The Inner Game Of Success

Currently sitting in the airport, waiting for my plane ride home from Sydney.

Came up here in the wee hours this morning from Melbourne, to deliver a talk I was invited to give to a group of hungry-to-learn personal trainers. (Thanks for the opportunity, Shane).

The topic? 10x Business Growth.

Although to let you in on a secret, what we really talked about, wasn’t just the outer game of business ‘success’ (the sales, marketing, revenue generation, 50+ lead gen activities, increasing client profit 300+% etc) but we also covered what I call the 'inner game’ too.

See, it’s all well and good to know how to generate leads, make a healthy profit and deliver an exceptional program. But for me, it’s not until you first of all discover who YOU are that you will fully embrace the successful business lifestyle.

You are (and always will be) your own biggest project.

Here are some of the core concepts I shared with the group for you to ponder/explore/think about. I hope they help you..!

• The currency of today’s world is not money, but time.

  • Use it wisely and invest only where you get a worthy return.

• Ultimately, at the core of it all, the client wants what you want

  • More love, more greatness, a greater sense of hope, a bigger future, a job they enjoy, a family that loves them etc. I could go on for paragraphs. Just think about what you want and just know others’ most likely want that too.)

• Reset your ‘success thermometer’ by increasing your standards.

  • Never allow someone else’s insecurities, dictate how you live in this world. Don’t shy away from greatness, inspire everyone around you to be better through your actions.

• Your darkest days become your greatest fuel for growth.

  • Sometimes you’ve just got to walk through the mud. It can’t all be good times. Just remember, that’s what builds epic character!

• It’s not where you are now that matters, it’s where you WANT to be and are COMMITTED to going.

  • Make the commitment to do the work, and then stick to it.

• Fulfilment is not a destination, it’s a state.

  • No explanation necessary.

• Find purpose in what you’re doing by being purposeful.

  • That is…’full’ of purpose. (break the word down)

• Discover your 5 chief assets and work hard on honing on your strengths

  • Everyone knows at least 5 things about themselves that they love. This is a good one to use with your clients too!

Greatness is upon you.

If you haven’t already, commit to doing a minimum ONE thing per day to increase your value in this world.

The world only rewards results. Not excuses.

Time to get busy.

Signing off for now.
Hayden

Keys to Making 2019 Your BEST Year Yet. (My 5 SUPER tactics...)

I am fascinated, mesmerised and deeply inspired to live my best life.

I’ve been really researching and working hard towards living that life for the past half a decade, and so I wanted to share with you some of the things that you can do to start living your very best life as we embark on yet another year.

Inside the above video, you’re going to pick up 5 of my SUPER tactics. These are the big ticket items that really move me and my 1-1 private consulting clients forward in our lives.

They will allow you to live your passion, move forward with your obsession and make 2019 the year you live your best life.

TACTIC NUMBER ONE: The 25 wins list.
In our world where it's all about more, more, more, and always wanting to achieve more, all I want to do is allow you to take some time and look back on the last 12 months and ask yourself, what are the 25 wins that I achieved. These can be big, these can be small. Have a think about all the different areas of your life and really just get a A5 journal like I've got here. There's actually 25 or 26 lines down here which makes it really perfect, and what this does it's going to allow your brain to start thinking and really appreciating the journey that you've been on over the last 12 months.

We're so quick to judge ourselves when we're not making enough forward progress without really looking back and reflecting on just how far that we've come. So number the page down there and go one to 25 and have a think about all the different wins that you've had, big or small. Maybe it's that you got a new job, maybe it's that you got promoted, maybe it's that you started to get yourself into a gym routine, maybe it's that you started to eat healthy, maybe it's that you started to go on a run every now and then.

It's really just thinking about how you've started to improve and those wins that you've achieved along the way. Because you are a different person to what you were 12 months ago, sometimes we get in a negative head space and we forget that this list, there's 25 different items, and don't skimp out. Do all 25 because when you start to think a little bit differently and really go in depth ... I mean, anyone can do five or 10, but when you really start to flick that switch and go, "You know what, I'm going to get 25," then you really start to get the benefits of doing some of this work.

TACTIC NUMBER TWO: The five biggest lessons list.
What this is going to do is, of course, during the last year, there may have been some things that you probably didn't anticipate and didn't go how you planned, and we might call these challenges, we might call these failures. What I want you to do is to start to reframe those and have a think about what these actually taught you and what the lesson is that you can draw from those.

So, write down again, in your trusty journal, which I advise everyone gets, write down the five biggest lessons that you learned over the last 12 months and what they actually meant for you so you can start to draw the wisdom from that so, again, you don't make the same mistake over the next 12 months. So start to create your five biggest lessons list.

TACTIC NUMBER 3: Your five big ticket items.
So as we propel into the New Year, I want you to really think about, what are the five things that you would like to or need to have done at the end of a 12-month period to call it your best year yet? And you can go across a whole broad spectrum of your life, you can think about maybe you have to start that business, maybe you have to launch that new product, maybe you have to rekindle and start a relationship with someone. Maybe that someone is yourself.

Have a think about the five biggest things that you need to get done and finish and finalise by the end of the year for you to call it your best year yet. Write those all down, and what we're going to do is we're going to start to review these every single day. So the morning before you start your day you're going to recalibrate your mindset and have a look at those big five items and go, "You know what? These are the things I'm working towards." And when we have a goal, instead of bobbing in the ocean or bobbing like cork in the ocean, we're going to get super clear on what we want to do and we're like an arrowhead going towards our goal.

What I want for you is for you to have that super clarity. The only way you're going to get that is to start to deliberately think about what it is that you want and how you actually are going to go out there and achieve it. Which brings us to tactic number 4.

TACTIC NUMBER 4: Creating your perfect blueprint.
So what I want you to do now is create your perfect blueprint, and this is different goals, so I advise having a monthly goal in each of the areas of your life.

So we're thinking about what kind of health do I want? What kind of financial position do I want to be in? What do I want to do with my days? How do I want my relationships around me to be? And really start to think about all the different things that would need to happen in order for you to get there.

This is going to be blueprinting your entire life, so one of the ways you might like to do this is get your journal and break it into 12 different boxes, so two lines down the middle, three lines down the side. You're going to have 12 boxes, and start to think about, okay, so in January, what do I want to achieve, what would I like to get done? What's February's agenda? What's March? And so on and so forth. What we do then is we have a really good bird's eye view of what are things that we actually need to go out there and get done to call 2019 your beast year yet?

TACTIC NUMBER 5: Your action plan.
what we need to do now in the simplest most effective way possible. And there's only two letters that you need to know about this and that's do. In order to achieve any of the results in any area of your life, and I know you've heard this before but it's always worth repeating, is we need to do. We need to do the thing, especially the things that scare us. So what I want to ask you to do is inside of that blueprint start to think about, okay, so what are the things that maybe I've been trying to avoid, or maybe the things that I didn't do in 2018 that I probably should have, and how can I start to propel myself into action?

What we need to do is raise your awareness over what some of those items are so we can start to move forward with those things and really get the action happen. I want you to become and transform yourself in 2019 to become a person of action, a person of extreme value that acts on their dreams, on their hopes, on their desires, on their blueprint that they've just created.

So, if you were to do those five things, I guarantee you you're going to live an amazing life in 2019. If you need any help creating any of this stuff, please drop a comment below. I'm more than happy, or with anyone, the whole community can jump in there and help, but I'd be more than happy to point you in the right direction. Let's make 2019 your best year yet.

Please let me know what you think right on Instagram here, or by dropping a comment below.

Live Your Life and Stay Great!
Hayden

Finish Strong - How to WIN The Last Part of the Year

Up in Brisbane for the week and feeling GREAT. It's early, I've journaled, I've read and I've got a hot cup of coffee with me ready to share some wisdom with you. There's just something about escaping the normality of routine and switching things up that forces you to both grow and relax at the same time.

Today, as we embark on the last little part of the year, I want to help KICKSTART you into a whole new gear. While most are winding down, we are just getting started!

Below I have written what I call 'The 27 Potent Points of Personal Power' What does that mean though? Well, it's 27 small (but intense) pieces of hard out wisdom passed down through the ages to help YOU play your best game...in your business, your relationships (with both self and others), your life, and your future.

These are not 'endpoints' of wisdom. But actually starting points. I want you to use these not as temporary 'feel-good' fuel...

But instead, as a kindling to get your inner fire re-lit and bring back the passion, productivity and purpose inside your life as we head towards the last month of 2018.

Let's begin:

1. Commit to giving up your addiction to distraction.

2. Aim to always be a person of EXTREME value.

3. Focus on delivering your very best.

4. Start. Today.

5. There is always hope for the future. Sometimes you've just got to look a little harder.

6. Become freaky good at what you do.

7. Focus on your gifts, not your grievances.

8. Study yourself intensely.

9. Better knowledge leads to better awareness. Better awareness leads to better decisions. Better decisions lead to better results.

10. Only YOU know what's truly best for you.

11. Have the courage to dance to the music playing in your heart.

12. Guard your focus like your life depends on it.

13. Never be shy with your ambitions, goals or actions.

14. Rise early and win the day.

15. Take at least 1 hour a day to work on project YOU.

16. When it comes to delivering your service, always sweat the small stuff. The small stuff DOES matter.

17. Education might make you a living. But self-education will make you a life.

18. Stop running a story of defeat. Re-write the script of your life so you WIN.

19. Do the work. Today. And every day henceforth.

20. Never drop your standards to accommodate for someone else's insecurities.

21. 1% daily growth compounded over 10 years is impossible to beat.

22. Whatever you do, actually DO it.

23. Discover what makes you happy and do more of that.

24. Destroy comparison by focusing on you and your clients ONLY.

25. No-one is coming to save you. Save yourself first.

26. THINK before you speak, act or jump to conclusions.

27. Face your demons head-on. They're there to teach you the lesson you most need to learn.

What's important here, is that you try not to just quickly gloss over the above. I want you to go back over it. I want you to study it by re-reading the entire list (this time starting from the bottom). You will notice 1 or 2 items that really stand out.

These are the things you truly needed to hear today. I know with the right 'growthset' (growth mindset), attitude and master blueprint you can dominate the remaining 41 days of this year. You've still got 6 weeks to kick it up a gear and WIN. There's still time... Don't write yourself off.

Let's WIN.
Hayden

"I hit rock bottom and survived..."

Today I want to share a quick story about an amazing lady, client, friend and WARRIOR, named Jess.

Originally Jess came to me just over 14 months ago now and wanted to get her business up and running.

She had both a personal training business, but also a very unique workshop series called Foldenmove®.

Now Jess has worked EXTREMELY hard and diligently over our time together and is one of the most genuine, sincere people I know.

But like any journey, she has had her share of ups and downs.

What you’ll see in the video below, is what Jess learned from not only hitting rock bottom (and having .37cents in her bank), but how she has re-built stronger than ever and building a waiting list of clients that continues to grow each week.

HOW HITTING BUSINESS ROCK BOTTOM WAS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED

Jess is a fighter. After coaching and guiding her for most of the time I’ve known her, she has shared both tears of joy, and tears of pain with me. But one thing that makes Jess so amazingly unique, is she is as REAL as they get.

With Jess, there is literally ZERO ego. She is all heart! And as you can see from a small selection of additional videos I have chosen to select below, she is impossible not to love.

I hope you enjoy a small glimpse into an incredible operator.

JESS ON TATTOOING HER BUSINESS NAME ON HER ARM

JESS ON CURING HER ANXIETY

Well done on all your continued success, Jess.

Hayden

25 Lessons in Greatness 🏆

If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that to be the best, you've got to fuel your mind with the best.

Like healthy food is fuel for the body, healthy advice is fuel for the mind.

What you see below is a list of 25 'lessons' in greatness I have created and compiled for you.

It summarises several key points I've learned throughout my journey in business and if you're in a bit of a 'rut', I think it's going to create a whole new level of inspiration within.

My recommendation is to highlight or screenshot 3-5 of them, make those items the background of your phone and then focus on fulfilling those particular lessons over the next 31 days.

Onward and upwards.
Enjoy...

25 Lessons in Greatness
By Hayden Wilson

1. Empathise with everyone you meet (client or not)

2. Immerse yourself in learning sales, marketing, and advertising

3. Push harder every day

4. Give more value than anyone else would ever dare

5. Journal most days to stay out of your own way

6. Discover your highest values

7. Shut out the critics (including you at times)

8. Listen to all feedback - but only apply what’s necessary (use your better judgement)

9. Turn your competitors into clients

10. Test, tweak and re-test all offers

11. Guarantee all of your work

12. Try new things (especially those that make you nervous)

13. Read different books (history, classic, fiction, autobiographies)

14. Never stop aiming for the top

15. Stop playing the price game immediately (compete on value only)

16. Never stop learning. Ever.

17. Work smarter AND harder.

18. Build a business 'backend' and resell your existing client's more great things that help improve their lives

19. Learn to accept temporary failure of a battle, if it draws you closer to winning the war

20. Believe in YOU (go beyond level ‘crazy’)

21. Maximise the margins. Increase profits, minimise expenses

22. Commit to creating, learning and USING systems

23. Realise and accept there are going to be ‘off’ days. Regroup and come back stronger tomorrow.

24. Commit to being a professional in everything you do (from taking sessions to simply doing the dishes)

25. REJECT the mediocrity virus at all costs.

Never settle for anything less than you’re truly capable of.

Let me know which hits home the most for you.

Hayden