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mindsets
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introduction
I’m standing on the ledge.
millions, went broke, made millions. His life has been full of ups
He looks out to the world and back at me. I feel his gaze sting
“Tej, when you look out there, tell me what do you see?”
water.”
“Yes… but what else do you see that your eyes don’t see?”
of their life. These people have hopes and dreams and visions
and ideas about their future. They have worries and concerns
When I look out at the world, I don’t see objects. I see people. I
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products and services to make their lives easier and better. I
your eyes see. It’s what you feel and your mind believes.
Whatever your mind believes, your eyes will soon begin to see.
and trees and your eyes will grow to see money and everything
didn’t come, I grew discouraged and tired and lost hope. This
In fact, it wasn’t until I found this new outlook that my life went
These insecurities stayed with me. And became my filter for the
Not really.
lens of fear and anxiety and despair. And that’s why I couldn’t
Now, I don’t know what type of life you’ve lived up till this point.
But you should keep in mind, these filters may not be for you.
The beauty isn’t in taking my filters and applying them over your
eyes. The beauty exists in finding your own filters. And carving
Once you have these new filters in place, making money will be
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i believe everything is easy.
I thought life was difficult. It was all I saw around me. Despair
challenge.
If you think life is difficult, it will be. If you think life is easy, it
will be.
lazy.
But if your mind thinks something is easy, your mind will run to it
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i believe my life is a first person
video game.
Life is a game and in the end the screen will read, “GAME
OVER.”
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i believe opportunity lives in the
mud.
I don’t believe in the recession. Or poverty. Or unemployment.
In the dirt.
work.
My one and only goal for the day is to get my overalls dirty.
That’s all.
At the end of our life, the only thing we can control is how dirty
influence.
The more dirt on your overalls, the better your life will be.
Period.
the effect.
All throughout elementary school, I let people push me around.
lunch.
I was easily swayed and controlled and life could push and pull
You are the cause. Life does not happen to you. You happen
to life.
Think about that for a second. Maybe just maybe you’ll find the
powers you have kept locked inside you all this time.
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i believe in creating
empowering perceptions.
Two people looking at the same stimuli will see and believe
For example, if two people are looking at the same grass. One
The other may think about his childhood full of laughter and
And the older you grow, the more conditioned your responses
become.
Problem is:
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i believe i am a superhero
and be of value.
The clock goes off. It reads 5 AM.
Others see a regular man with the limits of a mere mortal. I see
a superhero.
I save people.
And sometimes…
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i believe in killing myself by
Some days I return to bed with a heavier vessel. These are the
days I live wrong. For each day I must return to bed with a
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i believe in discomfort and
Truth be told, I didn’t know what to think either. I had just got
Why?
I had lost the aggression I was born with. The natural creativity
zone. It was safe and relaxing. But nothing ever happened for
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i believe the two enemies to a
negativity.
same.
out at you and questions your actions. It calls you name after
You must grip the poison and destroy it while you still can.
it. And replace it with love and laughter. I’ll be shocked if you
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i believe in returning to bed
and richer.
I believe in growth.
Putting in work.
Facing discomfort.
Challenging yourself.
Extending the line inside your head which tells you what you’re
and further away from you until the entire world opens up to
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i believe in not listening to a
single soul.
Dead silence.
Then laughter.
Then ridicule.
Then mockery.
I listened. I obliged.
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i believe in the energy inside
me.
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recap
I wanted money. But I lacked the right mindsets.
mindset gives you. And so I failed over and over and over
again.
I didn’t succeed.
world.
But I knew that wasn’t the life for me. I had to kill that thought.
I see too many people in their 40’s and 50’s walking around in
a rut. I’ve come to realize they may still be breathing, but the
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When you’re young, you’re built to succeed. As a child, the
The child inside you slips further and further away from you.
And then you become heavier with weight. The weight of
responsibility and bills and mortgages.
You keep dying and dying and dying. You keep breathing and
dying. And then you become cold and sick and full of hatred.
For life didn’t turn out as you expected.
The car you wanted, you never got. The dream house you
wanted, you never built. The life you wanted to give to your
family, you couldn’t afford.
For you’re too scared to realize the real enemy wasn’t the man
or the boss or the world, the real enemy was you. The real
enemy you have been fighting your entire life was the thoughts
inside your brain.
And that is the moment you die and your soul bleeds out of
your eyes.
For you finally come to grips with the truth: You approached
life in the wrong manner. You attacked opportunity after
opportunity. And you failed and failed and failed. You blamed
the recession or the shady stockbroker or the sleazy business
partner.
And with each blame you cast, you grew heavier with pain and
heartache.
That’s why you die at 40, but don’t get buried till 70.
You let the world tell you how to think and feel.
You let the same world that built you, destroy you.
And when they decide your time is up, out you go.
I refuse to let the world kill the energy of life inside me. I
intend to use the energy of life to mold the world.
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part II:
habits
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introduction
I thought I had it made. I thought I just had to turn on my
At first, you won’t notice the changes. You will second guess
It’s normal.
Big.
That’s why you need habits. The right habits are the glue that
joy.
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wake up at 5 am.
I would watch the inspirational YouTube videos. They all said
didn’t work.
telling myself “I don’t have the time.” I never had the time. And
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eat worms before breakfast.
I wake up in the morning. And grab a plate of worms. I stare
down the plate. It’s the first thing I do.
Some days it works and I hop out of bed. Some days the bitch
in me takes over and says, fuck it. And I go back to sleep. But
most days, I get up. And I eat the worms before breakfast. The
worms are code for my morning routine.
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contents on the page. And that gives my mind direction for the
day.
I do 100 push ups. I do 100 sit ups. I crank out 100 push ups.
And 100 sit ups. Some days it’s the last thing I want to do.
Correction: EVERY DAY it’s the last thing I want to do. But I
shower and turn the knob to the blue and jump and scream
while the cold water hits my flesh and eradicates all weakness
from my body.
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come up with 10 new ideas.
I didn’t have connections.
The attention of the movers and the shakers, the people who
belonged to me.
again.
And the only way I knew how to build strong ideas was by
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And some days, I hit on something magical. A new idea that
heart.
work 10-12 hour days in 45
minute increments.
It’s the fastest way to get ahead.
The light from your new world will be more than enough to
offset the darkness you felt in the early days. The early days
me.
minute break.
I refresh.
Then the timer goes off again, the break is over and I go back
to the grind.
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hit the gym for an hour.
“It’s not over until it’s over,” he said. The man was in his 80’s.
And I met him at the gym, the one and only day I decided to
go.
improvement. It’s about soaking every last bit of water from the
day. Every drop you can get, you fucking take. And you work
and you build. It’s not about the end result. It’s about the work
over until it’s over. And I’m going to work and build and grind
gain comes from moving towards goals. It’s the only joy. And I
may be old, but I’ll be dammed if I let that joy pass me by.”
physically.
I didn’t care about achieving muscle and gains like the boys
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spend one-hour learning or
strengthening a skill.
Inside the black box are all the skills I’ve accumulated to date.
The lightness disturbs me. For I know the bag is too light. I
heavy with skills. But it’s not. And that’s exactly why I struggled
How many skills do you carry in your bag? That’s the only thing
that matters. And it’s the only thing that determines how far
to succeed.
I wasted too much time. Time I will never get back. But that’s
alright. It’s not about what you did, it’s about what you’re going
better.
enough.
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