John Assaraf

Is it the grade school level, the kindergarten level, the high school level, the university level, the pro level?

Because each one of those levels requires a totally different mindset and totally different skill set.

They're building blocks on each other.

But if you are extremely talented, but you're not prepared to practice and rehearse and drill and fall and fail forward to the next attempt, you will never make it as a pro.

You will never make it as a pro business person.

You'll never make it as a pro husband or wife or athlete or musician.

You just never will.

So just get used to that if you're not prepared to pay the price.

If you are prepared to pay the price and you have the aptitude and the talent, now we're talking about there's some real potential here.

And what we don't know is, you know, what's in your heart?

Like, what is the fire that stirs you that you wake up saying, I will do this even when I don't feel like it.

I will do whatever it takes to overcome my temptation for mediocrity, my temptation for excuses, my temptation for reasons and circumstances to hold me back.

I won't allow those to be in my way.

And if you have that within you, you'll achieve whatever you choose.

And so the question you asked before is how do you develop that?

Start small.

So if you don't have discipline, show yourself that you can give yourself one command and one follow through.

So you know what?

Right now I'm going to get up and I'm going to do two pushups.

Right now, not like later, now.