Welcome to Creating A Legacy! This is where I take you on a journey through my life in personal growth and business! The purpose of this Podcast is to provide as much value as I can while I'm on my own journey to create the best legacy that I can. I am going to be sharing with you, valuable things I am learning on my journey to success. Not only that, I will be recommending all of the resources that I reference so that you can follow along and grow with me!
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Mental Toughness Secret #50 " 'Come to the edge,' He said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' He said. They came. He pushed them . . . and they flew." - Guillaume Apollinaire Action Step For Today: Take inventory of your fears: are they adult fears, or adolescent fears? An adult fear is being afraid of a truck about to run over you. It…
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Mental Toughness Secret #49 "We do not need more intellectual power' we need more spiritual power.... We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen." - Calvin Coolidge Action Step For Today: Take inventory of the ten people closest to you. On a scale of 1 to 7, 7 being the highest, how much faith do the…
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Mental Toughness Secret #48 "There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a king." - Orison Swett Marden Action Step For Today: ASk this critical thinking question: "Have I been playing it safe to avoid failure?" On a scale of 1 to 7, 7 being the highest, how man…
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Mental Toughness Secret #47 "Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put the two of them together and you have a kingdom." - Jack Lalane Action Step For Today: Make a commitment to exercise for at least one hour per day, five days a week. The excuse that you don't have time is a delusion. Exercise is necessary for a long and healthy life. Get your ca…
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Mental Toughness Secret #46 "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." - Mark Caine Action Step For Today: Make a commitment to upgrade your environment, beginning with the people around you. Limit your exposure to neutral and negative people, remembering that consci…
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Mental Toughness Secret #45 "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I don't." - George Burns Action Step For Today: On a scale of 1 to 7, 7 being the most enjoyment, how much do you enjoy your job? If you answered less than a 7, the odds of fulfilling your full potential are slim. If you answered a 7, then you will …
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The Great Ones Are The Most Enthusiastic People Alive
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Mental Toughness Secret #44 "All we really need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Charles Kingsley Action Step For Today: Make a list of the five activities in your life for which you have the most enthusiasm. Next, ask this critical thinking question: "Does anyone make a living doing this?" World-Class Resource: Do What Yo…
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Mental Toughness Secret #43 "As your consciousness expands, your level of expectation will grow. Keep asking yourself, am I selling myself short? Most of us are." - John R. Spannuth Action Step For Today: Outline your expectations in every area of your life, and then ask the ultimate critical thinking question: "Should I expect more?" If your answe…
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Champions Are Driven By A World-Class Belief System
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Mental Toughness Secret #42 "In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player, and they laughed. In eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player, and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing." - Johnny Bench Action Step For Today: Generally speaking, i…
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Mental Toughness Secret #41 "To succeed in life, one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful." - Gary Player Professional performers are the most dedicated people alive. Action Step For Today: Ask this critical thinking…
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Mental Toughness Secret #40 "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." - Vince Lombardi As simple as it sounds, many times the only thing that separates winners from losers is pure determination. Action Step For Today: On a scale of 1 to 7, 7 being most determined, how determined are you to accomplish your goals and dreams? An assessment of…
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The Great Ones Choose Discipline Over Pleasure
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Mental Toughness Secret #39 "With self-discipline anything is possible. I believe discipline is the ultimate key to success as it determines your approach toward every day. Discipline keeps you focused and keeps you performing at a world-class level." - Roger D. Graham Jr. When average performers have had enough for the day and call it quits, champ…
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Mental Toughness Secret #38 "If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act." - Lee Iacocca Action Step For Today: Take a decision you have been putting off for a while and decide on a course of action within…
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The Great Ones Know The Power Of Conversation
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Mental Toughness Secret #37 "A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet." - Truman Capote One of the primary differences between the masses and world-class performers is how much attention they pay to develop their conversational skills. Action …
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Mental Toughness Secret #36 "What convinces is conviction. You must believe in the argument you are advancing." - Lyndon Johnson One hallmark of world-class performers is their level of conviction in who they are and what they do. Action Step For Today: On a scale of 1 to 7, 7 being the most, how much conviction do you possess about the importance …
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Champions Develop Bravery In The Battle For Their Dream
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Mental Toughness Secret #35 "The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere…
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Champions Always Strive For Greater Competence
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Mental Toughness Secret #34 "Information is the booby prize. The real prize is competence." - Larry Wilson Action Step For Today: Mental Toughness Secret #3 4nt activities in which you must continue to develop competence. Make a commitment to invest a set number of hours per week (beyond your normal working hours) to study. One hour of extra study …
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Common Sense Is The Foundation Of High Performance
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Mental Toughness Secret #33 "Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." - Harriet Beecher Stowe Action Step For Today: Write down your five most pressing problems and ask: "Is there a kindergarten answer to this seemingly complex problem?" Let your mind revert to childlike thinking and write …
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Mental Toughness Secret #32 "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." - Josh Billings Action Step For Today: Ask this critical thinking question: "Are all of my dealings congruent with my conscience?" If the answer is yes, you empower yourself to succeed. If not, consider abandoning these deals or behaviors. Universal law dictates t…
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Champions Are Mentally Engaged In The Creative Process
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Mental Toughness Secret #31 "The creative person wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, and hog futures, because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea." - Carl Ally While average people are satisfied with the status quo, world-class performers are always searching f…
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Mental Toughness Secret #30 "Great coaching is helping people discover what they already know." - Bill Gove Action Step For Today: Invest 15 minutes to consider hiring a coach to help you get better results. Be coachable and open-minded. You may be surprised at what you will learn. World-Class Resource: For private, semiprivate and small group coac…
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The Great Ones Are Masters Of Their Work/Rest Cycles
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Mental Toughness Secret #29 "Recovery is an important word and a vital concept. It means renewal of life and energy. Knowing how and when to recover may prove to be the most important skill in your life." - James E Loehr Action Step For Today: Give yourself a life balance checkup. Are you investing the necessary time and energy in the important are…
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Mental Toughness Secret #28 "I'm going to the top of the mountain. You're either going to see me waving from the top or dead on the side. But you know what? I'm not coming down." - Eric Worre Action Step For Today: Identify a goal or dream in your life that you have given up on, and ask this critical thinking question: "Is it possible to make a com…
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Mental Toughness Secret #27 "A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict, he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think you're wrong -- that's healthy." - Robert Townsend Action Step For Today: ASk this critical thinking question: "Am I emotionally addicted to t…
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Professional Performers Don't Require Immediate Compensation
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Mental Toughness Secret #26 "Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow?" - David Grayson Action Step For Today: Ask this critical thinking question: "Am I more interested in pleasure, or gratification?" Amateurs focus on pleasure-based activities that deliver short and sweet payo…
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Mental Toughness Secret #25 "Of course we become what we think about. The real question is, "Do we know what we are thinking about?" - Steve Siebold Action Step For Today: Take your emotional temperature today and assess your mood. Ask this critical thinking question: "How did I end up in this mood?" What thoughts did you process that but you in th…
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Mental Toughness Secret #24 "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Viktor Frankel Action Step For Today: Make a list of the things you feel you have no choice about doing, and revisit each one. Do you really have to d…
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Mental Toughness Secret #23 "You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - John Wooden Mental toughness, broken down to its root, is really about becoming a master of your emotions in performance situations, especially under pressure. Action Step For Today: Decide to separate your emotions from oth…
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Mental Toughness Secret #22 "We usually think of advice as something that someone tells us, but I learned my most valuable lessons in life by example, by watching people around me both when I was growing up and when I was trying to stay true, in my business career, to the values they taught me. Yet, if there is one piece of advice that has been imp…
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Mental Toughness Secret #21"Creative people rarely need to be motivated--they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful." - Donald TrumpAverage people live their lives in first gear, resisting change and avoiding …
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Mental Toughness Secret #20"I felt like I could score at will." - Jack MaitlandAction Step For Today:Ask your three closest friends this question: On a scale of 1 to 7, 7 being most confident, how much confidence do I project? This will give you an idea of how the world is responding to you.World-Class Resource:"What to Say When You Talk To Yoursel…
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Mental Toughness Secret #19"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect." - Samuel JohnsonThe great ones are always curious because they are always looking for an edge.Action Step For Today:The next time you are socializing with your friends or associates, see how many questions you can ask each about …
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Mental Toughness Secret #18 "You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you." - William Boecker Professional performers are the most cooperative people in the world because they know it takes a team to achieve anything worthwhile. Action Step For Today: Rate yourself on your level of coop…
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Champions Are Willing To Suspend Their Disbelief
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Mental Toughness Secret #17"When presented with a new idea, check your ego at the door and suspend your disbelief. Your ability to open your mind and consider new ideas without fear will propel you to the top faster than anything else." - Bill GoveNetwork Marketing has single-handedly changed the face of distribution for the better, yet has still n…
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Mental Toughness Secret #16"The arena was so loud, the emotion so great. Everybody was going crazy. I remember thinking, 'Stay with it. Don't get swept up.' The hotter it gets, the cooler you have to get. I remember thinking of one word in my mind-'miraculous.'" - Al MichaelsAction Step For Today:Watch the movie Miracle.https://linktr.ee/LemieuxLeg…
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Mental Toughness Secret #15 "Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion, you want a man in whom good work has become a habit." - Henry Doherty Action Step For Today: To gain mental clarity and focus, create a written version for your life. Imagine your life five to ten years in the future and list…
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Mental Toughness Secret #14 "You cannot keep a committed person from success. Place stumbling blocks in his way, and he takes them for stepping stones, and on them, he will climb to greatness. Take away his money, and he makes spurs of his poverty to urge him on. The person who succeeds has a program; he fixes his course and adheres to it; he lays …
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Mental Toughness Secret #13 "There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate too insanely when he wins nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally and humbly. He hates defeat, he makes no poor display of it." - Dan Gable Champions have class and conduct themselves in a way that is congruent with their s…
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Champions Know Adversity Is The Catalyst of Mental Toughness
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Mental Toughness Secret #12"If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light." - Earl CampbellChampions believe if you remove the adversity, you remove the victory.Action Step For Today:List the three most difficult adversities you have faced and five good things that happened to you as a result of each one. Train y…
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The World Class Connects To The Source Through Gratitude
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Mental Toughness Secret #11 "Gratitude is the aristocrat of all of the emotions." - Bill Gove The world-class don't think in a linear fashion like the masses. They use non-linear thinking as a way of heightening thier creativity. Action Step For Today: Make a list of the ten things you are most grateful for in your life, and review them every morni…
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#10 - The World Class Compartmentalizes Emotions
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Mental Toughness Secret #10 "Nothing external to you has any power over you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Action step for today: Commit to compartmentalizing problems by focusing exclusively on one problem at a time. Imagine you are the president of the united states. You must keep a clear, unemotional mind during the problem-solving process. The masses …
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Champions Embrace Relativity - Mental Toughness Secret #9
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Mental Toughness Secret #9 - Champions Embrace Relativity "The great ones are highly aware of the fact that all perceptions are based on the experience and belief of the beholder. This is the reason they surround themselves with people who think much bigger than they do. Beliefs and expectations are contagious, and champions are eager to catch as m…
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Champions Develop World-Class Beliefs Long Before They Become Champions"They can...because they think they can." - UnknownHere is the evolution of belief systems: Parents, teachers, coaches, ministers, friends, relatives, and other people of influence in a child's life say to the child: "This is Fact." The child accepts elders' perception of what i…
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The Great Ones Know They Are Unaware"Everyone is operating and running their lives at their current level of conscious awareness." - Carlos Marin, speaker, and author You are either growing or dying; stagnation does not exist in the universeAction Step For TodayAsk yourself this critical thinking question: Am I growing or dying? If your answer is d…
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Champions Lead Through Facilitated IntrospectionIn this episode, they discuss the most effective form of leadership... Self-discovery.Action step for today:Invest 20 minutes today leading someone through the introspective process. Your first question should be: Tell me what you really want out of life more than anything else? Your goal should be to…
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The Great One's Separate Truth From Fact "We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood." - William James, 1842-1919, author Action step for today: Write down 10 things you know are fact, and rethink each by asking, "Is this really a fact, or a truth I've created from my own or others' perceptions?"…
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Champions Are Driven By Emotional Motivators Ask these five critical thinking questions: 1) What am I willing to fight for? 2) What values do I hold dearest to my heart? 3) What values would I be willing to die for? 4) If I could achieve a single thing, what would make all my hard work worth the struggle? 5) If I had thirty seconds left to live, wh…
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Champions Have An Immense Capacity For Sustained ConcentrationAction Step for today: Write down the single most important goal you want to achieve in the next twelve months and make a commitment to concentrate on achieving it -- no matter what it takes.World-Class Resource: "Focal Point" by Brian Tracy…
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World-Class Wealth begins with world-class thinkingIn this episode, Steve and Bill talk about the difference between world-class thinking and middle-class thinking and the correlation between thinking and the creation of wealth!World Class resource, "You Were Born Rich" by Bob Proctor
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This season I will be going through all 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of The World Class! Each episode is a recording of an interview between non-other than Bill Adams and Steve Seibold himself. In my opinion, Steve has written one of the most influential books of our time. I'm sharing this because of the impact his book has had on my life so far. I…
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