5 Resolutions That Will Make 2018 Your Best Year Ever!
[0:00:00] All right, gents a new year and a new you.
In today’s video, five New Year’s resolutions to have an amazing 2018.
[Music] Take better care of your body by better understanding
your body.
So, I’m not going to talk about going to the gym, I’m sure that’s on many of your
list.
What I’m talking about here is actually going to the doctor getting your yearly exam,
going to the dentist every six months, tracking your sleep every single night.
Why do you want this information?
So, when you go to the doctor they’re going to take a blood sample, they’re going to
measure your heart rate.
They’re going to do all these – collect all these information which we can start to
build into your baseline.
All of a sudden, when you go the dentist, you can add that information in there.
When you look at your sleep, you can add that information in.
And, what you’re looking at are trends and are averages and you can then make a sense
of why am I becoming depressed, why all of the sudden am I feeling with low energy, what’s
going on here?
And you can go look at those physical those physical measures and you can start to better
understand what’s going on with your body.
Some of it, yes, is psychological, but a lot of these actually can be physically measured
by the food that we eat, the way that our body is changing over time.
It may be something that I know me personally I was grinding my teeth when I was sleeping
and I talked to my dentist about this, it turned out because I had stopped exercising,
I was experiencing a lot of stress in my company.
And he’s like, okay, well, how about we get you back on an exercise routine, all of
a sudden you start to, you know, just eat a bit better.
We made all these other changes, lo and behold I stopped grinding my teeth.
But, it was because I knew this was outside of my norm that I was able to go look at all
of these things and be able to figure this out.
So, when you better understand your body, you can understand how to better take care
of it.
Resolution number two.
Get life insurance.
If you have kids, if you are married, if you have co-signed on loans, if you have a business,
you need to have life insurance.
Why?
Because think about what happens if you die unexpectedly.
You know I have quite a bit of life insurance because I want my four children to be able
to go to college.
And, yes, I’m not going to be around, but they will not – they will have one last
thing to worry about.
They don’t have to worry about the finances.
My wife, I don’t want her to have to worry about finances the year, the two years, the
five years after I’m gone.
I want her to look back and to remember, you know he was a great provider, he was someone
that looked out for us and thought ahead.
And, guys, it’s incredibly affordable.
It’s one of those things that if you don’t have it, it just blows me away how many people
are not smart about this.
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Resolution number three.
Build better relationships.
Men were pretty bad about this.
Have you heard that saying?
Women get help, men we die.
And it’s funny, but it’s not really because it’s so true.
Guys, we stop building relationships after college, it seems like we stop connecting
with other people.
I’ve talked about this before you are the average of the people you surround yourself
with.
You want to surround yourself with other men and with women that lift you up that have
a great community.
So, how to actually build these better relationships?
Well, you want to systematize it.
So, let’s use that example of church.
What happens there?
Sunday at noon everyone meets at a set place and they go over something that’s actually
pretty regiment in terms of the way it’s laid out.
So, you think about it very systemized.
How could you do this in your business you want to build relationships with the peers
in your industry?
Set up a mastermind that’s going to be at a set time at a set location at a set link
and just simply make that happen.
You can do this with a study group at your university, a set place.
It could be physical, it could be virtual.
What you want to do is systemize this.
I know I have a system for staying in better touch with my friends.
Whenever I am driving and it’s more than thirty minutes, I start going through my phone
and I call people.
And, yes, I will call people sometimes and they won’t pick up, I’d leave a message.
But what happens is I leave thirty four messages, finally someone does pick up and I talk with
them have a good conversation.
But, over the next week, everybody is calling me back that I left that message on and that’s
how I do a good job of trying to stay in touch with people in my – my life that matter.
[0:04:57] Gamify your finances.
You want to make it fun to save money to earn money so that you can build up a nest egg
of money that gives you options.
Guys, you want to have enough margin in your finances so that you can take chances because
people that live paycheck to paycheck, they don’t have the option of quitting their
job to go after another job that pays less, but has more potential.
That’s something that they don’t have that luxury.
So, how are you going to in a sense save up enough to give yourself that margin that nest
egg?
Well, you want to gamify it.
So by gamifying the system making it fun, all of a sudden you’re going to be able
to get closer to your goals with putting in a minimal amount of effort.
Now, understanding gaming your finances doesn’t have to be high tech.
I’ve got a friend he’s got that five-gallon jug that whenever he comes home he takes the
change out of his pocket, he drops it right in there.
Once a month he takes this to the bank.
The key is you can see progress.
I know people that still physically write things out, they got a board right there in
their kitchen and they can see, okay, I’ve made this payment and I’ve got it down to
this amount.
They actually enjoy this.
I know for me I like to make it electronic.
There are tons of apps out there, you can actually download put on your phone and they
will connect to your financial institution and you can see this.
You can go to your financial institution, most likely they’ve got an app and you can
actually just simply use that to actually physically track and to see things that are
actually getting paid on as they continue to go down, loans that you have, savings accounts
that you’ve got building up.
And that’s what I would say about gamification, you want to make it simple.
You want to be able to see this progress, but you want it simple you want it automated
and over time that’s when you’re going to see the dividends being built.
Resolution number five.
Set boundaries.
Now, I’m not going to say that you need to bring in the boundaries or that you need
to expand them.
You need to understand where your boundaries are at now.
Most people don’t even know.
And then, make the decision do you want to open them up, do you want to bring them.
And I find most people probably want to bring them in because they’re saying yes to almost
everything, they’re overwhelmed.
For me, my boundaries I’ve been bringing them in.
I’ve been saying no to a lot of opportunities.
I’ve got opportunities to go do business up in Canada over in South Africa over at
various parts of the world, but I’m saying no to that because I’m thinking can I take
my family with me.
I want to spend more time going with my son to the gym going with my daughter to the ice
skating rink.
So these things are important to me because my kids are young.
I want to spend mornings with my wife having coffee.
An easy way to look at things for me is to say if I’m not going to say, hell, yeah
to it, I’m going to say a definite no.
That right there helps me cut through a lot of things.
Many of you guys find yourselves on committees, on boards, in projects that you’re lukewarm
about that you don’t even have the time to do and you don’t want to do, but somehow
you got pulled into it.
So, make sure that you know your boundaries and you set them.
All right, gents, now it’s your turn.
I want to hear from you down in the comments what New Year’s resolution are you going
to commit to here in 2018, what is really going to move the needle for you, what change
are you going to make so that you live the life that you want to.
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Gents, if you’ve got people that rely on your income, you need life insurance.
It’s that simple.
I want to see you do the things which are going to pay the big dividends, the things
that are going to protect your family, the things that are going to grow your wallet,
that are going to put you in a position spiritually, physically, mentally so that you can get what
you want out of life.
Makes sense, guys?
Take care.
I’ll see you in the next video.
Bye.
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