World of Pain

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We live in a world of pain right now.
It does not make sense to me, it is very confusing to both you and I.

At age 10 we are told the world is ours, to be imaginative, to do whatever we love.
At age 15 we are told we need money, material items like a fancy car, or a big house.
At age 20 we are scared into getting a job we don’t want to go to, we just have to.
At age 25 it seems that is judgment time; if James didn’t go to college, he was known as a failure or statistic. If Nancy had 4 kids and no father she was a ruin. If Hector was a Doctor he was the only success of his graduation class. And if Maria became a teacher and got married, people would say she wanted the easy way out, and that’s why her pay is less than half of Hector’s.

What is wrong with us in today’s age? What happened to letting our imagination free? Since when does having all the money in the world help you sleep? Why are we tricked into working somewhere and end up paying more than what we need for? I find it so sad to know of so many people in my high school graduation class that started working three years ago to save up $500 and they are still trying to save up those $500.

James didn’t go to college because he studied something that would promise money, but his heart was not in it, so he dropped out. Nancy had four kids because her boyfriend said it was the only way to prove she loved him. Hector goes into work every day and helps the sick people only to realize more than half of them don’t have insurance so he has to make life choices for those in need. And Maria decided to be a teacher but gets annoyed by her children; what she really wanted to do was be an actor or singer. But all her friends and family say that’s silly, that it’s a one in a million chance, which it’s only for the perfect, the gifted, someone else, but not her.

Let me tell you something. It could be one in a million. It could be one in 6 billion. If you know you ARE that one- the numbers don’t matter. If you know deep in your h eart that you are the one person that WILL get the Career they want, you will study unafraid. If you feel you are the one in a million that can become an actor, then you will go audition after audition until you nail the spot for the next Hollywood film. If you know you are the one that will DIE for your dreams to come true- then let the criticism, the hate, the hopeless chatter of those around you fade away and keep telling yourself that you will get new friends, set new goals, take action and BE the one in 6 billion.

Are you ready to be who you are meant to be?

Planning For Better

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When it comes to changing our lives, we have two different choices- the Coin Toss Dilemma.  Most people look at a huge change, and the step-by-step process.  If we would want a new home, for example, the two choices would be: 1 Move out completely and get a new home and 2 Slowly save up to purchase the house financially stable or change the current house they live in one room at a time.  The problem with major decisions like this is that most people get so nervous or stressed with either choice that they end up choosing none.

This happens a lot more often than we think, and it happened to me this entire month.  Personally, I have many different Career paths, and having to choose only one to focus on or spread out my time with the many… well, I felt overwhelmed and decided to wait and see how life plays out.  It killed me to “just let the pieces fall” because I am ambitions, very impatient, a go-getter, and I live what I preach.  I had to do something that’s even rarer than making a choice, and I want you to do the same when it comes to something similar:

Uniting All Your Choices Into One

The Paths I had were: Author, Public Speaker, Health/Fitness Coach, Entrepreneur Ho Help Others Create A Healthy/Wealthy Home Business, and College Student.  Up until now, it has been very hectic, pressuring, pleasant, and frustrating experience juggling it all at once.  At times, I felt like just closing one part of my life off to take a break.  Except I can’t.  I won’t be able to fall asleep or my performance in some aspect in my life slows down.  After thing much about the problem, I came to an epiphany: all these paths can unite if I structure them accordingly!!

As a Health/Fitness Coach, I can teach others to build a Healthy/Wealthy Home Business of their own, and in turn leads me to become an Entrepreneur, altogether gives me great material to write my books, and the entire experience with attending my University gives me wise insight to Speak Publicly.  Astounding!!  Everything is connected, I just had to find a way to make them all follow a direction or be going to a common goal and it simplified everything.

The best part is that I did this before the New Year.  I Challenge you to do the same- find something you want to change, and you might even think it conflicts with what you’re comfortable doing right now! Find a way to make the dots connect and relieve the stress while giving you the best of all the parts in your life.  After all, what’s life if we have to get rid of things that make us happy?

 

With Your Health and Success In Mind,

Coach Peter Hanz

Spark In Your Eye

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I am still excited from the speech I gave last week at the University of Texas-Pan American to the Senior Class Business Majors.  The blessing it was to see their faces light up in hope and attention was incredible.  The best part was that I went over the main points that I speak about in my first book along with a few secrets I teach in my second book:

How to treat people correctly and know them by heart instead of by receipt.  It’s weird, and rude, to think of any person as a walking dollar bill.  For one- none of us are that literally.  For two- I always feel disrespected or if I am of no importance to employees at stores that don’t care at all about my personal goals or why I purchased something from them.  Three- we are worth more than any amount of money we can ever have in our lifetime.  People, simply put, are priceless. Imagine treating all your friends as extra money, I bet you wouldn’t have many pretty soon.  Same goes with hiring people for a business or growing a Team.

Have faith in your marketing.  Some people hear the word “marketing” and assume that we are talking about making massive amounts of money from out of nowhere.  As great that sounds, it’s practically impossible.  If it’s possible, it’s probably illegal.  So what is “marketing”?  Marketing is putting some money we may have and investing it in something that has a BIG chance to bring us back more.  This is not the stock market.  This is not advertising.  As a matter of fact, it’s actually something you do on a daily basis!  When I used to work at my old job, I worked per hour.  I wanted to get promoted, so I bought professional clothes, showed up early as much as I could, I even skipped class a few times.  All this is actually marketing.  Why?  I was doing things that cost me time, money, energy, sacrifice, and effort- hoping that they would bring me back something more in return.  What was that something?  Getting promoted.  The only problem was that I kept getting asked to sacrifice more and more, until it got to the point where my investments were family- and like I stated earlier, people are priceless, so I had to change.  If that all sounded confusing, here’s a smaller example- putting gas in your car daily or weekly to go work and get paid more than the cost.

Change lives for the better.  I went on a good five or more minutes talking about this one sentence, because I’m extremely passionate about doing just that.  I posted on my personal profile, “Did you know that at any time there are 1 in 20 employees in the workplace who suffer from depression or suicidal thoughts due to their financial situation or massive debt?  These are people that are single, married, may or may not have children, college students, anyone!”

So I asked the entire class of 30+ soon-to-be business owners:  What are you going to do to save that 1 out of 20?  Will your business be the reason they are depressed or having suicidal thoughts?  Or will your business be the life-changing chapter in their life that saved them from their last job?  It was a moment of epiphany for many, as I could see their eyes light up, a few leaned in forward with intensity, others were writing down these questions.

Life is a battle, but we have what it takes to win.  Life is about helping ourselves so we can learn how to help others.  Living is helping so many people that we no longer are focused on just us, but focused on the better of those that need help.  So I ask you, my wonderful blog reader, how can you implement these three points that I talked about today?  Let me know right below, or on my FaceBook page, I would love to know 🙂

 

With Your Health and Success In Mind,

Coach Peter Hanz

Credit Cards

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It’s weird when I get told, “Well you don’t have a credit card, so you don’t need to worry about debt!” or “Without a credit card, you’re not a real adult.  Get one, waste money, and then I’ll take your business serious.”

Two words: Extremely Confusing.

In my Financial Maturity Chapter, I talk about my old debt (over $13,000) and how I got out of that debt with great physical work ethic.   Not only that, I also kept taking out loans since that debt was over, and using my old job to pay for it.  Here’s a secret I never told anyone:

I always got denied a Credit Card!

It was not my credit score, I had better credit than my friends who got approved!  It was not my bank, nothing wrong with my accounts, kept my account active, it was just luck or something.  So as far as not worrying about Debt, that’s a big lie.  A lie that comes out to over $15,000+

As far as not being a “real” adult- I’ve helped out professors, doctors, friends, and family that are over twice my age (over 44 years old!) in managing finances.  So that’s not true.  I’m not going out on a limb here and say I’m extremely cheap either because as soon as my home business started blooming, I’ve taken out my family and close friends to many trips, vacations, restaurants, and have participated in gift giving!  As a matter of fact, most people take my business serious because finances IS a huge part of it.  What’s the point of running a business if it’s not helping your income?

Here’s the funny thing- As soon as I started making over twice my old checks by working at home… every single credit card company started sending me letters, pre-approved, even phone calls to my cell phone to get one.  If God did not want me to get in debt back then, He sure does not want me to get in debt now.  I deny those companies and help others get rid of theirs.

Just a few weeks ago, a Member was crying over how happy she was to be purchasing all her family’s Christmas gifts with cash!  How awesome is that?!  Other Members just cut up their credit cards!  Friends of mine are paying off college tuition with this business, and parents are spoiling their kids with the extra money.  It’s a true marvel to see such seeds bloom with the help I offer.  Are you the next financial success story?

With Your Health and Success In Mind,

Coach Peter Hanz

 

Brand new Monday! Let’s talk about credit cards:

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