What can the Olympics teach you?

Okay I’ll admit it, I have Olympic fever!

Why?

Well there are so many reasons…

1. I love sports

2. I love watching people dig deep

3. I love hearing how people ris above injusries and circumstances that seem insurmountable

4. I love what I can learn about success and mindset and strategies of success

I love all of these things…

But there is something else, and that is what I’m going to focus on today…

5. I love seeing how differently certain athletes handle defeat

Lindsey Jacobellis is the perfect example…

In the last Olympics she was certain to win a Gold in the Snowboard Cross Event…

I mean she had it tied up and was so far ahead of the pack that all she had to do was stay up on her board and she would have the gold…

That’s when she made her mistake…

She went into the air, and caught in the moment she went to do a little extra to celebrate…

AND FELL…

She still got silver, but this was a situation where the Gold was hers to lose and that is exactly what she did…

• You’ll get 8 million people sounding off about how it was the mistake of youth or showboating…
• You’ll get an earful from just about anyone about how stupid she was to do this…
• You could throw a rock in the middle of the desert and chances are you would still hit someone who would be more than willing to judge her for what heppened…

To be honest, I don’t care about that…

We all make mistakes, it’s a fact of life…

What I’m interested in is what we do after the mistake…

How we handle ourselves…

What we tell ourselves this mistake means about us and our future…

And this is where I am so impressed with Jacobellis…

She had to endure some pretty tough interviews — each time having to answer the question of ‘What Happened?’ –

Of course she would explain — of course she wished it hadn’t gone the way it did — I’m sure she learned a serious lesson –

But she also seemed to let it roll off of her…

The best thing I heard from her was when she said that she didn’t know how to explain what happened other than to say that she fell down.

I love that!

That’s the best success lesson you can find…

You’re going to make mistakes and you are going to do things when you should have known better…

Do you have to learn from these mistakes?

YES

But, do these mistakes mean that you are stupid, have ruined everything and now you’ll never succeed?

NO NO NO!

Learn from her…

Sometimes the most honest answer to “What happened there?” is

“I fell down”…

Leave me your comments about how you can learn from this…

Go Big!

Kristen

What are you putting off?

Let me ask you 1 question…

And then you should ask yourself this same question every day…

What are you putting off?

We all have something…

So what is it for you?

Be honest with yourself…

What is the thing, that you know would move you forward, that you always seem to push off to the next day?

I know you push it off because other really important things come up…

But what is it?

Because, if you are honest with yourself…

I guarantee you that putting it off is wearing on you…

Putting it off is causing you stress…

Even if you don’t realize it…

Even if you think that actually doing it would be stressful, I promise you that NOT doing it will eventually be even more stressful…

Why?

Because you KNOW deep down that you are putting off success and growth and movement forward…

So I’ll ask you one more time…

What are you putting off?

Leave me a comment and let me know!

Go Big!

Kristen

Success in 15 minutes a day — will you commit to yourself?

Experiment time!

There are 39 days left in 2009…

I thought an experiment to see how far you can move forward while still enjoying the holiday season was appropriate!

First let me ask you this question…

If I told you that you could significantly move your life forward between now and January 1, 2010 and it would only take 15 minutes a day…

Would you commit to dedicating 15 minutes a day EVERY DAY for the next 39 days?

I’m going to assume you answered ‘Yes’!

So this is what we are going to do…

Starting today and going through Dec. 31, 2009 I want you to do 1 thing each day to move yourself forward…

Here are the rules:

• You MUST do 1 thing each day
• The ‘Thing’ you do MUST take 15 minutes or less to do…
• The ‘Thing’ you do MUST push your comfort zone
• The ‘Thing’ you do MUST make you feel like you have somehow moved yourself forward toward one of your goals

Got it?

It is up to you if you are going to focus on one area of your life to move forward for the next 39 days or if you are going to focus in several directions…

Either way, you WILL see a huge difference IF you absolutely commit to do this AND you follow through.

To help you out, I want you to leave a comment now stating that you are taking part in the challenge and what your focus is.  I also want you to tell me what it is you will do today.

This is another case of you are either in or you aren’t…

I know it’s tough love…but if you are just going to try to commit 15 minutes a day, you aren’t going to get where you want to go…

15 minutes…to move toward the life of your dreams…

• I KNOW you can do this…
• Commit to it now…
• Leave a comment…
• Tell me you’re in…
• Tell me your focus…
• Tell me what you will do today!

Have fun with this!!

YOU ARE EXTRAORDINARY!

Go Big!

Kristen

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Set your week up for success…

Let’s start this week off right!

I want this week to be a success for you and I know you do too…

So let’s do this…

I want you to ask yourself this question:

“If I ________________ by Friday of this week, my week will be a success!”

Fill in the blank and leave a comment with your answer…

Here are a few things to consider when you are filling in the blank:

1. It should push (but not shatter) your comfort zone

2. It should be an Inspired Action Step that you have been avoiding but that you KNOW will move you toward a specific, immediate goal.

3. It should be something you can realistically achieve in 5 days.

4. Go for 1-3 small WINS with this and we’ll build from there.

REMEMBER you want to set yourself up for success! I know I tell you to Go Big, but sometimes Going Big means small steps along the way…so this week is about taking one of those SMALL steps!

Now that you’ve filled in the blank, SCHEDULE IT!

Where most people fail is when they have things that they know they can do, they know it will create a success for them, but they DON’T schedule it so it gets pushed off.

Set yourself up for success and make this ONE THING a MUST for you this week…

Post a comment with what you are doing and when you scheduled it and why this will be a success for you!

Go for it!

Go Big!

Kristen

One is NOT the same as the other!

There seems to be some confusion…

And I’m ready to clear it up!

I wrote a post the other day about a phrase that can help you turn things around quickly.

Click here if you haven’t read it yet

What’s the phrase?

“How can I help you?”

Why was I blogging about it?

A reader wanted to know the short answer to how I first went to over $10,000/month (from $1200/month).

And I told him it was by finding people who were where I wanted to be and asking them the question…

“How can I help you?”

Here’s where the confusion comes in…

I have received more emails than I can count from my wonderful subscribers asking 2 main questions.

1. How can I possibly get close enough to the people who are where I want to be to ask them this question?
2. How do I convince the people who are where I want to be that I can help them and that they should pay me for it?

Okay…

Question #1: I am going to write a WHOLE separate post on this later this week as this is HUGE and deserves some energy!

Question #2: Here’s my answer…

The statement, “This is how I can help you!”

IS NOT THE SAME as

“How can I help you?”

Don’t sell them…

Ask them…

What do they need? And how can you help them achieve that need?

THIS is a huge lesson for anything…

I don’t care what business you are in…

If you forget to ask people what they need your success will be little or at the least MUCH LESS than it could be.

• “How can I help you?”
• “What do you need?”
• “What is missing for you right now?”
• “If you could waive a magic wand, what would you instantly make different?”

Those are all different versions of the question…

Find out what they need AND THEN figure out how you can help bring that to them…

I promise that next time I will give you some answers on how to approach the people who might seem out of reach…

Leave me a comment and tell me at least 1 person you can go to and ask this question…

Go Big!

Kristen