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Success Is About Four Things: Money, Time, Relationships, and Service

A wise man once told me that we all have just Four Legacies to leave future generations. The first legacy is Financial Freedom. This involves spending less than you make, investing the balance, and creating a bigger life, not necessarily a bigger lifestyle. The second legacy is Time Freedom or the ability to take time for yourself and others. This leads to the third legacy which is Relationship Freedom and the desire to build solid, long-lasting, engaged relationships. And lastly, the first three can’t help but lead to Service Freedom – and we’re all here to be of service to one another. Let’s get started...

Money Freedom

Money Freedom is elusive for most people. It’s because society has taught us to want everything we want, and believe that we can have it right away. We’re a 24-easy monthly payment society and it’s the root cause of the economy today. Money Freedom doesn’t have to be elusive... in fact, it can be closer than you think. The key is playing the game we all play with money by the rules of winners, not of losers. It’s about changing your mindset. Ready to play The Money Game to win?

Time Freedom

Time Freedom is more than how many days off a year do you have. It’s about having the ability to create efficiencies within your life that allow you more free time to do what you wish. It’s about realizing that there are aspects of what you do that you can outsource to other people and new technologies. And most importantly, time freedom allows you to pursue what you really, really deep down want to do. And what might that be...?

Relationship Freedom

Relationship Freedom at its’ core is adding more value to other people than you can possibly ever expect to get in return. It’s the philosophies behind books like The Go-Giver, Never Eat Alone, and How To Win Friends And Influence People. And at the heart of Relationship Freedom is a P.O.W.E.R. that most people never get to fully access. Give me one hour of your time and you’ll know exactly how to access it...

Service Freedom

Service Freedom is a very simple concept. It’s the idea that we are all placed on this earth to be of service to one another in some way. While it’s true that each of us has a very unique set of skills, interests, hobbies, and values, our uniqueness is the gateway to help other people achieve everything they want to achieve. The challenge is achieving the first three legacies in order to live in Service Freedom forever. Those that do, never ever want for money, time, or relationships. Interested...?

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How MANY people have your back?

Sunday, 20 September 2009 23:43

Adam Steen and I are working on a book together and I personally think it's going to be rock solid. We're talking about the necessity of building a strong network and doing it the RIGHT way.

In The Power of Networking: Understanding Influence For Leaders At All Levels, by Robyn Henderson, she talks about the influence and power super networkers possess and why:

Master networkers understand that their ongoing success depends on treating their networks and the people within them with respect and integrity. This is one of the reasons why building networks takes time, effort and, most of all, sincerity.

Sincerity, Integrity, Respect -- how about selflessness? What I find most amazing is the inability for most people to network (i.e. to connect a couple of great people) without expecting an eye for an eye. Honestly, BNI groups make me want to pull out the remaining hair I have. I never attended any organized networking club more than once because it seemed like as soon as someone passed me a "lead" I had to return the favor.

Why don't I just open up my rolodex and let everyone have a shot at it?

Our form of networking is based on completely reversed principles. When I go out to meet people, it's about who I can connect them to to help them achieve some life aspiration or business objective. AND... it's a very big AND... it has to be in BOTH of the parties best interest or I'm not readily willing to make the connection.

You could say I subscribe to Steve Farber's Greater Than Yourself Philosophy. (Steve, I'm not sure if it's a philosophy, a creed, a model, or a paradigm -- but I am sure I like it.) It's the notion that as leaders and super connectors, our responsibility to the relationships we build is to help them become greater than ourselves. It's extreme leadership in its' purest form -- selfless, caring, encouraging, supportive.

Which is not to say that as an extreme leader or super connector we're not supposed to profit from it. It just may not be the primary and immediate motivator. I believe that when we promote opportunities while establishing relationships (POWER) we build tremendous amounts of social equity that will always come back to benefit us. In fact, when enough POWER is built with enough people, the acronym then becomes:

Profiting

What

Everyone

Refers

It's the strangest thing... I spent the first year or so of my business connecting the people that needed to be connected and while it's arguable I'm not the best mortgage guy or professional speaker in town, what's certifiable is the sheer number of referrals I receive from those I've assisted selflessly.

So, I thought it interesting, and insightful, and a pretty great read when Keith Ferrazzi came out with Who's Got Your Back? I loved Never Eat Alone and use it in combination with Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends And Influence People when "working" my network. That is... making mad connections.

The only tweak I would've added to Ferrazzi's book is the follow up to Who's Got Your Back should be --

And How Many?