Allen Brouwer

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The One Difference Between Success and Failure

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The One Difference Between Success and Failure

Your mindset determines so much of what happens in your life. If you show up with scarcity mindset and negativity, then you’ll experience scarcity and negativity. If you show up with a positive and abundant mindset, then you’ll experience positivity and abundance in your life.

Transcript:

This video is going to be on mindset and why why your internal feelings, your internal thought patterns, the way that you think about everything transforms your external environment. Where people fall short: they think I need to have this external experience or thing or event to happen in order for me to feel good or feel a certain way. But in reality, it’s feeling that way first which then transforms the external environment.

So when you’re negative you’re going to experience negative stuff. When you’re positive, you’re going to experience positive stuff. If you live in lack internally and have a scarcity mindset there’s going to be scarcity in your life. If you have an abundant mindset there’s going to be abundance in your life. And the way you think changes the solutions to the problems that you’re having. Where if you have a mindset of okay I can accomplish this, I’ve got everything that I need to accomplish what I want. If you see problems come up you think of solutions to those problems. If you have a negative mindset, you see those problems come up well, you’re probably only going to see problems and not solutions. And that’s what happens.

There is a quote that I like and I believe Henry Ford said this one, I am not positive. But it’s “If you think you can or you think you can’t, either way you are right.” So your mindset determines so much what happens but it’s all how you show up whether you think you can do something or think you can’t do something. The only real barrier to getting that thing done is you. You’re the only thing standing in your way.

So let’s say you are going to an event, you’ve never met anybody there, you’re not sure who’s going to be there. You’re going by yourself and you’re putting yourself out there to make some new friends or new connections or learn something new. But you have the mindset going into that no one’s going to like me or I am an imposter, who am I to go to this event, no one’s going to be friends with someone like me. Well when you show up to that event, you’re putting out that frequency of lack of confidence, lack of self-worth. People are like this person doesn’t quite fit in here the way that they showed up. And then therefore, now all that self-doubt that you just manifested is now manifesting in the external form and it’s this vicious cycle.  

Same thing happens when you set a goal for yourself. If you set a lofty goal  and you say okay I want a million dollars, whether it’s this year, tomorrow, next quarter, whatever it is. You set this lofty goal for yourself and it doesn’t have to be monetary, you set it but internally you think to yourself there’s no way I’m going to be able to achieve that.

Because you’re thinking there’s no way I’m going to achieve this big huge goal, now you won’t be able to pick up on the signs or the indicators of being able to hit that goal. And therefore you won’t see the opportunities that are coming because you already talked yourself out of hitting that goal. So what are some ways we can shift our mindset to be more positive, to come from a place of abundance, and to be able to do more and achieve more?

The first is meditating. Meditating in the morning is amazing and it’s beautiful and you can meditate at night. I choose to just meditate in the morning. But meditating gets you centered and gets you on a frequency of being calm and also being able to help you clarify some of the things that you want and reduce some of the chatter. So that’s the first thing is to meditate. Ever since I’ve done it I’ve been a better person, I feel like I’ve just been happier when I meditate. I know that’s not very scientific and there’s no backing there but I think it’s good for all mankind.

The next thing that you can do to change your mindset and how you show up to transform your external surroundings is to start with gratitude. Be grateful for the things that you have currently. Be grateful for the events you have experienced already in your life. And be grateful for the people that you surround yourself with or that you’ve interacted with in the past. And by being grateful now you’re able to pick up on. That also helps you show up in a more positive light and then therefore other people want to be around you, and then therefore more opportunities that can come up. Gratitude is another great thing.

So I mentioned people, what people are you grateful for in your life, that is another way to transform your mindset by surrounding yourself with like-minded people. A few people jumped in here already, Catherine, Raj, some people that I transformed my mindset because I was interacting with other people with great mindsets.

People who think bigger, dream bigger, who want to inspire other people. Those are some mindsets that are really important for what I want to do and what I want to achieve. So therefore I need to surround myself with people with like-minded mindsets. And that goes back to you’re the average of the five people you spend time with.

If everyone you’re sitting around with and spending time with is constantly thinking about or talking about all the problems that they’re having then you’re probably going to be focused on all the problems that you’re having. If you’re surrounding yourself with people who are talking about big audacious goals and hitting these huge targets and just dreaming bigger well that’s going to force you to dream bigger and think bigger and put yourself out there and put yourself in situations where you normally wouldn’t be in.    

So I hope this helps and I hope that you got some value from this. And remember everything that you want starts on the inside that will help transform everything that you want on the outside.

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Want Success? Cultivate a Growth Mindset!

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Want Success? Cultivate a Growth Mindset!

Growth mindset is key to your success!

Learn how you can start cultivating a mindset for growth and success!

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Transcript:

– Hey guys! I’m here with little Gracelynne, she’s saying a couple words. Right? Saying a couple words? Hanging out outside with dad? Yeah. So, just sitting out here looking at the new boat, called “Amazing Grace”, and having Gracelynne in my arms really just made me think about how far…

Thanks for the likes, Mike. Thank you, thank you. I’ll show you her some more. Hopefully, the baby’s getting the hearts and not the boat. Thanks.

But, I wanted to just recap the past couple of years. It’s been a crazy freaking ride, a crazy journey. Just a few short years ago, I was sitting in my office down and out and just completely miserable.

I remember going into my uncle’s office and bawling my eyes out because Lauren had just walked out because I wasn’t making any money and that I couldn’t quote unquote “get my shit together”. And not for the lack of not trying, it’s just that I couldn’t get traction on what I wanted to do.

I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, I knew I wanted to keep elevating myself, but I was just focusing on the wrong stuff, or I’d get a little bit of traction and then fail a little bit, and then not…

Tacos are everything in life? Hopefully, you’re talking about Taco Outriggers. But, yeah. Thanks, Michael. Appreciate that. Yes we do.

We do need to talk. But, I knew that I was determined to do something great. And I knew that I was determined to live a life of abundance. So I just worked my freaking ass off to make it happen.

And, has it been all sunshine and rainbows since that day in my office? Absolutely not. There’s been challenges, there’s been several failures, there’s been times where I thought, “Why should I keep doing this? What the hell am I doing all of this for?” And I just stuck to it. And I hope that I can inspire some of you to keep pushing.

Keep pushing for it and constantly be improving and constantly believing in yourself that if you do hustle, if you do put the work in and if you do the work, abundance will come. And once you have abundance, more abundance will come. And once you have some more of that, more of it will come.

And I remembered yesterday, I was like, “Oh, I was standing on a yacht a couple days ago or a couple..” I think it was last year. Talking about the power of normalization and how I can experience more of that.

I like to think that that has something to do with “Amazing Grace” behind me here and the memories that I’ll be able to create on her and the good times that will be had on the boat. But, really the one key thing to all of it… Now it’s not skill, I don’t really have that much skill.

I’m good at connecting dots. I’m good at seeing blind spots and good at managing, but I’m not good at a lot of things. And I’m not skillful at a lot of things, but the one thing that I have that you can all cultivate, it’s a muscle, is an abundance mindset. A growth mindset.

The fact that if you do have experienced failure, that you can achieve more. That you can do more. That you can have more even though right now, in this moment, this blip in time, it may not be working out for you but you can use it as a learning experience to do better, to be better, to have more, to experience more. And as long as you are constantly pushing yourself further, pushing yourself, and investing in yourself, doesn’t matter what you’re good at.

You’ll make something happen. So, I hope you guys cultivate a growth mindset and that you don’t get stagnant in where you’re at, and that you’re constantly pushing yourself further and harder and that you’re constantly learning from your wins and your failures and that you enjoy the hell out of life and live an abundant life, because that’s what it’s all about. Right, Gracelynne? Right, little girl? Gracelynne says, “Thumbs up for abundance.”

Thanks, guys. Bye.

Lessons I Learned in Fiji

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Lessons I Learned in Fiji

I spent the past week in Namale, Tony Robbins' private resort in Fiji. And the teachings I learned there are lifelong. Here are a couple I want to share to you.

1. Instead of focusing on the reasons why you can’t do it or why it’s not possible, focus on just one thing why you can do it and why it’s possible.

2. Surround yourself with people who are positive.

Sending you all positive vibes! Share this video to anyone who you think would benefit from it!

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Transcript:

Good morning everyone.

I just, getting back from a run and I’ll give Facebook’s algorithm a couple minutes to catch up with everything. So, this past week has been incredible.

Going to Namali, which is Tony Robbins’ private resort, in Fiji, was incredible. The people there were spectacular. And, the teachings there are lifelong. I’ve been practicing a lot of the teachings that everyone was sharing for a long time, but sometimes we get a little jaded and a little. Sometimes we get a little jaded, and we get a little, ah, you know, caught up with what’s going on in our world and what’s happening with us.

So, a couple teachings that they were sharing and that were abundant in Fiji were, you have to remain positive, and don’t focus on all the reasons why you can’t do something.

Sure there’s gonna be times in your life where you’re facing a challenge, or coming up to something that you’ve never done before, but to think of all the reasons why you can’t do it, is just going to stop you right in your tracks. And, what you need to do is think about, just the one reason why you can do this.

What’s one thing that you’ve done in your life that you’ve never done before that turned out successful?

Maybe it was something that you were, that you did when you were seven years old, and that’s the only time that you’ve done it but now, fast forward to today, you could take that teaching, and take that past self, or that past experience, and live in that right now. So, don’t think about all the things or all the reasons why you can’t do something. Focus on just the one reason why you can do it. The second is you have to, and which, what Tony describes as proximity is power.

You have to surround yourself with people of like-minded thoughts with high driven success, goals or high achievers, because what will happen is, lemme put it this way: if you travel abroad, a lot of people think it’s scary. Oh, I’m going to a different country, oh they don’t speak my language there, oh you know there’s, there’s something scary in the unknown. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that, most people in this world, are good people. It’s only the bad people that get the news and the attention. So, that’s why it feels like that there’s more bad people in this world. Most people are really good people, and they’d be willing to help you whether you’re new to a country, or new to a situation, or new to an environment that you’ve never been in before.

So, now that most people are good, there is one flaw in people. One flaw in people is that they’re, most people are just unhappy. Most people are negative. Most people are, they have good intentions but they’re stuck in this hamster wheel. In this trap of negativity. And that happens so often here in the US and in our culture. So, it’s surrounding yourself with people who are positive, who want to bring out the best in people. Not the people who want to bring out the best in people but, you know, have a negative spin on things, or try to think about all the ways that things can go wrong and, you know, are hedging their best that way.

I don’t think that’s the mindset of a growth mindset. You have to surround yourself with people who, who don’t bring you down, who don’t suck you down, who aren’t stressed out all the time, who aren’t, who aren’t, you know, thinking of all the possibilities, who are only thinking of ways to hold on to what they have right now. So, those are a couple key things. One, stay positive, and two, surround yourself with people who are positive. So this morning is positive vibes only.

Thank you everyone for watching. I saw a couple likes, and uh, and things come through, if you’re watching this in the future, share this video with someone you think would benefit from it.

Like, comment below, I’ll hang out for the day and, comment on this video with you guys.

Thanks Kevin.

Bye guys.

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Why It’s Important to Have an Abundant Mindset

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Why It's Important to Have an Abundant Mindset

Do you have an abundant mindset?

If you’re trying to make a change in your life, whether it’s starting a new business or a new project or even starting a new job, come in with abundance instead of coming in with a negative state of mind.

By coming in with an abundant mindset, you come in with more energy, more fire, more passion, more gusto, and you can operate at a higher level.

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I Talked About Getting Your Motivational Level Up with The Sales Evangelist

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I Talked About Getting Your Motivational Level Up with The Sales Evangelist

How do you get out of your own rut? How do you keep your positivity after failure after failure and things not going your way?

I talked about these things and more on The Sales Evangelist.

Listen To The Full Interview

http://thesalesevangelist.com/episode591/

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Habits & Routines of the Ultra Successful

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Habits & Routines of the Ultra Successful

Is There Any Secret to Success?

What are the habits and routines of successful people?
How do they operate?
What separates these high achievers from the herd?

Click play, learn their secrets and apply them in your life!

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Transcript:

The commonalities, we've done a ton of research, we've been to seminars, we've paid

for events, we’ve paid for mentors, just trying to pick the brain of people and we’ve actually been fortunate enough to pick the brains of people like Tony Robbins directly.

Literally sitting down with him and figuring out how he operates. What’s going on in his life and how he runs his, I think like 27 companies, something ridiculous. And then we sat down with Tim Ferris and figured out how he operates.

Daymond John, we sat down with him. And like we really want to dissect what makes high achievers, what separates high achievers from just average people. For the top three things, I think it would be planning. So the three month planning. There’s something that we term the 20 mile march. We haven’t talked about it. I know I brought it up once.

But what is the 20 mile march? Let me break it down.Two teams of people back in like 1922 or something like that that wanted to do a race to the South Pole. One team decided I am going to push as hard and as fast as possible on the nice days and on the shitty days, we’ll rest and we’ll hunker down in camp.

So they may do a hundred miles during a nice day or consecutive nice days and then if a storm came they would hunker down in camp. The other team said we are going to walk 20 miles whether it’s nice, whether it’s storming out, whether it’s overcast, no matter what, or whether just like it’s crap weather.

We’re just gonna do 20 miles each and every day. Can you guess which team made it to the south pole?

– [Man] The one that was more consistent?

– The one that did 20 miles each and every day.

And they weren’t the only ones, they didn’t just beat them to the South Pole. The other team that walked as far as possible and then hunkered down during the crappy days. They actually ended up all dying. All of ’em, they died.

So they didn’t just not make it to the South Pole, they died. So the 20 mile march is huge because this figures out okay what’s the one thing that I should be doing each and every day on a consistent basis. That’s a habit there.

The third habit I would say possibly a morning routine just to keep you well rounded. And for those who just want a brief tid-bit on morning routine. Cover your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional health in the morning. Doesn’t matter what it is. But as long as you cover those four before you start work, everything else falls into place.

So planning is critical because you need to know where you want to go. If you don’t have a plan of what the end goal is, you’re just gonna be drifting around. So, the planning that we do is a 13 week planning system. And this is the framework that’s inside the self journal and if you’re in the alliance I believe that you have one so you understand this.

But let me break it down for you if you haven’t opened it up or haven’t dove deeper into this. It’s… One of my goals was $100,000 a month by 28 years old. And I was working in corporate America and had this little side thing going. And I wrote that down each and every day.

And I just believed that that was gonna happen, that was gonna happen, that was gonna happen. And I remember I turned 28 years old and I was like, wait a second. Wait like today’s my birthday. Hold on one second. And I go into the Shopify dashboard and then I’m also have my consultancy and I’m like holy shit. I literally made $100,000 in 30 days by the time I was 28 years old.

And it’s just that belief that happened. So this isn’t the only thing that’s come about. Let me tell you everything else. We wanted to raise $200,000 on Kickstarter. That was our internal goal. So I wrote that down every day. $200,000 on our Kickstarter. $200,000 on our Kickstarter. We ended up reaching $322,000 in 34 days.

– [Man] Wow.

– Then I said I wanted to win the Shopify

Build a Business competition. I just freakin’ believed that I’m gonna win the Shopify Build a Business competition. Because that t-shirt company, that was a Shopify Build a Business competition company. Sure as hell we won.

Then I said, you know what I want to do? I want to win Forbes 30 under 30 this year. I just wrote that down. Yeah I’m gonna win, I’m gonna win. Sure enough Forbes 30 under 30. I’m telling you, if you believe it, you will get excited, you will take action, and you’ll get results.

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