Investor Quarterly™ Issue 3 - June 2015 | Page 16

16 When you “get it” you’ll start making decisions based on RESULTS not HYPE. Everyone wants to party with you at the top, they just don’t want any part of the ride up there. It’s too hard, it’s to this, and it’s to that... It’s ALWAYS going to be something. People either have excuses or solutions. Which are you going to be? The best part is that you get to choose; your whole life is a choice. When it’s your choice and your consequence is either good or bad the decisions can give you These days we are focused on how to get instant results. We are willing to listen to anyone with a ulcers! quick fix solution. The problem is, there isn’t one. SHARK INFESTED WATERS AHEAD Think about how hard and long you have looked for It’s scary at the top and like being in shark infested a quick solution; it could be years. Think about how waters with a cut. You have to not only stop the ALL of the successful people in your field took time bleeding, but also figure out a way back to shore. to get there. It wasn’t one week, or even one year... 90% of people say, “Forget this,” and move on. 99% of the people you look up to and respect They don’t feel the time, effort or energy it will take struggled for years to get there. to survive is worth the pay off and they search for They didn’t fall into it, They CREATED IT. There another way. What happens is that they jump in is no “knight in shinning armor”, instead there is someone else’s life raft and they start helping them countless people who didn’t respect their time or paddle. Now if they fail it’s not technically their fault effort at first. There was no “white horse,” it was a beat up car or truck that barely ran that they had to park down the street so no one knew what they drove. All the people who have achieved what you want, just wanted it more than you do right now. You currently have everything you are willing to sacrifice for. Your life is just a result of what you consistently do, so if you don’t like your results, then CHANGE WHAT YOU DO! Taking your life in your own hands is the SCARIEST thing you’ll ever do until you can’t imagine your life any other way. We all hate that guy who says on TV, “I’ve got millions and it was EASY!! You can get it too! It’s EASY!!” We believe that, and when it’s not easy we think it’s US. To some degree we are right. It is US! We limit ourselves and we hold ourselves back. We are the ones who are in complete control of our destiny whether we believe it or not. This doesn’t mean that we can’t hand over the steering wheel to someone else. We have many reasons for doing this, but at the core it’s because we are scared to be responsible. We want someone else to have the answers. When those answers are wrong we NEED to be able to blame someone else. It wasn’t until I stopped this way of thinking and started taking the responsibility for everything that I was able to change the trajectory of my business and ultimately mine and my families’ lives No on wants to hear how hard it is. Everyone wants to hear, “here is the secret.” That mindset is set for failure. If you still have a victim mentality, it’s time to slap the stupid out of you. I know that was aggressive, but you need to learn two simple things. First, EXPECT NOTHING and second, ACCEPT EVERYTHING. Yep that’s right, accept everything, it doesn’t mean you keep