Dare to believe it!
Live to prove it!
JOHN VON ACHEN
YOU CAN
WELCOME TO
YOU CAN!
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Welcome to YOU CAN!
Hello, I’m John Von Achen, the author of YOU CAN.
I wanted to personally welcome you to this book preview and let you know I am glad you are here.
Before you begin reading, I thought it would be a good
idea to let you know what you can expect because
YOU CAN is a very unique book, probably unlike any
book you have ever read.
The reason is because YOU CAN is a book of HOW, specifically how to improve your personal performance and
achievement. There is no hype in this book, no filler and
no excuses. Only specific solutions for how YOU CAN
produce better results in everything you are doing.
YOU CAN is based on a proven methodology for producing maximum results I have been teaching organizations and individuals for over 10 years from countries
all over the world. And, in this book, I will take you
through the same proven methodology, step-by-step,
explaining HOW in detail along the way.
This preview includes the first two chapters of YOU CAN.
When you are finished reading, you can learn more about
YOU CAN and order your personal copy.
I hope you enjoy what you are about to read.
And, more importantly, find the content useful
and practical.
All the best,
John Von Achen
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Contents
CHAPTER 1
How It’s Supposed To Be
Answering the question of HOW to move forward
CHAPTER 2
It’s All About Momentum
Understanding the key component for continuous
success and achievement
CHAPTER 3
Developing a Habit of Achievement
The essential link for tapping into the power
of momentum
CHAPTER 4
Only 1%
The guarantee YOU CAN move forward all the time,
in everything you do and anytime you want
CHAPTER 5
Getting Started
How YOU CAN begin moving forward
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CHAPTER 6
Taking Steps
How YOU CAN take consistent steps of momentum
CHAPTER 7
Creating Winning Streaks
How YOU CAN win more often and win with
bigger results
CHAPTER 8
On Track
How YOU CAN stay motivated, focused
and moving forward
CHAPTER 9
Guaranteed R.O.I.
How YOU CAN invest in your success and achievement
CHAPTER 10
Getting Unstuck
How YOU CAN move forward when you can’t
move forward
CHAPTER 11
The Achievement Verdict
How YOU CAN make one of the most critical decisions
of you life with wisdom and confidence
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CHAPTER 1
HOW IT’S
SUPPOSED
TO BE
THIS BOOK COMES
WITH A PROMISE.
By reading the entirety of
this book, you will learn how
YOU CAN move forward
towards whatever it is you
want to achieve, experience,
encounter and enjoy.
THIS IS A BOOK OF
HOW.
How It’s Supposed To Be
Chapter 1
HOW?
HOW (to succeed, achieve, win and move forward) is a pretty important question for all of us. A question on the mind
of most people regularly, if not daily. More specifically, I
believe most people are regularly looking for answers to
these HOW questions:
• HOW do I obtain what I desire?
• HOW can I improve my performance and situation?
• HOW do I achieve my maximum potential?
• HOW do I create the life I really want?
• And, HOW do I move forward, especially when
I feel I am stuck?
Important questions to be sure, and you would think the
answers would be abundant. When you consider we live
in a world today that is full of information and so-called
“ready solutions” connected to success and achievement,
there should be HOW answers everywhere! Unfortunately,
that is not necessarily the case.
Please do not misunderstand me . . .
I am not suggesting the world is devoid of ideas, solutions
and information concerning personal achievement that
is valuable, practical and relevant. Quite the opposite is
true.
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Throughout my career, I have had the honor of lear­­ning
from many wise men and women. They have each taught
practical components of how to reach a “measure” of achievement in life. Still, from my vantage point, a large portion of the
information available today connected to success and
achievement is primal, watered down, hyped up and fails
to deliver on “The Promise.” The Promise? Yes, this promise.
Success and achievement
IS POSSIBLE for all of us.
To be clear, The Promise does not suggest that success and
achievement are necessarily easy. Nor does The Promise
suggest we can always control all of the circumstances
in our life. Or that success and achievement are without
a price; there is always a price.
However, the promise suggests success and achievement
in any endeavor is a learnable skill; one we can duplicate
to some degree.
That is the promise, isn’t it . . . isn't
that what all the experts tell us?
Two of my favorite quotes are from the great Jim Rohn and
both have everything to do with the truth that success and
achievement can be learned, duplicated and are possible
for all of us:
Success is neither magical nor mysterious.
Success is the natural consequence of consistently
applying the basic fundamentals.
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How It’s Supposed To Be
Chapter 1
Success is nothing more than a few
simple disciplines practiced every day.
There is no question that success and achievement in anything is something that we can all learn and duplicate.
I know this, not only through my own experience of personal achievement, but also from the success and achievement of others I have had the privilege of observing and
working with.
Throughout my career, I have personally worked with hundreds of organizations on change-related projects that included coaching thousands of executives, business owners
and professionals. Based on this experience, I have had the
opportunity to learn what it takes to manifest real change
that produces results.
So, I know for sure that success and achievement can be
learned and duplicated because I have seen people from all
walks of life (in over 40 countries) with all levels of experience and education actually do it!
Unfortunately, most people do not attain the measure
of success they are looking for and do not reach the level of achievement they are capable of. For almost my entire
career, this has really bothered me. Relentlessly, I have
tried to figure out why this is the case.
Obviously, there are many reasons why people do not succeed and achieve more, including a number of limiting beliefs, improper actions and poor decisions. That is the easy
part to figure out.
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WHAT IS MORE
CHALLENGING
TO UNDERSTAND
IS THIS . . .
What about the people
who seem to be doing
everything right,
but just can’t reach the
level of achievement
they long for?
How It’s Supposed To Be
Chapter 1
I am sure you know of the people I am referring to. In fact, you
might be one of them. I know I was. So here is the big question . . .
Is there something missing from their approach
to success and achievement? And if so, what is it?
I have come to a conclusion I would like to share with you.
I am convinced that the number one reason capable people
cannot achieve success is because their approach to success
and achievement, what ever it may be, is missing a key component.
The component I am referring to, for the most part, is rarely emphasized and regularly overlooked by most who teach
others how to succeed and achieve. Furthermore, I am convinced the lack of this component is why so many people
are not able to get a hold of the HOW.
And to be clear, this component is so critical
to your success and achievement that it
may very well change your life forever.
This is because if you learn and understand how this component works, YOU CAN realize the HOW of whatever
it is you want to achieve. And, this component will help
to guarantee you attain the results you want.
And what is this critical component to success and achievement?
Momentum.
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CHAPTER 2
IT’S ALL
ABOUT
MOMENTUM
FACT
If you do not
understand what
momentum is and
where it comes from,
you are probably one
decision or one action
away from losing
something.
It’s All About Momentum
MOMENTUM?
I would guess this is not the first time you have heard that
momentum is directly connected to one’s ability to succeed
and achieve. Still, most people I meet are unclear of what
momentum really is and how it specifically plays a part in
their success and achievement.
My goal here it to explain momentum in a way so that you
can embrace it, use it and benefit from its power. So to begin with, the first step is to define momentum.
The easiest way to initially define momentum is like this;
momentum is “mass in motion.” What this means
is that any mass (a car, a wave, a cloud, and yes, you) has
momentum if it is moving.
I think that is pretty understandable. What I also believe
is understandable is something we are taught about momentum in physics (and if you never learned anything
about physics, I know you will still get this).
A mass in motion will stay in motion
unless it loses its initial energy or
is acted upon by an outside force.
For example, if you are driving a car, traveling at
60 miles per hour, the car is propelled forward by its
own momentum, and will continue to move forward un-
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less you take your foot off the accelerator, run out of
gas or another car or large object hits the car (or you hit
something).
Another example of momentum is commonplace
in sports. For example, if a football team (or any other
sports team) is said to be “in momentum,” it means they
are on the move, advancing forward. And, it’s really going to take some serious effort from the opposing team to
stop them from winning. And why is this the case?
It is because the team is MOVING FORWARD. And herein
lies the power of momentum concerning your personal
success and achievement. Practically, momentum works
like this:
1. As long as you are moving forward, your forward
motion moves you
2. At the same time, your forward motion draws
power from the motion created by moving forward, creating even more motion
3. This multiplies the results on every additional
forward motion taken
To better understand how momentum works in practice, consider the following example. If you double
a penny every day for 30 days, after 30 days, you will
have over 1 million pennies. The doubling action creates a “multiplier effect.” Another example would
be if you push a small snowball down a hill, by the
time it reaches the bottom off the hill, it will have
become a huge snow boulder; that also is a “multiplier
effect in action.”
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It’s All About Momentum
Chapter 2
What is happening in both cases it that the penny and the
snowball initially use their own motion to move forward,
but as they move forward they also draw power from the
motion they create by moving forward, which creates even
more motion, which in the end, produces a much larger
result in a shorter period of time. Let me say this again,
specifically for you . . .
As YOU move forward, YOU CAN draw power
from the motion YOU create
by moving forward.
That will create even more motion for you,
which will produce larger results
in a shorter period of time.
What this means to you is that if you can tap into the power of momentum, every forward motion you take can lead
to larger and faster results. And, as long as you continue
moving forward, it gets easier to keep moving forward.
In most cases, momentum will help you to become more
efficient, get more done in less time and become more
productive. And, in the process, usually you will set
better priorities, and make better choices. Ultimately, if
you have momentum, it will positively effect all aspects
of your life!
Just consider this . . .
Have you ever noticed that when something begins to go
right in one aspect of your life, often that tends to have
a positive impact on other aspects of your life as well?
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Well, that’s momentum in action.
Have you ever had a time in your life when you were able
to run over obstacles in your path, like they were nothing,
like they weren’t even there? That, too, is momentum in
action.
And, have you ever been working on something and
everything seems to go easier than normal, as you move
forward? Again, that is momentum in action.
For example, if you decide that you want to lose weight,
and you begin to, what else happens? Most likely, you
start to feel more confident, which improves your attitude and because you project more confidence, people
might respond to you more positively, which invariably
further increases your self-esteem and motivates you to
continue losing weight.
The one action of just losing the weight can set off a chain
reaction of events that ends up positively affecting other
aspects of your life!
And here is the best news about momentum . . .
You can tap into and use momentum to help you succeed and achieve MORE in any area of your life, regardless of who you are, what you do or where you are from.
This is how different kinds of people can use momentum:
• Leaders can use momentum to move past
mistakes or problems quickly, and overcome any kind
of change, ultimately accomplishing the impossible.
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Chapter 2
• Business owners can use momentum to bring
innovations to market faster and accumulate customers easier.
• Parents can use momentum to improve
the development of their children.
• YOU CAN use momentum in your life to enjoy
success and achievement faster and to a greater
measure than you have now.
And, YOU CAN tap into momentum, if you know
how; all the time in everything you do and anytime
you want, making momentum a regular part of your
life.
That is, as long as you move forward regularly.
It is important to remember what we have already learned
about momentum: “a mass in motion will stay in motion
unless it loses its initial energy or is acted upon by an outside force.” This means that to tap into momentum, you
need to regularly move forward.
But that is not always so easy to do, is it?
There are many situations, circumstances, issues, events
and people (including ourselves) in life that can definitely
prevent us from moving forward and can cause us to lose
our momentum.
I'll bet you’ve been in situations when you have tapped
into momentum, and then, out of nowhere you’ve lost it!
So, to keep moving forward in order to keep your momentum up can be a challenge.
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MOMENTUM
REALLY IS YOUR
BEST FRIEND
WHEN IT COMES
TO SUCCESS AND
ACHIEVEMENT.
Often momentum is
the only difference
between winning
and losing!
It’s All About Momentum
Chapter 2
And this brings us to the HOW:
• HOW do you make sure that you are moving
forward so you will be able to tap into momentum?
• HOW can you begin to move forward if you have
gotten stuck?
• HOW do you begin to move forward if you have
never actually started to move forward?
• HOW do you get beyond that paralysis that robs
you from getting started on moving forward in the
very beginning of any endeavor?
That sure is a lot of HOW. So, I guess now would be
a good time to begin keeping my promise of showing you
HOW practically.
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1 + 1 = 11 . . .
BRILLIANT MATH!
When my son Ben was young, one
day he came home from school
and announced he was learning
how to add. Since he seemed
pretty excited about it, I asked him
to get his workbook and show
me what he had learned.
We sat together at the kitchen
table and he began to write down
the various addition formulas he
had learned that day, 1 + 2 = 3,
1 + 3 = 4 and so on. For some
reason, he neglected to begin with
1 + 1, so I asked him, “What about
1 + 1 Ben? What does 1 + 1 equal?”
In response, Ben quickly wrote
down 1 + 1 and then paused.
I guess he had forgotten that
formula. After looking at what
he had written, he guessed
the correct answer must be
11 (to his credit, it does look
good on paper).
I learned an import lesson that day.
Even though my son’s calculation
of 1 + 1 = 11 is incorrect in
mathematics, his answer is very
often correct in life when you tap
into the power of momentum.
Remember, one of the great
advantages of momentum
is you always get more.
YOU GOTTA LOVE
THAT KIND OF MATH!
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THANK YOU
FOR READING
In the remaining chapters
expect to learn how
YOU CAN:
•Create a Habit of Achievement,
the essential link for tapping into
the power of momentum
•Guarantee forward motion
in everything you do and
anytime you want
•Make sure you don’t quit your
New Year resolutions and other
goals you want to achieve
•Take consistent “steps of
momentum” and get started
moving forward NOW in any
area of your life
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Thank you for reading
•Create “winning streaks” and win
more often with bigger results
•Stay motivated, focused and
moving forward, even in the
tough times
•Invest in your success and
achievement rather than paying
a heavy price for whatever
it is you want to accomplish
•Get unstuck and move forward,
even when you feel you can’t
move forward
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