About This Course

Dan Meredith life coach, author of Amazon no 1 best selling book “How To Be Fucking Awesome”, and successful high-level business strategist, gives key skills that help combat procrastination, advises on goal setting tips and gives ideas on how to progress your own personal brand.

You will learn: 

• Ultimate Sales Machine -Chet Homes
• What to do when it’s your turn, and it's always your turn -Seth Goding (sp?)
• Eat That Frog (author?)
• Think and Grow Rich Training 
• DJ Goals Book

Lessons: 

1. How to combat Procrastination

Dan begins by discussing why we often don’t do what we say we will do; he goes on to talk about how easy it is to lie to yourself, to allow things to slide, and how accepting these lies or versions of the truth that suit us, facilitates conditioning yourself to accept mediocrity. 

Dan highlights that this is the pathway to setting yourself up for failure. He explains this see internal and external in terms of pressures we experience for example: work pressure, deadlines, family, wealth, and the internal would be procrastination negative self-talk; he strongly suggests that people should stop that negative self chat.

 Dan then explains that speed of  implementation is a great way of tackling procrastination. Just do it,  stop self-doubt if you start doubting yourself you’re  undermining yourself … and then you won’t do it- ACT!  3 second rule…  if you see an opportunity just take action.

2. Do you Really want it bad enough?

Dan discusses how hard he had to work in order to get to where he was because he wanted it badly enough! He suggests writing an achievement wishlist setting a set of goals and targets. Then he advises that you just start writing it down everywhere!  He suggests not getting caught up with too much detail- it doesn't have to be perfect just do it!

3. What is your big why

The Big Why: what underpins your motivation? What is driving you to act, what is driving your target and desire? It’s imperative to understand what you want and why you want it so badly. In Dan’s case his motivating factor was his sister who needed extra care and he wanted to ensure he could provide private care for her needs, though your motivation doesn't need to be altruistic, and it can be multifaceted, you need to have a clear understanding of it.

4. Write it down everywhere (R.A.S)

Dan talks about RAS- the part of your brain that filters - he suggests that you write your goals down absolutely everywhere: let your brain sees the goal everywhere:  put it on your lock screen on your phone, the first page of your diary daily, on your fridge etc your brain will start to filter to it! Dan says we are presented with opportunities daily and we have to have an antenna open to these opportunities, and then take action.

5. BHAG Goals

BHAG = big hairy audacious goals - put what you want to achieve in a year in a list. Then, decide on a 90-day plan and break that down into actions to make the end goals. Then break it down into a 30-day plan and make actions, then break down into a weekly, daily etc.

6. Set Goals That Leverage

He then advises that you set goals that leverage social pressure, but with emotional detachment.  Specificity- a big challenge but not one that crushes you! By telling people about it you’re therefore accountable and under social pressure, use it- harness that pressure to motivate you.

Think of the emotional attachment to the feeling of successfully gaining that goal, but not to the actual outcome!

Specificity with your goal: ie if your goal is to DJ in a well known club- get specific- which Club? Which room? Which time-slot, by what date? Etc

7. Brain Dumping

Brain dump- write down everything - then rank it- 1,2,3, etc ranking system: 1 urgent, 3 doesn’t matter. Realistically 20-30 matters that need dealing with maximum. Get a day planner- write 3-5 key actions a day to keep moving forward. They write a daily, weekly, monthly and 90 Day review. 

8. Daily, Weekly & 90 day reviews

Health wealth productivity and connectivity: Start writing down under these subheadings where  you stand ie your mental and physical health, with your wealth - what you have in the bank etc

With productivity -how much do you need done? Rank your tasks. With connectivity- how are your relations, are you making friends, networking, family relations?

9. How to grow your brand on social media

Personal Branding: next he discusses the fastest way to grow in the social world, personal branding, being authentically you. He suggests leverage with your story, talk about what you like, share your thoughts & feelings, what you stand for, and against and tell the world! 

Next pick a platform, and hammer it -consistency is key: so for DJs -  SoundCloud, Mix cloud & Spotify for music and for socials its Instagram and Facebook, get cool images of you doing your craft, using stories, record insta tv, upload to insta - do it daily: ie 3-5 post FB, 5 insta posts, podcasts 2 per week, 2-4 livestreams p/w.

10. Infotaining

Share your content in a way that people can engage with, add your story, and be funny. Present your stuff on social media in a way that people will connect with.

11. Enjoy Life

Make a decision  - enjoy your life! Hard graft- have a go!

12. Live Q&A

• Due to personal life choices on the way I party; I have noticed now that I'm getting invited less to parties. What should I do to get invited back into the scene?
• What was your turning point? When did you know this was it and there was no turning back?
• How do you manage your inner Saboteur?