Learn how to Believe & Achieve | In conversation Mitesh and Marisha

17 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this conversational excerpt, the speaker shares a deliberate, self‑directed approach to career ambition. After deciding to become the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Mindvalley, they reverse‑engineer the role by asking what a CMO thinks, reads, plans, and discusses. They then use journaling to map those behaviors and begin enacting them, treating themselves as if they already hold the position. The narrative illustrates a proactive mindset, role‑modeling, and concrete habit formation as tools for achieving a high‑level professional goal.

Every single thing I've done in my life, I've decided. So I decided, I was like, okay, what will inspire me? What I'm excited about? And I just, it just hit me. I was like, oh, I want to be CMO of Mindvalley. Wow. And then I had
to— Chief Marketing Officer.
The Chief Marketing Officer. So I worked my way back. I said, okay, if I want to be a CMO, I need people to treat me like a CMO. Okay, so how do I get people to treat me like a CMO? That means I need to have the conversations. What conversations would a CMO have? What kind of planning would a CMO do? What would they be reading? What would they be learning? And I started to journal. Okay, so they would be reading this, they would be learning this, they would be having these conversations, they would be talking about this. And I started to map it out and then I just started to enact it.
Wow. So we call this aligning your feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and actions exactly in alignment with your goals. And you started doing that by journaling everything that that role would actually feel like, act like when it's become a reality. and you actually started working towards it.