Find The Right Mentor For Your Business And Keep Fighting

 

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The fastest way to success with your online business is to find the right mentor, and be willing to keep fighting. Here, Dean is laying out how everything you need to succeed online is within your grasp, if you adopt a positive mental attitude and find your ideal business mentor…

“Hey, hey! Good morning. Dean here of course. We’re on the way to Internet Profits on this fine and glorious morning. I hope you’re doing well, and I hope you’re taking massive action in your business.

I can’t help but think sometimes, and see sometimes, that it’s not lack of information that most people have. Especially those that have been trying to start a business for a long time, because there is a wealth of information online.

In fact, what is the internet? It’s just an information platform if you think about it, right? it’s just access to information.

With Enough Commitment And Willingness To Invest, You Can Get Access To Pretty Much Anyone

So if it’s not lack of information, what is it that people do lack?

Why Is It That So Many Struggle?

I think a lot of it is access – they lack access – not to information, but to the right people. And really, if you think about it, we are living – and I said this at a seminar recently – we are living in such an amazing time in life… Where, with enough commitment and the willingness to invest, you can get access to pretty much anyone, and find the right mentor for your business.

I have been able to pay my way to access incredible minds in the past. Right now, I’m able to pay my way into ‘Mastermind’ groups that enable me to access incredible, smart, successful, wealthy individuals that can help me, change my mindset, inspire me, guide me and support me.

You can literally… I mean, lets put this in perspective… Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group of Companies – Virgin Airlines, Virgin everything, right? You can actually pay to spend time with him, and go to Necker Island and hang out!

“Well That’s Alright For You Dean, You Have More Money” BS!

What an incredible world we live in, where you can get access to anything you want if you are willing to, like finding the right mentor of course.

A lot of people would say things like, “Well, that’s alright for you Dean. You have more money.” But you know what? It was ten years ago when I was broke – like, only ten years ago.

I was on the brink of bankruptcy. I had over sixty thousand dollars of debt. I had a minus three thousand dollar bank account, five credit cards, two bank loans. I couldn’t pay my way out of debt at that stage. But you know what I had?

I Had A Willingness To Keep Fighting

So I don’t want to hear from anyone who says, “Oh, it’s okay for you…” BS!

Like, it wasn’t okay for me when I was in debt. Wasn’t okay for me when I was working in my construction job, staying up all night to work on my business, to fight my way out of the hell hole that I was living in. It wasn’t okay for me when I was hiding the state of my life from all my family, my loved ones and my friends.

You Can Get Anything You Want In Life, If You’re Willing To Do What It Takes

And it wasn’t okay for me when I couldn’t even sleep at night because I was so afraid and worried about the mess I was in. That wasn’t okay for me then… And it may not be okay for you now. But with enough willingness to fight, you can make it out. And that really, essentially is my message of today.

You can get anything you want in life. You can access anything and anyone if you are willing to fight, if you are willing to do what it takes. And doing what it takes is not gonna come easy. Oh, no! Wouldn’t that be nice, if everything just came on a silver platter. I wasn’t born like that. You probably weren’t too.

So, what can we do about it? We can take control, we can take responsibility, and we can find the right mentor. Things are gonna go wrong in our lives. We’re gonna come up against hard times, we’re gonna have to fight, dig deep, be more committed and willing than ever before.

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Three Daily Routines That Increase Productivity, Focus And Energy

 

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You’ve probably heard of personal development books like “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey. Well, here’s online entrepreneur Dean Holland’s top three daily routines that will increase productivity, boost your energy levels, and help provide the focus you need in order to succeed with your online business today…

“Hey! Dean here of course. Welcome to today’s Drive. Thank you for joining me on the way to Internet Profits here today. It is a sunshiny, glorious day. Long may it continue – although I know that here in the UK, good weather only ever lasts a short period of time.

But nonetheless we are here, showing up every single day of the week. And I hope you are too in your online business.

Today I want to talk about something a little bit different. I want to talk about more to do with how you’re operating, and how your kind of acting yourself…

Your Daily Routines, Your Patterns, Your Behaviours – How Are They Impacting What You’re Doing?

And this is especially important for those of you that still have a full-time job, and you’re trying to build your online business whilst working and juggling all this other stuff going on in your day to day life. It is especially important for you and your daily routines.

I’ve Done A Bit Of Testing In Terms Of How You Operate In Certain Areas Of The Day

But also I guess, in many respects, this is equally important to those of you like me, in my position, where you are full-time responsible for the outcome of your business. You’re running your own business, and nobody’s going to put a wages pay check into your bank account at the end of the month.

So, I had an interesting conversation recently. I was at a seminar and we were basically in the bar in the evening, talking about everyone’s day to day patterns and daily routines, and how they operate on a day to day basis. And I was talking about how I’ve done a bit of testing over recent times, in terms of how you operate and perform in certain areas of the day.

Now I’m gonna tell you the number one biggest thing of everything, that I’ve found in my testing that’s gonna impact the way you act, your sharpness, your focus, and your energy levels.

This Is Biggest Daily Routine That Impacts Your Energy, Sharpness and Focus

I used to get really, really sort of sluggish, sleepy and be yawning mid afternoon. I’ve discovered it’s dehydration. Got to be drinking lots of water in a day. And sometimes you got to kind of force yourself to do it. But you have to.

You’ve got to be drinking water all throughout the day. From the moment you wake up, through to the evening, an hour before you go to bed. You’ve got to be consuming like at least three litres of water. And the difference it makes is astounding. Like, honestly it’s staggering the difference it makes. So that’s one thing.

If You Are Operating On Hardly Any Sleep, You’re Going To Burn Out

Two: Having a good sleeping pattern. Like, if you’re staying up really late and then getting up late… If you operate best that way, and you’ve got that option if you’re working for yourself full time, then fair enough. But if you’re not, it’s not gonna be good.

On the other side of that as well – and this is what a lot of people are doing when they’re juggling work, life, and trying to start a business… Is they’re staying up really late, not getting much sleep, and then waking up early. If you are operating on hardly any sleep, you’re going to burn out.

Some People Think That, “Oh, But I’m Being Really Productive”

You’re probably not. Like, you’re probably being a “busy fool“. You feel like putting in those hours and staying up late is serving you. But it may not be, at least not in the long-term, okay?

Get a good amount of sleep each night. Make sure you’re having enough sleep for your body. So that’s two things: Make sure you’re drinking plenty of water, be hydrated. And fix your sleeping patterns.

Here’s another… I’m gonna leave you with this one. It’s like “the big three” I guess.

Receptors In Your Brain Are More Receptive In The First 10 To 20 Minutes Of The Day

How you start your day can dictate the mood and the the results of the entire day. So what I mean by that is… If you are in daily routines where you wake up and you watch the news, or you read a newspaper and consume media. Not good!

Media can come in all different forms… Social media, like if you wake up grab your cell phone and sit on Facebook or Twitter reading other people’s lives other people’s crap, news, politics, all this kind of gibberish… It is going to have a negative effect – you’re feeding your brain with negativity.

I did a Drive recently on this – what you’re feeding your body, what you’re feeding your brain. Like, food intake into your body, and information intake into your brain. It’s impacting you – what you’re feeding your brain and your body will impact you.

And what I found is…

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Surround Yourself With Positive People Who Inspire And Motivate You

 

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How much do you think you’re influenced by all the different people in your life? Here’s a powerful analogy from Dean Holland which illustrates how impactful it can be to surround yourself with positive people who inspire you, and people who motivate you in your life, and as an entrepreneur in your business…

“Good morning my friend! I hope you’re well. It is of course Monday, and I am of course Dean Holland. And we’re on the way to Internet Profits HQ right now.

I hope you had a good weekend. It is of course Monday, and I’ve got a bit of an adventurous week coming up. I’m actually kind of a witness to a wedding tomorrow, where I have to sign.

Robyn, my fiancé, it’s her brother. But they’re kind of doing the legal marriage here in this country, and then on Wednesday we’re actually flying out to Greece for their actual wedding. They have to do the legal side here for whatever reason. But anyway, so we’re actually flying out to one of the Greek islands on Wednesday.

Now, Heads Up!

The People That You Surround Yourself With Can Actually Impact You For The Rest Of Your Life

A bit of a lesson in planning and preparation… I have been told this small Greek island we’re going to does not have very good internet, and it doesn’t have internet in the rooms – which is crazy in this day and age, right?

So I’m having to, just in case, I’m preparing some Drive episodes this week ahead of time for you, so that you can still hear from me. Planning, preparation, execution to keeping cranking out this greatness, haha!

Now I’ve got something that I want to share today. Something came into my mind over the weekend. You see, my fiancé Robyn actually grew up near Wimbledon in London, England. And because of that, she has still has a bit of an accent – what we would call like a cockney accent, like a London accent.

She’s not lived there for many, many years, but she still sometimes has that accent. And I want to draw on something from that thought, for all of us… The people that you surround yourself with can actually impact you for the rest of your life, in multiple different ways.

You Pick Up The Accent Of Those Around You, And It Stays With You The Rest Of Your Life

Surround Yourself With Positive People

So I want you to think about this in terms of starting and growing your business. You might think to yourself, “Well, y’know, it doesn’t matter too much who I hang out with, and what information I take in, and what I listen to – what beliefs I listen to, and what opinions I listen to.”

But the reality is, if somebody can be around certain people early on in life that speak a specific way, that have a specific accent because of where they live. And you pick up that accent, and it sticks with you for the rest of your life.

Then do you see how that lesson alone, tells us that who we hang out with – who we spend our time with, the opinions we listen to, the beliefs we take in around us – can absolutely impact the way we think and act in our lives. Does that make sense?

So if you think about it, like…

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How To Prioritize Tasks In Your Online Business To Boost Income

 

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Are you clear about which tasks are driving the results in your business, and those which are not? Learning how to prioritize tasks in your online business might be the most important business skill you ever develop. So here’s a simple tip for how you can achieve much more in your business, starting right now…

“Good morning my friend, how are you doing? Welcome to today’s Drive. So today… What day is it? Is it Friday? Haha, I have no idea what day it is. I’m just gonna assume it’s Friday. If it’s not Friday, then what the heck.

For me, every day is a good day. Every day is the same, in the sense of – it really doesn’t matter what day this to me. I stopped caring what day it was not too long after I stopped working at the construction company all those years ago.

Every day is a glorious day, every day is my day to own. That’s how I view it. Whether it’s Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, whatever. That’s how everybody should be living their lives. Doing something they enjoy, so it doesn’t matter what day it is. Whether it’s the weekend or a weekday, be doing something you’re passionate about.

A Lot Of Attention This Week Went Into What We’re Calling “The Best Webinar Ever“

So, a bit of a weekly roundup. I know a lot of times, on Friday, I would be in the office doing a bit of a weekly recap. But, you know what? I didn’t know it was Friday until just a second ago, when I thought about it! And so, here I am in the car doing The Drive, on the way to Internet Profits HQ.

Let me give you a bit of a lowdown as to what’s been happening this week.

I’ve put a lot of my attention this week into what we’re calling…

“The Best Webinar Ever”

Especially if you are an affiliate marketer with an audience in the internet marketing space. If you have an email list, and an audience of people that are looking to, or are starting or growing an online-based business…

What we’re about to come out with next month (you can find it here right now), is going to blow out of the water anything you have ever promoted or being involved with in the past. We have put our blood, sweat and tears into this.

The First Time We Did This Webinar Campaign It Generated Millions Of Dollars

The first time we did this webinar campaign, we only did it with a handful of people. I’m talking less than five. And it generated millions of dollars. Some of those people made anywhere from about fifty thousand dollars, up to six hundred thousand dollars.

So it’s pretty exciting that we took that away, evolved it, consulted with some of the best of the best. Like, Russell Brunson has been helping and advising me on it. And we brought some of the best campaign scripters in, who are about to start working on this stuff.

And yes, that’s kind of been a major focus of the week. But you know me well enough by now – you know that I do a lot! We get a lot done here at Internet Profits. And I think there’s a lesson in that…

How To Prioritize Tasks In Your Online Business To Boost Income

I mentioned this briefly the other day, that you need to think about each day, and each week… What is ‘the big thing’ that, if I get done today or this week, is going to have the biggest impact in my business?

So for me, I know this webinar that we’ve been focused on heavily this week, is going to make tens of millions of dollars, directly and indirectly. It’s going to be responsible for tens of millions of dollars, over the next 12 months alone! Ten million dollars plus is the goal.

Does Fixing It Have A Massive Impact In Your Business? Does It Really?

And so, is that one of the biggest, most profitable and impactful things I could do this week? YES!

Whilst a lot of people would be doing things like, you know, “I got stuck this week on a technical glitch, or with my autoresponder.” Or “I’m trying to figure something out with an email.” Or “I was trying to fix my blog.” and so on…

And the whole week’s just gone by, and how did your business move forwards? “It didn’t, but I had to fix this thing.” Did You?? Does fixing it have a massive impact in your business? Does it really?

That’s what you’ve got to look at – how to prioritize tasks in your online business. You have to look at these things. Now I’m not suggesting like, “Oh my things broken. I’m gonna leave it.” No! If it’s going to take you a week, and somebody could be outsourced on upwork.com to do that thing in a day for fifty dollars… What makes sense?

You spend a week trying to figure it out? Or spend fifty bucks? You know what I mean? You’ve gotta weigh these things up

Work With The 80/20 Principle…

80% of your time on the most impactful, profitable, income producing activities. Make sure you’ve got that ratio. 20% – that can go into fixing all the crap, or doing all those other little bits, okay? Make sure that’s the case. That’s how to prioritize tasks in your online business.

Spend 80% Of Your Time On Tasks That Have The Most Impact On Your Income

I’ve also actually been creating a case study this week of a free traffic generation system for our Certified Partners. A lot of people want to start out – or feel more comfortable starting out – with free traffic, rather than paid traffic.

Of course, we always make the important point that there is no such thing as ‘free’ traffic. But nonetheless, this gets put into the ‘free traffic’ category.

So yeah, we’ve been doing a live case study. Something that has been able to get me customers every day for free, for the last few days since I started it. And we’ve been documenting the process. Something that anybody can do. It’s basically an attraction marketing strategy.

But like I say, I think that is my biggest piece of advice for you today on how to prioritize tasks in your online business. Make sure you’re spending eighty percent – at least eighty percent of your time – on the tasks and the things in your business that have the MOST impact on your income.

If you’re not, then you’re focused on the wrong areas. If you can’t look at what you did this week and say…

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How To Manage Your Time Wisely And Stop Being A Busy Fool

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Are you working hard, but not getting the results you want in your business or in your life? If you feel like you’re spinning your wheels, you must learn to manage your time wisely and stop being a busy fool. Dean explains this in more detail here…

“Welcome my friend, how are you doing? Dean here of course, on the way to Internet Profits HQ. It is 7am. Nice bright early start today. Plenty to do.

Wanted to get in there early and get everything done. Today is a crazy, busy day actually. I’ve got to add the finishing touches to a webinar presentation. I have to shoot a video for some VIP coaching clients. I have some livestreams to do.

What Else?…

We’ve got a load of stuff being delivered into the office… We’re setting up… Got some exciting stuff to talk about actually, in terms of going forwards in the next few weeks. We’re having a real change in our video studio, setting it up to be able to livestream and all kinds of awesome stuff. And so I look forward to showing you that in a few weeks probably. So we’ve got the equipment coming for that, new computer desk, various things like that for the live streaming capabilities.

I’m Doing A Book Writing Challenge At The Moment

At 9:00 pm this evening, I have a call with Ken. We’re doing a book writing challenge at the moment, and we’ve got someone coaching us with writing a book. So the idea being is that we’re able to write a book – we’ll get the first draft done in 30 days. And then be having it polished up, edited, reviewed and proof read, and all that kind of stuff. So that’s going on today as well.

I’ve also got to drop my car off at the garage today to have its brake pads replaced. By the way, talking of cars, my new Range Rover Sport is is being delivered in the next couple of weeks, which is exciting. I remember years ago I had a vision board in my old office – and I just talking about this, this morning actually. On there was a Range Rover, because I always wanted one. And now I finally get one. So all in all yeah, wow, a lot actually happening today.

Y’know…

A Lot Of People Spend A Lot Of Time Doing A Lot Of Stuff

When people feel busy… I remember, many years ago, my first mentor – someone who’s helped me profoundly in my business, and a very good friend now, is Alex Jeffreys. And he used to say, like, about being a “busy fool”.

Am I Focused On The Right Things, Or Am I Being A Busy Fool?

You can be busy doing any number of things. I can find a reason to get busy in this car. For example I could polish it, tidy up, clean all the little bits, take the trash out. And I could tidy it all up and do all these different things, and I feel busy. But it wouldn’t really alter my life, do you know what I mean?

And so you’ve got to look at what you’re doing and how you manage your time wisely. Because I do think a lot of people FEEL busy. But what is it that you’re doing, that’s actually making a difference to your business and to your life? You’ve got to think about, “Am I being a busy fool?” Or, “Am I focused on the right things, and busy with them?”

For me… I know that 80 or 90 percent of the stuff I work on in my day today, is driving the business forwards. I’m working on productive tasks that will drive revenue into the business – that will drive sales, right?

But a lot of people are spending 80 to 90 percent of their time on stuff that won’t impact that kind of result. Y’know, things like… Let me think back to…

Some Of The Stuff In My Past That I’ve Spent Forever On

Trying to get my logo right. I’m not saying it’s not important but, depending on where you’re at in your business, you shouldn’t be spending weeks and weeks on it right? Do that in the future.

What’s The One Thing I Can Do Today To Most Impact Revenue In My Business?

Spending weeks trying to find the perfect WordPress theme for my blog. Again, it’s not impacting my revenue.

Trying to perfect the perfect squeeze page without actually driving any traffic to it. Again not gonna affect anything. I need to get on with driving traffic to it.

So there’s just a few certain areas… Like for me, if I were to really dial down on my day and say, “Right, what is the one thing that, if I did it today, would probably impact revenue the most in my business?”

And it would probably be the webinar thing that I’m working on today, right? Because I know that once I’ve made those tweaks and changes, based on a few tests we’ve done recently with this webinar… And then I record it, then I automate it… That now will work for me every day, every week, every month. You get what I mean?

Manage Your Time Wisely

Make sure you’re looking at your day in this way…

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Food For The Brain – What Are You Feeding Your Mind?

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Proper nutrition and exercise are important to your body’s health, and your brain power and mental health are similarly affected by the quality of your diet. However, this is not the food for the brain Dean’s going to be talking about here…

“Good morning! Dean here of course, just on the way to Internet Profits headquarters on this fine, sunny, glorious morning. I hope you’re doing well.

I want to talk about food. And not the kind that you might be thinking about. Although I am hungry this morning. I try not to eat breakfast, but just recently with doing a lot of travelling, my eating habits have been all over the place. And it’s pretty tough to get them back in line, but I’m fighting it.

The Right Foods + Exercise = Good Health

So yeah, I want to talk about food. Not the type of food that you put into your mouth. Although let me just give you a bit of an analogy and a lead-in to what I’m talking about first.

Food For The Brain

You see, when you eat healthy nutritious food. When you get the right foods for your body, and you exercise, it’s pretty much the the equation for good health. Like, in terms of fitness, your weight, and your your fat, and all that kind of stuff, right?

As you can tell, I’m definitely not a leading authority on health and nutrition. But I get the basics. You feed yourself good nutritious healthy food, and you exercise the body, and you’re gonna be alright. Get it?

Feed Your Brain Junk And Your Mind Is Gonna Turn To Crap

But if you feed yourself crap… If you put junk food into your body continually, what’s gonna happen? You’re gonna be unhealthy, you’re gonna be sluggish, overweight, and carrying a lot of fat.

Now what about your brain then? What happens if you feed your brain junk?

So if you feed yourself negativity, if you feed yourself too much television and media. If you feed yourself with negative views and negative input, and surround yourself with negative people that feed your brain with negative opinions. What’s going to happen?

Junk Food For The Brain

Well, just like when you eat junk food and your body turns to crap… You feed your brain junk and your mind is gonna turn to crap. You’re gonna have a bad mindset, you’re gonna have a bad outlook, you’re gonna be ‘damaged’ in the brain, okay?

What Happens If You Feed Your Mind Healthy, Nutritious Information?

But what happens when you feed your brain with healthy nutritious ‘food’/information. Like you read books and you feed yourself with good information, like you study your craft.

When you feed yourself with good information, like you surround yourself with positive, driven, like-minded individuals that get you. Feeding yourself with positive information, by surrounding yourself with people that doing what you want to do, that are smarter than you. What happens to your brain then?

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