Article #28 in my
“7 Mindset & Manifesting Secrets of Multimillionaire Entrepreneurs”
Series:

Secret 7 Continued:  Upgrade Your Physical Environment

Your current intellectual, physical, social and business environments were largely created from beliefs and experiences that no longer fit your goals.

If you’re on a path of growth, you need to upgrade your environment to reflect not where you were, but where you want to go.

Otherwise, as I wrote last time, your old consciousness will draw you back in.

Last time I showed you how to up-level your intellectual environment. Today, we’ll focus on your physical one.

How to Begin
Years ago, network marketing trainer John Kalench was describing the ways in which he had transformed his physical environment into something very beautiful. I was inspired, and also realized that I had not yet done the same.

So I took a mental inventory of everything in my environment, asking myself, “If I were the success I want to be, would this be here?”

If not, I got rid of it!

Systematically, I began replacing those items in my environment with things that reflected the success I wanted to experience.

I did this with everything from clothes to furniture to automobiles to the way that I traveled, the friends I hung around with and where I went socially.

If you’re thinking you’d have to replace nearly everything you own, you’re probably right.

Start with your cat-scratched sofa or the ripped coat you’ve had since high school or the car you park down the street so your clients won’t see.

And then keep going. Every time you think, I hate that lamp, or Why do I keep that ugly desk? get rid of it. Just give it away.

Keep up-leveling until everything in your environment reflects the richness you are within.

Embrace the Challenge
Treat yourself as first class as you possibly can.

If you can’t afford to move into a house with a spectacular view, make the view you do have as nice as it can be.

I love fresh flowers. There’s always something blooming at my home inside and out.

Surrounding yourself with beauty doesn’t have to cost a fortune, but you do need to embrace the challenge. Push yourself as far as you can.

When I started doing this exercise, absolutely everything began to shift.

I started to propel forward very rapidly, because my old consciousness was no longer holding me back.

I stepped up and into the greatness that was my birthright, and everything around me began to reflect that as well.

Start Now
Greatness is your birthright, too.

So look around. What’s the first thing you’re going to replace?

Now get up and put it by the door to take it to Goodwill.

© Copyright 2012 – David Neagle’s Life Is Now Inc., All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

David Neagle, Master Success Mentor, mentors entrepreneurs to quantum leap their current businesses past the 7-Figure income level in just 12 months. David invites you to download–as his GIFT to you–his legendary “Art of Success” 4-hour audio program. This audio series is a tremendously compelling and comprehensive program that demonstrates–once and for all–that Success has nothing to do with “getting” or “achieving”, and everything to do with WHO we must BE to manifest our greatest desires.

Last Friday afternoon I was standing in Target with the children looking for a particular  birthday gift.  They didn’t have one, undeterred my daughter wanted to look around the mall for one, I really didn’t.  Deciding on the most likely place to have the gift I thought I’d just look them up on my phone and give them a call to see if they had one in stock. Finding the independent gift shop website was hard enough but there was no easy clickable phone number to connect with them.  The (800) number was shown on the header image of the website, not detectable as a phone number.  Asking the children to be quiet for a moment I did the recite-the -number- dial it quick routine and made a note to check all client websites for clickable contact numbers.

Having a phone that you can browse online with, find a phone number you need and then just tap it once to make the call is still fun every time I do it.   So here are some ideas on sharing the joy which is super easy with a WordPress site..

• If you rely on customers being able to call you consider installing a handheld plugin (I like WPTouch and Handheld) to your WordPress site and create a landing page specifically for the mobile version with a brief welcome for recognition and having your contact info on that page so it will all display on the small screen.  Type your number in the 123-456-7890 format in the main body of the page and with one tap it is detected as a phone number and entered in the phone.
• If it’s OK for your customers to text you invite them to do that with a call / text  in the line above.
• You can also list your business email address the same way.  Don’t rely on contact forms, they don’t always display on phones with Plugins.  Choose an email address you don’t mind displaying online and again just type it in the main body of the page.  When tapped it will automatically bring up the phones email options.
• If you don’t want to go the Plugin route have your number displayed in the top left part area of your homepage so it shows up as soon as the phone displays your website.  Again in the main body of the page, not in the header/ banner image.
• Have your number listed on your company description in your Google result.  This means that if someone does just want to look you up to call you they don’t even have to go your website, they can just click from the Google results page.

If you haven’t heard of Evernote, here’s how it works:  Sign up for a free online account, create a notebook for any subject such as ‘Marketing Ideas’ and you fill it with notes.  You can type notes, copy and paste notes, make voice notes, video notes, forward email to your notes, share anything on your phone with notes and file a photo in your notes too.  You can search anything in your library and tag notes as you go for easy reference.  I love that you can log into Evernote from anywhere. I usually access Evernote from my phone with the free Evernote app.  Settings options are fantastic, if you have a private notebook you can choose to keep particular notebooks offline and not sync to your phone.

I use Evernote for everything; each of my businesses, websites, projects, family vacation ideas /plans, research for new business ideas, gift lists, health tips and even recipes – which is great to pull out at the store if I see something.  Sometimes I’ll find some great articles or website that I don’t have time to dig into so I’ll make a note in the relevant notebook with the link and read it later in the pick up line at school.

Once I caught on to the possibilities of Evernote I stopped with the paper notebooks that I used to carry everywhere.  I still scribble notes down but now I use large index cards that I type up the important information into Evernote at the end of the day. After a few weeks the piles of notebooks on my desk were such a nuisance I threw most away, took pictures of a few important notes filing them in Evernote (scanning would be better here really) and kept so few that I was able to get rid of my desk completely and move my computer to a nice spot in the house with a great view.

www.Evernote.com

Annette Simmons quoted in ‘Enchantment’ by Guy Kawasaki:

People don’t want more information.  They are up to their eyeballs in information.  They want faith -faith in you, your goals, your success, in the story you tell… It is faith that moves mountains, not facts.  Facts do not give birth to faith.  Faith needs a story to sustain it, a meaningful story that inspires belief in you and renews hope that your ideas do indeed offer what you promise. Genuine influence goes deeper than getting people to do what you want them to do.  It means people pick up where you left off because they believe.

Simon Sinek in his TEDX Talk discusses why your Why is so important.  He says:

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have, the goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

What you do proves what you believe… this is true for life!  In business, it is important to remain focused on your goals even as other distractions occur.  Sometimes the lure of widening your market and trying to appeal to everyone can have a detrimental effect. Take time to reconnect if you haven’t for a while on why it is you are doing what you are doing and make changes if necessary to keep yourself on track moving in the direction of your dreams and attracting the dream clients.

Watch the full TEDX Talk here:

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action