12 Minutes to Success | DFS 400

Today is episode 400 of Destin for

Success. I'm your host, Jennifer Takagi, your 12 minute success

coach. And today's story, today's topic is on the 12

minutes to success and what that really means, and how powerful

that can be in your life. I came up with the 12 minute

methodology when I was preparing to do a workshop based on the

book, The Success Principles, and the Train the trainer

certification that I received, and the first principle in the

Success Principles is take 100% responsibility for every aspect

of your life, and if 100% is too much, take 5% more, and I became

obsessed. What is 5% 5% of what? In the end, I broke my day into

four hour increments: eight to noon, one to five, six to 10,

and in those four hour increments, I could, I could

manage my day, manage my life, and every four hours, 5% of four

hours is 12 minutes. Yes, I used a calculator. Have you heard the

story before? I used a calculator, and the biggest

thing I want you to take away from that experiment that has

made major changes in people's lives is that success doesn't

require massive time blocks. Most people delay their dreams

because they think they need hours of uninterrupted time to

get it done, but consistent 12 minute focused actions create

momentum faster than waiting for the perfect time. Small

incremental action compounds into massive results, and if you

focus on one thing for 12 minutes a day over a year, 365

days, 73 hours. what could you create if you spent 73 hours on

it? Well, number one, you probably won't, like you're not

even gonna get started. Let's be honest, let's be clear, you're

not even gonna do it, but if you break it into 12 minute

increments, you can actually start getting things done.

Clarity creates acceleration when you break your goals into

12 minute increments. Overwhelm decreases, confidence increases.

So, instead of asking, How do I finish this huge goal, ask What

can I move forward in the next 12 minutes. I recently did a

workshop on attracting clients and what you can do, and one

thing is social media. Get a social media post out there, get

your name out there, your services out there, create a

post. Most people don't do it, because they set aside 45

minutes to an hour to create that one post, and then they sit

there, and they dilly, and they dally, and they don't do

anything. If you say you're gonna do something, you're

telling your brain, you're going to do it, and when you don't do

it, and you don't do it consistently enough, pretty soon

your brain says that is a woman or that is a man who doesn't do

what they say they're going to do, so your subconscious mind

doesn't try to build you up and help you and spur you on and

give you new ideas, because it knows you've already decided

you're not the person who does what you say you're going to do.

Break it down, make it small. You want to send an email,

perfect. Go into AI, type in there, I want to send an email

to my audience around XYZ, give me a draft. I'm a huge fan of

AI. I put my stuff in there all the time, and I'm like, "Hey,

help me out with this. It spurs on new ideas. It's like having a

whole team at your back helping you out. What do you want to do?

What do you want to create? Break it down into little

pieces, so that you can actually start achieving your goals and

getting things done. Now, when the 12 minutes are up, if you've

got a little more time, great, add more time. I try. Really,

have a friend who said I got this exercise bike, and I really

want to ride it, but I need to find my bicycle shorts, and I

went. See, that's a first step in 12 minutes. Get your

equipment together. Do you need your favorite bicycle shorts to

ride that exercise bicycle? Do you need your favorite tennis

shoes, socks, like, what do you need? What on earth do you need,

so you can start exercising? You need your outfit, you need your

outfit. In the end, she gave the bike away. She was talking to a

friend and said, "I've got this exercise bike, I've had it in

here a year, and I haven't ridden it once, and her friend

said I'm dying to have one. I'll get in my car and head right

over and pick it up, and she did. But the one who had the

bike, she didn't ride it, because she couldn't find her

bike shorts. If you're going to start a new plan, you've got to

have the materials that you think you'll need to be able to

do it now. I personally laughed out loud at her, because it

doesn't matter what I have on. If I need to slip on my Skechers

slip-ons, because I ride my exercise bike with shoes on,

then I do. Other than that, I can wear whatever I want,

because how long do I ride my bike? You guessed it, 12

minutes. And it was a big deal to get to 12 minutes, ladies and

gentlemen. Why? Because I've had both knees replaced in the last

two years, and it took a little while. It took a little while.

What can you do in the next 12 minutes? Can you walk for 12

minutes? Can you ride a bike for 12 minutes? 12 minutes is too

busy due to six minutes, or four, three minutes, whatever it

takes to build it up, to build up your stamina. How long do you

want to spend creating a social media post? Great, break it down

into little increments. The next point I want to make about this

is, energy matters as much as strategy. You can have the best

plan in the world, but if fear, doubt, procrastination, or

emotional blocks are read in the show, you'll stay stuck. The 12

minutes to success approach combines focused action with

aligned energy, so people move forward faster and with more

confidence. If you sit down and can't, won't, or don't do the

thing. Ask yourself why. What is holding me back from doing this?

I believe it was Marianne Williamson, and I had her poem

tacked up in my office, but I can't lay my eyeballs on it

right this second. But I believe it was Marianne Williamson who

said we're not scared of failure as much as we're scared of how

successful we can truly be. I butchered that horribly, so look

it up, Marianne Williamson and her quote on success, and what

she's getting at, is it is scary to think how successful we can

be. It's scary to think of how, how many people we can impact.

That's what we get scared about, and that's what holds us back,

and those are the little stories in our heads that keep us back.

Our next, my next podcast is going to be about identity,

because how we see ourselves, the identity we hold, what is

the first step to getting what you want, creating the identity

that you want, so I talk a lot. You may or may not have seen me

on the summit talking about my win methodology. Wire your brain

for success. Imagine the future and break your goals into next

steps. Win methodology, that's also identity, imagination, and

increments. However, you want to break it down, it starts with

your mind first, in your mind's eye. Did you hear me talk about

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and Amanda Francis talks

about manifesting what you want, and the other women on the show

just laughed and thought that was the most ridiculous thing

they ever heard of, and they just wanted a plan, but you

can't create a plan unless you know what you want, and then

when you start to go after what you want, that fear sets in.

Those old stories step in. Somebody says you're gonna have

to take the stage, and you remember when you're a little

kid and you tripped, walk into the front of the room to give

your report, and you're like, "Oh, I can't, I can't speak in

front of people like that. That happened, you. Need to clear

those things out. I obviously can help you with that. I'm your

12 minute success coach, and I'm an energy healer, so I can help

identify and clear that quickly. You can learn to do it yourself.

It's always more powerful for me if somebody else does it for me,

but that energy has to align with the clarity on who you want

to be and how you want to show up, so becoming the 12 minute

success coach, it was, it was one of the many things in my

life that just happened by happenstance and circumstance,

and being in the right place at the right time, because I had

written the book Reach Your Goals in 12 Minute Increments,

and somebody helped me refine it to 12 minutes to success. Reach

your goals in 12 minute increments. I literally wrote

the book on it, and then I started becoming the 12 minute

success coach, and I was like, 'Holy crap, bully! I didn't even

know. I didn't know it evolved, it grew, and now I'm achieving

my dreams and my goals in small increments. I've had clients

come to me and say, I heard you on a summit one time talking

about 12 minute increments, and it changed my life. So, you can

start changing your life 12 minutes at a time. I'm Jennifer

Takagi, your 12 minute success coach. I look forward to

connecting with you soon. Click the link, book a call. Let's see

how I can help you start reaching your goals in 12 minute

increments.