The more exciting your goals and objectives, the more specific, the easier it is to handle the price you pay along the way.

Losers look at what they’re going THROUGH, while Champions look at what they’re going TO.

Part of the reason why people quit so easily is that they don’t believe in their own goals.

Here’s how to get very excited about your goals – it will fuel your enthusiasm and determination and make your journey infinitely easier by getting you to WANT to do what you have to do to get where you want to be.

Make an EMOTIONAL Commitment

Think of a goal. For example, let’s say your goal is to participate in the exciting DollarMakers International Convention in Cancun. Now it can be something that you rationally and intellectually commit to, and you might make a few random, lukewarm efforts to reach that goal.

Alternatively, you can make an emotional commitment, and that’s where you get the rocket fuel. Walt Disney said:

“If your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme, for when you wish upon a star, it makes no difference who you are!”

What would happen?

What would happen if you put up posters of Cancun around your home, visit websites about Cancun, ask Lynnette Peter, our DollarMakers Director for Travel and Conventions, about all the fun activities that will be available, discuss it with your family and friends, invite them to join you, visualize yourself riding a white horse on the beach, snorkeling among the multicolored fish, meeting the DollarMakers cream of the crop from all over the world, and having fun in the sun?

• Would you work harder to make it happen?
• Would you go out on a limb to spend time in paradise with the best of the best?
• What would the return on your investment be?

You don’t notice the shadows when you’re looking at the sun. Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.

4 Tips to Fuel Your Enthusiasm

1. Fill your mind with motivation and inspiration.
2. Associate with people who believe in you and in your dreams.
3. Work on your own personal development more than anything else.
4. Get excited about the details of your goals – the more specific, the more terrific. Smell them, taste them, visualize them, listen to them.

If your goal is a new red Cadillac STS, go and test drive one every single weekend… or at least sit in one. Smell it. Feel it. Imagine yourself driving it. Touch it. Put up pictures of it.

“Whatever the mind of man can believe and conceive, it can achieve”

- Napoleon Hill.

The rocky road will turn into silk and feathers when your objective is sufficiently brilliant and believable. Make it so.

Walk into a government office and watch how the bureaucrat walks – does he strut around as though he feels great, is he motivated, moving fast, and enthralled about his work? Usually, not…

• They move slowly, breathe shallowly, and have passive facial expressions. They look down a lot.
• They’re bored, frustrated employees, and they don’t want to be there.
• Their purpose is to get out of that hated office and go home to play.

That same employee changes like Jekyll and Hyde when he’s at the hockey game tonight – you wouldn’t recognize him! He’s laughing, shouting, jumping up and down, smiling, talking – he’s dressed differently, moves differently, and he’s fun to be around.

Add Passion & Get Results

1. What kind of results do you get, how persuasive are you, and what do you achieve when you are excited, energized, and passionate?
2. How would you walk and move?
3. What kind of facial expressions would I see if you felt unstoppable?
4. What effect would you have on other people?

When you’re on a mission, when you love what you do, you will breathe deeply, move fast, leap out of bed, and become very much more attractive to others. You will even talk in an animated, bubbly way.

Your passion will show, and the results will flow.

Are you “On the Job” or “On a Mission”?

Look at yourself.

If you battle to get out of bed in the morning, you don’t believe in what you’re doing.

“On the Job” means you’re doing what you have to do.

“On a Mission” means doing what you WANT to do.

You’re either a mercenary or a missionary. You’re a Victor or a victim, an Eagle or a turkey.

When you’re on the beach in Waikiki, having a great time with your loved ones, and you’re on the phone to your friend at home, chances are the language you use, and the speed, volume, and pitch of your voice will be entirely different to when you’re doing your tax returns, right?

Here’s How You Know

Here’s how you know whether you’re on a mission or not.

• You hate being interrupted.
• You love what you’re doing.
• You see massive purpose in your actions and choices.
• You can work for hours on end in a focused manner without getting tired.
• You experience higher highs and lower lows.

You probably don’t believe it’s very important whether or not a wall gets painted or a carpet gets cleaned or a form gets completed, unless it’s a part of your exciting mission.

Create a Profound Life

The good news is that you can create a profound life of purpose and significance. You can live with passion and enthusiasm or your life can be dreary, dull, and depressing.

YOU create your life – it can be whatever you want it to be.

You can make a living or make a statement. You can create a new world or be a janitor in someone else’s world. It’s never too late to change. You’re never too old. When you’re on a mission, there is no limit to what you can achieve. If you don’t like it, believe in it, respect it, and live it, you shouldn’t do it. Give yourself a check-up from the neck up.

Have you ever joined a health club or started a diet or exercise program, and given up after a short while? I have.

Muscle, Mind, and Motivation

I was once approached by a publisher friend to co-write a book with another friend, Lionel who was the country’s number one bodybuilder. The book was to be called, Muscle, Mind, and Motivation.

Lionel would write about health, exercise, and nutrition, and I would write about motivation and self improvement.

We would market the book through the eighteen health clubs that Lionel owned at the time and through my database and my talks and seminars – a lovely Joint Venture.

“I won’t start writing until you get into shape.”

We set up a lunch to agree on the terms. Lionel hadn’t seen me for a while, and when he did, he said, “Robin, I won’t start writing until you get into shape. You’re fat and unfit. Here is a Gold Membership Card to my Club. Come train with me, lose some fat, add some muscle, and then we’ll write the book.”

You Get Results Quicker When You Work with the Best.

I had been going to gym before in my life, but this was a new experience. When you train with the best in the country, it’s a whole new ball of wax, I assure you. I worked really hard and found out what makes a champion bodybuilder! I was in a bodybuilding Joint Venture with Lionel! I lost weight and fat, put on muscle faster than ever before, looked great, and we wrote the book, which was a roaring success.

The Best Laid Plans

The best kind of plans have three components:

1. You team up with champions, winners, and successful people only, not with undisciplined losers.
2. You both commit to a measurable, time-related, specific action plan that makes you both accountable for exact results.
3. You diligently and regularly monitor your progress and make adjustments as you go. And because you’re working with a champion, quitting is never even a consideration.

To this day, I remember the power of teaming up with champions, and I am privileged to know some real business champions with whom I Joint Venture.

I received an e-mail from a friend today who said he was feeling overwhelmed, and asking for my advice. Many people feel overwhelmed, and there is a way out. This was my reply to him, which I thought might benefit others, too:

My Response

Hi ********

Great to hear from you, my friend. Sorry to hear you’re under pressure; I know the feeling.

When I feel pressured with many balls in the air and no way out, I have a little mental “game” that I play. I discovered this game once when I was standing in a parking lot in Surrey on the corner of 52nd and 104 avenue, waiting for an appointment, feeling slightly overwhelmed with lots of worries. (You should have some uninterrupted time to do this):

#1 – Name the Problems Troubling You

I name all my troubles, problems, worries, concerns, fears, and frustrations, and as I name each one, I imagine I am putting them each into a brightly colored box on a shelf. (It’s actually easier to do it on paper, for a visual display.)

#2 – Calmly Examine Each Individually

Then I take a deep breath, and objectively examine each box individually, one at a time. I take it off the shelf and  have a good look at the challenge inside the box. This helps you remain rational and objective.

#3 – Find Relief with Organized Action and Let the Rest Go

Then I ask myself what I can do to eliminate or alleviate the problem.

In some cases, there is nothing I can do, and I am always aware of that, too. In that case, I put the box onto an imaginary table. (97% of the things we worry about never happen.)

I write down the solution action, if any, and put the box onto the imaginary table.

Then I take down the next box  / problem, and go through the same exercise, until all the boxes are off the shelf, and on the table, and I have an Action Plan.

Next, I prioritize the Action Plan.

When I have a prioritized Action Plan that will alleviate or remove the problems that I can actually do something about, I imagine that I take a flame thrower and burn up all the problem boxers on the table, including the table.

#4 – TAKE ACTION!

The next step is the most important one: I start to implement the Action Plan, put it into my diary, and take focused, persistent action.

It’s amazing how much better one feels once one has enumerated and analyzed the problems, broken them down into their component parts, and taken charge by creating a prioritized Action Plan.

A Couple of Other Tips

Part of the exercise is time management, of course, where one eliminates problem people and non-productive activities from one’s life, in order to free up more time to implement this action plan.

Also, because 97% of our problems involve money in one way or another, a little budgeting and financial planning (especially regarding business) goes a long way to helping one obtain a rosier perspective. This system should appeal to you, since you are a scientist.

Hope this helps! Things always appear worse than they are, and remember that it’s always coldest and darkest just before sunrise.

Talk with you soon,
Robin $

This fall, my daughter, Sacha, took me horse riding in beautiful Langley, British Columbia.

My horse’s name was Drifter, and when we trotted up to a lane that led alongside a large field, the stables owner warned me that, as soon as we cantered or galloped, Drifter would… drift.

She said he would veer right into the field, and that he always canters at an angle – side on.

She said they had found that the easiest way to curb his drifting away from the beaten track was to rein him in on the left, while giving him some heel on his right side.

Sure enough, as soon as we started cantering and picked up speed, Drifter started drifting quickly away from the rest of the horses towards the center of the field, and, as predicted, a firm left rein and some good, solid kicks on his right side brought him back into the fold.

Frankly, I would have liked to have given him the freedom to break into a gallop across the field, but one has to stick to the rules.

We had a wonderful morning, and look forward to another outride soon. (I still bounce when we canter, but that hasn’t changed since I first rode at the age of ten, so I guess I’ll always be a “bouncer”.)

Are You an Unconscious “Drifter”?

Many people drift away from their goals, veer off target, get sidetracked, and don’t know how to get back on track.

Now drifting away from the pack is a great thing if the pack is heading in the wrong direction, and we know that the seething herd usually is heading the wrong way, but if you’re working with winners and you’re part of a winning team, here are a few pointers:

1. A strong, successful team will be aware when you drift off course, and they will bring it to your attention.
2. When you’re moving fast, you need to take more drastic, focused action than if you’re ambling along. I had to be strong with Drifter, not whisper sweet nothings in her furry ear.
3. Be aware of where you’re headed, where the rest of your team is, and keep perspective. Horses don’t have a reverse gear. And don’t spend the rest of the ride apologizing and beating yourself up; just don’t repeat the mistake, and if you find yourself drifting again, correct fast. (Like when you’re scuba diving: “equalize early and often.”)
4. Take advice from people who are experienced in dealing with your challenge. Drifter’s owner knew and understood both the challenge and the remedy, and she had the solution for me. Jim Stoval said:

“Never take advice from anyone who doesn’t already have what you want.”

By the same token, when you see that you’ve linked up with a bunch of losers, find yourself a winning horse that drifts easily, and gallop as fast as you can away from them.

You don’t fall to the top of a mountain; you get there step by step…

…and when you feel like your battery of passion and belief is running low, you need strong people to enthuse you and help you focus on the summit. Putting these strong people into your life is a choice.

Putting one foot ahead of the other is a choice that has to be made over and over again, in spite of your reservations, circumstances, or energy level.

Consistent action conquers your fears and builds you belief.

Make THE Decision

Winston Churchill said:

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

That decision is easier when your surrounded by other courageous people. Winners focus on the critical few, not on the insignificant many. They understand “working smart”. Ralph Waldo Emerson said:

“It is one of the great compensations in life that no one can help another without helping themselves.”

That is the philosophy upon which DollarMakers is built – reciprocity amongst winners.

On the journey of success, those who refuse to quit and rise every time they fall must inevitably accomplish whatever goal they unreservedly commit to.

…And Make the Decision DAILY.

The decision to succeed has to be made every single day. It is abundantly evident in the lives and choices of the producers, the creators, the innovators, the leaders, and the victors, just as the opposite is evident in the existences of the parasites, the looters, the losers, and the leeches.

Winners:

• Never consider the possibility of defeat and they ignore their detractors and those who would sabotage their success.
• They don’t require the sanction of the masses.
• They have made their decision and their word is their bond.
• You can depend upon their commitment and integrity.

Decide, then commit to that decision, and your success is ensured.

Goethe:

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back– Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

“All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”

I’m not talking about a Tony Robbins style “whip them up and jump around” seminar, much as I love Tony’s work. I’m not talking about the scare tactic type of “motivational” lecture we saw in the excellent movie, “Glengarry Glen Ross.” I’m talking a movies that motivate you at your core being and can be watched again and again. “Defiance” is such a movie.

Excellent Motivating Movies

Based on a true story, one cannot help but be seriously motivated to achieve ones goals when you watch this movie. Like “The Last Castle” or “The Shawshank Redemption”, you see people who are totally committed to their dreams. “Patton” is another such movie, which, like Defiance, is based on fact. Your own little obstacles fade into obscurity when you see these giants going for their goals. Naturally, “Slumdog Millionaire” also fits this category of motivational movies.

Why Not Go To The Next Level?

Why not get all these movies: Defiance, Patton, Slumdog Millionaire, The Last Castle, and The Shawshank Redemption, and watch them all in two days?

And then, go to the next level of serious motivation: pick the three most successful, motivated people you know, and build relationships with them. Spend regular time with real winners. You will become unstoppable.

Fix Your Energy “Leaks” Too

Finally, mend the leak at the bottom of your motivation bucket. Pouring in great movies and excellent friends is wonderful, but you must stop the leaks at the bottom of the bucket.

The biggest leak is associating with the wrong people: losers, posers, parasites, and whiners. And the other leak is negative input: CNN, newspapers, politics, bad philosophies, and negative places. Only accept positive, upbuilding input.

Control Your Input and Become Unstoppable

Carefully control your input – what you see, hear, and associate with, and you will build a strong, confident, enthusiastic, unstoppable attitude that will carry you over, around and through every challenge on your way to your objectives. You become like the people you spend the most time with, and what you think about comes about. Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want. Paul J. Meyer said:

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.”

Take my advice – watch these five, powerful movies ASAP. Start with “Defiance” – you will be seriously motivated.

There’s an old story of a man who heard about a flood on the radio, so he prayed to his god that he would be saved and continued to read his newspaper.

Then his neighbors came by to warn him, but he simply prayed again, and had lunch. The water rose and the cat climbed gingerly onto the cupboard, but the man refused to accept the fact that the flood had arrived. Eventually, he perched precariously on the roof of his house,  surrounded by surging flood waters, and a boat came by to rescue him, but he refused, stating that his god would save him. Then a helicopter came by to rescue him. Again, he declined their help. Finally, he drowned, bitterly blaming his god for his demise.

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” – Sir Winston Churchill.

The Benefits of Facing Your Fear

Ignoring reality and denying the truth might prolong your false sense of comfort and security for a short while, but the consequences grow exponentially over time. Dealing with festering conflict is not something the passive aggressive types like, but the benefits of facing your fear and confronting issues is increased self-esteem and the peace of mind that follows that brave choice.

Some questions to ask yourself:

• If I continue going the way I am going now, what will my life look like in two years?
• Am I moving in the direction of my goals, or away from them?
• Am I getting wealthier, happier, healthier, and more successful?
• What are the consequences of my current choices?”

Then, shout, “YAHOO!” (You Always Have Other Choices.) Winston Churchill also said:

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

..But Beware Whose Advice You Take

And when you understand that taking action to change your direction is the way to go, be careful whose advice you take.

The blind are the first to step up and offer to lead the blind – empty men with empty promises, who wish to fill their empty pockets with your hard-earned money. Those parasites will lead you down the road to destruction while telling you how much they love you. They are the bloodsuckers and the looters who sell nicely wrapped, glittering garbage to the unsuspecting and naive.

“Don’t take advice from anyone more screwed up than you” is valuable information, but don’t confuse money and fame with integrity.

In a nutshell, wake up, smell the coffee, and turn your horse in the direction of the treasure.