The Myth of Time Management

YOU DON'T MANAGE TIME, YOU CREATE TIME

INTRODUCTION

It’s pointless for people to worry about time management and balance. The question they should be asking is “How can I have it all in abundance?” Quit thinking in terms of either/or and start thinking in terms of all and everything.

HOW TO HAVE IT ALL

To really understand, manage, maximize, and squeeze every opportunity out of the time you have, you have to fully understand and appreciate how much of it you have available to you. You must first take control of your time—not allow others to do so.

I challenge you to keep track of how you’re spending your available time, perhaps in a journal. Most people have no clue what they are doing with their time but still complain that they don’t have enough. Personally, I use my 10X Planner.

HOW IMBALANCES HAPPEN

An imbalance is always going to occur when you don’t do enough with the time you have.Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward.

THE SOLUTION

Get everyone necessary—your family, colleagues, associates, employees—to recognize and agree upon which priorities are most important. If you don’t do this, you will have people with different agendas pulling you in all sorts of directions.

Control your time rather than just haphazardly trying to manage it.

Set priorities and commit to a solution that lets you be the boss of your own time!

CONCLUSION

If you start with a commitment to success and then agree to control time, you will create an agenda that accommodates all you want.

Don't manage time, create time.

Be great,

GC

Source: https://grantcardone.com/blogs/grantcardone/the-myth-of-time-management

Fear is the Great Indicator by Grant Cardone

Everyone experiences fear, but it is how you respond to it that ultimately makes the difference in your life. Fear is the great indicator that wealthy and successful people see as the signal to push through and get to the other side to expansion. Unsuccessful people, who are assured to NEVER have wealth or happiness, stop every time they feel afraid!

Your 4 Degrees of Action and Why Average is a Failing Formula

LOOK UP THE WORD AVERAGE AND SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT IT HOLDS FOR YOU - TYPICAL, ORDINARY, COMMON.

There are no shortcuts. The more action you take, the better your chances are of getting a break. Disciplined, consistent, and persistent actions are more of a determining factor in the creation of success than any other combination of things. Understanding how to calculate and then take the right amount of action is more important than your concept, idea, invention, or business plan.

To simplify action, we are going to break down your choices into four simple categories or degrees of action.

Your four choices are:

1. Do nothing
2. Retreat
3. Take normal levels of action
4. Take massive action

“Doing nothing” is exactly what it sounds like: no longer taking actions to move forward in order to learn, achieve, or control some area. “Retreaters” are those who take actions in reverse—probably in order to avoid negative experiences that they imagine will come as a result of taking action.

“Normal levels” of action is taking enough action to appear average and create normal lives, marriages, and careers; however, they never do quite enough to create real success.

Massive action is actually the level of action that creates new problems—and until you create problems, you’re not truly operating at the fourth stage of action.

Taking massive action means making somewhat unreasonable choices and then following these up with even more action.

"NORMAL LEVELS" IS A FAILING FORMULA

The average worker reads an average of less than one book a year and works an average of 37.5 hours per week. This same person makes 319 times less money than the top U.S. CEOs, who claim to read more than 60 books a year.

When average actions hit any resistance, competition, loss or lack of interest, negative or challenging market conditions, or all of these, you will find your project tumbling down.

Average is taking normal levels of action and that doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

Average is also the reason why most new companies fail.

Most people are building business plans based on average considerations and ways of thinking, not the massive amounts of action that are necessary to push through.

Average assumes—incorrectly, of course—that everything operates stably. People optimistically overestimate how well things will go and then underestimate how much energy and effort it will take just to push things through.

Compare your actions to having to carry a 1,000-pound backpack that you will wear every day into a 40-miles-per-hour wind on a 20-degree upward slope. Average thinking and actions will only guarantee you misery, uncertainty, and failure!

Take massive actions to have the money and happiness you not only want but need in life. 

Be great, 

GC

Source: https://grantcardone.com/blogs/grantcardone/your-4-degrees-of-action-and-why-average-is-a-failing-formula

Why the 10x Rule is Vital

10X IS NECESSARY FOR SUCCESS, PERIOD.

What You'll Learn in this Article: Too many people underestimate the levels of effort it takes to succeed big, and the only solution to the effort is 10X levels of actions.

INTRODUCTION

For every project in which I have ever been involved, I underestimated the time, energy, money, and effort necessary to bring my project to the point of success. Any client I targeted or new sector of business into which I ventured has always taken 10 times more mail, calls, e-mails, and contacts than I had originally predicted.

Even getting my wife to date and eventually marry me took 10 times more effort and energy than I had calculated (but it was worth every bit!).

Regardless of how superior your product, service, or proposition is, I assure you that there will be something you don’t anticipate or correctly plan. Economic changes, legal matters, competition, resistance to converting, too new of a product, banks freezing up, market uncertainty, technology changes, people problems . . . more people problems, elections, war, strikes—these are just a few of the potential “unexpected events.”

I don’t say this to scare you but instead to prepare you for where the biggest opportunities exist. 10X thinking and actions are vital; they are the only things that will get you through these events.

When you have underestimated the time, energy, and effort necessary to do something, you will have “quit” in your mind, voice, posture, face, and presentation. When you correctly estimate the effort necessary, you will assume the appropriate posture.

SUMMARY

Any target attacked with the right actions in the right amounts with persistence is attainable!

Be Great,

GC

Source: https://grantcardone.com/blogs/grantcardone/why-the-10x-rule-is-vital

Success is Creating Opportunity

ARE YOU CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOURSELF TODAY?

In the article, you'll learn... what success really is.

INTRODUCTION

My job is not to make you successful, my job is to create an opportunity for you to become successful. I'm not going to catch a fish for you, I want to teach you how to fish. Are you ready to learn?

MY STORY

I hope you are as fortunate as I have been in your life and in business.  Through a series of good decisions and a lot of hard work and being extremely disciplined with my money, investments, and most importantly the people around me, I have accomplished more than I ever imagined possible.  

I have learned a lot about success that they can’t and don’t teach in school—mostly from watching those around me.  

I have seen a lot of guys who started way ahead of me blew it all. 

WHAT I'VE SEEN FROM OTHERS 

I have seen multiple buddies in the past believe that once they became successful, they felt they were obligated to share their success with those around them.    

I watched Ralph in Vegas give employees money to gamble.  Bob bought his people fancy watches when the company did well, and Tom would give people advances on money not yet earned. They all went broke.  

I watched this other guy, unnamed dude, climb the ladder, started making money and he did the same thing. Overpays his people, advances money, makes bad deals and always picked up the bill.  Even when others wanted to pick up the bill he insisted on being the guy. 

One day I asked him, "Do you feel obligated for everyone around you or do you feel guilty for being successful?”  He immediately answered, “Yes to the first and I am not sure to the second!”  He went on to say, "I believe success is about sharing my abundance with everyone around me.”    

He asked me, “What do you think?”  I told him, “When I create success in business it creates opportunities for others and no more. I will never rob a person of their choice to create abundance for themselves out of this.  I will prod, push, inspire, and even hammer that person to do the right thing but I will never give someone what they can do for themselves."  

SUMMARY 

I believe my job is to create success and provide people around me with opportunities to improve their station in life.  Every time I have simply given someone a handout or more than they earned they either blow it or resent me or both.  It is up to the individual to take the opportunity and convert that into prosperity and abundance.  

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU

What you don’t know about money will cost you money. Like everything else, the world is changing and that includes money.

Here are a few things you will learn from my best seller Playbook to Millions

#1 SAVING MONEY IS NO LONGER A WORKABLE SOLUTION FOR THOSE WHO SEEK FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE.

#2 THE FIRST RULE FOR INVESTING IS INVEST IN YOURSELF UNTIL YOU HAVE 100K PUT AWAY, THEN INVEST IN CASH FLOW MECHANISMS ONLY.

#3 THE TRADITIONAL INVESTMENT CONCEPTS WERE BUILT TO BENEFIT BANKS & WALL STREET—NOT YOU.

#4 A HOUSE IS NOT AN INVESTMENT IT’S A LIABILITY. OWN WHAT YOU CAN RENT TO OTHERS AND RENT WHERE YOU LIVE._

#5 THE 3M’S OF MONEY—MAKE MONEY, MANAGE MONEY, MULTIPLY MONEY. 

I did a ten-hour course on this topic and would love for you to have it to secure your financial future.

The colleges didn’t teach you, your parents couldn’t teach you, and Wall Street and the Banks won’t teach you this.

If you are like me you have always dreamed of financial independence.  Saving is not the way. You must increase your income, then correctly put that money to work in assets and businesses that will pay you when you aren’t working.

I'm creating an opportunity for you today to have more success in your life with my Playbook To Millions. The only question is, will you take advantage of it? 

Be Great,

GC

Source: https://grantcardone.com/blogs/grantcardone/success-is-creating-opportunity

Having the CHOICE to Give

Last month I attended a charity event. It was a Sunday night when a couple of hundred people showed up for dinner knowing they were going to be asked to give money. The target was two million dollars. As I looked around to see who could actually pay, I thought the target impossible. The room was filled with hard-working, super generous people who had already given much of their money, even borrowed money, and many were volunteering their time. Some had done all three. 

I could tell they all wanted to do more, but they were just tapped out. About twenty percent of the total was raised by fifty people. There was another $500,000 raised by four families, still leaving us one million dollars short. The last million was donated by one guy and, the audience was thrilled and amazed. People were crying, and proud we had achieved this vital goal of funding this worthy project. 

As I looked around, watching everyone celebrate, I realized there was not a person in the room who didn’t want to be the guy who gave the last million. I came home that night, inspired, with a renewed sense of purpose to teach people how to become millionaires. The reality is, what I have created financially in my life is very simple, and I know people can duplicate it. 

I want to help you reach millionaire status, even get rich, if you believe that you deserve to be the person in the room that writes the check for a million dollars, ten million or even 100 million. Being rich isn’t some pie in the sky, out of reach dream. Regardless of your current economic condition, where you live, or what you do you can become wealthy. I also believe it’s your responsibility to do so. When I was young I made a commitment to creating wealth for myself. Since then I have worked very hard and created generational wealth that is probably indestructible. While I made my commitment to get rich at sixteen, I was still broke at twenty- five. Then I started studying the wealthy, using the principles of wealth creation and codifying what worked and didn’t. It has been a long haul for me. 

I remember saving my first $10,000— then one day realizing it was $100,000. By the time I was in my early thirties, I had my first million set aside. Since then, I have built five companies that produce over $100 million a year in sales, created a net worth well over $100 million and own an income-producing real estate portfolio worth over $400 million. I rolled out a brand new product this week called Playbook to Millions. It’s designed specifically for building millionaires. The content you’ll get in this package I’ve put together is unbelievable. Check it out here, but hurry—there are less than 2,000 spots left for the first edition of the book. Be great, GC

Source: https://grantcardone.com/blogs/grantcardone/having-the-choice-to-give

Your Declaration of Independence

Independence Day is about here and I want to wish you and your loved ones a great 4th. As you reflect on our freedoms this weekend, I want to remind you that the only way to create real freedom is to create massive financial success. Without money in life, your choices are extremely limited. Freedom is about having a choice. Millions of people will celebrate their freedom with fireworks on Monday but go to work Tuesday morning inwardly feeling like a slave. 

Let me tell you something—you have got to step outside the box and sacrifice fun today for freedom tomorrow. Prior to 2008, I wasn’t getting my financial house in order because I was playing golf three times a week. Life is not just about work and money, but how many people have no fun because of no money? The truth is living in America in 2016 doesn’t automatically entitle you to freedom. Get serious this 4th of July weekend about your financial condition—the only way to have true freedom is to get rich. Freedom includes stable cash flow, increasing income, and ultimately multiple flows of income that result in wealth. 

The negative reality is that millions of people in the US depend on government subsidies just to exist month to month. The average American only makes enough money to save 4% of their total income. That is 10X short of what you need to be saving—40% of your income—to create wealth and financial freedom. If your job or income depends on the economy, you are not free. You must get yourself in a position to create your own economy. If you don’t have enough customers in your pipeline and a weekend storm screws up your month, you are not free. If you lack the ability to stay motivated, you are not free. If you are a manager and can’t find great people who are motivated, you are not free. Have you created a plan for freedom, much less one that involved creating wealth? If you haven’t done so, what chance do you have of achieving it? Having freedom will require a big commitment to a different level of life. This is what the 1% know that others don’t know. The rich aren’t working just for money—they are gaining their freedom. They want control over their time. They invest to have the ability to go, do, and say what they want without penalty. Guys like Donald Trump, Mark Cuban, and myself can do and say what we want because we’ve built the financial freedom for ourselves to the point where we aren’t slaves to anybody. 

I want you to make a commitment this 4th of July weekend to creating freedom for yourself. Just as it took sacrifice for the US to be able to declare its independence, your personal freedom will require sacrifice. Freedom simply isn’t free. For 4th of July weekend, I decided to make Playbook to Millions $495. Get it here. It’s the perfect product for you to begin your journey to financial freedom. Make your Financial Declaration of Independence today: I hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men are not financially equal, that true life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will take sacrifice. I will pay the price today so I can pay any price tomorrow. Happy Independence Day—now go and get rich. Be great, GC 

Source: https://grantcardone.com/blogs/grantcardone/your-declaration-of-independence

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

How to Get Anything You Want in Life - Grant Cardone

What if there was a formula to get anything you want in life? Well, successful people know that achieving your dreams is just a case of finding others who are where you want to be, and modelling their behaviours and strategies until you get there too.

Success leaves clues...