A Sneak Peak at My New Book: Be Obsessed or Be Average

Before I wrote Be Obsessed or Be Average, I wrote The 10X Rule, a best seller about the importance of thinking and executing at massive levels. In short: If you are going to have a budget for a project, you should set it for 10X what you initially considered; if $1 million is the amount of money you want to earn annually, then you better set a target of $10 million per year, in order to get close to where you desire. The 10X Rule was ultimately about multiplying your goals to achieve any objective. ?

After I released The 10X Rule, so many people wrote me saying things like, “I am trying to 10X my business and I am having trouble staying with it,” or, “This 10X thing is throwing my entire life into disruption.” That’s when I realized that there was a missing piece to the puzzle—the idea of obsession. Obsession is the missing piece, that mindset that will allow you to apply the 10X rules in your life and business. Sure, you can be successful without being obsessed, but you can’t reach the levels of success I am talking about without being obsessed. It’s the single common factor that super successful people around the world share. To show you how to become obsessed and harness that obsession to build your own success, I’ve broken the book down into manageable chapters.

The first chapter of Be Obsessed or Be Average explains how obsession saved my life and why it’s so important. I define obsession and what it means to me. Chapter 2 will erase the conventional wisdom that average and safe are all you can achieve and explain why you need to replace mediocrity and doubt with a burning, purposeful, animal obsession. Then in Chapter 3 we’ll look at how you can identify your own obsession. I’ll walk you through some key exercises you can use to find out what you really want most in life.

The next chapters build on that foundation, guiding you through the tough process of beginning to follow your obsession. I’ll prove why it’s important to “feed the beast” of your obsession in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5 we’ll explore why you need to “starve the doubt,” block out naysayers, and embrace haters. Chapter 6 talks about all the ways you can learn to use your obsession to dominate—your past, your thinking, your money, your area of expertise, and your brand. And chapter 7 explains why playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you can do—and how to stay dangerous against great odds. These principles will guide you in your quest for success.

Then we’ll shift to practical business advice that will help you make your obsession real, not only to you but to everyone around you. In Chapter 8 I’ll share my world-renowned sales knowledge to help you understand the importance of sales to realizing your obsession and how to become a monster marketer, promoter, and salesperson. Chapter 9 will focus on winning customers—and how you can overpromise and over-deliver. In chapter 10 we’ll turn to the people you work with, especially employees, and I’ll show you how to build a culture around you that is totally aligned with your obsession. We’ll close out chapter 11 with advice on how to be a real leader—or in my words, “how and why you must be a control freak.” These are all the practices you will need in order to not just maintain but grow your obsession into a thriving, lucrative, and powerful business that can maybe even create an entirely new industry or disrupt an existing one. ?

The last two chapters of the book talk about how to sustain your obsession over time. In Chapter 12 we look at the power of persistence as your obsession matures and morphs into something beyond what you can imagine today. And before I let you go to change the world, in Chapter 13 I will share final tips and techniques on getting, being, and staying obsessed.

We’ve all read the generic books that tell you to follow your dreams. But while those books might offer inspiration, they don’t tell you how to really make a permanent change in your life. This book will be brutally honest. It will tear down the cocoon of average that has been spun so tightly around you by society. It will help you unleash the power of obsession and then teach you how to take care of and direct your obsession to achieve your most powerful dreams.

Whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner, trailblazer, free-thinker, artist, athlete, inventor, salesperson, creative, or engineer, I know you are someone who strives for success and refuses to settle. This book will encourage and fuel that can’t-quit, won’t-quit, accelerator-to-the floor monster ambition inside you. ?

I will help you establish your brand and business and show you how to grow it to staggering heights despite all obstacles and competition. This is because obsession is the critical component of success— senior to strategy, pricing, timing, competition, or people; it offers the method for living in true freedom and total control of your life—personally, financially, and emotionally. ?

If you’re all in, ready to take responsibility for your life and your business, ready to change your own future and the world, then pre-order Be Obsessed or Be Average now.

Be great,

Grant Cardone

Grant Cardone, CEO of Cardone Acquisitions operates almost 4000 units in Florida, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina. He is an American entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, speaker, motivator and online sales training expert. Cardone is a respected, highly regarded master salesperson whose passion is to teach people how to sell themselves, their products and services regardless of economic climate. His books, audio packages and seminars provide people of all professional backgrounds with the practical tools necessary to build their own economies towards the path to true freedom.

“Success is your duty, obligation, responsibility."