Episodes
Friday May 20, 2016
FB LIVE 8 - How Your Explanatory Style Can Predict Your Happiness
Friday May 20, 2016
Friday May 20, 2016
This is an episode you 100% want to listen to and make sure to take notes! We dig in to what an "explanatory" style is and how your personal style can literally predict your happiness.
Thursday May 19, 2016
FB Live 7 - Do Your Current Habits Lead To Your Dreams?
Thursday May 19, 2016
Thursday May 19, 2016
Welcome back to another FaceBook live chat! The topic of the day is "Do your current habits lead to the goals/dreams that you are going after?
Wednesday May 18, 2016
MONEY VS PASSION -Which Should You Go For?
Wednesday May 18, 2016
Wednesday May 18, 2016
Read the full blog, watch the video, and download todays worksheet here: http://www.jairekrobbins.com/?p=4427
Today we will talk about Money vs. Passion - the dilemma.
What do you do to find balance between the two?
When you’re single, it is easy to chase the passion - live on the couch, have a roommate. But what happens when you didn’t find your passion until you get a little bit older? You have a family, kids, mortgage – people to support – what if you want to chase your passion then? What do you do?
You get stuck in a situation where it’s like, “Hey, I can still chase my passion and if I only get to make a little money I can’t really support the ones that I have to take care of. Or I could do something I don’t really like but at least support them while they’re here then MAYBE someday I’ll get to go after my passion.”
Here’s what’s interesting and I will give you my 2 cents for what it’s worth:
If you are really, really passionate and in love with what you’re doing, it won’t feel like work. Here’s the fun part: look at it as if it’s an opportunity to live for every day.
Yes, there are times where you have to work to pay the bills, you have to take care of your kids, put food on the table, take care of the mortgage or rent or whatever it is and in that case, you’re going to need a job. Ideally, find a job with lots of flexibility that you can do on performance – the better you perform, the more you make. That way you can set yourself up to perform, perform, perform, have a giant lump sum you make and gives you a lot of free time on the side that you can chase your passion like crazy. If you can’t find that or it’s not available where you live or with what you are doing, then you might want to take a job where you have your standard 9 to 5 and that takes a lot of effort, energy, and focus to show up and deliver. Come home and have family time. Maybe you get home at 6, you’ve got from 6 to 7 or 8 to have family time, get the kids ready for bed, maybe at 9 put them to bed and maybe from 9 to 11 in the beginning – hustle, hustle, hustle just to build the base of your business.
Let’s say your business is service-based, photography or something creative that you have to go out and do during the week. An easy thing to do that is to spend all week at night creating your business, generating leads, closing deals via email, using automated online messaging systems to create deals and write up contracts and draft agreements and figure out times on the week, where maybe at 6 pm on Thursdays someone else watches the kids and you go and get to do the job you are passionate about to build up some side income. If you start to balance like this – it takes a lot of effort, a lot of skills, a lot of thought. But you don’t have to do it like this forever.
This is the transitionary point where you hustle, get to do a little bit of your passion project and make a little bit of income doing it. As your passion business grows, you start to make a little more income from it. As soon as it gets close enough to match the income from your standard job, at that point you can decide and say I’m going to let go of the job, save up to 3 months’ of income, then I’m going to drop the job and let my passion business grow.
I know this from experience and that was the strategy I used when I got started. I had 3 jobs – I was doing inside sales, a service-based service for a large company in coaching and I was managing and stuffing boxes at the warehouse (managing shipments and organize stuff around there). I was doing 3 jobs during the week when I built my little side coaching business or coaching practice online, setup a website, hustled in the off hours, got lots of marketing on my lunch hour and everywhere else I could. Slowly and eventually I got a client. I fit that one client in between all my other sessions and all my other duties and responsibilities. Then I got 2 clients and fit them around it. I later got 3 clients and was working on the weekends. Eventually, I got a huge spurt in business and when I grew, I crossed the threshold. I let go of one of my jobs, which allowed me more time to focus on the clients, let go of 2 jobs and eventually managed to let go of all 3 of the jobs. Now I was on my own and had all the time to focus on finding clients, servicing and really delivering a high quality service. That transitionary method works very well.
There are also other people, one of which I am related to, who say, “No, just quit and go for it. Find a way or make a way.” My belief is to use a transitionary approach. It’s a lot more feasible for most people and it’s a much smoother approach to take and allows you to transition over 100% one step at a time . Use those focus hours, use those half hours and have fun doing it.
Here’s another factor to consider, balancing it with your spouse. Some people are in the position where they both have to work 9-5 and one person might have a job. If you both have a passion job at night maybe on Monday, Wednesday, Friday your spouse can watch the kids and you get to do your passion job that evening. Maybe Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, you get to watch the kids and they get to do their passion job. Using teamwork, structuring and organization is key. I hope this is useful and we will create a fun worksheet on thoughts of how to go about doing this with a couple of examples for you.
Tuesday May 17, 2016
FB LIVE 6 - We Can't Afford It VS How Can We Afford It -- Going Old School!
Tuesday May 17, 2016
Tuesday May 17, 2016
Welcome back! Today we are jumping in on a live FB chat where we focused on the difference between the simple language & thought patterns that are either moving you closer to your goals or further away!
Tuesday May 10, 2016
What Do You Do When People Drag You Down?
Tuesday May 10, 2016
Tuesday May 10, 2016
What do you do when you tell your story to family, friends, co-workers, random people and they doubt you, tell you it won’t work out, and bring up stuff that kind of drags you down?
In your journey of entrepreneurism/ getting the dream job you’ve always wanted/ stepping up and marrying the person that you think is the love of your life, whatever it is on your journey, inevitably you’re going to cross paths with naysayers, people who look at you with a straight face and say to you “well, that’s a silly idea! Why would you do that?” People who talk you out of opportunities that you believe in and are really, truly amazing. People who come about and support you on one occasion, but then attempt to stop you from doing what you are doing on another occasion.
Now, inevitably you’re always going to cross paths with people like that and it’s nothing against them, but people have asked – what do you do when starting a your new business, you believe in it, you’re passionate about it – how do you get friends, family, community members to support you in your journey? How do you get people around you to be there for you when you needed them the most?
Here’s the truth, when you are looking outside yourself for support and for emotional rocket fuel to drive you forward, you are looking in the wrong direction. Yes, we all need support from time to time. Yes we all need team members to be there for us when it matters most at the same time.
In the journey of entrepreneurialism (long word!), you’re going to have to create so much belief, so much certainty, so much internal emotional rocket fuel that even if there isn’t anyone around you telling you “good job”, “you can do it”, “way to go” you keep going anyways. Because you are not doing it for the applause, you’re not doing it for the support, you’re not doing it for the love and connection. You are doing it because you believe in what you are doing.
The way to do this is to think about it. For most people, it’s scary to take that step into the unknown and step into a place where there is no guaranteed income and you are not sure what you are going to earn from month to month,, but you’re going to show up and deliver regardless of this. Sometimes what you’ve delivered in the beginning doesn’t work anymore and you’ve got to change, adapt and adjust.
Your whole industry may even get disrupted and all of a sudden you’ve got to change again, that’s part of the journey. For most people, thinking about that freaks them out that much and it would take a small army to inspire them to go out and try it.
For other people that brave the journey, here are some core things/elements I’ve seen in those people that are strongest:
They are fighting for something much more than themselves. They’re fighting for their family, their kids, for their community. When I say fighting, I mean working. They are fighting the battle of life, they are going after it for something much more than themselves. They found a reason or many reasons stacked together that compels them to action every day.
This reason is so compelling and so meaningful to them, that it takes a small army to keep them from following through. When they up in the morning, they put on their best outfit and they go out the door to do what they have to do. Even if the line men from the Dallas Cowboys were standing at their door, they would say, “get out of the way!” and walk right through them with total certainty because they have so much focus and intensity towards getting to their goals.
And they do it with so much intensity and passion, the whole line team would follow them out and say, “Okay let’s get it done!” This power doesn’t depend on your size, it’s the energy and passion that comes from within. In order to create this, you must find a reason that is bigger than yourself and find multiple reasons that drive you and spark a fire within.
Many people say, “I can’t find my reason!” The truth is, you’ve got to stack them every single day. So how does this work? Everyday come up with 5 more reasons as to why you’re going out there and making it happen. Then once you have come up with these 5 reasons, read the whole list. Here’s what I have realized over the years in coaching people in performance – one reason will not work all the time, but all reasons will work some of the time. The key here is that you keep on stacking more and more.
Then look at the negative side of things. What are the painful consequences that will occur in your life if you don’t follow through now? Then go back and forth – stack more pleasure, stack more pain. Pretty soon you will know it’s working when you are no longer able to sit still and think about it. When you find yourself literally standing up, storming out the door and making it happen because that’s what you call “emotional threshold.” This is when you stack and stack pain and pleasure back and forth and then you cross threshold and when you do, you are immediately in action.
Now people say, do I have to do this every day? Can’t I just wake up and want to do it? NO. That’s what it takes. Do you think an Olympic runner wakes up every morning and says, “I want to run around the tracks a few more rounds today!” That’s not necessarily how they feel all the time – some days they don’t feel like training and some days they don’t feel like running. They’ve got to pile this stuff on and say, “If I don’t train hard now, I’m going to get my butt kicked when it matters most.”
It’s a super simple concept that is super easy to understand. We’ve created a worksheet for you that will help you stack pain with pleasure.
How do you get other people on your side?
Remember this thought: Whatever you resist, persist. If you are constantly pulling against them, it is going to consistently show up for you. Do something that is called aligning and redirecting. What that means is if they say, “it won’t work” instead step on their side and say, “listen, maybe you are right, maybe it won’t. But it is something that I believe in and I ask that you support me. Even if you don’t believe in the idea, at least believe in me as your brother/sister/daughter/son/ husband/wife, etc and I’d really appreciate that”
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Wednesday May 04, 2016
If You This Now Sacrifice and You’ll Pay For It Later…
I’m fiercely passionate about today’s topic. It’s an area of life that so many people neglect without realizing how crucial it is to their health.
So often people sacrifice their sleep (health) as they are building their business, career, or wealth, and once they achieve their so called success they land up using all that they earned to try and buy back their health (it doesn’t usually work out like they imagined).
In today’s JRCtv episode, you’ll hear from Shawn Stevenson, Bestselling author and creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the #1 Health Podcast on iTunes.
I’ve been hooked on his new book, Sleep Smarter, which is loaded with incredible research studies and invaluable tips for a better body, better health and more success!
There is SO much great content, insights, and research in today’s interview, I know you’re going to love it. Here are some show notes below:
We dive into topics such as:
- 15:01 How to lose 55% more body fat without more exercise or diet.
- 18:50 The anti cancer hormone we produce naturally with enough sleep
- 22:20 Biology vs Willpower
- 26:25 How our devices affect two important hormones have an inverse relationship and can either make us drained or provide more energy
- 35:00 60% of people in the US face this “quite struggle”
- 42:30 Couples that do this have 50% less sex
Let me know what you learn and what you will apply immediately to improve your sleep habits, health, and performance!
Grab a copy of Shawn Stevenson’s book Sleep Smarter here.
To Your Success,
Jairek & Amanda
Monday May 02, 2016
Monday May 02, 2016
Today I decided to pop on and share a couple of my favorite lessons I've learned while traveling the world.
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Tools To Build Powerful Business Relationships
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Being an active and engaged vs. lazy networker
What I have learned is that a lot of people that teach, instead of going up handing someone your card and saying “What can you do for me?” They teach, “Go out there and be a giver.”
Which is a great concept and ask “What can I do for you?” “ How can I help you?”
This is a challenge though, if you are a busy entrepreneur or executive or sales rep, when you’ve got half a dozen people at a network meeting walking up to you saying, “Hey, what can I do to help you with your business?” That’s a really sweet question. It’s very genuine, it’s very nice per se but the truth is, it’s not very helpful because they didn’t take the time to get to know what you’re up to, they didn’t look for ways where they can really serve you, they didn’t ask questions that help them identify gaps that they can actually step in and help fill.
I remember a long time ago, I get to hang out with a guy named James Altucher. He’s got a very interesting blog that he writes and a very interesting podcast that he does and one thing when I was asking him questions and sharing back and forth.
I asked him, “How did you go about struggling when you started to making 10 million dollars on one deal? Losing it all to making $14 million on the next deal? How did you do that?”
and what was fascinating he taught me a very simple technique of active networking (that’s the term I gave, that’s not what he said)
What he would do is that he would go out and would look for an opportunity of someone or an organization or a team or a group that he wanted to connect with and he would spend time online researching on what’s going on in their world - articles that they would write, blogs they posted, their Instagram, their Twitter. He would just dig into their world and learn about them and educate himself of what they’re up to, what they’re focused on, what they’re talking about, projects they are working on. All the details that they are looking on and he would naturally look for gaps that existed in their plan, in their execution, in their message. He would look for things that he could find that as a consumer, as someone who really enjoyed receiving content from them, he wished there was more of and what he would do is that he would take notes and he would say,
“I wish you would cover this topic, I wish you would do it like this, I wish you came into this side, I wish you have this additions to it..”
and he would capture all these stuff and he would send it on one email and say, “Listen, I really wanted to connect with you, I think here’s a handful of things I read or saw or experience while working with your team, your site, your material that I think could make it better. If you use it, high five! Thanks for taking one of my ideas as useful. If you don’t, no problem. I just wanted to take a moment to reach out, ask if I could be of service in anyway and offer these simple thoughts and suggestions that might help you do what you do even better. If you have time to reach out, I’d love to connect. If not, take it as a goodwill gesture and hopefully we’ll cross our paths in the future. Now what’s amazing is that how he got a deal which got him on to a TV show that got him working with them and build an app where he sold to the TV show host that got him like $10 million! It’s pretty amazing! Not only that, that’s where he got connected with the team at Amazon - because he had gone through their experiences as an author, wrote up a whole list, send it to someone there, never heard back for like 6 months and then 6 months later, he got a call from nowhere saying, “Hey, we’ve reviewed your email, we’ve implemented a handful of things, we’d like to invite you out and ask you to look around, walk around to see what we’re doing here, see if there is anything else we could improve on. We really enjoy your insights. Hop on to a flight and got to meet all the execs on Amazon just to see if there is anything else he can help with.”
So this is for you all networkers out there, all the people we get emails we really appreciate them, they would say, “Hey Jairek, great to connect with you, what can I do to help your business? What can I do to help you today?” It’s really sweet, I appreciate the gesture. I only recommend doing your homework. Getting to know what we’re actually up to and finding ways to fill the gaps, finding ways to help expand it if you are reaching out to us. If you have no care in the world to reach out to us, take this and look for someone you do want to connect with and use the same philosophy.
With this, we’ve created a fun worksheet for you. Go to the blog: jairekrobbins.com/blog find this exact blog, download the worksheet at the bottom and all you do is drop your name and email. We’ll email it right to you. Use that worksheet as your template on how to go about doing some research, getting to know who you’re trying to reach out to, getting to know what their gaps are, understanding how you can fill those and going out there and really, truly actively networking.
Stop being a lazy networker, go out there and make a difference and have some fun doing it. Hope you enjoy this episode and hope to see you next week for another episode of JRCTv.
Wednesday Mar 23, 2016
How To Get A Good Job - 7 Tips That Work! (Interview with Dan Vigil)
Wednesday Mar 23, 2016
Wednesday Mar 23, 2016
Wednesday Mar 09, 2016
FB Live 2 - Creating Your Basic Client Funnel
Wednesday Mar 09, 2016
Wednesday Mar 09, 2016
Hey Team,