Dale Beaumont: The Secret of Dale's Success

The secret of DALE’s success

At the age of 24, Dale Beaumont has achieved a great deal. He manages five businesses including Dream Express Publishing, Kapow Media, Tomorrow’s Youth, Network 21 and Get Published Secrets, and he has plans for further developing more business in the future.

His success can be attributed to a number of things: his competitive spirit, his strong work ethic, his hunger for absorbing knowledge wherever he can find it and his ability to maintain a happy balance between his work-life and personal-life. Most of all, he simply enjoys what he does.

Dale’s competitive nature stems from the strong sporting background of his youth, where, at the age of seven he vaulted into gymnastics and by the age of nine was training approximately 36 hours per week, before school, after, and weekends. This intense training and competition schedule, as well as school work, took up most of his life until the age of 18. However, it also provided a solid set of skills and principles essential for a career in business, such as goal setting, personal discipline, priority management, delayed gratification, attention to detail and the importance of having a coach. It has also instilled in him the ethic of hard work and the determination not to take no for an answer.

Good traits

Dale admits that sometimes good traits such as these can negatively impact on one’s life, business and personal, if they are taken to extremes. “As a former gymnast I am a real perfectionist. While this is certainly a great trait to have, often times it slows things down dramatically and at worst you end up not putting it out there because it is never quite right.” The key seems to be recognising when personality traits are becoming damaging, and to work on fixing them, using them as a springboard for further self-improvement. For example, Dale has now learnt that speed to market is the key and that “it is better to have a product that is 90 per cent complete and 100 per cent out there, than a product that is 100 per cent perfect and not out there.” He also finds the advice of others, such as leadership expert John Maxwell, invaluable in these instances: “Don’t spend a dollars worth of time on a ten cent decision.

” Also, working too hard can be a problem: “I am a bit of a workaholic so I get lots of things done and manage lots of moving parts. At times this trait can mean I sometimes neglect other areas of my life.” However, Dale has learnt to delegate repetitive tasks and activities which don’t directly relate to earning income, which allows him to allocate his time more effectively to other areas of his life.

Postive influences

Another positive influence on his career, outside of his sporting background, is Dale’s keen thirst for expanding his knowledge. He has attended hundreds of personal and professional development programs through which he has learnt many important things, such as ‘work harder on yourself than you do on the job’ and ‘you don’t get out of life what you want, you get out of life what you expect’. He also has a passion for passing on his entrepreneurial knowledge to help other young people succeed, and this was what inspired the creation of Tomorrow’s Youth International. “Tomorrows Youth International is a wonderful organisation and one which we are very proud of. To date we have now run our 2 ½ day Empower U program for over 10,000 teenagers across four different countries. The reason why it has grown so well is because of the passion and dedication of the amazing group of young people that we work with.” The Empower U program is a seminar which teaches young people skills that are often neglected in schools, such as goal setting, communication skills, leadership, money management skills, team building, career skills, creative thinking etc., whilst doing so in an interesting and creative way. “At the seminar we have a giant sound system, laser lights and smoke machines. Also along the way, we play heaps of cool games, watch inspiring movie clips and conduct some really life-changing processes.” Along with the seminars, Tomorrow’s Youth has published The World At Your Feet, a manual that encapsulates much of what the organisation is about.

Through working with teenagers, Dale discovered something which led to his next business idea, the launch of his book series Secrets Exposed.