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…and the successful become more and more successful.
I have to confess something to you. While you can definitely glean ideas, tips and important distinctions that will accelerate your progress, there are a few advantages that do separate the superachievers from everyone else that are not easily accessible.
Advantages you cannot simply find in a magazine, book or CD/DVD program, unfortunately.
These three advantages are access to Counsel, Connections and Strategies.
Let me explain briefly.
Counsel—The best in the world have the best in the world advising, consulting and coaching them. It is one of the greatest ways they gain advantage over their competitors.
The best golfer, tennis player, baseball pitcher, singer, even surgeon, CEO and top entrepreneur all invest in highly paid advisors and coaches. Why? This is a massively critical point about high performance.
There is a phenomenon called unconscious incompetence, meaning, you don’t even know when you aren’t doing something correctly or to the best of your ability. It takes someone outside of you to observe, identify, prod and counsel you in order to bring awareness to the adjustments needed take your performance to the next level.
A top CEO once said to me, “You can never pay too much to rent someone’s eyes, mind and experience.”
If you want to take your life to the next level, you, too, will want to seek out the best advisors and coaches to help get you there.
Connections—It is not just who the top achievers in the world know and have access to; what’s far more critically valuable is the high-achieving reference group this provides them. As human beings we raise or lower our performance to match the expectations and performance level of our reference group. As
Stephen Covey pointed out, if you take a walk with someone whose pace is quicker than yours, it...
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Posted by Darren Hardy | Posted in SUCCESS, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 11-10-2011 |
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In this age of information and technology, we have a world of resources at our fingertips.
Much of human knowledge has been scanned, transcribed, recited and digitized for immediate Google access. Today there are more teachers, preachers, coaches, consultants, mentors and "experts" at your disposal than ever. But the most overlooked, underutilized and divinely powerful resource of them all is you—your own inner voice, intuition and instinct.
I think many people have lost contact with their inner resource.
We live in an era in which everyone around us is telling us what we should do—the government, religious authorities, academic leaders, news media, commercial marketers, our bosses, our parents and now hundreds of friends on Facebook and Twitter every day.
I believe the deluge of all these available resources, ideas and opinions can overwhelm us, put us into a bit of a stupor and make us lazy. As Albert Einstein once said, "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." You cannot simply study the wisdom of others.
You have to think through ideas yourself and tap your own inner wisdom.
Too often we are consumed by some epic hunt for the Holy Grail. We're looking for someone else's secret, answer, formula or big idea in order to get where we want to go.
Over time, and through practice, I have found that the answers to life's most vexing questions don't exist on Ask.com, YouTube or Wikipedia, but reside within us. The Holy Grail, as it were, isn't out there to be found, but lies within us, waiting to be discovered.
As you know, I interview people for a living. It's true that incredible insights, inspiration and distinctions can be found by interviewing and studying people who have already been where you wish to go. But when it comes to the big issues—to those vexing questions and momentous decisions of...
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Posted by Darren Hardy | Posted in SUCCESS, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 06-09-2011 |
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As a society, I think we often misunderstand the word success. Our society celebrates those who obtain fame, wealth, power and celebrity, no matter the means—ethical or not—and we call them successful. Success is often equated to an achieved status, rather than to a measure of value or contribution.
We are taught early in life to strive for success, to achieve the status—win the trophy, get the notable degree, land the big position, win the impressive title, acquire the bigger house, bring back the enviable vacation photos and collect the cars, boats, jewels and big bank account. And when we are waving from the mountaintop, having finally achieved these trappings of "success," we often feel a stark emptiness inside. What's wrong?
We might have acquired everything we ever wanted, except the one thing that really matters—significance. We want to know that our lives meant something, that we've had a positive impact on the lives of others. And only significance provides that; success by itself cannot.
The interesting thing is you can be successful and not significant, but you cannot be significant without being successful.
In 2007, when we took over the stewardship of this legendary magazine, we decided not to change the name. Instead we have attempted to change the definition of success. We see success as... CLICK HERE TO READ REST OF POST
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Posted by Darren Hardy | Posted in SUCCESS, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 30-08-2011 |
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Why do you want to learn how to be a loser? you ask. We learn from both examples and warnings. This post provides you both.
It’s good to know how to be a loser so, 1) you could do the opposite and 2) you can check to be sure you aren’t doing those things yourself.
I remember Jim Rohn saying that it’s too bad failures don’t give seminars. He would say, “If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you’ve just got to say, ‘John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me? Tell me how a good-looking guy like you with a beautiful family, everything going for him messed up his life so bad. What did you do? What do you read? What do you eat? What type of people do you hang out with? What do you do with your free time? What TV programs, newspapers, and radio programs do you spend time with? Wouldn’t that information be valuable? Find out and then DON’T DO those things.” Great strategy.
Here’s some loser training tips to get you started:
Take it day by day. Don’t bother with setting goals, making plans and preparing. Just wake up each morning and figure out what you want to do then.
Seek comfort. Growth and progress requires work, stress and struggle. Forget it. Stay comfy instead.
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Posted by Darren Hardy | Posted in SUCCESS, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 07-06-2011 |
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The revelation is this: The way we were… is over.
As you know, we are living through an era of unprecedented change. Over the last decade, we began hearing the death rattle of a bygone era. The corporate structure and system has begun to crumble. The global marketplace has been flattened. Innovative, fast-moving and nimble competition has risen from nearly all corners of the planet. Technology has wired us all directly to each other. Now every manufacturer or marketer has immediate and direct access to everyone, everywhere, destroying heavily controlled and highly valued distribution channels.
All this deconstruction and loss of control by the few, the behemoths, the entrenched, spells freedom… and opportunity for the rest of us.
As entrepreneurs and individual achievers, it is our time to thrive!
But you also have to adapt. The traditional yellow brick road to success and financial security has been deconstructed as well. The path to the high-paying job you needed and desired used to involve getting the highest academic degree you could obtain, along with some specific technical job skills. Today, if those jobs still exist, certainly the rules of those jobs have changed and will continue to do so.
With the mind-blowing velocity of change and the throng of competition, the skills needed for 21st century success are less about academic or industrial or technical training, and more about what might be called the "soft skills": emotional intelligence, adaptability and resiliency; networking, interpersonal and relationship-development skills; self-motivation, accountability and productivity skills; personal branding, social marketing and persuasive communication skills; along with leadership, recruiting and people-building skills.
So, to stay relevant, if not gain the advantage, in today's ever-changing and fast-evolving marketplace, where do you go to gain these critical skills? You won't...
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We need to rally together and do something about this!
I heard this statistic and tweeted about it yesterday:
@DARRENHARDY Get this stat:@end of this mo. 3M kids will graduate college-2.4M will be moving in with their parents!! They need SUCCESS!! Help me!
I got flooded with people saying the want to help, but asked how.
So, I asked my SUCCESS team to perform a fire drill to come up with a solution we could collectively use.
This is the problem we are trying to impact:
Of the 3 million college students who will graduate this month, nearly 85% (2.4 million) of them have to move back in with their mom and dad!
The unemployment rate for the under-25 group is as high as 54%!
The U.S. Bureau of Labor reports 12.8 million young people (under age 30) are either unemployed, working part time or working at a job that doesn't require a college degree, after spending tens of thousands to obtain one!
Rick Raymond, of the College Parents of America, notes, "Graduates are not the first to be hired when the job markets begins to improve. We're seeing shocking numbers of people with undergraduate degrees who can't get work."
Sum Report finds that young adults without a college degree have been pushed out of the labor market entirely and are finding work at a lower rate than anytime since the end of World War II!
What can we do about this? We can help them separate from everyone else by developing the success mindset, habits, actions and persistence it's going to take to have them take personal accountability and control of their future. Whether they want to compete for their dream job or (better yet) take their ambition and initiate an entrepreneurial endeavor, they are going to need the inspiration, support, positive role models and mentors to help them realize their dreams.
There is NO better way to deliver all that to them than through a subscription to SUCCESS magazine and the personal mentorship of me and my mentor Jim Rohn. This is what I had my team put...
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Finishing up our series on what you do when you take one to the kisser, knocking you on your rump… (read part 1, 2, 3)
Here is Point No. 3: Turn obstacles into opportunities. Ask any great achiever who has achieved despite great obstacles, if they could go back and avoid the obstacle, would they, and the answer invariably is “no.” Even our friend Roger (born handicapped with only three fingers, one foot and three toes), if given the opportunity to have perfectly formed arms, legs, hands and feet, would chose to be born the same way he was.
This is true for Lance Armstrong and his battle with cancer. It wasn’t until after he fought and beat cancer that he developed the strength to beat everyone in the world, seven times, in one of the most grueling and punishing sport contests there is—The Tour de France.
Ask the woman heralded as the “fastest women on earth” in the 1960 Olympics, Wilma Rudolph, if she would go back and wish not to have suffered measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough and be born with polio, twisting her left leg so bad that it required a brace. It was BECAUSE of those obstacles that she had to dig up her deeper and greater potential and drive. It required her to work harder, longer and with more determination than any would-be competitor. That character, forged through difficulty, is what created the extraordinary achievements and opportunities she realized. As Albert Mensah said so eloquently to me in a recent interview, “Opportunities are cloaked in obstacles.”
In fact, to take this one step further, I have learned to see obstacles, failure and pain as positive and necessary for growth. I learned this early on from my dad, whose mantra in life was... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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Continuing our series of what you do when life gives you a roundhouse kick in the head and you suddenly end up sprawled out on the canvas… (read part 1 and 2)
Here is point No. 2: Focus on what’s good, right and possible. Stop dwelling on the obstacle.
As Roger Crawford said in our interview together, “Focus on what you CAN do instead of what you CAN’T do.”
Think about it, if you had disfigured limbs from the elbows and knees down and only three fingers… total and three toes total… on only one complete leg, it would be pretty difficult not to think about all that you couldn’t do versus what you could do.
Now look down at your hands and toes. Imagine what you can do, IF… you only focus on what you CAN do, given whatever limitations or obstacles you have, or think you have, instead of repeatedly focusing on all you cannot do. Please take this message to heart… and to your focus. As Roger said, “Problems in life are really possibilities, depending on what we choose to dwell on.”
I also have an important warning to offer you regarding this point:
Be sure the obstacle is not SERVING you.
It could be serving as a convenient excuse as to why you are not doing better or trying harder. Take notice of what you talk about. Do you continually talk about the obstacles you are facing or the positive progress you are making without even a mention of obstacles? Do you relish in lamenting, whining or even joking about the tragicomedy of your day? Or do your stories focus on the comeback, the hopefulness and the victory?
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If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know I like to point your attention and creative imagination toward what’s positive and what’s possible in the world—to look for and see the abundance, potential and opportunities of life.
And that is a good thing… and a very necessary thing if we want to move our lives in a positive direction and toward that greater abundance.
BUT, what do you do when you get knocked down. And you will. This is LIFE we are talking about. It is not always blue skies, singing birds and pretty rainbows outside. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it even storms and sometimes it even comes with the added drama (and potential pain) of lightening and thunder. What do you do then, Mr. Sunshine?
That is what we are going to address in this four-part series: When you get knocked on your tush in life, how do you get back up so you are not knocked OUT?
The interesting thing is, during the times of strife, struggle and challenge that the true achievers are born. Never mind the analogy of the true birth experience, having to overcome the incredible obstacles involved in literally being born. But after that first trying experience—and the slap of the doctor and your first cry—it is during the other challenges and obstacles of life when achievers are born.
Martin Luther King Jr. put it this way: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.” It is only when we are presented with those challenges that we get to separate ourselves from other men and women.
Imagine this: You are at the very top of your game. Let’s say that game is in one of the most competitive and rivaled fields in the entire world. After decades of painful discipline, sacrifice and relentless commitment, you finally rise to the top, the very top in fact, and then tragedy strikes….CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know I like to point your attention and creative imagination toward what’s positive and what’s possible in the world—to look for and see the abundance, potential and opportunities of life.
And that is a good thing… and a very necessary thing if we want to move our lives in a positive direction and toward that greater abundance. BUT, what do you do when you get knocked down. And you will.
This is LIFE we are talking about. It is not always blue skies, singing birds and pretty rainbows outside. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it even storms and sometimes it even comes with the added drama (and potential pain) of lightening and thunder. What do you do then, Mr. Sunshine?
That is what we are going to address in this four-part series: When you get...
Posted by Darren Hardy | Posted in SUCCESS, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 25-11-2010 |
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I thought, instead of giving you a gift that ends with you, how about one that helps you pass thanks on to someone else—giving seeds instead of a tree so to speak.
As my mentor Jim Rohn taught me, “The best gift you can give is the gift of personal development.”
I’d like to encourage you to give the gift of personal development to others by making it really attractive for you to do so.
The testimonials of those whose lives have been transformed after reading and listening to The Compound Effect book and audio have been stunning. I want you to feel the impact of being responsible for touching someone’s life that profoundly.
So here is what I organized for you… CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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Posted by Darren Hardy | Posted in SUCCESS, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 16-11-2010 |
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That is a well-known quote from the Bible and one I am contemplating today. By the time you are reading this with your eyes, I will have a knife stuck in my eyes. Today I am having eye surgery. Yikes!
However, there is something even more important than eyesight and that is vision—the ability to see what is invisible to others and might not yet even exist.
“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight,but has no vision.”—Helen Keller
There is a famous story about a block of marble back in the 1400’s. This block of marble was deemed flawed, useless and was cast aside. Every sculptor who looked at it saw it too long and narrow to be valuable for sculpture. It lay there worthless for 40 years. In 1501 a 26-year-old young man happened by this block of marble. He saw something very different. He had a greater vision for this block of marble. Inside this formless mass of stone this young sculptor saw the heroic beauty, grace and wonder of a man who would become known as David. Young Michelangelo famously said, “I already saw David inside, I had only to release him by chipping away at the marble that trapped him in.It is said we are not limited by our abilities or by our current circumstances. We are only limited by our vision of what can be. A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
One person sees a rock pile another sees a great cathedral.The difference? Vision.We are all very visual beings. Our eyes take in four million bits of information every second. Our imagination processes it and forms a three dimensional, four-color picture and puts that picture into creative motion. We all think in pictures. If I said, “big black dog”, what comes to mind? A picture of a big black dog, right? Every one of us has a picture of ourselves in our mind. We have a picture of our family, our business, our abilities and our future.
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Hopefully, by now you’ve figured out that the economy… is what it is.
Your employer (if you still have one) doesn’t owe you anything. And the government isn’t going to solve your problems. No one else is going to give you an income or provide for your retirement. For that matter, no one else can keep you healthy, ensure your marriage thrives or see to it that you are happy and fulfilled. Only you can make your life better.
And because you read this blog and SUCCESS magazine, I’m betting that you’ve also figured out that wanting, wishing, hoping, praying or simply envisioning your life better doesn’t make it so.
Contrary to movie lore, you cannot just sit on your couch imagining checks coming into your mailbox. No, you have to get off that couch, walk out your front door and take action.
As one of my predecessors, a previous publisher of SUCCESS, W. Clement Stone, put it, “I think there is something more important than believing: action! The world is full of dreamers; there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.” If you want to improve your life, you have to take action. Doing must follow wanting, believing, hoping, praying and planning.
What do you want to do? What do you want to achieve? What is success to you?
When I interviewed Maria Shriver—a woman who is extremely successful by any standard—she explained that she found herself chasing the wrong definition of success until she stopped to ask herself this important question: “What is the definition of success to me?” The answer changed her life. It changed the focus of her... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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My Journal Notes with Maria Shriver
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What is the most important thing in your life?
If you and I were face to face right now and I asked you that question, you’d probably promptly reply with “my family” or “my children” or “my spouse.”
But are you actually living that way? We say our family and relationships are most important, but our values are demonstrated not by our words, but by our deeds—not by what we say, but what we do.
I have found if you want to know what someone really values most, simply look at their calendar and their checkbook. How a person spends their time and money reveals what they really value most.
Well, no more lip service! It’s time to...
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Posted by Darren Hardy | Posted in SUCCESS, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 12-10-2010 |
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What is the most important thing in your life?
If you and I were face to face right now and I asked you that question, you’d probably promptly reply with “my family” or “my children” or “my spouse.”
But are you actually living that way? We say our family and relationships are most important, but our values are demonstrated not by our words, but by our deeds—not by what we say, but what we do. I have found if you want to know what someone really values most, simply look at their calendar and their checkbook. How a person spends their time and money reveals what they really value most. Well, no more lip service. It’s time to make the main thing in your life, actually the main thing.When I interviewed Zig Ziglar (SUCCESS, October 2008) and asked him what the greatest secret to his success was, he responded... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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When you’re a high-profile celebrity, your photo is taken all the time: out shopping, walking the dog, or late nights out. Some of those photos turn out great and some turn out to be a little risqué. For example, while looking for photos of Serena Williams for last year’s October cover, I came across a photo of her in a thong bikini. Not quite SUCCESS cover material...
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Last week we started a journey together through Maslow’s 8-Ways to Self-Actualizewith my supplemented editorial and action steps to help you actuallyactualize Maslow’s principles.
We traversed through the first 4-steps last week. Many of yourrealizations and mental breakthroughs mentioned in the comments werevery inspiring. Just reading them made me want to step up my game lastweek. Thank you!
This week we will complete the journey with steps 5 – 8. Imaginethis as your climb of Mount Everest (the peak of your potential) andyou have made it all the way to Camp IV (you’ve mastered Maslow’s steps1 – 4). Now you have what is called "The Final Push” left to go to"summit” the mountain. Well, Maslow’s steps 5 – 8 are your Final Push.Let’s go!
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
This one comes naturally to me. I am an anti-conformist by nature. Irecommend it to you as well. One of the greatest strengths ofleadership is the willingness to do what is unpopular. (Read: The Unpopular View of Leadership)
Don’t follow the herd. Don’t do what’s fashionable, trendy orpopular. What’s popular is what’s common. Do what’s common and you willget common results (aka mediocrity). You are looking for uncommonoutcomes, extraordinary achievements.
To do this you will have to do what Jim Rohn talked to us about—walk away from the 97%. Don’t use their vocabulary and don’t use their excuses. Don’t use their method of drift and neglect. Walk away and join the 3%. Take charge of your own life.
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No, not WWF McMahon style.
This past Sunday our good friends at ACN asked if I would come out totheir convention and interview Donald Trump live on stage in front oftheir 20,000 reps.
Donald has a reputation of being a tad bit capricious in his commentary and particularly rough on interviewers. So I was ready, I had my knives sharpened in case he started throwing down. He didn’t. Infact, he was really a sweetheart of a guy.I was asked afterward what surprised me most about the interview. I shouldn’t be surprised anymore, as every time I interview an extraordinary superachiever I walk away with the same realization. There really isn’tanything that extraordinary about them.
What I mean is their answers to all the probing success questions are simple and not extraordinary....
No, not WWF McMahon style.
This past Sunday our good friends at ACN asked if I would come out totheir convention and interview Donald Trump live on stage in front oftheir 20,000 reps.
Donald has a reputation of being a tad bit capricious in his commentary and particularly rough on interviewers. So I was ready, I had my knives sharpened in case he started throwing down. He didn’t. Infact, he was really a sweetheart of a guy.I was asked afterward what surprised me most about the interview. I shouldn’t be surprised anymore, as every time I interview an extraordinary superachiever I walk away with the same realization. There really isn’tanything that extraordinary about them.
What I mean is their answers to all the probing success questions are simple and not extraordinary. What is extraordinary is that they actually DO the simple principles of success—relentlessly, passionately and consistently. And unfortunately that IS extraordinary.
Here are some of Trump’s answers to my questions (These are not direct quotes, as I am pulling from memory on the plane flying back):
Most important advice to a new entrepreneur?
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If you think of your main website as your home base (be that a blog or a shopping site or a corporate site) and if you think of all the social networks as outposts, then you're halfway to understanding one of the best ways to market online, in my not-so-humble estimation. The trick is this: knowing when to engage on the outpost and knowing when to drive people back to the home base.
The Old Days and Home Bases
In Web 1.0, it was all about getting people back to your site. Please click the banner. Please fill out the form. Please do something to give me more traffic at my primary website.
If you think about it, the real-world equivalent would be requiring you to drive to Japan to check out which TV you wanted, versus just popping into the local BestBuy.
That was the old days.
Outposts...
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Before I was a blogger, I was an employee. After I became a blogger, I was someone with an opinion. I was a writer. I was a publisher. I was a business. In a word, learning how to use my voice set me free in ways that continue to expand and provide opportunity for me every day.
Your Voice as Gatejumper
On September 4, musician Kanye West decided to use Twitter to talk about his year-old outburst at the MTV music awards, wherein which he interrupted the process of Taylor Swift receiving an award. One could say that it was the worst move of West's career, and that he's felt the financial, the social, and other repercussions ever since. He went to Twitter because he felt he'd been censored and advised against and otherwise hampered in his efforts to communicate. Here's a rather salient...
Whenever I am asked what I believe the goal and purpose of life is, my answer is the same, and it’s the theme of this issue.
Of all the great pursuits in life, to me this is the most important. Every virtue, treasure and reward in life is obtained only through this quest. What is it? It is living your potential.
Robert Louis Stevenson said it more than a hundred years ago: “To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.”
But what is potential? Webster’s dictionary defines potential as possible (as opposed to what's currently actual) capable of being or becoming or a latent excellence or ability that may or may not be developed. So potential then is what you can become. It is the best possible version of yourself.
The first challenge, I believe, to living our potential—is realizing the greatness that is dormant inside of each of us.
Thomas Edison said, “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Dale Carnegie also taught, “We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.”
Why don’t we then? I think what stops most of us from tapping our inner genius; the hero or heroine inside each of us is fear. We are actually afraid of our greater potential.
19th century philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said it this way, “There is nothing of which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
I know I am constantly challenged by the philosophy espoused by Marianne Williamson when she says, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t...
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We often think of social media as one of two things: something kids do or something for big companies. If we've heard about people using social media, it's either something from a news story about a teen bullying another teen or it's hearing how JetBlue uses Twitter to improve customer service. The thing is, more and more people are finding success stories in social media. For instance, let's talk about a hamburger restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Joe Sorge runs AJ Bombers, a place I had the pleasure of visiting last winter after Joe reached out to me via Twitter. (To be fair, Scott Baitinger of Streetza Pizza also reached out, but because my belly wanted burgers more than pizza, Joe gets the story.) He made a simple offer. Hungry? Swing by @AJBombers and try out a Barrie...
Vanilla Haagen-Dazs… it must be made from angel’s milk. Sheerecstasy. What heaven must be like (please!). I savor each lick until mytaste buds scream in pain for more. And when I reluctantly swallow mylast bite—that’s what hell must be like.
I recently allowedmyself to have this sweet-bitter experience at a local Haagen-Dazsstore. While eating, I temporarily awoke from my blissful nirvana tosee (in horror) that I had licked off all the ice-cream on top. I wasnot ready to bite into the cone (that is the beginning of the end!). SoI went back up to the counter with a big milk covered smile (yes,angel’s milk) and said, as charming as I could muster, "for a realpassionate lover of your great product would you kindly add agratuitous small shaving to the top here (holding my topless cone outto her) to help extend my joy… just a little longer?” Even with astrict policy against such allowances, she said, "It would be mypleasure” and plunked another full (albeit hollow) scoop of vanillabliss on my cone. The charm must have worked (or the promise to promotethis story on my blog – I’m kidding!). When I came back to thetable with my new (free!) scoop my wife couldn’t believe it! One, thatI asked… and two, that she gave it me! I said simply, "it never hurtsto ask.” This is true in most instances, most every day. I’m a big believer that you only get what you ask for. If you don’t ask, you don’t get. So why not ask for everything? The worst possible thing that can happen is they say no.
Ask, and Ye Shall Receive. Ye Have Not, Because Ye Ask Not
Ask your way to wealthThe most money you will ever make (penny saved is a penny earned) is by asking for it. Let me give you an example or two…I was in a retail store recently. I asked the manager, CLICK HERE TO READ REST OF POST
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I’m a serious student of time management. I was hooked the first time I attended a Franklin-Covey seminar—I was 23. Using a system that included life planning (not just a calendar), I was able to get more done without feeling so scattered.
But since then, “more” has turned into a lot more. And it’s not just my stuff that that I have to keep track of… it’s my kids, my husband, work, school, writing deadlines, travel schedules, etc. Keeping everything organized in one online calendar helps, but the warning light on my mental-stress indicator was flashing OVERLOAD on a regular basis.
So it’s no wonder that the title of Patrick Lencioni’s book The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family caught my attention. Frantic is exactly how I felt. Maybe Lencioni and his book could offer some guidance...
After a keynote training I did this past weekend, a lady came up to me to ask what I thought of Rolfing.
"I don’t enjoy ralphing at all” I quickly responded. Then she explained it was a way to "structurally integrate and manipulate the whole body into gravity.” "Okaaay,” I replied. "Why, do you ask?” She explained she wanted to rise to the top rank of her sales organization so she has been paying a "personal manifestation expert” to train her.
He has her Rolfing twice a week, psychically hugging her inner child three times a day (I kid you not), setting up her feng shui money corner and chanting affirmations out loud in front of the mirror for 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes at night. "How many prospecting calls does he have you making each day?” I asked. "We haven’t talked about that” she replied.
Now the advice doesn’t need to be as off base or absurd as this to be wrong. In fact a lot of ‘expert’ advice is wrong.
Why?
What works for one person doesn’t always work for another.
The background or originating experience is different.
People have different personalities and strengths.
The timing and application is different.
Most ‘experts’ contradict each other anyway.
And frankly, there is just a lot of really bad, wrongheaded and bogus ‘expert’ advice out there. In some cases the advice is dangerous. In many cases it is simply distracting, thus productively damaging and time wasting.
As a 20-year consummate consumer of ‘expert’ personal-development material, I have heard, seen, tried and tested most all of it. As a 16-year business leader in the industry and publisher of SUCCESS, I am in the business of vetting so called ‘experts.’ (That is a big part of our job for you here at SUCCESS—to sort, filter and curate on your behalf, so you get the best and only the real-deal expert advice in SUCCESS magazine or on SUCCESS.com.)
Here is the No. 1 criterion I use to determine if someone is worthy of the ‘expert’ title... CLICK HERE TO READ...
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Posted by Chris Brogan | Posted in SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 12-08-2010 |
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Whether you're a big company or a solo act, social media has become part of the marketing mix for most organizations. You might be skirting around the edges and wondering what to do. You might have a hunch that your buyers are on Facebook, or LinkedIn, or both, but how do you know? And how should you mix this in with your other marketing? Let's cover that.
What Social Media Marketing Is Not
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The customer is NOT always right. Sometimes they are wrong. Sometimes they are even a jerk.
I was on a Southwest flight this past week coming home from delivering a keynote talk
in Vegas. On walks this guy (late) with two big bags. It was obvious he
was (still) inebriated (it was before noon). He started making quite a
ruckus when he couldn’t find any overhead space for his gargantuan
bags. The cheerful flight attendant politely offered to take his bags
and have them checked.
He refused and insisted on taking other people’s things out of the
overhead bin trying to force his in. When the flight attendant tried to
assist he got more belligerent and cursed at her. The pilot promptly
came from the front and expediently removed him from the plane. While
doing so, the loud-mouthed guy yelled, "This is the customer service
airline? I am a customer, I am right. It’s your job to service me!” The
pilot replied, "That is what we are doing sir, servicing the rest of our customers by removing you.” And with that, the rest of the plane let out a big cheer.
This is an extreme example, but I think as a business culture we
have gone too far in this attitude of the customer always being right.
Of course, the customer is important and it is good business to deliver
a great experience, but NOT at the sacrifice of CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.
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Posted by John Assaraf | Posted in SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 02-08-2010 |
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What drives your results? Could it be how well you market or how great your products or services perform? The answer may surprise you. Watch this next video to find out how to enhance your results by looking behind the scenes at your values, beliefs and habits.
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As I sit down to write, I imagine our contributing editor Don Yaeger on assignment: Deep in South Louisiana, he’s swatting mosquitoes in the swelter of this July afternoon. He’s sweating. Every once in a while, he has to stomp a foot to keep a fire ant from climbing up his sock. And he’s loving every minute.
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John Lennon is my real estate agent in South Beach, Miami. Seriously, that is his real name.
John sells exclusively on a single street called South Pointe Drive, located in an exclusive area called SoFi (South of Fifth). His sales territory consists of six über-luxury high-rises along the cruise ship waterway and Miami Beach front.
In the past 15 years, John has sold more than $3 billion in real estate on this street (do the math on 3 percent commission—that’s almost as much as the other John Lennon made!).
John took Georgia and me to lunch a couple days ago to give us an update on our property and the market. I took the opportunity to try and pry out the secret to his extraordinary success.
I found it! And now I will pass it along to you too…
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John Lennon is my real estate agent in South Beach, Miami. Seriously, that is his real name.
John sells exclusively on a single street called South Pointe Drive, located in an exclusive area called SoFi (South of Fifth). His salesterritory consists of six über-luxury high-rises along the waterfront.
In the past 15 years, John has sold more than $3 billion in real estateon this street (do the math on 3 percent commission—that’s almost asmuch as the other John Lennon made!).
John took Georgia and me to lunch a couple days ago to give us anupdate on our property and the market. I took the opportunity to tryand pry out the secret to his extraordinary success.
I found it! And now I will pass it along to you too… CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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Posted by Darren Hardy | Posted in SUCCESS, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 06-07-2010 |
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Feeling stuck? Or fired? Or inspired? Today’s "best of times,
worst of times” economy offers the perfect opportunity to take stock of
your life and your business. One thing is certain… maintaining the
status quo is not an option.
You may be one of the millions who were forced out of a comfortable
(but perhaps, unfulfilling) career. If so, your best option and only
real choice may be to reinvent yourself. Or it could be you feel
compelled to reinvent yourself or your business in order to seize an
unexpected opportunity. Either way, the August issue of SUCCESS will prove invaluable to you.
Reinvention has resulted in some of the world’s greatest business
success stories. Companies that launch with the intention to do one
thing often end up finding their grand opportunity lies in a completely
different direction. Taking advantage of the opportunity requires a
reinvention of thought and strategy—and the effort pays off. For
instance, as a startup, Flickr was an online game project and chat
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I remember Walter Cronkite saying the best training you could get as a reporter was at your hometown paper, where you better spell your neighbors’ names right or risk getting punched in the nose. I started my journalism career 28 years ago at my hometown paper, The Baytown Sun, on the upper Gulf Coast of Texas.
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Starting June 28, John Assaraf will team with SUCCESS magazine for the six-week Entrepreneur Challenge to help would-be business owners take the next step and guide existing entrepreneurs in finding renewed inspiration. Assaraf will write twice-weekly blog posts to share the secrets of success as a business owner.
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My mentor Jim Rohn emphasized that one of the first things everyone should work on is their physical health. He said, “How terrible would it be if the mind said, ‘let’s go conquer the world’ and the body said, ‘I can’t even get out of bed’?” It takes your healthy body to carry around your head full of ideas and your heart’s desires.
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During my interview with Kenneth Cole in his Manhattan offices for our July cover story, three things happened that didn’t make it into the article but told me more about Kenneth Cole as a person than many of the answers he gave me.
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The special Entrepreneurship Issue of SUCCESS with Kenneth Cole on the cover hits newsstands today!
Every issue of SUCCESS magazine is designed to support, instruct and uplift the entrepreneur. But this issue we’re focusing specifically on your needs as a business owner.
We know you’re the type of person who wants more out of life; your career isn’t about a paycheck, it’s about creating your best possible life and becoming your best possible self. That’s why, even though we pride ourselves on offering you meaningful content every issue, I believe this edition is one of the most important issues we offer all year.
Entrepreneurialism is the heart of our economic system. In a time when everyone is claiming there’s no work to be had, entrepreneurs are out there creating jobs. In fact, an entrepreneur pursuing his or her passion is the greatest stimulus package there is.
Today, according to stats from the Small Business Administration, small businesses:
• Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms
• Employ more than half the private-sector employees
• Pay 44 percent of the total U.S. private payroll
• Have generated more than 64 percent of all new jobs during the past 15 years
• And create more than half the private gross domestic product
Entrepreneurialism is also the heart of the American dream. Taking control of our dreams, pursuing our passions and following through on that wild idea not only makes life more enjoyable—it pays well! Eighty percent of self-made millionaires became millionaires because CLICK TO READ REST OF POST
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Today is the birthday of The Compound Effect—Multiplying Your Success. One Simple Step at a Time! Through all the labor pains I’ve endured while creating this book, today is the day!
As a man, I think this is as close as I can ever get to gestating, worrying about and carrying the burden of nurturing a child for nine-plus months, and then, finally (and not without pain), give birth to this thing you have worked so hard to develop and care for.
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Today is the birth day of The Compound Effect—Multiplying Your Success. One Simple Step at a Time!Through all the labor pains I’ve endured in creating this book, today is the day!
As a man, I think this is as close as I can ever get to gestating, worrying about and carrying the burden of nurturing a child for nine-plus months, and then, finally (and not without pain), give birth to this thing you have worked so hard to develop and care for. Today is the day! Whew!
Below I am including a free view of the introduction to the book. I think you will find value in it alone and it will give you an idea of what you can additionally gain by having your own copy of the book. Oh, also: video intro, success quiz, more infoAmazing. Movies: I have always found it amazing that you can own the product of someone’s investment of a $200MM production (Avatar for example) and years of work by thousands of people for less than 20 bucks. Even more incredible to me is to get the chance to own the best ideas, strategies and advice, proven from someone’s life experience condensed down into a written book, also for less than $20. Now that I know how much blood, sweat, tears, pain, suffering, heart and soul goes into getting it just right… I think books should cost $1,000 each! But now I am biased of course. Well, this one doesn’t (it should!), it too is less than $20. Crazy, I know!
As my mentor Jim Rohn said (whom, along with my dad this book is dedicated to), “This is your chance to turn pennies into fortunes. If you feed the body and not the mind, you will settle for pennies and not fortunes. If you can feed your mind, you can feed your life and your family forever.”
I can promise you this: the ideas presented inside The Compound Effect are worth hundreds of times more than what it will cost you to obtain them. Oh, and I also HIGHLY recommend getting the audio program that goes with it—I am especially excited about that! In it I share additional ideas (not in the...
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Posted by Chris Freytag | Posted in Health, SUCCESS Magazine | Posted on 01-06-2010 |
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Accountability is one of the most helpful ways to reach a goal. Most executives and managers are well-trained in holding others and themselves accountable on the job. But when it comes to their own health… they sometimes fall short of plan. As a result, this is an area that seems to be in need of a consistent push or prompt.
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Accountability is one of the most helpful ways to reach a goal. Most executives and managers are well-trained in holding others and themselves accountable on the job. But when it comes to their own health… they sometimes fall short of plan. As a result, this is an area that seems to be in need of a consistent push or prompt.
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I don’t have to tell you that if you want to be successful at something, study the habits of experts. That’s what you already do…that’s one of the reasons you tap into SUCCESS magazine…to get firsthand professional counsel. You turn to the skilled and trained for advice in finance, management, leadership and more.
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Contrary to what many might think (and many practice), the most important job of a leader is not to speak, preach, direct or advise.... The most important job of a leader is to listen.
In a recent interview I did with management guru Tom Peters, he revealed the four most important words in business leadership are “What do you think?”
Tom said listening should be a leader’s full-time profession. They should be the professional gatherer of input, ideas, feedback, opinion, perspective and personal experience in order to make informed, well-thought-through leadership decisions.
Richard Branson once said to me, “If you are a good leader, you are a good listener.”
This is true for everyone in every aspect of life, but it’s one of the most neglected skills I observe every day.
I am always fascinated by how poorly people listen. There are many ways people invalidate and hurt their relations with others by their lack of listening skill.
Here are a few...
The Offenders. These people are the worst. They make it clear you are... CLICK HERE TO READ REST OF POST
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Contrary to what many might think (and many practice), the most important job of a leader is not to speak, preach, direct or advise.... The most important job of a leader is to listen.
In a recent interview I did with management guru Tom Peters, he revealed the four most important words in business leadership are
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Posted by Chris Freytag | Posted in SUCCESS Magazine, Well-Being | Posted on 20-05-2010 |
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We’re more than halfway through the SUCCESS magazine 30-Day Get Fit Challenge. In my first blog post, I said, “It’s your physical being, it’s your diet, and it’s your emotional state that intertwine together to create a healthy lifestyle.” I can suggest exercises all day, but until you break through your barriers, lose your excuses and rid yourself of your fears about exercise, you won’t be able to put the puzzle completely together.
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When Les Brown, speaker, speech coach and author of Live Your Dreams, called me to offer his enthusiastic endorsement for my soon-to-be-released (June 1) book, The Compound Effect (I’m very excited about it! The picture is me just having received shipment!), he said something very profound:
"If you are hungry to be successful, this is it. The
fundamentals of all the success you ever want to achieve are condensed
into one book. Don’t read this—consume it. Study it; make it your
operations manual for life. Darren Hardy challenges you to get out of
your head and get into your greatness.”
He told me, "This is the first time I learned who you are. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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When Les Brown, speaker, speech coach and author of Live Your Dreams, called me to offer his enthusiastic endorsement for my soon-to-be-released (June 1) book, The Compound Effect (I’m very excited about it! The picture is me just having received shipment!), he said something very profound:
“If you are hungry to be successful, this is it. The fundamentals of all the success you ever want to achieve are condensed into one book. Don’t read this—consume it. Study it; make it your operations manual for life. Darren Hardy challenges you to get out of your head and get into your greatness.”
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Innovate or die? I know that sounds dramatic. And while you
might not physically die, your greater hopes and dreams and your
chances to accomplish your big goals will. Innovation has always
separated leaders from followers, those who succeed and those who just
get by. Innovation is what creates progress, and progress is what
advances companies and people beyond the competitive herd of the
masses, average and the status quo.
There was a time when innovation seemed to come from the minds of a
select few and "special” people, like Franklin, Einstein, Edison,
Gutenberg, the Wright brothers. Today, with the speed of progress and
the competitive global marketplace, just to keep up, every single
person in every position needs to be an innovator, or risk being
permanently sidelined.
So what is innovation? Innovation is not a task, project or something you only do at an off-site meeting. Innovation is CLICK HERE TO READ REST OF POST
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When it comes to influencing others, recruiting, selling or motivating people to take action, it has very little to do with WHAT you say.
Typically, however, this is what most focus on. Having trained many salespeople, recruiters, and even stage speakers, most of them are mostly concerned with what to say… what’s my script, what’s my presentation, what do I say when they have this objection, etc.
I was reminded of this principle because I recently had a colleague reviewing a transcript of a talk from a speaker friend of mine. She was very unimpressed and actually very critical. On paper, his grammar was less than polished, sentences were fragmented and many of his concepts left unfinished. She rated him a terrible speaker and someone of little influence. Then I brought her to...
I did a keynote presentation for a great company last week called Ingram Micro, a $300+ billion, Fortune 100 company. In my keynote, I discussed:
• How these are the most exciting and opportunity-rich times to be an entrepreneur in all of human history (why that is, statistically).
• How technology is leveling the playing field (redistributing the wealth)
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When I met the president of Israel, Shimon Peres, I asked him what he believed the purpose of life to be. He replied without hesitation, “to find a cause that’s larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.”
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We all get knocked down from time to time—it’s part of what makes life interesting… always keeping us alert and on our toes.
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Please don’t.
I just finished writing my commentary for our forthcoming SUCCESS Audio Series issue that is based on developing professional and other relationships. I thought you might enjoy the insight of these thoughts as well. Here are six ways to give you the relationship edge in business and in life.
Here is tip No. 1 and maybe the most important one of all…
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One of the things the best of the best in business (and life) do staggeringly well is they leverage time to create spectacular results. We all have the same amount of time in a day/month/life. Those who use it poorly live half lives. Those who use it well become superstars.
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In my mind, wealth and leadership aren’t just about making money. There are actually eight elements that you want to make sure are at world-class levels before you call yourself rich (and truly successful).
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Recently, I was on a flight traveling with my 6-year-old goddaughter sitting next to me. To set a good example, I told her to listen carefully to the flight attendant’s safety instructions. While talking about the oxygen masks, one flight attendant made a point to come to me to reiterate: “Make sure you secure yours before helping with hers.” I smiled politely, but inside I sneered, “Yeah right. Think of myself first before helping her? No way.”
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