How To Live Your Dream NOW, and Why you NEED to

From the archive: originally published June 2012 on the Empower Network blog.

I just got back from a 3 day Raw Food retreat in the mountains of Costa Rica…

…I got to see a waterfall in the top 10 waterfalls in the world, do Yoga looking out over the Pacific ocean, and eat some delicious food that…

…didn’t really look like food 🙂

The point?

While I was out walking barefoot through the mountains, I made more money every day than I used to make in four months of full time work.

How?

I learned to disconnect the amount of work that I personally do from my income, by setting up intelligent business systems.

In other words – I can do what I want, when I want – with who I want, and STILL make 4 times more money every day than I used to make in a month, working my ass off all day doing menial tasks at an office.

What I wanted to do, was write a blog post explaining HOW to live your dreams NOW – by cutting through the ‘professional bull fooey‘ that’s forced down all of our throats.

WHY you need to live your dreams

This profession (direct sales) is full of phonies.

They preach one thing – and do another.

What do you call someone who ‘preaches the dream‘ for 15 years, teaching you the ‘2-4 year plan‘ to financial freedom, yet…

…they still work 15 hours a day (or more) to maintain their income?

Growing up, they would call that a ‘false prophet‘ – but I prefer the simple ‘phoney’. Someone who preaches one thing, yet does the exact opposite.

Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with working your ass off all day and night for a while. Heck, when I started…

…I HAD to.

However, there is something wrong with living a life that is not authentic, and using false hope to recruit and build a team.

If you’re going to preach ‘the dream’ then you had better damned live yours, the second you can.

It’s not just important – it’s THE MOST IMPORTANT thing you could possibly do to validate your message.

Here’s the beauty:

When I started marketing online (remember: I lived in a Van) I talked CONSTANTLY about how I wanted to ‘live on the beaches of the world’ and move to Costa Rica with my wife…

…then something magical happened:

It WORKED.

Most of the time in this profession, when someone ‘makes it’ they DON’T DO what they said they would do…

…I did.

I picked up my bags, hopped on a plane, and moved to Costa Rica.

That month.

Here’s the incredible thing – when I ACTUALLY did what I said I would do, and began IMMEDIATELY to live my dreams – there was an instant, perceivable shift in my business.

All of a sudden, what used to take me 8 hours of work began to take only 2.

My income doubled.

The loyalty in my team exploded.

My recruiting skyrocketed.

My traffic exploded.

Here’s the most important thing that happened, though:

I PROVED that it WORKED.

My message became AUTHENTIC.

I don’t want to be the richest person in the world.

I want to be SURROUNDED by people who BECAUSE I exist, are RICH AND FREE.

I would rather make $10,000 a month and work 2 hours a day, than make $100,000 a month and work my ass off until my wife doesn’t recognize me any more.

Live your dream.

When you do – your team will love you.

Your list will open more emails.

AND…

…YOU’LL become the beacon of this profession – shining light to the hurting.

So… how do you do it?

This is going to seem relatively simple, especially compared to what most people will teach. The cool thing is, though, that this is also a LOT more honest – I’ll break it down into a few steps:

1. Create PERFECT Clarity. Pull out a pen, and a piece of paper (or an iPad, or whatever you use to write), and imagine your perfect day. Imagine waking up, the perfect morning – what you do all day, how you live, your friends, the resources in your life, where you live, what you do – WHO you are. This is the enactment of your perfect moment – spare no detail.

You may want a Ferarri – you might not give a shit about cars (I don’t) – it doesn’t matter.

What matters is – YOU want it.

Clarity is king of focusing your energy – create it.

2. Identify your TARGET daily income. Why do I say daily?

Simple. Any other kind of focus screws up how you work. In other words, if you focus on making $10,000 a month, it will produce a DRAMATICALLY different work habit than if you focus on making the daily equivalent, which is about $350 a day (give or take a bit).

Focusing on $350 a day will make you focus TODAY on creating $350.

Focusing on making $10,000 a month will make most people put off the real ‘profit activities’ until the last few days of the month, and they’ll never hit it.

Focus on DAILY INCOME, DAILY SALES, DAILY ACTIVITY.

Make a commitment to not go to bed, until you hit it. In the beginning, it may take 18 hours a day – however, if you focus on what you need to do NOW to make it work, it will gradually take less and less time to produce the same, or a greater result, by continuously learning and refining your business system.

3. Follow the proven, actionable formula to create your desired result.

Here’s the IMPORTANT thing – I want to be a contradiction here for a second…

…don’t focus on:

• duplication…
• helping everyone…
• training your team…
• or anything else aside from activities that make it so YOU create your TARGET INCOME independent from anything that your team does.

Here’s the incredible thing that happened to me:

When I stopped trying to ‘help everyone‘ and started instead leading by example, my team actually started copying what I was doing, and it actually duplicated like crazy.

Let me give you something simple to think about:

Would you rather that your team each got 2 people, and spent all day ‘helping them’ OR…

…would you rather create an army of people that each focused on getting 2 customers a day, and plugging them all into a system that trained them on auto pilot?

The difference between those two attitudes is a DRAMATIC difference in income.

The beauty?

If you can create your target income independent from ‘duplication’…

…when your team FINALLY duplicates, your target income doubles. 🙂

Focus on YOU.

Focus on PRODUCTION.

Focus on your VISION.

If you do that – I’ll see you on the beaches of the world 🙂

-David Wood
“The Guru Slayer”

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