Learn the Lesson

Many times we find ourselves stuck with no way of moving forward because we haven’t learned how to turn our failures into successes. Many people, when they experience failure, decide that it wasn’t meant to be and stop trying to reach their goals. When someone finds success, it’s because they looked at all the times they failed on their journey as lessons and spend the time to see what they could learn from them. 

Change Your Limiting Beliefs

Many of us hold tightly to our limiting beliefs. Carefully looking at your values and belief systems, and then comparing them to what they see as holding them back, will allow you to make the necessary adjustments. If you’ve realized that you have been walking around with a particular belief since you were a child, just because that is what you were told, you need to start challenging it, especially if it is a belief that is holding you back from realizing your dreams.

Create Lists and Vision Boards

If you are a visual person, create something that places your goals, dreams, and wants in a position where you have to see them every day. Place a list of your goals on your refrigerator, or make a dream board and hang it over your desk. Be creative and specific and be extremely clear about what it is you want to achieve. Putting your thoughts, dreams, and hope out into the world to be seen can be incredibly energizing.

Create Small and Manageable Goals

Take your large, overwhelming goals that you want to achieve, and break them down into smaller goals that will be more manageable for you to accomplish. Every day work on completing the more modest goals, and before you know it, you’ll have made a substantial amount of progress toward your broader goals. There is power in breaking things down and working toward them a little at a time.

It doesn’t matter what method works for you, what matters is you actively work to change your mindset if you want to achieve success.

Identify What You Want

Before you can begin to develop your persistence, you have to know what it is you want in your life. Take some time to think about what you want and write down your answers on a sheet of paper. Really think about how you would like your life to be and what you need to do to get there. Write everything down, no matter how big or small the goal. 

Figure Out Your Motivation

To build persistence for accomplishing your goals, you have to have motivation. If you know the deep-down, the reason for doing what you’re doing you will have more energy to keep moving forward toward your goals. Figuring out what is motivating you is a fundamental aspect of becoming more persistent. 

Outline Your Plan

When you’ve identified what you want and have figured out your motivation for achieving your goals, you need to develop a plan for how to achieve the success that you desire. Creating an outline of your plan, that includes specific action steps, will help you know how you will be able to achieve your goals. When you know the steps it will take to get what you want, reaching your goals will become easier. Be specific and detailed in each step and identify at least two ways that you can ultimately achieve your goals.

Shift Your Mindset

The road to success is never easy. In fact, you will face numerous roadblocks and challenges along the way. Everyone, from time to time, can get stuck in a negative mindset, succumbing to the negative thoughts and fear of failure. To develop persistence, however, you have to work to maintain a positive mental attitude, regardless of the situation. Strive to keep your thoughts focused on continually taking action toward your goals and try to avoid the negative thoughts and emotions that can destroy your focus and persistence. 

Accomplishing your goals and achieving success isn’t an easy path to follow. You will run into countless obstacles and face numerous challenges, but with the right plan in place and enough persistence, you’ll realize your dreams in no time. 

Half of life is awesome and half is kind of terrible.

There are two sides to everything – life/death, happiness/sadness, joy/pain…

That list could go on forever.

And as humans, we experience all of those things throughout our lives.

But you can begin to take back a little bit of control when it comes to the not-so-fun side of life.

Of course, tragic events breed sadness – when we lose someone close to us, we can’t help but grieve.

That’s not really what I’m talking about here.

What I’m talking about is the suffering we CAUSE ourselves when things don’t go our way – we lose a job, fight with a friend, break an arm…

The reason we suffer far more than we need to in these types of circumstances is because we live with the expectation that things should always be good.

We carry on just fine until something doesn’t go our way, then we stay awake at night, cry, feel frustration, anger, resentment…

Instead of saying to ourselves, “this is just that other side of life, my friend.”

Things are going to be awesome half the time, and they’re going to suck the other half.

This is what you signed up for when you were born. 

Give this a try for me…if you can practice releasing the expectation that things should always be good and go your way and say to yourself “this is part of life” next time they don’t, see how much different you feel.

Expectation leads to disappointment and suffering far more than the events themselves.

Curious to hear your thoughts on this one. ︎

1. Drop multi-tasking if that is a current habit. Switch to focusing on one task, one goal that moves you forward.
2. Make sure to stay out the comfort zone. Once you dwell there, everything will go downhill. Do things that make you uncomfortable but will propel you forward.
3. Make that schedule and keep it. When you schedule things and allow distractions, you will look back and believe that you are not able to be a peak performer. Keeping your schedule and even putting a gold star for being on top of it, will elevate your confidence.
4. Manage your emails. Peak performers make sure that they have systems in place that ensure they are not wasting time. One such idea is clearing your inbox daily. Never let it build up and overwhelm you.
5.  Put your body and mind in neutral at some point in your day. Both need to recharge. For your body, lay on your back with your feet up on a chair, so that your lower back is flat against the ground. This is a neutral position and takes the pressure off. Put on headphones and play background noise like waves crashing on the beach. Do this between 15 to 30 minutes per day. The perfect time for this is around noon when you would normally be spending time eating lunch and perhaps wasting time shopping or chatting up friends. 
6. Before you retire for the night, review your day. Ask yourself questions about what went right and how did somethings go sideways? Come up with solutions to avoid having issues the next day. Decide what is your most difficult task for the next day? As you begin to sleep, remind yourself you will conquer that task first thing in the morning like a champion. Do not allow negative thoughts about the task, to enter your mind. You must act like you are a dragon slayer with the sharpest sword every made. Even a fire breathing dragon bows before you.
7. You need challenges. That is how you thrive as a peak performing entrepreneur. Always up your exercise game and add new things. Challenge yourself to do things you had never considered before. For instance many people avoid picking up the phone and calling, whether it is a warm call or the dreaded cold call. There is a saying, “no one ever died from making a cold call.” You need to do the tough things to grow.
8. Watch your vocabulary. Entrepreneurs who excel, avoid words like “but,” and “I can’t.” They realize those are dream killers. Instead they look to improve their vocabulary and some even actively search for new words that serve them. Keeping tracking of your vocabulary, also means eliminating thinking in negative words. Once you allow yourself to think, “but,” you open yourself up to a running internal dialogue that doesn’t serve you.
9. Make your task lists. Peak performers have lists and delegate or eliminate un-productive tasks. They get immense satisfaction by crossing off something on their task list and at the end of the day, when it is all clear.
10. Creativity is what makes high performance entrepreneurs special. Look for ways to increase your creativity. If you have lost that creative spark, start by taking a course that requires you to show creativity. There are courses on photography, creative writing and even making video games or apps.

The first thing to do, is sit down with a pen and paper because you need to monitor your body for any issues. Once you identify the possible issues, you look for the solution to fix them.
We will go through some examples and possible solutions to what you may be experiencing.
Many people suffer from frequent headaches and the causes may be stress, the wrong type of pillow or needing physical therapy in the neck area. Talking to your doctor can provide the answers you need.

If depression is an issue, you need to banish it in order to be a peak performer. Write down what may causing the depression. Do you believe you may have a chemical imbalance? If so, consult your doctor. Perhaps there are issues in your life, which if you addressed them now, would lessen or erase the issue.

When you are having digestive problems or are overweight and you know this will hold you back from being a peak performer, take action. Find a solution for the digestion problem. Look closely at how you should be eating and come up with a meal plan.

There are many things that you can just eliminate from your diet which will certainly improve your performance. Look at dropping the sugar from your diet. That means no soft drink, chips, donuts or adding refined white sugar to your coffee. In fact, you should buy coffee beans that are to your taste and allow you to drink your coffee black.

Now it is time to think about your habits. Make a list of habits that are holding you back. These are habits that you know in your heart, do not serve you. Are you watching too much news either on television or in your social media feeds? The negativity will definitely have a dramatic effect on your brain.

Replace the news with positive self-help and self-development books. Pick books or audios that are going to propel your personal peak performance to the moon and back.

Peak performers are masters at breathing. Proper breathing techniques, lower stress and blood pressure. When you power breath, it brings more oxygen into the lungs to be passed on to the brain. Your brain will function at peak levels, if you keep it healthy by power breathing and exercise.

All peak performers master a form of exercise that suits their lifestyle and time commitments. Many use yoga and stretching as the base for their exercise platform. A great habit for you to form, is get into yoga and then another exercise that you are passionate about, like tennis or swimming.

Putting pen to paper is so much better than doing it on a computer. Your brain makes a stronger connection to what you desire, when your hand actually physically writes it out.To be a peak performer, you need to write proper to do lists, for starters. Add to that a gratitude journal because you have so much to be thankful for.

Writing in your gratitude journal every day, signals to the universe that you are happy and you want more of the things that make you happy…to enter your life. Get a creativity journal to write in as well. Some of the amazing things you will do in life as a peak performer, will come from the creative spark you had and put to paper.

Coronavirus spread fast and has impacted the entire globe.

In our lifetimes, we’ve never encountered anything quite like this.

Not that posed such imminent thread with such urgency.

Nothing that has shut down travel, major industries and venues, schools, and businesses like this before.

The impact will be felt for years to come, no doubt.

Both emotionally for those who’ve lost loved ones but economically as well.

Uncertain times lead to panic and fear.

And we end up making decisions from a place of panic and fear – which will never be the best, most rational ones.

In times of fear, most people pull back. They retreat.

People don’t like uncertainty because it violates the TOP need all humans have – the need to know they’re ok. That survival isn’t at stake. That they’re not about to lose everything.

But if you’re reading this today, evaluate what your life is right now.

Are you sitting in a warm home with food?

Do you have everything you need?

If so, and you’ve got loved ones close by, remind yourself that right now you are ok.

And you will be ok through this and on the other side.

Because it will pass, even if the days are beginning to feel long.

So, I just wanted to ask you – what can I do for you to make your life healthier and better today?

Share and please let me know.

Coach Greg

What happened to him or her?

Where did he/she go?

Obviously, 3 full time careers is unrealistic, but that level of dreaming is magical.

Whether you were the career kid or a future perfect parent, the dreaming sadly stops as we get older.

Everything seems determined for you.

“This is just how life is” seems to be a general consensus.

But what if it didn’t have to be?

What if you could have the dreams and imagination of your childhood and even bring them into reality?

Because the truth is you can.

Ok maybe it’s too late to become an astronaut but what CAN you do to create that sense of joy, freedom, and creativity?

How can you do more of what lights you up and less of what you’re “obligated” to do?

When you act from DESIRE rather than OBLIGATION, it’s pretty magical what’s possible and the level of fulfillment it brings.

I would be honored if you would let me know right now and share your dreams with me.

Even if they’re a secret and you’ve never shared them before, I promise to keep it between us, ok? 

My big dream is: To Travel the World and Experience as many amazing adventures as possible.

I can’t wait to hear yours.

Are you looking for ways to make the best use of Google+ in your social media marketing strategy? Then I must say that it’s a great idea as Google+ is quickly becoming an essential part of many business’s social media strategy. The number of Google+ users are continuously increasing as Google is making a Google+ account mandatory for all Gmail users.

Google+ plays a very effective role in search engine optimization (SEO) by making it easier for marketers to show up in search results. It gives you yet another reason to include Google+ in your social media strategy.

Here are a few simple ways that will let you help in making social media marketing strategies using Google+.

Keywords and Links in About Page

The ‘About’ page gives a complete overview of your business to the audience. To send potential customers to the most important pages on your website, you can also provide links to specific pages and services from this page. It’s very important to make your page SEO friendly and you can do this by placing relevant keywords in various sections of the About page. Test and track different variations to see what works best for your business.

Use Google+ Events

‘Google+ Events’ was announced by Google to send out customized invitations to anyone regardless of whether they are Google+ users. It syncs beautifully with Google Calendar and shows up automatically when a user confirms for an event. Google Events not only sends out invites to webinars, work functions, parties, etc. but also send out invites for Google+ Hangouts.

In addition, you can also find ‘Party Mode’ feature of Events that allows everyone to instantly upload pictures into the same album using the Google+ mobile app. You can also create a living, real-time photo journal of a specific time and place and show the photos off in chronological order as a slideshow, all within Google+.

Optimize Posts

Include keywords into your posts so that they will become SEO optimized and show up in your followers’ search results. The more relevant and content-based your Google+ posts are, the more search results you are likely to show up in.

Google Authorship

Google authorship helps Google in validating whether your content is a quality source or not. You identify yourself to Google through your Google+ profile and then link back to it from your content and vice versa. It’s the easiest way to take advantage of the SEO benefits of Google+. It will also allow the author’s picture to show up next to his or her blog posts in Google search results, resulting in higher rankings and click-through rates.

Relevant Conversation

If you want to get success within a community or social platform, you need to engage in the relevant conversations that are taking place. The success of your business within Google+ will be a direct result of how you engage from both your personal and business pages. You can find users and conversation from Google+ shared circle directory and add these shared circles to your personal Google+ circles and have a lively stream of relevant posts and conversations you can engage with.

By using Google+ as a social media platform you will definitely give your business a good start and increase your business’s overall online presence.

Social media has become one of the most crucial digital marketing channels that is continuously sprouting. People now search social media to find out brands they can levy their trust on. And with the change in people’s behavior, social media is also changing its technologies and trends. So here let’s talk about what social media trends will be used by the marketers in the years 2020.

1. Take Care of Your Audience

Your audience will respond to your products only if you take care of them. Social media is all about relationships and engagement. So, your complete focus should be on the people who follow you. It is very important for your brand loyalty to be authentic and quick in handling customer complaints or doubts. 

Marketers say that they don’t use social media just to get visibility and traffic but for being present and interacting within the sites and application.

2. Share Authentic Stories and Moments

Stories help you in creating an expressive relationship with the user and your brand. You must tell stories that are related to people and not the brand. You can use your best web content, create a one-minute video on those topics and share them to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and other channels. 

3. Social Influencer Marketing

Marketers expect Influencer Marketing to be a key trend in the year 2020 You have to find and develop relationships with influencers. Successful social influencers spend considerable time and effort in winning the trust of their followers. Trust of your consumers is something that brands spend years trying to gain. However, social influencers provide you a chance of leveraging an already loyal audience.

4. Video Strategy

Marketers, brands, and businesses must have good video strategies in 2020. Video marketing is an effective way to deliver your brand’s message and grab the attention of consumers. It can help in increasing engagement on social media. 

5. Chatbots

It’s a proven fact that Facebook Messenger and chatbots consume tremendous open rates and are one of the most effective ways to reach and build audience engagement. Chatbots improve customer’s experience and help marketers generate more sales and build a deeper bond with customers.

6. Trust Building

In the upcoming era, businesses have to work upon building trust among their audiences. The audience depends on brand messages spread on various social media platforms. Therefore, with the help of social media tactics, you have to build trust making emotional connections that people care about and might keep them loyal.

7. Retain Socialization back to Social Media

The basic motive of social media is socialization and making a community; but for a long time, it has been used as a promotional channel to drive traffic and brand awareness. Now the time has come when people want more than artificial attempts at getting engaged. So, you must offer authentic communication to keep people connected and help you build a meaningful relationship.

It is very important to keep up with the latest trends every year to make sure that your strategy is still successful and can work with continuously changing the social media landscape. So, follow the above trends while you make any social media strategy in the year 2020.

The update allows YouTube to terminate your account if they believe it is no longer “commercially viable” for any reason.

I believe this is Google’s first step towards cracking down on the type of content it permits on YouTube…

So in this short video you’ll discover the best type of content to create in order to safeguard your YouTube channel and protect your business in the future.

You’ll learn:

• Why Authenticity is the secret to success on YouTube in 2020
  

• How to build a personal connection with your audience
  

• PLUS how to create video content that Google LOVES
  

So if you want to avoid the next big Google SLAP, be sure to watch today’s video and take

immediate action to protect your YouTube channel and business.

==> https://contentsamurai.com/c/Greg30-google-slap

Talk soon,

Greg

P.S. The content you created last year, may get you banned in the near future. In order to protect your YouTube channel and business be sure to watch today’s video now: https://contentsamurai.com/c/Greg30-google-slap