Author: Greg Dixon (Page 2 of 2)

Business Transformation Alchemy

February 10, 2022 / Greg Dixon

I have worked with a wide range of entrepreneurs and small businesses to help make their dreams a reality.

My business journey has provided an incredibly diverse set of services over the last forty years.

I know a lot ~ done a lot.

I am offering a package that makes all of that possible through what I offer and what some of my joint venture partners offer.

Your Business Alchemy Roadmap

The first step of the journey with you is to create a Business Alchemy Roadmap that provides transformation clarity.

What do you want to achieve?
Why do you want that?
Where has your journey been so far?
What has worked?
Have some strategies not worked well?
What strategy do you want to try?

Together we create a Business Transformation Alchemy Roadmap to serve as a kind of business plan to help shape the work we do together.

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Transformation Alchemy Formula Practice

A Journey of a Thousand Miles Starts with a Single Step
Lao Tsu

The secret sauce in personal growth and business progress is in a process much like continuous improvement.

Here it is in a nutshell:

Contemplate where you are are on your journey.
Determine the next best steps to move you forward.
Take action on that step.

Individually I encourage you to do that daily. Perhaps meditate and choose an action step in the morning or evening. Or both morning and evening.

Part of the process of working with me and my team will be to go through the practice together once a week with the Business Transformation Roadmap in mind:

Where are we at on the journey?
What are the next best steps for the coming week?
Do we need to adjust the roadmap.

Comprehensive Alchemy Toolkit

Working with my team involves choosing some or all of the following tools and services.

Coaching and Training
I can help you learn and practice the steps you want to do yourself.
Analysis and Design
Let’s plan the best solution for you.
Implementation
I use the amazing all-in-one Kartra business platform, WordPress, and a wide range of video, audio, and presentation tools to create your success.
Online Courses and Memberships
I create courses and help clients create and market courses to leverage their insights and impact the lives and businesses of many people.
Copywriting and Digital Marketing
At the heart of success lies the use of words and images to get your message and services known to the world. This includes Zen Master moves like Search Engine Optimization and influence marketing.

Comprehensive “Do Stuff” Plan

The retainer with me comes down to determining how I can help you on your journey and what the best steps are for your goals.

All approaches provided by me or others will be considered and the best ones will go into your Business Transformation Alchemy Roadmap.

Then we take action to manifest the success of your vision.

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Danielle LaPorte’s Daily Truth Bombs

February 8, 2022 / Greg Dixon

One of the most magical adventures in my life came when I attended a Kris Carr book launch in New York at the invitation of Marie Forleo. Gabrielle Bernstein was also a featured speaker that attracted around four hundred women from around the world and me. A few other men were there with their partners.

I chatted with Kristen Noel in line to get in, who kindly introduced me to many people at the event.

She introduced me to Danielle LaPorte and asked if I knew her since we were both from Vancouver. I did not, and that was the only time I met her in person.

I have since listened to many of her podcasts and subscribed to her mailing list. Confession, I think Danielle has one of the sexiest voices ever and her deep and honest introspections can be very inspiring.

I receive what she calls Daily Truth Bombs #truthbomb like the one at the top of this article.

Often these are exactly what I need to hear on those days.

Here are some examples:

Happiness is like rising bubbles . . . delightul and enevitably fleeting.
Joy is the oxygen — ever present.
Real discernment is an OPEN perspective — which can only come from the Heart space. It’s not a logic thing, it’s not an intellectual strategy.
Discernment is a function of seeing through the lens of Love.
Radiance is the alchemy of our suffering.

Learn more about Danielle and subscribe at https://daniellelaporte.com/.

The Steady Thirds Approach to Trading

January 29, 2022 / Greg Dixon

selective focus photo of silver and gold bitcoins — Photo by RODNAE Productions on Pexels.com

One of the best ways to transform your life financially is to use a successful investment and growth strategy.

I have known people who have mastered the art and science of trading, creating a daily cash machine for themselves.

I can tell you from personal experience that it is easier said than done.

This article is an approach to make it simple and safe. You can use test the approach for yourself on paper or on a spreadsheet to see if will work for you.

You can also start small trading inexpensive instruments like cryptocurrencies, options, forex, or low-price or fractional stock.

Start with a few hundred dollars and see if you can not lose any of it and have it grow a little each day.

Consistently gaining 1% a week has the potential to create financial freedom for yourself.

Here is the Steady Thirds Approach

The first advice is, to avoid overtrading. Investors in the last few years made money by simply leaving things alone.

My suggestion is to consider and make only two or three trades a day or week.

Keep 30% as Long-Term Investments

Let the investment breathe.

Sell 30% Currently in Profit

Look for items that seem to have plateaued or are trending downward.

Note: If everything is trending upward, buy more of the most promising investment rather than selling to avoid short-circuiting your profits.

Look for something that looks promising.

Track your results closely and aim for steady growth.

Consider adding small amounts of money to the account each week to grow your portfolio.

Have fun!

Your Daily Transformation Practice

January 28, 2022 / Greg Dixon

Here is a simple daily practice that can help you make progress towards your success every day.

Write down the transformation that you want for yourself

What is the most important thing to accomplish now?

Write down the transformation that you want for others

This is important if you are helping others through coaching and services.

Is it the same transformation that you want for yourself?

The most powerful alchemy will happen when what you want for yourself is also what you create for others.

Write down what you can do now to create the transformation

What step can you take now?

Take Action

Start that step now or schedule when you can take action.

Repeat Daily

Great things and miracles can happen when you take consistent action forward every day.

Even small steps can add up to a fabulous journey of transformation.

Want a partner on your journey?

I am available to work with you to clarify the steps and take action.

Let’s talk about your path to success.

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Transformation Clarity Exercise

January 25, 2022 / Greg Dixon

I created a Transformation Clarity exercise to help you brainstorm your special gifts and clarify the transformation you want for yourself and others.

Try Clarity Exercise

Mentors For People On The Streets Dream

January 19, 2022 / Greg Dixon

I had the weirdest, most audacious dream ever this morning. It was completely different from anything I had been thinking about. Like a message from the universe.

The main idea was to create a train-the-trainer or mentorship for people living on the streets.

On topics that the person wanted to learn. Not life skills or job training.

Anything the person may have aspired to learn before they ended up on the streets or living in extreme poverty.

Art ~ Urban Farming ~ Creative Writing ~ Philosophy ~ Music ~ History …

The mentors could be interested experts willing to share there insights.

They could be people like Alicia Keys talking about music to a person, or Bill Gates, or Barack Obama, or Sir Richard Branson.

The key is to meet people where they are. Some may simply be glad that someone is talking to them about something they love.

Others may have been professors and professionals before illness or misfortune brought to the place they are now.

Many people who are now thriving will tell about times when they were bankrupt, homeless, or broken.

They survived and learned to thrive, often with a hand up.

And one of the ideas is that the person would in turn mentor others.

Mentor the Mentor

The logistics are challenging

The first thought was to have a space or a mobile unit where a person could connect with a mentor.

A physical space would need a social worker and an empathetic security person to facilitate.

The actual mentoring sessions could be through Zoom on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

For that matter, anyone with any of those devices could participate. There probably are billions of unused devices stuck in drawers and landfills that could be used for this.

Celluar service providers could sponsor simple data plans.

All of the tools to support this are available online for free or near free.

Still, this could be an enormous mission involving government agencies, non-profit organizations, sponsors, volunteers, and volunteer mentors.

Do you know of projects doing something like this already?

Is this something you could help with?

Do you have ideas or suggestions?

Send me a note to gregdixon@sharedvisions.com or

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P.S.

Where this idea might have come from?

My mother had regrets that she never went to college to study Anthropology and Archeology. She read lots and was able to travel to many world locations including Machu Pichu, Greece, Egypt, China, and the Mayan ruins in Mexico. Still, she had regrets.

My father lived the last part of his life in a rooming house in the Vancouver Downtown East Side. Not quite homeless, but close. He loved photography and had a weird sense of humour.

I learned a lot from both parents.

In my travels in India and elsewhere I was aware that most of us so very far from the streets.

A mugging, accident, illness, financial misfortune, natural disaster, or pandemic can put you on the streets in a flash.

Let’s see if we can lift some out of their situation
and help them help others.

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This is one way to fund the dream:

Transform Your Financial Future — Learn More

Dan Kennedy ~ Mindset in Sales and Marketing

January 8, 2022 / Greg Dixon

Russell Brunson and ClickFunnels recently bought Magnetic Marketing (formerly GKIC) and have relaunched the newsletter.

Here is a podcast from a discussion that Dan Kennedy had with Dave Dee many years ago.

If you were to listen to one presentation by Dan Kennedy to understand the core of his philosophy and practice, this would be it.

Highlights include:

Dan’s relationship with attracking money.
That the value of information marketing is in the systems and processes around selling the content, and not the content itself.
His productivity that comes from careful management of time.
Approach to goals and planning.
Tracking the numbers.

Worth listening to over and over. I did not quite grasp or appreciate the significance of this when I first saw the interview years ago.