2015-02-10 Every action you take towards success PAYS YOU!

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If you want to see the average earnings, please visit the page at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income.php. Hey, what's going on, Paulo CQ here, coming to you for another Inner Circle audio. Okay, I'm pumped up. I'm excited, of course, and a lot of people always say, why are you so pumped up? Why are you so excited?

Why shouldn't I, right? Why shouldn't you be excited today on this beautiful day, whether you're listening to this in the morning, at nighttime, in the afternoon, it doesn't matter, right? You're listening to this audio for a reason, and what I want to bring to you today is how any action that you take towards your success will always pay you. I remember listening to this and actually understanding the concept of this. Back in 2014, I would say like around April, was it April?

It was kind of more like, yeah, it was like around April, right? It was April, and you know what? At the time when I was listening to it, me and my boyfriend actually, believe it or not, we were living in the closet of a karate school as classes were going on, and we were doing webinars. We were doing just everything that we could to really kickstart our business as we were living in the closet of a karate school, and I actually remember saying to myself, you know what? This action is going to pay me.

It may not pay me today, but every action I take is going to go towards my success, right? What if you started to look at business that way? What if that all of a sudden, instead of just looking at things as work, you started looking at it as a way of every action that I take is going to help me get to the next level, is going to help me create more success in my life, you know? As I'm here shooting this video for you, whoever's listening to this, I understand that this is an action, and whether it pays me today or tomorrow, if it never gets to pay me monetarily, it's still going to pay me. Here's what I mean.

I know that this audio is going to go out there, and it's going to touch someone. Someone's going to listen to this audio today, and because of it, I really believe they're going to go out there, and they're really going to create, they're really going to understand the same concept that I, me and my wife, understood last year in 2014 as we were building our business out of a closet in a karate school, okay? Not the best place to build a business, right, but nevertheless, we knew that the actions that we were taking, we have full faith that it was going to help us get to the next level. I mean, this is the things that you actually, I mean, this is the kind of talk that you need to have with yourself. When you're in a situation like this, I mean, living in the closet of a karate school is not something where we wanted to build a business, and it also, from the outside, is an indication that we're not doing very good in business.

At least that's what it looks like, right? And you know, when you're in business, it's very hard to continue to keep going when you're not seeing any results, but the truth is, when you start creating, when you start going about business, and you have rules, and you have different ways, you have a different point of belief in how things work, the effort and the time you're putting into your business, all of a sudden, it just becomes a little different. I mean, it just, all of a sudden, you start looking at it from a complete different picture. You know, a lot of people sometimes, they get into business, and remember this one person told me, hey, look, listen, if I work my business eight hours every single day for 30 days, if I don't see at least a couple hundred dollars in my account, I'm gonna quit this thing. This ain't gonna be for me.

You know, the truth is, right, the problem was that since he got started, from the moment he got started, he looked at this as a job and not as a business. In business, you know, you have the beautiful, it's so beautiful because you can make as much money as you want, you know, you paid based off your results, right, not based off time. You know, it's a beautiful thing because we come into business for more time freedom, more financial freedom, right, but then when we're starting our business, we want to treat it like a job. We want to get paid every hour. It doesn't work like that, but here's how it does work, and in moments where you feel like giving up, in moments where you want to just throw in the towel and say, you know what, I'm working all these hours, I'm putting an effort at this, and nothing is actually happening.

You know what, something is actually happening, right, because everything you do is gonna create a result in the long run, right. You know, I read in a good book, it's called The Slight Edge, and it said how time will either promote you or expose you, right, and that's actually really cool because time shows the true colors at the end of the day, right. Time will show you the fruits of your labor or it'll show you what you haven't been doing, right, and it will result in either, just in a worse situation if you really don't do anything in your business, right, nothing's gonna happen, and you know, in the time when we were building our business for me and we weren't making a lot of money, we had to look at it this way. It wasn't an option, right, we were in the closet of a karate school, we had taken a one-way ticket to an event, and we actually had to, we were stuck there, okay, we never even looked at it from a perspective of being stuck, but the reality was that we needed to make money to go back home, right, and we were building this business, and you know, we could have at any moment just thrown in the towel and you say, you know what, I mean look who we're working from, like, should we continue, is this really gonna work for us? But we didn't look at it that way, we literally took in that concept, that, what we're talking about today, how any action that you take to your success will pay you, imagine if you started looking at everything you're doing right now in your business that way, you know, shooting those videos, creating those follow-up sequences, right, doing blogging, right, if you started looking at everything like that, don't you think that eventually things will pay you off?

And not just monetarily, I mean, let's take a look at blogging, okay, blogging in itself is so beautiful because, you know, one of the things that it taught me besides getting leads and all that good stuff, right, here's what blogging did for me, right, it made me a better communicator, it made me a better presenter, it allowed me to articulate and express myself way better through words, right, and that in itself is paying me over and over and over and over again. Now did I even, I had no clue that was really gonna help me do that, you know what? But guess what, that decision that I made to blog for 90 days when I got started, it still paid me today, right? I mean, just look at anything, anything you're doing right now, you're becoming a master at something, right? Just stick with it, keep doing it, it's gonna pay you, it will pay you, it's gonna lead into something, it's gonna lead into you sharpening your skill sets, it's gonna lead into you becoming better at what you're doing, you see, when that happens, you become a master, you see, what happens when you become an expert at something?

Number one, people wanna be around you because you are an expert, right, they know that if they go to you, they're probably gonna get the best advice because you're an expert, right? I mean, that's what they think, right? And the truth is, yeah, that might be true, but the reality is that because you're an expert, you're kind of considered like a professional and professionals make professional type of money and if you're making money, it really goes back to the routines and the things that you did in the past, right? It's like, the money you're currently making right now is based of the decisions and the effort that you put in the past, whether you are or you aren't, right? And if you wanna make more money, then what can you do right now at this moment, what kind of actions can you take that would overall create more success in your life, right?

You know, this is a good rule of thumb here, right, to just in moments where you just feel like giving up, just think about, hey, listen, the actions you're taking will pay off. Stay patient, don't give up. I mean, you have to be patient, you have to believe that this is gonna work for you. You have to say to yourself, you know what, yeah, this is not paying me right now, but it's gonna pay me. You know, this is not giving me the results that I want, but you know what, you have to start looking for the good in everything, you know?

Because the last thing you need when you're building your business, when you're trying to kickstart your business, is to start looking for the bad. Look, listen, you don't need that, trust me. You have a magnifying glass from people on the outside telling you all the things that you're doing wrong. You don't need to add anything else to it. You're fine, trust me.

What you need to do is start looking for the good. Extract the good from it, you know, extract the good from it. You know, there's like this machine, right, where you kind of put the fruits and vegetables in it. I think it's called, I forgot what it was, my mother-in-law uses it. She makes like these juices, right?

And it's cool because when she puts it, it kind of just sucks up all of the juice from the fruits and vegetables, and then like the skin of the vegetables or the skin of the fruits, it kind of just, it deposits it into another section of waste. It kind of extracts all of the good stuff and then the skin and everything that's not, that doesn't really matter, it's deposited into waste, right? Like it automatically does that. What if you automatically started to extract the good in things and you just kind of got rid of the bad, right? What if you started doing that?

What if you started looking at your business differently? You woke up today and you said, you know what, I am going to do those videos because I know it's going to pay me. It's not going to pay me now, but it will pay me eventually. And that's the type of faith. You have to work your business that way.

You have to have faith in business that what you're doing will pay you. See, the reason why I really, the reason why I believe people don't actively work the business the way they should, it's simply because they work it like a job, right? I mean, number one, they really don't have faith that it's going to pay them. So because they don't have faith that it's going to pay them, they never go out and take the, they never take the action nor the effort necessary for the business to finally start paying them, right? Therefore, they go out their business with minimal effort, which creates no money.

But what if you went out your business every day with everything you had, 100%, right? And you knew that it was going to pay you. What if you started working your business with faith that it was going to pay you? You'd work it differently, wouldn't you? Be honest.

There's no need to lie. There's no need to lie. Just be completely honest right now. If you knew your business was going to pay you, you'd work it a lot different than what you're currently working at, right? You'd be going at it differently, right?

You'd be shooting more videos. You'd be blogging more. You'd be more passionate, wouldn't you? Like as I'm shooting this video right now, I know that it's going to serve thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who are listening to this, right? Because when I got started, right, in the very beginning, me and my wife didn't have a source of income, right?

We didn't have a lot of things. So, yes, it was, you know, the thing is that when we got started, we were pretty much in a position where we needed to make money, you know? We were desperate to make money, but we also knew that we had to continue to keep acting and really act on what I'm sharing with you today, acting as if every action is going to pay you. The truth is it will. It will pay you.

You see, we're so obsessed and we're so addicted with instant gratification that sometimes we overlook the long-term riches that the actions we're doing are actually going to yield us. I mean, some of the things that you guys are currently doing, if you continue to do that, you do know that it will pay you more than enough so you can start doing this full-time and you can leave your job. You do know that, right? But how come people don't keep doing it? How come people give up?

How come people put minimal effort? Because it doesn't pay them right now. You know, it doesn't pay them right now. But you got to be different. If you're listening to this, you have to really embattle this message.

You have to take this in. It has to really just hit home today, right? Why? Because when I listened to this, we were in a position where we needed to hear it. We needed to hear this thing, right?

Because after seven months of struggling, not really making any money besides the one friend that I got in that bought everything almost, right? We dried up. But then what? We had to do something different. We had to really take it to the next level.

It was only going to happen by having faith that what we were currently doing was going to make us millionaires, right? I mean, we need to have faith like childlike faith, right? The Bible talks about it, right? The only ones who will really have the chance to enter His kingdom are those who have childlike faith. Which means that kids are more likely to enter into the kingdom than those who are older.

As you get older, all of a sudden you stop believing. All of a sudden you don't have as much faith as you do. All of a sudden, everything just becomes realistic, right? Realistically, that doesn't happen. You know, realistically, all that stuff is not even true.

I mean, realistic, according to, you know, let's just be realistic. I'm a realist, dude. If you're a realist, right, if you're the type of person realistically, right, maybe business ain't for you. You can't be realistic. As we were working our business outside of the, you know, in a closet in the karate school, we couldn't be realistic.

You know what realistic was for us? Failing. People thought we were going to fail. From the outside, that's what it looked like. We were fighting every single day just to eat.

We were working our business, right? We couldn't be realistic. At that moment, it was going to harm us. It was going to hurt us. We could not be realistic.

We had to be unrealistic, right? We had to be unrealistic and we had to understand this concept. We had to understand it, you know, and when you understand it, you go about working more peaceful than you do more frustrated, more upset, more angry. How come this is not working? I don't know, like, if that comes out your mouth, you have not embodied this message.

You have not completely understood the power in this message. This is the message that I needed to hear when I got started, okay? I was desperate to make money. I needed to make money. I was angry.

I was pissed off, you know? I needed to do this for my family. I needed to do this for my wife, right? I needed to do this. And I knew that the only way I was going to stay consistent and focus and continue to keep grinding was by knowing, having faith that what I was doing today was going to pay me.

And you know what? It certainly has. And the cool thing about it is that now, the efforts that I'm putting out right now with my wife is going to take us to the next level. Not right now, but in the near future. In the near future.

The compound effect of doing something is so powerful. I mean, sometimes we don't realize the compound effect of consistently doing something day in, day out, day in, day out, day in, day out, day in, day out. You know, when you get started, there's not a really big difference. But over time, you begin to start seeing the difference. And then all of a sudden, it multiplies, right?

And it gets bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden, you get this, you really see the biggest difference, right? Like I look back on my life, when I got started, when I was 19 years old, decided to commit to success, right? Commit to success for the very first time. I was introduced to karate.

I was given an opportunity to run a martial arts school with my beautiful wife, which is Cassandra Lee, which is the other half of the power couple. And when I was introduced to that, my whole life changed. And in the very beginning, as my friends were having fun, partying, doing this, hanging out with girls, doing all that, which is great and everything, right? It's fine if they want to do that. I was working the martial arts school.

I was learning business. I was listening to books. I was listening to audios. I was developing communication skills. I was becoming a leader.

And you know what? In the very beginning, you couldn't tell. I sucked as a communicator. I sucked as a leader. I sucked as a business owner.

I couldn't sell. I couldn't do anything. So all of this time, and it seemed like I hadn't gone anything. I hadn't gone very far. And my friends were still, they looked like they were having the best time of their life, right?

Then what happened? Two years happened. And then you started to see a little difference. But even then, the time that I was putting in, you would have thought more. But then three, three years happened.

And there was a big difference. You started to see. And then all of a sudden, I get online, couple of months later, several months down the road of being consistent, we explode. And now there's a huge, huge gap between where me and my wife are at and where we're going to where my friends are. And you know what?

If they started right now, at the rate that we're going, they wouldn't ever be able to catch up to us. And that's not just, that's not me being cocky or arrogant. That's just me being honest. Time has a beautiful thing. Time does something beautiful.

It either promotes you or it exposes you. And at the end of the day, which one of those would you rather have? Would you rather be promoted or exposed? Would you rather celebrate with your family? Be admired?

Or would you rather have to tell your kids that what you did wasn't enough? Or tell your wife that you weren't being serious, that you wasted time? Look, at the end of the day, the tomorrow that you want, or either don't want to come, will come. It will happen. We all get old and we all will die, right?

Time will expose us or promote us. I mean, I just love that. I really love that. And if there's anything that you can take away from this audio, keep going. You're on the right track.

You know, I remember I once heard a similar saying and it said, you know, when you're going after God's heart, it doesn't matter what direction you're going because you're going the right way. And it's the same thing in business, right? When you're taking action towards success, towards what matters to you, reading a book, vlogging, learning, this, that, this, that. that is success right that resembles success right guess what it's gonna pay you it will have faith believe it just remember a time when you were a kid I remember when I was a kid and my parents would tell me you know everything was gonna be okay I believe it like I never questioned once the jeopardy of my existence when I was a kid I mean did you I mean even when my parents were struggling I thought everything was gonna be fine I had faith everything was gonna be fine did you what about when your parents told you that you were doing something that something was gonna happen or they just told you a story and you believed it you had faith didn't you look you might have been you might have gotten hurt in the past but you can't allow this to hold you back start believing start having faith like a child childlike faith and believe that every action you take will lead you to your success this is policy Q the other half of the power couple and I hope you enjoyed this