I know it's an overused adage but it's true, in our life we are really either growing or
we're dying, it's part of nature, it's part of the human
experience. Your body has thirty seven trillion cells,
think about that. Thirty seven trillion cells in your body.
In fact, you have eight hundred and ten thousand cells every second
that are replacing themselves in your body, just get your head around that for a second.
Eight hundred and ten thousand cells every second are being replaced.
So just while you've been listening to this, several million cells in your body have been
replaced, meaning something is dying and a new replacement
is happening in your body. You're growing and changing all the time,
even though we don't feel it physically in our body
we are growing constantly replacing ourselves on a regular basis.
My belief is that that same thing should be happening
in all the other areas of our life, not just on a cellular level,
but on every level in our life. Just think about that, what's going on without
you thinking about it, without you being conscious about it,
you are constantly replacing yourself physically all the time.
And so the only way we get to that ultimate version of ourselves
is by replacing ourselves and growing all the time.
This has to become an addiction for you, it has to become an emergency.
For too many of us, we'd like to grow. We'll look into it,
“yeah, you're right about that, I should get around to it”, it's true”.
And every time you don't make it an emergency, it's not a crisis,
you're not in a hurry, it's almost like if I don't do this, I will die,
you never get there. And the truth is, whether you know it or not,
you are either growing or you are dying, and it may not feel like it all the time but
these processes happen, and so you are dying if you're not growing.
And so how do we grow? What are some of the decisions we could make?
Let me ask yourself a question, if I went to the gym and I never put myself
in any uncomfortable situations in that gym, in other words it never got uncomfortable
lifting the weights, would I be growing?
No. So evaluate this for a second,
how many uncomfortable situations are you putting yourself in right now?
I mean, evaluate the last week of your life, I'll even let you look back at the last month.
How many really uncomfortable situations are you putting yourself in
that challenged you, that grew you, that pushed you
to get to that next level of being who you are?
Are you under the illusion and I love you as a friend,
but I think sometimes you're under the illusion that you're going to get these external things
you want without growing who you are.
You could not be further from the truth, in fact, if you were to acquire those things
without growing who you are, we understand the power of identity, you will
eventually lose those things because they're not congruent with who you
are as a person. So evaluate, number one,
the last week, the last month of your life, how many uncomfortable situations are you
putting yourself in to intentionally grow,
putting yourself in spaces you're not completely prepared for?
Number two, what are you listening to? What are you reading?
Thank God you're with me here today, this is growing you.
Are you regularly listening to my podcasts? Are you listening to my other audio trainings?
Are you listening to the interviews I do on YouTube?
Are you following on social media? Have you picked out a couple of great books
like my, “Max Out Your Life” book?
Are you feeding yourself the sustenance, the nutrition you need to grow?
See in the gym it's not just about lifting the weights,
there's the other side of it, there's breaking down the muscle and then
there's feeding it with the right nutrition, the right supplements,
what is your nutrition and what are your supplements? These are the books you're reading,
these are the things you're listening to on a regular basis
that feed you, that help grow you. That's the second thing.
The third thing is, who are you hanging around? I know you hear about this all the time,
but there is such a power to association, there's an incredible power to who you’re
around. You know, you have to have a few friends
who make you want to clean up the house before they come over.
That makes any sense to you? See I love having those friends where the
house can be a mess, we could be laying around and eating cheetos
all day long, those friends are fun,
but, you got to have a few like, “hey, let's pick up before they come over,
let's make it look right”. You have friends whom you want to level up
for, friends whom you want to begin to perform
at the level they believe in you. Do you have those kinds of associations?
Who are you adding to your group of associations that are friends of yours but simultaneously
you want to live up to either who they are or who they believe you are.
This causes us to begin to grow. So you really do need to have somebody in
your life who just makes you a little bit uncomfortable.
The next thing is this, you must be intentional and specific about
the type of growth you want. We talk all the time about having goals,
but I'm talking about being specific and intentional. You show me somebody who goes to the gym and
works out to get more fit and healthier
compared to somebody who's going to the gym to hit
a specific weight loss goal, a specific body fat percentage,
wants a specific number on the bench with a specific amount of reps,
those two people will be light years apart in terms of the growth of their body,
one intentional and specific, one general and vague.
What are your intentional specific benchmarks you have
with dates to achieve them? There must be a date, a deadline otherwise,
it's a wish. What is the intentional specific outcome and
the deadline that will be accomplished for?
This puts your brain into hyperactive growth mode,
it puts you into intentional mode, specificity is the key to growth.
And by the way, so is simplicity. You must execute, and your plan
the more simple it is, the more easy it is for you to execute.
Having an intentional, specific and simple growth plan
leads to the biggest gains in your life. The next piece is you need to create momentum.
And this is the final thing that I want to talk about in life.
Momentum is the x factor nobody talks about in growth and in winning
that I'm going to address last today. You have to create momentum.
Momentum is what I call an invisible force that takes something good and makes it great,
takes something great and makes it extraordinary, take something extraordinary and makes it
a max out level. Momentum is the x factor, it's the magnifier,
it's true in life as well. You must begin to generate life momentum.
The way we generate life momentum is with small wins
and we'll begin to stack up, i t's like a fire, you've got to get that
fire started, you get that fire started once it starts,
once it sparks, you have to feed it. If I let the fire down, I've got to keep falling
kindling on, I’ve got to keep throwing wood on the fire,
throwing gasoline on the fire. I see too many people that get the fire going
they think it's going to rage the rest of their lives
and they forget to keep fueling the flame, they forget to keep putting wood on the fire,
gasoline on the fire to keep that momentum going.
And so in your life, you get momentum by small wins.
You're always trying to accomplish these all big old things
and hunt these elephants, get some dad gum rabbits,
hunt some rabbits, get some small wins, small wins, be get big wins.
You start getting a little momentum, you start getting that first five pounds of
weight loss at the gym, you get those first two or three accounts
you didn't think you're going to get or new hires in your business,
you start getting that momentum and saving your first thousand dollars,
your first five thousand dollars, the truth of the matter is
going from a million dollars in savings to ten million dollars is very difficult,
but it's nowhere near as hard as going from zero to one hundred grand.
That first hundred grand, that first thousand, that first two thousand, that first ten thousand
in savings is tough man, but once you get some momentum in your life,
you've all experienced it at some point you got some life momentum, you got some momentum
in a particular area you’re like, “wow, I'm saying all the
right things, stuff is just falling my way". There's a rhythm to life when you succeed,
there's a rhythm to success. And when someone has momentum,
they dance to the music and not the words. See you take someone like Steve Jobs or Mark
Cuban or Kris Jenner or any successful entrepreneur you know, the
mega successful ones, they got momentum and they sustained it over
decades of time. I know a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of people
in fitness, a lot of people in their money space,
they've got a little momentum for a while then they stop doing the things that generated
the momentum, they stopped growing and started dying with
momentum and eventually that dying will kill the momentum.
But if you get the combination of momentum and addiction to growth
where you're fueling that momentum, the flame gets bigger and bigger and bigger,
this is the key to getting to that ultimate version of you,
the combination of growth with momentum and again,
momentum is generated by small wins. You've got to do small wins in a short window
of time, an extra account, an extra phone call, an
extra meeting, you start to get some juice going,
you know exactly what I'm talking about and you get that addiction to growth.
See, here's the mistake people make, they generate a little bit momentum, but they're
not addicted to the growth, they fall in love with the momentum and the
flame fuels out. Or they love getting growth,
but they don't understand the calibration of momentum as it's magnifier.
But the combination in life, in business, in sports, in fitness, in money,
in relationships, in faith, in every area, the ultimate killer app
is growth with momentum. I want to challenge you to be addicted to
growth, putting yourself in uncomfortable situations,
reading and feeding yourself the right nutrients, have the power of your association,
and then creating momentum with lots of small wins initially
and making that a never ending process, because here's the truth,
that lung tissue of yours is a never ending process of regenerating,
those new blood cells, red blood cells happen every day,
it's a never ending process, isn't it? Your digestive track, your skeleton is regenerating
itself, your cells all the time as a never ending
process with momentum. And that's true with growth too,
growth is not a one year commitment, a one month commitment,
the three day commitment, it's a lifetime commitment to growth
and a lifetime understanding of the secret invisible force of momentum.