Achievement Accelerators

10 Steps to Achieving Anything

10X Faster

by Brendon Burchard

MEET YOUR ACHIEVEMENT TRAINER

Brendon Burchard is the worlds leading high performance coach and one of the most
watched, quoted and followed personal development trainers in history. A Top 100 Most
Followed Public Figure on Facebook, his posts are seen by more than 30,000,000 people
every week. Over 50,000,000 people watched his videos in the last 12 months and 1,000,000plus students have completed his online courses and video series, making him one of the
most successful online instructors in history (Oprah.com).
A #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, #1 Amazon, and #1 USA Today bestselling
author, his books include The Motivation Manifesto, The Charge, The Millionaire Messenger,
and Lifes Golden Ticket. Brendon is also the star and executive producer of the #1 self-help
series on YouTube. His podcast The Charged Life debuted at #1 on iTunes across all
categories in multiple countries and has remained Top 10 in his category for over 80 weeks.
After suffering depression and surviving a car accident at the age of 19, Brendon began
asking himself important life questions: Did I truly live today? Did I love? Did I matter? His
intention to be happy with the answers led to his own breakthrough and his lifes purpose of
helping others live a fully charged life. By 32, he became a #1 bestselling author and a
multimillionaire as an early pioneer in the online education space. Since then, he has
dedicated his life to helping others find their charge, deepen their motivation and strength,
and share their true voice with the world.
Larry King named Brendon "one of the top motivation and marketing trainers in the world."
SUCCESS Magazine named him the worlds highest-paid marketing trainer and one of the
Top 25 Most Influential Leaders in Personal Growth and Achievement, along with Oprah,
Deepak Chopra, Joel Osteen, Arianna Huffington, Dr. Oz, Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, and
Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg. Entrepreneur rated his Experts Academy as one of the Top 5
Must Attends for every entrepreneur.
To learn more about his seminars, book, and online courses, visit him at Brendon.com.

10 Steps to Achieving Anything Faster

Brendon Burchard

STEP ONE: Never Start with S.M.A.R.T Goals

S.M.A.R.T is an acronym for specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound goals.
Why? Because SMART goals are almost always small goals, created by small-minded people
who have small dreams and attempt to complete small tasks that keep them busy but not
extraordinary. Achieving significant thingsreal dreams and aspirations that demand real
power and gutsrequires bigger thinking.
SMART goals arent bad, theyre just often deployed with bad timing. Without first finding a
passionate mission or audacious ambition, SMART goals can quickly cage us in boring certainty
or routine. Beware of working with people who want to set SMART goals before envisioning a
bigger future. You should know when you supposed to be work planning or innovating,
thinking, dreaming, risking.
We need to broaden up our perspective if we want to feel energized enough to achieve
something meaningful. Instead, try D.U.M.B goals. This stands for dream-focused, uplifting,
method-based, behavior-triggered goals. (For a full description, see my YouTube video entitled
Why SMART Goals Suck.).
Takeaway
Decide on a vision and mission that deeply inspires you before project planning.
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STEP TWO: Share Your Crazy

A lot of people never achieve anything quickly or significant because they strive in silence.
They dont ask for help. They dont share their true thoughts, feelings, dreams, and aspirations
with the world. Theyre trying to be appropriate, realistic, level-headed. Theyre scared
to talk about anything they havent planned meticulously forsurely a hangover effect of
societys smart goal conditioning.
If youre not talking about your ambitions, no mentors will show up in your life.
If no one has called you crazy or stupid or too ambitious lately, dream bigger and share your
ambitions with others. It will reveal who your real friends are, repel boring people, and attract
change makers and a more energized community into your life. Yes, it will invite ridicule, too,
but that's a better price to pay than a life of silence and small thinking.
As a Certified High Performance CoachTM, I recently worked with a gold-medal Olympian. I
asked, When did your biggest breakthrough and gains come in your career? She said,
When I finally started voicing my dreams to do this. Suddenly, people started pointing me in
the right direction. They told me what to do, what skills I would need, who I should talk to,
what equipment the pros used. Open your mouth and shout from the rooftops what you want
to do with your life and all the village leaders come over and want to help. Lifes great that
way.
Takeaway
No one can help you if you dont start talking about your dreams.
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STEP THREE: Chart Skill Development

I once worked for Accenture, then the worlds largest consulting company. I remember being so
impressed by their competency planning approach to climbing the ladder. Basically, no
matter what level you were hired at, they had a set of skills, courses, or experiences outlined
that were meant to develop you as a person and a professional so that you could move up.
They said, If you learn these skills or hit these targets, then youll be in position to get a
promotion. It was strategic human development.
Sadly, few people think this way. Lets test YOU: Do you know the 5 skills youll have to develop
in order to make your dreams a reality? If you cant name five skills you are currently
developing, then youre not even in the achievement game. Youre just going with the flow or
allowing mediocrity to take hold. Youre just crushing it each day but not growing in life.
Real achievers have a written game plan for their personal development. They have a calendar
of courses or experiences theyre taking or creating so that they can get better. They know
exactly what they need to be working on in order to grow and achieve more.
Takeaway
Create your own curriculum. Start developing the skills needed to reach the next level.
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STEP FOUR: Know Your Five Moves

Youve heard Pareto's Principle - the 80-20 Rule, right? It assumes that 20 percent of the things
you do get 80% of your results. Its a helpful rule to apply to do anything - just ask yourself,
What are the things that really matter?
To take this concept further, I think of the ambitions and goals I have, then I conduct research
to discern what will really matter on my journey to achieving them. What moves the needle
most? Where does the greatest long-term impact come from? What are the time wasters?
What is a lot of activity but gets no real progress? Where to focus?
I ask myself those questions over and over again. After enough research, I break every major
achievement Im going after down in to just five moves. Everything else is either just distraction
or should be delegated.
For example, when I wanted to become a best-selling author, I didnt try to do a million things.
No book tour. No major media. No book clubs. No interviews. I had learned from my
interviews with best-sellers that those things didnt move the needle anymore. I discovered all
that really mattered, the only things that led to lots of sales, were: (a) awesome book, (b) email
subscribers, (c) killer bonuses to offer with the book, (d) promotional partners who have big
email lists who will promote because you have something to sell to people after they buy the
book (your promo partners get a cut of those sales). So, all my effort went into those five
moves and bang, #1 New York Times bestseller, #1 USA Today bestseller, and #1 Wall Street
Journal bestsellerall in 60 days.
Takeaway
What 5 moves will make the most difference in achieving your dream?
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STEP FIVE: Focus on How You Show Up (More than Speed)

Too many people are just trying to knock off tasks. Their head is down. Theyre working hard.
But theyre completely oblivious to how they are showing up in the world. Theyre not really
alive, not really demonstrating real character or kindness as they march forward. This always yes, always - leads to a disaster that derails long-term progress and achievement.
Each day, your job is to show up as your best self. Period. Thats the real achievement.
If you show up open, engaged and enthusiastic, then no matter what youre working on it will
turn out better. Enjoying the process makes your mind want to do it again tomorrow. More
motivation means more achievement, right? Then you have to love the process of learning and
growing. Thats why its important to bring full awareness and a positive attitude to your day.
Takeaway
Nothing helps you achieve faster than a positive presence and attitude.
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STEP SIX: Use the Calendar as Your Secret Weapon

If its not on the calendar, its a dead dream. Your calendar reveals who you really are and what
you really want in life.
All these things should be on your calendar: a daily habit list; a weekly learning list; a monthly
30-day goal list; a daily priority list; and a 10 Questions Youll Ask Yourself Every Quarter List to
assess progress.
You need completion deadlines, learning dates, practice times, feedback meetings. You need
daily action items. Your calendar better be clear, full, stunningly motivating.
My favorite thing is to look at other peoples calendars. If it doesn't clearly reveal where youre
headed, and what must be done when, then youre just faking it.
Start using your calendar like a weapon of achievement. What goes in there is world-class
strategic thinking. Approach your calendar like its the most important thing in your life,
because what goes on there becomes your life.

Takeaway
What you focus on, you are. What youre scheduling consistently you become.
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STEP SEVEN: Reclaim Your Morning!

In the first 90 minutes of their day, most people ruin their entire opportunity for daily progress
and momentum. Their morning routine is destroying them. Instead of framing the day for
intention, power and success, they become reactive slaves.
Heres what most people do in the morning:
1. Roll over and check phone, placed by their bedside in order to ruin sleep.
2. Check email, framing the day reacting to others false emergencies and needs.
3. Suck down as much coffee as possible without burning throat.
4. Hurry to get themselves together in order to hurriedly get somewhere.
5. Start working based on what feels easy or whats in the inbox.
This is a travesty. The inbox is nothing but a convenient system for organizing other peoples
agendas. Yet, more than 80 percent of smart phone users jump in to their email upon waking
and thus lose all hope of having a proactive day versus a reactive one.
You must get your morning back if you ever want to be an elite-level achiever. Your first hour is
a sacred time for you to set up success.
Personally, I like to wake up, get out of bed, drink a 20 ounce glass of water, and immediately
open up my body by stretching or doing yoga, calisthenics, or Qigong. Then I set my
intentions for the day and fill out my 1-Page Productivity Sheet. (Google it and watch me teach
it). I dont check in to my inbox or anyone elses agenda until Ive become absolutely razor
clear about what my day is about and what must be accomplished to move my life forward.
Takeaway
If youre starting your day by checking in, then youve already checked out of success.
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STEP EIGHT: Get a Coach and Three Comrades

You can only achieve so much by yourself. If you believe that, then at the very start of any real
attempt at a new effort, you need a coach. Hire someone to coach you. Always. Right at the
beginning of any big effort. Yes, right at the beginning.
Almost all acceleration is lost in the beginning of any new activity. A coach or shortens your
start time and learning curve. The sooner you get an outside expert to tell you what to focus
on, how to begin, what to avoid, how to approach your growth, who to follow, and how to
correct course along the way. the sooner you start to scale your wins. No coach, no clarity, no
change, no breakthroughs. You absolutely, without questions, need someone who knows the
way; who doesnt accept excuses; who challenges you to be your best; who asks great
questions; who cares if you win and enjoy life. If you have a coach who can give you weekly
direction or feedback then youll be way more motivated and accountable.
Once you have a coach, you need a community. If you dont have at least three friends, peers,
coworkers, or fellow strivers along for the ride, youll settle too quickly for small gains. The
number one most critical factor to succeeding outside of our own efforts is the immediate
social environment of our lives. Who you are striving with matters. But most people go at it
alone, and thats why they fail. You need three people to count on and climb with. Yes, three.
Trust me. Get three people climbing with you. It makes all the difference in the world.

Takeaway
Get a coach and recruit three friends to climb with youget them asap!
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STEP NINE: Quickly Quit Whats Wrong (But Not Difficult)

If youre doing things that are distracting and adding no value, joy, or meaning in your life, quit
them. Immediately. No more avoiding difficult conversations. No more hanging on to whats
safe. No more allowing whats not right into your life. Those things prevent good things from
flowing in. They prevent you from finding whats right for you.
Never say YES to a project just because its a passing interest. If youre not truly passionate, say
no. Always force yourself to build a case for why you should do something. Taking on too many
random projects is kryptonite for high achievers.
My client Arianna Huffington says, Sometimes the best way to complete a project is by
dropping it. I love that. If you want to move ahead at something, drop the other things that
are just competing interests. Focus. Minimize. Scale back. Sooner than later, just quit
everything that isnt moving you forward.
You might also need to leave friendships that are poisonous and clearly wrong for your next
level of joy and achievement. Get out of toxic environments.
Takeaway
Until you clear debris and distractions from life, the universe cannot recognize the white
space available in your life for something better.
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STEP TEN: Obsess About 4 Things

High levels of achievement require a bit of obsession. So, what should you obsess about?
1. Energy
2. Focus
3. Habits
4. Learning
First, I tell all my clients that managing your energy - physically, mentally, and spiritually - is the
only real game in achievement. If you have extraordinary energy everything is possible.
Emerson said the world belongs to the energetic. Be obsessive about your 7-8 hours of
sleep; your healthy eating and nutrition routines; your mediation and recovery; your exercise
program; the energy coming from your social circle. These things shape your energy.
Second, be compulsive about removing distraction from your life. Spring clean your entire life.
Get rid of those magazine subscriptions; those accounts you no longer follow online;
unsubscribe from all that retail crap; those dumb shows you watch just because theyre
recorded. Strip distraction from all corners of your life and youll rediscover your creativity,
ambition and fire.
Third, be disciplined about your daily and weekly habits. The entire arc of your life is based on
how well you set up positive habits that make you feel alive, engaged, creative, and
contributing. What habits are making you a better person? What are ruining your health, focus,
or growth? Be aware of your rituals of thinking, behaving and interacting.
Fourth, learn all the time. Read a book a week. Interview smart people. Ask a lot of questions.
Take online courses. Go to seminars and conferences. Listen to podcasts or audio programs
that make you a better person and contributor. Strategically set out to acquire the knowledge,
skills, and capabilities of an extraordinary person.
Takeaway
Energy. Focus. Habits. Learning. Master these things and the world is yours.
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