I failed to reach my goal the other day.

Last Saturday, I ran myself into shear pain and exhaustion during the Desert RATS 25-mile trail run in Fruita, Colorado.

You see, I told my friends that I was going to complete my first 50-mile running race. I was supposed to do two laps.

I did only one. 25 miles instead of 2 laps for 50 miles.

It was a grueling course filled with ups and downs and virtually no time to just get into the groove of running.

By the end of my first lap, I knew it was physically impossible for me to run another 25 miles. My quads were shot and my knee was buckling.

How’d I feel emotionally? Was I hard on myself, beating myself up for failure?

No, I felt great!

I set a goal (to run the 50), created a plan and trained toward that objective. Things didn’t go as planned.

I did my best and adapted to the circumstances.

How about you?

I hear so many stories of readers and clients setting goals, not achieving them and then beating themselves for their failure.

How’s that working for you?

In the Marines, we used to say the plan goes out the window once the first shot is fired. It meant we had to learn how to adapt, improvise and overcome reality… or else.

Things rarely go as planned. Can you accept that?

Can you adapt and adjust to the way things DO turn out?

Can you overcome?

For me, limping the final miles was agonizing, but that’s what I could do with what I was dealt with that day.

I chose to make the most of it, be proud of my performance, hold my head high (and my feet higher after the finish) and smile all the while.

Besides, I didn’t fail. To me, a mistake is when you fall down, failure is when you choose not to get back up.

So, you’ve probably been knocked down recently.

Are you ready to get back up?

To Your Millionaire!

David

PS – For a more detailed account of my race, go to my new blog where I’m beginning to share some of my more extreme physical adventures. Click Here <–

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First, watch the video below, it’s only 10 minutes 48 seconds long and, I believe, important enough to make time to watch it.

In the video, you learned the 3 Factors That Lead to Better Performance & Personal Satisfaction, to recap, they are:

- Autonomy: the desire to be self directed. if you want engagement from your employees or yourself, self directed is better.  This is what it means to Let Your Millionaire Out – don’t be a cog in the wheel, blaze your own path.

Of course, being autonomous has its own challenges.  When I first went into business, I missed the structure of the corporate culture, so I created the Let Your Millionaire Out Success System as my day-to-day success ritual.  And I also missed the discipline of the Military, so I created the Power Module to help me remember the strategies of “doing what I said I was going to do.”

- Mastery: the urge to get better at stuff.  It’s hard to want to master something you don’t enjoy doing.  In the Let Your Millionaire Out Success System, we incorporate this in several ways.

Lacking clarity can be frustrating.  How can you master something when you’re not sure what it is.  In the success system, we use several tools, one of my favorites is the understanding of “refinement through revision.”  It’s a simple motto to explain the more we review and modify something, the more clear we’ll become.

- Purpose: having a transcendent purpose.  When the profit motive gets unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen.  That’s why the Let Your Millionaire Out System incorporates discovering your Passion with the Passion Module.  Once you know your passion, then it’s about learning how to make money doing what you love with the Profit Module.

I appreciated the video validating the approach I’ve been following (and teaching) in my own life.  And it acts as additional assurance that I’m on the right path.

If nothing else, I hope this video helps you become more aware of your choices.  If you’re unhappy, there’s a chance you’re not incorporating the 3 elements above.

Take a quick inventory and see what steps you can take to become “more motivated.”

To Your Millionaire!

David Koons
LetYourMillionaireOut.com

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I think I know who’s going to win American Idol just from the show the other night.  When it comes to predictions, the general rule is predict the time, or the event, but not both.

I’m going out on a limb and say Lee DeWyze will win.  Now, I know it’s not a good idea to make this prediction, it could come back to haunt me.

And, you should know, I’ve voted for Crystal the whole season and “hope” she wins.  Either way, I feel both these artists will have fine careers, choosing a “winner” is just a necessary step to complete the competition they’ve been taking part in.

And besides, winning is just in name only.  You don’t need to win this competition to be a winner.  Last year, Adam Lambert finished 2nd but he’s enjoyed better a better selling album and about 10X the publicity.

And who can forget Daughtry‘s  success?

Okay, so why am I predicting Lee DeWyze?  First, let me tell you what happened in early 2008 during Super Bowl XLII.  The heavily favored New England Patriots  played the wildcard New York Giants.  But New York won and I predicted it at the start of the game.

You see, when I saw both Eli Manning (quarterback for NY)  and Tom Brady (quarterback for New England) come out on the field, I knew who was going to win.

Eli was looking relaxed, excited and confident.  He threw warm up throws with ease and precision.  Across the field, Tom Brady had all the anxiety of a bride on her wedding day looking at dark clouds on the horizon.

There was a lot of pressure on New England to complete a perfect, undefeated season.  Meanwhile there was little pressure on New York.

Switch back to American Idol and, while not totally similar, a few things stood out.

- Crystal Bowersox (my favorite) has been getting ever greater amounts of press and talk about winning this for many weeks now
- Lee DeWyze has been an underdog for most of the season, fighting self confidence and getting his act together

But that’s not what caused me to go out on a limb here and make a prediction.

The other night, Lee stated “I really want to win.”  Crystal stated she was just happy to make it this far.  And watching both of them as they said it, there body language backed up what they said.

That’s all I needed to hear to make my prediction.  Lee is hungry and wants it.  Crystal seems happy with whatever happens.

As I’ve experienced with my own life, when I’m okay with settling, that’s usually what I get, but when I “really” want something, that’s what I get.

Stay tuned next Wednesday.  I hope I’m wrong because I prefer Crystal’s style of singing, but part of me wants the more successful mindset to prevail too.  Win or lose, I predict Lee will have a successful career going forward just from the success mindset he showed the other night.

What do you think?  Did you see or hear anything different then I shared above?

PS - Check out the Power Module if you need more help getting that “whatever it takes” success mindset

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If you’re a perfectionist, I have news for you, “All is not what it appears to be.”  I learned long ago, in order to change my results and achiever greater results, I had to be very honest with myself.  I find the skill of being completely honest with yourself, one of the hardest for people to learn.

I’ve heard a lot of people exclaim proudly that they’re “perfectionist.” They assume an air of, dare I say, superiority.

Perhaps the perfectionist feels they only produce the highest quality work, and thus, one should acknowledge their greatness.

Now, I hope you’re reading a bit of wit in my writing.  As a recovering perfectionist, I speak from example.

But let’s call it what it really is.  

You see, a perfectionist, by definition, should tell you everything that’s perfect about themselves, their situation, their environment, their partner or spouse.

But do the self-proclaimed “perfectionist” do that?  Of course not, quite the opposite, a perfectionist tells you everything wrong with their ability, proposal, situation, friends, family and significant other.

This is not perfectionism, this is Imperfectionism.  Sorry, but that’s the characteristic on display.

It doesn’t sound so noble, does it?  But hey, I’m not picking on you, remember, I’m recovering too.

No, the good news is you had a lot of good intention with that skill and it’s done some great things for you.

But, you’ve also used this trait to beat yourself up pretty good, haven’t you?

You haven’t given yourself, or others, the benefit of the doubt, or at times, a break.  It’s the main reason I created the Power Module, to help you develop the skills to give yourself a break… among others.  You can check it out here.

You can choose to become a perfectionist (it a lot more more and less stressful) and start finding what’s perfect in every situation… and yourself.

But for now, simply recognizing there may be some behaviors that aren’t exactly what you thought they were (supportive) may be the first step.

Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide whether you wish to stay an “im-perfectionist” and whether that serves you, or whether you’d like to actually work more from a perfectionist mindset… a true perfectionist mindset.

Either way, accept and embrace how you are, today (many of my friends are perfectionists , because you can become whoever you want to be, but for now, success is easier to achieve when you’re happy with you, today.  The Power Module is a great way to start.

To Your Millionaire!

David Koons
www.LetYourMillionaireOut.com

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One of my favorite success secrets is to align my mindset for success by asking one question.

“Which way do I want to go today?”

It’s important for me to remember that everyday I’m at the crossroads of my life.  Just like it is for you.  In every moment really.

When you think about it, it doesn’t matter what happened 5 minutes ago, 5 days ago or 5 years ago, every day you have the chance to start fresh, to start new.

Whether your past is riddled with failures, ‘incompletes’ or other history you’re not proud of, or is peppered with a string of successes.  It just doesn’t matter.

Today, in this moment, you’re at another crossroads and you get to choose which way you go today.

The diagram above is one of the many elements of the Let Your Millionaire Out Success System.

You can decide today, in this moment, which way you want to go.

Do you want to channel your thoughts, feelings and actions in the direction of your ideal life?

Or

Will you choose to go in the direction of an “Unsatisfying Life?”

Let’s face, few people would choose the latter… when consciously chosen.

And that’s the key, to consciously choose your thoughts, feelings and actions.

You do this by focusing on what you want, not what you don’t want.

You do this by focusing on what you have, not what you don’t have.

You do this by choosing thoughts and actions that support your ideal life.

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All of this contributes to developing a success mindset.  And it starts with a simple question:

Which way do you want to go today?

—> Learn more about the system here <—

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“I need a freakin’ job” is the message on the billboard in Buffalo NY during the President’s visit recently.

I say, get your own freakin’ job if you want one and stop asking the President or anyone else to “give” you a job.  Now, I know that sound harsh and critical, but let me explain.

The implied mindset behind “I need a freakin’ job” if not exactly empowering.  If you’d like a job, I suggest you  1) keep looking until you find one, not easy, but who said life is easy, 2) start a business and create a job for you and all the other “I need a freakin’ job people on your list.  This requires producing something people actually want and will pay for… not an easy thing, if too hard, you may want to consider politics.

Now, when you actually go to their website, you’ll realize this is a much more political movement then just looking for another government handout, they actually have some good points.

However, the whole “I need a freakin’ job” turns me off because right away I thought of people with hands outstretched begging for something they should ‘get’ themselves.  You can see their site here INAFJ.org

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(You may see some ‘code’ when you click the link above, or when the video ends, it’s a program flaw)

Almost 9,000 people on YouTube have watched and enjoyed this video.

When you have a strong self-image,  you become unstoppable.

Enjoy and let me know your thoughts!

To Your Millionaire!

David Koons
LetYourMillionaireOut.com

PS – The Power Module is a great resource for boosting your self-image

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During a speaking engagement in San Diego last weekend, I showed how you can tap the “Four Power Centers” to accelerate your results.

But that wasn’t what really got the crowd excited.

Nope, it was when I revealed the biggest obstacle to success for entrepreneurs and small business owners, which is…

More on that shortly.

You see, success comes down to 2 things;

- knowing what to do,
AND
- doing what you know.

In this information age, it’s much easier to find what you ‘should’ be doing to succeed in your chosen field.  That’s not really the problem.

The harder part (and what I specialize in) is doing what you know… actually taking the actions that will create different results.

So, what is the biggest obstacle you ask?

Distraction-free time to take those actions which will change your results.

You might be saying to yourself, “but I get distracted every couple minutes.”  That’s exactly why this is the #1 problem.  Whether you’re tethered to your email, have multiple applications running, having people walking into your office frequently, the phone ringing, text messages and Instant Messenger (or all of them), then you know what I mean.

Here’s why it’s a problem.  Did you know it takes 15-20 minutes to return to peak concentration after being distracted?  That means, after every email you stop and read, text you respond to or person who walks in, it takes 15-20 minutes to get back ‘into the groove.’   Perhaps that helps you understand why you’re just not getting stuff done.

So, Do You Agree?  Or do you have a bigger obstacle?

Use the comments below to let me know if you can relate and/or if you deal with an even bigger obstacle.  I’ll compile your answers and do my best to respond to them!

To Your UnDistracted, Action-Taking Millionaire!

David

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You don’t know it yet, but…

Your greatest adversity is really the secret to your success.

If you’re familiar with the success teacher who used to wash his dishes in his bathtub, or the abused child who became the number 1 TV host, you’re familiar with this idea.

The first time I discovered it was at a young age.  Sick and tired of being beaten up by the neighborhood kids, I made a decision to change my results.

No more was I going to be a victim of circumstance, I was going to become the master of my destiny.

A Chain Reaction

That decision started a chain reaction of positive results that continues to this day. What used to be a weakness, became a strength.

I wasn’t getting beat up anymore.

And over time, I was even being called ‘sir.’ Imagine my delight.

From feeling defeated and down-on-myself to feeling 10-feet-tall-and-bullet-proof.

Your X-Factor

When I applied this process to business, I built my first multi-million dollar company.

When I applied it to coaching, I filled my practice and had a waiting list within 6 months.

I call it your X-Factor and it’s just one of the things you’ll learn in the Power Module.

How powerful is it?

Sitting in an aisle seat on a flight a few months back, I shared the process with a woman sitting next to me.

She felt like a failure.

She believed she had a ‘defect’ because she couldn’t get her business off the ground.  She felt her desire to cater to other people’s needs wherever she went kept her from focusing on and building her own business.

Within 10 minutes of taking her through the process, she recognized how powerful her “defect” really was.

When the plane pulled up to the gate, she jumped off, renewed in her mission to grow her business, and help thousands, with the vision she now held.

What About You?

What’s holding you back?

I can tell you, whatever it is, no matter the adversity or fear, it is the secret to your success.

And when tapped into, acts like a ‘success accelerator’ helping you achieve more, faster.

Whether it was something horrible that happened to you in your youth.  Or whether it’s something you fear may happen to you.  It doesn’t matter.

When you learn how to release the energy trapped inside you, you’ll see good things, great things start to happen.

This is what it means to “Let Your Millionaire Out” and the Power Module is a great place to start.

To Your Millionaire!

David

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Wouldn’t it be nice to open up the brain of an
ultra successful real estate investor and not have to
pay for it?

Well… you’re going to get your chance because
my friend Brad Wozny is coming out of the real
estate underground and giving a LIVE BROADCAST to
answer all your questions….

It’s like Syndication TV!

THE FIRST EVER OF ITS KIND.

He’ll be streaming and answering questions
for 3 full hours.

You would be INSANE to miss this.

It all starts at 7PM tonight, Thursday, September 24

The reason he’s doing this is because he wants
to answer questions about the SHOCKING reports and
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kind of real estate investing.  They’re causing quit
a firestorm.

Anytime you get unlimited access to someone like
Brad it’s CRUCIAL you take advantage of it.

Before you get on the call here’s what I would
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*  Go register for the call right now… go…
then come back to this email…

*  Start writing down every question you can
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*  Start asking Brad every question you have
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You’ll want to take notes through this entire 3
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Enjoy the live session!

To Your Millionaire!

David

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