Tag: Recognize opportunity

[Fast Cash Formula Series] Article #11 ~ Overcome Any Challenge

July 25, 2013

We are not programmed to recognize opportunity. Someone presents us with a great one, and we pick it apart, telling the person all the reasons why we can’t do it.

Unfortunately, that’s normal. That’s our subconscious trying to keep us safe by preserving the status quo.

So in order to see the true nature of the opportunities in our life, we have to learn to evaluate them from a broader perspective.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been leading you through an exercise to help you do just that. Before moving on to step 4, here are brief versions of steps 1-3 again.

Step 1. Write down your “need,” the amount to the penny of your monthly bills. If you are meeting your need every month, write down what you want, your financial goal.

Step 2. Now, make a list of every opportunity that comes to mind that could help you meet your need or want. No matter how far-fetched or unappealing or scary the idea may seem, write it down.

Step 3. Every opportunity has at least one challenge associated with it ~ something that makes you think the opportunity would be difficult or impossible to pull off.

The most common challenges are not enough money or time, issues with a loved one or prior commitments. Look at your list and write down the challenges that arise as you think about each opportunity.

Step 4. Now, what opportunities are those challenges presenting for you?

Each challenge you wrote down is another opportunity in disguise. It’s an opportunity for you to overcome that challenge and grow.

Once you meet a challenge, you grow past it and don’t have to grow past it again. It may still appear in your life, but you won’t perceive it as a barrier.

For example, let’s say your need is $7,546.35 a month, you’re not meeting it every month, and you want to become a mentor to others in your industry. One of the opportunities on your list is an invitation to teach a class with someone who’s already doing that. One of your challenges is sharing the costs with that person. You think you can’t afford it. The opportunity in that challenge is that you will have to start learning how to manifest money in your life. And as you learn how to do that, you’ll stop seeing money as a problem.

Another challenge might be a lack of confidence, so the opportunity is to raise your confidence. By the sheer act of stepping into your new role, you will give yourself an experience your subconscious can’t deny, and your self-confidence will naturally rise. In the future when you teach, confidence will become less and less of an issue.

So, next to each challenge on your list, imagine what the opportunities might be.

You don’t have to do anything yet. Just let yourself SEE what’s possible. See where the next stage of growth for you might be.

If, after completing your list, you feel excited at the prospect of stepping into that growth, congratulations! That’s the key to overcoming any challenge. View it as an opportunity, and then step into it, and there’s nothing that you can’t do.

 

David Neagle, The Million Dollar Income Acceleration Mentor and author of The Millions Within, teaches entrepreneurs and commission-based sales professionals how to quantum leap their current incomes past the 7-figure income level, often in less than 12 months. As a world-class speaker, sales trainer, and success-mindset mentor to some of the globe’s top CEOs, David also privately mentors big decision-makers in their pursuit of quantum success and peace of mind.

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[Goal Setting Series]Article #8 ~ A New Way of Life

December 13, 2012

If you've taken each step in this goal-setting series, you've used fantasy to receive your prosperous goal, decided that you are ready and willing to manifest it, invested yourself emotionally in your goal, and begun to raise your level of awareness.

By now, the Universe has probably already brought you the opportunity that will lead to manifesting your goal.

As I said last time, this is where faith becomes crucial.

If your opportunity requires you to do something that you don't want to do, you may decide that things aren't all that bad after all. You don't really need the thing you said you wanted.

This is a very predictable reaction. It's just your subconscious mind trying to keep you where you are.

Your task is to keep moving forward regardless.

Here's how you do that.

Decide, Change, Adapt, Grow

First, recognize that your opportunity is meeting you one level up from where you are.

Picture yourself at the bottom of a staircase. Your goal is at the top. All the stairs in between represent each of the opportunities that you have to step up and into in order to reach your goal.

Let's say you're a filmmaker living in Des Moines, and your goal is to win an Oscar. The Universe has shown you the opportunity for your first step, which requires you to move to Los Angeles. If you like Des Moines, you might resist the change. You might feel reluctant to leave family and friends.

Yet, deep down you know it's the right move, so you step up and into the opportunity. You make the change and move to LA.

Then you have to adapt to the change, and the second you do that, you grow.

You're now standing on the second stair, and you see your next step, the opportunity that will take you to the third stair. Again, it requires you to take a risk, but your faith is stronger so you may spend less time contemplating your fear

You decide to embrace the opportunity, make the change, adapt to the change, and grow.

You then follow this same pattern all the way to the top.

Remember that you will only ever see your next step, because each one requires you to grow into its challenges before the following one can be revealed.

Also, your dream is in a constant state of transformation as well. Your goal may change as you grow. You may realize that what you really want is to make brilliant, moving films that impact people's lives, and the best way to do that may not lead to the red carpet.

No matter. You don't have to know that now. Your goal of winning an Oscar gets you on the staircase.

It starts you on a journey that represents a new way of being ~ living in faith and becoming the person you are meant to be.

That process won't ever be easy, because your subconscious mind will resist each change, but you can become comfortable being uncomfortable. I'll talk more about that next time.

In the end, however, it's absolutely worth it.

As you proceed toward your goal, you'll feel more alive, more prosperous and more of service than ever before.

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David Neagle, The Million Dollar Income Acceleration Mentor and author of The Millions Within, teaches entrepreneurs and commission-based sales professionals how to quantum leap their current incomes past the 7-figure income level, often in less than 12 months. As a world-class speaker, sales trainer, and success-mindset mentor to some of the globe’s top CEOs, David also privately mentors big decision-makers in their pursuit of quantum success and peace of mind.

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