Renegade Professional :: Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler 

“I’ve Gotta Make this Work!”… Finding the Only Shortcut & Taking It

My baby daughter was there.

I was there.

If only I knew then, what I know now.

But who hasn’t said that before?

I remember my mentality back then…

“I ‘gotta’ make this work.”

And judging by my circumstances I was right.

It was an all-too familiar and uncomfortable condition for me in business back then.

I hadn’t yet learned about the only REAL shortcut that exists.

I Chased Rainbows.

Little did I know that the pot of gold was in my own backyard.

What a stubborn one I can be.

That stubbornness has served me in one way at least (never, ever quite–right?)

But it has also cost me dearly, with a mentality that seemed to say–

“No, not me… I don’t have to work on my listening and communication skills, or learn how to lead. I’ll find a much easier way to succeed than THAT.”

If only I knew how hard that would be, trying to find the EASY way.

Because…

Looking for the “Easy Way” is the Hardest Way of All.

And, you could say…

What Most People Think to be the “Hard Way” is Actually the “Easiest”.

I read personal development books.

I went to leadership trainings.

But I never made it my #1 thing–not back then. I just thought I did at the time.

There I was at 30 years old with my six-month old daughter in my lap.

Chasing the dream from home.

Barely making enough to make ends meet.

I’d made more (much more) from home before that. But then it had shriveled.

I’d worked hard before… real hard.

And then after burning out–after working like a mad-man from age 22 to 27 (chasing all the bogus shortcuts most people still chase), I “checked out” for about two years as soon as the income was high enough.

–Burn Out–

I played catch-up on life.

The color returned to my face.

I smiled more without trying to.

I started a family.

I caught up on what I had been missing while ‘building the dream.’

But then, after watching my income slide back down I found myself in familiar territory…

“I gotta make this thing work!”

So I was working feverishly again… and had been for about a year since returning from world travels, reflection, and a bout with getting healthy and fit (I had needed to do that after the 5 year focused business effort).

I was really stressed out–working, working…

Trying…

Sitting with my six month old daughter beside me, trying to find the ’shortcut’ again. Trying to live up to my ‘big words’ to family and friends, most of whom had forgotten I was a winner.

Trying to justify my commitment to succeed.

The Million Dollar Chapter Comes…

But within a year from that challenging time, I had figured a piece of it out (the marketing part) and I started attracting business in a BIG way… though I still hadn’t learned how to keep it. I had to go through a very labor intensive learning process because I was still looking for shortcuts in all the wrong places.

By age 31, I had attracted over a million dollars to my new company within the first month of launch and had people joining my networking business before I even had time to make the first follow-up phone call. That was 6 years ago.

It was nice, though there was still plenty of stumbling (as I was still learning what I’ll share with you today).

It was actually quite rough… but it WAS a great experience because it forced me to finally–eventually– realize and take the only REAL shortcut that exists… the very thing I was avoiding the entire time because I thought it would be harder, when it was actually much, much easier.

If only I was getting emails like this.

Fast forward 6 years, I now head up a growing multi-million dollar enterprise. Solid, stable, growing incredibly fast. Enjoyable. In alignment with my values and intentions.

From struggle to now business bliss, I have learned and lived the only REAL short-cut there is, and how to get people to not just stand in line to join my business… and not just stay… but to duplicate in ways that extend far beyond what I imagined possible.

Finding the REAL Short-Cut… And Taking It.

I have always looked for the shortcuts, which would have been great, if only I was looking in the right place.

In my earlier years in business, I was constantly trying to use some new system to generate leads for me. Or to ‘qualify’ them for me. I even worked hard to create such systems.

Its not that there wasn’t value in what I was doing, and in qualifying prospects and using systems to help–that IS a small part of the equation. But this aspect of it is SECONDARY to what is most critical for one’s success.

Here’s the “Essential List” most avoid making their #1 priority in business:

Focus on Developing…

* A Keen insight
* An ability to influence others
* An ability to choose the right opportunities for you
* An ability to create and communicate value
* An ability to attract people to you through networking and marketing
* An ability to inspire others by truly connecting with them, by listening
* An ability to cultivate partnerships

You CAN develop these things rather quickly, but only if you make that your main aim.

The list is so alien when you’re not ready.

Its like hocus pocus.

It might even be scary.

It makes success seem really far away. But that’s only if you’re not ready to take responsibility for it.

The truth is that when you look at this essential list square in the face, that’s when success gets close.

That’s when you’re getting warmer.

Then, if you don’t take your eyes off this list… that’s when you get hot.

Attractive Marketer Hot.

Doing so puts your butt on the shortcut… The only REAL shortcut you’ll ever find.

I Wasn’t Ready…

I wasn’t ready to look until I had worked so hard for so long trying to bypass ‘the list’ of essentials, that I finally just stumbled into it here and there, over time… over a long period of painstaking time because I didn’t know it was IT.

I thought it was just “part” of it.

Somehow I had exhausted everything else and I just decided to focus only on that list for a while… that was about 3 years ago.

I buckled down on ONLY it.

I connected with the right coaching, training and people and developed my skills (the essential list) as QUICKLY AS I POSSIBLE COULD.

I did it because I had to. I was exhausted. It was that or admit failure. And that’s not me.

This is where my stubbornness helped.

And maybe its why I relate so well with the majority out there who struggle… because I was on that path with such intense determination for so long, avoiding the essential list just like most do.

My Point In All This?

My message to you is that it doesn’t have to take you as long to find IT as it took me.

It took me a long time because I was stubborn in believing the B.S. because I wanted to believe it, just like many people reading this want to believe that a system is the answer.. and not you. You don’t want to follow through on this advice because you’re like I was… you’re where I was.

But some of you will move on it. And that’s who I’m talking to here.

Don’t get me wrong…

The vehicles you use (the opportunities, systems, etc) ARE important obviously… but they are motionless without the list of essentials above.

Like pushing a car uphill versus stepping on the gas and zipping down it. That’s what I’m taking about.

I’m talking about finally being able to navigate yourself from where you are to where you want to be with absolute control, safety, comfort and EASE. Every time with ANY system.

And…

I’m talking about accomplishing everything you want FASTER by making it your #1 intention to focus on the essential list.

Are you ready for that?

You are already addressing some of this if you’re moving through the Start Here Checklist in your Renegade Professional back office.

But are you consciously addressing the entire list head on?

Is it your #1 aim?

There are 5 things we’ll be introducing to you over the course of this fall and winter. You’ve likely heard about some of them already. Mysuggestion is to study what they offer you.

They are:

1. Coaching Cognition
2. The Live Event in January
3. Super Guides Training & Collaboration Program
4. PBN (Becoming a Trainer for the Professionals, Businesses and Non-profits section of Renegade Professional)
5. Renegade Professional News — Pay close attention to the students who grow in this community. Connect with them. Know them.

Infuse yourself into the leadership here.

First, see how others are developing their brand & gaining exposure by closely aligning with this open community… then follow in their footsteps.

We’re creating an ever-expanding economy here that you can take part in.

Pay close attention to these 5 development opportunities over the coming weeks and months–each is designed to help you attack the “essential list” and take the only REAL shortcut there is.

Take a moment right now to learn a little more about each of those 5 collaborative opportunities by clicking on the links above.

Success doesn’t have to be hard.

But it will be if you don’t take a very proactive stance to attack your essential list head on.

Here it is again:

You Must Have…

* A Keen Insight.
* An ability to influence others
* An ability to choose the right opportunities for you
* An ability to create and communicate value
* An ability to attract people to you through networking and marketing
* An ability to cultivate partnerships

You have to initiate all this.

It’s all on you and it always will be.

But the people and assistance is here if you’re ready for it.

Partners in success,
Mike Klingler