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Stop Trying To Be a SERIOUS Entrepreneur!

Posted on 08.31.18 | | Leave a Comment

Ok, Pop Quiz…What the F am I doing in this picture? Because it looks like I’m either I’m preaching hardcore OR recounting how ginormous the last fish I caught was in this pic…(spoiler: its neither)

But beyond the questionable hand gesture, you will see a belief on the screen behind me that I both wholeheartedly agree with, and simultaneously completely DISagree with!

The “AGREEMENT” part is simple and easy — YES, in my experience, nothing is created IN the world without purposeful engagement WITH the world, aka DOING THE WORK, doing it consistently and doing it with a focus on MASTERY.

So where is the DISAGREEMENT you may be asking (if you are even still reading this and haven’t scrolled past this post to find a cat meme or food porn post)…

Well, it’s the SPIRIT with which most people believe that the WORK must be DONE…

I can’t count the times that someone has told me, with a look of despair and frustration, that they would be RIDICULOUSLY successful IF ONLY they:

1. Had a better “work ethic”

2. Were more committed

3. Would stop sabotaging themselves

And any other number of things that put them in a place of heavy SHAME instead of realizing this can all be a creative and intentional GAME!

I call this “DEEP SHAME THROMBOSIS” in my book Prison Break and it is one of the BIGGEST ways we hold ourselves back from DOING THE WORK!

What if, #JFT (that’s JUST FOR TODAY if you are new to my tribe), we dropped the shame, the self-judgement, the obsessive seeking for the “identity” of someone with a “strong work ethic”, “highly committed”, or a person who doesn’t “self-sabotage”…

And INSTEAD, CHOSE to bring 5% more of a Spirit of PLAY to the work that is to be started or completed!

…to rub our hands together and get in the game…

…to take action NOT because it will FINALLY make us good enough (or a “SERIOUS entrepreneur” or “TRUE professional coach” or “REAL online educator”) but because WE ARE spirit and creativity at PLAY and because living as a VERB is just more FUN and more FULL-filling!

My One Word Business Plan (Feel Free to Copy!)

Posted on 08.17.18 | | Leave a Comment

😃 JOY 😃

Joy is much more than JUST a feeling!

In my world, JOY is actually my entire business plan (…or more specifically to “leave everyone I meet with AT LEAST 5% more joy than I found them”)

JOY, my friends, is a FORCE MULTIPLIER!

It amplifies your work, it elevates your impact, it is, for me, the base foundational element – the “butter in the pan” as I like to call it – for everything I create, every “dish” I whip up!

In your personal relationships, in your business, in anything you do that involves another human being, bringing joy TO and evoking joy WITHIN interactions with people in your world leads to infinitely deeper, more supportive, more prosperous and more enJOYable relationships!

If you were to bring 5% more joy TO your next conversation, what might you do differently? How might your energy change as you go into that interaction?

(JG bringing joy – or at the very least a terrible joke – to Steven Kotler, Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist and author of “Stealing Fire”)

What Would Robin Williams Do?

Posted on 09.13.17 | | Leave a Comment

What we can learn from Robin Williams and a pink, silk scarf…

As you are reading this, I am most likely getting on a plane and heading to Denver, Colorado to speak at the Reinventing Yourself Weekend Conference with dear friend and mentor Steve Chandler and a powerful group of PLAY-FULL rockstars!

I’m so excited to see everyone and to take in more of those breathtaking mountain views like the ones I saw earlier this week when I delivered a keynote speech on the Art of Self-Leadership to a group of about 500 accountants in Asheville, North Carolina.

(oh and quick, but very important side note, HELLO to all of the awesome NCACPA people who I met in Asheville who are brand new to our tribe! You all rocked, thank you so much for having me in, for being so awake and alive on a Monday morning, for all the love during and after the talk, and for laughing at my jokes – that is the FASTEST way to my heart!)

>>> And now for a Not-so-subtle-segue… <<<

SPEAKING of that talk I gave this past Monday, I wanted to give you a little sneak listen of something I shared with that group about the POWER of PERSPECTIVE and the principles of IMPROV in dealing with the challenges we face in our lives and in our work.

Click below to listen to this LESS THAN 2 minute (but very powerful) story!

No matter what is going on in your world, there IS an opportunity to bring a SPIRIT OF PLAY to every challenge and opportunity. I hope this short clip helped you to see that, by even 5% more.

What is the proverbial PINK SCARF that may have come out of nowhere but that you are willing to PLAY WITH today?

Where can you embody the creative, light-hearted spirit that Robin Williams brought to his work into your world?

Let me know in the comments below – I love hearing YOUR creative ideas for being more PLAY-FULL and living into one of my favorite mantras: Creativity is Greater than Circumstance!

Sending you lots of love, tons of fun, and the reminder that, in each and every moment, you have limitless access to your own BADASS Creativity and Self-Leadership!

Lots of love,

Jason “JG” Goldberg

Playful Prosperity Mini-Masterclass: What to do when you feel like IT isn’t happening fast enough…

Posted on 05.10.17 | | 2 Comments

Ever get the sense that you are trying hard, taking action and still feel like you are stuck on the treadmill of life?!?!

This was the message I got from someone who just enrolled in my Playful Prosperity Program.

She sent me a private note on Facebook to let me know that she is loving all of the bonus training that is included in all the training and she is FEELING the big shifts in her mindset happening BUT she still feels like she is stuck on a treadmill…

I’m sure we can agree that we ALL know what that feels like!

I have felt it PLENTY of times, especially as an entrepreneur and so based on the exchange I had with my client, I knew I needed to share an incredibly simple and powerful shift that came out of our conversation.

So I jumped on Facebook Live and went on a 20 minute rant…but I’ve done you the favor of cutting it down the a 5 minute clip that will really drive the point home.

(if you want to watch the whole thing, click here to watch it on my Facebook Page – warning, there is a tiny bit of adult language)

In this week’s 5-Minute Mind-Shifting Mini-Masterclass you will learn:

The powerful distinction “The Treadmill vs. The Airplane” that I created to shift your mind around your progress
That it isn’t TIME but our relation TO our TIMELINE that is causing us stress
The number one thing that will KILL your forward movement and what to do instead
The KEY to maximize the action you are taking even if it feels like you are barely moving

My challenge to YOU aka “Go from INFORMATION to TRANSFORMATION”:

For the next 24 hours, whenever you notice yourself JUDGING the amount of progress you have made, celebrate instead the action you are taking, the forward motion you are making, and remember that you are on a commercial jet and not a treadmill!

Let us know your challenges and victories in PLAYING with this shift in the comments below!

Sending you lots of love, tons of fun, and the reminder that, in each and every moment, you have limitless access to your own BADASS Creativity and Self-Leadership!

Lots of love,

Jason “JG” Goldberg

Playful Prosperity Mini-Masterclass: How to GAME-ify Your Business

Posted on 04.26.17 | | 2 Comments

“We run SERIOUS businesses…”

This was one of the first things that the interviewer proclaimed in this week’s Mini-Masterclass that illustrates what I call “The Biggest Lie We Were Ever Told Sold!”

…So of course I had to have a little fun with him BUT he is DEFINITELY not the only person who believes they run a SERIOUS business.

It comes up time and time again with my private coaching clients who are entrepreneurs and in the workshops and keynotes I deliver for corporations.

AND I know I have definitely given FAR too much significance to the work I do in the world; in a debilitating (ego) way, not an empowering (service) way!

When we do that, taking sh*t WAAAAAY too seriously in our work, we get into this entitled and self-indulgent place where everything is heavy, we resent all that is on our “forced to-do list” and go into full-blown Prisoner mode!

So let’s just get rid of that BS for good right now!

You are TOTALLY going to want to bookmark this audio and ESPECIALLY from about 1:00 – 2:10 because what I share THERE is the KEY TO FREEDOM FROM the stress, overwhelm and struggle of managing all the pieces of your SERIOUS business!

After this ~3 minute Mini-Masterclass, you will have the simple and powerful shift to finally make work FUN again!

Remember: “When you RELAX, you see the possibilities of where you can GAME-ify your business!”
(click here to tweet this out!)

My challenge to YOU aka “Go from INFORMATION to TRANSFORMATION”:

For the rest of the day, be on the lookout for when something on your to-do list, a deadline or an interaction seems SERIOUS and ask yourself what would be possible if you were 5% more RELAXED in that moment. What would happen if you gently shifted your lens to see that LIFE is in itself a GAME that you GET TO play?

Let us know your challenges and victories in PLAYING with this shift in the comments below!

Sending you lots of love, tons of fun, and the reminder that, in each and every moment, you have limitless access to your own BADASS Creativity and Self-Leadership!

Lots of love,

Jason “JG” Goldberg

Mini-Masterclass: The Playful Way to Stop Your Past from Dictating Your Future

Posted on 04.05.17 | | 4 Comments

You are suffering from an identity crisis…and it’s all because of a damn smoothie!

Makes sense right?

Oh, you want context…ok fine!
(jeez, you are so needy sometimes)…

Have you ever experienced the frustration of knowing that you want to DO something – try a new hobby (or revisit an old one), launch a new business, get healthier, be more bold and confident, finally try Quinoa – but some type of anxiety, resistance or fear bubbles up and you just can’t bring yourself to take that first (or second or third) step?

Most traditional self-help would tell you do something to “push through” the resistance but in my world, that just sounds like too much work!

In this week’s Mini-Masterclass, I want to share with you a much more PLAYFUL way to deal with your past that will free you to go from INACTION to “In Action” in your present.

This came out of a coaching session with one of my clients who felt debilitated with fear and anxiety about taking action and how getting clear on this one simple fundamental misunderstanding helped her to start moving forward!

You’ll have to watch the video to see where the smoothie comes into play 😉

In this week’s Mind-Shifting Mini-Masterclass you will learn:

(0:55) – The one thing to do when you are DOWN on yourself
(1:36) – Why the source of your anxiety about or attachment to the past is a simple case of identity crisis
(2:04) – What a competing commitment is and how it holds us back
(3:02) – The Playful Prosperity Test (involving a smoothie) that will help you immediately overcome any issues with identify crisis
(4:20) – Why it’s a myth to think you have to do “deep work” on your past challenges in order to move forward
(5:23) – Your only job in life is to be a photographer.

Remember: “If you want to be prosperous in your present, you must be playful with your past”
(click here to tweet this out!)

My challenge to YOU aka “Go from INFORMATION to TRANSFORMATION”:

For the next 24 hours, whenever some type of fear or anxiety from your past stories or scripts pop-up, PLAYFULLY see them as snapshots of time (not a diagnosis about the future) and watch how your resistance and fear immediately start to decrease.

Let us know your challenges and victories in PLAYING with this shift in the comments below!

Sending you lots of love, tons of fun, and the reminder that, in each and every moment, you have limitless access to your own BADASS Creativity and Self-Leadership!

Lots of love,

Jason “JG” Goldberg

Mini-Masterclass: How To Fall In Love With Sales

Posted on 03.30.17 | | 4 Comments

Do you ever say that you hate selling?

That selling feels manipulative or pushy?

That the only thing that is supposed to matter is “closing the deal” and something about that feels off or inauthentic for you?

Yeah, you and me both!

BUT, what if there were a more PLAY-FULL and creative way to approach sales that made selling not only feel more EFFORTLESS and EFFECTIVE but also feel like it was a PART OF and not APART FROM the service and value you provide to the world?

In this week’s under 4-minute Mini-Masterclass you will learn:

Why the current method of selling being taught (ahem, forced) on sales teams is not only UN-FUN but also counterproductive.
What I realized was the REAL reason I thought I hated sales when I became an entrepreneur AND the shift that changed everything!
A simple distinction that a good friend taught me to focus on instead of “conversions”.
How a prospect saying “NO” is often a crystal clear roadmap to “YES”.

P.S. When the interviewer Alex Osenenko (CEO of the incredible Fourandhalf organization that helps property management companies grow their business from a real place of service) references “not every shot is the game winning shot” at the 10 second mark in our conversation, he is talking about the chapter of the same name in my book “Prison Break”.

If you have the book (especially if you are in sales), make sure to read that chapter and if you don’t, click here now to get your free digital or paperback copy

This week’s challenge to you aka “go from INFORMATION to TRANSFORMATION”:

Are you willing to slow down in your next sales conversation, release the “gotta close em now” scarcity mindset and see how you can SERVE the person in front of you instead of SELLING them – from a relaxed, creative, “I Don’t Know” place?

Let me know in the comments below!

Sending you lots of love, tons of fun, and the reminder that, in each and every moment, you have limitless access to your own BADASS Creativity and Self-Leadership!

Lots of love,

Jason “JG” Goldberg

Your EGO and Your GIFT Cannot Co-Exist!

Posted on 03.22.17 | | Leave a Comment

*** YES THE FOLLOWING POST IS LONG AND YES YOU SHOULD READ THIS WHOLE THING IF YOU EVER GET SCARED ABOUT BEING VISIBLE AND SHARING YOUR WORK ***

I just sat down at my gate at the San Francisco Airport waiting for my flight to LA to spend 24 hours there before coming right back to SF for a TV appearance.

While sitting at my gate, I see this absolutely adorable woman sitting 15 feet from me with a small stack of books – “The Alchemist” by Paolo Coelho prominently displayed on top of the pile. That’s us in the selfie above 🙂

Without a second thought, I reached into my bag for a copy of Prison Break (I carry at least two with me at all times), walked over to her and said, “I could spot The Alchemist from a mile away and since I can tell you have incredible taste in books, I’d love to gift you one more that you may enjoy!”

She flashed the sweetest smile in the world and was absolutely astounded at my, seemingly small, gesture.

Her name is Azniv and she invited me to sit down.

She told me that she was about to embark on a 26-hour flight back to Armenia, where she is from, to visit family for a few weeks.

She told me how ridiculously proud she is of her daughter who works at Stanford in the Neuroscience Lab.

She told me how she didn’t know a word of English when she came here and struggled to find the word “chills” to describe what she felt when receiving my book.

(We both got a laugh out of that one, as her first try was something that sounded like “burns”.)

She told me it would be her birthday on her final flight from Qatar to Armenia.

She told me that she had no idea why she chose this particular ticket to fly home but that upon meeting me and having our conversation, she knew why.

We took a selfie (on her phone and mine of course), chatted a bit more, I gave her a big hug and went back to my seat.

I can still see her and it looks like Prison Break has unseated The Alchemist as her current read.

AND this story has absolutely nothing to do with the sweet interaction I had with this lovely woman…

It has to do with how a few years ago, this conversation would have never taken place.

Because a few years ago, my EGO would have been screaming so loud about my worthiness, how my gift would be received, if I’d be rejected, if I’d stumble on my words and not make sense, if I’d be seen as creepy, that I would have played out all of those scenarios from my seat and not moved an inch.

This one may seem like an easy choice to share my particular “GIFT” in this situation because it is a literal, physical, tangible one, right?

Maybe…or maybe that’s just a Simple Fundamental Misunderstanding (or SFM as I call it in Prison Break) that somehow a physical book is NOT “WHO YOU ARE” but that your message, your services, your insights, your voice and your offer to share them IS “WHO YOU ARE”.

Maybe its only the STORY that it is EASY to separate YOU from a book but IMPOSSIBLE to separate YOU from your GIFT, that makes any of this difficult.

What if it was all easy?

What if all the struggle and stress around being VISIBLE were only due to an IDENTITY crisis (that is, the crisis that comes from believing that your IDENTITY and your WORK are somehow the same).

Milk and cereal can occupy the same space in a bowl, but no one would ever mistake one for the other!

So what’s the difference for me now?

Why was I able to so easily approach Azniv and give her my book?

Is it because I am fearless? God no!

Is it because my EGO – aka my Baby Assassin – no longer shares his opinion from inside my head? Um, NO!

(…sorry, it took me a minute to write “Um, NO!” because that little bastard in my mind was telling me how self-serving this whole story sounds in the moment, how long it is getting and wondering whether you are saying “get to the point already”…what a darling he is…)

It is simply because I now practice in every moment (except the moments I don’t) being PLAY-FULL with my nervous, heavy or stressful thoughts.

When I am FULL of PLAY, I see that I exist as a MESSENGER apart from my MESSAGE and only then can my gift FULLY be SHARED.

When I am FULL of PLAY, visibility is the way I can be of deepest service to the world – whether it is in directly what I share or in setting an example for others that visibility is NOT terminal.

When I am FULL of PLAY, my biggest points of resistance, fear and procrastination become something I welcome, love and feel compassion for and THAT has been the quickest route to them letting go of me (instead of me forcing myself to let go of them).

When I am FULL of EGO on the other hand, my GIFT doesn’t stand a chance and nobody gets served.

Where have you been called to be VISIBLE – either personally or professionally – that feels a bit anxious, mildly stressful or paralyzingly terrifying?

What is ONE THING you can do TODAY to finally BE SEEN – even 5% more than you currently have been?

Let us know in the comments below!

There is one catch though…don’t do it for you.

This isn’t about YOU overcoming YOUR fears of being VISIBLE or YOU stepping into YOUR power…

This is for the thousands…hundreds of thousands…millions of Azniv’s in the world who are looking for something to bring them a little closer to peace, to joy, to happiness, to fulfillment, to health, to wealth, to PFUN, to play…

So for God’s sake, don’t do it for you – that’s a recipe to stay stuck, small and struggling…do it for them.

If living and building a business in this PLAY-FULL way resonates with you, click here to jump on the early access list for my new Playful Prosperity Adventure that is starting soon!

You will get access to very limited and hugely discounted Founding Member pricing (that will not be offered anywhere else but to the people on that list) and uber-valuable bonuses!

http://www.PlayfulProsperity.com

Sending you lots of love, tons of fun, and the reminder that, in each and every moment, you have limitless access to your own BADASS Creativity and Self-Leadership!

Lots of love,

Jason “JG” Goldberg

Mini-Masterclass: The Self-Leader and the Beginner’s Mind!

Posted on 03.14.17 | | Leave a Comment

It feels GOOD to KNOW something! REALLY good actually!

We immediately feel a sense of ENOUGHNESS and intrinsic value when we can be seen as an expert, or the reliable go-to gal/guy who has all the answers.

Believe me, I know that addiction well!

In fact, it was what allowed me to (or at least I thought) earn a $100k+ salary in my 20’s!

And while there is nothing wrong with knowing the answers and I would never debate the value we bring to the world, especially professionally, when we can solve problems for people, often times it can also be a barrier to creativity and innovation.

As famed Executive Coach and author Marshall Goldsmith wrote in his best-selling book, “What Got Your Here, Won’t Get You There.”

So how do we overcome this “curse of knowledge”? How do we go back to the place of child-like wonder where our most creative ideas and collaborative energy can be tapped into?

Find out in this week’s Mini-Masterclass on The Beginner’s Mind!

In this week’s Mini-Masterclass you will learn:

Why the “Beginner’s Mind” is SO important in our personal AND professional relationships (including in sales)!
The 3 words that we MUST embrace in order to experience true creativity and innovation!
What the theme song of the 90s TV Classic “Full House” has to do with being a true STUDENT of life!

My challenge to you aka “go from INFORMATION to TRANSFORMATION”:

Are you willing to set aside your own self-proclaimed EXPERT STATUS to go and PLAY with the Beginners Mind?

Let me know in the comments below!

Sending you lots of love, tons of fun, and the reminder that, in each and every moment, you have limitless access to your own BADASS Creativity and Self-Leadership!

Lots of love,

Jason “JG” Goldberg

Mini-Masterclass: Using the Ladder of (SELF) Leadership to Rise Above Stress and Struggle

Posted on 03.09.17 | | 7 Comments

What if the secret to rise above stress, struggle and strain in our lives was the creative remixing of a tool that civilization has been using to climb to higher heights for the past 10,000 years?

And what if that tool was not only something we currently possess BUT was also one that we are ALREADY using everyday – for better or for worse?

In this week’s Under 3-Minute Mini-Masterclass you will learn:

What my Ladder of (SELF) Leadership is all about
How to use the LO(s)L to do your BEST work without all the stress and struggle
How to detach from your heavy thoughts and make them NOT-SO-SERIOUS

My challenge to you aka “go from INFORMATION to TRANSFORMATION”:

Will you commit to playing with the LO(s)L to not take your thoughts so seriously and to get back to your natural state of HIGH consciousness, creativity and enthusiasm?

Let me know in the comments below!

Sending you lots of love, tons of fun, and the reminder that, in each and every moment, you have limitless access to your own BADASS Creativity and Self-Leadership!

Lots of love,

Jason “JG” Goldberg