So the big question is this, how do young men like us who didn't listen to society,
who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live a better tomorrow?
So that is the question and this show gave you the answers.
This is James Raitzinski and this is the Ascend Momentum Show.
Welcome back everybody.
Today is a good day. Yesterday I failed my task of not reading until I got ten leads.
I failed and I read and I read all day today and I plan on reading after this also.
I'm not sure if it's holding me back that I read. I'm not sure because on the one hand I'm learning how to move forward way more efficiently and better,
but on the other hand I'm not moving forward at all. So it's kind of a this or that.
I want to talk about something that I learned.
Something that I kind of knew but I didn't really put it to words until I read this in the E-Meth Revisited.
In that book he said that you have to push your comfort zone. You have to push outside of your comfort zone to grow for business and your false beliefs.
Don't listen to your false beliefs and be aware of your false beliefs.
Stay conscious of them and notice them when they pop up.
That really stuck out to me because I have a lot of false beliefs and I a lot of the time let it control my life.
Another thing that Michael E. Gerber said in his book, The E-Meth Revisited, is to live life on purpose, not by accident.
Live life intentionally. Don't let life live you. If you really sit down and think about that, that is a seriously important quote.
To live life on purpose.
I kind of connected the two of my false beliefs and living life on purpose. In order to live life on purpose, you have to recognize your false beliefs and come up with a plan of action to go around them or disregard them.
Or at least rewrite their story to the truth.
That's really what marketing is. You're rewriting your customers' false beliefs and rewriting it with the truth. Whether it's their inner capabilities, their outer constraints, or the vehicle, the offer that you're offering.
The thing that you are offering, your product, your service, whatever that is.
But today's lesson is to live life on purpose. In order to do that, you have to stay present and stay aware. Stay awake.
That is one thing that I've been working on. It connects with everything in life, in self-improvement, everything. Staying awake, staying present.
I'm really focusing on staying present for the entire day. Every day I'm getting more and more present. Longer and longer.
That's why I'm going to reread reality-transurfing. I'm not really sure if it's been a couple months since I read it, but I'm not really sure if it talks about staying present.
But 100% is a book on your thinking, on how you think. If you can stay conscious about how you think, and think on purpose, think intentionally. That is a huge skill to have.
It's not a trait because you have to practice it, you have to work on it. That's why I'm really focusing on my mindset, my mental, my thought process, my thinking patterns.
Everything to do with inside of my head. I'm focusing on that because if you can stay focused, stay present, all of this, then you can achieve anything in business, in self-improvement, in life.
That's why cutting out social media, staying off the phone, limiting screen time is just so important and so vital.
Tick-tock, social media, all of this stuff that we're consuming every day, fragments our focus, and it turns us into zombies. It makes us stay asleep.
And we're trying to stay awake, but if we're on our phones all day, we're asleep all day, we're not living life on purpose.
We are... Sorry, someone just walked by. I really have to find a more private area to do this.
Maybe the park. That would be good. I switched to my backyard.
Honestly, I'm really self-conscious about self-improvement and talking about it with other people. That's why I just kind of stopped talking just now. That's why I'm talking quietly right now because I've become self-conscious.
But why? Why am I self-conscious? That's one thing I... That's another benefit to being present and being awake. It's because I'm awake and I've noticed that I just got self-conscious because someone walked by.
So now I get to think about why and really deconstruct why I'm self-conscious about self-improvement. Why am I ashamed? I don't know the answers yet, but I'll come up. I'll find the answers out.
So that is an example of real-life, real-time example that you guys just got to experience. I was doing my thing talking to you guys.
And then somebody just walked by and I immediately stopped and was scared and ashamed. But usually that would have happened and then I would have just gone on with my day and let life live me and live life accidentally.
But since I'm present and I'm aware and I get to live life on purpose, I realized what was happening and how that was not a great... And I'm now aware of my feelings.
Alright everyone, have a great day. That's going to be the end of the episode because I'm on edge and I need to think about it more. Think about what just happened.
Okay, everyone have a great day.