Accelerating and Braking at the Same Time?

You can accelerate or you can brake…but it never works when you try and do both at the same time, right?

Yet, that’s what many of you are doing.

You’re jamming on the acceleration pedal in life while slamming on the brake.   

Let me explain:

You have different people in your life telling you conflicting pieces of advice.

You have one guy on social media telling you to give free content away and monetize later. Another guy will tell you to monetize right now.

Or maybe one guy is telling you to email your list no more than twice a week, while another guy tells you to bang your list daily.

Dave Ramsey says not to borrow money but then you see Jeff Bezos borrow as much money as he can.

You’re getting conflicting data in life and it’s confusing you.

Who’s right?

It depends on which guy you want to be. You need to pick a model, right?

If you don’t rise above the noise, you will be left skeptical and confused. Truth is out there, but it has to be separated from mountains of false data and bad advice.

Because conflicting data is everywhere.

For example, there are countless YouTubers telling you advice about cryptocurrencies. Google “Bitcoin” and you’ll quickly find 3 different “experts” giving you information:

• The first guy will tell you that Bitcoin is going to a million dollars.
• The second guy will tell you that Bitcoin is going to end up being worth nothing.
• The third guy will tell you Bitcoin will stay relatively flat for the next few years, neither crashing nor going to the moon.

How do you find the truth? Who can you actually trust?

You’re encouraged to seek counsel in life, but never warned about when to ignore advice.

• People who have no money are quick to give you money advice (money won’t make you happy!)
• Your jaded, divorced friend is quick to give you relationship advice (there are no good men!)
• A financial “Advisor” tells you to put money in the stock market (mutual funds are great!)

I’ve had more people tell me what NOT to do in life than what to do.

In the internet world that we live in, getting data isn’t the problem — the problem is too much data and too much wrong data. Knowledge is power, but what if the knowledge is wrong?

Add to all this the fact that almost any story can be written in a different direction depending upon the writer’s agenda, as these two headlines below illustrate:

I was on CNBC once looking on the topic of mortgages and on one single web page I saw 6 different subject lines about mortgages.

There was conflicting data with one headline saying mortgage applications dropped while another headline saying they were creeping up. One headline said homebuyers were pulling back while another headline proclaimed there is a home buying surge.

People trust headlines, they trust YouTube talking heads, they trust anyone who seems to know what they’re talking about.

That’s why you have to challenge where you get your information.

The whole “knowledge is power” doesn’t take into account how powerful conflicting knowledge has on most people.

Why do people give up on learning?

I don’t believe it is laziness or being too comfortable. People become skeptical because they’ve received so much incorrect information and its failed them.

There’s never been more content than in 2019 — books, e-books, podcasts, TV, radio, internet, apps — you can read and listen to just about anything. It seems that the more information out there, the dumber people get. Have you been noticing that?

With so much information available why are people not smarter today than 30 years ago? Smartphones have not made people smarter!

Most people go to school for 17 years and learn nothing — or they learn a bunch of things that they will later need to unlearn.

Here are 2 truths about knowledge:

#1 Wrong Data Distorts — Think of receiving a piece of information like putting on a pair of glasses. The right pair helps you see better, but if you put on someone else’s prescription glasses, it completely distorts the world around you and prevents you from seeing things how they really are.

Looking at it financially speaking, an understanding of what glasses you are wearing is the first step to getting out of the middle class. Too many people have the wrong pair of glasses on and see the world distorted. Choose your glasses wisely.

#2 The Data You Have Will Influence Your Actions — The information you have serves as a mental steering wheel that moves you where you believe you should go. If you are what you eat, aren’t you also what you choose to watch, read, and listen to? 

People should be just as careful with the media they consume as they are with the food they eat. Just as downing a few doughnuts is going to make you feel differently than eating vegetables, different pieces of information are going to influence your mind. How you think is how you act!

When it comes to your money, if you aren’t happy with your income level, it’s because you have wrong information.

If you had the right information, you’d already be a multi-millionaire. If you want to increase your income, you need to start looking at the world differently.

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Most people see money as a scarce thing when in reality there is abundance everywhere. People think a 40-hour work week is normal and that they deserve frequent holidays. If you wear the same glasses as the middle class, then trust me, you will stay in the middle class.

You don’t need to be confused when it comes to money, investing, and creating massive amounts of wealth for you and your family. You just need the right data.

This is why you must filter your data intake. 

Start reading and studying people who have what you want to have. 

You get information from either legitimate or illegitimate sources, and just because someone wrote a book doesn’t mean you need to get their advice.

My personal rule is never to take advice from a quitter. If a woman has quit on relationships, don’t take advice from her on relationships. She thinks all men are pigs because she has some false data. I would never take advice from my father on health issues because he let himself go in that area and his heart blew up in his chest.

So, pick your advice based on…

1. Want you want to do
2. What OTHERS have already did or are doing
3. Make sure you're aware of where you're getting this person's information from in their cycle.

As to point #3, maybe they’re telling you good advice, but it’s not the right time for you to act on that advice. You can do things when you’re making $1,000,000 a month that you can’t do when you make $5,000 a month.

If they’re telling you to brake, maybe they’re just on a different part of the road than you are.

That’s why you need to be careful with the advice you’re taking in!

If you want my advice, don’t just read an article or watch a video—go all in. The deeper you go with someone, the clearer their advice will become to you.

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I want you to start accelerating.

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Be Great,

GC

Grant Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author, the #1 sales trainer in the world, and an internationally renowned speaker on leadership, real estate investing, entrepreneurship, social media, and finance. His 5 privately held companies have annual revenues exceeding $100 million. Forbes named Mr. Cardone #1 of the "25 Marketing Influencers to Watch in 2017". Grant’s straight-shooting viewpoints on the economy, the middle class, and business have made him a valuable resource for media seeking commentary and insights on real topics that matter. He regularly appears on Fox News, Fox Business, and MSNBC, and writes for Forbes, Success Magazine, Business Insider, CNBC, and Entrepreneur. He urges his followers and clients to make success their duty, responsibility, and obligation. He currently resides in South Florida with his wife and two daughters.