1. 4. Fear of Failure
1.1. Fear by itself is not bad
2. 5. Playing Small
2.1. 10x Rule
3. 7. Being Reactive
3.1. 7 Habits of highly effective people
4. Your comfort zone
4.1. Feel the fear and do it anyways
4.2. You must give up your comfort zone
4.3. Stop playing safe
5. 1. Your Excuses
5.1. 1.
6. Thinking that You don't have what it takes to be successful
6.1. This is insidious
6.2. This is a cop-out
6.2.1. You are just deceiving yourself
6.3. It's not that you don't have what it takes
6.3.1. It's that you are not working what you have
6.3.2. You are not taking action
6.4. If you can watch this video - you have what it takes
6.5. You don't need more talent or smarts
6.5.1. You can grow yourself
6.6. But what you don't have is the courage to ACT
6.6.1. Courage to try
6.6.2. Courage to fail
6.7. You are just playing scared in life
6.8. You have everything
6.8.1. What is missing is massive, insane, herculean, consistent hard work
6.9. MINDSET
6.9.1. carol dweck
6.9.2. Growth Mindset
6.9.3. Fixed Mindset
7. 1. Blaming your circumstances
7.1. 1. Magic of thinking Big
7.1.1. 1. Napoleon Hill: Attack, I say attack. I make circumstance
8. 8. Waiting for the perfect opportunity
9. 9. Perfectionism
9.1. 1. Its actually just fear that’s masked as perfectionism
9.2. How to be an imperfectionist
10. Count down ideas 10 to 1
10.1. 1 is mental weakness
10.2. 10 is indecision
10.3. Number Audio to modify
10.3.1. 1. The first thing you have to give up
10.3.1.1. Coming up at number 10 is
10.3.2. 2. is good
10.3.3. 3. So the 3rd thing
10.3.3.1. Instead of 3rd - make it the NEXT
10.3.4. 4. Is good
10.3.5. 5. is good
10.3.6. 6. Is good
10.3.7. 7. is good
10.3.8. 8. is good
10.3.9. 9. is good
10.3.10. 10.
10.3.10.1. The most important thing
11. 10. Mental Weakness
11.1. I am not going to mince words here - I am not going to sugarcoat anything
11.2. The reason you are not succeeding is because you are operating like a mental weakling
11.2.1. The obstacles are stopping you!
11.2.2. The pressure is deflating you
11.2.3. The fear is stopping you
11.2.4. You are allowing nervousness to trick you into inaction
11.2.5. The obstacles are overwhelming you
11.3. You are operating like a victim in this world
11.4. Let me ask you this - What is the difference between a candle and a Forest fire?
11.4.1. A candle is blown out in face of a very mild wind
11.4.2. But a Forest fire .... IT is inflamed in face of winds
11.4.2.1. In fact, the stronger the winds, the stronger the fire gets
11.4.3. You have to choose to be a forest fire not a candle
11.4.3.1. Become a forest fire my friend. Become a forest fire
11.5. Grit
11.5.1. Dr Angela Duckworth
11.5.2. Research
11.5.2.1. Westpoint academy
11.5.2.1.1. Elite military academy in the world
11.5.2.1.2. What makes cadets succeed or fail?
11.6. Meditations
11.6.1. Marcus Aurelius: "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
11.6.2. Obstacles are here to help you become stronger
11.6.3. Obstacles are here to help you get ahead
11.6.4. They become the fuel to your fire
11.6.4.1. But you have to WORK
11.6.4.2. Become a forest fire... not a candle
11.7. You are probably wondering - Well how do I become mentally tougher?
11.7.1. It is possible to become mentally indestructible.... there are strategies to do exactly that.
11.7.1.1. You don't have strategies
11.7.1.2. The problem is that .... You don't have the mental tools to become mentally tougher
11.7.1.2.1. Go find them
11.7.1.2.2. Download my 10 Point mental toughness checklist - 10 strategies to handle any life challenge.
12. Books Referred
12.1. Sam Walton
12.2. Elon Musk
12.3. 10x Rule
12.4. Michael Phelps
12.5. Michael Jordan
12.6. Feel the fear
12.7. Resilience
12.8. Grit
12.9. Compound Effect
12.10. Never Eat Alone
12.11. Magic of Thinking Big
12.12. Think and Grow Rich
12.13. Outwitting the Devil Within
12.14. Mindset
12.15. On the shortness of life
12.16. Feeling Good
12.17. Be obsessed or be average
12.18. How to be rich
13. 9. Your present Identity
13.1. Tony Robbins
13.1.1. The most powerful force in human nature is our identity
13.1.2. We stay consistent with our identity
13.1.2.1. Whether that is good or bad is up to you
13.1.3. Our results are always consistent with
13.1.3.1. Who we think we are in that pursuit
13.1.3.1.1. Winner
13.1.3.1.2. Loser
13.1.3.1.3. Millionaire
13.1.3.1.4. Billionaire
13.1.3.1.5. Broke
13.1.4. So whatever it is you want to succeed at
13.1.4.1. what is your identity in that area?
13.1.4.1.1. Do you see yourself as a winner?
13.1.4.1.2. Do you see yourself struggling with it?
13.2. Resilience - Navy Seal Eric Grietens
13.2.1. 99% people are run by feelings
13.2.1.1. Feelings -> Action -> Identity
13.2.2. We must
13.2.2.1. Identity -> Action -> Feelings
13.2.3. We must define who we want to become
13.2.4. That will define the actions for us
13.2.5. That will define our feelings
13.2.6. Ancient greeks
13.2.6.1. Actors used to put on the mask
13.2.6.2. Over time they became that character
13.3. Psycho cybernetics - one of the greatest self help classics by a plastic surgeon
13.3.1. Our self image defines the limits of what we will accomplish in our lives
13.3.2. You may set big goals
13.3.2.1. If your self image does not believe it is possible
13.3.2.2. You will keep failing at it
13.3.3. So it is imperative to change your self image - your identity
13.3.4. Redefine your self identity
13.3.4.1. I am a winner
13.3.4.2. I am successful
13.3.4.3. Act as if
13.3.4.3.1. Feel as if
13.4. Total Recall - Arnold
13.4.1. Don't think about what you need to do
13.4.2. Instead think of who you want to become
13.4.3. And you will figure out what to do as a result of it
13.5. Think and Grow Rich
13.5.1. Acting as if
13.5.2. How would you act if you had already accomplished the goal
13.5.3. Who would you be?
13.5.4. Do that right now
13.5.4.1. Dont wait till the goal is accomplished to be that person. Act as if TODAY
14. 2. Negative People, Cynical people and people who have no ambition
14.1. Jim Rohn
14.1.1. We are the average of the 5 people
14.1.1.1. In every area of life
14.1.1.1.1. Health
14.1.1.1.2. Wealth
14.1.1.1.3. Relationships
14.1.2. Take a hard look
14.2. Compound Effect
14.2.1. Darren Hardy
14.2.2. The subtle effect of influences
14.2.2.1. Initially - too hard to notice
14.2.2.2. Over time - too hard to break those influences
14.3. Never Eat Alone
14.3.1. Learn how to
14.3.1.1. Connect with good people
14.3.1.2. Build networks
14.3.1.3. Inner game and how to implement it.
14.3.2. Towards the end of the video I will give you an ACTION checklist - simple guide you can implement tomorrow.
15. 1. Indecision
15.1. 1. Think and Grow Rich
15.1.1. The biggest cause of failure = Indecision
15.1.2. Decide what you want
15.1.3. GO after it with all you've got
15.1.4. You don't need the perfect plan
15.1.4.1. But you do need to decide
15.1.4.2. Plans will evolve over time
15.1.5. The key to success is
15.1.5.1. Definiteness of purpose
15.1.5.1.1. What you want
15.1.5.2. Not definiteness of plans
15.1.6. Successful people
15.1.6.1. Reach decisions quickly
15.1.6.2. Change them slowly
15.2. 2. Outwitting the Devil Within
15.2.1. The biggest reason why people surrender to the devil within
15.2.1.1. DRIFTING
15.2.1.2. They find no success
15.2.2. Drifting
15.2.2.1. No aims
15.2.2.2. No specific goals
15.2.2.3. Inability to make decisions on the course of life you desire
16. 6. Notion that SUCCESS will be easy for you because you have talent, skills, smarts or intelligence
16.1. Undefeated Mind
16.1.1. Dr Alex Lickerman
16.1.2. Want to accomplish great things?
16.1.3. Tell yourself
16.1.3.1. It is going to be 10x harder
16.1.3.2. Than what you think it is going to be
16.2. Going through hardships is part of the journey - no matter how talented you are
16.2.1. Elon Musk
16.2.1.1. It has not been an easy journey at all
16.2.1.2. He was very close to bankruptcy in 2008
16.2.1.2.1. Almost about to loose Tesla and Space X
16.2.2. Michael Jordan
16.2.2.1. Greatest basketball player ever
16.2.2.2. "I can't accept not trying"
16.2.2.3. Was cut from his high school basketball team
16.3. Mindset
16.3.1. Dr Carol Dweck
16.3.2. Fixed Mindset
16.3.2.1. You can accomplish something because you have talent or skills in that area
16.3.2.2. You don't need to work hard
16.3.2.3. Effort is bad - because you are gifted
16.3.3. Growth Mindset
16.3.3.1. No matter how much talent or skill I have - I will have to work hard and constantly grow myself.
16.3.3.2. That is the path to success
16.3.3.3. Effort is good
16.3.4. Fixed
16.3.4.1. It will be easy or
16.3.4.1.1. I should do something else
16.3.5. Growth
16.3.5.1. It will be hard
16.3.5.1.1. But I can handle it
16.3.5.1.2. I can grow and get better
16.4. Give up the notion that it will be easy
16.4.1. Embrace the idea that it will be HARD work
16.4.2. It will be very tough
16.4.3. It will be gut wrenching
16.4.4. It will take more hard work than you ever imagined
16.5. Paradox
16.5.1. Once you know it is going to be HARD
16.5.1.1. It becomes easy
16.5.2. Because once you accept that
16.5.2.1. You don't fight the struggle
16.5.2.2. You keep going
16.5.2.3. You go through the tough times
16.5.2.4. Because you expect them
16.6. Tony Robbins Seminar
16.6.1. The biggest problem you have is that you think you should not have problems
16.6.2. The size of your life is directly proportional to the size of the problems you can handle in life.
17. 3. Amateur Ways
17.1. Turning Pro
17.1.1. Want greatness?
17.1.1.1. Give up your amateur ways
17.1.1.2. Become a PRO
17.1.2. Difference between Amateur and Pro
17.1.2.1. Their Habits
17.1.2.2. Amateurs =
17.1.2.2.1. amateur habits
17.1.2.3. Pros=
17.1.2.3.1. Pro Habits
17.1.3. What do Pros do?
17.1.3.1. No matter what is happening, they put in the hard work. They do what is necessary
17.1.4. You are hurt?
17.1.4.1. You still play
17.1.5. You are tired?
17.1.5.1. You play
17.1.6. You are not ready
17.1.6.1. You play
17.2. Elon Musk Biography
17.2.1. I work 100+ hours a week
17.2.2. If you work 50 hours a week, I will accomplish in 1 yr what you will in 2 years.
17.2.3. By sheer hard work, I will beat you
17.2.4. When he started his first startup
17.2.4.1. Didnt even rent an apartment
17.2.4.2. Used to sleep under his desk at office
17.2.4.3. Worked hard all day
17.3. Sam Walton
17.3.1. Made in America
17.3.2. Even after he was a billionaire
17.3.2.1. 16 hours a day, 7 days a week
17.3.2.2. Used to show up to work at 2:30 AM on Saturday mornings
17.4. Michael Phelps
17.4.1. Biography - "No Limits - The Will to succeed"
17.4.2. 1998-203
17.4.2.1. 5 years
17.4.2.1.1. Practiced every single day
17.4.2.2. Only 3 days off from practice
17.4.2.3. Prom
17.4.2.4. Snowstorm
17.4.2.5. Wisdom Tooth removal
17.5. Ask yourself
17.5.1. How pro are you?
17.5.2. How pro are your Work habits?
17.5.3. How pro are your habits in the area you want to succeed in?
18. 4. Low Standards
18.1. Tony Robbins
18.1.1. If you want to succeed, raise your standards.
18.1.2. We all meet our standards
18.1.2.1. Whether High or LOW
18.1.3. In every area of life
18.1.3.1. Health
18.1.3.2. Wealth
18.1.3.3. Relationships
18.1.4. Low standard
18.1.4.1. Mediocrity
18.2. 3. When we raise our standards, when we raise the bar for ourselves, we always find the way to meet that bar.
18.2.1. 4. But until we raise our standards we continue to suffer in mediocrity
18.3. Think and Grow Rich
18.3.1. Burn the boats
18.3.2. Raise your standards to the point that you have basically said.... I will never accept that lower standard.
18.4. 1. 10x Rule
18.4.1. You must think 10x bigger
18.4.2. Not just 2x or 3x
18.4.2.1. But 10x bigger
18.4.3. 10x goals
18.4.3.1. Small goals do not inspire
18.4.3.1.1. Small goals do not get us to want to take massive action
18.4.3.2. 10x problems
18.4.3.2.1. 10x challenges
18.5. Magic of Thinking Big
18.5.1. Think Bigger every day
18.5.2. The greatest human weakness is selling oneself short
18.5.3. The price tag the world puts on us is the same as what we put on ourselves
18.5.4. Your standards are like a thermostat for your achievement
18.5.4.1. If your standards are low
18.5.4.1.1. You get them
18.5.4.2. If your standards are high
18.5.4.2.1. You get them
18.5.5. Size of your life = size of your thinking
18.5.5.1. Think big goals
18.5.5.1.1. Win big
18.5.5.2. Think small goals
18.5.5.2.1. Win small
18.5.5.3. Choice is yours
18.5.5.4. Big thinking and big plans are not any more difficult than small thinking and small plans. In fact they can actually be easier because you can enroll the power of others
18.6. Becoming Unreasonable in life
18.6.1. Demand it from life
19. 7. Slavery to your feelings
19.1. 99% of people are slaves to their feelings
19.1.1. They dont harness the power of their feelings and emotions
19.1.2. Instead they allow their feelings to run their lives
19.2. You have to stop being a slave to your feelings
19.2.1. You are fearful
19.2.2. You feel tired?
19.2.3. You feel overwhelmed
19.2.4. You feel scared, nervous, anxious?
19.3. You can do that
19.4. You don't become numb to your feelings
19.4.1. You learn how to harness the power of your feelings to your advantage.
19.4.2. Good or bad
19.4.2.1. You can harness the power inherent in those feelings to your advantage
19.5. 7 Habits of highly effective people
19.5.1. Habit #1 - To be proactive
19.5.1.1. To act in alignment with our values - not our feelings
19.5.1.2. Motivation is a feeling
19.5.1.2.1. Dont depend on it
19.5.1.3. Fear is a feeling
19.5.1.3.1. Don't surrender to it
19.5.1.4. Anxiety and nervousness
19.5.1.4.1. Don't let them stop you
19.5.1.5. Not feeling like working hard
19.5.1.5.1. Just a feeling
19.5.2. Learn to ACT - no matter how you feel
19.6. Feeling Good - Dr Burns
19.6.1. Cognitive behavioral therapy
19.6.2. No matter how you are feeling
19.6.2.1. They all started with a thought
19.6.2.2. Change your thoughts and you can change your feelings
19.6.2.3. Change what you are thinking
19.7. Feel the fear and do it anyways
19.7.1. You may feel fear
19.7.2. Buy you must take action any ways
19.7.3. You feel it.... you don't surrender to it
19.7.4. Courage is not the absence of fear
19.7.5. It is "Taking ACTION" in face of fear
19.8. A lot of people wait around for that feeling of motivation or inspiration
19.8.1. 1. A really bad strategy for success.
19.8.1.1. Motivation never falls in your lap
19.8.2. 2. Progress is the best motivator
19.8.2.1. 3. Action is the best way to create progress
19.8.2.2. Action creates confidence
19.8.3. Motivation is not a strategy
19.8.3.1. It is a feeling
19.8.3.2. We can not be at the mercy of our feelings
19.8.4. We must act no matter how we feel
20. 5.Dreaming, Hoping and Wishing
20.1. You need a Burning Desire
20.1.1. An obsession
20.1.2. Anything else will not work
20.2. 2. Wishing and Hoping
20.2.1. Tony Robbins
20.2.1.1. Hope is the battle cry of the WIMP - Tony Robbins
20.2.2. 2. Stop Wishing. Stop Hoping.
20.2.2.1. 1. Decide that you have to be successful. Decide that it must happen
20.2.3. 3. When you want success as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful
20.3. Think and Grow Rich
20.3.1. There is a reason why it is the 1st chapter in the greatest self help books of all time
20.3.1.1. It is the 1st step towards all great achievements
20.3.2. Here is what he said in the book:
20.3.2.1. "A burning desire to be, and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition."
20.3.3. One of the most important keys to success is a burning desire
20.3.3.1. Not an ordinary desire
20.3.3.2. Not hope or wish
20.3.4. Why do we need a burning desire?
20.3.4.1. Because ordinary desires do not enroll the immense power of our sub-conscious mind
20.3.4.2. We need to harness the power of SCM in order to do great things
20.3.4.3. We need to burn with that desire
20.3.5. Your sub-conscious mind needs to be charged up with that burning desire
20.3.5.1. To the point that nothing matters
20.4. Be Obsessed or be average - Grant Cardone
20.4.1. The title of the book is an absolute truth
20.4.2. Great Success requires a crazy obsession
20.4.3. Otherwise we are mired in mediocrity
20.4.4. If you are not accomplishing big goals
20.4.4.1. You are obsessed about the wrong things.
20.5. How to be Rich - Felix Dennis
20.5.1. Compulsion is very different from desire. A person with compulsion says, “I will do whatever it takes to get to this goal. I will do whatever it takes to get to this dream, to this destination that I'm after.” Compulsion is much more intense than just a regular desire.
20.5.2. Most people have hopes and wishes and dreams
20.5.2.1. But you need compulsion
21. 8. Sense of complacency
21.1. 7. Waiting for the PERFECT time to take action
21.1.1. 1. Now is the only time you have
21.2. 4. The idea that Somehow, Someday it will all work out
21.2.1. 1. It will not happen
21.2.1.1. Dreams don't just come true
21.2.2. Insidious Notion
21.2.2.1. Someday
21.2.2.2. One day
21.2.3. Someday never comes, my friend
21.2.4. You succeed because you gave it everything
21.2.4.1. Not because it just happened
21.2.5. 10x Rule
21.2.5.1. Success is your duty
21.2.5.2. Success is your responsibility
21.2.5.3. You have to pursue success
21.2.5.4. You have to go after it
21.2.6. Be Obsessed or be average
21.2.6.1. You have to obsess about it
21.2.6.2. If you are not obsessing about it
21.2.6.2.1. You are getting mediocre results
21.2.6.3. You have to pursue success relentlessly
21.2.6.4. Be Obsessed or be average
21.2.6.4.1. Commit now - Figure it out later
21.2.6.4.2. Create a sense of urgency in your life
21.2.7. Give up that entitlement mentality
21.2.7.1. You are smart, intelligent etc
21.3. Develop a maniacal sense of URGENCY
21.3.1. NOW
21.3.2. FAST
21.4. You feel that you have all the time in the world
21.5. Every day, we are moving one day closer to death
21.6. Seneca said in the book "On the shortness of life":
21.6.1. We act like mortals in face of all that we fear and
21.6.2. We act like immortals in face of all that we desire
21.6.3. We have to invert that
21.6.4. What happens when we act like immmortals in face of all that we desire?
21.6.4.1. We feel we have infinite time
21.6.4.2. We become compacent
21.6.5. We must act like mortals in face of all that we desire
21.6.5.1. We dont have enough time
21.6.5.2. Time is running out
21.6.5.3. We need a sense of urgency
21.6.6. What happens when we act mortal in face of all that we fear?
21.6.6.1. We don't attack our fears
21.6.6.2. We don't try to conquer them
21.6.6.3. We don't expand our comfort zones.
21.6.7. We have to act like we are immortals in face of all that we fear
21.6.7.1. So we take action in face of fear
21.6.7.2. So that we courageously move forward without fearing the repurcussions
21.7. We must develop this insane sense of URGENCY
21.7.1. SPEED
21.7.2. Do it NOW
21.7.3. DOn't wait
21.7.4. Dont second guess
21.7.4.1. Time is running out
21.8. Magic of Thinking Big
21.8.1. We must develop the attacking mindset
21.8.2. Action and Attack are very underrated.
21.8.3. Action precedes action
21.8.4. "NOW" is the magic word for success
21.8.5. Tomorrow, sometime, later etc are the synonyms of NEVER - and that leads to failure
21.8.6. Dont wait. Attack NOW