Here’s the last installment of how to achieve the success you want in 2007!

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Hi! It’s Shawn Casey, and again, happy new year! Let’s keep workin’ on making 2007 the most awesome year of your life. Now look, we talk about goals. There’s a lot of areas we can set goals. A lot of times, we focused on doing them just for business or money or in one area of our life, but the most focused we can make them in different areas, the more successful we can be at living the very happy life that we wanna live and let’s face it. Well, a lot of it, certainly when I’m talking about different things in terms of business, it comes down to money. Money is just a method to buy stuff, It’s just convenient.

You know, as my wife who did not grow up even really in a middle-class neighborhood at home because her father died when she was very young. She says, you know, now that she has access to money, it gives her choices.

So, then it’s great to have choices. Then those choices are to be able to do what you wanna do for yourself, your family, charities, other people, whoever you wanna take care of, whatever you’d like to choose to do with your money. See, you get choices, you get options, alright? And so, having money is much better than not, alright? But that’s not what life is all about. See, life is about being able to live the life style and have the joy that you would like to have in your life, and so part of your planning is; you’ve gotta figure out what it is that you really want.

Now, I’ve met people who wanted to build a big business and they did and it’s taken over their lives, they have no enjoyment, they have no fun, they’re absolutely miserable even though they’ve made a lot of money. Now, so what good is that? Because, it’s no good to go make a lot of money and be miserable. I don’t think anybody really wants to do that. What you need to do is define what do you really want out of all this; what do you want out of life; what do you want with your family, with your spouse, loved ones, significant other, with your children, you know, friends, neighbors; what do you want? How do you want that relationship to be? What would you like it to look like if it was perfect in your eyes? And when it comes to your health, what should you be aiming for there?

What does it look like? What does it feels like? How is it? Then of course, financial, which affects everything. True because, when you’re worried about money, you bring stress into your life. Stress into your life affects your health, it affects your relationships, and so all of these things tie together and as part of the planning process, you’ve got to take these things into account, is you know, how are these things all affected?

Now, one of the things in the planning process which often becomes a problem is that you and members of your family have different goals, Or certainly different things you’re willing to do to achieve those goals. Many of you face challenges that people in your life and often this is even your spouse who are telling you, “You’re not smart enough to start a business.” “You can’t do it.” “All those business opportunities are scams.”

People hear this all the time and it’s very hard to remain positive when everyone around you is telling you that what you’re doing is stupid or wrong or can’t work or your stupid or it’s a scam, you’re gettin’ ripped off, all the stories that we hear.

And pretty much everybody who’s ever launched into a business of any kind has heard the same things; been told they can’t do it. And, you may have even started a business previously or done something to try and strike it on your own and failed at that, and that’s not uncommon. In fact, it is more common to have tried and failed in business before you succeed than it is to go straight to success the first time. I mean, Tom Monahan who is the guy who created Domino’s Pizza Franchise success was bankrupt at least one, and I think maybe more than once.

Do you know? Now, he’s worth hundreds of millions if not a billion dollars. He didn’t make it right the first time, Tom didn’t quit though. Kept goin’, kept movin’ forward, kept followin’ that path of the dream. And so, what we’ve got to realize is that for us to succeed, we’ve gotta keep moving forward and we’ve got to often ignore the influence of friends and family who might be telling us something that’s negative and sometimes you’re gonna have to go find new friends.

I’m not suggesting you dump your family but friends; you can change who you hang out with. Because, one of the things that we know from some scientific studies in places like Harvard and Yale, is that you become more like the people you hang out with the most. If they’re successful, you become more successful. If they’re millionaires, you move towards being a millionaire. If they’re fat slobs, you move towards being a fat slob. And, I’m not trying to be rude, but you know, there are people that are that way and if you were to hang out with them all the time, you’re gonna drag yourself down.

‘Cause you don’t wanna be that way. It’s important that you recognize that the people you allow to be close to you influence you are helping to control how you turn out. If they think positively, you think positively along with them. If they thing negatively , you think negatively along with them. And, one of the things you have to be focused on is to break out of that mold of that narrow place that you might find yourself feeling trapped in.

One of the things I find interesting is that, we often set goals and hit them without even realizing it. For example, many people, their goal is that when they get their paycheck on Friday, they’ll have enough money to get through the next week; that’s their goal, and you know for those people, they pretty much hit that goal more often than not. On Friday they get a paycheck, by the next Friday they’ve had just enough money to get through the week.

But see, here’s what happens, what if your goal on Friday, very simple goal was; “I’m gonna get my paycheck on Friday and by the end of the week, I’ll have not only enough money to get through the week, I’ll have 100 dollars left.” Guess what you’ll start having happen, you’ll have 100 dollar’s left.

You see, we create those targets. No always good ones, not always intentionally, but we do create those targets. And so, if we were to change that target, raise that or aim a little bit, raise the level of our aim to a higher target, we can find that we can hit that. And don’t expect that overnight you’re going to go “Okay, I’m now, you know, makin’ 30 thousand dollars a year in a job and I’m going to make a million dollars in the next 3 days.” That’s not gonna happen, not realistic, you can’t begin to believe that, so that’s not gonna be the case.

But what you can do is say “Listen! You know, I’m gonna get my business started, it’s gonna start to bring in money and within 3 months that business is gonna cover my paycheck or that business is gonna at least cover my car payment of 372 dollars a month.” Now, I’d suggest you even start in smaller John Reese, great marketer, good friend of mine, and I had a long conversation one day in which he revealed the secret of how he got started being successful.

Finally in business after burying himself under many thousands, and if I remember correctly, more than a hundred thousand dollars in debt. In stead of trying to go from 0 to a billion, all he wanted to do was go from 0 to covering his cable bill which at that time was, for cable TV was like 75 dollars a month, and he said, “You know all I’m going to worry about right now is going to get a business going that will pay my cable bill.”? Small target and guess what? You get the cable bill paid, you can move on up. And you can go from the cable bill to covering the cable bill and the phone bill and pretty soon you can do something that covers your car payment, and pretty soon, you can get things rollin’, cover your housing payment, your mortgage, your rent, and pretty soon, you find out you’re makin’ money, this is fun, it’s enjoyable, you’re havin’ a great time, but you gotta get started.

Now, one of those key things, I think, that you need to write down in your action plan, is that everyday you have to do something, every single day. See, if every day for the next 30 days, you just did something that moved your business forward, placed an ad, studied hard, do something that moves your business forward, maybe you come home tired, you worked the double shift, do something that moves your business forward. If you’ll do that everyday for 30 days, at the end of 30 days, you’ll have done 30 somethings.

For some of you, that will actually be 30 more somethings than you’ve ever done in your business because you never got started, truly got started and gave yourself a chance, and in that 30 days, you’ll probably will have made at least that first dollar or maybe more and you’ll be in what we call the momentum phase, you know? Now, you couldn’t stop if you wanted to, because you got momentum. Now, you created a great habit.

Every day you do something positive for your business, you move it forward. You lead yourself towards success. There is a movie with Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray, called “What about Bob?” May have seen it, if not, it’s an absolutely funny, hysterical movie especially if you like Bill Murray; and Richard Dreyfuss basically a psychiatrist or psychologist who’s counseling crazy Bill Murray and Bill Murray ends up the sane one and Richard Dreyfuss loses his mind; it really is a funny movie.

But, in it Richard Dreyfuss is the author of a book called “Baby Steps” and the whole, you know, psychological concept is just simply, you know, quit trying to do too much, just take baby steps, a little bit, little bit, little bit, and pretty soon, you know, you’re doin’ great, and Bill Murray who has, you know, made more than one psychiatrist lose his mind.

So, same concept applies here. We just wanna take baby steps but move forward. We have big goals at the end, we gotta start small and work up. You know, when I first started my first email list, first there was 0 people on it, then I joined, then there was 1 person, it was probably several days before there were 2 people. ‘Cause back then, I really didn’t know too many people to call up and say “Hey, you’re my friends, join my list.”

‘Cause most people I knew then weren’t on the computer and internet and email and all that stuff at the time. Everybody starts at the beginning, but everybody who’s successful they get started and then they move into the beginning phase and then grow from there. So, here’s where I wanna leave you for 2007’s plan is that you’re gonna set the big goal, set this year’s goals in all phases of your life, break those goals down month by month or at least into three month increments, and then for the next couple of months get the action plan down so you have something to get started where you’re movin’ forward every single day. Where you’re building that business to become successful, alright?

Because, if you’ll do this, when you’re listenin’ to me talk in 2008, you’ll be saying, “Hey! Listen Shawn, I’ve heard all this before… I do know how to do this, because 2007 was the most awesome year of my life and now I’m gonna repeat the process and 2008 is gonna become even greater and then 2009 is gonna become even greater and then 2010… Man! I’m just gonna blow the doors off!”

Because, your success will build upon itself and multiply. As long as we get you started, as long as we get rolling. Now, one other thing I wanna suggest you do, and Matt Bacak is the guy who shared this with me, that he and his wife Stephanie do this every year and we were talking just the other day and he was doing it between Christmas and new year’s; they were sitting down doing what they call the dream board, and the dream board is where he and his family, you know, 7-year-old daughter is involved as well; they cut pictures out of magazines or newspapers of the things that they dreamed about that they would want. Now, it might be in Matt’s case, it was an airplane, he got an airplane in 2006. So, now it’s a bigger airplane. It might be a new house for you, it might be a new car, it might be an exotic vacations.

Whatever it is, you make that dream board and then you put it where you see it and look at it and focus on it and keep focusing on it, until you internalize it, and see, this is gonna help you as you’re going through your goal achievement because you want to achieve those dreams and you can. Anyone can do this.

Even if you don’t believe in yourself right now, I believe that you can do this, I’ve seen it, I’ve met people, I don’t care what your circumstances are, I’ve met people in the worst circumstances than yours that have done this. They have gotten moving forward, they have made themselves to be very successful in however they define success. You can do the same thing. It’s your choice whether or not to do it. I hope that you chose to move forward, to be successful, to grow, to take action. If you do, this is gonna be just an amazing ride you’re on.

It’ll be a lot of fun, filled with joy. You will enjoy life immensely, to a level which you may have never thought possible. ‘Cause life is great. Life was meant to be joyous and now it’s your job to go out and make it that way. Set those goals, take action, get those sunglasses out, because your future is bright and you ought to be wearing shades to protect yourself from the blinding glare of how bright your future is. Go out! Kick butt in 2007!

This is Shawn Casey, I wish you the very best, the happiest, the most prosperoust, healthiest new year ever imaginable Let’s go have some fun in 2007 folks!