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Mindset and Habits of Sales Champions w/ Ian Koniak

Todayā€™s episode is a little bit different. It is actually a recording of a live training I did months ago with Ian Koniak. Iā€™ve had the pleasure of working with Ian on her personal brand in the sales space and he is no stranger to the She Sells Radio Podcast. Check out Episode 144, where he talks about the surprising truths of being a top sales performer. But now, Ian is a full fledged sales coach with an amazing company and a few months ago, we teamed up for a live training. This episode is a peek into that live training!

This training was all about the mindset and habits of sales champions. You will get so much from this, both from the mindset piece as well as the masculine habits that can help you. Itā€™s all about balance and that abundance mindset! You will also hear real questions from real listeners like you who are doing the right work to reach their goals.

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Show Notes:

[3:54] – Ian runs a coaching business and shares what he helps people with to succeed in sales.

[4:55] – Listeners from the live session share some of their 2023 goals and many of them are targets.

[5:53] – Your mindset determines your results.

[7:03] – Ian works with more than 100 sales executives and he describes the work he does with them through his coaching.

[9:09] – The trends in sales are leading to an increase in mental health challenges.

[10:30] – Elyse shares her pain points before shifting her mindset.

[11:41] – If you are experiencing these pain points, you are not alone.

[13:27] – Focus on what you can control. You canā€™t control economics.

[14:40] – Your current results are a reflection of the past.

[15:47] – You canā€™t create abundance with lack.

[16:49] – What is an abundance mindset?

[18:13] – If you care about serving your clients, closing a sale will be a natural outcome.

[19:39] – A viewer of the live session presents his struggle and questions what to work on first.

[21:01] – In sales, you have to prioritize the pipeline.

[23:45] – Having blind faith in the process is hard.

[25:34] – Another viewer of the live session presents a situation and asks how to train herself to think bigger.

[27:26] – After spending time with a mentor, Elyse saw the patterns and surrounded herself with people who challenged her thinking.

[29:07] – Get the perspective from outside of your circle.

[33:18] – Having doubts around your goal is a common problem especially when your company gives you a goal that doesnā€™t seem attainable.

[35:28] – Everyone has an internal thermostat and we can alter it.

[37:50] – Once you trust the process and detach yourself from the outcome, results will come.

[40:07] – Just because you have the negative thought, does not make it true.

[41:06] – Habits change your mindset.

[42:50] – Ian shares his morning habits and why they are important to him.

[44:01] – One habit for Ian is affirmations and he shares a few of them that have the biggest impact.

[46:11] – Elyse describes her morning routine as well. Everyoneā€™s will be different and they may change at different stages of your life.

[48:09] – There are a lot of different approaches to meditation.

[49:12] – Acknowledge yourself at the end of the day. This is so easy to forget.

[51:31] – This activity is wonderful for your self image.

[53:47] – Why are people unhappy? What is the source of misery in sales?

[55:30] – The way you have a great day is to have a productive day.

[57:17] – Ian uses a system called Priority Scorecard that eliminates decision fatigue.



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Welcome to She Sells Radio. I am excited to bring you this episode today so this

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is a special episode it’s actually a recording of a live training I did

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several months ago with a dear friend a former client of mine Ian Koniak and he

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and I worked together a couple years ago when he was actually still at Salesforce he was the top rep for Salesforce for

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several years and I had the pleasure of working with him on his personal brand

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as he was growing his own sales coaching and Consulting agency as well and just really building his brand in

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the sales space he is now a full-fledged sales coach amazing guy has a really

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really cool company but he and I came together gosh this was I think January towards

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the end of 2022 and we recorded a live training for some of our audience that

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was so powerful I wanted to bring it here to you on the podcast and it’s all about the mindset and habits of sales

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Champions and whether you’re a sales professional whether you’re an entrepreneur you’re going to get so much

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from this I think both on the mindset piece that’s necessary to be really

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successful in sales today as well as what are some of those more masculine

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habits and tactical structures that you can put in a place that will really help you grow your sales your business and

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your Revenue we also talk mental health we do some live coaching on this

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recording so you can hear us working in real time with some some of the attendees there it was really powerful

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and I think you’re going to really enjoy it so without any further delay let’s

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get into this training with Ian Koniak all right welcome welcome welcome

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everyone we have got such a great group in the house today I

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think we’re letting everybody in from the weight room hey everyone Ian

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don’t you love it when people are on time I love it there’s more than people on just 56 people right on the dot which

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is pretty good out of like 130 registrations so I’m I’m impressed what’s up everyone we can get you guys

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on camera too so we can see your lovely faces that’s always even better 100 yeah

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100 we are super excited we’re gonna in a moment just take a quick minute to introduce ourselves but I would love as

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you’re coming in if you could share in the chat we want this to be like super Interactive

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Ian and I we both love to talk and we would talk the whole time but we also really just want to talk with you and

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connect with you today so what is I’d love to hear what’s your biggest sales related goal for 2023 and then what is

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the number one challenge you feel like you’re currently facing in that area because we really want to gear a lot of

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the conversation today towards that and towards you and what’s coming up so I’m gonna pull up

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the chat and and just take that take a look at that while we go

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and while everyone is typing in the chat do you want to take I know we’ve got some of your audience here we’ve got

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some of mine do you want to take a brief moment and introduce yourself and and say who you are and sure

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Ian Koniak I run a coaching business I know some faces here so it’s

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good to see a lot of you guys hey Julian what’s up Isaac Luke um and I help people Master the mindset

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habits and skills needed to succeed in sales and in life so that’s me I love it

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I love it um and if I have not met you yet my name is Elise I am the founder of a company

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called She Sells and I feel like Ian you and I are both so aligned in what we

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want to teach and and how we help people so I help women scale from six to seven figures like

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help them to get their first six figures and then multi-six and seven figures beyond that but learning and mastering

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sales in a way that is really aligned for them is women and again it’s a lot of the inner game

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um like Ian is a real pro at teaching and I am I’m excited for the conversation today so Ian what are you

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saying in the chat that people’s goals are let’s see what people are here for today I see a lot of

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achievement related goals so Megan says presidents Club Jonathan bring in ten new logosĀ 

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Michael similar shift from current customers to new logos Julian to get to

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300 of plan income John 150 I see a lot of goals specific to to targets

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um to Targets in terms of percentage of quota is what I’m seeing here yeah and

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just learning to sell so a lot of sales related goals as well and Dan I see you Dan is in the house of day-to-day

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Cadence that brings success at work and personal happiness I’m a fan of goals like that I like Greg console developing

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a mindset of abundance I think we’re going to talk about that today I think I think so too sure and

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I’ll and I’ll tell you like for everyone here your mindset does determine your results your mindset and your habits I I

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coach I have over 100 people in my program and the people that I work with that get the biggest

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impact the quickest the ones that change their mindset about what’s possible you know and

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and start believing in themselves and also change their habits so the the goal

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of hitting 150 or 300 is enabled through shifting and becoming the person that’s

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capable of doing that through how you think and how you work so that’s a lot of what we’re going to focus on today absolutely absolutely and so that’s so I

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think let’s dive in and we just you know right off the bat like we don’t have anything to sell here we wanted to come

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together and connect and just try to give back towards the end of the year help I’ll just set all of you up for

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success for 2023 so and I think to kick us off you know Ian like you mentioned

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you’ve got a hundred plus account execs in your program right now and I know

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you’re seeing a lot in terms of what’s going on in the market what’s going on in the field

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share a little bit of what you’re seeing from the work you’re doing with your clients just to kick us off yeah I

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get texts and I get calls every single day kind of like Ian talk me off a ledge and that’s kind of the theme of what I’m

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seeing right now in some places um I’ll just give you the high high level trends that are happening in sales

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um the first one is that quota attainments down and this is not my Trends this is data coming from

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um you know all over and and I’ve seen it too it’s it used to be around High

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40 High 40 percent of people so 47 48 ish

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um percent of reps are hitting quota now it’s dropped nearly 10 percent so low 40s high 30s so that’s a significant

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drop in Quota attainment and that data came from rep view right across all orgs

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if you if you don’t know rep view I highly encourage you to check it out because it’s it’s what’s happening in every company As Told by sales reps um

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so that’s the first trend is it’s harder it’s harder to hit quota and that’s really being driven by customer

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um customers are getting tighter right in terms of um there’s a lot more scrutiny about spend there’s a lot more oversight of of

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projects and I think things are just harder with with layoffs going on and

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with um just a stalling of growth companies have moved more instead of trying to grow more they’re moving

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towards improving profitability or improving efficiency in their organizations which means Cuts layoffs

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and ultimately doing more with less and so that’s the big trends that I see and

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because people are hitting quota a little less and because there are layoffs going on there’s a lot more fear

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in in the sales world and I see a lot of people that are operating from a place

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of of fear of their job there’s a lot of managers that are really feeling the pressure and just passing that right

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down to their teams and that results in micromanaging it results in a lot of

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like kind of like intimidation like if you don’t do this you’re going to be put on a plan I had someone reach out yesterday saying their manager

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threatened to put on a plan and they were number two on their team so this is something that unfortunately it’s not

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unique to one or two companies I’m seeing it across the board and that’s why Elise and I wanted to do this

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session because it’s very easy to let that dominate that that track of fear and uncertainty and in doubt take over

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and um and that that has led to an increase in mental health challenges for sales

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people and the last piece of data I’ll share is that um last year in 2021 the the mental

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sales Alliance said that 58 of the the people surveyed they surveyed thousands of sales reps 58 would rate their mental

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health as fair or poor in this year the survey results just came out a few weeks ago it’s gone up to 63 percent so the

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the mental health I I wouldn’t say crisis but certainly sales reps aren’t thrilled and they’re not exactly in a

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great space right now and that’s continuing to to get worse so those are the top trends that I’ve seen across the

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industry at least gosh thank you so much for sharing that and I I want to open it up too just for any of you who you want

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to share in terms of mindset like is there something coming up for you specifically we’re going to segment into talking about mindset shortly I know I

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saw in the chat about um abundance mindset and personal happiness and I’ll just I’ll share so

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candidly like my personal journey I was in corporate for quite a while before launching my own company and on the

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outside looked like I was doing well but on the inside I had so much anxiety I was having panic attacks I had an eating

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disorder and it’s like I’m not saying you have to like share all of that and stuff like that is going on for you but

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I just want to let you know like you’re not alone and we want to really um we’re going to share today some of

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what shifted my own experience to help create a lot of personal happiness and peace while also making more money Ian I

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know you you know you obviously share your story and your journey with your clients too but we just really want this

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to be a place that’s like supportive and so whatever your biggest mindset challenges are right now I think as we

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go into this segment we want to open up for you to share in the chat and I think we’ll Ian what we open up to for people

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to ask questions maybe get some coaches yeah we can’t we can kind of take questions as we go we’ll provide some

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tips along the way for mindset and for habits for um for Success regardless of what’s

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happening around you but before we do I’d love to just ask the group you know reply yes if those Trends resonate in

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your company or how you’re feeling or know if they don’t I mean that’s what I’m hearing from my clients it doesn’t mean it’s everything but those are kind

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of the high level I see a lot of yeses okay so to to that point you’re not alone and I think that’s important to

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know it’s like in in the community Lisa and I are both through and through sales people and we we that’s how we identify

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and that’s why we’re here this is important to know that what you’re going through and what you’re thinking you’re

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not crazy in that it’s it’s really common across multiple companies because I see it in in at least as two so that’s

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that’s why this topic is very important because it’s really about how do you get through the little voices in your head

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or the the doubts and not let this these Trends or these these negative things

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going on impact how you work and how you serve your clients and that’s hard to do um if unless you have the right tools to

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be able to handle it so that’s a lot of what we’re going to talk about today yeah I love it I love it and for those

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of you who are I know a decent amount of my audience are entrepreneurs I see some of you here on on the show too so we’ve

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got such a good mix of AES entrepreneurs sales leaders so it’s like we we all

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feel it in different ways right but just seeing all those yeses in the chat is huge so so why don’t we do this why

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don’t we start talking about vote I’m gonna start with some mindset yeah

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for sure okay awesome awesome so why don’t you kick us off we can kind of go back and forth here and

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um if you have a question or if you want to receive coaching around something just can Catherine can they raise their hands I think they can raise their hands

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yeah if people have questions while we’re talking let’s keep it interactive this is going to be we Elise and I

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thought it’d be helpful to do like a live coaching session so if you want to bring us your challenges or your

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uncertainties or any anything that maybe is going on feel free and I’ll you know share how I would coach anyone right and

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same with the least so feel free to jump in as we as we’re talking we want to keep this informal and interactive so

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let’s just go through and kind of popcorn back and forth the least top mindset tips so my number one mindset

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tip would be focus on what you can control okay you can’t control layoffs

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you can’t control economic um stock prices dropping you can’t

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control your company and what their what their are communicating what you can control is how you show up every day

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what you can control is how you treat other people what you can control is how hard you work and what you’re working on

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so if you focus on the process of just showing up and doing the right things every day and not letting all the

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outside noise affect what you actually do I think that is a key to riding the

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storms because there will be storms and if you’re consistently riding whether it’s a a dark storm or whether it’s a

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sunny day you know that that’s going to lead to consistent results in good times and in bad times but where people tend

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to get tripped up is is when they let the things outside of their control impact how they work how they think and

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then they actually stop doing the things that are going to make them successful in the first place so that would be my number one tip would be focus on what

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you can control gosh I love that so much and I’ll just I’ll share one thing related to that this is something I get

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to remind myself of all the time too like your current results it’s a reflection of the the past right so it’s

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a reflection of who you were being in the past what you were thinking what you were doing what your actions were what

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your emotional state and we get tripped up when we get so focused on what’s currently going on in our lives and so

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just knowing like who you’re being so what you’re thinking what you’re feeling and what you’re doing today is going to

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create a different result for you tomorrow but if we get so fixated on this deal didn’t close or my bank

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account’s not where I’d like it to be like we can really get in our heads and then we just keep perpetuating more of

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the same so just really remembering how that works and I think that ties in with for me I’d

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say one of my favorite mindset pieces is just that mindset of abundance right which somebody had shared in the chat

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that it was um that it was your goal for this year and Ian I’ll share a couple thoughts that I want to kick it to you for kind of how you think about this but

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I mean we’re all in sales or entrepreneurs for those of you who are entrepreneurs

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partially because we want to create abundance right we like probably we like helping people we like serving and we

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want to create abundance in our lives and you can’t create abundance from lack thinking you just can’t it’s not how it

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works so I think really shifting I want to kind of tie an e into what you shared

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thinking about with what you can control how can you add more abundance into that

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whether it’s gratitude for your current customers whether it’s um creating an abundance of

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opportunities for yourself whether it’s like blessing what you do have right and

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then letting that grow because what we focus on expands so that for me is part

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of my daily practice we’ll get into habits a little bit more as we go we’ll talk about morning routine but really

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just focusing on no matter what is going on in the external world like where am I

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feeling abundant right now and where can I Express gratitude for that yeah jump in Ian yeah I have a lot of thoughts on

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this but like I think it starts with knowing what is an abundant mindset to begin with so people say well what is

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what is abundant what is abundance and the way I look at abundance an abundant mindset specifically

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is it’s a mindset of of really focusing on serving other people

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that that’s the simplest definition you see when we get in our heads and we want

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to just serve ourselves and we put our own selfish needs ahead

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of those of others generally we fall pretty hard and I I am living walking

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proof of that and did everything the wrong way for for a very long time until I nearly lost everything but when I

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shifted my mindset to serving other people and really how can I actually help other people

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um and how can I actually try to do good you know in in terms of I’ll share a few

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examples of what this looks like but when I’m with clients an abundant mindset when I’m selling is let’s see if I can help them first let’s

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have a conversation and if I am a fit I’m going to share how I can help them and if I’m not I’m going to direct them

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to the right place I’m not attached to the outcome of getting a sale

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I’m attached to seeing whether or not I can help someone in this conversation and if I can then it’s my obligation to

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share how right so that’s a very abundant mindset going into a sales call without the expectation of I need to

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close because I don’t need to close I don’t care about closing what I care about is helping my clients and if I can

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then closing is a natural outcome of that so that’s an example of abundant mindset with with clients an example of

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an abundant mindset with family is when I’m with my wife I’m going to be present

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I’m going to put down my phone and I’m going to listen and maybe her problems or her complaints are not something I

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necessarily am thinking about but those are important to her and therefore I’m going to listen and just be present and

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acknowledge it versus being dismissive and saying what are you worrying about something this doesn’t matter right so again you can take an abundant mindset

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anywhere but in my mind it really does come come down to this shift from being

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inward focused on my needs first to outward focused on how can I serve the needs of other people when you do that

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generally your needs get served in an even bigger way than if you’re focusing on only serving your own needs so I’ll

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stop there that’s how I look at abundant mindset I love that so much I love that so much

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um I want to look at we had a couple questions coming in the chat that could be good to call people up for some

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coaching sure Ryan Johnson asked how do you know the right things to work on

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Ryan do you want to come off mute I don’t know where you are but do you want to come yeah there you go awesome hey

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Ryan hey all right so your question was how do you know the right things to work on

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tell us a little bit more about that yeah so I’m I work in the Telecom industry and there’s

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um if anybody’s ever worked in kind of a software um as a solution kind of cell thing you

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have to go through I have to go through so many different things to get the sale to go to complete it’s a pretty complex

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selling process and so I find myself every day where it’s like well I have

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this deal I’m working on I have this deal I’m working on so I need to process it through this way I have I need to set

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time I’ll um I need to set time aside for prospecting but I have to drive too much I have to drive two hours to go to my

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area to prospect so it’s like I just find myself always bouncing around and I and at the end of the week when I look

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at my week I’m like I don’t feel like I got anything done because I’m just jumping all over the place you mind if I

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take this one Elise no I was just gonna say Ian take it and roll with it yeah so Ryan I there’s really in sales there’s

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two things that two buckets of activities that you should be working on that are the right things to work on

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okay the first bucket is anything to advance Pipeline and that comes first

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okay that comes before prospecting you see if you have a deal and you have to

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do a lot of steps to advance it if you don’t do those steps in favor of maybe trying new clients or cold calling that

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deal is going to slip through right the intention of the client to move forward is going to waver and diminish with time

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so you have to prioritize any deals where you’ve already met with the clients you’ve had your first meeting

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maybe the next step is a demo maybe it’s a business case maybe it’s you know getting your Executives with their

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Executives it’s going to be different for every client depending on what you sell and how long your sales cycle is

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but I always look at my Pipeline and I say what are the next steps in this

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um in this deal and that comes first that is the number one priority and that happens in the first part of my day so

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that’s advancing pipeline bucket and that’s any next step on any active deal in your pipeline that’s a real

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opportunity the second bucket is creational pipeline so if you’re

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spending all day every day advancing pipeline your pipeline’s full that’s a good thing you don’t need to in fact in

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Salesforce I usually prospected my I had an Enterprise account so a lot of those deals were you know six to nine months

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12 months sometimes multiple years to sell and I only had a handful of accounts so I didn’t always see the

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money right away but I had to trust the process and the execution sometimes these were 20 30 40 meetings before an

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actual sale would occur if it was a seven or eight figure deal so I I had to have this faith of like what’s the right

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thing to be doing to advance the deal so it’s really important to have a mutual plan that you’re working towards to have

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a project plan you’re almost a project manager at that point and executing and planning those next steps so if your

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pipeline’s full that’s your first priority if your pipeline’s not full and if you’ve exhausted every next step in

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your active deal that means it’s time to Prospect and then it’s a matter of the second bucket which is creation Pipeline

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and that creational pipeline entails a lot of activities it’s not just prospecting it’s the research on how do

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you personalize and create a relevant message for your clients it’s the actual sending of emails it’s the actual

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copywriting to send out it’s video potentially on LinkedIn it’s you know prospecting picking up the phone it’s

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you know looking at the people and maybe watching their web webinar or something about them where you can use to gain

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insights on what you’re going to use in your messaging so there is really unlimited amount of activities you could

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do that falls under that prospecting bucket but the way I always Pro order it is advancement comes first because I

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don’t want deals that are you know already in pipeline to slip through the cracks and once I’m done advancing I move to creation and everything else is

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noise everything else that’s busy work or unrelated to advancing and creation generally I try to say no to or delegate

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that’s kind of how I structure my my habits my day so that I know I’m working on the right things and then just having

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Blind Faith that it’s going to work out and trusting the process rather than being impatient patience is a huge part

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of this yeah and and I guess that’s that’s that’s the hardest part is that having that Blind Faith that like okay

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I’m I’m going through these steps and I’m hoping that this these steps actually turn out and I guess that’s

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just part of being in sales right so it is and especially if you have a long sales cycle where your deals take a lot

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longer and there’s a lot of steps involved you almost really need to just for Enterprise I see this all the time

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because it might take eight months and you might have seven zeros up to that deal and then all of a sudden it’s it’s

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seven figures and then you made your number for the year so that that’s the nature of a more strategic selling cycle

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versus a more transactional where you have kind of a lot of sales going on and a lot of um velocity I would say so it

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just depends on what you sell and how long it takes okay thank you you’re welcome awesome question yeah so

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advancing then creation was the the bottom line takeaway there and I think incorporating you can incorporate the

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abundance mindset piece into that too right it’s like when you’re doing the activities right and having that

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abundance mindset how can I have abundance and service mindset while I reach out while I do each step of the process

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um just to help stay in that energy of Faith so we had um Mike said I’d like to

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work more on a mindset of gratitude Mike did you want you want some coaching around that I mean I think that’s

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something we can probably a lot of people can relate to I don’t see where you are Mike but feel free to come off

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mute if you wanted some support around that let’s see here

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well while you so Mike feel free to you know feel free to come off mute I saw Amanda too said I like the idea of

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an abundant mindset how do you train yourself to think bigger which I really love I love you want to take some of

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those yeah yeah Amanda are you Amanda do you want

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to come off mute there we go hey hi how are you guys amazing how are you I’m

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great thank you for doing this today I appreciate it all of this is obviously stuff we think about every day within

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our sales careers I am an I.T consultant so I work with a lot of I.T leaders

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and their leadership teams and you know you get the you get the little

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deals you’re working with your management um to grow the business and especially

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now when they’re saying hey what are you going to do next year give us an idea um and you don’t want to come in too

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small of growth but you know that these deals take you know eight to ten months

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sometimes to get off the ground how do you typically approach that as

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far as like again you know thinking big like you know I’m gonna hit my number and then some

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and not not getting you know stuck in the trenches

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of your mind I mean I’ll share what worked for me and

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then you know I’ll kick it over to you to add in anything there but for me it’s all about like what type of thinkers are

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you surrounding yourself with so you’ll always be and people know this right but it’s like are we actively doing this

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you’re always going to think like the average of the five people who you’re around the most so for me I was stuck at

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the six figure level for about 10 years and it wasn’t until and I’ll share numbers for context here just to kind of

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understand the value of this um and I wanted more for my life you know I wanted I wanted a bigger life I

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want to be able to give more contribute more Etc so I knew there was something in my thinking that was keeping me stuck

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because I was doing all the right things but staying stuck creating the same results every year and I finally I hired a mentor who was a

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multi-millionaire who was also a mom who was like I wanted to know how she thought like

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that was really it I wanted to know how she thought and as I started to see

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thought patterns in her of just one was like unavailability for any sort of lack in her life and just being completely

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Unapologetic about it right like I’m worth it I own it and like her energy was just a different level of energy and

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I wanted to start thinking like how does she think I joined a mastermind of other women who were going for seven figures and it was with that like my results

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transformed and I 10x my income in six weeks and so it’s it was who I was

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around because I knew that if I wanted to think bigger I had to be around people who were going to challenge my

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thinking and keep telling me you’re thinking too small you’re thinking too small and most people won’t tell you that right for all of you like you’re

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you’re high Achievers if you’re here like the fact that you’re here you’re motivated you’re a high achiever

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um even if you’re earlier in a role and you haven’t seen those results yet I just know by the fact that you’re here you are a high achiever probably a lot

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of the people around you are not going to be like a next they’re not going to have Next Level thinking

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for you right they might look to you and say like oh he’s got huge results or she’s got huge results you need to get in the room with people who are thinking

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way bigger than you that make you feel like not in a bad way but help you see how small the thinking has been up until

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this point so that’s what that’s what I would say Ian what would you what would you say to that I I would Echo that I I

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just got off call with Isaac who’s on the call right now he’s like I have this great opportunity to have this great job

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and I said well it’s not that great and and it’s not because it’s not great

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it’s because I see hundreds of different you know opportunities and it’s about

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getting perspective outside of your circle I I would agree with that a hundred percent and and so just having

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exposure to me Isaac gets a different lens of the

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opportunity and where you know where where he could be you know focusing and and how we should be thinking about that

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so I think I think that’s one the only thing I would add is, I think that

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thinking bigger if you’re thinking bigger for yourself that’s great but if you’re thinking

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bigger for your client then that’s a a like you’re you’re a vessel for them so

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if you’re if you’re trying to sell a a big deal and your clients only thinking

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about it small and that small project is not going to have an impact a material impact on their business it’s not going

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to have a material impact on their their financial goals or their company goals you’re doing them a disservice so if you

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know in the right thing that they need a full overhaul of their I.T infrastructure and that that’s the way

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they’re gonna move faster innovate quicker Amanda in their business it’s your obligation to tell them that so

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it’s like begin with the end in mind say look we can start here but where you really need is this let me show you a

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road map on how you can get there let’s work on a phased approach but we’re working towards a full overhaul so

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that’s what clients want they want someone who can challenge them to think bigger and do things differently

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especially if there’s struggling especially if they’re not achieving their goals you know having someone to

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tell you hey you’re doing it all wrong without necessarily calling their baby ugly right that that’s a that’s that’s a

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skill in sales that I think will serve you very well when you can go and say hey you need to be thinking about this a

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little differently you’re thinking here but really you need to look at the big picture so how do you become a trusted

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advisor well you need to know about what’s happening in the industry you need to know about how companies are

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innovating Faster by over hauling their I.T organization you need to know specifically what people in their roles

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are facing so I always like to look at industry research I always like to you know stay equipped with Trends one of

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the reasons why I’m we’re doing this is because mindset and habits are one of the biggest areas that sales reps are

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struggling with now so it’s like where you have to have a pulse to be able to say with confidence and certainty you’re

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thinking about this maybe a little bit smaller than what you could here’s what I see for you and then they can say well

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that’s great but we’re right here right now okay well great we’ll start here but we need to still be looking outward at

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this bigger vision and here’s why that’s important and I want to make sure we’re working towards that are you aligned because if you’re not maybe we’re not

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the right partner maybe you know you’re better off just hiring a company that can just do this one job for us versus

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partnering with us so that’s kind of the way I would think about it is like think bigger in service of your clients versus

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just in service of like getting a bigger deal done for yourself right because if you have a bigger Vision that you’re

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helping a client execute it’s going to mean bigger deals bigger commissions that’s just a natural outcome yeah I

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love that thank you and I think it applies the reverse engineering how you want your life to look too 100 so thank

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you yeah that’s so good that’s so good and Ian what you were talking about reminded me of for any of you who’ve

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read science of getting rich this concept of the impression of increase right which is that all of us just our

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nature is we want to expand we want increase so Ian to what you said of helping your clients see the potential

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for increase in their life right right and in their business and what you’re selling like that’s huge that’s going to get people excited that’s going to get

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them to for the right ones right to want to say yes and move forward so um amazing we had we had another

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question I’m kind of you know you I just want to like go through questions right now

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for sure well we’ll we will fit in our points as we go I want to get habits too

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though we’re about halfway through it I want to talk about like so that’s daily daily habits if if we let’s talk about

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this let’s do one more are you cool if we do one more question on belief then we can talk about habits sure yeah we

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had I think this was good I think this was a good one so um Damien I don’t know if I’m pronouncing your name correctly but you

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said thoughts on belief and attainability I was given a new really aggressive number and having some major doubts which how many can relate to

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having doubts around your goal right so I think that would be really good to speak to um you want to first of all how do you

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pronounce your name yeah go ahead oh you got it right oh great okay yeah yeah for sure

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um yes I work in the cyber security space um there’s like a managed cyber security provider right companies bringing us on

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so they don’t build out their own infosec team and yeah my new goals are just way larger

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than last year you know because we take a land and expand approach right so some expansion but just the amount of net new

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low because I’m gonna need to bring in the next year and I’m having to do a presentation next week to my board on

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how I’m going to hit this number and it’s like kind of one of those things like here’s your number go figure it out

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and tell us how you’re going to do it and I’m like I have no freaking clue how I’m gonna do it so it’s going to be a thought why I thought this was so

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relevant was like well I’ve got to figure out how I’m gonna do this and really believe it because otherwise like this means to go awful next week

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so yeah um and you want to start um I like Napoleon Hill’s book Think

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and Grow Rich and he says whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can

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achieve so if you don’t believe it it ain’t gonna happen because your actions

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in your you know your plan is not going to support it but I I would say in in

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general um there’s the there’s the emotional side of belief and then there’s the

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planning and The Logical side and they’re different different parts so for for the emotional side

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um you know it’s interesting the the there’s a guy I I listen to he has a

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podcast it’s great his name is Ed mylett and he talks about this concept

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of a internal thermostat so if you think of your opportunity everyone’s got an

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internal thermostat so elise’s was around six figures right and it’s like I’m a six figure earner this is where

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I’m comfortable this is what I’m meant to do and then once she surrounded herself by people that were doing seven

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figures and you know much more successful people that brought him so the two ways to expand your belief into

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actually run think of the think of your thermostat as your operating temperature the Rhythm which you run and maybe

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you’re running as a 200k a year earner and that’s what you do and that’s kind of where you’re comfortable well if you

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get really hot sometimes you self-sabotage and go down and if you go really slow then you pull yourself up right so we’re always comfortable well

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if you want to raise that internal thermostat that the key is to again it goes down to

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um surrounding yourself by people that are doing large deals in that space of

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cyber security so are there companies doing four five six million if your target went from a million to to 2

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million you’re maybe like oh my gosh that’s impossible it’s doubled but I I know people in cyber security that have

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a four million Target that are hitting it right so it’s like finding those experts in in that industry that are

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capable either within your company or outside of your company and learning what they do and how they do it and and

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connecting with them I think is it strengthens belief it strengthens belief

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when you have people that have walked before you that you can model in their

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footsteps for so I think that’s one part of it and the second part of it then is is really getting a plan working

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backwards right so I I didn’t believe it was possible for me to run a marathon

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and I certainly didn’t believe it was possible for me need to do it in the time I did it but then I found a mentor who

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um you know did marathon training and he gave me a plan and sure enough I just followed the plan and and I and I hit my

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goal so I think that is a big part of it is like you need to have some guidance it’s not just go figure it out it’s like

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okay we’ll work with your boss work with other people to get the right plan and then back into it

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um I’m going to give you a video I just made I think it was released today on my YouTube on how to strengthen your

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beliefs but I have a five-step process for that right and it’s it’s really again it’s about finding a mentor right

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it’s about visualizing and feeling into the success before it even happens it’s about

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um you know getting the right plan and then it comes down to again trusting the process and not getting attached to the

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outcome but knowing you know that your plan is right and once you do those things you’re going to feel more confident so I’ll drop that in the chat

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for you um Damien so then you can kind of see it but you gotta you gotta have more than

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just figure it out you gotta have like a road map and ideally a model who is

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doing some big numbers in your space that you can learn from and model after no this is super helpful appreciate it

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anything to add a lace on it yeah you know I think um gosh you know it’s it’s so good like

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it’s all perspective right so kind of like to Ian’s point of get a mentor get get around people who have done that

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like it may feel big to you Damien but would it be big to everyone right like would it feel and you could just use

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people who you know or who you don’t know like would it feel like a big number to Ian I don’t know would it feel like a big number to at least I don’t

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know right but like it’s all context right it’s all perspective and I would say two other two other

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things so one is you’ve got this number for a reason right and anytime I

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something happens in my life that feels challenging or feels like I don’t know how I’m gonna do it I go through an

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exercise an old Mentor of mine would have me do which is I’m thrilled this is happening because it doesn’t matter what it is it’s like something could go

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sideways a deal could go wrong and get a big challenge I don’t know how I’m gonna do it I’m thrilled this is happening because and I forced myself to list out

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10 different reasons why I’m thrilled and I think I would really look at for you like who do I get to become in the

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process right so like first of all like I got this because the only reason I could get this is if it’s possible for

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me and then who am I gonna get to become in the process and also really I don’t

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want to spend too much time on the sticks I know we want to get to habits but the way the Mind Body Connection works is when we have a negative so our

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thoughts trigger our feelings so when we have a negative feeling in our body a feeling of Doubt a feeling of in

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security it’s actually your body’s feedback mechanism that you’re thinking something in that moment that’s not true

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for you so when you have a feeling of doubt I would really examine the thought of what did I just think did I just

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think I can’t do this my body’s literally telling me right now that’s not true it’s like I was just thinking a

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lie right so again we could do like a deep dive on um on neuro programming and everything

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here which we’re we don’t have time for but just knowing that feedback loop I think is so important and just because

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you think a thought doesn’t mean it’s actually true right so um yeah a little bit to add on there so

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um awesome awesome

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I just dropped the five steps there for you in the chat too so you can have that in the video okay amazing literally just

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published this today so it’s a great question you want to transition to some habits let’s talk about let’s talk about

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habits because we started talking about it at the beginning and you were telling me about your most perfect morning routine today which I was like I like

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all of it except for one part so let’s talk habits let’s get into it I

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like it so here here’s the thing about habits okay ah habits change your mindset

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when you when you’re doing things that are healthy that are positive that are productive you feel better and you and

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you think in a in a better way so people will say what comes first mindset or habits it’s like the chicken of the egg

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right there’s no right answer because you have to you have to think differently to change how you how you

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work and how you operate but in my experience just doing things differently actually makes you think differently so

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the two are interlinked tremendously and for me um my number one recommended habit and

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it’s not one habit it’s a series of habits but having a morning routine and starting the morning off with

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um winning is what will set you up and set up the rest of the day for success and so I’m

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I’m not gonna recommend doing my morning routine because it is you know a result

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of 60 years of personal development um Elise and I are both very into personal development and and I think it

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would be a lot for people to take on but I can share what I did this morning and people ask me Ian how’s your energy so

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high all the time how are you consistently so you know positive or in a good mood and I’m like well it’s

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because I set myself up through what I’m doing before I see you so in the morning typically

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um I’ll just share this morning so I woke up around seven not like crazy early not like five or four a.m like

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some of these people but for me it was seven o’clock and I went and I I had an

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energy Shake right with with vitamins and greens and you know super you know charged me physically

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um then I went on a three mile run nothing nothing crazy but nice 30 minute run popped in a cold shower which woke

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my butt up and also got a lot of the the blood Circa calculating and was really

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good for my cells and my skin um by now I’m feeling pretty good okay I got the shower the energy shake well so

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that’s like the physical part of the morning routine is doing something physical that is going to make you feel good and then the mental part began so

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after that I went and I did a daily affirmation now for people that struggle

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with mindset and I do too all the time again I I come from a family of addict addicts and I struggle with addiction

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myself so I have to constantly you know put myself into the Abundant mindset and the way I do that is through

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affirmations and so I created an affirmation that I can share with everyone because it’s

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it’s really um new for me I I do affirmations all the time but I just updated mine that’s

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more around spirituality so I I affirmation is something you say to yourself every morning that reminds you

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of how you want to show up in your best life right and it comes down to being in service of other people so I am kind

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loving and humble in spirit this is how I want to show up my second is I’m hardworking focused and disciplined in

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action right how do I work my habits my interactions I respect listen and

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stay present with others okay I know that’s a challenge for me being ADHD so really being focused and being attentive

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I lead by example do do what I say you’re going to do I Inspire others to be their best and I put God’s will

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before my own which came from my addiction recovery and so I know if I’m focused on my selfish desires I tend to

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behave badly and don’t feel good but when I’m focusing on serving other people and being an example and you know

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and putting God first that that helps me um truly not only feel great but serve others at a higher capacity and then I

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have a picture in my family which reminds me of why I’m doing what I’m doing so that is something I read it’s

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pinned to my mirror in my bathroom I read it out loud in in on days when

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maybe I’m not feeling so hot at least I know how I want to show up and that programs my brain to show up that way if

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you see it every day you’re gonna do it so I highly recommend affirmations then I I say a prayer and I did a it was a

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10 minute meditation and then I started my day so imagine how great you feel after exercising after seeing an

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affirmation after connecting spiritually and after meditating right so these are things that do I do it perfect every day

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no but I try to get into exercise or meditation in which gets me grounded and

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starting the day right so that’s that extends then to how I interact with other people and you know how I can show

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up um in service of other people so that that’s the the morning routine and for anyone who wants to kind of incorporate

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all of those elements there’s a great book called The Miracle morning by Hal Elrod and he talks about that doesn’t

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need to look exactly like mine you got to do what works for you but I find that’s like one of the biggest hacks

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that you can make to getting your mind and your habits right is is to start the day with a very healthy morning routine

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yeah amazing um and I mean if it’s I can share I can share like mine is so it’s funny because

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it’s similar but it’s different and I think yeah share yours I’d love to hear it at least yeah I mean I think that’s just like the takeaway from this is you

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get to pick what works for you and I think it’s different for different life phases that we’re into so I’m like I am

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a super early riser mine starts at three but I also go to bed at eight I’m like a grandma so that’s it’s just it I get my

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sleep but it’s just different I do everything Ian does except for the cold shower

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um I just start mine differently I start with the um with more of the mindset piece so I list I actually have my

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affirmations recorded and it’s like a vivid description of how I want my life to be like whatever the next kind of

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goal is in my life that I’m working on and it’s about a five minute recording I listen to it first thing when I wake up

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because when you wake up your subconscious is more open so it’s a lot easier to program yourself so that’s the first thing I do

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again I do a longer meditation I do like 45 minutes to an hour kind of depending on the day

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um but I’ll do that I’ll study and then physical part of mine is not as rigorous as he and so I’ll like I’ll hop on the

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treadmill and kind of answer DMS or answer emails while I’m going but I always make sure before I get in my

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inbox before I get in reactive mode I’ve got that time for me to get really grounded and like anchored in for

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spiritual connection with who I want to be with how I want to show up um and so I think it’s like you get to

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kind of pick what works for you but you’ll hear commonalities and elements in both of those of of what really

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matters you know so um and you feel good I mean how do you not feel good starting the day that way

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and that’s really what it’s about when you feel good you can show up your best and you can serve others at a high level

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so it starts with yourself you can’t pour from an empty cup you can’t serve others if you’re depleted and so taking

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care of your mind your body your connection your relationship I know I have two kids at least you know as a

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family right it’s like how do you balance it all well you you have to make time you have to prioritize your health

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and you have to prioritize your connections and relationships and that enables you to then I think just operate

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at a much higher capacity and cope with stress in a much healthier way 100 100 I

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want to um there’s a quick question of meditation Michael I do um Joe dispenza’s which is why they’re so long

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um in what type of meditation do you do I have the waking up app so I I

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um it’s usually 10 to 15 minutes per meditation it’s kind of a more intellectual approach to meditation

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versus a embody it’s like explaining what’s going on and why and it’s for people that are Skeptics about it which

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which I was um you know to for me honestly it just helps me focus it helps with the ADHD

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for sure awesome awesome we got some JD fans in the house I love it um Ian what do you Here’s my thought

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tell me if this works for you I would love to spend like one to two minutes on end of day acknowledgment and then I think everyone’s going to want to hear

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your daily planning process cool are you good if we if we roll with those go for

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it is that cool okay so I’ll do super quick on end of day acknowledgment and then I want you to take over with with

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your planning process I think for for your mental health and for you to

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continue to just stay motivated something that so many of us forget to do but is so important is that

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acknowledgment of yourself at the end of the day right so you can hear what I love about Ian’s heart like you can hear

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it on this webinar it is so service minded and it’s like if I’m just showing up and serving people like I’m winning

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which is true it’s how it works and on top of that I think it’s also so

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important to show up for yourself and acknowledge yourself for how you showed

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up during the day regardless of whether or not you had a sale regardless of whether or not you hit like a specific

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goal because we can’t control all of those factors but acknowledging yourself or what am I proud of myself for so this

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may sound corny but I swear to you it is one of it’s one of the biggest things that created an up level in my life and

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I have my clients do it and they make a lot more money when they do it so I’ll just put it out there so the end of the

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day looking at yourself in the mirror I know again it sounds corny just give it a try and this is from Lisa Nichols so this

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is not Amy Lee sarcher original if any of you follow Lisa Nichols she’s a great motivational speaker and you just speak

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to yourself and you say to yourself like I’m proud of you for and you list out seven things you can journalist by the

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way or you can just think it if it feels really corny to look at yourself in the mirror but I’m proud of you for right it’s like I’m proud of you for

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exercising today I’m proud of you for um getting up on time I’m proud of you

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for um giving your best on that sales call right like whatever it is proud of

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myself for seven things then you forgive yourself for one thing so for me it would be like at least I

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forgive you for and then whatever I fell into an old habit I judge myself I judge

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somebody else and then the final is um I commit to you that so I feel like at least I commit to

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you that and it’s seven things I commit to you that you’re going to have a great night’s sleep I commit to

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you that you’re going to achieve all your goals and more I commit to you that everything you want wants you back I commit to it’s like whatever it is that

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I need to speak over my life um I say that and it’s that building of this it will build yourself image

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tremendously and your income will always be it it’s it’s based on your self-image

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right so um so if you say that out loud do you write it and journal it when you

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do the when you do those those so it depends but I’m just doing mirror work I don’t say it out loud because usually my husband and my son are in the Next Room

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and I don’t want them to like look at me like a lunatic so like I’ll say it in my head or if I’m by myself I’ll Journal it

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like if I’m journaling I’ll Journal it gotcha yeah but it makes a huge difference in your self-image so I think

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it’s how you go to bed too you know totally yeah well you’re falling asleep pretty early so you need to do this like

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at 5 PM or something no no you’re not wrong

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can we I think there’s a there’s an underlying theme Here of just self-awareness

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you know knowing who you are and staying true to your values knowing who you are and living your values right if you

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don’t take the time to even know who you are how are you going to write an affirmation how are you going to Express gratitude how are you going to plan and

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dream big and like that’s at the underlying like root of all of this is

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like who are you and what do you stand for and then once you know that are you going to live your values every day and

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then having tools to say okay maybe I didn’t live my values today maybe you know I didn’t have a perfect day but

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that’s okay right and I forgive myself and tomorrow’s a new day and and we’re all human we all struggle Elise and I we

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have our struggles I guarantee you I I do every day right but you have to choose

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consciously how you’re going to show up and you have to you know make sure that’s the line with with your values

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and so I think that again this this comes down to this journey of

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self-awareness that we’re all on and once you know yourself then you know what is in alignment and what’s out of

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alignment and if you’re out of alignment you you need to Pivot and course correct and if you’re in alignment you can you

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can feel good at the end of the day and sleep well at night knowing you you know you did your best so I love that

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practice Elise and I think it’s nice to put it all together for sure so awesome

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you want to take I want to make sure we have like two minutes and then we can just kind of do q a for

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the last like seven or eight minutes and just do some coaching with what people resonate so um I I will say I’ve been thinking a lot

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about this and I just want to share it so why are people unhappy why are people

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you know never content Never Satisfied in sales and outside of sales too right

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some of those stats that we talked about and I think Elise hit on it but it’s focusing on what you’re not doing

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and looking at what’s wrong versus appreciating what you are doing and and

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acknowledging what what’s actually progress or right so I think that that’s really important like the source of

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misery comes from like comparing yourself to others or thinking about all the gaps of all the things that you didn’t do

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because look there’s never enough things to get done in a day right there’s just we all have the same amount of time in

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the day so I think that that’s like giving yourself Grace in realizing that there’s no such thing

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as perfect is so essential to being happy and being fulfilled because it

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just doesn’t exist perfect doesn’t exist right there’s no such thing as a perfect day you’re all even if you have the

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perfect day you might snap at your kids because they’re impatient and you might have values and I don’t snap I I don’t

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yell but maybe you slip and that’s because we’re human and then we’re all we’re all gonna make

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mistakes but if you can make those mistakes a little bit less frequently every day or maybe a little bit less

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time you are going to be better each year right and so that’s

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that’s kind of the grace the concept of Grace and giving yourself Grace is is what Elise is talking about with the I

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forgive myself for and I just love that and I think it’s really important right um so to to feel better at the end of

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the day typically if you’re in sales or you’re an entrepreneur

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the way you’re going to feel better at the end of the day is if you have a productive day okay if you get things

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done that you want to and you aim to accomplish and so for me I’m just gonna

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share the 10 000 foot view of how I get more done in a week than most people do

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in a month and I can say that very very confidently okay um per context I have a family of four

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people I have two little little boys two and six years old my wife is a full-time

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mom and she wants me present around um I take four vacations a year and probably another four or five weekend

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getaways um I run a seven-figure coaching business I also am active in the recovery Community I post every day on

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LinkedIn so I’m doing a lot and I’m not saying that to brag I’m saying it and I

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ran a marathon I’m saying that because it is possible to hit the goals in your

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personal life and your family life and in your business life if you manage your time efficiently and that’s what it

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comes down to okay so what I do I have two techniques I use to manage my time

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efficiently the first is a um I can send this to everyone who registered as a follow-up if we have the

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registration link but I use a system called the 12 week year

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and this is a really really simple um system that I do once a week on a

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Monday morning usually and I’ll write down here the critical things that I want to get done this week okay and then

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what happens with the 12-week year is I’m going to share my screen because I think it’s easier than seeing my little

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my little paper here um is at the end of the week um or at the beginning of the week I

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will prioritize this and I I print it out I print it out I do it every week so it’s it’s called a weekly scorecard and

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I write here are the key actions and I brained up all the things that I want to get done and then I rank them in

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priority so from 1 to 15 or however many are on the list

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and then that’s my start of the week so the reason why is this eliminates what’s called decision fatigue indecision

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fatigue is like oh my gosh I have so much to do where do I start well if you just take the time to prioritize and

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rank it you can see I’ve done one I’ve done two I’ve done three and we’re on a Tuesday already so

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I got seven critical things done that I needed to do yesterday okay so that’s

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the first part of it the second part of it is the daily planning so once you do the weekly planning using the scorecard

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then you could pivot to the Daily planning which is at the beginning of the day I usually take about 10 minutes

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and I fill in the white space of my calendar and all I do is I go in the order of importance and again the things

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that are the most important are the rgas advancing deals or things in my case related to my upcoming lunch for my new

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program so I’ll go in and I will look at the calendar and I will fill in the white space so my calendar

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has things on here that are both meetings and tasks so yesterday I fixed

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something in my portal it’s done right I finished this download it’s done I

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created the workbook it’s done right so again I have this listed out and it’s a direct feed from the weekly scorecard so

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white space is dead space white space is where we put take our foot off the gas

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where we slack off where we go to distractions or habits you don’t see YouTube or Instagram or a bunch of

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personal stuff in here it’s it’s I’m working on the things that actually move the needle in my business so in my

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experience you can go back to my calendar and look at every week for years and years and it’ll always look

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the same right so it’ll be a mix of meetings and tasks that are high

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priority and I do that every day in the beautiful thing about the system is I

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already know at the beginning of the day what I’m doing because I’m just going off of this 12-week year and the most important things get done first and so

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that that to me that that’s it’s it’s like a to-do list on steroids because there’s a prioritization component here

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and that just is what I use to to do my planning every day amazing that’s so awesome I thinkĀ 

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yeah so you’ll send that out we’ll we’ll get you the list of everyone register you’ll send that out so I’ll send the

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template for the weekly scorecard I recommend printing it so it’s right in front of you if you look at my desk you can’t see it but there’s only two pieces

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of paper right there’s the marathon training plan the running Plan and there’s this plan

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and that’s it you don’t need clutter you Sim less is more fewer things that are

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the right things executed is is how you get to Seven figures in sales and Entrepreneurship it’s about working on

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less things but working on the right things it is 100 the truth that is 100 the truth and I used to believe the

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opposite I was like it’s just more and more and more like more business more things it’s if you talk to any successful entrepreneur sales

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professional the million dollar plus level it’s less but better it is 100 True

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um we so we’ve got a couple quick questions I want to give a moment just in for you to tell people where they can connect with you further I’ll

1:00:01

share on my end and then we can maybe do yeah so two play two places for me

1:00:08

number one is LinkedIn connect with me there you probably already are that’s why you’re here but if you’re not send

1:00:13

me a connection request and um I’ll I’ll give you some resources to help you with free video trainings okay

1:00:19

my YouTube and my newsletter the other thing is if you do want coaching or you want to enroll my program my enrollment

1:00:24

opens in January and the website is untapyoursalespotential.com so I will be

1:00:30

taking my next cohort of students and feel free to jump on that there is a wait list just make sure you’re on the

1:00:36

wait list you’ll see a big button to get on there because I’m selling to the waitlist I’m launching to the waitlist so you got to be on there amazing and

1:00:43

people have tremendous Quantum leaps in that program so highly highly highly recommend um and then for further

1:00:49

connection with me LinkedIn is also a great place so send me a connection request there if we’re not connected yet

1:00:56

um we’ve got a bunch of free resources in our community I’ve got a daily podcast called She Sells Radio so you

1:01:02

can join that subscribe to that on your favorite podcast player and we’re actually hosting a retreat coming up in

1:01:07

January the 17th through the 19th in Sedona so if you want more details on that you can go to elisearcher.com

1:01:13

Sedona or send me a DM I’ll be happy to send you more details as well

1:01:19

um and I know it’s top of the hour I know there were more questions these were such good questions but I know Andy I think you gotta go I got a meeting as

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well um thank you everyone thanks everyone good luck and stay positive and finish

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the year strong happy holidays and wishing the best for 2023. All right take care everyone bye-bye. Appreciate it,

1:01:39

thank you.

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