20 then 19 Days Left - Stop Pursuing Succes, Attract Success!

Attracting Success!!

The past 2 days has been quite fast, jam packed and oh so inspiring! Just a little flashback...

I told you about my boss whom I'm helping out to sort things out on how she manages people, well we can't see change right that instant. But you know what keeps me going is the fact that she's very much interested on learning especially from the book , The Way of the Shepherd. And I am happy with that! I'm excited when she reaches the crucial part on dealing with difficult sheeps and leaving a mark on your sheep.

Speaking about that leaving a mark. I am currently coaching one department supervisor I have whom I am eying to be my successor. My main goal is to have as many duplicates as I can in the company. And one of our latest lessons is "How to Leave a Mark to Your People." She is a leader that gives a damn about her people and that's what I like about her. My other supervisors do but she has this deep level of connection to her team. So our aim is to make it official that she be branded as the supervisor who looks after each and every one of her members...deeply.


So for the first time in years, I asked her to call out each of her member one by one and drown them with compliments and positive feedback. The results are amazing. Never had she been so fulfilled, her people felt elated, and she never thought she would hear good things from them. It's that simple. Now, trust is built, morale soars high, sales will follow! hahaha!

By the way, around 80% of them during their interview asked her, "Natakdan na kang Sir Hanz Ms.?" "Has Sir Hanz got in to you Ms.?"

Absolutely. That's my mark.

And about a friend who asked help on her career through YM, she's now back on track. We have been exchanging emails helping her sort and weigh options before she decides. I helped her open her eyes of what she found herself in to, and lift her from the unnecessary pressures of family and people. Because in the end, its all about her. There's nothing wrong with having 3 jobs in 2 years! That means she is searching, and she's different from stubborn people stuck in companies they hate for the rest of their lives! Seek and you shall find!

And so, I pointed out to her that this is the best time to fix everything, know her goals, her purpose and which path to take. And she's doing her homework just fine!

Also this afternoon, it's official that I'm mentoring another supervisor of our company. After lending her the book 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich she wants to do something next but don't know how. And that's what we're doing now.

I'm just wowed by her interest she really spent time to look for me in my area. You could see that need in a person by looking at her eyes, and she needs help. And I'll do all my best to help her out!

Our main goal first is to improve her self-confidence as she wished and level up her leadership skills. Actually we can do those 2 together. My first assignment for her is to get to know her team one by one - Know Your Sheep. And my second one is that she should read books - feed her mind with the wisdom of the world. I'll surely keep you posted on this.

By the way, she has became my business partner too! She agreed that she'd work on as researcher for my pending ebook - Stories Millionaires Read. I just love how God works magically!

Another magical thing! My aunt is now in the Philippines, with the wake of my grandmother, and you know what, she's now my business partner! What? Real Estate!!!

Her story runs great with her success in real estate 3 years ago. How? Self help. She was only reading books and attending seminars about it. This was also one reason everything flunked when the US had economic crises around 2008 where she lost "Dong, you cannot imagine how much". I told her, "Te, one lesson learned is to have a team or a mentor in business venture." If only someone had told her! She said, "I was just too late to learn." But I blurted out, "No, you were a year early!" 

We promised to talk more about it some time after the wake. But our set-up would be she'd help me out investing here in the Philippines. I can't believe how magical God's Universe is when I attract things!

All of these things are manifestations how God and His universe would conspire to help us if we help ourselves by helping others.  People who need help and guidance come to me, and people whom I need help and guidance come to me as well! This is because I am in focus, I have a goal, I have a team, I have a mission, I have a dream, and its God's dream too, and He will in all His power help me Get it!

22 Days Left - Making the Impossible, Possible

One of the best life discovery is when you realize that the seemingly impossible, is really possible.

That's what happened.

I never thought God would give me an opportunity to take on the-most-feared-strong-despised-blamed-tiger-but-people-never-knew-they-were-wrong manager of our company. At her discouraging time, God invited me, "Hanz, this is your time, inspire her, let me do my work through you!"

I did hesitate. At first I was afraid, I was petrified. (lyrics?) It's like trying to motivate a wall to move. But hey, I won't lose anything. And so what I did, I barged into their conversation as she was trying to express her dismay and simply offered her to read the book "The Way of The Shepherd". And I was amazed that she accepted it.

You see. When I started working there, I was at times disappointed of how she manages things. It was like trying to make life miserable for us. She was this type who really sticked to the rules, no matter what! She also has this look - the same look I have that made one applicant exclaimed at me, "Sir, hadlok jud ko nimo.", "Sir, I'm really afraid of you."

But being my immediate superior, as I get to spend more time with her than any other supervisor of my level, I came to understand her thinking and her ways. Her weakness that drove people nuts was also her strength that made her good on her job.

We continued with our conversation. She finally exclaimed that she would resign. I offered her the book with the goal in mind that if only she would combine her way of strict monitoring and the principles of leadership found in the book she will become one great leader.

I also found out that one of her "loves" was to audit! No wonder! I asked her as an assignment to figure out her loves - core gifts and figure out too her goals - in detail. I explained that this is the first step we should do before just exclaiming to resign.

I can't wait to get back to her answers. I'll be texting her Feel Great qoutes too. I also challenged her to finish the book in one sitting. I can't wait.

By the way, you know what was the seemingly impossible that became possible? She called out...
"Hanz, my new advisor"

23 Days Left - The Most Powerful Question

I had one of the most powerful days of my life after hearing a powerful inspiring story and powerfully inspiring three people with that story and it powerfully changed their lives at that instant and with the help of this powerful gripping question...

What if this is your last day on earth? What will you do?

Powerful right?

The story was that of Kuya Anthony Dy, one of the lives we'd include in our upcoming best-selling book, who was a tangled up in serious drug addiction for 8 years and now is a man with a powerful mission of helping out the less fortunate. And that was the same question he asked himself that lead him to have a great dream aligned to God's dream.

After our interview, I was literally pumped up that I shared that same question and a background of the man behind that question to two of my teamleaders during lunch. Typically, their answer would be...

"Spend time with my family and arranged things before I depart"

But I sprang back,

"Yeah Yeah, but you see, that would only take, say 2 hours of your time, what would you do in the next 22 hours?"

Silence. A looooooooooooooooong silence. "Tell me when you will have your answer."

"Sure sir, we'll get back to you when we'll have an answer."

Later that afternoon, I was asked to take an IQ exam as a requirement for promotion. I was really planning to fail it, promotion was an option I wouldn't consider yet. However, I decided to just enjoy it learning from my race story, but I ended up inspiring the test facilitator with her exclamation of "Kuya, I will resign!"

How?

With that powerful question.

What if this is your last day on earth? What will you do?

Plus, with Gary Vaynerchuk's powerful "There is no reason to do sh*t you hate" and do what you love and living your dream, Jim Rohn's increasing your market value, and my version of it - out of the rat race. My aim was to present to her that she is MORE than she think she could be. That simple. But in the end, it's all up to her.


I was really fulfilled but my rat-race job stopped me because I still need to make some rat-race reports. However, at the back of my head leaving the exam room I asked myself...

"What if this is my last day on earth? What will my do?

"Doing just that."

25 Days Left - The BIG Dilemma

"I am dying to resign!!!"

I cannot contain the opportunities that lay in front of me lately these days. The turn of events within the last days of the 90-day challenge have opened promising doors ahead and I so want to step my foot in all of them. Finally I would be out of the rat race, BUT there is a very big BUT! I still do not have enough financial stability to support my family. You see, I'm the only income earner in the family. So I'm in a pretty deep dilemma lately.

Just last night, I stumbled on this powerful, rocking video of Gary Vaynerchuk: Do What You Love (No Excuses!). Here it is:



And you know what? this video sorted out things in my head. Here are my insights:

There is no reason to do sh*t you hate

Exactly. Hear Hear. This is why I won't resign just yet. Yep, I love my work, I just hate the fact that I'm working for somebody else!! I know, I'll be missing a lot of opportunities while I'm working there. If you could only see the mess on my to-do list in this laptop's sticky notes. With the book, businesses, LOJ, my internet plans, and all its waaaay to tempting to get out. But, like what I've posted, I'm exploiting my work to train myself to become a motivational speaker and coach. (I recently discovered how my writing skills have improved, never did anyone refused on my proposal letters lately!)

You need to hustle!

However, a few seconds ago, I made a decision to do double time on this. I have to learn as fast as I can on all these. My major project is to duplicate myself in the workplace, nurture leaders with my mindset, just by then will I resign. And because of this...

Legacy is greater than currency

This is what I am mainly after-my core desire. Duplicate. Leave a mark on all my team members. A name for myself. 

But thinking practically, how could I support my family if I cut off my income, as what Gary said..

You don't get money for doing what you love...I lost a sh*tload of money for doing what I love

He maybe right, but with the us GEMs - Group of Enlightened Millionaires - we'll prove him wrong. At this stage of my life he may be right, but as you can see, he said something that encourages me...

Patience...Small niches...can grow Crazy...if he's patient enough.. he's gonna be huge!

I know I'm gonna be huge. I'm sure about that! I may only have a handful of fans, but they're my fans now.  I just need to tell myself over and over again, if I'll focus on earning fast cash to make my exit out of the rat race, I might just lose the cash fast! I haven't even fully established my millionaire mind as shown in my attitude during the night race, see?

All I need to do right now is do small but powerful steps one at a time in this journey. 

And still enjoying every step of it.

28 Days Left - Making a Name for Myself

So what's up with making a name for myself?

A LOT!

As what I have said, I have turned my rat-race job into a training ground where I can fully develop my leadership skills, especially on coaching and preaching. So my major project lately was to empower my team of supervisors and team leaders all they have to know about handling the team - without me. (Begin with the end in mind! Right? Hehehe)

So I barged them these weeks with a series of trainings.

One project I had was to empower all team leaders with my First 20 Days program. This was coined with our new president's First 100 days. So they would have to come up and implement programs in their sections in the aspects of merchandise, display, and manpower. In other words, give them the freedom to do anything the can to help improve the department of course with my guidance.

Aside from this, I have officially opened up to all leaders that I am an open source. This would formally crash out their "fear" of going near me. (This has been a long issue since I was in college, people are afraid to come near me because they get this dead-serious-nerd-hunk look from me, of which is plainly wrong, right? ) I really made it clear to them that being an open source, they can come straight at me anytime and ask for help.

I also do increased the number of personnel I coach on sales, leadership, and time management. Even before, I used to seriously coach at least one personnel in 2 weeks, why not all at the same time? So I'm increasing my load up.

I'm also doing a series of what I call "friendly talk" to some key personnel of my floor. Most especially those whom we label, "Attitude Problem".  It's a simple talk, on catching them up, listening to what they've got to say and what I've got to say. And the results are promising.

And also as I mentioned before about them not book-friendly, however I found a few who are! So few that they are only two! But hey, that's more than enough! So I have them borrow the books "The Way of the Shepherd", and "Closing the Sales".

I'm filled and thrilled on this. However, still one question hangs in mid-air..

"Why didn't I do this before!?"

29 Days Left - New Challenge - 1,000 True Fans

I have less than a month left and the pressure has taken up a notch. I can't believe it could be this fast! Now, I have one great challenge ahead of me. And its quite tough. So everybody has been keeping up with my coaching and preaching right? But it still needs one great ingredient, my credibility. This is my new challenge...CREATING A NAME FOR MYSELF!

Just yesterday as I was working on the sales of our cafeteria, I figured out one great fact. We only need at least 40 customers to survive - loyal customers. This came out after challenging our front line to call our regular customers by name. They build up a list and vwhala! I calculated their average expense and found out they're all I need. But more would be much better though!

I still clearly remember the first lessons of our Internet Marketing Workshop, for a business to survive you on move ahead you must have 1,000 True Fans. Fans that would buy your every new release, go to your concert, even attending it twice or thrice or every time, and fans that would never get enough of you. This is the same thing as in our cafeteria, no matter how we fail them some times like delay orders they'd still come back! Those are true fans!

This is also the same with me. I need to have my fans in my preaching and coaching - bringing impact into people's lives. Right now, I still have 6 subscribers in feedburner. Knowing you are reading literally brightens up my day...thanks a million!

Recently, I discovered one old friend of mine was also reading my million journey, and oh the feeling is ecstatic. This started out on a facebook thread where she exclaimed she want's to be my "disciple". And after a while, 2 more friends said they also wanted to be my "disciple"! Imagine?

So right now, I'm all creating a name for myself. I'm also practicing it on my work. (Yes, i finally found out a way after losing hope in it where I could "exploit" my job and make it as a training ground in honing my skills.) Currently, I am planting little seeds in my team that would surely grow someday. I'll tell you more about it soon.

So, be my fan, help me out, and I'll do everything I can to do more than just help you!

30 Days Left - Need Me? No Thanks!

Everyday is becoming clear and clearer for me as I live my dream of preaching and coaching. The world has become more colorful with the fact that I begin my day with a mission and I end it recounting how I took small steps in accomplishing it.

However, here is my first obstacle, but not reallly an obstacle but my first truth:

I want to motivate everybody, but not everybody wants to motivated.

If this you're in this kind of business, this is the very first thing you have to accept. You cannot help everybody.

I experienced this when one day I tried to contact my college best friend. He was so busy, that I PM her girlfriend instead of him noticing how active she was on facebook.

I enthusiastically sent to him a proposal that we could meet so we can brainstorm and I was so willing to help him formally establish his business. His family makes the best pastries and cakes and I could see what big potentials it could bring. If we could only sit down, layout the marketing, operations, logistics, without even greatly affecting their jobs.

And you know what, I wrote to for him 3 times. First, on my way to proof read it there was a brownout. So I wrote everything the second time. But when she replied, she asked what's wrong because my message was empty. So finally, she received the message and promised to text me. 8 Days later and there was nothing.

"Some people are really made as workers. They just don't have the factor of becoming leaders. Don't worry Hanz, maybe they could become our suppliers when time comes we need them" as kuya shared his insight about them.

This situation was also true as I mentored one of my employee. I was so interested to help him that I was sharing to him my insights on finances and life. But that was only good for 2 days. I was waiting he'd approach me and ask me what's next. 3 months passed and we never talked about that again.

Soon I would be meeting a lot more of this kind of people. Fortunately, I'm delighted that as early as this stage I'm able to know about this truth, because if not I would end up frustrated. I'll just have to do my part at its best, the rest is up to them.

How about you, are you ready?

32 Days Left - The BIG Question

My brain hanged-up right after having a talk with one of my supervisors of my floor. Right after talking to him my plans for the coming week, and sharing my insights of a great leader - I'm just powered up right after finishing the book The Way of the Shepherd - he ended up asking me these questions I wasn't prepared.

"Are you affiliated with any church groups? What can you say about the church?"

Actually it took me some time to answer it. And I am even shocked of my answer.

"Well, no. I don't belong to any religious group or whatsoever. There are just things I don't feel comfortable with the church. One very good example is how they program the minds of the people towards money - how evil it is. And also they create and show to the people that it is "hard" to become spiritually blessed. Like, you have to do all these - procedures and rituals - to be close to God. Well, maybe these has all something to do with the people running it."

He answered, "We are really different, I may not go to mass anymore but I don't say bad things about the church."

That's when my brained hanged.

I asked myself, "Did I really do that? Have my outlook towards the church changed that differently? Did I say it correctly? Maybe I have been reading these line of books I haven't feed my mind with spiritual inputs. I agree that those statements are too vague and general. How can a "preacher" do something like that? "

I don't know. I'm still stuck up to this very moment. There is war going on in my head.

"What is God's role in my dream?"

34 Days Left - Living My Dream..Again! It Keeps on Coming!

Right after the success of my first "Coaching Session" with one of my department supervisor, I immediately took action on doing the same to my other supervisors too. And that's what I did to two of them the other day. And what did they get? Two hours of just standing while discussing to them eye opening realizations!

It started with this invitation, "What is that thing that you really want to learn ever since? Tell me and I will teach you just that."

And do you know what was their response? "Will you resign sir?"

Waaaaaah!

Actually, my intention was to teach to them techniques in answering an upcoming IQ exam they would be taking. "Sir, the last time I studied was 1984! Please help us!" Enthusiastically, I grabbed a piece of paper and drew figures as I recalled our lessons in psychometrics. But as the discussion continued, I was caught up with the idea of how I coached my other supervisor.

And so I asked them how would they want to read books. The one complained with eye problems the other with vocabulary. I told them what I just learned after listening an audio book by Zig Ziglar the previous night:

"Learn at least one word a day and its meaning, and after 4 years you will be as well read or even better than a graduate student."

Noting what the great Jim Rohn said...

"Formal Education will make you a living; Self-Education will make you a fortune"

(Oh, I so love this!)

But still I can't budge their reasons of poor eyesight and considering their age. I decided maybe it would be good this time to teach them informally like this set-up.

(Just a little background, my team of supervisors under me are waaaaay older than me. They're at age with my parents even! They have been in this company for over 15 years, the youngest of them had just reached 10 years. They have developed with the skill of selling over the years and the management have grown trust in them. "Just let me sell, but don't let work on in the computer!" is their common expression.)

The rest of our discussion was focused on making them realize that it's not yet too late to learn. We even set up tutorial schedules where I would sit-in with them and teach them the basics of the computer. We turned into talking about learning time at home, and I ended up sharing how the TV is not doing us anymore good. And in the end, I could not forget the look of enthusiasm and blankness in their eyes. Eyes that would stare at you in disbelief after they have heard such truth and possibilities.

This is only the beginning. I really hope this would continue, and of course I will do my best to continue doing this for it gives me such pleasure and fulfillment. But hey, it's only in me, the rest of the answer lies with them.

38 Days More to Go - I Love My Job! Huh??

You got me right! I LOVE MY JOB!

After all the previous controversial posts - Wish I was a College Drop Out and My Confessions- I had a little twist on my mindset. You know, it's all a matter of looking at it. Rather than sourgrape and complain, I chose to take a different perspective. But why a sudden change?

I'm not just trying to training to be one great motivational speaker. I am into a new move...Coaching.

It all started after one of my employee forged a document to excuse her not reporting to our store but another store. Since its her first time, so what I did was counseling. But it turned out to be a life changing counseling.
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She has been with the company for quite some time, so I was really expecting much from her. But unfortunately, she's showing attitude below standards. Burn-out and familiarity and no-fulfillment results into one employee who starts the "chatroom". And so what I did? Very simple. Told her frankly that she's one of the best, but not becoming one. Told her she has a lot of leadership potentials and I can guide her to become one. And empowered her with opportunities that make her more fulfilled of her work.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just so proud to say, I've got one employee back on track.

All these came out while I was reading the book Top Performance by Zig Ziglar. I have been really longing for one leadership book and this book was the answer to all my prayers.

At my work, one of the demotivating factors is the lack of someone I look up to. Maybe a there's one or two but no one has been really my idol at work. So I don't really see any point in staying long in the supervisor's station right after lunch. I just get out and read a book. And I don't really have a mentor or a REAL boss at work, a boss I'd offer myself to be harassed. None falls under my qualification. And also, there's not motivation going on. So its  really all by myself.

I used to say that no one is tapping my back. But Kuya reminded me not to worry because HE is tapping my back.

And so, hard to admit, I still belong to the rat race BUT I'm still making the best out of it or shall I say, exploiting it. I have all the opportunity to hone my leadership skills and all other things needed to become one effective people- manager. But still, Hanz remember, this is just a STAGE where I need to go through, I should keep track on my goal. Savor every moment. Be optimistic of every moment.