Think It Be It

In this episode John and Kelly talk about what it means to do your best. John explains that in his 40s, doing his best meant getting up it 5:30 AM. When he got into his 50s, he expanded his vision of doing his best. It was three things. Effort – getting up at 5:30 AM. Second, focus on what moves the needle. And then third, personal growth. With a system. And making sure the growth was consistent and strategic relative to what he wanted to accomplish...

John and Kelly describe how happiness works for them and what creates their happiness. They believe the mind thrives on order and everything that comes in your consciousness is evaluated relative to your goals. If you aren’t obtaining your goals or things are obstructing your goals, you will be unhappy. To change from being unhappy to happy, you have to re-establish order in your mind.

In this episode John and Kelly talk about the idea of seeking to understand before you try to be understood. John mentions that this is one of the seven habits of highly successful people. He recently read that book again and this was the habit that really caught his attention. Kelly and John talk about how innately we don’t like people who think differently than we do. That happens at a subconscious level. But of course people don’t think like we do...

John and Kelly exchange stories of when they realized your internal journey is what creates the external journey. Your external journey is what everyone else sees, however it needs to be aligned with your internal journey in order to see the results you want. You must follow and honor your internal compass of courage, integrity, and playing to your full potential for it to show on the outside.

In this episode John and Kelly talk about how important it is in marketing to identify the emotional hook with your customers. This is absolutely the most important thing you must do in marketing. Everything flows from there. Kelly talks about recently getting a big client. She discusses the emotional hook that landed the whale. John then talks about the emotional hook with regards to Think it Be it. He first asked people if they are a high achiever...

We are all innately wired for survival which causes 90% of our thoughts to be fear-based. When we are based in fear we are very reactive. John and Kelly know this is the exact opposite way you should be if you want to be productive and happy. We must overcome our fear and reactiveness with proper programming and it only takes 12 minutes a day.

In this episode John and Kelly talk about how important it is to be organized if you’re a high achiever. John and Kelly have developed an organizational system (daily to do form and weekly to do form) that they think is great. There’s three components to the system. You plan your day the night before, you time block your day, and you identify your top three priorities each day. The key is to have a great system. Using their daily to do form, the template lines out each day by every half hour...

We all have approximately 100 things coming in to our consciousness every second. The brain needs a filter and this filter is called the Reticular Activating System. The RAS determines what information gets in and what doesn’t – it’s your brains bouncer. You can set the filter by telling your brain what’s important to you. We should all use the RAS to our advantage!

In this episode John and Kelly talk about how we are all in the influence business. And influence has two components to it. First, influencing yourself. That means getting yourself to do the key habits required to be successful. Having discipline. John talks about how this is leadership of self. Which means having the mindset of I can achieve anything I set my mind to. I own my results and am never a victim. Being able to summon up grit and perseverance when things don’t go well...

This episode of Net 7 discusses courage and believe that every problem ultimately comes down to courage. The courage to take action. Kelly talks about the courage it took her to become an entrepreneur and John shares when he was 50 years old and wasn’t as successful as he thought he should be.