Andy Andrews asks "what's the smartest thing your dad ever did?"
Andy Andrews, camera in hand, asked a number of people “what’s the smartest thing your dad ever did?”
The answers he got were quite remark-able. In this short but incredible video, you’ll meet some truly normal people and a few well known celebrities as well.
Andy points out the value of having a mentor. Mentors do more than just offer advice. They invest in the outcome. They participate in the development personally. They make sure that some steps are taken and some expereinces and results are achieved.
We could all use and benefit from having a mentor or two. Quality advice and strong active supporters makes a whole lot of difference in a scary world filled with challenges and risk of disaster.
The real question then becomes is what do you do when you receive guidance and help from a mentor.
So the next question I wish Andy would ask of people, is this:
What the smartest thing you ever learned from your dad?
I know my dad would love to hear the answer. Even though I’m in my mid-fifites, he might be really surprised and happy to hear me share this with him.
Andy explains the importance of vision and commitment to the achievement of your goals
If you have never really questioned yourself about where you are going and asked yourself how committed to what you are doing you really are, then this little video may rock you to the core.
Andy Andrews is a NY Times best selling author, a world class humorist, radio and TV personality and corporate speaker. He has headlined for Joan Rivers and Kenny Rogers and has spoken at the request of four United States Presidents and the CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies around the world. He has written over 20 books, many of which are best sellers. Two are being made into movies. In Andy’s early days he was voted “comedian of the year” several years in a row by colleges around the country. He has been hailed as the modern day “Will Rogers”. At the request of the Joint Chiefs, he was recently flown by F16 to the Middle East to speak to the troops and field commanders.
There are many reasons why people like working with Andy. He has a direct, no nonsense, win/win attitude. He is personable and has an upbeat personality. He offers a steady stream of humor, helpful and provocative ideas and engaging stories about his life and the lives of people he has met or studied. He will share many compelling stories and crucial ideas about what people really need to do to achieve personal success.
You can learn a lot from Andy. he’s one of the few people I know who can make you laugh, cry and experience profound wisdom in the same breath.
Andy explains the importance of vision and commitment to the achievement of your goals by sharing the story of Hernando Cortez quest for gold and the conquest of the Incas.
Jim Rohn is an amazing teacher. He was broke and 25 years old when he met an extraordinary man who taught him some very important and basic things. These things are life changing.
Here is a short session where he explains two very simple concepts that are crucial to making changes in your attitude and how you view what you are doing in your life and work.
1. Success is something you attract by the person you become.
2. Profits are better than wages.
Now once you hear and understand a little more about what he says about these ideas then you’ll grasp the amazing insights and power that flows from these nuggets of wisdom.
Leadership expert and author John Maxwell talks about making the right decisions
John Maxwell offers insights into why the things you do today matters. In this seven minute video he talks about identifying how to choose what’s important.
We’ve been traveling this week, visiting colleges around the west. So this post will be quick and short.
Listening to so many talented and energetic tour guides makes me think of what I would have done if I was in my 20’s again. It came to me that I would have made better plans and goals for myself.
Jim Rohn describes how to become more valuable in business
Jim Rohn is a very bright, very funny, insprational and entertaining person and his ideas and recommendations will make you more valuable and hence you will be able to charge more. This wonderful three video series from Nightingale Conant explains what you have to do to yourself rather than what you have to do at work.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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Andy Andrews talks about Mastering the Seven Decisions - Video on You Tube
This is one of the most important books I’ve read in a long time. Andy Andrews lived a relatively normal life until the age of nineteen, when both his parents died - his mother from cancer, his father in an automobile accident. He left college and was homeless. Penniless, he lived under the boardwalk or slept in people’s garages in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The something amazing happened. He befriended another grizzled old homeless person, who gave him a remarkable gift- a library card. Over time, he read more than two hundred biographies of great men and women searching for the answer to how they achieved success. Andy sent people letters asking for advice. “How did you overcome your worst challenge?” he’d ask. To his utter surprise, many of them they wrote back. And he saved those letters and pondered and savored the incredible life saving advice that they contained.
Guess what! There is no secret! It took several years, but Andrews finally determined that there were seven characteristics that each successful person had in common. He also found out he could teach people these remarkably powerful principles by telling witty and funny stories that deliver profound meaning. He became a stand up comedian in Las Vegas and started writing. He eventually wrote over 20 books including The Traveler’s Gift, which has now sold over a million copies and spent seventeen weeks on the New York Times best sellers list.
His new book is Mastering the Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success , a companion book The The Traveler’s Gift. Andrews shares the very best of what he’s learned about how each one of us can achieve success and what it takes to make the crucial basics stick. It’s a roadmap to correct personal behavior that contains lots of helpful guidance for people at with problems at home, at work, and at play.
Andy Andrews believes that each one of us has the ability to change the world. He’s learned that even when you have nothing, every choice you make matters. Even more important, every choice you do not make matters just as much.
Andy is a believer in what is known as The Butterfly Effect. Even the smallest tiny action can have dramatic consequences. The flap of a butterfly’s wings, is inexplicably intertwined with the birth of a hurricane around the world.
Even the smallest things we do can have a tremendous impact on the world.
Andy is the first to point out that the seven principles, at first blush, don’t seem very profound. “They can have impact once you really grasp how they’ve been used by other people. Then they become an amazing key to releasing incredible personal power that allows you to explore the world of opportunity that surrounds all of us.”
The point of this is simple: Learn the Seven Decisions. They work every time.
Bob Proctor on Larry King Live talking on The Secret
Bob Proctor is one of the incredible people who was featured in the book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. This five minute segment is one of interviews conducted by Larry King. I enjoyed watching Larry quickly take control of a live caller in who asked to go a direction he didn’t want to go. Here they tackle some of the important elements of the power of choice in our every day lives.
Dr. Joe Vitale describes his secret of being more productive
I’ve done a lot of work with Joe Vitale and he’s one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. He is incredibly productive and offers insights into doing things that matter well and effectively so you can be successful and profitable especially when you are helping others. In this superbly simple lesson he describes his secret of productivity.
The bottom line is that if you snooze, you lose! When an idea occurs to you, act on it.
