Blueprint for Success

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Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

Get ready.

It's a new day.

And we're going to be talking about the blueprint for success.

Six things, not that there's only six, but we got to mire and out to six things that

will determine your success.

And the first thing we're going to talk about is a big one.

And that's discipline.

I think discipline is the foundation for doing a lot of things successfully, whether

it's professionally or personally.

And I think it's the biggest thing that I've witnessed, talented people lack.

And I've watched it plague people.

I've watched it plague families just by having a lack of discipline.

And so discipline is doing the things that you need to do regardless of how you feel.

I mean, that's as simple as I could kind of put it.

So discipline is doing the things that you need to do regardless of how you feel.

That's the key.

That word feel because I think the reason why a lot of people don't do the things that

they need to do to take them to the next level is really solely based off of what they

feel like doing that they don't feel like it.

I need to get up, but I don't feel like it.

I need to go to bed, but I don't feel like it.

I need to eat this, but I don't feel like it.

I need to make this many calls, but I'm not feeling like it.

I'm just not motivated to do it.

You got to get yourself to do it regardless of how you feel.

That's the platform and the foundation of discipline.

And so you got to control the things that you can control.

And so you're able to control your behavior and your actions.

Part of success is controlling the controllables, right?

So you can control your actions, you can control your behavior.

That is all tied to your level of discipline.

And you got to commit to pushing yourself, right?

So to grow, you have to push yourself and to push yourself, the reason why you got

to push yourself is because it means that you're probably not going to want to do it.

You're not going to feel like doing it.

I don't want to sprint those, I don't want to run those sprints.

I don't want to lift those weights.

I don't want to study that presentation.

I don't want to roleplay.

I don't want to make those calls.

I don't want to do that open house.

I don't want to email those clients.

I don't want to call that person back because I know it's going to be a hard conversation.

It's the discipline that's going to be the breeding grounds for the level of success that

you want to have.

And so that's number one.

Check that off your list is we got to get into the habit of doing the things that we do

not feel like doing, regardless of how we feel, the stuff that we know that we need

to do, we got to go ahead and get them done anyway.

Second thing is consistency, discipline and consistency, the cousins of greatness.

Consistency is what will create discipline and discipline also helps to create consistency.

And so consistency is doing it not just one time, but doing it all the time, doing it

repeatedly.

And so how many times do you watch people in your line of work or in your line of whatever

it is that you're doing that they'll play great for a game.

They'll do great in one class.

They'll do great for a semester.

They'll work out for a month.

They'll work hard for a week or for a month.

But they won't apply it consistently to where they just do it all the time.

To be consistent, you got to make it a part of your lifestyle.

This is just what we're doing.

This is just the way it's going to be.

Consistency shows other people around you that you could be trusted and that you could

be relied on.

That hey, if she says she's coming every day at nine, she's going to be there every day

at nine.

If he says he's going to eat this way, he's going to do it.

Whatever it is, they know that you could be trusted because they're watching you.

Stay committed because the first thing that you got to get committed to in consistency

is yourself learning to commit to the promises that you made to yourself.

That's a huge one because once you commit to the promises that you make to yourself, your

confidence grows.

Silently, if you don't commit to the promises and commitments that you make to yourself,

your confidence weakens, it's a voice inside of you.

It's a feeling inside of you that says, hey, you know what, maybe I don't deserve this

because I know secretly I haven't been winning privately.

I haven't been doing the things that I promised to myself that I committed to myself that

I was going to do.

You get that feeling of lacking confidence.

If you want to get that confidence, it's committed to the commitment to yourself of the

things that you said that you were going to do that are within your control.

Third one is going to be attitude.

The attitude you've heard the term before that attitude determines your latitude.

You can't create a good life with a bad attitude.

You can't create good results with a bad attitude.

A bad attitude is something that you've got to be able to choose that perspective that's

going to give you a positive attitude because you're always going to have at your disposal

negative viewpoints and things that could get you down.

The things that are going to keep your attitude up, as an example, there's someone else

wishing right now that they had your situation.

And you find that perspective.

No matter how bad your situation is, think about other situations that could be worse.

Think about people that wish that they had your situation.

There's someone else out there that wish they had that your current situation.

Having a positive mindset and attitude is like a muscle, right?

So the more you work, the muscle, the more fit that it becomes.

The tighter, the stronger it becomes.

The same thing with your mind.

You've got to work your mental muscle to have that positive attitude.

Things that will help you work that positive attitude, that mindset, that mental muscle is

YouTube.

Like just go to YouTube and I want you to plug in at the top motivation, motivational videos.

And try to watch that, watch things, pick different videos, listen to them and watch them

on a daily basis.

And watch what that does to your attitude.

You'll start to find speakers and things that you like.

Then you can just stick with that person until you're done with their material and move

on to somebody else.

But watch what that does to your attitude.

But that's a daily workout.

Just like you go to the gym, go to the mental gym.

That's a daily workout now.

20 minutes.

30 minutes of listening to that audio, that's 30 minutes of cardio for your mind.

Another thing you could do is practice gratitude.

The attitude connected to attitude is gratitude.

You can have a positive attitude more likely if you can put gratitude into your life and

just continuously get back to all the things that you're grateful for.

Yeah, but I got this going on.

Yeah, but look at all the things that you're grateful for.

Make a list of all the things that could be worse that you're grateful for.

But this situation is jacked up right now.

But do you have your health or if your health is down, what could be worse?

What things do you have that you could focus on gratitude?

Yeah, this sucks, but my mom is still alive.

Or this is no good, but I'm grateful that I have a family and my kids are healthy.

And I'm walking and I can see and I'm talking.

These people left me, but I still got these people with me.

I'm grateful for those people with me.

It's the gratitude of being grateful.

The attitude of I get to versus I have to now, I gotta go to work.

You get to go to work.

What if a lot of people don't have a job?

They wish that they had that opportunity.

I got to have this meeting.

I get to have this meeting.

I gotta go to the gym.

I get to go to the gym.

I gotta do this cardio.

I get to do this cardio.

Whatever it is, I get to versus I got to because we're so blessed we should be grateful

that we have that scenario.

Because your thoughts determine your actions, your actions determine your habits.

The habits become your character and your character determines your future.

Or you can even just say the thoughts determine your actions.

The actions determine your habits and your habits determine your life in your future.

It all starts though with your thoughts.

How you look at things, how you think of things, how you speak of things, all that is in combination

of developing your attitude.

Number four, perseverance.

You gotta just expect setbacks and challenges.

You gotta have a point of stick to it to you.

That if you look at all the people that have accomplished great things, huge things, big

things, changed the game, changed the world, changed the family, changed the legacy, changed

the office, changed the team, whatever it is, these people have persevered.

That grit muscle.

That it's not pretty.

It's not cute.

I don't know.

We don't know how it's gonna get done, but no matter what we won't quit, we won't give

up.

We'll just continue to move forward.

Anyone that's accomplished anything great has had perseverance, Gandhi.

Perseverance, Martin Luther King.

Perseverance, mother Teresa.

Perseverance, Jesus.

Perseverance, Michael Jordan, cut from his high school basketball team.

Perseverance, Phil Knight, founder of Nike, eight years into the developing Nike in his

book, it said that he was bouncing checks to some of his employees.

That's Shukannette, cut him off in China.

Perseverance.

Dad said, stop selling shoes out of the truck of your car.

Girlfriend broke up with him, said he didn't have enough class.

Perseverance.

There, anybody that you read their, their story of how they made it, most of those you're

gonna have stories of setbacks, obstacles, challenges, things that they had to get through.

You gotta understand that every adversity is an opportunity for us to learn and to grow.

It's that old thing is what don't kill you makes you stronger.

So find the opportunity.

What does this make possible?

What does this adversity make possible?

Usually carries a seed with it that it makes something possible.

What is this obstacle make possible?

What is this obstacle make possible?

What is this setback make possible?

This is how you grow every adversity is an opportunity for us to grow and for us to

learn something that's gonna take you to the next level.

Number five, who you hang around.

Show me your friends, you know it.

Show me your friends.

He will show you your future.

You've heard that some of the five people that you hang around the most, average that out.

That's what your income's gonna be.

That's what you're gonna be like.

So show me, audit your circle.

Let me see your friends.

Show us, look at yourself.

Who are you spending the majority of your time around?

Who are the people?

Get intentionally, get yourself in, try to make yourself smaller by getting into bigger

circle.

Let's stretch you, people that stretch you in whatever area of your life that you want

to be stretched in.

But let's try to upgrade who you're hanging around.

Cut out negative people and negative influences.

People that you know that you should not be around.

People that are not good for you.

Like the best way if somebody wants to get in shape is to just when you go to the grocery

store, don't bring nothing home that you're gonna be tempted to eat that you know is not

good for you.

But hang around the people that are gonna tempt you to do some things that you know are

not good for you.

Cut out the negative people and influences.

It doesn't mean they're bad people.

It just means like what is your mission?

So depending on what your mission is, if these people are gonna help your mission or hurt

your mission, if they're gonna hurt your mission because of the way they eat because you're

trying to cut weight or whatever, just try.

If you can't, don't hang around those people right now.

Don't mean they're bad people.

Surround yourself with like-minded, high achievers, if you want to be a high achiever.

Surround yourself around people that are pushing progressive, moving forward, people that

are like-minded.

Those people are iron sharpens on as one man sharpens another, right?

Iron sharpens iron as one man sharpens another as one woman sharpens another as one person sharpens

another.

And then when you get around the right-

people you got to lift each other up and you got to push each other. Number six

curiosity curiosity stay curious don't get to a place where you think you got it

all figured out you know it all you're not open minded at all we got it all

figured out we're not secure seek to learn seek to explore seek to understand

that that that'll give you a lifetime of self improvement like when you're

curious because you know you want to learn more you know you know that you

got to understand more than that that that forces you to be in a place where

you know you're gonna grow because you're committed to improving yourself

staying being a student no matter what no matter how much success that you

have that that's what they've said success could be a bad teacher because when

you're having success sometimes that success in that moment can make you feel

like you got it all figured out I don't need to learn no more about this I got

it all down be a student a lifelong learner always evolving always evolving

always growing always adapting learning about your craft learning about the

people that you lead in order to lead people we have to learn about those people the

old saying people don't care how much you know until they know how much you

care well part of being curious is I'm curious to know your story I'm curious to

know your background I'm curious to know these things so let's stay curious let's

stay being a student let's stay looking for opportunities to grow let's review

these six areas that we went over today and say which one of these things or which

couple of these things do I know I can improve on right now as we continue to

strive for success so these are six things that'll help determine your success we

were titling it the blueprint for success and you're already out there doing

some of it because you took time today you could have spent this time this 17

18 minutes you could have invested that time anywhere you chose to invest it

into yourself by way the ground cast and just know that we appreciate that if

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