Today’s post is a continuation of sharing my experience at the Extreme Business Makeovers (XBM) event. As you may already know, I am a weekly contributing writer for the BiggerPockets Blog. Today I did a post on some of the wisdom that motivational speaker and author Zig Ziglar shared with the audience at XBM. I encourage you to check it out!
We also heard from a speaker named Paul Martinelli — I wasn’t really familiar with him prior to XBM, but he was an outstanding speaker. He shared an inspiring (and at times hilarious) story from his childhood about how he overcame a serious stuttering problem to now become an international speaker, consultant, and trainer. As part of his presentation he spoke about 10 ways to create a new belief. I can’t do his presentation any justice by simply sharing these with you, but I hope you’ll get something from it.
10 Ways to Create a New Belief
- You must have a burning desire
- When you see it, you must ACT
- You have to find your YES
- Don’t negotiate with your dream
- Be creative
- Challenge your old belief
- You must take the first step without knowing any of the others
- Remember the law of sacrifice
- See yourself in possession of the perfection you claim to want in you life
- Celebrate the victories along the way – there is nothing insignificant in the journey
There were a couple of these points that really resonated with me personally.
Don’t negotiate with your dream
- how much is this going to cost me?
- how long is it going to take?
- how is this going to be done?
You must take the first step without knowing any of the others.
This one is a challenge for me. I’m a major planner and I like to be able to plan out days, weeks, months, sometimes more than a year ahead! Working in industry as a program and project manager over the years has been an excellent fit for me because of this trait, but it can serve me in both positive and negative ways. Don’t get me wrong…I am able to let go and go with the flow, but I actually have to make a concerted effort to do so because its not my natural tendency. Fortunately, I am also action taker so I don’t sit around analyzing forever, but when he said take the first step without knowing any of the others I thought to myself “That takes a ton of faith!” Duh. Of course it does…so this is something I’m improving on 
I hope you found these lessons helpful. Time for me to get busy so we can get our next direct mail campaign out so we can get our phones ringing again from motivated sellers!
Related posts:
- Lessons from XBM: Time Management
- Crush It: Nuggets of Wisdom
- The One Minute Millionaire (Book Review)
Tags: Extreme Business Makeovers, Inspiration, motivation, Paul Martinelli, XBM, Zig Ziglar
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Scott Costello
749 days ago
I found them very helpful, thankyou
You are just pumping out the content today!
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Steph
749 days ago
Great post, Shae.
Got a question for you- what does he mean by finding your “YES”?
I’ve never heard that one before.
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Shae
749 days ago
Hey Scotty, glad you found it helpful! Yes, today has definitely been a writing day
Steph, when he says finding your yes, I believe he referred to finding those things in life that are important/of highest priority to you and saying more “yeses” to those things. Yes to better health, yes to stronger relationships, etc.
Eric Blow
749 days ago
Great post Shae! I can definitely see the importance to all of these. I too had the question about the finding your yes. I suppose it is gearing your mind toward a positive track and not getting used to copping out of things.
I’ll have to read more about the XBM. Sounds pretty neat.
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Bilgefisher
748 days ago
Its like taking a hike in the hills. The trail is laid by the hundreds who have gone before you. With so many trees and bushes, its hard to see past the first bend. Once a few steps are taken towards that first bend, the next way point becomes visible. The path looks rocky and hard but you continue forward knowing the destination is beautiful. You could see it from below. Its your motivation and guide. You continue to move from one way point to the next. The path often times becomes thin and difficult to follow, but as you trust your instinct and faith, eventually you pick up the trail again and move forward. One step after another, one way point after another. Before you know it, you have cleared the trees and are looking at the valley and path you just took. Its a beautiful sight. You remember that little boulder that you scrapped your knee on, the creek you barely leaped across, the excitement you caught when you rediscovered the path you wandered from. Then it hits you, the valley and path below, the journey is more beautiful then mountain you stand atop. That’s why we start that blind walk through the woods with little more then faith and a slightly worn path to guide us.
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mobilehomegurl
748 days ago
Wow, Shae – you’re an awesome note taker!
I do agree with #1 – it seems to be the foundation of everything. Just by having that desire will propel people forward. Sure, there will be mistakes made but that’s all part of the journey. I’ve made a lot of mistakes, some very risky. Though, I think if it weren’t for the mistakes then I wouldn’t have learned. I think Kiyosaki mentioned in one of his books about success being a poor teacher, and that most times we learn from our failures. Thougn, we are afraid to fail b/c we are taught in school it’s bad. But, without failure there cannot be success – they are both connected.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing!
Shae
748 days ago
@Eric, thanks! XBM was phenomenal…definitely check it out!
@Jason, you are so poetic. Yet another reason to love you. Thank you for sharing!
@Rachel, thanks! I definitely try to take as many notes as I can when wisdom is going forth
I completely agree about the mistakes and failures….my husband and I have certainly learned a lot from our mistakes so far in real estate! This is actually something I’m trying to teach my oldest daughter now…to appreciate and learn from the mistakes.
Al
745 days ago
Just here picking up those nuggets of hope & power… now to make them work toward that goal – for me that YES thing was at a good place in the list to remind me of the “burning desire” and wrap myself with it. Go after it over and over.
?though – “Seeing yourself in posession of the perfection” – how does that work, isn’t that counter to acheiving it, or do you need to work on creating acheivement feelings even before the acheivment is realized?
Shae, Thanks again
Shae
745 days ago
Hi Al, thanks so much for stopping by and commenting! Yes “seeing yourself in possession of the perfection” is exactly what you said…you have to create those feelings of achievement and visualize that outcome for yourself. That creates belief. People often say “I’ll believe it when I see it” but the more appropriate view is “I’ll see it when I believe it.”