Attention, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners.

Do you know the #1 reason that prevents people from getting what they want?

It’s lack of discipline – pure and simple. People with discipline thrive and prosper. Those who lack it, struggle and fail.

Whatever you want in the years to come, The Smácht Change Programme can help you accomplish it – let’s show you how.

Monday, February 6th 2012.

Pádraic Ó Máille here.

I’ve got something very exciting to reveal to you. It’s crucial  to the long-term success of your business – and your future wellbeing.

The Smácht Change Programme is a business development programme that will:

• Significantly improve your financial net worth.
• Systemise and structure your business in order to free up more of your time.
• Energise you physically, mentally and intellectually.
• Challenge you to realise more of your potential.
• Help you progressively achieve worthy ideals and goals.

What does Smácht mean, and where did it come from?

I once asked the former Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Pádraig Ó Céidigh, how he’d transformed himself from being a regular school teacher to a guy who brought a clapped out company from £250,000 to £125 million in just 3 years.

After much reflection he replied, ‘Smácht faoi leith’.

Loosely translated, this is Irish for ‘loads of discipline’. There is the great secret of business and life in a nutshell. There are no short cuts. No get rich quick schemes. In business you are requested to pay the price of success and that price is discipline or Smácht. Recently, in his excellent book ‘The Tipping Point’, Malcolm Gladwell demonstrated beyond any shadow of a doubt that mastery of any skill requires an investment of 10,000 hours.

But I hate discipline, I hear you say……..

Yes, I agree with you. And that’s why we created The Smácht Change Programme. It’s designed to provide you with a structure and support that makes change attainable, attractive and enjoyable.

Here’s how it works…….

The programme consists of 12 half day monthly workshops . Each workshop is loaded with practical strategies, techniques and ideas practiced by the worlds most effective men and women. While the inspiration comes from the workshops the execution and action comes from the existence of a well managed buddy system called Smácht Cara. Each week you connect, for no more than 15 minutes, with a partner who reviews your performance that week. It’s very exposed. Either you’re committed to taking action or you’re not. It’s your choice. If taking action and execution are important to you, then you’ll welcome this process with open arms as each week you’ll see tangible progress towards those goals that may have eluded you for years. If you’re not prepared to follow the process then the programme is clearly not for you at this precise time. In addition you are provided with an array of templates and information that makes implementation of your actions doable and desirable.

Who is the programme most suitable for?

Entrepreneurs, business owners, high performing sales people, senior managers and professionals eg accountants and solicitors.

A year sounds like a serious commitment of time!

The purpose of the programme is to encourage you to change habits. This takes time. Coincidentally that’s what all the great performers do – they have the Smácht to persevere until they succeed. In the programme just completed from 2011, while participants had many short term quick victories, it’s only now that the real deep progress and results are emerging.

What is unique about this programme?

The group dynamic is unique in that Smácht, for whatever reason, attracts some of the finest business people in the country. The great American writer Jim Rohn said that ‘you are the average of the five or six people you’re surrounded by most of the time’. You will instantly elevate yourself into the company of achievers and will effortlessly notice your performance improving. While each individual will design their own specific game plan everyone is held accountable on a weekly basis for creating results.  There is a wonderful planning and accountability tool called your SHAG Tracker (Smacht Hairy Audacious Goal) which drives accountability and commitment on an ongoing basis. Finally, each session is facilitated by Pádraic Ó Máille, creator and founder of Smácht. For 25 years Pádraic has been helping many of Ireland’s most successful businesspeople reach their goals and ambitions. In that period he has learned a veritable fortune of practical and wealth building techniques and mindsets that he shares with his clients. Of greatest value however is his unique ability to motivate, encourage and develop winners.

How many people are in the group?

A maximum of 12. This is large enough to generate high energy and small enough to devote individual attention.

How do I know I’ll get the results I want?

You won’t know until you try it. There’s a good precedent however. Pádraic Ó Máille has worked with many of Ireland’s leading business people and many will credit him with helping them build and grow their businesses.

Here’s a small sample of people he’s worked with and what they say about his ability to help you achieve your goals. Ring them up. Email them and find out what they think.

I learned more in one half day with Padraic than on an entire Degree Programme.
Brid Fox. M.D. CaterCare

Padraic can put practical information across better than anyone else on the circuit. In addition to that he’s a great motivator. I’ve used him consistently for over 15 years – a time that has seen Supermacs grow from 10 to 100 stores.
Pat Mc Donagh. M.D. Supermacs

He helped start the creative process in our company. And when you think about it, that’s the most important thing. Superb facilitator of learning
Padraig O Ceidigh. C.E.O. Aer Arann

I heard recently on the radio that there was a business study done. And joining a group of like minded people and discussing issues/working to achieve goals is more valuable to business people than getting a €75K job.

I would have shrugged at this 2 months ago. But I now truly believe in the power of a group and measuring what we do.

I have relished Smacht and in the last two months I have achieved more personally and set out plans financially that will set me and my family up for life (happily).

Padraic is a legend!

The way he can motivate, excite, educate the group is fantastic to see and be a part of.

I have a lot of traveling done in the past 8 years and haven’t met anyone like P. We are blessed to have access to such a facilitator. Padraic Is also on a path of his own Development and mark my words in a few years when he’s doing his groups in NewYork/London we will say “there’s the man who set me on the right path”.

You WONT regret joining Smacht.
Noel Kelly, Creva Farm & Agri Biz

Thanks to Padraic for facilitating another powerful session, wow I got so many tasks completed this afternoon, Padraic if we could but you in a Kellogg’s box I’d have ya for breakfast every morning………lol

What a start to the day that would be!!!!
Frank Byrnes, Frank Byrnes Autobody Repairs Ltd

Padraic runs one of the most innovative and effective mentoring programmes available in Ireland. The Smacht programme is becoming an essential tool for about 100 businesses already and growing, and speaking personally, it is a massive networking tool for my business. Padraic is a highly effective business mentor, and a fantastic networker, and he has been directly responsible in the turning around of our business for the better. I can’t recommend him or the Smacht programme highly enough
Gary O’ Keeffe, Managing Director Bluestones Facilities Management

My first encounter with Padraic was in the winter of 1998/99, when he presented a Marketing Development Program for start-up businesses, I immediately took a liking to the guy. Why you might ask, well he has the rare ability of being able to mix a very strong academic knowledge with both common since and a practical ability, as well as being a nice person who shows an interest in your development. I have since attended many different courses that he has facilitated, and I look forward to doing more. One of the things he taught us back in 98 was the importance of a “daily dose of reality”, no one will give you that perspective better than Padraic.
Andy Tierney, Managing Director at Tierney’s Office Automation Ltd.

How do you know if you’d be suitable for it?

Here’s what you can do.

On Monday, February 6th 2012, Pádraic Ó Máille is presenting a once off seminar entitled

‘Use Your Potential for a Change – 25 Great Ways to Put  Smácht on Your Attitude, Your Marketing, Your Sales, Your Money and Your Time’.

Learn:

• Why attitude is the difference that makes the difference and 5 practical ways to change your state of mind in a heartbeat.
• Why doing business without marketing is like winking at someone in the dark – you know what you’re doing but no one else does. Learn 5 marketing techniques that can be earning you money this evening.
• Why the salesperson reigns supreme in every organisation. In addition, learn the only sentence you’ll ever need to know for unrivalled sales success.
• Why 95% of people are broke at 65 and what you can do about it now.
• Why time is your most precious resource and what you can do to make better use of it.

This is a rare opportunity to hear Pádraic deliver across the entire Smácht body of knowledge. As he will be promoting the Smácht Change Programme the admission to this seminar is only €30. It is guaranteed to help you improve your attitude, your marketing, your sales, your wealth and your time management.

Can you afford to miss it?

I look forward very much to meeting you at the seminar.

All you need is Smácht.

Pádraic O Máille

PS As a bonus, you’ll receive the invaluable  Smácht SHAG Tracker, and a lesson in how to use it to plan and measure performance.