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How often do you have “those” days? – Personal Growth and Development – Day 19

How often do you have “those” days? – Personal Growth and Development – Day 19

Today started out great, I was excited to get into the office and ready for an amazing week. Last weekend, was filled with personal growth and development by reading Og’s scroll’s the entire time (per Friday’s post).

When I got into the office, I powered through things for the first few hours, I was rocking it! Then, something happened. It was as if someone slipped something into my drink and instantly, I went from excited to drained. I plowed through the rest of the day, but it was hardly effective. It was exhausting. It was depleting. I was bankrupt of all my positive thoughts and energy.

Any doubt, worry, or concern that I have in my life surfaced this afternoon.

Am I fooling myself… Do I really have what it takes to build a meaningful business around “7 Steps?”
Are my dreams too big?
Am I even as talented as I think I am?
Is the “7 Steps” message really that good?
Am I going to run out of money? Will my company ever turn profitable?
Has my past success been nothing more than a fluke?
Am I going to let my family down? My team down?

I went to lunch and asked myself, what happened? I find that when I can identify the activity that put me into a tail spin, my energy shifts back instantly. The entire lunch I kept asking myself, “What happened that caused the shift? What happened that caused the shift?” This time, I couldn’t identify any specific thing. It was just one of “those” days.

I walked home from lunch reading Og’s scrolls out loud. Unfortunately, nothing changed.

I came home and went to the activity that gives me the most energy – playing as a family. I took all three of them to the floor, got all the pillows off the bed, and as a family we played. Unfortunately, nothing changed.

After the kids went down, I escaped into an episode of 24 with Lily. Unfortunately, nothing changed.

Then I came here, to the computer to type this post. Every part of me didn’t want to be this direct and real, yet I’m committed to being real and never misrepresenting the truth. After 20 minutes of writing, this is the first time I feel energized. I’ve always heard how “the truth shall set you free” and how the “truth can be freeing,” yet, I’ve never understood it the way I’m feeling it at this moment.

My unsophisticated “takeaway” from today is that these days happen, and that is okay. I will have days when I doubt myself as every person alive has those days. In the past, I would hide these feelings as I felt it showed my weakness, now I believe that it shows my humanness which is the greatest gift I can give to those around me. If I can be myself (true, exposed, and unfiltered) with my friends, family and clients, it will give my friends, family, and clients that ability to be themselves with me (true, exposed and unfiltered).

Tomorrow will be great. Tomorrow I will take one step closer to success.

How often do you have “those” days? – Personal Growth and Development – Day 19

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Our 100 Day Guide – Personal Growth and Development – Day 16-18

Our 100 Day Guide – Personal Growth and Development – Day 16-18

Here is how we are going to have the best 100 Days of our life, thanks to amazing personal growth and development. This comes courtesy of Gary Ryan Blair, The Goals Guy.

Let me begin my saying… don’t try to get this right, just get the first draft down and posted on the site as soon as possible! As you will see, even with my plan, there are some things that need to be added. As my coach Dan Sullivan says, “Get the first draft 80% complete and move on!”

The 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Plan

Here it is plain and simple… list the:

5 “Must Do’s”
4 Things You Must Stop Doing
3 Things You Must Delegate
2 People to Hold You Accountable
1 Big BANG (Bold Audacious Noble Goal)!

Let me review each of these….

5 “Must Do’s” for the next 100 days.
Knowing what you want to accomplish over the next 100 days, what are the five things that you ABSOLUTLY must accomplish? Think of it this way, if you didn’t do these five things, there is no way you would accomplish it.

4 Things You Must Stop Doing for the next 100 Days
What are four things you are currently doing that does not support your Big BANG? Write those down as it is time to stop doing them (at least of the next 100 days!). It’s time that you honor yourself! Doesn’t that just feel right?

Warren Buffet says it best, “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no almost all the time.” See, many people are addicted to the “yes.” YES, I will join this, YES, I will do that for you, YES, I will take on that project. Well, for the next 100 days, only say YES to the things that will contribute to your Big BANG!

3 Things You Must Delegate for the next 100 Days
Some of you may be thinking… Delegate? I don’t have any employees! The good news is that you don’t need employees to delegate. At the very minimum, you need people who are excited and committed to your goals! Who might that be? Your children? Your significant other? Your spouse? Your business partner?

Let’s face it; there are certain things that make sense for you to spend your time doing, and certain things that don’t make sense. We all only have 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day… that is it! You are going to need to MAXIMIZE your efficiency to hit your BIG BANG!

So whether you are going to delegate to people in your life or your employees, you need to list three things that you are not going to do for 100 days (not forever, just 100 days!)..

2 People to Hold You Accountable
THIS IS CRITICAL!!!! You need two people in your life to hold you accountable to your personal growth and development. Anytime you are going to accomplish a BIG BANG Goal, you need people in your life that you talk to on a daily or every other day basis that is going to lift you up when you are down, AND, you will do the same for them! Do not choose people who are going to say that your goal is “not realistic, impossible, improbable” those type of people will guarantee one thing – that you won’t achieve your goal

You have two choices:

1) Invite two people in your life (friends, family, co-workers) to join our group, participate like you are and be your partner!
2) Ask for a partner from our group and you can do that by asking them to be your partner directly! You can post a reply to one of their posts and simply ask them if they would like to be your accountability partner.

1 Big BOLD Audacious Noble Goal (BANG)!
This is the fun part. When you do the “5 Must Do’s,” and Stop doing the “4 Things,” and delegate “3 Things” and have two great people hold you accountable… what is the Big BOLD Audacious Noble Goal that will be possible?

DECLARE IT!!!!

Here is mine:

5 MUST DO’S for the next 100 Days

1) Work the X Factor. Identify it and implement it.
a. How to I get 7-10x more people enroll into our program?
b. Easy ways to make $500K in 90 days
c. How to get You Tube videos to have 1.0 million views?

2) 1/1 Numbers Training (Accounting) – This is the weakest part of my business
a. I will know my numbers well enough to be able to explain in to my wife

3) Be mentored by Gary Ryan Blair

4) Identify all the contradictions in my life, and change ten of them of them. My current contradictions are below:

- Emailing my clients over an over to the same event
- Emailing my clients about someone else that I REALLY don’t know that well!.
- Being “salesy” in any way
- When I’m not being myself b/c I don’t want to upset my wife
- When I’m thinking of people are real people with real problems
- When all I do is think about the marketing… not the message
- When I’m not focused on the quality… just the quantity (SEO, Video)
- When I’m only worried about making money, not touching lives
- Not trusting my intuition with my staff, letting my brain guide me, not my gut
- Saying “Yes” because I think I can, not because I REALLY want to do something
- Saying “Yes” to much…
- Doing anything that feels like a FORCE
- Auto Loan Advantage – Trying to motivate people that really aren’t motivated
- Traveling because I think I need to
- Doing project because I think I need to
- Hiring consultants that don’t know what to do….

5) Say no to all new projects and activities for the next 100 Days

4 Things to Stop Doing

1) Stop Checking my email first thing in AM

2) Stop eating in a manner that doesn’t support my health
a. PLAN: Eat 70% of time on Zone Diet and three week (15 days) of Raw Food with Fish

3) Stop failing to honor my wife
a. PLAN: Have Lily rate me as a husband on a scale of 1-10 every day, if it’s not a 10, ask her why..

4) TO BE ADDED….

3 Thing to Delegate

1) Building initial relationships with other bloggers

2) Reaching out to other bloggers

3) TO BE ADDED

2 People that will hold me Accountable
1) Sean Stephenson
2) Mark Tarbell

1 BANG Goal – Big BOLD, Ambitious, Noble Goal

1) $500,000 in Gross Income in the next 90 Days and give $50,000 to charity

Lastly, for the next 100 days you need to protect your confidence and you can do that by not worrying, not feeling shameful, not feeling bad about what has happened in your past. Now is the time for you stand tall among all men! This is your moment!

If you have made it this far… email me and say, “Send me the book!” and I’m going to send you a book that I read every day that protects my confidence, keeps me going on the path of personal growth and development, and out of the rut of life’s thoughts!

BE BOLD, ACT NOW…. Post your plan below ASAP!!!

P.S. Please comment on the other people plans. This will only work if all of us, as a team contribute to each other. So, if someone inspires you, tell them!

Our 100 Day Guide – Personal Growth and Development – Day 16-18

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It’s all about Alignment – Personal Growth and Development Day – Day 12-15

It’s all about Alignment – Personal Growth and Development Day – Day 12-15

This week ended SO STRONG. Literally, my life is on a completely different path than it was on two weeks ago before I started this public posting of my personal goals, fears, growth, development, and concerns.

Let me start with Og (the master of Personal Growth and Development) again: I will greet this day with love in my heart. But how will I react to the actions of others? With love. For just as love is my weapon to open the hearts of men, love is also my shield to repulse the arrows of hate and the spears of anger. Adversity and discouragement will beat against my new shield and become as the softest of rains. My shield will protect me in the marketplace and sustain me when I am alone. It will uplift me in moments of despair yet it will calm me in times of exultation. It will become stronger and more protective with use until one day I will cast it aside and walk unencumbered among all manners of men and my name will be raised high on the pyramid of life. I will great this day with love in my heart.

This week, I have realized the before a person can find their “purpose” in life, they need to align all parts of their life. If all parts of their life are not aligned, then the growth, the “magic” won’t happen! Alignment is when something doesn’t “feel right” for one reason or another. When your action is really not who you are.

For example, this week I realized that there was a MASSIVE part of my business that was not aligned with who I am as a person. See – I believe that my credit program is literally, the cure for our American economy. There are 100 million American’s that need this help… yet, our main package sold for between $700-$1,000 (depending how a person paid). Typically on a teleseminar (virtual class over the phone) we have 7-15% of the people enroll into the big program. What about the other 85-93%? Who are they? Why aren’t they buying it? Maybe they can’t afford it! So, this week, I decided to trust in the power of being aligned (scroll 4) and let everyone name their own price.

We had people name a price of $0, yes $0. When I saw that some offered $0 for a $1,000 program, I felt they were taking advantage of me. In fact, my staff said, “We can’t send them the program, this isn’t fair!” Well, I knew we had to send it, because I needed to be my word. On the call I said, “Do not pay any more money that you can ABSOLUTELY afford right now, as I don’t want anyone to feel pressured financially!” Well, when I called those individuals, the feelings I had quickly left me. These people needed it more than anyone. Their electricity was turning off, they didn’t have gas money for their car, they didn’t have lunch money for their kids. I want those people to have our program!

Then another shocker happened! I called about half the people that enrolled this week … and the gratefulness, the love, the caring that they had was SO MOVING. One by one they offered to help me spread the word about our program. They asked things like, “what can I do?” “who do you want to meet?” and ” how can we spread the word faster?.”

Instantly I felt that I wasn’t alone anymore… and this week, the week of my 38th Birthday, is just the BEGINNING of a very exciting life. This Personal Growth and Development stuff… really works!

Thanks for joining me! Tell me what you got out of this post…..

P.S. If anyone has bought our program in the past and, because they paid full price, are feeling a financial pinch, please email me so we care change that. (Philip@720CreditScore.com)

P.S.S. I’m going to review these scrolls over and over this weekend, so I go into Monday on fire (not like last weekend)!

It’s all about Alignment – Personal Growth and Development Day – Day 12-15

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A Mindset like a Grumpy Old Man – Day 8-10, Personal Growth and Development

A Mindset like a Grumpy Old Man – Day 8-10, Personal Growth and Development

I’m so used to being positive, I’m so used to winning, that over the past two years, there has been so much negativity, I find myself wallowing in that world… this is affecting my personal growth and development.

Now that I have this big goal, I can’t afford to let a day go buy where I’m in a “funk.” So, Tuesday, I started my day at church (as usual) however, I took my journal in and simply wrote affirmation and repeated them out loud, over and over. I wrote:

I’m made to win…
This is my time…
This path is perfect…
I’m excited about the journey…
I’m being guided by the Holy Spirit … lean into it!
Got has an exciting plan for me…
The moment is now….
I feel a big win coming…
I’m ready!
Now is the time….
Ready for liftoff!
Father… guide me…
Thank you for this experience…
I feel it! Yes!

I walked out of there on fire…. This is the feeling that I have been lacking for a long time.

I’ve been tracking my excitement on a scale from 1-100…. Trying to build it each day. I find that it is easy for me to wake up, “in the funk.”

Last night a friend came over and brought my wife the book, “The Greatest Salesman in the World.” It has been years since I read that book! It was like a long lost friend… I stayed up late last night reading the “scrolls.” One thing has become evident to me. In my maturity, I have become more realistic with my goals. I don’t shoot for it like I used to, I don’t protect my mind set like I have in the past.

I’m going to change that….. Over the past couple days I’ve been devouring the scrolls in the book. Reading them over and over. Again and again… I’m ready, I’m excited. I feel the same way I felt years ago, where I defied odds with my success… I’m ready to do that again.

I think over the past few years… I have matured too much. I have matured into believing that life is hard and difficult. I’m done with that conversation, ready to rock.

Last night, I had the idea about going to companies and offering my Credit Teleseminar….there would be no “sales” copy, as their employees would be able to “name their own price”….. I’m going to run with that.

I’m will persist until I succeed…. Failure does not run through my veins. My personal growth development is happening exactly the right way.

Stick around… magic is going to happen.

A Mindset like a Grumpy Old Man – Day 8-10, Personal Growth and Development

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Personal Growth and Development – Day 3 – Consider the Fact That Where I am at is Perfect

Personal Growth and Development – Day 3 – Consider the Fact That Where I am at is Perfect

Excitement Level:  6

Well… another day of Personal Growth and Development. I had lunch with a college friend of mine today and we started talking about family members and money.  I said to him, “consider the fact that your family member is exactly where he is suppose to be, from a learning perspective.  Consider the fact that he needs to go through this growth, and there is nothing wrong with it.”  I left the meeting, asking myself – “why don’t I feel the same way?”

I need to consider, that the fact that I have lost money month after month for the past two years is exactly what was suppose to happen.  I need to consider the fact that who I am today is exactly who I am suppose to be – there is nothing wrong with what happened, as this was simply training and development for me to become the person I am suppose to be.  There was a reason for the past two years, right?  That is the question I’m asking myself deep down…. Was there a reason?

The book, “The Purpose Driven Life” sold tens of millions of copies… why?  I believe because everyone wants their life to mean something.  My friend, Brendon Bruchard, who speaks nationally asks it this way, “Did I matter?”  I want to know that the last two years of pain, the last two years of struggle, the last two years of frustrations was for something!

In my heart I believe it, yet without results it becomes an act of faith.  For me, faith is the hard part.  This is where I need to grow, this is what I need to “lean into” so I can grow faster.  Do I believing that there is a plan bigger than myself?  This is what I’m seeking, this is what I need to embrace, I am grateful for this opportunity to learn.

Confession:  I’m writing this everyday, as if they are being posted on my blog, but they are not yet (right now it’s simply on a Word Document.  I still have not decided to take on this 90 day challenge public.  I ask myself, “Why am I not doing it?”  Here are my answers to myself:

-         People don’t want to hear this stuff….

-         What if I don’t hit my goal…. Everyone will know that I failed.

-         What if I look bad in the process…

-         Will this impact my credibility with my clients?

I will tell you, when I think about those questions, I loose a lot of energy. When I think about being genuine, when I think about being transparent, I get energized.

As I write this…. It’s clear to me that it is more important to me be genuine, real with my clients and friends knowing that I’m struggling…. than fake and insincere, with all my clients and friends thinking I’m a huge success.

I write this as a human being that struggles everyday, but believes, with all my heart and soul, that there is a plan, a purpose for my life.

This is the personal growth, the personal development that I’m embracing, this is what I am focusing on, that is I’m creating in my life.

Personal Growth and Development – Day 3 – Consider the Fact That Where I am at is Perfect

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My Personal Growth and Development – A Declaration, $500K /90 Day /$50K to Charity

My Personal Growth and Development – A Declaration, $500K /90 Day /$50K to Charity

Let me declare something up front, I’m very uncomfortable doing a public declaration for my personal growth and development. This is why I’m going to do it.  2010 is my year for no ego… so anything that makes me uncomfortable, I want to do. I’m been around personal growth and development my whole life, however, it’s always been a private conversation…. not any more!

I get comments all the time, “how successful you are Philip” or “I saw your commercial on TV, you must be making a fortune.”  Newsflash:  I’m not.

For the past two years I have pulled money out of my savings as I attempted to “figure  out” how to be a thought leader around credit.  As many of you know, I’m very passionate about credit.  After reviewing tens of thousands of credit reports, I’m convinced that the system is unfairly set up against the average American.

Am I making money?  Yes.  But not enough to cover my expenses.  Am I still earning money form the loan business I’ve been in for 13 years?  Yes.  But not enough to cover my expenses.   Each month I’m pulling out of savings and it is very unsettling.

I ask myself – should I just quit?  Should I do something else?  I ask myself that every day.  What type of Husband and Father am I if I cannot provide for my family?  What type of Husband or Father am I if I take money out of savings every month?

Last week I attended a four day business retreat, and I left there moved and inspired.  It talked about being aligned with my goals, goals that feel right.  About choosing Big Noble Goals.

Here is mine for the next 90 days:

Earn $500,000 in 90 Days, with $50,000 being donated to charity when I achieve it.

How will I make this happen, I have no idea.  What I do know, it will not be the way I have been doing it… it just doesn’t feel right.

Each day I’m going to report my excitement level and my progress on my personal growth and development. Today my excitement level is a 10.

My Personal Growth and Development – A Declaration, $500K /90 Day /$50K to Charity

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