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About David Wood

For 20 years David has helped entrepreneurs around the globe to grow their results, by growing themselves. A former consulting actuary to Fortune 50 companies in New York, David quit corporate life to pursue his inner journey, which now deeply influences his work. A digital nomad, David is currently dancing salsa, paragliding, and coaching his rock star entrepreneur clients from Colombia. His specialty is doubling your productivity and profits, while halving your stress. If you become a highly authentic and inspirational leader in the process, well….that can’t be helped.

Create #61: Money – the Lie Revealed

1. Announcements/Offers

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I was just told they’ve decided to give the speakers 5 free tickets. I’d love to meet some of you.

Criteria: You must be 100% definite that you can and will go to the whole conference. And post on my wall at facebook how it will help you and your business:
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Have you ever felt an instantaneous connection with a prospect? A connection so powerful that you instantly knew that this person would be your client?

How would you like to learn how to create those moments intentionally? You can, by learning the art of deep and profound connections. Learn more in the free video below:

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2. FEATURE: Money – The Lie Revealed

Note: I thought this was a timely issue, so I have reprinted from Create #7

Summary: It’s probably not what you’re after at all (and you think it is).

When you’re clear on WHY, and HOW MUCH, getting money can be easier, and much more fun. Focus on the REASON for money! What lifestyle do you want? How much is enough?

Suppose you got clear today that your ultimate lifestyle would be to sail around the world visiting exotic ports. Would you work 20-30 years to make that a reality? What about having it right now, and skipping the 20-30 years of work? Would it be smarter to quit your job and get a job on a luxury yacht traveling the world? Is money as necessary as we were told growing up?

Have you fallen for the Trap?

We’re trained and conditioned that making money and accumulating wealth is the game. Many backpackers have learned a different one.

It is possible to live for NOW enjoying everything there is to enjoy now, rather than in the future. But what about the future you ask????!!

Well, tomorrow never comes. You’re always here.

The trap to watch is saving hard; working hard for a lifestyle that you could have RIGHT NOW if you chose! I realised that what I would do if I had a lot of money, is to live in New York for six months of each year, and on Sydney Harbour the rest of the year. Summer all year round! When I realized I don’t have to wait for this, I can have it right now, I stopped thinking someday my life will be complete.

So write down your ideal lifestyle – the one you’re working so hard for.

The one you would have if you won the lottery next week.

Do you already have these things now? If YES then you have NOTHING to do! Your life is perfect, start realising it!

Can you have these right now? If YES then it’s time to have them.

No waiting. Live for now!

If NO, then what’s standing in the way? If you need more money, then follow this process:

a) write down the reason you need more money

b) how much is needed for that and by when (the numbers)?

c) how will I get there (income expenses = savings).

Decrease expenses game? Increase income game?

Conclusion

Get clear on your ultimate lifestyle or goal. See if you can have it without money, and right now! If money really is necessary, get clear on HOW MUCH is needed. Only THEN, once clear on WHY and HOW MUCH, are you in a position to get that money, and to enjoy getting it!

Beware of sacrificing everything now, for a future that is unclear, may not make you happy anyway, and which you may not even live to see!

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Action

1) Write down your ideal lifestyle or goal.

2) Is there a way to have this right now, without waiting for more money?

3) If you get stuck, share your goal or lifestyle want at the blog. Maybe someone else has an idea that you hadn’t thought of.

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Enjoy!


P.S. Got a comment on this article? Add it to the blog

3. The Personal Touch

I did www.mypartnershipseminar.com for the second time last weekend and it blew my mind – again. The very next day I had my first conversation with a potential sponsor – Microsoft. I’m now ready to approach 20 sponsors and another 20 non profits – ramp it up baby!

Life continues to be idyllic in my new rooftop office in Mill Valley, and I experienced my first “family constellation” – intense!

Love, David

Mentor Monthly #108: How to Add Vacation to Your Business Trips

1. Announcements/Offers

Join me in Los Angeles!

As a speaker at this great event, I’ll share about creating more money by living your passion. I promise you’ll leave with tools to create the job of your dreams – specifically how to put your passion into an information product to generate passive revenue for yourself. Plus it will be a chance for us to connect and talk. Join me and 17 other speakers covering Spirituality & Wisdom, Growing Your Business, Visionary Leadership, Integral Awareness, Empowering Relationships and more.

Click to see your invitation for The Answer Super Seminar II

WARNING: Serious Coaches Only

Learning to connect with your clients and prospects is one of the most important skills you could ever learn as a coach. Yet very few people ever teach the art of connection.

In the heart of downtown San Francisco, a small group of people have been researching and experimenting with the art of connection for over four years. To learn about what they’ve found, watch this free video below:

http://www.OneTasteConnection.com/Build-Your-Practice/

The First 30 Days

My friend Ariane has written a great book, The First30Days. It’s for all of us who are going through change, whether it’s personal or professional.

She’s gotten press from Oprah, The Today show, and some major endorsements already. If you buy the book today, you can also receive a dozen free gifts from top experts in every area of life and win a month of free coaching with Ariane! This is a limited offer so act quickly.

http://www.first30days.com/book

2. FEATURE: How to Add Vacations to Your Business Trips

Last issue we covered how to incorporate business in your travel, so this issue you are going to learn how to add vacations to your business trips.

Top Ten Reasons to Combine Business Travel with Vacation

  1. You can double your vacation time
  2. Your vacations can be partly or wholly tax deductible
  3. Use the business travel budget to cover your transport costs (e.g. work flies you to Miami and back, so the cost of your vacation is really just accommodation for the extra days you stay)
  4. Split up long period of stressful work with some R&R
  5. Split up long period of R&R that can start to feel a little boring, with a little productivity (great for us workaholics)
  6. Come back to the office happier, more grounded, and more productive
  7. No more long periods out of touch with the office when people are unable to access you
  8. Keeps you out of the office more so your assistants can prove they can handle more responsibility
  9. Forces you to be more efficient when you’re only allowed to work for 2 hours a day
  10. Allows you to get those BIG projects done with no distractions

When doing a business trip, how can you incorporate vacation?

  • Get there early. The simplest and most obvious way is to get to the event a couple of days early and do some sightseeing before it’s time to do business. If you can justify it to the office as important to get grounded and happy before the meeting – especially if it’s an international flight – you might get work to pay for a day or two of the extra hotel cost.

Or – tack on a few days at the end of the project. If the client agrees to stay another day or two, that’s a BIG reason for your boss to fork out for the extra hotel expense.

Example: This month I fly to Australia so the government can audit my company. I’ll be setting speeches up in two towns, meeting with my accountant and production manager who live there, and spending time with my family.

  • Stretched financially? Try www.couchsurfing.com for a place to crash once the business accommodation budget dries up. Youth Hostels might seem a bit unprofessional or like you’re coming down in the world, but that’s largely the point. You’ll meet colorful people you’ll never even see while insulated at the Hilton. Call way in advance and you might even secure the private room instead of a dorm.
  • Use your network. Another way to defray the cost is to email every friend you know, asking if they have a friend in that town who might put you up for two nights. Then, you do such a good job of tidying up, doing the dishes, and cooking dinner for people that they’re asking you to stay longer.
  • Work couldn’t survive without you? I hate to break it to your ego (especially if it’s as big as mine), but I suggest you write down what would happen if you were in hospital for two weeks unable to communicate. What would happen in your business? Who would pick up the reins? What could your assistant or secretary handle that you’ve never allowed room for?
  • Stop ‘on the way’. Is work flying you close to a place you’d like to go? See if you can stop off on the way there (or the way back) for a couple of days, at no extra airfare cost to you.

Example: This year I flew to Vail Colorado for a retreat. I decided to fly “via” Calgary and spend a week with friends. The cost of the total trip was less (in time and money) than if I’d flown to Vail only on this trip, and then done a separate trip to Calgary.

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Action: Post on the blog:

1) How have you combined work and vacation successfully?

2) What is one idea you would like to incorporate to add vacation to your work?

3) Post your answers to the blog.

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Enjoy!

P.S. Got a comment on this article? Please add it to the BLOG

Create #60: Silence Before Battle

1. Announcements/Offers

Join me in Los Angeles!

As a speaker at this great event, I’ll share about creating more money by living your passion. I promise you’ll leave with tools to create the job of your dreams – specifically how to put your passion into an information product to generate passive revenue for yourself. Plus it will be a chance for us to connect and talk. Join me and 17 other speakers covering Spirituality & Wisdom, Growing Your Business, Visionary Leadership, Integral Awareness, Empowering Relationships and more.

Click to see your invitation for The Answer Super Seminar II

Discover your Zone of Genius

The Big Leap shows you how to discover your Zone of Genius, which allows you to experience continuous waves of organic good feeling, abundant wealth and genuine love. Buy the book today during the official launch celebration and get your name entered into a drawing for a $10,000 day of consulting with Gay (which includes two one-hour follow-up sessions), receive special rewards for buying multiple copies and lots of exciting gifts from friends who are helping with the launch.

I urge you to get the book today and put its magic to work for you!

Learn more here:  www.hendricks.com/bigleap


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2. FEATURE: Silence Before Battle

This is an excerpt from Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho:

The Warrior of the Light recognizes the silence that precedes an important battle.

The silence says “Things have stopped.  Why not forget about fighting and enjoy yourself a little.”  At this point, inexperienced combatants lay down their arms and complain that they are bored.

The Warrior listens intently to that silence and understands that somewhere something is happening.  He knows that devastating earthquakes arrive without warning.  He has walked through forests at night and knows that it is precisely when the animals are silent that danger is near. 

While the others talk, the Warrior trains himself in the use of the sword and keeps his eye on the horizon.

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Action

1) Are you in a period of silence? How are you preparing?

2) What’s your positive interpretation of this passage?

3) Go to the blog and share your ideas.

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Enjoy!


P.S. Got a comment on this article? Add it to the blog

3. The Personal Touch

The book proposal is with several publishers right now, with a kick-ass marketing plan, and I honestly think NOT getting a great offer could be the best thing, because I’m so tempted to self publish. But fingers crossed for a big offer, and we’ll see which way it goes.

I’m almost full time now creating ‘The Best Job On Earth’ project, and am in discussions with the Sierra Club, Rotary International, Tourism Queensland, and hopefully soon…Microsoft, Google and Apple. Sometimes it feels overwhelming and my gremlin says “How could you ever pull off something so big”, but response has been very positive, and I’m excited. (One non profit has already offered $5000 per month in PPC advertising!). You can get updates at www.davidsfacebook.com and http://twitter.com/solutionbox.

I’ve saved the best ’til last…..after a very bumpy year and significant doubts, I’ve manifested the most amazing partner I can imagine. I’ll write a partial list of qualities here (and you might want to get a cup of tea as it’s not short :-). She’s intelligent (smarter than me), has a huge heart, helps others (works with homeless families), loves to laugh, has a wicked mind (and enjoys messing with people’s heads), sensitive, emotionally aware, super-conscious, high-high-level communicator (tells on herself, reveals the hard stuff), beautiful, sexy, loves nature and dancing, supportive, generous, creative, understanding, and willing to feel uncomfortable feelings. She’s a natural yes to commitment and monogamy – and – she absolutely adores me. Ever get everything you ever wanted, and more? It’s confronting. And I accept! (the love-sick puppy I am, I made a video for her – you can see the public/sanitized version here

Love, David

MM #107: How to Get Paid for Your Vacations

1. Announcements/Offers

Join me in Los Angeles!

As a speaker, I’ll share about creating more money by living your passion. I promise you’ll leave with tools to create the job of your dreams. Plus 17 other speakers will cover Spirituality & Wisdom, Growing Your Business, Visionary Leadership, Integral Awareness, Empowering Relationships and more.

Click to see your invitation for The Answer Super Seminar II

Starting the Kindness Revolution

On 1 April, Sydney had the opportunity to Wake Up! The event started bringing Sydneysiders together to ignite a revolution toward a more kind, conscious and sustainable world. Wake Up Sydney! will be holding events every month to entertain, renew and inspire. Each evening will explore themes such as sustainability, artistry, fair trade, presence, wisdom traditions, wellness, yoga, conscious capitalism, media and generosity.

Watch the film, get free kindness cards and check out the revolution here:

www.WakeUpSydney.com.au

What do you want to become known for?

Inside of each of us lies the solution to solving a crisis, averting a disaster, saving the planet and ultimately to create a better place for us all to live. Knowing what your greatest strengths are, and deploying them in the service of something larger than you, are the keys to success and fulfillment in the 21 st Century.

Join the Purposeful Entrepreneur Boot Camp™ and discover how the integration of purpose will bring more pleasure, engagement and a deeper sense of meaning to your business while increasing revenue, profitability, customer loyalty, personal fulfillment and inner-peace.

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2. FEATURE: How to Get Paid for Your Vacations

Historically we have separated work and vacation.

We work 50 weeks of the year (in the US anyway), and take 2 weeks off.

The result? We’re stressed out.

It seems crazy to me to lump work all together, and then lump vacation all together. You stress out while working wishing you were on vacation, and then often get bored on vacation wishing there was more to do.

It’s time to get MORE vacation in our life. And at a lower cost. Below are some suggestions of how to work it. But before that, let’s take a look at the big advantages to combining the two:

Top Ten Reasons to Combine Business Travel with Vacation

  1. You can double your vacation time
  2. Your vacations can be partly or wholly tax deductible
  3. Use the business travel budget to cover your transport costs (e.g. work flies you to Miami and back, so the cost of your vacation is really just accommodation for the extra days you stay)
  4. Split up long period of stressful work with some R&R
  5. Split up long period of R&R that can start to feel a little boring, with a little productivity (great for us workaholics)
  6. Come back to the office happier, more grounded, and more productive
  7. No more long periods out of touch with the office when people are unable to access you
  8. Keeps you out of the office more so your assistants can prove they can handle more responsibility
  9. Forces you to be more efficient when you’re only allowed to work for 2 hours a day!
  10. Allows you to get those BIG projects done with no distractions

How to incorporate business in your travel?

  • Ask your boss if you can work for 3-5 days “from home” in the middle of your vacation. This extends your time away by up to a week, allows you to break up your vacation time, and means you’re not “away” from work for so long. For example, if going to Florida for 2 weeks, go for three, and play one week, work one week, and play another week. And of course – it’s all play. You can suggest to your boss you might be MORE productive away from the distractions of the office, and may come up with new perspectives by being away from the office. If she’s still hesitant, suggest it as a trial. If you can demonstrate more productivity, it’s on the table to do again down the track. It could even open the door to you working much more “from home”.
  • Work for a couple of hours in the morning or afternoon, every day you are away. This is a favorite of mine – I don’t need days and days away from work; I actually like my work. But it’s great to work from say 2-4pm each day, and play the rest. It means I can feel good about staying away longer, because important things are still being addressed. It also makes me a LOT more efficient if I know I’ll only have two hours a day of work; I only deal with the most critical things, and delegate the rest. Wonderful! Again – pitch this idea to your boss, and extend your vacation from a week to 2 weeks, with your boss resting easy that instead of 7 days with no access to you, they’ll have access to you for 2 hours every day – even on weekends!
  • Be sure to stay close to wireless internet (no dial-ups!) and have your laptop handy. With a $50 web cam you can even do video conference calls. With the free www.Skype.com you can call from your computer for nothing or 2 cents a minute. And then of course – there’s the trusty cell phone. For printing I just use the hotel business desk, or ask nicely if reception would print off something for me (so carry a 1 Gig memory flash-stick). They’ll also often scan or fax, although http://www.efax.com/ let’s you fax directly from your computer.
  • Got a BIG project? Get away to a dream location. Once I needed to get a lot of writing done, and I just couldn’t get it done at home or work with all the distractions around. So I took off to Thailand for a month, and wrote every day. I had a wonderful vacation, I got the book done, and the trip was tax deductible.
  • Not sure what business-related thing you could do while on vacation? Call the local Chamber of Commerce or Rotary Club and offer to speak. Attend a local meeting of any professional body you’re affiliated with e.g. Toastmasters. Set up a couple of meetings with companies that might buy your services, or might want to joint venture with your company. Find a local training workshop (e.g. via The Learning Annex) and take an evening, one day or two day course.
  • If you can’t find a business related thing to do AT your vacation hot-spot, perhaps you can stop at another city on the way or on the way back and get a business task done. Work will often pay the cost of what the fare would have been just to fly direct to that city.

Example: I flew to Calgary this year for a couple of weeks with friends. Before I went I contacted local coaching organizations offering to speak. While they fell through, I also asked my newsletter subscribers for a volunteer to set up a local talk for me; someone set up the whole thing including video taping it. This forged new relationships, added a lot of good will to my subscriber base, got me an hour of good video content, and made part of the trip tax deductible.

 

NEXT ISSUE: How to incorporate vacation in your business trips!

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Action: Post on the blog:

1) What is one idea you would like to incorporate to combine work and vacation?  

2) Post your answers to the blog. And we’d love to hear ideas of how you have combined work and vacation.

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Enjoy!

should you retreat or advance? (doors close 6pm Pacific)

With the doors closing tonight at 6pm San Francisco
time, I wanted to ask you an important question
in this current economy:

Should you retreat or advance?

In other words, should you start or build your
business in these challenging economic times?

(Heads up: I’m biased)

When things get tough, many people are tempted
to withdraw and contract and wait things out.
And that’s *one* totally valid option.

However, I’ve also found the current economy
a motivator to do things I’ve never done
before, and get my butt in gear. Why?
Because I’ve HAD to. Have you found that
you have to do things differently too?

I’d like to offer you, respectfully,
two reasons to take me up on my training
offer before 6pm Pacific today when
the doors close and the program is taken
off the market:

1) With our jobs more at risk than ever
before, couldn’t you use an *additional*
stream of income, to give you an extra
level of security?

2) In these challenging times, are there MORE
people who could use your help than there
were before, or less?

Only you can decide if today
is the time for you to advance and create,
when so many of us are hesitant to. I know
I get nervous ALL THE TIME. It’s not easy
to stand out and create something new.

One of your fellow subscribers just sent me
this inspiring message, which may help:

“David, I am a realtor in a slow and challenging
market. It has taken a lot to feel as if I can
create a new business at this time. Your inspirational,
motivational, and relentless BEINGNESS has provided
the impetus to give me the courage to go forth…”

And of course it’s nothing to do with me. It’s
*your* courage that got you this far, and *your*
courage that will have you moving forward to
help others when so many are tempted to retreat.

I’m biased. I want you to grow and create.
I want you to move forward, side ways, up,
over – as long as you move. I want you to
watch the training DVD in particular, get
hugely inspired, and build!

And I trust you’ll decide what’s right for you.
Just decide before 6pm Pacific, OK? 🙂

Join the world changers in 11 countries who
already have the program, at:

http://GetPaidForWhoYouAre.com <== doors open for
7 more hours

ALERT: You can still get Special Launch Bonus #1 –
the Google Pay Per Click streaming video training.
(Valued at $297). And you can still get the program
for the low launch price.

Thanks for participating in this launch – I know
it’s been a LOT of content in your inbox. It’s been
a load of fun sending you inspiration and strategies.

Cheers,

David
http://GetPaidForWhoYouAre.com

P.S. Doors close 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific today –
at that time you’ll see a ‘Doors Closed’ message on
the program page.

If there’s still any doubt in your mind after seeing
the surprising case study video above, then this
might give you comfort: I really want you to watch
the DVD. I want you to see what’s possible. So go
right now and purchase the program, watch the
DVD, and if you’re not swimming in possibility after
watching it and reviewing the ecourse and Google
training, I’d be absolutely delighted to refund
your purchase price. Go here right now:

http://GetPaidForWhoYouAre.com <== expires in 7 hrs

How did Ezra semi-retire at age 22, and in this economy?

Like this video? Click to tweet it! (Your followers will thank you)

Curious to know how Ezra, at the age of 22, now only has to work 2-3 days a week? And how you could too? Watch the above 6 min video.

Many people don’t actually know it’s possible to work 2-3 days a week doing what you love, particularly in this economy, so this is worth
watching. At the end of the video I ask you a question relevant to your own business.

I created this video to prove to you that anyone CAN apply these techniques, and generate passive revenue while they are sleeping.

I know you think that an internet marketer or a computer whiz can do it. But what about your average person without computer skills? Watch the video, and then you tell me.

(Tip: And you’re not going to believe the product he chose to sell!! If he can do it with this, you can do it with anything!)

DOORS REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 3pm PDT Friday Mar 27

The program is still available at the low launch price. On Friday the page will be removed and the program pulled. The quicker you get your program, the quicker you can begin impacting more lives:

http://GetPaidForWhoYouAre.com <== doors open now!

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