Jan. 3, 2025
Transform Your Life: Coaching Universal Principles for Success and Productivity
Discover the universal principles that can transform every facet of your life, from personal health to business success. Picture this: over a decade ago, I was struggling with significant physical and mental challenges. Yet, by changing my self-talk, surrounding myself with a supportive environment, and zeroing in on the controllable elements of my life, I managed to lose 100 pounds and keep it off for 13 years. These aren't just health principles—they’re powerful strategies you can apply to any challenge you face, whether you're looking to enhance your public speaking or boost your business acumen.
Ever wondered how to harness your natural energy peaks to optimize productivity? The secret lies in understanding your unique rhythm—whether you're a night owl or an early bird. By aligning your tasks with your energy levels, and reinforcing your efforts with a strong mindset, actionable tactics, and consistent accountability, you can craft a strategy perfectly suited to your brain wiring. Tune in to learn how these universal principles can guide you to achieve more with less stress, ensuring success across all domains of your life.
Chapters
00:00 - Universal Principles and Impactful Coaching
06:31 - Optimizing Productivity and Success
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So somebody asked me you speak a lot about how you're always driven towards universal principles.
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What does that look like for you and what does that even mean?
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One of the things that I found is having growing businesses, being in a leadership role, helping make an impact in people's lives.
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When it comes to coaching them and finding stories that like they can really lean into to take massive action, I find that my brain naturally will pull out universal principles that I hear that people are saying and it allows me to show them how they can move it into other areas that maybe they're currently struggling with.
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So this was a question from Cynthia where she wants to know, like, what do I mean by universal principles and what are some of the ways that I use them to help make a big impact in the people that we coach?
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So I'm curious from your perspective, like I know you hear me talk a lot about universal principles.
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I know you see me pull out universal principles, but I'm curious, like if you had to explain it, what comes up for you?
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Well, that's what I was going to ask you, like, if you could define what universal principles are.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So when you look at, somebody is struggling with their physical and mental health, right, and they've been able to overcome it and they've been able to lose weight and successfully navigate it right, like even for us.
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So we had 30 years for me of being out of shape, unhealthy, at one point, being 100 pounds heavier than I am now, and I was fluctuating up and down, and then I found something that helped me overcome that and to take massive action, lose 100 pounds and now keep it off for 13 years.
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And so if I'm telling you that story, right, I'm telling a story of like I found a way to give myself a reason why I should get up when the alarm goes off, versus using, like, a bunch of different stories that I would tell myself whether I need a break, or I didn't get enough sleep last night, or this is going to work anyway.
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That would convince me not to hit the alarm, and so what I would do is I would remind myself every single day like this is what I'm fighting for.
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I'm fighting for my family, for my health, for my energy, because once I pour into my you know, my own cup, then I can pour into so many other people's cup and it gets me to show up on my A game, right.
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And maybe the next thing is like I actually started to read books, I started to learn about the compound effect and I was doing exercises and workouts and eating nutrition that I really enjoyed and that really changed the game for me.
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So if you're having a conversation with somebody they don't know universal principles, they're like, okay, that's cool, like let's tackle this new area now, right.
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And they feel like they're starting over from scratch.
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Let's say somebody struggling with business.
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The way that my mind would work is go okay, what are the universal principles that worked last time?
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Right?
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Number one is you found a story or a way to talk to yourself, to convince yourself to take action, right.
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Number two is you put yourself in an environment of other people who wanted the same results and goals and have the same values as you, and it got you to show up on the next level.
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Right.
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And maybe number three is you took control of the things you can control, because when you do that, sometimes you can even control the things you thought you couldn't, and so you take those universal principles and you go okay, so let's think about your business strategy, right.
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What is the story you're telling yourself right now about business that's preventing you from taking action right?
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Or even earlier we talked about, like, public speaking.
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What are the stories you're telling yourself that's getting you not to accept public speaking positions or to create them yourself, right?
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What's a new story that we can actually tap into that remind you of what you're fighting for?
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To get you to take the actions you want to take?
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Because there's people out there who need to hear your story.
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They would connect with it and they would change their life forever if you're willing to get past the fear of you and make it about them right.
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Next thing is let's go in an environment where other people are public speaking.
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It's just the norm, it's what everybody does and everybody's sharing ideas and strategies and examples, and it makes you feel like you're a part of the group, because they're nervous too, but they're going out there, they're crushing it, they're bringing back what they're doing, they're succeeding in what they're failing at and you're able.
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A speaking environment.
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What can't you control?
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That you just need to bless and release.
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You can't control how other people respond, react whether they laugh at your jokes, whether they feel compelled by your story, but what you can control is how you communicate, when you're making it about them, not about you, and really showing up in a way where you're focusing on things you can control.
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So that's what I mean by universal principles is because sometimes people see it as individual, like, oh that's how I did it in my health and fitness and that can't possibly help me somewhere else.
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That's not how my brain works.
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My brain works.
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Oh, that worked for you, that's going to work for you over here too, because we're all wired a little differently.
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But when you find that you can have success in one area by doing these things, yeah, so this is what I'm hearing from you and maybe I can explain this in a way that makes sense.
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Let's go back to the health and fitness example.
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So people want to know what people did exactly what they did so that they can apply it themselves, thinking that it's going to work for them, right, when in reality, it's just about finding those universal principles and then applying it to your specific life.
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Yeah, that will help you.
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And then, in another way it's you're taking from a completely different area of your life, taking the things that went well in that area and then applying it to a different area, because there are those universal principles that you pick out that will help you in the other area.
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So, that's what I'm kind of hearing from you 100%, 100%.
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And as you're talking about that, it's like also the difference between coaching and mentoring, like mentoring and coaching, right.
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So mentoring is.
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I'm going to tell you the steps I took.
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When people like hear that I've lost 100 pounds, they want to know what it is that I did.
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But they never asked me who I had to become.
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And it's because the universal principle is you have to become somebody different in the process.
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If you don't become somebody different in the process, you're just taking on a new action and that new action is never going to become a part of your daily habits or routines, because it's not something you do in your core, it's something you're forcing yourself to do.
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And if you force yourself to do it, there's going to be a time when you don't force yourself to do it anymore, right, and so when you think about this, when you think about the early morning routines right, we've done some videos here because people are like what's your morning routine?
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And I'm like I hate that question because so many people are not morning people I'm like don't do what I'm doing and force yourself.
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You got to find the universal principle.
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The universal principle is not everybody needs to wake up in the morning.
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Universal principle is figure out what your universal prime time is.
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Coaching others is your passion and you're already helping people achieve incredible results, but what if you could unlock even more in your potential and in your business?
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If you're looking to increase your confidence and create more alignment in your life towards your goals, I'd love to help.
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During a free coaching call, we'll explore how to boost your income and your impact, how to grow your business sustainably and feel more confident in the results that you are delivering.
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Book your free call today and let's get started.
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Thank you, coach, for leaning in.
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Let's get right back into the show.
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When do you get more done in less time?
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When do things flow and you feel like you have perfect energy and you're able to crush a bunch of work?
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If you're like at nighttime, I come to life, I'm like well, at nighttime you need to work your business, you need to do your lives, you need to do your videos.
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You do everything when you're in your most high state.
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But if people are like oh yeah, just wake up in the morning time, I'm like that's not a universal principle, that's you saying this work for me, so you have to do it.
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And then you have the people who are like, yeah, I wasn't a morning time before, but now I transformed.
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It's not helpful for Google, right?
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So really being able to find out what are those universal principles that that help you to take that action?
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Now, the truth is, is not everybody's brain is going to be wired like mine.
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It's just, this is the way it is, is I can be on a coaching session, I go, I can teach you how to have success in this other area, because you just told me the universal principles and they're like what are you talking about?
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And I'm able to share it to them.
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That's my strength.
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I also don't want people out there on social.
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When Siddhi asked this question, I'm like this is really important for me to describe, but also say that that's just how my brain works.
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If your brain works like that, tap into that, grab the universal principles.
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If it doesn't work like that, figure out a different way to be able to do this.
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Right Now, we talk a lot on our channel about the mindset, the tactics and the accountability.
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Those are universal principles.
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Mindset how you think about attacking that thing is more important than what you do, because if you think about this as like, oh, I just got to do this again, versus I'm about to change someone's life.
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Energy that you're going to have and doing that thing is going to be next level.
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Even if you do the wrong thing, you'll still show up.
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Tactics are what do you have to do?
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We learn what the right thing is by doing something and when we do that something, we see did it work?
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Keep doing it it.
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If it didn't work, try something new.
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But the third piece, like talking about accountability, is how do you get yourself to show up and to take action?
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Those three things are all universal principles.
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It's what this channel is built around.
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It's what our coaching sessions are built around Finding out where the person is mindset-wise, finding out what they're doing tactics-wise and finding out how do they hold themselves accountable.
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