Today’s Insight is all about Tigger.
Yep, you heard that right - Tigger- as in that bouncy flouncy tiger that keeps Winnie The Pooh’s life oh so interesting.
The Tigger Trigger
Now for those of you who are the hard-core workaholics, before you hit “close” and go on to reading ANOTHER one of your 12,478 “how to make money fast by doing nothing” sales letters - let me mention one quick thing:
The Tigger Trigger, as I call today’s Insight, can really trigger dramatic profit growth for your business - but in a way that is very unconventional and generally overlooked by even the most successful entrepreneurs.
And for the rest of you who were immediately intrigued by the idea of Tigger and business together, you’re gonna love today’s Insight, too.
To make the key point quick, ask yourself this…
“When in my life have I learned and grown the most?”For almost all of us, if we were answering with total honesty, we’d have to say it was when we were kids. Think back to when you were young- every day was an adventure and you were learning tons of new stuff daily.
“Yeah, I learned a lot as a kid, so what Jeff, what I want to do now is make more money…”OK, I gotcha covered.
Here’s the connection that almost everyone misses and a huge insight for you:
Incomes do not grow. Income-earners do.
I’ll say that again so it can sink in.
Incomes do not grow. Income-earners do.Just like we talked about the Skills:Performance Ratio where we discovered that our results are a byproduct of the level of skills we bring to the game, the same is true of our incomes.
Our income is directly proportional to our ability to earn that income and our application of these abilities.
When we want to grow our income, we can’t directly focus on growing our income, what we have to focus on is growing ourselves and our abilities.
Then the income growth naturally follows, just like spring always follows winter.
When we want to increase our income quickly, we need to grow ourselves quickly so we have the capability of earning the higher income that we want.
And if the time in our lives when we have learned and grown the most is when we were kids, doesn’t it make sense that we should adopt that same mentality to grow now?
That’s the Tigger Trigger.
It revolves around these key ideas:
- Once we think we have an answer, all growth stops. Growth occurs only when we have questions and are open to multiple ways of discovering the answer that is right for us.
- Kids have the most questions - and therefore gain the most answers. So when we want to experience a period of rapid growth, the best way to do it is to put on our kids’ hat again and allow ourselves to be a kid again.
- Putting ourselves into this mentality in our personal life “triggers” the growth in our business and income because it opens our mind to new possibilities and new avenues of learning, and as we discover new things and learn new insights, we increase our capabilities to earn more income with them.
It’s what we call in our 2X+1 Mastermind, “The Paradox Of Pleasure“: Paradoxically, as we give ourselves permission to be kids and to enjoy our personal lives again - even if our income is not currently very high- it puts us into a learning/growth state - and this learning/growth carries over into our business, triggering new gains in business knowledge, and therefore income.
We are going to apply The Tigger Trigger today and have some fun at the same time we trigger the new business growth you have been craving.
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September 28th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Great insight, Jeff.
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What He Thinks He Already Knows…”
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September 28th, 2008 at 8:57 am
“we have to focus on is growing ourselves and our abilities”
Very true. We have to keep learning new skills to improve and expand our advertising.
We have to keep learning new skills to improve our product, invent new products, etc.
I guess we need to constantly ask questions about how to make our business better for us and our customers.
September 28th, 2008 at 8:59 am
hI jEFF..MAKES PERFECT SENSE: ” UNLESS YOU BECOME AS LITTLE CHILDREN.”
tHANKS AGAIN
September 28th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Kids are like sponges and absorb a lot of information quickly.They also explore many avenues of activity which helps them to learn and go much faster than most adults do.So it seems that being childlike (not childish) can have much benefit to it Thanks Jeff!
September 28th, 2008 at 11:56 am
When one stops learning, one stops growing in every way. The challenge is the ability to determine from the abundance of processes to be learned, which should I give attention to today. Most often, what we must learn is determined for us as we are developing a project. And sometimes we feel that we are in the infancy of any particular field of interest until we manage to grow in understanding and confidence.
One is seen as a seasoned professional after a few years of learning and doing. However, the seasoned professional always keeps learning new and better ways to do, to implement, to perfect.
Thank you,
JoAnn
September 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Once again..you have perfect timing. I notice that I fall into that “I know what I’m doing”state when I get scared, it’s a defense against some perceived danger. But I learned in graduate school, the ones who said “I don’t know” the most, were the PhD.s and professors. It seemed like the more they had learned, the more freedom they had to admit they didn’t know something. And the more freedom they had to admit they didn’t know-at some level of nuance- the more chance they had at some breakthrough result.
This is great advice.
Thanks Jeff
September 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
No Fat Cats here!
Lars
September 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Hmmmm….Jeff, My wife frequently calls me her oldest child. Does she mean that because I am open to new experiences and concepts? Or, is she just being sarcastic? I would like to think the prior, but who knows…she’s a woman. LOL Anyway, I’m sitting here trying to remember something someone taught me years ago. The concept was there were four places you can be in your own mind, four states of mind, if you will. One was that of pure learning, as an infant or young child. You know that you don’t know so you are open to learn. Second, you know you know some things and you know you don’t know others, so you are open to learn the things you know you don’t know. Third, this is where I actually never want to get stuck, You know you know a lot, but don’t know what you don’t know so you are in kind of a learning lockdown. These are people that are often referred to as ‘know it alls’. They are unwilling to listen to anybody elses input because they think they have the answers to everything. Then, there’s the fourth stage. I would think this is the level everybody wants to be in. You know what you know and you know what you don’t know and you are willing to learn what you don’t know as well as add new concepts to the things you do know. A place of complete openness to learn, a place of zen or whatever you want to call it. I think this probably comlicates your lesson today and oversimplifies the lesson I was taught a while back. I never said I was a good teacher…..
September 28th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Jeff -
Again, this message is amazing! That’s why children are ultimately easier to teach because of their youth and the fact that their brains crave news thoughts, ideas and actions. I Love It!!! Can’t wait to actually put this into motion and begin to create some momentum. Thank you.
September 28th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Hi! I’m late again opening your email as I was out all day till late. By the way it was to learn at a ‘Product Academy’ meeting! I am well past retirement age, but still love to learn as I always did. Hope never to lose this enthusiasm and try to apply what I’m learning. Thanks Jeff.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:27 am
I love the saying ‘People don’t know what they don’t know!”
And as a result you see many information marketers making a ton of money!
Information is in my economic book the 4th Trillion dollar industry.
No matter what you do in life, you must always be open to new information to add to what you already know and not be upset when such new information turns your world and or belief system upside down. In the technological age we live in, we have to adapt to change within months if not weeks or we are left behind in the dust!
Sunita Pandit
September 29th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I too am past retirement age according to my state pension, but I don’t feel any different from the way I always did(apart from I can’t drink as much)!
Learning is certainly harder for me now, than it was when I was younger, but I realize that I must push myself further. That’s why I’m doing my degree, as I had no opportunity when I was younger.
My partner is of the opinion that I’m wasting my time and he doesn’t need to learn anything. But I have so much still to do and such a thirst for knowledge, that I cannot stop now. Life has to be grabbed with both hands, as we only get one chance at it.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
What a great message, kids are full of spark, energetic, full of action above all they don’t hesitate they just do things until they discover how it works whether there are risks or not they just take action if in doubt they don’t even wait they will shower you with questions until they are satisfied. so to achieve high and rewarding results in business one needs to behave like a kid. Great insight!!!
September 29th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Jeff
Here in the Midwest, we have the four Seasons. Winter is generally considered a time of dormancy. When you said Spring follows Winter, it “triggered” the thought that plants are nourished by the snow and rain going into the soil after a freezing Winter Season. We nourish our ability to learn.
Thank you for your analogies.
September 30th, 2008 at 5:08 am
ONCE YOU KNOW EVERTHING AND CAN’T LEARN ANYTHING NEW, ITS TIME TO GET OUT IF THE KITCHEN. LIFE IS IS THE PLEASURE OF SEEING AND LEARNING NEW WONDERFUL SOLUTIONS TO OUR PROBLEMS TO ACHIEVE OUR SUCCESS EVERDAY! GERRY ROBERTSON
September 30th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Oh Boy did I have fun today!
I took a handful of of colorful felt tip pens and had a mad half hour drawing on the walls of my study. If my grand kids can do it why can’t I . It’s a pity I can’t send an attachment to show you my handiwork .
Who says an almost 70 year old can’t be childlike and have fun.
Of course I’m going to have to repaint the wall tomorrow before my husband opens the door and spots it and has me commited for going crazy but for today it was so satisfying to sit back iced tea in hand and admire my masterepiece.
If I’m busted before I paint over it I’ll blame you.
Thanks for the inspiration it was wonderful
Barbara
September 30th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
it’s true, goofing around like a kid or with kids makes one much more productive. I’ve been doing it for days ala, i’m behind in your course and playing catch up!!!! however, custodial evaluation and kiddos needed their funloving mommy. isn’t it a blast to pull their chains when they least expect it? now to the making money part!