She captivated the audience. I don’t know if it was her incredible natural beauty, her soft lilting accent or her passion for life but Ellie Drake won the hearts of everyone in the room. Ellie was one of 12 amazing speakers at the Wild West Wealth Summit I attended this month in Calgary. Every speaker was fabulous, however, Ellie’s message hit home harder for me than any other.
Ellie was born in Iran. As a child, she dreamed of coming to America - land of the free. She practiced her English words diligently as she walked to school in the morning and it was because of her stilted English presentation to the authorities in
Upon arriving in the U.S. as a teenager, Ellie’s parents made every sacrifice necessary to get their beloved daughter the education they dreamed of for her, an education to be a doctor. While Ellie was studying in medical school, she was exposed to the world of entrepreneurship through the vehicle of network marketing. She was fascinated and hooked.
She graduated but along with the MD degree came the knowingness that she would never set up a medical practice. Instead she would pursue her entrepreneurial love. Her parents, horrified at first by their daughter’s decision, were soon delighted as Ellie went to the top of the class - the network marketing class that is. As the top distributor in her company, Ellie was earning in excess of $100,000 … per month.
In speaking with Ellie afterwards, I was fascinated by her determination, passion and absolute conviction with which she lives her life. The words that rang through my head constantly were the words, “coachable”. They were reminiscent of the words of my first personal development mentor, T. Harv Eker, when he said, “you can be rich or you can be right.”
I found myself asking the question: Am I coachable or am I stubborn? That’s a tough one! You can probably be pretty stubborn sometimes, am I right? You may be convinced that you have a business that will succeed and your determination drives you. However, it hasn’t ever made you enough money to live on. Or you may be stubbornly hanging on to a belief that is stopping you from living your full potential but because it is a family, cultural or religious belief, you hang on to it out of fear of letting it go.
We’re all a bit stubborn, some of us more than others. I know that I am definitely stubborn in some areas and to be honest, so are you! And so it was that the word “coachable” kept ringing through my head. I asked Ellie: What did she mean by coachable? She replied, “it’s being willing to do what you need to do to succeed, what others tell you to do, even if it’s not what you want to do.”
I could feel the resistance rising up in the very pit of my stomach. I didn’t really want to hear those words. On the other hand, how could I argue with this stunningly beautiful, slim, happily married, mulit-millionaire, internationally famous speaker with a fabulous career, making a huge difference in the world helping women, children and the environment? I couldn’t! As I coach entrepreneurs I oftentimes feel their resistance to doing whatever it takes to succeed. Heck, I feel my own resistance far more than I wish to at times. So what did I learn from Ellie’s example that I can share with you today?
Ellie appreciates daily the freedom that we have in the free world. Whether you are reading this in
Ellie values the opportunities available to become as wealthy as she desires. She doesn’t play small or pretend that she doesn’t want to have millions of dollars and be able to make a difference in the world. Are you ignoring or avoiding changes in your life or business that could take you to whole new levels of abundance and prosperity?
She set a vision and she held onto that vision despite language hurdles, financial setbacks and unexpected family challenges. Has a challenge stopped you in your tracks, or discouraged you from going to the top?
Ellie lives in a place of faith and gratitude to a Higher Power that she feels guides her daily. Do you need to spend more time in your spiritual practices, building your faith and showing gratitude for all you have been given?
What I came away with is that I was not fully appreciating the freedom, liberty, opportunities and wealth sitting at my doorstep because I knew they were there, always had been, always would be. I realized that I felt no tremendous urgency to make the millions and get on with making a difference in the world because of a deep seated complacency, some fear and a ton of excuses. I admitted that I was being selfish and ungrateful, not giving life my very, very, very best! That may sound harsh but I also didn’t beat myself up. I just decided to change things. How about you?
You probably have a dream, a vision, a hope of someday doing what you love to do. Here’s an exercise I recently did:
- Make a list of everything you want in your life that you don’t currently have or that you presently are not.
- Next to each of those items, note the feelings that having those things or being that person would elicit in you.
- On a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being your True Heart’s Desire, go back through the list of your desires and rate the list you made.
It’s a revealing exercise. Anything less than 100, don’t bother doing or attempting. That was the advice from the doctor who gave me this exercise. Why not? He says, “because you won’t have the stamina, determination, perseverance or wherewithal to see you through the challenges and the obstacles.” You will find the reasons why it WON’T work, rather than the reasons while it WILL work. You will uncover every excuse why you CAN’T do it instead of all the bonuses to actually achieving it.
Listening to Ellie Drake motivated and inspired me to re-examine my gratitude for the opportunities at my doorstep. She put the pitchfork in my rear to just get the wealth part looked after once and for all, fully and completely, enough of the small potatoes, and move into the greater expanse of total financial and time freedom.
I am grateful that a beautiful young woman from Iran reminded me again that whatever we desire, whatever we believe, we can do. Of course we can. Of course you can. With love and light,Jan
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