Hi this is Zak Klemmer with Sales Alpha Plus, hosted by Anchor. If you haven’t heard about Anchor, it’s the easiest way to make a podcast, let me explain. It’s free you can’t beat that; there are creation tools that allow you to create and edit your podcast right from your phone or computer – super easy. Anchor will distribute your podcast so it can be heard on Spotify, Apple and many others- that feature was big for me. You can make money from your podcast with no minimum listenership. It’s easy to make a podcast it’s all in one place at Anchor. Just download the free Anchor app or go to Anchor.fm. Again, start today by downloading the free anchor app or go to anchor.fm.
Did you know that the term “pod cast” was coined because of the time it took to download data that it was not possible to listen to a program by streaming it live? So it was downloaded and stored on your iPod for a later time. How times have changed! What positive changes in your life do you want to create?
This podcast is dedicated to your transformation! What if you believed in yourself- Think of what you could accomplish in your life!
Your self-talk and behavior must be congruent with your vision and goals. In your stream of consciousness, many thoughts race through your mind, it’s important to just observe them but not believe them. Yesterday is gone, it has no meaning except the story you are giving it in your mind- did you know that you have the power to revise your story? Tomorrow is yet to exist- but what you decide to do right now in the present moment creates your future.
When I look at my life, and perhaps you have observed this also, I had re-invented myself at least a half dozen times in the past to accomplish my goals.
I used to believe that I had to have something – the right answer, the money, the time, the know-how before I would have the ability to succeed and then I could be successful. What I have learned over the recent past is that the way to succeed in life – first we must BE, then we can DO, and after this process we Have what we desire. BE- DO- Have and learning this process creates our desired future self.
We create our future self as we become, the Be of BE, DO, Have. By changing our thinking, removing the thoughts and beliefs of our past then we can think what the person of who we wish to become would think and then do and actively make the necessary changes in our life in the present moment. What we value is what we repeatedly do, we become the value which our future desired self values. We then become our future self. We remove the distractions, former values, lesser goals and replace them with our higher values and goals.
We will be speaking of the four currencies: Time, Money, Knowledge, and Relationships. Of time there is only the present moment, the future and past are just abstracts and have no other value except for what we presently give it in our mind. To be conscious in the present moment is to live fully.
How do we leverage time? We can build positive, value based relationships to leverage other people’s time and we can use the present moment to live fully and make our time valuable. Having a clearly defined goal and a burning desire to obtain it is the starting point of all achievement. We create our future in the now by directing our habits, our behavior.
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” Robert Heinlein
Now here is today’s story:
In 1976 Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Tucson, Arizona publicizing his movie “Stay Hungry”- which was a box office failure. Steve Chandler was a sports writer for the Tucson Citizen daily newspaper and was assigned to write a feature story about Arnold who was not well known at that time. Chandler sat down with Schwarzenegger and over lunch interviewed Arnold:
Chandler: “Now that you have retired from body building what are you going to do next?”
Arnold: “I’m going to be the number one box office star in all of Hollywood.”
Chandler asked Arnold: “Just how he planned to become Hollywood’s top star?”
Arnold: “It’s the same process that I used in body building, what you do is create a vision of who you want to be and then live into that picture as if it were already true.”
We started a vacation nightly rental business in 2019. We knew in advance we would succeed because of what we learned in preparation and by mirroring the actions of what other people had done who are succeeding in real estate investing and operating a nightly rental. Our new habits and actions which were based on applying knowledge we learned from specialized education. It was a forgone conclusion that we would succeed.
We had a specific neighborhood in mind, and did our due diligence. The house that we purchased met our specific requirements and we were able to negotiate the price and terms that made our business plan work.
We had a mentor, and we learned through his class about nightly rentals on how this business works and how to modify the home to get the maximum rental income; we added an additional room to fit two additional beds which was one of the major things we learned in the class.
We researched what other hosts were offering and what they had been earning in the nightly rental business locally and this was how we priced out what we offered when we listed the property on Air bNb and other booking websites. We have a business page on face book which showcases our nightly rental: Artist’s Secret Garden.
“I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” — Ginni Rometty
Business mentor Jim Rohn said:
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”
What I have learned through seminars, reaching out and finding mentors, and by acting upon ideas is that belief comes first, working through these ideas, being patient with failure and working out the details and creating value based relationships is part of the creative process leading to success. We are not what happened to us, we are what we purposely work to become.
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