TURNING 25K INTO 374K
level determines what you get out of life.
Joe Polish actually helped me understand
this idea. In a Genius Network meeting in
November of 2017, Joe said, “You get in life
what you believe you deserve.” When he
said that, it smacked me between the eyes
like a ton of bricks. I immediately thought
of the quote by Dr. David Hawkins:
“The unconscious will allow us to have
only what we believe we deserve. The
more we hang on to our negativity and
small self-image that results, the less we
think we deserve… If we have a small
view of ourselves, then what we deserve
is poverty. And our unconscious will see
to it that we have that actuality…”
One of the “elegant ideas” I heard at the
September 25K meeting was presented
by Kevin Donahue. He discussed the
importance of “adding a zero” to the price
of your products. If you sell something
for $1,000, just add a zero and find a way
to sell that product for $10,000. When
you do this, you upgrade the expectation
of both the customer and yourself. You
create a relationship where you can
give a much higher level of value.
I’ve heard this idea before. But it wasn’t
until I was in the right frame of mind
that that idea was able to really sink-in
and have an impact on my thinking. I
could not have been in the right frame
of mind had I not been in the right
environment, which is why the “Genius
Network Experience,” is so important.
You have to experience it yourself.
Take for example, a chocolate cake. I
could be eating the most amazing piece
of chocolate cake in the world. I could
even tell you how amazing that cake is.
But until you take a bite of it yourself, you
won’t really know what I’m talking about.
When you make the investment and
immerse yourself in the environment,
you change. You transform. You
go from dreamer to doer.
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I had been scared to hire an assistant, but
given the situation, I needed one to take
the load off Draye’s assistant. I started
reaching out to friends and family and
within a few days, I hired an amazing
person, Rachel Passey, who I’d spent a
great deal of time with. Knowing the
value of Genius Network, I immediately
invested the $10,000 to get her into
Genius Network, which is the price of
getting a team-member in the group.
I decided to apply Donahue’s idea and
upgrade the price and value of the yearly
mentoring program I offer. I also decided
to recruit some help again from Draye
Redfern, because I knew if I was going to
dramatically increase the price and value
of my product, that the launch of that
product would need to match the value. The launch of the product got me at least
an additional $250,000 which I would
never have been able to get on my own.
That, on top of the now $10,000+ I’m
getting passively, and the addition of
my new assistant has blown my mind.
As a result, I was able to do the biggest,
best and most professional launch I could
imagine. It was way better than anything
I’d ever done before. The strategy of both
the product and of selling the product
was what Stephen Covey meant while
explaining synergy. The whole became
fundamentally different from the sum of
its parts. One plus one became 1000. I’ve experienced more growth in the past
six months that I could have ever expected.
Because the launch of the product was
so incredible, I began getting hundreds
of emails per day from people who were
interested. I wasn’t expecting this. Draye’s
assistant had to handle all of the emails
because I simply couldn’t do it myself.
This forced me to face another thing I had
been resisting for over a year: I needed
to hire a full-time assistant, and fast. As I ponder that idea, I’m realizing that
my goals have shifted in the past six
months. Yes, I’m still very committed
to my own growth and my own goals.
But now, more than ever, my goals are to
help other people achieve their goals.
CONCLUSION
But more than that, I’ve changed as
a person. My values are changing.
I’m realizing more and more the core
philosophies Joe is trying to help all Genius
Networks understand, that “Life gives
to the giver and takes from the taker.”
Knowing that “life gives to the
giver,” it’s obvious that the practice
of this idea will only produce bigger
10X returns in the future.
BY: BENJAMIN P. HARDY
Benjamin Hardy’s work is viewed by millions of people monthly and is featured on Forbes,
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has grown his email list from zero to nearly 400,000 followers in the past 3.5 years without
any paid advertising. He is the author of the bestselling book, Willpower Doesn’t Work. Ben
is nearing the completion of his PhD in Organizational Psychology. After years of fighting
in court, Ben and his wife, Lauren, recently adopted their three children. Shortly after the
adoption, Lauren became pregnant with twins (boy and girl) and is due around Thanksgiving
of 2018. They live in Orlando, Florida, and you’ll regularly find them at a Disney park.
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