I KNOW times SEEM tough right now for many. But I’ve got to tell you that just as in the past, economic turmoil always creates opportunity. You may just need a pair of expert eyes to help you see it.

One BIG difference though is the rate at which this opportunity is coming at you and how positively explosive it is.

Check this out and let me know if it excites you as much as it does me:

What do you think?

If change creates opportunity (and historically it always has), then do you see how the accelerating pace of change as illustrated in this video becomes the biggest motivator of all?

Can you see why some of the “old-school” methods for entrepreneurial business success strain to deliver and how having the ongoing support of professional business success experts becomes so valuable?

What else comes to mind for you?

Please share your thoughts by commenting below:

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business (even at this pace).

Sincerely,

Steve

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Naturally there are outside circumstances and challenges like the economy, competition, relatonships, your health and so forth.  But its the extent to which you are able to 'manage' your thoughts and beliefs that actually determines how to generate the success you seek.

I came across this really outstanding video on TED earlier this week and wanted to share it with you.  In it, Michael Shermer, author of "Why People Believe Weird Things" and "The Mind and The Market"  talks about the hard-wired brain habits that make us believe strange things.  Shermer's work offers cognitive context for our often misguided beliefs.

I am absolutely certain you will be enlightened and entertained.  Check it out:

Be sure to let me know what you think by commenting below.

As a companion to this video I'd also like to introduce you to Morty Lefko of the Lefko Institute. 

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.

Sincerely,

Steve

This animated video presentation is adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and reveals the hidden truths behind what really drives and motivates people. It is quite similar to the content in the article I published: The Surprising Science of Motivation.
This is a vitally important set of principles for you to understand as you go about developing your perfect business.

Whether you are employing people or outsourcing to contractors and service providers you need to understand how to ‘motivate’ them to excel.

This will help you get build a motivated and driven winning team!

Isn’t it fascinating?

“The Purpose Motive” is emerging to the top of the motivational priority pyramid for even the largest corporations.

This is precisely why I have you begin with discovering and defining it for yourself in ThePerfectBizFinder Program. Based on the feedback from program participants this first program exercise is one of the most powerful AND empowering experiences in the entire Program.

What do you think?

Does this notion of a ‘purpose motive’ inspire any fresh ideas for how you might accelerate your success?

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.

Sincerely,

Steve

PS – How effective the animation is in focusing my mind on the content and I wonder if it does the same for you. Seems like the surprising science of animation to me. =0)

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I often notice scenes that are relevant to the work we’re doing with business builders here at ThePerfectBizFinder.

I saw this one recently, really enjoyed it and thought you’d be encouraged and motivated by it.

By now it’s pretty clear to you how important it is in terms of the experience of success that’s really possible for you that you do what you’re really passionate about doing.

But that’s not what most of you have been taught, is it?

For all the right reasons most have been taught to pursue success along linear path that, by definition, requires you to defer and compromise what you’re passionate about and instead do what makes the most money…

Or, Provides the most security…

Or, offers the best benefits…

Along this linear path you compromise your true interests and passions and eventually bury them beneath a mountain of “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts”, “can’ts, won’ts and don’ts” and so forth.

In many cases you get so tied up and involved in traveling this road that you lose touch all together with what you really always wanted to do…what really matters to you…where THE REAL experience of success is found.

In fact we now have an entire generation of people who find themselves awakening to a stark truth that after deferring and compromising for 30 to 40 years the promise of prosperity on that path turned out to be a myth.

I’m calling it ‘The B-Myth’ for all the baby-boomers who are already arriving at this challenging transition. (I’ll be announcing a new web site real soon =0) )

Add the recent economic downturn and double digit under-employment and things can appear bleak.

Even if you make money…even a lot of money…if it is not by doing something you love…I promise you, you will not experience the success you seek.

But this can be a bigger challenge than it sounds.

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This is the single biggest reason I create ThePerfectBizFinder and ThePerfectBizBuilder Coaching programs.

In ThePerfectBizFinder Program you’ll literally smash the barriers keeping you from the success you seek and will learn how to design and build the business that delivers the lifestyle and financial rewards you expect and deserve.

ThePerfectBizBuilder Coaching Program engages our dedicated team of experienced and professional coaches to provide hands-on support to get and keep you laser focused and accelerate your success.

Both are completely unique and produce extraordinary results….FAST! We have over 2,000 testimonials to prove it.

You owe it to yourself to own ThePerfectBizFinder Program and partner with the very people responsible for many of my greatest successes in ThePerfectBizBuilder Coaching Program

I’m interested in reading your thoughts about ‘Mr Deeds’ moving presentation. Let me know what you think by commenting below.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.

Sincerely,

Steve

Enjoy!

Great stuff isn’t it? Simple, direct, effective.

I’ve been exploring the power of illustrations recently. Mostly as an alternative to the ‘talking head’ approach to my presentations

What do you think?

Let me know by commenting below.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you.

Steve

Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where everyone’s natural talents can flourish.

Does that sound familiar?

You may recall that my purpose is: “I create to makes others lives better”. Here is the poem Sir Ken shares at the end of the video. I believe Yates says it well.

Cloths of Heaven by William B Yates
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I want to know what you think of Sir Ken’s video.

Let me know by commenting below.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

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PS – ThePerfectBizFinder Program is designed to provide you EXACTLY the learning environment Sir Ken describes in this video. It will escort you from where-ever you are to the successful and rewarding life you intend to live.

ThePerfectBizBuilder Coaching Program is designed to provide you the personal one on one coaching support you’ll need to breakthrough the beliefs formed by years of the programming Sir Ken describes so you can enjoy the lifestyle and financial rewards you expect and deserve.

I found this 20 minute presentation about a year ago and think it puts the importance of allowing yourself to “excavate” and “cultivate” your creative genius from beneath years of ’shoulds’, ’shouldn’ts’, can’ts, and ‘don’ts’ in order to truly experience success in life.

Ken’s presentation is both comical and thought-provoking and I look forward to reading your thoughts below

Take a look:

Did Ken get you thinking?

Let me know what came up for you by commenting below.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

PS – Breaking the models you’ve learned and beliefs you’ve formed over the years about how things have to be in order for your to experience success can be very difficult to do.

If you’re finding it a challenge to find that creative spark, be sure to check out the “Release Your Inner Genius“ article to pickup your free report which contains 4 powerful methods for igniting it.

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It’s great stuff. Enjoy

Be sure to let me know what you think by commenting below.

Did you learn anything?

Have any inspirations?

Let me hear them.

I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

PS – I interviewed Derek recently for the Entrepreneur Guru Secrets Audio Interviews Series. It’s included in ThePerfectBizBuilder Membership you get with ThePerfectBizFinder Program

In case you missed it, a mindmap is a visual representation of a thought process and became instantly popular as a creative, innovative and efficient alternative to linear notation.

Tony Buzan is the world's foremost expert on thinking visually, and a leading lecturer on the brain and learning, invented Mind Maps in the 1970s and has been instructing millions in this technique ever since.

I happened across this video today and was reminded of how vital mindmapping has been to my success. In it he presents some of the finer points that make a world of difference.

Check out the video and be sure to let me know what you think by commenting below.

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The mindmap is an incredibly adaptable tool for just about anything: planning, organizing, creating, presenting, problem solving, communicating and many more!

How have you used mindmapping in the past?

Did you hear anything you had not known before about mindmapping? What was it?

Can you see applications for mindmapping in areas of your life besides work and business? Which?

I'm standing for all that's possible for you in life and business.

Sincerely,

Steve

PS – If you'd like to learn more about Tony's new mindmapping products and training go here:

PPS – In case you missed the free report I gave out previously you can grab a copy here:

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I am sure you will appreciate and be inspired by them.

So, relax, enjoy, imagine, and learn how you can use this case illustration to find your perfect business.

But first I want to explain something to you.

Whenever I present the information about the importance of doing what you love, there is always at least one person who says something like, “what do I do if I can’t make enough money doing what I love” or “I love to do x, y and z, and don’t know how to turn that into a money making business.”

Well, as those of you who have been with me when this has come up, to this I say, “poppy-cock”.

The most important thing to address first is the obvious evidence of the severely restrictive limiting beliefs these kinds of comments indicate.  The “I can’t”s and “I don’t”s are nothing more than some set of old memories showing up as limiting beliefs, playing in your mind like a computer program and running, or should I ruining your life.

In the interest of brevity tonight what I want you to get is that these are not ‘facts’ or ‘truths’.

They are just beliefs.

Your experience is because of your beliefs.

If you believe you can’t make enough money, or if you believe you are not talented or creative enough, or if you believe you never get a good break, then these beliefs show up as your experience in life.

Once you accept that your beliefs create your experience, then you can see that if you change your beliefs you can change your experience.

What you may not have known until now it that it is NOT your conscious beliefs that affect your experience.

It is the deep seated subconscious ones that do.

These can be a little hard to get-to because you can only see them experientially.  In other words, you can’t know what they actually are. They are subconscious to you.  But you can observe their effect on your life by observing the experiences of your life.

In a later post I will teach you how to clear the subconscious limiting beliefs that sabotage you in this way.

Once you learn to eliminate the subconscious saboteurs you can look beyond perceived limitations and re-think the possibilities that exist for building your perfect business doing what you love.

But for now, in the immortal words of the late great Bernie Mack, ‘nough-said’.

This story is a great illustration of this truth.

I met Ed Guzman at the Club-Ed International Surf Camp in Santa Cruz, CA.

There is no doubt that Ed loves to surf.  In fact he has been doing it most of his life and even he used to teach a college course in it at UCSC!

Now if you ask the average person about making a living with what is normally a hobby like surfing, you will probably hear all sorts of reasons why it would be hard to make any real money.

You might hear things like:

“Only the top surfers in the world make any money.”

“You have to be young to do that.”

“It will be hard to get steady clients for lessons.”

“You can probably do ok in season. But what do you do in the off-season.”

I am sure you get the idea.  Many of these are either the same or similar to thoughts you’ve probably had about finding your perfect business.

I am sure Ed heard these and many more from others as he ventured into this journey.

But by the looks of it, he was not dissuaded.

Ed loves to help others feel the joy of surfing.

Ed has taken his passion, knowledge, and experience for surfing and has created an astonishingly successful business built on one simple yet powerful success principle:

“All Club Ed students are guaranteed to stand up and ride waves!”

Think about it a minute.  If you have never surfed, what would be your biggest concern?

Can you do it?  Right?

Well, Ed recognized that everyone who wants to learn will only stick with it if they can get on the board and ride a wave.

From that simple intentional premise, unhindered by negative limiting belief, Ed created an amazing array of programs including individual lessons, annual group camps, and surfing excursions all over the world. I even hired him to provide lessons for an entire management team on one of our corporate retreats some years ago.

Just as he promised, everyone rode waves.

Ed Guzman knows that achieving personal goals is important, but he also understands that enjoyment of the moment is paramount to your experience of success.

In fact, you can not ultimately experience success without it.

This approach to finding his perfect business opened Ed’s thinking to the limitless possibilities that existed for him.  By following the inspiration he received the astonishing success he now enjoys was virtually automatic.  His business is a very lucrative and rewarding enterprise which is now enormously valuable.

I believe Ed would be the first to tell you that he never works a day in his life.

This article is not meant to be a sales pitch for Club-Ed.

I am sharing this story with you because I want you to see that you can do exactly what Ed did.

The only thing stopping you from finding your perfect business is you.

Those voices you hear in your head that tell you that you can’t, shouldn’t, don’t, or won’t are not telling you the truth.

Learn to quiet these voices and you will be able to ‘hear’ the voice of inspiration leading you to your perfect business.

Stay tuned to this blog and I will tell you how to do that.

Please let me know if you found this story relevant, inspirational , or interesting.    If not, then let me know that too.

Share it with others and stay tuned for more.

What hobbies do you have that could be turned into a business like Eds?

I am standing for all that is possible for you in life and business.

Steve
Founder ThePerfectBizFinder

PS – if you want to learn more about Ed Guzman and Club-Ed, visit http://www.club-ed.com