaches on the planet. Chris is almost super human with the heart of a lion and this shines through in his practice, systems and everything he does.
The sixteenth secret is to write your vision with feelings.
Notice that I write the vision in the now given that it is already happening and therefore I feel appreciation, fulfillment, happiness, joy, satisfaction and wonderful.
- I am so happy and grateful that we are writing and publishing books and therefore I feel appreciation, fulfillment, happiness, joy, satisfaction and wonderful.
The seventeenth secret is write visions for all areas of your business and personal lives.
Personal – spirituality, yourself, spouse, health, family, charity, friends, auto, clothing, finance, home, intellectual, travel, etc.
Business – spirituality, team, customer service, product development, product quality, communication, sales, finance, systems, marketing, environment, web presence, etc.
The eighteenth secret is understand that wealth is not all about money and that is why it is important to create visions for all areas of your business and personal lives to create balance.
The nineteenth secret is ask in the positive. Do not, do not do not ask in the negative. If your vision is “get out of debt”, that is all you will experience is debt. Better that you affirm that “money comes to me easily and effortlessly”.
The twentieth secret to success in 2007 and beyond is to believe that your vision is already yours and through your compounded values, positive feelings and positive beliefs you will build up unwavering faith that you will attract everything that you desire.
Again, instead of thinking about death, debt and taxes commit to positive beliefs. Money comes easily and frequently. There are an abundant amount of happy and generous high net worth clients that wish to work with me. An abundant amount of time is available for the things that I am committed to doing. All the resources that I require are available to fulfill my vision. Many, many people will be attracted and spread my message in 2007 and beyond.
The twenty-first secret is expect to receive and learn to receive and to say thank you.
Expect to receive by acknowledging that you asked for the result when you received it. Believe it! Many people invalidate what they asked for with the first thing that comes out of their mouths is, “I don’t believe it!” Believe it, you asked for it.
When you receive say, “thank you”. Period. That is it. Thank you. Nothing more. Many people compound their unmet need of worthiness by saying something like the following when they receive a compliment “Oh it was it nothing”. In fact, they just made it into nothing.
The twenty-second secret is to add feelings in your vision.
- I am so happy and grateful that we are providing thousands of clients with value through speaking and writing and I feel abundant, appreciation, energized, inspired, fulfilled, happy, joy, satisfaction and wonderful.
Positive feelings carry a positive frequency and like attracts like. Right brain positive feelings combine with your left brain positive beliefs and integrate with your values to synergize creating the irresistible force of attraction that turn your dream into reality.
The twenty-third secret is build up your feelings and frequency by creating ways to see, hear and feel the experience of the success that you want in advance.
Do something as simple as test drive a car or view a home or visit the travel agent.
My strategies included having the book cover created in advance by Kim Black and this is because the visual trigger will cause me to write. Click My New Book Cover to view.
As I write this I’m noticing that I am very much in the writing experience and my heart is filled with excitement as the next writing will be invested in my book. The vision is written. I’ve created the time over the holiday season, I have the environment and I have the material.
For me, another strategy is to attend speaking events of 1000 people or more … wait a minute … that may not be necessary as I just remembered that I have been on stage with Tony Robbins with 3000 people back in 1992 and I still have those vivid pictures in my mind … I will still attend speaking events to experience inspiration.
Another strategy is to visualize and relive my experience of being on the Saturday morning news on BCTV News on Global Television. This time around I will be on many, many TV programs being interviewed about my book and that will include Harpo Productions and Harpo is Oprah spelled backwards. And why not! As Stewart Smalley would say from Saturday Night Live “I’m nice enough, I’m smart enough and not only that, people like me”. As you can see, writing can get you into feeling joy and humor!The twenty-fourth secret is to be awake. You can increase your awareness by starting your day with giving thanks and continue to give thanks over the course of the day. Thomas O’Neill, of Thomas O’Neill Jr. & Associates, told me about a study from Harvard University where the participants increased their success by 70% by keeping a gratitude journal where they wrote down three things that they were grateful for just before they went to sleep at night.
The twenty-fifth secret to creating success in 2007 and beyond is looking after your body though exercise, vitamins and through proper food combining.
The twenty-sixth secret is wake up early. Seize the day! Make it so! Get on with your life and lead. Leadership takes time and it is best to lead your day and that means getting up early so that you run your day versus your day running you.
Here is an example:
5am wakeupprayer, meditation, give thanks, reflection
6am personal hygiene
7am plan your day if you did not plan your day the night before
The twenty-seventh secret is take action. When you are awake to your vision, inspiration and ideas come to you and it s important to take action on your ideas.
If someone crosses your mind, make that call. Write that idea down and think of three simple and immediate actions that you can take towards the fulfillment of that idea. Get it done. You were given the ideas for a reason and it is important that the ideas be honored so don’t second guess and don’t delay.
The twenty-eighth secret is to continue to be grateful for the little things. The big success is just around the corner so be patient.
This reminds me of when I was eight years old and I got a chemistry set for Christmas. One of the experiments involved growing beans. Sure enough, I planted those seeds and mixed ingredients for the fertilizer but I kept on digging them up to see if they were growing. That was my challenge back then and I wanted instant results and I had very little patience. While your seeds are growing give thanks and be grateful that you have a business and experience and prospects and you feel excited, happy and enthusiastic.
The twenty-ninth secret is set 60 day goals. 60 day goals will keep you focused on the short term and they will prevent you from getting hooked into paralysis writing the perfect plan.
The thirtieth secret to creating your success for 2007 and beyond is don’t make giving thanks a chore. If it feels like a chore stop and get some rest.
The thirty-first secret is to remember to acknowledge your business and personal team. Laura and I are so blessed to be I love and we are honored to have the opportunity to be of service to our clients providing them ways to meet and exceed their goals.
Thank you for the opportunity to be of service.
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