22: Rise and Grind
11/17/20 • 21 min
Grinding through things?
Sometimes you have to go through an obstacle and not around it.
Sometimes it's going to be difficult, and you will want to put it down for the evening. But in order to really be successful, you need to put the boots on and get to work.
What are you prepared to do? Is your WHY strong enough?
My taekwondo instructor said to me the other day - "I have failed more gradings for the black belt than anyone else in the world probably. I couldn't do the moves for ages. But, because I stuck with it and I wanted to get better, I was able to achieve the black belt".
We give up too quickly when things go wrong.
Why should it be easy? There is work to be put in and the value you put in is equal to the value of the reward.
We need more sitting down actually doing the thing. Instead of sitting there thinking about why we haven't started yet.
What's something you've worked hard at in your life, that you persisted through difficulties, until the end?
How good did it feel getting that thing completed?
Harness what you did when you knew that you were capable of achieving that thing.
You still are capable, just don't give in so easy.
When you don't have someone looking over you, it can be difficult to stay persistent.
That's why your environment is so important, surround yourself with people who are also persistent and want to achieve, like our Facebook community Marketplace SuperHeroes!
The champions always go the extra mile. The extra 5 push-ups in the gym or the extra 30 minutes of research can define a true champion.
Where is the enjoyment in not challenging yourself?
Once you have moved up a difficulty, you don't want to start playing on a lower one.
How much grit do you have in your life?
"Get The Grit & Hit The Grind" - Robert Rickey.
^^^ Post this in our Facebook Group so that we know you've got the message!
Grinding through things?
Sometimes you have to go through an obstacle and not around it.
Sometimes it's going to be difficult, and you will want to put it down for the evening. But in order to really be successful, you need to put the boots on and get to work.
What are you prepared to do? Is your WHY strong enough?
My taekwondo instructor said to me the other day - "I have failed more gradings for the black belt than anyone else in the world probably. I couldn't do the moves for ages. But, because I stuck with it and I wanted to get better, I was able to achieve the black belt".
We give up too quickly when things go wrong.
Why should it be easy? There is work to be put in and the value you put in is equal to the value of the reward.
We need more sitting down actually doing the thing. Instead of sitting there thinking about why we haven't started yet.
What's something you've worked hard at in your life, that you persisted through difficulties, until the end?
How good did it feel getting that thing completed?
Harness what you did when you knew that you were capable of achieving that thing.
You still are capable, just don't give in so easy.
When you don't have someone looking over you, it can be difficult to stay persistent.
That's why your environment is so important, surround yourself with people who are also persistent and want to achieve, like our Facebook community Marketplace SuperHeroes!
The champions always go the extra mile. The extra 5 push-ups in the gym or the extra 30 minutes of research can define a true champion.
Where is the enjoyment in not challenging yourself?
Once you have moved up a difficulty, you don't want to start playing on a lower one.
How much grit do you have in your life?
"Get The Grit & Hit The Grind" - Robert Rickey.
^^^ Post this in our Facebook Group so that we know you've got the message!
Previous Episode
21: Amazon Business Lessons from Fantasy Football
For those of you who don't know, football manager is a game where you play as the manager of a football \ soccer club.
We love it when for fun when we were growing up but also how it gives you a hands-on experience of how a business works.
There are so many business lessons inside the game that you can extract.
Players are like products. You cant play a match with only one player...
You must build up a team, a variety of products that have strengths in different areas.
You have a substitute bench also, where you have players \ products that are getting ready to launch and get playing.
Then, your product research is like your team's youth club. You've got buds in the works, ready to grow into a valuable addition tot he team.
Manager of the team. Director of the business. Same thing!
Your scouts and coaches are constantly searching for new players to bring to the team. Just like how you should be searching for new products, adding to the growing pipeline.
Even if you can't afford those winning players/products right away, it's still better to have them under watch fo when you can invest in them.
Players don't last forever. Products don't last forever...
Some players retire, some products sell off...
As the manager, you must be able to emulate the results of those previous players, by adding in new ones.
If a product is no longer selling, get ready to replace it with one that is selling!
You've always got to be preparing for your next venture.
If there is not enough fresh blood coming into the business, it will die.
Analyse what is going on in your life and make the appropriate adjustments.
"As an unexamined life isn't worth living, a business unexamined isn't worth owning"
Amazon is the most forgiving business we have ever seen when it comes to learning how to play.
Thank you for joining us today!
Let us know what you thought of today's episode over in our Marketplace SuperHeroes Facebook group!
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23: The Amazon Millionaire
"Millionaire, I like the concept of the word but it has been overused and lost a definitive meaning."
"A millionaire to me is someone who owns assets that makes their net-worth equal to or more than $1,000,000. It's not having $1,000,000 in your personal bank account."
How to become a millionaire is a very high searched term o places like Youtube.
It is easy to fantasise about the end goal when you haven't built anything or even made $1,000. So why are you jumping straight to 7 figures?
Thinking "an event is going to make me a millionaire"... No.
It is a process and once you do that process enough times, you can get to $1,000,000. But it takes time and work to get there.
If you did have $1,000,000 in a bank account I would question how you obtained it in the first place as that is not how a millionaire would operate... It is way too risky to put all of that money in the bank when they will only cover you for up to $100,000.
Do not think banks aren't monitoring who has money in and who has money out. They are a business that wants to make money, just the same as you and I, we just follow a different model.
You could have $0 in the bank and still be a millionaire. An example would be owning 5 houses, each worth $200,000.
It's not because our bank accounts contain millions. It's because the businesses that we own contain millions of dollars worth of assets.
Take your mind off the 'Millionaire' thing... Focus on the 'Hundredgrandonaire' first.
You can live very very well on a hell of a lot less than you think.
People are chasing their idea of what the millionaire lifestyle is, for some that is scuba diving in the Bahamas drinking mojitos all day.
We didn't rush into owning our houses and eating nice foods, we got ourselves yo a position where we could do those things if we wanted to.
It is okay to want a nice car or an expensive watch, but there is no need to own 20 of them.
Same for holidays, you don't need your own island, with a butler and personal chef to have some nice time off!
More and more we have realised the importance to invest in quality.
Being a millionaire is about owning assets that equate to $1,000,000.
Is it necessary to get there to be happy? Absolutely not!
Is it nice to have the money to live comfortably? Definitely.
Get a perspective of what you want and go for that!
There are moments in your life and in your business journey, milestones that you reach.
Those are the things we should be working towards and planning how to get there.
Enjoy the process too, there is no need to skip to the end. That is where you get the reward for putting in the work.
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