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Jan 25
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The Importance of Investing

By Blogpost, Goals, habits, management

Today is a perfect day to evaluate the week, what has been some of your wins? What has been some of your lessons throughout the week? It’s a great opportunity to stop, reflect and just to think of – what are you grateful for? What’s some of the successes? What are you most proud of for this week? It is also a good time to talk about the the importance of investing.

This is a great opportunity just to stop and reflect, and just to take note of – you know? What are you doing really well? What did you learn to maybe do better next week?

So, I was remembering when I was down at lovely Manly beach. We stayed there for the a couple of days. Wow! What an experience! And I learned something very important, which I want to share with you.

I want to share with you about the importance of investing.

What is INVESTING?

There are three (3) key elements when it comes to investing:

  1. Investing in yourself
  2. Investing in people
  3. Investing in money

So, those are three things: TIME, MONEY and PEOPLE.

What are you doing in relations to those three things? And the reason why I sort of segway into that is obviously, we spent three days investing on ourselves and also investing in the team.

Looking at – you know, taking myself out of the business how do we then, picture yourself above the business and looking down. What are you doing for that each week? What are you doing for that each month? How are you investing in your time – in the things you need to invest in?

And it’s really good to just stop and take note of what you’re actually doing. Then obviously, investing in your people. So, what are you doing to do that? What are you doing to invest in your people? To really give back to them. To really allow them to grow – allow them to shine and really step into their own geniuses and role.

The third thing is how you’re investing your money. And, you know, there’s so many great people out there to share and take you on that journey as well.

Who Is On Your Team?

So, looking at those three key areas – we just stop and look at, you know, who’ve you got in your team that enables you to support that?

So, while I was at Manly Beach I was working with my personal coach – the legend and the man himself, Taki Moore, on working on both myself, the business, and our people.

And then I worked with one of our other coaches and mentors, Michael Griffiths, on really working with the team and also working with the money.

So, who’s on your team to really support and guide you in those three key areas.

There we go! It’s a great way to stop, reflect – what’s some of your wins? What’s been some of your lessons?

Love to hear what they are for you for the week. Looking forward to speaking with you soon.

Jan 08
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The Value of Teamwork

By Blogpost, excellence, Goals, inspirations, management, opportunities, Success

How has your 2018 been? And what has been some of your wins and some of your lessons throughout the first week of the 2019? I’d love to hear from you. What have been some of your wins? What have been some of your lessons?

This is a great opportunity as we welcome another year – having a review of the week, the month, the quarter, the year of what’s been some of your wins and some of your lessons.

I was in the Philippines last December where I spent four, five days with the whole team over there, just to really start to map out the year. It was an honor and a privilege. I also took my daughter and introduced her to the team. And I think, I found my succession plan.

She had the opportunity to present in front of our team and really embracing it. Also, the shopping – she loves the shopping over there. Oh my goodness! Next level.

But it was a good opportunity to spend some quality time with her, just a daddy-daughter time. And really honored – it’s a privileged to have that opportunity.

The Power of Team

One of the things, and biggest lessons that we learned was the power of team – and power of enrolling the team.

We arrived – the team have already started their strategy session on a Saturday, we arrived Saturday night. And we got into the team meeting on a Sunday. And I walked into the room and they said, “Just to let you know, we’ve already mapped out the next six months for you.”

I was like, “Alright!? Cool.” And what the most amazing thing was, when we reviewed what they had gone through the day before – I had done some previous planning up until, for this time together. It was exactly the same as I had mapped out – they didn’t know this that I had mapped out previously on what they had mapped out the day before.

And so, that was the biggest lesson for me is – Wow! We’ve got an amazing team. So aligned and so on the same page where they’ve been working on the sideline and I’ve been, you know, getting some planning down – coming together and we’re all on the same page.

Once again huge win and huge lesson. So, what are some of your wins? What are some of your lessons?

Hopefully you got to take some time out over the holidays and just had fun, spent quality time with love ones, spent some time with friends and family – and reflected on 2018. And now, start thinking about what 2019 looks like.

So, there we go! Let’s all make 2019 bigger, better and brighter.

Dec 28
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Lessons for the Year: What’s Worked for 2018

By Blogpost, Goals, mindset, opportunities, Success

It’s another opportunity to review the week, and probably review the whole year.

What has been some of your wins and some of your lessons throughout this week? It’s a good time to just stop and reflect to say, “Hey! You have gone throughout the week.”

What are you most proud of? What have been some of the things that you’ve hanged out high and say, “Wow! That’s been a good week.”

What’s been some of the lessons that you can take away and go, “You know what? This is what I learned. This is an Aha moment.” Or “this is what I need to be doing differently next week.”

So, it’s an opportunity to really – as we come through this next little time, to sprint towards the end. And also to reflect on how the year has gone for you.

What has been some of the wins and the setbacks? Some of the lessons and what do we maybe doing differently for 2019.

I’d love to hear from you. What has been some of your wins? What are you most proud of this week? And what have been some of the lessons?

Wins for 2018

We had a great opportunity this week to present to a lot of different organizations.

We’re at the McGrath St. George during their monthly conference. We talked about their genius and we talked about their superpowers. We also talked about how to tap into their genius and how to really start to map-out 2019.

We were also at Tyler Nicholas where we talked about, obviously, how to build your teams. And also communication, which is a really important factor throughout this market where we are at the business world today.

I also had the opportunity, which is pretty cool, to be at the opening of a new sports store called Decathlon. It is a new huge sports store in Auburn. Being in the trail running ambassador, I was fortunate enough to be there.

What Have We Learned?

When I look back over this week, particularly the two presentations that I delivered with the two companies, is we went through the four review questions.

And those review questions is a great way to just to take stock and do this on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually process.

Let’s review the four questions once again:

  1. What’s worked for me this week?
    • What’s been some of the wins?
    • What’s been some of the things that I’m most proud of?
    • What’s really worked?
  2. What didn’t work? What’s been some of the setbacks and some of the challenges?
  3. What are some of my lessons? What are the Aha moments that I learned this week or this month, or whatever time period that you are reviewing?
  4. What do I need to be doing differently?

This is a perfect segway into 2019. When we can take and review your whole year and look at – “Okay, what are some of the things that really worked for me this year?”

What Will Be Different in 2019?

When you look at the different areas of your business, look at the different areas of your life both personally and professionally.

What are the things that didn’t work? What are the setbacks and challenges? What were the key lessons that we took away from work and also on the personal front.

And moving into 2019, how’s it going to be different? What are you going to do different? How’s it going to measure up compared to 2018?

So, it’s a great opportunity to really review. It’s an opportunity to review the year. We deep dive a little bit more in the year and we look at the different quarters. We also need to look at the different areas of your business and personally.

And we start to do the high-level planning for 2019. So you can break and you can free your mind, and really relax and restore, rejuvenate over the Christmas period.

So, there we go – Finish it Fridays, an opportunity to review the week – and the year.

An opportunity to think. What are some of your wins? What are some of your lessons throughout this week?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Have a wonderful holiday.

Dec 18
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Creating a Genius Method vs. Job Description

By management, excellence, Goals, mindset

I attended the referral marketing course with the legend himself, Michael Griffiths, a few weeks ago and I’d like to share some of the key lessons and learnings that I picked up after the course.

In our businesses, in our organisation, we have created positions, and job description. And while it tells what each of us should be doing, what it does is it boxes and categorizes everyone. It’s called job description.

Job description tells us what we should do, but it does not explain why we should be doing these things. It does not clearly show where and how important our contributions are to the team and to keep the business running.

When we are categorized and boxed in, the job description becomes the goal and the measure of our performance. What happens is – we fail to spot other opportunities, other avenues where we could contribute to the business.

There are times when our skills and abilities make us capable of handling more than what is on our job description, but because we are placed in a category where the job description becomes our end goal and our unit of measure, we lose the opportunity to contribute more.

We’ve just shot an awesome little video in our group called the Real Estate Tribe, and it’s all about creating your genius within your team. I say, throw away your job descriptions. Throw away those boring job descriptions that you have within your companies. Because, you know what? Really, they don’t work.

It’s about creating the genius method within those roles to ensure that there’s accountability, to ensure that you’ve actually got the right team members onboard first, and ensuring that everyone’s clearly knows what’s happening and why’s it happening – and they’re accountable to what’s happening.

So, I’d love to share that video to you. If you want a copy of the video, just simply type in “TRIBE” below and I’ll send you an invite to the Real Estate Tribe so you can watch the full version of that video.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to hear your thoughts. I’d love to hear what’s been happening. What are your key lessons and what are your key wins that you want to share for this week? Have you had a good week? Or are you still trying to swim through the rest of the week?

So, there we go! Comment below, share your thought and let’s see how we can help each other.

Nov 30
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Turning Challenges into Opportunities

By Blogpost, Attitude, challenges, Food for thought, Goals, habits, mindset, opportunities

Every time the week ends, it’s a great opportunity for me to review the week, and use these realizations to help me face the next week with a fresh mindset.

So, what’s been happening? What’s been some of the wins, some successes, some lessons along the way? Here in Sydney town, it’s a beautiful sunny day out there today. It’s sweltering hot! Hopefully you’ve got the beach and cool off throughout the day.

Again, this is a great way to review the week. What’s been some of the wins? What’s been some of the lessons? Love to hear those wins and those lessons. Comment below, and yeah, let’s see how you’ve gone.

Lesson 1: Keep Challenging Yourself

Now, looking at a good lesson from this morning’s training session. I’m training up for our next event, which is coming up in February, which is the Tarawera Ultra Marathon. It’s a 100k in Rotorua in New Zealand, and that’s in February.

So, training up and back on the stairs, Coogee death stairs – so to speak. It’s about 200 plus stairs there, and I’m training with this mate this morning.

As I was doing 10 steps and was up to my 9th set – about to stop on my 10th – and I suddenly noticed that he has just got on to his 4th of his set. Anyway, he’s obviously gone through some ups and downs at the moment, through some challenges.

Instinctively, I looked back at him and said, “Mate, alright! Last set! Here are the rules. There’s no walking and we’ve got to go to the top. And you got to lead the way.”

And he goes, “Yeah! You’re on.”

Then I said, “If we walk, we’re going to do another set.”

He goes, “DONE!”

Then, what happened was, in previous set – I’ve gone halfway and have a little bit of walk, and go again, and so forth, and so forth. This last set was a game changer. What happened was that he obviously made through that whole 200 plus stairs without walking, and he lead the way.

And I said, “What a great metaphor in life.”

  1. You knew the rules that you need to be playing by.
  2. You finished it and you completed it to the end.
  3. There was no walking, you jogged it all the way.
  4. You led the pack.

Lesson 2: Learn from Your Challenges

I finally said to him, take those lessons now into your day, into your week – and watch what happens. And now, this is where exercise can draw upon so many amazing lessons that we can utilize in our own life.

You know, that little self-talk that the challenges, you know – working by yourself or working with your mate, or working in a group. Always different components, we can take a lot of those lessons into your day to day, into your business life.

So there we go, some lessons learned from training this morning. What’s been some of your wins? What’s been some of your lessons?

Love to hear your thought. Please comment below and looking forward to speaking to your soon.

Nov 27
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Motivation is NOT Enough

By Goals, Attitude, Blogpost, Food for thought, inspirations, mindset

It’s another opportunity to start our week right.

Nice and wet outside, but hey, it doesn’t hold you back from achieving what you want to achieve for the week.

So, we have the opportunity to really start the week fresh. Start the week with some excitement. Start the week with some clarity, direction and some focus.

Motivation is NOT Enough

So I often I hear – “Yeah, I just want to be motivated. I just want to get more motivation. I just want have someone motivate me.”

All well and good! You know you can watch the videos, you can listen to the music, you can listen to the personal development stuff – but that’s going to give you a quick fix.

Those things can only give you a little electric shock. That’s going to give you the little thing that’s gonna jump start you. But that’s not enough to keep you going.

Coming up tomorrow, we have what we call out GoalsTribe Intensive which will bring all our clients together for two days to work on themselves and also on their business. To really get re-focus, re-strategize and really get clarity of where the next quarter needs to be.

What comes after Motivation?

What happens is that the motivation where they get really excited to come to this event is fantastic – they leave really pumped. But what happens next is so crucial, and there are two components in relations to utilizing that motivation and how do you actually make it everlasting. And there are two key components.

One is obviously having really clear goals that you actually working towards. That will enable you to maintain your motivation.

What are your goals? Are they specific? Are they measurable? Are they attainable? Are they relevant? Are they time orientated?

We know the SMART principle! That’s one component.

And the other component is, are they compelling enough? – “What is your why?”

When we have the clear, concise goals and we have the why – that is going to maintain the motivation. That’s going to maintain our drive. That’s going to maintain us moving forward to actually achieving what we want to achieve.

That’s why motivation is not enough, but having clear, concise goals and having your why – enables you to really instill that motivation day in and day out.

There we go! Love to hear what your goals are maybe? Or what is your why?

Love to hear! Comment below and looking forward to speaking to you soon.

Nov 23
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Achieve Your Goals Through Focus

By Attitude, Blogpost, challenges, Goals, mindset

Oh my goodness!

Where has the weeks gone? It is flying throughout the moment. Can you believe it, next thing we know the year’s over.

So, I think there’s only around about five more weeks to go before the big man comes down the chimney. I hope you got your stockings ready to go out and all the lovely decorations.

I can’t believe the other day, when I was in the shops, I saw the Christmas decorations ready to go out already. Can you believe it? Absolutely amazing.

Every end of the week, it is a great opportunity to review the week of the wins that you’ve had, and also the lessons you’ve had throughout the week. It’s a great time to stop, reflect and go through the four (4) debriefing questions that I always recommend clients to go through.

Let’s Review

So firstly, what has worked for you for this week? What has been some of the wins? What are you most proud of throughout this week?

Secondly, what are the challenges? What’s some of the things that you’ve not finished? What’s been some of the setbacks?

Third one is, what are the key lessons? What have you learned from this week? And finally, what do you need to be doing next week?

Going through those four (4) debriefing questions enables you to really stop, reflect and go – “You know what? Yeah, let’s acknowledge yourself, let’s acknowledge the team – of what’s happened throughout the week.”

Aside from the four debriefing questions, it’s also good to consider and review these three components:

  1. What are some of the things that you know, we may be a little bit stuck on?
  2. How can we enroll others to assist and move through those process?
  3. And lastly, and the most obvious is, LESSONS.

This is a great point! How do we learn from our wins, setbacks and so forth – to then do some of the things a little bit differently for the next week.

What are your lessons this week?

Some of the lessons I want to share with you of what I’ve learned this week is how I love the lesson that exercise gives me. This is why I do some of these crazy runs, right?

Exercise gives me some amazing lessons personally and also for life in general. So, as you may or may not know I do these crazy runs – I just finished a 250 kilometer run through the Simpson Desert for over six (6) days. Crazy stuff!

And now I’m training for our next race. It’s a 100K run in Rotorua, in New Zealand coming up on February next year. So I’m back on this training plan – and the other day I was with a mate, Jason, and we were going up Coogee Stairs. And for those who know it, South Coogee Stairs are amazing, right? There are about 222 stairs there, it’s fantastic! When you get to the half-way, you think you’re already there and you’re only half-way right?

So, we’re going up and down, and we’re doing this set of stairs. And on the second last set, what happened was – while I was going up, a thought came into my mind. And that thought led me down a rabbit-hole.

I was thinking of too many things at once – things that I had to do, unfinished work that I had to complete, which were completely unrelated to what I was doing at that very moment. I was so caught up with other things that I lost my focus and forgot what I was supposed to be doing.

The next thing I know, I looked up and Jason was already about 15-20 meters in front. I was just there, then suddenly my thought process was just completely down this rabbit-hole of this and that – and then what I need to do and this and that.

The moment I got to the top, I said to him, “Mate! That was like, I went down a complete rabbit hole!”

And he was like, “Yeah, I was just about to shout out to you what actually happened. Where were you? Where was your head?” Because he could see me going down this rabbit-hole.

It made me realize how quickly I, and obviously talking to clients and the others out there – how quickly we can go down the rabbit-holes in life.

How quickly we can, you know, by a shiny ball or a thought – can take us off the path, can take us off focus, and can take us off where we really need to be.

And so, what I did – I did a massive awareness around how quickly our mind can shift us into different thoughts and different avenues.

With that, a new realization came – when we came around and did our last lap – I have to stay true to the intention of what I needed to do. Stay true to the focus of where I need to go – that is, to get up those stairs. And when we got up to that last set, I was side by side with Jason, and he goes, “Welcome back!”

Focus: Why is it important?

And so, the lesson is – when we’re doing a task, when we’re doing an activity, obviously, keep the focus of the outcome. Keep the intention of why you’re doing the task. Keep the focus of, “this is why we’re doing it, this is how we’re doing it and this is what we’re doing.”

When we stay true to that focus, when we stay true to that intention – you get the results so much quicker. Rather than going down the rabbit-holes, rather than going the shiny balls – and this is a massive lesson that we had throughout the day. And this is the power of getting out there and reviewing your week.

So, what are your wins? What are some your successes? What are some of your lessons throughout the week?

Love to hear your thoughts. Comment below and share how you keep focus and achieve your goals in life and in your career.

Nov 13
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The Power of Outsourcing

By Blogpost, excellence, Goals, management

Today I want to share about the power of outsourcing.

What is outsourcing?

By definition, outsourcing is the practice of having certain job functions done outside a company instead of having an in-house department or employee handle them; functions can be outsourced to either a company or an individual.

We’ve been outsourcing now for a number of years and we’ve got an amazing team. We’ve got about ten on our team that we outsource and work closely with.

Just this morning we had our team meeting which is pretty cool, when you got people around the world jumping on and finding out the wins of week – what’s working and how we can improve the business.

So, it’s a powerful opportunity – OUTSOURCING.

What I find is that, people obviously want to outsource and they want to increase their profitability, increase their cash flow. And also, just get rid of all that stuff.

So, we know that there’s a need. And we know that outsourcing needs are just going through the roof. The scales and numbers of the infiltration of outsourcing – the power of outsourcing is quite phenomenal.

But how do you do it? What are the steps? What’s the process?

How do we go in and not be burned and how do we actually really get great work done?

Outsourcing as a Powerful Opportunity

So here’s a little thing. I’ve got a little webinar and it’s a training webinar to take you through the seven (7) steps of outsourcing to really show you how to scale, profit and really leverage your team through outsourcing.

So if you want to jump on, all you really need to do is just type in below “I’M IN.” And I’ll send you the link to register for the training webinar.

Because the reason being is, if I could show you the ways to really work on your own genius and outsource the rest – the profitability is huge. You will learn to focus on the things that you love, so therefore you can start to generate more things. And you can start to dish off and delegate everything else.

And I know that we’re working with our clients when I actually get to do this – the revenue goes up. The profitability goes up. They save more.

The team actually enjoys more because they are not bugged down into the day to day stuff.

So I’m going to take you through the seven (7) steps to outsourcing. Simply comment below “I’M IN,” and I will send you through the details.

There you go! The power of outsourcing to really help you scale, become more profitable and leverage your team.

Oct 30
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How to Attract a Winning Team

By excellence, Goals, management, Success

There are three (3) points I want to share with you today on how to attract a winning team.

I’ve just started a 15-point checklist recently on how to attract the winning a team – and these are the three (3) points from that checklist.

However, what I’ve noticed before we get into those three (3) points is, so often we have a clear marketing plan or growth plan to attract new clients.

But what’s your plan to attract that winning team? What’s your plan to attract the right type of people into your organization or into your business?

It takes time, it takes focus and it takes a proper plan to really create that process to make you an attraction-based business.

When we get these stuff right, what happens is that you’ll have people inquire: do you have any roles? Do you have any job openings?

And this process take the pressure out of, you know, if someone decides to leave, or you’re growing and you need someone quickly. It takes that pressure of actually trying to find someone.

Recognize Your Team’s Efforts Publicly

The first one is to publicly recognize your team. This could be a personal achievement they’ve had, a win at work, whatever it is.

Recognize your team members, your current team members, for the amazing work but also recognize them on a public forum: if it’s social media, if it’s an announcement to your database, whatever it is.

That works on two (2) fronts: one, it’s a social proof that you recognize your team members and it’s actually getting the message out there to the wider audience.

But more importantly, is to recognize your current team members of their hard work, dedication and their results.

Share Team Events

Point number two is that, actually share your team events. Now, team events is a great way to build and have a great bond within your organization, within your company.

It’s great to really solidify the relationships and really harness the relationships that have already happening within your organization.

But when you share that with the wider world, what that enables you to do is to make a statement to the world – “This is how we recognize the team. This is how we give back to the team. Look at the fun we are having within our organization.”

And what that enables you to do is to share your message out there to the wider audience.

Conduct Business Awards

Lastly, business awards.

Now, sometimes people go – “Ah, you know, it’s this and that” – but you know what, business awards work. Based on the marketing side of attraction of new clients but also for the attraction of new team members.

Because there’s usually components in those business awards that you have to talk about your team, your success, your journey, your vision. And that, you can then communicate that to the world.

People like to be part of something that means something. Therefore, if you become a finalist, or if you win business awards – people like to be attracted to that as well.

So there are three (3) key points for today are:

  1. Recognize your current publicly.
  2. Share your team events to the wider world.
  3. Get in, and apply for your business awards.

So there you go! Post your comments and looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Oct 05
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People Plan: Setting Values and Achieving Goals

By Human resources, excellence, Goals, management

I want to go through a couple of different tips and strategies to really help you grow your business particularly coming through your people.

We talk about PEOPLE PLAN.

So often, I see businesses have set their marketing plans, they set their growth strategies; but usually they don’t have a people plan to support that.

We are off and well-focused on actually attracting and trying to get more clients and more customers, but what do we have in relation to a people plan?

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