Matt Ryder walks through seven mistakes that cost him seven figures. He covers doing uncomfortable tasks to build resilience, ignoring others' opinions, not overvaluing your own ideas, sticking to core competencies, reading actions over words in sales, ditching rigid schedules, and planning with concrete detail before claiming you tried hard.
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7 of the most brutal truths that I've learned that's probably cost me an awful lot of money. Number 1, do hard things and find out who you are. A physically uncomfortable thing on a regular basis lets you know that you will be okay. The second thing, stop caring about what other people think of you. You cannot please everyone, and trying is one of the most exhausting things that anyone can do in their entire life. Number 3, don't overestimate the importance of your own opinion with other people. Nobody should or needs to listen to you. All you have to do is just present your argument, and if they take it, fantastic. If they don't, that's fine too. Don't get excellent And the thing is that you only need to be good at— my full-time job is usually not selling anymore. I have— I'm good enough at selling to be able to get whatever outcome I need. And so reading every sales book on the planet is of very little consequence to me. Don't waste time on things that aren't going to be a forever thing or that you're already good at. Number 5, people who tell you they really don't want something are lying to you. So if someone says, I don't want your money, I don't want your money, they definitely want your money. Don't let people's words tell you their thoughts. Number 6, not everyone needs to get up at 4 AM and rise and grind. Everyone is different. If you're a night owl and work late, it's fine. And the last one is that most people fail because they just don't try very hard. If you want to lose weight and you haven't said, okay, this is what I'm going to train, this is my diet, this is when I'm going to do my weigh-ins, that is literally the bare minimum. And if you haven't done that, then you're not trying very hard.