The Compounding Power of Modeling

Modeling – Compounding Success

What is modeling? Well, let me ask you this – how do we evolve as a species? Is it possible that we model what’s already been created and take it a step further? You bet your ass it is – think about it…we have to model what works in order to evolve it further. If we stayed with Henry Ford’s Model T, we would still be breaking down all over the place, but because innovators model, then take it a step further, we now have amazing vehicles to drive us place to place. Pretty cool huh…

Another way to think of modeling is studying human behavior, and human psychology. Since all human behavior stem from human psychology, it’s important to chat about both. Are you aware of this simple, yet powerful tool for creating more success? On the surface, you can find someone achieving the levels of success you want, and you can take the actions they take, and it has been said that you will achieve some of the same results. This is true to a point. But if you are taking action without a mindset that supports the action, your attempts will fall short. Without the supporting mindset, taking action can backfire on you. That’s why it’s important to model from the inside–>out.

We all operate from “programs” that run inside of our minds. Those programs, also known as belief systems, are the operating systems of our brain. If a belief is installed at an early age that says, “It’s not safe to talk to strangers” then that person must behave, or operate, in unison with that program or belief. The beauty of modeling is that you can literally study the beliefs of someone who is successful in any field and learn to adopt those beliefs, and as a result, you will eventually operate from that belief if it is safe for you to do so.

If you’ve been following me during my journey of growth and expansion, you probably know that the person I model most is Anthony Robbins. When I first learned the concept of modeling, I thought, “Who is the person in this field who is getting results I desire?” The answer was, without a shadow of a doubt, Tony Robbins.

I began to devour information on Tony – I watched his biography on DVD over and over again. I began to immerse myself in his teachings, even spending well over $10,000 taking his training and courses and seminars. I literally flooded my mind with his being and integrated it within me, and in time, I began to realize the power that modeling held.

Initially I struggled because I would compare myself to his success, and being that I’m within 3 years of being in this profession, you can imagine my disappointment when I wasn’t moving faster and achieving the results he was achieving. In fact, it was dangerous for me to compare myself to him, even ridiculous. So, I let off the gas a little and adopted Appreciation and Gratitude as a way of living. My new mindset, was modeled from Abraham-Hicks – Grateful where I am and eager for more. I was still pressing forward with passion and intention, but with Gratitude it took away the illusion that I wasn’t succeeding.

Compound Effect
I began to realize that modeling, when done consistently, creates a compound effect. Just like the image above, initially, modeling doesn’t seem to produce radical results, but when CONSISTENTLY applied, it hits a critical mass, then BOOOOM!! Here is another example: Would you rather take $1 million or a penny compounded(doubled) over the course of 30 days? Most would choose the $1 million, but did you know that a penny compounded over the course of 30 days will produce over $5 million?! Here’s the math:

Day 1: $.01
Day 2: $.02
Day 3: $.04
Day 4: $.08
Day 5: $.16
Day 6: $.32
Day 7: $.64
Day 8: $1.28
Day 9: $2.56
Day 10: $5.12
Day 11: $10.24
Day 12: $20.48
Day 13: $40.96
Day 14: $81.92
Day 15: $163.84
Day 16: $327.68
Day 17: $655.36
Day 18: $1,310.72
Day 19: $2,621.44
Day 20: $5,242.88
Day 21: $10,485.76
Day 22: $20,971.52
Day 23: $41,943.04
Day 24: $83,886.08
Day 25: $167,772.16
Day 26: $335,544.32
Day 27: $671,088.64
Day 28: $1,342,177.28
Day 29: $2,684,354.56
Day 30: $5,368,709.12

Guess what, modeling successful people produces a compound effect when we CONSISTENTLY apply the power of modeling. Most people stop when there’s not an immediate payoff, but the people who stick with it, end up producing a powerful compounding effect that creates a new challenge – how do I keep up with my own growth?! A good challenge to have, in my humble opinion 🙂

In my seminars, I teach consistency because it’s easy to try something once and stop after dismal results. And because we’re conditioned to live from an “instant gratification” state of mind, we stop before the REAL results kick in. We have fast food, 2 minute rice, pharmaceutical drugs, 8-minute abs, 30-second cream…and we wonder why our culture has a mindset that says, “fast means good” – but when we transfer that mindset to personal growth and transformation, we quit before we see results.

What does all this mean? Well, you can find someone who is successful in your field, study them and understand what they value and believe about themselves and the world, and then take similar actions and over time, you will explode in your results and you will have literally condensed time. In his book, The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy discusses this same phenomenon. I totally recommend it. To learn more about modeling, register for my modeling seminar coming up December 16th: http://www.modeling2011.ezregister.com

Love, Gratitude and Prosperity,
George Ira Carroll
http://www.GeorgeIraCarroll.com

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Curiosity…?

“Question Everything.”
-Albert Einstein

Curious George is one of my all time favorite characters that have come into my life. He is open, fun, curious, kind, loving and an overall ideal cartoon monkey.

Being curious is one of the many joys of life, and when you allow yourself to tap into that curiosity that sits within you, bliss becomes a close friend. It reminds me of a story I like to tell about a Frog and a Swan, who was from the Great Oceans of the North. As winter time came, he decided to fly south and rested for a few months on beaches, and the warm air of the south.

As winter time came to an end, the swan decides to head home as the weather began to get warmer. So, he effortlessly lifted himself up in the air and after a couple of days, his wings got tired, so he decided to land near a pond, where a frog was resting. The Frog, very arrogantly said, “Who are you and where are you from?” The Swan said, “I’m a Swan and I’m from the great oceans of the north.” “Great Oceans?” The Frog said…”How big are these oceans…? Are they this big?” As the frog took a hop backward. “No, they’re much bigger than that” said the Swan. The Frog then took 2 hops backward and asked, “Are they THIS big?” The Swan said no, yet again. Finally, the Frog hopped all the way around his pond, and asked, “Are they as big as this?” The Swan, yet again, said no. Then the Frog interjected, “Then you’re a LIAR and a FOOL!” He then turned his shoulder on the Swan, because the Frog knew, nothing could ever be as big as his pond.

The Swan, effortlessly glides into the air and heads back home, to the Great Oceans of the North, where he discovered much much more.

You see, we all know those people who refuse to grow, refuse to learn more and who refuse to try things differently. The interesting thing is, what they are resisting, is the reason for our being – LIFE 🙂

Most people resist more life because it’s caused too much pain to keep trying, and to continue looking for meaning in the magnificent game we get to play. Life isn’t an easy game to play, that’s for sure, but it CAN become easier and more fun. This is where the beauty of curiosity comes to play.

Can you think of a time when you were wildly curios? Maybe it was your first trip to the zoo, or the first pro sports event you went to, or a time when you were really open to exploring a certain area of life…can you think of it?

Curiosity is really a gift of a state of being. In the state of being curious, you get to ‘see‘ so much more that’s around you. You get to open your scope of perception and you allow more in for you to experience. It’s almost like going from a still photo to a panoramic photo. Like going from looking at the menu to eating the food. Like going from watching someone ride the roller coaster to actually riding the roller coaster.

When your mind is open, you can receive more information, and you’re more open to the wonder of life. As I’m building my business, I have a keen awareness on my level of curiosity – I know that the feeling of being closed off feels more like a jail than anything else, so it’s essential for me to be open and ready for new information to hit my brain so I can utilize it any way I can.

Rituals
Questions are one of the most powerful ways to ignite your curiosity, and that almost goes without saying. Something that Tony Robbins taught me early on, was to create empowering rituals. Most of what Tony does is magnified in a beautiful way, and rituals are a way to “install” a new habit. The ritual I decided to take on at one point in my life was to ask questions and write them down. Each morning, the first thing I do is open my journal and ask and write down a ton of open questions for my brain and the Universe to go to work on. I ask questions like:

• How much joy can I experience today? How much fun can I have today? How grateful can I be today? What amazing opportunities will show up for me today? I productive and effective can I be today? How can I serve my clients today? How many ways will the Universe bless me with financial abundance today? How many amazing connections can I make today? What surprises are going to delight me today? How many new clients will I be blessed with today? – and on and on…

What this does is a very powerful thing. Questions are moving energtic chunks of information that are highly attractive in nature. When you let a question float around in your mind, it begins to influence the direction of your focus and starts to move in the direction of an answer. If you are consistently asking questions that flood your mind and body with positive and powerful questions like the one’s above, not only is your mind going to find the answer, it will influence the Universe to conform itself so you can experience the very things you are asking for. That’s pretty sweet 🙂

Remember this always:
Question creates possibility and a conclusion creates limitation.

Curiosity is that state of wonder that we were all born with, and all kids have it. It’s in us, we only have to access that state of wonder using the power of questions, and  It’s that place in the mind where everything seems to be possible. Curiosity opens your heart to experience at deeper levels. Curiosity is a gift for us to choose, anytime we want to let go of something not worth holding on to.

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What’s the difference between Need and Desire?

What’s the difference between Need and Desire?

Have you ever been in a relationship where they needed you? I mean, REALLY needed you?

Now, here is another question: Have you ever been in a relationship, they desired you? I mean, they REALLY desired you?

What’s the difference? Well, if you’re like me, you like to be desired, but you don’t like to be needed…is that true for you? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but it’s definitely true for me. Being needed has a suffocating quality; being desired has more of a magnetic essence to it. Being desired, to me, feels like a warmth coming into my experience, versus being needed seems to have a, sort of, twinge to it.

Well, consider this…if you need some THING, in a way you would need someone in a relationship, is the same need that pushes away those things you would like to have in your life. For example, if you would like to have more money in your life, but you need it, you will repel it. If you need more clients and customers, you will repel them away. If you need a relationship, it will find a way not to stay in your experience.

Does that make sense? Need is a lack energy, and it has to attract like energy. Need says, “There’s not enough”, and anytime you emanate that kind of energy into the field, it will bring back the experiences, people and events to match that energy output. What you put out, you get back and to need anything, whether it be a relationship, money or friendships, you will repel that very thing you ‘need’ because it tells the Universe that you don’t have it, and the Universe responds to your vibrational energy patterns.

What about Desire?
Desire is a more magnetic state of being. Desire says, “I hunger for you, but I don’t need you.” To desire means to summon without attachment – to request. desire is the root of all success. If you’ve read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, you know the chapter on Desire. Desire is the seed that summons all acts of greatness. Without desire, there is no energy behind us to create what we desire.

Desire is a delicious thing, because there is no lack energy in desire. Desire is a state of being that says, “I’m fulfilled just as I am, and I hunger for more.” Desire is a magical state of being that pulls what you want toward you, in a magnetic dance of attraction power.

For a moment, think of something you desire – something you want to manifest and create in your life. Notice, is there any need in that energy? That need will prevent you from having that desire.

To be desired is to be wanted in a way that isn’t clingy – and as you think about that, doesn’t it feel so much more yummy to be desired than needed?!  I think so –  and when you have a healthy desire for the things that you want, without the attachement of needing it, you allow that thing, that person, whatever it is, to flow into your experience at the perfect time. Yes, perfect time.

Desire = Summon
Need = Repel

You choose.

“You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be, if you were supposed to be anywhere else, you’d be there. Embrace the now, and desire more.”

Appreciate Bed Bugs?! Serisously?!

Appreciate Bed Bugs?! Seriously?!

In March of 2010, I came into my small studio apartment and I noticed some little critters moving around in my bed curtain…I inspected with more detail and discovered that I had bed bugs…! I yelled out, “Noooooooooooooo!!!” and I began violently ripping down the curtains and disposing of them. I looked in the nooks and cranny’s of my bed, and guess what, MORE BED BUGS!! Nooooooooooooooooo!!! I ripped my bed apart, throwing everything away that had any sign of bed bugs. The more I looked, the more I found and I tired myself out ripping everything down and throwing it away. After I realized that most of my belongings were not salvageable, I dropped on my bed(of all places) and I began to cry in defeat. I asked this question in desperation, and little did I know, this question would provide an answer that would change my life. I asked, “What the hell am I missing?” Almost in an instant, something flashed inside of my mind, almost like a 4th of July firework exploding in my minds eye. The flash of insight said, “Radical Appreciation”.

“Appreciation is the secret to life. Become one who appreciates and you will thrive. You will fulfill your reason for being.”
-Abraham-Hicks

In that moment, I was overcome with a peace that I’d never experienced before. The idea of gratitude and appreciation had been something that I was practicing and lost touch with prior to my bed bug infestation. “Of course!” I thought, as I looked around my small, 300 square foot apartment in downtown Denver. It had been ransacked by my response to the bed bugs and everything I owned at that point, which wasn’t much, had to go. I made the arrangements and what was left were some of my clothes, shoes, a dresser, my books, my computer and printer. Everything else…gone. Fortunately, I have a brother who is a blessing and a dear friend who had just signed a lease to a 2-bedroom apartment in south Denver. He agreed to bring me in and let me live with him and his girlfriend at the time(talk about being a 3rd wheel) so I could get back on my feet until I could begin moving forward again. As I was rebuilding my business, I had to get a part time job selling insurance appointments to insurance agents to make ends meet…BUT…I now had a new tool to create with – Radical Appreciation and Gratitude.

Radical Appreciation was born from living from a scarcity and lack mindset and here are the basic principles:

1) In every conscious moment, be grateful and appreciative
2) Be grateful and appreciative for everything and everyone you have in your life
3) In the space of Radical Appreciation, scarcity and lack can’t exist.

Radical Appreciation defined: An extreme and thorough awareness and recognition of the love, beauty, perfection and magnificence in ALL things and ALL people. Once I began to apply tools and exercises from concept of Radical Appreciation, the reflection of my life began to change drastically. I’ve been known to be an all or nothing person, and when I find something that works, I charge forward with it, and Radical Appreciation works, not because you’re “making something happen”, but because you’re surrendering to the perfection of what is. Let me say that again, you’re surrendering to the perfection of what is.

“Living in this emotional state will enhance your life more than almost anything I know of. Cultivating this is cultivating life. Live with an attitude of gratitude.” –Anthony Robbins

You can’t trick the Universe
When I began applying Radical Appreciation to my life, I noticed a major distinction. When I “tried” to use it as a way to manifest, it seemed to clog the creative ether’s. But, when I surrendered to accepting the beauty of what was right in front of me, the Universe responded by delivering abundance into my life. Here’s another way to look at it – you’re an energy system, participating in larger energy system and you are emanating energy in every moment. Like energy is drawn toward other like energy and what you put out, you get back. This, as you may know, is called the law of attraction. Another way to describe this is that you create in the direction of your dominant focus.

When I was focusing on lack and scarcity, I was attracting lack and scarcity – bed bugs. When I chose to focus on being grateful for what I had, I eliminated the lack and scarcity energy I was putting out, and abundance started showing up in my experience. Gratitude and appreciation are abundant states of being, and the Universe will respond to it if you are persistent and consistent, but you can not fake the Universe out. When you are purely and genuinely grateful, abundance will show up in multiple ways. When you look for the abundance, it disappears.

Detachment is the Key
When you need something, you are telling the Universe that you don’t have it and it reflects that energy back to you. Need is a lack energy state. When you detach from what you think you need and adopt gratitude and appreciation as way of being, you become a magnet to what you desire. Sounds like a paradox because it is – the Universe is responding to the now, and what you emanate now is what is showing up. When you tip the scales and fill yourself up with genuine gratitude and appreciation and let go of what you think you need, you allow those things into your life because, in gratitude and appreciation, you are telling the Universe “I have everything I need” and the Universe says, “Here’s some more of it.”

Many people operate from the illusion that more money, more stuff and more, more, more will make them happy. This is a societal hypnosis that many people have adopted, and at one point, I was in this race and I was losing. True Freedom is choosing to be grateful for who you are and where you are in your life. True Freedom is accepting the magic that surrounds us in every single moment. When you emanate that kind of energy, abundance will flow because you’ve chosen to see your world as abundant. But the minute you go into needing something, you drop into lack and scarcity thinking and your world will begin to reflect that.

When you’re grateful, you’re free. Magic is what our Universe is made of and when you allow yourself to accept what is, just as it is, including and especially YOURSELF, your life will change and magic will be the order of your days. Everything is alive and when you tap into that awareness, you can allow yourself to see a living, breathing, pulsating world of beauty and wonder where all things are possible. Freedom is literally a choice away – the choice to be grateful instead of angry. The choice to appreciate instead of complain. The choice to love who you are and where you are instead of judging yourself, others and the world. Gratitude is a choice, and when you choose it radically, you’ll tap into an internal state of being that so full of life juice, you’ll be wondering how it could be so easy. Radical Gratitude can give you this one thing that we are all after: FREEDOM.

Do you have the courage to fail?

Do you have kids, or have you ever been one?! When a child is attempting his or her first steps, what is the inevitability of that child’s initial attempts? That’s right, FAILURE!! Another way to look at failure is making mistakes. And think about this: As we get into school and we begin doing homework and taking tests, what is immediately brought to our attention when we get the test back? Of course, we see those big red check marks, hi-lighting what we got wrong. You could have gotten 90% of the test right, but what the teachers put on the sheet is a big red -10.

You may remember Pavlov’s Dogs? If you don’t, Ivan Pavlov was a Russian scientist who studied salivation in dogs. He brought in some kind K-9’s and he would ring a bell, then give em’ food immediately after…ring a bell, give em’ food; ring a bell, give em’ food; ring a bell, give em’ food. Until finally, he could ring a bell, and the dogs would salivate without the food. The dogs were conditioned to respond by salivating because they had associated the bell to the food.

Well, as kids, we know that making mistakes helps us learn, but over time, we get conditioned, just like pavlov’s dogs, that making mistakes is actually a bad thing. Can you believe that??!! That’s like saying the Write Brothers first attempt at building the airplane was a failure…kind of absurd, WRITE?! There is a famous man by the name of Thomas Edison; you may have heard of him. Well, there was a story floating around that when he was attempting to invent the light bulb, that he once almost blew up his home, and his son walks in the room and says, “DAD!! Are you crazy!? You’ve failed 9,999 times to try to make this thing work, when are you going to give it up?!?” Thomas Edison thought for a moment and said, “I haven’t failed 9,999 times…I’ve discovered 9,999 ways to NOT make a light bulb work!”  

Failure or Feedback?

I would love to invite a new possibility into your mind about the concept of failure, because, that’s all it really is, isn’t it? A concept…just like success. It’s the emotional associations we have to these concepts that make them other than just concepts. So, the new possibility I have for you is this: There is no such thing as failure, only feedback. This is something that NLP taught me. It’s a constructive and empowering way to look at the idea of “failure”. As a Denver Breakthrough NLP Coach, this is a very common pattern I help people with.

I used to be really curious about the idea of auto-pilot in airplanes. I researched and figured out that when an airplane locks in its target destination, it can be put in auto-pilot mode. As it moves toward its target destination, and as it begins to move off course, it auto-corrects itself when it gets too far off track. And did you know that it is actually off course 95% of the time?!! That’s right, 95%! Isn’t that insane! Can you imagine the pilot getting on the intercom and saying, “Ok, we’re failing right now…still failing…still failing…oh, we’re succeeding…oops, we’re failing again..still failing…” Kind of a ridiculous idea right?! Well, SO IS THE CONCEPT OF FAILURE!

Feedback is what allows us to move forward in any context of life. For example, imagine you get into your car, and punch in the destination into your GPS. You put the car in gear and step on the gas, and as you move toward your destination, your GPS gives you feedback and let’s you know when to turn and where. If you take a wrong turn somewhere, does it say,”wrong turn idiot, you failed at getting to your destination!” Of course not! It says, “recalculating…” You making a wrong turn was just feedback for the GPS to adjust your approach!

In life, there’s not much difference, is there? Every action you take is an opportunity to get some feedback to adjust your approach. Along the way, yes, you’re going to make mistakes, and those mistakes give you valuable feedback. Failure only exists when you completely stop the pursuit of what you’re going after forever. Even if you decide that you want to take a break, and re-evaluate, you’re still observing and using the feedback to change your approach, yes?

I’ve made more mistakes growing my business over the last 2 years then I ever thought I would. As an NLP Breakthrough Coach in Denver, CO – Initially it was extremely hard to not see my attempts as failure, and because I was making so many mistakes, I had to shift the way I was perceiving my mistakes. As I made some shifts in thinking, and looked at the idea of mistakes and failure in a whole new way, I began to see all of my actions as immensely valuable feedback that I could use to my advantage! Now, I am taking consistent, bold action toward my dreams, and using every step of the way to refine my approach. I’ve never had so much fun taking risks and trying new things, because I have it wired in my mind that failure can only happen if I completely give up on my dreams for the rest of my life!! So, I’ve pretty much eliminated the possibility for failure to take place in my experience!! Whooo hoooo!!!

No matter where you are in your life, or in your business, today is another day to see failure in a new way; Consider the possibility that failure was just some idea implanted in your mind, like Santa Claus, or the Tooth Fairy and never existed in the first place(sorry to bust your bubble;)… consider the possibility that when you were born, you had no clue what failure was until someone taught it to you. Consider the possibility that failure doesn’t exist…and if it doesn’t, then, what becomes possible for you?

Lovin’ you like you can’t lose,