The Entrepreneur Club

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Just don’t try, because you won’t get what you want

Opening Scene:
Let me paint you a picture of what I overheard while skipping from one part of the cold and wet city of Melbourne just the other day. Jumping on a tram as I dust the rain off my coat to sit down. A friend looks deeply into the eyes of her other friend as I sit down. Mixture of concern and disgust while her friend is looking back at her in excitement. “Cindy… That great, I’m happy for you but just … “Don’t give your hopes up“. 

Granted, No one ever means ill in doing so. It’s generally to protect the people we care about but let’s be honestly. That is a horrible thing to say to another person you care about! “Just don’t try, because you won’t get what you want”.

Being involved in life requires you to take risks. Here’s what happens as a result of giving this advice to your children, to your spouses or your closest friend. (Lets say Hypothetically) They have natural ambition & never really taken a chance on themselves til now. Something or someone has inspired them to have a go. They start something for themselves whether it be; Traditional business, Self employment, Engaging life as an Entrepreneur or have been involved in a Start up Project.
Thoughts like this start to arise somewhere along the journey:
“But what if I try my best and it doesn’t work”.
“But what if I waste 3 years of my life & I have to start over”.
“But what if”…. I do give my hopes up.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. – Napoleon Hill

It hurts to see so much talent being poisoned by negative self talk. If you are creating a foundation of insecurity for your future plans. And also; (let me highlight) its setting an unrealistic foundation of insecurity. You are damaging the BEST part of being on an Entrepreneur! Rather! Of being ALIVE!
The part that creates your own personality. The Dream – Struggle – Victory.  Nothing happens without the struggle and yet with a negative self talk – we can’t receive victory without knowing the struggle is apart of the process. It’s not because “It isn’t working” or “I’m just not that sort of person”. Those are excuses.

So, How about:
But what if … it worked!
But what if … this all has the potential to change me into the person that I was really born to become! Rather, the person I Need To Become, to achieve my dreams and goals.
But what if I got everything I could have ever dreamed about.
But what if I just have to do the work to get all these things regardless of what that entails.

That is, MUCH more realistic.

Whatever we spend most of our time and energy focusing on, becomes our life. It might take a year, or 5 – 10 years to come into fruition, dependent on how much leverage or resources you start with. But what does that matter in the grand scheme of things? If it takes a little longer than you wanted – so what!?

Feel free to take risks. Take a chance. Take Action! Go out there and do it 100 times wrong to get it right! When you start to realise how much opportunity surrounds us in this age we are living in, you will soon realise that: As long as you don’t quit, you can not fail. Start talking your life into existence.

Give your hopes up!!!

5 things your mates won’t tell you…

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People approach us all the time and are always looking for that secret method to success. “How did you do it?” Surely it was due to luck. Was it a matter of the right timing? Being in the next best thing early enough?

I am here to squash those questions of the limited thinkers and give it to you straight. The gloves are off. Here are some of the things that you really should be doing if you want to make it big IN ANYTHING.

  1. Be Reliable.

If people can not count on you. They will not want to build a relationship with you. If they do not want to build a relationship with you. You have no business. It is so simple. Show up to the appointments you say you are going to be at. Follow through on what you said you were going to do. Don’t be so swayed by what outside influences. Be a person of your word.

 

  1. Know what you want.

We recently had Anthony Robbins no.1 facilitator; home-grown Aussie boy Scott Harris, speak at one of our events. His main message was about figuring out what your values are. Without a concrete vision of what your values you – you will struggle to make good decisions. Life is full of opportunities, adventure, mysteries, growth, pain & wonder. It’s all part and parcel of the journey. Without a crystal clear vision of the direction you are heading in – you will be procrastinating your whole way through life and never learn to take risks on the things you could find passion in. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

 

  1. Get Comfortable at uncomfortable conversations.

Confrontation!!! Yes! It is the heartbeat to your personal development. Your height of success will come down to the amount of uncomfortable conversations you are willing to have. Now, don’t mistake what I am saying here. I am not talking about rude, hurtful, unnecessary confrontation. I am talking about the kind of conversations that challenge you. Don’t hide behind your phone when someone is calling you. Be comfortable enough in your own skin that you can say “No” to someone else. Or rather, be able to stand up for yourself. As well as caring enough about someone else that you are open to challenging them on some negative beliefs that are holding them back in life. Man up.  Have the conversations in life that give you sweaty palms!

 

  1. Take on Feedback.

I have a secret I don’t like to share with many people…… Shhh…. I’m not perfect…. There you go, I said it! Don’t tell me husband!! I am not perfect. By far actually. I make mistakes ALL.THE.TIME! When I was single. I was never aware of these mistakes because I only lived with myself and myself always agrees with myself. Because all my decisions, are based on self. Haha. Funny that right? So when I started living with Dom, all of a sudden, someone was pointing out to me all these flaws and habits that I had that weren’t healthy. To be fair – I had fun pointing his out in retaliation. But my point is, if you don’t allow people to give you feedback, You will never know what people’s view of you, actually is. I know people who are the sweetest personalities in the world and they think people don’t like them. Then, you have the opposite side of the spectrum with really loud arrogant personalities that think everyone loves them! Take on feedback. It will help you grow and make sure you are operating from a level of higher understanding of yourself and others.

 

  1. DO THE WORK!

Get off you butt and do whatever it takes to achieve the things you want in life. Stop bargaining with the price tag. Just go out there and make sure that everyday you give it all you got. Open yourself up to new things. Listen to others who have gone before you. Read, listen, associate and then apply.  We have so much information available to us in todays age. Have you ever wondered why with so much information available – everyone is not SLIM, RICH & HAPPY? Apply the knowledge. Don’t stop until its done. Do the work.

 

Do we really need to talk about luck now?