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Day 5-7, It’s all About Confidence – Personal Growth and Development

So last week (Day 2), I wrote about how I’m allowing my clients to “Name their own Price’ for what we have…. Results were dismal at best (typical personal growth and development stuff!)! Very frustrating… I thought for sure we were going to have 50, 70, 80% of the people interested and take advantage of it. Hardly. We only had 14% of the people on the call take advantage of it… that is only 4% more than we normally get! Where was my message off for the other people?

This last weekend was all about protecting my confidence. I had to do it with my Father and my wife. My Father called me to “caution me about my finances.” I told him that 18 years of growing up around him being as frugal as he is, was “caution” enough. I got off the phone and had to talk-myself into being confident again! Next, my wife wanted to have a “realistic” conversation with me about housing. I said to her, I we are going to make $500,000 in 90 days, “realistic” shouldn’t be in ANY of our conversations. Fortunately, I have a rock star for a wife and immediately she bounced back into miracle mode!

It’s so much easier for me to be “cautious” and “realistic”? But I don’t feel alive when I play that game! I’m passing on that conversation. I’m choosing to be “unreasonable” with my goals and ambitions. For whatever reason, it’s more nerve racking, but it’s much more fun.

The more I think about it, the key to my personal growth and development is protecting my confidence. Dan Sullivan, my coach and mentor (founder of Strategic Coach) has said this to me for years, but now I’m finally getting it (I’m a self proclaimed slow learner). I find this interested because people think I’m so confident, and people assume I will always hit my goals, yet…. I’m just like you. I doubt.

At lunch, to give myself a shot in the arm, I read Gary Ryan Blair’s personal growth write up on “How to Create a Big Bang (download here).” It states that to accomplish a Big Goal and it states that “it requires a fearless, daring, and courageous spirit, nerves of steel, and a massive dose of self – confidence.” Wait…. Is that me? I find it interesting how I doubt myself.

All I know is that I’m in… the game is on! I’m going to take everyday and swing at the bat… and swing HARD!

I’m okay with whatever public embarrassment comes with it declaration, because it will contribute to my personal development…. Nothing great in my life, nothing amazing in my life, no miracles in my life, have ever happened with shunning from the extraordinary.

My message about credit is SO important that I will save the American economy… this is the message that needs to be heard – if I don’t speak boldly and loudly, I’ll be doing a disservice to the hundreds of millions of American’s that are overpaying on their bills and not even realizing it!

Also at lunch I made a list of the “Big Wins” that are possible this quarter…. There were 13 items on the list. Six of the thirteen “Big Wins” have come to me the last week… YES! WOW! I didn’t even realize this.

PUT on your seat belt…. I’m ready for liftoff, I’m ready for a massive transformation!

P.S. I’m committed to spending 100% of my weekends with my family… that is why I’ll only be writing about personal growth and development posts on the weekdays.

Day 5-7, It’s all About Confidence – Personal Growth and Development