The Kevin Miller Podcast

Perfect Timing. Literally, when the best time is to do certain, daily activities. When it’s best to have certain types of conversations. When is the best time to do...just about anything. It’s amazing and comes from the research of our guest, highly acclaimed author Dan Pink. He’s the author of six provocative books — including his newest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. His other books include the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. These type of messages are so intriguing because it’s true research and in that sense, fairly irrefutable. And we can reorient our lives around the information for immediate success! Get his new book, When: The scientific secrets of perfect timing” at danpink.com or wherever you buy books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A message from Ziglar with one of the stories from him I reference over and over again. It focuses on a study of 300 top world leaders and the findings that 75% were raised in poverty, abused as children or had serious physical impairment. What should we learn from this? Tune in and find out. From it I asked on Facebook, “Have you had challenges in your life you now realize have benefited you? Or at least the process of overcoming benefited you?” Amazing, true life stories that Tom Ziglar and I talked through.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are we are back with Chris Hogan, our guest in show 571. We go behind the scenes with Chris for our Habits show and talk through the 7 spokes in the Ziglar Wheel of Life, hearing what challenges and healthy habits he employs in his daily life for overall success. I got a kick out of him talking about exercise, he looks for things he actually enjoys. From his star football days, he hates running and feels like the only reason to ever run is if you’re trying to hit someone. Words to live by, eh? You can follow Hogan on Twitter and Instagram at @ChrisHogan360 and online at chrishogan360.com or facebook.com/chrishogan360. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we don’t just hear a message from Zig Ziglar, we get 5 star training in relationship skills that empower us with the greatest asset a person can have. He is talking about sales and prospects. In our life, anyone we want to influence or connect to is in essence, a prospect, and we are the salesperson. To a great degree, every engagement with a human is a sale. The definition of a good sale is an exchange of value, which should be equal. If it’s one sided it’s a con. So in your personal interactions with others, is it a win-win event? Do you both get value? Do people seek you out or avoid you or...can just take or leave you? Do you provide value to the relationships in your life? Would you like to have more meaningful relationships? Be more sought after and attractive? Good relationship builders are NOT born, they are made. How much training have you done? This message folks, is training. This is why Secrets of Closing the Sale changed so many people’s lives. It was about life more than mere sales. This 8.5 minutes is the boiled down cliff notes. It’s worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and here you get it free. From the message, I asked on Facebook where I invite you to join at agentkmiller, this question - “What valuable insight have you realized or received that has helped you in relating to other people well, whether personal or in business?” Incredible comments that Tom and I talked through at length. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are talking about making the most of the time you have and that your beginning is now! I have a conversation with  Chris Hogan. Many know Chris as one of the primary personalities with Dave Ramsey. Chris’s has a bestselling book and a popular podcast titled “Retire Inspired”, but, and this is not just to entice everyone to hear the show, but I have zero thoughts about retirement, I’m young! But Chris shared a message I needed to hear. He talks planning ahead and getting the most value out of our days, and you’ll hear a very acute and personal story involving one of his kids with a chronic issue that makes this topic very acute for Chris, his family, his life and his mission. There is a ton of passion in this discussion. It truly was powerful. You can follow Hogan on Twitter and Instagram at @ChrisHogan360 and online at chrishogan360.com or facebook.com/chrishogan360. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A clip from Zig Ziglar, longer than normal, over six minutes. But we just couldn’t cut it more because it’s golden. Zig talks to us about the power of our attitudes and how the number one high octane fuel to support our positive attitude is - gratitude. From this I asked this QUESTION on Facebook: “I need some stories on “gratitude”, but want to hear from two sides: 1) tell me a time when you used gratitude to successfully change your attitude about something, OR 2) tell me when you realized there wasn’t enough to be grateful for and you made a needed change.” Tom Ziglar and I talked through the incredible comments and really covered a lot of ground regarding getting rid of negative perspectives and either changing your paradigm with gratitude, or when necessary, changing the circumstances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are are back with Eben Pagan, our guest in show 567 and author of the new book, ‘Opportunity’. In this show we go behind the scenes and find out his habits for success following the Ziglar Wheel of Life. I was especially interested in the spiritual spoke where Eben stating that more and more with the influential people of our times, the talk seems to be going toward a bigger power at play and “something is going on.” Get Eben Pagan’s new book, ‘Opportunity” at zigshow.com/eben. You can get the hardcopy, and get the bonuses of his “Best Opportunities of 2018 live workshop, the Video series that shows you how to find your big idea and the Opportunity discovery checklists, exercises, and bonus chapters. It’s all Free, just pay the shipping. Go tozigshow.com/eben. That’s zigshow.com/eben Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we hear a heartfelt message from Zig Ziglar on faith. But it’s not a sermon. He is hitting on the reality of how faith impacts our literal lives. From it I asked on Facebook, where you can join the discussion, just friend me at agentkmiller, this QUESTION: “How has your faith in God or a higher calling tangibly benefited your physical, financial or career/business success?” That’s a big question, and yes, it brought up some controversy. Some thinking I was pushing a prosperity gospel. But most shared events in their lives where their faith came into play and testimony to the blessings. Michelle Prince and I had a very open conversation, not giving answers, but discussing the real issues around our faith and how it relates to our daily realities and outcomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are talking about opportunity and having a conversation with Eben Pagan who just launched his new book, called…’Opportunity’! Eben Pagan is a guy I (Kevin) met twenty years ago amidst a new real estate marketing program. He was innovating then, and he still is today. He’s an entrepreneur and investor who has built over ten different online brands and businesses to the million dollar level. His businesses are all 100% virtual, with no office - for over 15 years now. Eben and his family spend more than six months per year traveling, and living the “virtual lifestyle.” In his new book, OPPORTUNITY, Eben explains how opportunity is changing, why it is increasing for all of us, and how to find and create more high quality opportunities for yourself and your business. The book is about how to find and create opportunities in your business and your life. It summarizes twenty years of mindsets, models, and methods for dealing with the explosion of opportunities that are coming our way in the future. Understanding opportunity is at the heart of succeeding as an entrepreneur. And Eben’s goal is to help people understand the nature of opportunity, so they can find, create and take advantage of a lot more of it in their lives. It was a great conversation and of course we started off by getting some of Eben’s background, including his hippie parents and living in poverty that motivated him to do more. The book just launched 4 days ago as of this podcast publishing date. Get it now, plus a bunch of add ons, at zigshow.com/eben Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We hear a classic message from Zig Ziglar on Priming The Pump. This message was foundational for Zig’s entire mission. If you’ve heard it once or ten times, you need to hear it again and then step back and audit yourself to gauge how well you are adhering to the principles! From the message, I asked on Facebook at my agentkmiller page where I invite you to friend me so you can join in this weekly conversation, “Will you share a story of doing more than what was required in a job and benefiting from it? Getting paid more, getting a promotion, getting a better opportunity?” Great, real life testimonials that Tom Ziglar himself and I talked through, SO inspiring!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices