A Super Life Can Be Yours in 2018

Admit it, you want a super life, right? Who doesn’t? We all want it all, to have our cake and eat it too. There’s nothing wrong with wanting it all, by the way. I personally came from nothing—I had a humble start, no silver spoons, no blue blood, and no handouts. All I had was my ambition, my drive, my determination and I had a seed planted when I was a kid, that little seed, deep inside of me called 10X, which has been watering my life and making it bloom today into what you might call a super life—or “having it all”.

FIRST, LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT I MEAN BY “10X”.

The 10X Rule is a book I wrote 6 years ago and it’s something that has been changing thousands of lives, but since I wrote the book, a lot of things have changed.  Six years of 10X-ing can change quite a bit and it has for me, and it has for most of the people that picked up the book or listened to the audio program.

Even if you read The 10X Rule only 6 months ago, your life has probably been changed drastically.  If you haven't had an opportunity yet to get through the book or get through the audio program, then buckle up because you're going for a ride when you do. Whether you’re a single mom with two kids or whether you’re a guy coming back from Afghanistan starting over, or whether you’re 53-years old redefining where your career is, I want to help you find your super life. I’ve helped people in every one of these situations, and people from all walks of life are moving toward their Super Life.

When I originally wrote The 10X Rule, I was trying to actually 10X my own life.

I thought to myself, what would it take for me to really get big? My wife actually asked me what would it take for us to, like, explode. I told her I have to think bigger and have to act bigger. And then I started thinking immediately—the first thing, "Oh no, I’ve got to spend money”. I didn’t want to spend money but I knew I couldn’t get to the next place if I wanted to hold on to what I had.

The first thing I needed to do was map out how I was going to do this, so I wrote The 10X Rule.  Then for the next three and a half years, I started working out how to 10X each area of my life, not one area, not just the business, not just the money, not just the wealth, not just family time, not just recreation. In fact, that probably did not get enough attention in the early stages. I looked up less than four years later and somebody said, "Man, how's your life?" I said, "Dude, I'm into Super Life right now, bro.” Magical things started happening.

So these are strategies and things that I’ve actually done, I'm speaking to you today from my own experience.

The 10X Rule was written for me to start figuring out how I could explode my life, and my life was already pretty good, but it wasn't good enough.  You're stuck in this hamster thing, running around over and over it— the rat race! You're not a rat. Who reduced you to thinking you're just a rat? You're not a rat, but are you in a race? Probably in a marathon.

Nobody's turning my life into a rat race, nobody's turning my super possibilities into middle-class possibilities. Nobody's turning into what could be awesome and great and exceptional into something like average and satisfactory.  People are settling. People are settling for a reality and it's hitting every area of their life.

HERE'S 10X DEFINED NOW—THE RIGHT THINK COMBINED WITH THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF ACTIONS ACROSS ALL OF LIFE'S INTERESTS.

That was not in the book originally so I'm adding to the book right now. I did not know this in 2011, back then I thought, "Oh let's just go for success which means money, finance, and wealth." Wrong. And the reason why it's wrong and the reason why I was wrong is because if you try to achieve in only one or two areas of your life while five others fall, those five will draw down the two that you're winning at...always and every time. You cannot be successful in two areas and have four, five, or six areas where you're average.

Think about it, if you have millions of dollars but failing health, what good is it?  If you have marital problems, it’s going to affect your recreational life.  If you hate your work, it’s going to bring down other areas of your life.  These things are all interconnected.  One area of life that you aren’t excelling at is eventually going to drag down the areas you are excelling at.  That’s why you need the Super Life—to be great in every compartment of your life.

Why don't you have a Super Life? You should have one.  I will give you a short list, it's only five things, only five reasons you don't have what you want to have—"the why of why not".

1. You’ve Got to Blame Somebody—Your role models such as friends, relatives, neighbors, older brothers, younger brothers, mom, dad, uncle, aunt are all wrong. You can’t win at life if you get advice from someone who doesn’t even know what they are talking about. Ever hear someone who makes less than 100K say that money doesn’t bring happiness?  They wouldn’t know because they can’t speak from experience.  Wrong role model.

2. Wrong Definitions—You don't even know the definitions of success. Well, it's survival. We're going to look at a basic word that literally changed my entire life, the word survival altered my life, changed everything about how I spend and invest money. Literally, one word in a dictionary when I looked it up, I'm like, "I've been doing it wrong for the thirty-five years that I’ve been in business." Definitions are the reason most businesses stay small.

3. Wrong Targets—I didn't have the right targets. I wanted to be a millionaire. It turns out that the Millionaire is the new middle-class. That was a wrong target. I should have set a target for a billion dollars. Your targets are too limited, too small.

4. Education—The more you're educated the worse off you are. That's why you see all these guys hitting it big because they're not confined with this think. Listen to a guy talk about a start-up. "We're in the start-up phase." Where did they learn that phrase? If you started a motorcycle the way you started a company, you'd still be sitting on it about three months, three years after you started. What are you doing on that bike? "I'm in a startup." Yeah, how about we put it in drive now?

5. A Lack—You simply just don’t have enough revenue, enough paper.

Take these 5 reasons to heart, because they are stopping you from having your Super Life.

Run for your freedom, run for super, because too many people are settling for their reality rather than working for their potential. When I wrote The 10X Rule, I did not know.  If I wrote The 10X Rule again today, it'd be a very different book.  If you find yourself criticizing me for talking about a “super” life, before you do that, you might want to pay attention to what you could be doing. Not having enough income is one of the most common reasons people aren’t living a super life.

That's why I'm encouraging everyone who is seeking a SUPER LIFE to come to 10XGrowthCon 2018. Join me for the biggest entrepreneurial event of all-time.  

Source: https://grantcardone.com/blogs/grantcardone/a-super-life-can-be-yours-in-2018

Answering A Coach's Question About Excuses Vs Reasons

An assistant football coach who was mired in a difficult situation last fall, read my article entitled: The Choices You Make, Make You which was about the necessity of not falling into the trap of making excuses and learning to take responsibility for all your actions, so you can perform at your optimum level.

He reached out to me for guidance and assured me that he was trying hard to follow the advice in that article, but he admitted it was a struggle when it was out of his control. He then asked me if there is a difference between reasons and excuses when it is out of your control. Below is a slightly edited version of my reply.

Great question, thanks! In my humble opinion, there is a fine line that is not a good idea to cross. Hard to explain here, but this will be my current best effort: Most of the things we enjoy today (think air travel for example) were things people had reasons to believe were impossible. In the case of air travel, gravity and weight would be the example of "reasons" for why it could not be done. After some people refused to succumb to those reasons (rather than use them as excuses not to try) the first aircraft began to appear.

To me, an excuse stops action, but a reason calls for redoubled efforts to find one or more creative solutions. When I say control what you can control, I am referring to where you put your focus and attention for productivity's sake. For example, if you want to perform optimally in your games, you cannot be obsessed with the weather. If you drop the winning pass in the rain, was the "reason" because it was really wet, or because you did not effectively prepare for playing in the rain?

Reasons are misused to form the basis of excuses, and I see no positive outcome from any excuse, as its only purpose is to diminish pain in the present. To me, when you turn a reason into an excuse you give yourself permission to be impotent. If you don't misuse a reason by making it into an excuse, it becomes useful information that can help you move forward and become more productive.

When talking about peak performance it's important to eliminate big picture things (like winning a national championship) from your immediate thoughts. This, however, does not equate to no control as the better you play and more you contribute to your team as an individual the more likely it is that your team will win, and without wins you cannot play for the National Championship.

It also means putting your efforts where they are most likely to bear fruit. Example: Do I think it would be useful to talk to a boss if you have evidence that you cannot trust them? Probably not. Do I believe it would be a good idea to take no course of action? No, I do not, but you would need to be creative and either build an alliance that has a better shot of getting through to your boss to affect the changes that would be a good idea to make, go over your boss' head, etc.

Time frame matters as well. You are not likely going to run a Hail Mary pass play on the first play of a game, but it may be called for as time is running out.

I hope this helps and I appreciate you making me think.

In conclusion, making excuses stops forward motion, and reasons are guides on how to move forward more effectively. Any time used to focus on what you can't do is wasted time, and would have been put to much better use if you had used it to focus on the things you could be doing.

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