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Set goals, write them down, design the future

It's difficult to be confident about the day if you don't have your future well designed. Here is one of the keys to do about your future - set goals, write them down, design the future
- Where do you want to go,
- What do you want to do,
- What do you want to be,
- What do you want to see,
- What do you want to have,
- What do you want to share
Even if it all changes 12 months from now the key is to start making a list now

Chances are excellent if you keep going. Keep going to as many things as you can get to in terms of information, ideas, seminars, lectures. Because if you go continuously and systematically, some of them will be routine, some of them may be ordinary and then just once in a while some may be extraordinary and you're never the same again. And you'll look back on that experience and say - that was one of the days that turned my life around

Matthew principle

There's a statement in the New Testament, it's called the Matthew principle and economists use it to describe how the economy in the world works - "To those who have everything more will be given, from those who have nothing everything will be taken". It's like very pessimistic in some sense because it means that as you start to fail you fail more and more rapidly but it also means that as you start to succeed you succeed more and more rapidly

Transparency builds trust in leadership

Transparency means being available and open - even my office door is glass on purpose. People can see what’s happening, so there’s no sense of secrecy or hidden decisions. When there are changes in the company, whether it’s strategy, financing, or growth plans, employees hear it from me first - through town halls, fly-ins, or direct communication. The goal is simple: make sure people know I’m working in their interest as much as my own.

The highest level of manhood

Take care of your mom. Call her every day and tell her you love her. I wish I could call my mom right now and tell her I love her - she's gone. I spoiled the shit out of my mom the last 17 years of her life: jewelry, vacations, a house, everything. That's the highest level of manhood - taking care of your mom. I know she pushes your buttons. I know she drives you nuts. That's what they're supposed to do. They're your mother. Take care of your mom.

How deals are really closed

When a prospective client is on the fence and leaning toward a no, the key is relationship building and trust. That can mean taking them to dinner, playing golf, going on a boat for the weekend, or spending time together outside the office. Different clients connect in different ways - oil and gas guys might even go shooting hogs from a helicopter. The point is simple: different strokes for different people, and you build trust by adapting to them.

Reasons can change your life

He said - "I don't think your current bank balance is a true indication of your level of intelligence". I was happy to hear that. He said - "I think you're much smarter than your present bank balance indicates" and that turned out to be true. I was much smarter. But of course my first question was well then why isn't it bigger and he said - "you don't have enough reasons. you've got enough intelligence but not enough reasons". Reasons can change your life

Build trust to close big deals

They’re going to be spending a lot of money and making a big commitment to your company, so a big part of it is making sure the customer is reassured at every step that they are making the right decision. Because everyone has choices - they don’t have to do business with me or my company - so I have to make sure their decision to work with us is sound, and that confidence is reinforced day in and day out by staying connected with them and having no surprises.

When are you sick of yourself? - Well, that's when you're being useless and irresponsible for yourself and for your family and for your community. You're not even taking care of yourself. You can't sleep with a clean conscience unless you are psychopathic if you're not taking care of yourself. Adopt a little responsibility for yourself and you can sleep with the clean conscience. What happens if you'd opted full responsibility for yourself and then for your family?

Welcome every human experience

Desire can be triggered by something. Who knows what it might be. Sometimes desire waits and sleeps for something to happen. Maybe it's a book, maybe it's a song, maybe it's a sermon, maybe it's a lecture, a seminar, maybe it's the conversation of a friend, a happening, an event,.. who knows. Welcome every human experience. You never know which one is going to turn it all on. Even the bad experiences. Sometimes from the bitterest experience comes the greatest awakening

Cortisol makes you old

If you have a memory that's more than 18 month old approximately and when you pull that memory up to mind, if you still have an emotional reaction, that means you have not fully articulated the memory. You have not analyzed it causally, you have not freed yourself from its grasp and you are carrying it like a weight and your brain responds to that. The more baggage you are carrying like that the more stress hormone cortisol your brain produces and cortisol makes you old

That's when God become my God!

I knew God was real when He showed up while I was in a garage apartment going through a divorce. A song by Hillsong came on that said, “All I need is You, all I need is You, Lord.” In that moment, I realized that even though I loved my wife and missed my kids, what I needed most was Him. He met me right where I was, at rock bottom, and I’ve carried that truth ever since - that no matter what I go through, He will always be there. That’s when God became truly my God.

Learn how to handle the winters. They come right after Falls with regularity. Some are long and some are short and some are hard and some are easy but they keep coming.
You must handle the nights, they come right after days.
You must learn to handle difficulty, it comes right after opportunity.
You must learn to handle recessions, they always follow progressions.
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For the last six thousand see it's not going to change. The lesson you must learn is how to handle it!

Positive ancestral father

Imagine that you are like the potential composite of all the ancestral wisdom that's locked inside of you biologically. But that's not gonna come out at all unless you stress yourself, unless you challenge yourself. The bigger the challenge you take on the more that's gonna turn on. As you take on a broader and broader range of challenges and you push yourself harder then more and more of what you could be turns on and that's equivalent to transforming yourself into the ancestral father

No one teaches kids these things in school

Kids have been educated for twelve years and no one had ever sat them down and said - okay what the hell are you doing and why and how are you gonna get there?
- Where do you want to go?
- Why do you want to get there?
- How are you gonna get there?
- How are you gonna mark your progress?
They've never walked them through that exercise.
If you walk people through that exercise just to get them to do that increases the probability that they'll stay on track by 50%. That's incredible

There's nothing worse than being stupid

Get the information while you are here.
There's nothing worse than being stupid when you get out of school, so get the information. Being broke is bad but being stupid is what's really bad. And what's really really bad is being broken stupid. Nothing much worse than that unless you are sick. Sick broken stupid... that's about as far as you can fall unless you are ugly... but surely that would be the ultimate right? The ultimate negative life - ugly sick broken stupid. So learn all you can

Key to discipline

Now, here’s the key to discipline. Start with the little disciplines. Get excited over the little disciplines and get right on those, because those will lead to the big ones. You can’t handle the big challenges in life unless you take on the little ones.
Make a list of all the things you can do. Get right on those. Discipline yourself for those, both for the results and for the muscle and the practice, so that when life hands you some big challenges, you’ll be ready, you’ll have the muscle

The habit that gets you promoted

Every day, after I finished my work, I went to my boss and asked, "I'm done with what I had to do today. Is there anything else I can help with?" Sometimes the answer was no. Sometimes it was yes. Over time, my boss started seeing me as their right-hand person. And when new opportunities came up, I was the one they thought of first. Every extra task was also a chance to learn parts of my boss's job. My advice is simple: be your boss's right-hand person. Show up every day and ask, "What else can I do?"

How to prepare for the flood?

Even if things are going really well for you now there's going to be a time in the future where things are rough. You're gonna be ill, family members are gonna be ill, a dream is gonna fall apart, you're going to be uncertain about your employment status... The flood is coming. The apocalypse is coming. It's always the case in life and you have to be prepared for it. And the question is - how to prepare for it? And the answer to that is to find a way of being that works even under the diarist of circumstances

Get serious about your goals. Put them on paper. Write them down. There's all kinds - his goals, her goals, their goals, business goals, financial goals, financial independence goals, family goals... There's so many things to work on on this. If you don't get busy and work on it sure enough the time will pass. And sure enough five years from now you'll wind up where you don't want to be, wear what you don't want to wear, driving what you don't want to drive, being what you don't want to be. Now is the time to fix it

Know your audience and adapt

You’ve got to know your demographic and who you’re dealing with. Are you working with bankers in cities like Chicago, Washington, or New York, or oil and gas guys in places like Midland or Odessa? They’re completely different clients, and you have to approach them differently. Even something as simple as how you dress matters. In oil and gas, I dress down to fit the environment; in major financial markets, it’s a different wardrobe and approach. The goal is always the same - make the client feel comfortable.

Something that matters effects how you make decisions in your life. Well why does it matter how you make decisions in your life? - Because if you make some stupid decisions, you're going to increase the sum total of suffering a lot. You're going to do stupid things to yourself, you're going to do stupid things to other people and you're not going to be as good a person as you could be. So not only will you do stupid and terrible things but you won't have manifested the good in the world that you could have manifested

There is evil in the world of all sorts and some of it's the evil in other people. And some of it is the evil in your brother's heart. But part of it that you can really do something about that's the malevolence in your own heart. You can actually do something about that and that's actually way more useful than you think. Because if you can face it in you, then you start to understand it and that also makes you strong enough to identify it and to fight it when you see it in the external world. Plus you don't do any harm

When are you rich?

You know, when you're rich, when you have 25 times your annual spend, you're rich. So if you live on $1,000 a year, you're rich at $25,000. People say, “Well, I want $10 million, I want $12 million.” That’s the wrong idea. The right idea is: how much does it take for you to live the life you want to live? Some people, it’s $100,000; some people, it’s $10 million. Well, if it takes you $10 million to enjoy your lifestyle, then you need $250 million. It’s more a function of how you live, not a function of what you have.