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

Hi David,

I’ve heard you say that there is no time. What does that mean exactly, and how does time tie into the big picture in massive goal setting?

Fantastic question! I know this can be a confusing concept.

We all have the same amount of this illusion that we call time.

As human beings, we break time down into days. We have a 24-hour measuring system that we use, but what do we use time for?

We use it to manage our life.

You also cannot have time without space or space without time.

The moment you start to focus on time, like on your calendar or in setting your goal, you bring space into the picture.

The question is what are you going to fill the space with?

Northcote Parkinson has a law that says that work tends to fill the time allotted.

In other words, if we shorten the timeframe on almost any kind of work, we will get it done in a shorter timeframe than we originally thought that we could.

When I'm going to set a goal, I am going to pick a timeframe, but the question then is, “How do I know if that timeframe is correct?”

I don't.

If I don't reach the goal, I don’t change the goal. I only change the timeframe in which we're doing it.

One of the things that's important to understand is that things can happen much quicker than we think they can.

Think about how can we remove the time barrier and actually make something happen quicker.

Sometimes we can, sometimes we can't.

For thousands of years it took a certain amount of time to get from one place to the other because we couldn't fly, but once we understood how to do that, we certainly filled the time barrier from one place to another.

So, time is not set in stone as far as a measurement of what’s possible.

Time is really just a matter of perception.

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,

I have two questions. First, if you want to do something, and you're feeling some resistance behind it, do you recommend talking to somebody who has a different perspective and say, “What do you see as the opportunity, here?” Second, I'll get ideas, and then I'll just stop. I'll just do whatever it is tomorrow. One of the obstacles that I keep coming across is just managing the time.

GREAT questions!!

In short, the answer is yes, you can talk to someone, and ask them for help, but make sure you're talking to somebody that can actually help you see the opportunity.

If you're talking to somebody that's very much like yourself, you'll probably get terrible advice.

Talk to somebody that is either further ahead than you are or is optimistic enough in reality to give you some solid advice.

To answer your second question, you don't manage time. Nobody can manage time.

You manage activities.

Activities are managed based on the vision that you have for what you want to create. Once we create a vision for ourselves, the vision dictates everything that we do from that day on, right?

Determine how much time you’re giving to activities based on solid deadlines, and make adjustments to ensure you’re setting yourself up for success.

Stick to that. If you’re really serious, you stick to it. You commit to it.

That's how you build new habits.

PS: If you enjoy reading my weekly Neagle Code, you'll LOVE my podcast, The Successful Mind. You can expect cutting edge information and strategies relating to success mindset, leadership, wealth creation, and relationships, all based in Universal Law and my own experience creating a multi-million dollar 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. 

Ok, David… I’m willing to admit that I’m in resistance to doing or changing something in my business. I’ve had the same results for the past 4 years, and now I’m even starting to see a decline.

Why am I in resistance? I REALLY want a different result!

Amazing question!!

And the answer is very simple.

Resistance pops up when you experience a value conflict.

Let me explain…

If we are resisting something, we're literally pushing the good that we desire away.

It's like we're building a wall in our life, and the Universe is trying to send us the good that we desire, and it can't get to us because we've built this wall.

We call that wall resistance.

Resistance happens when your desire says one thing and your program or your pattern says another.

Remember we are all a product of the people, places and experiences of our youth — and as children, security was incredibly important to us. We avoided doing anything that would jeopardize that security.

And we’ve carried that fear into our adult lives.

You, my friend, have a value conflict that is causing resistance to doing the things necessary to grow your business.

How does this show up?

• It will show up with a person not wanting to make sales.
• It'll show up with a person not wanting to create a product or a service that's relevant to what the consumer market needs currently.
• It'll show up with a person either not hiring help or hiring the wrong kind of help.
• It’ll show up in a person's attitude about their business and how they see the business world and their place in it.
• It’ll show up in their lack of confidence in what they do and how they bring their product or service to market.

Is this making sense?

I’m doing an entire 60-minute FREE training on The Universal Law of Non-Resistance on Tuesday at 1pm ET. I’ll be explaining this more in-depth and giving some tips on how to quickly identify and move through resistance… there’s nothing worse than feeling stuck! CLICK HERE  for the details!

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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. 

How do I know if I’m avoiding something I don’t want to do because it’s not in my zone of genius — or if I’m resisting doing it out of fear? How do you distinguish between the two?

Specifically, I’m talking about social media. I like creating some of the content. But to parse it out into whatever frequency of postings drives me insane, and I don’t want to do it. It feels like it’s not a good use of my time. I don’t like managing the posting and scheduling of it.

Is this something that needs to be delegated… or is it resistance on my part?

It’s not that social media isn’t time well spent. It’s essential today.

The management of it is something most people have to learn.

In my company, we have a social media calendar. We map out content that needs to be created, when it’s going to be posted, and on what day. PLUS… I make a real effort to post several times a day myself and respond to the scheduled posts.

All of that information is in front of our team. They know what to do, when to work on it, when it needs to be done, and when it’s going out.

This eliminates the tendency to say, “Omg, it’s 3:00 o’clock, I haven’t done any social media today and I need to do something.”

Social media may not be your zone of genius, but I think you need to have a good idea of how it works.

We’re not finding much luck, nor am I coming across clients who are finding a way to outsource social media in a really good way. I’m hearing everything from terrible results from social media companies, to mediocre results.

I don’t hear about anybody out there who’s crushing it with an outsourced social media company.

The more you know about it — when you do hire (if you do outsource it to another company) — the more you can hold them accountable and know if what they’re telling you is true or not. I think that’s the biggest problem.

It’s like what we saw with digital marketing 10 years ago. Nobody understood it. So, you didn’t know if a company was BS’ing you. You were just taking it at face value.

Now people are experiencing the same thing with social media. It’s probably not your forte. It’s probably not your zone of genius. But it’s something you have to learn a little bit about. I think scheduling it is a way to overcome the procrastination around it.

Technical tip: You can upload your posts into a software program or something like Buffer or Meet Edgar, which posts for you.

If you have an assistant or someone working for you in-house, that’s something they can easily do. You can go back and log in and make sure everything looks good and you’re good to go. (The only thing it won’t do is post to a personal Facebook page.)

That’s another way to streamline the process — so that you’re handling the creative piece, someone else is handling the technical uploading and putting it together. Then you can go back over it, observe, and tweak it where needed.

PS: If you enjoy reading my weekly Neagle Code, you'll LOVE my podcast, The Successful Mind. You can expect cutting edge information and strategies relating to success mindset, leadership, wealth creation, and relationships, all based in Universal Law and my own experience creating a multi-million dollar 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!

How do you find the time to do everything that needs to be done to actually make more money?

Thanks so much!

Hi and thanks for the fantastic question!

I learned a long time ago that we can’t manage time…we must manage activities.

You see work will always fill the time you allot for it. This is why one of the first things I teach my VIP Clients is the fine art of calendaring.

Let me explain… as entrepreneurs, there are so many things that can bombard us on a daily basis. Whether it’s making sales calls, handling client satisfaction, fulfilling orders or programs, marketing planning or dealing with our personal lives, there is ALWAYS something to fill our time.

One of the key strategies to ensuring money-making activities get done is to schedule those activities every day, and

STICK TO
YOUR SCHEDULE.

Start with calendaring the “non-negotiable” items first. These items can be up-coming travel, presentations, and other activities that are firm.

Next schedule all your money-making activities. These should include sales calls, strategy and launches.

From there, schedule everything else.

In doing this you may even come to see that you actually have more time than you need or you may see opportunities to hire people to help you with the things you do not specifically need to be doing.

Once you have your schedule in place, you must discipline yourself to stick to it!

Sometimes this is the most difficult step, and if you find yourself straying from your calendar, take a moment to re-align yourself and course correct.

PS: If you enjoy reading my weekly Neagle Code, you'll LOVE my podcast, The Successful Mind. You can expect cutting edge information and strategies relating to success mindset, leadership, wealth creation, and relationships, all based in Universal Law and my own experience creating a multi-million dollar 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 and thanks for the fantastic question!

I learned a long time ago that we can’t manage time…we must manage activities.

You see, work will always fill the time you allot for it. This is why one of the first things I teach my VIP Clients is the fine art of calendaring.

Let me explain… as entrepreneurs, there are so many things that can bombard us on a daily basis. Whether it’s making sales calls, handling client satisfaction, fulfilling orders or programs, marketing planning or dealing with our personal lives, there is ALWAYS something to fill our time.

One of the key strategies to ensuring money-making activities get done is to schedule those activities every day, and STICK TO YOUR SCHEDULE.

Start with calendaring the “non-negotiable” items first. These items can be up-coming travel, presentations, and other activities that are firm.

Next schedule all your money-making activities. These should include sales calls, strategy and launches.

From there schedule everything else.

In doing this you may even come to see that you actually have more time than you need or you may see opportunities to hire people to help you with the things you do not specifically need to be doing.

Once you have your schedule in place, you must discipline yourself to stick to it!

Sometimes this is the most difficult step, and if you find yourself straying from your calendar, take a moment to re-align yourself and course correct.

Just Believe,^®

 

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

Hi Marcie and thanks for your question!

Generally a first hire for a solopreneur is an assistant.

I’m guessing that you are doing things that YOU don’t need to be doing, and eventually it’s going to affect your ability to grow and expand.

Here’s a little bit of homework for you:

Over the next 7 days keep a notebook by your desk, and as you go through your day, write down all the things that you do, that someone else can be doing for you.

This for both your personal life and your business life.

If you make a dentist appointment, write it down, because YOU don’t have to be the one making that appointment.

If you are researching something, write it down because YOU don’t have to be the person doing the research.

I think you’ll be shocked how much time you spend doing the menial things in your business.

And if you’re spending time on those things, you’re NOT spending as much time as you can on income generating tasks, which means you’re probably leaving thousands of dollars on the table.

Once you have your list created, you’ll be able to create a job description, and hire and train the appropriate person who is qualified to assist you.

Not only will you feel more relaxed in your business, you’ll also experience an increase in your income!

Just Believe,^®

 

PS: The Neagle Code: Directions for Life is a weekly no-cost
program that is open to everyone! Each week, I'll select and personally respond to one question received via the above “The Neagle Code” page that I feel in my heart will help the most people. (You may choose to remain anonymous if you wish, with our full support.) It is my deep, heartfelt intention that ~ in answering your questions ~ I may provide you with the Universal Truths that in committed application, will set you free. Simply submit YOUR burning question at: www.DavidNeagle.com/ask-david to participate.