To Push or Not to Push?

That is the Question......


--Leaders push themselves when they are winning and take the pressure off when things are not going right

Years ago, my mentor took me to the horse races at Del Mar Raceway in California. He said that this was an awareness test and asked me to watch the first race and tell him what I saw. I told him I saw a bunch of four legged animals running around in circles. Wrong answer.

He instructed me to watch the second race and tell him what I saw. I told him I saw a bunch of foolish people in the stands throwing their money away betting. "Not the answer I am looking for," he replied.

This went on for three more races. Finally he said, "In the next race, watch which horses they are whipping."

In the next race I saw that only the horses in the front half of the pack were whipped. He told me to remember that.

Most people have it backwards. When you are doing well, that's when you want to whip yourself to go faster. But most people, if they do well, reward themselves by taking the afternoon or week off.

In the military there is an interesting principle where you reinforce when you are winning. If you break through an enemy's position, that is when you send in reserves to deepen the penetration of your force.

When you are doing poorly, like the horses coming in last, don't whip yourself. Take the afternoon off. That's when most people whip themselves to work harder--when they aren't doing so well.

They have it backwards.

When you are not doing well, take time off, get your head straight and then tackle the business at hand or whatever the project is. Most people have it backwards and whip themselves at the wrong time.

TAKEAWAY!
When you are doing well, push yourself harder. When you are doing poorly, take time off to get your attitude straight.


Action Step #1

Take a moment to think of where in your life you are pushing yourself hard and getting little return. Are you working even more hours at work and making little or no more money?

Are you spending more time in a relationship but it is not getting more intimate or exciting? Are you praying exhaustively and not getting more intimate with God?

Now, find a way to take a break so that when you go back to that activity it is with a different viewpoint.


Action Step #2

Take a moment to identify where you have momentum in your success. How can you push yourself even more in that area?

An Example

When my mentor took me to the horse races, I was a marketing director for his seminars in San Diego, California. I had had tremendous success building the attendance up from nine people in a seminar when I got there to 70 people! Then things started to slide.

I pressed myself harder to try and turn it around. The marketing plan involved many volunteers.
As I pressed myself harder I became less fun or inspirational to be around so fewer volunteers helped. So, I pressed myself even harder and fewer volunteers came around.

The downward spiral had sunk to where we had only 32 people in a class. That was when my mentor stepped in to correct the belief systems that were running my behavior.

He had me take a week off in Mexico, and when I came back I was totally refreshed and the class size started to increase--even though there was one week less to build the seminar, because of my vacation.


"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better to be alone than in bad company"
--George Wahington

By: Brian Klemmer

#1 Heartbreak In Being a GURU

I'm dead serious about the word "heartbreak." I LOVE what I do but there is a dark side.

The dark side is:

I can tell people *what* to do and show them exactly *how* to do it, but if their sense of self-worth or their belief system gets in the way, they will *always* find a way to screw it up.

Always.

They procrastinate.
They skip one vital step.
The money comes in the front door and immediately exits through the back door.
They sleep through a golden opportunity.
Or somehow or another they simply cannot get themselves to DO it.

This is heartbreaking. Because the truth is, in just 9-18 months I can provide you with a functional set of marketing skills that put you in the top 10% of all marketers.

But if your mind and emotions aren't ready to succeed, you'll still hold yourself back.

And this is compounded even more by another heartbreaking problem:

Some people have ZERO resistance to success. None whatsoever. They have granted themselves permission to succeed *regardless* of what it does to other people. They will say anything, do anything, execute anyone or destroy anything necessary to become King Of The Hill.

There's a word for these people:

"Psychopath."

Psychopaths are people whose car has an
accelerator but no brakes.

Unfortunately, there is a percentage of successful people who are literally psycho. They give us normal people even more reason to hesitate.

We normal people think: "What if I succeed and then become a psychopath? I think I'd rather stay broke than be like HIM!!!"

Even though I don't talk about belief systems a huge amount, I think they're hugely important.

For this reason I'd like to direct you to highlights of a 2-hour interview Jack Born and Bryan Todd did with PJ Eby. PJ is a mindhacker extraordinaire and I love his "engineering way" of slicing through mental cobwebs:

CLICK HERE NOW!

As quoted by Perry Marshall

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Mastering Wealth

By Napoleon Hill from Think and Grow Rich.

Do you recognize yourself in any of these weaknesses? You can change if you are serious about accumulating wealth and financial freedom.

1 – Failure to recognize and clearly define exactly what you want.

2 – Procrastination usually backed up by a formidable array of excuses.

3 – Lack of interest in acquiring specialized knowledge.

4 – Indecision. The habit of passing the buck on all occasions, instead of facing issues squarely.

5 – The habit of relying upon alibis instead of creating definite plans for the solution of problems.

6 – Self satisfaction.

7 – Indifference. Usually reflected in one’s willingness to compromise in all occasions, rather that meet opposition and fight it.

8 – The habit of blaming others for one’s mistakes and accepting unfavorable circumstances as unavoidable.

9 – Weakness of desire due to neglect of motives that impel action. (Not having a strong “Reason Why”)

10 – Willingness, even eagerness to quit at the first sign of defeat, based upon basic fears.

11 – Lack of organized plans placed in writing where they may be organized.

12 – The habit of neglecting to move on ideas or to grasp opportunity when it presents itself.

13 – Wishing instead of willing.

14 – The habit of compromising with poverty instead of aiming at riches. General absence of ambition to be, to do and to own.

15 – Searching for all of the short cuts to riches. Trying to get without giving a fair equivalent.

16 – Fear of criticism of what others will think, do or say