Day 83: Justin Sachs

December 22, 2009 at 12:01 am, Category: Featured, Inspiration

“… one of the most basic things that I’ve ever done to just get some inspiration into my life has been just taking a drive down to the beach and taking a short walk.  Just taking some time out; what we call it is “back to being.”  Getting an opportunity to get back to your inner being and letting go of the circumstances of your life that so often confront us and challenge us.”

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Toni Reece: Thank you so much, Justin, for agreeing to be part of the project today, and before we begin, can you please introduce yourself?

Justin Sachs: Absolutely.  It’s so great to be with you, Toni.  I am so excited to share with you.  The main thing that I want to just share with you is my experience of really shaping and transforming lives and giving people an opportunity to really be who they want to be in the world and create what they want to create in the world.

Our tagline here at Justin Sachs Company is just “create more, do more, and be more”, and that’s really what we try to do with people is give them an opportunity to not only create more and not only do more in their lives but also to shape who they are; the actual being behind the doing in the world.

We find that when we add the being behind the doing, we actually see a total transformation in them.  So that’s really the focus of our work and the opportunity that we provide people when we work with them.

I could go on for hours on what I do and how I do it, but that’s really the basis of our work that I really would like to share with you in an introduction.

Toni: Fantastic!  Well, thank you.  Based on your introduction and also just the way you come at the word, who do you think you inspire and how do you do that?

Justin: I think I inspire a variety of different people from my work with teenagers — and have worked with literally thousands of teenagers throughout the world now — and giving them an opportunity to really take on a new possibility for themselves.

So often we find that teenagers are struggling to really create possibility in their lives and to really create an alternative means to the standard of drugs, alcohol, and depression that we so commonly find in teenagers.  And so a lot of my work has focused around giving teenagers that possibility, giving them a new light, giving them a new possibility that they can then use to really create possibility for themselves in their lives and then create an action plan around it and follow through and create success.

The other work that I do is with entrepreneurs, business owners, corporate executives, speakers, authors, and coaches, and work with them in mastering their businesses and increasing their success so that together we can impact more lives and transform more people throughout the world in the work that we do and the possibility that we create for people.

Toni: So how do … Can you give us an example of how you go about some of this, some tactical things that you do with entrepreneurs and teenagers?

Justin: Yeah, absolutely.  It can be anything from speaking engagements where we go into high schools, colleges.  Sometimes we speak to educators who work directly with teenagers.  It could be absolutely anyone, and we’ll do speaking engagements with them.

We do one-on-one coaching services where we work one-on-one with individuals on really taking them through the practices, through the processes, and through the strategies that allow them to create success in their lives.

We also do … now one wing of my company allows us to actually publish other authors and give them opportunities to really expand their message to a broader market and literally reach millions with the power of their words and the power of the transformation that they bring to people.

We work with people on a variety of levels on really increasing their success in a multitude of levels, right, so we get a lot of different opportunities that we work with people on.

Toni: How do you think all of that work around inspiration and how you inspire them, how do you think that that then helps them to explore their own potential?

Justin: Yeah, I think that inspiration is the first open door to creating potential within oneself.  It’s like giving people just a few questions is really all it can take to really open up that door of possibility in people’s lives, and that door of possibility is what it takes to create that potential that people are so often missing.

When we talk about inspiration, I think that what I really impress into you is the power of momentum, because more than anything, inspiration is momentum.  Inspiration is the opportunity to really create what you want and then be relentless, be unforgiving in making that happen no matter what in your life period, right?  It’s that opportunity to create momentum in your life through being inspired and through creating that inspiration for yourself sometimes, too.

Toni: That momentum, just to clarify with you, would be an example of what?  So, to help me explore my potential, and you’ve inspired me, and that’s going to deliver that momentum to me to do what?

Justin: Well, it’s really … so it’s to create results, right?  That’s the power of persistence, right?  At the end of the day, the question is, how can we persist to create more results in our lives in any area of our lives whether it’s health, wealth, finances, literally anything, your career, anywhere, right?  The ability to persist is what creates results hands down consistently, and the persistence comes from that momentum.

What I found is that if you look throughout cultures throughout the world, there’s one consistent element that creates success, and that one element is persistence.  It’s the power of perseverance.

When things stop us, when things confront us, when things challenge us, the ability for us to step up and move forward beyond fear, beyond doubt, beyond challenge is what allows us to create success.  It’s what allowed Abraham Lincoln to create success, it’s what allowed Kentucky Fried Chicken to be what it is today, it’s what allows Apple computers to be one of the foremost computer companies in the world.

These key examples and many, many others throughout the world are the key examples that create success, and what it comes from is that power of persistence, which comes from the power of momentum.  So it’s momentum which creates results.

Toni: Okay, that’s fantastic, and I wanted to make sure that everybody that’s listening to this gets this, because this was incredibly important, what you’ve just said.

So as far as who and how you inspire really does just begin the process of opening the potential for someone by providing that momentum and that persistence.  Did I get that right?

Justin: Absolutely.  Yeah, I mean and even more than that.  The next step after we create that is really creating the action plan.   As soon as you are inspired, as soon as you have the vision, as soon as you have the momentum behind you, a clear action plan is the next step, right?  And so that’s what we allow people to do as well.

The next step is to create the action plan, then putting in a support structure so that they are consistently moving in that direction, right, so that they have the accountability structure in place to hold them to that action plan that they have set forth.

But as far as the inspirational section of it, that’s the momentum.  That’s really setting yourself up for that, really moving action forward towards your result that you want in your life.

Toni: Now, let’s talk about you and what you need for inspiration.  When you need to fill yourself up, what do you reach for?  What do you do?

Justin: Yeah, absolutely.  I have a variety of structures that I put in place to do that.  One of the first things that I did was create a mission statement for my life.  The mission statement is the one thing that really holds me accountable to what I’m about in this world and to what I want to create in this world.

And so what I found was that as soon as I empowered that mission statement in my life, as soon as I got really present to what that mission statement meant to me, all of a sudden I was inspired on a consistent basis no matter what.

The next thing for me was to empower myself with a coach.  All I had to do was create a coach in my life that would hold me accountable in creating the result and would support me in getting through anything that stopped me along the way.

So oftentimes we’re confronted by things and we don’t even realize why we are confronted, how we’re confronted, what’s stopping us from creating those results from creating success in our lives.  And that coach is the person who is going to confront you, challenge you, and move you past anything that stops you.

Toni: Are there other things that you also reach for when you know that it’s time for you to seek inspiration?  Are there things that you see, that you experience, that provide you with that inspiration?

Justin: Well, I mean I’ve got to tell you, one of the most basic things that I’ve ever done to just get some inspiration into my life has been just taking a drive down to the beach and taking a short walk.  Just taking some time out; what we call it is “back to being.”

Getting an opportunity to get back to your inner being and letting go of the circumstances of your life that so often confront us and challenge us.  To be able to get back to being just from simply taking a walk, from reading a book, from doing whatever you do casually is something that I found, for me, sources me and allows me to get back some inspiration when I feel like I’ve lost it, right?

In addition, I’ve found it powerful for other people, too.  Sometimes it’s just as simple as taking a really deep breath, and that one deep breath can get us really present to whatever we’re experiencing in life, and that’s what allows us to really be more powerful moving forward.

Toni: And how do you take all of this inspiration when you’re looking for it and seeking it and you get it, how do you think what you do to stay inspired, what you need to be inspired, translates into then you exploring your own potential?

Justin: Well, I think … I mean the opportunity to really be inspired comes from that potential.  I think that, you know, the potential for us to really be outstanding, to really be extraordinary comes from our inspiration.  Without inspiration, I don’t think that anyone is really able to explore their full capacity or full potential and their full expression of who they are in this world.  And so inspiration is the first step to creating that potential, to creating that possibility, and to creating that success.

Toni: So what do you do then?  What do you do, Justin, in order to explore your own potential, to keep moving in a direction that you want your life to go, so that you’re constantly meeting that mission statement?  Are there things that you do, reach for, methodologies that allow you to continuously explore that potential within yourself?

Justin: Yeah, absolutely.  The first thing I do is every single day, you know … imagine how much music you listen to in your car, right?  So one of the first things I do is in my car, all I have is self-help CDs.  I listen to Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, all the big guys and listen to their CDs over and over and over again, constantly filling my mind with personal growth, personal possibility, and with the opportunity to really grow and change in the world.

If we’re not growing, we’re dying.  That was something that Tony Robbins taught me a long time ago was that if we’re not growing, we’re dying.  And so the opportunity is always there for us to take in more and create more in our lives.  And by doing so, we’re able to flush in as much information as possible from as many different sources and taking as many perspectives as possible, and that’s what really allows us to grow in our potential.

Now, the second thing that I also do is I set goals every single quarter, no matter what.  I often set them even sooner than that, and I check in every single day and often.  I check back every single week to see what I’ve accomplished along the way.  But no matter what, I set my goals quarterly and make sure that those goals are set up with a specific time structure so that the timing is … it’s a specific what by when, right?  Like I want this by this date.

We’re doing a really special tour this year.  We’re doing a 100-city tour throughout the United States, and so one of the things I said was I am going to do a 100-city tour by … completed by December 2010.  That was one of my major goals on my goal list for this quarter that we’re now working towards and moving towards, and I’m constantly checking back on it to make sure that I’m moving in that direction.

That’s what I found is the biggest thing to really empower me in creating more results and in harnessing my maximum potential was being able to really harness those goals and flush those goals out into as much detail as possible, and then setting up the action plan to follow through and to really set myself up for success moving forward.

Toni: All right.  Now, how do you take everything that you do to keep inspired yourself, to explore your potential, how do you think that that then relates to what you do for others in the work that you do?

Justin: At the end of the day, it’s everything.  The work that I do in inspiration, in potential, in power and possibility for people, that’s everything that I do in a nutshell.  Because if people aren’t inspired, if people don’t have that momentum, they really have nothing in their lives.  They really have no power to create what they want to create in their lives.  And so this is the opportunity for them to really move forward with that opportunity, to really move forward and create all that they want to create.

So at the end of the day it’s that power and that momentum and that possibility that we create for people that allows them to reach their full potential, to reach their inspiration, and to reach all the people and make the difference that they want to make in the world.

Toni: And what I’m hearing from you is that you do the same for your own sense of purpose, your own potential, and if you didn’t do that, I’m not quite sure that it would translate as powerfully to those you’re trying to serve.

Justin: That’s absolutely right.  The system that I use is the exact same system I translate to my clients.  It’s the exact same system I translate in all my speaking engagements.  It’s consistent.  You know, what I do works for me and it works for others, and so that’s why we share with others.

Toni: Well, you have shared a great deal in this small snapshot of time that you shared with us, and we will give people the opportunity to be able to reach you and post that at the bottom of the blog post.  So for your time today, for the valuable insight that you’ve given — not just on how you inspire and who, but what you seek as well and how that all relate –s has been really wonderful, and for that we thank you.

Justin: Thank you so much.  It’s been a pleasure to be with you.

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For more information about Justin Sachs:  www.justinsachscompanies.com

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