There are three things that you could start using Right Now in order to create a really great business and a fantastic life.
1. Become Staggeringly Positive.
2. Play Everything as a game.
3. Inspire everyone you speak with.
1. Going into anything, a meeting, an interview, a party, Anything. Envision that it is going to be great. People are going to like you. Someone there is looking for exactly what you have to offer. The Right person is going to be there.
AND, WHY NOT?
If you don’t, then you probably go in thinking things will be horrible; there won’t be anyone interesting to talk to; you might do something dumb and look bad.
That will keep you from meeting the right people and will likely create the very things you worried about!
If you go in thinking, “Nobody will really want to talk to me,” then NOBODY will want to talk to you!
Who do you want to do business with?
Assuming similar products, you’ll work with the person that is enthusiastic about their product and gets you excited about it too.
Someone in sales ho-hum about the product won’t be in sales for long!
Just the other day, I was talking to a businessman that was about to launch a new business idea. He’s got a million dollar business and he’s going to give away free books, 50,000 actual paperbacks.
I don’t know the business model or how it’s going to work, but he said, “I’ll either win or I’ll learn.” That is a guy living a great life!
Don’t live in What May go Wrong. Live in What Will go Right!
2. Treat everything like a game: The game of parenting, the game of work, the game of starting a new business. Everything is a game to play.
Did you read or see Tom Sawyer? He got those kids to work on the fence because he made it seem like a game to them. They paid him to do the “work”!
So, for those kids that paid to do it, was it tedious or hard?
No. It was a game to play. It was just the way that it got framed as a game that made it fun for them.
There are lots of games where people throw a ball around from here to there. They use a stick to hit a ball into a tiny hole. They take a big ball and throw it into a small, high hole. And we pay to watch them play football, golf, basketball…
But are any of those things inherently fun? Sweating, puffing and straining things!
But we said that’s a game and it’s fun and… Doing a spreadsheet is not fun. We’ve heard that enough times that now, working on a spreadsheet IS not fun.
The things we call games and fun are just as made up as the work we do. So you may as well choose to look at it in a way that is more empowering and more fun for you!
You know, everything really could be fun.
A spreadsheet? How could that be fun? Make a game of it. Compete with someone to get them done first. Or with yourself. More today than yesterday or whatever.
Connect with the fact that for some people… it really IS fun. They dig it! The only reason you don’t is that you’ve told yourself it’s hard, boring, or whatever and that you shouldn’t Have to do it. Instant tedium!
3. Inspire everyone you speak with.
In any conversation you get into: with the clerk at the store, the maintenance man, and the principal at your child’s school, get them to see a winning future.
You may be called in for a parent teacher conference. You Could have it like this guy is mean or out to get your kid.
What do They really want? They probably really want the best for your child. Their goal is to produce great, smart, creative kids that will change the world.
Listen for that. Mirror it back. Acknowledge the work that he’s done. It’s really great of you to look after my kid. I get that your job is to create great children. Thank You.
The word inspiration is derived from the Latin root spirare meaning “spirit,” to breathe, to give life.
When you listen to someone’s story and mirror it back to them even more golden than they see it now, it Creates life over there, for them. And for you!
When you are inspiring people to live in their dreams and to go for what they want, your life is better too.
You get to live a life of inspiration, creativity and joy. You’ll always be surrounded by people that are up to great things.
Now, take a moment.
- Think of something that you really want in your future. Really picture it.
- What game could you build around that? A way of scoring, measuring progress, rewards.
- Now, envision it having all worked out the best way possible. Complete. $$. Romance
- What’s available to you, now? How do you feel?
- And now, know in your heart of hearts that it Really is possible.
And then anything you have to do to make it happen will just fall away. It doesn’t take willpower to live your dreams.
I’d love to talk with any of you that want to share your future with me!
Please leave a comment and tell me what are your best tools for creating, joy, excitement, and sheer happiness in your life!
Sadly most people don’t think about taking control of their own destiny until the winds of change force their hand.
