Dare to believe it! Live to prove it! JOHN VON ACHEN

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1 Dare to believe it! Live to prove it! JOHN VON ACHEN

2 YOU CAN WELCOME TO YOU CAN! 2

3 Welcome to YOU CAN! Hello, I m John Von Achen, the author of YOU CAN. I wanted to personally welcome you to this book preview and let you know I am glad you are here. Before you begin reading, I thought it would be a good idea to let you know what you can expect because YOU CAN is a very unique book, probably unlike any book you have ever read. The reason is because YOU CAN is a book of HOW, specifically how to improve your personal performance and achievement. There is no hype in this book, no filler and no excuses. Only specific solutions for how YOU CAN produce better results in everything you are doing. YOU CAN is based on a proven methodology for producing maximum results I have been teaching organizations and individuals for over 10 years from countries all over the world. And, in this book, I will take you through the same proven methodology, step-by-step, explaining HOW in detail along the way. This preview includes the first two chapters of YOU CAN. When you are finished reading, you can learn more about YOU CAN and order your personal copy. I hope you enjoy what you are about to read. And, more importantly, find the content useful and practical. All the best, John Von Achen 3

4 YOU CAN Contents CHAPTER 1 How It s Supposed To Be Answering the question of HOW to move forward CHAPTER 2 It s All About Momentum Understanding the key component for continuous success and achievement CHAPTER 3 Developing a Habit of Achievement The essential link for tapping into the power of momentum CHAPTER 4 Only 1% The guarantee YOU CAN move forward all the time, in everything you do and anytime you want CHAPTER 5 Getting Started How YOU CAN begin moving forward 4

5 CHAPTER 6 Taking Steps How YOU CAN take consistent steps of momentum CHAPTER 7 Creating Winning Streaks How YOU CAN win more often and win with bigger results CHAPTER 8 On Track How YOU CAN stay motivated, focused and moving forward CHAPTER 9 Guaranteed R.O.I. How YOU CAN invest in your success and achievement CHAPTER 10 Getting Unstuck How YOU CAN move forward when you can t move forward CHAPTER 11 The Achievement Verdict How YOU CAN make one of the most critical decisions of you life with wisdom and confidence 5

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7 HOW IT S SUPPOSED TO BE CHAPTER 1

8 THIS BOOK COMES WITH A PROMISE. By reading the entirety of this book, you will learn how YOU CAN move forward towards whatever it is you want to achieve, experience, encounter and enjoy. THIS IS A BOOK OF HOW.

9 How It s Supposed To Be Chapter 1 HOW? HOW (to succeed, achieve, win and move forward) is a pretty important question for all of us. A question on the mind of most people regularly, if not daily. More specifically, I believe most people are regularly looking for answers to these HOW questions: HOW do I obtain what I desire? HOW can I improve my performance and situation? HOW do I achieve my maximum potential? HOW do I create the life I really want? And, HOW do I move forward, especially when I feel I am stuck? Important questions to be sure, and you would think the answers would be abundant. When you consider we live in a world today that is full of information and so-called ready solutions connected to success and achievement, there should be HOW answers everywhere! Unfortunately, that is not necessarily the case. Please do not misunderstand me... I am not suggesting the world is devoid of ideas, solutions and information concerning personal achievement that is valuable, practical and relevant. Quite the opposite is true. 9

10 YOU CAN Throughout my career, I have had the honor of lear ning from many wise men and women. They have each taught practical components of how to reach a measure of achievement in life. Still, from my vantage point, a large portion of the information available today connected to success and achievement is primal, watered down, hyped up and fails to deliver on The Promise. The Promise? Yes, this promise. Success and achievement IS POSSIBLE for all of us. To be clear, The Promise does not suggest that success and achievement are necessarily easy. Nor does The Promise suggest we can always control all of the circumstances in our life. Or that success and achievement are without a price; there is always a price. However, the promise suggests success and achievement in any endeavor is a learnable skill; one we can duplicate to some degree. That is the promise, isn t it... isn't that what all the experts tell us? Two of my favorite quotes are from the great Jim Rohn and both have everything to do with the truth that success and achievement can be learned, duplicated and are possible for all of us: Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. 10

11 How It s Supposed To Be Chapter 1 Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day. There is no question that success and achievement in anything is something that we can all learn and duplicate. I know this, not only through my own experience of personal achievement, but also from the success and achievement of others I have had the privilege of observing and working with. Throughout my career, I have personally worked with hundreds of organizations on change-related projects that included coaching thousands of executives, business owners and professionals. Based on this experience, I have had the opportunity to learn what it takes to manifest real change that produces results. So, I know for sure that success and achievement can be learned and duplicated because I have seen people from all walks of life (in over 40 countries) with all levels of experience and education actually do it! Unfortunately, most people do not attain the measure of success they are looking for and do not reach the level of achievement they are capable of. For almost my entire career, this has really bothered me. Relentlessly, I have tried to figure out why this is the case. Obviously, there are many reasons why people do not succeed and achieve more, including a number of limiting beliefs, improper actions and poor decisions. That is the easy part to figure out. 11

12 WHAT IS MORE CHALLENGING TO UNDERSTAND IS THIS... What about the people who seem to be doing everything right, but just can t reach the level of achievement they long for?

13 How It s Supposed To Be Chapter 1 I am sure you know of the people I am referring to. In fact, you might be one of them. I know I was. So here is the big question... Is there something missing from their approach to success and achievement? And if so, what is it? I have come to a conclusion I would like to share with you. I am convinced that the number one reason capable people cannot achieve success is because their approach to success and achievement, what ever it may be, is missing a key component. The component I am referring to, for the most part, is rarely emphasized and regularly overlooked by most who teach others how to succeed and achieve. Furthermore, I am convinced the lack of this component is why so many people are not able to get a hold of the HOW. And to be clear, this component is so critical to your success and achievement that it may very well change your life forever. This is because if you learn and understand how this component works, YOU CAN realize the HOW of whatever it is you want to achieve. And, this component will help to guarantee you attain the results you want. And what is this critical component to success and achievement? Momentum. 13

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15 CHAPTER 2 IT S ALL ABOUT MOMENTUM

16 FACT If you do not understand what momentum is and where it comes from, you are probably one decision or one action away from losing something.

17 It s All About Momentum MOMENTUM? I would guess this is not the first time you have heard that momentum is directly connected to one s ability to succeed and achieve. Still, most people I meet are unclear of what momentum really is and how it specifically plays a part in their success and achievement. My goal here it to explain momentum in a way so that you can embrace it, use it and benefit from its power. So to begin with, the first step is to define momentum. The easiest way to initially define momentum is like this; momentum is mass in motion. What this means is that any mass (a car, a wave, a cloud, and yes, you) has momentum if it is moving. I think that is pretty understandable. What I also believe is understandable is something we are taught about momentum in physics (and if you never learned anything about physics, I know you will still get this). A mass in motion will stay in motion unless it loses its initial energy or is acted upon by an outside force. For example, if you are driving a car, traveling at 60 miles per hour, the car is propelled forward by its own momentum, and will continue to move forward un- 17

18 YOU CAN less you take your foot off the accelerator, run out of gas or another car or large object hits the car (or you hit something). Another example of momentum is commonplace in sports. For example, if a football team (or any other sports team) is said to be in momentum, it means they are on the move, advancing forward. And, it s really going to take some serious effort from the opposing team to stop them from winning. And why is this the case? It is because the team is MOVING FORWARD. And herein lies the power of momentum concerning your personal success and achievement. Practically, momentum works like this: 1. As long as you are moving forward, your forward motion moves you 2. At the same time, your forward motion draws power from the motion created by moving forward, creating even more motion 3. This multiplies the results on every additional forward motion taken To better understand how momentum works in practice, consider the following example. If you double a penny every day for 30 days, after 30 days, you will have over 1 million pennies. The doubling action creates a multiplier effect. Another example would be if you push a small snowball down a hill, by the time it reaches the bottom off the hill, it will have become a huge snow boulder; that also is a multiplier effect in action. 18

19 It s All About Momentum Chapter 2 What is happening in both cases it that the penny and the snowball initially use their own motion to move forward, but as they move forward they also draw power from the motion they create by moving forward, which creates even more motion, which in the end, produces a much larger result in a shorter period of time. Let me say this again, specifically for you... As YOU move forward, YOU CAN draw power from the motion YOU create by moving forward. That will create even more motion for you, which will produce larger results in a shorter period of time. What this means to you is that if you can tap into the power of momentum, every forward motion you take can lead to larger and faster results. And, as long as you continue moving forward, it gets easier to keep moving forward. In most cases, momentum will help you to become more efficient, get more done in less time and become more productive. And, in the process, usually you will set better priorities, and make better choices. Ultimately, if you have momentum, it will positively effect all aspects of your life! Just consider this... Have you ever noticed that when something begins to go right in one aspect of your life, often that tends to have a positive impact on other aspects of your life as well? 19

20 YOU CAN Well, that s momentum in action. Have you ever had a time in your life when you were able to run over obstacles in your path, like they were nothing, like they weren t even there? That, too, is momentum in action. And, have you ever been working on something and everything seems to go easier than normal, as you move forward? Again, that is momentum in action. For example, if you decide that you want to lose weight, and you begin to, what else happens? Most likely, you start to feel more confident, which improves your attitude and because you project more confidence, people might respond to you more positively, which invariably further increases your self-esteem and motivates you to continue losing weight. The one action of just losing the weight can set off a chain reaction of events that ends up positively affecting other aspects of your life! And here is the best news about momentum... You can tap into and use momentum to help you succeed and achieve MORE in any area of your life, regardless of who you are, what you do or where you are from. This is how different kinds of people can use momentum: Leaders can use momentum to move past mistakes or problems quickly, and overcome any kind of change, ultimately accomplishing the impossible. 20

21 It s All About Momentum Chapter 2 Business owners can use momentum to bring innovations to market faster and accumulate customers easier. Parents can use momentum to improve the development of their children. YOU CAN use momentum in your life to enjoy success and achievement faster and to a greater measure than you have now. And, YOU CAN tap into momentum, if you know how; all the time in everything you do and anytime you want, making momentum a regular part of your life. That is, as long as you move forward regularly. It is important to remember what we have already learned about momentum: a mass in motion will stay in motion unless it loses its initial energy or is acted upon by an outside force. This means that to tap into momentum, you need to regularly move forward. But that is not always so easy to do, is it? There are many situations, circumstances, issues, events and people (including ourselves) in life that can definitely prevent us from moving forward and can cause us to lose our momentum. I'll bet you ve been in situations when you have tapped into momentum, and then, out of nowhere you ve lost it! So, to keep moving forward in order to keep your momentum up can be a challenge. 21

22 MOMENTUM REALLY IS YOUR BEST FRIEND WHEN IT COMES TO SUCCESS AND ACHIEVEMENT. Often momentum is the only difference between winning and losing!

23 It s All About Momentum Chapter 2 And this brings us to the HOW: HOW do you make sure that you are moving forward so you will be able to tap into momentum? HOW can you begin to move forward if you have gotten stuck? HOW do you begin to move forward if you have never actually started to move forward? HOW do you get beyond that paralysis that robs you from getting started on moving forward in the very beginning of any endeavor? That sure is a lot of HOW. So, I guess now would be a good time to begin keeping my promise of showing you HOW practically. 23

24 1 + 1 = BRILLIANT MATH! When my son Ben was young, one day he came home from school and announced he was learning how to add. Since he seemed pretty excited about it, I asked him to get his workbook and show me what he had learned. We sat together at the kitchen table and he began to write down the various addition formulas he had learned that day, = 3, = 4 and so on. For some reason, he neglected to begin with 1 + 1, so I asked him, What about Ben? What does equal? In response, Ben quickly wrote down and then paused.

25 I guess he had forgotten that formula. After looking at what he had written, he guessed the correct answer must be 11 (to his credit, it does look good on paper). I learned an import lesson that day. Even though my son s calculation of = 11 is incorrect in mathematics, his answer is very often correct in life when you tap into the power of momentum. Remember, one of the great advantages of momentum is you always get more. YOU GOTTA LOVE THAT KIND OF MATH!

26 YOU CAN THANK YOU FOR READING In the remaining chapters expect to learn how YOU CAN: Create a Habit of Achievement, the essential link for tapping into the power of momentum Guarantee forward motion in everything you do and anytime you want Make sure you don t quit your New Year resolutions and other goals you want to achieve Take consistent steps of momentum and get started moving forward NOW in any area of your life 26

27 Thank you for reading Create winning streaks and win more often with bigger results Stay motivated, focused and moving forward, even in the tough times Invest in your success and achievement rather than paying a heavy price for whatever it is you want to accomplish Get unstuck and move forward, even when you feel you can t move forward Interested in learning more about YOU CAN? CLICK HERE Order your copy of YOU CAN CLICK HERE 27