ZERO TO ONE -
Going The Extra Mile...
THE GREATEST gift is the gift of time. It isn't something you should give up freely ~ Benjamin Franklin.
Relentlessness is the price of greatness.
Those who will win + shine + own the game will also love ideas and information that push their limits. They ache to expand. They devote to ascension.
They hunger for the heroic. They want to spend the rest of their lives on pursuits that are meaningful. And of service to others. While they exploit their potential on the road to mastery.
Well,
Life is not fair - just get used to it ~ Bill Gates.
To achieve true Success, you must accept the world for what it is while working to make it what it should be. And while striving for fairness, accept occasional unfairness and disappointment as a natural and inevitable consequence of life. In other words, life isn't fair but you should be. I know - that's not fair!!!
True commitment, regardless of the endeavor, is absolutely essential not only to the business/job you work for but to your personal development as well.
Commitment can be declared by words but evidence of commitment can only be found in your actions.
We understand that we want to be better, but have no clear definition of what better means and that is part of the process.
At some point in our lives, many of us find ourselves overcome with the desire to become better people. While we are all uniquely capable of navigating this world, we may nonetheless feel driven to grow, expand, and change. This innate need for personal expansion can lead us down many paths as we develop within the context of our individual lives.
Yet the initial steps that can put us on the road to evolution are not always clear.
We understand that we want to be better but have no clear definition of "better."
To ease this often frustrating uncertainty, we can take small steps, keeping our own concept of growth in mind rather than allowing others to direct the course of our journey. And we should accept that change won't happen overnight - we may not recognize the transformations taking place within us at first.
Becoming a better person in your own eyes is a whole-life project, and thus you should focus your step-by-step efforts on multiple areas of your existence.
Since you likely know innately which qualities you consider good, growing as an individual is simply a matter of making an effort to do good whenever possible.
Respect should be a key element of your efforts.
When you acknowledge that all people are deserving of compassion, consideration, and dignity, you are naturally more apt to treat them in the manner you yourself wish to be treated.
You will intuitively become a more active listener, universally helpful, and truthful. Going the extra mile in all you do can also facilitate evolution.
Approaching your everyday duties with an upbeat attitude and positive expectations can help you make the world a brighter, more cheerful place. Finally, coming to terms with your values and then abiding by them will enable you to introduce a new degree of integrity and dignity into your life.
As you endeavor to develop yourself further, you can take pride not only in your successes, but also in the fact that you are cultivating consciousness within yourself through your choices, actions, and behaviors. While you may never feel you have reached the pinnacles of awareness you hope to achieve, you can make the most of this creative process of transformation.
Becoming a better person is your choice and is a natural progression in your journey of self-awareness.
This is my first substack post in 2023 since last December and it goes deep and longer and is rich with content for your greatest performance in business, academics, career etc. And in life.
The greatest gift is the gift of time. It isn't something you should give up freely - Benjamin Franklin
You and I work for the world, you know.
And so we owe it to those around us to realize our natural genius while we optimize our crafts, elevate our creativity, heighten productivity and be helpful to more people.
In a world suffering from low attention, my loving encouragement is that you make the time right now to read this entire post.
Then,
Deconstruct it;
Battle chart it;
Study it and
Reflect profoundly on it. (The uncommon talent within you deserves to see the sunlight, doesn’t it?).
While the majority do long for pure success, real greatness and their place at the table of genius, they refuse to install the beliefs, run the routines, do the work and live the days that would make so much of their readily observable reality.
Add to this the fact that digital media has caused our brains to resist content that takes some effort, stretches our thinking and sparks our growth so you get a GCA(Gargantuan Competitive Advantage) available to you when you go contrarian by being a deep learner.
The great masters all think long-term, develop rigorous patience to train daily on their skillset and move toward their most difficult projects, for there is where legendary lives.
Those who will win + shine + own the game also love ideas and information that push their limits. They ache to expand. They devote to ascension. They hunger for the heroic. They want to spend the rest of their lives on pursuits that are meaningful. And of service to others. While they exploit their potential on the road to mastery -
For these Members of The Top 5%; Personal elevation is their oxygen!
Relentless optimization is their addiction!
Making each year x100 better is their obsession!
The rare-air few who lead their fields totally get that effort breeds reward, that hard work delivers beautiful fruits. That focus + practice provide genius!
Ohh, and that the path to amazing reward is a treacherous, dangerous and painful ride. Yet, it's so worth it. And that's going the extra mile!
The idea that geniuses such as Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Mozart were naturally gifted is a myth!
Numerous studies from around the world have concluded that excellence is determined by:
🔻 Opportunities
🔻 Encouragement
🔻 Training
🔻 Motivation and most of all,
🔻 Practice.
Anyways, the cold and precious truth is this: you have been presented with an exceptional series of opportunities in your life.
🕹️ A genuine shot at your own version of greatness.
🕹️ An open window to let go of former resentments, hurts and disappointments.
🕹️ The space to blueprint precisely what you wish to do and who you devote to become.
🕹️ The platform to release the dream takers from your life so people who understand you, encourage you and fuel your bigness start showing up.
🕹️ A clean canvas to produce work that is poetic and release value that is magnificent.
🕹️ A blank slate to develop the interior life like the giants of humanity.
To start our work together today as I started from Zero to one, so we get our dreams done, I (strongly) encourage you to make the following 9 (Nine) clear moves quickly (if not immediately):
⛲ #1.
Write a Victory List.
This is an inventory that you write with pen and paper (yes - go analog so your brain gets pushed) noting the 18 victories you have made and created over the year 2023 so far.
This will spark hope, faith, energy and momentum.
⛲ #2.
Draw Your Perfect Life.
I have the members of my coaching group (QNET and Noble Life International) go through this revolutionary process to plan out their their lives so that they clean out the constraints, strip away the distractions and get super calibrated on implementing the few projects that will cause them to be legendary. This system creates pure transformation.
Someone shared with me that this single process that he experienced was responsible for him achieving financial and human wins he'd never thought he could achieve.
And executing on goals he never has been able to get done. He said: "It works like magic”!
Feeling the emotions you will feel when you're not only thinking about you living but also as this gorgeous vision has become your everyday reality.
This exercise can be done using each week to plan your schedules. Another key to the transformational power of this exercise is that you absolutely need to raise your standards x25 as you architect your best professional and your life.
This challenge moves you to lift your courage and consider achievements you'd never thought about before.
Key:
As you know from the latest positive psychology, your personal story about what's possible becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. You will never perform higher than your self-identity. And what you believe to be possible.
⛲ #3.
Set Your Monthly 5.
On a large piece of paper, record your five priorities for each month in the year.
They can be personal or professional. Just get them down so your best nature can start sensing opportunities to make them happen. (The brain looks for what you train it to search for).
You now have a tool you can use for regular review to keep you monomaniacally focused on The Vital Few.
Stop starting your weeks without a clear and calibrated game plan. That's like attempting to scale Everest with no strategy.
Hope and prayers are not a map. And lucky loves the prepared.
⛲ #4.
Do a Life Detox Audit.
The negative people, the pursuits you dislike and the environments that deplete your joy are costing you fortunes of income and empires of impact.
When it comes to Best of Breed Performance, one of the most valuable things to do is the imperative of releasing these success bandits from your life.
The people who steal your fire, smother your ambitions and laugh at your visions are keeping your prosperity chained and your impact small. (This is an extremely important insight).
Having the wisdom and guts to let them go (while still wishing them well on their life's journey) is a total results-changer.
Deleting the energy vampires and drama enthusiasts, methodically and swiftly, will lead to your mindset becoming more positive, your bravery becoming more potent, your work becoming more excellent, your personal life becoming more peaceful and your place in the world becoming more unlimited so that you can become the person nature truly wants you to be.
⛲ #5.
Run The 60-Minute Student Routine
Spending sixty minutes every day learning and growing is essential. The more you know, the better you can do. And the faster you will grow, the higher you'll fly. The leader who learns the most wins.
Schedule (the things that get scheduled are the things that get done, right?) a daily period to invest in your personal development and mastery of your craft.
Build this right into your daily schedule for the next 1 week. Do this. Please. Because victims love entertainment but epic influencers love education. And learning delivers exponentially more optimizations than leisure ever will.
⛲ #6.
Make Your Dream Collage.
Pictures seduce your subconscious mind on the benefits of your visions.
♻️ Want to get ridiculously fit fast?
Find images of your ideal body, the foods you will eat and the new lifestyle you will embrace.
♻️ Amped to become The Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of Your Craft this year 2023.
Get some pictures of outright icons and glue them onto a large sheet. So do this for all your HVTs (High Value Targets) for rest of the month. Then put the collage in a place where you can see it often, as positive psychologists now have hard data confirming that "triggers and cues" are powerful forces to reshape daily behavior.
⛲ #7.
Take a Wonder Walk.
Once you do even 20% of what I've encouraged you to do so far in this message (nothing works without the work; so execute on the information I'm sharing so openly with you please), you will be ultra-clear on what needs to happen for your dreams to get done (Clarity Breeds Mastery). Big improvements must follow.
Next, do something almost successful people do every day: go for a walk in nature. Many of the most creative and productive people in history ran the ritual of nature walks. Such a core habit.
As you step, reflect on the opportunity of your life, resolve to forgive those who have hurt you (they made you stronger and more noble). And commit to letting go of what no longer serves you (it got you to here).
Remember - that the past was perfect preparation for you to become who you now are and to grow the extraordinary life that you now face the opportunity to create.
Promise yourself that over the next 3 months you will stay with your plans no matter what walls show up. Because they always do. Relentlessness is the price of greatness.
⛲ #8.
Create Your Morning Declaration.
Come up with a 3-paragraph statement to remind yourself of who you are at your best, how you wish to live each day (master the day and you recode your life) and what you vow to stand for in the world.
I still do this daily!
A day will never pass by without telling myself "I am a land that flows of silver, I am Silverland ".
This routine (along with some of my other proprietary methods) do result into some massive improvements that led to some awesome rewards.
Reciting this declaration aloud when you first wake up reverse hypnotizes your mindset against negativity and resets your heartset so you delete apathy. And bring on your greatest audacity.
⛲ #9.
Just Breathe.
You know, life's too short to be too serious. Adults are just deteriorated children. So never lose your sense of wonder.
Yes, conditions can get tough!
Sure, unexpected events happen!
Definitely, our great hopes can sometimes be destroyed!
Yet - there is so much striking beauty in the world. And you have much more good in your life than you may realize. The built-in negativity bias of our brain allowed us to survive thousands of years ago against violent threats. Yet, it still often chatters endlessly in our modern culture, causing us to focus on what's broken instead of celebrating all that's working.
So just breathe, keep doing your best and remember that vast blessings are definitely on their way. Amazing things are in your future. And you really are precisely where you need to be. Trust me on this.
Remember - Our tiny planet needs more leaders, providers, producers and everyday heroes - Just like you and I.