Yesterday, I head a powerful phrase that I have never heard before. Identification before escalation. Its basically means that in order for you to go up you have to identify where you are currently.

I have heard advice like this before, but for some reason, hearing it in this cliche way, made an impact. As I reflected on this statement, I realized that often times I would be spinning my wheels, doing some sort of action, but not keeping track of my effort and the results that it produced.

Once I started being more detailed in recording the productive steps that I have taken, then tracking the results. I have seen my daily leads increase, my daily income increase, and my daily free time increase.

I would encourage you to get in the habit of tracking your productivity steps, as well as the time it takes to complete them, and then your results. You will be amazed at what you can discover. You will see where you spend your time and where you may be wasting it.

This can be done with a notebook, spreadsheet, or a whiteboard. Don’t make excuses, just  give it a try and see the results for yourself.

The course that I have learned this from is Mark Hoverson’s Solomon CEO. This thing is power packed. As far as I know, you can no longer get it by itself. I had purchased it as a combo deal when I purchased Irresistible  Info Marketing Blueprint

Highly recommend his stuff, eye opening and applicable.

Please leave any comments below and go ahead and start tracking your progress.

To mutual success,

Ritchie

When I worked in tech support and sales, the #1 thing that I observed that separated the successful customers from the not so successful was their consistent action. The daily disciplines if you will. You know that old tale of the tortoise and the hare. Steady does win the race, especially when its a marathon and not a sprint. So don't wuss out, make a commitment that you will be adding content one month from today. Toss that content into your syndication machine, good or bad, you will only get better and grow your business daily through the art of discipline.

You will eventually need to figure out which marketing method you prefer. Its usually the one that  you are best at.  Could be content marketing through articles, blogs, hubpages, squidoo. It could be video or audio marketing. Once you get that figured out, its much easier to create a piece of content on a daily basis and just work through the numbers.

If you are having trouble creating a piece of  content everyday or staying consistent with the game plan that you gave yourself then you may want to revisit the reason that you are building a business in the first place. I wrote a post about that recently, its about developing your why, must read if you are having trouble staying consistent.

Remember, do something everyday even if you don't feel like it. Eventually that will pay off and you will be able to do what others cannot. Its all about the art of the daily discipline. 

Share your triumphs below. When was a time when you sucked it up and pressed on even when you didn't want to?

Here is the story that I heard that I want you to consider when developing your why:

There are two tribes at war. They have been at war for a very long time. They are the highlanders and the lowlanders. They have been fighting for many battles and the highlanders get an idea to go down and steal a child from the lowlanders. One night they sneak down into the village and snag a young child and take him back into the highlander village. The next day the lowlanders are outraged, they muster up and the bravest, strongest, most battle tried warriors step forward and vow to go the highlander camp they will rescue the child.

The most elite lowlanders form their party and start forth on their rescue mission. The terrain is harsh. The mountain is steep. The holds are small. The lowlanders attempt many different passes and no success. They attempt the north, the south, east and west angles. Still they cannot gain any ground. No matter how hard they try, they cannot reach the summit where the highlander camp is. The lowlanders are frustrated and are ready to give up.

Being almost nightfall, the lowlanders were checking the horizon of the summit to assess how much daylight they had left. They notice a silhouette of a woman coming down the mountain. It appears she is carrying something in a pouch strapped across her shoulder. As the woman gets closer the lowlanders notice that she is carrying the child that they are on mission to recover.

The elite lowlanders are dumbfounded. They rush over to her. Stuttering and bewildered they ask how she had climbed the summit and returned with the baby. How was she able to accomplish this when the elite warriors could not?

Her reply was simple, "It was not your baby"

Just writing this, brings chills across my arms.

Developing your why is that important.  Your why is your baby. 

Once you have your why figured out to this level. You will be willing to face the rejections, pick up the phone, do the necessary online marketing to produce results. Whatever it  takes. That's it, whatever it takes.

We all hear that all of the time. Sometimes we take it for granted  or just want to skip over the blah blah to get to the newest, coolest technique that is going to bring us #1 positions or instant leads. It doesn't work that way. Success starts with the gray matter between our ears. If you are anything like  me, then you have probably read a lot of success books and listened to, watched or attended many seminars. Maybe you have been struggling and not seeing the results you want. Maybe like me, you have experienced limiting beliefs that are holding you back. Trash in your head that keeps getting in your way. I recently received an invitation from Ray Higdon to attend a webinar that he was putting on with Noah St John. Now I had never heard of him before this my that little pull in my gut told me to listen. The title  of the webinar was getting out of your own way. I got a lot of nuggets out of it.

Noah and Ray invited us to take some action and list out  our why to's and our why not  to's when it comes to being successful.  They mentioned that most people won't do that exercise. Knowing that to be true, I took this as a challenge and immediately started to write down my list.

When I was writing down my list, I noticed that it was much different than writing down material things that I wanted or levels I wanted to achieve. It was more of the process of determining what kind of person, and how my experience would be like when I achieve the level that I define as successful. It was an eye opener.

I have decided to share it with you here today. Now before I reveal my list I want you to understand that there were 2 categories "My Why To's" and "My Why Not To's" .

"My Why To's" are what  you will feel and be once you are successful. Not material objects, but more like your presence and internal satisfaction you will experience once you are at your definition of being  successful.  The" My Why Not To's" are basically the cost of you getting your Why To's

With that being said "my Why To's" are exactly as I wrote them:

• peace of mind
• calming serenity
• Proof of achievement
• recognition
• legacy
• more free time and money to enjoy it

"My Why Not  To's" exactly as written are:

• time
• vulnerability
• wrong  choices
• loss of effectiveness

I wanted to share these with you because  this exercise really hit home and I liked the punch it the gut that it gave.

Noah went on to explain something basic, but profound.

"We experience two things: gain & loss", You should strive to raise your own awareness to understand  life is all gain and loss to take  the sting out of the loss" (all paraphrased from what he said)

He then wanted us to ask 3 questions and I asked that you ask yourself those questions too

1. What money-killing thoughts are you still carrying around?
2. What's  the financial cost of that?
3. What's the emotional toll on that?

He then went on to talk about a common but very true blueprint of belief leads to action which leads to results which leads to more belief.

It all starts with your belief.

He posed a very important question, "What do you do when you don't get what you want?"

It all starts with your belief.

He then offered his course which helps to reprogram your mind to ask the right questions, so that your  life can unfold and provide the answers. So many of us ask the wrong questions. I picked up the course and very glad that I did. I have only listened  to the audio portion so far, but already fell in love with it. It asks many questions that I didn't even know to ask that I feel will  have a profound effect on my life and business. If you want to check it out you can go to Noah St Johns website and pick up the Afformations Formula.  I'm looking forward to diving deep into it.