Frank Kern

I received this email yesterday from Frank Kern.I found it very inspirational
so I thought I would share it.


I originally sent this email to
you exactly one year ago to the day.

Absolutely NOTHING has changed in
terms of my opinion on this matter :-)

I sincerely hope that as you reflect
back over the past 365 days from when
I first sent you this, you feel a good
sense of accomplishment and fulfillment.

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Here's what I sent you one year ago:
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Let me tell you something about YOU.

YOU can do anything you want. YOU are
in control.

YOU can achieve as much success as you
want to.

YOU can and will pick yourself up when
life knocks you down.

I BELIEVE IN YOU.

That's all I wanted to say,

Frank

P.S. I'm sending you this because I just spent
some time with my Grandfather today.

He will turn 89 in a few weeks and when I
was younger, he would tell me what I just
told you.

And let me tell you ...I've been knocked on
my ass more times than I can count. And it
was those words that gave me the encouragement
to get back up and keep trying.

We all need someone in our corner. He was in
mine.

I'll be in yours to the best of my ability.

We're innundated with so much negative
crap these days ...we ALL need someone
to encourage us.

Look ...if you're struggling, I've been there
...and I can tell you first hand that it'll get better
if you keep on trying.

I believe in you. Go for it.

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BACK TO THE PRESENT DAY

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When I sent you that email, I was a mess.

I was unhappy with my business (even though it
was maklng plenty of money).

I was miserable in my family life, and I was literally
on the brink of dying young.

Seriously.

A few months after typing that very email,
I went to the doctor for some random tests
and so-forth.

(I'd been feeling a bit run down for a long time.)

Anyway - after some testing, the doctor hit me with
a dire warning:

KEEP IT UP AND YOU'RE A DEAD MAN.

Apparently, you can't party like a rock star
from age 15 until age 38 and get away with it.

And that's exactly what I'd been doing.

You know how it's supposedly OK to have 2.5
drinks a day or whatever?

Well, I thought that if you just "saved up" all week
and had your entire week's worth of drinks in
one night, it would kind of be the same.

Make sense, right?

I mean 2.5 drinks a day is around 17 drinks
a week.

So I'd be "drink free" every day except
Saturday and then I'd have my whole "ration"
in one day.

OK - now that I'm typing that out, I see how
utterly moronic it sounds lol.

Anyway - that's what I did for 23 straight
years ...which is why I was literally on the
brink of catastrophic liver failure.

No kidding! My liver was actually so swollen
that the doctor could just poke it with his
finger.

(Damn, that hurts by the way.)

Plus, my blood pressure was so high that
it was off the charts.

So the doctor gave me the Big Lecture
and I actually listened.

Within 6 months, I'd totally cleaned
up my act and lost 20 pounds of fat.

And fast forward to today and I have an
entirely different and significantly happier life.

My health is good, my business is good, and
I enjoy my family life so much that I closed
down my office and only work from home.

I even have a new son who just turned
8-weeks old!

(He'll be writing headlines by summer.)

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HERE'S THE POINT
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If you're looking back on the past year and
you're NOT happy with where you are now,
IT WILL NEVER GET BETTER.

Not if you keep doing the same stuff that's
gotten you the results you're not happy with.

So if this is you then let me do you the
same favor my Doctor did for me.

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LET ME SHOOT YOU STRAIGHT
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Look man, you gotta change what you're
doing.

It's not working.

If it was, you'd be thrilled with your progress
since my message to you a year ago.

But if you're not, then it's time to change.

Here's how to do it:

1. Get absolutely focused on what you really
want.

Do this by TURNING OFF THE DAMN COMPUTER
and just writing down the answer to this question:

"What do I REALLY want?"

Screw what the emails tell you you SHOULD
want.

Screw what your wife, husband, parents, kids,
or anyone else WANTS you to want.

This is about YOU.

What do you really want?

Want to sell training plans to cross-dressing
MMA competitors?

Great. If that's your thing, go for it.

Wanna run off and play guitar in coffee shops
across South America?

Good. You only live once. Be happy. Play
"Freebird" at least once. For me. Thank you.

Whatever you do, get clear. Otherwise you're ripe
for falling into someone else's agenda.

2. Dump The Crap Out Of Your Brain.

You do this by writing down a huge list of EVERYTHING
you THINK gotta do to in order to do what you REALLY want.

Just doing that will kind of "clear it from your brain"
and free up space in your "mental computer's"
RAM.

3. Decide what's doable.

You know that big list you just made that's probably
freaking you out?

Go through it and put star by all the stuff you can
actually do.

4. Decide what you can do NOW.

Now. You know all the stuff with stars by it?

The stuff you can actually DO?

Go through all of it and find the stuff you can do
in the next 30 days.

Put two stars by those items.

5. Screw the other stuff.

All the other stuff can be dealt with later.

Now - let me address critics in the audience who
want to debate whether or not that's a good strategy.

"Isn't that procrastination?"

"Isn't that other stuff important?"

The answer to both questions is ...PROBABLY!

But here's the deal.

You can't do anything about it right now, and if you
worry about it then you're just taking away focus
and energy from the stuff you CAN do.

And that's not going to get you anywhere.

Also - actually DO the "immediately doable"
things for the next 30 days, my experience
tells me that your momentum will be so great
you'll actually be able to easily do a lot of the
things from your list you originally thought
were impossible for you.

You'll also have new clarity and will probably
find that much of the other stuff on the list
isn't even needed.

6. GET TO WORK.

Listen.

If you get all caught up on the little details,
you'll be in the same place a year from now.

Don't let that happen.

7. ACCEPT REALITY

You wanna know something?

This is NOT gonna be easy.

Remember how I told you I lost 20 pounds
of fat?

Man, that first week in the gym was a
NIGHTMARE.

And to make matters worse, my trainer
(who is a terrible person) would make me
display my physical weakness in front of
GIRLS!

So not only was it hard, it was embarassing!

I was failing in public.

But that's what it took so I did it.

And in the end, it wasn't so bad.

So if I can muster up the gumption
to struggle through my first few pushups
in front of a room full of pretty girls,
you can break through you comfort zone
too.

I'll leave you with a quote from the wise
men of Kool And The Gang:

"GET DOWN ON IT (If you really want it)."

You can do it. I believe in you.

Frank

























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