You Cruise, You Lose
Today, I want to talk about “You Cruise, You Lose.” What I mean by that is that, if you just say to yourself, “You know, I’m doing pretty good, I don’t really need to work on anything more” – you’re cruising. But if you’re cruising, you’re losing. If you’re not building your empire, you are taking it down. Complacency is the equivalent of taking down your empire. You start getting comfortable and you miss opportunities because you stop giving yourself the permission to push yourself.
I just came back from San Diego last week and I am now a certified high-performance coach. I’m so proud of myself because I’m one of only 500 people in the entire world who have this active designation. It is a prestigious designation because it’s all based on science. I have been coaching for 11 years and I could have said to myself, “I’m good, I’ve got a good program, I don’t need to improve myself.” But I live by the mantra “if you cruise, you lose”. If I cruised, my competitors would inevitably push themselves and get way more education then me and leave me in the dust.
No one likes to feel left behind. You want to be out there, you want to be top of your game, you want to be the go-to person that people look to in order to say, “Hey, if I need to know something or if I’m trying to model someone, I want to model that guy, or I want to model that girl.” Nobody wants to be like, “I want to be known as the person that everyone looks like, the sack of potatoes in the room.”
If you want to push yourself you have to decide what is it you really want out of life. There are two things that go into achieving an outcome. The first one is, you have to really want it. The desire has to be there, however, you have to be equally okay with the struggles it’s going to take for you to actually achieve that particular outcome. That’s why cruisers are losers, because they are not willing to endure the struggle. Sure, they want the outcome, “Yeah, I want to make seven figures, I want to be able to work from wherever, I want to work on a beach, I want to be happy all my life.” Yet, as soon as they hit that first struggle, that first failure, they fall apart.
Instead of trying again in a new way, people who crumble at the first sign of struggle define themselves as people who were never meant to do what they had initially dreamed of. They usually end up going back to playing it safe, whatever that looked like. Anyone that plays it safe and doesn’t push themselves too hard, is going to be someone who gets left behind. One of the things I want to point out if you don’t want to be one of those people and you’re looking for an opportunity to push yourself, is my Life on Fire program. Pushing yourself means doing something different from what you’re doing every day, and I encourage you to at least pick one thing that you can do each day that’s going to push you beyond where you are today. And sometimes that’s making one call, sometimes it’s sending an email, sometimes it’s shooting a video like this, something that maybe doesn’t make you feel that comfortable, but everybody needs to do it.
Have you noticed that whenever you push yourself you feel resistance? That resistance can come out as anxiety, it can come out as frustration, but it’s also a sign that you’re growing. When I started working out two months ago because I wanted what is considered a bikini body, after the first week I had to take the elevator at the gym because my legs wouldn’t work. I tried to tell my husband, “I can’t go, I can’t even get up from my chair, how the hell am I going to go work out?” He reminded me that if I quit now and wait to heal, I’ll feel that same pain when I start up again. So I powered through, and I’ve experienced some amazing health changes. I sleep better and I’ve lost six inches around most of my body. For all the ladies reading this, you know how it is when you get into your 40s, where you don’t necessarily get a big beer gut, you just kind of get thick. Well I went right back down again, because I work out really hard, and I eat really clean, and these are the things I do to keep myself set, these are the things I have done to challenge myself because I’m in my mid-40s, and I want to live to my mid-90s, and if I get complacent, I would lose my health. I’d cruise right into something scary.
If you want to challenge yourself with my Life on Fire program, I’d love for you to try it. If you are worried about the initial investment, I want to tell you that every two weeks for the year of 2019 I will be offering an opportunity on my email list related to my program. Sometimes the opportunity will be a promotion, sometimes it will be an event, you never know! But join my mailing list and you will find out.
I really want you all to succeed in business and in life. Remember to always push yourself, because if you cruise, you lose, okay? If you have any questions, you know where to find me, PM me or post a comment below.