This audio download was recorded by one of the world’s foremost experts of behavioural change, Anthony Robbins’ Master Coach James Murphy. To take up coaching with a Robbins Research International coach will normally cost you around £350 per hour – because you read my blog you can get this one hour session with James for a very limited time for FREE!

THIS WILL BE OF HUGE BENEFIT TO YOU IF:

• You don’t tend to achieve all the goals you set

• You don’t have outcomes in each area of your life

• You often have loads of great ideas and plans, but don’t always follow through with action

• Want to know the process of building momentum towards your goals, so that you can consistently follow through on any goal

• Want to know how to take action towards your goals, even when you don’t feel like it.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• How to define an inspiring purpose for your life

• How to create a ‘code of conduct’ for your life – uncover the values that drive the deepest levels of your behavior

• How to set and achieve goals

• How to get yourself to take action, even when you don’t feel like it

• The “Motivational (American!) Football” technique developed by James to get you the result every time

• How to shift and change your FOCUS to stay motivated long term.

James developed these techniques based on just under 20,000 one-to-one and group coaching sessions that he’s conducted, and he’s used them himself to train for marathons (he’s done 6 and is currently training for an ultra-marathon).

As you learn these techniques I want you to ask yourself “How can I use this to achieve my personal goals in the same way James uses it to achieve his fitness goals?”

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• It’s a 1-hour session with a lot of information, so listen to it once to allow your mind to absorb it

• The second time you listen to it, have a pen & paper with you, and sit down and DO the exercises James suggests – they are powerful and they work.

• Take Action towards your goals and improve your life results!

Whatever your future Qur’an goals are, and whatever vision you have for how the ideal ‘You’ will interact with the Qur’an, at the most practical level, you will need to develop the daily habit of picking up the Qur’an and studying it every day. One of the reasons I’m such a fan of the Daily Qur’an Habit is that it doesn’t matter where you’re starting, and it doesn’t even matter where you ultimately want to end up – you will only reach your goals with the consistency that comes from daily interaction with the Qur’an.

It really doesn’t matter how ‘religious’ you are either. I know many people who go out of their way to make sure people know how religious they are. They are often making up for a lack of confidence in their faith which is a result of not having daily interaction with, and guidance from, the Qur’an. I also know people who are not from particularly religious backgrounds, and just genuinely want to learn and improve themselves. They are often believers who know that the Qur’an is the source and the main substance of Islam, so they go about building the daily habit. You may even be one of them.

When starting on this journey you may look at the Qur’an and in all honesty see nothing but squiggles and dots. And that’s okay. It doesn’t matter where you are, all the matters is the direction in which you’re heading. You are in the best position to really connect to Allah, because you don’t have the veneer of religiosity.  If people don’t see you as religious, you don’t have to worry about meeting their expectations, which is a stone’s throw away from putting people before Allah – which you probably don’t want to do. If people do see you as religious, that’s fine, as long as you are conscientious of that fact and don’t let it interfere with your Daily Qur’an Habit (which no-body sees).

It’s much easier to give yourself this gift of the Qur’an by making this little addition to your life than it is to start thinking about all the things you may have to stop doing if you become ‘religious’. Frankly, I say don’t be religious.  Just read the Qur’an everyday, benefit from it as much as you can, and go about your business. Everything else will fall into place. If you don’t build this habit first and foremost, the spirit and message of Islam will likely be lost on you as you fumble around joining this group and that, trying to work out the new ‘Islamic’ rules of how life should work – those rules only make sense when the Qur’an is in your heart.

I’m not a religious authority of any sort, and I’m certainly not here to tell you what you ’should’ be doing. I’m just here to give you tips and tools if you happen to want one of the life results I want. On a personal level, the Daily Qur’an Habit is certainly well up there for me.

If you’re already convinced, I would recommend subscribing to this blog which will gradually be filled with ideas, strategies, tools and resources that will help you build the daily habit. I would also recommend joining my new Face-Book group “I Want the Daily Qur’an Habit”. It is my goal to make this FB Group an extremely useful resource to all of its members, by regularly giving everyone valuable content. If we never meet again, let me leave you with a genuine prayer. I pray that you live your vision of how you ultimately want your relationship with the Qur’an to be.

These five steps are adapted from an excellent book “How to Write Better Essays”, which you can find here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Write-Better-Essays-Palgrave-Guides/dp/0333947150/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257339459&sr=8-2

I know it works, because I’ve done it… and it works. Each time I follow these five steps exactly as they are laid out, I get above 70% for my essays, which is a 1st.  Each time I don’t get a 1st, it’s usually because I didn’t follow this system, or followed it but skipped over parts (which is very tempting), or because I was just a little lazy towards the formatting at the end.

I think one of the key reasons people procrastinate is because they often don’t know what their outcome is, they aren’t focusing on all the reasons they have to follow through, or they haven’t worked out the NEXT ACTION to move forward.  When writing essays, by following this plan step by step you should never be left not knowing what the next action is.

Here are the five magical Steps. Read them, and use them, then email or call me to let me know when you get your 1st.

STEP 1: INTERPRET THE QUESTION BY ANALYZING EACH KEY WORD

• Notice the ‘key words’ in the essay question, and brainstorm what you think they each mean (use wiki if needed). This will create your ‘key word concepts’
• develop your ‘overall essay concept’ by answering the essay question based on your own opinions, based on what you understand from the ‘key word concepts’ (without doing any reading or research)
• brainstorm essay plan – everything you know about the subject, based on the new ‘key word concepts’ and the ‘overall essay concept’ – Ask yourself: “what am I curious to find out, in order to fully develop/shape my argument?”
• Get curious and create sub-questions: “what do I want to know to test out my essay concepts?” Come out with as many questions as possible

STEP 2: RESEARCH THE QUESTION, GUIDED BY YOUR ANSWERS FROM THE ‘INTERPRETATION’

• determine which sections of which books, and which online articles are directly relevant to answer the questions from STEP 1.
• Read the sections that are most compelling to develop an argument, based on the interpretation phase.
• Make your questions direct your research.

STEP 3: PLAN

• Create a detailed outline, including only those aspects of the research that are directly relevant to the essay question, and the sub-questions that will help you argue the essay question
• Relate each point in the detailed outline back to the essay question, to form a very powerful argument
• Make notes of each of the references that will be used in the final piece of work, so you can easily find them when you need to.

STEP 4: WRITE THE ESSAY

• Write the essay at the pace of at least 1000 words per day (this worked for me – the writing is the easiest part when you know what you’re on about – by the end of my degree I was at about 500 words per hour)
• Write the essay entirely on the basis of the detailed plan – use language skills to powerfully articulate the points in the final version.
• Make each paragraph start by linking the main point back to the essay question.
• Strong introduction saying exactly what argument you will make
• Strong conclusion based on the premises laid out in the essay paragraphs.

STEP 5: REVISE, EDIT AND REFERENCE PROPERLY

• Go through the whole essay and make a list of ‘works cited’
• Write a Bibliography, based on everything you’ve ever read that is relevant to the essay topic, and some of the other main texts that you know are relevant.
• Use the ‘Harvard System’ Document for help, or whatever system your university prefers you to use. The book this was adapted from has a whole section on explaining exactly how to do citations according to the different systems.

It’s key, in terms of motivation, to have some long term vision to pull you through short-term set-backs and rough times. That’s why it’s key to create your Qur’an vision. You can’t hit a target you can’t see. Creating your vision is as easy as pie. Just grab your Coaching Journal (or a piece of paper) and brainstorm answers to the following questions:

Where do I ultimately want to be in terms of my relationship with the Qur’an?

What is the ideal amount of time I would like to spend each day with the Qur’an?

On a really busy day, what is the minimum amount of time I would like to spend y with the Qur’an?

How much of the Qur’an do I ultimately want to memorize and understand?

Which books about the Qur’an, which Tafsirs, and which interpretations do I want to have been through before I die?

If I could choose how much of the Qur’an I will know before I die, and in how much depth I will know it, what would my ultimate vision be?

How, specifically, will I know when I’ve reached my ultimate Qur’an objectives?

How many ways do I know about how to study the Qur’an, and how many of them do I want to master before I die?

With the advent of NLP, we now know that we can reproduce any particular behaviour in any particular context in order to create the results we want in life, using a process called ‘modeling’.  It’s simple: you find a successful person, find out what they’re doing that nobody else is, and copy them. Success leaves clues. More often that not, those successful clues are not in the specific behaviours that the successful person uses, but are in the mind-set and psychology that created those behaviours.

Let’s turn to the cover of Mens’ Health magazine for a striking visual example of the result that most men want to create in their lives – the Cover Model body.  If all we needed was the knowledge of how to create that result, and the training plan that the cover model used, anybody who bought and read the magazine would have wash board abs… if only it were that easy.  Anybody who has ever bought the magazine knows that you only get the results when you actually stick to the training and eating plans in the long term.

So, what’s stopping us from doing that? In a word: Beliefs.  One of the main differences in the psychology of successful people to the rest of us is the beliefs that they hold about themselves, and that area of their lives.  So, what are the beliefs that the world’s top fitness model has about health and fitness?

Watch Men’s Health Cover Model Owen McKibbin Here

Conveniently, Owen McKibbin (the most frequent Cover Model of Men’s Health Magazine) was kind enough to tell us his beliefs in a book he wrote which you can purchase from amazon here:

Find Owen’s Workout Book Here

To save you the money on the book, (and the embarrassment of having one of your house-mates noticing you’re going to bed every night reading a book with a picture of this guy with no shirt on, on literally every page) here are the beliefs and priciples that Owen McKibbin lives by:

1. I Believe that cardiovascular and strength training are equally important for everybody – no matter which you prefer, no matter which is trendier at the moment, and no matter what type of body you have.
2. I believe in eating right as an essential component of fitness, not merely a support strategy.
3. I believe that exercise done in hard, short bursts will get you into better shape, and get you there faster, than long, slow efforts.
4. I believe that weight-lifting sessions targeting the big muscles must be interspersed with workouts that focus on strengthening the smaller, more injury-prone muscles and joints.
5. I believe that muscles should be developed for function, not just display.
6. I believe that an overemphasis on crunches and sit-ups is not the way to work your midsection and achieve wash board abs.
7. I believe in drinking buckets of water all day long.
8. I believe in stretching as a fitness necessity, not just a warmup, cooldown, or ancillary activity.
9. I believe in rest, but not necessarily rest days.
10. I believe in clean living.

Owen goes into each of these in a bit more depth, but in short these beliefs are clearly reflected in the way he lives, and the physique he’s produced as a result. Imagine acting on these beliefs daily, such that every morning, before breakfast you complete an intense 30-45 minute workout routine (three weight-training, three cardio, and one stretching/yoga each week) and then supporting yourself with excellent dietary habits. Wouldn’t you expect your body to look something like his after a couple of years? Or, based on the last blog, after 1000 hours of training (about 7 years of working out 30 minutes per day)?

Here’s your coaching challenge:

Record everything you eat everyday for the next week, and every exercise session (if you do any). Based on your week’s log, what beliefs do you hold on to that are reflected in the way your body looks and feels? What are your excuses for not working out? Are those beliefs serving you to create your version of physical excellence? Beliefs drive behaviour. You are in charge of your mind, your beliefs, your emotions, and your results.

If you want better life results, than those you’re currently getting, you know what to do: 0208.133.4520 – you’ll leave the free Fitness Coaching Strategy Session with a realistic written plan to build massive momentum towards your physical goals over the next 3 months… after all it only takes 3-4 weeks of daily training to make working out a habit, and 7 short years later, I might be writing a blog about your appearance on Men’s/Women’s Health Magazine.

I was really excited when I read about this rule of how world – class experts are distinguished from the rest and when you read and apply it, it can change your perspective of how you approach your own personal development and how you choose to contribute to the world.

The 10,000 hour rule was put forward by Malcolm Gladwell in his book ‘Outliers’, and states that one of the key factors that distinguishes those people whose achievements fall outside of normal experience from everyone else is this rule, which helps answer a question that has been raging for generations.

The question is: what distinguishes the highest achievers in the world, from the rest? For many people, this question guided the development of NLP through the process of modeling. In the pre-NLP days, the answer to this question was simple: they are just born that way; they are naturally talented. A few skeptics, often confused for blind optimists, would argue that there had to be other tangible external factors that shape individuals – you may know this as the old ‘Nurture vs Nature’ debate.

The theory put forward by Gladwell, for which he uses examples of Bill Joy (the guy that re-wrote the code for UNIX and some of the original code for accessing the internet), the Beatles, American Ice-hockey players, Mozart, and Bill Gates, and I might thrown in Michael Jackson (R.I.P). His theory is that to be truly successful, you do need opportunity and background – the opportunity and background that you create, or that is created in your life to enable you to spend… drum roll… 10,000 hours dedicated to your craft.

That’s about the amount of time that each of these people spent working alone at their craft before they ever achieved anything great. The Beatles performed for that number of hours live before they became famous, Mozart’s first masterpiece was created after that long composing, and the software geeks turned billionaires spent that much time writing code, to be able to become authors of modern life as we know it.  Let’s be clear, this is a theory, but it seems to be a pretty good rule of thumb.

Now, let’s apply this to our lives.  My first question is, what area of life would you like to dedicate 10,000 hours to in order to contribute to the world in a way that no-one else has?  For me, it is undoubtedly doing one-to-one and group Coaching sessions. It’s my mission to continue to do this until I’ve logged over 10,000 Coaching hours, and then I’ll do it more, and bigger, and better, with my own techniques that have developed out of my experience. What is it for you? Brian Tracy calls this defining your ‘major definite purpose’ – the one goal that is most important to you right now. There cannot be two.

My next theory is, if it takes 10,000 hours to become a world-class expert, then it takes 1000 hours to become truly competent at anything. Think about it. It takes roughly 1ooo hours to become a black-belt martial artist, it takes about 1000 hours of intensive language learning before you become roughly ‘fluent’, it takes about 1000 hours to understand and memorize every verse of the Qur’an – as I recently discovered with one of my Muslim clients ;o)

So, my question is, what are your personal development goals, that you are willing to dedicate 1000 hours towards? AND, how would you like to schedule those hours over the next 5,10 or 20 years? Remember: there are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic time-frames for achieving them in a balanced way given your other life goals.

This is one way of quantifying some otherwise difficult to quantify personal development goals. Obviously, I would advise you to have other criteria for your goals too, and you will probably fulfill your ‘evidence procedure’ (the evidence that let’s you know you have your goal) well before that time, but you will not achieve any of your long-range goals, if you are not willing to dedicate roughly that much time to it.

While you work on your one major definite 10,000 hour purpose in life, it is essential for you to dedicate the other hours in the day, week, month, year or decade to the other areas of your life in order to live a balanced life. Most of us over-estimate what we can achieve in 1 year, and under-estimate what we can achieve in 10.

If now’s the time for you to focus on your major definite purpose, or personal development goals, why not do a free Coaching Strategy Session turn those dreams into results. If you have one goal that you have not yet been able to achieve in your life, you will be empowered to make more progress towards it in the next 3 months than you have in the last 3 years.

Call us on 0208.133.4520 to take action now!