"Revolutionize Your Life: Unveil the Power of Discipline to Unlock Unimaginable Success!"
?Okay, so today's session is about discipline. How many of you have really wanted to do things but you still don't go about doing it? Now there's three reasons why. Number one is it's not important to you enough. Number two is you don't have the time. Number three is you don't know how. So these are the three things that we want to focus on every single day to really get that result.
For example, right now I'm in my gym t shirt. Why? Because I want to go to the gym. Now for years I've been going to the gym, but when the pandemic happened, I was like, okay, I'm not going because, you know, I don't want to catch any germs there. But what happened is when I stopped going to the gym, I stopped.
Getting into shape. My energy was lower. And here's the interesting thing. I house, I have a full size gym. It's got everything. It's got squat rack, chest press, it's got everything in there. But I didn't use it every single day. Why? Because I didn't, it wasn't important to me enough. So the first thing is discipline.
You've got to have The reasons why you want to do it. Now, here's the, here's the contradictory thing about discipline. Like discipline really means doing the things that we don't want to do in order to get the results that we want. Now, the powerful thing about this is to really understand that knowing the things that you don't want.
So when I ask people a question, what is it that you want? They don't know how to answer it. They go, well, John, I don't, I don't know what I want. But then if you answer the opposite question to that is what is it that you don't want? When you understand the things that you don't want, that's when you're able to start getting more results in the things that you want to do.
Because discipline, remember, is doing the things that you don't want to do. Right? So if you do it, but you don't feel like doing it, but you're doing it to get things to get away from the things you don't want. So that's why it's contradictory. So if you have a struggle and you got this power struggle of, I want to do this, but I don't want to do that.
It's kind of what we call the past conflict. You want to do this, but you don't want to do this. You want to make more money, more money, but you don't want to do the work, right? So that's why you've got to be able to have these three things in process. So when I think about discipline, the first thing you want to do is write down all the things that you want, all the things you don't want, because then you'll know The things that you're trying to get away from every single day.
Number two is I always believe that your thoughts lead to your feelings, lead to your actions, lead to your results. So that means the more thought processes you have of actually doing something, because look, here's the thing. Let's say you want to go have a workout. You don't always want to wake up every single day and then you go, Oh, well, I want to go to a workout, right?
Because you just don't feel like it. But what happens is you're in that process when you're in the workout, you're like, you get to the gym and you're like, Oh God, I don't really want to lift. And you start lifting. You're like, Oh, actually. I quite enjoyed this process. It's the same with business. You want to make money in business right now.
There's only two things you want to focus on leads and sales. That's it. And that's if you're starting out. So if you're watching me and you're like, well, John, I just really want to start out in business. There's only two things that you need. Right, generate more leads and make more sales. That's it.
That's the only two things you should be focusing on every single day. Right? You want to go to the gym and get into shape, move your body, eat the right foods, and all these little things, these little what I call 1% s. You know, they compound to thousands of percents. Like if you improve yourself in every single day, right?
So let's say you're able to improve yourself 1 percent every single day.
So after a year, that's 365 percent right? No, it's not because in the compound process, one plus one is not equal to one plus one has a 10 times multiple. Because it's building on the day before, for example, if you go to the gym and you lift some weights, right? So let's say I get some dumbbells and I get some 10 kg dumbbells and do a, you know, a press or do a chest press, right?
After a year, I'll be stronger, right? And in fact, it's interesting because I had, um, A shoulder injury, and I was, I was trying to lift this, this way and I couldn't because you know, my, there's so much pain here. So then I started doing all these, you know, these, these movements. I had the band and I was doing that and after two weeks, finally, I could take a barbell.
I could at least do one press. Six months from now, I'll probably do 10, 20, 30 presses. So the key here is to the discipline is actually momentum. Think of that. If you lack discipline, it's because you lack momentum. So people ask me, well, why do you work so much? Because it's not about the end result of becoming successful, making money.
It's actually about getting to the point where you're creating results and little things every single day that lead to that end result. And so that's why for me, I got to love that process. And here's the thing as an entrepreneur. If you don't love the process, don't be an entrepreneur. If you're just thinking about the money.
That's it. Like, like, don't be an entrepreneur. You have to learn the process. You have to enjoy the process. You have to become a bigger version of you. And so, for example, when I first started off as an entrepreneur, my number one goal, and here's the thing, you want to focus on a goal every single day, number one.
So for me, it was, okay, how do I make 3000 pounds a month so I can quit my job? And by the way, I love my job. I was an animator, I get to work on some cool games, you know, cool TV shows, the company I worked for worked on all these big, you know, films. But did I, did I love that as a life? Um, you know, I had to commute to, into London every single day and it was like probably two, three hour, you know, commute by, you know, from door to door.
And it took a lot out of you. So really you would just Living instead of existing. Now, of course, if you love your job and you love that whole process, then stay in it. But you're going to create something on the side as well. It's what we call a side hustle or a secondary income or multiple streams of income.
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So that's all I focused on. Then I thought, okay, well if I can buy 10 houses and each house can make me 300 a month. Then I replace my income now. It's not as simple as that, but that was kind of like the ethereal or the goal. So that was my number one goal. So then the question I asked then is, is what question leads to the next question?
Next question is, okay, well, how do I buy one property and where can I buy it and how much can I rent it for? And if I rent it for 300, which areas can I command that kind of rent where I can, um, you know, the mortgage and the rent will give me that, that, you know, that, that, that sort of margin. So when you're thinking about creating something, you look at that goal.
And so then I had to learn about, okay, lead generation, I had to learn about, uh, finding deals, I had to learn about negotiating, I had to learn about, Sales, I had to learn about operation, I had to learn how to, you know, do the, you know, some handy jobs, but that's about it. And I just mastered the process and I kept doing it over and over again.
So my goal every single day was to find the people that want to sell the property and then find the investors who could give me the money to buy it. That's it. That's all I did. And I just did that every single day. And, and when I'm talking about the little things that make the big difference, you don't even have to be That intelligent about it.
Like one of the reasons why I got into real estate is because you don't really have to be that intelligent to buy property. Just buy low, sell high, get good at the skill set. And that's what I focus on every, every single day. I focused on the skill set, the more skill sets that you incorporate. And really, there's only three or four that you want to really master.
Number one, the power to communicate. Number two, the power to be able to negotiate and, and, and sell your ideas, sell your business plans, sell your, you know, um, concepts. Three is the ability to be able to disrupt and see, you know, the holes. And the last one that I, this I focus on today is your connections.
It's not who you know, but it's who knows you. So that means every single day I was like, I was looking at who do I want to connect with? Who do I want to partner with? Who do I want to get into business with? And so when I asked you about some of the things that you want to do, you need to start thinking about the things that you don't want, the things that you do.
For example, if you are over it right now, you already know the things you want to do, but you're still not doing it. For example, if you're overweight right now, it's because you're not going to the gym. It's because you're not running, you're not doing cardio, you don't have a personal trainer. You're not working out, you're not eating right, your diet is not good, right?
If you're broke right now, it's because you're not spending time to learn about financial literacy. You don't have a mentor, you don't have a coach. You're not implementing, you're not generating leads, you're not making sales. It's that simple, right? Or right now, if you're broke right now, it's because you're not, you're not multiplying your money.
Like as soon as you make the money, you spend it. Right. It's not about how much money you make. It's about how much you can keep and when you can keep that money, guess what happens? You're now able to multiply. So lots of different ways to multiply, right? A lot of people do like stocks, real estate, shares, businesses, investing, right?
These are some of the things that you want to do to know to multiply. You, you can't grow money until you multiply. Right? And to multiply it, you need to be able to invest. And so, again, I know a lot of you are JL. club members that, that, that are, you know, learning a lot of the marketing and branding and strategies and social media.
Life of social media. Like, some of you asked me, John, well, how do I get more followers? Simple. Post content every single day. Right? Well, John, what, what should I post about? Look, I'll give you some really quick tips here. Right? So, when I have conversations with people, I turn that into a piece of content.
When I see a post online, like, for example, discipline. Right. I saw something about discipline and discipline is not about, you know, there's a book called outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. He talks about creating, um, you know, 10, 000 hours, which makes you. A master at something, right? But I don't really think that's the case.
And I saw another article on this. Well, it's not about the 10, 000 hours that you're putting in, right? It's about the iterations of what you're doing in those 10, 000 hours. For example, when you, for example, when I'm speaking on the phone and negotiating a deal, if I negotiate the exact same with the same script, it's not going to get the result.
But let's say on that call, someone says to me, you know, John, I don't want to sell my property because of this, but I'll sell it because of this. I've now got a hook and I've got these, what we call units of conviction that allows me to create and get that deal. So every single, and I made thousands and thousands of phone calls.
That's why I can pick up a phone call and know if that person wants to sell the property within five minutes below its market value. So it's the skill set that you're developing. And it's the things that you should be doing on a consistent basis that produces the results. So again, if you want to earn more income, if you want to, you know, start a business, if you want to, you know, do more with your money, like the reason why you're not making more money is because you're spending more than you earn.
Right? And you're investing less than you spend. So these are some of the things that you want to start thinking about. So remember discipline, doing the things you don't want to do. The thoughts lead to the feelings, lead to the actions, lead to the results. It's the iterations of the things that you do, and remember to always enjoy the process.
You know, for me, it's really understanding that, that you have to really trust the process. When you trust the process, the process will trust you. And that's why you must always believe. That anything is possible. I'll see you in the next session. Bye for now.
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