My 2014 Year In Review: Successes, Celebrations & Lessons Learned

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At the end of each year, I always make sure to take some time to reflect back on the previous year.

I do this for two reasons:

1. To acknowledge all of the successes and accomplishments of the year.  By celebrating all of your “wins”, it gives you more certainty towards achieving your future goals.  Not only that, but it feels damn good and you get to feel proud of yourself!

2. To carefully review all of the failures, challenges and goals that I came up short on.  What can I learn from these experiences?  What good can come from it?  By finding the positive and the lessons learned, those challenges then become your asset.  This will ensure you don't make the same mistakes or experience the same challenges/failures for your upcoming year.

What gets rewarded, gets repeated.  Success breeds more success.

In this video blog, you will see me reflect back and list all of the successes, celebrations and lessons learned from 2014.

There is A LOT more that has happened for me in 2014, but this list is what I came up with during an hour of reflecting back through journals and thinking about my year.  I'm probably missing a lot, but these are the highlights.

This “Year In Review” video blog will also include my Monthly Goals Report for December 2014, as I give an update on my goals and progress made during December.  There was just no need to make another video blog for that.

Watch the video below:

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Successes, Accomplishments & Celebrations

These are some of the biggest successes, accomplishments and celebrations of 2014 that I'm most proud of.

Health & Fitness:

• Competed in the WBFF fitness model competition on July 26
• Leaned out to roughly 6% body fat
• Worked out consistently, 5 days per week
• Ate clean and healthy, 5-6 days per week
• Did a 10 day raw food cleanse using the Total Wellness Cleanse
• Became vegetarian (stopped eating meat and dairy)
• Worked with 3 fitness coaches/trainers that have helped my reach my goals
• Bought a Kangen alkaline water machine and shower unit
• Invested more in my health via supplements, taking my health to the next level
• Cut out whey protein and casein protein
• Cut out caffeine and pre-workout energy drinks
• Did a fitness photo shoot
• Yoga, muay thai, basketball, and played some other sports
• Juicing fairly regularly
• Watched a lot of awesome health documentaries
• Overcame binge eating habits
• Visited a naturopath

Financial:

• Had highest grossing month of $106,094.90 in my business in December
• Made a total of $690,639.21 for 2014
• Saved over $300,000
• Invested over $100,000
• Successfully rented my investment property, covering rent every month
• Learned a lot more about investing and real estate

Business:

• Published 105 new blog posts and received over 840,000 views
• Published 91 videos on YouTube and received over 967,000 views
• Launched podcast and received over 100,000 views
• Over 15,000 subscribers on e-mail lists
• Mastering Book Publishing contributed to members making over $1,000,000 in royalties
• Improved Mastering Book Publishing regularly, added new videos/content to Full Disclosure monthly
• Launched DFY Kindle Ready Book Packages
• Made progress towards Kindle software
• Coached dozens of clients 1-on-1 and via group coaching, helping change lives
• Completed Autoresponder Madness and created new e-mail followup sequences
• Launched The 24-Hour Book System
• Wrote and published Kindle Marketing Secrets on Kindle
• Published dozens of new Kindle books
• Continually learned more about Kindle publishing, ways to make more money and add value
• Joined Amazing Selling Machine, made significant progress towards launching my Amazon product
• Launched the new design of ProjectLifeMastery.com
• Launched new coaching program and the PLM Mastermind
• Hired a few new virtual assistants, expanding my team
• Found new ways to create systems in my business and automate things
• Learned a lot about accounting, protecting my assets, setting up the right corporate structure
• Successfully trademarked Project Life Mastery
• Went to the Traffic and Conversion Summit in San Diego
• Spoke at 2 Internet Marketing Meetups in Vancouver
• Networked and connected with some amazing, successful individuals
• Connected with my Mastermind group even deeper, building a stronger relationship
• Hired and worked with multiple coaches
• Became better at recording and editing videos
• Sold a website/Clickbank product for $14,000 on Flippa
• Promoted the Amazing Selling Machine and 100 Day Challenge, among other great programs that have helped people immensely
• Was interviewed by several people
• I interviewed several outstanding people
• Leveraged my brother Andreas to do coaching with Kindle
• Created a video sales letter for Mastering Book Publishing, increased conversion rate massively

Lifestyle:

• Moved into a $1.7 million dollar penthouse of the Sheraton Wall Centre on the 48th floor
• Furnished my penthouse in a way that inspires me
• Bought the 2014 Corvette Stingray
• Went to Tony Robbins Unleash The Power Within twice (San Jose and Dallas)
• Spent 2.5 weeks in Bali, Indonesia
• Spent 2.5 weeks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with my girlfriend
• Hosted a small party/get together with friends nearly every month
• Spent a weekend in Whistler with my girlfriend
• Spent a week in Los Angeles with my girlfriend
• Had a blast at Disneyland and California Adventure Park
• Visited the Haunted Hayride in Los Angeles
• Visited Universal Studios in Los Angeles
• Bought the new Panasonic GH4
• Did a fun photoshoot
• Weekly and monthly mastermind groups
• Got into Foosball and play regularly
• Hired a personal chef
• Hired a house cleaner
• Lebron James and Michael Jordan jerseys framed

Social & Relationship:

• Fell in love and entered a new relationship
• Created a bucket list with my girlfriend and have created many magic moments
• Travelled with my girlfriend
• Spent time with friends every week
• Connected with family more, developed a deeper relationship
• Became closer with my brother and sister
• Really helped my sister improve her quality of life with self-development
• Did weekly checkins with my girlfriend with our relationship book
• Focused on giving unconditionally and meeting my girlfriends needs regularly
• Discovered Tinder, had some positive experiences dating
• Created many awesome magic moments with friends
• Went out to parties, clubs and hosted some parties/get togethers with friends

Habits & Personal Development:

• Meditated more than I ever have before in my life
• Stopped biting my nails for 30 days
• Did my morning ritual fairly consistently
• Went through Personal Power II, Time Of Your Life, Body You Deserve and several other Tony Robbins programs again
• Read 13 books
• Listened to 3 audio books via Audible
• Became better at responding to friends and family members quicker
• Started doing NLP sessions
• Went to the Millionaire Mind Intensive with my sister
• Went to Unleash The Power Within twice (San Jose and Dallas)
• Hired and worked with many excellent coaches
• Created new vision board

Contribution

• Donated thousands of dollars to charities and organizations that I support
• Continued sponsoring 3 children with World Vision every month
• Bought items to gift and gave away to random homeless people
• When opportunities presented it self, I practiced the habit of giving and being selfless
• Did the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to bring awareness
• Reached and impacted hundreds of thousands of people via my videos, articles, podcast, products and services
• Received over a thousand thank you messages, emails, letters and comments from people that I've positively impacted
• Gave gifts to help support my family, focused on contributing a lot to them
• Gave bonuses to my team of virtual assistants, empowering them
• Contributed a lot of my time to help people online, answering questions and giving feedback/coaching

Top Lessons Learned And Breakthroughs

These are some of the biggest lessons learned and breakthroughs of 2014.

• Your time is your most valuable asset.  Always focus on automating, leveraging and outsourcing as much as possible so that you can free up your time to focus on the highest leverage activities.
• Always focus on the most important goal or task, one at a time.  Try to avoid multi-tasking and focusing on too many things at once, which will lead to overwhelm.  Instead, focus on one thing at a time until competition, then move onto the next.
• Don't get caught up in negative comments or what other people think.  Trust yourself, know that you're doing good and keep going.
• Proactively manage your life and your time.  Plan out the week in advance, schedule things and don't waiver from your commitments.  Time management is one of the most important skills you can master.
• The training never stops if you want an extraordinary life!  Always remember that mastery requires continually learning and self-growth.  It never ends.
• Procrastination, depression, or any negative emotion or behaviour is just a HABIT.  It's a pattern, nothing more.  It's not YOU.  You developed it as a habit, which means that you can change it.
• You are nothing more than your rituals and habits.  Change what you do consisnelty every day and it will change your life.
• Love, Contribution and Growth are my top needs that I want to live my life by.  Significance and Certainty never brings any lasting joy or fulfillment, as you always compare yourself to others and it will never be enough.  You'll also always have to focus on controlling everything in your life, which is impossible.  The real fulfillment comes from Love, Contribution and Growth.
• What you get will never make you happy, it's about who you become in the pursuit of your goals.  Gratitude, love, happiness, excitement, pride, giving… these are the most powerful emotions that need to be cultivated on a daily basis if you want an extraordinary life.  Remember, the quality of your life is the quality of your emotions.
• Don't wait for moments in the future to be happy – be happy right now and enjoy each moment fully!
• Get out of the house more and socialize.  Just being outside and with the world will positively impact you.
• Don't be so hard on yourself.  Give yourself a break and practice self-compassion and love.
• Money is only a reflection of your creativity and your capacity to add value to the world.  The more you focus on adding value and helping others, the more money you will make.
• Health is #1.  It is a MUST to take care of your body everyday if you want to be happy and live long.
• The secret to living is giving.  Make your focus in life on adding value to others and you'll have no worries.
• Anticipation is power.  If you can effectively anticipate the future of your market, business or potential problems down the road, then it will save you a lot of pain.
• Find new hobbies and activities to give you joy.  Yoga, muay thai, sports, spending time with friends… these nourish your spirit and soul.
• Make sure to prepare effectively at the beginning of the year and do as much as you can, so that you can achieve all of your goals for the year.  Proper planning and anticipating things coming up is key.

Overall, 2014 was a remarkable year!  It's amazing how much progress you can make by setting goals and working hard towards achieving them.

2015 is going to be an even better year!  I look forward to sharing with you my 2015 goals and resolutions.

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