1: “Can you meet me at my house?”
The voice on the phone was Dan Martell‘s brother, Pierre, Dan shares in his book Buy Back Your Time.
“Sure. What’s going on?” Dan said.
“Well . . . it’s better if we talk in person,” Pierre said.
Pierre was in his twenties. Six months earlier, he had started a home-building business.
He was a self-described “jack of all trades,” and had jumped … continue reading
1: The year was 2008. Dr. Benjamin Hardy had barely graduated from high school. He hadn’t taken his grades seriously and let his friends dictate the direction of his life.
Then, he made a decision that would change his life. He decided to commit to serving a two-year church mission.
Doing so allowed him to confront “the trauma and pain of my past,” Ben recounts in 10x Is Easier Than … continue reading
1: The year was 1990. Jim Carrey was a struggling young comic.
Sitting in his car high up in the Hollywood Hills overlooking the lights of Los Angeles, he took out his checkbook and wrote himself a check for $10 million. He dated it five years in the future: November 1995. In the notation, he wrote, “For acting services rendered.”
Five years later, just before Thanksgiving of 1995, he … continue reading
1: A large passenger jet left New Zealand for a sightseeing flight to Antarctica. 257 people were on board. The year was 1979.
“Unknown to the pilots, however, someone had modified the flight coordinates by a mere two degrees,” recounts famed German pilot Dieter Utchdorf in Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in 10x Is Easier Than 2x.
“This error placed the aircraft 28 miles to the east of … continue reading
1: Steve Jobs once observed: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. . . Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.”
This week, we’ve been exploring strategies to go 10x. Rather than 2x. Which is our default mode. Do what we’re doing. … continue reading
“Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming. It’s easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It’s easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.” -Tim Ferriss
1: The year was 2002. Chad Willardson was one of 100 trainees who started the financial advisor training at Merrill Lynch in Southern California. He was 24 years old.
The success metric was clear: Achieve $15 million under management within 18 months or be fired.
“It was a brutal and intense growth curve,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More … continue reading
