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TURNING 25K INTO 374K
“A MIND THAT IS STRETCHED BY A NEW EXPERIENCE
CAN NEVER GO BACK TO ITS OLD DIMENSIONS.”
—OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
events occurs to bring about the
completion of your commitment.
This level of commitment is
rare—and it requires a great deal
of investment to reach it.
I knew all of this about investment. I
had studied it psychologically for years.
I had experienced it in my personal and
professional life for nearly a decade.
So it was a no-brainer for me to
make the $25,000 investment to join
Genius Network. However, what I
experienced with that investment was
far more profound, surprising and
soul-expanding than I ever expected.
THE POWER OF GENEROSITY
“A mind that is stretched by a new
experience can never go back to its old
dimensions.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A core component of Genius Network
philosophy is “giving.” To quote Joe Polish:
Life gives to the giver and takes from the
taker. Joe actually has an entire philosophy
built around the idea of giving which
he refers to as “being the first domino.”
When you’re the first domino, you initiate
connections, ideas, relationships, businesses
and more. You provide value on the spot.
You become the type of person that others
always want to answer the phone for.
To quote the famed Zig Ziglar, “You can
have everything in life you want, if you will
just help other people get what they want.”
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The only way to succeed in an environment
like Genius Network, where everyone in
the group is already very successful, is to
embrace and live the idea of giving. Joe
Polish is the embodiment of this idea.
I believe one of Joe’s greatest desires is
to help as many people as he can. He is
on a mission to improve entrepreneurs
and to change the global conversation
around addiction. And he will achieve
both of these aims because he lives
what he preaches. He’s a true giver
and everyone in his circle of influence
knows it—and as a result, they all will
gladly help him with his noble goals.
HOW THE GENIUS
NETWORK CULTURE OF
“GIVING” TURNED MY
$25,000 INTO NEARLY
$400,000 IN SIX MONTHS
In September of 2017, I attended my first
“25K Meeting” at Joe Polish’s office in
Tempe, Arizona. At that meeting, I shared
a 10-minute talk, detailing some of my
strategies for quickly growing my email list.
After my talk, I had several people ask how
they could help me. One of those people
was Draye Redfern, who asked how I was
monetizing the more than 20,000 new
subscribers I was getting each month. I
shared the several ways I was monetizing
my platform, but Draye pushed me. He
wanted me to take full-advantage of my
opportunity to serve people through my
work. As Eliot Burdett has said, “Nothing
happens until someone sells something.”
Within a week of meeting Draye, I had
created an online course that would be
presented to new subscribers of my blog,
immediately after they subscribe. I had
known for months that I should create
a passive income stream with my new
subscribers, but it wasn’t until I joined
Genius Network that I got the push to do
it. With the help of Draye, I created that
course and immediately started making
over $10,000 per month, passively.
That’s one of the brilliant outcomes
of being a part of such a high level
group: you will have the holes in your
thinking and your business-model
quickly detected. You’ll be challenged
to upgrade yourself and your thinking.
That’s why it’s so important to invest
in yourself. That’s what separates the
dreamers from the doers. Again, once
you become invested, you become
committed. Once you’re committed
and in the right environment, change
happens. It must happen, because we
adapt to our environments. Hence
the beauty of putting oneself into an
environment like Genius Network—you’re
forced to operate at a higher level.
Put simply, the act of investing in
oneself, in addition to a very high
level environment, is what creates a
“psychological upgrade,” wherein you
shatter the limiting subconscious beliefs
holding you back. As psychologist William
James has said, “What is impressed on the
subconscious mind is expressed.” In other
words, what you believe at the subconscious