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Do You Want To Be Successful? Have You Drawn Your Line In The Sand Yet?

Copyright © 2012 Bryan Beckstead

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You have started a new business or gotten a new job and you are now reevaluating the results you are currently getting and all of these activities lead to the same place. Sooner or later you are going to have to draw a line in the sand.

What do I mean by this?

I believe that in order for any of us to be effective, successful and to give ourselves a fighting chance to achieve as many goals as possible in life, you have to establish what I call your own set of Irrefutables. Your set of Irrefutables will set out for you what it will require from you to get the job done. I'm not talking about the window dressing, the peripheral outside tasks; I'm referring to the core absolute must activities that are required for you to be successful.

We have an exercise in all of our seminars that helps illustrate this point and it really causes many of our people to make some tough decisions. This is where they are asked to make some defining moment decisions and draw that proverbial line in the sand. The line in the sand says that these are the planks on which I will risk my future, these planks will either support me or they will allow me to slip between the cracks.

Our seminar exercise goes like this:

1. Every one is given a blank recipe card.

2. They are told to think of something they consider themselves an expert in, something that they would feel comfortable instructing some one else to do.

3. The task can be anything; showing some one how to bake a cake, learn how to skate, change a tire on a car, any task at all.

4. Once the task is picked, they are now told to write down on the recipe card 3 Irrefutables regarding that task. The 3 Irrefutables will be 3 distinct requirements that are absolutely necessary in order for the person you are instructing to be able to successfully complete the task.

5. It is important to view the 3 Irrefutables that each person picks as laying the foundation on which to build. The seminar participants will only be able to pick 3 foundation blocks to build on, they have to be the most basic and the ones that, without them in place, they will not be able to move forward with additional blocks or Irrefutables to the next level of complexity.

6. Everyone is given just 3 minutes to write down their Irrefutables and the cards are then handed in.

7. The cards are then randomly distributed throughout the room, ensuring everyone gets some one else's card.

8. We know have everyone in the room with a card that has a task at the top of the card and then 3 requirements; the most basic, crucial Irrefutable requirements on which the successful completion of the task will hinge.

Now the debates begin. I ask someone to stand up and read off the task at the top of their card. Let's use a simple one; someone in the room is going to show that person how to bake an apple pie. Before that person reads off the 3 Irrefutables on the card, the rest of the group gets to start a list on the chalkboard. What should be on the list? You need to have picked the 3 most crucial, basic, building block components for performing that task. People start off by saying things like getting the ingredients together, picking the apples, picking a recipe, all good ideas but all wrong.

We need the Irrefutable basics on which everything else will be built on, without the foundation in place, everything else will either just crumble or not even be attempted. What should be on our list of 3 Irrefutables for showing someone how to bake an apple pie are:

1. Secure a source of heat or other suitable apparatus to bake the pie in.

2. Get some apples. Without apples there is no apple pie.

3. Secure some kind of crust ingredients. If it doesn't have a crust of some kind, it's not a pie.

What would be the purpose of picking apples for baking a pie if there was no oven, no heat to actually bake the pie? These are 3 components that must be present to bake an apple pie.

With these 3 components in place, the next level of activities can take place

This is clearly an exercise to demonstrate a number of things. The most important is this: what are the Irrefutables in your business, in your job? What are the bottom line, basic building blocks that you deal with on a daily basis? Finding out what they are or should be is a crucial step you need to take in order to really position yourself for success.

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