For someone who is not too keen on water it seems I am spending a whole lot of time on it… LOL. I went down to Bath to meet with James and Licia last weekend. I had my daughter with me and finally managed to meet up with Martin Roberts (of BBC fame) and his family. He asked me months ago to help him with the internet marketing of his website and courses and invited me to spend time on his barge in Bath…
We had a great time but I couldn’t help recording a ‘lesson of life’ video for you.
This one is about lag time. You see (and that is something I learned from Jim Rohn) what you do in life has normally a delayed effect or lag time before you see the consequences. Needless to say if you improve e.g. your eating habits it will be sometime before you actually get the benefit. And of course the same is true the other way round. Strangely enough though in business people expect overnight results…
When I was steering the 65 foot barge the time of making the adjustment to actually the boat responding reminded of that…
Two more things came to mind… I didn’t know that you were driving on the right side of the river, not the left and everything in life and business is better when you know the rules. (you might choose not to play by them, but knowing them is a good thing most of the times). Lastly I realised when we came to a lock that most things in life and business require a team and that it is important to play and work together – even (and I am talking to the lone wolves out there – you know who you are!) if it just to be able to share the successes and have a little winge sometimes…
to your success
Daniel
PS: By the way, before I forget – Practice makes PERMANENT, not PERFECT. If you got a bad teacher and practice the wrong move, you’ll never be perfect… so choose your teachers carefully ….
when I jumped into the rowing boat at Cliveden (beautiful National Trust property in Bucks) I realised that it was EXACTLY like life…. and how you do one thing is how you do anything. First of all I learned there is the ’stroke’ and then the ‘recovery’. And they say that the best rowers spend more time in recovery and less ‘in the water’… another thing that is obvious is that using the oar is using leverage… (try using your hands instead and see how you go . Next is that you actually have the back towards where you are going so you need a team or partner to look out for you…. and help you enjoy the journey .
Gorgeous day, enjoy the 2 and a bit minute long video. Please let me know your thoughts and comment below….
it’s been a while. and a lot has changed. life moves at such a pace – it’s only 7 months ago I started MyInternetMarketingTutor.com! I have recorded a 6 minute video this morning with some insights about life, business and myself which is just right from the heart.
I am actually getting tired of some of what happens in my industry. so much hype and BS… I sometimes don’t even want to go on stage – but then I think if I don’t go on then there is no chance I can work with people and teach them and they will most likely buy someone else’s course who cares less and buggers off to somewhere far away after the event….
anyway. went to the gym this morning and learned a few lessons of life. Affirm the truth if you want to make progress. Success is subjective and then later on – being stupid is not a problem (as long as you are not being stupid all the time)…
Watch the video below, give me feedback or comments please.
I am writing this as a guy who started 3 years ago to form a dream about speaking on a stage…. I asked a friend if I coud have 10 minutes to speak to his networking club people… I did that a few times. In February 2006 Dwayne made a joking remark while I was doing my 10 minute talk… he said: “when is your one-day seminar gonna be?”.
I didn’t have a one day seminar… until then I suppose. I remember preparing for months. I remember being so worried about not having enough to say, enough to share, worried about not being enough.
that is how it all began. I remember interviewing Armand Morin and some other Internet Marketing greats in September 2007 in London. I went on the stage in the evening and I told myself. In 2 years I will be on stage with them!
The ’secret’ – as they call it – is actually quite obvious. If you set an intention and work towards it – it will manifest. (I actually send an email to Rhonda telling her she should call it the ‘obvious’ but I suspect it wouldn’t have sold so many copies
so why am I telling you all this and why is this post called comfort zone stretch?
Because this September, just 2 years after interviewing some of the big guys… I will be on stage as one of the speakers with them… I am not scared, not a lot at least… they made 30 Million $$$, I made some as well….
I can only be myself and there is always more to learn…. so until very soon…
I don’t know if you can relate, and maybe it’s just me, but I had for so many years (39 and a half to be precise) a whole list of great ‘reasons’ (or excuses) why I couldn’t do well in life. being austrian (I still am of course, but I don’t see that as a reason anymore… thanks Arnie), being in a religious group, my relationships…and so on.
Now that they are gone I am faced with the freedom that means no more excuses… what am I to do? settle for what? any advice accepted
now, just some food for thought. If you are burning the candle on both ends but are in your flame, would you be using your wax? mmh. anyway, what I am trying to say is that you can live as intensely as you like, if you do what is your flow, it will not cause you too much of a strain or take away your natural energy.
I have been experimenting (not on purpose, more like a moth to the flame kind of thing) with this and if you do anything you want, just checking your ‘inner compass from time to time, life has an amazing amount of colour, vibrancy, flavour and richness! this can only be experienced if you audaciaously throw away the fear of rejection, play full out, don’t worry about the future or the past and literally pretend that the ageing process has only affected your body…
Enough of my February musings… I have a few weekend speaking gigs ahead and looking forward to some more buzz on stage…. check out my events page here…
speak soon, keep tweeting, life is for living and living is…. you got it
oh, did I mention I finally went full time into being who I am? (given up my job after it being just ridiculous)
Daniel
PS: thanks to the following human beings for their light and flavour . Acronym fun for all to share: LDW, AGM, (they are easy you double surname individuals…), GP, JR, MO….
I’ll be honest, this year I didn’t even bother. The arbitrary date of 31st December didn’t tickle me enough to aim for some life changes I hope will be brought about by osmosis, magic and alcohol. Instead I just clarified my vision, spend some time on looking back (mainly to see what I didn’t want to do again) and then forced myself to enjoy some family time. It worked.
I have worked on some major changes to my business since then, mainly to do with systems, structure, attempts to outsource my life and being able to scale up my efforts this year. Focusing on my core competencies and offering more value to more people.
The year is kicking off well. Speaking at Whitney’s event at the end of Jan and 2 bootcamps in Feb and April. I guess, after 2 and a half years of doing this, the word spreads… I get invited to talk. Cool.
anyway, if you want to catch up with in the next few weeks, check out www.YourInternetMarketingTutor.com it’s a one day training course at £97 (if you use this link). Also check out the cool video Stephen has done for me…
anyway, let’s catch up soon and let me know what you are upto in 2009
Freelancing can be a tough job. So any help to get your income up is welcome. John has been helping freelancers in all areas boost their income with his income accelerator programme. Watch the 3 minute interview I did with John today as part of the www.DigitalProductCreationSecrets.com weekend where he explains what the programme is all about. You can also go directly to www.TheIncomeAccelerator.com
so choose your teachers carefully ….