While doing research for some new projects I am starting I came across this video.

I can not state these 4 steps to productivity and success more clearly than Tim. 

He consolidates the key changes you must make in order to accomplish more and win big in business.

Enjoy, comment and share this blog article.

To your success,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - If you want to learn how we can help you develop a mind set which literally attracts success to you, visit:  www.secretforentrepreneurs.com

I have been reminded several times this week of the importance of knowing and passionately pursuing purpose.

Here is an excerpt from a free report entitled “The Secret to Astonishing Entreprenuerial Success“.  You can download a copy from www.secretforentrepreneurs.com

Purpose is central to good human health.  We are all born with a purpose. 

“Purpose is a permanent, common thread woven throughout and in all parts of our lives….Purpose is energy.  It’s the single most motivating force there is.  Discover your purpose, be on purpose, and you will have a life filled with meaning and significance.” The On-Purpose Person, Kevin W. McCarthy.

Although deaf and blind, Helen Keller became a world renowned speaker and author.  She wrote that “happiness comes from fidelity to a worthy purpose“. 

A Russian immigrant who became a worldwide success as philosopher, novelist and play-write, Ayn Rand wrote that “purpose must be one of the three ruling values of human life.“ 

“The first principle of ethical power is Purpose…It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.” Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Ethical Management.

…

You have a cause or a purpose which is bigger than yourself.  Break-through the belief that you are, or must be, a victim of economic, ethnic, or social circumstances beyond your control.  Accept a new view of the future which includes the manifestation of a life of choice, abundance and opportunity.  Take on the challenge of creating a new world for yourself; a world which includes the accomplishment of personal and professional success, financial freedom, happiness, joy, health, wellness, and longevity.

Fulfill your purpose and passionately contribute to a cause greater than yourself.  Whether your purpose is to be a factor in the elimination of poverty, starvation, crime, or war, you can create the future as you want it to be, regardless of any thoughts or beliefs you or others around you may have to the contrary.

Live your life passionately, joyfully, and on purpose right now.  If you do, you will create the successful, rich, secure, healthy and accomplished life you desire now and in the future.

Start here now.

To do this, you must identify, explore, and engage in the pursuit of your purpose.  Take the time to invest in creating the personal entrepreneurial success you desire, by engaging in the purposeful pursuit of your passions.

The simple inner exploration of what is truly important to you will save you years of wandering, searching, and wondering about the future.  Once you are onto your purpose, don’t fall prey to the notion you must defer your passion until after you make enough money.  Implement a set of daily practices that will support you and help you get and remain ‘on purpose’.

Follow your passion and the money will come.

The report goes on to provide a number of exercises you can do to find your purpose. 

Download a copy and do the exercises in it.  www.secretforentrepreneurs.com

You will be amazed by how much clarity you will derive from this exercise.

My friend Todd Goldfarb speaks to this in a recent post on his blog.  Click HERE to read his message about finding your purpose.

Once you have a vision of your purpose, you will know what you wre ‘up to’ in life and an important distinction will become clear:  Accomplishment vs Result.

It is the commitment to a purpose that brings accomplisment from result. 

My experience of this was in my career in technology.   I was very successful and had big results financially.  But, at the same time felt no sense of accomplishment. 

The results were distinct from accomplishment becuase they lacked the commitment of purpose.

Once there was a clear purpose to which I could commit and through which the results could contribute, accomplishment emerged.

You can imbu all that you do with a committed purpose and literally redfine your experience of life.

That job you hate, can be imbued with purpose and become a statisfying vehicle of accomplishment through which you create the life you love living.  The frustration, anxiety, anger, and fear you feel will be replaced with joy and satisfying accomplishment.

Your experience of life will shift.  You will no longer live circumstantially.  Instead your experience will be generative and creative, joy-filled, abundant, successful, and accomplished.

With sincere gratitude for your visit,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com / www.secretforentrepreneurs.com /www.thesecretforretirement.com

PS - “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.  Instead, ask yourself what what makes you come alive and do that.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

On Tuesday of this past week I hosted the “Retirement Shifts” Teleseminar with my associate Bill Losey, “America’s Retirement Strategist” and author of “Retire In a Weekend - The Baby Boomers Guide to Making Work Optional“. 

 It was a terrific, well attended event.   We talked about:

• The Surprising Facts that will impact everyone in the Baby Boomer Generation  
• Proven Strategies for Generating Income for Retirement
• A Novel Twist on Retirement Planning
• A way to create financial security for yourself and your loved ones
• How to go about Pursuing the Retirement Life that is really possible for you
• How You can Manifest the Abundant, Joy-Filled Retirement You Desire
• Critical Information that will help you Overcome Whatever is Stopping You
• and more…

Click here to listen to the recording:  http://www.thesecretforretirement.com/teleseminar-recording.html

The fact of the matter is your retirement is coming.

The question is - Will you be ready?

Bill and I present information that will help you know with 100% certainty how to have everything you want in retirement, exactly as you want it to be.

I invite you to comment here once you have listened to the recording.

With sincere gratitude and admiration,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - Listen to the recording and then let me know if you found it of value. 

I was interviewed by business consultant and entrepreneur Todd Goldfarb earlier this week. 

If you have been reading my blog for any length of time you know that our paths are running a close parallel.  This is good for you because you get a double dose of ‘great stuff’ that will help you accomplish more and win big in life.

In fact, I interviewed Todd 2 weeks earlier and just have not gotten it posted yet.  Stand-by for more information on that interview.  Todd is awesome.

So, in the mean time, check out the Secrets to Success interview Todd did with me this week.

At one level it is about helping others accomplish more and win big in life. 

At another it is about changing the world.

I promise you will get something valuable out of our converstation. 

Click here to check it out.

Listen to me:

Every successful person I know follows very similar principle daily disciplines.

These disciplines create the experience of the day and keep the joy of accomplishment from disappearing into the fog and turmoil of life.

These disciplines are what give you power and illuminate the inspired actions you ahve taken that manifest miracles each and every day.

Often times, however, people believe that these principles and practices will not work for them. 

I want you to know that this thinking is nothing more than a limiting belief which is literally stuck in your subconscious mind. 

It is the same limiting belief that sabotages success in every area of your life in which you struggle.

Following the daily disciplines of truly successful people;

people who live in abundance and joy each and every day,

people who are not derailed by adveristy of challenge,

and you will experience the same miraculous manifestation of abundance and joy in your life.

I wish you much success and happiness,

With sincere gratitude and appreciation,

 Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - If you missed the “Retirement Shifts” teleseminar I did with “America’s Retirement Strategist” Bill Losey, click here to listen to the recording.

Many of you know I am a great admirer of Tim Ferris’ book “The 4-Hour Work Week“.  It had a profound impact on my views of living successfully as an entrepreneur.

If you have not read it, you should do so immediately.  “The 4-Hour Work Week”

While browsing about Tim’s blog site this evening I stumbled upon a great interview with Michael Gerber.  Years ago a friend of mine recommended Michael Gerber’s book, “The E-Myth Revisted“. 

It was the first of a long line of books I devoured on the topic of creating entrepreneurial success.  The “insights in this book have given thousands of entrepreneurs new control over their businesses” - Success Magazine

In his most recent book, “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within” Michael Gerber “examines how to recalibrate the scale of objectives and other facets of the core entrepreneurial experience.”  This is the context of the interview with Tim. 

There is really no point in me trying to sumerize the interview here.  You should go read it for yourself.  It is great.

Click here to read: “Escaping the Entrepreneurial Seizure: Interview with Michael Gerber“.

I particularly liked what Tim says is the advice Michael gave him:

“Don’t hedge and don’t think small.  I didn’t hold back material for a sequel, I aimed for the top of the top, and I credit Michael’s advice as, in part, responsible for the subsequent success of the 4HWW.  It was that recalibration of ambition that made it all possible” Tim Ferris.

So why is this on my blog?

Here’s why:

While Tim takes the principles of successful entrepreneurship to entirely new levels, the basic premise of Tim’s outrageous success is really pretty simple.

By following a few simple, yet key entrepreneurial success practices, he gets to do what he loves to do, while allowing others to contribute to his success by doing what they love to do.   He does not “go it alone”.   

He not only finds and engages great avenues to outsource those tasks and activities he does not enjoy doing, but surrounds himself with great coaches and mentors to help him remain clear and focused.

As a result, he enjoys the wildly successful, limitless, and abundant life he wants.

Tim is a beacon for what is possible for you.  He is a true champion of success.  Enjoy!

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - I invite you to comment.

With the launch of the amazing Miraculous Retirement Coaching Program, I have been closely monitoring  a couple of interesting information sources. 

And, my interest in the practical application of binaural audio and subliminal video programs has me monitoring the work being done by organizations like Sharp Brains, Immrama Institute, and Hypnotic I Media are doing. 

Every once in a while, these topics cross over in very intersting ways. 

For instance, I saw reference to an article entitled “Ten Important Truths About Aging“ by Elkhonon Goldberg and Alvaro Fernandez of Sharp Brains (www.sharpbrains.com).

I was really stunned by the implications of these Truths:

     Neuropsychology Indicates That We Can Control Our Aging

     Aging Means Lifelong Development, Not Automatic Decline

     Some Skills Improve With Age

     Some Skills Need To Be Continuously Nurtured And Trained

     Not All Instances Of Forgetting Are Of Equal Concern

     We Are In Control, To A Large Extent

     There Are Four “Pillars Of Brain Health”

     Cross-Training Our Brains Builds Up Cognitive Reserve

     Computer-Based Brain Exercise Programs Can Help

     Embrace “Good” Stress; Eliminate “Bad” Stress

     Retirement Is Overrated

The article also makes reference to a recent book The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older, by Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg.  

In it Dr. Goldberg explains:   

“that as we undergo experiences, we actually change our brains by creating new neurons and synapses.  This process never stops; our brains enjoy lifelong plasticity.  Until recently, a popular misconception was that neurons die as we age and do not get replenished. Now, neurogenesis, or the ability of our brains to create new neurons until the very day we die, is a proven reality.”

The article concludes:

“Many baby boomers want to remain active and mentally stimulated beyond arbitrary retirement ages. Given demographic trends, this will create a large group of people working into their 60s, 70s, and 80s. Society at large will have to adapt its education, health and employment policies to benefit from this trend.

In summary, the latest neuroscientific research has shown that, contrary to popular belief, the brain is constantly undergoing neurogenesis.  Learning new things and targeted mental exercise promote the development of new neurons and connections between neurons, just as muscle growth is promoted through physical exercise—and this can take place at all ages.  Indeed, work itself, and embarking on second and third careers, can provide great cognitive exercise.”

Did you get that?

In another of my recent posts, The Miraculous Sound of Clarity, An Education For Entrepreneurs & Retirement Planning In A Box, I reference Marc Freedman’s book “Encore - Find Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life” indicating that this is precisely what people approaching retirement are doing.   

As you dig a little deeper you will discover that doing something you are truly passionate about provides maximal cognitive stimulation with minimal ‘bad’ stress. 

So if, as you approach retirment age, you begin pursuing the interests or vocations you are truly passionate about; perhaps those you have deferred for years, you will not only be more satified and joy-filled, but you will likely live a longer, healthier life as well.

With sincere gratitude,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

Make no mistake.  We are clearly entering a new era. 

There are millions of baby boomers launching second careers as part of a new form of retirement planning.  And, they don’t want to wait until they are 62 or 65 to get started.

They want to start in the late 40s and early 50s, early enough so that they have enough time to go through the inevitable ups and downs, explore different options and do something significant for a significant period of time.

This demographic trend is just beginning and as this wave continues it will undoubtedly effect virtually every aspect of our lives well into the future.

There are also approximately 82 million Gen-xers and Gen-yers, many of whom are rejecting the traditional circa 1960’s/1970’s get a job - work hard for 40 years  -  save your money - and retire to sun-city corporate culture and are instead exploring an myriad of opportunities that exit for independent entrepreneurs.

This shift has huge implications. 

It is easier to earn a real living working from home than ever and by leveraging the internet, vast networks of resources, and other independent entrepreneurs pursing their passions, it is trivial to make your company seem bigger than it really is.  

With more discretionary spending capacity than at any other time in history and ready access via various technological advancements, consumers are more willing to spend money than do it themselves. 

This has opened the door to the service-orientated industry that has recently skyrocketed.

So, what are the best opportunities going into 2008?

I found this article yesterday while doing some research for another project.  I realize it is a little dated (December 2007) but that does not make it any less helpful now.

Click here to learn more: Top Ten Opportunities in 2008 for Personal Businesses

Before you decide which of these is right for you, let me suggest you read through my free report, “The Secret to Astonishing Entrepreneurial Success“ 

It will help in two vitally important ways:

1.  You will have a hightened appreciation for the importance of excitement about what you choose.

2.  You will know something most other entrepreneurs do not know which will allow you to succeed effortlessly while they struggle and strain.

The most valuable insight I can offer you once you decide is to engage a coach or a mentor.

There are certainly enough of them out there.

Thanks for visiting today,

 Steve

www.championsuccess.com

Last weekend my friends Pat OBryan and Joe Vitale released an amazing new product, The Clearing Audio.

As I have been known to do when these true gentlemen take the time to share what they know, I immediately downloaded a copy and began working with it.

You can see my testimonial on Pat’s sales page:

“Pat, I just want you to know that I am positively stunned by the effectiveness of the Clearing Audio. I downloaded them, dropped them on my ipod and used the binaural music track during my morning meditation, I was not only charged with positive energy, but I had amazing and inspired new insights for product ideas, AND I had several inbound requests for big time joint ventures. Wow. But that’s not all. A little later in the morning I ran it again while I was training (exercise). UNBELIEVABLE results, more energy, more power, faster recovery. It is my new secret weapon. You’re amazing. Thank you!” - Steve Little, California

And one from my superstar wife Kimberly:

“Tuesday March 4th - I used the binaural audio when I went running today.  I found myself feeling almost like I was floating effortlessly through what is ordinarily an painfully challenging mountain run.  I felt centered and powerful, like all my energy was eminating from my ‘root energy center’.  I also found that throughout the day, even though the audo was not running any longer my work was effortless, everything flowed, and new opportunity showed up, not only for me, but for the people on my team.  I want more.” - Kimberly Little

So what is going on with this “stuff”?

Let me allow Kristen Cramer, President of the Immrama Institute explain:

“There are several different brainwave states. Your brain continually cycles through each of them throughout the day and night. It is a completely natural biological occurrence in every human being, and each of these brainwave states occurs in a specific frequency range:

Gamma: bursts of insight and high-level information processing (40Hz and up)
Beta: Focused concentration, heightened alertness (13Hz to 40 Hz)
Alpha: Relaxed mental awareness, visualization, creativity (8Hz to 12Hz)
Theta: Stress Relief, deep relaxation, meditation, dreaming (4Hz to 8Hz)
Delta: Deep, dreamless sleep, healing and rejuvenation (0Hz to 4Hz)

With the help of audio brainwave technology, you can guide your brain into Beta, Delta, or any other desired brainwave state based on the activity you are engaging.

Our CDs are scientifically designed to release one set of frequencies into the right ear, and another set of frequencies into the left ear. When this happens, the brain’s response is to generate its own frequency (and the one you desire) to reconcile the difference between the two frequencies being heard through the ears.

This “balancing” frequency of the brain is called a binaural beat, and is what we are after in BT.

For example, if a frequency of 100Hz is presented to the left ear and a frequency of 105Hz is presented to the right ear, the brain “hears” a binaural beat pulsing at 5Hz, the exact difference between the two frequencies. Over time, binaural beats can lead to something wonderful called hemisphere synchronization.

Whole brain synchronization occurs when the two hemispheres of your brain begin to work together, resonating at the same frequencies and causing neural pathways to fire more rapidly. Your brain can reach extraordinary levels of performance not normally attainable without years of practice. Research has shown that this type of synchronization is present in the brain at times of intense creativity, clarity and inspiration.

By listening to our CDs you can train your brain to function at this high level of synchronization.

You can track it on an EEG machine, and it is amazing to see how the brain becomes more cohesive. After about 7-10 minutes of using these products the left and right hemispheres of the brain start working together. Remember, there is 30+ years of science backing this up.

You can view a few actual EEG snapshots on our webpage. http://www.immrama.org/brainwave/brainwave.html

So what does this have to do with the education and functions of an entrepreneur?

Let me explain:

Clearing subconscious limiting beliefs and counter intentions is rudimentary to accomplishing more, winning big, and creating the succesful, joy-filled life you desire.

These powerful subliminal tools provide new pathways for even greater results.

We have witnessed amazing shifts on the level of entrepreneurial success simply through the process of clearing.  Here is one reported just last week by Joe Vitale:

“Mickey came into this new program with two businesses, a dream, and a burning desire to attract incredible miracles.Admittedly, Mickey started out very skeptical of the program.  But she decided to believe in it, and stated her outrageous intention to make $12,000,000.  It was definitely a stretch for her and she knew it was time to go for it - freee of any limitations.Then, beyond her wildest expectations, two miracles happened that she directly attributed to my mentoring program.The first miracle happened after her first few sessions which focused on clearing her limiting beliefs.  She cleared her limiting beliefs and an unexpected package of foreclosed properties from Lehman Brothers fell into her lap.  (Prior to these sessions, she never dreamed of anything like this.)  Within that package were two big deals worth a total of $12 billion dollars.  And she ended up not just closing just one deal - she closed both. The combined commission she made was more than $100 million.“Incredible” is the only word I can use to describe the results people like Mickey get when they understand how to use the Law of Attraction.

Not only is this technology useful for personal and professional success, but binaural audios enhance people prepare for retirement by openning up whole new areas of interest and help them live longer more satisfying, active and fruitful lives by staving off the ravages of aging:

“One of the goals in using the audio technology is to stimulate dendritic growth to occur on an ongoing basis to provide an ideal situation for the brain, allowing the brain to operate at its maximum possible potential rather than only using a portion of its potential, and allowing the brain to establish dendritic growth for long-term benefits, including benefits that work to counteract the debilitating effects of aging.” (Immrama Institute web site)

All of this by plugging in to an audio recording 20 to 30 minutes a day!

My team and I are working with a number of experts to create a number of binaural audio music products specifically designed for our programs and you. 

We expect to release them over the next 6 to 12 weeks.

In the mean time let me suggest you visit Pat and Joe’s Clearing Audio Site to purchase and download the Clearing Audio:   www.clearingaudio.com.   

The Immrama Institute also offers 2 extraordinary binaural beat audio products that I have tested extensively.  One set is specifically designed to clear memory that contributes to stress and anxiety.  The other clears memories that inhibit your levels of focus, clarity, and concentration.  This allows you to achieve higher levels of thinking and performance.  Click here to order these amazing binaural audio CDs.

I promise you, you will experience miraculous shifts you will not be able to explain otherwise.

With my most heartfelt wishes for your continued miraculous success and my most sincere gratitude,

 Steve

www.championsuccess.com

On Tuesday of this week I had an opportunity to interview a truly remarkable young man, Todd Goldfarb (http://www.wethechange.com).

We can all learn something from him.

The interview is entering production now and will be available very soon.  I’ll be sure to let you know when it is.

Like me, Todd charted a course from highly successful corporate exec making millions to independent coaching and mentoring entrepreneur and mainstream purveyor of the universally available possibilities of enlightened, joy-filled and abundant living for each and every one of us.

We seem to be cut from a very similar (if not the same) bolt of cloth.

In our casual discussion after the interview, Todd told me about a new movie called “The Shift“.  Not yet released, it is a documentary type film that illuminates viewers to the reality of a real time shift in consciousness that is occurring all over the world. 

Our human experience of poverty, disease, war, crime and civil unrest wll be altered by a global shift in consciousness and awareness.

Here is the trailer:

I am currently writing a book that chronicles my personal experience of awakening through a journey my oldest daughter, Emily, and I took to Africa.  Amongst all the gifts and personal growth I experienced during that amazing 2 week adventure, I became aware of a simple and fundamental truth about consciousness and the shift that that clearly underway around the world.

That truth and the realization that there is something much larger than you and I at work in our human experience is the fuel behind the my passionate pursuit of creating to make others lives better.

I am standing for what is possible for you and the world.

With deep gratitude,

Steve

http://www.championsuccess.com/

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This from Karin, one of the ‘graduates’ from the Champion Success Coaching Blue Diamond Group Coaching Program.  I thought you would appreciate hearing an illustration of how miracles sorround us all each and every day.

“Just have to share.

Yesterday while running around getting ready for my trip, I stopped at the bank to withdraw some $$$.  I could not remember my pin and on the second try the ATM machine “ate my card.”  I was a little miffed and would have normally gotten upset…all my extra funds are in this account, it is a “local” bank, and I wanted the extra cash to have on hand.  I was leaving the next day (Sunday) and cannot get the card back until after I return from FL next week. 

I drove home and shared with my husband the frustrating story about losing my card.  He started laughing saying, “wow, I must have been thinking about you, isn’t it funny….I just withdrew $ from my account yesterday and went back and withdrew another $200 (the exact amount I had tried to withdraw!) thinking I just might have a need for it…I will give it to you.”  I had to just smile and thank the divine (& my husband) for taking care of me. 

Well…it gets better………while packing & rearranging things in my walk-in closet a few hours later, I came across some envelopes from Christmas and found another $145 in cash!!!  I don’t remember the cards being there and there they were right in front of me.  I was blown away!

A life of miracles is a constant reminder that we are only in charge when we let go :-)

Karin” 

How amazing is that?  I am so grateful to Karin for taking the time to share this with me.

What Karin experienced in our Blue Diamond Group Coaching Program was a ‘breakthrough’ to clarity that allows Divine miracles of all kinds, large and small, to show up constantly in her life.

Not sure Karin’s experience qualifies as a miracle? 

Consider an important lesson Divinity has to teach us about miracles. 

Acknowledgement of a small miracle prepares you to receive even greater wonders.  Choosing to not acknowledge miracle, even a seemingly insignificant one, poises you to miss the most marvelous of phenomenon of all.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

With great gratitude and admiration.

Steve

 http://www.championsuccess.com

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