Bill Losey is a highly sought-after adviser, educator, and author. He has nearly 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry. He’s a certified financial planner, a certified senior adviser, and certified RSP-trained retirement coach. He’s the founder of National Retirement Planning Month. He publishes Retirement Intelligent, an award winning newsletter that reaches thousands of subscribers worldwide. And he’s the author of a fantastic new book called “Retire In a Weekend: The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Making Work Optional.”

This interview is the first in a series of 12 interviews I have conducted with true experts.  I am so excited about the value of the information provided by each of these extraordinary people, I just could not wait to share this one with you.

In this interview, Bill provides pragmatic advice and practical steps which help you create the retirement of your dreams beginning right now.

Whether you are 30, 60, or 70, following the financial strategies Bill outlines in this interview will guarantee that you have everything you need financially to create the abundant retirement you desire.

He likes to say ‘life is too long NOT to be doing those things that are fun and rewarding” and explains why it is so vital to begin with a clear image of what, outside of money, is really important to you.   

Bill Losey “America’s Retirement Strategist”

I am always interested in knowing whether or not the information I am providing you is useful.  Please comment on this blog and let me know how you like this post.

I am standing for all that is possible for you.

Sincerely and gratefully,

Steve

Your Retirement Success Champion

PS - I invite you to share this post with your friends and family.  I promise you they will thank you for it.

I usually limit my blogging to 3 days a week, but this morning I was so inspired by what I just finished reading I wanted to share it with you right away.

As I mentioned yesterday, I read between 4 and 6 books a week.  I recently completed a book called “Increasing Your Financial IQ - Get Richer By Getting Smarter” by Robert Kiyosaki.  In my opinion it is a must read for any resposible adult.

The excerpt from the book I read in an article this morning is what inspired me though.  I have adapted it here:

“Learning at an early age that we all have money problems - no matter how rich of how poor we are - is an important lesson.  Many believe that if they had a lot of money, their money problems would be over.  Little do they know, having lots of money just causes even more money problems.

The world is full of people who win millions and then end up deeply in debt just a few years later.

Money alone won’t solve your money problems.  That’s why giving poor peopl does not solve their money problems.

Hard work won’t solve money problems.  The world is fileld with hardworking people who have no money to show for it; hard working people who earn money yet grow deeper in debt needing to work even harder for even more money.

Education won’t solve money problems.  There are plenty fo highly educated poor people.

A job won’t solve money problems.  There are millions who earn just enough to survive but cannot afford to live happy and satisfied.  Many people with jobs can nto afford their own home, adequate healthcare, education, or even set aside enough money for retirement.

What CAN solve money problems is financial intelligence.  The truly financially wealthy take on financial problems and know that solving them will increase their financial IQ.”

I write a great deal about the personal and spiritual growth necessary to experience true and complete success. 

I know from personal experience that having lots of money does not, in and of itself, create the gratification and accomplishment of success.

As I describe in my free reports, “The Secret to Astonishing Entrepreneurial Success“, and “The Secret to an Abundant, Joy-Filled Retirement“, once you find you purpose, you must get into commited action to fulfill it and realize the successful and abundant life you desire.  

I also note in these reports that you will want to do a skills assessment and create an action plan to develop the skills necessary to maximize purposeful accomplishment of whatever you are truly and passionately commited to.

Developing your financial IQ is part of the action process. 

As I wrote about in my article yesterday, there is a champion within you. 

Let me encourage you to take on the Goliath of financial ignorance to accelerate your personal success.

Have an amazing day. 

Gratefully and Sincerely,

 Steve

“Your Success Champion”

PS - Please feel free to comment on this or any article.  I am always open to hearing what you want to know about.

PPS - I will be back on Friday with the next of the 4 Success Saboteurs.

Chris Cade, a frequent visitor to the Champion Success Blog reminded me of a fantastic book I read some time ago called “A Champion Lives Within“.

I rifled back through my library and found the copy that my uncle had given me years ago.  I re-read it and was reinvigorated and inspired to share it with you.

In it, author Boyd C Matheson shares the story of the five ‘principle’ stones that it took for David to slay Goliath.  After defeating Goliath, you may already know that David become a champion of everything he did amassing large sums of wealth and riches.  He was loved by everyone in the kingdom.

It is a wonderful reminder that we all can indeed live the limitless and successful life of a champion.

Matheson writes:

“…the Champion in David didn’t rest with just one victory.  He kept his stones close by and lived the principle that each one conveyed. David was not only a champion of the king’s army, but by using what he had learned, he became a champion teacher, a champion salesman, a champion builder, and more.  He was successful in each thing he did.”

Matheson reminds the young character in the story as I remind you:

“…you have been given all that you need to slay the Goliaths of this life and become a great champion.  Remember to review the message written in this booklet often, and always keep the five stones near you to remind you of the five key phrases that will assure success and happiness.”

The Five Key Phrases (stones) are:

“I Am Different From Everyone: 

I am unique.  No one in the world is like me.  I am proud of who I am and my unique qualities.  The world needs me to be me.  I don’t worry that I don’t have all the talents that others have.  I am different from every other of God’s creations and I am the only one who can perform the mission God sent me to do.  I am valuable because I am me.

I Am A Person Without Limitations:

I have the potential to accomplish anything I really put my mind to.  I am not afraid of failure.  I love a challenge.  I write down specific goals for myself.  I attach a goal line to each of my goals.  I visualize myself reaching each goal.

I Am Satisfied Only With My best Effort

I enjoy the feeling I get when I know I have given my all.  I understand that I do not have to be the victor in order to be a champion.  I always give my very best, that I may avoid the dark valleys of mediocrity and enjoy the bright sunshine on the peaks of success.

I Am Determined To Succeed

Never, never will I give up!  I continue to strive for success even when the road is hard.  I don’t let discouragement pull me off of my designed course.  I constantly hope, dream, struggle, and work with determination to become a champion.  I know that determination is worth far more than natural ability.

I Am A Champion

I believe in me.  I believe in who I am and in what I can become.  I don’t allow others to determine my view of myself.  I am a champion.  I think positvely and know that the champion that lives within me will emerge in greatness and glory.”

With these five stones of wisdom you can slay the giants (limiting beliefs) of mediocrity, discouragement, failure and all the other Goliaths that will attempt to destroy your destined success.

Lastly and perhaps most importantly Matheson reminds us:

“In order for you to succeed and be a champion of life, love must be at the center of all you do.  If you have not love for each of your fellow men, the five stones which you possess are worthless.  Love all and do nothing save it be with love.”

In a future post I will share 5 ways you can incorporate these powerful keys into your daily life.

Thank you for your visit today.

Sincerely and Gratefully,

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - As always I look forward to your comments.

PPS - Visit Chris Cades web site: http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/index.html.  He has volumes of terrific stuff there, all of which equip you to live a champion’s life.

Beginning in early childhood, we are taught that success in life, especially entrepreneurial success, requires hard work, long hours and sacrifice. 

This set of attitudes and beliefs are reinforced throughout our lives, into adulthood, and unfortunately significantly impact the decisions we make about pretty much everything in life, especiall when choosing a profession or vocation.

People often envision entrepreneurial successes as people who are particularly talented, exceptionally intelligent, and/or more committed and productive than most.  While successful entrepreneurs may indeed exhibit many of the attributes, these are actually not the characteristics that ultimately determine their success. 

Whether they realize it or not, highly successful entreprenuers have an incredibly powerful secret weapon hidden deep within their subconscious minds.

In the free report, “The Secret to Astonishing Entrepreneurial Success” I provide evidence that the beliefs that determine what manifests in your experience are not your conscious beliefs.  Instead, the subconscious mind is in determining the outcome.

In his most recent book, The Key, Dr. Joe Vitale writes; “In short, you live in a belief-created universe.  To change your results, you have to change your unconscious beliefs.  That’s the area where you have to get clear.”

While conscious visualization and affirmation may be good and useful activities that help inspire and motivate you into action, these thoughts are not directly responsible for accomplishing the outcome you envision.   It is not sufficient to think positively, visualize, and meditate about what you want.

Any conscious intention you set to succeed, whether in business or otherwise, will be frustrated and possibly completely thwarted by counter-intentional beliefs that are lurking within your subconscious mind. 

If your subconscious beliefs are not aligned with your conscious intentions, success will continually allude you.

As I pointed out in my previous post, “The You in Success“, attending to developing yourself is of primary significance in the pursuit of success.  

Certainly this involves developing the professional skills necessary to perform certain tasks.  And, it indeed does involve regular and consistent visualization and affirmation of your desires. 

But ALSO requires the regular and consistent discipline of clearing or eliminating subconscious counter-intentional beliefs as an activity of primary importance.  

When you are clear of subconscious limitation, literally anything and everything is possible for you.  

Once clear of subconscious limiting belief your astonishing success is assured. 

There are dozens of clearing techniques available to you.   

The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is widely recognized as being particularly useful in clearing subconscious negative emotions that manifest as physical illness or ailment.  It is equally as effective in clearing the subconscious of limiting beliefs about your ability, worthiness, or deservingness to succeed.

There is a fabulous new DVD available entitled “Try It On Everything”.  My wife, Kimberly, my daughter Madeline, and I watched is this morning over breakfast. 

You should definitely get a copy.  It is just another tool in your arsenal for attaining the astonishing success you desire.

Pick up a copy at:  http://www.tryitoneverything.com/

I wish you limitless abundance,

Steve

http://www.championsuccess.com/

PS - Once you have watched the film, please come back by and comment here on my blog.  You will be helping others achieve the success they desire by doing so.

PPS - If you want to learn more about this amazing technique and see the clinical evidence of its limitless power to heal, go to www.emofree.com.

If you have ever attended persional development seminars hosted by masters like Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar, or Tony Robbins, there is no doubt you have heard the saying:

“You must work on yourself more than you do your business.”

I can almost hear you nodding your head in recognition.  Bet let me ask you; what does this really mean?

What you actually DO to accomplish this?

This is what I mean:

A knowledge worker is, in brief, someone who works with his mind.  His work environment is either an office or home office.  His work consists of the application of knowledge skills in the production of output that contributes to the growth of a business of some sort.

The average knowledge worker works between 8 and 10 hours a day.  He typically rises at 6, completes a morning routine of some sort, showering, shaving, grabbing a bowl of cereal and/or coffee and gets to work at about 8.  He works throughout the morning on various projects attending meetings and the like, takes a break in the morning, lunch mid day, a break in the afternoon, and quits for the day some time between 5 and 7 in the evening.  He commutes home, greats the wife and kids, has a little dinner, watches a few sitcom reruns and hits the sack between 10 and 12.

Generally speaking this works out ok for the knowledge worker.  He gets his work assignments from his manager, does what needs to be done to keep his job, gets his pay-check and lives happily ever after, or not.

Unlike the seasoned entrepreneurial success, upstart entrepreneurs often model their days from this circa 1960’s model of business.  They may make one exception.  They may work longer hours.  More like 12 to 16 a day instead of 8 to 10.  And they typically do it because they think they have to.

If you fall into either of these catagories and can even remotely identify with this description then let me ask you:

If you accept the adage above about working more on yourself than on your business, and if your schedule is similar to what I described, then where is the time required to work on yourself ?

I mean, how do you work more on yourself if you never take time to do it?

Often times, as I work with new coaching clients and begin to encourage the use of daily personal development disciplines like meditation, visualization, or journaling, I hear, “I don’t have time to do that.”

What would you say if I told you that you should invest a minimum of 4 hours a day developing yourself?

This is what I know to be true.  You do not have time NOT to develop yourself.

If you invest the majority of primary energy in developing yourself, you will automatically live a more abundant and successful life.

You will be healthier.

You will be happier.

You will be well rested and alert.

You will be stress-free.

You will be more productive.

You will be more accomplished

You will be more present.

You will be more accepting and loving of others.

You will live more abundantly.

You will be the person you dream of being.

You do the things that person dreams of doing.

You will have the things that person dreams of having.

It is not an exhageration to say that your success begins  and ends with YOU.

I wish you success beyond measure and peace beyond all understanding.

Steve

www.championsuccess.com

PS - In my next few posts I will expand on this idea of daily disciplines for success.  I would enjoy hearing yours.  Please share them by commenting on this post and then check back on Tuesday for my Monday post.

A relative shared this video with me today.  I had heard of it but really did not have the full appreciation of the significance of this presentation until I watched it. 

It is positively amazing.

In it Jill Taylor, a renowned neuroanatomist (a brain scientist) provides a detailed recollection of a deeply moving spiritual awakening she experienced during her own stroke.

She provides clear experiential evidence that everything in our experience is energy or spirit.  When allowed to experience an existance outside of the limitations of our human mind, it becomes clear that we are indeed all spiritual beings having a human experience.

This realization indicates that thoughts truly are things.  To the extent that we learn to develop our thoughts, it is clear that we can indeed manifest our human experience any way we want it to be.

How does it feel to know that you are truly the life force energy of the universe?

Consider the implications of this perspective as it relates to creating a life of success, abundance, and joy; entrepreneurial, retirement planning, or otherwise.

Please comment I would love to hear your thoughts.

With deep gratitude for your visit.

 Steve

www.championsuccess.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.