Raymond Aaron
Raymond Aaron is Toronto’s premier coach and a NY Times best selling author. He is also one of the people on the movie the Secret’s cutting room floor. An accountability expert Raymond likes to say that ‘each mess is a lock on the gate which keeps abundance out’. And by abundance he is usually, in my experience, meaning financial abundance. Today, I received an email from James Schramko with a link to his interview with Raymond Aaron. If you’re interested in seeing it email me and I’ll send you the link. But I digress, back to the review.
NY Times Best Selling Author
Raymond Aaron’s presentation style is electric. He is very energetic and showed slides with his photos in Antarctica and at the North Pole. He has two books that are in print in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul and Chicken Soup for the Parent’s Soul. His latest book is Double Your Income Doing What You Love.
Who Is Your Mentor?
One of Raymond’s teachings is that every successful person has a mentor. He suggests that when you meet successful people you should ask them ‘Who Is Your Mentor’ because, he says, that will invoke them to recall wonderful memories of when they were just starting out and someone with love took them under their wing and showed them how to escape their struggles and become successful.
Aim High
Raymond also says ‘Aim High’. I have a little diagram in my notebook where I drew the path of success as an arrow forty-five degrees up and to the right and with bullets falling from above. At each juncture we either dodge the environment trying to pull us down, or we are set back. Either way it is only by daily taking action, aiming high and working toward our vision that we eventually make something of our lives. The set backs are random in my opinion. You can’t guard everywhere, or you’ll be weak everywhere – Sun Tzu. Consequently we guard against catastrophic failures and focus instead on moving forward but every now and again, randomly, something will occur that sets us back. It is how we deal with those set backs that truly defines our character.
Suicidal
Raymond Aaron was $100,000 in debt and suicidal at one point in his life, at around 35 if my memory serves me correctly. It was at that time, living with his parents that he met his first mentor who showed him that he could double his income doing what he loved. In his first year he got out of debt completely and in the year following made a million dollars.
Renewal Strategy
Raymond also takes a vacation for one week every month, and once every two years he takes a month long vacation. I can relate this to the Renewal strategy taught in Scott LeTourneau’s interview with Alexander Van Beuren. If you think about an world class athlete such as Lance Armstrong, do you think that he knows how to renew himself? Of course, it is a key to peak performance. Great lesson in that Raymond!
AutoMagic!
One of the classic sayings in Raymond’s presentation is his freshly coined word, ‘Automagically’. He says that we are able to manifest ‘Automagically’ if we simply set ourselves up for success. By setting yourself up for success Raymond teaches that we should set goals according to his MTO method. MTO is an acronym for minimum, target, outrageous. In a nutshell Raymond Aaron suggests you should set goals for your minimum that you can be counted on to do based on your past behavior, then feel good about that. Given that you feel good about that you will have the momentum to work toward a slightly more onerous goal, the target. Achieving that you can then stretch with the extra momentum created by achieving the target to your outrageous goal, and feel tremendous. Clearly feeling good is important to activate the law of attraction, according to Raymond Aaron.
