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Make Your Own Luck!
Success is never an accident. Every week, Karen Brook shares powerful stories and timeless lessons on leadership, identity, decision-making and creating extraordinary results. For leaders, entrepreneurs and high performers ready for what’s next.
Make Your Own Luck Podcast with Karen Brook
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Is there an idea that keeps coming back to you? Something you’ve thought about doing for years? Maybe you’ve written it down, talked about it, started it once and then put it away.
And yet, for some reason, it keeps coming back.
Today, I want to tell you the story of one of those ideas for me.
It was an idea called ELEVATE and it took almost a decade to become what it is today.
The original idea for ELEVATE came to me back in 2015.
I had just started working with my mentor Bob Proctor, and if you’ve listened to the last few episodes, you’ll know this was a period of enormous growth for me. I had written out this C-Type Goal to help 1,000 clients benefit from Thinking Into Results.
My mind was really open to possibilities and all the different ways that could happen.
In May of 2015, I had this idea “ELEVATE” and it was going to be a retreat in Port Douglas.
Well it didn’t really get off the ground, but instead of letting that stop me or thinking the idea wasn’t very good – I went to work developing myself.
This week’s episode tells that story of preparing yourself for opportunities instead of waiting, wishing or hoping you’ll get there one day.
I started running seminars to 5 people, then 30, then a hundred. I joined Bob Proctor on stage in Toronto and Los Angeles – all my skills and experience was being put to good use, creating new results and helping others create the success they really wanted.
Then in 2023, when the idea for ELEVATE circled back – I knew the time was now.
As we head into ELEVATE 2027, our fourth year in a row, I have the absolute privilege of Brian and Cory Proctor joining me on stage and in the room.
Brian spent more than 30 years working alongside his father, Bob Proctor.
He taught on those stages, sat in those rooms and he’ll be with us in 2027 and now we are preparing to welcome 300 people into the room.
As the great Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly says:
“From little things, big things grow.”
Here’s what I really want you to take from this story.
Moving before you’re ready doesn’t necessarily mean you have to build the entire thing tomorrow.
When I had the idea for ELEVATE in 2015, I wasn’t ready to produce the event it was destined to become. I moved anyway, right where I was, with what I had.
So my question for you this week is:
What idea keeps coming back to you?
ELEVATE was still a scary idea to commit to when it came back to me, but I trusted my intuition, and I knew I was ready to do it.
What are you waiting for? Make up your mind and make a decision and take the next step.
I’d love to invite you to experience ELEVATE for yourself, on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th of February at The Langham on the Gold Coast.
Brian and Cory Proctor will be joining me in person, and Early Bird VIP and General Registration are now open.
I’ll leave all the details in the show notes on how to book your seat in the room today.
Thank you for joining me for this episode of Make Your Own Luck.
Until next time, remember: Success is never an accident – Keep making your own luck.
Show Links – For Leaders Who Know There’s More.
ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more and register: https://karenbrook.com/elevate
Subscribe to the Podcast and receive each week’s episode direct to your inbox: https://karenbrook.com/podcast
Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club – A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth – month after month. $97/Month or $777/year https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook
Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook
Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download
Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog
Start the 5-Day Mini Course – The Invisible Side of Success for only $97! https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success
#MakeYourOwnLuck #KarenBrook #ELEVATE
Show Notes & Links
What is something you know you want, but still haven’t made a committed decision to go for?
Maybe you’re waiting until you have more time, more money or fewer responsibilities. Maybe you’re telling yourself you’ll do it when the business is in a better position, when something else is completed first or when you finally feel ready.
I understand that because I did exactly the same thing with something I had wanted since I was a little girl – learning to fly.
In this episode of Make Your Own Luck, I share the story of how I spent years wanting to get my pilot’s licence while building my businesses, paying debt and managing all the responsibilities that came with an already full life.
When you make a committed decision, you begin thinking in harmony with it.
You notice people, ideas, opportunities and resources you may not have seen before, your subconscious mind goes to work and you begin behaving in ways you simply weren’t before you made the decision.
You don’t need to know exactly how before you begin. You need to know what you want, make up your mind and take the next step.
Show Links – For Leaders Who Know There’s More.
ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more and register: https://karenbrook.com/elevate
Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club – A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth – month after month. $97/Month or $777/year https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook
Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook
Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download
Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog
Start the 5-Day Mini Course – The Invisible Side of Success for only $97!: https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success
#MakeYourOwnLuck #KarenBrook #Decision
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Episode 3: The True Purpose of a Goal is Growth.
What if the real purpose of a goal wasn’t to get something… but to become someone?
Have you ever achieved a goal only to realise that what you gained along the way was far more valuable than the thing you actually achieved?
A goal isn’t designed for you to just get something. It’s designed to grow you – to help you become more than you’ve ever been before.
One of the ideas that radically changed the basis of my thinking came from my late mentor, Bob Proctor.
When I first started working with Bob back in 2015, he had me thinking very differently about goals.
He introduced me to the idea of what he called a C-Type Goal.
A dream.
A fantasy.
Something you really want but you’ve never done before and something you don’t know how to achieve.
And for me, at the time, that was a radical idea.
Up until then I had built businesses, set targets and planned my life in a very logical, rational way.
I would look at what I’d done before and then ask:
How do I do a little bit better? How do I improve by 10 or 20%? How do I make the next year slightly better than the last?
There’s nothing wrong with that but I wasn’t going for a quantum leap. My goals weren’t drawing out a whole new level of who I was capable of becoming.
A C-Type Goal asks you to do something very different. It asks you to think beyond your present results, beyond what you already know how to do, beyond what you currently believe is realistic.
It asks: What do you really want?
It was about growth. And that’s the purpose of a goal.
Show Links – For Leaders Who Know There’s More.
Subscribe to the Podcast: https://karenbrook.com/podcast
ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more and register: https://karenbrook.com/elevate
Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club – A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth – month after month. $97/Month or $777/year https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook
Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook
Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download
Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog
Start the 5-Day Mini Course – The Invisible Side of Success for only $97!: https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success
Show Notes & Links
Episode 2: What Do You Really Want?
This episode is not about goals. It’s about permission.
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to answer the question, “What do you do?” and yet how difficult it can be to answer the question: “What do you really want?”
We can usually explain what we do quite easily. We can talk about the business we lead, the role we hold, the people who rely on us, the projects we’re working on and everything we’re responsible for.
However, when someone asks us what we really want – not what needs to be done next, not what the business needs, not what our family needs, but what we really want, it can take a little longer to answer.
So before we rush to find an answer to that question, I want to talk to you about permission.
This episode is really about permission.
Permission to dream again.
Permission to want more, no matter what your existing life looks like.
Permission to redefine who you are and what comes next.
Permission to think in new dimensions.
And permission to stop for long enough to design your next chapter on purpose, rather than just continue to live by default. While there’s nothing wrong with that – there’s usually no growth attached to it.
As good as life may already be for you, it is not as good as it can get.
Show Links – For Leaders Who Know There’s More.
ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more: https://karenbrook.com/elevate
Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club – A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth – month after month. $97/Month or $777/year https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook
Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook
Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download
Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog
Start the 5-Day Mini Course – The Invisible Side of Success for only $97!: https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success
Show Notes & Links
Episode 1: What Does It Really Mean to Make Your Own Luck?
Have you ever looked at someone and thought…“They’re so lucky.”
Maybe it was someone who built an incredible business or seemed to be in the right place at the right time or met the right person?
Maybe you’ve even looked at your own life and quietly wondered… “Why does that seem to happen for them… but not for me?”
It’s an interesting question.
I don’t believe luck works the way most people think it does.
For years people have said exactly that to me – “Karen, you’re so lucky” but what I know is that what people call luck is often simply the visible outcome of hundreds of invisible decisions all lining up to support new outcomes.
Decisions to keep learning.
Decisions to keep showing up.
Decisions to trust yourself.
Decisions to stay open.
Decisions to keep moving when there’s no guarantee.
One thing I’ve noticed after working with leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs for many years is this…
The people who create extraordinary lives, and I mean extraordinary lives by their own standards and design, don’t necessarily have fewer problems.
They’re not always smarter.
They’re not always more talented.
And they’re certainly not fearless.
They’re simply willing to make decisions that other people postpone.
They’re willing to begin before everything feels perfect.
They’re willing to invest in themselves.
They make their own luck.
So over to you with two questions:
1. What’s one decision you’ve been postponing because you’re waiting to feel ready?
2. What’s one small action you can take this week that moves you towards the life you really want?
I hope you enjoy our first episode.
P.S Please like, review and subscribe to the Podcast. Share it with your friends and family – so they can benefit too! You can give them this link https://karenbrook.com/podcast or have them search on YouTube, Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
For Leaders Who Know There’s More.
ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more: https://karenbrook.com/elevate
Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook
Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download
Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club – A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth – month after month. $97/Month or $777/year https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook
Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog
Start the 5-Day Mini Course – The Invisible Side of Success for only $97!: https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success
Show Notes & Links
Podcast Introduction.
Success is never an accident. Every week, Karen Brook shares powerful stories and timeless lessons on leadership, identity, decision-making and creating extraordinary results. For leaders, entrepreneurs and high performers ready for what’s next.
P.S Please subscribe to the Podcast and share it with your friends and family – so they can benefit too! You can give them this link https://karenbrook.com/podcast or have them search on YouTube, Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Show Links – For Leaders Who Know There’s More.
Subscribe to the Podcast: https://karenbrook.com/podcast
ELEVATE 2027, 5-6 February, Gold Coast, Australia: A two-day high performance mindset and leadership conference. Learn more and register: https://karenbrook.com/elevate
Join The ELEVATE Frequency Club – A membership space for leaders to stay connected to the mindset and energy of growth – month after month. $97/Month or $777/year https://karenbrook.com/the-elevate-frequency-club-with-karen-brook
Download FREE Goals Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/elevated-money-goals-guidebook
Download FREE Beyond Earning Workbook: https://karenbrook.com/beyond-earning-free-download
Access FREE resources and videos via the blog: https://karenbrook.com/blog
Start the 5-Day Mini Course – The Invisible Side of Success for only $97! https://karenbrook.com/the-invisible-side-of-success
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Welcome to Make Your Own Luck with Karen Brook.
This playlist contains every episode of the Make Your Own Luck podcast.
Each episode is a short story from Karen's own life, exploring the timeless principles behind creating success. Through lessons on identity, paradigms, leadership, decision-making, self-image, productivity, universal laws and human performance, you'll discover that what most people call luck is often the result of hundreds, if not thousands, of invisible decisions, thoughts and actions that create a person's results.
Whether the story comes from flying an aeroplane, years spent working alongside Bob Proctor and his sone Brian Proctor, building businesses, mentoring leaders or navigating everyday life, each episode opens with a question and finishes with one reflection or action you can apply immediately.
We encourage you not to simply listen.
But listen to understand.
Study each episode with repetition and allow the ideas to become part of the way you think, lead and live.
Because success is never an accident, you make your own luck!
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