How to Uncover Your Life Purpose: A Journey to Self-Discovery

Some steps are provided to guide people on how to find your life purpose,set goals and define your passion. A lot of people hire me to coach them on how to scale, start and grow their online business to get to that 20,000, 30,000 or 50,000 per month income level and even more. The meaningful side of a grateful heart that discovers life with a bigger purpose to write. One of the questions we get all the time that people ask me now, is how do I find my life purpose?

How to Find Your Life Purpose?

The question is, How do I do that? How will I find the purpose of my life? How will the universe help me find meaning and joy in my actions? because there's so much conflicting advice out there and I really want to know why I'm here on earth. There are plenty of reasons for success, there is no smooth journey, but at the end of the day, the love from the people will bring us joy and strength to go forward. The journey with my passions brought me to success, the suffering and fears brought me to achieve my goal. Many years ago when I was 25 years old I decided to commit suicide because of this reasons: 

  • I didn't know why I was here on earth
  • I didn't have a purpose
  • I didn't know my purpose 

The hours I spend thinking about how my life matters, finding the purpose and the meaning of living, I start to step on the journey that would change my life. Thinking that life is a game, you can play it easily or live life to the fullest. It took a moment of suffering, I didn't understand or discover my life purpose till I was 30 years old. The day I embrace my identity and learn to live positive, the quicker I change my path to reach my destination. When I had two epiphanies that changed my life in 1997, when I discovered Afformations® and when I also discovered success anorexia. The point is it took me a long time to discover my life purpose, but it doesn't have to take you so long, all you have to do is take a moment to learn my 3D method.

3D Method to Discover Your Life Purpose

1. Discover What You're Great At

From the time that I was a little kid, I always loved writing and I love reading books, unlike any other kids. My passions helped me to write a bigger impact to people, the action I create to have a meaningful life and story to tell. The true meaning of happiness and joy that I sense while reading a book was awesome and according to my mother who is a teacher, as a former teacher retired, she said that I was reading books for fun before the age of two. 

I would read books

I love books 

I love going to bookstores

I love going to libraries

I spend my childhood in the library

I went and I read a lot of science fiction books by people like Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein and Anne McCaffrey and all the science and fantasy novels because I wanted to escape from the real world that I was in. When your heart is lost, looking for missing existence is the way to go. Maybe you have something like that that you've always loved, I used to dream that maybe someday I'd be an author and I said that's probably not going to happen I mean, the statement like Who's going to listen to me?, Why would anyone listen to me?.

Life Purpose - Discover What You're Great At

Years later I'm the published author of 15 books including Power Habits, Get Rid of Your Head Trash About Money, The Book of Afformations® published by Hay house, The Secret Code of Success published by HarperCollins, Permission to Succeed published by the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher.

I am the only author in history to have works published by Hay House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Mine Valley, Nightingale-Conant, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul Publisher. No one else has ever done that before in history, the point is that's something that I always love and I'm passionate about. Expressing passionate writing skills and discovering bravery has told me that chances happen when you lessen pressures.

What does that mean?

What is something that you love to do? What would make your heart enjoy? What matters to your life? How will you impact the universe? Ask yourself some of this questions:

Do you love writing?

Do you love speaking?

Do you love singing?

Do you love painting?

Do you love golf? 

Do you love pottery?

Do you love helping people create a difference? 
Whatever that is, determine what you love and what you are really passionate about. Whether it's talent, skills and strengths, offer it with the community and bigger chances may manifest. Living life's true meaning of success and difference, a path of process finding the journey to success.

2. Discover Uniqueness

Offer your uniqueness, determine your unique offer. If you have reasons to positively impact a community through your actions, then do so. When I discovered success anorexia back in 1997, I realized that I had to help people with that problem because no one ever talked about it before, no one even knew what it was. The goal is to identify the unique talents a person could enjoy, bringing them with a meaningful life.

I wrote a book called Permission to Succeed and then I wrote a book called The Secret Code of Success published by HarperCollins and all these books, the point is I knew that I had to come up with something to help people with this very specific problem. If you look at being an entrepreneur, being an entrepreneur is really all about solving problems, it's about being a problem solver, but when you're solving people's problems, you have to package yourself up in order for people to hire and pay you. Many years ago when I started teaching, I would just coach people for free because I just love coaching and I love helping people. The gratitude I felt towards the community was my happiness, living life with a meaning and values.

Life Purpose - Discover Uniqueness

What I realized is that it's great that I'm feeling good but right now my bank account wasn't looking so good. The goal was to feel passionate with my career while marketing my talents and skills. The point is, I realized that I've got to put this package together, I've got to put different packages together and change my business plans while spreading happiness and joy to the people.

Why Put Different Packages Together?

  1. Help people
  2. Make some money while I'm at it

You're not only marketing your talents and skills, you're also making a difference to your dreams. Now my coaching clients and I have added over 2.7 billion dollars as a result of following my methods. You've got to determine your unique offer, what is it that makes you unique that people will pay for? Take a moment and vision yourself in a career you enjoy.

3. Define Your Growth Strategy

What is your growth strategy? How are you going to reach the people who are waiting to hear your solution to their problem? Do not fear the process of growth, finding meaningful strategies and creating strategies for growth.

With my high level coaching clients, my elite inner circle clients, we work on something called the Authority Cycle. The Authority Cycle is five stages where we start with:

  1. Mindset 
  2. Habits
  3. Offers
  4. Funnels
  5. Traffic

When we have those five stages, the Authority Cycle happens in order we have a sequence and a step-by-step system for both of them. The formula for a good strategy is given, it is your job to decide and identify the things to discover to be able to vision success. Having the right attitude, thinking and values may lead us to our personal success, and in no time, we'll reach the dream destination our heart truly desires.

Life Purpose - Define Your Growth Strategy

That's really how to find your life purpose and not just how to find your life purpose but also how to get paid for doing what you love which is basically like going to heaven without the inconvenience of dying. When life gives you games, play it. When you have questions, find answers. Do meaningful activities and the chance to step out and create your future.

The Law of Attraction has garnered significant attention in recent years, often portrayed as a mystical force capable of bringing all our desires into reality with minimal effort. However, beneath the surface lies a myriad of misconceptions and misunderstandings that cloud its true essence.

The Law of Attraction, popularized by books like "The Secret," revolves around the belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person's life. While the concept itself isn't inherently flawed, the way it's often interpreted and applied can lead to unrealistic expectations and disappointment.

What is the law of attraction?

The law of attraction is a vast, abundant concept that brings impact to people. The law of attraction is taught and shared to people that whatever you set your mind into, you get to manifest it with positivity. People haven't come up with the benefits of thinking positively and on how it will bring power and abundance to a person's physical and mental health.

That would be nice, wouldn't it? People in the universe would be really grateful if that were true, lives would be easier, creating the future, and infinite joy would be leading people ahead. Focusing on the possibilities that the law of attraction could offer and the limitless dreams and power that people desire the most would simply be achieved by believing that it's real. The point is that they teach in movies like the secret, they teach a three-step method which are:

  • Ask
  • Believe
  • Receive

That's all you got to do, ask for what you want, believe you're going to get it, and then you just receive it. Doesn't that sound great? the tool to make the law of attraction possible is simply offered, all we need to do is respond yet we lack to understand the law of attraction. The idea of achieving a million dollars and then you just wait for it to come in reality is just a vision in mind, that's not going to work that way, not unless we discover reality, the reality that the law of attraction should come with the ability to produce realistic actions.

It would be great if the process of law of attraction tends to work that way, however, people making a lot of money control you with confidence because we all want to hear what we think can bring us happiness and joy, that our goal and long term practice was to utilize nothing, but to ask, believe, and receive. It doesn't work that simple, the patterns don't offer sense. 

  • Wouldn't it be nice though, would it be great if you didn't have to work. 
  • Wouldn't it be great if you could just sit there and focus on the goals.
  • Like I want to lose 10 pounds, I'm gonna eat junk food and never exercise, watch tv, and I'll just think about losing weight and I'll get rich six-pack abs.

Won't that be quite nice, People would experience instant happiness and automatically be grateful, but that's not gonna happen in real life situations.

What do we actually have to do? Here's the major truth about the law of attraction in daily life:

Humans are creatures of habit but we're also creatures of vibration, we are in fact magnets, every single person in the universe. Science proves that humans have a wide range of access to our own brain which we haven't realized and discovered.

What do we actually have to do? Here's the major truth about the law of attraction in daily life:

What does that mean for you? what it means is that let's say you're thinking about being wealthy, you're thinking about having 30,000 a month income, you're getting that 30,000 a month in your online business. The point is, let's say your desire was about wanting to get to that 30,000 a month, that's some kind of magic number, it's definitely life-changing money. You're thinking about that, but there's a part of you where negative thoughts rule's your mind that will change your understanding and perspective and would impact your decision. That's why people's fear of limiting their body, impact the brain that makes people believe that:

I probably can't utilize it

I probably can't get there

I've tried everything already

That's not gonna work, what's happening is in fact you are pushing that positive vision away through your vibration, through your thoughts including your beliefs. Read tips, articles, ideas, and learn secret tools on how to improve everyday situations, people do have to change the vibration and you do that by using an Afformations® method.

Afformations® method is the power and energy to manifest techniques of the law of attraction.

1. Changing your beliefs and the subconscious level

- Change our beliefs using the Afformations® method

2. Take action

- We have to take action

3. Have positive expectancy

- We need to have that optimistic thinking to attract positivity

Afformations® method is the power and energy to manifest techniques of the law of attraction.

Through these steps, people are able to change the vibrations and attract infinite possibilities. People should not just ask, believe, receive; it's actually asking, meaning a form and then you act which brings people the reasons to be mindful and to take action. Positive thinkers do enjoy the daily offer of life without the fear of negativity, people should put aside stress and start to enjoy the moment that life brings. 

A million dollars doesn't just show up in an instant to your bank account, six rich pack abs don't just magically appear. All the marketers are basically lying sociopaths, they're making stories to get to your financial check and get you to buy their word, they're making it sound like you don't have to do any work because who wants the idea to do work? people are quiet lazy, and we are aware of it.

People wants instant change

Most common question we fear to check are the two:

  • Who wants change? 
  • Who wants to have more money, more time, more energy, more freedom and better relationships?

Everybody says I want change, every hand tends to go up and then when asked, who wants to change? and everybody responds, not me. People don't want to change but we simply want change and the law of attraction doesn't work that way, not on planet earth. 

Most common question we fear to check are the two:

I'll give you a great example, many years ago when I started my spiritual studies back in the 90s, I was reading books by people like Louise Hay and Ernest Holmes, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Neil Donald Walsh, all the spiritual thinkers of our time and I had a dream to be a Hay house author and I said wouldn't that be amazing to be a Hay house author but then instantly my head trash that voice in my head literally said that'll never happen, who's gonna listen to me I don't have anything to talk about, I'm nobody, I'm nothing. Who's ever gonna listen to me? I hear that voice all the time, constantly.

Then in 1997 I had two epiphanies when I discovered affirmations and then I discovered success anorexia which later became my book, the point is that I said, this is why I believed I'm here on earth, I just kept taking and it was more like hope, it wasn't even really a belief. One day I got introduced to Reed Tracy the president of Hay house, one of the most brilliant marketers here on the face of the US, one of the most amazing people here in the publishing industry and he loved my work and he offered me a publishing contract with Hay house and here I am, a Hay house author for life.

What does this mean for you?

Even if you don't really believe it, as long as you keep taking action, miracles do manifest. Focusing on the possibilities of the law of attraction and combat the people's negative experiences through the help of meditation. The visualization of our desire matters, the vibrational frequency the law of attraction suggests is to include optimism and continue to manifest in daily life. 

Another powerful example: there's a great golfer named Bubba Watson. You may not have heard of him but he won the masters. Bubba Watson is not as famous as Tiger Woods or some of other golfers, however,  he is a masters champion. In the interview at the masters, Jim Nance asked him, was it just like you pictured it? and Bubba Watson said he was crying, his tears running down his face as he remembered, he said I don't know, I never got this far in my dreams.

He didn't even dream to achieve it and yet he did it, the point is don't worry about believing so much and you have to strengthen your receiving muscles, people should remember that the human brain is powerful enough to attract frequencies. Sometimes it's hard for us to receive help, I've been such a giver my whole life. What is amazing is that I've been giving for so long that I honestly forgot the feeling of receiving, people have to receive attention absolutely but you've got to take action and you've got to add value and improve effectively for the people you love before you can expect to receive anything.

Do you know what a vision board is? Have you ever tried to create your own, maybe for a school project or for a material to be used in the office? And maybe it didn't work out the way you wanted?

In today's Ask Noah St. John Show, I'm going to teach you why everyone's wrong about vision boards and how to do a better vision board for you, for your family, for your business, your career, and your legacy.

What are vision boards? And how do I create one?

What is a vision board? As we all know, a vision board is an art piece of motivation that the gurus have been telling us to do for years and years. A vision board is something where you think about your journey, what you want to focus on, your deepest desires, and the achievements you want to fulfill in the future. It is designed to represent your visions.

There's a broad concept when it comes to the designs of a vision board. The very common tools are paper and pen where you just write down quotes from your favorite books, stories you have read, or films. People often use words of affirmations that aim to grow positivity within. Perhaps, you can use my words of Afformation® which reinforce your confidence by simply answering empowering questions about the things you are capable of achieving. 

Others use magazines to pick and cut fun pictures, gluing those to paper, and sticking them on the wall. Some use photos they have taken to remind them of memories. Most students make vision boards using different materials and resources which resembles their school projects having various themes, colors, and textures. Anything that appeals visually great can attract positive vibes and inspire a person to keep moving and hustling for a dream.

Why is your vision board not enough?

Well, vision boards are supposed to help you get all the things that you want. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

I remember years and years ago when I started to educate myself through spiritual studies. I read all these books and talked a lot about vision boards. I said, “I'll try it”. I got all these magazines out, I cut all these images of cars and houses of money and I put them on my wall. I think about it and I'd stare at my vision board, look at it and think about it. My eyes are glued to these pictures hoping I will be able to experience success.

Empowering Vision: Why is your vision board not enough?

Do you know what I got while I was looking at the picture? Do you know if the pictures of cars, houses, and money become true now? Why didn't the vision board work for me? A reason the vision board didn't work for me and it didn't work for millions of people out there who have tried vision boards is that a vision board doesn't fix the actual problem. It doesn't guarantee automatic success.

Basically, like going to the dentist you say, “Hey Doc, do you know I got a toothache? My tooth really hurts.” He goes, “Hey, you've got a cavity there.” Okay, next. You’re like, “Wait a minute. Don't you want to fix it well?” He says, “Well you didn't ask me to fix you just asked me to tell you what was wrong”. See, that's the real problem. Here’s the point, when you look at a vision board, cutting out pictures and all that texts, and you're visualizing the pictures on a wall, all you're basically doing to your brain is saying; “See. Look at all that stuff.” Your brain's going well.

What are we going to do now to see your brain? It’s a question seeking an answer, “finding machine” - that's what it is. Your brain is always in the process of asking and seeking answers to questions. This is one of the reasons why I invented the Afformation® System. If you look at my books like Power Habits® and Get Rid of Your Head Trash About Money, in the book of Afformations® from Hay House, and my Afformation® system at afformations.com, this is exactly what I’ve been teaching my coaching clients for more than two decades since 1997. It's also one of the reasons that my clients and I have added over 2.7 billion dollars using my legendary methods. 

While you're doing a vision board wrong, it's not your fault. It's just that they told you to put all these ideas and pictures together but then, they didn't tell you what to do. You became "blind" and too much focus on dreaming, you definitely lack a bit of moving.

Power Tip #1: Asking yourself what do you want

What works way better and more efficiently than a vision board is?

Asking yourself the things you want now, goals, or dreams you want to achieve.

Empowering Vision: Asking yourself what do you want

You can write specific objectives for a short-term project you want to finish or an outline of goals to check development in achieving a long-term one. You can still draw them out and creating a vision board would be nice, too.

The things you value and believe in can definitely help to identify what's more essential to include in your list. You don't need to rush and frustrate yourself to envision mind-blowing ideas, or to visualize a clearer future right away. If you still don't know where to settle because maybe you're focusing on the present, asking yourself now can be truly helpful. This will serve as a key guide in your journey of understanding your feelings, learning your experiences, and knowing your purpose in life.

Power Tip #2: Understand what's between you and what you want

I call that going from your CPR to your NDR - your Current Perceived Reality to your New Desired Reality. Yes, it is important to know where you want but you gotta understand and relate what's between you and what you want. I call it "the gap.”

There are three kinds of gaps that you can have. You can have a knowledge gap, a skills gap, and a belief gap. A knowledge gap is “I don't know what to do”, the skills gap is “I don't know how to get there”, and the belief gap is “I don't really think I can do it now”.

From 99 of the coaching clients that I've coached over the last two decades, it's the belief gap that's keeping you stuck meaning most people just think or believe they probably can't do it anyway. What's the point now that maybe it is a conscious thought, may not be it, or maybe a subconscious thought but it doesn't matter because of the law of sowing and reaping. As you sow, so shall you reap.

Empowering Vision: Understand what's between you and what you want

If you think you can't do it then guess what, you're going to prove yourself right. Your emotions define the core of this life mission, how inspired and motivated you are to take risks and grab opportunities, and how you acknowledge the negative feeling and turn it into a challenge. You should want it more than you're afraid of it. Believe me when I say it helps you feel powerful when someone explains your gap, whether it is closer to your dreams or there's still a long track to go through.

Power Tip#3: Take the steps

Take the actions necessary to overcome your gap. Being committed to a goal is allocating time regularly, setting aside insecurities, and having the courage to push through no matter how difficult it is to get there. A visual board should not end with the image or text on the wall, it should empower you with a daily step to take and gain lessons through trials so it can add up to your growth.

That's why I have so many different programs that help you to overcome whatever gap it is whether it's a knowledge gap if you don't know what to do, a skills gap meaning you don't have the tools to do it, or much more important and the foundation of all is a belief gap. I have programs and tools that will help you believe and actually know that you can do it but believe it or not, belief isn't as important as you think even though it's crucial. It's much more important to take action than just try to sit there and change your beliefs. The Law of Attraction is not a bad thing to believe in but you need to work on your goals to make it happen.

Remember that I've said this many times and you've heard me say this if you've been on these programs, “One positive action beats a thousand positive thoughts.” I’d rather see you taking action without even believing it rather than sitting there trying to believe, and waiting until you're ready to take action because guess what you're never gonna be ready. It really takes time to be confident and speak positively about the abilities you possess. This only speaks a lot about the trust you put in the process no matter how blurry your view is on reaching your goal.

Empowering Vision: Take the steps

I can give you a thousand examples from my own life of how I took action even when I didn't think I could do it. A great example is my Hay House book. I started reading Hay House books in the 1990s when I started my spiritual studies more than 30 years ago and I dreamed of being a Hay House author. I kept saying, “It'll never happen to me. I'm probably not good enough. Who's going to listen to me? Why would they ever publish my book?” Well lo and behold, they published my book and now there's so much demand for it that they're sold out. When you go to Amazon and look at my Book of Afformations®, they're actually sold out which is pretty funny.

Baby Steps to Financial Freedom

Anyway, my point is that even if you don't believe yet, go ahead and take action. Learn to contribute to your progress. Shape up your mind and upgrade your career. In fact, here's something you can do right now. I’m gonna show and tell you something you can do right now today. You can start making money in your online business without even having to build anything. It's really simple.

First of all, just go to noahstjohn.com/jv. You're going to see a million of me right now. Let me share how you can join my inbound ram, that's what we call our Affiliate Program, the Ambassador Program. You can earn commissions on every sale. All you have to do is put your email, password, your first name and then you just type in your PayPal email because I'm going to pay you here when people come to me through you. If you know anything about my work and if you're a fan of mine then you know you want to recommend me, you may want to refer me to your friends, your colleagues, your teammates, your family members, and the people whose lives for them to know that this works and can change your life.

I’m happy to pay you commissions on every sale that comes through from your efforts. Isn't that great? It’s a win-win, everybody wins! Go to noahstjohn.com/jv then it will take you to your Affiliate page. Everybody has a unique affiliate number. I have programs like Online Business Virtual Retreat, Power Habits® 21-Day Challenge, the Afformation® System, Get Unstuck Out Six-Figure Machine, Funnel Secrets, sendmeabooknoah.com for my free book called Get Rid of Your Head Trash About Money, and Traffic Income Secrets. That's my eight-week coaching program where I teach you to massively increase your traffic without spending any more, authority cycle mastery where I show you how to have the traffic and the funnels so that you can become a trusted authority in your space. We have Power Habits® Secrets where I teach how to have more mind health and business wealth in just eight weeks and Power Habits® Academy which is a virtual health program where I teach you the Power Habits® of unconsciously successful.

You can make money on all of these if you want to so I recommend starting with the easy ones which are Afformation® System, Power Habits® Challenge, and Online Business Retreat. You’ll just hit the link, copy that affiliate link, scroll down on the page, copy and see what email social media swipe copy says then share these pictures on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, wherever and whatever the newest social media is out there. You can also send it through email. Email is really going to be the best way to do it.

In fact today, right now, at the time of this year, the early bird promo is ending so make sure if you want to get in on my Power Habits® Challenge so I can help you have better mind health and more business wealth in the next 21 days. Go to powerhabitschallenge.com and sign up today before the early bird expires. We have Power Habits® which is right here at powerhabitsecrets.com, Funnel Income Secrets, and Traffic Income Secrets. I've got you covered in a cradle to grade A to Z. There's nothing missing so there it is right there, it's pretty simple friends so you can get paid right now.

I wish that I had this all, all those years ago when I started successclinic.com in a dorm room with 800 in a book on HTML. I didn't have any of these accessible tools that you all have available to you right now. I had HTML all by myself and I tell you, it was awful. It took me 10 years before I broke six figures but if I had the tools, had the training and workshop, and had the support that I have for all of you right now, I would have gotten there a heck faster. You can actually get there faster than I did and much easier than I did. You won't have to spend half a million dollars on all the gurus only to find out that they can't teach their way out of a paperback.

Turning your vision into a mission

Again, a vision board is only a representation of your goals in life which anyone can agree that it serves as an inspiration. All it takes to make it work is to follow the tips I've given you. Ask yourself empowering questions to discover yourself more. You'll be able to understand and explain the things you live up to. When you recognize and accept where you are and where you're going, you'll be able to attach and connect lessons from the past, apply strategies today, and create an objective plan for tomorrow.

Make minutes in your life count by spending time day in and out for your dreams. You don't stay where you are residing, you grow and bloom. But always be reminded not to compare your vision boards to someone else's because we all have our own version of progress and success.

If you ever need a helping hand, there is plenty of support you've got out there. Parents will definitely ensure you'll land a good life. If you've been thinking about seeking professional help, don't hesitate to ask for mentorship from people who've been there longer, just like me. We will help you become strong with decisions, enhance the ability to lead, and wake up every morning, like a bright yellow sunflower, a boost of good mood.

Clarifying the visualization you have in mind is where I am good at. We'll help you realize and process what you are thinking to essentially design a concrete plan so you can achieve your goal and improve your career.

Go ahead and follow your chosen path to make your visions happen starting today.

Well today, I'll teach you my three proven tips so you can have more confidence even if you're shy and introverted like me. 

Let's talk about confidence! This is one of the big things that people ask me all the time, especially my high-level coaching clients. When I'm doing live events, when I'm doing private workshops with my clients whether I'm doing group coaching or even one-on-one coaching, I notice that the subject of confidence comes up all the time. Why is becoming confident plays a big role in achieving your dreams?

Well, very simple because most of the time people who do not feel confident, don't believe in their own strengths. Most people think negative and doubt their ability because most of them have a lot of what I call head trash. That’s why I’ve written 15 books on this subject including my new book Get Rid of Your Headtrash About Money. You can get this book free at sendmeabooknoah.com.

What is confidence and why is it important?

Now, why is confidence important? It’s very simple.  The word confidence comes from the Latin word confidere which means ”with trust”. When you don't have confidence, you don't trust yourself. You avoid criticism and lack the right behavior to accept the challenge that comes with it. When you let these negative emotions fill your mind, other people are going to have a hard time trusting you as well. Because if you don't believe in yourself, if you don't trust yourself,  how can others trust you?

For most of my life, I didn't believe in myself. I had no self-esteem at all. My self-esteem was lower than zero. I had no self-confidence.  I was a nerd in school before it was cool to be a nerd. I remember I had coke bottle glasses about that thick, I didn't have shoulder-length hair and amazing personality that can attract women. I had an afro out here and I envy those men with the super-cool image. I was a scrawny geeky kid growing up in Kennedy Compound, Port, Maine. You can imagine how poor I was. My family was in a poor setting living in a rich neighborhood so I had everything stacked against me. As a result, I had no self-confidence, no positive outlook in life. I feel like a failure and all I can see are my weaknesses.  If you can relate to something like that, you probably didn't have it as bad as I did or weren't as shy and awkward as me. 

What is confidence and why is it important?

I didn't have any trust in myself, I didn't have any belief in myself and I didn't have anyone to support nor help me. That's one of the reasons why at the age of 25, I decided to commit suicide because I was so depressed, so frustrated, so lonely and so unhappy that I said, “Why am I here? I don't need to be here. Nobody's going to miss me if I'm not here.” Fortunately, at the very last moment, my life was spared.

But my point of the story is this: If you don't have confidere - trust in yourself,  then it's going to be hard for other people to trust you which means that as a result, you're not going to be making the money you want to make. You'll never have achievements or successes. You're not going to have the time freedom, not having the energy, probably won't have the relationships you want and you definitely won't have the financial freedom that you're looking for. These are some of the reasons why confidence is so important. Not being confident in your own skin may increase the negative feeling inside, disturbing questions that will not help you at all.

Let's talk about how to gain confidence even if you don't believe in yourself and even if you're shy and introverted like me.

Project Confidence Tip #1: Find Your Purpose

Now, the first thing you need to do is to find your purpose. You've got what I call in my Power Habits® book and in my Power Habits® training, “find your because”. You got to find your because now. What does that mean? It means you've got to understand your purpose here on Earth. I just shared my experience when I attempted to commit suicide at the age of 25 because I didn't know why I was here on Earth. Now even when I didn't take my own life, it still took me another five long years and five years of study and hard work. I was reading all the spiritual teachers of our time --- Marianne Williamson and Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, Ernest Holmes, Neale Donald Walsh and other people like them. I would just try to find my purpose and in 1997, I found my purpose. I want to share my ideas and hopefully influence others with my principles.

I had two epiphanies that changed my life and I discovered first of all Afformations® which you can go to afformations.com and learn more about the shower that changed everything and how to change your subconscious thought patterns so you can change your beliefs and change your life. It has been an incredible eureka moment for me and now it has not only help in developing strategies for better performance but also improve other's life.

Project Confidence Tip #1: Find Your Purpose

The second epiphany was when I discovered success anorexia which is why so many people starve themselves as success and that's what I teach you in my book Power Habits®. The point was when I discovered my “because”, I was 30 years old. It wasn't 30 that I knew why I was here on the Earth. That's 30 long years of not knowing why, so you don't have to go through that. How do you find your purpose? Well, I do talk about that in the Power Habits® book and empower habits account. There I share how to overcome this phenomenon, learning to take control and be assertive in every action I make.

One thing you can do right now is a very simple "ask easy exercise". You'll say, “What would I love to do if money was not an object? What would I love to do?” See everybody talks about out there, all the gurus say, “ Do what you love and the money will follow.” That is such a lie! That is one of the biggest and most costly mistakes out there in this industry, the industry of business and personal growth. It's totally not true.

I love going to bookstores. I love going to libraries. I love reading books. Are you going to pay me for reading a book? No, you're not! Nobody's going to pay me for going to bookstores. Nobody's going to pay me to lounge in the library but I enjoy it. That's what I love so why isn't the money following? It doesn't make sense!

Well, because they forgot to tell you the most important part of that equation which is to know what you love, find what you love, and take action. But then, you've got to show other people why and how they will benefit from you. Like I help health professionals, course creators, and coaches to start and scale their online business to 30k per month. In online business, I help them do that in 90 days or less. That’s a really, really big value if you'd like to do that. I know that you're interested and you'd like to start or scale your online business to 30k per month in 90 days. My task for you is this, you've got to know your purpose which I call on your "because". I do teach you how to do that in Power Habits® Academy and my friends’ Powerbook. It is a key to unleashing your abilities and taking you into the zone, where your purpose lies.

Project Confidence Tip #2: Build the Right Habits

Secondly, you've got to have the right habits. You've got to take the right actions. Power Habits®  is really, actually very simple. The Power Habit® System that I developed and have created over the last two decades of working with people like you has played competent roles to achieve your life goal. I've helped to add six, seven, and even eight figures to their business. There are 11 total Power Habits®. These are the Power Habits® of unconsciously successful people meaning highly successful people, what they do without even thinking about it.

Project Confidence Tip #2: Build the Right Habits

You've got to find the right habits so that you can fulfill your purpose right. One of the habits that I’ll teach you is Afformations®. It is changing your subconscious thought patterns so you can stop stopping yourself from the success you're capable of. All right there are 11 total Power Habits® out for me, the foundational habits, so you've got to have that foundation so when you're building your house, your dream house, your dream life, and your dream business, you've got to have that foundation. That’s why everything starts with Afformations® but it doesn't end there. You can find the difference between feeding yourself with positive reminders versus recognizing the skills you own through empowering questions. It is one of the easier tasks yet it gives you the knowledge and the urge to perform towards efficacy.

Project Confidence Tip #3: Relax and Breathe Properly

You’ve got to have the right half, you have your purpose, you gotta have the right habits and then the third step and tip you can do right now is you gotta breathe properly. Now, I know that sounds so simple. I think I knew I had to breathe and that’s great. Did you know that when you are stressed, tired, overwhelmed, when you're feeling fear and in that fight or flight, you actually stop breathing? You're not obviously stopping breathing completely but what happens is you breathe very shallowly. Have you ever been in that situation like maybe you're wanting to talk to that person or even make a phone call or maybe even go on a video? And ends up, it is actually happening. You're breathing very shallowly so you've got to actually learn how to calm your breath. One great way to do that is to just breathe in through your nose and then hold it for a few seconds then breathe out through your mouth. In through the nose, out through the mouth.

Doesn't it feel better? You can literally connect to your authentic self in seconds just by breathing properly. Now, it might sound silly, might sound simple. It is really simple yet it's not silly. It works like a charm. It works every time and you can actually notice that as you're in that situation or even thinking about going into that stressful or that overwhelming situation,  that fearful situation. If you're conscious of your body, you can start to feel your breath going and that's the worst thing you could do. The best thing you could do for yourself at the moment is to breathe properly right into the nose, hold out through the mouth and you can literally get centered all the way to your diaphragm right down here.

Project Confidence Tip #3: Relax and Breathe Properly

By the way, I want to show how you can make money from me right now? If you're struggling to find your purpose, you're not sure what it is exactly you're doing well. I will show you how to make money from me literally in the next 21 days, all you have to do is go to this website. First of all, I'll give you some links of what I was talking about earlier so powerhabitsbook.com. That's where you can get my Power Habits® book. You can also go to powerhabitsacademy.com and learn my Power Habits® academy online, and sendmeabooknoah.com wherein you can get my new book for free which is Get Rid of Your Head Trash About Money.

You can make money from my products. Just go to noahstjohn.com/jv. Join our affiliate program and earn commissions on every sale that you make so when you recommend or when you refer people to me, I pay you a commission. It's all super simple. I'll show you exactly how it works so just fill this in. It takes about 30 seconds there's no cost, it's you and so you just put in your email, password, put in your first, last name, and your PayPal email because I'm going to pay you through this. We have programs like Online Business Virtual Retreat, Power Habits® 21-Day Challenge, Afformation® System, and we've got a ton of great stuff. Here is what the Afformation® System looks like at afformations.com, view Online Business Retreat at onlinebusinessretreat.com, find out Power Habits® Challenge at powerhabitschallenge.com.We also have Funnel Income Secrets, Traffic Income Secrets, and basically, we've got you covered --- cradle to grade A to Z. We've got you covered at nine ways to Sunday. 

All you have to do is go to noahstjohn.com/jv, click these blue buttons and it is your custom link. If you want to put Afformation® System, you just copy this link here. You scroll down on that page, highlight just like a word doc, copy, and just post it on your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and  LinkedIn. You can even share it with your friends via email and all you have to do is make sure you put your affiliate link in there so we can track your sales and I can pay you your commissions. You can find your affiliate ID on each page of the programs. These are called evergreen programs, evergreen courses which means they're going on all the time. You can promote this 12 months out of the year, 52 weeks out here,  24/7, and I will pay you. Again, you can make money online right now without ever having to build anything. All you have to do is share these links and I’ve given you even the words to say. They're right here and it says Email and Social Media Swipe Copy. You just copy and paste, copy and paste, copy and paste! It's that easy, friends! How cool is that? It is free freaking awesome!

Again, when you have the right purpose, the right habits, and when you breathe properly, that's going to give you confidence in any situation even if you're shy and introverted like me. Smile and start your Project Confidence now!

Why is everyone wrong about positive thinking?

What Is Positive Thinking

Positive thinking is the process of focusing your mind, your emotions, your skills, and your attitude on success.

Benefits of Positive Thinking

The benefits of positive thinking may include:

  • Focus on what you want
  • Releasing negative outcomes
  • Having a positive attitude
  • Lower stress and release negativity
  • Increased healthy feelings of happiness
  • A happier outlook
  • An improved situation
  • A happier smile
  • Coming from your heart daily
  • Develop a sense of humor
  • Releasing anger
  • Lower depression
  • Weed out negative thoughts
  • Let go of negative people

Why Positive Thinking Is Not Enough

All of these benefits sound great, right?

Yet here's why positive thinking is NOT enough to create the life of your dreams.

Let me give you an example...

Imagine you want a new house.

You want a beautiful mansion with a swimming pool and Jacuzzi. You want it to be near the beach or in the mountains or by the lake. 

And you decide to use positive thinking like the "gurus" teach.

They tell you that positive thinking is what you need to do to reach your goals.

why positive thinking is not enough

So here you are, doing positive thinking about your dream house.

But where is your dream house?

Only in your mind - because all you're doing is thinking positive.

Meanwhile, someone else is out there not just positive thinking, they're taking daily ACTIONS to make it real -- putting it in their schedule, feeling it in their body, going beyond emotional goals to where it's not theory - but following a proven path so they become immune to sadness and grateful for possibilities and options.

Which person do you think is going to get their dream house?

Clearly, the person who is taking daily actions and following a proven path.

The saying, "Talk is cheap" is not bad. It simply means that you need to learn to start -- you need to practice taking actions, even when you may feel bad.

Why Positive Actions Beat Positive Thinking

At https://BreakthroughwithNoah.com I've been teaching my coaching clients for more than two decades now that positive actions beats positive thinking.

That's one reason why my coaching clients have added more than $2.7 BILLION dollars using my proven methods.

Let me give you another example.

In the 90s I started my spiritual study and exploration of how mindset, emotion and positivity affects how we attract our physical results.

I began finding books by authors like Louise Hay,  Ernest Holmes, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch, Deepak Chopra and the spiritual thinkers of our time.

At that time, I used to dream about being a Hay House author.

Like I was playing clips in my mind, it would be like “Wouldn't that be amazing if I had a book published by Hay House!”

why positive actions beat positive thinking

I dreamed about that goal for a long, long time.

Yet after a while I thought, "Well, it's probably not going to happen."

Years later, I was introduced to Reid Tracy, president of Hay House.

We had a conversation and immediately hit it off. Reid offered me a publishing contract to publish my Book of AFFORMATIONS®.

In fact, you can go to AfformationsBook.com and grab your copy of this life-changing transformational book.

What Does Positive Thinking Mean for You?

What does this story mean for YOU?

Even though I didn't really have an optimistic outlook, even though the images I had created in my mental state said it would "never happen," it happened anyway.

Why?

Because I kept doing my job. I would write my books. I consciously let go of that pessimistic attitude.

I discovered how to have contentment and enjoy every moment. It was like an experiment where I would explore the quality of meditation. My studies led me on the path to optimism and gratitude, even when positive thinking did not come naturally to me.

I kept working to improve my situations. I discovered the ability to control my thoughts and find joy, and in my writing I was open to things being imperfect.

I was open to possibility, even when my head said well it probably won't happen so what does this mean for you. 

Three Ways to Go Beyond Positive Thinking

To go beyond positive thinking, first you've got to focus on what you want.

Even if you tend to automatically follow stressful situations with negative thinking, you still have to focus on your goals.

Step two is to understand what's in your way, what are the roadblocks, obstacles, head trash that's in your way telling you that you can't do it. 

Go to https://SendMeaBookNoah.com and get my new book FREE called Get Rid of Your Head Trash About Money.  

Because I will show you how to get rid of your head trash easily, which will support your attraction to developing skills for receiving your goals and letting go of anxiety and stress, and the traffic in your head so you can achieve more and enjoy the adventure of life.

Step three is to take inspired action even in the face of fear.

Whenever you want to change your life, you've got to cross the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

three ways to go beyond positive thinking

That means that everything you want is on the other side of fear.

That means being happy and thankful for the multiple little things every day - like the smell of your home, the kindness of others, the positive effects of sleep, your emotions, your health, the people in your life.

The more you practice being happy, the more you will learn that positive thinking doesn't need to be a one time thing.

You can talk your mind into being happy every day and step into your best future.

And did you know that I can help you have better mind health and more business wealth in the next 21 days WITHOUT having to use willpower?

Join my Power Habits® Challenge, so you too can have better mind health and more business wealth in the next 21 days even if you don't have any willpower, even if you don't feel confident and even if you don't have any experience.

Every other month, we’re promoting and inviting people to join the Power Habits Challenge.

It's that simple!

That's how you can make money right now without ever having to build anything.

How cool is that?

You can play with that event and just spend a few minutes developing your positive thinking and money making muscles, then rest for the rest of the day!

It's even better than the Law of Attraction, because it affects everything in a very valuable way and can have a major impact to increase your feelings of love and train your brain to increase and broaden your list of friends.

I hope today's lesson has helped to show you why everyone's wrong about positive thinking - because remember, one consistent action a day beats a thousand positive thoughts.

How to create a compelling future

Do you want a more compelling future? To set a goal and have realistic dreams you feel are moving you towards making measurable progress so you too can achieve your goals and have a powerful success strategy so you can have more time, more energy,  better relationships and more money.

Today I'm going to list three real tips so you too can achieve and live a compelling future.

What is a compelling future?

  • MORE TIME to achieve the things that you really want.
  • MORE ENERGY so you can focus and take action to enjoy doing those things.
  • BETTER RELATIONSHIPS so you have your "dream team" achieving your specific strategic goals and vision, holding you accountable, helping you reach your goals, experience growth, visualize the life you love, and driving you towards your goals and…
  • MORE MONEY so you can enjoy the process and have the ability to accomplish the finer things in life.
What is compelling future

Those four elements make up what we call a Freedom Lifestyle.

How do you create a compelling future?

First: Reflect and understand the key values, direction and design of your life. 

It's like looking in a mirror. Review and get clear on your purpose, the inspiring story about what your future is… what I call your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Ask questions like:

  • What does living my best future look like?
  • What kind of person or friend do I want to be?
  • What does building my compelling future look like?
  • What positive statements do I want people to say about me?
  • How can I stay strong in the face of false information or beliefs?
How do you create a compelling future

Use a worksheet to answer these questions.

When you're having the impact that you really want to have, when you're making a difference in people's lives. What is that you're getting up for everyday and you're doing that you are enjoying with the people that you really want to do it with?

You've got to paint that picture and decide to get very clear on it.

With my $50,000 high-end coaching clients, one of the things that I talk about all the time is The Entrepreneurial Yellow Brick Road which has four milestones on it.

The first milestone is when you make your first dollar online.

The second milestone is when you make your first $10,000 online.

The third milestone is when you make your first $100,000 online.

The fourth milestone is when you make your first million dollars online.

Decide where you are and where you want to be on that on that yellow brick road.

Have you made your first dollar online?

Have you made your first $10,000?

Have you made your first $100,000?

Have you made your first million?

OR are you on your way to those?

How many months will it take to reach your next milestone?

Get very clear on what is your compelling future.

Second: Identify what is holding you back

Relax, listen to music, get quiet and get clarity on your objectives and what individual situation or context or subconscious block is in your way.

What's holding you back?

What's keeping you stuck?

What are the roadblocks?

identify what is holding you back

Check the barriers you can't seem to break through, no matter what you've tried before.

Now we're addressing the three gaps you can have when it comes to setting and reaching your goal or goals and making daily progress:

  1. Knowledge Gap (Not knowing what to do) 
  2. Skills Gap (Not knowing HOW to do it)
  3. Belief Gap (Not believing you CAN do it)

Guess which one most people have?  

Most people have a Belief Gap.  

What is a Belief Gap?

It's the belief, "I probably can't do it anyway. I'm not smart enough, it sounds too hard, I don't have the crucial motivation, I don't know the right actions to take, there are too many obstacles, I'll never lose the weight, I'll never lose the pounds, I'll never be rich, I'll never have the body I want, it's too difficult, I can't imagine hitting my goal, I simply don't have the commitment to reach my goals, so why bother? It's easier to just stay in bed or go to the stores or the museum.”

what is a belief gap

Remember, that very thought will keep you STUCK. 

Most of the people I've coached over the last two decades came to me with a Belief Gap that was keeping them STUCK.

Third: Make it about MORE THAN MONEY 

Make it more about meaning than money.

In my experience, we human beings will do more for MEANING than for money.

For example, when you go on social media, you see all the gurus in front of their Lambos and private jets, showing off all their "cool stuff" and saying "Hey man, aren't I awesome? I made all this money and I'll show you how to do it too!” 

They're great self-promoters, but what I've noticed after spending half a million dollars with all the gurus out there, is that they can't teach their way out of a paper bag!

Isn't it interesting that of course we want money and all the nice things money can buy.

make it about more than money

But really our goal is the four elements of a Freedom Lifestyle I just talked about: 

- Our goal is MORE TIME. Meaning we set goals are BE FREE, to feel happy and fulfilled, to produce the fearless, unique measure of achievement we desire, adopting our own schedule - whether we want to enjoy coffee in the morning, time to be grateful, time to photograph a beautiful scene, time to pursue dreaming without a specific timeline.

- Our goal is MORE ENERGY. Meaning we set goals precisely because defining our lives by money means short outcomes that don't satisfy. We want to have the peak performance that leaders do, stop the rush of life, come from the heart, stop being so tense and telling ourselves things that aren't true, pursue healthy initiatives for the long term, get in touch with Source and the healthy voice in our hearts.

- Our goal is BETTER RELATIONSHIPS. Meaning we set goals are so we may have the optimal management of our enterprises, taking actionable development, avoiding foolish, incomplete or ambiguous goals, getting input and ideas and topics from the right people and trusted consultants and our company's culture working uniquely in concert, giving and receiving proper evaluation, enjoying the people that we're with. And of course ...

 - Our goal is MORE MONEY. Meaning we set goals for inspiration, for our school and communities, to provide super learning no matter the type or format, to save for our future and for our company's forward movement, no matter the current times or history.

Yes, it is attainable.

Yet no matter the industry - whether food and beverage, health, network marketing, entrepreneurial, service industry, even if you're an educator - what I've seen over the last two decades of coaching people in dozens of industries that money is NOT the best motivator for most of the clients I work with.

Most people will do more to make a difference.  

Now I do want to show you something here about how you can make money from me so that you can fulfill your mission and create a more compelling future.

I'm going to show you my screen in the video and it's actually very simple. 

You can make a difference and also make money by being one of our Success Clinic Ambassadors.

An ambassador is our version of an affiliate program. You're probably familiar with affiliate marketing where you promote other people's products and courses. 

I started SuccessClinic.com in my college dorm room with $800 to my name and a book on html.

Since that time, I've made millions and millions of dollars and I've helped my clients make billions of dollars.

We are a referral-driven organization.

That means we are ready, willing and passionately able to help anyone and everyone that you send to us or that you refer to us.

What that means for YOU is that we are going to take great care of everyone that you send to us.  

To get started, simply go to https://NoahStJohn.com/jv

Sign up by entering your name, email and your Paypal Email so that I can pay you via PayPal whenever someone signs up for one of my programs through your Ambassador link.  

Many people around the world tell me every day that my programs have changed their lives.

This is how you can make money and know that you're making a great difference. 

At the time of this recording,  what we are promoting this month is called the Power Habits® 21-Day Challenge and you can find more information about that at https://PowerHabitsChallenge.com

That's where you can sign up, because I will show you how to have better mind HEALTH and more business WEALTH in the next 21 days.  

To promote any of my products, once you are logged in to your account on noahstjohn.com/jv you will see blue buttons there to take you to the page with your affiliate links, swipe copy for email and images you can actually use to promote it on Social Media or on your blog.   

With the swipe copy you can just literally copy and paste to your email, replace the link with your affiliate link and you are good to go.

You can also promote the Afformations System anytime you want that’s at

Afformations.com

Creating a compelling future means you are setting goals, making measurable progress every step of the way, following fundamental proven leadership and organizational principles like the ones taught at Harvard and other institutions, serving others, and feeling the momentum that comes from following effective motivational workshop goals like these.

Start to follow the systems so you can have MORE TIME to achieve the goal or goals you set...

MORE ENERGY to transform your life...

BETTER RELATIONSHIPS so you have the deep community of people who love you, and...

MORE MONEY so that you can achieve your out sized goals in a week that you haven't been able to do in months or even years.

Write a new narrative for yourself, give this the attention it deserves so you too can create a compelling future for you, for your business, for your career, for your family and for your legacy. 

Are you working from home right now? A lot of people right now are working from home who are not used to it.  

So, what are some do's and don'ts when you are working from home?

The 3 Sets Work from Home Do’s and Don’ts 

DO: Have a dedicated work space.

DON’T: Work from bed.

DO: Take frequent breaks.

DON'T: Work all hours of the day and night.

DO: Work in focused bursts.

DON’T: Get distracted by social media.

DO Have a Dedicated Work Space 

You want to make sure you have a dedicated work space because you're not going into the office right now.  

For example, I've proudly had a "work from home" home office for more than two decades. 

I started my company in my college dorm room in 1997 with $800 and a book on HTML. 

Today, we have a multi million-dollar business and I still work from home and I have a virtual team that's literally around the world.  

If you are working from home right now, you need a dedicated work space just like you're going into an office.  

Don't just plop down somewhere and start working.  

Instead, make sure that you have a dedicated workspace where you can shut out distractions and you can really focus and get your work done. 

DON'T Work from Your Bed 

We just talked about the importance of having a dedicated workspace in your home office.

You would never go into the office and your pajamas, would you?

That would be a little weird. 

In addition, it's really hard to focus on work when you're trying to work from your bed.

Your bedroom is a sacred space. You don't want to take your work there.  

And it's also probably bad for your relationship as well.

DO Take Frequent Breaks

The second set of do's and don'ts is do take frequent breaks.  

Now, I know that sounds counterintuitive.  

There's a lot of gurus out there or people teaching the hustle and work 18 to 20 hours a day. 

Yet the human brain does not function that way. 

Studies have shown that we humans work best in 90-minute focused intervals.

So, I teach my clients to work in what I call 90-minute uninterrupted intervals. 

Within that you want to take what I call Goal-Free Zones

Physically get up out of your workspace every 90 minutes.

About 10 to 15 minutes Is usually enough to reset the brain. 

And make sure that you have a healthy snack and drink some water. 

Maybe jog around the house or whatever you need to do to get those juices flowing again and then come back to work.  

DON'T Work All Hours of The Day and Night 

Don't let your work bleed into your personal life. Just like you're going into an office.  

It's really going to be frustrating for you and for probably your family. 

So, make sure you take those frequent Goal-Free Zones.

DO Work in Focused Bursts 

Work in those 90-Minute Uninterrupted Intervals where you are focused on your work. 

When you work in focused bursts, it's amazing what you can accomplish.

You will probably have to train the people you live with that this is what you're going to start doing now.

DON'T Get Distracted by Social Media

We live in a world of infinite distractions at our fingertips. 

Every second is a world of infinite distractions by virtue of our smartphones and of course on the Internet where we are connected. 

So, it's vital that when you're doing your work in these short bursts of focused attention that you don't get distracted by the lure of social media.

During your breaks if you want to go on social media do it during your breaks just like you would do at work.  

These are productivity tips that will help you work from home and help you get a lot more done. 

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - African proverb

As a leader, you want a highly productive team. But what habits separate highly productive teams from average teams—or worse, non-productive teams?

Imagine you’re getting in your car to take a cross-country trip. Your car is simply a highly sophisticated system of interactive, moving parts designed to help you reach your goals (your destination) faster.

Your team is like a car.

Your company’s goals are the destination you’re going for.

Your team is a system of interactive, moving parts called human beings.

So how can you, as the leader, get all those parts working together in harmony to reach a common goal—rather than breaking down by the side of the road?

Having coached executives and teams for the last two decades—and helping both individuals and teams reach their goals up to 300% faster—I’ve identified what I now call The Power Habits® of Highly Productive Teams.

Here then are the top 3 Power Habits® of Highly Productive Teams:

Power Habit #1: Clearly Communicate The Goal.

As a leader, you must clearly communicate WHERE you want the team to go.

To continue the driving analogy, if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know how to get there?

How will you know when you’re off course? How will you know whether you’re making good decisions or poor decisions with regard to your destination?

Without clear understanding and communication of WHERE you want to go, your team doesn’t have much of a chance to succeed.

Power Habit #2: Clearly Define The Why.

Just as it’s vital to know WHERE you’re going, it’s even more crucial to know WHY you’re going there.

For example, numerous studies show that if your only goal is “to increase profits,” it simply won’t be enough to motivate all of your team members.

This is particularly true of Millennials and Gen Z, who, numerous studies show, are more driven by mission than by money.

Why do you want to reach that goal?

That’s an important question.

Just as important, however, is why your people want to be part of your team.

Remember that not everyone is motivated by the same thing.

The word motivated comes from the Latin word movere which means “to move.”

It has the same root as the word motor.

Meaning, if you don’t find what motivates your team members, you won’t have access to the motor that drives them.

Power Habits

Power Habit #3: Align your training with your team’s biggest challenges and opportunities.

Whether you’re a leader in business, sports, or non-profit, there will always be challenges to reaching your goals.

Therefore, once you understand where you’re going and why you want to get there, the third Power Habit® of Highly Productive Teams is to align your training with the challenges standing between you and your goal.

For example, common challenges that our training programs focus on include:

 ✔ Accountability

 ✔ Leadership

 ✔ Decision-making

 ✔ Communication

 ✔ Teamwork

 ✔ Collaboration

Just like you wouldn’t put diesel in a gas-powered engine, you want to give your team members the right training to suit your goals and motivations.

That’s why it’s important to identify the skills and habits that you’re good at, as well as potential weaknesses, so you can overcome what’s standing between you and your goals.

When you begin to adopt these Power Habits® of Highly Productive Teams, you’ll discover that you’re better able to more quickly overcome the challenges you’re facing, as well as take advantage of more opportunities.

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