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Sometimes, You Just Have to Make It Rain

31st December 2011

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So many people in the world today complain about scarcity. How they never get enough opportunities. How things just don’t seem to go their way. How they are never lucky in life. Now it just may be they’ve been having a bad year but those of us who have truly mastered the Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead! philosophy understand that sometimes you have to go through a drought. And other times, you just have to make it rain.


As I wind down the last few days of 2011, I thought about the year gone by. I knew that 2011 was going to be one of the biggest years of my life but I didn’t know how much impact it would have on me in the grand scheme of things.

When I moved to Melbourne earlier this year I only had one goal in mind - to play a bigger game.

Sure I achieved a LOT of success in Darwin but during the last few years of my time there I really felt that I wanted more out of life and business.

This is where a problem started to grow slowly because I wanted more, and Darwin wasn’t ready to give me more.

For example, I wanted to grow my company BLKMGK into a Social Media Consultancy yet Darwin just didn’t have the market to support my desire. With a town of 200,000 people, there just wasn’t enough interest in Social Media to provide a sustainability for my business model.

Having said that, I could have changed my business model and waited for the market to catch up but I honestly would have died of boredom and gone broke while waiting. Not good.

Showcasing The Best Of You

I also wanted to be inspired and motivated to be the best version of myself possible. I never want to die with any music left inside me. To do that I needed to be inspired and motivated as much as possible.

They say you are the sum of the 5 people you hang out with the most, and yet everyone I was hanging out with didn’t inspire me to push myself to the next level.

Don’t get me wrong. I had some AMAZING people in my close circles who have given me countless amount of advice, energy and encouragement but I wanted more. Yes I know I’m greedy…but let me explain.

The Dream

My ultimate dream in life is to inspire and motivate millions of cool young people all around the world to protect their dreams and turn them into reality. I want to be included in the greatest motivational speakers of our time like Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Jim Rohn and AJ Kulatunga (okay that was cheeky!)

Now Rewind Back to Reality in Darwin

I wanted to grow a Social Media Consultancy when there was no sustainable market for me.

I wanted to be inspired and motivated to speak in front of a crowd of thousands, when no one in Darwin has ever done that.

What’s a Young Achiever to do?!?

I could complain about the lack of inspiration and motivation in town and heave in a barrel of negativity because people weren’t ready to use Social Media for their business

Or I could…

PLAY A BIGGER GAME!

And that’s exactly what I decided to do.

I gave up my beautiful apartment - Dream Central, along with it’s inspiring sunset and sunrise views::



I gave up my beautiful sports car::



and I gave up the safety and security of my network of friends and family::





all because I wanted to play a bigger game.

How Goes It? - Goes It Well!

In “Rebuilding The Empire” I wrote about what my 1st month was like in Melbourne, but since then I want to talk to you about some of the things going on right now after I made the leap.

The circles I’m hanging around in now are truly amazing. I’m surrounded by people who inspire and motivate me to play a bigger game simply because they are already playing a bigger game themselves.

Just to see that level of success is inspiring in itself but to be able to be a part of it and ask these achievers personal questions on how they got to where they are is just amazing and it blows my mind.

Here’s me with my Speaking Mentors - Warwick Merry, Yvonne Adele, and Tony Ryan::



And these are the people who inspire me in business - Brad Tonini, Paul McCarthy, Dale Elliot::



These two photos mean a HELL of a lot for me because it wasn’t so long ago when I was sitting in my office in Darwin and beating my head against a brick wall.

Finally I took a long hard look at myself, my ambitions and my capabilities and decided that I had so much more to offer the world than the negativity that surrounded me. That was my pivotal moment and I decided to make things happen for me.

I decided to make it rain.

And those two photos are evidence that I achieved my purpose to play a bigger game.

But it doesn’t stop there…

Achieving success Melbourne has a whole new set of challenges. I have to constantly be learning, thinking and taking action to move me towards where I want to be. It’s scary but inspiring!

If you ever find yourself surrounded by negativity and you find yourself fighting to keep your dreams alive, then perhaps my story of 2011 will have given you some hope. Believe in yourself. Because if you truly want to change the world then you can. The trick is that you cannot complain about the drought, you HAVE to make it rain.

And in order to do that, you need to grow. And that brings me to…

The Challenge

This week’s challenge is simple. I challenge you to reflect back on your 2011. The highs, did you celebrate them? The lows, what did you learn from them? And ultimately ask yourself “How much did I grow this year?”

Personal development growth doesn’t have to be a drastic change in your life. It could be something simple as a basic philosophy that you learned during the year and have picked it up for the rest of your life, like my “Don’t teach a pig to sing” philosophy. It’s all about mastering the little things that all stack up together to produce big results.

If you find yourself answering “I didn’t grow at all this year” then you’ve wasted 365 days of your life. But somehow I know that if you’re reading this blog, then you would never answer in this way. Those of us who have mastered the “Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!“philosophy continue to grow beyond our wildest dreams. And that’s exciting!

I’m going to be a taking a bit of a break over the next couple of weeks but there’s a good reason for it. I’m redesigning Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead! to make it more modern and make it more easier to share the Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead! philsophy with everyone around the world, but don’t worry I’ll be back soon with more inspiring content to help you protect your dreams and turn them into reality. Maybe 2012 will be your year for success? Now THAT’S exciting!

So have an amazing holiday, stay safe and continue to grow yourself into the best version possible.

Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

AJ~

 

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Inspire, Lead, leadership, inspiration, motivation, make it rain, goal setting, play a bigger game, Brad Tonini, Paul McCarthy,

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