1. Principle #7 Release the Brakes

2. “Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone.”
What does this mean?
“Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone.”
-Robert Allen
Multimillionaire, author, and motivational speaker

3. What is a Comfort Zone?
A comfort zone is that place where we feel safe and secure – a place where we can avoid worry, fear, or failure.

4. Where’s the Edge of My Comfort Zone?
When you feel fear, uneasiness, or butterflies in your stomach, you are on the edge of your comfort zone

5. Quick - Write
In your notes, list five things that you would do if you knew you could not fail.
If I knew I could
not fail, I would: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. Don’t Be a Tethered Elephant
When still a baby, the elephant is tethered by a very thick rope to a stake firmly hammered into the ground. The elephant tries several times to get free, but it lacks the strength to do so.
After a year, the stake and the rope are still strong enough to keep a small elephant tethered, although it continues to try, unsuccessfully, to get free. At this point, the animal realizes that the rope will always be too strong and so it gives up.
When it reaches adulthood, the elephant
can still remember how, for a long time, it had
wasted its energies trying to escape captivity.
At this stage, the trainer can tether the elephant
with a slender thread tied to a broom handle, and the elephant will make no attempt to escape to freedom.

7. Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
Change the way you talk to yourself
- use positive language such as “I can…, I am…, I will…”
Visualize your life the way you want it
Change your behavior

8. Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone Video Clip
6 minutes 27 seconds

9. Comfort Zones are Like Ruts
“The only difference between a rut and a grave is in their dimensions.”
-Ellen Glasglow
Comfort
Zone

10. Choose Your Endless Loop
Thinking About what we don’t want
Talking about what we don’t want
Getting what we don’t want
Thinking About what we do want
Talking about what we do want
Getting what we do want
“Whatever we think about, we bring about.”

11. Affirmations
Affirmations are statements that describe goals in their completed states
Examples:
Goal: To be a successful business owner
Affirmation: I am a successful business owner.
Goal: To be able to vacation in the Bahamas with my family.
Affirmation: I am sitting in the Bahamas with my family.
Goal: To get good grades.
Affirmation: I am a 4.0 student.

12. Tips for Affirmations Start with the words “I am”
Use the present tense
State it in the positive
Keep it brief
Make it specific
Include and “-ing” action word
Include at least one dynamic emotion or feeling word.

13. Affirmation Practice Examples:
Goal: I want to own a new car by the time I am 21
Affirmation:
Goal: To be at the top of my graduating class
Affirmation:.
Goal: To have a family by the time I am 28
Goal: To be the best player on my team

14. Silent Reading
Read about setting goals on pages in the book entitled The Success Principles by Jack Canfield and Kent Healy.
Take down one page of Cornell notes.

15. Activity Cards

16. On Your Own