Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

They lied to you about SUCCESS! #successmindset #entrepeneurlife #wealthmindset

27 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Speaker (Josh Trent) challenges the prevailing entrepreneurial myth that success requires total self-sacrifice and long, punishing work hours. He argues that the most successful entrepreneurs he knows prioritize self-care and clarity — practices such as hydrating, meditating, eating healthy, and exercising — which produce physiological momentum, clearer vision, and increased perception of opportunity. The core recommendation: in early stages, focus on caring for yourself to enable better decision-making and opportunity recognition.

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We have this culture in the entrepreneurial world that you must sacrifice everything for business success. Because in the entrepreneurial world today, it looks like the goal is the opposite. It looks like the person who beats themselves up the most, works every day, 15 hour days, stays up at night, who totally destroys themselves, is the one that is successful. Because the reality of the people that I work with, the reality of the really successful companies I know, is that entrepreneurs are taking care of themselves and they are clear and they understand where they're going to go and they understand what seen. So if you're in those early stages, focus on yourself. Yeah. If you take someone who doesn't really know where they're going, doesn't understand, doesn't really see clearly, they start hydrating their body and their brain come online, they start meditating, they start calming the voices and seeing more opportunity. They start really eating healthy and working out. They get into this physiological momentum where we feel the progress we're making and suddenly they start seeing opportunity everywhere.