Monday, December 28, 2015

les brown

Lions do not have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk do not work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.
Avoid the energy draining practice of telling people what you're going to do. Instead, spend your time and effort in doing the things that are necessary to accomplish your goals. Keep your focus. and stay determined in order to pursue your dream. Let your work, not your words, speak for itself. You have GREATNESS within you!

les brown

Stop trying to change the people you love and change yourself! Stop trying to change people who take your money but will not take your advice. You will only drain your own mental, spiritual, emotional and financial reserves. The truth is...people change when they are sick and tired of being sick and tired or hit rock bottom.
If you are dealing with addiction or irresponsible behavior from grown adults ~ protect your wallet and your mind. It does not mean you do not love them. Your attempts to help may only delay what is inevitable. Allow them to take the journey they have chosen for themselves. Choose to let go of the guilt and be at peace. You may require counseling or emotional support to stop being an enabler. If necessary, give yourself some distance so that you can stop being used or manipulated because they know that you care and you love them. You have the right to enjoy a guilt-free, happy and productive life. Commit yourself to changing the only person you really can - YOU!! You have GREATNESS within you!!

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Robin Sharma

As we near a new year, please take some time for yourself. Go into the woods or out to the sand. Walk close to the ocean or near the mountains.
And reach deep into the place of your highest nature...committing to:
--lifting your standards from any form of mediocrity to outright mastery. Be the Michelangelo of what you do.
--speaking words of respect and inspiration versus the language of negative and victimhood
--release all excuses and get gorgeous dreams done. Less talk. More do.
--being the most generous person on your street (Giving is the antidote to scarcity)
--getting your mindset to world-class and your character to rare-air. Why? Because we will never fly higher than our self-identity. That's were the real masters work.
--finding time every day to read, learn, progress and grow. Education is inoculation against disruption. And as you know more you can achieve more.
--helping the homeless, the workless and the loveless. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. That stranger on the street was a parent's treasure. And some child's hero.
--forgiving the unforgiven, understanding they know no better. Only people in pain can hurt other people.
--becoming a model of inspiration, decency, excellence and energy
The world has never needed you to radiate greatness and love as it does right now. You can lead. You can help all of us. Just start. Today.
Let us come together in 2016 to be an army of good, spreading what is best so all may rise.
I'll be here to help you 1000%. Count on me.
Much love, Robin

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Les Brown

Focus on solutions ~ not problems! What you focus on the longest becomes the strongest. The best way to deal with the challenges you are facing is to look for solutions. Spend your time being creative, resourceful and get some help. Worry is faith turned inside out...assuming the negative. It wastes your energy and does not solve anything. It paralyzes you, stifles your growth and robs you of your creativity.
Use your imagination to come up with a variety of approaches to move your life forward. Challenge yourself to think beyond that which is commonly accepted. Hold the vision of what you want. Be clear about this and move forward with the feeling and expectation that things are going to work out just fine. You have GREATNESS within you!!

Monday, December 14, 2015

Les Brown

Learn to live beyond your mistakes. When you attempt anything ambitious, you are going to make mistakes. The biggest achievements are often those that result from the biggest mistakes. You will achieve your way to success when you refuse to let the mistakes stop you. Find a way to let those mistakes teach you. Move beyond them to your next success! You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

Friday, December 11, 2015

Life caught you on the blind side and knocked you off your feet. You expected something, but it did not happen. You did no t expect this challenge, however, it came into your life. You worked hard and did not get the outcome you wanted. No matter what your situation may be, know this..the floor is no place for a winner.
Get up. Crawl if you must. Cry, scream or shout. But get up! Lying down will not change a thing. Talking about how close you were, will not bring it about. Complaining will not put any money in the bank. Shake it off, throw away the Kleenex and get your head right! We all get the wind knocked out of us from time to time by life. Do not let it get the best of you! You are stronger than you think you are. You have the right stuff. Do not take it personally. It is called life. Get up, get busy and work your business. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

THE SEVEN POWERS

Dr John Demartini discusses the seven areas that people and nations need to fulfill in order to succeed and avoid being over-powered by others.

There are seven areas of life that we are here to fulfill:
•    Our spiritual mission;
•    Our mental genius/creativity;
•    Our vocational success, achievement, service;
•    Our financial freedom/independence;
•    Our family love and intimacy and continuance of procreation;
•    Our social influence and leadership; and
•    Our physical health, stamina, strength and well-being.

Any of these seven areas that we as individuals don’t empower will become overpowered by others. So any area of life that we don’t empower, somebody else will overpower. We are not victims of their over-empowerment, we are simply not empowered and it is their over-powerment that in turn initiates and catalyzes our drive for inner-empowerment.

I have yet to meet anyone who did not want to expand their powers in each of these areas. No one gets up and honestly says that they want to shrink in power.

As Nietzsche proclaimed, we all have the will to power. Just as we as individuals have these yearnings for these powers, so do collective societies and nations. But now their descriptions also have to expand. Our individual spiritual mission now becomes the dominant, spiritual/religious ideologies of a nation. Our mental genius becomes our educational system. Our goals for achievement and success become our GDP, our corporate entrepreneurial and national business development. Our economics become the wealth of our nation, income per capita, again the stability of our national economics and the assets. Our family stability is our marriage and divorce ratios and our fertility / mortality rates. Our social influence is our influence on other nations around the world and our leaderships and our physical health and wellbeing becomes our healthcare systems, policing systems and military strength. 

Now if a nation does not empower any of theseseven areas, that area can be overcome and overpowered by other nations or groups. This applies to nations just as it applies to individuals. The will to power and empowerment, although assumed to be about race, creed, colour, age or sex isn’t in fact limited by these factors. There is always somebody from each race, creed, colour, age or sex that empowers their lives and is not overpowered. 

It’s all about empowering. 

The first step in empowering each of these areas is education. Success leaves clues and those individuals as well as those nations that have risen in power need to follow these clues. Awakening to and owning these traits and, developing and furthering these traits, and awakening these traits in each of the seven areas of life can both empower individuals and nations. 

If we blame outer circumstances for why we are not empowered, we will hinder our empowerment, but if we start acting and doing the things that are proven to empower, we rise in power. Instead of having individuals or nations sitting in the shadows of other individuals or othernations, it’s wise for individuals and nations to recognise that nothing is missing in them,particularly in their areas of competitive advantage andthat they are just not acknowledging, awakening or honouringthe powers they have. Once they awaken these powers and recognisethem, through awareness and education, each competitive advantage that each individual or nation has, can shine.

If we as individuals and nations concentrate on what we do have, and recognise our power and use it wisely, we will not become overpowered. 

Empowerment is not provided from the outside; empowerment comes from within. The moment the individual or nation realises that nothing is missing inside them and they value themselves, so does the world. Empowerment is not what corrupts, it’s the fear of being overpowered that corrupts. 

The anticipation of loss of power corrupts, not the gain of power.

Dr. John Demartini is a human behaviour specialist, educator, author and the founder of the Demartini Institute.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Les Brown

Decide today to make your future brighter than your past.
Become still and think about what you want more of in your life, or what you value the most in your life right now. Commit yourself to making this a huge priority. Where your attention goes, your energy flows.
Create positive stories in your life every single day. For the next 7 days, do not listen to or talk about anything negative that happened to you, or someone else in the past. Allow yourself to bring light where there is darkness; speak peace where there is anger and infuse love where there is indifference. Create something today that you will be proud of in the future. You have GREATNESS within you!!

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Les Brown

Focus on positive choices that move you closer to your dream. Make a conscious and deliberate effort to do at least one thing everyday that represents the highest and the best in you. Keep in mind, this is going to be your greatest year ever!
Do not allow yourself or anyone else to sabotage you. Stay on track. Refuse to lower your guard or to be pulled off course. Keep the main thing the main thing. Honor yourself by keeping your word to yourself. Everything matters. It is your time to achieve your dream. You have the POWER! You have GREATNESS within you!

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Les Brown

Are you a spectator in your own life? Do you sit on the sidelines planning, thinking, trying, but never fully doing? How many days have been paved with good intentions but no follow-through?
Today, choose to believe in and explore the power of your own engagement. This means to fully connect to your calling and passion in life. Lean into it. Pursue it every day ~ despite the distractions in your life, or in spite of any perceived limitations. Decide to live far beyond any past regrets or future excuses. DETERMINE to find a way or make a way. GO FOR IT!! Choose to be unstoppable in pursuit of your GREATEST life!

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Les Brown

See the challenges in your life as fuel to fire you up. You are bigger than any of the problems that you face. Look around, and you will find opportunities silently waiting for you to recognize them. Become unstoppable and determined to reach your goals.
Do not let anyone convince you that you can not achieve your dream. They do not know you like that! They have no idea of who you really are. Do not waste time trying to convince them. Keep working your plan and handle your business. Actions speak louder than words. Remember...you have GREATNESS within you!

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Les Brown

Just stop! Take a moment to think before you act so that you are in control of yourself, your emotions and your responses. It is easy to justify unpleasant or rude behavior with excuses of being tired, overworked, or stressed. Sometimes we take out the irritations of the moment or the day on our family, children, co-workers, or even the family pet. What is the emotional tone of your family or your life? Is it harsh, cold, unforgiving, withdrawn, or warm, loving, open and embracing?
Take time each day to build and generate new verbal and non-verbal responses that will allow you to build your capacity to be a gentler, kinder, more compassionate, peaceful and loving person. This is a skill set that takes intentional rehearsal and practice ~ just like playing sports or working out. If you find yourself acting often out of irritation, anger, or even rage, reflect on what excuse you use to make someone else the brunt of your bad attitude or worse ~ your bad behavior. Decide that no excuse is worth the cost of emotional venting in public or in private ~ especially on those you love. Do the hard work and the heart work to hold yourself to a higher standard. Raise the bar on yourself, your attitude and your behavior. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

Monday, November 16, 2015

Les Brown

Refuse to complain. Complaining is just a way of not taking responsibility, justifying doing nothing and programming yourself to fail. Complaining creates the illusion that you have done something. Instead, pour your energy into improving your situation. When you find ways to be productive and maintain a sense of optimism, you demonstrate that you are in control of your own life.
Complainers focus on what has happened, giving up their power. Winners focus on making things happen and using their power to find solutions to their challenges. You were born to create something magnificent with your life!! Solution-based thinking gives you that power. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!!

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Robin Sharma

Symptoms of Greatness to remind you of all I believe you are.

Own these versus resisting them and we'll make sure you finish this year uber-strong:

1. An acute and irreversible lust for learning.

2. Ridiculously beautiful goals + dreams.

3. A fire in the belly to become relentless amid naysayers.

4. The ability to spot the finest in people and to fan their flames of excellence.

5. An uncommon adherence to politeness, punctuality and graciousness.

6. A heroic devotion to standing in full expression of creativity + originality.

7. No need to be like everyone else.

8. A breathtaking desire to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of their craft.

9. A capability to leverage pain into strength and heartbreak into joy.

10. Massive amounts of energy born of heightened inspiration.

11. A refusal to cling to the status quo.

12. A visceral desire to become a light to many.

13. A devotion to being a game-changer, world-builder + a citizen of mastery.

Exuding these symptoms--starting today--is my sincere hope for you.

Be true. Be you. Be great.

Thank you for following me + helping me spread my message. The world needs us to shine as never before. TOGETHER we make a difference to those who need us.

Your fan always,

Monday, November 9, 2015

Dr John Demartini-
Those seeking quick fixes, quick highs, quick rushes, quick stimuli, quick feel goods, quick relationships and quick “somethings” for “nothings,”, more often pay the price for their impulsive addictions and immediate gratifications. Greatness takes time. Overnight success often takes 25 years. So determine what you truly value or what is truly most important in your life. Prioritize your daily actions accordingly. Live congruently with what is truly most meaningful. Delegate what is not inspiring to you to eligible others so you can get on with awakening yourself to who you authentically are. In doing so, you will expand your time horizons and make a greater difference to a greater number of people, while leaving your immortal legacy for the world.
Robbins said that he places such importance on his energy levels because "If you don't have energy, you're gonna have no passion in your [romantic] relationship ... If you don't have any energy, you can't do a great job with your kids because they have more energy than you do. If you don't have energy, you're not going to run your own business, much less multiple businesses."
"Energy is life," he said.
Les Brown-You were born to win. Use your energy to find solutions instead of blaming yourself or others. Let go of your excuses and don't give yourself a pass. Take responsibility and ownership for your life. You are greater than your circumstances. You have the power to put your life in a different position.
Remind yourself that you are intelligent, talented and greater than anything that you have gone through! Tell yourself.."It is time to make a change!" Move forward with faith, confidence and firm determination to live your dream because it is your destiny. The world is waiting for you. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!!

Friday, October 30, 2015

Les Brown-Embrace every possibility to move beyond the problems of today, the regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow. Stay present to the opportunities around you and what can be done right now. Stamp out worry, shake off disappointments and set-backs, clear your mind and lunge forward into your unfolding future.
Trust that the road ahead will be better than anything in the past. Tap into your power and expand your imagination for what is possible. Broaden your skills, increase your knowledge and upgrade your strategy. Commit to creating a life that demonstrates your gifts, your passion and your greatness. This is your time! You have GREATNESS within you!!

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Les Brown-Use your voice as a hammer to stamp out toxic, disempowering, negative thoughts that can come into your mind. You can not control the thoughts that come through your mind, but you can control the ones you choose to dwell on. Talk back to yourself and challenge the negative thinking that is robbing you of energy and focus.
Use your voice as an instrument to inspire you and to change the trauma into positive feelings. Look at yourself in a mirror and say "I love myself unconditionally." Do this daily for the next 21 days. You will experience a new love and appreciation for your higher self which will begin to express itself. Your mind and ego will tell you that this is foolish, childish, or that you do not need to do this. Do not be duped. Negative thoughts don't want to die and will struggle to remain alive.
Speak life to yourself with power, feeling and conviction. Choose positive words that will transport your mind to a new reality. You Deserve! You have GREATNESS within you!!

Friday, October 16, 2015

Les Brown-The power to win is in your hands. Do not stop now. Do not even think about it! Do not let a delay become a denial.
Change your strategy. The law of possibility is on your side. Go outside yourself. Ask for help and do not stop until you get it. Come back and look at it again with fresh eyes.
Focus on winning - not on the obstacles or challenges. Do not obsess and stress about what you need, or what is going wrong in your life. Keep working at it. You have to eat it, sleep it, breathe it and believe it. Open your mind to bold thinking and do not be afraid to take even bolder actions. Keep on reaching for your victory. Dig down deep. Release your inner strength and power. You got this!! You have GREATNESS within you!!

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Sharma




Today's post is one of the most important I've ever written...

...because it speaks to the vast potential within you, how easy it is to betray it and then offers some extremely valuable moves you can make to ensure the world gets to experience it.

Albert Einstein once observed:

"Only those who devote themselves to a cause with their whole strength and soul can be true masters. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person."

Beautiful.

If you've attended one of my live events or been a member of one of my online courses, then you already know this fundamental principle for world-class performance: becoming best in class is less about natural talent and more about what you do with what you've been given.

The most gifted tennis player doesn't become the champion...the most focused, practiced and passionate one does.

The most innately talented violinist doesn't become the virtuoso...the most dedicated and devoted one does.

The most brilliant entrepreneur doesn't reap the fortune and change the course of history...the one with the most discipline, work ethic and grit does.

Yes, I know...

...this thinking is so counterintuitive to the way society has taught us to consider genius and exceptionalism. We're told that the Mozarts and Michelangeos, the Bachs and the Basquiats, the Eminems and the Jordans are cut from some divinely-blessed cloth.

And born into their breathtakingly great gifts.

But a growing body of research into exceptional performance (much of it led by Anders Ericsson who was first to report the now-famous "10,000 Hour Rule") is confirming that concept of naturally gifted genius is pure myth...

And the reality?

...That those we admire--the awesome mathematicians and the fantastic chess players and the remarkable artists and the heroic business-builders--are just normal people who, early on, made a few uncommon choices and installed a few unusual habits. And in so doing, generated rare-air results.

In my popular online course The Robin Sharma Success System I go deep into exactly how to build your personal genius, unleash your truest power and walk you through the advanced steps that anyone can take to rise to the realm of "The Great Ones". So, in this post I wanted to focus on something a little different...

...the 6 Threats to World-Class Performance...

These are the 6 most common (and often unconscious) ways we sabotage our potential for genius-level results, block our greatness and diminish our opportunity to be one of the best in the world at what we do.

Let's get right into them...

#1: The Threat of Disbelief.

Powerful idea: if you don't believe that you have the potential to be one of the best there ever was at your chosen craft or skill, then you won't do what it takes to get there.

In other words...

Your belief about your potential really does determine whether you express it--or let it slumber quietly within you as you coast through your life.

My respectful encouragement is that you take a cold, hard look at the facts: the superstars in sports, music, science, society and business truly were ordinary people. But they, sometimes because of a coach and often due to a parent, came to train their brains to believe (and then expect) that they could be epic performers...if they put in the work, made the sacrifices, maintained the focus and got better every day.

But if you've fallen into the mass hypnosis that the people we view as geniuses are genetically different from you so you have no shot at making history, then this belief alone will prevent you from rising to into the realm of awesome.

And so this disbelief in the availability of mastery to you is a threat...please fight it.

#2. The Threat of Undercapitalization.

I recently listened to a superb interview of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

In it, Buffett admitted he's not the smartest person in the room. The "secret" to his extraordinary success in the capital markets comes down to the "Horsepower Versus Output" distinction.

He explained that "horsepower" is the talent we're born with but "output" is how much of that reservoir we have the commitment, discipline and guts to realize.

The term for translating potential into results is "capitalization", because if you are seriously committed to mastery you need to fully capitalize on all the potential you have.

One of the finest ways to ensure complete capitalization of your talent is to start your pursuit of becoming the best in the world at your chosen skill as early as possible (my "dream big, start small, begin now" mantra).

And then to get in the 10,000 hours that Anders Ericsson has discovered is the minimum viable amount of training needed before genius begins to present itself ("The 10,000 Hour Rule" I mentioned earlier; yes, recent writers have popularized it but Ericsson's the man).

So...let's get granular so we really, really get you going...

That's 2 hours and 44 minutes of daily practice at one thing for ten years...

And now I know you're beginning to see that discipline, practice and extreme amounts of training are the "secrets" behind the illusion of "natural talent" and "innate genius."

...The truth is that you just have to put in ridiculous amounts of time and effort to reach world-class performance.

You really can get there (and you disrespect your potential if you don't). But most of us are just too distracted, too interested in easy, too affected by criticism and too invested in comfort to heed the call on our lives and do what's needed to become iconic.

#3. The Threat of Talent Circle Apathy.

Who you associate with dramatically influences the way you behave and how excellently you perform.

The science behind it involves concepts like "attitudinal contagion" (we subconsciously adopt the mindsets of the people we are closest to) and "goal-contagion" (we assume the same aspirations of the dominant members of our circle of influence).

If the people in your immediate network are aiming for best in world, up at 5 am to start their training, working with mentors who kickstart their mastery and practising from sunrise to sunset, then there's a great chance you'll be modelling that ethic.

On the other hand, if the people you've populated your life with spend their finest hours being busy being busy, gossiping, watching too much TV and playing too many video games, then your results will reflect those influences.

All geniuses and exceptional performers were parts of hubs of talent...

...kids in The Dominican Republic dream of playing baseball and spend most of their waking hours on the field. Their heroes are major league stars from their country who made it big. And they plan to be just like them...

...children in Brazil aspire to become celebrated soccer players while some Canadian youth regularly pass 10,000 hours on the ice by the time they're fifteen. All their friends do the same...

...teenagers in Silicon Valley long to launch startups, go to workshops that teach them to code and spend sleepless nights iterating their craft. Everyone these kids know wants to be the next Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg.

Your circle of associations matter. And being apathetic and lazy about who you surround yourself with comes at a very real cost to your performance, success and impact on the world with it.

Definitely avoid this threat.

#4. The Threat of Complexity.

Picasso didn't practice the piano. Jay-Z's not spending his best hours becoming a chess master. And Stephen King definitely isn't obsessed with joining the NBA.

All people who rise to genius have another thing in common: singularity of focus.

All masters are monomaniacally focused on their skill. And epic performance is much more about the things you have the discipline to say no to rather than the things you say yes to...

The point I'm suggesting to you is really this one...

...you can try to do many things but you'll always play at mediocrity. Or you can commit to just one thing. And enter the ring of mastery.

So simplify. Subtract. Get great at saying diplomatic nos. Your potential demands nothing less.

#5. The Threat of Comfort.

Absolutely fascinating to me how many elite performers came from poverty. Seems that they pretty much knew that if they didn't focus passionately and practice relentlessly they'd not only not live the life of their dreams, they'd likely have little food to eat.

That kind of condition fuels immense drive, unbeatable determination and an iron will to win. And that's why comfort can be dangerous to greatness...

...Maya Angelou, the famous poet, left her home to work in a gritty motel room...

...one of my buddies--one of the most bestselling authors on Earth--lived in a hostel for a full year to push himself to do his best work...

...even when Steve Jobs was a billionaire, he slept on a futon.

No matter how revered you become, you just can't let comfort make you slow, sloppy and old.

To reach legendary levels of creativity, productivity and acumen, you want to keep pushing yourself like your life depends on it--because it does.

And the best way to expand your limits is to consistently push to the edges of them.

As the Spartan warriors said: the person who sweats more in practice bleeds less in war.

#6. The Threat of Infirmity.

Someone once taught me that health is the crown on the well person's head that only the ill person can see.

It's not common to link fitness with genius. But being in ultra-strong physical condition is mission-critical.

Because...

...how can you put in your ten years of practice if you are sick?

...how can you rebound when you fail if you have no energy?

...how can you do the study and invest in the learning if you lack stamina?

And getting into your best fitness isn't really about getting the trophies, receiving the fame and basking in the accolades.

That's all fine. But there's something more important...

Being strong and healthy and radiant and dynamic allows you to be of use.

You see, when you live your potential and rise to genius, it's not just you who wins...the world does as well.

We all get to be inspired by the greatness you model. We all feel we too are more than we thought we were. We all get to benefit from your artistry, accomplishments or inventions.

You become our hero. And each of us needs more of them.

Ok...

...I hope this post is of genuine value to you. I worked really hard on it so it helps you beautifully...

...if you want to go a lot deeper into this information and learn the strategies, insights and tactics that very few people ever discover on unleashing their potential and doing amazing things with their lives then I have some very exciting news for you...

...for 12 months, people from across the world have been urging me to make my famous online course The Robin Sharma Success System available again...

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You deserve to live like a lion, become iconic and live a life that makes history.

This is YOUR moment. See you inside the course so we get you started today.

With so much encouragement + respect,



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Talk soon. Bye.

Sharma



Beethoven's Fifth. The Theory of Relativity. Macbeth and The Taj Mahal. SpaceX and Uber. All astoundingly beautiful works of utter genius.

You have the capacity for this realm of creativity within you. Are you expressing it full on? Or are you mailing it in--and just coasting along in the trance of distraction that is sucking the greatness out of too many among us?

3 weeks ago I posted an excerpt from a famed speech called "Citizenship in a Republic" into my journal. Here's what it said Avi:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

...whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming...

...but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause...

...who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."


These profoundly galvanizing words by Theodore Roosevelt speak so deeply to me. And I hope to you.

It's so easy to be a naysayer. Too simple to tear the dreamer down. All too common to condemn the visionary. And, as you know, critics generally have the biggest complaints around the work they wish they did.

The credit for all acts of genius and mastery does go to the one in the arena. The one with the guts to hear the haters and keep moving ahead. The one who takes the leap and ends up bruised, battered and even bloodied. The one who hears the noisy voices of self-doubt yet trusts something larger and wiser within that encourages him to continue, against all odds.

The path of mastery is not for the meek. The highway to audacity is not for the faint of heart. The route to world-class is a messy, chaotic, gorgeous, terrifying, fulfilling, brilliant, confusing ride. Not easy. But easy is vastly overrated...

...give me hard and demanding anytime, for that's where growth lives. And that's where our greatest rewards lie. I want to be totally spent by the time I'm done. No point in dying with your gifts still within you.

And if you're really, really, really, ready to play the game of business and life at the rare-air level I've been challenging you to experience, then I really, really, really want to help you and work with you on making this happen swiftly...

...here's a beautiful opportunity that will do exactly that...

My team's been getting a ton of questions about this year's Titan Summit, my annual 4-day live event that is widely considered one of the most transformational personal mastery + business acceleration experiences on the planet.

It'll be held at The Ritz-Carlton in Toronto December 5,6,7,8.

My Faculty this year includes...

...NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal, Blue Angels jet pilot and leadership superstar John Foley, top advisor to great companies and bestselling author of FascinateSally Hogshead, peak vitality + longevity master Dr. James Rouse, maximum achievement guru Dr. Isaiah Hankel, bestselling author of Don't Sweat The Small Stuff for Families and Heartbroken Open Kristine Carlson, the founder of the awesome clothing company Spiritual Gangster Ian Lopatin, The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome Neil Pasricha, revolutionary private coach to legendary entrepreneurs Alex Charfen and famous marketing thought leader Scott Stratten of Unselling celebrity...and there are more that I'm keeping as surprise guests.

Yes, as usual, this is a labor of love for me and my goal (no, obsession) is to give you 20x the value of your investment back [that's just how I think and the way I play] so you feel the event was free to you.

To also answer the big question "Can I still get seats?"...

...I opened up seating back in the Spring and those seats (at the special $9997 price) sold out. And out of respect for those from around the world who snapped them up, I can't offer any more seats at that tuition fee. Sorry.

But I've just opened up some more seats and the price is still nicely under the regular $25,000 fee (which is coming soon).

I'd love to meet you personally at the event if you want to be in the room, learn from this truly world-class faculty and make friends with many of the smartest, most successful and most loving people on the planet who will be there as attendees. So please trust your gut, do what every world-builder does and take some action if this feels right to you...

Go ahead and get your seat here

This event isn't for everyone but if you're ready to think + create + produce + live at your absolute highest level (and make a massive impact in the world while you're at it), then my loving encouragement is crystal clear: do whatever it takes to get into this room. Your life will never be the same [we have so many stories of past attendees--people just like you--who went on to experience explosive productive + economic + creative + health + happiness + success post-event].

You can get your seat here

Wishing you only the best in life and excited to get to know you and help you fly in the most important areas of your life.



P.S. Here are all the details on The Titan Summit 2015

Speak soon and amped to spend 4 days of my life with you in a few months.

Sharma


Hi Avi. Hope you're rocking it + on fire to fly and taking all witnesses up with you as we round out the last months of 2015.

This morning I dropped into "creative jedi" mode in a cafe. Here's the proof:



I am crafting the fresh models + insights + epic performance technologies I worked on today for the small group of human beings in my IconX program, my private coaching inner circle. They get my best/first information to help them lead the field in their industries and lives. [For everyone wondering: you can only get into the program by first attending The Titan Summit in December and then applying].

So here's the piece I worked on in the cafe: The Victim to Icon Spectrum. Basically a powerful identification process to see where we play victim and where we show iconhood in 4 core arenas: Creativity. Productivity. Adversity. Humanity.

And once you know better you can achieve more...

My Icons get the model when we meet in Rome in a few weeks and the whole execution playbook but here's a little taste as I believe it's an extraordinarily valuable thinking tool:

Arena 1: Creativity

The Victim:
--waits for inspiration before working
--allows a seduction of distraction
--aims to do a ton of projects
--believes the haters so stops the dream

The Icon:
--works to get the inspiration [because The Muse Blesses The Dedicated]
--monomaniacally focuses on essential enterprises
--focuses on their Sistine Chapel
--knows that the better you become, the more you won't fit in

Arena 2: Productivity

The Victim:
--makes excuses
--starts a new project when the work gets hard
--accepts mediocrity
--relies on willpower

The Icon:
--delivers results
--remains relentless until the project is done
--adores perfection
--installs rituals

Arena 3: Adversity

The Victim:
--becomes negative in thinking and in perception
--feels helpless
--judges the event as tragic
--generates fear-based emotions
--resists what life has delivered
--uses toxic language + behavior

The Icon:
--processes the event as a gift
--experiences states of grace
--has no judgement knowing the event just is
--creates strength-based emotions
--stands in confident acceptance of the condition
--deploys leadership language and performance

Arena 4: Humanity

The Victim:
--expresses a resignation to the ordinary
--knows little connection to the species
--has no awareness of their Compelling Cause
--endures an addiction to taking
--fosters a postponement of audacity

The Icon:
--knows their responsibility to make history
--has a full-on connection to all other humans
--polishes their obsession with their mission
--lives via a devotion to giving
--is all about a 1000% conviction to getting gorgeous dreams done with radical speed

If what I've produced above speaks deeply to you and you want to learn an all newway of thinking, creating, producing and living in this world that gets you to the highest level on the planet (and makes you undefeatable), then here's a fine opportunity I lovingly encourage you to jump all over as your life will never be the same after it...

IMPORTANT:

My team's been getting a ton of questions about this year's Titan Summit, my annual 4-day live event that is widely considered one of the most transformational personal mastery + business acceleration experiences on the planet.

Here are the beautiful details

It'll be held at The Ritz-Carlton in Toronto December 5,6,7,8.

My Faculty this year includes...

...NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal, Blue Angels jet pilot and leadership superstar John Foley, top advisor to great companies and bestselling author of FascinateSally Hogshead, peak vitality + longevity master Dr. James Rouse, maximum achievement guru Dr. Isaiah Hankel, bestselling author of Don't Sweat The Small Stuff for Families and Heartbroken Open Kristine Carlson, the founder of the awesome clothing company Spiritual Gangster Ian Lopatin, The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome Neil Pasricha, revolutionary private coach to legendary entrepreneurs Alex Charfen and famous marketing thought leader Scott Stratten of UnMarketing celebrity...and there are more that I'm keeping as surprise guests.

Yes, as usual, this is a labor of love for me and my goal (no, obsession) is to give you 20x the value of your investment back [that's just how I think and the way I play] so you feel the event was free to you.

To also answer the big question "Can I still get seats?"...

...I opened up seating back in the Spring and those seats (at the special $9,997 price) sold out. And out of respect for those from around the world who snapped them up, I can't offer any more seats at that tuition fee. Sorry.

But I've just opened up some more seats and the price is still nicely under the regular $25,000 fee (which is coming soon).

I'd love to meet you personally at the event if you want to be in the room, learn from this truly world-class faculty and make friends with many of the smartest, most successful and most loving people on the planet who will be there as attendees. So please trust your gut, do what every world-builder does and take some action if this feels right to you...

Go ahead and get your seat here

This event isn't for everyone but if you're ready to think + create + produce + live at your absolute highest level (and make a massive impact in the world while you're at it), then my loving encouragement is crystal clear: do whatever it takes to get into this room. Your life will never be the same [we have so many stories of past attendees--people just like you--who went on to experience explosive productive + economic + creative + health + happiness success post-event].

You can get your seat here

Wishing you only the best in life and excited to get to know you and help you fly in the most important areas of your life.

Hope you LOVED this post I handcrafted with such care.



P.S. Here are all the details on The Titan Summit 2015

Speak soon and amped to spend 4 days of my life with you in a few months.

Monday, October 5, 2015

Les Brown
Have you figured out how to achieve your goals? The difference between setting and achieving a goal comes from having a plan and working that plan. Without a solid, realistic, detailed plan, a goal is nothing more than a wish. Without the commitment and effort to follow through on that plan, the goal is nothing more than a good intention.
Move beyond wishing, intending and dreaming. Plan and work for your success. Only you can make it real! Because, you have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!
Les Brown
September 30 at 6:45am ·
How do you keep your head up, maintain your laughter and keep going when life comes at you..fast and hard? One of the most important things you can do is to ask yourself the question ~ What are you looking at?

Today - focus on what can be and what will be... in spite of the odds, despite your present situation, or regardless of the circumstances. Be still and know that...with faith, patience, perseverance, and an unstoppable spirit...things WILL get better. Stand up within yourself and KEEP ON PUSHING. You have comeback power. You have GREATNESS within you!
Les Brown
Decide today to stretch yourself. Take on a goal that you had previously given up on. Get lost doing something you love. Cultivate happiness within yourself.
Understand and know that life is not just about what you do. It is about how you serve and what you give! Go within yourself to GROW outside yourself. Expand your comfort zone. Get moving toward your GREATEST life ever!
Les Brown
or life goals. Nurture within yourself a growth mindset that says "there is more for me" ~ more life, more love, more to learn, more to experience and achieve. Make it OK to be uncomfortable. That is the place to discover the strength and power to create a new you! You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!