 So, until I get a fix on the habit of posting things daily, I guess I'll sort of resort to using the morning as a really good time to post these videos. So the topic I want to talk about today is something that is probably one of my most important topics which is basically having a selective focus only to look at a certain level, you could say, of opportunities. What I mean by that is, you know, obviously opportunities exist everywhere. We could talk about good opportunities or we could talk about bad opportunities, meaning at any moment I have the opportunity, let's say I'm looking for opportunities to kill myself, I can instantly find in the environment ways to make that happen, like say jumping in the upcoming traffic. Now let's say I change my focus, this is called by the way the RAS, RAS stands for Reticular Activation System, it's basically your selective focus where your brain kind of kind of weeds out things that in the environment because there's just too much shit to focus on. So imagine you ask yourself, what can I do right now? Like let's say even as a daily habit, what can I do right now that would be like a positive thing that would, you know, I could help somebody. Now you're going to start seeing the environment, you're going to start looking at opportunities to actually help people, so you're going to see things you've previously never noticed or let's say you ask what's nice about today, again you're going to find opportunities that you weren't quite aware of. Now this also applies to goal setting, you could even say it's especially applies to goal setting in the sense that most people when they said their goals, the biggest mistake they make is sending goals too low. Like for example you go to the gym, your goal is like hey I'm gonna get a bit more fit or I want to lose a bit of weight. The problem with these kinds of small goals is that they don't give you the right sufficient motivation to actually push through and on one hand persist, on the other hand generate enough action to actually see results. So whenever I have a target, let's say in working out, I set really massive goals, like let's say my deadlift exercise, I'm currently bench press deadlifting about a hundred kilos, so what I do I set my goal at 150, so it's like a big big leap. Now what happens right away you're still thinking in leaps, so I'm like okay how can I progress as fast as possible and your brain starts thinking about the possibility of doing like 150 kilos and it's like whoa that's like a shillow to weight, that's so cool. Like I wonder how amazing my body will look when I can lift like 50% more weight than I can currently do at max rep. So the same thing also applies to your income. Now this is something that people get so wrong, like they that's like the biggest problem in my opinion regarding income and goal setting is that what do you do in income? In income it's easier because it's numbers basically, you know money is always it's numbers so it's the only thing you can actually measure all the time. So when you look for opportunities whether it be a job opportunity or even an investment opportunity or a business opportunity you have a certain comfort level, you have a certain level where you're like okay that's just my area of opportunities. Like let's say in a really good time I might be looking at opportunities where I go up to a CEO I'm like okay let's say let's see how can I help this guy make an additional $100,000 a month so I'm thinking in these terms in bad times you might you know especially when you're kind of working for yourself you might even degenerate and start taking opportunities that are like way way smaller than what you usually take because your tolerance for basically your you could say your magnitude or your range of opportunities got a lot wider in the bad sense. So Warren Buffett what he says which I really like is that successful people the only difference between successful people and super successful people is that super successful people basically say no to almost everything meaning you have to learn how to kind of really really allocate your time but also your opportunities so when you're facing let's say an opportunity for a client for a job you really want to ask yourself do I actually am I actually fulfilling my potential right now because whenever you pick something let's say a certain job or anything of that sort sorry some guys just don't know when to stop their car when the crossing the street anyway when you pick opportunities you do realize that every single opportunity you choose is actually like time invested where you could have done something else also there's the force of you call it like stagnation where whatever opportunity you pick you're gonna sort of tend to stay at that level meaning let's say you get a job that gives you $6,000 a month you kind of tend to stay at that level that range for quite a long time unless you get dissatisfied or you see a really big opportunity what always scares me is not aiming high enough and actually hitting the target and then being dissatisfied this happened to me the first time when actually got to what I considered at the time massive success started making between 10 to 15 thousand dollars a month just from online coaching people I would work maybe 10 to 20 hours a week super fun super easy but I got bored you know I got really really depressed which is funny right like you make 10 15 $20,000 a month you barely work you do something that you actually really like and you're depressed so that's what happened to me so I kind of quit that business started aiming higher hit my target again got depressed again so what that sort of made me realize is that when you don't hate aim high enough and you hit the target it actually sucks like you actually feel really really bad like even worse than before because before you actually had the motivation now because you're like a lot closer to being satisfied but you're not satisfied it's like it's even worse so for me I have this you could call it like a hack or like this realization of infinity like what I mean by that is I realized at some point I just realized this that because I've done I had so many businesses I've done so many different things I've destroyed so many businesses on purpose to try again try again try again every time I did it aiming higher doing something different words got to the point that I realized that let's say you're under financial stress you need to get money fast like you're in debt or certain obligations it would almost be preferable to skip those obligations as much as it sounds irresponsible it would almost be preferable it would actually be preferable to skip those obligations not fall into the pressure and go for something that's below your potential so you would almost rather let's say you have like a credit card bill next week or debts whatever it is you'd almost rather not go for the low hanging fruit that would help you kind of move a bit towards the closing the debt or you know getting to that goal you would almost rather miss it for the sake of aiming higher to something that if you achieve it would actually like 10x whatever it is you owe so let's say you owe $3,000 and you need to close that by two weeks what's gonna tend to happen even if you were in the $10,000 income bracket suddenly you're thinking low because you're like okay I just got to close it I just got to take care of that but the way life works is that you close one thing another thing opens like you you know you get out of debt you get back in back into debt it's a never-ending cycle I know because I've been there so the only way out of your problems it isn't to solve one problem it's to basically solve the root cause of the problem now in money the root cause of the problem is always always income you know you can say oh it's my debt I'm wasting too much money I'm spending too much and doing this and doing this it's never about that like that's like 5-10% it's 90-95% income are you putting in enough money you could solve every problem with income so let's say most of your debt problems are in the $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $10,000 range if you get your income to $20,000 a month you basically not only solved the problem in this instance you actually solve the problem in general because because now income you know debt problems in the range of one to ten thousand dollars are you no longer problems that they're just expenses so debt is created whenever you don't have enough income to take care of that expense so the answer is always not to try to hack away at the debt slowly of course unless it's massive massive debt but you know I'm not talking about super massive debts but I although even though in these situations it's also an opportunity to maybe a hundred X your income if you're up for it so you want to go to a higher level of focus basically so just to wrap up let's say you're fat you just had a heart attack or your doctor just told you dude you're gonna have a heart attack your goal again this is time sensitive you need to take care of it you need to have a goal that is not playing defense not coming from scarcity but coming from abundance meaning not I need to lose weight quickly or else I'll get a heart attack but aim 10 times higher than that like I want to be super fit let's say you have debts in the two thousand dollar range you don't set your goals like okay I need to close the two thousand quickly so how do I get two thousand dollars you want to ask how do I start making twenty thousand so that the goal that that problem is no longer a problem because again realize that life is cyclical life repeats itself and whatever problem you don't face at the root level just come back so always always always attack at the root problem and make sure you put your selective focus when setting goals at the next level where that problem no longer exists so I hope this has been informative as usual feel free to ask questions contact me and thanks for listening see you soon