The Real Meaning Behind Massive Action
A week ago I did a webinar with hundreds of people on it. I was sick as a dog.
Literally, it was all I could do to get out of bed to do the webinar. I gave it
my best shot and somehow pulled it off.
The next day I went to the doctor. While I was there I told her I was also having heart pains, so she ordered a cholesterol test. I got the results back Tuesday, and it was 256. And I’m a freaking 26 year old vegetarian!
Coincidentally, three days prior I was reading an ad by one of the greatest copywriters of all time, Gary Bencivenga. In it he talked about how a landmark study showed that if you had cholesterol levels below 150, you were virtually heart-attack proof.
So that’s my goal – by the next checkup (2 months from now) I WILL have my cholesterol down to that level.
Now here’s what’s instructive: when I want something, I do EVERYTHING in my willpower to achieve it. That’s the real secret behind my success.
I’m a living, breathing example of massive action. So here’s what I did in this case to achieve my goal.
First, I went back to my vegan diet, meaning I cut ALL animal products out of my diet, not just meat.
Second, I researched and found the foods that were considered the best for lowering cholesterol. A lot of sites said that oat bran, almonds, walnuts, blueberries, blackberries and flaxseed are all excellent.
So now for breakfast, here’s what I eat: organic oat bran cereal with ground flaxseed, mixed with almond slices, crushed walnuts, blueberries and blackberries in vanilla soy milk.
And for dinner I eat the other major cholesterol reducers such as legumes, garlic, foods fortified with omega 3’s and plant sterols/stanols, and black soybeans, etc.
In addition, I make sure to get 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
We’re just starting… For a while my exercise routine fell to the wayside as I found myself working day and night. Not anymore. The first thing I do in the morning when I wake up is exercise for 30 minutes.
And finally, I do a heavy dosage of NLP and hypnosis on myself as well, because the mental mind controls the physical body tons more than most people realize – so I literally visualize my arteries in peak condition and my vital organs working perfectly and so forth.
When I want something, damn it, I don’t do one or two things to try to get it. I do everything in my willpower TO get it.
When I talk to most of my coaching clients, they will want something specific in their business. Like traffic, for example. I ask them what they are currently doing to generate traffic. They usually list one or two things. And on expectation, those things are executed very poorly.
If I wanted traffic, I’d create a “traffic schedule”, where first thing in the morning that is what I’d go through. The traffic schedule would take roughly 3-4 hours to execute and would be 3-4 different traffic strategies that I would use and I would max out every different way to use them. That way, even if 90% of them didn’t work, then I wouldn’t care, because the other 10% would be good enough to start with.
ANY improvement is better than no improvement.
When I wanted to write articles consistently in 7 minutes, I approached it with the same tenacity. Ads in 3 hours? Same tenacity. Products in 48 hours or less? Same tenacity.
You need to condition yourself to approach whatever you want in Internet Marketing with the same tenacity.
You know why most people don’t succeed? It’s not because of lack of information. It’s not lack of opportunity. It’s not lack of skill. It’s not lack of time.
They just don’t want it bad enough. How bad do you want it?
I remember when I first got bit by the Internet Marketing bug. I was painting houses for $12 an hour and living with my dad in a tiny apartment.
When I got exposed to Internet Marketing, here’s what I did. I’d wake up
two hours before work to devote time just to Internet Marketing. Then after painting houses all day, I’d come home and work until bedtime.
Repeat the process…
That was less than 21 months ago! And now look where I’m at. And I know
you can do the same, if you want it bad enough.
So today is the day where you sit down and write down what you want
more badly than anything and when you will get it. Then don’t just do
one, two, three or four things to “try” to get it, but do everything
in your willpower TO get it.
Then after you get it, send me a thank you card in the mail for being
the person who kicked you in the butt to get you started down the right
path.
Thoughts?