Stop Making Excuses

We rarely recognize Value until it’s gone…

Do NOT wait until it’s too late!

Dear Friend,

It’s easy to be cynical… and tell yourself that opportunities just don’t show up for you.

But is that true? Do you just refuse to notice, even when a golden opportunity is standing there waving like a crazy person desperately trying to get your attention?

Come on.  When you really stop and think about it, much of the time opportunities are presented to us but  we brush them off with what we call “valid reasons”. These so-called valid reasons are, in fact, self-convincing excuses to stay stuck.

What’s really sad is when we realize this only after it’s too late and then we deeply regret that we missing out on the very thing we need most.

Research shows that 75% of people name their biggest regrets in life as the things they did NOT do, not the things they did.

“ The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.” -Max Lucado

One day you may wake up and wonder how you got to be where you are in contrast to where you wanted to be. The answer will be simple: Excuses!

The price of keeping your excuses maybe YOUR OWN LIFE…

Time is running out! It’s time to get off the fence and claim your life…

You will never be a leader while you cling to excuses!

I recently took the time to handpick certain people to gift a number of VIP (90% discount) tickets to the final Claim Your Competitive Edge event. I chose them (You may have been one of them)  because I know that you are dedicated to your own growth and development and your commitment to being a leader by example.

As someone committed to leading by example, I feel certain that you will NOW want to make sure that your friends, family and co-workers have this final opportunity to break through what holds them back in order to let them live their very best life.

I trust that you will be okay with this, because I am going to be completely transparent.  I want to share with you here something that very few people on this planet know…

Often times I have left a Claim Your Competitive Edge event and gone home and cried… (There you have it. My secret is out.)

Why you may ask. It’s because I and the people who have attended our events know the power of the transformation that happens for those who attend, and yet so many do not have the courage to put their excuses away and reach out and claim the life, the success, the wealth, the relationships and the health they say they desire and that we will make available to them.

Please stop doing that to yourself!

I am always saddened by the fact that so many give up on their dreams because they may be disapproved of by others.

We trade Authenticity for Approval  and We’re Surprised When in The Quiet Moments We Realize We Have Been Living a Life That Is Not Our Own.

With the final Claim Your Competitive Edge being less than two weeks away and many people are coming in from around the world to attend, I want to make sure that your VIP guests get registered before we close the doors once and for all.

This is why I urge you to put those VIP ticks in the hands of those that you care about. 

That being said, PLEASE NOTE: For your VIP guests to take advantage of this offer they MUST use the website and Code On Your Ticket. This offer is NOT available by calling our offices.

This event is going to blast everyone in attendance through whatever it is that holds them back. It will be 3 full life changing days.

Unfortunately we rarely recognize Value until it’s gone…

Do NOT wait till it’s too late!

I look forward to seeing you again and meeting all your wonderful friends and family as we say goodbye to Claim Your Competitive Edge Event.

I anticipate sharing this journey with you…

I look forward to sharing this journey with you…

By the way, if you found this message valuable, feel free to send this to your friends.

I eagerly anticipate your feedback and comments. Please share, like and comment below!

With gratitude,

 P.S. The event is less than two weeks away and we cannot guarantee seats to those who wait.

P.P.S. You and your VIP’s MUST use the website and Code On Your Ticket as this offer is NOT available by calling our offices.

 

 

You and I both know there will always be obstacles to overcome.

Sometimes these obstacles are outside in the world, while other times they are part of your inner world,  in the form of belief systems and self talk.

Here is what I know: To achieve truly living in and from a place of abundance, what you desire cannot remain something you’d merely like to have.

No Obstacle to Big to Overcome

How many times have you heard people say as they watched someone do something say, “I’d really like to do that.” Then that same person walks away and you know as well as I do, they will never do anything about what they say they’d “like to do.”

To bring whatever it is that you want into your life, you must develop an insatiable hunger for it. That means, for a while, it’s all that matters. You vigilantly watch the ego-mind; you refuse to be taken off track. You know your direction and you will allow nothing to move you from it. At that point, all obstacles are viewed as challenges to be overcome, with each one giving you a renewed sense of focus.

You meet difficulties with the mindset that there’s always a way to overcome them, and moreover, you are committed to finding it. You approach, go through, and attend to your outcome without the option of griping or complaining. You keep moving forward; you make it a “must” and as a result, it will happen. Guaranteed!

That being said, the obvious question is, “What do you want?”
That my friend only you can decide!

This article is an except from my Bestselling book: Don’t Read This…Unless You Want More Money! available on Amazon.com

Come to the edge, let’s fly!

Claim Your Competitive Edge

Stay Curious my friend, stay curious and live with courage,

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“I Know Exactly What I Want… Kind of”

I’m going to share a quote but don’t freak out, you’ve not missed church, and I haven’t suddenly become a preacher. Nonetheless, I’d like to share with you a powerful Biblical quote that’s a great illustration of what I’m about to talk about.

“For to those who have, more will be given; and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” (Matthew 13:11–12)

How’s that for a bum deal? Or is it?

Well when we refer back to the fact that most people have a pretty hard time actually deciding what they want, it actually begins to make sense.

Bottom line:

We cannot manifest specifics with a general request.

Stay with me here because the great news is this, once you have specifically outlined what it is that you want, then you can begin designing a plan to achieve it. In the words of one of my songs from the album Resonations (available on iTunes and CD Baby): “Get Clear.”

Please pay attention here because I have a warning for you. The ego-mind may have some challenges with you actually achieving that outcome and it may try to sabotage you by whispering stuff in your ear that will take you off target. So to make sure you stay on target I implore you to keep a success journal and monitor your progress.

DO NOT change what it is you are going for until you achieve it. That way you can acknowledge your success. I can’t over stress the importance of this. If you keep changing your desired outcome, how will you ever know when you achieve it?

Make senses?

In the next article I will share with you the importance of developing a hunger around what you want.

This article is an except from my Bestselling book: Don’t Read This…Unless You Want More Money! available on Amazon.com

Come to the edge, let’s fly!

Claim Your Competitive Edge

Stay Curious my friend, stay curious and live with courage,

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Boiled down, what we want to know is are we predestined to live out our our genetic heritage or can we control and direct our own destiny.

Although the debate continues, there is overriding evidence that we are NOT held hostage to our genetic code.

However, what about when it comes to generating money and more specifically wealth? Is there a money gene, or for that matter a financial struggle gene?

When it comes to generating, keeping and growing wealth, is it Nature or Nurture?

The Money Gene

Consider this: Those who grow up with or were consistently around other wealthy people have an understanding of wealth that can be completely foreign to someone who grew up in poverty or has never been in a place of abundant cash flow.

E.G: If you grew up in rural China fifty or so years ago, the idea that people would NOT eat with chop sticks may have seemed, at best ridiculous and maybe even completely wrong.

So it is with money… What’s intriguing is that for those who don’t have it, money comes with a whole set of myths perpetuated by those who don’t have it.

Let me explain. We take for granted many of the things that are part of our everyday lives. However, many of those things we now take for granted are the same things people thought of as “evil” before they were understood.

For instance, at one point in history, even speaking about the idea that planet earth was not the center of the Universe or that the earth orbited around the sun got people imprisoned or even killed by those who believed such talk was evil.

What it comes down to is; by human nature, we tend to be suspicious of what we don’t understand. In truth, it’s pretty much the same with money and wealth. If you don’t understand it, you are likely to be suspicious of it. Did you get that, because it was short but also very important?

Okay, I’ll say it again a little differently.

“We have a tendency to mistrust, or not believe, what we have not yet developed the capacity to understand. ” ~Dõv Baron

Truth be known, you can blame your genetics for anything, but that doesn’t make it true.

What you know about money you’ve likely learned from those who did not have it or at least not enough of it. Doesn’t it make sense to put yourself in an environment with those who have a level of comfort with having and generating wealth, so as to nurture your own comfort with it? That way you can check to find out, if what you believe is actually true for those who do have it?”

This article is an except from my Bestselling book: Don’t Read This…Unless You Want More Money! available on Amazon.com

Come to the edge, let’s fly!

Claim Your Competitive Edge

Stay Curious my friend, stay curious and live with courage,

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In this article I will show you the reason why understanding the fear of rejection is relevant to you when it comes to being in the flow of affluence and creating wealth in your life in such a way that it is not only significant but also lasting.

Choosing Authenticity Over Approval

So lets start by giving it to you straight: Until you make a shift to thinking, feeling, and behaving in ways that are independent of the need to please others, you will never truly embrace following your heart and soul’s passion, which is the key to tapping into your unique value. (Now, mentally hold onto those two words “unique value” because we will be addressing why those two words are pivotal to whether you are in or out of the flow of affluence.)

Furthermore, if you do not develop the kind of independence I’m referring to, you can be pretty certain that true wealth will also evade you. Don’t get me wrong. I am not suggesting that you become some thoughtless “a-hole” who doesn’t care about anyone.

No, this is about understanding that when you begin to follow your path, recognize your unique value, and make decisions based on that, money and wealth will flow to you. Once this begins to happen, you can also be fairly certain that you will, to put it plain and simple, begin to piss some folks off. I’ll get into the why, in a little while.

As I’m sure you are beginning to see, if you don’t move past the fear of rejection, getting what you really want will be impossible because, as the saying goes, you can’t please all the people all the time.

Being fixated on doing whatever it takes to not get rejected is nothing more than trying to please all the people all the time, with one exception; the one person you aren’t pleasing—YOU!

Needless to say, it is crucial that you begin to destroy your fear of rejection. So how do you do that? Well, strangely enough you already know how, at least in some small way. It has to do with focusing your attention.When you are absolutely focused on what you are doing and how you are feeling while you are doing it, what others think doesn’t matter. You no longer care if they are accepting or rejecting you.

By becoming lost in what you are doing, by becoming completely engrossed, there is often the sense that what others think about you or your work just isn’t important anymore. At that point you are authentically flowing from a place of expressing your unique value set.

This article is an except from my Bestselling book: Don’t Read This…Unless You Want More Money! available on Amazon.com

Come to the edge, let’s fly!

Claim Your Competitive Edge

Stay Curious my friend, stay curious and live with courage,

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On your journey of moving away from being a follower to being a leader, from struggle to freedom form lack and towards affluence, it’s important to develop the courage to deal with the nay-sayers.

Rejection...It will happen...So what!

What does that mean to you? Well here’s a very important psychological fact that will help you deal with those thorn-in-the-foot kinds of folks. Most people, and when I say most I mean 99.9999 percent of people, carry a deep-seated fear of rejection.

For most it’s not a conscious thing. In fact, many people say things like, “I don’t care what they think,” but you know as well as I do that when push-comes-to-shove, they care, big time. Let’s face it, we all want to be liked and we all want to fit in with someone or something even if we’re fitting in with others who don’t fit in.

This desire is rooted in basic human survival instincts, the safety of the tribe and such. However, the depth of this need to be connected to others is not supposed to be translated into what it so often becomes—a debilitating fear of rejection.

Most of us were given the message by those who loved and took care of us that we must make sure people like us.

Messages like: “Come on honey, smile for your uncle. You don’t want him thinking you’re miserable, do you? Be nice to the other kids or you won’t have any friends.” It goes on and on. In and of themselves these are not “bad” messages; it’s what we do with them that can become so crippling.

We became programmed to seek acceptance because in our formative years we needed someone to take care of our every need.

If someone didn’t take care of you for the first few years of your life there’s a good chance you wouldn’t be reading this, right?

This article is an except from my Bestselling book: Don’t Read This…Unless You Want More Money! available on Amazon.com

Come to the edge, let’s fly!

Claim Your Competitive Edge

Stay Curious my friend, stay curious and live with courage,

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NEWS FLASH: Leaders Brain Hijacked

…Leader’s brain hijacked….
Imagine reading that headline as it scrolls across your CNN news hour. What would you think?

Maybe you would think, “This must be the work of some evil scientist or an invading alien race”.

In truth, the leader’s brain may have been hijacked by a small change in her/his environment.

Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “Change is the only constant.”

So why do we fight so hard against it?

As someone who has spent most of my life in some form of a leadership position, I am going to give it to you straight. If you are going to step up and really be a leader, you are going to have to embrace change! However, I’ll admit there’s an important part of your brain that doesn’t like change!

Recent research shows that human brains have evolved with a strong capacity to detect what neuroscientists call “errors.”

These are not errors in the traditional way we think of errors, for instance, as mistakes: “I miscalculated, so therefore this is an error.” Errors in this context are anything that is a perceived difference between what you expected and what occurs in reality. For instance,  scientific research show that when someone is told to expect a sweet-tasting treat, but when they put it into their mouth and discover that it tastes salty or bitter, their brain goes crazy.

The brain produces intense bursts of neural firing that are markedly stronger than the firing caused by familiar stimuli. A study run by Dr. Edmund Rolls of Oxford University found that the “errors” that produce these intense bursts of neural firing are generated by a part of the brain called the orbital frontal cortex.

Now you may be thinking, “What’s that, and why should I care?”

Well, if you want greater levels of success, you will want to turn up the brightness in your eyes and here’s why.

The orbital frontal cortex is the part of the brain that is closely connected to the brain’s fear circuitry. Neuroscientific errors (or incorrect assessments) evoke a fear response in your brain!

The fear circuitry is housed in a structure called the amygdala, and the amygdala is the source of that sudden and overwhelming fear or anger response that can come up when we are faced with change. The kind of response where you might later say, “I have no idea what came over me.” This is your brain on fear!

These parts of your brain are among the oldest parts of the mammal brain. What’s important about that is that when they are activated, they draw energy away from the prefrontal region of the brain, which is the section said to promote and support higher intellectual functions.

So what does all that have to do with you and your ability to reach higher level of leadership and success?

Well my friend, change by its very nature is outside of the familiar.  Therefore change, even if it is for the better is going to be firing off those “error detection signals.”

These signals invariably push the individual to become emotional and to act more impulsively.

Most often, the result is fear and anger in the face of change. When you observe such a response, you may have the sense that the individual’s brain has been hijacked and some kind of animal instincts have taken over.

As I started out saying– If you are going to step up and really be a leader, you are going to have to embrace change!

You will never reach that higher level of success while allowing your brain to run error messages every time a new opportunity shows up.

“Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.”   Martin Luther King Jr.

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Stay Curious my friend, stay curious and live with courage,

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A tsunami of fear came crushing down on the global economy and jobs disappeared under the surge. Homes were foreclosed. Banks went under and long established old money companies went bankrupt or needed the government to bail them out.

Was it all over? Would business recover? Was this some kind of an apocalyptic warning that the end was near? These were questions spoken about on the news, late night talk shows and in living rooms around the world.

A New Beginning

It’s  just a few short years now since it was made official that we were in a global recession. Although bankruptcies were up by an unprecedented 34.6 percent over the first quarter of 2009, and even though many today are still buried under the debt and devastation brought on by over lending, over borrowing and over spending, and the general infestation of greed, there is a subtle but growing sense of hope that is beginning to return.

This hope is not for things to return to the way they were, although there are many who would want it that way…

No, this blossoming hope seems to be of growing a new and “healthy economy,” based more on collaboration than direct and adversarial completion.

The world and its economics have changed and I don’t believe it can ever be the same.

“Those who go into business to make money serve a cruel master, and rarely get anything else. Those who go into business to be of service feed not only their bodies but also their souls.” ~ Dõv Baron

The belief in a stable job has buckled at the knees. The corporate ladder has been pushed over. The result is that many people are less willing to be dependent on some outside force for their financial certainty, and I believe that ultimately this is and will be seen as a good thing.

In many ways, it is that quiet rumbling within the middle class mind that has and will continue to catalyze the “the new economy” becoming a reality.

Yes, the economy has changed. However, the opportunity to live the life of your dreams did not die with the announcement of a recession.

There have been many recessions, in fact 14 since the “Great Depression” of 1929 and although people thought some of them were going to be financially fatal, in the long run that was never an actuality.

In this new economy we will have to do things differently, we will have to tap into resources that we have ignored and or taken for granted. These are not just the resources of the world but the resources of the self.  Everything we do at Baron Master is dedicated to you discovering how you can not only survive but flourish by tapping into what you have that no one else has—even if you don’t know what that is—yet.

Think back to Boxing day 2004: It has taken time for the people of Indonesia to recover from the tsunami that devastated part of that country. It will take the people of Japan some time to recover from the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.

And it will take some time for the world to recover from the financial tsunami that came crashing down in 2009. However, what I know about human beings is that in times of trouble we find a way to come together. We find away to be there for each other. And we find a way to not only come back but to come back better and stronger than we were before.

So my call out to you is: Let’s use these seeming endings as new beginnings through our creating a tsunami of hope.

Be a leader have the courage to NOT do what others make okay, but rather, step into excellence?

Come to the edge, let’s fly!

Claim Your Competitive Edge

Live with courage,

P.S. If you enjoyed this article, please feel free to comment, like and share it with your friends. It is an excerpt  from my Bestselling book: “Don’t Read This…Unless You Want More Money”

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It is at that moment that you either decide to feed the drama or…  walk away from it & people who create it.

When You take your Stand, you either surround yourself with those who support your dreams or…. those who tear them down, (often in the name of love)…

What's Your Level of Commitment?

You either stay in the shadows, not ruffling feathers and soothing those who fear greatness or…  you do whatever it takes to come out of the closet and add value to the world because you own that there are people suffering by you playing small….

Spend time with those who elevate your spirit and bring joy to your heart, with those who refuse to believe your excuses because they see what you are truly capable of, because they are on your team.

When other turn away, step up because you know that greatness is NOT achieved by cowards

When others quit, stay the course because you know that you are guided by something greater than the status quo

When others dabble commit even though there are no guarantees

Once again I remind you: The Shift from impossible to “I’m Possible” is the Depth of Your Desire!”

You can consider me as someone on your team… The more important question is: Are you on your team?

It’s time to take a stand… Be a leader who has the courage to turn away from what others make okay, step into your excellence!

Feel free to share this with those who you want to know that you are on their team.

Come to the edge, let’s fly!

Claim Your Competitive Edge

Live with courage,

P.S. If you enjoyed this article, please feel free to comment, like and share it with your friends.

P.P.S. If you really want to fly, step into your leadership and take a look here http://CYCEdge.com/ Claim Your Competitive Edge. This is where you will get the opportunity to stand dynamically in your magnificent self and shine like the diamond you truly are!