How to Elevate Your Mind & Business | 3 Minutes to Push Beyond

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is keep pushing yourself. Over to you, Todd McFarlane.

It's just a wide open void that is a big playground, but because there's really nothing there that we're competing against, and some of the things we're trying to create, that there's nobody there kind of like making us competitive except for ourselves. So one of the things that I know that we talk about all the time is we have to keep pushing ourselves, we have to keep reinventing ourselves because there's really at this point nothing to compare Spawn to in America.

This is an amazing thought of the day because if you are leading your field, then it's easy to get complacent and it's easy to stop pushing yourself. It's easy to get lazy. And your own standards should be higher than anybody else's standards for you. And it's great to have a goal. This is actually super common for entrepreneurs. You have a goal, right? Like, I want to beat this person. I want to get ahead of that person. I want to get this much revenue. I want to be better than this company. And then when you hit that goal, it's elation. It's like, yeah, I did it, great! And that whole journey up and the climb and the excitement. But then when you hit it, it's kind of sad because you need a new goal now, because you're kind of depressed that you don't know where else you're going to take it. And I've experienced this in my business. So I look at my YouTube channel, I look at the agency that I'm at, and I have— there's somebody else at the agency that I'm— I want to get above on YouTube, and I'm close. It's probably going to happen. It may happen before this video comes out, but it's going to happen in the next couple days for sure. And now that I know that I'm going to pass him, It's easy to get a little down like, "Ah, I got— I hit my goal, so now what am I gonna do? I gotta find something else to get excited about." And honestly, if I look at the people in the entrepreneur space, the people who might be— I won't call them competitors because I think they add content, it's just a different voice. But I look at those people and I'm growing faster than all of them. Like, I'm gonna catch all of them. None of them are real competitors for what I'm doing. My YouTube channel is growing like crazy, and at the same time that my YouTube channel is growing out of control, that I'm going to catch up and pass everybody, I'm pushing the envelope to move into a 3-video-a-day schedule instead of 2. I'm pushing myself harder to provide more value for you guys, to create more content, to be a bigger resource and inspiration for you, to give you more motivation and strategies to help you grow your business. And so you need to have an element of that. You need to, I think, have a big goal that helps you push beyond, but then once you become the industry leader, you can't let off the gas. You've got to keep pushing yourself to do the best that you can do. And so my question today for you guys is, I want to know, I want to know an example of a goal that you guys had that once you hit it, you felt a little bit of a letdown, like you felt a little bit sad, a little bit depressed, you weren't sure what to do next. If you can share an example, I'd love to see that in the comments below. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe And I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.