The Chris LoCurto Show

http://chrislocurto.com/downloads "Oh my gosh, Christmas is actually not that far away." We are now getting close to the fourth quarter. What things do you need to be doing? What areas do you need to be covering? The physical, the career, the financial goals, the family, the spiritual, the intellectual, all of these things that we need to be focusing on to make sure that we don't let this quarter throw us off track.PHYSICAL - Make sure that you actually have a plan on how you're not going to spend everyday shoving a ton of junk in your body. You've got to be getting outside even if only for ten minutes a day. Make sure that you do this so that you get some vitamin D in your body thus decreases your chance of getting sick. These are the things that make you happy; this helps you to have emotional well-being. This supports your brain and your nervous system. Here are some things that you can do to just be active for 30 minutes. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. If you're going grocery shopping, carry the groceries out if you can instead of using the cart. If your kids are playing soccer then walk around the field. Climb the bleachers, dance in your kitchen. I don't care. Make sure that you have a plan to get some sleep. This is the crazy time of year and unfortunately we keep jacking up our sleep while we're going to parties, and going shopping late, and doing all this stuff, and drinking coffee late in the afternoon. Make sure that you're actually getting enough sleep. Stop your electronics at least 30 minutes before you go to bed. Pick up a book and read, that will help you on your intellectual goals. If you're reading the word then that will help you on your spiritual goals. But stop, stop all the electronics. Pick something up, read.CAREER-For me, I am a very growth minded kind of guy. I truly believe that the most successful businesses are growth minded as well. Ask yourself the following questions. Make sure that you're writing down those steps and What it's going to take to get there.With the remainder of this year, what is it that would take me to the next level? Where do it see myself by the end of the year?FINANCIAL-Folks, we have a few months left before Christmas destroys your checkbook and you know it's going to happen if you've not been planning. Be sure that you're budgeting. Look at the remainder of the year and ask yourself the question. What things do we need to save for? Whatever that is, make sure that you're putting this in your budget. What things do you need to be budgeting for? What things do you need to plan for? How much money are you going to spend at Christmas? How much money are you going to spend at Thanksgiving when you go see family? Whatever it is, make sure that you're asking yourself those questions when it comes to budgets.FAMILY-Make sure that you're scheduling your time wisely so you're not missing things or having to run to things or getting frustrated because everything is stacked on top of each other. Make sure that you're bringing balance and structure for you, for your spouse, and for your kids. Make sure that you're spending time resetting expectations of them so that you're not getting entitled children. Make sure that you're spending quality time together. Turn off the TV and the electronics. Have dinners together. Have conversations together. Have them put their cellphones down or put them away so that you can actually have quality conversations and can do things. What happens this time of year so that you can think through what healthy boundaries are needed. List out what healthy boundaries are needed. Do these things so that you can be happy, so that you can be healthy and so that you can get further along. Don't allow this end of the year to stress you out.

http://chrislocurto.com/downloads/Today on the show we've got Bruce Van Horn. He has written the book, Worry No More, which is The 4 Steps to Stop Worrying and Start Living. The opening of the book is a dedication to his boys. It reads: "Because you deserve the best of me that I seek to become the fullest expression of who I was created to be. I love you, Dad." POWERFUL!Bruce has had lots and lots of cause to worry in his life. February 17th of 2014, 9:22 in the morning, he put his youngest on school bus and had just started to eat breakfast. "I was expecting my doctor to call me with the biopsy results, but he assured me that everything was just going to be fine. The phone rang. I looked at the caller ID and in that instant; I knew exactly what he was going to tell me.I knew that eating breakfast that morning was going to be the last normal thing I would do for a very long time. Sure enough he called and he said, "Bruce, I just have no idea how to tell you this. It all came back bad. You've got stage 4 prostate cancer." Then the wheels just start rolling and life didn’t assume normalcy for a long time after that". I can't even imagine. I'll never forget the day that Bruce texted me. He had just found out. Knowing what he went through, the terrible pain and process yet his faith remained so very strong. We asked Bruce, what is worry? "Worry is using your imagination to create images of what you do not want to see, and/or events that you do not want to occur. It becomes paralyzing. It is like watching a movie. You're creating, scripting, directing, and casting a movie in which you're a victim." When does worry become your dominant thought process? "There are so many things we worry about that we have absolutely no control over. There are certain things though that we worry about that we do have control over. Step 1: WATCH A DIFFERENT MOVIE. Many of us just live our lives unaware that we can indeed control our thoughts." You have that 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts a day, and researchers have discovered that approximately 75 percent of those are negative.Step 2: MOVE TO A DIFFERENT STATEPacking up our belongings and moving a couple hundred miles away might remove us from the source of what we think is some of our worry. That’s not the moving to a different state that I mean. I'm talking about physical and mental state management.Our bodies have control over our emotions. When we're happy, our bodies move in a certain way. We are expansive. We take up more space. If you will move your body the way you would be moving your body, if you were happy, amazingly, you start to become happy. Step 3: GIVE YOURSELF THE PRESENT-When we're worried, we are thinking about the future. When we're thinking about the future, we are not living in the present.The only thing that is absolutely guaranteed in this life is that God only gives us right now, this very second. This is why scripture says, "Tomorrow has enough worries of its own." Live today.Step 4: REST IN P'S - The P’s are perspective, plan, purpose, perfection, and peace. Ultimately, if we can understand that the life that we are experiencing right now we are only able to experience within our own thought process, then we can realize that there may be another perspective, another way. Trusting that there is a plan and that there's a purpose and that the creator of this plan and purpose is perfect means whatever is happening in your life is perfect. It doesn’t mean it's pleasant. If you can wrap your brain around perspective, plan, purpose and perfection, it can’t help but bring peace into your life and that’s ultimately what we want from our worry is peace.Conclusion:We live in this paradox and trying to find peace in that paradox. We are 100 percent responsible for our lives as far as the decisions we make, the thoughts we think, and the way we respond to certain event in our lives. We do not usually get to choose the path we get to walk down, but we get to choose how we walk it.

CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE DOWNLOADhttp://chrislocurto.com/downloads/Over this past weekend, I got a little frustrated. I was flipping through the Facebook feed, and there was a video of somebody talking about how poor people are kept poor.I've got to tell you, I was so frustrated listening to this guy, and knowing that there are people out there that are clicking this and telling themselves, "Yeah, this guy is so right! Of course, there is a system in place that keeps me poor. There is a system that keeps me held down!"We found so many businesses and leaders that have been struggling with this. I want to help you get to a place of leading your team members, maybe even helping yourself. Maybe this is you if you as a leader or struggling with this. So let's BUST this myth:1. As a leader, it is your job to make your team successful.Let them know that there is an opportunity for them to absolutely hustle and win with money. You have to show them, and be willing to pay someone who does. You've got to start there. What are you willing to give to them if they will go bust it? Bring money in, I'll share it with you, period! That's it.2. How can they help or support other areas to bring in more revenue?You have to look at that as well. Are they just in an admin role, or are they supporting an area that is creating more revenue? They're actually a part of that process. How do I share with them? Obviously, I'm going to pay them a great salary, but do I also give them part of profit sharing? What do I do? You have think through and allow them to see that they have an opportunity as well.3. Invest in your team.My team is well aware that I am willing to spend money on them becoming better if they can show me how they can, and they can prove that it is actually work. I will pay for it. I will spend money on my team members to become better so that they can make even more money. I'm all about that.4. Teach your team to serve, serve, serve.Like I said, almost every single job that I have ever had in some way, shape, or form served people. It took care of people. It helped people. Serving people. Helping them to get what they need, you will never worry about having enough, period. Again, as we talked with Rabbi Lapin, you have to become obsessively preoccupied with the needs of others. As you serve well, and do well, money comes your way. People want to pay to have their lives changed, to have their businesses changed. That's common sense. We don't have to seek the money. Instead, we serve people. They take care of us in the process.When you begin to make money, more money than ever before, because of it, you tend to bust it more. When you discover this key to wealth, when you discover this key of serving, working hard, busting it, hassling, taking care of people, you tend to do it more. You tend to realize that it's very difficult to feel entitled when you're taking care of other people. When you're helping other people get their needs met, it's really difficult for you to go, "I need my handout."There are champions out there who want it. They want the opportunity!Do those things and you will have a team that's focused on serving. You will have a team that's focused on gaining wealth. You will have a team that is focused on growing your business. It is all about changing your mindset, not only yours but that of your teams. If you can have a team that has this kind of mindset, there is nothing you can't accomplish.

Facebook has 1.5 billion people actively on it. There are already 30 million business pages on Facebook. It has the most evenly distributed demographic, which means you're going to find almost as many 50-year olds on Facebook as you are 20-year olds. Social media is networking online. It just takes a little longer to build that rapport and to build that trust and the relationship. So what if your business could get .1% of those people interested in what you are doing? You've increased your reach in your customer base by a thousand times!! Today, on the show, we are talking about social media. Why it's so important to you. How you should be using it, and why you should be using it.

Nearly every year 100 Jewish people are included in the Forbes 400 Wealthiest Americans. By demographic proportion, there shouldn’t be more than 8 or 9. How are they consistently wealthier than the rest of the population? Rabbi Lapin shares how on today’s episode of The Chris LoCurto Show!

Have you ever noticed that highly successful people have a distinct mindset? Do you wonder what they do to stay mentally strong?On today's show, I unpack 18 Habits of Mentally Strong People. The stuff that so many people avoid doing, or have no clue that they should be doing them.There are so many nuggets of wisdom in this podcast that we have created a FREE DOWNLOAD for you containing ALL 18 habits!

Stephen Scoggins is joining us on the show today. Stephen is a successful entrepreneur, a speaker, and the author of the book The Journey Principles (10 Simple Principles for a Life Journey That Matters).On the show he shares how he built a multi-million dollar business, and yet his spirit was broken. Money and success didn't bring him happiness. Instead, he had to find out what was holding him back.He talks about being minutes from the business going down the toilet, and then being led to having a discussion with yours truly. That conversation we had many years ago began his Journey which led him to today and his new book, which he uses to reach out to others in life changing ways!Along this journey we’ve become great friends, and we both absostinkinlutely give God the glory that He chose that day for us to connect.So let's dive in to the Journey Principles!

In day-to-day life it's easy to fall into the trap of believing a myth or a lie about yourself.Broken belief systems are can cripple you if you don't watch out. On the show today I wanted to focus on 8 core myths that I see often during our LifePlan events.Now these 8 lies are not the only myths there are! There's a ton more we didn't have time for.But I wanted to dive into these 8 and unpack them for you so maybe you can see if you are believing a myth about your life.Here's a preview of what we cover on the episode:Is other peoples happiness more important than yours?Why happiness isn't the end gameCodependency and self sabotageCan you truly earn someone's love?Why "building walls" is killing your relationshipsIs all conflict bad?Unless it's easy...it's wrong!Do you really have to be right?

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Are you thinking about launching a new start up?Maybe you recently launched a new business and are still in the early phases.Todays show will help you ask 7 fundamental questions of your new venture so you can set yourself up for success.