Hello, everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. I’m your host Kristin Maxwell, and in this show, we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life.
Today I’m going to be talking to Will Moore about how to build momentum to create habits for success. Will Moore is a dynamic entrepreneur, speaker, life coach, and happiness expert, who is also the founder of the Momentum Movement.
The first half of Will’s life was a struggle, but after what he calls a rock bottom bounce, he developed an insatiable appetite for improving himself and now spends his life helping others to build momentum and create the lives that they love. He, in his past, created and started, then sold the hugely successful Doorstep Delivery and basically helps people to develop five core areas of life.
So, Will, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.
Thank you. Great to be here, Kristen. Thanks for having me.
Of course. My first question, which I can’t wait to hear what your answer is going to be, is what superpower did you discover as the result of mastering your mind?
Oh, man, this is such … It’s almost as if you designed this question for me because everything I do, these five cores, which we’ll get more into, really kind of revolve around the first, your main core, which is your mindset. And this is sort of the mother of all your cores and that if you don’t have this going for you, it’s almost impossible to master your other five main areas of your life.
The way I define mindset is it’s your overall perception of the world. You’re either an owner or a victim, the glasses either half empty or half full. You’re either that victim like I mentioned, and as you just mentioned, earlier on in my life, that’s what I was.
It’s, “My brain is broken. I was born a certain way and it sucks and there’s nothing I can do about it and I’m destined for a life of blandness at best,” versus an owner, which is somebody that says, “Okay, these are my strengths. These are my weaknesses here. I’m going to figure out how to work around those weaknesses. I’m going to harness my strengths. There’s nothing that can get in my way. Obstacles are temporary roadblocks and I’m going to kick ass, take names and become successful no matter what.”
And so my transition to all of this happened in college when you just mentioned that rock bottom bounce. So I was your typical victim. I had a rocky childhood and, by the time I got to college, I essentially had zero self-confidence was your typical wallflower. I’d sit at lunch. I literally couldn’t look people in the eye.
So I kind of threw myself into studies, and one of my professors, it was actually a religion of the world-course, who was one of my favorite professors at the time, just happened to mention a book that he’d read that had changed his life. And I wrote down the book. It was kind of just a little side note in his lecture that day. I immediately left the classroom after. I went straight to the library to see if they had it.
And fortunately, they did. And had they not had this book, I can definitively say that my life would have gone a different way because this book is what changed my mindset. This book completely let me see things in a different way, that other people think the way that I do, that my brain is not broken, that I’m normal, and that there are methods and things that I can do to build up my mindset to make sure that I do live the life that I at one point though is it possible to.
Wow.
Yeah, go ahead.
So I have to ask, what was the book?
So the book was called How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It was written, I think, originally in the 30s. It still holds up today as one of my favorite all-time books.
They’ve updated some of the references, obviously, but it really just, the gist of the book is essentially that everybody has the same sort of insecurities and everybody kind of looks at themselves as the most important thing. And it’s only those that are kind of evolved and that can get outside themselves from a 10,000-foot view and have a mindset of saying, “You know what? It’s not about me. It’s about them. And how can I put my focus on the other person, make them feel special?” And by doing that, you’re not only taking the insecurities off you and focusing on the other, but you’re making them feel special. They’re then reciprocating that and that’s how you get what you want out of life.
And so that ties into one of my other cores, which is relationships, which we can talk about a little bit. But that was really the first step for me.
Once I read that book, I realized that life could be different and that there was hope and I became this insatiable self-help beast. I literally started reading every self-help book I could get my hands on. I was naive enough to think that I could read them all, which, looking back, that was a good thing because I think that if I had known how much was out there, I probably would have been intimidated and might not have gone down the rabbit hole.
But that’s not what I did. I started reading it. I started to use myself as a human science experiment, as I talk about in my book, where I literally would read something, and if I’d read it several times and was like, “Okay, this seems like a really solid universal principle. I’m going to try this out in my life.” I would then go out and try it. I would test the hypothesis. I would then come back and say, “Okay, that worked. That didn’t work.” I would then reconfigure things, go back out and keep retesting until I said, “Okay, this is 100% what I call a total truth,” which are essentially universal principles that have been proven time and time again that I’ve read over and over throughout multiple books I’ve tested in my own life.
And so just over the years, I started building, my mindset became stronger and stronger. I started building up my confidence, I started building up my momentum, and I literally started being able to do things that I’d never thought that I would do, and I was taking notes along the way. I’m a crazy, crazy note taker and I was just constantly taking notes, noting what worked, what didn’t.
And then at some point along the way, I realized, “You know what? I can help others with this.” Now I’ve got two small boys, one of them is four years old, one of them is 11 months. And I said to myself, “If nothing else, I want to write a book to help them, make sure that they don’t go through the same awful adolescence that I went through, and start building these five cores and these principles early on to give them that confidence and get them off to a better start than they’re in now.”
And so over the years, I then built my business. Financially, I became successful, and after I exited my company this past year, I decided, “You know what? This is the time. I want to finish it.” So I’ve got a book, I’ve got an app that I’m doing, and I’m hoping within the next six months to a year they’ll both be done, and I’ll launch and start helping people with the same principles that I learned that helped me completely turn my life around.
Wow, that’s a great story. And what we’re going to have to do, that was a good segue, we’re going to be taking a break really quickly. So tell people what is the name of your book and your app and where can they find that when it comes out?
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So my website is mooremomentum.com. You can pre-register for a book or just go on right now. Actually we’re working on the part of preregistering. I want to be able to give people a discount if they pre-register. So for right now, you can just go to the Contact Us page or the Join the Movement page and just sign up and put a note saying that you want to pre-register with a discount on the book and we’ll honor that.
And that also has a free quiz that I put on there to help people to understand where they are in each of these five cores. It basically helps you, it asks the basic questions to help get you thinking and it gives you an actual score on, “Okay, where do I rate in each of these cores?”
And by the way, we can talk about these cores. I’ll just tell you real quick. Your first one is your mindset, as we mentioned, your second one is your career and your finances, your third one is your relationships, your fourth one is your physical health, and your fifth one is your emotional health and giving back.
Great. Yes. I definitely want to explore a lot of what you’ve already just very quickly alluded to because what I love more than anything is figuring out and talking to people who have literally just changed their lives, who have changed their mind and gone from, “Wait, you know what? I can do this differently and I can be happy.” And I love that.
So I can’t wait. In a moment we’ll be back. We’ll be able to talk to Will Moore a bit more about how to build momentum and create success habits. So hang on.
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