GoGetters Vancouver – Make 2017 Your Best Yet!
Date: January 9, 2017
Name: GoGetters Vancouver – Make 2017 Your Best Yet!
Presenters: Ryan Joseph Zokol, Graham Young, and Himanshu Narang
To get a head start of year 2017, entrepreneurs need to refocus their goals and understand how mind can influence mental performance. GoGetters Vancouver meetup invites Ryan Joseph Zokol, the Lifestyle entrepreneur, Graham Young, the Performance Coach from Graham Young Strategies, and Himanshu Narang, the professional speaker, to discuss their breakthrough from their businesses. In this presentation, entrepreneurs will learn the steps to focus their goals. In addition, Graham Young will reveal the connection between relationship and performance. Furthermore, Himanshu Narang will share his 5 principles to live in legendary life.
The Bullseye
Ryan Joseph Zokol is a lifestyle entrepreneur and a performance coach. For over 3 years, Zokol spends a large amount of time to help entrepreneurs transform. Until now, many entrepreneurs are inspired from his talk. Zokol is also the Chief Operating Officer for Pacific Institue for Advanced Dental Education. He was a Vice President of Strategy for Cerulean and he volunteered in Ripple Effects Society.
Zokol provides a worksheet called “Monthly Plan” to help entrepreneurs focus on their daily success. Entrepreneurs need to write down their accomplishments from the past month and also write down the commitment they are not doing anymore. Zokol wants entrepreneurs to list all the actions entrepreneurs are taking to celebrate their lives and a list of things they are not doing in their current schedule. These 4 steps will help entrepreneurs to narrow down their top 3 priorities for the current month and the actions they need to take to complete those priorities.
Zokol provides another worksheet called “The Bullseye”. Entrepreneurs need to make a declaration. The declaration must be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-sensitive, and past tense. When declaration is in past tense, entrepreneurs will be more aware of opportunities. Next, entrepreneurs will need to describe their current reality related to their goals. The beauty of this step is to understand how far away from the current stage to their goals. Zokol wants entrepreneurs to use all information to determine the ideal actions they need to take to complete their goals. They also need to brainstorm people they can share these goals and actions. This is important for entrepreneurs because they can get feedback and additional supports from others. Lastly, entrepreneurs will need to write own the daily and weekly actions that can help them create the necessary habits to accomplish their goals.
The Science behind relationship and influence
Graham Young is a performance consultant for Graham Young Strategies. He helps many entrepreneurs improve their sales performance and other engagements through his leadership training. His leadership skill involved with neuroscience and psychology teaching, which support entrepreneurs to breakthrough their peak mental performance. He was a business development manager from ePACT Network. Moreover, he volunteers as a Director in a charitable foundation called Contributing to the Lives of Inner City Kids.
Young believes many entrepreneurs are comparing themselves to others and using other entrepreneurs as measuring stick. In fact, they are always worry about judge.
Young shares his mother threw him self-taught books when he was young. In 2009, his business mentor suicided, and his mentor’s action did not make sense to Young. Young realized people expect leaders who are in higher position with all the answers to their problems. However, it was difficult for the leaders to ask others for answers. In 2012, Young’s mother was diagnosed with cancer. It did not make sense to Young because his mother was into healthily lifestyle. He later realized his mother was stressed out about the concern of health. These life challenges directed Young to realize his mission is to help people simply the psychology of neuroscience. In another word, Young can help entrepreneurs rewire their brain.
“We cannot be truly effective in building relationships and understanding human behavior if we do not fully understand our own”
Young defines expectation is the belief in people’s head that think it is trust worthy. People have expectation for others, themselves, others that have on them, and think what others have on them. Expectation helps entrepreneurs know what to focus on that moment. The question Young asks the audience is “what expectations do you have?”
Expectation is a defence mechanism. It can lead to rejection or connection, and it gives entrepreneurs the control of their lives. It also helps entrepreneurs aware of threats and avoid pain.
“Do your best, focus on your intent”
Young shares 2 strategies for entrepreneurs. The first strategy is to build the value tribe. Entrepreneurs create their contact list. They should spend 15 to 30 minutes per day to give value to one person on the contact list. The list will help entrepreneurs to ensure they do not forget about the promise they made to others. This will help entrepreneurs understand what type of value they can bring. The second strategy is to write daily journal. It can help entrepreneurs reconnect with themselves.
Young believes rules is a part of expectation. Rules is what must happen to achieve fears or valves. Fears can be rejection, not accepted, not appreciated, failure, making mistake and etc. For entrepreneurs, the underline message for fears is that they are not good enough. Values means love, connect, respect, success, achievement and etc. Young emphasizes the brain is two times as motivated to move away from pain than it is to move towards pressure.
For entrepreneurs, rule or expectation will go through 3 stages: deserving, outcome, and validation. Entrepreneurs need to know if they deserve enough. They need to see the outcome, and they need validation from others. They need all 3 to happen; otherwise, it will be out of their control.
Young shares the reactions to achieve rules or expectations.
- Perfectionism
- People pleaser
- Compare / jealousy / inferior
- Over prepare / overthink / over analyze
- Take personally
- Avoidance
- Blame others
- Emotions
Young believes the solution is to understand the foundation of value and intention. It is important to ensure entrepreneurs are doing their best. They need awareness. They can change the rules or expectation. They can do mental workout, experience wrap, or affirmation.
“To change your rules, reverse your struggle”
Young shares the brain learns from the words people say, how these words make people feel, experience, how experience make people feel, and repetition.
Young provides new rules for entrepreneurs who want to change. He calls it “Power Phrase”.
| Perfectionist | |||||||||||
| “I do not need to be perfect to be accepted by others, I am perfect in my imperfection” | |||||||||||
| Take things Personally | |||||||||||
| “I have no control over other’s actions. How they treat me is how they treat everyone else. I trust myself to be in the moment” | |||||||||||
| Social Anxiety | |||||||||||
| “I connect with the right people, clients, contacts and friends in my life when I am my natural self. I am connected to myself” | |||||||||||
| People Pleaser | |||||||||||
| “I feel appreciated by others when I treat them with warmth and respect, not how they treat me” | |||||||||||
| Worry what other people think | |||||||||||
| “I trust myself to be in the moment, out of my head and in my heart. I trust in my intent” | |||||||||||
| Judgement | |||||||||||
| “The more I judge others, the more I feel I am being judged. Everyone is doing the best they can with what they have and what they were given” | |||||||||||
| Fear Failure | |||||||||||
| “Confidence comes from my action not my outcome” | |||||||||||
| “Confidence comes from stepping out of my comfort zone, making a decision and not looking back” | |||||||||||
| Comparing to others | |||||||||||
| “I love myself because I am learning and growing for myself and everyone around me” | |||||||||||
To do a mental workout, Young wants entrepreneurs to do the following.
- Breath 4 seconds in, hold 2 seconds, exhale 4 seconds
- Say the power phrase
- Visualize 3 things that was completed in the last 24 hours
- Visualize 2 things that needs to complete today
- Visualize 1 thing in the future
- Say the power phrase
- Breath 4 seconds in, hold 2 seconds, exhale 4 seconds
Live Legendary – Perspective and Tactics for a Legendary 2017
Himanshu Narang is a professional speaker and a professional trainer. He helps many entrepreneurs to reach and produce legendary results. His training involves in Business value creation, peak performance and communication skills. Narang is the Co-Founder of GoGetters Vancouver. He was a Chief Business Strategist at RocketFuel Digital and a Board member of GoGreenChandigarh.
Narang asks the audience what do entrepreneurs really after? The answer is the fulfillment through success. To live in legendary life, it all start with doubt.
Narang shares his story. He disliked the life of engineer. He felt his life was just passing by. He was disappointed and powerless. The leap of faith helped him land to Vancouver to study MBA, but he was concern about his future of his dream. In 2013, he had hard time finding internship. He began to study people in the industry, especially those who fulfill their lives. He discovered 5 principles that changed his life differently. These principles changed him significantly. He started to earn 6 figures and accomplished his dream of speaking as a speaker. He called the 5 principles as “CRAFT”.
“What is legendary life look like? whatever you see it is possible”
Principle #1: Create an artist’s perspective
Narang wants entrepreneurs to create something that the world has never seen before. The product they make should give the same experience all the time. It is beautiful creation from hard work. The path of being a legendary artist is continuous improvement.
Principle #2: Re-think leadership
When people know what they want, followers will come. Narang wants entrepreneurs to remember the legendary leadership starts with themselves. It is all about believing themselves and it is not about blaming others. They need to focus on what they can impact. It all narrows down to dream and choice. Therefore, entrepreneurs need to act like a leader all the time.
Principle #3: Adopting 1% mindset
Narang believes the world is structured in the shape of pyramid and only 1% of people or business reach to the top. The pyramid starts with under average, then average, then good, and lastly the legendary. Entrepreneurs need to do what 1% of people do to be at the top. They must be prepared to make the choices, and live the way only 1% have courage to.
Principle #4: Focus on being an exceptional human being
Entrepreneurs should be givers. Since people are programed differently, but too many people are spending money they cannot payback on things they should not be spend. Narang asks 2 questions.
- If your kids knew who you truly are, would you be proud of yourself?
- How do you want to be remembered at the end of your career or life?
For entrepreneurs, at the end, how they feel about themselves matter. All actions align feelings made to others. Moreover, it is important to build real relationship.
Principle #5: Tune into “stick until it will click’ attitude
Narang shares a lesson he learned from his grandmother. In 2014, he was struggling to find a job. When he was about to give up, his grandmother told him everything new is difficult first, but it will get easy. She also told him “if you stick, it will click”. When entrepreneurs have burning desire, it will click if they do not give up.
“Life is special, make the most of it”
