How to Double Your Progress

Hey my friends, it's Brendon Burchard and welcome to a best of edition of the Brendon show. These best of episodes feature training that I have done live, sometimes on online to tens of thousands of people or live on stage where I was speaking on some stages across the world. Or these might be some of my monthly training programs and highlights of those that I do every single month with our monthly students. So I know you're gonna really enjoy these because these are a little bit more of a deep dive look at some of my training as a personal and professional development trainer. You know, I focus so much on helping you find that deeper level of motivation and start practicing some of those high performance habits. Well, you hear me talk about many of those concepts in special episodes here. These are my best of trainings only and exclusively right here on the Brendon show. So I hope you enjoyed them. Please note that as you hear me speak in many of these, you'll hear me reference something because sometimes I'll have been training live or on video or on stage or through a broadcast. So you might not be able to see something I'm suggesting or motioning to or maybe even drawing out on a flip chart or motioning towards on a presentation, but you'll get the gist of it. So make sure you bust out your journal. Take some good notes here because this is really valuable insights on the mindset or the strategies that you need to adopt in order to improve your life. And if you want to go and get more content like this, but much more deeper and have more of an interactive relationship with me in this type of training, make sure you join our high performance monthly training program. That's our monthly subscription program where I go live with you and our high performance students every single month and I train on a new topic or a new piece of research that we've created from the high performance institute and I train on that and then I do Q and A and actual live coaching, interactive coaching with people every single month. That's called high performance monthly and you can Access it at brendan.com monthly that's brendon.com monthly B-R-E-N-O-N.com monthly to get deeper dive training similar to this. So if you like this, you would love that training program. But without further ado, let's jump in right now to one of the Brendon show's best of trainings.

How do you achieve double time progress? How do you make your dreams come true faster? How do you make Your goals happen faster because I believe that you can succeed over the long term without compromising your health, without going crazy, without, you know, double time, quadruple work hours stacked on top of you in an already busy life. I believe you can protect your well being. I believe you can become a person of influence. I believe you can have everything we talk about in high performance, that greater sense of pop and vibrancy in life, greater connection with your loved ones and those that you care about, and the ability to truly make a great difference in this world because you showed up on your A game more often than other people did. And so I welcome you and I congratulate you over and over and over for joining us. I know this is a super exciting time and I want to really focus on this. What I have for you today is 10 strategies that you can use that will really help you achieve more faster. Now, I don't think any of these require you to double your workload or take more time away from your family. Some of it might take a new way of looking at things, though, and a new way to manage your time. My encouragement as I teach you this today is to do a gut check. Are you progressing fast enough in your personal development, your career, financially, emotionally, for your family? You know, I always like to anchor. What we're doing is what's important. The reason I care about you progressing faster is because I know you have people you serve. I know you got a family counting on you. I know you got a team who's counting on you. I know whether you know it or not, there's people in the world awaiting your influence and they need to see it. They need to see you show up as your best. You don't know it, but you're a role model. I just know these things. And if you can just connect with. Why is it important that you get back on your A game right now? It's important that everybody's on their A game. We have a world in turmoil right now. If we ever needed you, we need you now. If you ever thought about showing up as your best, being a role model, achieving more, building your business, making a difference in the world, get at it right now. If you ever want to be a great parent, your kids need you now. If you ever want to be a great leader, the team's already been looking around the last six months. Where are you at? Like, it's a challenge. I get it, it's hard. But we need you now. Number one. Number one, I need you to level up your role. I need you to level up your role. Now, what do I mean by this? If you've been training with me for any amount of time, you understand what I talk about in psychology a lot about your identity. And one of the reasons that we don't achieve more in our life is that our identity does not match the mission in which we are charging for. So a lot of people say, oh, Brendan, you know, I want to. I want to be a billionaire, right? You all remember when people used to say, I'd sure like to make a great living, or, I'd sure love to be the wealthiest person in town, or, I'd sure love to be a millionaire, but now everyone wants to be a billionaire and a trillionaire. Okay, great. Good for you. But what people say, I want to be a billionaire, Brendan, but when they get up and they start getting dressed and they start thinking through the day and then they get lost in social media and then they get on their email, that identity is not matching up to the mission required. Give me an example. Maybe you're somebody who. You own your own business, okay? You own your own business, and you're somebody who goes, okay, I own my own business. I guess I better go to work today. But, you know, I love my freedom and everything, and. And, you know, I'm just a creator, and, you know, I'm just doing enough to get by. And your identity, your real identity is somebody who has some freedom, somebody who enjoys their passions, has their business. But the way that you are showing up to work each day is revealing what the role it is you feel like you play. The way that you show up each day revealing what role it is that you think you play. Let me give you a very tangible example.

I remember when I worked in corporate.

America, Some of you guys know I finished. When I finished college, whatever it is, 20 years ago or whatever, I took a corporate job, and it was a good corporate job. And I worked for a major consulting company, company called Accenture. And I did leadership development and change management with them. And good job. And though I had a lot of people that I worked with there who would often show up, and you could just kind of. Some of them, you could tell that they were there to get a paycheck, to punch the clock, to show up. And I'd hear the conversation, sometimes their conversations almost sounded like this. Well, you know, just trying to survive, just trying to get by, you know, just trying to be a good provider. And their work effort each day would reveal that their role was a role of just a survivor, just a role of somebody trying to get by. Just a role of somebody who hopes to do good. But that is not sufficient if you decide in your life that you want to double down on your progress. Team hpx. If you want to achieve more, you need to level up that role. You can't go to work and go, I guess I own my business and I'll go, boom. No, I am the CEO today. I'm a warrior. I'm showing up, I'm battle cry ready today. My role is to be an extraordinary provider for my family, an unbelievable leader for my community. It is my role, my job, my dream. It is my role to lead this industry, lead this business, lead this team. And you anchor in, you touch point in with that role that fires you up. If you want to be a great mom, then don't say, oh gosh, I'm a mom. And it's so hard and so exhausting. Yes, it's, yes, it's so hard and so exhausting for everybody. But some say I'm going to be an exceptional and extraordinary caregiver. I'm going to be an amazing parent. I'm going to be an extraordinary leader. You've got to take your role and stop saying, well, I guess I'll just get by. The number one challenge I see in small business owners all the time is a small business owner who never stepped into the role of CEO. They never said, it's on me, it's on my shoulders. I lead this thing. You are the general of your life. Have you been living that way? You are the dictator, you are the captain. You are the sole provider. You are the masterful creator of, of this life of yours outside of God, you are in charge. Have you been showing up that way? Have you been showing up as a person who is living the ideals of the role you want to play in life? Like me, I want to be the role model for a lot of people. What does that mean? Well, as a role model, I know my role is to show up enthusiastic, prepared, excellent, ready to serve, caring, thoughtful, giving. Let's go. I would love for you to think about the last six months. Have there any, have there been any days where you lost some momentum because you got discouraged? You lost some momentum because you thought, I'm not as far as I wanted to be. You lost momentum because somebody judged you. You lost some momentum because you know, you saw somebody doing it better than you and you thought, oh my gosh, who am I? I'm stupid, I'm just starting or, you know, I haven't achieved what I wanted yet or have you. You know, you tried to set up that website, it didn't go right. You got discouraged and you disappeared from it for three or four weeks. And then you came back to start working on the project again, or you had a bad day of writing or contributing or leading, and then you went in the next day and you barely gave anything. You barely showed up. That's a lot of lost days to discouragement. And that's what happens to people. They get discouraged. And once they did get discouraged, what do they do? Well, they're discouraged and they lose an entire day. They're discouraged. They're letting that emotion come in discouragement. And now the next day, guess what they find themselves doing? They spend twice as long on social media. They spend twice as long browsing. They spend twice as long shopping. They watch two seasons of something on Netflix. How many days this year have you lost to discouragement? Too many great people fail to reach their full potential because they got discouraged and they didn't show up the next day. Part of achieving double is decreasing the frequency in which discouragement kills the next day. Part of achieving double, getting double time. Progress is realizing how much you lose when you get discouraged. You have to learn to identify the time when you I feel discouraged. And instead of going to grab food when you feel discouraged, or instead of going to watch social media, instead of doing something like that, no, you're going to go, okay, I feel discouraged. Let me honor that. I feel discouraged because I really want to achieve. I really want to give, I really want to serve. I really want to be a person of excellence. But you know what? I compared myself. Maybe I shouldn't have done that. In other words, instead of using discouragement as a reason to go, like not be your best or eat food or browse, analyze a little bit, go, where's this coming from? Oh, you know, it's coming from a positive intent. Your discouragement is coming from the positive intent that you want to be better and give better and succeed. So then ask, what's the next right action of integrity for me? What's something I could do right now to just move forward a little bit? I think it's really important that you don't lose time to discouragement. What are some of the reasons you've achieved, how much you already have? Like, what's some of the things that you do that does keep you on track? What are some of the things you do that you can celebrate? Honor, Recognize as a strength, Recognizes something that is working for you. Please write it down. In your journal. Because here's the thing to achieve double what you're doing when you can stay more disciplined to what works, obviously that's going to move the needle and I think that's incredibly powerful for you. Okay, so write down what does work. What works for you in your journal already. Why have you progressed as much as you have? What's been working like, I'll give you an example for me, what's been working for me, I fill out my high performance planner every single morning. What's working for me is I'm making sure I work out five times a week. What works for me is that I deeply desire to contribute and I remind myself of that every single day. Which fires me up, which gets me going. And it's that type of thing that really like connects me with the day. What connects me with the day? What helps me go is I get up every 15 minutes, I stretch. If you guys don't know, then I bounce in place, I take 10 deep breaths, I reactivate myself, I sit myself down and go, what's most important for the rest of the day, I go at it. What's working for me is I play music in the background when I'm working. What's working for me when I feel distracted, I close all my browsers, I put on my Bose noise canceling headphones and I just crank. What's working for me is I say no to things that I know are real distractions and won't move my career forward. What's working for me is that I ask for help and I delegate. What's working for me is I touch base with my wife and I say, this is how this week is going to go. This is where I might struggle or need some help. Where's yours? What do you need to do? I feel like I have a comrade in this journey. A person who supports and cheers me on. So what works for you? Because if you double down on what is working for you, if you double down on what's working for you, the odds are you'll double your progress.

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Sam.