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Life Lessons Series: Associations Explained –
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2. Do you remember you mother every saying to you “You’re hanging around with the wrong
crowd”?
It’s funny that after you get older you realize it is one of the life lessons you should follow and a
really important principle of success. Your associations in life affect all of your outcomes.
So, if you want more wealth, you need to hang around wealthy people. If you want more
health, you need to hang around healthy people. If you want more integrity, start finding people
who have integrity.
DID YOU GET THAT?!
Working on this one area can change EVERYTHING, all of your outcomes!
Who are your associations in life?
Who are the 5-10 people who you hang around and spend the most time with?
Take a moment and write these down in your journal because these people affect your income,
your wealth, your humor, your integrity, your character—everything in your life that determines
your health and happiness.
Of All of the Life Lessons – this Principle of Association is One of the Most Important Principles
You Will Every Learn
Think about it. Some people spend more time with trashy novels or t.v. shows, and those
associations are unwittingly affecting how they feel, think, act, behave and achieve.
TIP: You don’t have to get rid of all those friends, you just have to start spending less time with
them.
START putting new associations in your life that will help you get what you want. Take a moment
and brainstorm the names or organizations whom you can being associating yourself with to
bring about positive change.
It only makes sense that if you want more, then you have to do something different.
In this case, you have to hang around with different people.
The people that you are being introduced to over these 30 days are world-class.
they are paid $10,000-$50,000 a day to give their ideas and their motivation.
By coming to this blog – and reading these series and articles daily, you’ve already started to
make a change.
The ideas, strategies and concepts that you are absorbing now are at a level that most people
dream of. They were previously inaccessible before, and if you stick with this bit by bit, you will
improve.
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He’s made millions online. That is why I associate with him. I am leveraging the knowledge and
strategies that he provides to improve my health, wealth and relationships.
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Life Lessons from Darren Hardy
Now, in this section, Darren Hardy outlines exactly how to start living the life you imagine, the life
you deserve.
Focus first on results– look at your results.
Look at the actions you took to get you those results– what are you doing to produce
those results?
Next look at your attitude–does it match the attitude of those getting the results you
want?
All these make up the YOU Factor–the way that you think based on programming.
Life Lessons on THE YOU FACTOR – Jim Rohn on a Subtle Way to
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3. Sure Results
Follow the Chain: Focus on YOU – Work on Attitude – Take Action – Produce results.
Is your “operating system” out of whack? Find out.
Pay attention. This is about your foundation and details these life lessons in a way that you can
understand and apply these principles today.
Fixing your operating system begins with…
1) Information – And, this is how to improve your attitude. Information is programming how to
think, feel and behave. Lack of information can dramatically influence how you behave in a
situation.
For Example: If you wake up after a all-night house party and all of your furniture is gone. You
might have a bad reaction. You might immediately call the cops to report a robbery.
However, let’s suppose you know that your friends are tricksters and it just happens to be April
1st. That bit of information changes everything.
Darren Hardy uses this illustration to explain the principle of “information”:
Your brain is like a water glass.
There is constantly stuff being put into this water glass.
The negative news and tabloid garbage is like putting coca-cola on the brain.
If you keep doing that, you will continue to have a negative attitude.
What you should do is flush your water glass on a regular basis by taking in audios and videos
by people who have and are teaching about exactly what you want.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Empower is set up exactly like that. There is a free weekly audio
that all members can plug into and get fresh new empowering messages from leaders who have
what they want. We also have Inner Circle audios for those that want more.
Really, why do you need this?
Because you and I know you are subject to a bombardment of your subconscious mind daily.
And, these negative messages are like weeds in your pristine mind garden. They will choke the
life out of anything good unless you do some maintenance in the form of putting the right stuff
in and taking the wrong stuff out (your associations).
You must do this on a regular basis. Be conscious of how you are putting water into your cup.
Everyday, make it a ritual to work your garden. I got my daily ritual at miraclemorning.com, btw.
2) Environment – This is how and where you are performing from. Is your work and life full of
clutter? And, does it support the type of production you want to put out? Record your answers
in your journal.
3) Associations – These are the type of people you hang around the most. It has been verified
statistically that you will become the average of the 5 people you hang around the most -in
terms of your peer group.
Meaning…your income, health, relationships, all the results that they are producing…you will
have the combined average of the five.
The continuing affect of those associations has tremendous impact!
This is, of course, good and bad news. Your results depend on what you do with this
information.
Darren, Tom and I have been consciously choosing how much time I spend with people. Are
they adders or detractors. Take a moment to reflect on that. You have your five in your journal.
How would you rate yourself on your income, health, relationships, physical
environment, personal growth & development, spirituality, romance, contribution
and fun?
Now take a moment to rate them in the same categories…
Where you see a deficit, consider “Who is not in my life that I need to attract so that I can get
to the next level?”
Who/what, if I surrounded myself with, would help me step up in the area of _____?
Find people that have relationships that model what you want to own.
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4. Remember, the effects are subtle but profound.
-Lis Carpenter
“Way Maker”
http://www.theempoweredway.com
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