John Assaraf : Reinventing the Entrepreneur

I will forever be a student of goal achievement - I am just fascinated by the art and science of how to get things done, particularly those soul-stirring things you hold as your deepest desires in life.

That’s why I’m pleased to be able to pass along a free resource from my good friend Raymond Aaron. Raymond has committed himself to teaching people how to set and achieve goals and dramatically change their lives for the better – and he’s good at it.

Seriously, he’s developed some amazingly innovative, step-by-step techniques over the past two decades, all aimed at helping people take more conscious control of their immediate environments.

From Raymond’s perspective, you don’t have to struggle to get what you want in life – and that’s something I totally agree with. Why reinvent the wheel? Raymond has spent many years developing, refining and testing his techniques, and he has agreed to share two chapters of his new book, “Double Your Income Doing What You Love” with readers of my blog.

In “Double Your Income Doing What You Love” you’ll discover:

• Raymond’s unique system for delegating everything you hate doing, so you’ll spend your time doing what you love to do…
• Why doing only what you love is the key that opens the way to unlimited abundance and joy
• A dead-simple way to crush any obstacle that keeps you from living the life you want
• Why “messes” are the lock on the gate that keeps abundance out…

And a lot more. You can download your two free chapters of Raymond’s new book here. Do it now!

John

When we launched the Having It All Challenge last August, the goal was to create a community of like-minded individuals who would support each other in positively transforming their lives.

Five months later we are seeing the results, and all I can says is “Wow!” Through our exclusive webinars, online forums, group coaching, and our upcoming live event, Having It All members have first dared to express their dreams — and then they have actually gone out and made those dreams come true.

Among the many success stories in the Having It All Challenge, here’s one I’d like to share with you. In October I received an e-mail from Sean Simpson, a young man who was part of the Challenge. Sean had recently moved from Los Angeles to San Diego, and he wanted to know if we had any positions available at OneCoach, the business-growth services company I founded with my friend Murray Smith.

Now, OneCoach is not an employment agency and we don’t have jobs for everyone. But we are a startup, and at any startup there’s lots to do. And when someone with energy and ambition shows up, well, let’s just say that fortune favors the brave. So we found a position for Sean, and he has embraced the opportunity. He is soaking up all the knowledge he can, with the kind of passion and dedication that I admire.

You can see some of Sean’s passion here, in a video he produced for a competition he has entered. Take a look, and join me in applauding Sean’s enthusiasm, his drive, and his vision. Way to go Sean!

I always find the lives of highly successful people very inspiring, such as Steve Jobs, founder of Apple.

His story is a great example of passion and skills in big business, innovation, professional pitfalls and rebounds, belief in self, intense inner-drive,  and staying true to his vision.

Watch this video documentary, then take a moment to ask yourself how he managed to stay so positive.

Donny Deutsch has built his whole “the Big Idea” show around the question of why some people succeed while other don’t – a topic I know something about – so it was only a matter of time before I got invited on.

In fact I’m in New York right now and I’ll make a brief appearance on the show tonight, Jan. 14. That’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC at 7 and 10 p.m. Pacific, 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Eastern.

Be sure to tune in or record it. I’ll be talking about the mindset of multimillionaires, and here’s a head-up: I’ll be pointing viewers to OneCoach.com, where you’ll be able to download some complimentary resources that will really give your business a boost in 2008.

To your best year yet!

John

I nearly drove into the ditch when I heard on the radio that people who are happy earn $750,000+ more in their lifetime than others. That’s a lot — 3/4 of a million.

More than 255 studies show that money doesn’t buy happiness. Studies say it is the other way around: Happiness buys money.

The radio didn’t even address the fact that happy people are more fulfilled, relaxed, and peaceful …that they naturally get lower prices, more opportunities, better care, more friends, greater intimacy, and so on.

You might think, “I would be happy too if I had more intimacy (or that car, that raise, that home…),” but it is the other way around. If you’re happy first, everything will come. High wages. Great relationships. Better sex. Career advancements. Customers. Great deals. Contentment in your home. All naturally, with little effort, which will make you happier still. “Happiness runs in a circular motion.”

A dear friend just released a fabulous new book, “Happy for No Reason,” that’s already getting huge acclaim. This is a breakthrough book — not a Pollyannaish book — that shows you how to raise your baseline of happiness.

This means that no matter what happens at work — no matter what stress plows into you — no matter how dire the circumstances — you will AUTOMATICALLY return to a higher level of happiness than you have today. Imagine, you don’t have to get richer, thinner, or smarter to be happier.

That’s huge. That’s why after I read the first chapter, I exclaimed, “Holy cow! This will change the world.”

This book should be on every desk… in every office… every school… every nightstand. It should be in the hands of everyone you know.

You see… author Marci Shimoff has broken the code on happiness. All we’ve ever really wanted in life is to be happy. And Marci’s book shows you how. She gives you a clear, 7-step program that’s effective and fast. It works from the inside, out.

Get started on this book today, and you’ll receive additional resources to make sure you raise your happiness set-point and not just read about it.

Truth is emerging: Being happy IS how to have it all. It used to be that if we couldn’t have it all, we would at least want happiness. We now know that if you have happiness, everything else can flow to you. Order Marci’s new book today, and then claim the special bonuses and resources.

http://www.HappyForNoReason.com

New Years resolutions are a total waste of time for most people. Why? Because they are not backed by the right mental preparation and conditioning.

How many years have you been making resolutions only to find that within two or three weeks you’ve given up?

Relying upon will power, resolve and persistence is absolutely the worst way to achieve your new goals. These things are controlled by your conscious mind, which is responsible for only about 2-4 percent of your day-to-day actions and perceptions.

Due to your habits, you’ve become conditioned to stay at the same weight, income or in the same mediocre relationship. An internal financial or weight “set point” is conditioned deep in your subconscious brain so that you don’t have to think about the day-to-day activities you need to do to maintain it.

If you think about lottery winners, why is it that within two or three years, 86 percent lose all their money? It’s because they are conditioned to be without money. Their do not change their subconscious set point of how much money they should have, therefore they revert to that point.

Once any image, habit or belief is ingrained in your subconscious brain, you automatically seek out situations and behave in ways that resonate with that “internal image.” If you currently don’t like the results you are witnessing with your weight, job, income or relationships, then you must break the old patterns and old conditioning that’s causing them.

Breaking subconscious patterns has been proven by NASA to take at least 30-60 days of brain retraining.

If you do not “re-train” your subconscious brain at the same time you make the decision to lose weight or make more money, for example, you will within very short order return back to your old weight and income patterns and in most cases gain even more weight back– and that’s why, despite the best intentions, the vast majority of New Year’s resolutions are not kept..

There is a “cybernetic trigger” in your brain. It detects any change from your current situation, no matter what is, and it overrides your will power and forces you to behave in accordance with your old habits. Hence, the same results repeat themselves because of the same thought patterns and behavioral patterns. It works exactly like the thermostat in your home that automatically picks up any change in room temperature and then makes corrections to return things to “normal.”

This automatic “trigger” causes you to rationalize why you’re not sticking with your diet or new income plan and basically forces you to revert back to your habits and patterns.

Break the word “rationalize” in two and you get “rational-lies.” The internal self-talk you catch yourself doing is automatic and a result of the system doing its job to keep you at your “comfort zone,” even though it’s not what you want.

Your income or body is only an expression of the internal image you have at a deep-rooted level. If you want to see permanent changes on the outside, you must retrain the mental image on the inside first.

If you truly want to make permanent changes in your life, it takes about 15 minutes a day of mental retraining for 30-60 days. The more you do this, the faster you’ll see results. The good news is that you can’t get a brain hernia if you overdo it.

If you are serious about living the life you want and deserve, why not join the thousands that have already discovered the most advanced system for permanent financial and life success?

If you are interested in your success, you’ll do what’s convenient. If on the other hand you are committed to your success, you’ll do what it takes.

Check out this free audio that explains how you can have your best year ever, and then pass this post on to all your friends, family and colleagues.

And have your best year yet in 2008!

John