Would You Rather Have Effortless Effort than Relentless Struggle?

Every time I get close to success I sabotage myself.”

“Why is making money so difficult for me.”

“Look, for other people things are so easy, why not for me.”

Any of these 3 thoughts sound familiar?

The content of this post is from an email newsletter I receive from Mike Litman, a well known business and personal coach.

Keep reading below if the questions above have you intrigued…

Too many people today have been beat up and have ingested JUNK BELIEFS.

Let me define ‘junk beliefs’ for you.

Junk belief: A belief you digested years ago that guarantees your struggle and failure today.

Let’s keep going.

Let’s talk about one of the biggest junk beliefs we could have soaked it.

***The Belief Called ‘Struggle’***

Many people were taught, “making money is hard.”

And even more than that.

They were taught, “life is hard, life is a struggle.”

When you soak in struggle, your circumstances reflect struggle.

In your life, relationships, and finances.

So now you say “I want to end struggle in my life, what’s the opposite of struggle?”

The opposite of struggle is EFFORT.

Struggle is actions laced with negative emotions and desperation.

Effort is natural. It’s taken one action after another, moving to your destination.

We were born to make EFFORTS.

We were not born to struggle.

The famous author Emile Coule said years ago, “Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so.”

Say out loud, “Making money is easy.”

“Having great relationships is easy for me.”

Make this a habit.

Many people have bought into STRUGGLE and don’t even see they have.

It’s an ‘invisible’ belief that chains them to mediocrity and strife. They’ve been directed by this belief so long, it almost seems natural, a ‘part of them’.

You deserve to live a life of EFFORT, not struggle.

Demand a greater awareness from yourself, making sure you haven’t bought into this junk belief.

Choose effortless effort over relentless struggle today!

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Would You Like an “Energizer Bunny” Income Stream?

You have probably heard of the term “residual income” but just in case you haven’t I’m going to share a snippet of an interview with Robert Allen, Real Estate Tycoon, Best Selling Author and Success coach and Mike Litman.

Mike Litman asked Robert Allen to explain the difference between linear income and residual income

“Linear means you work once, you get paid once.

Residual is you work once, you get paid thousands of times.

That crazy book I wrote in 1980, it’s been twenty-one years ago, Nothing Down is the largest selling real estate book in history and the reason that I get residual income is I worked once, hard, 21-years ago and it unleashed a steady stream of income into my life ever since.

The book is being sold in every bookstore in North America.

I don’t have to be there.

I don’t have to do the work to market it or to sell it.

It’s all done now by the bookstores all across North America.

So the real secret, is for you to find a stream of income where you set yourself up for residual streams of income.”

Now most of you are probably saying “That’s sort of obvious isn’t it?”…

And I would have to agree…it is obvious.

But now I want to ask you a question…

How many of you reading this post have even one residual stream of income let alone multiple residual streams?

If you don’t have any make a plan to find and start one…if you already have one start another.

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Laser Focus or Loser Focus?

This morning I read a really good article by Mike Litman, a well known business and personal coach on “focus” and thought I’d share it with you.

“Ideas almost destroyed me. They did.

I used to think ideas were the greatest thing in the world.

Back when I first started my entrepreneurial journey, I would have a new idea
on a Monday, tell a few people.

Thursday, another idea would come to me.

A week later I came up with the ‘greatest idea ever’ in the shower and told a few more people.

And on and on and on.

Ideas almost destroyed me.

Ideas were coming to me in an avalanche that I became the most scattered person on the planet.

Completely scattered.

I was caught in the claws of what I call the ‘Idea Avalanche’.

The ‘Idea Avalanche’ is the entrepreneur’s curse.

You have so many ideas and then you look back years later and you’ve accomplished next to nothing.

What a waste. I wasted so much time.

Onward.

Ideas are neutral. They can be good or bad.

What raised me from failure to success wasn’t tons of ideas, it was discovering how to focus and concentrate.

This wasn’t easy for me.

I see so many people getting beat up from a lack of focus.

They follow the ‘latest, greatest, gimmick’ and their progress is in cement. It doesn’t move.

You, me, us, we’re better then that. Much better.

Find your focus. Take one step at a time. Just one.

You can do it. You know you can.

Stop being busy. Start being productive. You can do it.

The cure for the idea avalanche is to make a CONSCIOUS attempt to bring 1% more focus and concentration into your life daily.

My friend, I see you becoming a individual with laser like focus.

I see you becoming an individual who can concentrate incredibly.

Start now.”

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Need a Bowl of Chicken Soup for Your Soul?

The past few days I’ve been posting on an ebook I’m reading where Mike Litman and Jason Oman interview some of the most well known successful businessmen and motivational speakers of our time.

Today’s post is from the interview with Chicken Soup for the Soul author Jack Canfield.

Mr. Canfield was asked to speak on the importance of taking risks and it’s relation to moving forward in life. Here is his response.

“We have to risk, and every time we do something that’s different there are three areas we can risk in:

- We can risk in our behavior. That’s what we say and do.
- We can risk in our thoughts by thinking new thoughts.
- We can risk in our imagination by imagining new pictures. Every time we do that, we are going to risk getting an outcome that we’re not familiar with.

So, we have to risk being uncomfortable.

The thing that is keeping most people stuck, and why they don’t succeed more, is that they are not willing to be uncomfortable.

It’s uncomfortable to try a new behavior.

Like trying a new way to go home.

Or using a new sales close you’ve never used before on a big account.

That’s because you don’t know what’s going to happen.

But, what we do know is that if you keep on doing what you’ve always done; you’re going to keep on getting what you’ve always gotten.

If you’re not happy with what you’re getting, you’ve got to change your behavior.”

The key for you if this is new or terrifying is to start small.

You don’t have to revamp your entire way of doing things over night.

Accepting and implementing change is a muscle we develop so start small and over time you will develop more strength, excellence and confidence to take on more and larger change.

Pick one small thing you can change today that is aimed in the direction of your future success.

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Conversation With Mark Victor Hansen – Chicken Soup for the Soul

In case you weren’t following the past few posts I am pulling some great material out of an ebook where Mike Litman interviews some of the most successful people of our time.

In the hot seat right now is Mark Victor Hansen author of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Mark Victor Hansen says -

I want people to repeat, “I’m healthy, I’m happy, I’m successful.” What we learned from my friend Deepak Chopra, who is probably the greatest medical doctor, quantum physicist, and ayurvedic healer.

Deepak says, “happy thinking causes happy cells. Happy cells, happy quanta. Happy quanta causes everything else to be happy.”

I’m just saying that every one of us needs to decide whether you are going to be happy or sad, whether you are going to be successful or a failure.

You’ve got to say, “Goodbye to poverty, hello to riches.” You’ve got to say, “Goodbye to sickness, hello to health. Goodbye to limitedness and hello to being unlimited.”

There are plenty of examples around at every level whether it is spiritual, mental, physical, or financial.

All of it exists and there is total prosperity available to each of us individually. When we all find it individually; we have it collectively.”

This is a great reminder that our financial future is in our own hands, not fate or luck or your boss.

What have you decided for your life?

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