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October 7, 2014 by Brett Leave a Comment

Practice High Quality Mindset Action

Practice High Quality Mindset Action

Some days don’t go awesome. They aren’t child in the hospital or the bank repossessed the car bad. They’re just rock in the shoe types of days.

They are splinter that won’t come out types of days. They are dryer stopped working and forgot to renew the tag type days. They are slight reprimand by the accounting manager days.

I’m not fond of those types of days. Who is?

Having a good day is about attitude
Give me your best shot, day!

Practice Mindset. Why Not?

One way to handle those days is to bitch and moan. Complain. Eat a lot of chocolate. Play a lot of Candy Crush. Go off on Facebook (please don’t do that one).

Another way to handle those days? Practice having a high quality mindset. I loved the advice that Jordan Harbinger of The Art of Charm guy gave on pat Flynn’s podcast:

When you walk into every room, have the shoulders straight, hold the chest out as if you’re shining a light with it, and have a big fat smile on your face.

It doesn’t matter if anybody’s in the room or not. Just smile and walk in confidently. I talked about this before, but it bears repeating. Plus, I’m blessed that I might get a new reader who won’t thumb through my posts to find this gem of advice.

Our problems are first world problems, and most of them won’t right themselves via whining. Never happens.

We want sympathy and all that, but over time, the better play is to stare the situation down and give it the big finger of a more hopeful, proactive mindset.

Which brings me to strategy number two…

Notice the Thing You Fear… And Do It

Today, I listened to The Shawn Stevenson’s The Model Health Show Podcast with Pat Flynn: How To Grow Stronger From Stress, Live More Fulfilled, And Do Work That You Love.

One of my biggest takeaways was this idea that if we fear something, then that’s a clue that we probably should lean in and confront the thing. If we are nervous about making a phone call, that means there is something to be learned or gained from making the phone call. If we are scared of a project or making a presentation, we might just be in the perfect place for growth.

Often one of these scary tasks or projects accompany the crappy days I referenced above. Sometimes these tasks are the reason for the crappy days.

Most often, the scary task has nothing to do with fighting a tiger to get the last bit of meat left on the savannah. The things we normally fear simply won’t hurt us all that bad. But they will help us to grow.

Lean in to the fear and consider it an opportunity. Walk into the room with a big cheshire grin and tell the day that you are officially taking over.

Again I ask, why not?

It won’t hurt. The people around you will thank you for having a decent attitude and things just might change.

I write these things because I need to do these things much better and much more consistently.

How about you? How was your day today and what did you learn?

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Today’s Listening (in addition to the podcast mentioned above):

Why Is Profit Viewed As a Bad Thing? John Jantsch interviews Mike Michalowicz for the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast – Great business advice in this podcast about how profit seems to be the extra that happens if we can sell enough and not spend too much. Michalowicz suggests that profit should be accounted for up front so that we don’t always spend up to our gills. (He just released the book Profit First – affiliate link)

When I listened to this advice, I couldn’t help but think about other areas in life. We need to take care of ourselves first or else we ain’t no good of anybody else. We need to build in our ‘profit’ – our time to reenergize, get some exercise, hang with the kids. All that stuff gets squeezed out way, way too easily. Don’t you think?

Leave any thoughts you have on these or any other topic burning up there in that noggin of yours. Drop ’em in the comments.

Until tomorrow….

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This blog is a response to Dan Miller’s unintentional challenge from his podcast on August 15, 2014: If you read or listen to 30 minutes of quality content a day, you’ll double your income. 

From September 1, 2014 through March 1, 2015, I will be doing the following:

  1. Listening or reading to 30 minutes of success, growth, business, spiritual, or other mindset-shifting, skill-sharpening content.
  2. Selecting one action item from that content (with some leeway to select an action from a previous day’s content).
  3. Doing that one action.
  4. Writing about the action or some other idea from the reading and listening of the day. 

Filed Under: Mindset Experiments, Sales Experiments Tagged With: art of charm, duct tape marketing podcast, john jantsch, jordan harbinger, mike michalozicz, mindset, pat flynn, positive outlook on crappy days, profit first

October 3, 2014 by Brett Leave a Comment

The 5-Second Rule Has Nothing to Do with Dropping Food on the Kitchen Floor

Have you heard of Dr. Rob Gilbert? He’s been leaving pre-recorded messages on his Success Hotline (973-743-4690) for years. Today (10/3/14) he left his 8,370th message. That comes up to nearly 23 years of recorded messages.

23 years of nearly daily messages (I’ve only heard him skip a weekend day or two here or there).

23 years. But it’s not his consistency I want to point out today. It’s his message.

He talked about a dude who always gets dates with beautiful women, yet he, himself, ain’t such a looker.

His secret? The 5-second rule: If he sees someone he wants to talk to, he makes sure to do it within 5 seconds or he’ll talk himself out of it.

The application? Make the call. Send the email. Submit that proposal. Right now.

As soon as I listened to the message, I hung up and made a call that I needed to make. Then I made another.

What’s something you can do in the next 5 seconds (or at the very next moment you get the chance to do it)?

If nothing else, go call Dr. Rob Gilbert’s hotline. You won’t regret it. Call it everyday. His sheer consistency is inspiring: 973-743-4690

Today’s Listening

Dr. Rob Gilbert – Success Hotline – 973-743-4690 (he really doesn’t have a blog, but he does have a Twitter feed and a short-lived YouTube channel.  Did I mention, though, that he’s been leaving recorded motivational, success-focused, and inspirational messages for 23 years? Amazing.

SPI 120 : How to Create the Ultimate Flagship Product – From Research to Launch and Beyond with Ramit Sethi – Smart Passive Income Podcast, Pat Flynn: Ramit is good. I would say this isn’t the most relatable to where I am as far as work online.

That said, the principles are transferrable to offline business. One of the biggest lessons? Research as best as you can. Be a student of your target audience, and don’t force feed them the stuff you think they need.

SPI 121 : A Crash Course on Charisma – A Guide to Winning In-Person Encounters with Jordan Harbinger – Smart Passive Income Podcast, Pat Flynn: I loved this podcast. My favorite bit of advice?

Walk into every room, whether someone’s in there or not, with your head up a big fat smile on your face, and your chest out as if you’re shining a light from it (I made this a second action item for today). But then? Be interested in everyone else.

A great quote from Mr. Harbinger: “A core principle of my own life, and upon which this company was founded, is that one should leave everything and everyone better than they were before we met. By bringing positivity and abundance to others, you can’t go wrong.”

Check Jordan Harbinger’s work out at his site here.

SPI 122 : From Teachers to Totally Rocking it Online – Shane and Jocelyn Sams Share their Success Story – Smart Passive Income Podcast, Pat Flynn

I love hearing stories like the Sams’ story. Two teachers leveraged their educational and coaching backgrounds to develop two value-giving, money making websites: CoachXO and Elementary Librarian. Their story is amazing. And they’re starting to teach others how to do what they’ve done on Flipped Lifestyle.

Plus they have cool Kentucky accents. I’m a Georgia boy, so I appreciate a fine drawl.

Until tomorrow…

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This blog is a response to Dan Miller’s unintentional challenge from his podcast on August 15, 2014: If you read or listen to 30 minutes of quality content a day, you’ll double your income. 

From September 1, 2014 through March 1, 2015, I will be doing the following:

  1. Listening or reading to 30 minutes of success, growth, business, spiritual, or other mindset-shifting, skill-sharpening content.
  2. Selecting one action item from that content (with some leeway to select an action from a previous day’s content).
  3. Doing that one action.
  4. Writing about the action or some other idea from the reading and listening of the day. 

Filed Under: Marketing Experiments, Mindset Experiments, Sales Experiments Tagged With: art of charm, coachxo, dr. rob gilbert, elementary librarian, jocelyn sams, jordan harbinger, pat flynn, ramit sethi, shane sams, smart passive income, success hotline

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