Lights, Camera - ACTION

I never really understood how to formulate a “Goal” – seemed to be difficult for me to choose just one “thing” or result…

Instead I found that by simply imagining “how cool would it be if…” I could create a future scene that included a variety of things..

For example, I used to think it “would be really cool” to actually live and work in the USA – I could visualise the cars, the buildings, and the people I could meet. I had a movie in my mind of what life could be like, how people would react to my accent, the air temperature and how I would be able to ride a Harley Davidson to Death Valley, or drive a ridiculous SUV over the Hoover Dam…

It wasn’t a Goal, it was more than that, it was a ready-made show reel in which I was the Director, Producer, Writer and Star – to me it was it was real, I could play the movie to myself in my mind whenever I wished…

That was when I was 17 – at that time life was not so sparkly and bright – eating cold food in a damp flat, or sleeping on the Central Line to keep warm was a million miles away from the USA…

Now let’s scroll forwards – on the 31^st March 2008 I receive a telephone call. Would I like to take my self my business and my family to live and work in the USA – Las Vegas to be precise…

My instant response was yes – within 2 weeks I was there, we sold everything and moved to the USA, we had a fabulous time there for two years. I bought the Harley Davidson and the SUV rode to Death Valley and drove over the Hoover Dam.

Note that this actually took 25 years to achieve - and to go from Ponders End to Las Vegas took plenty of work, learning, winning, losing, blood sweat and tears...

After a while we started to realise that actually, France was more in tune with our personal and professional ambitions and offered us a preferred lifestyle. So I produced another movie this time with the whole family as cast and crew but this time the location was France…

Sure enough, I attracted a business opportunity in Luxembourg – which meant that we could live in France, so again we immediately agreed and relocated back to Europe. We are still here – and rather than a new movie we are simply putting together the sequel – France 2 - the Monaco Years...

So what I have come to realise is that I don’t like Goals – I like Movies, and once the Movie is clear in my mind my actions, behaviour and decisions are guided in such a way that the opportunities for the Movie to become a reality become open to me. My job is simply to recognise the opportunities and capitalise on them when they come along - my subconscious

The biggest challenge that people face in business and in life is that they either don't recognise the opportunity, or if they do they don't say YES, they think about it, procrastinate, find excuses, allow the fear to be stronger than the excitement- and end up doing nothing.

For example, working with me will change your life and change your business - I guarantee it. The only thing that holds people back is the debilitating activity of the logical mind which looks for evidence, certainty, guarantees and predictability. What great movie have you ever seen that had predictability or certainty in the script...? 

Movies are products of creativity, use your creativity when making your decisions too...

The real beauty of this method, for me at least, is that when the phone rings and someone describes an opportunity – I can instantly either say yes or no, because if it is the right one, I will have already seen the movie in my mind and providing the two match, life is good.