Black Belt Focus Kit

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Black
Belt
Focus
Kit
© Samurai Innovation 2013
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What’s in it
for you?
Welcome to Samurai Innovation where we blend the secrets of the Samurai with cutting-edge strategies to
sharpen you and your business results!
We only believe in sharing strategies that are battle tested in the real world. No fluff or half-brain theories here. In martial arts we have a saying: “There’s truth on the mat”. This means that every technique we learn needs
to be able to defend us in a conflict. You either can do the technique or you can’t. This causes us to train with
precise focus.
For you this means that we only bring you concepts and techniques that can add massive value to your life and
business. Your focus will sharpen and after going through this Black Belt Focus Kit, you will have a few new
ways to go after what you want with more confidence, less stress, while seeing faster results.
Here’s what
you get:
The Meaning of Samurai - You may be shocked to quickly learn what the true meaning of Samurai is. How do
your core values compare to the Samurai? Top 10 Black Belt Focus Tips - Ready to try an experiment? Employ one new tip each week for the next 10
weeks. People will soon ask you what you’re doing differently because you will be making big changes towards
the success that you seek.
Defeating the Enemy of Average - Better focus equals better and faster results until this Enemy of Average
shows up in your life or the people in your life. This is a fast way to recognize and deal with this foe in order to
move closer towards achieving the results you seek.
Focus on Your Weekly Plan - Stronger weekly planning and execution will help you cut through all the chaos,
diversions and clutter in your life. Check out our one page process that will craft a strong plan that will make
hitting your targets twice as fast with half the effort.
5 Minute Clarity - 5 Minute Clarity worksheets are designed to help you focus on one specific focus point. This tool will help sharpen your focus. It will reach inside to find the answers that already exist within you.
Samurai Resources - More areas we can help you increase your focus and get going in the right direction.
The Ultimate Information Manager - Find out what Microsoft has that Apple doesn’t! We will expose this
best-kept secret and how you can take advantage of it to become the most productive person you know!
What Exactly is
a samurai?
Dear Reader:
It is always interesting to ask people what Samurai means to them.
What does Samurai mean to you?
Often one person may associate Samurai with war and violence and
another may think of strength, code of honour and valour. Did you
know that “Samurai” is basically translated as meaning “those who
Serve” or “to Serve and Attend”?
Yes, the Samurai trained and dedicated their lives to serving the
nobility or their master. David Lay wrote a great article titled,
Origins of the Samurai (www.judoinfo.com/samurai.htm) in which
he references a poem that was “written by warriors about service
as border guards”:
From today
Without regard for myself
I set out
A shield strong but humble
For our Sovereign Lord.
The values of a Samurai include: Integrity, Courage, Benevolence,
Politeness, Sincerity, Honour, Loyalty and Self-Control.
No matter what business I have been involved in, all of these principles have served me well in creating
innovative results and more profitable ventures. At Samurai Innovation, we want to help you employ these
principles in an innovative way to assist you in creating new and powerful results in your business and life.
Please contact us at http://SamuraiInnovation.com to let us know how we may best serve you.
Domo Arigato,
Shane Fielder
The Innovative Samurai
top 10 black
belt focus tips:
1. Work from a clean workspace
Ensure that the 2-3 feet before your eyes is clear of clutter and things that will distract you from focusing your
best. Turn off the gadgets, ignore the phone, clear the top of your desk. Only focus on what is now in this 2-3
feet of focus space.
2. Never start with a blank sheet -> Always use
a template
Very rarely are you the first person to be doing something that someone else has not attempted or succeeded at.
Find a template that can springboard your ideas and creativity. This is a world-class shortcut that can save you
hours of painful and wasted time each week. Ask around. Look online. Search and you will find a template that
can enhance your available time that can be spent creating value and solutions.
3. All your stuff in one place
It’s really simple, but for a lot of people it might not be easy to do initially. You have to get all of your stuff in
one place. Your stuff is the things that roll around in your head, the stack of paper, the 1,000 plus e-mails that’s
in your inbox, and everything that’s falling out of your pockets. All that stuff is part of what I call 3D clutter.
When you capture it into one place, you can capture, manage, and organize it without really worrying about
it. If your stuff is in ten places, you worry about all those ten places. This dilutes your focus. One place equals
strong focus. There are great tools out there like the Ultimate Information Manager that will help you achieve
this goal.
4. Find Your Sensei
Everyone needs a Sensei. Sensei means teacher or mentor. Your Sensei is someone who has gone before you
along the path that you want to follow. Your Sensei will be able to collaborate to help you determine your goals
and how you can reach them faster together than you can on your own. Your Sensei will help strengthen your
assets and help you minimize your weakness and train for both. Your Sensei can be found in someone you know
or from a prominent author in your field of interest.
5. Know your Fundamental Success Indicators™
At Samurai Innovation, we define Fundamental Success Indicators as a system that will help you reach your
Essential Priorities twice as fast with half the effort. Essential Priorities are the top 3-5 goals, dreams or desires
that will transform your life. By realizing these essential priorities you will make huge leaps towards what is
truly most important in achieving in your life. We then add the key metrics that you will focus on move the
needle forward.
6. Get to the next Practice
All success comes from a result of showing up on a consistent basis. To earn your Black Belt takes approximately 767 successive practices attended. You can substitute the word practice for whatever unit of measurement applies to your essential priorities. Some examples of a practice may be a workout, sales call, report
completed, class attended, years of service, etc.
7. Choose the Best Weapons (tools)
Focus starts by choosing the best weapon for the task. Samurai carry 3 weapons that allows them to be prepared
for long range (Katana/Sword), medium range (Wakizashi/ Short Sword) and close range (Tanto/Knife) battle.
You need your tools to support you and be your slave versus being your master. Don’t struggle with a slow laptop, hard to use smart phone or an uncomfortable pen. Having great tools that work will allow you to focus on
the result of completing the task versus struggling to complete the task.
8. Be Successful Before the World Wakes Up
Do something each day first thing that will contribute to realizing one of your essential priorities. Often, this can
be done in the first hour or two after you have got out of bed. You will feel an immense sense of strength and
confidence going into your day by having been successful in one key area of your life.
9. Work When Everyone Else Isn’t
People often are rated amongst the biggest distractions and obstacles to getting the things that you want done
accomplished. Work on important tasks and projects when everyone else is on a coffee break or eating lunch.
Drive to work earlier or later than everyone else and use that same time period for higher productivity. You will
find that the coffee shop, restaurant and highway will be less busy when you get there because everyone else
is not there. Plus, you will have had uninterrupted focus time to move closer towards achieving your essential
priorities One day, everyone else will wonder how you became successful faster than them!
10. Celebrate, Don’t Denigrate
Often times, we are harder on ourselves than anyone else can be. You need a formal written place to capture and
record your wins. Big wins, small wins, they all count. Read this list whenever you feel frustrated by the twists
and turns that life often brings. It will help you get back on track quicker and remind you of the strength and
power you have.
BONUS TIP:
11. Never quit on a bad day
A wise Sensei once told me to never quit on a bad day. Always quit on a good day when your mind is clear and
your focus is sharp. Let persistence and perseverance build your power of focus. Your focus will get better and
you will have more good days than bad. Leaving, stopping or quitting on a good day is the result of careful
planning which sets you in a position of strength with greater choices and options to work from.
defeating
the enemy of
average
The only thing standing in the way of you achieving your most essential priorities in life and your business
is the Enemy of Average. Who is this foe that we need to understand and defeat in order to accomplish all the
worthwhile things we are here on this planet to do?
Your Toughest Decision
I feel that your hardest decision is that of deciding what is critically important for you or your business and why.
Once you have identified what it is that you want to do, only then can you go down the path to find the people
and resources that can help leverage your talents and gifts in order to make it happen. When was the last time
that you spent time contemplating what is critically important that you want to accomplish?
Recognizing the Enemy of Average
For the samurai, the ninja were enemies. Ninja were highly trained mercenary-like
clans. Looking up “Ninja” on Wikipedia offers a history lesson on the ninja if you
are so inclined to further research their culture through the ages. Some salient traits
of the ninja that you may find interesting follow:
• Masked face to hide their identity
• Hide their sword behind their back for easy carrying and to trick
someone into thinking they are unarmed
• Sneak around in the dark
• Masters of discipline
• Wrong motives tied to the next job or retainer - short term focus
How does the ninja relate to the
Enemy of Average?
The Enemy of Average seeks out intentional ways to stop you from accomplishing your most essential priorities. This enemy causes you to hide your excellence and dull your natural born brilliance. When you fall prey to
this attack you tend to hide your talents and capabilities so as to not stand out from the crowd. You begin living
average instead of living from a mindset of excellence.
How does a Samurai overcome the
Enemy of Average?
Samurai are a special class of military nobility who through the generations and through thousands of years
adhered to and transmuted a code called Bushido. Bushido is the “Way of the Warrior”. Each samurai had this
personal code that they lived by. The code or bushido guided their commitment to community, family, and self
through a strong set of values that they fought for and never compromised.
The meaning of samurai is also translated as “to serve”. The samurai lived to serve others and they walked
boldly and courageously in the face of each day. The samurai lived from a large and clearly defined mission
and vision statement.
You have an Enemy of Average lurking around you each day that would love for you to not live a life of excellence. Your job is to defeat these mental tricks that fake you out from accomplishing your essential priorities.
You will recognize the Enemy of Average whenever you may hear yourself or others say things such as:
• Everyone else does it
• It doesn’t hurt anyone but me
• I know that already
• Next time I will ___________
• Tomorrow I will ___________
• I can wait until later to ____________
• Someday I will _____________
These are all diversions that are put in your path to keep you from being great each day. How you overcome
these diversions is by establishing your own Code of Behaviour that will enable you to defend against these
diversions as you forge ahead down your path of achievement.
Your Map to Excellence
Defeating the Enemy of Average requires a very simple map that can help you create black belt level clarity,
focus and discipline in order to help you define and live a life of excellence.
Quite simply, you start with defining your vision and mission. This follows up by developing your own Code of
Behaviour to help guide your choices and actions each moment of every day. You then assess the various rituals
that govern and shape your life, assessing what works, what doesn’t and what you want to improve.
Rituals then build habits which are a necessary foundation to accomplishing more than you ever imagine!
Once you have strong habits installed, you begin to create consistency. Consistency alone could be a whole day
workshop to explore. When you have consistency working for you, you are able to create “predictable success”
called results.
MAP ELEMENTS
vision / mission
code of behaviour
rituals
build habits
consistency
results
focus on your
weekly plan
Many of my members, and you, have asked me recently how do I set up a weekly plan? How do I achieve the
goals that I want to achieve? You’ve said things like: “I know that I have several goals that I want to achieve,
and I know what I want. I have a hard time finishing. I have a hard time accomplishing those goals.”
Well, very simply, it all comes down to the strength and the process of your weekly plan. I want to walk you
through what I do each week so that you can create your own weekly plan.
Concise & One Page
You should be able to fold it up, put it in your pocket, and away you go; you’ve got your plan with you. This is
what we call under the Kimono. So you can pull out your plan, look at it, reference it and know whether you’re
on or off track.
Your plan has to be flexible
Each week you’re going to have things that are going to come at you, and you’re going to have new
opportunities. I think a lot of people miss that fact. A lot of people think about the drudgery of life or the
challenges and the stresses of life, but do you think about the new opportunities that come into play? You may
have set up a stellar weekly plan, and guess what?
By Tuesday afternoon, you get that phone call and it’s an opportunity.
Opportunity could mean somebody’s got tickets to a concert, or it could mean your business development, sales
call, or something you’ve been working on for a long time has finally materialized. Somebody has called you
and they’ve said, “Yes,” and they’ve made the decision to go with you or to help you. That could be a game
changer, it could be a week changer, it could be a life changer, depending on what the situation is.
Elements of a strong weekly plan
1. Did you celebrate all your past wins this week?
It’s really critical that you have a process in place to celebrate your wins, to celebrate all the great things that
you do. I talk about “celebrate, don’t denigrate”. A lot of times we denigrate ourselves and denigrate the actions
that we take, but we don’t put enough time into gratitude and celebration of all the good things that we did.
2. Did you live out your mission and vision statement for the week?
I know this might be a challenging one for you. You may have never sat down and created a compelling mission
or vision statement for you, for your life, your business, the company you work with; for your career. But it’s
important to connect to that aspect of your vision.
3. Which rituals worked well for you this past week?
We talk about rituals, and how having good strong rituals is a foundation of success. It’s a foundation of being
productive and being your best. So which ones worked well for you this week?
4. Which values did you practice well this week?
Again, we have a set of values that we use each week and we work off of those values. It’s the guiding compass,
it’s what steers us directly.
At the beginning, at the head of every Dojo that I train in, there’s something in Japanese called The Kamiza.
The Kamiza is a focal point of the Dojo.
Every Dojo has The Kamiza and everybody knows when they walk in that that’s the North point. That’s the
central focus point and everybody trains around that. So what’s the central focus point in your life? Those are
your values. What is truly important to you? What will you defend to the teeth? What will you support? What
will you not do?
5. What code of behavior did you follow well this week?
We talk about a code of behavior being actions that you will be. These are the things that you will be. Will you
be early? Will you be late? Will you be caring? Will you be compassionate? Will you be a person of quality this
week? Will you be diligent? Will you do your investigative work? Will you contribute?
All of those things fall into your code of behavior.
Then we go through the same process and we say what rituals do I want to improve upon this week? What
values do I want to improve upon this week? And what code of behavior do I want to exemplify this week?
Code of behaviors are important. You should have no more than 3 to 5 of them. So for me, one of my code
of behaviors is being early. So if maybe last week I was running a little late because of traffic and up here in
Canada where I live, there’s lots of snow. It’s cold out. The roads are icy. What takes 15 or 20 minutes to get
somewhere in the summertime, takes an hour in the wintertime.
It’s a fact of life. We have to plan for it.
6. What’s your fundamental success indicators?
Basically, it’s a really important way of tracking your essential priorities.
You have an essential priority of something meaningful to you; a goal, an action, a dream you’re working
towards, and then you track it. What are the key metrics that you’re using to track your actions?
You cannot control success. Success is this big nebulous thing that everybody talks about. No, you can’t control
being successful, meaning either hitting a weight goal or reaching a certain dollar value in your bank account,
your wallet, or any other ways that you feel you may be successful.
What you can control are the actions that you take. You can control how many times a week you go to the
Dojo, or how many times a week you go to the gym. You can control how many loving conversations you
have this week. You can control the number of sales calls you make. You can control the number of times you
encourage your team, your employees or your colleagues. You can control all of those actions; you just can’t
control the final results of how it all kind of comes together.
So that’s our plan that can become your weekly plan.
I’m heading off to the Dojo to train now. I hope you’re going to head off today and do something spectacular to
move your fundamental success indicators ahead and move your life ahead to the target you want to reach.
The
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Volume 1, Issue 7
“We’ve got too many things to do. We look busy. We seem to be moving.
But in reality, we get very little done.” - Peter Bregman, author of 18 Minutes
YOUR TOP 3 WORK CHALLENGES
POINTS TO CLARITY
Our research at Samurai Innovation clearly concludes that
business owners and leaders of all types of organizations
share the same top 3 challenges:
What 3 people, issues or things distracted
you the most last week?
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
1.
2.
3.
Lack of Focus
Activity & Resource Management
Getting Prospects Attention
Lack of focus comes from wavering in the continuous
stream of diversion and distraction present in business
today. Business owners and leaders need to take time to
think through your best area of opportunity to exploit that
will give you the greatest return on focus.
Too many people today complain about the lack of time
to complete projects and tasks. The real challenge is
that we struggle from a proper focus on key activities
and which key resources need to be deployed to garner
us the greatest return on focus.
Whether you work in a business or an organization such
as a non-profit, you need to constantly be in front of the
right prospect who is able to say yes to make the sale or
back your cause. Getting this attention has become more
challenging today versus 10 years ago given the fact that
these people face all the same diversions and distractions
as you do
In 5 minutes you can:
Identify where your focus can be sharpened. You can pin
point the activities that keep you from performing at peak
production. Think about the top 3-5 people you most
need to see this week to advance your cause.
What 3 activities will move you closer to
operating at your peak performance this
week?
(Think fitness, meditation, rest, nutrition, selling,
nurturing relationships, planning & execution)
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
Who are the top 5 people you would like
to see or meet most this month?
___________________ ____________________
___________________ ____________________
___________________
Who do you know that could link you or
introduce you to these people?
___________________ ____________________
___________________ ____________________
___________________
DECISIONS & ACTIONS I WILL COMMIT TO:
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5 Minute Clarity
Volume 1, Issue 11
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.” - Buddha
Starting Your Year Over
In the martial arts, every student I have ever trained with
or trained reaches a point of ultimate frustration. This
frustration is born when the student feels they are not
progressing fast enough or in a competent manner
towards their next grade promotion.
POINTS TO CLARITY
Do you need to give yourself permission
to start over today? (circle one)
Yes / No
The same thing happens in life and in business. We all
reach points where we feel like giving up or changing
course. If you are at this point… STOP and PAUSE.
Are you setting the right goals for where
you are today? (circle one)
Yes / No
This is the optimal time to reassess your mission, vision,
goals, dreams and desires along with… yes, even those
New Year’s Resolutions. Did you set any of those New
Year’s Resolutions for yourself this year?
When you reach those goals, how will you
feel?
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
I recall Tony Robbins saying that when you feel like
quitting or giving up on a goal, this simply means you are
on the verge of achieving it.
Your goal achievement
often waits for you a step or two past where you
presently are today.
I want to encourage you to think upon this. You most
likely need a change of perspective.
You are tougher than you think. You have within you the
capacity to reach the goal you set for yourself.
I personally have no inclination towards being a medical
doctor because it is not part of my path. Just as you
might not have an inclination to be a Samurai like I am.
The reason is that we have individual talents and abilities
to help us along our unique paths.
Today is a good day to start your year over!
Who do you need to become in order to
reach the goals you set for yourself?
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
Establish a new set of goals for your year or
commit to strengthening your resolve to forge
ahead along the path you set for yourself earlier
this year.
5 Minute Clarity
Volume 1, Issue 10
“A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition,
and more repetition, then a little more after that.” - Reggie Jackson
Is Mastery Hours or Reps?
Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book titled Outliers. The basic
premise of the book is that to achieve mastery or the
highest level of proficiency may require around 10,000
hours of practice or experience.
I believe a stronger focus is developed when we focus on
the number of repetitions (reps) in order to achieve
mastery of a skill.
In the dojo, we focus on reps in order to build
confidence, muscle memory and rhythm in the student’s
technique. We don’t have hours to spend; only a finite
number of reps. My Sensei wrote an essay in the mid
80’s discussing this subject and he stated that you can
say a martial technique is yours after you have done it
approximately 10,000 times.
The same holds true for you. I suggest changing your
focus from hours to reps.
Two salespeople can start working
on the same day. Both focus on
making telephone calls. One paces
10,000 hour rule. This equates to
days, or 5 working years.
in the same company
mastering the skill of
himself based on the
1,250 eight-hour work
The other focuses and strives to get through the first
10,000 calls in one year. This is approximately 41 calls
per working day.
Which salesperson do you want on your team?
POINTS TO CLARITY
What is the ONE skill you want to most
improve in your life or career this year?
_________________________________________
What is the ONE activity that if done
more frequently and consistently would
produce amazing results for you?
_________________________________________
How many reps per day or per week do
you perform this activity?
_____
How many reps per day or per week
would it take to double your current
results?
_____
What is the next step(s) you need to take
to get started today?
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
5 Minute Clarity
Volume 1, Issue 15
“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” - Brian Tracy
How to Kick Your Inbox Habit
This is a deadly habit unless managed effectively. What you
don’t realize is that this inbox habit left uncontrolled will
steal your energy second by second. It's like death by a
1000 cuts versus one big cut.
POINTS TO CLARITY
76% of Samurai Innovation clients report to us that they
have over 100 emails or more sitting in their inbox. How
many emails are in your inbox right now?
What happens is that you constantly peek into your inbox
and scan away. You begin scanning for fun subject lines that
entice you to open your email. But as you scan, you also
see the subject lines that often represent work and further
tasks that require your attention. Within minutes you are
looking at 100's of emails. Now you have a decision… which
one do you tackle first?
What's worse is that a growing majority of people read email
first on a mobile device. This makes it easy to do nothing
with the email and put it back in your pocket or bag until
later. Later generally comes when you view the email for a
second or third time on a desktop or laptop where you
ultimately need to take action on those emails.
Newspaper Insanity
The way you manage your inbox is akin to picking up a
newspaper, reading the headline and putting down the
newspaper. 45 minutes later, you pick up the newspaper,
read the headline and scan the article. Later that day, you
grab the paper and now read the full article before you toss
out the paper into the recycle bin. This is newspaper
insanity. You may be laughing right now, but you do this
with your inbox.
How do you kick the habit of the Inbox?
5 Minute Clarity
Volume 1, Issue 17
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
- Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (Pro Tennis Player)
Start From Where You Are
Have you recently been overwhelmed by looking at a messy
stack of papers, magazines or books on your desk or corner
table? Start from where you are is an easy way to
effortlessly clear the clutter in minutes vs hours. Let's start
by recognizing that you have 3 real barriers to your
productivity.
Meet the Clutter Ninja. The Clutter Ninja's sole purpose is to
overwhelm you by stealthily stacking up clutter in the
physical, mental & digital realms of your life. You can break
free of these areas by being willing to start from where you
are versus trying to manage your need to hoard information.
Give yourself permission to recycle & move forward. Treat
those stacks of information, magazines, publications and
other stuff as a cheap sunk cost. The expensive cost is that
these items block you from being clear and focused. What's
more expensive is not achieving your goals because you
allow the Clutter Ninja to invade your life.
Take a pile of magazines or publications. Research proves
that the content in those publications is often outdated
within 3-6 months. Take the pile and immediately put it into
a recycle bin. This will free up the physical space while
clearing your mind. Resolve that the next time the publication
arrives, you'll read it in 7 days or less, otherwise it too goes
into a recycle bin.
If you're recycling more than reading, this is a clue that your
interest or passion has changed and perhaps it's time to
cancel the subscription and reinvest the funds into something
more worthy of your dollars, time and attention.
POINTS TO CLARITY
What has to happen for me to work and
live in a clutter free environment?
________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
Do you have an Anti-Clutter partner?
Yes / No
Who is the most organized person that
you know who you can enlist to help
you clear the clutter and be your AntiClutter partner?
________________________________________
What 3 actions can you take from this
point forward to be clutter free?
1.______________________________________
________________________________________
2.______________________________________
________________________________________
3.______________________________________
________________________________________
5 Minute Clarity
Volume 1, Issue 16
“I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit,
because they can't give the best service.” - Richard Bach
Read more at
Business Focus Simplified
POINTS TO CLARITY
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/richardbac120424.html#6ikP0Z4IJozoiW
What are the top 10 opportunities or
5E.99
It’s easy to get caught off guard or being busy
doing
unproductive activities in your business. Members of our
Samurai Innovation Dojo rate being more focused as their
number one challenge. Don't worry you are not alone.
I too feel this way often, but the time I take to step off
the line and breath helps me simplify my business focus.
You may feel this way which is good in one sense. This
is good because it means that you have choices and
most likely too many ideas or opportunities to take
advantage here in the present now. The business owners
we work with concur and ask us:
How do you sharpen your focus each day? How do you
select the right things to focus your attention on?
The answer might surprise you, but it is very simple…
One action, one focus with a twist. The twist comes by
making a list of everything you want to work on today.
Ask yourself the millionaire maker question brought to
you by Dan Kennedy:
Where is the profit in this?
My recommendation is to spend the first 2 hours each
day working on moving the most profitable items forward
before you deal with the Enemy of Average throughout
the rest of your day.
tasks that you need to work on today?
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From above identify where the profit is in
working on that task today.
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samurai
resources
1. The Meaning of Samurai
What do you think the word Samurai means? Many people incorrectly associate this word with
characteristics that are not in line with the true meaning of Samurai. Find out how this definition
and the values of the Samurai will help you sharpen your focus and live a greater life.
2. Under the Kimono
Great businesses and organizations have systems and drivers that determine their highest
value actions. For many of these, it has taken years to develop these standards that guide their
performance. We’ll show you how you can implement personal drivers in your business and life.
3. Is Mastery Hours or Reps?
Find out why we disagree with Malcolm Gladwell’s book titled Outliers. We invite you to
consider our view on success and achievement that will help give you more clarity as to the
desired outcomes for your business or personal mastery.
4. Focus on Your Weekly Plan
Great lives are built one day at a time. Planning and executing 7 days in a row will significantly
propel you forward faster than an F16 fighter jet soars through the sky. Watch the Innovative
Samurai explain this one page, easy to follow approach to improving your weekly planning and
achieving.
5. Black Belt Code of Behaviour
The Samurai live by a code called Bushido. What is your personal Code of Behaviour? Don’t
have one? We will help you set one up quickly that will be everlasting just like the Samurai. By
the way… so will your results be better and longer lasting.
6. Defeating the Enemy of Average
Find out how you can spot and eliminate your enemy that is a main obstacle between your goals,
dreams and desires.
The Enemy of Average seeks out intentional ways to stop you from accomplishing your most
essential priorities. This enemy causes you to hide your excellence and dull your natural born
brilliance. When you fall prey to this attack you tend to hide your talents and capabilities so as
to not stand out from the crowd. You begin living average instead of living from a mindset of
excellence.
7. 5 Minute Clarity Resources
5 Minute Clarity will help you gain greater clarity on various topics within 5 minutes or less. Our complimentary 5 Minute Clarity Worksheets offer you a one page thought provoking tool to
inspire and boost your productivity, faster than ever before. © 2013 Samurai Innovation Limited http://SamuraiInnovation.com
8. Your Owner’s Manual for Being Productive
Are you drowning in paperwork and lost productivity?
I certainly know the feeling to be lost and overwhelmed with too much to do and it doesn’t
help when people you work with keep dropping piles of paperwork on your desk. Where is the
owner’s manual for productivity? Why didn’t anyone teach us that in college or high school? Here is the manual you have been looking for!
9. One Core Metric Will Change Everything
When was the last time you set out to make a significant change in one area of your life or
business, only to fall flat? Most likely you have one problem and it is a lack of focus. We will
help you choose one core metric to focus on and see improved results by the end of the week.
10. How to Kick Your Inbox Habit
76% of Samurai Innovation clients report to us that they have over 100 emails or more sitting in
their inbox. How many emails are in your inbox right now? Use this simple method to break free
of the inbox straight jacket that limits your focus and creative ability today.
11. Crazy Shoe Innovation – Vibram
5 Principles of Innovation that will help you assess where you are going and how to make your
business and products better and more appealing for the customer. Let Vibram Shoes show you
how - it’s a great advertisement worth checking out.
12. Ignore New Year’s Resolutions
You Have Got to Pay the Price: 10 years ago my business coach shared a very valuable poem
with me. Whenever I look at the calendar and begin hearing people talk about their New Year’s
Resolutions, I instantly recall this poem.
Discover simple, practical steps to get organized, escape from overwhelm and finally get the time freedom you
deserve! The Ultimate Information Manager is a revolutionary new program that will show you:
• How to get 1, 3 or even 10 hours of free time a week (Just imagine what would you do with that extra time!)
• The 7 “deadly enemies” that are killing your productivity… and how to defeat them
• Why going paperless is much easier than you think… when you have the RIGHT system and tools
• How to eliminate the physical, mental and digital clutter that is keeping you stuck and causing you overwhelm
Go to http://samuraiinnovation.com/ultimate-information-manager/ today to find out how this amazing tool
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