How we help you ignite the fire within

There are two phrases that I don’t actually let my kids use, and I haven’t since they were small. And I stress it for myself and for my clients too. The two phrases are, “I can’t”, and, “I quit”.

We easily complicate our lives in crazy ways by taking on more than we can handle. When everything starts to bubble over, it’s natural to feel that you can’t help but quit, because you literally can’t do anymore. I want you to reprogram your life to create simple systems, simple sales funnels, simple marketing systems. This way, you’ll never have to say, “I can’t”, or, “I quit”. It just won’t be something that ever comes your way because you’ll be able to manage absolutely everything.

We had a group call with one of my courses, and the main thing I got out of that call was how overwhelmed some of the individuals were and how they were struggling. When I look at my children, they seem to be suffering with the same things. If you look at the stress and the anxiety that our youth are experiencing today, it’s at astronomical levels. I’ve begun to notice that other generations are making fun of how stressed out our kids are. And I wish that, instead of teasing kids for trigger warnings and their fragility, we ask, “why is that happening?”

I think this insane pressure that kids are suffering comes from their fear of failure. If they are not in the top 1% they see in class, online, wherever, they feel they’ll never amount to anything. A strong binary of either the best of the best or nothing at all. And when you start to feel bad, when you start consistently saying to yourself, “I can’t”, and “I quit”, you create this terrible internal disaster zone that sabotages any true efforts you were trying to make to either break out of it, or find a better way through life.

If I could offer just one little piece of advice to anyone reading this, it is to eradicate forever the phrases, “I can’t”, and “I quit”.

Just because you failed in something, doesn’t mean you failed as a person. It just meant that whatever you were working on didn’t work. So try again. That’s not quitting. It usually means the goal is that much more worth it to you. It should be worth more to you because you’re okay with putting in the hard work when things don’t go right.

Whether it’s getting a promotion or starting your own business, it’s not necessarily going to be easy. Your ability to complete it is not only predicated on how badly you want it, which I’ve said again and again, but also how resilient you are, or how willing you are, to work through the rough patches.

If you’re starting your own business, entrepreneurship is not an easy road. Getting a promotion means that you have more responsibility. Maybe you have more travel, things aren’t going to be easy, but, if it is part of your path, then it’s absolutely worth it.

I hope you have found this helpful. Get rid of “I can’t,” and the “I quit,” but do not confuse them with, “That didn’t work”. That’s just testing. And you just need to keep on going and try something a little bit different. Go and be successful. Be the “I can”, and, the “I’ll stick with it”.