To get better (or BIGGER) you need a challenge that pushes your limits.
It's valuable to consider your biggest goal to live outside your comfort zone. To make that happen, you need to face circumstances that demand it regularly.
Examples:
- Up against Brian in a Blitz? Suddenly my calls per hour have doubled or even tripled.
- Best in your clan at SC, but still suck? You're playing against noobs in a noob clan.
The theory behind becoming a consistant 5-6 size is you must be that big to handle the challenges of "both" and the challenges of growing a business.
Without any of those challenges, you're living in a field of inspiration that seriously lacks ACTION.
ACTION is what makes change.
It's like raising the blinds in poker -- it forces that action, and puts you in more situations where you have to rely on reading abilities and not just stacking odds.
Without the challenge of BOTH, you'll never be able to achieve the goal of "Become a 5-6 and do BOTH."
Right now you're "become a 5-6 and do both, but do both later, maybe with a lot of money and just get an easier job and be a 4-5 and kind of handle them individually"
That old goal -- one that I've been preaching is wrong for the last 90 days -- is still very alive and "go to" in your mind.
Deep down, you just want to get the money together, buy a big rocket, strap it to the back of the plane and hope it flies.
That's not how businesses are built. That's not how you get a plane off the ground.
You CAN'T work at petco and be building a business on the side, because you wont be faced with challenges all day that constantly put you to the test like LEAF.
(Leaf is like: cold call FASTER GO GO, now close this deal, get this paperwork done, COLD CALL GO GO, get this approved, SHIT GOTTA COLD CALL AGAIN FUCK IM BEHIND)
LEAF trains hustle all day. Compared to LEAF, getting an extra hour in on my business is too easy, and it's not a hard challenge to take on. It'll be easy to get going most days if I really want it. I won't feel like I'm hustling enough every time, and that'll push me to get even bigger, creating a cycle of growth.
Petco trains victim behavior all day. Everything about it degrades me, is slower, is mundane standard work with bottom barrel people surrounding me... going home and building my business compared to that is a huge challenge every time and I'm not going to feel up to the challenge, so just getting myself to do it only happens here and there and then I spend that time acting more like a victim than a hustler.
As long as your actions don't reflect your intentions, nothing is going to change. Action is much stronger than inspiration, and it's the only way you actually grow.
It's not "get bigger first, then build a business". That's like going to the gym every day to prepare to be a good construction worker. It's not nearly as effective as actually building shit every day... that's how you get there.
It is time to actually do BOTH, so that there's a new challenge I am tested against, and new daily objectives and failures to overcome.
Right now, I am trying to overcome being a 4 and wanting to be a 5 every day. But since I'm not actually building a business and I'm not even trying to focus on more than one thing, it doesn't mean much.
When you fail it's like, well, yeah I was small but I found 3 warms and got an app in, great day.
Does that really move you closer to having your own business? Or does getting more money in the bank just lead to more "failure of success"?
So I will begin. It is time. BABY STEPS for sure... but just SOMETHING to start.
15 minutes, as soon as I get home, Tuesday - Thursday this week. That's less than 1 hour for the week.
Objective: Get an amazon-based website setup so that I am ready to port over. Also check other's experience with web hosting through them, if necessary, just upgrade the gator.
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Happiness and Doing Both
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Directv BBY LEAF Passed the 50: Not reliant on the corporate ladder.
Good analogy here is being in the food chain (first half) and not being in the food chain (second half.)
SO LONG AS YOU ARE RELIANT ON A JOB OR CAREER PATH, YOU AREN'T REALLY CONTROLLING SHIT AND WILL NEVER BE OVER 50% HAPPY IN LIFE, NO MATTER HOW GOOD THE JOB GETS, NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU ARE.
You must have a sense of CONTROL OVER YOUR DESTINY to feel wholesome deep down.
That is who I am as a person. Whether it was always there, or it's just who I became, there is no going back.
If I don't do BOTH, I will never feel CONTROL, because I'm NOT DOING SHIT to really be in control... I'm just collecting money to be able to float for a while should the ship sink. Just widening the safety net.
THE MORE YOU WORK ON BOTH, THE MORE CONTROL YOU WILL FEEL, AND THE HAPPIER YOU WILL BECOME.
It will feel like you're WAKING UP. Like it's just been the lonely, cold warrior shell for the last 3 years and my inner spirit has finally returned, and I feel filled with guts and glory and life again.
No guts, no glory. Do both. Do whatever it takes. Find yourself once again.
Try to remember what it felt like back when you were crazy and knew what life you really wanted and were excited to learn every trick in the book.
Except now you know all the tricks. It's like Luke from Episode 5, leaving yoda... now it's been years later and it's episode 6 back in Degoba, and yoda is like, "No more training need you. Vader. You must defeat Vader. Only then will your training be complete."
In my world, Vader is the corporate ladder.
And to complete my training, I must become free -- I must be making enough money on the side where I can choose to do whatever I want. It's not about telling LEAF to f* off... it's about knowing that if I did, it would only help me along the path (right now, it'd add a major detour to my path.)
It Is Time. You Are Ready.
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