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Ajit Nawalkha

Ajit Nawalkha

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Ajit Nawalkha is Co-founder of Mindvalley and Host of Evercoach. He is recognized as a powerhouse international investor, entrepreneur, speaker and business coach.

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Ajit has spoken in elite masterminds hosted by some top names in business space. He produces the best training programs for Coaches, Authors, Speakers, and Online Educators through his various platforms and companies where he engages with over 100,000 coaches, speakers and authors through various channels of communication.

Ajit’s background is in business strategy, marketing and outsourcing. His entrepreneurial journey began when he proposed a business plan to one of his early employers. It was then, at a young age of 23, that he became the COO of a start-up funded by a media giant. A year into the venture, which also became his crash course to online business, he set out on a path to expand his knowledge and experience in online marketing, entrepreneurship and human psychology.

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Live Big

A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality

Live Big is an inspirational and edgy guide for business coaches to ensure your passion is backed by purpose and practicality.

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An inspirational and edgy guide for business coaches to ensure your passion is backed by purpose and practicality.

Business coaching parallels the rising trend of entrepreneurship. Never before has there been such a mass injection of business professionals poised to coach the new generation of entrepreneurs. And it’s not just entrepreneurs who are hiring coaches. The corporate sector is also fueling the industry’s growth. It uses coaches to develop both executives and promising up-and-comers.

In Live Big: A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality, Ajit Nawalkha––one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and business coaches––teaches other business coaches and the entrepreneurial-minded principles and foundational thinking habits that allow one to move from a place of defeat and anxiety to joy and contribution to humanity. Coaches today are starting to realize that your business is your lifestyle and that to make it big in the coaching business it requires a healthy dose of work-life balance.
Ajit reveals these enlightening, no bulls*t principles in bold context. You'll learn how to create a coaching business and a lifestyle filled with freedom and hustle that impact the world and your life in a big way. 

This book is your navigation tool, a compass, that you can pick up and find direction to keep moving forward in the context of business and entrepreneurship. The attempt of this book is NOT to give readers a bunch of strategies that may or may not work for you, but instead something that you can read and be inspired by to take your business, and your world, to a whole new level.

Ajit Nawalkha has helped entrepreneurs and coaches build their own businesses and practices. While doing that, he discovered there was no one tactic that helped him make these businesses successful. It's not a four-step system or five-step process. Most of the time, when a business evolved or transcended from one step to the next it was the actions he was taking on a daily basis, and the mindset he had when creating something viable for the future.

That led Ajit to understand that success truly is a mindset, and that these principles are a guide to finding your way in the world today.

Ajit used these principles and thinking habits to help Mindvalley increase its valuation by 300%, going from six figures to over two million, profits by 100%, and revenues by 50%, as well as similar and even better results for the various other companies he works with. 

Outline

This book is structured around real principles to help you navigate today's entrepreneurial landscape. There's no jargon or how-tos. This is practical insight that will help you out today–in your life, your business, or your freelance project.

1. Passion. Purpose. Practicality.
2. Knowing Thyself.
3. Don’t Burn Your Bridges.
4. Value. Value. Value. Value. Value.
5. 100 Raving Fans.
6. Happy First.
7. Don’t Try.
8. Being Different.
9. No.
10. Fail. Fail. Fail. Win. Fail. Shit. Win. Win. Win. Win.
11. You. The Brand.
12. Make Money.
13. Right Fight.
14. Partners.
15. People and their Problems.
16. 10 Years or More.
17. Competition.
18. Hack a Habit
19. 3 Irrefutable Laws of Selling
20. Fear.
21. Don’t Satisfy your Customer.
22. Dance.
23. Outta Shape — Being resilient
24. Know Nobody.
25. Power of One.
26. This is How You Die.
27. Joy.
28. Give a F*ck.

Audience

This book is for business coaches, first and foremost–an industry that is booming. In the last ten years the coaching industry has exploded. Membership of the International Coach Federation has more than tripled. A report by the market research firm IBISWorld at the end of 2014 said coaching is a $1 billion industry in the U.S. alone.

At a time when generations of entrepreneurs in the workforce tie themselves to freedom and view going out on their as a rite of passage to a fulfilling life, business coaches are becoming more relevant, and necessary, than ever. 

Millennials are the nation's largest living generation, ages 18-34 in 2015, now at 75.4 million. Which means the global population is poised to reshape the economy. Their unique experiences and ways of thinking and living will change the ways we do business for decades to come.

  • 46% of the Millennial generation are interested in starting a business.
  • 40% believe they are capable having a global impact for change in some way.
  • 7.7 is the avg. number of companies started each versus three to four for previous generations.

Not everyone is an entrepreneur, and not everyone should be an entrepreneur. But more and more people are striving for a new lifestyle than ever before, and the new generations are being nurtured to accept, understand and create a life filled with leisure, freedom and endless possibilities. This is far from easy. 

Business coaching parallels the rising trend of entrepreneurship. Never before has there been such a mass injection of business professionals poised to help this new generation. 

And it’s not just entrepreneurs who are hiring coaches. The corporate sector is also fueling the industry’s growth. It uses coaches to develop both executives and promising up-and-comers.

Coaching can be a viable profession because barriers to entry are low and anyone can be a mentor and provide value to another business or entrepreneur. Investment requirements are low, and there is minimal regulation of the industry. As a result, the industry has a low concentration with a large number of owner-operated businesses. 

This book is a moral, ethical and spiritual-driven compass for business coaches to navigate today's world of entrepreneurship.

Promotion

Ajit is backed by several of his businesses and partnerships including Evercoach, Zentrepreneur and others. This book is for this audience of readers, coaches, clients and colleagues directly.

Combined social media following of Ajit Nawlkha, his companies and partners equals 1.1 million+. We will establish awareness and relationships on these platforms to push this book into our extended network.

  • Ajit Nawalkha Facebook page (Direct Access)- 32,233+
  • Evercoach Facebook Page (Direct Access) - 121,422+
  • Email database (Direct Access) - 120,000+

Depending on the publishing options available to Ajit and this book, there is potential to reach an additional large email database of this same audience. Depending on the publishing offer, Mindvalley will play a significant role in the promotion of Ajit's book.

  • Mindvalley email database- 1,069,939+

Larger orders and corporate sponsors have come from pre-existing relationships and new ventures. These have also acted as distribution points for the book during preorders.

Ajit's speaking engagements, business growth workshops, conference keynotes, monthly webinars, popular online courses and online videos are the main platforms with thousands of new and existing potential readers for this book.

SPEAKING

  • November 17th, 2016 - Techweek LA panel - Los Angeles, US - "How to build an entrepreneur community"
  • October 13th, 2016 - Ontraport / Ontrapalooza (The Modern Marketing Summit) - Santa Barbara, CA, US - "Take your funnels to the next level" 
  • October 10th, 2016 - Internet Famous with Marisa Murgatroyd - LA, US - "Market Domination w/Ajit Nawalkha" 
  • August 17-18th, 2016 - Camp Maverick - US - Camp "counselor"/"coach"
  • We can also consider here all the Mindvalley Awesomeness Fest (Afest) events that Ajit has spoken at (e.g. May in Greece and November in Mexico 2016).

WEBINARS

  1. Existing Evercoach and Zentrepreneur – Email list promotion goes out once per month with an average of 2,000 singups for each.
  2. New Leads/subscribers through Facebook advertising – This process is on autopilot and obtains 14,000-16,000 new signups for each of our webinars. 

Pre-recorded interviews for online events:

  • Feb 22nd to Mar 8th, 2017 - Speak Your Way to Success with Amanda Moxley - Guest speaker
  • Jan 2017 - Productivity Success Summit by EntrepreneursHQ - recorded interview
  • January 3rd, 2017 - Interview with Mindie Kniss - "My hero journey as an entrepreneur"

PODCASTS

  • November 24th, 2016 - Knowledge for Men - "317: Ajit Nawalkha: Live a Value Based Life and Achieve True Success"
  • November 19th, 2015 - Raymond Gruijs | More efficiency and better performance.... - "# 11 Get inspired by ... .. Ajit Nawalkha" (audio recording on Evercoach youtube channel)
  • November 1st, 2016 - Emotional Grit - "How to maximize your business while growing authentically"

FACEBOOK VIDEO MARKETING

  • "What clients really buy"



    • Aug 2016, 451,570 Reach, 229,571 Video Views, 1,257 Likes, 819 Shares, click here
  • "Strong weakness"



    • Aug 2016, 489,058 Reach, 214,035 Video Views, 1,347 Likes, 1,203 Shares, click here
  • "High value, low cost"
    • Oct 2016, 319,096 Reach, 162,487 Video Views, 1,021Likes, 757 Shares, click here
  • "Challenge your burnout:
    • Sep 2016, 337,416  Reach, 114,057 Video Views, 1,507 Likes, 1,256 Shares, click here
  • "People matter"
    • Dec 2016, 115,838 Reach, 108,604 Video Views, 2,419 Likes, 1,055 Shares, click here
  • "Journaling"
    • July 2016, 262,571 Reach, 119,560 Video Views, 1,141 Likes, 802 Shares, click here

POSTS IN MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By Greg McKeown

Published by Crown Business; 1 edition (April 15, 2014)

Essentialism offers a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential so that we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter. It is also backed by the notion that more and more people and entrepreneurs are having "to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it." Ajit Nawalkha supports this notion, but rather than the pursuit of less to declutter your life, Live Big: A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality is the pursuit of joy to so that we can make significant contributions to our lives and to humanity. 


A Paperboy’s Fable: The 11 Principles of Success

By Deep Patel

Published by Post Hill Press (June 7, 2016)

This book illustrates the seeds of great businesses so we can recognize and sow our own. It includes 11 principles to become a savvy business owners and has interviews from some very admired people and entrepreneurs. It is for today's entrepreneur or yesterday's CEO who wants relevant stories on how to succeed in business. Ajit Nawalkha's book, Live Big: A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality is for tomorrow's entrepreneur or person who wants to navigate a path of uncertainty and a business landscape that's still being defined.


The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future

By Steve Case

Published by Simon & Schuster (April 5, 2016)

AOL's co-founder believes that the third wave of tech entrepreneurship will require collaborations with mature industries -- such as healthcare, finance and foreign policy -- to navigate bureaucratic regulations and instigate systemic change. This provides an interesting and complementary take on Ajit Nawalkha's book, Live Big: A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality, which instead, takes a detailed approach to decision making for entrepreneurs and keeping an open mind about how to create a lifestyle within its various industries, including tech entrepreneurship.


Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum 

By Neil Patel, Patrick Vlaskovits and Jonas Koffler

Published by Rodale Books (September 13, 2016)

A game-changing guide to finding success and fearlessly outsmarting the system. This book is about underdogs fighting a system that stacks the odds against us and achieving more success on your own terms. Ajit Nawalkha's book, Live Big: A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality acts as a similar guide to changing your life for the better, whether it's business or life, and takes a more grounded stance on principles and habit rather than testing and revising.


Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

By Angela Duckworth

Published by Scribner; First Edition edition (May 3, 2016)

This book teaches reader that we don't need to be a "genius" to be successful. It shows us how instead, if we're passionate enough and persistent enough, we can get anything we want to happen, and that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence. Ajit Nawalkha's book, Live Big: A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality takes a similar path with drawing on experiences and stories from his life and others without the interviews of high achievers to fill the pages. Both books takes initiative to educate readers on the qualities and skills required to usher in a new paradigm and succeed where others have failed.


Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change: Inspire the People and Succeed Where Others Fail

By H. James Dallas

Published by John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (6 Nov. 2015)

An insightful guide to effectively leading the transition through change. Like Ajit Nawalkha's Live Big: A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality, this book is based on the author′s own experiences managing change in business and life, rather than presenting case studies about what happened at other companies.


The Freedom Plan: Earn More, Work Less and Be Free

By Natalie Sisson

This book is about making a dent in this world, an impact to help others and to leave a legacy. It's about designing a business that gives you the freedom and lifestyle you deserve and now. It's book centered on Natalie's online program, called The Freedom Plan, which is about transitioning from reliance on your business to a life of freedom and total control. Ajit Nawalkha's book, Live Big: A Guide to Passion, Purpose and Practicality is positioned as a complement to this book and spans the scope of an entrepreneur's life and business to encompass decision making for the modern world, not just building a business to create a life of freedom.

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Chapter 1: Passion, Purpose, Practicality

PASSION

“Follow you passion”
“Doing what feels good will lead to success ”
“Let your dreams be your guide and you’ll find your purpose”

You’ve heard it all before and it feels like great advice. What’s not to love? Living a life that reflects your passion and then turning that passion into profits — that’s perfect, right? Except that it’s not.

It’s bad advice. At the very least, it’s incomplete. Especially for an entrepreneur. And there are many reasons why. The biggest one? Passions come and go. You know what I’m talking about because you’ve experienced it before.

You travel to a new country and you’re excited about the cuisine. You think to yourself, “I should open a restaurant that serves this food, back home.” You get home, do a little research, ask around and realize there’s a lot more to opening a restaurant than you thought. Suddenly, you’re not excited about your restaurant idea anymore. So, you let it go.

A couple of weeks go by and you happen to read an article about online selling. You get fired up again. You feel that familiar, adrenaline rush. You tell your friends you’re going to sell online in a big way. You start thinking about what you’d like to offer your soon-to-be customers. You might even make a list of ideas. But then, you can’t make up your mind. So, you let it go.

Now, you’re at point where you start to wonder, “ What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I stick to just one thing and make it a success? Nothing’s wrong with you. You just need to face the truth…

Passion is unpredictable. It’s erratic. Random. Fickle. You get caught up in it, in the moment and it lights up your whole life. But often, over time, that fire fades. And then you get caught up in a new passion. This isn’t a bad thing if you know what’s going on: you’re multi-passionate. We all are. It’s part of being human. Feeling inspired by more than just one thing…

It’s not a curse. It’s a gift.

Being open to multiple passions helps you uncover who you truly are. It helps you discover what you really want to do. It’s a treasure map to your biggest and best life. It allows you to find the truth about yourself. How you want to serve. How you want to show up in the world.
It gives you the opportunity to explore possibilities.

Understand this: your passions will not stand still. They will evolve. Always. You might observe a unifying thread...

Maybe all your passions are related to books and words.Maybe they’re connected to wine or extreme sports or art and design. Even if your passions are all over the map, and have nothing in common with each other, that’s okay too.

Just pick one.

One that you want to run with and roll with for now. And be open to changing it down the road. Don’t be afraid to experiment and to change your mind. This may feel like a circuitous route but it’s the only, reliable way to identify that thing that you’ll finally be able to stick with…

That blazing passion that lasts. The one that will help you create a great income and an amazing life.

PURPOSE

There’s no denying it. We all need purpose.

When you’re purposeless, life becomes meaningless. We wander aimlessly through days, months, weeks and years with no focus, and no direction. You’ll find that it’s almost impossible to pursue an idea to fruition. You’re smart and you know this. So, you feel compelled to find your purpose. Stat.

But here’s the thing about purpose no one really talks about…

You don’t have to go big with it. Your purpose doesn’t have to be about saving the world or changing lives.

It’s your purpose. You get to choose.

Your Purpose. You Choose.

There was a client I was working with during a 1-day coaching intensive. She’s in the photography business. Part of the intensive was about getting clear about her purpose.When it came time to share, I asked, “What’s your purpose? Why do you do what you do?” Her answer: my purpose is to create positive transformations in the world.

Now, I’ll admit, when I first heard that, it sounded great. It was clear that this client was operating from the heart. She cared about her customers and wanted to make a difference with her work.

But something didn't feel right to me. We went a little deeper and it soon became clear. Her true purpose? To help her customers use a camera to capture beautiful moments in their lives.

That was it. And that was enough.

When you start thinking about your purpose in this life, it’s tempting to come up with something epic. Grandiose. All-encompassing. But you don’t have to end world hunger. Or cure cancer. Or save endangered animals.

Your true purpose can be simple.

It could be about taking great pictures. It could be about living a life of freedom. It could be about enjoying all of the luxury the world has to offer. It could be about living in a house by the beach and spending the rest of your days there, with the one you love.

When it comes to purpose, it’s not about how big you go. It’s about how real it feels.It’s about being aligned. It’s about what’s true for you.

That’s the only question you need to ask when it comes to identifying your purpose, “What’s true for me? What’s the thing that’s going to get me to leap out of bed every morning?” If you don’t know what that is right now, that’s okay.

Allow yourself the time and space to find your purpose. To live with purpose.

To create a meaningful life.

PRACTICALITY

When we talk about passion and purpose, practicality rarely enters the conversation. This is a problem and it’s a big one. If you’re anything like me and countless other entrepreneurs, you’ve learned that your first passion…that idea that you pursued with all your heart…It didn’t pay the bills.

That’s why practicality is vital. It’s the lifeblood of your business.

Passion and purpose are important but practicality is the element that creates profits and prosperity. When you make practicality the central theme of your journey as an entrepreneur and when you adopt a practical mindset, you’ll instantly see the actions you need to take to hit your goals. Down-to-earth stuff like identifying your ideal clients, creating high value products or putting together awesome marketing campaigns.

Practicality allows you to build people. Practicality builds systems and processes. Practicality organizes and sparks growth. Without practicality, no amount of passion is enough to carry you through to success as an entrepreneur. Without practicality, your purpose will forever remain out of reach.

So, don’t get carried away with passion and purpose. Seek practicality.

Start by identifying the passion you want to pursue. Then, find the purpose that’s connected to your passion or live in a way that allows your passion to fuel your purpose.

Then get practical.

Where passion, purpose and practicality intersect…

That’s the space where you get to serve and love at your highest level.

That’s the space where your profits start to flow.

That’s the space where you get to live your dreams.

REFLECTIONS

- What are your current passions? Pick one that you’re most excited about.
- What is your purpose? Be honest and choose a purpose that feels true to you.
- What is a small, practical step you can take to serve and to love in a way that’s connected with your passion and aligned with your purpose? Commit to taking that step in the next 24 hours.


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  • Maria Cassar Kruger
    on Dec. 16, 2016, 8:11 p.m.

    Thank you for all your inspirations you send me, sending all my blessings and love and wish you great success with this venture, you truly deserve it

  • Peter Monbailleu
    on Dec. 17, 2016, 10:32 a.m.

    Just ordered your book. Looking forward to it! Hope to finish my "Mad Marketing" soon too. :-)

  • JF Garsula
    on Dec. 19, 2016, 3:40 a.m.

    Hey Ajit! Looking forward for your book! Your business advises helped me a lot!

  • Piotr Raszka
    on Dec. 19, 2016, 3:23 p.m.

    I would like to start coaching business. Do you have any program, you can recommend?
    Thank You
    Piotr

  • Kunal Jamsandekar
    on Dec. 20, 2016, 7:02 a.m.

    All the best with the book launch Ajit! Looking forward to reading it soon!
    Love
    Kunal

  • Guy Vincent
    on Jan. 11, 2017, 5:16 a.m.

    Amazing work Ajit! You're already one of the top authors in Publishizer history – keep hustling and you'll be over the 500 line in no time :)

  • deleted deleted
    on Jan. 25, 2017, 12:09 a.m.

    Congratulations on your pre-launch campaign success so far, can't wait to read your book!

  • Yvette Martin
    on Feb. 12, 2017, 11:50 p.m.

    Looking forward to reading and sharing your accumulated wisdom Ajit! I find you have a knack for articulating and distilling the key points of a message, and I have really enjoyed everything I have listened to or read already from you. Congrats on getting this book out there to inspire others :)

  • Nella Kotlyar
    on Feb. 14, 2017, 5:18 p.m.

    Ajit, thanks for being real. Much love, Nehama

  • Krisha Marcano
    on Feb. 14, 2017, 5:20 p.m.

    Thank you for always providing quality work. I hope to follow in your footsteps.

  • Lara Javalyn
    on Feb. 14, 2017, 6:03 p.m.

    I'm a big fan of your work, Ajit - looking forward to reading your book!

  • Wayne Palmer
    on Feb. 14, 2017, 9:51 p.m.

    Hi Ajit, looking forward to reading your book as you always share amazing information.

  • himanshu Jakhar
    on Feb. 15, 2017, 11:41 a.m.

    Super excited to receive your book. I know you gonna kick some serious ass in 2017! =)

  • Lisa Sparhawk
    on Feb. 15, 2017, 5:11 p.m.

    Congratulations, Ajit. I look forward to all the knowledge, wisdom and inspiration that you will share with your readers! <3

  • Maja Koroman
    on Feb. 15, 2017, 7:46 p.m.

    Dear Ajit,
    This preorder was for me totaly spontanous and unexpectedly thing to do. You touched me in an interesting way. I give you my trust. And I wish you all best with a book, life and great work that you are doing.
    With love,
    Maja

  • francesco renzelli
    on Dec. 8, 2019, 9:21 p.m.

    HI Aijt ,
    i didn't receive my copy ordered ($ 2o limited edition package)
    please send me the book and the bonus,
    let me know soon,
    thank you.

    Francesco