In this, the second annual year end recap, Blaine goes over the top 5 episodes of 2019 based on listener feedback! Happy New Year and much success in 2020!

In this episode, Blaine talks about some of the key questions he asked of himself and his company back in 2009 while doing strategic business and vision planning. That process and the answers to those questions lead Blaine’s company to great success and growth in the appraisal, and business and life coaching industries. Blaine gives listeners the exact questions to ask and ponder to help bring some positive change and growth going into 2020.

In this episode, Blaine discusses the all important process of figuring out what drives you to do what you do. It’s a process made popular by author Simon Sinek in his 2009 book, ‘Start With Why’. In it, Sinek outlines a process whereby on digs through their past to ‘unearth’ the main drivers, the main motivators, the main inspirations, and the big turn offs that make us do what we do. Blaine has trained extensively on this process and has taught it to corporations across the globe.

This is a multi part series with this episode being the introduction to the process. Join us!

In this episode of the Diamond Mining mini-episode series, Blaine tells the story of a company named HelloWorld and its CEO, Josh Linkner. The CEO of HelloWorld created a fictional competitor with fake press releases and Wall Street Journal articles to light a fire in the hearts and minds of his employees. Instead of resting on their laurels and accolades as a company in the number 1 spot, they began to ask what their fictional, and real, competitors might be coming up with to stay on the cutting edge and remain the market leader. 

In this episode, Blaine introduces listeners to the infamous ‘Pascal’s Wager’, from the 17th Century mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal. Pascal’s Wager essentially postulates that, even if there is an infinitesimally small chance of something being true, its better to act as if the thing is true since acting as if its NOT true could be very expensive!

Listen in as Blaine shows listeners how the wager is used in the climate change debate, how Warren Buffet has used it, and how it might just apply to your life and your business. 

In this mini-episode of the Real Value Podcast Diamond Mining Series, Blaine talks about 2 customer service experiences that emphasize over-the-top customer service that creates a great customer experience. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about the science of the brain and how we are simply not capable of multi-tasking as it has been traditionally defined and thought. The brain cannot consciously do two things at once since it must steal mental resources from the same portion of the brain: the frontal lobe.

Blaine gives 5 tactics to improve your ability to get things done, and get them done well, without having to slow down to task switch, leaving a little bit of ‘attention residue’ with each prior task.

In this episode of the Real Value Podcast mini-series, Diamond Mining, Blaine talks about their experience at a pro football game and details all of the little things that appeared to be amazing ‘systematized customer service’. 

Make note of the questions at the end of the show and give some thought to your own business as we enter the relationship and experience economy. 

In this episode, Blaine recaps the mindsets and recommendations from episode one for starting your podcast, and then goes over the equipment, the software, and the best hosting options for getting your voice heard through the medium of podcasting.

Like episode 1, there are lots of great nuggets and suggestions so have pen and paper handy for notes!

In this new series of the Real Value Podcast, called Diamond Mining, Blaine covers short stories, lessons, anecdotes, books, and ideas that add perspective to our lives and businesses. 

This episode is about the $6000 egg story told By Todd and Deb Duncan in their book, The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Service.

In this episode, Blaine goes over 5 (or maybe more!) of the things that somebody wanting to start a podcast MUST consider before jumping into the world of podcasting. Podcasting can be a fun and rewarding activity if its done right. It can be a ton of time, effort, and labor if not! Blaine goes over the thinking and planning process, as well as the hardware and software needed to be successful. 

Listen in and have your notepad ready if you have any interest in starting an appraiser, real estate, lending, or really ANY kind of podcast now or in the near future. 

In this episode, Blaine introduces listeners to the often repeated idea that we are the sum total of the 5 people we spend the most time with. Blaine takes it a step further, however, and talks about a study that was done indicating that it goes much further than just those 5 people! It extends to friends of friends, even friends of their friends even if you’ve never met many of those people. Blaine explains how in this episode.

In this episode, Blaine introduces a Japanese concept called Shugyo, which is synonymous with ‘intense and austere’ training, but can also refer or suggest an area of your life or business that needs to be addressed and where there is ‘an absence of comfort’. The concept of Shugyo is one that encourages you to take on tasks, goals, and pursuits that have some kind of internal ‘calling’ but, for whatever reason, you aren’t doing yet. 

With Shugyo, you listen to the small voice inside that is calling out to have an experience or accomplish something, and then you simply decide that you must attempt that thing and you accept that there will be, at minimum, the absence of comfort, if not downright discomfort. 

What is your shugyo?

In this episode, part 2 of 2, Blaine discusses the last 3 most important things that a mentor should be teaching their apprentices if they are interested in being a ‘true mentor’. Anybody can teach somebody else the basics of appraising real estate. Very few people can take somebody under their wing and mentor them in these 7 areas effectively, at least not initially. 

Take some time to study up on these 7 areas and learn what each one of them means to a trainee and what they might mean in your business.

In this episode series (part 1 of 2), Blaine goes over the 7 areas that he believes true mentors should be covering in an appraiser mentorship program. In fact, these 7 areas should be mandatory in all business mentorship programs. The 7 areas covered would give the apprentice the greatest opportunity for success as an appraiser regardless of whether or not the trainee stays in the mentor’s company or goes out on their own.

Although one of the chief complaints amongst potential mentors is that they are training their competition, by training an apprentice properly, the chances of an apprentice leaving your organization drops drastically. Blaine goes over the strategies and what to teach so as to create the best atmosphere for growth and longevity within the mentor’s company. 

In this episode, Blaine recaps some of the important aspects from the last episode regarding meditation and exercise, and then opens the discussion about the last 2 letters, D and S, which stand for diet and sleep. The importance of all four of these things in terms of overall health, wellness, health span, longevity, energy and mood cannot be overstated!

Appraisers tend to sit at their desks much of the day and have fairly stressful jobs. There are time pressures, client demands, and the never ending requirements of being the chief cook and bottle washer in a small business. Minding the 4 categories in the MEDS acronym is of vital importance!

In this episode, Blaine talks about the 4 pillars of living your best life with the acronym MEDS, which stands for Meditation, Exercise, Diet, and Sleep. This is part 1 of a 2 part series and this episode covers the M and E parts of the acronym. Appraisers tend to sit for much of their day and tend to deal with a fair amount of stress. Meditation, exercise, proper diet, and good sleep are vital for longevity and a long health-span.

Listen in as Blaine walks you through the 'why' and the 'how' of both meditation and exercise for appraisers, and really anybody interested in a long health-span, instead of just a long lifespan.

In this episode, Blaine discusses one of the topics he coaches other businesses on and the 6 words he teaches in every workshop and seminar on appraiser business success. You’ll have to listen to the episode to learn the 6 words, but once you do and you begin to use them in your daily interactions, you’ll find more business, success, and abundance coming your way than ever before!

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the main seven areas that we all should be focusing on at some level in our lives. The seven areas are referred to as 'The Magic Seven' in the Real Value Coaching Academy and every coaching student fills one of these out every quarter. The Magic Seven Coaching tools are attached to this episode, or can be downloaded at www.RealValueCast.com. You can also find them at our Facebook Group page at https://www.facebook.com/RealValueCoaching/

or...Write down the Magic Seven yourself and take your own test to see how you're doing!

In this episode, Blaine talks about an experience he had recently and how it pushed him out of his comfort zone and toward more growth. We often get stuck in routine and finding 'safe places' to hide ourselves and make ourselves believe we're growing. But to really grow and evolve, one must always be moving and pushing themselves out of their comfort zone.

Blaine talks about a prior episode that was recorded back in December of 2018 called Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty.That episode laid out 5 methods to dig your proverbial 'well' of prospective future business and wealth, with 2 of the methods being delivered in a 'bonus' episode to Value Syndicate members who have requested the podcast be delivered to their email address each week. 

This episode includes the bonus episode that most didn't hear. The remaining 2 methods to dig your well are included in this episode, with the first 3 methods being briefly recapped. Write them down and implement them in your business today!

Link to original episode called Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty!

In this episode, Blaine talks about what was learned by examining his recent mountain biking accident and what valuable lessons were contained within the incident. He uses the lessons that he preaches every week in his coaching program on himself and extrapolates the lessons from the incident across all other areas of life.

Don't be caught off guard when something seemingly random happens in life and business. Be ever aware of the signs and signals that always precede an event or incident. 

Blaine discusses how to mine the depths of all your life experiences, knowledge, and relationships to uncover the hidden diamonds in all three of those categories in order to tap into the immense wealth you likely don't give yourself credit for. 

Blaine teaches you an exercise he calls 'writing your W.I.L.', which stands for your Wealth Inventory List. This is a list of all the past life experiences you've had that you have either forgotten, or you've discounted as being irrelevant to your current life and career.

Have pen and paper ready to start writing your W.I.L. and uncover the hidden potential and wealth inherent in your life experiences, knowledge base, and past relationships!

In this episode, Blaine teaches appraisers how to use the 'profit first' system of business management and budgeting for wealth. Although this system has been popularized as of late by the author and entrepreneur, Mike Michalowitz, in the book aptly named, Profit First, this system of money management and budgeting has been around for thousands of years. Blaine introduces listeners to another book called The Richest Man In Babylon, which talks about this principle in parable form as well.

Be sure to have pen and paper handy and be prepared to listen to this one at least 6 or 8 times while taking notes to really make this system part of your DNA. 

In this episode, Blaine Feyen talks about identifying what your 'ideal zone of existence' is and how it got that way. He encourages listeners and appraisers to ask some vital questions about their own personal 'comfort bubble' and test whether or not it his gotten too narrow over time.

Blaine gives some suggestions for expanding your comfort bubble and pushing the boundaries of your Ideal Zone of Existence which, ultimately, leads to more opportunities being presented to you and eyes to see more, do more, and have more fulfilling life experiences.

In this episode, Blaine Feyen talks about how our bodies and minds are inextricably linked and how we can use one to positively affect the other. Blaine also goes so far as to explain how its every individuals personal responsibility to take control of their feelings and emotions. This can be done in a variety of ways, one being to take control of one's physiology. Change the way your body is being and you change the way your mind is feeling. 

The same thing works for your body in that you can change the way your body feels by taking control of your internal dialogue and changing what you say to yourself. How we think and feel are two things we CAN control in life and its your responsibility to do so! Appraisers, especially, must learn this vital skill of taking control and responsibility for how they think, feel, act, and respond.

In this Episode, Blaine talks about the difference between principles and values, and practices and methodologies. He goes deep on why its absolutely vital to have a well defined, and documented, set of values and principles that guide your daily practices and methodologies. 

Blaine encourages listeners to develop a 'Strategic Identity Document' for your business, which is a document that clearly articulates the founders and the company's values and principles so that they are very clear and can inform daily decisions and practices.

In this episode, Blaine talks about starting your daily gratitude exercise and upgrading your mindset, as well as the people you hang out with. If you want to truly grow, there are two things that must grow first: your mindset and the people around you.

The two things that hold most people back from real growth are their mindset and the people they've surrounded themselves with. This doesn't mean that the people around you are bad people, but the people around you often don't want to you to grow beyond them out of their own fear of being left behind. 

Get ready to take more notes! Start your gratitude practice, upgrade your mindset, and surround yourself with people doing more than you!

In this episode, Blaine discusses the 'expert pyramid' and what it takes to climb to the top where the experts reside. Blaine explains that the top of the expert pyramid is not necessarily occupied by those with the most technical skills, but instead with those who have developed the most vital skills of communication and leadership. 

Often in business, it is not the smartest who experience the greatest success, but instead the most driven, the most creative, those with the best communication, negotiation, and client service skills, and those who understand their markets the best.

Listen in for some tips on climbing the expert pyramid and the key things to focus on if you have any desire to move above the crowded level of the novice and even the specialist. The air is better at the top, and so are the fees!

In this episode, Blaine discusses the very important idea that you cannot save a job or industry that doesn't 'want' to be saved. The appraisal industry is changing at a very rapid rate and there are many who think the answer is coming together as an industry to lobby for the appraisal process to remain the same. While Blaine doesn't disagree that a good appraisal and a good appraisal process is important and vital to the loan process and the overall health of any real estate market, Blaine would argue that your efforts are better spent on your business and on getting out into your markets to educate the people at 'ground level', the Realtors, Lenders, and purchasers of real estate on why the appraisal process is important and how to choose a quality appraiser. 

Don't waste you precious time and vital life energy fighting against something that will happen regardless of your efforts to stop it! Save yourself by working on your own business and becoming the pre-eminent provider of real estate appraisal services in your market!

In this episode, Blaine talks about the missing piece in most businesses that can determine success, failure, or even just the difference between mediocre results and skyrocketed results! The missing piece is accountability and its one of he big missing pieces in most appraisal businesses. The real estate and mortgage industries tend to have much higher levels of accountability since most Realtors and Lenders work in offices with managers, other Realtors, and their brokers or owners.

Appraisers tend to be one and two person home offices with little to no accountability for their daily activities, their monthly targets, their profit goals (if they even have any), their marketing needs, and their daily productivity and efficiency. Most appraisers simply 'do' when it comes to appraising with nobody holding them accountable. Blaine strongly recommends finding an 'accountability partner' to help you move toward the goals and plans every appraiser should have to be more profitable with less time in the office. 

In this episode, Blaine goes over the process to develop you Master Message, which comes out of the Master Mission process. The Master Message process follows closely the Storybrand 'one liner' exercise with a few slight changes. If you haven't read the Storybrand book by Donald Miller, it is highly recommended reading for developing your message.

This is a tactical and practical episode so be sure to have a pen and pad ready to take notes! The Master Message process is a detailed process that requires following very specific steps.  

In this episode, Blaine introduces the Hero’s Journey and how this story format can help us figure out what role we’re playing in the lives of our clients and customers. Blaine talks about the Story Brand concept, by Donald Miller, and how we’ll use some of the ideas and techniques to help build our Master Mission and then our Master Message, which is an extremely clarified statement of who we are, what we do, how we do it, and what problems we solve for our clients.

In this episode, Blaine introduces the audience to one of his coaching tools and techniques called The Value Ladder (TM). The Value Ladder is a tool that helps identify the real motivating factors behind the things people say they want to be, do, have, and achieve. Without first identifying what might be behind those motivations, achieving something just for the sake of achieving becomes a futile and time wasting experience.

Blaine talks about Maslow's hierarchy of needs and how The Value Ladder relates to human motivation. First we must satisfy certain basic needs before moving to the next level of motivation. This is true in business as well. Listen in and be ready to take notes. This exercise can be very revealing!

In this episode, Blaine discusses the common rant amongst appraisers that they're overworked and underpaid. The reality is that many appraisers have simply never been taught how to set boundaries and budget their time. Appraisers have been perpetuating thy myth of 'feast or famine' for decades, which has lead to a generation of appraisers who actually believe they go through times of famine! 

We create our businesses and we get to choose who we work with and why we might want to work with them, or not. If an appraisal business is set up properly with a reasonable mix of lender and non-lender business there is absolutely no reason to experience the 'feast or famine' cycle that most appraisers create for themselves nor the need to work ridiculous hours thus lowering the per hour income metric.

Here is the article I promised you at the end of this episode about my friend and mentor Scott Carlson: Article about my friend and mentor mentioned in this episode

In this episode, Blaine talks about the appraisal waiver, or property inspection waiver, the stats surrounding their issuance and use, and the hysteria that this topic ignites! Blaine discusses social media and the use of it by keyboard warriors hellbent on stirring the proverbial pot and creating an opportunity to rip fellow professionals to shreds for having the audacity to think a different thought than they do.

Blaine also lays out a specific scenario regarding one of these social media debacles and how he turned it into a positive opportunity for himself, his business, and a fellow mortgage professional. 

There are lots of keys to business success in the stories in this episode so listen carefully and, as always, take good notes!

In this episode, Blaine talks about the difference between goals and activities and what he calls you 'arc of activity'. Your arc of activity is the trajectory of daily habits and behaviors and where they eventually lead. You can set a goal to be met 6 months, 1 year or 5 years into the future but if you don't set up the proper systems to meet that goal, its unlikely to happen. Systems for daily, weekly, and monthly activities that ultimately lead to the accomplishment of the goal is what determines the difference between success and failure.

James Clear, author of the book 'Atomic Habits', says, "people don't rise to the level of their goals, but instead fall to the level of their systems". Many people have the same goals but never reach them so just having a goal is never enough. Many people have goals to be financially independent but never succeed. The goal is a worthy one and they may be exceptionally motivated and inspired by it. However, if there is no system in place with daily, weekly, and monthly activities that lead to financial independence, the goal will mean nothing and will never be achieved.

Listen in as Blaine discusses your 'arc of activity' and how the trajectory of your actions will more likely determine your future. 

In this episode of the Real Value Appraiser Podcast, Blaine talks about the viral blog post from Wired Chief Editor, Kevin Kelly, called '1000 True Fans'. Blaine breaks down the 1000 true fans concept and then couples it with what he calls a 'turbo boost' to the whole idea and that is the 'future banking' concept. 

The Future Bank is your virtual bank account that is tracking all of the future business from those who become true, or 'raving' fans of you and your business. With the future bank, you get to watch as your virtual bank account grows and then you can focus both gratitude and effort on keeping in touch with, and helping, your raving fans along the way.

This may be one of the most important episodes of the Real Value Podcast ever produced! Make sure you have pen and paper handy for taking good notes!

In this episode, Blaine talks about the lifeblood of any business and that is referrals. There is a right way and a wrong way to get referrals in an appraisal business and there is a process that MUST be followed to get them consistently. Its one thing to get the occasional referral from a satisfied client, but it is a completely different process to get consistent referrals because you have a solid before unit, a during unit, and an after unit to your business and each unit has systems focusing on delivering world class service and then extreme follow up.

Being a referral based appraisal business does not happen by accident and it doesn't happen over night. It takes long term strategic thinking, planning, processes, and systems within your appraisal business in order to cultivate and capitalize on the deep well of wildly happy clients. Be prepared to take some notes as Blaine covers some of the processes and scripts that he uses in his unique referral and review generating system.  

In this episode, Blaine talks about the spring time, time management, remodeling your life and business, and the importance of taking recovery time to be the absolute best person you can be.

Blaine discusses the important mindset shift necessary for appraisers to see their time off, not as reward for hard work, but as a necessary precondition of success. Taking the vital time to refresh, recover, remodel, and then get results (read:income!) is an absolute MUST and vital key to success in all areas of life and business.

In this episode, Blaine Feyen talks about the top 5 'wisdom keys' he teaches to appraisers around the country, and business people around the world. Blaine teaches 10 wisdom keys but to keep the episode around an hour, Blaine is delivering the remaining 5 wisdom keys via bonus content for Value Syndicate members.

To become a member of the Value Syndicate you can simply head to www.RealValueCast.com or www.RealValueGroup.com and sign up to receive the bonus content. Its completely free.

Grab a pen and paper and get ready to take notes because these wisdom keys can be life and business altering! And in the best way possible!

In this episode, Blaine Feyen talks about the variety of masks and hats we wear throughout our lives based on the different roles we may be playing at that time. Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Mechanic, Truck Driver, Banker, and Appraiser. They are all things we call ourselves and ultimately our identity becomes part of those things we call ourselves. 

When we start to identify more with what we do and less with who we are, problems start. We treat others based on who we think we are and we judge them based on what it is they do and less on who they are as human beings.

Regardless of what it is you do for a living, you are not that thing! That is just something you do for a period of time to earn money. You are not appraisers, that is just something you have chosen to do with some portion of your limited time as a human. Figure out who you really are and life tends to flow much easier.

In this episode, Blaine talks more about the 'clarity through contrast' reframing strategy for turning negative self talk into positive actions and activities. Blaine drops a killer Helen Keller quote and expounds on why not to avoid risk in an attempt to be safe.

Blaine also reveals his former life as a 'skippy', or an appraiser who may not have fully understood everything that could, and should, be done to make an appraisal credible and reliable. Blaine talks about how we all start out somewhat the same in that regard and how most appraisers are mentored in a very similar way. It wasn't until Blaine went out on his own and was responsible for training other appraisers that he started to realize just how much he still had to learn.

Blaine suggests a little compassion toward the 'skippy' crowd as most of them simply suffer from unconscious incompetence and just don't know what they don't know. With a little compassion and some willingness to help, many skippies could be reformed and trained into becoming good appraisers.

In this episode, appraiser success coach, Blaine Feyen, talks about the little known but heavily studied art and skill of rapport building. Building rapport is crucial to successful communications between any two or more human beings and is so often neglected. Rapport building is never taught in school yet is often the main reason people don't connect in almost every area of their lives. 

The secrets to building rapport lie buried deep within all of us and Blaine gives a few steps to building rapport as a key strategy for building a strong network and attracting new, and better, appraisal business from a variety of sources. 

If you have any interest in attracting more non-lender appraisal business and dumping the AMCs, this is the podcast for you. Be sure to take some notes because there is homework!

In this episode, appraisal and appraiser success coach, Blaine Feyen discusses how to look at some of the views, beliefs, and paradigms, or frames, we grow up with and how some of them create limiting behaviors that don't allow many of us to do things like public speaking. Blaine goes over a couple techniques to help 'break the old frame' and build a new and more empowering one that will help the average appraiser get in front of a crowd of realtors, lenders, and attorneys and give productive talks and presentations to bring in new business.

Blaine is focusing in the month of February on helping appraisers get more non-lender business as the appraisal business starts to shift and change toward a variety of valuation products that tend to exclude the highly qualified appraiser. Blaine's business is heavily focused on this non-lender type of work and has been for many years with well over 50% of his company's business consisting of divorce appraisals, estate work, pre-listing and complex private appraisal work for realtors and attorneys. 

In this episode of the Real Value Appraiser Podcast, Blaine talks about the Japanese strategy of continuous improvement called Kaizen. Although Kaizen is typically utilized in manufacturing environments, it can easily be utilized in almost every business and even in one's personal life. Understanding that small incremental improvements almost alway beat big audacious overhauls is the key to being better tomorrow than you are today. It's the classic tortoise and hare story where slow and steady beat fast and unfocused.

Blaine talks about his own schedule and incremental improvements and how working more that 40 hours per week is a big no no, unless you're also creating something else in that time. With innovation, incremental improvements, and a Kaizen mindset and attitude, everything can be improved over time. Greater efficiency, more effective and credible appraisal reports, and more money in the bank at the end of the day should be the outcomes of a Kaizen mindset.

***This episode has bonus content so be sure to register at https://realvaluecast.com or https://realvaluegroup.com to receive it. Its always free and jam packed with usable information. 

In this episode, Blaine gives 4 main tips for speaking to audiences about appraisal and appraiser related topics. Whether its giving a talk or presentation to attorneys on the subject of divorce appraisals or a group of real estate agents on the subject of how to think like the appraiser, follow Blaine's four pieces of advice and you'll be conquering your fear of public speaking in no time.

Learning to develop your ability to present or speak in public is paramount to your success going into the future of appraising. If you have any interest in handling non-lender appraisal type work, it is imperative that you know how to market to and speak to the market you wish to capture.

Pubic speaking is almost everyone's biggest fear. The fear of public speaking is a deeply rooted fear that we will be evicted from our tribes for messing up which may ultimately lead to our death. This fear is, of course, irrational and unfounded in the modern age but, nevertheless, keeps most people from growing into this largely untapped market opportunity. 

Learn to speak, and to speak well, and you elevate yourself in the eyes of your market and add value while you're doing it. 

In this episode, Blaine discusses how to get very clear on why we do the work we do, why we work with the people we work with, and why we live the lives we do. He walks you through another exercise to help more clearly define what kind of legacy you want to leave for your family, friends, colleagues, and loved ones. 

Blaine also talks about the non-lender side of the appraisal business and what kinds of skill-sets are required to go after that type of work. Blaine explains what skills will be needed going into 2019 and beyond if you want to build and maintain a high level real estate appraisal business and become the local appraisal expert in your market. 

Blaine recaps the 4 steps to proper goal setting and reminds you to get on it! If you're not setting goals in your real estate, lending, and appraisal businesses, you're leaving your success to chance and there is no opportunity to duplicate it. Follow the 4 steps Blaine lays out and you're all but guaranteed success!

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In this episode, Blaine goes over 4 vital steps in the goal setting process that will be the difference between achieving and failure. Lots of people set goals but only a small portion of people actually reach their goals. We tend to place lots of importance on goal setting but not enough importance on the vital steps needed once a goal has been chosen. 

Blaine goes into detail about the 4 master keys required take goals from dream stage to experiencing the end result. Using a few real world analogies and metaphors from the diet and exercise world, as well as a master clinic on how to build a healthy Koi fish pond, Blaine lays out the steps to going from zero to hero with a little thought and effort. 

Begin with the end in mind and then work backwards into the 1% improvements and steps you should be taking to get there. Listen in and be sure to grab a pen and some paper!

In this episode, Blaine introduces a handy acronym to help you identify when you start to slip on achieving some of your goals. The C.L.I.F.F. acronym is very helpful in seeing some of the red flags before you get completely derailed from hitting some of those all important mini-goals on the path to the big ones! Listen in to found out what each letter stands for and how it might help you on the way to more, better, greater, higher, healthier, and happier.