"The Life I Deserve" presents "The Goal Show" by Adrian McMillian

Adrian McMillian

The Life I Deserve... sharing creative ideas, inspirational stories, and fresh perspectives, that will empower you, to live your life, to the fullest. Jack Canfield, is known as America's #1 Success Coach. He is the founder of the billion-dollar book brand "Chicken Soup for the Soul". He is a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. And, he is my mentor. The skills that Jack teaches, have had a significant impact on my life. Join me, as I share, what Jack has taught me, and many other valuable skills, that will empower you to build the life that you deserve!! -Adrian McMillian :-)

  • 24 minutes 13 seconds
    Ep 23 - How to Master Group Coaching: Savvy Mariana Ruiz Empowers you with the Tools to Succeed!
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    Mariana is a certified business coach, consultant, and international best selling author who helps seasoned coaches and consultants scale their businesses by creating and launching their profitable group coaching programs. By using her background in brain science and hospital administration in combination with her 12 years of marketing, sales, and business experience, she helps you get results for your clients at scale, market in a way that attracts your ideal clients, and convert followers to group coaching clients through service-based selling. She has been featured in various podcasts, blogs and online courses including the Huffington Post, Today.com, and The Millionaire Insider Extravaganza. Through working with hundreds of businesses, she has empowered them to increase their profit and serve more people all over the world with group coaching.

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    How to embrace your entrepreneurial spirit!
    How group coaching creates synergy and efficiency!
    How to leverage the power of your subconscious to transform your life!

    Links
    http://impactdrivenentrepreneur.com

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    In this episode, Mariana touched-on the power of visualization. Visualization puts our subconscious to work for us, showing us how we can access the tools, resources, and opportunities, that we need to achieve our goals. To help you to harness the power of visualization, I’m providing you with a free gift!

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    10 April 2019, 8:36 pm
  • 31 minutes 23 seconds
    Ep 22 - How to Get Healthy Naturally!: Inspirational Rachel Hughes Makes Holistic Healing a Reality!
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    Globe-trotting Rachel Hughes is the founder of New World Native, an online platform and global community of health and wellness professionals. Her current path has been very much fed by her ongoing personal quest to bring her mind, body and spirit into alignment. Through years of exploration, open-mindedness and the desire to shift from a reactionary to preventative mindset, she discovered a variety of healers and modalities that would eventually become the impetus to create the New World Native network.

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    How to live a healthier and happier life!
    How to find a qualified holistic practitioner!
    How embracing your purpose will see you through the challenges in life!

    Links
    http://newworldnative.com
    https://www.instagram.com/newworldnative

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    In this episode, Rachel shared how she took control of her life! Where she used to feel like she was living in a fog, dependent on pills, she now enjoys a life of health and happiness!
    To help you to take control of your life, I’m providing you with a free gift!
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    15 February 2019, 8:10 pm
  • 40 minutes
    Ep 21 - How to Connect with People: My Dad Shares Lessons from His Journeys!
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    Adrian McMillian Sr (my dad), has mastered the skills of rapport. He can connect, and build a bond, with just about anyone! Listen as my dad shares challenges and lessons learned, from his journeys in life! My father is a graduate from the University of Houston, with a Bachelors in Business Admin. He was married for 48 years (up until the passing of my dear mother). My dad is a father of 5, grandfather of 8, and great-grandfather of 3. And he proudly resides in sunny San Leon, Texas, where he owns 2 houses and 5 acres of land.

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    How to make the most out of every living moment
    How to reach out and connect with anyone
    The value of changing tribes! What does that mean? And how do we do it?

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    In this episode, my dad shared his experiences, in which he took action, received feedback, made adjustments, and then took further action. This is the process to move forward, and get things done, in life!
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    Click below, for a simple, yet beautiful guide on how you can take action toward your goals today!
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    19 December 2018, 11:06 pm
  • 39 minutes 42 seconds
    Ep 20 – The Magic of Focus!: Mentalist Jonathan Pritchard Explains How the Power of Focus Can Transform Your Life
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    Jonathan Pritchard is the author of “Think Like A Mind Reader” available on Amazon.com and is a business consultant and keynote speaker for companies like BP, State Farm, 1871 (the number one tech incubator in the world), and even worked with the US Military. He helps them improve their customer and employee engagement in a fun, memorable, and meaningful way at trade shows, national conferences, Vegas main stages, and any place where people gather together.

    His background is a mentalist & entertainer who now shares his insights into human behavior, success psychology, motivation, & communication.

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    How your childhood may have programmed you for failure!
    How to set yourself free from that negative programming!
    How to build a life of abundance doing what you love!

    Links
    http://ThinkLikeAMindReader.com
    http://JonathanPritchard.guide

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    In this episode, you learned how Jonathan created his dream life by identifying and embracing his purpose! To help you to live your dream life, I’m providing you with a free gift!
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    13 November 2018, 12:55 am
  • 24 minutes 49 seconds
    Ep 19 - Transform your Health!: Results-oriented Fitness Coach, Jay Kali, Empowers Women with the Skills and Mindset to Get Healthy!
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    Jay Kali, AKA The Strength Architect, doesn’t just build better bodies; he helps build strong, motivated and empowered women. As a coach and fitness specialist for over six years, who has owned 3 fitness business, and authored an Amazon bestselling book, Jay has trained thousands of people, and finally found a way to put power back in his clients’ hands.

    Jay’s innovative approach is based on the radical notion that we are all different. Knowing there’s no “one-size-fits-all” answer to fitness, Jay meets each client where they’re at, providing highly personalized training solutions to help each woman meet her individual goals.

    He is motivated by a genuine desire to help others take charge of their lives, becoming physically, mentally, and emotionally stronger. He strives to lead by example, demonstrating that when we tap into our own potential, there is nothing we cannot achieve!

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    How to start your journey to a healthier, stronger, more empowered you!
    How to completely change your perspective on “failure”, to a perspective that fuels your success!
    How your challenges can propel you to greater levels of accomplishments!!

    Links
    http://KaliCoaching.com

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    In this episode, you learned about the power of taking action!
    To help you to take action now, toward your goals, I’m providing you with a free gift!
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    4 October 2018, 11:16 pm
  • 57 minutes 48 seconds
    Ep 18 – Maximizing Growth!: World-class Teacher and Facilitator, Natasha Ryan D’Amelio Shows you How!
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    Natasha is a leading expert on all aspects of building growth groups and growth gatherings. Natasha is a trained Certified Commercial Investment Member, Cultural Training & Transformation Practitioner, a Canfield Certified Trainer and Assistant, Harvard Business Extension School member and a RESULTS.org advocate.

    All of this sits on top of her battle training through 9 years in corporate America, until 2009 when she began her Strategic Business Development Consulting practice.

    She has become one of the most inspiring, educational presenters on the planet. She leads with heart, integrity, humor… and is a lot of fun. I’m very excited to share her with you. Not only will you learn a lot today – but you’ll be inspired and entertained as you learn.

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    How to use your challenges as a catalyst for transformation!
    How to follow your bliss!
    Valuable lessons from Willy Wonka, Marry Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Dr. Seuss! 😳

    Contact
    [email protected]

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    In this episode, you learned how Natasha took control of her life!
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    14 September 2018, 11:14 pm
  • 34 minutes 1 second
    Ep 17 - Visualize Your Way to Success!: Transformational Trainer Adrian McMillian Provides the Tools you Need to Succeed!
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    Over 25 years ago Adrian discovered Jack Canfield’s Success Principles.  Excited to see immediate results in his life, he became passionate with self-improvement, consuming the teachings of the most influential motivational experts, including the works of the most influential speakers, including Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Brian Tracy, and Zig Ziglar.  The skills he learned, allowed him to go from living in near poverty, to becoming a successful real estate investor, owning a number of houses, all in prestigious neighborhoods.  Adrian also applied his self-development skills to become a leader in the business world, attaining a Corporate Director position, at a major Hollywood motion picture studio.  The success skills that Adrian acquired, allowed him to transform himself, from a person who would do anything to avoid public speaking, to someone who thrives off of the excitement of speaking on stage.  And, when he’s not teaching people how to achieve their dream life, you can find him on a different type of stage, performing as an award-winning Salsa Dancer.  Overall, Adrian’s greatest happiness and fulfillment, comes from helping and inspiring others!  Adrian continually researches and applies, the most productive processes in goal setting and achieving.  And he prides himself on his ability to effectively train people on how they can transform their lives!  In short, Adrian helps people around the world to accomplish more than they ever thought possible!

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    How to harness the power of visualization!
    The importance of getting focused!
    How to reach new levels of success with a proven system!

    Links
    http://TheLifeIDeserve.com
    http://TheGoalProgram.com

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    In this episode, you learned about the power of visualization!
    To help you to master this powerful tool, I’m providing you with a free gift!
    Click below, for a simple, yet beautiful guide on why visualization is crucial to the realization of your goals.
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    24 July 2018, 10:34 pm
  • 29 minutes 13 seconds
    Ep 16 – Is Your Body Image Holding you Back? Breakthrough with Help from World Famous Couture Designer, Rani St. Pucchi!
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    Rani St. Pucchi is an award-winning Couture Fashion Designer and Founder of the world famous Couture bridal house ’St. Pucchi’. Rani’s signature designs have been recognized in the media spotlight in high profile magazines such as Brides, Cosmopolitan Brides, Women’s Wear Daily, W, Harper’s Bazaar, Inside Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, The Knot, Town and Country, on CNN, and on TV shows such as “Entertainment Tonight,” “E!”, “One Life to Live,” and most notably, on the finale of the television show, "Friends.”  Rani has dressed numerous celebrities, singers, song-writers, sports personalities and influencers since the launch of her ’St. Pucchi’ brand in 1985.
     
    Not only is Rani St. Pucchi an acclaimed designer with more than 30 years of experience working with more than 20,000 brides and women across the globe, but she is also a Style and Image Consultant, and a Relationship Expert. She is a Bestselling Author, a Speaker, an Inspirational Coach and a Trainer.
     
    Her highly acclaimed TEDx talk: “Is Your Body Image Holding You Back” shows her passion for empowering women across the globe. And to that end, Rani has achieved a #1 International Bestselling Author status with her much-acclaimed books: ’Your Body, Your Style’; ’The SoulMate Checklist’; and her most recent book, ’Your Bridal Style: Everything Your Need to Know to Design the Wedding of Your Dreams”.

    Having overcome her own share of challenges in life, Rani St. Pucchi is living proof that it is possible to achieve everything one desires.
     
    Her passion and mission is to inspire every woman to realize her own personal beauty, regardless of her body type, size or age. Rani’s motto is “Love yourself, Discover Your Beauty, and Live Brilliantly.”

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    The secret ingredient that will make you truly shine!
    How to truly love your body!
    Why success is an “inside job”!

    Links
    http://ranistpucchi.com

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    Rani is reaching great levels of success because she is living her PURPOSE!!  😃
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    4 June 2018, 10:18 pm
  • 28 minutes 9 seconds
    Ep 15 - How to Eliminate Stress: Master your Emotional State with Christine Monaghan
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    Christine is a human-potential champion. She believes that stress is optional and when understood can be utilized to source the next brilliant opportunity in one or multiple life areas. Others describe her as the master motivator and influencer, for tapping into solutions, for the next best version of yourself. She is a Stress Solutions Consultant, training individuals and organizations to source solutions by shifting their focus from what they don't want, don't want to feel, to inspired-action, for what they do want to feel. Christine’s successes include:

    World-class event production (80,000+ attendees) and national revenue-generating promotions;
    She’s secured million's in sponsorship and sales (Fortune 500 companies);
    Creator of a national multi-city human-potential series (300+ seminars in Indigo/Chapters bookstores); Author, Heartbroke, An Entrepreneurs Journey from near Death to Possibilities; Internationally profiled podcast host.

    What you’ll learn in this episode!
    Why and how, stress is an option!
    Tools you can use to reduce and/or eliminate your stress!
    What to do when you feel overwhelmed.

    Links:
    http://christinemonaghan.com
    https://www.instagram.com/dailylifemastery 

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    Christine shared with us, some great advice, for eliminating stress!!  😃
    Controlling your emotions is a critical, first-step, to ultimately achieve the life you deserve!
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    Full Show Transcript

    Christine:          Hey, Adrian, thank you for having me.

    Adrian:             Thank you for being here. Now, I've known you for probably about a year. I have the fortunate opportunity to be in the same mastermind group as you. So I know that you know your stuff.

    Christine:          All right, well, it depends on the day, but thank you. I'll take that.

    Adrian:             So yes, you continually impress me because you set big goals, you go after those goals, and I never get a sense of stress from you. So I know that you practice what you preach. And I would love for my audience to get to know a little bit about your background. So if you want to just kind of elaborate a little bit beyond the intro.

    Christine:          Sure. Sure. Absolutely, and thank you, it was a generous introduction and I do get stressed, but we can talk about that as we go along. So I grew up in a very idyllic upbringing, in actually Oak Bay, which is in Victoria, BC, and it's in Canada. And I like to refer to it as growing up in a glass bubble because it was really beautiful, we lived half a block from the beach. We went to the tennis club, we went to the rocket club. I really did have a wonderful, blessed childhood. And my parents are very lovely parents. I have memories of them dancing around and singing and having all their parties that they would have, and everybody all dressed up and eating maraschino cherries off the kitchen counter when I should have been in bed. It really was a fabulous upbringing, and I was very, very fortunate. We had everything you could ever want. 
                        Below that layer and veneer of this incredible, idyllic childhood, there were some challenges that went on, like there are in all households. And I really think that in the end, those challenges really helped me to become who I've become, and actually offer what I offer in the world. And I was blessed, my father was a lawyer and became a judge and a politician. And I spent a week at the Bay Short in Vancouver with Pierre Trudeau, who was then the prime minister, and had lunch and went swimming, really had some incredible experiences and was exposed to some wonderful things growing up.
                        Mixed in with that were some challenges within the family, and you know, they are what they are. We all, I think, grew into becoming who we all are, the four kids, as a result of that. And I'm just very thankful that I had parents who were fortunate enough to allow me to be exposed to some of these experiences and who told us to always go for it. So we all had kind of a core sense of self in us that kind of sets you up or doesn't.

    Adrian:             Awesome. And how did you go from your upbringing into a career in dealing with stress?

    Christine:          Right. So, without going into the details of the story in my own family because it's really not my story to share, it's one of my parents' stories to share. So it's not that I'm being elusive, it's just not my story to share. There was a lot of emotional upheavals, and there was a lot of anxiety and worry and whatnot that went along with this very idyllic life that everyone felt that we had. And so I didn't set out to do what I'm doing right now, but as I evolved in growing into the next best version of myself, and then as I became an entrepreneur and started working with entrepreneurs, the thing that I noticed that everyone was struggling with that was really the gap between where they were and where they wanted to be was the level of stress that they chose to function and operate on each day. And to that end, really what their thoughts were and what their mindset was.
                        And so it's just evolved into it. And the more I kind of claim my own potential, the more I've claimed yeah, that's actually what I want to help others to master, is this sense of you're not your thoughts, and you can decide what your thoughts are, and your thoughts are going to absolutely dictate and influence what you are or are not able to achieve and what sort of life you'll live.

    Adrian:             Right. You know, it's very interesting. I grew up and I can show pictures of me growing up where you can tell there wasn't a lot of money there. We had our challenges, but it's interesting, and I would love to hear your perspective on this, you and I, we were very aware that everybody has stress. This is one of the things we study in self-development. But it must be interesting growing up in what appears to be an idyllic life and then ... but everybody has stress. We know that. We know there are people who seem to be incredibly successful, at the top of their game, and they still have stress. And when those of us who did not come from that type of life growing up, we sometimes go why? How is that possible? It seems like they have it all.

    Christine:          Yeah. And from the outside, and if you grew up in Oak Bay, everybody knew the Monaghan Family. And it was like wow, this beautiful family, and they've got everything and they're like picture-perfect. And in a lot of ways we were, and again, I had a great childhood. But there was a lot of worry and anxiety and stress that was, now I look back, and it was actually unnecessary. But how do you know what you don't know? We don't get taught this in elementary school, we don't get taught in high school. We're not taught about emotional intelligence and how to actually carry yourself in such a way that you can trust in what you're putting out there and that you actually lead from the place of what do I want versus all these what ifs, right? And so many spend their days and their lives coming from this place of what if, which is all about fear. 
                        So at the end of the day, if you're in a state of stress, you're in a state of fear. You're not in a state of love. You can't be in both at the same time. So the gift in living with the scenario I lived with, and again, I'm not trying to be elusive, it's just not my story to tell, is that fear is just an unnecessary, and it's a habit. And you can change that worn-out habit. And in today's society, you look with politically and advertising everything, it all comes from this fear-based, you know, you've gotta sign up today or it'll be gone tomorrow, and it's only gonna cost this today or tomorrow ... it's all fear-based. Most of it is fear-based, and that's why so many people are revolting against the media. It's like, you know what, things are changing. People are going no, you don't need to feed me fear in order to get me to listen. 
                        And so we've kind of, as a culture, decided that fear's the norm. And my whole thing is stress is not the norm and stress is optional. And you're going to experience stress, you're going to have stressful things happen, but how you respond to it versus react to it dictates or influences what happens next. It's like you said, you never seem stressed. This last year has probably been one of the most stressful years for me in probably 15 years, but I've just trained myself to say okay, when this is going on, whatever it is, I'm going to choose to find the possibility in it and I am not gonna let it take me out. And I have a whole bunch of tools and learning and experience now that comes from years of discovering this stuff. 
                        So that's what I try and impart on others. And part of that is getting comfortable being uncomfortable. Right? And then from all that, you get to grow into being that next best version of you. So yeah.

    Adrian:             Yeah, you know, and I love that you said stress is an option. Because I've heard so many people, we've all heard so many people say this is just a stressful situation. That is just a stressful situation. That person caused me stress. When really, we know that no, Jack Canfield teachings, E+R=O. Situations just happen. Events just happen. Things just happen. And if you want to just assume that that just equals stress, you're missing a huge part. You're missing that option. You're missing the idea, knowing that you have that option. You have the opportunity to choose how to process that. 

    Christine:          Yeah, and with that, so you get to choose whether you get to look at that situation, could be very stressful. It's not about pretending it's not stressful, but it's about coming from the place of, okay, it is stressful. What am I gonna focus on to get it to where it needs to be? Because if you keep on focusing on the what ifs, what ifs, it just creates more of the what ifs. And so it's an old habit. It's an old habit, which is basically a belief that you either inherited or you've somehow along the way created. And it's worn out and you need to replace it. So I always say well, like I have this mantra, wonderful things are happening for me today. So if I'm having a particularly challenging day, which I do, just like everybody else, I'll put my phone on and every 20 minutes the timer will go off and I'll repeat, wonderful things are happening for me today. I might not feel that way, but will focus on what I'm feeling, which is kind of mucky, or the stress of it, that's not changing anything either. So worry, anxiety, fear is a total energy drainer. It's a complete waste of time. And we can program ourselves to no focus on that and focus on what we do want.

    Adrian:             I agree. And I think a lot of people don't realize how devastating stress can be. If they decide to process things and turn that into stress and harbor that stress, it is so damaging in so many ways. Our health, our mental health, our physical health.

    Christine:          Yeah. It's ridiculous. One in four Canadians, I live in Canada, it's probably the same if not more in the U.S., are experiencing anxiety, fear, depression, some form of mental illness. 30 billion dollars annually is spent on what they call presentism. And presentism is when Joe Blow shows up for work and he's so stressed out that he's just physically showing up, but he's not actually there mentally, physically, or productively. And until companies start to really understand the cost of not creating a healthy culture for their employees, then they might as well just throw the money out the door instead of having that employee show up. So it is a huge, huge challenge, and the more everybody starts to just acknowledge it and starts to get the skills so they can respond versus react like you said, then the more that whole shift takes place.
                        But it's like when I talk to these HR directors who have got like 50,000 employees, and I'll do a virtual workshop for them, my question is always are you gonna be part of the problem, or are you gonna be part of the solution? Are you the HR, the leader, so lead as you want to follow. If you're leading, lead these people as you would like to follow. So are you leading from the place of the problem, or are you leading from the place of the solution? Are you going to be part of that problem that reinforces stress as being the norm, or are you going to step out and claim, I'm going to be the leader that says stress is optional, and this is what I'm going to do to support and influence my people to have a very different experience.

    Adrian:             That sounds amazing. I would love if you could share with us, a case study or two about, without revealing any private information, but something or a team or a company or a department that you worked with, the transformation that you were able to ...

    Christine:          Yeah, I mean the transformations are really quite remarkable, and sometimes I have to look at go wow, I really influenced that person or that scenario to shift like that. And then I have to kind of claim it myself and go well, you've been doing this training and coaching and learning and experiencing for like 25 years now, so you gotta claim it, which is part of the whole thing. So I have one individual who is a payroll director of 50,000 people. And the amount of responsibility on this person is enormous. And just very simple tools. 
                        I'm all about simplicity. No complex diagrams and all that stuff, let's just get down to the basics. So in my master plan process, they create their master plan and then they have their monthly goal achieving schedule, and then they've got the daily five. And within that, if they follow that, I always say take Monday morning and make Monday morning the first two hours of your day and focus on what you're going to map out for the entire week. Get your week organized. And then Friday morning, do the same thing in reverse. Clean up everything that you said you were gonna do that you haven't done, and really keep yourself on task. And that's how you close the gap from where you are to where you want to be. 
                        But there are so many stress tools, and what happens is people, so many people are so afraid, afraid to lose their job, they're afraid, there's all this flipping fear that's running around that's running the show. It's like you've gotta just pause and go, I need to make a choice that is not fear-based right now. What is the choice I would make right now? And I say to my entrepreneurs, if you were a millionaire or if you were a three, four, five time millionaire, what choice would you make right now in this situation? And then they'll say blah blah blah and I'll go, that's the choice you need to make. Now you have to show up for yourself. So it's about your level of belief then in yourself and it's about okay, I've gotta show up for myself because if I did have 10 million in the bank then I'd make this choice. And I go, that's the choice you're gonna make.

    Adrian:             I love that. 

    Christine:          And that's uncomfortable, but you've gotta get comfortable being uncomfortable. And you and I, we've talked about that over and over again.

    Adrian:             Right. And so many people, they think, once I get there, I'll start acting differently. I'll start behaving differently, I will deal with things in a different way. And I love that you said that. You need to go ahead and do that now. It is not something that will happen when you get there, it's what needs to happen to get there.

    Christine:          Exactly. Because it's who you grow into becoming when you get there. When we do the master planning and I have them come up with their goals, and it's an interesting, fun process, but it's not about ... of course you want to achieve the goal, but it's who you become to get the goal. I always say, if you were the person that you're gonna be when you get that goal, then you'd already be that person and you already would have that goal achieved. So you need to quit focusing on the goal and focus on the person you need to become to achieve that goal.

    Adrian:             Mm-hmm (affirmative)

    Christine:          And if you do that, things start happening and things start falling into place. Wow, how did that land, how did that land, right?

    Adrian:             Exactly.

    Christine:          That's when things become fun and magical.

    Adrian:             I agree. How do you deal with culture? Because going into companies, I imagine this is something that's a big factor in what you do, in your consulting, your teaching. Somebody may bring you in, and you go into a company and you start to work with them, but you see that there's a culture issue there, and maybe that culture issue ... one person brought you in, but the person above that person is actually what's creating this culture, and is it possible to change that from, and how do you do that?

    Christine:          Yeah. So my approach, whether it's an entrepreneur or an HR director or whoever it is, doesn't matter what level they're at or how many people are involved, I like to live by that be the leader that you would like to follow. So if you've got a challenge with someone who you're reporting to or who is in a place of authority, whatever, however that works, it's like quit focusing on what they're not doing or how they're not showing up for you. Quit focusing on that. Be the leader you want to follow. So if I become the leader that I would like to follow in that other person, I can't help but move the dial towards what is in the highest interest of all. So if I get myself into that situation and I'm doing a virtual workshop and I can tell culturally, it's different or there's resistance to what I'm sharing, all I can do is show up and share what I actually believe is true and what I know is of value. And I have to detach from how they receive it. They're either gonna receive it or they're not. And if they do, great, and if they don't, then that's information for me too.

    Adrian:             Yeah. And I'm sure that every little bit matters. So that culture may be strong, but by you going in there and teaching that group, you've at least planted a seed. You've at least gotten people to see that things can be different. And it may spread slowly sometimes, but I think that if a person of your caliber never comes into a company and starts that change and plants that seed, then it may never change.

    Christine:          True. And I have no problem, and I don't know why, I've got brothers and sisters and I've always been this way, like since I was a little kid. But I don't really have any problem sharing what my perspective is. I'm not expecting you to agree with me or anybody else to agree with me. That's never been my thing. But I am gonna share my perspective if I truly believe that it is the way that I feel is the best way for everybody to move forward. I don't need you to agree with me, and you could have a very different perspective, but I'm still gonna share my truth. So that's okay. 
                        So I guess, in a funny way, I minimize my own drama with others because if they have a different perspective, that's okay. If you're gonna make me wrong about mine or I'm gonna make you wrong about yours, then, of course, there's a bigger challenge. And I think if you look at the divide that's going on right now around the world, and especially in the U.S., it's very convenient to say, and I'm not trying to get into politics here, but it's very convenient to say it's Donald Trump. It's like wow, so you're giving all your power over to this guy and saying that he is the power of all this when at the same time you're saying that he's an asshole or whatever you decide you're gonna say. I'm like, well that's actually interesting and actually quite funny because you give your power over to him.

    Adrian:             Exactly. 

    Christine:          And it just is not so. The divide has always been there. He's the catalyst or has been, to bring the divide to the surface. It's still up to each individual to decide whether they are going to be an integrity in any given conversation and go, I don't understand what you're saying, I don't agree with it. Or I don't understand, it's very different from my perspective, but I'm open to listening because I might actually get a grain of something that might shift my perspective a little bit. And so the reason I'm mentioning all this is, because, in a corporate culture, that's what happens. You got Sally here and she's got her perspective. And you've got Jim over here, and they're at odds, and that influences everyone else being at odds. It's like, why can't they just emotionally have a conversation where they both hear each other's perspective and maybe actually take a grain of what each other's saying and go hey, I'm gonna actually consider that. Thank you.

    Adrian:             Exactly.

    Christine:          And be okay with it. So that, culturally and corporately, I think that's the root of all the challenges because it's all about me, me, me and it's my way, right?

    Adrian:             Right. And we each have to take responsibility for our lives. If we take the perspective of there's somebody else to blame, some other department to blame, some other administration to blame, we can always find that source to blame, regardless. That administration can change, that leader can change. The culture can change. Well, then it's something else. So yeah, I agree. We have to take control of our lives, we have to assume that responsibility for actually changing our lives.

    Christine:          Yeah. It's a lack of emotional intelligence which creates that drama. And the more each individual decides to be the leader that they would like to follow, the more they increase their emotional intelligence, the more it shifts.

    Adrian:             I love it. Be the leader that you want to follow. I love that. And I'm sure that some of our listeners are ready to learn more and ready to step up and be that leader. So how can they find out more about you and more about your products, services?

    Christine:          Sure. They can just go to Christinemonaghan.com. And that's Christine, C-H-R-I-S-T-I-N-E M-O-N-A-G-H-A-N .com and all my offerings are on there. And there are lots of ways to get a hold of me. My Instagram is really a great place to get daily hits of wisdom, which is daily life mastery, that's my Instagram account.

    Adrian:             I love it.

    Christine:          Yeah.

    Adrian:             Daily life mastery.

    Christine:          Daily life mastery.

    Adrian:             It's a good name, I like it. It rolls right off the tongue. Well, Christine, it's been a pleasure having you on today.

    Christine:          You know what, I've thoroughly enjoyed this and I will come back any old time you want me to.

    Adrian:             Awesome, because I would love to have you back, and I'm sure my listeners would love to have you back. Thank you and have an amazing day.

    Christine:          Thanks so much, Adrian.

    Adrian:             All right, bye bye.

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    12 April 2018, 11:43 pm
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    Ep 14 - Need a Power Start? Kick your Life into Gear with Serial Entrepreneur Franz-Philippe Przybyl
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    Franz-Philippe Przybyl, also known as “FPP” since only a few people are able to pronounce his name, is a husband and father residing in Berlin, Germany. A serial entrepreneur, he has lived and worked in the United States, Germany, England, Hong Kong, and Gabon. As an entrepreneur, he has built several companies from nothing to multi-million dollar turnover and profit within a few years. Through his successes and failures in business, FPP discovered he has a unique ability to bridge different worlds by bringing together people, concepts, ideas, and projects that would not normally intersect. His passion for connecting people in positive, productive ways was the initial spark that has ultimately fueled Get in Charge of Your Life and the book PowerStart.

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    Adrian: Hello, this is Adrian McMillian with the Goal Show, brought to you by the Life I Deserve. I am honored to have today as a guest Franz-Philippe Przybyl. He is a growth catalyst, serial entrepreneur, speaker, and author of the book Power Start, How To Kick Off Your Day and Energize Your Life.

    Welcome Franz.

    Franz-Philippe: Hi Adrian, thanks for having me on the show.

    Adrian: It's great have you here. So yeah, we met at Breakthrough to Success a couple years ago, and I have to say that you impressed me. I don't know if I actually met you before we had the Come As You'll Be party, but I remember speaking to you at the Come AS You'll Be party and I was impressed by your drive, your determination, and your vision. Five years into the future your goal was to already have that book written and to have, I think, like a million copies sold. You inspired me to set bigger goals. I just want to say that right off the bat.

    Franz-Philippe: Oh good, thanks a lot.

    Adrian: You've been an inspiration to me. I would love for my audience to get to know a little bit about you and what motivates you, so please feel free to give us a little more background.

    Franz-Philippe: All right. And thanks again for having me here. Yes, it was a great experience that yes back in 2016, almost two years ago now. So first of all a little bit about me. I'm 45 years old, married, have two lovely kids. I'm based in Berlin, in Germany, and I'm an entrepreneur, I run two different companies. I am a growth catalyst, you're probably interested to know what that is. I'll tell you later, keep the suspense. 

    As I said, I'm an entrepreneur, I run a farm management company, I run an online roofer here in Germany, the first of its kind in the world. And basically what I came up with by heart I'm a real entrepreneur, I'm entrepreneurial minded, and many people ask me sort of to bring that forward and teach them, and they ask me questions and if I answer them, and they said, "Oh, I'm so inspired by you, you teach that well. Why don't you do more out of it?" And that's basically my night time job. That's why I wrote my book, that's why I've started making online courses, sort of to bring that energy to the people to help them grow ideas and projects, companies, and so forth.

    Adrian: It is impressive how much you have already accomplished and you're continuing to accomplish. So obviously not just a master of self-development, but also a master of time management it sounds like, and productivity. So I'm very interested to hear more about how you develop those skills, and of course we got to get into the growth catalyst thing. Should we do that now? 

    Franz-Philippe: Yeah, okay. So, yeah I was thinking, "What do I do?" Because people normally talk about trainers, coaches, but as I am an entrepreneur myself, I can't really say I'm a coach doing that full-time because I have other things that I'm doing the majority of my time. So, I was thinking what is that helps people to grow without getting used up at the same time? And that's a catalyst. I don't know whether you remember back in school, I had ash, and then if you put it on sugar that it burns, that's a catalyst. Sugar by itself doesn't burn, the ash doesn't get used up, but together it's lighting a fire. 

    And that was my whole idea, that I wanted to light the fire and help people grow, that people have ideas, people have projects, they have companies and sometimes are, "What do I do about it?" Or they have an idea that they want to develop. That's what I want to help them, and that's why I said I think growth catalyst is exactly the right title, that some of the learnings that I had that I passed it on, that some of the things that I've done over the time and I've always done intuitively and I found out how I did it, and sort of to get the energy going and flowing so that I pass it on to the people. Yeah, that's why I call myself a growth catalyst, and that's why I try to bring that energy and that knowledge to other people as well.

    Adrian: I love that, and I do think that's the perfect word for it. I forgot about catalyst and the meaning of catalyst, but that's great. It's like, you provide that extra ingredient that's needed to get where they want to go. I love that. Do you feel like you were always a catalyst, or do you feel like at some point there was something in your life that was pivotal to take you in that direction?

    Franz-Philippe: Yeah, I think there was always stuff that I did intuitively. So many of the things that today people are talking about, you need to visualize, you need to have your goals set up, you need to know where you're going, what's your 10 year sort of goal? I had all of that when I was really, really young, and maybe I can go back like 30 years. So when I was about 15-16, I was thinking, "What should I do? I have three ways that I can do. I could become a dancer, I could become a scientist, or I could become an entrepreneur, a business person." So pretty diverse setting.

    So I tried out a few things and said, "No, I'm definitely going for the entrepreneurship." I knew that at 16, so I looked around also what can I do to study this, and there was a specific school, and at 16 I really looked it out. I had already started a little company on my own to earn some money, and I was very determined. Everybody who wanted to hear it or not, I told them, "You know what, at 28 I'll be CEO, and at 30 I'll be a millionaire." And both I managed to get done three years early. 

    When I was 26 I was appointed CEO by a bank subsidiary, and at 30 I was a millionaire, however that was backend of the 90s with a new economy, the dotcom development, and that was a so-called MOP, millionaire on paper. I had all the shares, I invested everything, and then with the explosion of the new economy and the twin towers, all of that was gone. So that brought me down to zero. I rebuilt everything again, and was just concentrated on myself sort of to get it done, and then people were asking, "How did you do that?" I said, "Actually, good question." But I never thought more about it.

    Then something similar happened ... When was that? 2009, 2010, and the aftermath of the financial crises, I had built another company that was really brilliant, we had millions of dollars, and got completely smashed in the aftermath of the financial crises. I was back to zero. Had a big personal crises, put on weight, didn't do any sports anymore, no sleep, too much sugar, problems in our marriage, and everything, you can name it. Was in debt, had to sell my house to pay for my ongoing expenses. 

    And I was like, "How are you going to do something about it? I mean in the past I had energy, where has all of that gone?" And that's exactly when I started thinking more sort of structurally about, "Well I've built stuff, so where did the energy come from? What did I do back then?" So, I started getting more into personal development.  I did that intuitively already when I was starting 12 years old. 

    And basically then what I did starting 2016, I went to BDS as one of these sort of kick-in your bottom kind of exercise, like, I got to go there and get me motivated. And I said, "Well I want to write this book." And it was then that this party you said, Come As You'll Be In Five Years. I had just a cover. And then afterwards I found, "Well, I already have the book, I only need to write it."

    Adrian: I love that.

    Franz-Philippe: That was a little bit like a personal therapy that I wrote for it, and I put a lot of thought I had. Obviously when you write a book you need to structure this stuff. And that's what I went into. So I structured everything, thought about it, what did I do? How did I do? Put everything together, and the result was the book. And out of that I was like, "What am I doing here?" That's where the whole idea of growth catalyst came from. 

    And then I started, I want to do that now more structurally, because before people asked me, "Well, can you teach me this, can you answer that question." And they were really happy, and they were just like you, that, "The energy you have and stuff that you bring across." So I thought, yeah that's I think I should do further. As I don't have time to do that full-time with people, I chose a growth catalyst, and that I do online courses, I also want to do weekend seminars where I transfer that energy to other people. 

    Yeah, so that's a bit my story and where I'm standing today, and why growth catalyst and everything behind it.

    Adrian: Very impressive. You know, so many people would love to be able to just say what they really want, and to just say, "Yes, this is what I'm going to do." And there's a great power in doing that, it's part of that visualization. You're actually putting it out there into the universe, and you're putting it out there and you're being accountable. You did that from an early age, which is really impressive. And you didn't just say it, you followed through, and also you stumbled along the way like we do, and you just got up and you kept going. Very impressive how you built one business after another.

    Franz-Philippe: Thank you.

    Adrian: So what are some lessons that you feel like you've learned when you did stumble? When you did have a challenge? And what is the thought process? How do you take that and turn it in to a lesson, and enable it to take you further?

    Franz-Philippe: Yeah, I think there are obviously multiple points we could now discuss for a week what's going on, but maybe just every couple of minutes. So maybe, two or three points. One is really perseverance, that you stick to all that you say. "I really want to reach this. I really want to go for it." And go through hard stuff and hard times, and don't be deterred by it. 

    Some of the things that I did was very interesting, when I learned more and got to know other interesting people. For example, I read a lot of, and talked also to a little bit different people like Navy SEALS, really sort of the epitome of people motivated, crushing through stuff. I learned one of their motivation techniques is to cut down and get smaller, and smaller, and smaller into your goals the harder it gets. First you say, let's say, "I want to run 20 kilometers." But if you had lots of gear and lots of stuff, and afterwards you say, "Well, I just want to make the next kilometer." You've been doing that for like two days, running through the fields with everything. It might not even be the next kilometer, it might be, "Well, I will make it to the next bush, which is 50 meters away." And then you go down to, "I can do one more step." 

    I think that's important when you face challenges in your life, that just keep going, and if it becomes too big and too overwhelming, just cut it down into smaller pieces. And this is A, good for motivation, but also good in goal setting. I have a whole system that developed, and that will probably be my next book, the Goal Action Pyramid. That from goals to get to individual steps of next action, you need to make sure that it's in digestible steps, because sometimes people are overwhelmed by something. "Oh, this big goal, what can I do about it?" And then they don't do anything, because it's just too far away.

    If you have that vision ingrained in yourself, you know, "One day I will be there." And then you say, "Okay, now I need to make the steps that I can do." And that's the emphasis, that you can do. If the big steps you cannot do yet, do the small steps. If that's too small, just crawl. If that's too small, just go a little bit further. It's not giving up, that's the most important point.

    Adrian: Great. The people that pursue self-development stuff, and they consume the course, and they read the material, they're working so hard to get to this mindset that you already had at such a young age, which is really great. So, when you went through this process of chunking down your goals, did that just seem natural?

    Franz-Philippe: Well, when people look at the out sort of stuff that has been achieved, they're always like, "Oh, this looks so easy, it was so easy." But it hardly ever was. I think if you talk to anybody who's big and well known, has done great stuff, if you ask them, "Well, was it hard in between? Did you have challenges? Did you feel overwhelmed?" Everybody will say yes, and who doesn't, he's lying, just as simple as that. 

    So yes there are times where you feel overwhelmed, and that's exactly when you've got to come back and say, "Okay, what can I do now?" I mean, after the financial crises everything was tougher, everything was hard, in the morning to get up was hard. So then I had to really just cut it down into pure survival, and then take the next steps and then go through, and further and further, and then after a while then you get used it and you say, "Oh, I survived this, let's go to the next part." And I think that's an important thing, that the lessons that you need to push yourself, you need to push yourself through your limits and beyond your limits. That's something I learned I think when I was doing sports at a young age. That was very helpful, that you really go to the limits, go further than that.

    I think today what many people are, you mentioned also the personal development, personal growth community, they read stuff and they consume things, but you really need to do it. 'Just Do It', from Nike, that's very poignant. Just do it, and then do it again. And action is the key to everything. So just thinking about something, or thinking is very easy, it's not. There's always something hard, and somebody who tells you it's that easy, no it's not. You've got to go through something hard, and you will develop.

    Who was it? I think it was Harv Eker who said, "Don't look at minimizing your problems, look at your growing yourself, because then in relation the same problems will be smaller." I think that was also my goal always, that I always looked at something, you've got to look at it how to improve, if there's something bad don't take it personally in whatever sense it is, and just take the learnings out of it. 

    I think that was also what gave me strength. But as I said, if I'm going through this, after this what is the learnings? And not being bitter about it and saying, "Oh, this was hard. Why didn't it workout?" Well, you can't change it, just take it. Appreciate what you have and then go through it, and then look back, what are the learnings? And then apply them. You can do any error there is as long as you don't do them too often, because then you're not learning. Try to make as many different mistakes as possible, because at sometimes you have covered all of them. But the important part is always what do you learn out of it? Out of personal interactions, out of business things, out of financial things, physical, you name it. I think that was my mantra. We learn, continue to learn out of it, what did you take, and then improve it next time.

    Adrian: That's great, I love that. You know, years ago before I found Jack Campbell's material and went on to study Anthony Robbins, and Zig Ziglar, Stephen Covey, before I knew all that, you were one of those people that I would have looked at said, "They must have more than 24 hours in their day. They must be from another planet. How in the world are they getting so much done?" What can you offer my listeners and my viewers on how to focus? Like let's say beyond this one big goal they want to accomplish, there's like five goals they want to accomplish. How can people get and stay focused so that they actually make progress on something, and then they're able to maybe shift gears to something else?

    Franz-Philippe: Yeah. Focus is very important. What I was a big believer in is sort of not just ideological concentrate on one thing, but everything is more holistically connected together. So you had the mind, the body, mood, how's it all intertwine? And once you understand that there's an interconnectedness between all of them, and not just one way but everything is bi-directional, that's then the key that you can tap more energy all the time. 

    So you've got to think about things properly, obviously you've got to treat your body well, that you do sort of exercise, you eat healthfully, but there's also breathing exercises. There was lots of stuff that I never was aware of, for example that I did for my sport, like the deep breathing that you have, certain rhythmic breathing that I developed myself. I did high intensity interval training before anybody knew about it, that it was even, I just did it intuitively, and sort of that helped.

    When I look at my goals, I had my very, very big term goal that I wanted to do, and then I broke it up into smaller things. And even though I did a lot of things, I always didn't do it completely parallel, not like complete multitasking, but always one after the other, but in very concentrated bursts. And then in between I enjoyed myself. 

    So for example, at school I was sort of one of the top three people from over a hundred students at school, and in university I was in the top percentage, and then in the end everyone's looking at me said, "How did you do that? Because you didn't learn all the time." I said, "Yeah, because I made concentrated bursts, and then I let go. Concentrated burst, and then let go." So concentrate, you don't wobble around all the time with stuff. 

    For example, before exams. People say, "I've got to learn all day." I said, "No, what you haven't learned now doesn't make sense." I said, "I make sure I go to bed early so I have a really good night sleep so I can tap into everything I have in my head better." And I said, "Why don't you just learn while you're in the lesson? Then you don't need to relearn afterwards. So concentrate there, and then afterwards forget about it." 

    There's stuff, for example, back then that I only found out today I am taking notes like crazy. People are like, "What are you doing?" I mean, I fill a notepad a week, just notes that I have from meetings. People are like, "What is this?" And what I only found out later, for example, that it's scientifically proven that if you write something down, you take notes and you summarize it, that it stays much better in the memory than you type. 

    So today I'm still writing, I'm always writing, writing, writing, writing, making a summary, and re-summarizing it, and by doing that it already is all entrenched in your brain. I draw pictures, I put things together and cross notes. I start with an empty sheet of paper, and in the end it's not neatly one after the other, it's like full, left and right, and straight, and what I only learned afterwards, that's how your brain works. Your brain is not a list of things, your brain is interconnected, it's from left to right, and if you try to make more of these things, these connectedness in your head, your brain runs easier.

    So that's why I could pull things more. And then when I said, "How do you get it to different things?" First of all is, do things one after the other, and the other point is being open for opportunities. Because that's what I realized that many people, they focus just on the one certain thing, and that gives them tunnel vision. If they have this tunnel vision, they have opportunities, they always say, "Oh god, you see this, and this? You come by so many opportunities." I said, "You know what, we walk down the same road. I saw opportunities and you just saw one thing, just the paper and the whatever." And that's the important thing, open your eyes, open your mind.

    Even though today many people say focus on things that are in education, I was always very broad. I tried to do as many things as possible. Or in my first job people said, "You know what? You're the dustbin of the company. Everybody dumps their projects on your desk, and you're stupid." And I said, "No, I'm really smart. You know why?" And they looked at me like, "What do you mean you're smart? Are you sort of bragging around?" I said, "No, no, no, I don't talk about that. I'm just say that I'm grabbing every single project there is." 

    Okay, I was working maybe sometimes 20 hours a day, but in those two years I got more than other people in 20 years. And you got to put in the effort, that's the point. Nothing comes easy and for free. In the end stuff is easier because you've built your foundation, but building your foundation is always hard work, and if you invest in hard work, that will repay afterwards. And that's what I did early on, that's what I brought me to where I am today. 

    Adrian: Wow, so much great advice there. I love that. It sounds like, correct me if I'm miss-wording this, but it sounds like you were always open for all the opportunities, and grateful and noticed opportunities that helped you to achieve your goals. So you were open to that, but also you were focused. So it was not so much multitasking, it was more focused, your intention was there, and you're getting something done, yet your mind was open to noticing any opportunities and appreciating those, which is really great. Because we all have opportunities all around us, and it's so much of our life is our perspective, our mindset. Do we notice these? Do we pay attention to these? Or do we just notice problems, and issues, and obstacles?

    Franz-Philippe: I have an opportunity mind. Whatever I see, there's always an opportunity. So, people say, "Oh what's this?" I say, "Oh I could do business out of this, I could do business out of this, oh this would be a great idea, this could be a great idea." And people are like, "Huh?" I said, "If you're open about it and think in the opportunity that's behind it." And I think that's the same for all great people, that they always think in opportunities, and they don't think in barriers, they always say, "What's behind the barrier? How could I expand that barrier?" That's a new lines of thinking and signs they think differently, it's in business that they think differently, it's in the arts that people think differently, it's everywhere. Just be open and try to expand your mind, expand your body, expand everything that you have.

    Adrian: Awesome. And I love that you even broke it down to something as simple as breathing, because I have to remind myself, deep breaths. Because you know once we have so much on our plate, we have so much in front of us, it's easy to go into this mode where we take shallow breaths, or we don't drink enough water, and those little things, the deep breaths, staying hydrated, they allow you to stay creative, and to solve problems, and to get things done. It almost probably sounds silly to some people, like those elements are so simple but they're so critical to just being in the right mindset.

    Franz-Philippe: Yeah, and that's again sort of combining two things, simplicity and action. It's like, "Yeah, yeah I know it." I said, "So, do you do it?" "What do you mind do I do it? Like yeah, breathing is important, drinking is important." "Yeah, so what do you do? Do you do that the first time in the morning, like drink some water?" People are like, "Huh? Yeah, but later I have my coffee." I said, "No, no-

    Adrian: I'm busy, I can't do it.

    Franz-Philippe: Water for the first time, I drink water even before I get up, because overnight you lose about a liter of water, and so the first thing you are in the morning, you're dehydrated, you start dehydrated. And when I wrote my book, some of the consequences of dehydration are that, for example, your IQ levels drop down by 10 points. They're like, "Oh yeah, you're over exaggerating. That's a bit harsh." I said, "No, it's not a bit harsh, it's a fact." People are like, "What?" I said, "Just deep breathing connects sort of your brain things between the nose and what you have in your brain, and your nervous system, there's a very strong connection to there. And meditation is very much just concentrate on your breath, just go there." And that's many people just don't do anymore.

    As you point out, it's just shallow breathing, just at the top, or when they breathe deeply they go ... I said, "No, no, that's not deep breathing."

    Adrian: The air doesn't come into your shoulders. 

    Franz-Philippe: Yeah, and that's why when I do, I sometimes conduct sort of short little seminars in my environment where I invite people to come out for an evening for one or two hours, and one of the first things I do is that, "Okay, sit down, and then get up. Let's do some physical exercise to get your blood flow going, and do some breathing exercises." 

    And so they're tired, they come here, it's 6:30 in the evening. "Yeah, yeah, I want to listen to some of the stuff that you're saying." I said, "No, no, you're not consuming, we're getting into action here." So it's like, "Oops, what's going on?" In the end they're all pumped up, and said, "I feel like I just got up in the morning, and it's already in the evening after 12 hours of work behind me." I said, "Yup. That's how it goes if you do it right."

    Adrian: Franz, you are a wealth of great information and you have all these great tools and processes. I know that some of my listeners and viewers are thinking, "You know, I need that extra ingredient. I need that catalyst." So how can they get that? How can they get in touch with you and learn more about your products and services? 

    Franz-Philippe: So, one is obviously I wrote my book, Power Start. Do I have it somewhere here? I think I have. Here, I've got one on my desk. There you go, here you are. That's Power Start. That's a book basically I describe what I call the Eight Essentials of Success, eight important components to be more happy, you know, to be happier and more fulfilled and more energetic, and out of that, how to develop the perfect morning routine, because with the morning that's sort of a starting point to get your energy. If you start bad it can only get worse, so better start well. That's one point.

    And you can also have a look at www.mypowerstart.com, it's the website on that. The books available as paperback, eBook, and audio book on Amazon. I'm in the process of just developing a couple of online courses, picking up specific aspects of that. So one for example will be from goal setting to goal getting, not just setting your goals but are we getting to them?

    Adrian: Love it.

    Franz-Philippe: That will probably also be announced on the website I just mentioned. And another program that I'm just shooting is called Desxercises, and it's throughout the day what many people have that say, "You know, I'm sitting and ..." Actually, sitting is the new smoking. When I got into the effects, I always thought sitting was bad and I wanted to give people the chance to do something in the office, because doing my workshops I have them be physically active, and they say, "Oh, this is really great, but I feel a little bit silly doing jumping jacks in my cubicle or in a big office on the open floor if other people are watching me. What can I do to stay awake and energized?" So I developed a whole series of exercise that you can do at your desk without other people really noticing but you still have the same physical benefit. 

    When I prepared that, I looked at sort of what are detrimental effects of sitting, and I said, "You know, actually your chair needs to be becoming a health warning." It's the cause of so many diseases and so many sort of shortening of your lifespan. It's really horrible. So that's why I developed this course, Desxercises, like from desk exercises in one word.

    Adrian: I love it, that's great.

    Franz-Philippe: That will come out soon, hopefully in the next six to eight weeks. 

    Adrian: Great. Well, I'm going to put the links that you just mentioned into the show notes, and please let me know so I can let my listeners and viewers know when you have the second book on goal getting, I love that, and I definitely would love to have you back at some point so you can just update us on what new projects you're involved in-

    Franz-Philippe: I would love to.

    Adrian: Because you're definitely an inspiration on how much you get accomplished, and your processes, I love it, that allow you to just get more and more and more done.

    Franz-Philippe: Yeah, thank you.

    Adrian: It's a pleasure to have you. So Franz, thank you so much for your time.

    Franz-Philippe: Thank you so much for having me here. Thanks a lot, and also bye, bye, and lots of energy for your listeners and viewers.

    Adrian: Thank you. All right, bye, bye Franz.

     

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