Word # 13 – Truth. I am receiving only the truth about myself!  Everyone projected in the 2010 Super Bowl that the Colts would win, but they didn’t know what was going on behind the scenes in New Orleans – Drew Brees, his teaching, the coach, the atmosphere, and the mindset.  The bottom-line is that the experts were wrong!  They were wrong, because they didn’t know what was going on behind the scenes.  Drew Brees could have listened to them and accepted what they were saying as the truth, but he didn’t.  Why?  Because he knew the real truth about himself, his coach and his team.

People try to tell us their side of the truth all the time through their opinions, but it’s important to focus on the truth that you know about yourself and not what someone else thinks. Remember, the center of the word truth is “U.”  You must believe in yourself and associate with other champions that know the real truth about you.  Just like with Drew Brees, the truth will always be revealed no matter what the so-called experts say.

Words # 14 and 15 – Consistently Building.  I am consistently building my belief structure with my Why rollover!  Every morning when you roll out of bed, you roll right into the present.  The past is gone.  The present is today. Get up and open that present with great expectation.  How?  Instead of reaching for the remote control, read your Why Card for the first seven minutes of your day.  It’s called the Why rollover.  Saying your Why out loud right when you get out of bed will predict the rest of your day.  But you can’t just do it one day.  You have to do it consistently every single day to build your belief in yourself and your ability to achieve your Why in life.  Make it a daily habit just like you brush your teeth in the morning.  Your Why rollover should be part of your morning ritual.  You wouldn’t walk out of your house without brushing your teeth or taking a shower so why would you face the world without reading your Why Card?  Consistently building your belief in yourself by reading your Why every morning will radically change your daily results.

Word # 16 – Guarantee.  My habits guarantee my success!  My wife is an attorney so using the word guarantee in my teachings drives her crazy. However, I absolutely guarantee that your habits will predict your level of success in life!  How? Because I have seen in thousands of times in my life and the lives of my students. If your habits consist of hanging out with naysayers, drinking at the local bar every night and watching garbage television, then how can you expect to achieve your goals in life?  97% of people are dead or dead broke by the age of 65.  Why? Their habits took complete control of their lives.  What about the other 3%?  Now, those are the champions that realized that their daily habits will determine if they achieve their goals and dreams.  They made the decision to commit to positive daily habits like reading their Why Card, listening to motivational teachings, exercising to keep physically fit, eating right to stay healthy, associating with people that empowering them, etc.  They basically said Enough is Enough with the Bad Habits! Haven’t you had enough! Isn’t it time to make a change? I’ll say it again.  Your habits will guarantee your level of success – good or bad.  It’s completely your choice.

Word # 17 – Finish. I will finish my success journey!  Make a decision today to commit to the two to five year success journey and finish your success journey.  97% of people quit before they finish!  Sadly, I’ve personally witnessed hundreds of people quit on their success journey.  They refused to tough it out and finish what they started.  When it got hard, they quit!  If they would have just hung on that last mile, they would have realized that true prosperity was right around the next corner. That’s not you!  You have committed to finish what you’ve started and achieve your Why in life.  Keep focused no matter what adversity you face.  Success is your destiny and you will cross the finish line!

I ask you to commit to speaking these words every day to drive fear out of your life and achieve your ultimate Why.  As a special bonus, I want to give you my 210 affirmations to shout out loudly every single day – www.LifestyleFreedomClub.com/words.  Remember, outwardly spoken words create miracles!  It’s time for your miracle!

Feel free to email our team anytime at team@lifestylefreedomclub.com.  We love to hear your stories and want to know how these words have radically changed your life.  We believe in YOU Champion!

I received the following excerpt from a very dear
friend of mine and felt that it is definitely the
best explanation of a habit that I have ever heard:

I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do, you might just as well turn
over to me,and I will be able to do them quickly and
correctly.
I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done,
and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great men.
And, alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the
precision of a machine.Plus, the intelligence of a man.
You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin;
it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will
put the world at your feet.
Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.
Who am I?

I am a HABIT!

- Author Unknown

I wrote in a past issue that the difference between ordinary and EXTRAordinary is just a little bit of EXTRA. Well, as I meet people and do business, I always make an extra-effort to say “thank you” by way of e-mail, voicemail or send a card in the mail. People always comment how much they appreciated the “thank you”. In these days of such hectic schedules and people running all over the place and trying to get ahead, sometimes we forget the simplest things in life are the most powerful and rewarding. You need to think to yourself about a time someone sent you a thank you and how much it meant to you. Always remember to “Do unto others as you would have done unto you!”

After you finish a meeting make a note to yourself to send a timely thank-you. Simple actions reap big rewards! I personally like to leave a voicemail message or send an e-mail message with the subject line “Thank You”. Life is a journey and as you progress, the key is to establish a reputation as one who appreciates others. People will always feel comfortable to introduce you to one of their contacts knowing your past pattern has been one of professionalism and respect. You need to realize that your most notable achievements in life will usually be the result of someone introducing you to one of his or her contacts.

From this day forward, always take a little pebble of action in order to build your mountain of success! “Thank you” is a fantastic place to start! I will start the ball rolling by thanking YOU, the readers of this manual. I truly appreciate your time and testimonials about how we have been able to help in your mission in Life.

You stay consistent, because you can’t change your car based upon the road your on.
You can’t prejudge and say “I’m not going to bring my shocks today, because I don’t
need them on this particular road, or I don’t need my blinker, because I’m only going to
go straight.”

I live in Florida, where everything is straight and flat, but I still can’t say
“I don’t need my blinkers, shocks or brakes.” I can’t do that…I can’t pre-judge my
path…it’s an impossible feat!

What does this have to do with becoming a successful business builder? Simply,
STOP Prejudging! Again, STOP Prejudging. 95% of people in direct sales and marketing fail, and here’s the reason why. They “Prejudge” their Prospects and change their presentations to better fit that particular prospect. Here’s an example:

“Oh, he’s just a 24 year old stuttering kid that will never make it in the
industry so I’ll just change the presentation and make it a little shorter. No
need to waste my time.”

On the flip side of that, most people will say this to themselves:

“I’m sitting down with a CEO of a company today so I’ve got to take out the part on money, because he has plenty.”

It doesn’t matter who your prospect is…You cannot prejudge him/her and change your presentation! As you know that 24 year old stutterer was me, and I would have earned you seven figures if you wouldn’t have prejudged me.

The challenge for most business builders is prejudging their prospects based
on his/her credentials, looks, past, etc. I believe each and every person is a Miracle…
I believe every single business builder should be a seven figure earner if they choose to be. DO NOT PREJUDGE!

Show your plan and your business to each prospect the very same way.
Don’t change it for anyone! It’s the same way you drive your car. You always bring your blinker, you shocks, your brakes…every time you drive your car! You can’t prejudge conditions no matter the circumstance. Never, ever prejudge, and I guarantee you that you will become a seven figure earner and build a powerhouse business.

Did you know…

Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read?

Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school?

Beethoven’s music teacher once said that he was hopeless as a composer?

Edison’s teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything?

F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employers wouldn’t let him wait on a customer because he didn’t have enough sense?

A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas?

Enrico Caruso’s music teacher told him that he couldn’t sing?

Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk War as a captain and came out as
a private?

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade?

All of these world-renowned winners fell numerous times but because of their determination and fellowship with the right people, they were able to win. Take a stand today and begin fellowshipping with the people who will be there for you during the rough times not only the great times!

Each day as an achiever, you need to set daily, productive action goals that are results-oriented. I personally prefer a goal partner – an accountability partner – someone you can be accountable to each and every day to make sure you did what you said you were going to do! As soon as you instill this into your mindset, you will see the results of your productive efforts flourish very quickly.

The daily compounding of effectiveness will be very dramatic for you to witness. The key to success is leverage, but you must be confident in your efforts to be duplicated in a productive manner. You need to ask yourself a very powerful, truthful question every night as you retire to bed, “If everyone did today what I did for my business, how much would they have actually accomplished?”

Always remember, a small improvement over a long period of time produces dramatic results! Begin to review your actions TODAY…RIGHT NOW! Confirm that they are accomplishment-oriented and that your mindset reflects productivity versus pure movement as activity. I WARN YOU! You will begin to see outstanding results begin immediately. Always be a truthful judge of your actions and determine if you are just being active or are you accomplishing your ultimate outcome through your daily activities.

Confident – A coach must be confident that he can teach you to become successful in your field because he has already done it. Confidence comes through struggles and failures that ultimately lead to success.

Open – A coach must be willing to tell you the truth even when the truth hurts. Sometimes it’s very difficult to see that you are standing in your own way of success. A true coach will bring this to your attention.

Admirable – If you don’t respect the coach for what he has done in his career or personal life, then you most likely don’t want to hire him. A coach should be full of integrity and well respected among his peers. It’s hard to be coached by someone that you don’t look up to or even consider to be a professional in the field.

Consistent – A coach must be consistent with the strategies that he is teaching. You will see many coaches that jump from idea to idea because what they are doing hasn’t worked for their clients. Ask your coach for references so that you can see if he has helped others implement strategies that have led to success.

Healthy – Yes, that’s right. A coach should lead a healthy, happy life. You shouldn’t have to hear about how bad his day was or how much he doesn’t get along with his wife. You want a coach that has a balanced lifestyle that enables him to help you with your obstacles and not concentrate on his own issues.

These are just a few things to consider when looking for that right coach that will assist you in achieving your “Why” in life. I challenge you to set a goal of hiring a personal coach, but be sure to find the right one for you!

I am a true believer that you must pay the price for success in life. There is no such thing as a free lunch or a “get-rich-quick” scheme that is going to fulfill you on a long-term basis. “P” is the first letter in the word Persistence and the first letter in Price, which is the key to understanding that you must be truly persistent and willing to pay the price in your endeavor in order to achieve your goals!

Most people do not really internalize what being persistent really means. Persistence means when everyone looks at you and says “What do you think you’re doing?” or “Who do you think you are? You continue on your quest for success! The successful person who truly understands the meaning of Persistence will know that this is part of the price you pay – not succumbing to the limitations put on you by others. Anyone who has hit the wall in their success journey has had to turn to their “persistence gene” to see how strong and internalized it really is! I can tell you all the pieces work together for you because if you know your “WHY” you will be able to look inside and pull through. This is persistence!

As you are growing in life, you will always remember the times when you needed to be persistent in your efforts to pull through! A major tip to pulling through is to have a mastermind group of people who believe in what you are working toward!

Are YOU persistent?

Most people fail more between the ages of 16-25 and then they don’t fail ever again in life, which means they never SUCCEED! You see, at the age 25 the majority of people lose their steam and decide to live a life instead of designing a lifestyle for themselves and their families. I am very proud to say that I have failed numerous times in my life. Just ask my parents, they will tell you …”but John you went to college just get a JOB!” As entrepreneurs, we all know that we never have jobs because whatever we do has our life-print on it, which represents our potential. The following is a list of people that we all know who failed before they succeeded. I cannot emphasize enough that you need to continue to try over and over until you succeed and realize that, as I’ve said before, “Each failure is a stepping stone to Success, which in turn will become a very long and lovely stone walkway into the castle of your DREAMS!”

FAILURES…BUT NOT QUITE
–After Fred Astaire’s first screen test, a 1933 memo from the MGM testing director said, “Can’t act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.” Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.

–A relatively unsuccessful marketer of restaurant equipment, he didn’t sell his first hamburger until age 52. At a time when many people prepare for retirement, Ray Kroc built McDonald’s from a handful of hamburger stands into the world’s largest food chain.

–When his older brother was killed during WWII, he first withdrew into a shell. Then he began to listen to the radio to ease his pain. Soon he was dreaming about hosting his own radio show. That led Dick Clark to start American Bandstand.

–Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper for lacking ideas. He also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.

The question that I have for you now is, “Do you realize how you must be proud of your failures because they really are successes?” Many of my workshop attendees have heard me say “…experience is what you receive when you do not achieve what you desire.” I suggest to print this out and put it on your desk where you can read this article every day and remind yourself about Fred Astaire, Ray Kroc, Dick Clark, and Walt Disney and say to yourself, “What is MY story going to be?” You need to fail in order to ultimately succeed in LIFE! After all, in success language, failure means you are almost there!