6 MONTHS TO 6 FIGURES by Peter Voogd

• Sometimes, the things you don’t want to hear are the things you need to hear the most.
• The worst thing in life is regret,
• Here’s the catch: YOU must take action.
• I’ve realized that the biggest inspiration of all is seeing progress and results: which comes from new habits.
• Here is what you must understand: everything has changed. What it took to succeed five to ten years ago doesn’t work anymore, and some say it’s become the toughest time in human history for young entrepreneurs, sales professionals, students and youth to succeed.
• The need for real leadership is increasing minute-by-minute,
• People say you need to learn from experience; I say that’s too expensive. You must learn from other people’s experience and don’t repeat those same mistakes. Isn’t that more intelligent?
• There are endless possibilities, and more opportunities than you could even imagine for those committed to self-improvement.
• “A real leader isn’t somebody who develops the most followers; a real leader is somebody who develops the most leaders.”
• I got paid for the courage to think differently and take a risk.
• NEVER let other people's opinion of you persuade your decisions.
• I don’t regret getting a normal job because it re-enforced to me that the entrepreneur route was the right choice for me.
• You’re either building your dreams, or helping someone else build theirs.
• My mom would say to me, “You need to start with a normal job and work your way up like everybody else.” I’d reply, “I don’t want to be like everybody else! Everybody else hates what they do, complains about money, and prays for weekends.”
• “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
• Our society has low standards for people and for achieving real wealth.
• Exercising your brain makes it stronger. The stronger it is, the more money it makes.
• One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class stays middle class is because the subject of money is taught at home and not in school.
• Proper physical exercise enhances health. Proper mental exercise increases wealth.
• Laziness decreases both health and wealth—if you’re lazy physically, then you’re lazy mentally.
• Either you work for money, or money works for you.
• Six months is enough time to craft the perfect plan, develop the skills you need to start your journey towards real success, and gain clarity towards your next venture.
• Your life is formed by the perspectives and philosophies you adopt, and changing your perspective can create an immediate shift in your life and business.
• The rules you’ve been taught don’t apply anymore. Everything has changed, and it’s adapt or die in this new economy.
• Most people haven’t put much thought into why they aren’t really thriving as they could, or the real reasons they are where they are.
• “You get paid for bringing value to the marketplace, and if you’re not very valuable you don’t make much money.”
• People tend to complain about the economy, their job, the government, their lack of income, but aren’t doing much to improve their value or skills. The harsh reality we all must understand is that you will always be paid exactly what you are worth, or expect you are worth.
• If you’re not very valuable to the marketplace you don’t get much money. The quicker you understand this, the quicker you can advance in this fast paced and evolving economy.
• Time on a job or years at a specific occupation does not increase the inherent value of that job being done. In most cases, after the first few years, it doesn’t increase the value of the employees either.
• You often hear people say “I have 20 years of experience, I should get paid more,” but in actuality, that person has 1 year of experience repeated 20 times.
• Age doesn’t guarantee a higher income, value does.
• People don’t get more valuable hanging around for years; age isn’t value.
• “Don’t bring your needs to the marketplace, bring your skills.”
• Success doesn’t respond to want or need, it responds to deserve.
• Skills are valuable, needs are not.
• The marketplace is only interested in what you can do that is of value. The fact that you don’t feel well is nothing more than a lame excuse. The marketplace is not interested in excuses—it just wants results and real value from you.
• “Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you’ll make a fortune.”
• You need to go to work on yourself. If you change, everything will change for you.
• Strive to become a better person, and, instead of comparing yourself to others, differentiate. The goal is to be slightly better than who you were the day before. The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
• “Time is more valuable than money. You can always get more money, but you can never get more time.”
• There is nothing more valuable than time invested wisely and intentionally.
• Nothing is more priceless than time, so never waste this precious gift.
• If you want to take your business or income to the next level, you need to make growth a part of your daily agenda.
• It’s not very complicated to change your current income level. You simply need to offer more value to the marketplace.
• If you consistently build your character, skills, and value to others, you will quickly advance in the game of economics.
• There are no limits to your success as an entrepreneur when you commit to growing and becoming more valuable.
• Yes, to build wealth you first must build a wealth of knowledge. You need new information, new wisdom, and new ideas to take your business to a new level, but the power lies in how fast you can implement the right information into your daily routines. The right information is only part of the equation. The real power lies in implementation.
• Mastery is one of the highest forms of performance and success.
• The only way to become successful is to master the fundamentals, but the fundamentals you adopt must be congruent to your end results and goals.
• The mature learner is very deliberate with what he studies and what he puts to mind.
• Mastering new skills is not optional in today’s business environment and changing economy.
• It’s not enough to be smart—you need to always be getting smarter, and if you’re not growing forward, you’re falling behind. It’s more about focus than intelligence.
• Knowledge is not power. It’s what you do with what you know that leads to mastery. Action is the only thing that will ultimately determine your success. Unapplied knowledge is useless.
• Realize you can’t take on everything. If you do, you’ll never accomplish anything. Instead, choose one or two skills to focus on at a time, and break that skill or skills down into manageable goals.
• “If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.”
• To move from experimentation to mastery, you need to reflect on what you’re learning.
• One of the quickest ways to learn something new and to practice it is to teach others how to do it.
• People around you will only notice 10% of every 100% change you make.
• From this point on, I want you be more intentional with what you study, read, or listen to. Make sure it’s congruent with your weekly, monthly, and yearly goals.
• The simple act of being more intentional with what you study can set you apart from those around you, and successful people are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves.
• School sometimes distracts you from the things that actually matter in advancing your career and life.
• Your education doesn't end at graduation, it begins. The sooner you realize that all the skills you need to learn to succeed will occur after you leave the confines of educational institutions, the sooner you will succeed.
• Have you ever noticed that it's usually those who claim they don't care about money who are broke?
• Eliminate any and all ideas that being poor is somehow OK.
• Our society is afraid of being labeled as greedy or money hungry, but what must be understood is that money is a crucial part of freedom.
• If you want to break free of mediocrity, you must change your perspective on wealth and understand what it really takes to create wealth.
• 70% of the population are either living paycheck to paycheck or getting further in debt every month.
• You must first realize it’s not the money that will solve your problems. If people think money solves problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Personal growth solves problems. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
• I define an entrepreneur as somebody who controls their income and makes money through their intelligence, relationships, ideas, and implementation.
• Most people say they love what they do, but deep down, if they could do anything they wanted, they would do something else. Please don't settle. If you REALLY love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.
• Life is too short to have toxic people around you.
• The first thing you must do if you are dissatisfied is stop doing what you’ve been doing, because that’s what created your current reality.
• Regardless of your past decisions, you’re always one decision away from making the right one.
• Your self-worth has nothing to do with your finances.
• Being wealthy is a state of mind, but so is being broke. Who you are defines you, not what you possess.
• When you set up your weekly schedule, make sure you start with income producing activities.
• Time is more valuable than money. You can always get more money, but you can never get more time.
• Start saying no to everything that doesn't create income for you until you get your income to a place that makes you feel confident and secure.
• Start elevating your peer group, and reaching out to those playing the game of life at a higher level than you. Their belief systems, their ways of being, and their attitudes are contagious.
• Excuses are a disease and those who continue making them will continue to have money issues.
• “The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life, is the moment you can change anything in your life.”
• The difference between ordinary income and extraordinary income is fast implementation.
• “Success rewards implementation, not knowledge”
• “If you want to become a millionaire, talk to billionaires, you’ll get there quicker.”
• I realized a smart person learns from their mistakes, as all successful people do, but those who operate at a world class level learn from other peoples mistakes so they can shorten their learning curve by learning from them and not wasting as much time making the same ones.
• You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have.
• “Progress is the ultimate motivation.”
• Here are the 6 Musts to Your First (or Next) 6 Figures: Absolute Clarity Increasing Your Confidence Account Shifting Your Circle of Influence Consistent Energy and Motivation (Inner Drive) Creating Intentional Result Rituals Continually Focusing on Growth and Learning
• Clarity is the ultimate power, and if you want results you’ve never gotten before, you need to get crystal clear on what you want and who you are.
• With clarity comes motivation, but it’s only when you take full responsibility for your current reality can you change it.
• Minimalism is a great way to run your business, and a great way to run your life. Get rid of the messes and noise.
• Obsession is the hallmark of genius:
• Don’t try to be great at fifty things. Be obsessed about the few things that can really move your life and business forward.
• An interesting thing happens when you start to gain clarity; your Confidence follows.
• Everything you accomplish is based on the confidence you have in yourself and your ability to “make it happen.”
• You must realize the moment you go after your biggest goals, obstacles will show up.
• The person with the most confidence always wins.
• Once I elevated my peer group, my standards and results followed.
• Lack of consistency is the subtle, but great stealer of dreams and desires.
• You must consistently improve your mindset, emotional intelligence, perspective, philosophy on how success is achieved, and how you view yourself.
• There is nothing that brings you energy and confidence like progressing towards your goals.
• When you’re consistent long enough, you start figuring out what works and what doesn’t, and patterns start to arise.
• How do you continue to reach new heights in your life and business? Continual Growth and Learning, and becoming the best at what you do.
• Once you become aware of what areas you want to master, you can then create an action plan that you actually do something with.
• In a society where everyone is trying to fit in, I challenge you to embrace being different and stand out.
• not being negative; I’m observing the reality. The average person settles for far less than he or she is truly capable of becoming.
• One of the many reasons our society is struggling is people are taking advice from those who don’t practice what they preach.
• Listen to people you would trade places with, and listen to people who have already experienced the success you’re aiming for.
• “If you really want success, and you don’t have any mentors or guidance, you can get a head start by looking at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.”
• The more people do something, the less valuable it is.
• All the greats in our society lived life to their own choosing, not other people’s.
• One way to be outstanding and become more valuable is to do what others are unwilling to do.
• Figure out what makes you different and unique. How can you differentiate yourself from everybody else?
• One of the most important questions you can ask in business is: Why should someone do business with you versus any and every other option available to them, including doing nothing?
• It’s one thing to say you’re different, but it’s another to think, act, and actually live differently.
• Something that’s evident in every achiever, every millionaire, and everybody living a world-class life is clarity.
• Something happens when you become clear on who you are and what you want in life.
• Action is what creates real motivation, not the other way around.
• There are typically only two things that motivate somebody: pain or pleasure.
• Most people don’t know where they’re going, and if you ask them what they want, they are vague and not clear enough. With fuzzy vision comes fuzzy motivation.
• If you don’t know where you are going, then I can guarantee you’ll end up somewhere other than where you want to be.
• Most people haven’t come to grips with how important clarity is and how big a role it plays in their future.
• Clarity brings confidence and confidence raises standards.
• "The most important thing you should protect at all times is your standards. Never let them slip.”
• Clarity gives you power because you are coming from a place of certainty and confidence. You don’t need to know your exact vision, but you have to be clear where you want to go and who you want to become.
• The first thing you must do is shift from complexity to simplicity. You must get clear on your masterpiece and chip away at all the noise.
• The purpose of your life is to discover who you are. To do this, you have to be willing to give yourself some special attention.
• One of the most defining choices you can make in your entire life is deciding what kind of person you will be on a daily basis.
• Your values make you do the things that are often not easy to do.
• Remember, nothing works unless you do the work.
• Reasons always come first, results come second.
• You must have goals and dreams to pull you through your toughest challenges.
• Only 5% of society have their goals written on paper, and those 5% make more than the other 95% combined.
• Your results will always be congruent with who you are, how you think, and what you do on a daily basis.
• Hoping things will change isn’t a strategy.
• Truly productive people know the final result they are after and maintain acute clarity on what they want.
• Let’s talk about the most important account you will ever manage. No, it’s not your bank account. It’s your confidence account.
• So where does confidence come from? It comes from self-esteem and self-esteem comes from doing the things you know you should do when you know you should do them whether you feel like it or not.
• Confidence in yourself, in your abilities, and in your decision making process are crucial components for achievement.
• Once you come from a place of confidence and develop the courage to take action on your dreams, you start to become more resourceful.
• The most confident leaders maximize resources and can come into the same circumstances and see opportunities where others see only problems.
• Leaders find a way to maximize whatever resources they have, as little as they may be, and they don’t believe in limited resources.
• “Resourcefulness the ultimate resource.”
• The ultimate key is internal emotions.
• There is nothing more powerful than self-confidence in multiplying your income by two, by three, by five, and then by ten.
• Here’s the scary part: You’re either helping or hurting your confidence at all times. There is no in-between. So everything you do, every choice you make, every person you connect with, and every action you take either gets you closer to your goals or farther away.
• Once you gain clarity on your goals, who you are, and why you’re doing what you’re doing, your confidence instantly increases.
• Most people in our society make their decisions based on their feelings.
• Remember, if you want to be successful, look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite. So here’s what the 5% do.
• While unsuccessful people base everything off their feelings, the 5% make decisions first, regardless of how they feel.
• One of the biggest ways to build your self-esteem is to do what you say you’re going to do.
• Successful people decide what they’re going to do, they take action regardless of how they feel, and as an end result, feel exceptional because they followed through on their commitment.
• The person with the most confidence always wins, and nobody respects an insecure leader.
• Successful people make choices based on who they want to become versus feeling comfortable in the moment.
• Start small and continue making the tough choices until you see your confidence increase.
• “It’s in the moments of decision where your destiny is shaped.”
• It’s not what you do when you’re on top that makes you a great leader, it’s what you do when you are on the bottom that determines your real leadership ability.
• Start challenging yourself.
• Consistency is all about character.
• People respect those who are consistent and stay the course regardless of what life throws at them.
• The stop-and-start process is what kills progress in any pursuit.
• The two scariest things in life and business are: Momentum Lack of Momentum
• Deep daily practice is crucial to confidence.
• Practice every single day. Again, don't just go to work, but practice at getting better at what you do.
• Through personal experience, I’ve noticed that once you face your fears, they disappear.
• Stay fearless in everything you do.
• The reason most people don’t take risks, live on the edge, or push the envelope is the fear of what others might think of them. If you want to live the life you truly deserve, one of significance and fulfillment, you must give up the need to be liked by everybody.
• “People will judge you regardless, so be who you wanna be.”
• The root of all misery is comparison, and if you're constantly comparing yourself to others you'll always be miserable.
• Never let other’s opinions guide your choices.
• The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
• When you make your competition the person in the mirror, you’ll succeed every time.”
• Surround yourself with confident people.
• Nobody is born with confidence, but anybody can improve it.
• The person with the most confidence wins.
• It’s amazing what happens mentally when you think about how much the people around you affect you.
• Who you associate with is who you become, and who you become determines your future success.
• It’s extremely important to have role models. A role model will raise your standards. A role model will not let you get complacent.
• Most millionaires and high performers enjoy helping young professionals and those hungry for a better life.
• The moment you stop talking to people who challenge you is the moment you are most vulnerable for complacency.
• The data is clear that relationships are the #1 key to your success without question.
• Networking is great for sharing ideas and knowledge.
• One way to learn how to do something right is to do it wrong first. Trial and error is the most common way to learn, but in order to gain the benefit, you must take action consistently. Sometimes, negative experiences turn out to be positive.
• By regularly networking and pushing yourself to talk to people you don’t know helps increase your confidence.
• If you aren't uncomfortable on a daily basis, you aren’t making much progress.
• No one else is responsible for your success. Get your own mind right and do all the work necessary to put yourself in the best possible position for achieving your desires.
• I would make it a priority to find a coach, mentor, or expert in the field you are in and schedule a coffee or lunch to ask them intelligent questions.
• If you think mentorship is expensive, try mediocrity.
• Remember the most powerful and useful investment you can make is in yourself.
• Success Magazine asked their most successful achievers a very simple question. What’s been their biggest secret to improving their results? 22% Waking Up Earlier 22% Making a Plan 16% Writing Down My Goals 3% Delegating 37% Learning From Other Achievers
• When most people set goals, they fail to identify who can help them with those goals. Identifying who can help you achieve those goals is the key to attaining them.
• Learning from your own experience is the most expensive way to learn. Other people’s experience is cheaper and more effective.
• Most people try to turn everyone they meet into a client or prospect before ever adding value or getting to know them. That business is dead and the businesses with that attitude will fail.
• The best thing you can do is invest in yourself so you have more to give.
• All relationships have to start with generosity.
• You can get a hold of anyone if you persist long enough and never give up!
• People are a lot more willing to help than you think.
• When you actually start connecting in person with successful people, it’s important you stay very open and observant to the present moment. Wherever you are, be there.
• The most successful people live in the NOW and are focused on squeezing every last ounce out of every moment, every day, and every experience.
• The person who is most present is the most influential.
• So few people actually follow up that doing so already sets you apart from most.
• I can’t stress enough how important it is to make sure you’re communicating with those who are playing the game at a higher level than you are.
• “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”
• Remember, be relentless and understand successful people appreciate persistence.
• Nobody fails alone and nobody succeeds alone.
• It is a continuous journey. It’s who you become that will determine your success, and who you become has a lot to do with your past action.
• Creating your first 6-figure income takes hard work and consistency.
• You must focus on consistent action if you want to build real momentum.
• The only way you’ll experience momentum is through continuous and focused action.
• If you make a commitment to consistency, you’ll not only catch your competitors, you’ll usually leave them in the dust every time. I do what I have found most people cannot—stay consistent.
• Lack of consistency is the subtle, but great stealer of dreams and desires. The lack of consistency is what kills progress in many pursuits.
• Energy is the most underrated commodity and one of the most important factors in creating an extraordinary quality of life.
• Without world-class levels of energy, you won’t get to your best business.
• The person with the most energy in this new economy will always come out ahead. Don’t take energy for granted.
• Spend more time on what gives you energy, and guard against, eliminate, or delegate your time for those things that deplete your energy.
• Nutrition plays a huge role in your daily energy.
• One of the easiest and best things you can do starting today is to drink lots of water.
• What you put in your body affects how you look and how you feel. What you put in your head affects how you think and what you do. So watch both.
• You may be surprised to hear this, but you can’t separate your body from your mind. The stronger you become physically, the stronger you become mentally.
• Exercise isn’t just good for your outer appearance; it also affects your inner ambition.
• If you keep your body healthy, your mind follows.
• Focus on progress, not perfection.
• Don’t neglect working out and don’t neglect your body because when you feel stronger physically, you feel stronger mentally.
• Most people think their way into depression.
• Unfortunately, part of the reason people don’t pursue their dreams, or go after opportunities with confidence is because they are tired.
• Start to become more conscious of what state you’re operating in emotionally and do everything in your power to stay in your positive emotions.
• “Never make any important decisions when you're tired, hungry, angry, or lonely.”
• Mental strength is a very important component to real achievement.
• Be careful what you let enter your mind daily because what you think about starts everything.
• Our mind is always being fed.
• The mind that isn’t fed intelligence is usually fed useless information.
• Most successful people I have studied and communicated with, including me, do mental exercise first thing in the morning.
• Something that can improve your mental mindset immediately is a solid morning routine.
• When you think strategically and understand the purpose of the activities you’re doing, it’s easier to sell yourself to them.
• Remember, a huge key to productivity is deciding what you’re going to work on other than in the moment, and then practicing that high value work over and over until it’s natural, habitual and automatic.
• Never start your day without writing it on paper first. Don’t leave your life up to feelings, circumstances, or chance.
• A life best lived is a life lived by design.
• Either you run your day or your day runs you.
• Get everything out of your mind onto paper.
• You must have goals and dreams to pull you through your toughest challenges.
• Focus on filling your mind with gratitude.
• Stay focused on the good things versus focusing on negativity and you will feel your motivation, happiness, and energy increase.
• The greatest support system in the world is good friends.
• Friends are those people who know all about you and still like you.
• Your standards will rise and fall based on who you associate with.
• A solid morning routine is a CRUCIAL part of maximizing your day.
• Peak productivity is not about luck. It's about dedication and awareness.
• Changing your perspective can change your life.
• Remember, it’s not the hours you work, but the work you put into those hours.
• Which 20% of your tasks are resulting in 80% of your desired outcomes and happiness?
• Which 20% of your tasks are causing 80% of your problems and unhappiness?
• Most things make no difference and aren’t moving your life or business forward.
• Being busy is a form of laziness -lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
• Focus on the important few and ignore or delegate the rest.
• Your time is more valuable doing the things no one else can do.
• Doing something unimportant well doesn't make it any more important.
• Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will become bigger in importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.
• Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to your business results and schedule them with very clear deadlines.
• Everyone's fighting for your focus.
• Distraction is the greatest thief of time, and time is a non-renewable resource.
• A huge competitive advantage falls to the 1 in 100 performer with the brilliance to develop the skill of becoming massively focused on the one thing in front of them—truly a Game-Changing move.
• I strongly challenge you to start basing your decisions on your standards and goals rather than your current emotions.
• Stop waiting for perfect conditions or the perfect product before you get to the market or take action.
• You want experiments, not perfection.
• A stop doing list is sometimes more important than a to-do list.
• You can get more done in 20 minutes of focus than 3 hours of distraction.
• Remember, focus is more important than intelligence.
• If you procrastinate, then you haven’t sold yourself on your goal or task yet.
• A morning routine is crucial to creating a productive day.
• The more you PRACTICE what you know, the better you get.
• There's the state of passively knowing something and then there's the level of performance you attain when you consistently PRACTICE what you know.
• Practice doing work that matters.
• Remember: It’s not what you know; it’s what you do with what you know.
• Never let those who have given up on their dreams talk you out of yours.
• A ritual is something you do consistently that has a proven track record of getting results.
• Always strive to put systems in place because the right systems can transform your life and business.
• Motivation doesn’t create action. Actually, it's the other way around. Action is what produces the motivation to continue taking action. Many people think they need motivation to take action, but that is totally backwards.
• 99% of everything we do each day is habitual.
• Successful people understand that their habits are either elevating them to new levels of success or hindering their progress, which is exactly why they are so intentional with what they do on a daily basis.
• Habits define you, and if you don’t make a definite decision to break habits and replace them with more intelligent ones, it’s nearly impossible to change.
• Habits will always trump inspiration.
• Don’t listen to or watch the news — ever.
• You must identify what’s important to you and make sure your rituals are congruent with your big picture.
• To sustain that success month after month and year after year, you need continual growth and learning.
• Learning, studying, and investing in yourself doesn’t stop when you become successful.
• “Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.”
• If you want to have more, you must become more.
• “Success is something you attract by the person you become.”
• The sooner you understand that all of the skills you need to learn to succeed will occur after you leave the confines of the educational system, the sooner you will succeed.
• Don't guess or hope, but strategically think about why you’re doing what you’re doing.
• Success isn’t a sometimes thing. Success is a daily thing.
• Avoid filling your mind with useless information. Your mind either becomes disciplined or weaker by what you decide to let in every day.
• Audio learning has been described as “the most important advance in education since the invention of the printing press.”
• Never let your car be running without educational audio programs playing.
• When you stop growing you die. You’re either progressing towards your goals or falling behind. There is no in-between.
• One of the main reasons people aren’t achieving the success they’re truly capable of is they’ve never told themselves NOW matters.
• Most people spend the first half of their life saying they’re too young and the second half saying they’re too old.
• you MUST have a sense of urgency if you're serious about success.
• The people who will be unstoppable over the next 2-5 years have a vision to live differently than those around them.
• You must have a sense of urgency and attach everything you’re doing to your future self.
• Opportunities are only opportunities if you're taking full advantage of them.
• Progress is a great motivator.
• Our economy is in desperate need of leaders, so take it upon yourself to become the best version of yourself.
• A decision means to cut away ALL alternatives, leaving you no other options but to succeed.
• Your past has nothing to do with your future, but your current decisions do.
• How you respond to what happens is everything.
• There are two types of people in this world. Those who will do whatever it takes to create the life of their dreams...and everybody else. Choose who you want to become very wisely.