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Episode 448 – Success is everyday practice

• I love this quote by Jim Rohn:

Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day;

while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

• Success – failure – these are strong words
• lets be real:
• Most of us don’t regularly fail
• But we also don’t regularly celebrate successes
• We are somewhere in the middle
• I call it – our comfort zone
• We are good
• For the most part
• But this life in the comfort zone – its not the life we really wish to have
• Its ok, but its not extraordinary
• Extraordinary is hard to do
• That’s why most people don’t do it
• Its not that we don’t know what to do
• Or how to do it
• All the information is out there thanks to the internet
• If I choose to – I can – right now –
  • enroll into an online course
  • read a book or scientific paper
  • get a diet plan and workout program
  • and learn how to dance salsa
• without going anywhere
• from the comfort of my home
• but we don’t pursue most of these things
• they may interest us
• they may even be something we really want to learn
• maybe since childhood – we had that dream –
  • of being that couple in the middle of the dancefloor that everyone admires
• but
• we are stuck
• in our comfort zone
  • no time
  • no money
  • no help
• these are the boundaries we set that define our comfort zone
• they become excuses for not pursuing what we really want to do
• and then we back these limitations up with self-limiting beliefs:
  • this is not my strength
  • I just don’t have what it takes
  • I lack willpower
  • I wasn’t born into the right circumstances
• And before we know it, we adopt a fixed mindset
  • A view of life that we think is not changeable
• And as a result, we make do with what is
• And we rarely go for more
• Because we have already given up on it
  • Without even trying

• And it all starts with our comfort zone
• Our comfort zone is not set in stone
• Its quite flexible
• And just quite how flexible – depends on us

• Ever been thru a challenging time?
• Bet you have
• We all have
• And we all made it thru somehow
• You probably had to stretch to get thru
• Do things that were hard, uncomfortable, risky, even painful
• But whatever you did got you through
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• I can stretch my comfort zone every day – by stretching myself
• We all stretch from time to time
  • We stretch in college to get to graduation
  • We stretch the first year in the new job to get the promotion
  • We stretch to learn a new language, or how to take good pictures, or to eat healthier
• But once we reach the new level – or when we simply give up, we settle
• This is now our new comfort zone

• So when people wonder how to get to extraordinary
• To the next level
  • How to make more out of their lives
  • How to finally get the weight down and the health up
  • How to quit smoking and drinking and become more focused
  • How to overcome their fear of public speaking or
  • Their tendency to shut down in difficult situations
• They get confused
• They think they need a magic bullet
  • A 30 day plan
  • A guru
  • Surgery
  • Or what not
• When all we need to do is what we always do when we stretch ourselves
• What we used to do
  • In college
  • In the new job
  • During the difficult time
  • At the beginning of everything new we start
• and
• what Jim Rohn said in his quote –
• “a few simple disciplines, practiced every day”
• Brushing our teeth is a discipline
• Paying our taxes is
• We do it
• Sometimes because we have to, other times because it is so engrained in ourselves that we don’t even think about it
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• Success starts with doing
• Stretching ourselves begins by stepping into something different
• Extraordinary starts with new routines and habits
• Those that get us to where we want to go
• Repeated every single day – they will bring success
• They will take us from here – from our comfort zone – from status quo – to extraordinary
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• You want to master Salsa dancing?
• Start dancing
• Dance every day in any way you can
  • In front of your mirror
  • To a youtube video
  • Once a week with a partner
  • Take classes
  • Go out dancing so you can learn from others
• You do everything you can to stretch yourself
  • To grow and expand your mind
• Instead of hanging on the couch
  • Getting drunk
  • Sleeping in
  • And making excuses why you can’t
• You go out and do
• Its simple
• No magic required
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• dig within yourself to find that what interests you
• That which you always wanted to do
• And then start
• With the smallest thing you can think of
  • One salsa move with a friend who told you he knows how to dance
  • Have him show you your first salsa step
• One single step is all it takes its
  • From here to there
  • From the couch to the dance floor
  • From comfort zone to growth
  • From status quo to extraordinary

Success – a few simple disciplines, practiced every day;

• And by doing that which leads to success, you avoid the other things which lead to failure

a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

• Stop talking about it
• Start doing
• Repeated every day until it becomes part of your life
• And soon you will be a master
• Recognized by others
• Celebrated
• Success
• Extraordinary
• Your life at a new level
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• much love