Tag: activity management

This week's question from my portal “The Neagle Code: Directions for Life” comes from Mario. 

Hi David,

I’ve been quite successful recently. My business has grown and grossed more money than ever.

However, I feel like whenever I take a big step forward… I end up suffering some major setback.

Why do I self-sabotage after doing really well?

Thanks for the question!

We all have an internal compass that dictates how much money or success we’re allowed to have. It’s set at a certain level (based on our programming), and once we go past that level…it gets stuck.

It’s called a Cybernetic Mechanism… or in simplere terms, a financial set point.

That’s when you find yourself “taking a step back.”

To break through this, you must first understand what’s actually taking place in your mind.

Let’s say you start making a lot of money — far more than what you were programmed to make.

Your financial set point immediately kicks in.

Once your brain senses that you’re making more money…it runs away from that, because it thinks it’s not safe. (It’s unknown.)

Our mind hits this place where it goes, “You’re OK here. You can back off from whatever you were doing.” And you take your foot off the gas.

It will cause you to “not feel like doing the work today.”

It will cause you to “get depressed.” (Or sick. Or tired.)

It will create some kind of “extenuating circumstance” in your life — anything to knock you off the disciplined routine you have for earning.

Your internal financial “governor” is literally controlling your behavior.

It will bring you right back to wherever your “financial set point” is.

Before you know it, you’ve dropped back down, and it takes all your energy to get it back up. You get exhausted. It drops back even further. We go through this cycle our entire life…without realizing what’s going on.

(That’s why you’ll have one month where you make the most money you’ve ever made before…followed by a $0 month or several low months.)

In these moments, ask yourself, “Why I am choosing to fail?” or “How is serving me to let this pattern be in control of my results?”

Get really quiet and honest with yourself.

And then…

Keep your eye on your goal.

You have to make an agreement with yourself that you’ll keep going — keep doing the actions needed to bring in the money — no matter what shows up to slow you down or stop you.

When you continually take action to move you forward, you’re reprogramming your mind to believe there’s an abundance, and your cybernetic mechanism will lose it’s power.

Need some more help around this self-sabotage? Join me THIS TUESDAY for a free training I’m hosting titled: Stop Making Things Hard. I’ll be sharing how you can STOP this pattern and move into a place of ease and grace. CLICK HERE to register.

P.S. Whenever you're ready… here are 3 ways I can help you grow YOUR business:

1. Listen to The Successful Mind Podcast. Three times per week I drop cutting edge information and strategies relating to success mindset, leadership, wealth creation and relationships.
2. Join other like-minded small business owners in my Transformation 2020 Facebook Group! Allow us to be a place to share ideas, get advice and meet others who value truth and growth!
3. Join me at The Art of Success Virtual Summit! This October I'm getting a group of amazing business owners for 3 days to work on exponentially growing their business.

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This week's question from my portal “The Neagle Code: Directions for Life” comes from someone who wishes to remain anonymous. 

Hi David,

Do you have any guidelines, or have you seen anything pattern-wise with people in terms of how they set up their calendar for success?

I love this question! Thanks!

Most of the successful people that I know, including myself, use the calendar for everything.

It's not for time management.

It's for activity management.

There's a big difference. You can't really manage time, but you can manage activities.

You can manage them based on what’s important in your life.

So, the calendar is the roadmap to the quality of your life, really.

First my team and I sit down and put in the time we want off.

Then we add in our events and launches (in person and online)… sometimes a year or two in advance.

Then we reverse engineer the activities that are required to do all of those things and add those tasks into the calendar.

The best thing that you can do is schedule your entire day from the time you get up until the time you go to bed, including your free time.

You may not know what you're going to do with the block of free time, but it's on the calendar.

The delineation in your mind is that when you go from one thing to the next, you leave the one thing that you just did and you don't carry it over.

You don't carry over the marketing meeting into the sales meeting or the sales meeting into a coaching call.

Then when you're not working and you're in your free time or with your family, you're not working, and you're in your free time with your family.

You're 100% focused and present.

Your calendar should be designed based on the goal and the vision that you create for yourself so that you can systematically work toward it and manifest it in your life.

P.S. Whenever you're ready… here are 3 ways I can help you grow YOUR business:

1. Listen to The Successful Mind Podcast. Three times per week I drop cutting edge information and strategies relating to success mindset, leadership, wealth creation and relationships.
2. Join other like-minded small business owners in my Transformation 2020 Facebook Group! Allow us to be a place to share ideas, get advice and meet others who value truth and growth!
3. Join me at The Art of Success Virtual Summit! This October I'm getting a group of amazing business owners for 3 days to work on exponentially growing their business.

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