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To make habits stick, the change has to happen in our minds, not in our schedule. Once it happens in your mind, your schedule will then follow.

Trevor Mauch, CEO of Carrot

We’re bringing you a micro-episode of the CarrotCast just in time for the new year. I’ve talked a lot over the past few years about the power of visualizing your future and changing your habits to become the person you want to be.

This is something that I’m really passionate about and I’m convicted that if you want to make those changes in your life, it needs to happen today… not tomorrow, or on New Year’s Day.

I wanted to get personal in this episode and share a couple of my own stories so that you can understand how this mindset has completely changed not only my life, but my wife’s, my kid’s, and even some of our members.

Listen to this quick episode and then hit me up on Instagram. I want to hear how it impacts you. Also, don’t forget to join me Dec 29th at 9:00 for my free annual EPIC planning call at Carrot.com/EPIC.

I’m grateful to get to serve you and I’m super pumped about crushing 2019 with ya’ll! See ya soon!

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New Year’s Resolutions Are For Suckers – Do This Instead

“Who do you need to become to lead the people in your life that are counting on you?”

“To make habits stick, the change has to happen in our minds, not in our schedule. Once it happens in your mind, your schedule will then follow.”

“Forget about January 1st. What will you do today to become the person you need to be?”

“A lot of us are brought up into the mindset of – we work so then we can get money to put in the bank, then we can retire, then we can finally enjoy our life. But, that’s backwards. The work should be the enjoyment that fuels your passion and helps you make the impact.”

ADDITIONAL CARROTCAST EPISODES

• My 2018 Year-End Review and How We’re Growing in 2019 Carrotcast
  
• How to Establish Power Habits in Your Life w/ Geoff Woods, Vice President of The ONE Thing: CarrotCast
• You Need to Escape the Daily Grind Before You Regret Being an Entrepreneur w/ Trevor Mauch: CarrotCast 

FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

• Follow @trevor.mauch on Instagram
• Make 2019 Your Year! – Join us for “Planning An Epic Year: Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet!” LIVE Saturday, December 29th @ 9:00 AM Pacific (12:00 Eastern) Can’t make it? No problem! The call will be recorded.
• Check out our blog!
• Check out our podcast!

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Habits create the person you want to become.

Trevor Mauch, CEO of Carrot

It’s been a really interesting year. This is the year that I’ve probably had to grow the most personally. As the team grows, you really start to look at yourself and go, Man, The main bottleneck of growth in the company is you as the CEO.

If you’re not growing faster than the pace of the company, then you’re gonna hold the company back. So, for me, there were spots where the company was growing fast and it could grow faster but the problem was I really needed to up-level the way that I lead.

So in this episode, I’m going to recap my year for 2018 and some of the lessons, the key lessons, that I learned.

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My 2018 Year-End Review and How We’re Growing in 2019

03:00 – How you as a leader or CEO might be a bottleneck as your team grows.

04:59 – Invest in yourself: Hiring leadership coaches and finding mentors.

07:29 – Trevor’s personal life: Crushing health and fitness goals & how to get rid of afternoon crashes and wake up feeling energized.

13:58 – What I failed at and learned from in 2018 and how I plan to grow in 2019.

19:42 – Forming better habits and routines to become the person you want to be.

20:32 – My personal morning routine.

27:12 – The Carrot Give Program and how we’re changing lives in our communities. Check out Carrot.com/GIVE

28:31 – Take action on who you want to become in 2019. Join Trevor for his annual EPIC planning call. It’s totally free. Carrot.com/EPIC

ADDITIONAL CARROTCAST EPISODES

• How Audacious Goals Can Cause Failure | Bringing Your Targets Closer To Win: CarrotCast
  
• How to Establish Power Habits in Your Life w/ Geoff Woods, Vice President of The ONE Thing: CarrotCast
• Flowers For Other Grandmas: The $100 Giving Challenge: CarrotCast

FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

• Take the Kolbe Assessment
• Follow @trevor.mauch on Instagram
• Make 2019 Your Year! – Join us for “Planning An Epic Year: Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet!”
• Check out our blog!
• Check out our podcast!

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Most of us go into business for the freedom and finances, but if you don’t make the transition to impact and flexibility you’ll start to resent your business.

Trevor Mauch, CEO of Carrot

So you want to make a living in real estate? As a new investor, if you want to be able to weather the storms, you’re going to have to learn the tried and true strategies and tactics of the industry. Dylan has spent 15 years learning what works and adapting to the market in order to succeed. From private money to fix & flips to wholesaling, we’re going give you the tools and the advice you need to build a sustainable career as a real estate investor. Listen in!

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Secrets And Strategies From 15 Years of Successful Real Estate Investing

02:00 – Dylan Tanaka’s background as a Real Estate Investor

03:43 – How Dylan uses Carrot websites to help fuel his business.

07:29 – The first secret to his success as a real estate investor: private money.

10:13 – The strategy shifts Dylan made after the crash of ‘08 and how he got started in wholesaling real estate: private money, buying foreclosures, and fix & flips.
12:36 – The future of the real estate market and where it’s headed in 2019.

15:29 – Which marketing methods he’s using for his business, both online and offline.

16:31 – How to build credibility and earn people’s trust as a real estate investor.

19:19 – Why any old website for your business just won’t get you the results you need to run a sustainable business.

21:35 – Dylan’s current volume.

22:08 – Why you need to be involved in every real estate meetup in your local area.

25:12 – Strategies for investing and wholesaling in 2019.

29:56 – The best advice for new real estate investors.

33:11 – Tang Wynn’s story – Over 100 deals a year without cold calling or direct mail.

36:12 –  Dylan’s “Why” behind what he does.

ADDITIONAL CARROTCAST EPISODES

• Negotiation Psychology: How To Talk With A House Seller to Close More Deals + Help More People w/ John Martinez: CarrotCast
  
• 100+ Deals This Year Turning Other Peoples DEAD Leads Into Deals / Tang Nguyen and the “Odd Brothers”: CarrotCast
• What’s Your Credibility Score? The Top 5% Of Earners Are Doing These “Simple” Things To Build More Credibility In A Cluttered Market w/ Trevor Mauch: CarrotCast

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• Save your spot for our free 2019 EPIC Planning Call!
• Check out our blog!
• Check out our podcast!

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There will always be a higher dollar amount. If your happiness is tied to achieving a financial milestone, you’re going to be unhappy no matter how much money you have. But as soon as you start basing your net-worth on your impact, that’s when your happiness will start to grow.

Trevor Mauch, CEO of Carrot

One thing that has really built a community for our team and is something that I’m really passionate about is a holiday giving challenge. Now, it’s not what you think. I started this challenge with our team about 3 or 4 years ago. The aim isn’t to see how much money we can get. The aim is to amplify our community and those around us.

I’ve had the opportunity to see the impact this challenge has made on other’s lives as well as my own. Listen in, take the challenge, and let us know how it goes. Enjoy!

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Flowers For Other Grandmas: The $100 Giving Challenge

01:22 – A look into creating company culture at Carrot: What is the $100 giving challenge?

02:09 – How our team members are using their $100 to spread joy and inspire others in their communities.

04:30 – Trevor’s story of “Flowers For Other Grandmas” and why you’re giving doesn’t have to be perfect.

11:33 – The power that being a beacon of positivity can have in your life and business.

16:54 – Want free Carrot swag? Take the $100 giving challenge, get on Instagram, use hashtag #Carrotgivingchallenge and tag @trevor.mauch and @getcarrot.

18:25 – Join us on December 29th for Trevor’s free annual planning call at Carrot.com/EPIC and get the exact resources he uses to strategically plan his year.

ADDITIONAL CARROTCAST EPISODES

• Max Maxwell + Tony Robinson Unplugged: The Struggles, Lessons, and Failures That Led to a Multi-million Dollar Real Estate Business: Carrotcast
  
• You Need to Escape the Daily Grind Before You Regret Being an Entrepreneur w/ Trevor Mauch: CarrotCast 
• Breaking Through Ceilings In Your Business: My Formula and My Story: Carrotcast

FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

• Save your spot for our free 2019 EPIC Planning Call!
• Check out our blog!
• Check out our podcast!

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At the end of the day, I don’t gauge my worth on which goals I’ve hit.

Trevor Mauch, CEO of Carrot

We’re going to be doing a recap for 2018 on the podcast pretty soon. But if you’re reading this any other year, this podcast episode is going to be just as relevant today, the time that I’m recording it, as it is gonna be five years and five years from now.

Here’s the topic I want to dive into. When we’re looking at our planning for this next year, no matter when you’re listening to this, there’s one thing that I’ve been really guilty of. There are certain ways an entrepreneur sets goals that completely, completely, completely sets you up for failure. Ways that completely makes your team members learn how to lose and not how to win. But, there’s also a way to set up goals that are just really, really wrecking your progress, your happiness, and your contentment in life right now.

Okay, now, as I drop this hammer on you of talking about the normal goal setting process, which is completely deficient and not effective, and it’s the way that I’ve been doing it for years, I’ll actually be doing a call on this topic. You can head over to Carrot.com/EPIC to save your spot. I do this call for free every year and everyone is welcome. We aren’t selling a darn thing on it, I just want to share and really serve you, our carrot community.

I’ll walk through my exact annual planning process. And this year it’s changed more than it ever has. My team has gotten bigger and I’ve learned so many things about myself as a leader… so many things about myself, how to scale a company, how to have more time, more freedom, make a bigger impact, and also grow the finances and grow an amazing team. I’ve integrated some new processes I’ve learned from my coaches that have changed the game on how we surround our team, around targets, around goals, and how to really make it work.

So, on today’s CarrotCast, I want to walk you through a couple key concepts as your leading into this next year, to help you with your planning and avoid some of the mistakes we’ve made along the way.

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How Audacious Goals Can Cause Failure | Bringing Your Targets Closer To Win

01:03 – How to avoid a faulty goal-setting process that has the potential to wreck your happiness, contentment, and even your employees.

01:49  – Announcing Trevor’s epic planning call that will walk you through his exact planning process to help scale your business, grow an amazing team, and achieve more freedom, flexibility, finances, and impact. Save your spot here: Carrot.com/epic

02:49 – The dangers of setting big hairy, audacious goals for your team & how to train them to win.

04:56 –  “Bring your targets closer” – The simple method that Navy Seals use to achieve a pattern of winning.

08:43 – How to motivate and lead a team that believes their big goals are achievable.

15:43 – Bonus Announcement! Block out your calendars for January 12th & 13th when 14 industry experts will be coming together for the first time ever, very special event.

ADDITIONAL CARROTCAST EPISODES

• Max Maxwell + Tony Robinson Unplugged: The Struggles, Lessons, and Failures That Led to a Multi-million Dollar Real Estate Business: Carrotcast
  
• You Need to Escape the Daily Grind Before You Regret Being an Entrepreneur w/ Trevor Mauch: CarrotCast 
• Breaking Through Ceilings In Your Business: My Formula and My Story: Carrotcast

FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

• Save your spot for our free 2019 EPIC Planning Call!
• Check out our blog!
• Check out our podcast!

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We all have a choice. We can focus on the negative or the positive. Instead of focusing on all my problems, I focused on what I did have.

Chris Wark, author of Chris Beat Cancer

Chris Wark is an author, speaker and health coach. He was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2003 at 26 years old. He had surgery, but instead of chemotherapy used nutrition and natural therapies to heal himself. Chris opens up with us about some of the biggest lessons he learned through battling cancer and which habits he created that turned his life around.

Enjoy and be sure to hit us up on Facebook, please give us a rating on iTunes, watch other episodes on YouTube, or read the Carrot blog and share your thoughts. We’d love to hear them!

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Build A Life Of Health, Joy, And Sustainability

2:20 – Chris Wark’s journey into real estate investing

5:14 – What do you do after receiving a stage 3-C cancer diagnosis at the age of 26?

10:20 – How not to fuel your body & the relation between cigarettes and bacon.

16:02 – Chris’s decision to forgo chemotherapy. (Spoiler Alert: He beat cancer!)

17:50 – Guess which vegetable juice Chris drank 64 oz. of per day to help heal his body!

23:33 -The 3 main causes of cancer & how to avoid them.

25:18 – Stress & Immunosuppression: Why it matters to you.

32:08 – How Chris overcame fear through instincts, intuition, and faith.

41:39 – How getting clear on your reasons to live might lead to a better, longer life.

49:08 – The #1 lesson Chris picked up from beating cancer.

1:00:24 – Chris Wark’s top habits for a healthy, sustainable life.

1:26:33 – Hear a quick story of how Chris’ methods helped save the life of a friend in Roseburg, OR.

ADDITIONAL CARROTCAST EPISODES

• Why You Need to Escape the Daily Grind Before You Regret Being an Entrepreneur w/ Trevor Mauch: CarrotCast

FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!

• Pick up a copy of Chris’ book HERE!
• Visit Chris at https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/
• Check out Ambition: Leading with Gratitude by Seth Buechley
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• Check out our podcast!

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People talk about this a lot, you gotta believe it before you see it and I’m truly and example of this. I didn’t even really know how to do any of this but I believed I can make an impression in the real estate community. In the investment world I knew it could create an income that I would be happy with but I also knew I could create a life that I wanted.  Justin Colby

** Before you dive into this episode of the CarrotCast, it does contain some profanity. **

I’ve got a great, great guest on this episode of the CarrotCast. I’ve known Justin for years and years. He’s actually at my last Mastermind in Sedona Arizona, so I wanted to bring him on to talk about how he’s building his business, and what he’s really shifted in a big way for 2018.

What was working for him to wholesale and flipping houses to the tune of 100 plus last year, is not working for him going into this year quite so much, so he is going to be adjusting those in massive ways.

Justin has a great story. He is kind of one of those guys who came from being completely broke, and he talks about a pretty funny story of how he and his friend kind of skirted the car impound people by trading cars multiple states away for a period of time to keep their cars a little bit longer. Some funny, funny stuff, entrepreneur story stuff.

He also digs into the mindset and how they scaled their business from doing a couple deals to over a hundred in a year. And they’ve done 700+ deals so far in their career. He breaks down what’s working for them now versus what wasn’t.

Let’s dive into Justin Colby’s story on how he went from being broke and struggling to scale his business working five hours a week in his business now, how he formed a great partnership, what to look for in partnerships. All kinds of amazing things!

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This episode of the CarrotCast is a story that will guide, amplify, and inspire you to work hard and never give up on your dreams. Find out how Justin Colby has used his flipping houses model to achieve his goals and sense of giving.

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4:15 – Breaking down Justin Colby’s story. He’s twisting the path to real estate investing.
12:00 – Why it’s so darn important to have a “when” mindset rather than an “if” mindset.
16:40 – Need to organize and predict your business and growth? How and why you should create a vision story.
19:40 – The moment where Justin decided to build a team and what he’s workweek looks like now after fully implementing this change. The story “From Repos to Wealth.”
24:25 – Why hedge funds are back.
26:15 – What has and hasn’t worked on the partnership side of his business and the power of personality tests.
32:10 – Real estate marketing: What worked in 2017 and what they will do going forward.
37:40 – What to start a cold calling strategy? What list Justin uses, and how many calls do they make to close a cold call deal every 21 days?
41:00 – Bandit sign strategy built for his house flipping needs.
42:10 – Giving back is a major part of why Justin has built his business. Find out how he achieves this, where his business is spending money, and what for what.
45:35 – Guiding people along a path to change their family trees.
49:05 – Find out more about Justin Colby at The Science of Flipping.

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… I said, you know what, I’m going to give myself permission that my purpose is this one thing. At the end of the year, I want to look back with conviction and say I did the best I could possibly do as a human being at everything in life. Trevor Mauch

*This episode of the CarrotCast was first featured on “HIGH-INCOME BUSINESS WRITING” with Ed Gandia.

The end of the year setting goals for the months and year ahead is always an exciting time. This time also presents an opportunity to learn more about YOU. What is it that you strive for and value in life and in business?

What are your core values? Do they need adjusting? And, what criteria will guide you in those decisions?

On this episode of the CarrotCast, Trevor dives into the art of creating a non-negotiable list. With a predetermined set of rules in place, your focus won’t waiver from what you truly believe.

How can you start to define what your non-negotiables for business and life? Listen and learn how Trevor implemented a plan that worked for him. Maybe it will work for you!

Listen in and enjoy!

Find more episodes of the CarrotCast and if you need some help planning or guidance heading into 2018, go to Planning an Epic 2018.

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Trevor’s 5 Non-Negotiables for Business and Life

6:50 – Trevor’s backstory. His journey and struggles.

13:00 – Struggling with motivation. How he worked through being in the wrong business mindset.

17:25 – Non-negotiable #1: Singular focus on ONE big thing

Entrepreneurs see opportunities everywhere. That can be good and bad. Taking on too many opportunities can cause burnout and lack of clarity.

During Trevor’s early entrepreneurial journey, he was running two software companies and a publishing company while also managing real estate investments and performing some consultations. It drained him and eventually he wasn’t performing at his best.

Part of his non-negotiable list, Trevor gave himself permission to focus on just 1 big thing and concentrate on performing at his very best.

25:25 – Non-negotiable #2: Have fun and a mission you believe at your core

After four years, fun wasn’t part of Trevor ‘s core mission. And it was starting to show in his life.

You need a mission. You need to feel like you’re making a difference. And, you need to have fun.

Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t have a solid, defined purpose. Don’t stress, it will come along naturally. For Trevor, he realized that he had actually bake it into what he did every day.

39:05 – Non-negotiable #3: Be consistent and predictable

Non-negotiable is about getting eliminating the boom or bust business cycle. Finding ways to create a consistent and predictable income.

There are times that you might be turning away money, but it’s worth it because it allows you to better predict your income and plan for the future.

Non-negotiable #4: Build a long-term valuable asset

Entrepreneurs easily get caught up on the transactional side of their business. Don’t be left with anything to show but a handful of contracts.

You’ll need to build something that has its own value. A force with a team and one that you might even be able to sell one day.

41:30 – Non-negotiable #5: Find your purpose. Live and work with your unique abilities

It can be as simple as spreading kindness or making someone laugh every day.

Although, at the same time, you’ll need to work on finding and crafting your unique abilities. Part of that is discovering what give you energy and what kills it.

Use Trevor’s energy audit to explore this concept. Follow his plan for adding more energy producing tasks to your day and remove some energy killing tasks.

Trevor’s energy audit: https://carrot.com/energy

Ideally, you’re looking to spend at least 60% of your time on things that give you energy.

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