 Lately, I've been struggling with something pretty big. It's one of those things where it's big enough that if I overcome it or change the way I look at it, it's going to dramatically improve my life. But if I don't, it's one of those things that's going to set me on the trajectory where I take two steps forward and two steps back. It's one of those things that starts as a belief, and it's really just a half-truth. And the half-truth is that I believe I have to work hard to be successful. What's up guys? Alex Hine, author of the book Master of the Day, chances are you want to be more successful. You're working hard on figuring out how to set your own goals. Well, I've included my own personal goal-setting system. It's a free worksheet I've put together. It's in the description box right there below. It's the very first link. Get the free goal-setting worksheet. So go grab that. You'll also be added to my email list for my personal development and weight loss crash course. So let's talk about this belief that I have, that I believe, and I still on some level believe that I have to work hard to be successful. I wanted to share with you, because it's something I talk about a lot here, how beliefs end up ultimately shaping your reality. And I want this to be practical, not some hippie crap, all right? The reality is that I always believe that you have to work hard to be successful, right? Like no one can do your push-ups for you in the gym. No one can cook your meals for you to be healthy. No one will run your company for you unless you have the money to hire people to run your company for you. Like you have to work to succeed. And yet the problem was that I believe that you have to work hard to be successful. And that created a very specific reality in my life, where first of all, I sought out opportunities that involved hard work, rather than it being way too hard and that was like a red flag, like there's too much friction here. There's either a misalignment with my interests or my strengths or what the market wants. I view that as okay. It's tough. So what? That's how you build a company. That's how you build a life. That's how you get fit. That's how you have an amazing relationship. That was the belief. Now the belief also did something else interesting because when I wasn't working, I felt guilty because I hadn't reached my goals yet. Because again, the belief was you have to work a lot and you have to work hard to be successful. So of course, when I wasn't working, I wasn't making progress in my head. And on top of that, the weirdest thing was that when things were too easy, when I was getting results easy, I almost viewed it as a bad thing, like how messed up do you have to be to be reaching your goals easily and effortlessly and then think it's bad. That shows how messed up your philosophy and your mindset are. Now really culminating in last year was the apex where I was starting to reach that point of burnout. I started having a lot of other health symptoms related to stress. I had to challenge that belief. And what I realized is that number two, hard work is actually not really strongly correlated with success. Like when you think about it, Beyonce does one show, she probably gets over a million dollars, right? Well, I don't make a million dollars in one year. So it's not at all related to hard work or even time. There's something much bigger going on. When you think about the hardest working people, they're probably actually Indians in the third world picking up garbage to somehow recycle that and get however many rupees they need to survive. Like someone in the third world who has to work 14 hours a day getting water, getting food, they're working hard and they do not have any material abundance or maybe even other forms of abundance. And then you think about the absolute richest people in the world. They're not working 24 hours a day. In fact, they're probably not even working as many hours as I am right now. So what was it that they're doing allowing them to reach that that I'm not doing? These became my new kind of questions to change my belief structures. And the last piece of evidence for me with this new belief structure is that I took a month off this summer when I went to Italy for a wedding in Portugal with my family and my parents. And I had the highest month I've ever had in my business when I wasn't working. So then it was like, I was not working. I did the least effort and had the max return. So there was clearly very little correlation between how much I did and financially the amount of abundance that I had. So part three here now is I want to share what I'm doing to change that because I know you probably want to change some aspects of your life. The first thing is that I know that my financial life, whereas it's good, I really want it to be 3x, 5x, 100x what it is now. I want to be able to help my parents retire, help my siblings graduate with no medical school debt. To do that, I need to live differently. So the first thing is that it always starts with beliefs, right? The domain of my life I'm getting the worst results in, by my opinion, is my finances. And even though they're good or great compared to other people, I want it to be exceptional. So it starts with my beliefs. My first belief was that I have to work a lot, time, and I have to work hard effort to get the results I want. So now I've changed those beliefs that hard work is uncorrelated with success. So what should I focus on as the intersection between doing work and being smart? Where's the leverage point? That's my first question. The second thing is regarding time, because I told myself I needed to have a certain number of hours to work in my business. So what did that end up doing? It made me inflexible and I felt guilty going out on the weekends. I felt guilty taking one day off, like I still work on average six hours a day each Saturday and each Sunday. So it became my hours worked are not correlated with my financial success. So not only are my hours not correlated, my efforts not even correlated. There are other factors. And then I created new beliefs, like for example, that I'm effortlessly supported, or that my business is filled with synchronicity. And if I ever feel like things aren't going well, I will be provided with the next step that I need to do to 10x my business. So I started adopting these new beliefs and I started writing them on paper. I started going through the process of visualization and affirmation, where I would read these things, I would see them as if they'd already occurred, and I'd generate the feeling. So for me, the big difference is that when you want the feeling of I feel in control and supported by the universe or God or whoever, it means that I saw myself in the morning. I'm going through my business. I'm working on the projects that excite me. But also, I don't feel any stress or anxiety because I'm not worried about it failing. I'm not worried about competitors kicking my ass. I'm not worried about not having enough time to keep growing it. Because the belief structure was that I'm effortlessly supported, that my business explodes through synchronicity and I meet all the right people at all the right time. And so it kind of pulls you back off the gas pedal a little bit. So basically, how I view it is this three-part process, right? You look at your old beliefs, how they resulted in you creating the current life you have. Pick the domain of your life that's working the least. Relationships, health, finances, there will always be beliefs behind them. Otherwise, they'd be working great. From there, you deconstruct that and find the new beliefs that you want. And the way you show yourself that it's true is you find evidence of other people doing what you want. People who are not spending two hours a day in the gym and look like they have model bodies. People who have had effortless and fun relationships from day one. It's never full of drama. And so on and so forth. And then you turn those into your morning and your evening, not only affirmations but really just things you consider in your life. You tell yourself there's another reality that exists that other people have. I can have it. I just need to understand that this is a fact. These are my lines of evidence in that new life. So I hope that helps you guys. That is basically my process for reinventing a certain aspect of your life not going well. Don't forget I've included that worksheet, including all the visualizations, the habits, all that good stuff. 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