Partnering with someone in business is a lot of fun. It certainly has its challenges. Both the people need to be on the same page.
You need to have similar values, the same vision, the same work ethic. And I want to let you into a secret,
As to who your best strategic partner should be. Are you ready?
Make sure you write this down….
It’s you. Yes, YOU!
YOU are your best strategic partner in business. But – how’s that partnership going?
Is your business currently where you want it to be? Are your finances currently where you want them to be? Is your time freedom currently where you want it to be? Is your level of impact currently where you want it to be?
Is your ability to contribute currently where you want it to be? No? Then here’s the thing…
I suggest to everyone who works with me that they get up at 5 am and do their strategic thinking and have their business meeting with themselves. But, how often do you sleep in, miss it, or can’t be bothered? If you had a business meeting with a completely other person would you act like that?
I help people work on their mindset, removing limiting beliefs, negative self-talk and dis-empowering stories. But, how often do you continue to believe those stories in your head? Would you say the things you say to yourself in your head, to your business partner?
I show people who are a part of our community how to set goals, break it down into smaller goals and then how to take daily action on them. But, how often do you slip into old habits, get distracted or just simply give up? What would your business partner think of you now? And you wonder why your business isn’t getting results…
But it’s okay, You’ve simply forgotten. You’ve forgotten that you are currently partnered with THE most powerful person in your life. The one person who wants YOU to succeed more than anyone else in this world. The one person who can do ANYTHING when they put their mind to it The one person who will NEVER give up on your dreams. If only you would treat yourself as that incredible strategic partner… You might be surprised about the results you get with your new partnership.
Remember, you can have it all, if you’re partnered with the right person!
P.S – if you are ready to step up and work on YOU and become a better strategic partner for yourself, then head on over to Your Success Hub and join the community. Once you’re part of the tribe, you’ll have the weekly coaching to take your business and your life to the next level so you can accelerate your results!
It’s 4.45am here and the air is fresh. As I write this I’m sitting outside our villa on a lounger by the pool (you can do that in Bali before 5am without freezing unlike other places in the world!) and there’s the most amazing energy this morning. Now, I promise I’m not going to get all energy woo woo on you. But I am going to get a little bit real with you, IF you are serious about getting big results in your life and in your business. Everyone’s going on about the 5am club… Do I REALLY need to get up at 5am, is it really worth it? – I get asked this all the time. The short answer is, yes. Yes you do need to get up at 5am. Again, if you’re serious about having success in your life.
Now the 5am part of the morning isn’t that important to be honest (although I love this time of the morning) it’s what you DO with getting up earlier that counts!
Because here’s the thing. Success is created through habits. Daily habits. And one thing’s for sure – ask ANY successful person how they start their day and although the structure may vary, I can guarantee that:
They GET UP EARLY with passion, purpose and direction
They CONNECT immediately with their mind, body and soul
They FOCUS straight away on the day ahead and the results they’re going to achieve.
I often get asked about my morning routine and I’ll run you through the key elements and things that I do, the order and the timing varies – I have created the time freedom to wake up when I choose so sometimes it’s 5am, sometimes it’s later, today it was earlier.
First thing, I know it’s really important to get your body moving. I’m not going to dictate if you should go to the gym verses go down to the beach, just find something that works for you, get some fresh air and get your body moving. Secondly, I book a nonnegotiable appointment with myself. Think of it like a business meeting or a meeting with your boss that you CAN’T miss.
During this meeting I spend time on gratitudes as I know that I can never create more abundance into my life until I am deeply grateful for what I already have.
I then turn my focus to what I call strategic or critical thinking. Use the term that works for you. This is where I write down everything I want in my life, in every area of my life and I also ask myself WHY I want those things so I am clear about the intention and emotion the desire is coming from.
Last but certainly not least, I pick three things that I am committed to focusing on that day. Three. Not five. Or ten. Or twenty. Three. Because I understand that success is about taking daily consistent action and if you set yourself too many daily tasks there will always be the things that are left undone and slide to the bottom of the list…
The coolest thing is with this morning routine, not only are you left feeling energized, passionate and excited, you will literally see your success compounding before your eyes, if you are consistent. So yes. Get up at 5am. And don’t just get up. Make it count.
Some people say to me – ‘But Regan, I start work really early, I can’t get up at 5am.” You can still get up.
You’re choosing not to. Go to bed earlier, get up earlier, sleep faster! Do whatever it takes.
Trust me, it’ll be worth it!
And remember, You can have it ALL – if you have a consistent and powerful daily routine!
I’ll never forget that moment, when years ago, my coach took off his glasses, looked at me right in the face and LAUGHED at me! Yes laughed! (No one likes being directly laughed AT right?!)
He saw the frustration engrained in my face, and not to mention the pure exhaustion that was radiating off me! I’d be trying to do it all RIGHT! I’d gone to course after course after course. Dived deep into so many different seminars. Invested a lot of money into education. I was hungry. I wanted results. I was playing full out. I wanted to create a dream lifestyle. I wanted to make an impact. Yet I felt like I was on a hamster wheel. Nothing I was doing was working. I was still so confused.
My pattern was evident: Start something, get confused or frustrated, then stop. Start something new. A bigger, better idea. Get confused, or frustrated, or both, then stop.
Over and over and over again.
I’m so grateful that my coach laughed at me, and so grateful that he then proceeded to share with me:
– why I had a complete lack of focus
– why nothing I set out to achieve really worked out
– why I seemed to hit a ‘level’ of success and then just sit there
– why I was getting so distracted
– why I felt so stuck
If you’re wondering what he shared with me, it was the ‘Power of the 80%’ and yes, all of you working through Your Success Hub weekly coaching, you know what I’m talking about!!
Once I learned the Power of the 80% it accelerated me MASSIVELY to where I wanted to be.
And I get SO much satisfaction teaching this, sharing this, and passing it on to people like you so YOU can get amazing results in your life.
Some of you are thinking, oh, you’re talking about spending 80% of your time on the 20% of things that get you leveraged results – Tim Ferris style. No. That’s not what I’m referring to – although that rule stands true! I’m talking about your PSYCHOLOGY vs. your STRATEGY. SO many people (me included when I was stuck and confused) spend 80% of their time focusing on the strategy, in whatever area of life they’re focusing on. How to get the body they want. How to build their business. How to attract their ideal partner… Yet here’s the catch. What if, I told you, that only 20% of your results come from the strategy you are using…. Don’t get me wrong, the strategy, the how to, the steps you take are important BUT, what about that other 80%? 80% of your results come from your psychology – your mindset – your unconscious. That inner mind wiring that clicks on almost automatically.
And here’s the golden question. How much time, energy and focus are you putting into growing, changing and fine tuning YOUR mindset???
I believe the 80/20 psychology vs. strategy rule really is one of the key secrets to success. Once you learn to master your psychology, you really can have it all, in any area of your life. As applying the 20% strategy is much more of a breeze once you have conditioned your mind to succeed. For those of you reading this who are already working with a coach, and are working DAILY on compounding your success mindset, I applaud you. For those of you who are now realizing “UHUH! – THAT’S where I’ve been going wrong” – Congratulations – I’ve just saved you from years of frustration (and coaches laughing at you) IF you actually go to work on conditioning your mind. If you are ready to accelerate your mindset for success, head on over to Success Hub and join the tribe. You can have instant access to my weekly success coaching where I help you rewire your unconscious limits, install new successful mindset strategies and break through what is currently holding you back from achieving what you want.
And don’t forget – yes you CAN become wildly successful, NOW. If you step up and put in the work!
I hear you. You’re saying you want it ALL. And hey – I’ll be the first to tell you that you CAN have it ALL…
BUT! Right now you won’t. Harsh I know. But I can see you. And I can see how you spend your time. And I can see what you focus on. And I can see the action you take. And right now, with the
current circumstances, you will never achieve your goals and your dreams and your deepest desires. Because you’re a BIG dreamer!
It’s not like your goals are small. And there’s a part of you that KNOWS that you deserve to be more, to have more, to give more…
I have news for you, though. The action that you are taking right now is NEVER going to get you to those end goals, dreams and desires! You can disagree with me, stop reading, turn the TV back on and my point will be proven, or, you can keep reading… I GET that you may have limited time. I GET that you may be building your empire while still in your job I GET that you are busy with your family. I GET….
The list goes on…
HOWEVER, Contrary to popular belief, it’s not how MUCH time you put into building your dreams, it’s the QUALITY of the action that is taken AND it’s how CONSISTENT you are! It would be SO easy for me every day in Bali to decide not to show up. It would be SO easy to decide that the pool was a better option for the day It would be SO easy to tell myself that I had nothing inspiring to say each day. But I don’t buy into the easy. I am CONSISTENT with getting my message out there and building my empire,
every,
single,
day,
without fail!
How are you showing up? When do you choose your “easy” instead of showing up in the world and being consistent? And as I mention in the short video – if you find that being consistent is unsatisfying, unfulfilling and just not enjoyable for you, then chances are you are living WAY out of alignment with who you are and your message to the world. Now don’t get me wrong, don’t mistake being unfulfilled for just being plain lazy and not showing up. There is a difference.
But if you are genuinely not excited by what you are doing every day then please just freaking stop! Stop doing anything you are not aligned with right now, because otherwise you’ll just have to stop in the future and you’ll figure out you wasted years of your life doing things that you don’t actually like doing, which is is stupid! And if you’re one of those people saying “oh but I don’t have a message, no one wants to listen to what I have to say, I’m not very inspiring”, then cut that out too! I’m here to tell you that you DO have a message, in fact, you have hundreds, it’s actually just a matter of figuring out which message you are most aligned with and want to run with. I’m done. You get it. Get aligned. Then take daily CONSISTENT action. And years down the track you’ll be pinching yourself and asking yourself how it compounded and happened so fast. You can thank me later.
And remember, you absolutely CAN have it ALL – if you take consistent daily action! Regan Hillyer
I’ll never forget what it was like years ago. Some words to describe my life were: overwhelm, confusion, frustration and exhaustion – without getting started what could be a very long and negative list! BLUR! Blur’s a good word. It’s like every day was a blur and I’d always be left wishing there were more hours in the day and more days in the week because I just couldn’t ever to get done everything that I needed to do!
I remember sitting down one day and thinking, enough is enough. I had big goals and big plans, just like you do right now. But I was so frustrated that things seemed to be moving so slowly, despite me
working a ridiculous amount of hours in my business each week. Which I didn’t mind, to be honest, because I’ve always loved what I was doing. But, what I would have REALLY loved, is bigger, better, faster results, with much more ease. Are you with me?
I had a session with one of my coaches and explained my frustration to him. I remember saying, “Does it really have to be this hard and this full on to get to 7 figures and above and grow a big business?”
What my coach said next has stuck with me from that very day. He said, “Regan. Stop it. You’re doing too much.” “Too much?” I was confused. How could I be doing too much where there was still things left undone at the end of the day and my business wasn’t experiencing the growth I wanted it to…
My coach then went on to say; “This is the trap that many small business owners fall into. They do too much. And that is what separates the 6 figure business owners from the 7 and 8 figure business owners.” “HUH?!” I was officially lost.
How could someone do LESS and achieve so much more? “Richard Branson,” my coach said. “Do you think he’s smart?” “Of course!” I said almost sarcastically.
“He’s not,” said my coach. “WHAT”?” This conversation was getting weirder and weirder…
“He’s not smart and he actually doesn’t know that much. In fact, many 6 figure business owners know SO much more than Branson and are MUCH smarter than him. You see, here lies the secret. He’s smart at one thing. Want to know what it is?” “Yes!” I replied almost too eagerly.
“He’s smart at delegation. And he knows and lives by this: You are only as powerful as the team you have around you.” And then it hit me. Oh. “Who’s your team?” my coach abruptly asked before I’d even managed to get a word in. Silence. “Well…. Um, we’re a team right?” “No.” “You have no team. And there lies your challenge. You are trying to do EVERYTHING. And most of it, you’re not doing very well, to be honest, simply because it’s not your skill set. You need to get better at finding people who can do the things you don’t like doing or the things you aren’t that good at to free up your TIME, as that is your most valuable asset. You need to work at surrounding yourself with the right people.” “Take Branson,” my coach continued on. “Do you think he knows the faintest thing about plane engines and how they work?” “No.” “Well if you were starting an airline company today you’d be designing the bloody plane right now and trust me, it wouldn’t fly!”
The coolest thing from that life changing lesson and that short moment in time for me is, now I have truly freed my time up to do what it is that I love. Running successful businesses, when you delegate and work at inspecting the work you expect doesn’t mean that you go and lie on a beach all day with all of your freed up hours of the week! Well, you can actually, if you like. But that’s not what excites me. What excites me is having the time freedom to create more, to give more and to be more every single day.
Question – if you had total time freedom, created through delegation and a powerful team behind you, what would you do more of every day? I’d love to hear what it is for you, comment below.
And remember,
You really can have it all, now – if you learn to surround yourself with a powerful team…
Everyone has a different belief system, different values, different dreams, desires, fears, weaknesses, strengths…. The list goes on. When you dive deep into understanding human behavior, you really get a grasp of just how unique and how complex humans really are. And connecting with someone, it becomes an art form, and a confusing one at that, once you really start to delve into the complexities. And connecting with MORE than one person? With all of those different factors that make people tick? NOW we’re in a super challenging place!
I get asked all the time: “How do you empower a big team? How do you keep everyone motivated and on track?” And before we get into that, it’s important to realize you really are only as powerful as your team. If you don’t know how to lead, inspire and communicate with your team, it will be a challenge to get big results rapidly.
I see so many people trying to get results managing or leading a team of people and when they find their team is no longer engaged or following them, they feel bewildered as they’re not sure what steps to take. If you have been in that place, you’ll know what I mean. And if you haven’t and you’re growing a business, it’s coming, so listen closely. It’s a BIG topic when it comes to leading a powerful team, in fact, I could create an entire online product about it, but if I were to give you the ONE THING to focus on, it would be vision. Leaders have the ability to speak belief into a vision for people that they are not yet able to see in their mind.
And if you’re asking ‘how?’ We can break vision down further into three key sections.
1. Your vision
2. The team vision
3. Individual vision
Firstly, as a leader, you must be super clear on your own vision, what you want and where you are headed. If you’re not, this whole game falls apart!
Once your own vision is rock solid and charged with intensely positive emotion, turn your focus to the team vision. What is the vision for the team, where is the team headed and what are they looking to achieve? Once that is solidified, it is your job to enroll each and every team member into the vision of the team. At the end of the day, people want to be loved, appreciated and most importantly here they want to belong.
So many people don’t have a team or tribe that has a clear vision and they are looking and waiting for a leader to step up and enroll them into a strong team vision that they can be a part of. Think about this for a second – have you actively worked or trained your leaders to work individually to enroll every single person in your team to be a part of your team culture and vision? Then last but certainly not least, people need an individual vision. This is the most important thing when it comes to leading a powerful team, as if people don’t understand what’s in it for them, in the long term, they will leave your team, even if the team vision is strong. People need to know that they are moving forward to their own personal dreams and desires by being aligned with the vision. At the end of the day, if they do not have a leader helping them build a strong and distinct vision, you will find that people won’t stand beside you forever.
When you focus on these key elements of vision you’ll find that people will do their best work, will stay fully engaged and will LOVE being a part of your team. You can thank me later. And remember, You can have it ALL – if you know how to lead a powerful team!
Sitting in a local cafe in Bali this morning, gazing past my computer screen and sipping on my green juice, my attention turned to the table next to me, with 5 ladies who had gathered and were chatting. They were all about the same age, dressed in really similar style clothes and even their hair looked the same – all just past the shoulders and straightened.
Makes sense I guess – people like people like themselves at the end of the day, right? Out of
curiosity, and simply because I love people and am fascinated by human behavior, I turned my attention to their conversation.
“Yes, but that’s just the way it is. Yeah, you’re right. Some people are just born into wealthy families. That wasn’t us. Exactly. Yeah, so there’s not much we can do about it. Yeah – I mean, we’re happy with what we have, right? Totally! I wish I didn’t have to go back home to my job, though. Same. Same. Same. Yeah, but that’s just the way it is guys! True.” That was enough for me!!! I couldn’t even handle listening to one second more about it!
Part of me wanted to go over to the table, interrupt their limiting conversation, shake them and let them know that they’d got it so wrong! But I thought, best not to cause a scene, and I asked myself, what was the lesson in that snippet of the conversation that I had overheard and well, invited myself into?
The lesson in my eyes is simple. You ARE your environment. End. Of. Story. I’m sure you’ve heard it before – “You are the sum of the 5 people you hang around with.” But do you truly GET that and how impactful environment really is?
Most people think when we talk about the sum of the 5 people we’re talking financial results and, although that stands true, your environment will impact and shape results through EVERY area of your life!
If you are sick of the results you’re getting (in any area of your life), if you’re not where you want to be in in your life right now, then you need to take a good hard look at who you are spending your time with! A mentor of mine always told me, if you’re the most successful person in your environment, there’s something seriously wrong and you need to get out of that environment, pronto!
Honestly, you don’t see Richard Branson hanging out socially every day with people in an underpaid 9-5 job unless he has to and he’s doing charity work! But seriously – Richard Branson has a core circle of influence that he considers his friends and partners and who he spends his precious time with.
If you want to soar like an eagle, then stop sitting on the ground with the pigeons!!
Now, I’m not saying don’t spend time with people who aren’t at your level of success because there’s a lot to be learned and a huge amount of satisfaction to be gained in lifting others up, but, you do need to have your core circle of influence environment sorted too.
If you don’t have a strong, successful, powerful, core circle of influence, you won’t get from where you are to where you want to be quickly at all.
That’s why I surround myself and seek out the best coaches to work with me because I understand that I need to be working with people every day who have surpassed where I am aiming to be in the future.
So if all of this is hitting home to you, and you’re looking at your current environment and asking HOW REGAN? How do I start changing it? Here’s what I would do.
1. Firstly, get clarity on where you’re at. Take a good hard look at your current environment. Do the people serve you emotionally being around them? Do they lift you up or are you constantly lifting them up?
2. Make a decision. Do you need to work at changing your environment? Slightly or massively to get results?
3. Ask yourself this: Is my environment currently in alignment with my goals / where I am headed / what I want to achieve?
4. Work on getting into new environments. A great way to do this is focusing on networking, building meaningful connections, and meeting new people. Once you have established new relationships, work hard to add value to the relationships and maintain them.
After jotting down the above thoughts onto my laptop, I finished my juice, packed up my laptop and turned my attention back to the conversation at the other table. I couldn’t believe it! They were STILL GOING!!! The SAME THING!! Except something was different. One of the girls had lost interest. She was staring off into space. Bored, or maybe daydreaming.
I suddenly thought, man, if only she knew that she had a CHOICE and she didn’t have to fit into that environment by default. If only she knew that she was destined for greatness IF ONLY she could change her environment. I quickly grabbed a pen and scribbled something down on paper. Without thinking, I picked up my belongings, walked over to the table, caught her eye and handed her my note. She read it, smiled at me and said, “Thank you so much that sounds so cool!!”
I smiled at her and the other girls who were still complaining hadn’t even noticed our interaction. She pocketed the note, she smiled at me and I smiled back and walked out of the cafe.
P.S – Are you wondering what the note said? “Hey there, I don’t know you, but it doesn’t look like you fit in right now. In a good way. I believe that you’re destined for so much more than you even realize right now. If you want a new tribe to hang out with and lift you up, head to ReganHillyer.com and join the Success Hub community. We have a lot of fun, teach each other that we really can have it ALL and play full out in life. I think you’d fit right in. Come play :) xx “
