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Terminal 6 at LAX was my home away from home. About twice a month I used to call an Uber from the Westin Hotel, drive the 1.9 miles (I wish there was a walkway!), and proceed to hurry up and wait\u00a0my way through security before breaking through to the other side where I\u2019m greeted by the all-to-familiar 90-minute wait for my flight back to Toronto. .<\/p>\n

Immediately upon getting through security and recovering both my laptop and my dignity, I take a left into the Hudson News. I grab a bottle of water and a <\/g>handful of Quest Bars (my greatest vice). Just as I\u2019m about to turn to the cash register with hands full, I always think \u201cjust one more\u201d.<\/p>\n

What follows is a scene that seems like it\u2019s straight out of that \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d candy factory episode. I grab an extra bar and two fall out of my hand on the floor. Then I put my water down on the dirty airport floor, pick up the two bars, grab my water, and then my credit card slips to the floor. <\/p>\n

Now, if you\u2019ve ever tried to pick up a 2mm thick credit card off the ground without long fingernails, you know how this is going to end up. The next thing you know I\u2019ve been kneeling on the ground for two minutes alternating between dropping my candy bars (I mean protein bars), bottled water, and other assorted personal items. <\/p>\n

One time I even left my garment bag lying on a counter and walked away. Fortunately a kind employee tracked me down, otherwise,<\/g> I\u2019d be out a $3,000 suit\u2026 but hey, at least I got my Quest Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all experienced such exercises in futility. Picture filling a leaky bucket. You can put as much water into the bucket as you want. You can turn up the pressure, add a second hose, or even tap a local fire hydrant (I would not recommend this!), but at the end of the day, you cannot fill the bucket until you plug the holes. You might be able to fill it momentarily, but after a little while, you\u2019ll always end up exactly where you started out. Empty.<\/p>\n

Your life and business are the same way. You can set goals, get motivated, chant affirmations, and pump yourself up all that you want. But if you have holes in the bucket of your life, you\u2019ll arrive at the end of each week, month, and year with the all-too-familiar sense that you\u2019re doing something wrong. I\u2019m going to let you in on a little secret\u2026 If you\u2019re feeling stuck in your business or life, it\u2019s not what you are doing that is sabotaging your success, it\u2019s what you\u2019re not doing. <\/p>\n

No matter what you do, no matter how many motivational YouTube videos you watch, if you\u2019re missing any one of the following three \u201clinks\u201d, your success will be short lived. When I sit back and reflect on the worst periods in my life, those times when nothing seemed to be working, when my anxiety was overwhelming, and when I felt stuck in an unbeatable rut\u2026 I realized that it was always because I was forgetting to implement one or all of the three success accelerators I\u2019m going to share with you today.<\/p>\n

1. Outside Eyes<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s easy to get so caught up in the daily grind of putting out fires, attending meetings, and handling new clients that you become oblivious to huge opportunities for growth and income. I\u2019ve helped many of my millionaire clients increase their bottom line by 20-30% simply by offering an objective set of eyes on their business operations and helping them identify the 1-2 leverage points that they were missing out on. <\/p>\n

The simple fact of the matter is this: You cannot do it alone. No matter how hard you hustle, how much content you consume, or how many advanced training courses you attend, you need another set of eyes on your business and life to help you identify opportunities you might be missing. <\/p>\n

Other experts in your field have unique experiences, thoughts, and ideas that can help you increase your income and impact in ways that you would never expect. If you haven\u2019t done so already, I recommend hiring a professional coach or consultant with unique expertise in your niche to help you identify opportunities that might be right under your nose.<\/p>\n

And listen, this goes for me too. In 2015 I decided to \u2018retire\u2019 from my lucrative fitness business, virtually shutting down a multi-million dollar stream of revenue. It just wasn\u2019t what I wanted to do anymore. It was risky, yes, but a calculated risk, because I had my business coach (not to mention best friend and Retreat speaker<\/a>) Bedros Keuilian on my side.<\/p>\n

I spent $30,000 on his coaching, and in the first hour of our first coaching session<\/g> he identified a new 6-figure stream of income thanks to his outside eyes. Prior to Bedros\u2019 coaching, I couldn\u2019t see the forest because of the trees as I was too deep in the weeds (yes, I know it\u2019s mixed metaphor, but you get it). Within four weeks of getting Bedros\u2019s advice<\/g> we generated over $157,000 in a series of just four emails to our list.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what good coaches do.<\/p>\n

2. Raise Your Personal Standards and Set the Bar Higher<\/h2>\n

Oftentimes the biggest thing that is holding us back from the income and impact we desire is not our bad habits, market fluctuations, or lack of discipline. It\u2019s that we simply haven\u2019t raised our standards<\/a> to the appropriate level.<\/p>\n

You will get out of life what you tolerate in life. For example, if you were to take the average grad student and offer him or her a full-time<\/g> marketing position earning $200,000 a year in exchange for only 35 hours of work a week, they would be ecstatic. However, if you were to extend this same offer to a highly successful entrepreneur who is accustomed to earning more than $200,000 a month<\/em>, they would laugh you out of the room.<\/p>\n

Why is this? The successful entrepreneur has higher standards and expectations for themselves than the recent college grad. They expect more out of themselves and know what they\u2019re capable of and, as a result, they are unwilling to settle for anything less than what they know they can achieve. <\/p>\n

Now, this sounds all fine and dandy, but the question still remains, how do you actually raise your standards? The best way that I\u2019ve found is simply by spending time with people who think BIG. You are the average of the five people you associate with most. If your five closest friends all earn $35,000 a year and are content to spend their weeks screwing around at work, playing video games, and getting hammered at the bar every Friday night, you will slowly but surely begin to mirror those behaviors. <\/p>\n

However, if you associate with people who are not satisfied by the status quo, people who refuse to settle for average, and people who constantly push themselves and those around them to think, act, and achieve bigger and better things, you will adopt their mindsets, beliefs, and actions. Refuse to settle for anything less than your full potential. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re making two grand a month or two grand a day. Always raise your standards and continue pushing the envelope on what you believe is possible. Remember, your life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Never settle and never accept anything less than 100% from yourself.<\/p>\n

3. Unbreakable Accountability from Someone You Don\u2019t Want to Disappoint<\/h2>\n

While the previous steps are important, they aren\u2019t enough by themselves. You need to add an extra layer of accountability to ensure that you don\u2019t back slide<\/g> into your old patterns, habits, and ways of thinking. The ONLY way to permanently raise your standards and increase your level of impact, income, and influence is to create unbreakable accountability systems with someone you deeply admire and do NOT want to disappoint.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s a friend, mentor, or professional coach, you need someone in your corner who will hold you to your word and guarantee that you won\u2019t allow excuses and a fixed mindset to hold you back from your goals. Because trust me when I say that you will not always feel motivated to rise to the level of your new standards. Despite the fact that I\u2019m notorious for my habit of rising at 4 a.m., I\u2019m tempted to hit the snooze button nearly every day of the week. <\/p>\n

The only reason that I don\u2019t give into the temptation of smashing snooze and sleeping away the most valuable part of my day is because I have external accountability built into my life. My team, my friends, my clients, and my mentors all expect me to be up early and to have my day well underway by the time we connect each morning. In fact, one of the first things I do each morning is text a motivational message to a few of my top coaching clients, including my friend and Perfect Life Retreat speaker, Joel Marion. If that text wasn\u2019t waiting for him when he woke up, there\u2019d be hell to pay. <\/p>\n

To strengthen your resolve, I recommend that you include financial incentives in your accountability agreements. For example, my new Editor recently asked me to hold him accountable to a number of personal boundaries he\u2019s committed to keeping and agreed to donate $75 to a charity of my choice if he breaks them. I can promise you that when the alarm goes off in the morning or the temptation to skip the gym in favor of watching Netflix arises (and it always does) that $75 promise will be the extra push he needs to overcome temptation and do what needs to be done. <\/p>\n

Find your personal pain point, be it money, shame, or simply disappointing someone you admire and press on it until you have no choice but to level up your game and perform at the new standards you\u2019ve set for yourself. This simple tactic has changed my life and the lives of dozens of my top clients. <\/p>\n

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By implementing these three simple strategies into your daily life I can promise you that you will begin to increase your impact, income, and influence faster than you ever believed possible. <\/p>\n

With outside eyes, higher standards, and unbreakable accountability on your side, it will feel like success is happening \u201cautomatically\u201d because you\u2019ve created a life that pulls you towards your dreams instead of a life where you must push yourself forward. <\/p>\n

Get started now. Make the first phone call, send the first email, drop that first comment and I promise\u2026 You\u2019ll never look back. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re tired of being stuck and struggling, want outside eyes, accountability, and a game plan for success, fill out a coaching application and see if you qualify to work with one of my coaches: https:\/\/www.craigballantyne.com\/apply<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Craig Ballantyne<\/a><\/h3>\n
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If you want to double your income, work less, and become the ambitious millionaire you’ve always wanted to be… Craig Ballantyne is the coach who will help you do it. With more than 20-years of experience as an entrepreneur and five 7-figure businesses under his belt, he specializes in helping “struckling” entrepreneurs get out of the mud and build the business of their dreams. To see if you qualify for Craig’s “Millionaire Coaching Program” send an email to support@earlytorise.com with the subject line “Millionaire”.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n