Bring Value by Josh Andrus

The Power of Self Forgiveness

2011-09-19T20:23:00.000-07:00

When I forgive myself, I learn...
When I hold onto the issue I don't learn anything. I manifest poor results.

So here is a personal story that illustrates the point. I purchased these Jabra bluetoothe earphones, they were stereo, they worked well, there was an issue with one of them within the warranty period. I took them back and I noticed at the time I brought them that the pouch was missing. This was an added accessory, I didn't volunteer the information, I just needed to exchange.

I used that pouch because it was a perfect size to put my Kodak Zi8 HD camera in. I have been using the pouch now for over a year. The bluetooth pieces have long since broke and I have began using the other pouch to hold my wifi card.

All that techy talk was just the simple set up to my having a deeper understanding of forgiving myself and learning a lesson.

I looked at the two pouches this morning together. They have never been side by side that I remember. I recalled many times remembering the packaging error, a little pebble of guilt all the while, may just outside of my consciousness. Then I realized in this very moment, man I haven't released that weight yet.

I understood, with this very small seemingly insignificant scenario that when I just let it go, after sending a prayer off for forgiveness, then forgiving myself...

The lesson was buried under the pile of guilt and shame.

For me today the lesson was that I haven't done very well at staying organized with material things. I actually felt, in that moment of humility, the strength to keep better track of material items, to take better care of my belongings. I kid you not, this was what came after lessening the guilt burden.

I was free to see other examples in my life. Then in that humbled place of inadequacy in not taking care of some of my material things. I was free to offer a silent prayer to ask God to make up the difference.

It may seem a little weird the connection here, but the message I received today is that there may be many weights of guilt and inhibitory issues that I am manifesting externally that can be released if I forgive myself.

Josh Andrus
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Power of Self-Forgiveness

2011-04-19T10:21:00.000-07:00

Emergency Assistance To 2010 Plans

2010-01-08T07:18:00.000-08:00

Have you ever had that idea for the project or direction in your life?
You see exactly what you want it to look like so clearly?
You know exactly what it will take to do the project, you feel so good about it's completion then you set out?
Your energy gets you a great start right?
You feel like the completion is practically done already even though you have gone yards on a journey that requires miles??? What happens next?

If your like the majority of us you have a slowing up of progress and eventually maybe a walking away. Why is that? Was the project any less desirable in it's accomplishment? no Was the reasons for doing the project not as important? no Was the vision less clear? no Then what is it usually?

Most seminars on goals and game plans misses the most powerful engine in the whole equation. The power of Today. . .

Here is what is really going on psychologically and emotionally when you go after a project. Let's take me for an example. I have been meaning to write a book on a particular topic that I am an expert in. I have written a few articles, but nothing very serious. I will begin and stop, begin and stop getting excited about the end and same scenario as above occurs eventually.

So what's missing? Is the finished product any less needed? no Will I enjoy the book not being done vs completing it? certainly not.

Here is what I discovered, and I am now 8 chapters into the book writing. So many times when we set out on a journey to tackle something great we are burrowing energy and excitement exclusively on long term vision and tripping up on the stumbling blocks two inches in front of ourselves.

Try this next time you set a goal. Enjoy the feelings of the completion, you will need these moments, they are staying power. They will keep you adjusting your trail to lead those feelings. Now map out a plan. It doesn't have to be "THE" plan just a plan. You can always adjust it.

THIS IS THE MOST MISSED STEP! Take the same excitement for the long term completion and look at the vision of this DAY you about to embark on. See the small action steps and get excited and energized about these. This is having vision within the day.

Too many times we get discouraged and get in our own way because we do great work in the beginning and then compare where we are to where we need to go. We come out the gates in amazing speed and fashion and then mundane tasks and obstacles make us sore. This takes from the gratitude of the journey itself. It makes the path obscure and clouds vision.

Today is the day that leads to those visions of your dreams. Enough of them done well added up will get you your every righteous desire.

Get excited about your vision of today...

Joshua Andrus
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The Great Sickness

2009-10-15T06:32:00.001-07:00

What is the great sickness of our days?

If I may so bold. . .

A person who feels they have no purpose is : The Great Sickness

When a person seeks out purpose for their life, defines it clearly and work towards it's fulfillment then there is a great degree of righteousness involved. Not righteous in a pious sense righteous in correct or true north compass sense.

When this measure is missing, when a person has not clearly defined their purpose then a great deal of confusion, hopelessness, and destructive apathy occurs.

So easy to provide proof. . .

Take an example of the individual who is clear that they desire to lead-

Lead for what purpose. It is predictable that if the purpose is not clearly defined the desire and responsibility of leading can corrupt very quickly the leader.

Then the leader who has purpose. A person has a desire to lead in order to provide a clear path for those who have not been endowed with the wisdom necessary to take on this "New Economy."

Who is more corruptible. I suppose it should be clear. Does the first leader fulfil his/her purpose at the moment they are leading and corruptible motives can set in to for example lead out of lust of power, to control, or for greed.

Sharp contrast the second purpose driven leader leads. The leader's objective of assisting others to become equipped is complete, this leader can look to replicate and assist many more. The purpose doesn't change the capacity to do more for others does as the leaders efficiency and blessings of growth increases.

Get clear about your purpose quickly and change this purpose slowly.

Joshua Andrus
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The Responsibility To Do Something

2009-10-14T06:31:00.001-07:00

There is a huge trend in the world. There is an enormous amount of excuses that are constantly being found to shift responsibility.

The state of the economy is no reason to lay down and do nothing.

Leaders needed. . .

There are two ills that I intend to write on today that are ills of such a great force that ultimately they can lead to severe destruction.

Number One- It is a shame when a person will do nothing because they feel that what they do, does so little. Take the time to do good within your sphere of influence:

An example: I see when I go to one of my favorite Ocean views and surf spots. When you watch for a while as a surfer climbs out of the waves. The one who believes in the gift that is the ocean and it's state of well being you can see him/her pick up a couple pieces of litter off the beach and drop it in the big tin dumpster on the way in. This has become a pattern that perpetuates in this spot in particular, more and more do the same. It is noble it is right, it was not the cleaners trash, it was not the entire beach clean up it is right to do.

This leads into another evil: The person will do nothing if the blame can be shifted. Doing nothing is an action. It is a lie that many will tell themselves to attempt to stay neutral. When things get messed up because of the actions of a few. The world needs leaders to decide in spite of the causation of the problem.

For example: I have served on many committees that have been in a stuck state a stand still. The cause many times is the lack of ownership. The person who caused the problem is less important then the solution going forward has ever been. I suggest gain the desired result, have a vision and work backwards to the plan of execution. This has gone against the grain of many a majority who believe to get where we are going we must first point out who or what messed the situation up to begin with. This does nothing but causes a shift of responsibility and usually places committees into apathy when denial of ownership is possible.

Joshua Andrus
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Helping Others As A Reflex

2009-10-08T06:27:00.001-07:00

What impresses me the most is not about the leadership from the front of the room. The board members that are stoic and unapproachable. What impresses me the most about a leader is not detachment.

The thing that impresses the most about leadership I am around is that they help as a reflex. . .

To walk side by side a true leader, one who draws on energy and a cause that is greater then him or herself is to be impressed that in their nature they very easily and unintentionally serve others and bring value to their lives.

If leadership truly is influence nothing more or nothing less. Imagine the positive influence someone has on the world as they set in motion quick acts of service.

You want an example of the power of this?

There is a powerful study that measured the effects of acts of kindness on peoples environments. Did you know that the person that does something nice for someone has chemicals released in their brain that rewards them, then the person receiving the kindness does as well have "feel good" chemicals released. The interesting thing is that the bystander watching the act has the same chemicals released and may naturally start a similar chain reaction elsewhere.

So say that there is a stranger struggling with their bags getting onto the plane, you could stop and assist the person you are boarding with is also rewarded as they witness this, models similar acts of kindness later on that day and you've set in motion something that is far greater then you.

Yes the kind of leaders I choose to follow don't lift themselves above others, they lift others needs above themselves.

Joshua Andrus
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Facebook Taboos, How to Lose a Friend in 3 steps

2009-10-02T01:00:00.000-07:00

Facebook- a place to re-connect with friends you haven't seen for a long time. One of the fastest ways to find that person that you think about and wish you hadn't lost touch.

Facebook- a place to meet new people with common interests or interesting people with nothing in common and expand your horizons and shrink the worlds vastness.

Facebook- a place to network and bring value to peoples lives through a reccomondation if you have uncovered a need when a relationship has developed.

Now the 3 things that fills the can o' SPAM:

1) Invitations that have an invite/pitch of the product and services. Don't invite me with your canned ad junk. . . invite me with genuine interest. (Used Car Salesman Approach)

2) Pitches on first response to my invite or the communities invite. Get to know someone first. Chat it up make a connection especially in e-commerce world. Working the numbers will get you suckers, but customers stay out of loyalty. (Premature Pitch)

3) My wall is my wall, news feeds is the communities. Don't write your ad on my wall and pass it off as 'trying to help me out'. Outside the cyber world when someone tags up the wall it is called Graffiti this is why I dub this last one Graffiti Approach, expect to be reported!!! The least of which would be a warning from me and then the dropped friend next time.

If you agree share this around, if you don't agree comment, if you appreciate say so.

Love to my friends,

Joshua C Andrus

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Fatigue

2009-08-26T06:29:00.001-07:00

The great football coach Vince Lombardi once said: "Fatigue will make a coward out of any of us". It is safe to say that he saw the wide range of personalities throughout his coaching career.

Fatigue. Who hasn't experienced it?

There can be tasks that are small that are not completed when in this state of exhaustion. The mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual tiredness that appears when fatigue sets in are tough to triumph through.

Here are some suggestions I have come up with to combat it:

Mid-day workout (find creative ways to fit in 30 mins of intense exercise or stretching at the least)

Mid-day workout that is followed by a shower

Eat an apple, the apple has been found to actually be a stimulant.

Get outside for some fresh air. The stress will lower as you go for some open air.

Drink more water. Fatigue can be directly related to the amount of water one takes in.

Breathe. Stress contributes to fatigue. Breathing takes little time to do, but a good breathing session can help you feel like you re-started a new day.

Try to limit the stimulant traps of coffee, energy drinks and tobacco, they can get you through the week, but can actually do more harm in the long run where fatigue is related. The drop off when discontinuing these can be severe even within the day.

These are a few that I work on. There are many more. Take some time today to write down some for you. Share them with someone- it will help your commitment to overcoming fatigue.

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Gratitude Pause

2009-08-21T06:16:00.001-07:00

The greatest emotion for creating attraction. . .

Gratitude

The habit of feeling like there is not enough, that there is a void, fear, doubt, and any other emotion that wraps someone up in what I call the "funk" can be conquered by gratitude.

The exercise today is good temporarily or if it becomes a habit it is good long term and as the habit becomes a characteristic or a part of your character it can effect your destiny.

Stop spinning negative webs, stop for one moment, take out a pad of paper and a pen.

Write 10 things that you are greatful for right now:

1- I can see the computer screen
2- I have 3 beautiful kids that love me
3- I have a great career for my living and the best opportunity in the whole world for my families fortune
4- I walked into work today, some don't still have this capability
5- I am in good health
6- I know that I am on the path to greatness in all 8 areas of my life
7- I know from whom all greatness and blessings come
8- I have the ability to create leaders
9- I work with amazing people who cheer for success, seek it out and will find it
10- I have a supportive wife and she is the greatest person I could ever ask for, she is listed last here because she is deserving of all my love, she helps me grow, she helps me desire to get closer to my creator so I can become more and provide her more of everything.

If you can not put together 10 things then you are not sitting with a pen. There will always be 10 things at any time you can be greatful for. I promise. E-mail me if not we will get your mind right.

Joshua Andrus
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2009-08-20T06:09:00.001-07:00

Become clear.

There are so many options in life. So many choices to look at. It is absolutely important to BE CLEAR.

The ideal customer, the ideal business partner, the ideal lifestyle, the ideal relationship. These are all choices that takes time to develop a preference for.

I can decide, for example, that the ideal relationship communication is respectful, one of honor, of gratitude, of patience. I could also decide not to define this. This is a simple choice everyday. I cannot change anothers action in the relationship to have the relationship be respectful, honoring, greatful, and patient. I can decide to be the change.

Too many times in life I have noticed if I am not working towards the vision of what is in my heart to work towards then I allow the world to define for me reality. The best advice ever given for change is- If you want something to change, be the change.

Nothing can cause apathy and feeling of defeat more then not seeing the direction we are heading in. You plot this course.

Get Clear. Decide what you want your life to look like the most. Ensure it is congruent with your values. Then spend the time making decisions that lead toward the realization of this. When you have a hazy vision of future get clear again and ask for help from your Higher Power. Get clear. Live today being pulled by the promise of tommorow.

Joshua Andrus
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The Magic Number

2009-08-19T06:25:00.001-07:00

Do you know what the magic number is?

The amount of money Middle-Income America, the masses, would have had to make to prevent Bankruptcy this last year?

The monthly amount if they made just this magic number more they would have avoided bankruptcy?

What was this magic number?

$300 extra in a month

That's it. $300 more and financial defeat would have been avoided

It is so easy to understand that when a family is short $300 to go and put it on a credit card believing the next month will be better. Then it works and they can breathe that month, big problem, the behavior pattern is now set.

Rather then looking for opportunities to gain $300 people have been throwing bad money at debt.

What happened this last year is the behavior stopped working, people's credit limits dropped nationwide. All of the sudden the compounded behavior of throwing credit at monthly financial problems no longer worked.

Bankruptcy hits. . .

How could this have been avoided?

What is the two options one has?

Option 1 spend less- this is true many people over the past 10 years have been attempting to keep up with the Jones'. There is frivolous spending that has occurred. No surprises. Every family should come together and see what is necessary and what is desires. This is always a good idea. It is the basis for a financial statement. (different article different day to address option 1)

Option 2 make more income. Seems logical. Major Warning. When you make more you spend more. The new income must be treated differently.

Here is a suggestion-

Look at an opportunity(not a part time job) that will not take away from your full time career, can be done part time in other words.

Things to look for-
-$500 extra - that's 300 to make up the difference and 200 to save and invest
-Extra $500 is not a difficult task to make.
-A training program that you can show you how to make this income without fail with a few measures taken
-Opportunity to grow. Once you have mastered the extra $500 a month you will want to be compensated very well for showing a hand full of others how to master this

$500 is the new magic number, find the opportunity, few hours a week, $300 to cover bills and $200 to save or invest your lifestyle will not look the same in under a year I guarantee it!

Joshua Andrus
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Webcammax

2009-08-17T06:11:00.001-07:00

Webcammax found on http://www.webcammax.com/ is an amazing program. I was first referred to it because I was speaking with one of the industry leaders about using chromakey or what may be referred to as green screen.

The effects of webcammax even the free trial version amazed me. The first thing I realized is that anyone using a webcam can set up a background of their choice either from their own library or that of the settings pre-loaded.

The next thing that I noticed that the masks and special effects are top to bottom cool. My kids enjoyed the Shrek face as well as many of the other characters, it is a beefy program set up to wow anyone who is unaware of the technology. Then there is a rival/competitive record my screen software built in that lagged a little but is still pretty cool. This rivals camtasia. The cost is not to steep, however an instructional video might be nice in order to feed some ideas to the person browsing.

I would be willing to put together some demo videos because the software is just that fun. The next part about this is the large grey effects properties on the trial version. For all the features the trial has it may be good to promote what is to come when you purchase this as a product. The ability to turn this into a video and load it up to youtube is a pretty good idea.

I work on some video conferencing and notice that I look forward to the creation process with this added tool in the tool belt. The amazing thing is hardly anyone knows about it.

I started my son’s Youtube channel with this site, it was very engaging for him and he is constantly on me about the chance to record his next video. He is 7 years old and products like these really give the next generation an opportunity to explore and take their imagination to the next level.
Drawbacks of the program are these:
A little lag time in recording The Picture in Picture feature may or may not be there still?
The record my screen needs to have the option of illumination of the cursor.
The Youtube feature didn’t seem to work, maybe I missed it but are the videos embedded? This would be a very good feature to have.

*** Number one drawback. There is no affiliate link, I have referred this product close 40 people already ****

Joshua Andrus
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Habits Lost Habits Gained

2009-08-14T06:33:00.001-07:00

How quick is a habit formed?

I took a 3 day course by Stephen R. Covey writer of the book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the answer was 21 days, this number was confirmed again and again including by an individual who makes close to a quarter of a million dollars a year last night.

Imagine that, the author says it, the books say it, and even true life examples say it Mrs. Loren Mikeal confirms it.

Yet with all the proof a good habit is easy to gain and easy not to.

This is not all though. . . the main focus for this post is why is a good habit easy to loose once it is gained?

When pondering on this question this morning it appears some of my good habits fall off and go back to old ineffective behavior paterns for because of a natural force:

Gravity

To create a good habit goes against gravity, or in otherwords the force of the behavior before. The amount of time spent doing the old behavior was much greater then the 21 days. So after 21 days of applying it is a habit.

It is almost unconciously a habit after 21 days, but if you step away it will become greater and greater a difficulty.

If you decide to take a day away from the new habit formed keep yourself on course with 2 primary actions.

First plan your return and second share that plan with someone who will check back in with you.

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Interview With Will Smith

2009-08-11T06:12:00.001-07:00

YouTube It . . . -Trust Me-

There are certain items on YouTube that are absolute golden nuggets of wisdom, the interview Will Smith gave to Tavis Smiley on YouTube is well worth your time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pke9gEZfJXk

If you have lost all hope in actors, this will restore it for this man. You will hear in 6 minutes what some people in a lifetime don't understand.

"I am not afraid to die on a treadmill" say what Mr. Smith. In other words "I will not be outworked". This mindset keeps one out of the comfort zone. If I choose to let those who I know it is in my power to outwork.

"Decide" when we decide the Universe is going to get out our way.

When we are who we choose to be and we go full throttle at the idea or concept of who we are, then we are not going to allow others to define us. I would put it out that the treadmill that we run on is the same treadmill that either exposes each of us as a fraud or promotes us as a leader. We either decide each day to know our purpose and lead or shirk our purpose and fall behind.

Check it out for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pke9gEZfJXk

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Be Like A Duck

2009-08-07T06:08:00.001-07:00

A duck looks so mellow on the surface of a pond smoothly gliding gracefully from one spot to the next. This is the part nobody but the duck gets to see. Calm on the surface and underneath the duck is working overtime. The legs are move fast, fast, fast.

The duck can teach a valuable lesson. Never underestimate what it takes to be successful. It will take massive action and activity. The part you witness of the individual who has it all will appear very much like the duck, however I can guarantee if you followed around this individual and for a month and compare there activities you will see below the surface the kick of the DUCK.

We have been inundated with examples to tell us otherwise, instant success, take this and immediately your results look different, the training sequence on movies that last only 2 minutes and the individual is a champion. Throw this philosophy away, it is an outright myth. The only true way to have more success is to become more.

When you become more then you are able to make things on the surface appear easy, but underneath better not stop those legs from churning.

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This One Ingredient

2009-08-06T06:17:00.000-07:00

There is one thing that is missing with most people who are not where there want to be in life today. This one thing can make a huge difference. This one concept will bring someone from the down and out to the down right dynamic.

What is it?

Enthusiasm. If you don't like your results you've been getting. Look at the attitude that you've had when you've been going about trying to achieve them.

You don't deserve what you want if you don't act like you are excited to get it.

If you don't know what excited, enthusiastic, passion looks like, become a student of it. There is nothing that I have found more to be more attractive then an enthusiastic person who is going about the most crucial activities with what appears to be endless energy.

The worlds obstacles seem to magically remove themselves out of the way. It is an amazing feeling.

To prove this climb on a bike and try to ride it real slow and see how fun it is. Then get on a bike and ride as fast as you can, feel the wind in your face, feel the strength of momentum, feel the exact opposite feeling of awkwardness. I am not kidding get on a bike today, if you don't have one go to a bike shop and test ride one. Who knows it may take an activity like this to wake you up if you've been walking around half dead in fear.

Enthusiasm is a gauge to be constantly aware of. If you don't have your meter set high enough you don't have a white hot burning desire for what you are attempting to do. If you need more excitement, act it, and you will feel it. Use any nervous energy as the fuel to get you going. Trust me it works.

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Hard Work vs Productive Work

2009-08-05T06:20:00.000-07:00

It is very easy to be busy doing tons and tons of work and be getting no results, and no where nearer to the goals you have set.

It is a form of fear. There is a time to plow and then there is a time to seed or sow the seeds in the field. Fear plays a role. I know a lot of people who are hard workers. They will work from start of the day until the finish. They are doing a whole lot of busy work.

I don't know what the seeds are with your life pursuits, but fear will cause your to work extremely hard on the things that matter least and allow your mind to be comforted as the things that matter most are neglected.

Take some time to slow down. "Slow to grow." Write down the 3 most important things about your job. Spend time thinking about how you can get these three things knocked out as early in the day as possible.

You will no longer do the small things out of fear you will do the small things that consumed your day out of momentum. When the 3 biggest most important tasks are out of the way. What I refer to as the "Main thing" then a whole new set of energy will carry you through the rest.

Try it. Write down and fill in the blanks. The three most important areas of focus today are ________, _________, and _________. If you have more make about the 3 most important tasks this morning are, and the 3 most important tasks this afternoon.

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Partnership

2009-08-04T06:13:00.000-07:00

There is an arrogance and a pride that exist that is beyond the "I can do this". Confidence is "I can do this", "arrogance is "I can do this all by myself".

If you have the mentality that you can do something all by yourself then a caution sign should be placed in front of you. Huge warning, rocks ahead.

I don't care how big and bad you are. One person is only going to be able to do so much. "You can tell the size of the person, by the size of the problem that gets them down." Jeff Olson.

I am going to be in your face for a second here and tell you that I have been searching for a leader that had no one. The leader who did it all by them self. I can tell you NO ONE ever has. I don't care who you give me. The leader does not exist.

I will say it is a law given by God himself that everyone must inter depend on each other to fulfill their full creation.

I will take this into passionate areas of mine. Starting with sports. Michael Jordan, had a coach, even when he had to go it alone and was shooting by himself after he was cut from the High School team. He was not pushing so hard to go solo into his dreams, he was pushing so hard to qualify for more supervision/coaching of his skills.

Even as I am writing this Michael Phelps is back to making his 5th gold medal in the World Championship of swimming after taking home the record of Gold Medals in the Olympics. He is back to being a fabled athlete having tested positive for Marijuana a few short months back. He is a solo athlete. He did it alone right? Wrong, wrong absolutely wrong. His 5th medal so far was on a relay team for one, and his coach was the father figure that made Michael Phelps so strong with his grueling workout schedule. Phelps did not even know what to expect, and his coach constantly made the workouts more psychologically, mentally and emotionally difficult.

The list goes on and on I challenge anyone to give me one example of a leader who got there alone. Come on give me one.

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This is So Huge

2009-07-31T05:57:00.001-07:00

10% of your brain's capacity? Have you ever heard that this is all that you use and thought: I wish I could find a way to get more out of what I've been given?

I have been puzzeled about this since I was roughly 7-8 years old (if I could use more of my brain I could probably remember the exact date).

Here is what I now know, after working on this one for a lot of years. . .

The myth that you have no access to your subconcious needs to be dispelled. You absolutely have access to your subconcious. You are the leader of the subconcious mind. I think so many people have heard about these two "facts" and wondered what can I do with them?

Here it is. . . it is so simple. . . you may miss it.

You don't have to work very hard to access more of your brain, or more importantly to gain the strenght that is the subconcious mind. Here is the key-

1) Try every day to be 1% better then the day prior in any area.
2) Discover what that 1% is by going and doing.
3) Do what you say you are going to do today and as your leaving take a quick look back and say if I had done this better then I would have had a result 1% better?
4) If awareness is key, you've just through your awareness given your subconcious an order to change your performance next time.
5) The next time you go about the task your subconcious will have you ready to do the activity naturally.

This is so easy that I've got to give an example. I was setting up some ads relating to a project I am working on. It will be frequent that I will be doing this activity. Rather then walking away and checking the task off the list. I looked back real quick and asked myself, how would I make this activity 1% more effective? I was amazed that I found 3 better places that would be more effective then the area I chose to advertise. I walked away with the awareness. . . my mind literally did the rest I can gurantee with no more concious mental or physical labor my activity tommorow will be more then 1% more effective. I can continue asking the question how could I have improved this activity 1% more everyday.

Rather then believing you have can only use 10% of your capacity look for opportunities to get more from it. Rather then telling yourself you have no access to your subconcious. Begin giving your subconcious demands to work out. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries have come as a result of a scientist waking up from a dream (subconcious working) with answer of his/her deep concentrated work.

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What A Child Knows

2009-07-30T06:32:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I had a day-dream session that was going so well. You know the one, the imagination of the future was so clear that you get lost in the emotions of it. It was so clean, it was, as the saying goes- so close you can almost taste it.

Then what happened? Poof disappeared from distraction? The reality of life brought the distance which was great into clear view?

These are a couple of guesses of what may happen to you and your day-dreams.

I use day-dreams here to speak in terms most people can understand. Now I am going to flip the term to VISION. Those were not simply daydreams. They were gifts and desires that were placed into my mind for a reason. If they were of value and would cause me to stretch, make me work, make me stay up late, feed my righteous passions they were a gift from GOD.

Vision. I have a new rule that I will live by. I will day dream like a child and take action steps as an adult. I will never tell that child within what it can and cannot be, have, or do. As an adult I will hold myself accountable to set the goals to bring these visions to pass.

I will continue to keep a dream list and update it as I have these visions of the future. If I am going to work hard in the present anyway, I am either going to keep my head down and miss the opportunities or have it up seeing where I am going, letting the opportunities drive me forward so I can grab onto their promise.

Dream everyday as a CHILD, and take action steps as an ADULT.

Joshua Andrus
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10,000 Hours

2009-07-29T06:31:00.001-07:00

Have you put in your 10,000 hours yet?

So many people start something. A business, a hobbie, a skill. They can measure in the begining the growth of where they were when they began but the growth does not happen as rapidly as when they went from bad to noticibly better.

Most people give up and quit. . .

Tragic. There will always be great growth in the begining of anything you do in life. You can always go from bad to better. It may even seem you are good. The transition from bad to good takes only interest.

Good doesn't get noticed, Great does. The transition from good to great takes more then interest it takes commitment.

There needs to be commitment to the process. It has been said that the atheletes we recognize today are being recognized for their successes on stage as result of many private failures. How many?

Well the average amount of time in the process is 10,000 hours. Is this going take committment? 10,000 hours?

To put this number into perspective 10,000 hours at 40 hours a week will be 5 years. 5 years of committed activity. This is only a part of the commitment. . .

The second part of the committment is the VISION. How much passion do you really have for the end result.

Here is the relationship of the 10,000 hours-

You will need a vision for what you want life to look like 5 years from now, then you will need the the pathway to achieve this, these are the goals, then you will need the activities that make your ordinary activities extra-ordinary. These activities are the 10,000 hours.

Reviewing from today forward- commit the hours of activity that will achieve the goals that will manifest the vision.

If the activities look flat at any time adjust the vision to be more focused then adjust the goals, then burrow on the belief of the vision to get excited about the activity.

Take a dream building workshop, too many people stop dreaming at age 18 and this muscle needs some serious conditioning.

Joshua Andrus
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"Oook aaaa laacckkka miccccckkkaa!!!!!"

2009-07-28T06:22:00.000-07:00

When you are in a bad mood, have you ever wondered why you can become more and more negative?

You feel more and more awful then you continue adding a continuous stream of thoughts that will make cause yourself to feel deeply upset?

The mind is an amazing thing. It will start down a path and continue on that same path until it is interrupted.

Awareness is amazing. You could mess up your day without it, or you can interrupt and set your mind on a different path as soon as you realize you are heading for what I like to refer to the "Funk".

Have you ever been in a fight with your friend or spouse. It seems things are escalating they are getting more and more intense. The forced words are now yells.

This is where the ultimate proof of the amazing power of awareness and distraction can come in. This weekend my mentor Mr. Mark Michaud was teaching us what to do in the event you feel more and more upset and the communication has become more about who is right and who is wrong.

He says give it a big "Oook aaaa laacckkka miccccckkkaa!!!!!". What in the world am I talking about here? Has this writer gone completely nuts!.

Here is the deal. Come up with a funny phrase that you can say. This should distract you from your position of opposition, but more importantly it will get your mind off of the same destructive path that it has carved into you brain over time through spaced repetition. It puts a temporary road block, then it will cause your mind to jump into a different place.

The best part about this technique. . . You are making a conscious decision to not take yourself so serious, in fact you might even laugh, and when your spouse knows they won the argument because their partner has taken the "crazy" card then they may even calm down and laugh too.

This is my silly word, get your own. Use it with when you talk to yourself too------- You may not realize this but you talk to your self over 50,000 times in the course of a day!!! More then with any other person------- This same technique can prevent your inner conversations from going down hill in a hurry as well.

Self Talk is a great subject for another day though. . .

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Clear In Order to Create

2009-07-22T06:13:00.000-07:00

Know what you want.

There is no way to create unless you know what you want first. Stephen Covey calls this "Begin with the End in mind".

Here is a quick question. Two people having the means and opportunity to purchase. One has an idea of the next car they want to purchase, the other knows they want a new car, but has no idea what they want.

Who gets the car first?

This is a trick question. The second one is likely to get the care first. The problem is that this may not be "THE" car. Will the second individual even realize "THE" car if they had it. Not likely.

Your subconscious mind will go to work with the directions that you give it. If I know the car I am looking for, without me knowing it my other senses will begin seeing more and more of the "THE" car. This sounds too good to be true or unrealistic. Let me prove how realistic this is.

You may have experienced this already. When you purchased your last vehicle, immediately wasn't there more of the same vehicle that you just purchased on the road. This is because you brought from your subconscious an awareness due to your purchase.

You can now use this to your advantage. You can become clear on what you want first, crystal clear and then you will see more of the same vehicle ahead of time. This will allow you to have a choice it will be yours for the choosing and negotiation.

If this seems superficial, sorry, I don't believe that if you are going to spend money on a vehicle you should settle on something that you don't like.

What do you want? That depends a great deal on your values.

Settling in life is a shame. When you seek out what you want you can and should manifest it. If the thought and desire has been sought out in your heart and aligns with your personal values.

Fast pace and quick fix I want it now mentality will be an obstacle in this approach. This is fair warning.

Another obstacle is the distraction of other things that you may want. That is why dream boards are so powerful. I think dream boards are misunderstood:

I personally would not put the whole fleet of luxury cars on your dream board if for example you own a "hoopty". It will be discouraging. Place one car first, then build from there. This is not say don't aim for the stars, it is to say distraction of focusing on too much can happen.

Joshua Andrus
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Lesson From the Cheshire Cat

2009-07-21T05:47:00.001-07:00

In Alice's Adventure in Wonderland the Cheshire Cat teaches one of the most important lessons in lifestyle in the space of about 10 seconds.

"Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to" said the Cat.

"I don't much care where. . ."

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

Lifestyle- take a picture, either still fram description or literal if applicable. Your lifestyle is a result of your choices up until this point.

Are you "where" you want to be?

Did you, like Alice choose to not define this ahead of time?

Empower yourself for change. Go through your house, go through your vehicle, go through your conversations of others, go through your time you spend, go through your associations, go through your library. Be an observer of these things, non-judgemental, just observing. Take a snapshot.

You can decide today what your lifestyle is. You can answer the Cat tommorow where you want each of these areas to be. It is all a choice.

The biggest lesson of the Cheshire Cat is if you don't have a clear direction for any of the areas of life you are just blown by the winds of circumstance. This hardly seems productive to me, but then you just may enjoy living like Alice who had to wait for crisis in order to make changes.

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Did I Choose Right?

2009-07-20T06:22:00.000-07:00

This is a day and age that so many people are changing their careers. It happens to be out of choice for some, and for others it is forced. The unemployment will reach 11% very soon.

It is a great time in our nation's history, and it is a difficult time. The question today to ponder with so many shifts in careers today. . .

Did I choose the right one for me?

Paul J. Meyer has a great way to answer this: "True indicators that a person choose the right career are a burning fervor, a driving desire, a sense of mission, and a purpose."

The greats will lead the fearful through this time. The way to become great is to assess in the are I work am I finding purpose in my mission, and driving with intensity that only comes from a white hot burning desire.

The solution if this is not the case is also the enhancement. . .

Here is the deal. Right now if you are simply good at your career of choice and you sense that it has the potential to be the "RIGHT" path. You need to spend some time finding out why you are not great.

When you ask why am I good and not great? Amazing things will occur. This question so differs from the norm. The mediocre blaming of the economy, the scarcity that you will be rewarded with action steps and recognize them immediately.

This is a great activity to do weekly at least and daily if necessary-

1) Take time to be in a quiet place

2) Get centered in the way you have learned in your life to

3) Ask yourself if I could make this week/tomorrow great what would I do

4) Spend some time dreaming in color about actions and results that would occur

5) Search out in your mind what your emotions are, what your purpose would be, who would be involved

6) Spend some time afterwards writing down your activities, attitudes, and purpose for the next day.

So many people are focused by outside of themself factors the time is so ripe to take charge of your life. The world will clear a path for a leader that lives on purpose.

Joshua Andrus
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Strength Vs. Weakness Debate

2009-07-17T06:34:00.000-07:00

In the field of personal development, organization consultation. There is a debate that exists.

The debate is after I gain awareness of my strengths vs my weaknesses which one do I focus on?

The argument that you are held back by your weaknesses is a valid one, however think for a minute. If you were to take your weaknesses and spend a large amount of your time energy and resources on them. . .

Could you ever become great in your weaknesses?

Would you ever desire to stay with them for long enough to become great?

How long would it be, before your strengths became weaker because of the amount of time outside of them?

No one will drive from miles around to watch someone who has taken a weakness and raised it to mediocrity.

This is why you have teams in Corporate America. If you are aware of your weaknesses you surround yourself with people who do that area better in that area then you are. For early leaders this is a difficult thing because it pulls on insecurity, for established leaders it is about change.

When strengths are where the majority of the focus comes then the results of greatness can be attained. It is when you hear the phrase "play to your strength".

If it is necessary to go towards the weakness get a third party involve and brainstorm how you can use your strengths to lift your weaknesses.

If you are unaware of what you are good at that you could be great at. If awareness is your weakness, GET HELP FAST!!!

Joshua Andrus
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Passion or Poison

2009-07-13T05:53:00.000-07:00

There are times when what you do can either be on the side of your Passion or be on the side of Poison-slowly killing off your vitality.

Find out where you are-

When you are working on the things in your life are you enjoying it?

Do the tasks seem more and more undesirable?

When you have the chance to relax or to get deeper in your journey to achieve more do you choose to relax?

Do you feel more guilty motivated then energy motivated?

When their is a rut that keeps you on answering these questions unhealthily it is because you have lost allignment with what is most important to you. You may have a vision defficiency of not seeing the future from the present. A discouragement issue of not seeing the future throught the clouds of past failures. Or an allignment problem where your priorities have become out of order causing energy drains in your routine.

There is one thing for certain in your assessment here. The way back to your purpose is through your passion. There is no better way to find the energy to move forward out of rut then clearly defining your passion and allowing yourself to live in it.

The opposite of passion is doing something you don't like. There is nothing worst then doing what you dislike. This will cause an erosion of integrity as you look for shortcuts, it will cause energy drains as your attitude and expectency become negative, and it is a passion killer.

This is not to say you aren't greatful for what your doing to create a living even if it is not what you would like to do. It is not only foolish to jump out of the airplane of your current job/career without a parchute of another means of living. It is to say spend the time daily to see that your passion and purpose is advanced as well.

If your job feels like a means to an end your doomed to the end. If your job, on the other hand feels like a vehicle to something greater as you invest in your purpose and personal growth then your career imediately can be something you are greatful for.

Find ways to expand your dreams, clarify your vision, and follow your passion now. Like today, choose something today that you will do that re-alligns you with your purpose or passion.

Joshua Andrus
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I Like Myself, I Like Myself, I Like Myself

2009-07-10T06:31:00.000-07:00

You will never be able to give the world more caring than you have for yourself.

I work with clients all the time who say I am not worth it, I don't deserve it, I will do for others and deprive myself. All these thoughts they stay stuck in their comfort zones with insane rationalizations like: "I am being unselfish, I worry about others first," or misunderstanding "love others before you love yourself".

These are all lies. I have found long term if a person is putting others needs above their own first they have to have certain of their needs fulfilled if it is truly genuine. Most of the time they do it because they are trying to fill a need that they are not speaking to.

If a person is truly not loving of them self they are putting others first in order to gain validation, a feeling of worth through the other individual. This still seems pretty Innocent at first. I am here to be a little in your face on this point. The motive becomes more and more unhealthy when the doer has places their own self worth in the other persons hand. They cannot feel good unless the other person feels good about them. Huge problem here. This can be a vicious sick cycle that never resolves, people are not concerned enough to fill your self worth meter, they cannot be, you cannot be, it won't happen.

This is why your self worth cannot come from without, but instead from within.

I like myself, I enjoy saying this today. I have not always been able to shout this from the roof top. I know today I don't give another person in my life permission to like me unless I like me first. I know that I don't genuinely like another or even love another unless I love from within first.

Don't let the world tell you lies, love yourself, love everything about you, if you cannot love your entire self, choose one thing you can love about yourself and focus on it until you see another thing.

Joshua Andrus
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Wait To Plan, Plan To Wait

2009-07-09T06:17:00.000-07:00

There is a catchy phrase tossed around in goal setting seminars fail to plan, plan to fail. I want to back up a little further and re-phrase it with "Wait to Plan, Plan to Wait".

Nothing can take from the potency of one's leadership more then having a lack of vision. Vision comes from imagination and careful planning. The more crystallized the destination the more sure-footed the journey, the more people the leader can lead.

This is not foreign for anyone reading this. In fact let me give you an example:

Let's say you are planning a TEAM RETREAT in month. Two leaders one who hasn't planned. One who has. You decide who you would follow:

The LEADER WHO PLANNED, has a vision of the future:
I'm going to have 100 people I am mentoring on my team at the event: I better start promoting- "(name), You got a minute?"
"Did you hear?"
"Imagine, if you could, what it would take to fly around the country and visit the top 12 leaders in their city, in their marketplace, coordinate your visit so that you catch them exactly the day they are scheduled to train, hang out after the training and ask them a handful of questions. What kind of a cost would that have?"

"It would be worth the thousands of dollars invested, right? Well if you could afford this it would take some valuable time as well right?"

"What if I told you that from the 23rd of July through the 25th of July you could drive right up the road to Palm Springs, stay at a resort hotel, have all the 12 leaders you would have interviewed fly in to the resort, not only will they be ready to train, but also ready to and willing in a casual resort atmosphere to answer your questions maybe even poolside."

"This event is so impressive that leaders who are not even booked to train are flying in all across the Nation and Canada to take notes, it is estimated over 50 people making over 6 figures a year from home will be there. Then looking at cost and compression of time frames you can do this all for under $500 and in under a 72 hour time period. I even have a special room rate for you and the people you are mentoring."

"On July 23-26 in Palm Springs this event will take your personal development journey miles further then anything you could possibly do this summer. "

Contrast LEADER WHO WAITED TO PLAN, whose destination is not crystallized, whose vision is not clear:

I don't know if I will get my hotel room yet, the ticket only cost 95 dollars last month, the ticket now costs 135 and I don't get paid til Friday. Let me call up my team and see if they are going?

"Dave, how's it going, are you going to Palm Springs in a month?"

Who would you follow? Who do you think will need to wait for their goals to manifest?

Joshua Andrus
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Who Defines Me

2009-07-08T06:20:00.000-07:00

Who Defines Me?

Most people would very rapidly decide I define me. I have experienced this to not be the truth for the majority of people.

The fact is that there is an ideal self that most of us visit a lot less often then the real self that we are currently manifesting.

When I am working with a client who has manifested destroyed relationships, jail, brig, etc. the majority of the time at the heart of this is a poor self image. The quote from some clients is "I am a screw up". This is shame, or prior guilt and other-imposed definition of oneself.

Shame kills the same way affirmation gives hope to new life.

I have often said that "You will never rise above the definition of what you hold for yourself". This is proven with a principle in Psychology called Self-Fulfilling Prophesy.

In my own words and experience. Self-Fulfilling Prophesy negatively manifest for most people in this manner: I have a belief about myself in a situation. This belief may have validity it may not. To me it is true. I now seek out clues of my environment, interactions to make this belief true. When I find a clue that "proves" my definition I hold to it as truth and prove the initial belief with more validity.

What is holding you back then. Who defines you. Taking ownership of who defines you will either promote you or expose you. If I believe that today I am great husband, I will work toward manifesting and behaving in a way that is kind and loving with my wife, I will not do so for validation of the truth from her as a codependent individual would. I will do it as a confirmation of the belief I hold for myself. With practice my love grows as a husband and this definition gets firmer in my being as I manifest it outwardly.

Joshua Andrus
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Bring Value by Joshua Andrus: Passion

2009-07-05T23:15:00.000-07:00

Bring Value by Joshua Andrus: Passion

3 Types of People (Inspired by Les Brown)

2009-07-02T10:08:00.001-07:00

I watched a clip by Les Brown yesterday that was amazing. Success Magazine has an amazing promo CD/DVD. I had heard Mr. Brown was great but my studies had been limited on his seminars.

There are 3 types of people 1)those who are successful, 2)those who are not (basically give up and become victims) and those who have not arrived, 3)they have achieved success at a level that many people would consider great, but inside they know that they are searching to become more.

These are they who sit in seminars thirsting for more pieces of the puzzle of the person they strive to become. . .

They set and achieve goals but know there is still more music left in them to sing. . .

They serve and are about a great work but know they can create more to give back. . .

When they sit down to take notes they sense a higher self sits with them and they look for ways to reach higher and actualize. . .

These are the greats, these are the great potentials waiting to bring the world the value that they have been uniquely gifted with.

It is strange that even learning has a zone, an area of sweetness when what I learn has a unifying connecting thread, and I know that what I am learning is on a more efficient level.

As I listened to a leadership training by John C. Maxwell the previous night I realized there are 3 types of learners as well, 1)those who are ignorant, they don't know what they don't know, 2)those who are learn-ed, they know it already, and 3)those who are on a continuous path of learning. They thirst for more knowledge and are humble enough to keep looking. I believe there is a tie in.

This is key for those who feel less then those who have "arrived". For those who feel uncomfortable about approaching the "great" ones. . .
Remember-
There really are only 3 learners and 3 people. Those who are ignorant, those who are learned or have arrived (falsely) and are not on the same journey and are not approachable anyway. Those who are still in the pursuit and on the purpose of "pouring into" others and adding value. The courage should come from the perspective that if they are still on the journey of learning they are still on the journey of service.

How is all this related. When you have the opportunity to ask someone who is where you want to go in the future, who is manifesting in the present what you want to in the future, where you are drawn to:
-Have some questions in mind and ask with confidence. An actualized person's favorite subject is there life purpose. It is there passion, there is invaluable amounts of information and vision provoking "nuggets" that can help guide your path.
-Interview and once a month take someone great out to eat. Everyone needs to eat.
-Just a warning, check your ego at the door, if you are too busy talking about what you've done and believe then you might miss invaluable time learning. Not that big of a deal, remember you have two ears one mouth keep this ratio in mind as you go forward.

Joshua Andrus
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"But You Promised"

2009-07-01T06:25:00.000-07:00

"I Promise" words rarely uttered today.

I don't see enough written or taught regarding promises. I have found in general most people are very reluctant to say: "I promise". It is usually I will try, or I will do my best to, or if I can, but rarely the very simple "I promise".

I began meditating as to why this might be. . .

It was amazing the strength of someones word in ancient times. If, for example you were captured in battle, and mercy was granted, you could take an oath that you would lay down your weapon and this would be sufficient.

It would not matter how wicked your deeds were at the time you entered into an oath or covenant your word was your bond.

I believe we don't say "I Promise" regularly is due to fear and insecurity. It could come from past failures to keep your word. It could be a lack of commitment.

I am researching into the power of the PROMISE today. I know for me PROMISES are powerful. They go beyond just saying I am going to do something. I believe if I promise something I will deliver or die trying. Although this seems dramatic it is a page out of ancient history where if an oath was taken and not upheld death was at times a consequence.

I think the parents can relate to kids that use the strength of promises as leverage. If you are like me, my kids have said almost as early as they began talking "but you promised" even if this was not the case. I believe that this is such a powerful concept it can truly bring an adult to their knees before a three year old.

There is something so potent about the promise, it feels inside like my reputation, my integrity, and my relationships can hinge on a verbal contract that is a promise. I believe this to be a great thing, a way to break out of complacent comfort zones. I believe in making more promises in life.

I can remember while on active duty I picked up the habit of nicotine. It did not serve me well, I could feel its' damaging effects on me in all 8 areas of my life. When I got out of the service I tried many different solutions to this powerful addiction. When I was finally able to quit with the assistance of a program, one of the key elements of this program was a contract. This contract wasn't any contract it was a promise I made with God that I would not smoke again. At the time I was working with Disabled Veterans at a facility, The area that tobacco was used was right outside my office door. I placed that contract right on the back of my door in plain sight so that I could see it every time I walked out into the cloud smoke. There were certain days that I know it was only by virtue of this promise I didn't smoke. I haven't returned to smoking since making that contract. It has been over 5 years now and I have seen so many rich blessings as a result of this commitment and promise.

I am at a time in my life when I desire to stretch my abilities to grow my capacity in areas such as love, service, productivity, and the value I bring. I believe this takes commitment to the process and I know better way then to enter into agreements and follow through.

Today I am challenging myself to look for opportunities to make promises.

Joshua Andrus
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Passion

2009-06-30T05:38:00.000-07:00

Everyone does something better then the next 10,000 people. When I heard this yesterday I thought about some of the people I knew. I thought about myself. I thought really? Something better then the next 10,000 people?

There are so many people who have talents and gifts that are not being developed as they work outside of their passion. Their passion whether discovered or not relates to the thing that they do well that no other person does better.

What is it for you? Do you want to discover it? Everyone you would think would like to know what they are better then anyone they know at. This is simply not the case. I have a theory that even if people fully discovered the thing they are better then, the majority would still live out of alignment.

When I use out of alignment in the above paragraph I use it to say that if your day to day activities do not a lot for enough of an opportunity to allow your passion to come through you are out of alignment and your dream is slowly dying inside you.

Our passions are where our dreams spring from, if you can find an outlet for your passion that is consistent the creations that you will begin to enjoy are unbelievable. I don't know what your passion is, but if you find your passion you find your purpose, if you find your purpose you can define your values, and if you can define your values and find your purpose you can live daily with confidence and a hope that your grandest dreams can come true.

How can I make this claim? Because it is based on truth. If I have the passion, I know my purpose, I know what my rules are (values), and I have a hope (faith from successes and divine vision), then I am not bound by man for my dreams and neither are you. Your dreams are seeds planted from a much higher source.

Live your life so that you don't go to your grave having never sung your song.

Joshua Andrus
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Experts Get Paid

2009-06-29T06:07:00.001-07:00

Are you an expert?

Here is a good test. . .

How do you know if you are an expert in your field of practice?
-Are you being paid in the upper 5% in the field? If you are not then you have not proven yourself to be an expert yet.

Okay that is the harsh reality, here is the relief. This is not a dead end zone. The beauty is that you can overcome this. You can be paid at the top of your profession, career etc.

It is the reverse of what most people think, there is always more room at the top of the pay scale then there is at the bottom. It's true, the bottom of the ladder is where a large percentage of the people in your field make their homes, the middle of the ladder is where the majority do and there is so much more wealth and space on top.

I write this today to declare war.

I declare war on mediocre mentality, I declare war on the idea that you can't make more than the company gives you. I declare war on the very prison that most have lived in regarding their lifestyle.

Poverty mentality says this is the ceiling the company doesn't pay more. That is not true, that is what you are making with skill set you bring. The company or market pays others more right?

So how do you break through the ceiling. I am going to put out the biggest jewel that has ever been and will ever be right now. If you choose to get on this path and do so intensely over the next 5 years of your life. Focusing your whole being on this one thing when the time affords. Making it such a priority that you don't get knocked off course. . .

Here it is. . .

LEARNING. . . Become a student of everything. This is what the child knows. They pick up on most things effortlessly because they are always learning.

Begin today, don't wait, find out what you need to learn and learn it. Thirst for it, hunger for the details, live passionately for the truths and in 5 years you won't even recognize the life you are living.

LEARN, READ, LISTEN, ASSOCIATE!!! WAKE UP!

Joshua Andrus
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Complacency is a Killer

2009-06-26T06:23:00.001-07:00

It is a mindset to do just enough to get by. It is a battle I think all of us face in some area of our life. It becomes a habit and erodes away at the standards that we have.

You are never truly stopped in your growth or regression in life. You are either getting better or worse at the skills and talents you have been blessed with. There is an apathy that is at the root cause of being stuck.

I know there are a lot of people who have different definitions of apathy. I keep mine as simple as possible Apathy to me is the lack of love of whatever your doing being or becoming. The definition seems to fit for me.

The entry point for intervention of complacency is this- Many of us are good at things. The problem with being good at things is that it makes it real hard to be great.

I would put to the reader the main reason we become stuck is due to a standard we set or our "good level" we make a certain income level and we feel we are making it or "good". Money isn't everything I know but it is really easy to measure and something universally understood.

So you sit at a benchmark of "good" with your income. The moment you slip below that amount and detect that you are not making the same amount I guarantee you will fight like mad to return to that same level of income. The urgency will shock you. It may not be you that detects your income standard isn't as high as it should be. Someone else may help you to realize you are slipping in your income.

You want to know how simple it is then to build out of complacency?

You have to never be satisfied with the person you have become. It is not to say become neurotic. Here is the balance to all this. Be easily pleased but never satisfied. As soon as you feel you've arrived your standards are set and complacency and apathy sets in.

Strive for more. Set attainable goals that leads you to believe you can become more. There is something very righteous about understanding that your potential is God's gift to you, what you do with it is your gift to him.

Joshua Andrus
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Practice Makes PERRRRR . . .

2009-06-25T05:36:00.000-07:00

Practice makes permanent. I know, I know-what you might be thinking: "that's not how the saying goes".

Practicing the right thing will make that stick, the same as practicing the wrong things. That is why Practice does not make perfect, it makes permanent. (Read this in a T Harv Ecker book the other day and thought that is so on point)

This is a bigger deal then simple semantics. I can remember playing competitive sports. The level at which I would perform in a game was greatly effected by the level at which I would give during practice.

The mind body relationship is amazing, and not, even with all the technology in existence, fully explored and understood. Your mind cannot fully grasp what is real and what is your imagination. This applies big time to practice making permanent:

Have you ever, for example, been so focused on something the whole day that when you lay down and drift of into that first level of sleep where you still are on the surface and you jerk into motion and you realize that you were dreaming about the activity you were so focused on the whole day. This was your mind hi-jacked and practicing making permanent what you set in motion that day, re-enforcing actions and results.

I can remember loving to play the sport basketball growing up. I loved that immediate result of seeing the ball travel out of my hand and go through the net and the high that came as I felt validated for my efforts. I loved chasing down a rebound and knowing not only was I positioned better then anyone on the court but I wanted the ball more, and was willing to hustle more for each. I loved the momentum of the team as we passed and worked for the shots that would crush the competition. I can remember the valuable lesson of the mind when I would slip off to sleep, my body might have been bruised from catching elbows, ankles wrapped with ice packs, arms tired from exertion but I would slip off into sleep and every so often jerk myself awake and realize my arms were practicing making a shot.

There is a huge lesson here. Every day you go through the mundane activities, every skill set that you are developing, every challenge you must overcome to get through to reward, you have to realize that there is permanent behaviors being etched into your character. It is a good question to always ask yourself, is the way I am approaching this the same way I would if the spot light was on me and I wanted to display peak performance; or: am I on the side of cutting corners and is just getting by becoming permanent here?

Joshua Andrus
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Get Another Job or Your Own Income Stream?

2009-06-24T06:17:00.001-07:00

There will be a time in the majority of peoples life when what you are doing is not enough. Different stages of life provide new costs, new lifestyle desires. Whether this is wanting to raise your kids in a different neighborhood or with a different set of teeth (braces). This could be that you have one of your kids ready to go to school, or you want to go travel more.

Whatever the reason I want to say having experienced this drive to provide more outside of the primary income stream, and having gone and gotten the second job. The second job will only feel very short term needs.

I advocate strongly you consider building during the time you would be going and slaving away working for another boss, getting down to business. Real business, their are tons of opportunities out their that will fill your financial needs temporarily, but do your research.

I personally have found the dream part time business that pays full time money. There is no playing around with small income streams with the company I found to work with.

The key questions to ask when looking at any business are:

1) Is there a training system in place, many of us have been to school to specialize in the fields we do. A business was not probably the main focus, this is why it is so crucial to have great training opportunities.

2) Is there a need for the product or service you are providing, in the real sense of today's economy the need must be strong

3) Do you have an easy way to predict your pay example: if you do this___then this____ is the resulting income. It can become difficult to aim for the goals of why you began working on your own business without clear-cut ways to measure the new income.

4) Is there an opportunity to leverage your abilities. Can you duplicate yourself. If this does not exist then your part time income from doing extra with your own business will remain part time income. It is important to understand that you want to have a good income stream that flows when you are there and when you are not.

5) Can your business stand the test of time? One of the beauties of buying into a franchise or a larger company as an affiliate is that when you are starting your business you can compare and gain experience from others who have gone before you. (for other advantages see blog "If you want a flat tire re-invent the wheel")

You have the choice trade time for money to hit short term goals or build something smartly in your part time that can create income and time in the long term.

Joshua Andrus
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What Are You Looking At

2009-06-23T05:53:00.001-07:00

Have you ever thought about the education system from High School Diploma to Doctorate. The amount of learning that gets condensed into a few short years.

Here is controversy. Even with the Continuing Education Units I am required to keep up in my field to carry my credentials they pale in comparison to the amount of work and studying that went into the degree initially.

I heard something from a mentor Mr. Chris Hughes, this weekend: "We allow people to work on degrees and knowledge they gained in 1978."

The crazy thing is he is 100% correct. It is true that people work on the job with new skills gained but when did the majority of the knowledge get crammed in their heads, the first few years of work, or from mostly theory based college courses.

I was realizing the other day as my son asked me "Where my candy is?" it had fallen on my sleeve and I said: "It is right there on my sleeve". I could tell at first he didn't know what the word "sleeve" meant, but he used his own observation station (his eyes) and saw the candy. Immediately he learned something new and I could see the connection of sleeve for him.

Chris Hughes went on to say that any "6 years of intense learning can change your whole course in life for the better." The key here is intense learning in the right areas. We don't even realize we are learning and remembering on a daily basis. My question I have to constantly ask myself is What Am I learning?

Try this as an activity to make this lesson stick, ask a good question of someone you admire. Ask them what books have made the biggest impact on their life. Not only is this a great question to get a deeper understanding of the individual, but I have found is a great compliment as well.

Finally I have to ask in the sense of learning: WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?

Joshua Andrus
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Believe in Yourself

2009-06-19T06:24:00.000-07:00

One force will prevent you from acting. One force will provide you with excuses. One force will cause you to check out of your pursuits. One force will cause you to quit. . .

Fear of failure.

Who has to deal with this fear? Everyone. If you don't deal with this fear your probably not setting high enough goals.

Fear of failure is the exact opposite of belief in oneself. The only way to overcome the Fear of Failure is to:

1. Embrace it as normal- everyone fears failure
2. Hold onto the goal that is triggering the failure
3. Create simple action steps to attain the goal
4. Understand failure is a result the same as success is
5. Get into massive action driving toward your goals
6. Succeed and fail alike. Getting better with the successes and doing less and less of what fails
7. Make it a goal to know each night where you are in the process and set up steps to follow through with to never be there again
8. Believe in the power of compound interest. Each success adds momentum, compounds on itself and pushes you closer to goal.
9.You can do it. (affirm yourself) If you can see yourself accomplishing it you can do it.
10. Hold onto that image through the process and don't let the world take you away from that picture.

Expect your dreams to come true, know that success is inevitable and know that your creator did not create you to live out the stuckness of your fear. You were created to continue the process of creation.

Joshua Andrus
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Concious Non-sense=Subconcious No-cents

2009-06-17T06:27:00.000-07:00

I just began mentoring someone that required some big picture thinking. She is fairly young and has some great goals and desires in business. I let her know of an underutilized resource of the LIBRARY. . .

I told her to have them hold Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad. I have read this book a few times but when I am coaching I will pick up the book I assign if it's been a while so that I am sharp and the other individual can receive the benefit of me being quite literally on the same page.

I realized the power of the mind in finances last night as I was re-reading Rich Dad Poor Dad. The book, if you haven't read it contrasts the philosophies of those who are wealthy and those who have little. It is an overall look into the two class system of Have's and Have-Not's. Jumping ahead to the point here. . .

The father that ended up poor when faced with paying for something constantly affirmed or calibrated as I like to look at it "I can't afford it". The wealthy father's response and calibration was "how can I afford it". The poor father constantly said to the mind when faced with a financial challenge shut down we are poor don't need to work toward creating the wealth for 'that'. The rich dad, while not rich at the time, had his mind set on do the work to come with solution on how we can afford that.

One mind getting increasingly stronger and the other weaker, one mind being challenged with a task, the other shut down and complacent.

The subconscious mind is like an amazing powerhouse of worker bees. It sits in wait for orders and goes to work immediately to follow through with what we send as orders. It does not discriminate whether the task is possible or not. The only time it interprets the task as impossible is if we feed it this order.

HUGE, this is so big, check it out. . .

The next time you are tempted to say I can't your right. Begin noticing this and just simply change the verbage around to HOW CAN I? Send your mind to work.

It is like Henry Ford said: Whether you think(the message) you can or you think you can't you are right.

Joshua Andrus
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Go Up To Go Out

2009-06-16T06:31:00.001-07:00

When we perform anything in life there is optimum efficiency and there is unbalanced inefficiency.

One of the key factors of being in the "zone" is going up to go out. I don't know if this is something that you have heard before maybe similar. The idea is that what you do on a moment to moment basis intentionally has initial vision attached to it.

I have done various sports through the years, and they a lot of people can relate to them as an example. The times that I have really played well is when I saw myself doing well ahead of time, then I enjoyed running toward my vision of what I saw.

It is one of the hardest things in the world to stay maximum efficient all the time, but I want to say that with everything it takes practice. You can stop what you are doing right now and ask am I being intentional about what I am doing.

The very next task that you take on, the next game that you play. Envision yourself doing it in your minds-eye to the best of your ability. Hold this vision firm as you go forward giving no possibility to the chance of defeat. Then execute.

There is a study that was done of kids learning how to shoot free throws. One group was given the ball for a short period of time so they knew and felt the mechanics. The next group was given the ball solid for the next 30 days. The first group practiced making the shots in their mind the over the next 30 days. They had someone describe it over and over. The measurements were taken. The group who had the ball the whole time had less of an overall improvement then the group who made the free throws in their mind.

There is no substitution for hard work, yet it makes sense to use the one muscle that can cause maximum efficiency more. The mind.

Try it, envision right before you attempt and enjoy the results. It feels good to live out your vision.

Joshua Andrus
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Only in the Way We Think

2009-06-15T06:10:00.000-07:00

Working today on the way we think about situations that occur. Your thoughts guide your emotions that guide your actions that guide your reactions. So many times we fail to understand this and go about reacting which is action begets action instead of responding which is action takes it birth in thought.

The problem most people have even when it comes to attempting to respond is that they return to faulty thoughts. This will lead them back down the journey to a similar finishing point.

The things we affirm will always come true. Part of the reason for 'protection of associations' is because we get influenced by others philosophies and if you want what they have think like they think and feel like they feel and then do what they do.

This is not puffed up, it is fact. If you want to get to the heart of it don't let your thoughts be set by man. Get into a higher level of thoughts through God. It is why praying or meditation is so vitally important.

Take the next task and decide to use a higher thought pattern, for me it is finding the stillness after I ask and am grateful God gives me guidance. The obstacles are not to be focused on they are to bring more value to the journey of the task as opposition be grateful. The journey will teach you more then the finished task. This was always inevitable with faith, the failures along the way were the lessons that you could not see as you looked at the completed task.

Confidence does not fully describe when you operate under a higher level of thinking driving emotions of endless power and energy, which result in actions that are congruent to the source of your thoughts and the results are the "impossible".

What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. What is planted in the mind and in the heart to accomplish from God will come to pass with or without us it will be us who decides to move forward as a conduit of this task or step aside and miss the opportunity.

The source of this is knowing I am nothing without him, but with him in purpose can accomplish his work for me to do.

Joshua Andrus
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The Value of a Book

2009-06-12T05:17:00.001-07:00

Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich speaks of the power of the Mastermind principle. The reason one would meet together with other people in this fashion is to create an extra mind that would not be available without the sum total of all the parties involved creativity. In Christianity a scripture defines this: "Where two or three are gathered in my name there am I also."

There will be times that your expectations of your purpose exceeds those around you. When this occurs it can be a difficult thing to maintain these expectations and not get pulled back to the earth by gravity. Keep aiming for the stars and practice the Mastermind Principle to assist you.

There are three things that can assist you to draw on the creative energies of the very best leaders ever to walk the earth and this is not a new idea. It takes some belief, some faith that this type of mastermind works.

Let me set this process up. Have you ever been engaged in a relationship with a mentor and you find yourself calling them a lot at first then you go to pick up the phone after a while and you know because of their nature and philosophy what they would say if you asked their advice. It is using this same creativity that you can employ the ultimate mastermind when those around you may not see your potential.

First off start getting more from the 3 things that make up most of the difference of that which influences you. 1) The things you see. Especially right now if there is to much negativity to be seen pick up a book and see through the eyes of a leader. I have a mentor Robin Sharman who says reading a book is like having a conversation with the author. Who are you currently conversing with? 2) What you hear. What are the things that have been crossing over the sound waves that you have been listening to lately? Learn out loud with audio programs, when you seek there will be an abundance of sources. 3) Who you are around. This is what I want to focus on especially asking that you the reader open your mind.

Who you associate with is so vitally important. If those that you are around don't expect your greatness to shine through. If you even sense that they don't appreciate your potential limit your time around these people. The vast majority are projecting there doubts on you. Spend more time finding the natures of the great leaders. Then. . . and this is so crucial. . . Start asking what would Disraeli do in this situation? What would Abraham Lincoln do if faced with this challenge? How would Edison go after solving this problem? How would Bill Gates think globally about this? What Would Jesus Do?(important) The more you ask these questions and less you check in with the doubters and what would they do, the higher your actions will come from.

This process will unfold for you eventually and create a Mastermind the level of realness of this mastermind will depend on you. The greatest leaders of all time will come through as a result of your FAITH in the process, DILIGENCE in the study, and CONSISTENCY in applying this.

Joshua Andrus
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It Matters

2009-06-11T06:28:00.000-07:00

There are times that it is necessary to evaluate what things in your life needs to be changed. The answers can vary from person to person. It could be that you need to go the gym more, to save more money or work on a budget, to stop watching so much television, to connect more with family. Whatever it is there are times that things seem out of alignment and new habits need to replace.

This is a time that a set routine needs to go into place otherwise you will not make permanent change. The time most people choose to do these self-evaluations are the first of the year. The traditional NEW YEARS RESOLUTION. What do I not like last year that I can change this year.

I want to address the most crucial factor in sticking to these plans. It is the "It Matters" factor. The majority of people will get out of the routines that are healthy and producing results at the time that they feel like today it doesn't matter. It is immediately followed by various excuses to justify not following through.

I want to stress this point very strongly. This immediately puts a destructive habit in play. The "It doesn't matter if I miss today pattern". IT MATTERS!!!

There is a battlefield that all of us fight on daily basis. It is the battlefield of the mind. As Jim Rohn puts it "The Battle of the Mind". Habits such as giving into that thought that "today it doesn't matter I will just work harder on this tomorrow," almost immediately takes someone out of the constructive pattern.

The way I personally combat this weakness in thought is I push forward immediately on the activity and I shoot beyond my goal whatever it may be. I don't know if it is a gift of handling the lapse this way, but I have interviewed many others and I have noticed I begin to enjoy the new activity even more at this point.

Huge gift when you push through and decide IT MATTERS.

Joshua Andrus
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Laser Focus

2009-06-10T06:12:00.001-07:00

What is the most crucial, time sensitive task you've got to get done today?

The problem with so many different planning programs is that the above question is mentioned once or twice, but not stressed to be the most important question.

The MOST CRUCIAL task should be the MOST focused on item. If it is bigger then what can fit within your day, do whatever it takes to advance it's progress and put together a plan to do more the very next day.

If you don't get the MOST CRUCIAL task worked on when you work on the LEAST CRUCIAL distractions, most of your energy will be split.

This relates to the 80/20 principle of time management. 80% of all that matters is only 20% of what you do. 80% of the work that gets done is done within 20% of the time. 80% of packing for a trip gets done in the last 20% of the day before you leave.

The way to become laser focused and feel confident is to get the 20% done at a high level of skill and attention and witness yourself blow through the other tasks of the day.

Look at your list today and ask what is the MOST CRUCIAL thing I can do right now.

Joshua Andrus
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Weeds and Seeds

2009-06-09T06:25:00.000-07:00

When I grew up we had the Saturday chores which usually consisted of going outside and weeding. I knew that it would take until the afternoon early evening and that this routine would intensify when the summer came. I used to fight it at times but it didn't change the fact I still needed to go out and the weeds were going to show if I didn't.

There were other chores in the garden beds/flower beds to do but I can remember removing the weeds the most. I do remember the satisfaction of seeing the plants behind the weeds. I wondered why weeds always grew quicker then the plants. I also wondered why a weed of the same size as a plant was so much harder to pull then when I accidently pulled the plant.

These were lessons I was learning. I know my Dad didn't intend for me to learn these lessons directly, he probably wanted me to learn hard work, completing the job etc.

Here are the lessons that I learned later on though:
1) Weeds are negative, and they have negative seeds to spread. The same negativity fall out of peoples mouths from negative thoughts and spread like weeds.
2) It takes more work for the plants to outgrow the weeds, and it takes vigilance. Goals are like seeds and negative thought weeds need to be acknowledged (not ignored) and removed quickly. 3) If you don't keep your focus on pulling weeds consistently and in areas then it will be hard to see a consistent harvest. If your dreams are unfocused and you spread your efforts to thin the fruit of your labors will be mediocre at best.
4) It hurts to pull weeds at times they are hearty and have been around the garden longer then the seeds. The weeds of negative self-talk has thorns and is hearty and it has been around longer then the new seed planted too.
5) "If you pull the weeds from the top" my dad would say, "and you don't get the roots then the weed will be back in a week". If you don't work to heal from the negativity that is in your mind, and treat yourself with respect and affirm your good qualities then your negative patterns of thought will quickly return.
6) Setting the weeds on the ground and not cleaning up the mess is inviting there offspring to enter at a stronger rate. Associations and habits of defeat will re-enter if there are no boundaries placed about them, some things need discarding.

Thanks Dad for the lessons of the garden,

Joshua Andrus
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Breaking Free

2009-06-08T05:37:00.000-07:00

Depending on the type of airplane being examined it takes an amazing amount of fuel to break free. It may take as much as 50% of the fuel used in an entire flight to achieve acceleration, lift off and the climb.

This is called escape velocity.

I love that Escape Velocity. The amount of energy expended to break free and combat the pull of gravity.This is crucial to understand for any of us who have had times that we have felt stuck in our business, or in our goals.

If you are like me you have accomplished some great feats, but you know where your vision lies for yourself and it is just not where you are. More frustrating than that is that the amount of progress has not increased exponentially like you expected.It takes setting out the goal, kinda like a new flight pattern and driving for it harder then you can remember your initial push.

Someone I know has recently had such a push this last year. Her story is inspiring. She has been a photographer for a few years now and she knew in her heart that she was gifted. Her town recognized her as such. She just had it in her vision to do the work for a specific demographic. She has some incredible pictures that puts her in the upper category of her field.

She knew at the beginning of the year as she looked at her goals she would need a different flight pattern. She got to work and promoted, set up promotions, put in the sweat equity and really drove for the opportunity to do shoots for her target populations. She re-invented herself and brought more value to her customers.

She has branded herself and established her work. More value allowed her to bring in the more value. She recently had a Grand-Opening for her studio and the results were amazing. She has broken free. (I included her link at the bottom of this article. Be sure to check it out.)

How did she do it?

I observed her becoming crystal clear about the future. It was so clear and in focus (no pun intended) that it seemed as real as the present. She put out the effort to achieve the escape velocity, and as she is now breaking free, and after seeing her hearts efforts in her works I have no doubt she will be flown to her clients shoots, and people will continue to travel the distance for her work. Congratulations ANN of Anniemations-Photography.

www.anniemationsphotography.com

Joshua Andrus
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The Only Thing

2009-06-05T06:23:00.000-07:00

There is something that is so important. . .

So vital that everything else will fall apart without it . . .

Your very interaction with others professionally depend on it . . .

Your relationship with your loved ones are effected deeply by it . . .

The only thing that matters when you say you will do something is the follow through in doing it. When you make a commitment and don't follow through, you become increasingly weak. You are out alignment. Out of alignment with your purpose, your goals, your destiny.

The only thing that matters in activity is INTEGRITY. I have found out the hard way admittedly and enjoyed the rewards of the obedience to this principle. It is an amazing concept. I recently heard it said by a mentor: "I even treat my wife and kids differently when I act with complete integrity."

The very best we can give is not all we can give. I honestly with all my heart believe that God helps those who are willing to help themselves. This does not mean we do it on our own. It does mean that we come to him after our BEST effort and ask him to help us make up the difference.

Here are a couple of tips for living with INTEGRITY:
Set attainable goals daily
Stretch a little further everyday
If you fail to reach the achievement of the goal ask for forgiveness of anyone else involved including yourself.
Forgiving yourself will allow you to put the past behind you like a wake of a boat and set your destination back on target.
Strive to go beyond the goal set everyday. It is the follow through every athlete knows about.
Finally understand INTEGRITY is the only thing that matters don't be swayed from your commitment.

Joshua Andrus
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Reject Rejection

2009-06-03T06:25:00.000-07:00

Rejection and what it means to different people is a great topic for discussion. It is really a situation of whatever rejection means to you your right. To quote Henry Ford and apply it here: "Whether you think you can or can't you are right". We have been conditioned to place that decision in the hands of another individual.

The fear of rejection now becomes amazingly strong. If someone says we can't this becomes in scripted it amplifies the thoughts of doubt inside our minds already. Hope is dashed and we feel deflated.

I believe in rejecting rejection. There are a few thoughts that have helped me along the way to dampen the outside messages of rejection:

The first fundamental thought is that there will never be a President of the United States with 100% approval rating. In fact it has been for past campaigns over the last twenty years good numbers if someone has over a 45% approval rating. Do you see what that means over 65% of the population disagrees with what the most powerful office is doing. It puts it into perspective, there will not ever be everyone pleased with the direction you take either.

More powerful than this is that there is a huge part of the population that will be excited about what you are excited about. Being excited leads to being exciting and that is attractive. People will come from miles around to see someone who is exciting. Love your concept and live passionately.

The next thing is that many people are not awake when they give feedback. I have done it you probably have to. A person (maybe yourself) presenting an idea is much more invested than the receiver. The rejection could be mere unconscious insensitivity because it just is not the most important thing on the person receiving the messages mind.

The biggest part is that friends, family members, loved ones don't like change. It is not intentional many times but you fit nice and neat into a box for many of your loved ones. The moment you try something new, it appears scary for them and they cope with this fear strangely. Your ardent supporters can be your biggest opposition. It is not out of malice just out of fear.

These are just a few of the ways I attempt to reject rejection.

Joshua Andrus
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To Overcome an Excuse

2009-06-02T05:34:00.000-07:00

Excuses involves the second strongest emotion that there is. Fear. It is important to start here first. If fear is not looked at when someone is stuck in the excuse then a solution for the problem may be attempted, but no long lasting change will occur.

Fear will always be the same as light and dark will always be. When you turn on a light how far does the darkness go? Not to far. Waiting for the time to come back. Fear involves all other emotions that provides for someone to be stuck. It is natural and can be embraced, and examined, or ignored, repelled and cause stuck-ness.

To overcome fear, there are a few paradoxes. When examining the reasons you fear growing it is like giving light to excuses you are attempting to avoid. This is a necessary step though. It allows you to do a cost benefit analysis. Because when the pain of not changing is greater then the fear of changing then the healthy change will win out.

This is one way many people overcome their excuses, they reach a level that the pain is too great not to do something about the situation. The problem is that this is another form of ignoring the fear until the situation cannot be denied any longer. The other problem is this can cause the unhealthy coping mechanisms of neurosis and other compulsive behavior just to avoid looking at the stuck-ness.

A healthier way is:
1) Involve a 3rd party (trusted)
2) Look on paper or verbally explore
3) Brainstorm about all the options
4) Embrace the fear of the situation (skill that warrants more discussion later)
5) Put together an option and commit
6) Set up a time to re-visit
7) Have a plan to involve the trusted 3rd party individual during the execution
8) Fail forward- Fail forward - Fail forward (John C. Maxwell's book is a great reference of this topic)

Did I mention Fail Forward, the reason most excuses occur is that people have the fear of failure, if like fear you embrace it as a part of the process then you are getting results not actual failures. The only way to fail permanently is to quit. "A body in motion tends to stay in motion" go and fail a little you will be unstuck over the initial excuse.

Joshua Andrus
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Excuses

2009-06-01T06:19:00.000-07:00

What are excuses?

I am going to put what I feel to be truth, it is based upon practical results orientated research of mine and many others I have observed life.

Excuses are a way out. . .

Excuses are a way to explain where you currently are and because you have decided where you are and why you got there then you are acting naturally because you give yourself permission to stay there.

This type of thinking over time becomes a helpless downward spiral of becoming stuck and never doing anything to climb out of your current situation.

You will become less, set lowered standards, have less, and accomplish less as a result of the habits of excuses. Your confidence will wain, you will lose vision and you will become lost.

The energy and purpose in your journey will leave. These are bad symptoms. They come as a result of being out of allignment with your goals and God.

It is a belief that excuses are lies we give ourselves in order to feel stuck in the fear rather than walk in faith. The bitterness we feel in these times are a direct result of choosing death over life. As bleak as this sounds when we make excuses we walk closer to our grave then our manifesting our full potential.

What does it take to defeat an excuse?

To be continued . . .

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

The Bird Church

2009-05-29T06:27:00.000-07:00

Your potential is your gift from God, what you do with it is your gift to God and the world.*

A mentor of mind told a story so deep in impact, so on point, regarding potential:
Dave just moved into his new dream house and he set up his office perfect so that he could see the opening of a historic church. He set up his home office the first week and on Sunday morning (the church being historic, and not in operation) he was surprised to see a strong attendance going to the church. This wasn't the astonishing part, no, it was that the attendees were walking, yes walking into church very orderly and they were BIRDS! He couldn't believe what he was seeing, thinking it was a hoax he decided to take a closer look. . .

What he saw next was more astonishing he perched (pun) himself by the door so that he could see into the chapel. Up in the front was a preacher bird. He was in front of his congregation and was chirping them one of the greatest sermons ever heard among feathered company. He was calling out: "You are all designed to fly, you have feathers wings, bone structure, body structures. Those things by your side if you move them up and down fast enough you can FLY!"

Pretty soon all the birds began experimenting, they started for the very first time noticing the strength of their wings moving them back and forth quicker and quicker. It wasn't long before the birds were zipping back and forth faster and faster across the chapel, what was once an orderly session was now pandemonium. Birds all over collisions in mid-air as they received strength. What excitement. . .

The chapel bell sounded that Sunday morning and the birds all walked out.

There are so many times that we are allowed to see our true potentials, then as we walk away from that clarity, that vision, we take on mediocrity and a society of mediocre people creates meritocracy.

Joshua Andrus
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*quoting John C. Maxwell- 25 ways to win with people

Ask For 'It'

2009-05-28T06:09:00.000-07:00

I have witnessed different ways that people go about getting what they desire. It is interesting that communication techniques of individuals in relationships i.e. passive, passive aggressive, aggressive and assertive play out in all areas of an individuals life.

I enjoyed a very potent demonstration of this last night. I attended a collaborative business meeting. This is an environment that entrepreneurs will go that allows them to request assistance and assist others in attaining not only small goals, but lifelong dreams. The groups buy in was collectively as strong as your own desire to see your dream accomplished.

There is something that happens when a group of individuals come together to genuinely serve one another. The creative force is greater than the individual. More can be accomplished in a few short minutes then in months and years. Doors can open to possiblities that the access to may have been hidden for years. The true spirit of the MASTERMIND appears as Napoleon Hill outlines in his programs.

Even in such environments people are timid and need training in asking for what they want. In fact especially in these environments. This needs to be modeled taught and practiced. The world is abundant full of opportunity and wealth for the asking. The area that I see needs improvement is the asking.

It is respectable when an individual in 30 seconds can introduce themselves, state there purpose and ask for their desires. This is the assertiveness necessary to make 'it' happen. In a group of people who have given their time to assist and are in the attitude of doing so already it makes sense to get to the point quickly.

More then all this combined is the clearity of purpose that can be gained from a practice of I will communicate who I am, my mission I am about, and what area I need assistance. An individual who can do so effectively displays confidence, belief in the accomplishment of the goal, rallies support, and establishes trust the individual trusts in others these three areas.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

EGO

2009-05-27T06:18:00.001-07:00

For me as a male what an amazingly confusing topic the "EGO".

I have a background in Psychology which adds confusion to the definition.

I have a background, present, and future with the battle of pride, glory confusion.

I have a deep appreciation for people and I value myself create role confusion.

I struggle with fear, confusion with the use of unhealthy ego defenses.

This seems an area with confusion surrounding to go to higher sources for answers. I have chosen to write on two:

1) God. Yes it is my blog and I will write on this topic as my freedom of speech allows. I once heard it said that EGO stands for Edging God Out. It is a catchy phrase to remind oneself to be humble when the EGO is sensed. On a deeper level. It is a reminder of the basic Ten Commandments. To give all glory to him who has provided everything for us. It is a difficult thing to do. Deep within all of us is the innate desire to feel important. This is healthy. When one desires to feel more important then others it is puffed up, prideful, and the EGO has Edged God Out. I am preaching here I mentioned earlier this is a never ending battle.
-Great question to ask constantly: "Who am I giving credit to here?"

2) I use a lesson I learned once that I was reminded of by John C. Maxwell in one of his phenomenal works. Ego is not so much thinking that you are so much greater then everyone else, it is thinking everyone else is less important then you. Studies have shown that we think of ourselves 86% of the time and others only 14% of the time. It only stands to reason to balance out the level of importance we give the all mighty self is to get into action and to serve others more. There is a great reward for this, the problems tend to fall out of one's life as genuine service is rendered.
-Great question: "What can I do for others today that they cannot do on their own?"

Joshua Andrus
http://www.hiresite.info/

Bring Value

2009-05-26T06:30:00.001-07:00

It is a question that some people ask. What do you mean by Bring Value?

Most people don't ask it they probably assume based on their own filters what 'it' is about.

I have spent some time pondering on the reason the site evolved around the name 'bring value'. I say evolving because I didn't know at the time I chose the name that it would end up choosing me. I thought it was a way to remind myself that you are only as valuable as the value you bring to others.

The value you bring to others is a great pursuit. I find that value one time is not sufficient though. I think it is to remind me of the key ingredient. The foundational principle of value that is added to service.

What would service be without value. It would be valueless. That is the reason the name has chosen me. What this site means to me is a constant striving to become more valuable, to add more value to others and as I add value to others consistently over time I am their servants.

This is the way I have seen those I admire and look to for guidance achieve greatness. The service to many leads to greatness. It is not the pursuit of greatness then it is the pursuit of serving the masses. My goal is to serve the masses in a way that feels intimate and universal. One way I have chosen to do this is to right about the lessons I learn in life.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

Non-Negotiable

2009-05-22T06:29:00.001-07:00

The quality of your life is directly determined by the items in it that are non-negotiable on a day-to-day basis.

What do you make non-negotiable? This is truly the test to see if you deserve to attract what you say you desire.

So many people are into the Secret, but miss the whole point. The secret is about direction but not entitlement. There is so many misguided people in this area.

You can change your direction right now, at the snap of my fingers you can change your direction. It is the daily disciplines or what I call the 'non-negotiables' that determine your elevation and attraction.

It is not merely enough to put out the "universe" or I will use herein God and say grant me these things and as I focus hard enough on them they will appear. It is the first step only.

You get in life what you deserve not what you wish for. If you are heading in life down paths for example that lead you unhealthy outcomes, simply desiring for a clean bill of health will give you direction for where you desire to go. This healthy desire will assist you as you make an apple a day a non-negotiable.

The person who desires to attract healthy teeth will not have them magically appear in their mouth if they have been rotted out by unhealthy non-negotiable. Some people who have rotted teeth had the non-negotiable of eating candy daily, of not refusing to floss, brush, of being malnourished. These are non-negotiable.

The person building a business in there 5-9 after their 9-5 and makes it a non-negotiable to watch American Idol or their favorite sitcom is not likely to find success. This violates the natural laws of the harvest.

More later on this topic. . .

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

Habits of Service

2009-05-21T06:30:00.001-07:00

There is a remedy for the leader that is overlooked. It seems counter productive to too many leaders and some may abandon it all together when the going gets tough.

It is that service unlocks new solutions for many of the issues facing a leader and an organization. If you go back to your production, if you go back to the height of your efficiency as a team service was involved.

When service is the habit that a leader gets into when an organization needs to fight to get to the next level then the organization becomes more healthy. The cause is more clear opening for clarity the organization's purpose. When the organization has purpose then the members feel there own purpose and Synergy occurs.

When the phenomena and miracle that is synergy occurs then stand back world because strength and a force that can move mountains is coming through.

Joshua Andrus
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Things That Give Life Meaning

2009-05-19T06:14:00.000-07:00

I know that it seems in the pursuit of great things that you must get motivated to go and get your needs met. That you go after everything important to you and then you will obtain it eventually.

There is a much faster way. Be pleased with the things in life that give you meaning today. Take those same things and enhance them. Get better in the relationships, give more to the church or charity, save more in the bank, love deeper and more selflessly.

It is true that as you become more you will earn more. The starting point really has to be now today what do I have that I am greatful for. If you are reading this very sheet and the only thing you feel is going well for you is that you can physically read this. Choose this day to take that vision for granted no longer. Set your eyes on higher things. Turn your vision from the things you don't have and look at what you do.

I recently saw a clip of a guy who had no arms no legs and was able to do some amazing things. I won't ruin it but you gotta check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqantZJ6WwM

Think about the things that give life meaning and grow them.

Joshua Andrus
http://www.hiresite.info/

Push Through It

2009-05-18T06:15:00.000-07:00

A body in motion stays in motion. Overcoming the struggle to create enough inertia is the most difficult part.

It is true that the longer one sits and thinks about things and doesn't act it takes more energy to get that individual in motion. The largest nation in the world is the nation of Procrastination. This is a force that says I will paint the painting when the conditions are right. I will build the relationship when it seems like the right timing. I will grow the garden when the next season this one appears too harsh. I will build my business more aggressively when I become more.

This is all a load of excuses. Excuses are all well planned lies to prevent us from having the richness in life. If you want more, act more, fail more and improve 1% each time you make your next attempt.

I will repeat that again: "If you want more then act more, fail more then improve 1% each next attempt.

Joshua Andrus
http://www.hiresite.info/

Forget Yourself

2009-05-15T06:11:00.001-07:00

It is a catchy phrase in Leadership Seminars all over the world right now: Servant Leadership.

Because it is so popular a term, it is very understudied. Servant Leadership is not a characteristic it is a pursuit. It is not easily achieved it is vigilantly maintained. It goes against human nature.

It means I am having faith that I have everything I need so I can give myself to helping you accomplish your goals.

The people we work for (see not work for us) don't really care much about what we need. They are concerned about their success. It is not about us at all. Most if not all people have had a boss that demands and cares only about his/her needs. It is invalidating and effects the morale.

The idea of servant leadership is that I forget my wants and desires knowing that they will be taken care of, that if I help you meet all your needs, I will be taken care of . It is a great shift. The challenge here is that you genuinely need to assist others without fear. It requires faith.

Is this just a good philosophy, a good go by, a nice way to exist? Well it is a win-win. It is selfless it is unique, and it is a decision. If you aren't getting results in terms of what you are currently doing commit (not try) to serving more people.

The amount of wealth received is in direct proportion to the amount of service we provide.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

Your Bucket

2009-05-14T06:09:00.000-07:00

There is an analogy that gets used a lot involving of all things a bucket. I guess buckets have been around long enough that they are universal and have time to be thought about in profound ways (shrug). The kicking the bucket analogy is not the attention of this blogs' topic. The reaction bucket of water or gasoline is not the focus either, although somewhat related.

The focus is the bucket of emotional wellness. I remember when I was just before my teenage years in Sunday School catching a little bit of a lesson. It was someone, I couldn't tell you who, but I remember they were someone I respected so I can remember listening. They talked about everyone having a bucket. I must have thought this was a curious idea because I listened more closely. The spirit of the lesson:

We all have a bucket that make up our emotional wellness. When we interact with others in our environment at times we allow them to draw from the substance of our emotional bucket in an unhealthy way. We allow them to 'dip' from our bucket. This is what is occurring when we are having a great day and somebody comes along and either intentionally or unintentionally says something that we allow to make us feel less then, or hurt by, or irritated with. They 'dipped' from our bucket, and we actually walk away feeling less confident, more uneasy, less peaceful inside.

This was a great thing to learn at an early age. In my very hyperactive youth I may have missed the coping piece of this. This awareness became a way to identify resentments and blame others for many years. I still go back to the blaming and anger for bucket dippers sometimes.

This practice of blaming and getting resentful is neither healthy or empowering. I am suggesting a few things that assisted me in becoming more pro-active.

1) KNOW YOUR WEAKNESS. I know what emotions that are off when I sense someone 'dipping'
2) Use the awareness of these emotions to trigger healthy coping skills.
3) Understand that most people are not intentional 'dippers'
4) Because of this: Leveling with people is so vital. Leveling is a term I use to describe respectful communication of situations that are becoming difficult to cope with.
5) Leveling requires a specific description (to know oneself is key). Then a boundary set.
6) If you respectfully level and it is not received you receive a 'bigger bucket' or become more emotionally capable if your respond respectfully and don't react.
7) Allow the individual time to process. Check in with someone else during this time, trusting someone is a great way to fill up your bucket. (I have also found it important to check in with someone prior to leveling to ensure a leveling is necessary)
8) Hold your head up high you were healthy and assertive. Congrats! (I am working on this part) REWARD YOURSELF FOR YOUR COURAGE. This fills my bucket.

I can guarantee one person on earth that you will always be around 24-7 to assist in your emotional bucket, you.

Take ownership of your
bucket and be good to yourself.

Joshua Andrus
http://www.hiresite.info/

The Real Riches

2009-05-13T06:29:00.001-07:00

Confidence.

Why is it that some of the most wealthy people are still insecure, discontent, and unhappy? Lack of confidence. Can you believe it. If this element is missing then there is a fight of fear that is being lost, and the person losing is very unhealthy.

Why is it that all along the spectrum of wealth and success these same feelings exist. From the poor and struggling to the financially well off.

It is amazing isn't it?

Confidence as discussed here goes far beyond the money in the bank. It is as my mentor says real easy to measure. Riches are richness.

Richness in your home life. Richness in your professional relationship. Richness in your recreation. Richness in your health. Richness in you purpose. Richness in your ability to be congruent with ideals and values. Richness in your service. Richness in hope. Tying all this together your richness with your God.

It is amazing that the fear level for someone making 7 figures a year can be higher then the person just scraping by. It is though. The amount of stress induced heart atacks for the affluent are higher then the average middle class. Why is this?

Confidence. When we are doing what are purposed to do on this earth, we have hope that we can accomplish it and we have our values in all their forms aligned. Our gift is a confidence, a fortress of Faith that fear can not penetrate. Sure fear attempts to enter and may seep in. But faith above the level of doubt even in the slightest form (mustard seed) is more powerful.

Try this, start adding a mustard seeds worth of success to each of the areas of your life that are important. If you don''t save well put a little in the account. If your relationships are suffering, make some emotional deposits in the account of your loved ones. Pray a little more (it is so vital). Take the time to eat the apple a day. Take the time once a day to get the heart rate up (just a mustard seeds worth). Take the time to call a loved one you have missed the company of.

The faith and hope we have that is a mustard seed above doubt, fear and discouragement is enough to give confidence. When confidence is felt stand back world because a mountain is about to be moved.

Joshua Andrus
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Creating a Rhythm

2009-05-12T06:19:00.000-07:00

A leader has a tempo. It is a controlled excitement, it is attractive, and it creates amazing results.

This only occurs after commitment is made, a plan is in place and execution begins. It comes from setting minimum activities and striving everyday to exceed the minimums consistently so that the bar can be raised.

This is not as difficult as it sounds. It is truly daily activity that creates rhythm. It is so vitally important that this occurs that it is the difference maker.

Let me give you an example. Let's say for example your goal is to speak to do 20 sales calls in a weeks time. Two scenarios to look at.

Person a) goes out once or twice in the first couple days they could be doing it or choosing to go golf with his business partners. At the end of the week around Thursday or Friday he goes out and blitzes or in other words condenses time frames. He has 6 appointments done in the first 3 days so he has to do 14 in the next two days. This puts his work load at 160% and and he knows that he has to really work hard to finish out the week.

Person b) goes out and is consistent on Monday he does 3 a day, Tuesday he does 5, Wednesday he stays up on 5, Thursday he had an afternoon tee-time so he gets 3 calls in, and on Friday he finishes out the week with 4 and heads home in the afternoon.

Describe the characteristics of each of these salespeople. The first is he stressed in the first part of the week. Surprisingly a little, he knows what is coming up around the corner, he has just recovered from a similar week the week before. During the end of the week when he has at least 7 calls to make, are his customers feeling this guys pressure. Absolutely.

This is so slight a difference in approach but so obvious in the long haul that you can describe the symptoms of each at the end of the quarter.

Take the time to set up your goals for the week and get the rhythm going. It is the momentum that you have created that will allow you to step up production if you need to, and the freedom to step away for a break without harming the results.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

Who Do You Go To For Advice?

2009-05-11T06:01:00.001-07:00

I have a belief that each person has their own talents and strengths and we can learn something from anyone. I do not believe that you should go to all people for any advice.

This is foolish to think for example a banker should advise a farmer on the seed to sow and when. A blacksmith to tell the investor when to buy or sell. The clergyman to tell the business owner what steps are necessary for the success of the business.

It is amazing though how people will seek after the uneducated advice and find they have failed as a result. It is a difficult thing to be a master in the field of practice you have decided to spend your blood sweat and tears in. Don't lose your course by going in the direction someone points you in who is well intentioned but uninformed.

Just to prove the point of roles here. You can learn small lessons about broad subjects from many roles. Taking advice from some roles would be like a Father going to his infant cousin and saying how do I be a good father? The infant cousin of this uncle can teach a great deal about being humble and meek like a child, but lacks the wisdom to give advice about how to lead and rear a family.

I am just saying if you desire good advice go to those who have the results you want and camp on their doorstep if necessary. Opinions are a cheap commodity, but sound advice will take some work and are valuable.

Joshua Andrus
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No Growth In Your Comfort Zone

2009-05-10T07:00:00.000-07:00

I received a text from a good friend and business partner yesterday. I loved the way she sent it. It had such a humble way about how she gained this realization so as to remove my ego and allow me to receive it again. I say again because I have discovered this truth but if I am not applying this very concept daily it is knowledge that sits on my head and soon I become weaker having not applied it.

Here it is exactly how Rebekah sent it:
"Something I learned 2day(so amazingly humble): The day u settle in a comfort zone is the day Ur life will begin 2 sink. . . Always strive 2 become 1% better than u were yesterday. . . comfort can be humanities enemy there is no growth in ur comfort zone. . ."

I love this, and I applied it yesterday and I will continue to apply it today, and tonight before going to bed as I pre-plan for tomorrow I will keep in my mind this question. How can I be 1% better tomorrow in my roles as a husband, a father, a son, a steward, a professional, a friend, a servant?

Think about it if you were a tree you wouldn't stop growing what makes you think if the seeds of growth were planted in you were good only for yesteryear. This is your time to grow again. Begin today to fight the complacency of comfort, continue today with a prayer if you already have started this direction and stretch a little more, and grow beyond what you were yesterday.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

How the Economy has Forced Positive Change in Our Life

2009-05-09T07:09:00.000-07:00

Economic downward spiral=Positive Change. Who thinks that way? Winners do. It is only what is between your ears that prevents you from having what anyone else in this world has. The same wind blows on us all it's the set of the sail that is the difference. (Jim Rohn philosophy)

I have been reading more, I have been writing more, I have been other focused more, I have been loving more, I have been observing more. It is the times in life that I am awake that brings richness. It is the significant times like hardships seen that brings alertness.

I love leading people through lessons I have learned so they can relate and hopefully go through the lessons faster then me. So as a result of the economy I started a blog that have these lessons so that they don't stay with me. I love the economy in some ways because it has allowed people to be open to lessons they may have been complacently blind to.

I have began writing about the lessons, mostly related to the economy and bringing more value in life. I have found that writing in this area is a passion. I love it. Imagine the mindset shift of what can I learn vs I am a victim here why is this happening to me. This was the topic yesterday Fascinated vs Frustrated. This one shift in philosophy would cause a huge change in the world. If trials in life were there for us to learn and develop new strengths rather then new excuses of weakness.

I know today, because of the economy, I am paid in proportion to the value and service I bring to the marketplace. If I worry about me and mine I am only opening my arms to me and mine. If I look everyday to be an example of positive expectancy, of true value added, of true service rendered, then I will lose myself in a cause much greater then myself. I will assist many leaders in the pathway of great influence.

I know that because of the new economy some of the giants of the industries we knew only 4 or 5 years have been brought to their knees. Big companies that were paying their employees on credit and then expect the government to bail them out. This has left a huge need to be filled by leaders who can step out in front of the pack. Who can decide the integrity that they will build their organization on, and who have a clear path to the top of the ladder.

Because of the new economy I have walked away from the Constant Negative News (CNN) channel. I have limited my viewing of TV. I have gotten my news from more objective sources. I read more, I do more audible learning, I am very protective about my associations and I am bringing a message of hope to everyone who is discouraged: Wake up, when blood runs in the streets (current economy) there is more opportunity to rise up and provide service then ever. Do this consistently and you will be promoted through life. Do this with determination the things you use to worry about will be replaced with new passions and visions that you only dreamed about.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

Frustrated or Fascinated

2009-05-08T06:19:00.001-07:00

During the course of becoming more so that you bring more value and are able to be deserving of more there will be events that occur that can cause frustration. This is to be expected. It even hurts at times, this is to be expected. The masses will get frustrated to the extent that healthy paterns of pursuing there dreams can be interupted if they remain frustrated.

I propose on this morning that instead of being FRUSTRATED you become FASCINATED. Fascination has such a teachable feel to it. If you can imagine getting into the habit of: "What can I learn from this experience?" vs. the all to often "Why is this experience happening to me?" There is a huge difference.

The next time you have the sense that this isn't fair know that you are on the blaming side. The reason fairness is even being considered it is because a preceeding question has occured: "Why is this happening to me?"

The success side would be "this has occured, what can I see in this situation as a lesson I can take from it". It is like my mentor says "you can learn a lot more in your defeats then your wins can ever teach you."

Don't get good at having defeats, learn to get good at owning the lessons in them. It is where wisdom is found.

Joshua Andrus
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Current LIFE-STYLE

2009-05-07T05:56:00.000-07:00

A snapshot in time-

Your current lifestyle is hard to define until you have a simple technique. Take an imaginary camera, take a picture of your life. Really take a picture, a close look at your life.

Go and take note of your closet, what wardrobe, what organization. Take a picture of your car interior exterior, your kitchen, bedroom, open the "junk drawer".

Take a picture of how you are interacting in each of the 6 major areas of life: Family/Home, Financial/Career, Mental and Educational, Physical and Health, Social and Cultural, and Spiritual and Ethical.

If you are unsatisfied in any of these areas then you are alive if not you just can't be helped. There is no one that I have ever met that has complete alignment in all 6 areas. Even the very self-actualized individuals that I know will say it is because they keep their focus on these areas so they can improve in them.

This may bring you to a "day of disgust", the problem is that if you reach this day and don't have a road map going forward then you continue to degrade your standard and reaching more and more days. Here is the road map I use:

1) Keep a log or a journal of the description of each (when I work with people I require it) .

2) Write down the current reality with great detail as above.

3) Write down your ideal lifestyle being very specific about what you want

4) Spend time each week asking for what it is you desire ( it is a healthy positive invitation, most people spend tons of time asking to not have the ______, and get more ______ as a result, instead ask for more of what you want).

5) Don't leave the house without making some change in at least one of the 6 areas, this will help you harness the power of momentum.

6) Start cutting pictures of the ideal and sticking them where you will see them. This doesn't have to be weird, but it is necessary the more clear you are of what you want the more close your faculties can provide it.

7) Take action- Example-If I want a more organized closet- I would put a picture just inside the door where I may reach for my tie in the morning and see the organization that is ideal. Because I am constantly aware of the direction I am heading I will put my shoes in a more orderly fashion, my awareness will be on organizing tools if I pass them in a store.

8) Be kind and loving. It probably took you many years to manifest your current situation.

It probably took you many years to manifest your current Lifestyle, it will likely take a few small habits to manifest a new lifestyle, but these few easy to do things will take time to replace the old.

Joshua Andrus
http://www.hiresite.info/

95% of People

2009-05-06T05:59:00.001-07:00

To beat the masses. . .

Life is not all about competition, but one area it may behoove you to be actively attempting to be in front of others on is the financial situation of those who are 65 years old.

95% of the United States population are dead or dead broke by the age of 65. In other words they are not independent after years of work, they are dependent on the government or family members.

The trend is getting worst. With 'Baby Boomers' soon using up Social Security more rapidly then any other generation there is only an estimated 13 years left. The country average bank account was -$300 last year, and the 401ks cut to lo0king like 201 or 101ks.

These sad stats have caused some masses to wake up. I mean millions have bought the book "Start Late Finish Rich".

I am not up in my years, but I fully intend to be "up in my years". I am preparing now for a lifestyle beyond belief. There is no age set on retirement.

The way to beat the masses is to decide today that 5 years of decisions outside of the way the masses think, act, talk, and associate can break you away from the gravity of this. Even if you are 65 years old 5 years is all it takes.

Begin today to aggressively change what you do, it is time to go opposite the downward pull of the stream of lack.

This country is full of needs to be filled the USA is full of opportunity. Don't let Constant Negative News (CNN) full you.

There will still be more new millionaires created over the next ten years then ever before in this country.

This is the first mindset change you must have if you desire to not be one of the 95%.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info

The Habit

2009-05-05T06:06:00.001-07:00

Habits are created by doing something over and over receiving reinforcement each time. You may have heard that the 45th time you do something in a row then it becomes a habit. I am not speaking here of addiction which may become habit forming much quicker.

The negative habits and the positive habits appear to develop at different rates. The main focus of today's blog will be how do you take the knowledge that repetition creates habit, that practice makes permanent and use it to your advantage.

Maybe the reason that a positive habit takes longer to re-enforce is shear force of gravity, or the gravity of former behavior. It has taken many years to develop the behavior that you are replacing with the new behavior. The gravity of the behavior can pull you back to your comfort zone quickly. This is not to be feared. Just suspended as wisdom.

Perhaps the reason for the difficulty is laziness-it's easier to stay stuck then to muster the inertia to get unstuck.

I would like to suspend for right now the shamefulness of laziness and call a more descriptive bare-bones idea of what I believe is really keeping you stuck. . .

To get unstuck there needs to be a habit developed before other positive habits can maintain long term consistent change.

This is the habit of doing the things you know you need to do, even when the emotions would say otherwise, even when the physical strength left would say otherwise, and even when you are not mentally feeling tough enough to go through it.

This seems so simple. Yep, but what is simple to do is simple not to. The reason someone cannot stick to the commitments they set up is because they mentally force doubt and rationalization onto it, they emotionally are brought down and confidence is shaken, and physically their energy immediately has given way to fear. Fear saps the energy more then any other emotion. The same is true with faith, faith in a process restores energy more then any other emotion. Faith combined with knowledge or belief creates hope and hope fills energy beyond our understanding.

So practical solution. You are going to laugh at this it is so basic. You may not even apply it, are you ready?

An apple a day.

The idea is that you eat an apple a day. This represents the small disciplines that you know you need to do, that will not kill you today if you don't, but over the course of time will eventually take you out. You eat a candy bar a day for 365 days you will look feel think different then if you ate an apple.

Take out a notepad and every night for 30 days (a month from today) decide on one discipline that you know you will do for 30 days straight (must be something you have faith in and believe that you can) mark your progress nightly and see how well you do. Don't at first set the bar too high, as you become disciplined in small things, greater things will be given.

Confidence is grown in the small victories throughout a day.

Joshua Andrus
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Stewardship

2009-05-04T06:27:00.000-07:00

There is an abundance in the world. Enough for everyone. Today's topic is on stewardship. This may not be a term used in your vernacular. I use it rarely myself. This is what I know about Stewardship-
1) That which you have responsibility to oversee
2) That area which influence
3) Those for whom you serve
4) If the areas that you have been placed charge over is not growing, instead declining it is one person's fault you.
5) Serve others for which you have charge first, a selfish heart will destroy
6) To glorify God is to take and be the most productive steward possible
7) Areas of life for which you are given charge can be many and diverse.
8) Don't neglect an area without delegating to another stand in steward
9) Riches are to be desired from stewardship's, they are not to be sought first, the kingdom is, and then the intent of the riches are used to assist others
10) Monetary riches are not the only results, in business they are the easiest to count
11) Learn to track results for awareness on how to be a better steward
12) Burn your bridges behind you, your safety spots that keep you from fully committing to your stewardship, and be mighty in your efforts.

Stewardship takes on different forms. If we clearly define our stewardship, seek vision for what change within this role, and seek to bring more value as stewards. If we all in all lose ourselves in our Stewardship then we will be Righteous Stewards and be able to beckon any power necessary to move mountains.

Joshua Andrus
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What Color Motivated Are You?

2009-05-03T06:45:00.000-07:00

There are four personality types that are dominant with people. Why is this so important? Well how would you like to speak with someone and feel your point is getting acrossed, feel you have really connected and walk away and find out there are very lost or worst find out they were on the side of offended? Would you like to know the key components for motivating an individual. Would you like to know how, when giving a presentation to connect with all four colors that are in your audience very rapidly?

The basics is that you need to learn who is primarily what color of personality and what their secondary color is that is not to far behind. This is tuning into someone's WIIFM radio station, in otherwords what's in it for me is going to be identified by the individual who can identify the color that primarily dominates their the listeners color type.

So here it is 4 color types:

Red-Driven, money motivated, goal setting, strong personality

Green- Facts oriented, analytical, slow moving to decision,

Blue- Funnnn! throw to much facts it will reck this person's time

Yellow- Helpers of all, in fact the extremes will run environmental campaigns.

There is so much more to the science of colors but this is the basics intro stuff. Certain things that you are currently doing if you are not aware of the colors is likely pushing certain people away. It is true that you are probably attracting other colors.

Joshua Andrus
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Success Is Built

2009-05-01T06:28:00.001-07:00

The way to build success is slow seemingly insignificant steps that add up to small victories.

There will be a time that you will not feel completely confident in what you are doing. The voice of defeat will begin nagging you constantly and you will feel as if you have failed. This is not so, this is not true.

The only way to fail is to not get up again and make another attempt, everything else is just results. The best way to pick yourself back up is to set a small goal that you know is easy to achieve, come back and set another one with the bar lifted a little higher.

This momentum of success you begin to create while may have a very little outward appearance of success on the inside will make you feel amazing.

The turbo boost comes when you realize you are great and can accomplish great things through small simple successes adding up bringing value to you. This is the factor that separates others.

The wealthy and the poor (speakings strictly of money success) are not stripped of everything coming to this earth with much different faculties.

The person who succeeds is the person who believes they can, applies this knowledge, does succeed and grows as a result to set higher goals.

Joshua Andrus
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Tell the voice to shut up!

2009-04-24T06:29:00.000-07:00

You talk to yourself, come on admit it, there is no embarrassment in it, its normal.
The main thing about talking to yourself more then anyone else does is to understand the power of this. The number one strongest influence in your life is probably not who you think it is, it is your voice. The voice takes on different tones based on who or what is influencing you. If you are around motivating people and go to do a task then the message and tones from the voice is- come on you can do this. If you are around negative miserable people then the voice is going to tear you down. It seems strange but not only do you talk to yourself, your voice is one of the components that defines who you are as a person.
You might need a few exercises to start to bring an awareness to this voice.
The emotions that you have are greatly influenced by the thoughts that you think, and the thoughts that you think are greatly influenced by the voice, the self-talk that you have. But we should back up further, stay with me, the self-talk that you have is greatly influenced by the philosophy you have about yourself and how you fit in your environment.
You will never rise above the definition you have for yourself. This is further proof that thoughts are things. They can be the chains that anchor you down, or the wings that elevate you to rise above.
So what if you define yourself in a way that is keeping your imprisoned by negative self talk. It is not merely enough to begin talking to yourself differently. Simply telling yourself you are succeeding in life's key areas if you are really producing poor results does not produce long term change. This is a good start but it tends to be delusional if your definition at the core of yourself is not congruent.
This next part may offend, if it does please take it or leave it, it has to be said:
In order to change your self talk you have to back up further and view yourself in a way that God sees you. You are his child. You are infinitely powerful. On days that you feel the greatest inside and you see glimpses of your potential he has placed that vision in your heart.
Keeping this in mind let me share some steps for a workshop I have been developing:
1) Grab a notepad, something you can carry with you discretely
2) For one day, make a mark every time you are consciously aware you are talking to yourself. This is a pass-fail activity, if you participate you pass if you don't well commit to doing it again. The main purpose for making a mark for each time you hear yourself talk is to bring an awareness.
3) The activation step, Define the ideal you. This can be done many ways but I created a worksheet that works amazingly at allowing and giving yourself permission to see the ideal you.
4) Copy on a sheet of paper some characteristics of the vision you have for you. I have an affirmation worksheet to "Pop" the emotions (activating ingredient) from the exercise.
5) The next day after noticing yourself having self talk of any kind pull out your definition of the ideal you, pull the sheet out and see if the self-talk works for your vision of you
6) If it does not tell the voice to "SHUT UP".
7) Go back to the activation affirmations and replace the gap of thought with your "philosophy" or vision of you.
8) Act as if. The emotions resulting from affirmations are strong.
9) Create a habit of some successful activity to re-enforce this affirmation, again I have a worksheet to help with this.
10) Create this habit of being good to you. You will be with you for the rest of your life. Do want to elevate and edify yourself towards the ideal you or tear yourself down and be the victim of a negative philosophy or definition of yourself?

Joshua Andrus
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Overcoming Emotions

2009-04-23T06:11:00.001-07:00

There is a gift that is given to everyone who overcome there emotions.
When you were younger you put off the homework, the chore, the paper, then you do it. What happened when you finally got to it. Most of the time when it was over you realized half the things you worried about never happened in the process, you got it done much quicker then you thought, and like me, you may have even thought wow if I would have known it was that easy I would have gotten started a long time ago and just gotten it over with.
There is a gift that is given when we do what our emotions are trying to control us and tell us we should put off. It is the gift of momentum and self efficacy. This is a very short entry but these two keys are so crucial for success. They will take on their own topic in future articles.

to be continued. . .

Joshua Andrus
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Lessons From Walden Pond

2009-04-22T06:33:00.001-07:00

Walden Pond is a place I will visit soon. What an amazing area to have taught some of the amazing writers so much. When you look to two of these Emerson and Thoreau, you can find the lessons that are so applicable today. It is where Emerson discovered to "double your success, double your rate of failure."
Thoreau purchase a small plot of land with a modest cabin. He was a great book keeper so we know it was purchased for $26 dollars. He moved there for a couple years and lived off the land. The conclusions he brought to us that many could use is that there is really only four things anyone needs to survive. Survive is not a good word for what this great man did in those few years. He thrived. Four things everyone needs-
1) Food
2) Clothing
3) Shelter
4) Fuel
This doesn't mean extravagance, but I can tell you many of the economic hard times have been caused because people have placed these top 4 priorities at risk, or taken no thought for them whatsoever as they attempted to keep up with the "Joneses"
In the book "The millionaire next door" you will find those who have the wealth in this country do not live in homes worth more than 350,000 dollars on average. The average car of the Millionaire in the eighties was a station wagon. Today it is a pickup truck.
There is such a profound point here that I am pointing out there for food for thought. There has been a country that has lived outside of its' means for so long that it has become a generational sickness. Finally over the past two years there has been scarcity that was hidden at first very easily now you cannot turn on the news without seeing it.
Giants of Business have been paying their workers on credit causing forced government buy outs when stock markets crash.
Now let me take you for a turn in your thinking.
This is great news. This means a redistribution of the wealth. There were more new millionaires created during the depression and the few years that followed then at any other time.
Small business owners call to action. Get those 4 priorities handled, cut down on the unneeded expenses and charge the hill. The fact is while the shift of wealth occurs for the red-taped corporations the needs of the public abound. Recognize this and fill the needs. Treat your customers well they are your lifeblood. You serve them and you will create a steady income that you have not dreamed about on your most ambitious days.

Joshua Andrus
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EARLY, EARLY

2009-04-21T06:30:00.000-07:00

When I meet with people who often think they need help. I always get similar responses. "I am trying the best I can". "If only I had more time", "If only. . ." "If only. . ."
Usually every complaint, reason or excuse they give are things that are way out of their control. These are things they are attempting to change but have little or no influence over in their present state of living. I chuckle because I am preaching here, I am not a hundred percent on what I usually suggest, and I am usually pretty candid about it.
When the humility sets in is usually when I begin asking a few key questions. This will amaze you how basic they are but I ask them in order to challenge fundamental philosophies. The first question I ask is what time are you going to bed? I then ask what time are you getting up?
This whole discipline or lack of comes from a very real fact that can never be debated with any validity at all. Everyone has 24 hours a day. The same 24 hours. The only difference between those who are succeeding and failing in life is what they are doing within those 24 hours.
Early to bed and Early to rise. . . Makes a ____ wealthy and healthy and wise? Could it be this phrase has hung around for a few thousand years for a reason.
There is always a season even in farming when the farmer stays up late to plant and cultivate, but the difference is that it is carefully planned out.
There is a certain discipline of going to bed before the party is over, before the last song is played that goes against the popular thinking of the masses. Well do you want to do what the masses do and have what the masses have? I just read about the 5 o'clock club. Certain individuals you and I know and admire for being masters in their field are a part of this club. Michael Jordan had a 5 o'clock group of individuals that were weight lifting early, they were called the breakfast club and at first a little teased for their devotion, doesn't seem it would make sense to do it now. Donald Trump gets up to get the very first set of eyes on a paper that he has specially delivered right after it comes off the press. The Williams sisters did not sleep in until 10 in the morning to leave the legacy in tennis that they now have.
The same 24 what will you do with it?

Joshua Andrus
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To Be the Moon Not the Sun

2009-04-20T06:13:00.000-07:00

There is a concept that was brought to my attention this weekend by an individual I respect greatly. I am going to free-verse about it. I will also make it general in its Religious principles of truth but I believe it is pertinent in life.
There is an idea that in order to really excel, to create huge significance we must be the center of attention, the be all end all. I did not notice how untrue and destructive and for me sacrilegious this was to the extent that I understood it this weekend. While I was picking the brains of some very wealthy men and doing an inventory I realized as an analogy was given.
There is light that rules the day and lights that rule the night. So many of us attempt give off light and be the light. Instead of reflecting light as the moon does at night. This is probably so vague that you may be either confused or deep into the analogy. There is a pride that exists today that people feel they should be perfect, represent the expert, be the story. When I meet someone who is wrapped up in their story I am not attracted to that at all. . .
Here is the point. In life it is better to reflect light of a greater cause, organization, movement then to be the focal point. This is displayed by all great leaders. Every great leader was first a follower of the cause. They then became a conduit of the truth of that cause and spoke to it not themselves. There was a degree of humility so they weren't blocking the big picture by placing themselves in front of it.
If you are frustrated with the results you are getting. Get outside of yourself, learn to tell the stories of people you know, learn to tell the results of your organization, and learn to recognize the mission or purpose of the plan and go about reflecting light.
We were not intended to be the Sun, we were intended to be the moon reflecting the light from the Sun. Make it a habit today to find a cause greater then yourself in all that you do and become a reflector a promoter of that cause. I promise when you are actively engaged long enough when you look behind you, you will have many people following much more so than if you are simply promoting yourself.
Thank you Jeremy Roma.

Joshua Andrus
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Remove Your Emotions

2009-04-17T06:28:00.001-07:00

Have you ever gotten through with a task that you put off and put off and put off until it was no longer possible to put it off anymore. Then you complete the task and you look back and think was that it? What was I waiting so long to do that task for?
Do you know what was behind this? What prevented you from doing what you were totally capable of doing all along?
Emotions.
The primary emotion in procrastination is fear. Fear comes from a lot of different places but in procrastination it has its roots in perfectionism. Perfectionism says I cannot do this until its perfect. I cannot fail at this or else.
The emotion of fear is powerful, we all have it, we cannot avoid it. Courageous people do the 'thing' in spite of the fear. There is not an absence of fear for the courageous. Acting out of courage simply means more intense feelings may be felt all at once but the good news is that it is all at once. The person acting out of courage and personal power is not avoiding so as a result of embracing the challenge and acting in spite of emotion grows. Contrast this with the person that acts only a little or timidly or avoids acting at all.
The other emotions can be tempered if they are identified. Being overwhelmed, distract-able, frustrated. The best thing to do with these is to identify them and act anyway.
This seems so basic and simplistic. This is more powerful than you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Do the thing and you will have the power." This was reworked as Nike put it "Just Do It". The thing that identifying the emotion does and doing the thing anyways is it is a practice in faith. Faith removes and conquers fear. The thing may not be done well or you may even fail but you are one step closer because you have ruled out the way not to do 'it'. This will allow you to see that failing is not the end of the world in fact it is necessary to succeed. There is no success without failures.
Remove the emotions and get the tasks done. The energy spent thinking will be more then if you attempt fail and develop the habit of doing again.

Joshua Andrus
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Emotions and Commitment

2009-04-16T06:25:00.001-07:00

Most of our 'Committments' are made in a state of strong emotion. What I have learned from my mentor Mr. Self is that commitment is: doing the thing you say you are going to do long after the emotion you said it in has gone. This is commitment.
This is an awareness peice that is so neccessary for repeating throughout life. There have been so many times I have fallen short of a goal due to the emotions that take me off the course. The beauty of life is that life will keep giving you opportunities to try try again.
Test yourself. You know there has been something you have been resolving to accomplish, resolving to achieve. Something that you avoid looking at some times and other times it is the only thing you can focus on. Go through this simple process, so how you do. See if you can make the committment have the drive to accomplish it inspite of the emotions that follow in the act of attempting to accomplish it:
1) Set a short term goal, something you desire to accomplish
2) Write down the daily tasks that will be necessary to accomplish that goal
3) Schedule the time for these tasks, time you will be committed to (remember emotions will sidetrack as events that seem more important come along)
4) Only schedule the tasks for one week.
5) Every day before completing the tasks write the emotions that you are overcoming to do the task. If something else seems more pressing, distraction and anxiety over the other task may be the emotion. If it is hard to do because the end seems to not be accomplish in the task the confusion and disillusion emotions are being overcome. If it seems hard you are overcoming a fear and placing hope in the process.
6) Review at the end of the 7 days how you did.
7) Celebrate yourself for being in the process. Even if the end goal was not accomplished you are absolutely closer then before, even if you are finding out what doesn't work.
8) Plan Do and Review again and set out to improve on the results before. Eventually the right combinations of activities will get you to the goal.

It is crucial to understand that the majority of success is mastering emotions. When I am working with people I let them know that it is not going to be life events or what happens to you that will decide your level of success in any area of life. It will absolutely be the way you respond to what happens and the emotions you discipline to press forward.

Joshua Andrus
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The Right Associations

2009-04-15T06:41:00.000-07:00

A mentor of mine was speaking on stage last night. He was one of the first people I met when I began working with the company that has changed my course in life. Mr. Eaton just recovered from the trial of Stage 4 Colon Cancer.
Follow me as I detail attitude and decision. You make the choice if associations are important. Without any symptoms showing a typical doctors check up reveals that Mr. Eaton is in the fight of his life. He is told that he has Stage 4 Cancer and that the odds are against him. As he has his day, yes his day only rocked with shock and pity. He decides, key word, to see for himself what type of chances he has. He does the research. He is a researching Attorney so he is able to discover more shocking news. Only 2% of the people ever make it and cheat death. This again rocks him for a short time. Then and this is key. He decides to find out the common thread with the 2%. This is what separates the classes from the masses. The common threads he went out to seek what allowed the small few to survive and then got busy. There are a lot of people reading this blog perhaps that have been affected by the horrible disease of cancer and for that I sympathize. I bring this true life story to celebrate life.
Mr. Eaton decided that he was going to be one of the 2% survivors. He found that they all had 3 things in common a strong desire to live, and a faith in the cure; were in relatively good shape (anyone who knows Mr. Eaton knows that while he is in his 60s he is probably one of the scrappiest men around); and had assembled a support team of doctors who were invested in the successful outcome. These were all 3 areas Mr. Eaton could wield control over.
This is not a story that ends after the first series of Chemotherapy, the 2nd, 3rd 4th, 5th. For 18 months Mr. Eaton has been through 26 series of treatments, his liver has been inflamed with dozens of tumors and he is walking miracle that the treatments were given that rapid fire in a short period of time. The amazing part is that the scans on Friday of this last week revealed that there are no longer traces of cancer.
To hear the story told is nothing short of inspiring. I had the privilege to sit on the same row as his daughter as he gave an hour long overview of our company to 200 guests less then a week after the disease being in remission. As I looked over and saw her expressions of relief, pride, and pain as she relived the pain of the last year and half. I knew right then the associations in life are the most important force determining success.
There is no reason to not decide today and then on a daily basis to be in the 2%.

Joshua Andrus
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How to Break Free (Any 5 years part 2)

2009-04-14T06:04:00.001-07:00

So if the masses are doing one thing it must be right, right? It is one thing to do what is right a whole another ball of wax to do what is popular. This is the key.
If you do what the masses are doing during this current state of the economy you will miss it. Miss your chance to be one of the classes. The subject is how to break free. The number one thing that assists you in breaking free is you. The only reason you don't have everything that your heart desires is that you have decided it is no good for you, you are undeserving, or that you cannot attain it. I am an amateur on the Bible but it does say he did come that we may live life abundantly.
If this is difficult for you to accept then this is exactly the area you must work on for the rest of this entry to make sense.
The law of association and momentum. If I am constantly around people who tell me not to have it all that receive is selfish, to hold on tight to what you have. . . wow just in the writing I was feeling restricted.
The people I am around today believe in giving without restraint and to serve with all your heart. That what is given is in direct proportion to the service rendered. To bring value to those around you and receive the return on this investment naturally.
The biggest way to overcome the economic blues is to associate with people who are looking for the great opportunity in having so many needs to be met. Then with those needs to be met working their hardest to meet those needs.
The associations you keep over the next 5 years will determine where you stand over the next 20. What you listen to, what you watch on TV, who you are around, and the books you read. Your overall consciousness will be the key factor in your life.
Ask yourself: Are the people I'm around blaming. Are the people I'm around full of doom and gloom. What are my conversations about? What is the hope factor that I was able to feel with the people I was with? What was I watching or listening to today? Where was my awareness? Be very careful of your influences.

Joshua Andrus
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Any 5 Years

2009-04-13T06:30:00.001-07:00

Any five years can make all the difference in the world. In the state of the economy currently any 3 years.
The amazing part about the economy is that people don't understand that this is the time to get busy. This entry is not about a quick fix. It is about a call to action. The compounding effects of ones' efforts right over the next 5-10 years are worth more then the next 40 years of work. The time is now to learn new skills, to develop new philosophies and to see the economic crisis as a blessing for those who will stand up and lead. Self-Discipline invested in a 5-6 skills today will mean an empire tomorrow. Cash is King and there is Giants being brought to their knees. The major corporations have been living on credit the same as the unwise stewards of family finance. There has never been a better time to purchase items at a low cost as a result. The 40 40 40 plan no longer works and job security is a joke. (40 years, 40 percent of what your worth, to retire on 40 percent of what you could not live on before you retired).
What does this all mean to you? Opportunity.
There is a fact that during the depression: There was a changing of the economic guard. There were more new millionaire made then any other time in history. There were more needs that could be creatively filled. Stock was bought at such a low cost that fortunes were made when it returned to normalized levels.
Why does the majority freak out. It is as simple as a difference in philosophy. The majority don't carry the philosophy to help them capitalize on the current state of the economy. They have bought into the fear. The people who make the most of this time will be those who have great momentum breaking free of the masses. Not small momentum GREAT momentum. You cannot for the next 3-5 years think act or do what the masses do. The associations must be refined and the awareness of what is must be sharpened.
Find out tomorrow how to break free with Great Momentum. Exactly how to start thinking healthy.

Posture

2009-04-09T06:25:00.000-07:00

Posture is an amazing concept. I am not talking about how straight you physically stand, no slouching, but it could make for a good analogy.
As one of my mentors says it "Posture is knowing that where I'm going is better then where anyone else is going and I am going to get there with or without you coming along with".
In life too many people look to the reactions of their friends families and loved ones to decide if the direction they are heading is right, or for them. How sad is it that you are the only one who knows what can make you happy to the specifics of the details and you turn it over to someone else to decide.
Passion is killed by the practice of allowing outside forces to act on inner drive (that's mine). I believe that if I am truely to be happy, yes I need guidance, yes I need a group of individuals to assist and to help make it happen. All this is true, but. . . If I am to be truely happy I must clearly define what that will be. I must decide on a plan to get there and I must constantly check in with God and that plan to see if the charted course is going to get me there.
This is truely the only one to allow dreams to materialize. It is not unrealistic or impossible to be a millionaire, or even a billionaire in my mind with the current economy. The force of an individual who dreams big enough and then works passionately for those dreams with the great economy and changing of the old guard economics, we can truely do, be, and have anything. There is a shortage of people who are thinking this way so you imediately step into a field of POSTURE as soon as you begin to do so.

Joshua Andrus
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Overcoming Complacency

2009-04-08T06:08:00.000-07:00

So to continue, how do you overcome that which is being fed to you how your subconcious is processing, and then the weakening of the mind seeing what reality is and you are now weaker.
Here are a few suggestions:
1) Play life like kids play on the playground, you see a superstar take "shot at the buzzer"- you go out and model it. As a kid and even today I imagined I was Jordan, and I believe I can fly.
2) Pick a book up and read. Break the cycle of adults who don't read. What is more harmful the individual who was never taught to read, or the individual that after high school never chooses to read? They both read the about the same amount of books right?
3) Be around a more positive crowd. I am not suggesting you end relationships, I am saying increase the time around people who do or have what you are aiming for in life.
4) Turn off the TV, the average mood of the TV watcher is slightly depressed. This study was prior to the economic issues, what do you think the average mood is now with CNN (constant negative news) pumping chaos and catatrosophy at high levels into the home.
5) Learn knowledge, needs to become activity knowledge. You have to fail in order to succeed anyway, so go get some failing done today. Learn something and go about applying it.
6) What are you listening to in the car? I believe a good audio in the car is like a conversation with the author. The beauty is she/he doesn't charge a ton while you take your time coming back to them.
7) Plan your day the night before. Vision is not mystical it is practical. (my quote) The nightly to do list we feed our subconcious before going to bed will amazingly reward us when we arise the next morning. The subconcious has worked on all the ways to make your goals come true.
8) Stretch. Right now reach high, higher as high as you can, now hold it. Stretch a little more. You were able to right? We don't stretch in life enough. Look for ways today to become a little more.

Joshua Andrus
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Affirmation

2009-04-07T06:25:00.000-07:00

Faith, the ultimate in affirmation. Faith is two sided first we are given a principle to believe in then we apply ourselves to that principle at the level in which we do believe.
Affirmation. The subconcious mind, the direction of the soul. The weakness of this muscle for most is amazing. I will put to you that it is truely a muscle. The weight program is what we as the captain conciously feed it. Where does God fit into the picture? The picture is not complete without an outside influence on what we choose to feed the subconcious. Think about it in this fashion. . .
If I am always watching one thing on television and only one thing that is the sports channel what is my mind set on Sports right? Nope the watching of sports. You see if you have not acted on that which you take on it sits on your mind and your concious is aware but you do not reap the rewards of an athelete. The more sports that you watch and do nothing about the more you actually weaken you ability eventually over time in fact. The confidence you have in your own ability weakens over the space of time as you see the greats apply. Why do kids get better and better in sports at such a rapid rate?
Have you ever listened into there playground basketball games. They have gone out and applied the training. They don't simply watch the highlight reel they become the highlight reel. The guy wearing the hockey shirt that barely fits around his stomach because he has gotten so inactive since the 'glory days' fails to understand this truth. He probably still misses very few games but now as a spectator he is stimulating his subconcious with affirmations of grandeur and then it's over because as he gets up late at night after the game with the beer or even soda in his hand and potatoe chips and other manners of bad food the reality hits his concious, he is out of shape and as a continuous signal sent to his subconcious mind with the sports they combine and say you are an out of shape athelete. Then the interpretation the 'glory days' are gone now I live my life as a spectator is now programed. As an endless cycle it re-affirms.
This is rampant today. The majority of High School graduates, for example never pick up a book and read ever again. This is so scarey. Can you imagine the combination of the above sports for the former student. Those were the 'glory days' of my learning. I now gain my knowledge through the bits and peices I get from peoples oppinions, from the media whose agenda is not to educate, and through societies icons. Wow what a way to feed the mind, no wonder people can appear asleep in there comfort zone of complacency.
To overcome, is to return tommorow. . .

The Time Tested

2009-04-06T06:22:00.000-07:00

In business for exposure one of the fundemental questions to always ask and assess is: How many times will the story about my product be told to new individuals that did not know about it either through an tool (media), myself, or someother individual working with me. If one can learn how to moniter this key number and never give up moving this number higher then the company can build a financial wall that no hard economy can ever break down.
This is truely the area that people miss and it is the most important area. A pasture at a church cannot continue to fill the seats without going to find new individuals looking for his message or having members of his church through word of mouth speak to the value they recieve from attending.
The next thing I will explore, since we did business and church is relationship. I am going to free verse. If it is the common tendency for us to feel valued honored and loved and we have no exposure to this from our partner or family then isn't it also possible that the returns could diminish as well. This is edgey and sensitive for some readers maybe but I'm just proposing an idea. If for example the husband and wife work hard in the begining and he tells her he loves her and twenty years later they are strangers in the marriage. When they begin examining this the wife turns to the husband and says I don't know if you love me, and he says of course I love you I told you that from the begining. She looks at him with hurt in her eyes and look as to say telling me one time was not enough for the diminishing effect of the years. Strictly free-versing isn't it true that the amount of ways that we can communicate love are endless, but it is the amount of times we tell our loved ones with subtlties through tones and small acts of kindness that builds the same fortress around our family that nothing can break through?

Joshua Andrus
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Purpose

2009-04-03T06:20:00.000-07:00

Once you've identified your values, what you believe about what you know and what is important to you. Then you have sought out the vision or the desire in your heart and have the esteem or belief you can attain these visions (hope). Then it is time to seek out your purpose.

The purpose statement has been called many things. If you have heard of a mission statement then it involves purpose combined with what a person values and the hope or direction that the individual or organization desires to go in.

The why? When Victor Frankl wrote if a man knows his why any how becomes easy,(my own words paraphrasing) he was speaking to a purpose statement. Without purpose values and hope are dead. It is like what my mentor tells me purpose is what gets you up early and what will keep you up late.

The purpose of myself as a leader today looks different then I was granted positional athority. I know that it is the leaders responsibility and purpose to serve those around her/him. The amazing part about this is that it is the thing many times least on the leader's mind. The truth of where much is given much can be expected rings true here. The more individuals a leader has charge over, the more service rendered. The catch here with the purpose of the leader is that the more expected the better and more efficient the leader must become. The balance is operating in service efficient enough, but still appearing approachable and available. Superman cape is rarely included but the philosophy of: You can determine the size of the leader by the size of the problem that defeats them.

What is your purpose? Why so much talk on leadership with purpose involved? Find the answer to the first and for you the second question will be clear.

Joshua Andrus
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Value

2009-04-02T06:33:00.001-07:00

I remember teaching a class once and asking what people think of when they hear the word value? The responses were on point so I will list a few of them here. Value- what you hold as important, standards, your own esteem, your belief systems, moral code, principles to live by. I am going to stop here but I believe that the participants really had the right idea. Let's look at life without values, or with a skewed decaying value system.

I don't know a person who does not feel the urge to feel valued, or important. This is a natural drive of everyone. It is a driving factor that allows people to feel needed. To esteem someone as valuable and to treat them with this esteem can make you a great deal of friends, take this esteem away and you may make an enemy from the precieved disrespect. If you were to ask some of the most hardened criminal enough questions about their actions, at the heart of the calculated crimes would be the urge to feel important.

Also take an external internal value. If you believe in honesty and integrity and you act dishonestly you have a dilema Psychologists like to call cognitive dissonance. In otherwords you have acted outside of your beliefs. Values are so ingrained that one who did act dishonestly may even be accused of acting out of "character". Ultimately the reality is that if you act outside of your value system you will either have to lie- ration-lize rationalize your actions, or you will have to face up to the consequences of acting outside of your value system. One of the major consequences is the taking down of the way you may even esteem yoursel.

Take some time and write down your values. This are guidlines to gauge how you are performing in life. Share these values with another individual. Don't overwhelm yourself with comparing yourself to the values, there has only ever been one perfect person after all. Unstead use the values you've listed as another factor when weighing decisions in life.

I will give an example. Let's say you value attention. Many people if they get their ego out of the way can look at this one and say you know what I do like attention, it is a value that drives me. The individual who values attention probably should not be a Forest Ranger. The individual who values attention should work with people, should work in a high visibility setting such as a stage, a field, a classroom setting. This is a value. This is not all though. It should take some exploration for the individual to feel good inside about this value of why is it I value_____. This will allow more genuine values and the why that drives them to appear. This will also make the actions taken to live within the values done with more confidence.

I will tell you in closing if a person values money and looks at the reasons why this will even do away with money guilt. Money guilt is one of the largest obstactles preventing people from attaining the wealth they deserve.

Joshua Andrus
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Hope, Value, and Purpose (part one Hope)

2009-04-01T06:29:00.001-07:00

There is an interesting element involved in every ones' life. Hope. It is not discussed enough. Hope has to many important elements to be something that is so rarely discussed. In the book "How Full is Your Bucket" the researchers examined concentration camps in Cambodia and Vietnamese areas. These camps were graded on the death toll, survivors conditions and other key factors. The amazing part is that most of the camps that had the more severe torture physically were the ones with the highest survival rate short of execution being the factor. The camps that had an element of mental and emotional abuse had the highest death toll. There was a condition that was named from this where prisoner of war would literally go and lie down in his tent and die due to the condition.
When they looked further you want to know what the number one contributing factor was? Hope. The soldiers were never allowed to unify, the Cambodian militants would influence a soldier to betray the troops. They would reward lying and deceit among the prisoners and as a result there was no clear vision or hope of who to look to for leadership. Yes these camps were prisoner of war camps and they were not ideal conditions. But they made other POW camps look like a 5 star hotel. The elements that were broken was the hope.
When I am working with a suicidal client one of the three elements missing is the hope. The reader knows this, it is why someone who is in this far extreme appears hopeless.
In my mind hope is a belief that one can effectively accomplish achieve or attain a goal or by the faith in and the intervention of someone greater they will be able to.
There are some key things that you can do to raise your level of hope. Small successes added up over time lead to great hope. If hope is what you are lacking in don't take to eating an elephant of a goal. Break your elephant down, see yourself completing the tasks necessary that you know you can and complete the tasks, as a result of hope your vision for the task will allow you to see a little further in the journey, your momentum will allow you to go a little further. Harness these to elements stretch a little further in completing the task and use the momentum and vision to assist you in writing the next steps.

Joshua Andrus
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Persistency and Consistency

2009-03-27T06:28:00.000-07:00

The biggest characteristics of a leader is persistency and consistency.

This may come as a surprise to the reader, but it is true. The persistency is displayed in spite of failure rejection and obstacles. This is so basic and simple that the people who are looking to the leader can rest assure that she/he will respond with fervor and never give up. Persistency of a leader says I/we will until. This brings faith in the leader, a type of security that can not be bought.

Consistency, this is the key component that many people miss when looking for a mentor or leader. Because we have been trained to look for the quantum leap, we look for the spectacular qualities in a leader. This is not the case. Quantum by definition is microscopic steps that lead into something enormous. The fact is the simple easy to do steps that are performed by a leader are the things that make up all the difference. The things that to the outside observer will probably go unobserved. The leader will just do these things over and over again so persistent so consistent and it separates them from the masses and people are looking for the "magical difference."

What does this mean to you. That you don't have to wait to have people you lead to be a leader. In fact it can begin today. What are the simple disciplines that you can do over and over again getting better and better. The leader learned to lead herself/himself long before others followed.

Joshua Andrus
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Haters into Elevators

2009-03-26T06:27:00.000-07:00

There is an occurrence when you set your dreams and begin on the journey. You make others feel uncomfortable. The fact is you being out of your comfort zone causes them to reflect inwards. Many times they don't realize that they are even reacting in a way that we call "hating".

One of my mentors a couple years back said, "Sometimes you've gotta turn your haters into elevators". This is an inoculation from Mr. Michael that helps as I pursue my dreams. The fact is that most of these people have an effect on you because they are near to your heart. In his book "Think and Grow Rich" Napoleon Hill after interviewing the most successful people in the world found that they had to choose there associations very carefully, that they had distance themselves from those who would have them fail. The part about this that will likely piss the reader off (don't worry you'll be OK) is that the majority of these people are your friends and family. This does not mean you change them, or change your role in their life, it does mean you limit their influence in areas that are important that they don't display where you are heading.

I need to give you an example if you are piping mad at what I am writing. This is extreme but I know it will clear things up. If you had access to advice on the stock market from Warren Buffet or from your broke uncle Bob. 'Bob' the relative that everyone has, book smart enough to sound wise but has a bank account that has decreased in value. His bank account may have gone in the red over the years you've been sitting around the table at the family get together's. Your obvious choice would be Warren Buffet I hope. The 'bob' may be your close loved one, but the fact is that your listening to bob about finances will take your bank account down if he does not have the capacity to genuine value to it.

I rarely write about relatives and money. Here is the point though: These are difficult times for a lot of people. Choose who you receive your advice from wisely. If you don't have a Warren Buffet to reveal the true wisdom of money and how it works pick up a best selling book by the man. I believe reading a book about successes and failures of the wise and the wealthy is like having a dialogue with the author, it increases your value. Why can I say this. . . because I can prove this.

Might I recommend some incredible starters: Richest Man In Babylon, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich, (if you read just one of these books this year, you can expect to take off the Vail of mediocrity and begin on a different journey that in 5 years will leave your bank account looking completely different then the first five).

Joshua Andrus
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Failing vs. Failure

2009-03-25T06:31:00.001-07:00

Failing and failure are not the same thing. One of my mentors says for example nothing fails like success. How can this be possible. Well here are some distinctions between the two words in the form of an example:

Thomas Edison assisted in inventing a usable light bulb. It is a story in history that an observer was in the lab with Edison as he was working and there was an incredible explosion. The blast almost injured the two of them. His partner not knowing better shrugged it off as a failed attempt in the early stage of Edison's experiment. Edison walked over to his log and chalked it up a little differently. Edison thought differently, he did fail to create the light bulb, however he succeeded in creating and explosion, he noted it cause he may need to know how to create an explosion in the future. As he was writing on the log book this attempt his observer looked over Edison's shoulder and became furious. This was not Edison's first few attempts it was well over his 3,00th. They had been at risk and the foolish observer thought Edison the fool. The amazing thing is that nothing fails like success.

Edison was content to not judge himself, he was content to chalk his failed attempts up as a result. The fact is everything worth mastering is worth failing at first. In life what many of the upper 3% of the people know about becoming great is that it is worth it to be bad enough long enough until the right results are achieved and then repeating the action steps to become great, even if it is 3000+ attempts.

Failing is a natural part of becoming great. Failure is the end result of someone who walked away from failing before the results became favorable.

Joshua Andrus
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Do Small Things Great

2009-03-24T06:28:00.000-07:00

Some of the greatest developers of leaders in the industry of personal development agree that it is crucial that we do small things great. This is important for so many reasons. If you examine your triumphs in life this true principle is the root cause of your success. In your life in all the areas there are only about a handful of things that you need to focus on doing well the rest are complimentary and yield a much lower return on investment.

1) Write down the area of your life that you will focus on. In this example I will use family.
2) Gain awareness of the things you do well, of the things you have not mastered yet.
3 a) Write down the things that yield the highest return on your time investment.
3 b) this may take an outside source of information. If you know someone who is an example of a good father, mother, etc. invite them out to eat and find out what works for them
4) Don't take this to humorously, you might even invite someone who is really bad out to eat to find out what not to do as well.
5) Once you have identified the five key things that will yield the biggest return on investment of your energy get to working on it.
6) Practice makes permanent. This is an error in the phrases that most people know but I did it on purpose. Permanence is achieved through repeated behavior. The areas you are lacking doing the 5 things you identified well in, you have practiced another behavior in its place.
7) Track your consistency. The only way to change a habit or behavior is to take it and repeat it over and over. You will not likely succeed if your progress stays up in your head where your emotions can skew the activity, put it on paper and track how you are doing.
8) Track without judgment. You are doing better then you were in these areas before you knew about them, don't judge if you go back to inefficient behaviors of before, after all it is what you knew the best.
9) Don't expect the outside results to change immediately. It can take time for results to occur, it is not unlike planting seeds, cultivating and then harvesting. Some seeds sewn (activities) show immediate results still the more rewarding results can take a season even two to see the payoff.
10) Reward your progress. If you don't see some incentive for the activities then you may not make the full departure from the old ways. Reward yourself with something meaningful.

The 5 things in each area of your life are daily activities that are easy to do, but due to the comfort zone they are also easy not to. Work to master them and there will be rich blessings given.

Joshua Andrus
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White Hot Burning Desire

2009-03-17T06:25:00.000-07:00

Napoleon Hill, if you have never heard of him you should. He produced one of the most labor intensive books in all history. For decades he interviewed the 100 most successful people to find out what they had in common. He sought the common threads that tied there triumph together, that was a constant in all their stories.
The first of these was that every one of them from President of the United States to billionaire investors, to steel tycoons, to the inventor of the light bulb, they all had a white hot burning desire to fulfill their vision. This desire burnt brightly.
Think about your desires, have you thought about what you want in life lately, have your God planted desires for becoming what you know you can so that you can create what you intend, have they burnt brightly lately.
I often think it is the craziest thing in the world when some inspirational vision of what is to come is given to someone and they feel guilty about it. The fact is, know what the source is and start on the journey, most people ask their friends and family and they may get Luke warm reception and the dream burns out.
Seek out on your knees and go forward with your might. The white hot burning desire is like a flame to a moth. You will attract the people places and events that you need to create everything that is your intention. This is good, it is as it is supposed to be. You have started it out on your knees, then a seed of desire has been planted as the seed swells in your heart, you will feel the burning of this light. This will likely happen as you step out of your comfort zone and things begin to start to happen as a result of a trial of your faith in the process, then its time to build on that success and grow outside your comfort zone and continue to operate at a higher level as result of becoming more and being strengthened.
This world needs leaders, this world does not provide future for the mediocre apathetic, be meek in your asking, then be confident in your execution.

Joshua Andrus
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Fear vs. Courage

2009-03-16T06:19:00.000-07:00

The thing that slows momentum and can bring it to a screeching halt is fear. I have been keenly aware of this. I don't know of a leader of significant stature who does not have large amount of fear that she/he deals with.

To me, courage is not the person acting without fear, it is the person acting in spite of fear. It may even be true that the only reason a leader stands out is because of this factor. Many people choose to not embrace the fear and go beyond and that is why there is a separation of masses and classes. The masses will always take the path of least Resistance.

I came upon a huge breakthrough with this very concept yesterday. I was pondering what can I do to take my business to the next level. I had just seen the results of a failed attempt and was discouraged. I have began the habit of taking the energy of discouragement and using it to drive action. This was not the case I was all up in my head, that was skewed by the emotions of failing. . .

As I was laying there on my bed after asking for inspiration, I got to thinking about how me me me focused I was being. I gained the awareness of two things:
1) Stop focusing on yourself, if you are not serving and helping others you are not growing and your business is rotting.
2) Don't expect things to change if your body lies here on the bed in a prostrate position. If you get up and get into activity then you will be able to sort things out.

I want to focus on the second one as a proven psychological principle. I am using an example first. Let say you have an anger issue. Did you know that if you were to view yourself in the mirror when you are angry the posturing and intensity of your gestures would feed the physiological and emotional state of anger. If you were able to relax the body language alone you would remove half of the anger from the situation.

Now taking this very situation back to me lying in bed. What does defeat look like. Well in battle someone lying down nursing injuries. What does victory or productive work look like. There is such a hidden nugget in this. So many times I have pondered in a defeated position, instead in a humble position embracing it and then gaining strength, getting off knees and thinking things out on paper as a military leader would and charging forward with execution.

Try next time you feel things have lost some hope, look at your body language, change it up regroup in the manner you do best and model what you would envision as body language of someone who is overcoming the loss. This is huge I promise. You can't expect things to happen unless you put yourself in motion and allow the miracle to work with you.

Joshua Andrus
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What You Focus On Grows

2009-03-12T06:31:00.000-07:00

What you focus on grows. I have often fell into the trap of focusing on the wrong things. This is a huge trap that can rob forward progress and momentum. In a workshop I teach give an example of someone who really shows the power to choose what to focus on.

There was a client of mine who had completed our program, he had done well, had lost a lot and reformed himself from coming out of the unhealthy environment of 5 years in prison. He got a job in the construction field and worked very hard. He was doing interior kitchen cabinets and finishing carpentry. He worked a lot harder and was a lot more productive then the rest of the crew. He was determined not to go back. The holidays came around and as he went into work his boss called him into his office and sat him down and my client thought here comes the holiday bonus. . .

The boss instead hat to lay him off. This was painful of course, but the choice was his to decide what to focus on. This individual came from an empowering place. He could have walked out of the office and felt all beat up, he could have left with anger and resentment, he could have burnt that bridge, he could have played the victim. Yes all of these things he could have done. The more important thing to understand is how open would he be to seeing another door open if he was merely looking back at the door that just closed.

The choice he made was different though. He decided to walk out of the office and consider some of the things he had learned. First off, don't jump to hasty conclusions. He began to think about how hard it was for the boss to let someone as valuable as himself go. He knew he was valued, he had sensed some layoffs were coming because of the holiday slow down. People don't want there kitchens torn up during the holidays. So he continued to think it through: " Lay off, I wasn't FIRED, I had a lay off. This is a change, I can still get a letter of recommendation for new employment, wow. Even if I have to get a job at the Mall over the holidays until the door opens back up, I can do something, it is the holiday hiring period." All these thoughts began as a new pattern of thinking.

The story gets better for this client, more adversity and opportunity but the point is clear. What you choose to focus on grows. Which of the two choices put him closer to being re-hired which one further.

Joshua Andrus
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Disciplining Your Disappointments

2009-03-11T10:20:00.000-07:00

The cure to disciplining your dissapointments is gratitude,

This is said many different ways in seminars, in home, in the church, in counseling, in business. It is the attitude of gratitude in seminars, the be greatful for what you have in home, the count your many blessings in church, the cognitive positive re-frame, and the focus on what you want to have grow in your business.

With that many examples of areas that the Attitude of gratitude is important, it is crucial to give some examples of how to make it a habit. Pity parties are the opposite of the attitude of gratitude. Pity parties don't benefit anyone, at least not the way most people celebrate them.

Here are some suggestions to swing away from the pity party into a productive zone of creation in gratitude-

1) Have the pity party, didn't expect that one did you? It's true that sometimes resisting the aweful all the time can result in stuffing not processing, in a log jam of emotions and even worse activities of life. Jennifer Anniston in an interview about her break up with Brad Pitt said that in this and other areas of life she has the pity party. . . next step find out how
2) Put up a boundary of time around how long you will have your feel bad session. What Ms. Anniston said about the painful break up that I thought was so profound is that she has the pity party for a set time, looks at her role in the matter, takes ownership and comes out the other side with a better attitude and the life lesson learned. (Love Jen's work, but more importantly I am a student of great philosphy, and this is one of the best)
3) Take out a pad of paper and write all the lessons learned. It is crucial to not keep emotions with content in your mind. Emotions are irrationale impulses in your mind and can cloud reality. They can really mess with committments and cut your potential.
4) You are probably not going to resolve everything, but writing things down has an amazing way of helping you to let things go. If you feel back in control of your emotions unstead of the emotions controlling you then . . .
5) Now time yourself and write down all the things in your life you are greatful for. Set a watch, because just like you vented on paper this exercise can be lengthy and could sidetrack you I like to look at ten minutes. I am going to write from the heart not the head for the next 5 minutes so that you all know what I mean:
My family, I have a wonderful wife, 3 beautiful kids, a dog, my wife is trying to get another, i love my kids personalities, my understanding of God, my relationship with Jesus, I love the activities that we do as a family, the way my son lusts for life and sports, Braydens smile, My daughter when she blushes and gets shy when you smile, she is saying dadaddadd ddadd right now and it is making me grin, I love my wife's passion, I love the area we are blessed to live, the creation of the ocean, the home and it's spacious living and family room to recreate, I love my backyard and the entertainment oppurtunities, I love it when my mom and step dad come out to visit in their plane, I love to fly in that plane, and the promise that I will have one some day, I love my great mind keeps me entertained, I love my all 4 working limbs, my lungs, my health, and wealth, I love the chance to meet new people and I am capable of making friends, I love the feelings of confidence when I stretch and do my best. I love the oppurtunity of the business I work in, I love the job I have that allows me to grow as I am building an empire, and allows me to assist in the changing of peoples life, I love our friends and our business partners who have become such great friends, I love the promise of the future, the lesssons of the past and the gift that is the present.

Wow that was about 3 minutes of typing and I could have gone on for a longer time, I was having a rough time this morning, no longer though trust the process, try this activity when you are getting down, or even to sustain you staying up.

I say be greatful not scared. I say be full of faith not fear.

Joshua Andrus
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Primary Income

2009-03-10T06:31:00.000-07:00

The amount of money coming in is important, and the majority would believe the most important. There are so many people who are living paycheck to paycheck and are asleep to some crazy realities. One of the faulty thoughts of going to school getting good grades and getting out to get the good job is that it just doesn't work. Don't get me wrong it does short-term but here are a few problems with it:

1) The turnover in jobs is huge, even prior to the recession.
2) the security of the 401k and company retirement really doesn't exist anymore
3) Employee mindset is to work as hard is it takes
4) The employer mindset is to pay just as much as they can (bottom line thinking)
5) Initiative to develop new skills comes from fear of being past over (re active), not from bringing more value to the table (pro active)
6) The company is always replacing inefficiency (aging employees with young scenario)
7) The employee has no security who knows what could happen
8) Life happens, and a Boss may or may not be able to accommodate for life
9) The primary income never keeps up with the inflation of the currency/cost of living so the lifestyle deteriorates over time
10) The government always gets first cut of the income earned

Jobs are necessary, don't misconstrue what I am saying. It is just all to painfully clear that they are not enough. The bottom line is that the true security does not occur during one's 9-5 job, it occurs in ones 5-9 activities.

Joshua Andrus
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