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If you want great things to happen in your life you have the opportunity and power to manifest them. You just need the right strategies. I discuss some of them in this episode with my guest, Francois Lupien.

Francois Lupien is a dynamic executive coach, mentor and speaker whose experience includes successfully working with Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and as a consultant with Bob Proctor (Movie: The Secret).

Achieving excellence in everything he puts his mind to, Francois has been a Tae Kwon Do Gold Medal Canadian champion, a Top Real Estate agent for 11 years with Remax, and a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful 6-figure businesses.

We dive into topics including:

• Why people pay more attention to help and advice that they pay for.
• Examples of habits you can develop to manifest greatness.
• The power of embracing decide, commit, succeed.
• How to keep on keepin’ on during the dark times after you make a commitment to excellence.
• What your reticular activating system is and how to engage it to see and manifest success faster.
• Why you get better answers when you ask better questions and how to do that.
• How to change your thinking and habits if they’re hurting you.
• How to stay focused on success and manifesting what you desire.
• The argument for not taking short cuts on your path to success.
• How to find your “Why” to stay on your journey to manifesting greatness.
• The one thing, above all else, that you need to do to manifest greatness in your life.

…and other golden nuggets of advice!

The Beginning Self Confidence for Francois

Self confidence was introduced to Francois when he was just six years old. His mom had, when she was young, roller skates, not roller blades, four wheels, two in the front, two in the back. She them on cowboy boots of for Francois. She told him to try them out. He tried this thing and he fell and it hurt like crazy. He came back home and was not happy. Francois’ mom looked at him and asked “What’s the matter?” He told her it hurts, and he didn’t want to try skating any more.

Francois remembers, as if it was yesterday, his mom having an adjustment key. She took those roller skates, put them on her feet, and demonstrated how to roller skate on the street with Francois sitting on the sidewalk. Then she came back to him and and said with a smile “You can do anything you want in life if you really want it. Are you ready?” He said “Yes”. Then as Francois started skating, she said, “You got this.” Then she went back into the house as Francois skated all around.

That’s Just the Beginning

A week later Francois attached a rope to one of his friend’s bikes and he was water skiing down the street with his roller skates. From then, it’s just been on and on with his self-belief journey. His mom always told him “Whatever you want in life, you go for it, you can make it happen.”

This opened Francois’ eyes that believing in yourself is the first step to manifestation.

How can greatness be created? Francois would say by someone believing in yourself first, then, as a result of that, other people end up believing in you as well.

That means first you must learn…

How to Find That Someone to Believe in You

Francois was blessed that his family that believed in him and supported his dreams. Yet for anybody else, search, dig, knock on as many proverbial doors and ask for help. A wise man once said “Knock and it shall be opened and ask and it shall be answered”. You just need to ask. The good news is there’s people in this world right now that you can easily get access to. Once you find someone, try to get an understanding of what that person is doing that you want to do. Research how they might be able to help you and vice-versa.

Francois believes that everybody is good in some way, even if it’s deep down. The quote “Be kind always” applies here. If you encounter someone having a bad day or they’re not feeling well, yes, there’s something broken inside of them for now. So don’t be the one that kicks them while they’re down. Be the one that uplifts other people.

You Must Give in Order to Get

As you do that, one of Francois’ great mentors, Bob Proctor always said, leave everyone with the impression of increase. Make everybody feel better after they met with you than before they met you. You want to help others as much as you want others to help you.

The important thing is to remember here is that you can’t achieve your dreams alone. We need other people to help us along our journey. Some people will see things in you that you don’t see in yourself. Their perspective on you can enable you to refocus and make things happen in a new, better way. It’s the same thing for each and every one of us. There’s things that we don’t see and we don’t know that others can help us discover.

Now you can start to understand…

How to Build Relationships When You Find Those Special People

Francois believes you build relationships by having conversations and asking the real (and sometimes tough) questions. You need to go deep and not be superficial. If someone looks good on paper, that’s fine, but go deeper. You need to discover what the essence of your conversations and your relationships are as a whole. Is it just fluff or is there some substance to it? Once you do that, you’ll have that thing called “a gut feeling”. If it feels good in your gut, go for it.

As you develop that relationship and you feel good, the more you pay attention to that person. This thing of having the greatness revealed in you by watching YouTube videos, is not going to happen. You need to have someone that’s been there, done that, sold the T-shirt to the event and is able to help you to get to the next level. That is key to your pivotal relationships.

And that is just the beginning!

Listen to or watch the interview to continue this story and get more golden nuggets of advice!

You can get my book here: “Idea Climbing: How to Create a Support System for Your Next Big Idea”

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