Elevate Your Success (Notes and Summary)
Today, I will be writing about a book that had a profound impact on my life. I first read Elevate Your Success by Benjamin J. Harvey in December 2021, and it completely changed the way I view the world.
At the time, 2021 had been one of the most challenging years of my life. However, at the start of 2022, I began applying the lessons from the book. Before the new year, I created a list of everything and everyone I was grateful for, and I reached out to each person to express my appreciation.
The results were significant. 2022 became one of the best years of my life.
Elevate Your Success explores key ideas such as maintaining a positive mindset, practising gratitude, prioritising self-care, setting clear goals, managing time effectively, building strong relationships, and taking action. I strongly recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their life.
Below are some notes I took while reading the book.
Elevate Your Success
Let’s start with my favourite quote from this book:
“Success is a process, not an outcome. To be successful, you must learn to take small actions that build momentum over time, and then continually refine those actions until each one is completed at a world class level.”
“Then all you need is to possess until attitude. This means you persist with taking small actions and refining them every step of the way until you get there.
Benjamin J Harvey
Some key points from Elevate Your Success:
Stubbornness is a great trait to succeed
Always listen to heart and follow inner voice
Passion = an ingredient to succeed. If you believe in yourself and are passionate, you’re already halfway there.
Your mission is to have no competition. Find a way to change the world somehow.
Preach what you practise.
Key Points in applicable Business:
Be highly coachable
Find great mentors
Get a relevant education
Take little actions and refine those actions
Listen to qualified feedback
Believe in the product
A business is not about you, it’s about making your clients lives better by solving a meaningful problem.
There are two types of businesses - Lifestyle and asset.
Run a business as if you’re going to sell it one day.
Prosper passion and monetise = order and organise what you know and love
Money goes to where knowledge is most organised.
The Information Age is gone. The knowledge age has arrived. Humans are subconsciously attracted to be around people with organised knowledge.
Share information that someone needs and wants.
Business/ organisation = bringing to the market an organised form of that which is disorganised.
Money = getting a message in the market.
Be flexible about which method the message is delivered.
Organise it in a step by step process in different methods like a book, Tv show, audio series, online program, workshop, one-one coaching, etc.
When you find your message, you find your millions.
As you progress, you realise it’s all about who you become in the process of making money.
Package you highest service
Find you’re biggest passion. Take action and know the next step.
Present your Passion
Presenting = backbone of success.
Craft and deliver public presentations = share message and grow business.
Present passion once packaged.
Here is another one of my favourite quotes from the book.
“You can have everything you want in life if you help other people get what they want.”
Zig Zaglar
“PROSPER FROM YOUR PASSION”
Read more at: Www.authenticeducation.com.au/passion
Public speaking to a live audience:
builds trust with people quickly
Leverage time by speaking to large numbers at once
Having their full attention
Gaining immediate feedback from the expressions on their faces while you’re presenting.
Transferring emotion and inspiring people to take action
Being able to let them experience your style of education firsthand, which is like giving them a test drive of your products and services before make a decision to buy.
You get a really good feeling in your heart knowing you’ve inspired someone to live an empowered life.
Structure to presentation is critical.
Feelings build, curioosity awakened and a feeling of inspiration infused into their bodies when they see a presenter sharing their message. Gain knowledge and laugh from time to time.
Intuitive speaker = practise within a structure to present in a way that inspires people to make action.
THE PRESENTERS PRO FORMULA
Phase 1: Orchestrate your outcome
Start with asking this. At the end of my presentation, what specific action do I want my audience to take? Begin with the end in mind.
E.g.
commit to mediate daily
Set goals
Call a friend to tell them about the workshop
Sign up for workshop
Fill in details for complimentary workshop
Create savings plan
Invest
Sign a deal
Everything in the talk is now designed to assist the audience in making a decision on the end. ask yourself “How does this bit of content move my audience to making that decision?”
Purpose of new education = action. Clarify action before all.
Phase 2: craft your presentation
3 core stages. Better at communication.
Connect. Start of presentation, connect with each individual with use of the word you. Speak as if you’re speaking directly to each individual and make them feel it.
Opening
Big promise
Three main points
Core message
2. Demonstrate. Prove why they should take new actions. How it will solve their problems.
Frames
System overview
First key point
Your mystique
Second key point
Pace out resistance
Third key point '
3. all to Action.
Review
Perfect pitch
Thank you
Read more at: Www.authenticeducation.com.au/formula
Phase 3: Embody your message
With Memory strategies. Memory is like a muscle. The more you work it, the better it becomes.
Can’t rely too much on technology these days. Hence it is beneficial to learn to present with nothing but yourself on stage. Technology is a bonus. They come to see you speak, learn something and to be entertained, not slides on a screen.
3 memory techniques.
Photographic memory technique.
Putting a movie of the content you want to cover and play the movie on your mind when you get up on stage.
The pegging technique. You mentally “peg” content around the room in a specific order.
The acronym technique.
Break down content to where each letter had a spectate point.
Put faith in memory, google techniques.
Phase 4: Own the stage
Master outcome at the beginning and learn how to craft it correctly. Memorise message and learn to own the stage.
Owning stage = Be graceful in delivery.
“grace is the removal of all unnecessary movement.”
Remove all movements that don’t serve a purpose.
Dancers perform the precise steps required. Allow your body to naturally flow with how to message wants to come out.
Technical:
Body postures, satir categories created by Virginia satir
Stage anchoring to elicit emotions and time
Mimed models and diagrams
The Book “Kinesics and context” by Ray L Birdwhistell studies human body and interpersonal communication.
Communication requires use of all senses. Words having the smallest percentage of importance in the exchange.
Communication = 3 aspects :
7 percent words
38 percent tonality
55 percent physiology
93% of your message is not what is said but how it is conveyed.
The best speakers are okay with being themselves. Be authentic on stage, so the audience connects. When sharing a message, open your heart and let people in.
Orchestrate outcome, craft presentation, embody message and own the stage. Surrender and allow natural light to shine through your words, resulting in captivating hearts.
Phase 5: Manage the business model
Important steps to becoming a professional speaker:
knowing how to attract the right people in your community
Being able to fill rooms with an audience that wants to hear your message
Creating desirable packages that solve the problems of audience members
Ensuring you design a solid message to market matches when seeking to build your brand
The same reason they come to see you speak is the exact same reason they will buy.
Walk in the audience’s shoes before they arrive. Focus finer points on exactly why they came to see the presentation, and connect deeply with everyone in the room.
Bored with life and feel unfulfilled, solve challenging problems in your life and others. You get the most fulfilment out of that.
When you solve problems for others, they show appreciation in the form of money. More appreciation = more money. Solve as many problems as you can. Speaking allows to solve in a leveraged way, due to the number of people that you can reach at the same time.
Prosper with happy clients
Inspire clients to buy.
Every time you make a sale, you’re improving someone’s life.
Selling should be based on a genuine desire to help make a difference in a persons life.
Educational based selling. People want to know you genuinely care about them.
“Inspire to buy program.”
Programs for heart centred difference makers, aka PHD.
Key issues you to need to solve to succeed in business that helps improve quality of life:
Productivity and systems
mindset
Packaging and marketing (end to end business lifecycle)
Presenting from the stage
Education based selling
Looking after cash flow, being wise with spending and keeping a cash cushion allows to capitalise opportunities as they arrive and maintain success for any new growth venture.
Here’s are some good practises for success - visualisation, crystal healing, hypnosis, sage smudging, meditation.
The most Powerful practise is writing.
Write down all the reasons you deserve success. Write 100-200 reasons non stop and get in the flow. Start with this. Write 20 reasons why you deserve to earn money from what you’re passionate about. This process fires and wires your thinking cells (neurons). Change your beliefs at a subconscious level.
Practise authentic appreciation. Have an attitude of gratitude. Set aside of minutes every day and imagine what you appreciate in life. Surrender into that subtle sensation of appreciation. Cognitive bias. You unconsciously sort for what you appreciate and end up discovering more to be grateful for. your mind sets a new set of rules and biases.
“What you focus on, expands.” the more you appreciate in life, the more you get to appreciate.
Life rewards action.
“The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others in the form of service.”
Oprah Winfrey
“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for 90 or hundred years or so, and during that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. If you can contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find true goal, the true meaning of life.”
His Holiness l, the fourteenth Dailai Lama: the true meaning of life
When things get hard, search deep within to find the strength that’s always been there for you.
Trust your own judgment.
Become best friends with yourself.
If you seek answers you already have them.
You have the potential to be your own worst enemy or the master of your destiny. People will try to steer you away from your dreams. Act generously but only listen to the voice deep within you.
Set unrealistic and ridiculous goals, focussing only on the end result with an unwavering resolve. If you Fall short of your goals, then celebrate your achievements. As you look back, you will see how far you’ve come and how far behind people who set realistic goals are.
Embrace every challenge as an opportunity you need to grow.
Everything is perfect
Forgiveness will set you free but will take longer to master
Spend time on your own every day
You only have to work on yourself
Look in the mirror and learn to love everything that looks back at you.
People subordinate by putting others values before their own and then allow their days to fill up with low priority tasks as opposed to high priority ones. Education and application are needed to deal with this.
Identify set values and fulfill them from a place of self-love.
In “How to Find What You Love to Do and Gey Paid to Do It!” by Benjamin J Harvey, refer to the Chapter “Shadow Values” for a full depth analysis.
Put yourself first. Not selfish but in a non negative way.
To truly help others, you need to be the best version of yourselves.
When a student is ready, the teacher appears.
Mistakes people make:
Thinking every detail needs to be perfect before starting.
Listening to everyone else’s advice about how they should run their business.
When an opportunity knocks, sometimes you only have a small window of time to act.
Show courage and the rewards are waiting for you on the other side. Universe is constantly offering up opportunity. Will you notice?
Business Tips:
Produce in volume without compromising integrity
Research about the product and know it well
Take initiative and project
Instead of making every detail like the logo perfect before starting, have a good product, improve in the area of retail branding.
Find a Name, logo and branding.
Get someone to help with home-printed labels and Graphic design
Eventually elevate on a more commercial level.
Build administration with office management and accounts payable/receivable.
Start with Computer Office Program - search templates to create basic sales invoices.
The state government business website has a lot of info on requirements for business set up and structure, registration, ABN or to register for GST. Contact details will be available too.
Book recommendations:
“Best Love Affair” program about indulging in quality time with yourself.
“The Way Of The Peacefull Warrior” by Dan Milman
“The Calestine Prophecy” by James Redfield
“The Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu
“The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” By Robin Sharma
“Zero Limits” by Dr. joe Vitale and Dr. ihaleakala Hew Len
“The Impersonal Life” by Joseph Benner
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.
Miyamoto Musashi - the book of five rings.
Thank you so much for reading! I hope this has helped you as much as it helped me.
