If you want great things to happen in your life you have the opportunity and power to manifest them. You just need the right strategies. I discuss some of them in this episode with my guest, Francois Lupien.

Francois Lupien is a dynamic executive coach, mentor and speaker whose experience includes successfully working with Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and as a consultant with Bob Proctor (Movie: The Secret).

Achieving excellence in everything he puts his mind to, Francois has been a Tae Kwon Do Gold Medal Canadian champion, a Top Real Estate agent for 11 years with Remax, and a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful 6-figure businesses.

Francois is here to serve and help you thrive!

The Beginnings of Manifestation for Francois

Manifesting greatness started with when Francois was six years old. His mom had, when she was young, roller skates, not roller blades, four wheels, two in the front, two in the back. It was an adjustable thing. And she decided to put them on little cowboy boots of for Francois. She told him to go for it. Well, he tried this thing and he fell and it hurt like crazy. He came back home and was not happy. Francois’ mom looked at him and asked “What’s the matter?” He told her it hurts, and he didn’t want to try skating any more. She goes, hmm, come with me.

Francois remembers, as if it was yesterday, his mom having an adjustment key. She took those roller skates, put them on her feet, And started demonstrating how she would roller skate on the street with Francois sitting on the sidewalk. Then she came back to him and she knelt in front of him. She said with a smile “You can do anything you want in life if you really want it. Are you ready?” He said “Yes”. And then as he started skating, she said, “You got this.” Then she went back into the house as Francois skated all around. She unknowingly created a manifesting monster.

A week later Francois attached a rope to one of his friend’s bikes and he was water skiing down the street, so to speak, with his roller skates. From then, it’s just been on and on with his self-belief journey. His mom always told him “Whatever you want in life, you go for it, you can make it happen.” How can greatness be created? Francois would say by someone believing in you first, then, as a result of that, you end up believing in yourself.

How to Find That Someone to Believe in You

Francois was blessed that it was his family that believed in him first. Yet for anybody else, search, dig, knock on as many proverbial doors and ask for help. A wise man once said “Knock and it shall be opened and ask and it shall be answered”. You just need to ask and the good news is there’s so many people in this world right now that you can easily get access to. Once you find someone try to get an understanding of what that person is doing that you want to do. And yes, many people may “look good on paper” and yet they don’t deliver. Be sure to do your due diligence but don’t be afraid to talk to more people.

Francois has a belief that everybody is good in some way, even if it’s deep down. The quote “Be kind always” applies here. If you encounter someone having a bad day or they’re not feeling well, yes, there’s something broken inside of them for now. So don’t be the one that kicks them while they’re down. Be the one that uplifts other people.

And as you do that, one of Francois’ great mentors, Bob Proctor always said, leave everyone with the impression of increase. Make everybody feel better after they met with you than before they met you. So, in a nutshell, you must look for it. You need to find out what type of person they are. You must be able to figure out who’s who, what’s what, and dig, ask deep questions.

And if there’s an opportunity for a connection, well, go for it!

The important thing is to remember you can’t do it alone. You and I cannot do it alone. That’s for sure. We need others. Francois always says, if I look at you, I see you this way. But when you look at me, you see all of this, which I do not. Some people will see things in you that you don’t see in yourself. Their perspective on you can enable you to refocus and make things happen in a new, better way. It’s the same thing for each and every one of us. There’s things that we don’t see and we don’t know that others can help us discover.

How to Build Relationships When You Find Those Special People

Francois believes you do that by having conversations, number one, and asking the real (and sometimes tough) questions. You need to go deep and not be superficial. If someone looks good on paper, that’s fine, but go deeper. You need to go deeper and discover what is the essence of your conversations and your relationship as a whole? Is it just fluff or is there some substance to it? Once you do that, you’ll have that thing called “a gut feeling”. If it feels good in your gut, go for it.

As you develop that relationship and you feel good, the more you pay, the more you pay attention. So, this thing of having the greatness revealed in you by watching YouTube videos, is not going to happen. You need to have someone that’s been there, done that, sold the T-shirt to the event and is able to actually enable you to get to the next level. That is key to your pivotal relationships.

We also dive into topics including:

Why people pay more attention to help and advice that they pay for.
Examples of habits you can develop to manifest greatness.
The power of embracing decide, commit, succeed.
How to keep on keepin’ on during the dark times after you make a commitment to excellence.
What your reticular activating system is and how to engage it to see and manifest success faster.
Why you get better answers when you ask better questions and how to do that.
How to change your thinking and habits if they’re hurting you.
How to stay focused on success and manifesting what you desire.
The argument for not taking short cuts on your path to success.
How to find your “Why” to stay on your journey to manifesting greatness.
The one thing, above all else, that you need to do to manifest greatness in your life.

…and other golden nuggets of advice!

You can get my book here: “Idea Climbing: How to Create a Support System for Your Next Big Idea”

The Beginnings of Manifestation for Francois

How to Find That Someone to Believe in You

How to Build Relationships When You Find Those Special People

We also dive into topics including:

About My Guest

About Francois Lupien

CEO’s Secret Weapon and Gold Medalist!

Helping High-Performing CEOs Reclaim Clarity, Confidence & Leadership Power