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A Note From Joseph RIggio:
In 2005 I heard a shocking statistic that set me on a mission ... "To Uncover Why Some Coaches and Consultants Make $1,000,000+/Year, While Others Struggle To Pay Their Bills"
More than 80% of all coaches and consultants earn less than $50,000/year in their businesses!
I decided than and there that I would share with these folks, and anyone else who was interested in learning, exactly what coaches and consultants who earn in excess of $1,000,000/year do differently - and I designed a program to do just that.
In 2005 I decided to run program on how to build a ... Seven-Figure Expert Advisor Business ... as a Coach, Consultant, Counselor, Adviser and/or Trainer. That program and $1MM Busines Building is really all about building a completely magical life
After reading some statistics published by one of the top coaching websites on the Internet as I said I realized that more than 80% of all coaches, consultants and trainers make less than $50,000/year in their businesses - and only the top 5% of all coaches and consultants make more than $100,000/year consistently! I have to say I was shocked by these statistics ... I simply had no idea. Especially when you consider that I personally know more than a handful of folks in this business who make well over $1,000,000/year in their best years, including myself. I decided it was time to share what the folks who know how to generate this kind of income know - information that seems like "Secrets of Success" to everyone else.
When I first announced that I was going to run a program to teach people to build a $1,000,000,000 Coaching, Consulting, Counseling, Advising and/or Training Business In Two Years Or Less a bunch of people said I was crazy. But as I said to them then ...
"I assure you you can build a $1,000,000 business on your own terms with people you want to work with and you can do it in less time than you think."
While this kind of success is still extraordinary, it's simpler to do this than most people would ever imagine! What it really takes is the right roadmap to do it! So I presented this program anyway, in spite of the opinions of others who are always around willing to nay-say any idea they haven't already had themselves. And it was a phenomenal success!
How My Story Might Just Change Your Life Too ...
You see, I understand what it's like to yearn for success doing what you love and helping others too as you make a good living. When I entered this field myself I had come with a history of practicing architecture and make a great living ... but I was neither fulfilled nor happy about what I was doing with my life. I woke up one day and realized I didn't want to be a sixty year old architect one day. But I didn't yet know what I wanted to be doing ...
To make a long story short I went through a couple of lean years figuring out what to do next. At first I went back to something I knew how to do and that I thought would let me make a living while I
figuring out what to be doing with my life ... dog training. Well the first year wasn't so good, but after that things really took off for me and I did quite well as a dog trainer. I began to learn tons about what
really makes people tick, what they'll spend their money on and why, and exactly how to run a small personal service business in an incredibly successful way. In fact I learned how to run this business so well most people couldn't (or wouldn't) believe you could learn that much money training dogs - and having a blast doing it.
When I figured out the first secrets that made all the difference in my business a few amazing things began to happen. First, my customers who had been pleased before began to tell me they were
thrilled with the service I was providing. Next, they began to refer me to friends and family at every opportunity. Third, and most amazing of all to me, other dog trainers started wanting to know what I was doing that made such a huge impact. To put it all simply my business took off and soared!
My life was truly magical I was doing something that I loved, working with great people and their dogs, and enjoying all the rewards of running a successful business that you could imagine. Yet, I
knew this wasn't "IT" - I didn't want to be a dog trainer for the rest of my life. But, I still didn't know exactly what I did want to be doing.
Then I came across NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), and I was fascinated by it. I fell in love with NLP and what it seemed to be offering to me and others. I had an experience in a training with
Richard Bandler one of the co-developers of NLP and I decided on the spot I would learn this technology and do this for the rest of my life. From that point onwards I studied every thing about NLP that I could get my hands on, practiced what I was learning and continued developing my knowledge and abilities steadily. Within a few years I felt I had the skills I wanted and needed to make the next transition.
I was still training dogs during this time and doing quite well. Yet I knew I wanted something more. I had a brand new shiny NLP Trainer's Certificate, so I hung out a shingle and became an NLP Coach,
Consultant and Trainer (little did I know what I was getting into at the time ...). For the next couple of years I struggled mightily to make this business work for me as I wished it would ... lot's of effort, little returns.
Jumping a bit ahead I realized that I was going about it all wrong. I was following all the advice well meaning people - mostly other struggling, and even sometimes successful, coaches and consultants
themselves - were giving me and getting nowhere. Here I was struggling and hoping to just make a decent living doing something I really loved, but wasn't making much money doing - not even enough
to really support myself, let alone my family. Then it hit me ... I already knew how to build a successful business. I done it at least twice before - as an architect and as a dog trainer.
Now all I had to do was figure out exactly what I'd done to be successful in those last two businesses. So I started going over everything that I had done that I though contributed to making those
businesses as successful as they had been. I also decided to hedge all bets and find some folks who were wildly successful as coaches, consultants and/or trainers themselves. I had no idea where the
journey I was beginning was going to take me.
One of the first things I learned was that I had more talent than I'd realized - one of super-successful folks I'd met convince me of that ... and he was right. So I added that information into what I was already doing. That one piece of information alone transformed my business. I went from being just another guy who had hung out a shingle as a "consultant" to being an expert advisor that people wanted to hire - and for more money then I'd ever thought about charging before! This kind of information just kept coming up and I kept implementing it to transform my business - and myself - over and over again.
Within a year of doing this I'd stopped training dogs completely and I was working full-time as a coach, consultant and trainer. I put together a successful training program and started getting real
recognition from clients. One day I got a call from someone in Denmark asking me if I'd like to come over and deliver my program to a client of his over there. I jumped at the chance. Well this turned
out to be one of the major learning experiences in my life. This person, who's now one of my business partners, gave me the roadmap to consistent business success. He knew and shared with me
secrets of how to build a successful coaching, consulting, counseling, advising and/or training business that he'd accumulated and perfected over many, many years of trial and error himself.
What I realized from this encounter with good fortune were a number of things, including: the value of taking a risk, the importance of pursuing your dreams, taping into the storehouse of learning that
others have ... and so much more which I share with you in $1MM Business Building. But, the one thing I also began to realize was that so few people, even wildly successful people, know how to teach others the secrets of success.
- Joseph Riggio
This group is one of Joseph's Private Access groups devoted to helping you become more successful in your own private practice, sole practitionership, small business or even supporting you on your way to building a much larger business. First and foremost what you'll get here are both practical and applicable ideas for growing your business. You'll also get a unique dose of attitude ... the attitude that will support and sustain you as you experience and emerge triumphant from the trials of entrepreneurship In terms of living the Way of the Entrepreneur triumphant doesn't always equate with what ordinary folks (read that as: non-entreprenuerial) think of as success. Instead it means having survived another lesson along the way and as a result coming out the other side stronger, more able and ever more ready to continue on your unique path. In part this may be the most distinct aspect of being on the Way of the Entrepreneur ... the recognition that you are in fact on your unique path.
One of the the extraordinary things that the advent of capitalism created was a more level "playing field" for anyone seeking personal success. One of the ways this has evolved can be seen in the explosion of small business and the entrepreneurial marketplace that has emerged from the drive of individuals working on their own and together with others to create and own their own businesses, and to prosper financially. The most current expression of this drive and desire can be directly experienced in the cresting wave of the Internet ... and the business opportunities that the Internet and the access it provides has spawned. In part acknowledging, admiring and specifically encouraging this way of being, what we could call an Entrepreneurial Attitude is what $1MM Dollar Business Building is all about.
As in all of Joseph's Private Access programs, $1MM Business Building™ makes material that you can use as you stake out your unique business and strive to grow it available in an immediate, intimate and increasingly accessible way. Think of your membership in Joseph's $1MM Business Building as having joined an intimate private group with a mentor who's "been there and done that" ... experienced in both the thrills and the agony that is the Way of the Entrepreneur ... spending an hour or two with you each month parsing out the essential information ... and that good dose of ATTITUDE ... you'll surely want and you definitely need to succeed.
As Joseph is so fond of saying: Buona Fortuna & Abbundanza!!!
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First of all ... (click here first) Happy Holidays to everyone!!!
So I realized that I haven’t posted here in a while and I wanted to write a new blog entry while the mood is upon me ... so here it is, enjoy all ...
First let’s catch up a bit, then I’ll post a little on where my latest thinking about what’s been left out of the model has been ...
As usual I’ve been busy since the last time I posted here ... I’ve been writing a little on the MythoSelf E-List at Yahoo Groups, in fact I posted an especially long message there a short while ago about modeling, Models of Models, about NLP and modeling ... and the lack thereof.
I’ve also been developing an international retail strategy for a world-class client, which is both hard work and a blast ... especially as we’re beginning to see real results emerging. And, of course, I’ve had my attention on the schedule of upcoming projects and programs for 2008 ...
So far I’ve got plans in place for a MythoSelf® Facilitator’s/Trainer’s Training Intensive in Italy and I’m also planning on renewing the MythoSelf® Facilitator’s/Trainer’s Training in NJ that will run over the course of the year. But, both of these programs will be virtually brand new in terms of both content and construction ... I’m completely revamping these programs for 2008 based on some new learnings and leanings that have developed over this past year ... stay tuned for more details as I unveil them. I’m also working on a brand new program that I’m currently in the process of developing that I’m calling Intentional Performance ... The Warp and Weft of INTENT, A Program for Professionals Integrating the Hero’s Journey and the Graves Model - this program will unmask the stories we tell ourselves and others, the stories others tell themselves, us and others, the way these stories weave into the construction of the social identities we share and the power of the stories we tell to shape and create the realities we manifest - personally I think this program will truly be a kick-ass program for those who are up for it, and as usual with my professional development programs of this kind I’m limiting the group size to about 20. This program Intentional Performance will be held in Langebaek, Denmark at the Blue Butterfly Retreat Center where I held last year’s MythoSelf® Facilitator’s/Trainer’s Training Intensive.
It’s also possible that I’ll run the Exquisite Performance Coaching and Consulting Series Workshops sometime in the second half of 2008 and the first half of 2009. These are two four-day workshops, one each on the coaching and consulting models I’ve developed. I’ll present one of the four-days in 2008 and the other in 2009, or I may move both to 2009 and present one in the first half of the year and the other in the second half of the year. Finally, sometime during the year I’ll plan a MythoSelf® Advanced Facilitator’s/Trainer’s Training (Mytho4/16) that will be a four-day workshop limited to folks who have completed a MythoSelf® Facilitator’s/Trainer’s Training program before.
Whew! ... (deep breath in ... hold it ... let it out slowly) ... even thinking about all that tickles me to no end! It’s actually a lighter schedule than I’ve run before, but we’re revving up the production of our programs to a level way beyond what we’ve ever produced before. A lot of that has to do with Nancy being on board full-time and really running things with her typical “iron hand in a velvet glove approach to things. I’ve also got plans to revamp the MythoSelf.com site in a big way come 2008 ... but,enough about all that for now, I promise I’ll post a bit more about it all as it unfolds
What I’ve been observing and opining about lately to my inner group of confidants has been in relation to a very simple idea really ... in the same way that “body” and “mind” get separated ... “words” and “deeds” get separated as well ... when in fact they are very much one thing, Body-Mind ... Words-Deeds. Now I could have substituted “action” for “deeds” but in actuality “deeds” more accurately conveys the intention of my reference.
Deed \Deed\, n. [AS. d[=ae]d; akin to OS. d[=a]d, D. & Dan. daad, G. that, Sw. d[*a]d, Goth. d[=e]ds; fr. the root of do. See Do, v. t.]
1. That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done;—a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. [1913 Webster]
As you can see deeds are all about doing ... what I like to think of as “performance.”
Performance \Per*form"ance\, n. The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. [1913 Webster]
Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. --Paley. [1913 Webster]
2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. “Her walking and other actual performances.” --Shak. “His musical performances.” --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Where action first and foremost implies movement, but not necessarily achievement or even intentional directionality,
Action \Ac"tion\, n. [OF. action, L. actio, fr. agere to do. See Act.] 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. [1913 Webster]
Yet, I find it most interesting that today we tend to emphasize “action” in society over “deeds” ... e.g.: Action Heros. We seem to be addicted to action ... movement for the sake of movement ... despite the fact that it doesn’t necessarily get anyone anywhere or at least not where they want to be going. However, I also understand that the word “deed” implies a moral/ethical tone ... and the potential for magnificence, majesty and a lasting legacy:
And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done? --Gen. xliv.
We receive the due reward of our deeds. --Luke xxiii. 41.
Would serve his kind in deed and word. --Tennyson.
2. Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. “Knightly deeds.” --Spenser.
Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
For many, maybe most, people the potential to think of themselves in terms of “magnificence, majesty and a lasting legacy” would be too much. They run away from that much significance, that much intentionality in their lives ... preferring to remain small and insignificant instead. This route has become familiar ... comfortable ... safe ... the one imposed upon them by their families, friends, society and culture. Even when folks feel like they are taking risks they are most often in the realm of the familiar ... comfortable ... safe kind of risks, essentially doing what has been laid out for them to do ... what they’ve been told to do. i>“Go to school ... behave .. pay attention ... speak when you’re spoken to ... don’t stand out too much.” ... “Get a good education ... get a good job ... get promoted ... get wealthy ... get married ... get successful ... get respected.” ... “Learn to fit in and find your place ... find yourself ... find your path ... live your life with meaning and purpose ... contribute ... help others ... be a good member of society.” All messages about conforming, not rocking the boat too much ... and most of all about gaining the rewards promised you if you succeed according to the rules laid out for you by others ... definitely not magnificence, majesty and a lasting legacy.
What I find most interesting about all this has to do with how it demands a repression of the soul ... the essential part of the individual screaming and clawing to emerge ... to extricate itself from the binding ties imposed by others ... family, friends, society, culture. And, of course, even when people feel their souls ready to explode from the prison imposed upon them they often don’t know how ... what to do or how to do it. So they begin to think in terms of what they’ve been taught ... TO TAKE ACTION! ... TO DO SOMETHING ... ANYTHING!!! ... although what they are trying to escape from begins in what they’ve been taught ... the bonds of family, friends, society, culture ... remember, “Resistance is futile”.
Months ago ... years really ... I wrote about The Matrix ... saying then that The Matrix signifies language ... that we are trapped by language. I didn’t make up this idea, I simply borrowed it. I got this idea from John Searle and traced the essence of it back to Heraclitus. Language has as one of its effects the ability to name things, i.e.: to bring things into being as something (specific) ... we’ll call this an ontological effect. When language names things they become fixed and permanent in that language form, one example of this would be the language of jargon. To the insider group familiar with and who uses the jargon, the meaning of the language becomes familiar and known ... purposeful and intentional, as it points to something known, perceived or intended. Yet to those outside of the group who are familiar with and users of the jargon the language remains meaningless ... purposeless and unintentional, pointing to nothing.
In the same way that The Matrix can be represented by language, those who create and use language to signify and manifest certain things, situations, circumstances, results and outcomes can be thought of in terms of being the societal/cultural Borg of the day ... think, “Axis of Evil” as one familiar example. There are others that are also familiar depending on where you have been inculturated, “Think not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” or “For God, King/Queen and Country!” Yet the most insidious ones are much less obvious, “Education is the great equalizer.” What all these have in common are they are based in language ... language being the creator of form ... the ontological seed.
As soon as we become clear about the linkage between our language (words) and our deeds (acts ... n.b.: different from “action") we can become clear about how we create our lives. Taking charge of our language acts grants us the power to act with intentionality ... giving direction to our action ... turning what we do into our deeds and our deeds into our legacy. When we choose to attend to our languaging in this way we choose for magnificence and majesty.
So in closing for today I’m saying that I am opting for a life of choosing in this way in the upcoming year ... and urging you to consider how you will choose your life in the coming year for yourselves.
Buona Natale and Buona Fortuna ... ABUNDANZA!!! ... to a year of wholeness, fullness, joy and prosperity to all ...
Joseph Riggio
Princeton, NJ
Not to be remiss ... an essential point, but one that will have to wait for another post to explicate, has to do with the intrinsic, intertwining of attending to where language emerges and arises from ... the absolute relationship of the semantic and somatic form, i.e.: one and the other are singular at the level of form. This refers to the interplay between the pre-representational, representational and post-representational forms that are held semantically and somatically. That which precedes and exceeds language cannot be held in language, yet from the essential form that stands outside of language all language emerges ... followed by all of our acts and deeds. Only when we are perceiving ontologically can we create that which we desire to become manifest in a magnificent and majestic manner, both on our own and with others. Essentially, this has been the core of the work I’ve been doing with individuals, groups and organizations for two decades ... learning all the time to refine and redefine as I go ... producing with each iteration a new level of performance unknown to me before. As I’ve said for another time ... maybe at the start of the New Year ...