Showed Up Late To Work

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Showed Up Late To Work & Got A Raise!??
There’s no feel in the world like getting paid more for showing up late!  That is EXACTLY what just happened, and it feels great 🙂

Last night, I took my pre-workout at 10pm (not the best choice of my life), and began an overview of high profit margins for the accepted Mentorship students.  Long story short, I got so excited at the future that I began to work on my next book “Haters, Parties, and Success”.  Before I knew it, it was too late to workout.

Now, remember this book is going to be released in 2015- so I still have some time before being pressured into finishing it.  BUT with the pre-workout in my system, I felt like I HAD to finish it, and kept writing until about 3:35am.  Yeah…. Not such a good idea!

Ultimately, this caused me to wake up around 11am.  Usually, I “clock-in” around 5:30am, but that’s the beauty of running a home business!  You can choose your own hours, and having taught thousands of people around the world, I knew what I had done over the weekend was going to pay off.  I checked into my online office around Noon, and BAM!  I earned a raise of $11.  It might not seem like a lot, but an $11 raise in less than a month?  That’s pretty substantial.

I remember starting ChallengeToLive, Inc. and sharing my goals, dreams, and visions for helping others out.  To see the opportunity of this new online business: I made videos, wrote blogs, shared with people that were near and dear with me, passed on ideas of being a huge success… but many people told me that I can’t.  That creating this business was impossible, a dumb idea, a RISK with only pain and regret at the end.  Then… when I helped 4 people become financially independent, and two families to pay off a mortgage, their jaws dropped!

Soon after, I opened doors to Canada (this was around September 2013), and within 6 months established a business center… from my smartphone…

Spring 2014, we exploded onto the global level.  Thinking of how far we have come as a business, organization, and group of people focused on transforming lives.

 

So what do you think?  Would you like to be one who tells others they can’t, or be the inspiration someone needs and say they CAN?  Are you someone with big goals for yourself & family, but people around you tell you that it’s impossible?  You are a successful person, I know you are.  Don’t let someone ever convince you that you can’t earn or achieve something you deserve.  Your health & success is worth more than a pessimistic opinion.  Don’t you think so?

 

Can You Honestly Handle Success?

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Most, if not all, people want to be successful in something- BUT feel like something is missing or holding them back.  What are the 3 vital behaviors of the most successful people on earth, and how can you become one today?  Read on…

Independence!  That’s right, the #1 behavior to ANY successful person was the initial belief and maturity to become 100% independent.  What does that mean?  It means tossing the “Victim Card” into the fire, and never looking for one again.  In other words, you cannot blame your life or current lifestyle on anyone else, but yourself.  I have had people walk out during seminars, start arguments during my lunch hour at a Sushi Restaurant, and even had explicit hate mail come in when I state that independence is a must for success.  But… why???  Simple!  When you assume 100% of your life in your own hands- you can finally control it & drive it anywhere you desire.  For example (and I use this VERY often when I speak at major universities about academic success):

-James is attending a 4 year university, but only going for the major that is going to end up paying him 6-figures.  Regardless of the job, the material and focus is in an area of study he dislikes.  He’s actually never liked it, but because his friends, family, and practically everyone around him- he believes that happiness will bestow upon him once he graduates and gets that job.  Sadly, he let’s go of his independence and gives it up to those around him.  Within 4 yours, he graduates, gets the job, hates it, and the money “isn’t enough”.  Yet, Sandra, who went to college to study what she wanted to study and always loved the material, also graduated within 4 years, and got a Career that pays half as much & is happy and the money is “more than she ever imagined.”  So what is the secret?  Independence.  You can believe the world around you, but if you’re not willing to stand your own ground and strive for what YOU want- your happiness will always be in someone else’s hands.  And trust me when I say, that is never a true path to success.

 

Remove The Band-Aid Of Truth.  How many of you have heard the phrase, “Just rip off the band-aid already!!!”  Well, it is a must when it comes to success.  A few months ago, I was working privately with a leader in the fitness industry and asked me why he kept hitting a plateau in his ability to expand his client base over 1,000.  I asked him, “Well, what do you do with your time?”  He admitted that he spent at least half of time talking to the regular clients he had, and the other half creating products for his clients & new clients.  I proceeded with another question, “Why don’t you invest time to connect with new clients?”  He answered, “I just don’t have the time.”

You see, at that point, I had lived through that excuse.  We all are, have been, or will use that to give ourselves grace when we do not need it. Instead, we need to rip off the band-aid and be honest.  “If you don’t invest time in connecting with new clients, like you did in the beginning, you will never reach the 1,000 client base mark.  Worse yet, if you are depending on your current clients to stick with for life, you have no safety net to ensure stable income in the decades to come.  You must invest time in doing what really works.  Better yet, tune up what works and make it uniquely your own.  You’re current clients will respect you, your new clients will love you, and you’ll still be within your time limit.”

 

Stop Falling Asleep Wanting It.  If there was anything harder in life than waking up to an alarm for a shift you don’t want to work- it’s staying up when you are tired, wiped out, and wondering why life is so hard.  With complete honesty, that is where the magic happens.  I have noticed a consistent pattern with major successes in my business with people who keep getting pushed by something.  Let it be debt, college tuition, bad health habits, a particular relationship at work, many, many things.  The point being, they have something eating away at their dream life.  It eats away at their day, up until they rest their head on the pillow.  They finally start having visions, dreams, ambitions, only to be answered with, “Why haven’t I don’t that yet?” or “If only life could be as good as I am about to dream of it.”

Get up.  Get up!  GET UP!!!!  You have to get up and begin putting time, effort, and work into your vision, dream, or real goals!  It’s simple- any second you invest into what you want is one second CLOSER to being there.  One thing is wishing for it to happen, and just like the lottery, will probably die wishing for it too.  It’s not mean, it’s direct.  It’s time to be independent, rip the band-aid off, and never falling asleep wishing for it.  It’s time to LIVE IT.

Yes, I know I can be a very intense man when it comes to success.  But you don’t need to have a major life change to achieve a major life change.  Sounds unreal, but you only need to invest 1 to 2 hours a day the correct way and skip all the mistakes to achieve the life of your dreams within 1 year.  That’s right, within 12 months.  Better yet, you can do it within 3 months if you are truly committed.  What does it take?  Leadership, Ethics, Passion, and Prosperity.  Can you handle this type of success in your life?

No Family Is Perfect

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No family is perfect. We argue, we fight, stop talking to each other sometimes. But in the end, family is family- the LOVE will always be there. That’s the real reason why I do my very best to succeed every single day.  Every day that I make a difference, it means that I can enjoy at least 10 times that amount of time with my family. Every time I help someone realize that family is worth more than money, I hand down the choice to be with family instead of work. In my opinion, family is the most important thing in the world, and if we EVER put money, work, or a job in front of them… it is an emotional price to pay and time you can never get back.

A couple of years ago, God decided it was time to have my grandmother by His side, and I decided to clock in for a shift instead of attend her funeral. I thought I was doing the ‘right’ thing, you know: proving that I was ‘committed’ to getting a promotion at my job. All it did was have my manager say that it’s not easy earning a promotion. And I agreed. How messed up was I to put work over family? Maybe you’re going through something like that right now. Is that what it costs to be promoted or earn a raise? Trust me when I tell you this: that part of my life is YOUR SIGN to change. My mistake can be your lesson before it happens to you! But will you change? Could you?

A few months later, I had another manager tell me that I had to quit school in order for their company could take me serious. That other employees got promoted after working 4 years, full-time, and made sacrifices ‘worse than mine’ to prove their worthiness. In his words, “You do not have what it takes to be a manager.” That conversation happened while I was getting paid $9.05 per hour, attending college full-time, paying bills like everyone else, and that forced me into a tuna can & 2-for-$1 eating lifestyle. I could not have felt any worse about my life at that point. Worst part? I was almost convinced he was right.

In February 2013, I almost lost my brother to a fire accident.  I can’t go into detail or I will breakdown trying to write this blog, but I will quote the first doctor who examined him severity and stated we needed to be physically present when he woke up,

“Your brother is going to wake up, IF he wakes up, and feel the same pain and burn he felt before the suppressants kicked in for a few days straight. These kinds of burns make anyone wish they would rather be dead, the worst possible pain you cannot imagine unless you have been in it. He NEEDS the support.”

I had 20 minutes before he was transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center to decide whether to go with him or stay to clock in for a shift the next day.  That is when I realized how messed up I really was. Was I actually debating this?! Yes I was. And that’s when it hit me, right then and there, I knew I had to do something about that job, it was messing with my head to the point where I was putting it over the lives of family. I despised myself, felt disappointed with who I had become… I failed my brother, my family, my grandmother, and myself. Everything in my life was now in control of someone else and the chase for money. I am going to stop here because I know myself enough to the point that I cannot flashback the severity and have that emotional toll hit me again- but to let you know, I quit that job and went full throttle with ChallengeToLive, Inc. with the proper priorities, leadership, ethics, and passion that I knew would create a life where family comes first. NOT MONEY or to PROVE myself by sacrificing family in order to ‘earn’ a promotion.

Within seven months, I created a better income in less than 12 hours a week, saved enough to continue with college, and begin something that ultimately gave me the blessing to follow my dreams and become an author & public success speaker.  I do not say this to brag, I do not say this to have you quit your job from one day to the next. I say all this so you can get to know a taste of who I am, what I have been through, and offer you a hand to change your life.  I have helped thousands of people do the same- learn the proper mentality to change your life and put those who matter first. How to earn income, and then explode it through your personality and passion- NEVER sacrificing family or years of your life. There is no such thing as an overnight success, but you can take what I will teach you, implement it every day, and eventually be able to take hold of your life and steer it in the direction that matters to you.

You can go to the “About Me” section of this website and have a more in-depth description of what happened. If you want to know what happened in astonishing detail; everything from conversations of managers who said I wasn’t worth much, to the conversations of people in my business who pushed me to keep fighting when I had absolutely nothing left- get a copy of Seven Months To Happy Tears. I’ve mentally matured decades and equipped people with what they need to soar past sacrifices like the ones I’ve made, or even skip them altogether in previous Mentorship Programs and private consultations. But now it is time to take advantage of what is the biggest Mentorship I have ever hosted, as well as the only one that will be hosted in 2014 (and there isn’t much of a sign to host one anytime in soon in 2015).

I have lost family, went into massive debt, made awful choices, and always played the victim card. The moment I decided to change that was the moment I took control of my life and went full-faith into a future where I was steering the wheel. Don’t wait, or even gamble, on the chance of another Mentorship. There have been people in worse situations than I have who saved their life in less than 3 months- and I have no doubt that it IS possible for you too. With 57 spots left, take advantage and reserve yours now. Your life, the lives of those you love, and decades of priceless memories may depend on it. Sacrifices for money? Or Life Fulfillment with ethical purpose? You have a choice- decide now.

With your health & success always on my mind,