The biggest lessons I learned from paying $200K to be a Tony Robbins Platinum Partner in 2018

The biggest lessons I learned from paying $200K to be a Tony Robbins Platinum Partner in 2018 Published on 10 Sep 2019 Some people are a Tony fan and some are not.Either way that’s ok for the lesson I want to share with you today. Back in 2017 when I decided to be a Platinum Partner, I was searching for something I thought was missing from my life. I thought that it was partly the answer to how I was going to grow my business to $10mil, $20mil and beyond. I also thought it was where I would find my soulmate, little did I know he was sitting next to me the whole time – that story is for another day as it’s a very long one! If you follow me on social media you would have seen that in 2018 I was pretty much overseas nearly every month for 10-14 days at a time. I traveled to Europe twice in 6 weeks, USA 3 times for instance and I’m so familiar with the Abu Dhabi airport that I could probably give you directions around it. I was also running my own events in this time frame plus attending events with my own mentors including them taking us to Egypt! 2018 was HECTIC to say the least, I was flying around the world and Australia going from event to event and spending a tonne of money on all the travel, as when you want to be in and out of places on certain dates you don’t have the luxury of looking for what flight was a better deal or what hotel – it was a matter of convenience with travel date and times, and what hotel was the closest to the event! It looked super glamourous from a highlight reel perspective online, but the reality behind this level of travel and events was this. I spent 5 months total time away from my daughter in a year. I have her 12 days out of 14, so I already spend 2 months away from her in a year because of custody arrangement. The reality is that I spent so much time travelling that my body got to a point where it was so damn exhausted that 12 months later I am STILL fighting the effects of pushing myself to the limit last year. I was recovering from burnout which takes YEARS for how far into I was when I was diagnosed. Knowing what it was going to take out of me in 2018 (HA – KNOWING, if only I ACTUALLY knew, I was really just guessing) I set the goal to just maintain my health. I wasn’t expecting to recover more from burnout, no more weight removal, no significant changes, just maintain my point of recover. Well I kind of managed to do that last year, but as I said it’s 12 months later and I’m still barely maintaining it, it’s been hard. That’s the family and health side of it, let’s get to my lessons from that year. The BIGGEST lesson of them all is that I worked out exactly what I DIDN’T want. It’s taken me being away from the environment of being a Plat for awhile and processing everything that I learned and experienced. I don’t want to travel around the world every month. Regardless of if I was holidaying instead of working – I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to have to live out of a suitcase. I don’t want to spend that much time away from my family. I don’t want to spend that much time on planes. I actually really like being at home. Travel will always be a part of my life, I do enjoy seeing places and experiencing them. But I really like being at home. I realised I didn’t want the $10mil, $20mil, $50mil plus business. I have seen what it takes to get there and I don’t want it. Not because I’m scared I can’t do it or anything like that. It’s just that I simply don’t want it. I went back and forth with myself about this, WHO does it make me if I don’t grow my business like that, because that’s the trajectory that I “should” be on with what my last decade in business has looked like. Will it mean that I’m not successful because I haven’t continued to grow a lightning speeds? No matter how many questions I asked myself, I just kept coming back to the simple answer of, I simply do NOT want to have a $20million business, or even $10million. I don’t want to have to deal with the team that it would take to run that. I don’t want to have to run it. I don’t want to do the work that’s involved. That level of business, I wouldn’t get to do what I really want to do. I don’t want to deal with the expenses there would be to not only run it but maintain it year upon year. I don’t want to be on stage in front of thousands of people. I don’t want to run events with thousands and thousands of people over multiple days. I don’t want to be travelling overseas every month, even every 2nd month. There is all this onslaught of conversation about you needing to 10X your business, and that you can do $10mil, $30mil, $50mil in the next 1-2 years. I’ve sat in rooms at Business Mastery 1 & 2 last year where they show you the calculations of the numbers that you could be doing and some basics of how to make it happen, I think my calculations were in the $15-$20mil range of what I could possibly do within 1-2 years time. Which at the time I thought YES I WANT THIS! Afterwards when I got back to my hotel room, I realised something What no one was asking about was the profitability or what it would take to

The Kardashians Can Teach You A Lot About Business

The Kardashians Can Teach You A Lot About Business Published on 16 Apr 2018 Let’s talk about the Kardashians. I know many of you will groan at hearing their name and not want to read this, I urge you to hang in there with me because this comes back to business and the empire that they have built. People think the Kardashians are only famous because of some sex tape that Kim did over a decade ago. People think that they do nothing all day besides laze around their mansions and go on holidays to exotic locations. Sure they have some perks in their life that many of us would dream of. But from what I see from the outside and from the episodes of their TV show that I have watched, they work damn hard. They also deserve to have rest time. They are constantly running from one place to another, meetings about the products that they develop, photo shoots, launches and not to mention the social media platforms they manage. They are constantly what I would call, “On”. They have to deal with the press constantly. They have no privacy at all. Some of it is by their own making from their TV show, but it’s also anytime they go anywhere at all, there are paparazzi just waiting for them. Would you like to be followed around 24/7 and need bodyguards because you get treated like a piece of meat and have no privacy? I sure as hell wouldn’t like it but the Kardashians, they gave up their privacy to build their empire. Yes Empire. Most people wouldn’t associate the word Empire with The Kardashians, but this is exactly what they have. Unless you spoke directly to each of them directly away from the cameras, I don’t know what each would say about if building their empire was worth the sacrifice of their privacy or not. I don’t think that we will ever know the real answer behind that, but it’s way too late to go back now. Let’s get back to their Empire. How did they build an empire I hear you ask? They are amazing sales people. Each one of them individually and then them together as a collective. They have used everything they possibly can to create a platform to sell to that 15-35 year old woman bracket of the market. Let’s start with the TV show – they have just finished SEASON 14! Seriously what reality show do you know that’s run for 14 years? Not many. They have an average of 1 Million Viewers per episode and have produced 222 Episodes of Keeping up with the Kardashians. They also have had 9 spin off series from KUWTK, PLUS broke records with their 10 million viewers for Kim and Kris’s Wedding special over 2 nights. Kim was earning $2million from her wedding so, no wonder Kim felt the pressure to go through with the wedding when she really didn’t want to. I know that feeling myself without having millions of eyes on me! Kim and the rest of the clan have used the ongoing success of KUWTK to leverage their audience into wanting to buy things from them. No matter what they do, if it’s got a Kardashian or a Jenner attached to it, it’s going to make money. The one that impresses me the most is the lipstick collection Kim and Kylie worked on together, in 3 hours from the launch, they sold out of all 300,000 kits and made over $14.4 MILLION. They use their social media accounts and the apps they have to reach millions and millions of potential customers. Because they share so much of their life, remember the whole no privacy thing I mentioned earlier, even though you’ve never met them you feel as though you know them and can trust them. They build that relationship with their followers every single day when they are posting online the pictures of them with their kids, their friends, their behind the scenes of new product photoshoots. All so that when it comes time to launch the new product they can make $14.4 million in just 3 hours. They work damn hard at making sure that they are on point with all their businesses, products and social media. I will say it again, they are AMAZING sales people. I am sure that they now have some people helping them along the way, but I truly believe so much of this falls back to them and who they are. Kim could still be tagged with the “Sex Tape Scandal” title and be worth a fraction of what she is now. She chose to take advantage of any opportunity that she could to launch a career for herself and I think the $175million she is worth today certainly speaks volumes for how hard she has worked to build her empire. It’s been over a decade since KUWTK launched and even when the show runs it course, this family have built such a huge following that it won’t even matter. They’ve leveraged the show as the original platform, into their own platforms all over social media. If you are curious like me, let me share with you how much each of the women are approximately worth. Kim – $175MillionKris – $60MillionKylie – $50million – at age 20!Khloe – $40millionKourtney – $40millionKendall – $18Million – at age 21! That’s $383 MILLION just from the women in the family. And it all comes back to the hustle to make sales, to make money and the want to build their empire. Blog Related posts View all Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. Your goals, time frame, income needs, and risk comfort all matter. We map out a strategy that makes sense for you,

How Many Hours Do You Actually Work?

How Many Hours Do You Actually Work? Published on 14 Apr 2018 When people first come to us seeking help with their business, one of the many topics we discuss is how many hours they currently work as most people want to work less. I’ve been thinking about this for myself and it’s so hard to put an actual number on how many hours I actually work. I start with the question, what classifies as working when you are a business owner? I have a massage every week and 9 out of 10 of them I spend thinking about work. Last week for the entire hour I was thinking about content I could write for blogs, social media and a book I’m writing, my brain didn’t stop even though my body was relaxed. I try very hard to relax and completely switch off. But my brain just doesn’t work like that, when I have ideas the ideas keep coming, they don’t know that it’s inconvenient to me in that moment. Most massages I wish I could have my phone to type notes into as I know I forget half of my ideas as they tend to come to me so quickly. So do I count that hour as time I’m working? What about last night when I had hardly any sleep because I was problem solving some issues and calculating numbers out for the next 12 months in my head. Do I count the entire night or just the few random hours on and off between actual sleep? Or do I even count it at all? What about when I’m in the shower and I think about something awesome that I could teach people about how to get through to their team or sell more product? What about those times when I’m in the middle of doing something like driving and I pull over on the side of the road to take notes about an idea that I have? I don’t always spend a lot of time physically present in my office working but it doesn’t mean I’m not working. My team come in to work in the morning and gleefully look at their computers wondering what new ideas I’ve sent them since they left the day before. They were giggling before Easter about how much would be waiting for them Tuesday morning, because they know what I’m like with 4 days off at home. It’s constant ideas because my brain doesn’t ever completely switch off. Tuesday morning after easter, there was definitely a long list of ideas and brain dumps that I had about a variety of ideas! For me and what I do, I am always working to some degree even if it’s completely unintentional. I honestly couldn’t tell you how many hours I work because every week is never the same. Even as I write this it’s 6:30 am in the morning. My hours are unconventional and I’m totally ok with it. What it allows me to do is have my business run for me no matter how much or how little I work in one week or over a month, I don’t ever feel as though I HAVE to work, I love what I do and I work when I feel like working. I am able to structure my work around my nearly 4 Year old daughter, if she is sick I don’t have to ask anyone for a day off and worry about the work I will be behind in. I can take her to ballet lessons at 3:30pm and not worry about needing to change my work hours around, or not even NOT let her do it because I have to stay at work till 5pm. I’m able to work from anywhere in the world. I travel A LOT attending seminars and events put on by my mentors. I crave education as that’s the way that I know I will grow and I am addicted to learning and personal development because I want to be a better more evolved human being all the time. My business doesn’t stop running because I am not physically present at my HQ. I have the flexibility and freedom to live my life anyway that I want to because I can work whenever and wherever I want to. The seminars and events I attend, they are work. They melt my brain more than going into my office does. They are mentally and physically exhausting most of the time. I come away with so much knowledge and education that I generally want to start implementing and changing things in my business and in myself straight away. Sometimes I need a break though and I may attempt to have a week off afterwards to recover from 5 x 15 hour days in a seminar room and an international flight for example. I can pick and choose how and when I work – which to me is complete freedom. I could never NOT work, I would be bored as all hell. I get bored after a week off work at home and am itching to get back into things because I’ve probably had 10,000 new ideas! As a business owner in the situation that I am in, it’s really hard to tell you exactly how many hours that I actually work. I don’t think about it because I enjoy my life and I don’t feel as though I am ever CONSTANTLY working and never getting a break. For many business owners their days are like groundhog day over and over again. They are stuck inside their businesses from 9am-5pm or even longer, 5-6 days a week. Then when they “leave” work they don’t actually leave because they are still constantly thinking about work and doing things for work. I’m not saying that as business owners we can completely switch off from work. Like I said, my brain doesn’t work that way all of the time. It’s about being able to know

What Do Nashville, Cults And Your Family Have in Common When It Comes To Growing As A Person

What Do Nashville, Cults And Your Family Have in Common When It Comes To Growing As A Person Published on 13 Apr 2018 One of my favourite must watch tv series is Nashville. I first heard about it before it premiered in the US as I was actually in Nashville for CMA Fest, a 4 day music festival where I just happened to be standing about 5 meters from where Hayden Panettiere (Juliette Barnes) was being interviewed and was talking about the new show. I have been addicted ever since. Country music + Drama = Many Many Tears. Fair warning before you keep reading this, there may be some spoiler alerts in this piece if you are not up to date. Juliette has had a somewhat turbulent storyline in Nashville, but let’s face it, that’s the drama we want to watch because you just can’t believe what’s happening. Yet she seems to pick herself back up again. Being addicted to drugs, alcohol, going in and out of rehab. Abandoning her baby and husband to go on tour and party was one season. Another was her recovery from her private plane crashing and leaving her paralysed right AFTER she had decided to leave her partying ways behind and return to her family. After much soul searching through a small church Juliette came back, was able to walk and attempted to release another album, a gospel one this time, after that didn’t go well, she started doing some shady things again. This girl just doesn’t know where to draw the line, but she also grew up in a completely unstable life with an alcoholic mum that did not give her anywhere close to a normal childhood with a morals compass. In this latest season we are seeing the struggle that Juliette has as she decides that she doesn’t like the person that she has become and wants to not just get a band aid fix, but really work on improving herself so that she can be a better wife, a better mum and an all round better person. Juliette finds someone that begins to mentor her and it turns out this guy has a whole tribe of people around him that follow the same principles and have all overcome struggles in their lives and come out the other side of it with a new perspective. Juliette feels at peace around these people, feels as though they are real with her and that she can trust them. You can see her starting her journey of self discovery and actually becoming a better person. For instance, went and helped on a construction site to build homes for people in need. No special treatment, no help or assistance was given to her she was expected to do things for herself once told how to do them. The grin on her face at the sense of accomplishment when she finished the task that she clearly thought she couldn’t do, well that smile said everything about how she had just taken a huge leap forward. I know it’s a TV show, but this storyline is one that is relative to so many of you, wait till I get to the good bit in just a minute. The biggest problem Juliette is now facing is that her husband, Avery, thinks she has joined a cult. He is worried about her and shares his feelings with other people in Juliettes life to try to get everyone concerned about this “Cult” she has joined. This storyline is still unraveling as I type this as the season isn’t over, but I want to share why my heart breaks for Juliette with this particular storyline. This is the first storyline where I feel as though I may have anything actually in common with this superstar. The struggle of wanting to be better than you are and wanting to grow and move forward but not having anyone around you understand what you are going through and why, it can be so frustrating to constantly feel as though you need to justify it. I get Avery (her husband) is concerned about her after all the things that have happened to her. BUT – the place that his fear also comes from is that it’s easier to know what’s going to happen day to day if you KNOW what that person is like, whether it’s good or bad. When you don’t know what someone is going to be like, it creates a level of uncertainty. Are they going to leave me? Are they going to think that I am not good enough for them anymore? Are they going to force all these things on me that I don’t want to know about? What’s going to happen? When you are going through a massive change, people around say they want what’s best for you, but what they REALLY want is for you to stay the same, because that’s what they know. That’s what they are comfortable with. They also may be the same as you in characteristics, so if you change it means that they may need to change to keep the relationship, whether it be romantic or a friendship. They are scared that if you change that there won’t be a place for them anymore. So they will do anything to protect themselves from that hurt and pain that they are imagining. In some circumstances, they are imagining it all and you have no intention of leaving a relationship or dumping friends, depending on who your caring person is in your life. In other circumstances, you will want to make a change and you may want to change the people that are in it. You may want to give them the chance to change and step up with you. They may take that chance, or they may run far away from it. If that happens, that’s ok because they aren’t the people that are meant to be in the next stage of your life.

Running A Business Isn’t Like Everyone Reports On Social Media

Running A Business Isn’t Like Everyone Reports On Social Media Published on 11 Apr 2018 A few days ago I wrote a post on my personal Facebook page about the real life struggles of parenthood when our kids are horrendous and the struggles I face myself as a single mum. I decided to break the silence on social media to do with the fact that you only ever see parents posting the cute selfies with their kids, the cute things they say, the photos of them that are hilarious or cute but No one ever posts when their child is being a little shit saying and doing things to hurt you or act out. There is a shame that comes from talking about that, where we think that we failed in that moment as a parent. That we haven’t taught our kids right. We tend to compare ourselves to other people’s lives and kids, because what we see on the outside highlight reel it looks like that family completely has everything together! But they don’t. There is a different struggle with every family, a different set of circumstances but every child goes through stages that make us sit back as parents and wonder what we did wrong. After I wrote this article I had a number of people message me to share their story privately and some wrote comments on the post about things their kids had done also.(If you want to read the post, it’s public and here Then I started thinking about how this scenario is EXACTLY the same with business. Everyone wants to have their highlight reel going on social media and with the people in their life about how amazing their business is, when behind the scenes the reality is that they are drowning. They are working like crazy to make their business the “Perfect” business but feel like they have no idea what the hell they are actually doing. Much like parenting isn’t it? We like to tell people that we are so BUSY with our business but what we are really busy with, is being busy. Not looking at ways to get the knowledge to work smarter. We think we have to be busy all the time because that makes us successful. We think we need to portray that everything is amazing all the damn time, when it isn’t. We think that if we put our hand up and say I’m struggling this isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, that we failed. We believe that we have let our teams down, our family.We get caught in being too proud to admit that things aren’t sunshine, rainbows and lollipops ever god damn day. Because god help us if things weren’t PERFECT all the damn time. It is freaking exhausting trying to keep up appearances all of the time. The energy that you spend keeping a smile on your face constantly while you lie through gritted teeth about how amazing being a business owner is, it’s crippling you. You may not realise how much it is actually affecting you right now, but the bigger and longer term effects of burying your head in the sand and avoiding reality – they are the things that are actually going to break you. Being real with yourself and the people around you, that’s not going to be the thing that breaks you – that’s the thing that’s going to fix your situation. If more business owners were honest with their struggles it would create an environment where people weren’t beating up on themselves all the time for not being as good as the person over there. If we could break the silence and speak about our struggles of being a business owner, what better conversations would be had amongst communities and online. If we could drop the act how much more energy would we have to devote to fixing the issues that we face? As all of my students know, I am real with them. I talk openly about the struggles that come with being a business owner. The more you grow the more issues that happen but the difference is your reaction time. Years ago I use to spend weeks and months stressing over things in the business instead of doing something about it. I wasted so much time and energy when I think back about it now that I could have used much more productively. Now, there are still stresses, I run a multi million dollar sales and marketing company that changes peoples lives along with other smaller businesses. I have a constantly growing team and customer base. We are constantly innovating our services and products we offer people. We don’t stand still. Ever. It is impossible to be in business without some sort of struggle and issue because we are dealing with PEOPLE. Humans come with emotions and make mistakes. The difference between the old me and the new me is my reaction time and HOW I deal with those issues as they arise. I don’t spend too long stressing over things. As my mentor says, “Worry is Not Work”, so what’s the point in constantly worrying? Find a solution and move forward. If something is not working, change it. Yes there are times that I may spend too long worrying about something, but it may be days whereas years ago it would have been months and months. See what I mean about the reaction time? I also see the business as being similar to kids where they go through great phases and then you have a rocky patch where you want to be the one curling up in the corner crying. Kids also chuck tantrums. So do Employees. So do Customers. Sometimes so does the Owner. Instead of pretending these things don’t happen – let’s learn better coping mechanisms so that our reaction only improves each time this situation happens. Blog Related posts View all Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t

How Persistent Are You Really?

How Persistent Are You Really? Published on 10 Apr 2018 I live in a world where I can make anything happen that I want. I live in a world where I have limitless opportunities and there are infinite possibilities. I live in a place where it’s about asking HOW do I make this happen rather than having an instant reaction of “I can’t do that.” Think about what your default reaction is when you are asked to do something that may be outside of your usual, day to day scenario? Do you instantly tell yourself “I can’t do that.”? If you are, it’s ok. You are part of most of the population. If you tell yourself that you can’t do something, then your brain will come up with not just one, but many excuses as to why you can’t do that. It creates a justification cycle so that you then 100% believe that it is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to do the thing that you probably really want. Let me tell you a recent story of mine, to showcase to you how asking yourself a different BETTER question could actually get you to live in a world like mine where you can make anything happen! Two words. Ed Sheeran. I waited online for 3 ticket presales trying to get tickets to ANY of his concerts in ANY city and I missed out after a total of nearly 15 hours of waiting. I was annoyed, but I also knew that if I wanted to go there would probably be last minute tickets at double the price available. That was roughly 9 months ago. Two weeks ago on a Monday, I had just finished day 2 of 4 days of event presenting on stage. I’d been working for approximately 12 hours that particular day. I had another huge day the next day, but I happen to get on Facebook and realise that Ed Sheeran is doing his Brisbane concerts that week. Tuesday night and Wednesday night were his last concerts on the Australian Tour. I’m at the Gold Coast, presenting for the next 2 days and meant to pick my 3 year old up from her Dad in Brisbane as soon as I’m finished on Wednesday and drive back home to the Sunshine Coast Wednesday night, then Kindy for my daughter on Thursday and me having a rest that I desperately need. Most people would have this situation and just tell themselves that it’s absolutely impossible to get to either of those concerts, right? Not me. I’m instantly asking myself HOW CAN I GET THERE? I ask my daughters Dad if he can have her for the extra night on Wednesday night. He couldn’t. Damn. Most people would be like “I have no other options, I CAN’T GO.” Not me. I start thinking could I drive from Gold Coast to Brisbane on Tuesday night, see the concert, drive back to Gold Coast and present on Wednesday. That wasn’t the most ideal situation because I would be tired, so I parked that idea and asked myself another question. HOW can I make this happen for Wednesday night? I messaged my sister who lives in Brisbane and asked her if she could babysit for a few hours, could we sleep on her couch and we would leave REALLY early on Thursday morning to drive home so my daughter could still get to Kindy. Luckily, she had no plans and said it was fine. I went on ebay, got my ticket, paid DOUBLE the ticket price and couldn’t have cared less because, I WAS GOING TO ED SHEERAN! It took me an hour to work this out, but I just kept asking myself HOW can I make it happen. It was definitely an exhausting few days between the event I presented, the child shuffling and the early morning driving – but I wanted to go to the concert so all of those things didn’t really matter. If you are prepared to do whatever it takes to make something happen that you want to have, do or be, then you need to ask yourself a better question to get a better answer. I promise you that there are only ever solutions if you allow your mind to go there. None of the excuses of the time, the cost, the juggling kids, the travel or anything else that you can find as an excuse to NOT do something, actually matters. You can ALWAYS find a way. Blog Related posts View all Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. Your goals, time frame, income needs, and risk comfort all matter. We map out a strategy that makes sense for you, so you’re not guessing, rushing, or buying the wrong asset. Commercial Property Acquisition The Execution This is where we do the heavy lifting. We handle the research, due diligence, negotiation, and buying process end to end, so you can purchase the right commercial property with confidence, not stress. Making Your Money Work Harder The Multiplier Commercial property is about leverage, returns, and long-term growth. We focus on assets that deliver strong income and real upside, helping you build wealth through smart property choices – not speculation. WISE Buyers Agency

This Story is one EVERYONE will relate to…

This Story is one EVERYONE will relate to… Published on 28 Feb 2018 Once upon a time there was this 18-year-old chick named Amme that refused to dance with friends at nightclubs because she felt like she couldn’t dance. Amme always felt as though she was the odd one out and would sit in the corner on her phone watching everyone else have fun. She was paralysed by the fear of looking like an idiot in front of her friends and all the random strangers. The fear of not being able to dance because no one had ever shown her how clouded her thoughts and she missed out on a lot of fun. Always feeling as though she was super uncoordinated, this fear ran deep. To be fair there was a level of incoordination, let me paint you a picture. Imagine going to an exercise class and everyone is going to the left and Amme is the one going to the right. Everyone is doing star jumps and arms are all in sync and down, Amme’s would always be high in the air in the clap part of the start jump. Amme would go to concerts and be the one clapping off beat. These experiences only added to the fear. Eventually months and months (possibly years) later, Amme got sick of missing out on the fun when her friends were clearly having such a good time. So she decided that they way to get around it was to get really DRUNK so that she would relax and it wouldn’t matter if she looked like an idiot because that’s what happens when you drink, right? So for the next decade the only time that Amme would ever dance was if she was pretty damn drunk, it was always lots of fun but always resulted in a massive hangover the next day. Then Amme, goes to a seminar and there are people dancing in two ways. First one is following dancers on stage while they do a serious of combo moves, similar to an exercise class. Second way is like a nightclub with NO ALCOHOL OR DRUGS in sight. The first day she refused to dance and sat down while everyone else was having an amazing time. Amme was wondering what the fuck she had gotten herself into. The more people tried to get her to stand up and dance, the more she resisted the whole thing. Eventually Amme gave in and stood up and danced. After another one of these seminars Amme became pretty comfortable with all the dancing UNTIL at one of them they had attendees up on stage dancing with the routines to lead the entire room. A friend of Amme’s attempted to convince her to go up on stage with her to be one of the “Dancers” and Amme firmly sat her butt back in the seat saying “No way, no, no, no.” After a bit of persuading and a slight bit of arm dragging to get up there, Amme got up on that stage and was one of the Dancers. Was it scary? Yes. Was it terrifying with all those eyes looking at you? Yes. Was it absolutely amazing? Hell YES! Did Amme get over her fear of dancing in front of people? Yes she most certainly did. Was it actually as bad as Amme thought? Umm… No way. Had Amme created this whole story and rules around when and how she could dance? Yes. Had it impacted her life in a positive or negative way? Pretty negative since Amme has missed out on so much fun over the years from being way to self conscious when realistically, no one is really actually looking at you because they are way to involved in themselves! To go from not even wanting to dance to being able to dance on stage in front of 400 people – I think that is a MAJOR accomplishment. Imagine what else Amme could do if she got out of her own head! If you haven’t already figured out from my once upon a time story, Amme is actually me, Emma. The reason why I share this experience with you is because you may not have a fear of dancing, but what do you have a fear of that is holding you back in your life? How is it affecting your quality of life and your fun factor? What are you missing out of because your fear is holding you back? The things you are most fearful of are the things that you need to face the most. You can fight the fear and create bigger and worse situations than what’s actually going on. Or you can face the fear and realise that you can actually do anything that you set your mind to and let the fear go because it is not serving you in a positive way. I have added some video and photos for you to get an idea of what it was like when I was on stage when I was up there before the main super star came out, Tony Robbins. Check out the short clips below!   I hope this story was helpful to you and I would love to hear of your fears that you have overcome in your own life in the comment section below! Blog Related posts View all Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. 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Helping The Women In Bali

Helping The Women In Bali Published on 30 Sept 2016 A few months ago, I took a group of high end clients to Bali. The plan included spending some time with the local women and helping them out. …It was an eye opening experience. We got to see how the women and children in Bali live when they have nothing. Often, these women are homeless & on the street begging. If they are lucky enough to have a roof over their head, they are often still on the street begging. The roof over their head means a room with a space of around 2.5m X 2.5m. It’s completely normal for an entire family with 9 children would live in that space and that space only. They have a shared toilet and shared kitchen outside of the building. The rent on that space is the equivalent of about $35AUD a MONTH… many can’t even afford that. The Centre that we visited is helping women change their mindset and show them how they can do more than just beg on the street. So they don’t have to take their babies out in the hot sun to beg for money when they are just newborns. The women are learning a skill where they are able to be productive. To be able to make items to sell at markets to make money to provide for their families. The children are then able to learn basic schooling in hope that they pass a test so they can go to proper school. We purchased two laptops to give to the Centre to help the children have access to information that they wouldn’t normally have. There is internet access in the area but access to devices are limited because they just can’t afford them. We also bought fresh fruit, basic food items and treats like biscuits for them. In the gift bags we gave to all the women there was shampoo, soap, body wash, body lotion, hand sanitiser, tooth brush, tooth paste and deodorant. …most of them didn’t even know what any of it was. The look of confusion on their face about the deodorant was so sad. These things we take for granted every day are not always available to everyone. It’s easy to forget how good we have things here in Australia. In Bali, you can’t just buy sanitary pads. So we took over a suitcase full of them. The shock and gratitude they had was incredible to see. These families have nothing. They don’t even have chairs to sit on. I was completely overwhelmed with how bad it actually is over there. I’m also incredibly grateful for how lucky we are to have basic necessities including access to clean water, toilets, sanitary and personal care items. Check out some of the pictures from our trip: If you do want to donate money or items to them check out http://www.balilife.org as the organizers are trying to raise as much money as they can – $35 a month would give one family a roof over their head. Blog Related posts View all Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. Your goals, time frame, income needs, and risk comfort all matter. We map out a strategy that makes sense for you, so you’re not guessing, rushing, or buying the wrong asset. Commercial Property Acquisition The Execution This is where we do the heavy lifting. We handle the research, due diligence, negotiation, and buying process end to end, so you can purchase the right commercial property with confidence, not stress. Making Your Money Work Harder The Multiplier Commercial property is about leverage, returns, and long-term growth. We focus on assets that deliver strong income and real upside, helping you build wealth through smart property choices – not speculation. WISE Buyers Agency

Can You Take Your Own Advice?

Can You Take Your Own Advice? Published on 03 June 2016 Sometimes it can be really hard for us to take the advice that we want to dish out to everyone else. I know myself that I am really great at helping other people sort their issues out but I find that it’s somewhat harder when you are closer to the situation to be able to give yourself advice and see clearly what you need to do. I coach people for a living, part of what I do is to help them figure out their issues because they are too close to their own problems to figure out what they need to do. I’ve had a lot going on in my life the last few months with me personally and with my businesses. Actually the truth is that it’s not just been the last few months. It’s my life ALL THE TIME. The only thing that seems to change for me through the years is that what I am actually dealing with is different situations. My life is always crazy busy! So this morning as I was driving my daughter to daycare, I was thinking about how all the things that we deal with on a day to day basis takes a little bit from us. If you can imagine the battery power symbol on your phone and the percentage next to it, this is what I was visualising at the time. Let’s say that to get the kids ready in the morning to get them out the door uses 10% of that battery, then to run your business for the first few hours of the day takes 25% away. Then the personal things that you may be thinking about in the background may be another 10% gone. Thinking about what you are going to have for lunch and what you need to get from the grocery store for dinner after work, another 5%. Running your business in the afternoon, attending to clients and staff, there is another 30% gone! I think you get my point, pretty much everything you do all day every day is taking up a percentage of that little battery symbol. If all of these things are draining your battery life, how effective are you with brainpower to complete the tasks that you need to do and also just be YOU? Even through to how effective you are as a mum, a business owner, a boss, a hairdresser, a partner and the other big one, how effective are you at just being YOU? When your phone is flat, you can’t use it and it’s not good to you is it? If you are doing that to yourself how effective are you being? Does it actually serve you in a positive way? For me I know if definitely doesn’t. Like I said before, I was thinking about this all this morning while I was driving and also thinking about all of the things that I needed to do today and compiling that mental list. I realised that I already needed to do a bit of a recharge on myself already, since it was 8am on a Monday morning and I was already flashing with the red light on! For today my recharge option was that I made the decision to get out of the office and go and work from the beach this morning. I initially decided to go for a walk along the beach while multitasking and listening to a call recording from a program that I am doing. It gave me the energy and boost that I needed just from being outside and in the fresh air. I then completed, with just pen and a notebook, more things in 3 hours that I probably would have done all week had I been in my office and distracted by my laptop with emails, Facebook and so many other things. I’ve recharged my battery even though I was working at the same time, just by having a change of scenery. No distractions and being able to focus was also a big help. If one of my students was in the same position as me I would be giving them the exact advice I gave myself this morning – I needed to change things up a bit and do something to help me focus. So what can you do today, or tomorrow or even this week, to get yourself more focused and complete things that you have been putting off? Tell me, what is it that YOU can do to tick some things off your To Do List? Emma x P.S If you are going to go to the beach, wear sunscreen! Even though it is the middle of winter, I am still burnt and look like a tomato! I was obviously too busy madly writing this article to notice that I was getting fried. Blog Related posts View all Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. Your goals, time frame, income needs, and risk comfort all matter. We map out a strategy that makes sense for you, so you’re not guessing, rushing, or buying the wrong asset. Commercial Property Acquisition The Execution This is where we do the heavy lifting. We handle the research, due diligence, negotiation, and buying process end to end, so you can purchase the right commercial property with confidence, not stress. Making Your Money Work Harder The Multiplier Commercial property is about leverage, returns, and long-term growth. We focus on assets that deliver strong income and real upside, helping you build wealth through smart property choices – not speculation. WISE Buyers Agency