All right, guys. What's up? This is Stefan, from ProjectLifeMastery.com, and I've
got an awesome video blog for you guys today,
answering a very important question that I received from someone on Snapchat.
Before I get into it, let me ask you guys a question. Let me ask you guys this.
Have you ever invested in a course, or a product, or a training program, or maybe
invested in a mentor or a coach?
Maybe you invested in a seminar that you attended, or some sort of business
opportunity, where you invested your time, your money, your focus, your energy, and
you decided you're going to give it a shot. You're excited by the
opportunity. You believe that this program, or product,
or opportunity, this seminar, it could help you achieve the goal that you're after,
the lifestyle that you want, of making money online, and earning passive income.
You invested in it, but unfortunately, you didn't get the result that you wanted.
You came up short in some way, and things didn't work out the way that you
expected, the way that you initially expected when you invested in it, because
you had such high hopes.
Whenever you invest in something, that's when you have the
belief and the vision of what you're after,
and you didn't get a return on your investment. You didn't get a return on
your time, your money. You didn't make any money.
You kind of feel like a failure, and you feel like you failed yourself, you
feel like the product failed you, you feel like the person you invested in
failed you in some way.
Then, you jump from opportunity to opportunity, product to product, looking
for the secret sauce.
Looking for the answer of what's finally going to make the difference for you to
break through and have the success that you're after.
Well, I just got a great question here from someone on Snapchat, by the name of
Jeffrey. Jeffrey sent me a Snap
describing that scenario. By the way, if you guys aren't following me yet on
Snapchat, I highly recommend that you do. My user name is StefanJames1. I'll have
a link in the description of this video. I think I put up my best content on
Snapchat.
You guys know I ...
Behind the scenes look at my life, a lot of great advice. I answer questions.
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Jeffrey sent me a Snap, a video Snap, and he said, "Stefan, I've
invested in all these different products and trainings, but none of them work.
I've got myself in debt, now. I don't have the result that I'm after." First
of all, I've got massive respect for anybody that's willing to invest in
themself, that's willing to bet on themself. That's what I've done my whole life.
I've invested over $100,000 now in courses, and products, and
trainings, and mentors, and seminars that I've attended. That's helped me get
to where I am today. There's been many ups and downs. I'm going to get into that
in a little bit. First, I've got massive respect, and I really admire you
for investing in yourself. My answer for you in this video, or anybody that's
watching this that can relate, my answer is coming from my heart. I hate to
offend you in some way. That's not my intent.
I'm going to tell you the truth in this video, out of just love, because I
want you to have the result that you're after. I want you to break through and
have that success in your life. I want that for everybody.
that's why I do what I do. You can't do something for four-plus years
of your life, every single day here on YouTube, and on a blog, if you don't
sincerely care. I'm going to call you out a little bit in this video, and tell
you the truth, because that's what it takes to really break through.
It's getting rid of the story, the excuses, the blame that you have, because
that's directing responsibility on other people, and not taking responsibility for
yourself and your own actions.
Now, the truth is, Jeffrey, all of these training programs, these products, these
opportunities, these businesses, they all work, my friend.
They all work, because there's people out there that are getting results. There's
people out there that are breaking through and having massive success by
investing in this product, or this
training, or this business opportunity, going to different seminars. You see the
testimonials, you see the success stories of these people that are changing their
lives. They work. They get results. What I'm going to call you out on is
that it's not the training, the products, all that sort of stuff, but it's
you. You are the one consistent thing that you're taking with you from
product to product, to opportunity to opportunity. It's not the products
that aren't working. It's you that's not working, my friend.
There's something within yourself, your mindset, your psychology, your habits, your
belief system, that's preventing you from getting the results that you're after, in
this course, product, training program, seminar, coach, mentor, or business
opportunity. It's not until you can look at yourself and have that awareness
and identify where you're coming up short,
what's that limiting factor, and work on yourself to overcome it, that you'll finally
break through and get the result that you're after.
One of my favorite sayings, I believe I share this all the time, is
that 80% of success in any area of your life is your psychology,
whereas only 20% are the mechanics, the how-to, the course, the
program, the strategy.
80%, man. It's right here. Your psychology. You can invest in a
course, or a product, or a training, but you're not guaranteed results.
You've got to put in the work. You've got to put in the time. You've got to be
disciplined.
You've got to have belief, you've got to have faith. You've got to be willing
to invest in your business. You're going to have to be willing to sacrifice
something in some way, and give up your evenings and weekends, and put in the
hours, and fail, and learn from those failures, those mistakes, so that you can get
more results in the future.
It's up to you to keep learning and evolving and improving yourself, and
learning from the trials and tribulations along the way.
Having patience, focusing on the process. These are all
the psychology. That's all right here. Working smart. Your mindset, right here, is
going to determine your success with anything.
Every diet works.
The reason why there are so many diets that are out there is because it's
the diet that doesn't work, it's the people's mentality. Their psychology.
They're just looking for the shortcut. They're looking for the
magic bullet, that by investing in the diet, or doing this, they're just all
of a sudden going to get the result that they want, instead of understanding that
you've got to pick something and commit to it, and take massive action, and be
consistent, and be disciplined, and really focus on it over the long term to
get results. Any diet, any course, any product, you will fail. You will fail. Show
me one person out there that's successful that hasn't failed.
Thomas Edison, man, failed over 1,000 times.
Here's the real secret. Here's what you're missing, where you're coming up
short,
is that you believe that by investing in this training or this seminar, that the
investment equals a result. It doesn't work that way. You invest
in yourself the knowledge that you're gaining from that. You've got to
understand that the knowledge, the skills that you're acquiring through going
through the training or the seminar, the mentor, that the real value of that is
not today or tomorrow or next month or next year.
The real value of that, of that training, that product, and course, is years from now.
Five, ten years from now, to help you achieve the result that you want.
For me, in my life, I failed for years.
When I first got into building online businesses, and learning about Internet
marketing,
I had the dream, the desire. I read the book "The 4-Hour Work Week".
I was excited for the possibilities that existed out there.
I wanted to become a millionaire. I wanted to be able to travel the world,
to live a certain lifestyle. I invested in myself. I invested in the
courses, the training. I learned as much as I could,
and I still struggled for years. It took me three years before I made any money
online. $1. I got in debt. I was living in my friend's living room, on his
little futon couch, in Kitsilano, not far from here. I've actually got a view
right now,
here on the 40th floor, I can see the area that I used to live, because I'm
high up above now, having achieved success in my life
years later. You see, those years of failure and struggle did not go wasted.
It wasn't failure in any way, because everything that I learned from these
courses, these products, these mentors, these experiences that I had, have helped me
get to where I am today. Everything is an asset.
Everything is bringing you one step closer, and preparing you for the
millions of dollars that you're going to eventually earn in your life.
The ideal lifestyle that you're going to have one day. Everything is just
preparing you for that.
As long as you keep learning, and learning from your mistakes and
experiences, and you commit yourself to mastery, and you put in your 10,000 hours,
you will eventually break through and have success that you want in your life.
It's not going to come overnight,
man. It's like, you can't just invest in something, and, like, "Oh, it didn't work.
I'm going to go onto the next thing." Every month, every few months, you're just
moving from product to product, because you can't go deep in something.
You've got to go deep, man. You've got to focus. Some people, they achieve results
fast. I get that.
We all hate those people, because it seems like they just get amazing results
overnight somehow. It never works out that way. It's never how it
really appears, because sometimes you see someone, they get success like, wow,
seemingly overnight, but you're not seeing the work that they put in.
You're not seeing the failures they had before, the different business opportunities,
the different courses, and programs, and products, that they went through before
that moment to finally break through and get the results. For me, now, if I
invest in a training program,
I'm going to get results much faster than I ever did before, because of the
knowledge, the skills that I've already
acquired going into the training. Going into the business, going into the
opportunity. I've been doing this for nine years of my life.
Starting businesses, and trying different things. I've been through
that failure period, so I finally get it,
and my psychology now is what's allowed me to achieve success in multiple
businesses.
I had to go through a process to get there, and you do too.
If success was that easy, then everybody would be successful.
Success is only reserved for people that are truly committed to doing whatever it
takes.
You'll always get rewarded in life for your commitment, and doing whatever it
takes.
You always get rewarded for hard work, you always get rewarded for adding value.
For improving and investing in yourself. It might not be initially, but you
eventually will. Everybody is different. Some people, they
achieve success right away. Other people, it takes longer. In the same way
some people in high school, they go to math class, and they
don't even have to study or do homework, and they get 100% on the
test.
How do you explain that? Some people, they're just gifted in that way. Other
people, it takes longer.
For me, I was never good academically in school. I always needed
extra help. It didn't matter how much I studied, how much homework that I did,
it was always a struggle for me.
I just didn't get it, man. I had tutors and stuff like that in math, and I
still didn't get it, but I kept at it. I barely
scraped by. I barely passed. It's been the same thing with me in business,
because it never came naturally to me in any way, but the one thing that I had
that was consistent all along, was I was committed.
I was willing to execute. I was willing to learn. I was willing to invest in myself. I
refused to give up. I worked harder on myself than I did on my job, or my
business. I learned that from Jim Rohn. You've always got to work harder on
yourself than you do on your job, or your business, and that if you change,
everything will change for you.
The psychology. Jeffrey, the training that you're going through, the courses,
the products, they're not wasted. You're not wasting your time, man. You're
not wasting your money.
You've got to keep learning. You've got to understand the value, the benefit,
is going to be years from now. I can't tell you how many times I'm dabbling around and
learning about Wordpress and these different things,
spending hours. Going to these marketing programs and
stuff like that. I got no results right away, but now, today, in my business,
five years later, it's helping me earn over a million dollars a year. I look back
at those moments. I look back at the failure. Those are the biggest growth
spurts that I had, because you're always going to learn more from failure than
you ever will from success.
That's where the real value is. Now, another area where you might be coming
up short
is you're not focusing. You're not going all in.
You've got to pick a business, go all in with it, man. You're building a business.
This is not a little trick or gimmick, you're building something of real value
here that's going to be long term and sustainable, and stand the test of time
five or ten years from now. That doesn't come easily.
Businesses require investment and time upfront.
That's what success requires. It requires sacrifice. You're sacrificing today, for
tomorrow's betterment. For your future.
This is not like a job. A job, it's like, you get paid by the hour. You
put in an hour, you get $20. You put in two hours, five hours, 40 hours in a
week, whatever, you get a certain return guaranteed from that.
This is not building a job. Job mentality doesn't work in business. Business, you
only get paid based on results, and when you start a business, you've got to invest
in that business to get it going, and you're not going to see the
results right away.
It's kind of like planting a tree. You plant a seed in the soil,
you come back tomorrow, and you're like, "Okay, where's the tree?" It doesn't work that
way. Every day, you've got to water,
you've got to water that seed. You've got to nourish it.
just through that consistency, you don't see any results on the surface, but
what's happening is underground,
there's roots that are growing. As long as you keep at it, eventually
the seed starts to sprout. Then, over a period of time, you build this massive
tree.
This massive plant that's there. It eventually grows fruit. The fruit are
the results that you're after. Again, it doesn't happen overnight.
It happens just through consistency, and working at it, but, again, you're
expecting results instantly, or too fast, and it doesn't work that way.
Whenever you tell me, "Okay, the training products don't work,"
it's not that, my friend. It's you. You've got to commit to it.
You've got to overcome the barriers that are holding you back. You've got to take
more action. You've got to be consistent. You've got to keep learning. Eventually, you
will break through and have success.
I promise you that. As long as you're committed, you will achieve success.
You can't be a dabbler. Dabblers are the people that do exactly as I
described. They just jump from product to product, opportunity to opportunity, and
they don't have the right mentality to be successful long-term. Don't be that
guy.
Focus, commit yourself, make sacrifices. Sacrifice today for a better
tomorrow, a better future.
You look at university, college. You go to college, you're investing your time,
your money, with the future result, the vision that one day you're going to
get your degree. Then that degree, those years that you put into your
education and developing yourself, that will eventually lead to a certain job,
or a business, or whatever it is. That's how it works.
You've got to put in the time, to keep learning and gaining the skills, and then
eventually it all comes together for you. You break through to that next level. You
achieve massive success and results. Jeffrey, my man,
hopefully this question, this answer helped you. Answered your question in some way.
Anyone else that's watching this, hopefully this was able to help
and serve you in some way as well. I want to thank you so much for watching this
video. Again, I recommend, I talk a lot about the mindset.
The mindset's the most important thing in results and success. Hopefully,
I was able to get through to you.
Hopefully, you don't give up, you keep going, keep at it. I promise you, man,
it's worth it. When you break through, you get the results in your life, your life
is going to change for the better. It's going to translate to every other
aspect of your life. Keep the dream alive, keep moving forward.
Thank you for watching this video. Leave a comment below, and I'll see you in the
next video. Take care.
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