Your Life Depends On It... - Dean Graziosi Weekly Wisdom
1 Jul 2016 · 3 min
Dean Graziosi delivers a short motivational message using the novel The Martian as a metaphor: when pursuing the next level of life you must persist through repeated failures and keep trying alternative solutions until you succeed. He urges listeners to treat their goals as if their life depended on them, cultivating stamina and creative problem-solving, and closes with a call-to-action to grab his free book.
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Hey, everybody. Dean Graziosi, welcome to the Weekly Wisdom. You know, I got a short and powerful message for you today that just hit me hard with a book I'm reading. I read mostly personal development books and nonfiction, but lately I've been reading every third book, a fiction book. And I just got done reading the Martian, the movie that's coming out with Matt Damon. And the book was incredible. But the lesson I got from that book, and I think you can get a lesson from anything, the lesson I got was to never give up. You see, his character was stranded on Mars. And what's great about it, it doesn't seem like some science fiction movie. It seems like something that could happen in 10 years, right? So he's stranded on Mars, and his life depends on it. So every time an obstacle came up, something broke, something went down. He couldn't just give up and walk outside. He would die. Right? And the lesson I got from this was that's how we need to treat our next level of success. What happens in life is when we want more, but the first little bump in the road we hit, we give up or go backwards or say, ah, that's not for me. But when your life depended on it, like Mark's, he found a solution. So what I want to share with you today, if you want to take your life to that next level, if you want to make more money, have more freedom, have more joy, passion, be more silly, have more passion in your life. Then when you hit a bump in the road, it doesn't matter when it breaks. If it doesn't work, what do you do? Try something else. And if that doesn't work, what do you do? You try something else. And if that doesn't work, what do you do? You try something else. And if that doesn't work, then, well, then you try something else. What most people don't see is Thomas Edison. When he created the light bulb, he failed a thousand times. He just found a thousand ways not to make it. And you have to have stamina with the things and changes and transformations you want to make in your own life. When you hit a bump, try something new. If you hit a roadblock, try something new. If you hit a wall, dig under it, push it over, blow it up, do what you have to do. You deserve that next level of life. I know what it's like to go through life smiling on the outside and being sad or wanting more on the inside. And it doesn't have to be that way. But I know one thing. Have the stamina. Do what Matt Damon's character did on Mars. Whenever anything went wrong, he had to keep going. If it didn't work, he tried again, tried again because his life depended on it. And doesn't your life depend on it? Don't you deserve that next level of life? Well, of course you do. So that's my quick message for today. Just you have the strategies, you have the pieces in your hand, you have the books, the courses. Now it's time to take action and not give up until you're on that path to that next level of life. I'm Dean Graziosi. Thanks so much for watching. Go to deansfreebook.com deansfreebook.com if you don't have my New York Times best selling books, you can grab them for free. And if you're@dg.com, dean Graziosi.com, you can grab it right here. I'll talk to you next week.
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