86Thousand400: Tom Bilyeu

Tom Bilyeu - Executing on your dreams

1. Get VERY specific about what your dream is

2. Believe that you can figure it out. This is the key. You’ve got to believe that you can learn it. The only winning strategy to overcoming fear is to learn and improve

3. Ignore the overwhelm and break things down into steps. Ignore the enormity of what you’re trying to do and just focus on the much smaller piece in front of you right now

4. Tell everyone what you’re doing. Big dreams excite people and some people will offer help, so put it out there constantly and who knows what will happen next...

5. Seize every opportunity. Say yes. Figure it out later. Believe in your ability to learn and figure it out. It’s OK to be scared. It’s very much not OK to back down out of fear

6. Go All Out Every Day to generate momentum. You’ve got to create momentum. When that friend offers to help you get something started, don’t let it slide to tomorrow if it can be done today. Say yes to their kind offer and then push that terrifying ball forward as if your life depended on getting it done immediately. Yes, you have a ton to figure out, but your job is to figure it out RIGHT NOW. Not tomorrow. Today. Get after it. Go balls to the wall everyday until it’s done. You’ve got this, because as a human, you are an adaptation machine. Now go adapt and do something extraordinary. You owe it to YOURSELF

Tom Bilyeu - Does this scare you?

• Stress is what creates growth

• As you step into the future that you’re not sure you can figure out, trust that you can figure it out

• With that loop in your head you’re always going to make it through. It may suck for a while but it’s not guna kill me and I’m guna get on either side of this

• And because I know everything teaches me something about myself, it’s way better to do the hard things than to stay in my comfort zone

• I don’t learn anything when I’m in my comfort zone and neither will you

Tom Bilyeu - How to become extraordinary

• Sometimes a great attitude and an awesome belief system just aren’t enough

• If you want to build an exceptional team that’s capable of the extraordinary, you have to hold people to a standard

• Hold yourself to ridiculously high standards and try to become one of the greats

1. What do you want to be the best in the world at? +PT (Form) +Golf +Chiro link - You’ve got to know exactly what you want to be great at. Using big and intimidating questions will force you to clarify your thinking. You’ll find out really quickly whether you’re pursing the right thing or not. To become THE BEST in the world is going to require TOTAL commitment and an insane effort. If the thought of putting that level of effort into something makes you queasy, you’re chasing the wrong dream

2. Identify who is currently the best +TimFerris +RobinSharma +JoeWicks - This is the person or entity that you have to beat. Knowing who I’m gunning for allows me to deconstruct their success and identify their weaknesses. The key to this process is filling your heart with love and respect for what they’ve done. Be inspired!

3. Identify the Skillset Gap. Figure out what skills have allowed them to achieve greatness. Map the skills out individually, then compare that to the skills you already have. The gap between the two is the skillset gap. Your job is to cross this chasm

4. Seek the truth above all else. You need to know where you actually are. Ask others for aggressively candid feedback. Until you know the truth of what you’re good and bad at you won’t be able to make efficient use of your time in the skill acquisition department. Experiment and assess. You need to be REALLY good at being able to tell whether you’re ACTUALLY moving toward your goals or not. This is sooooo important

5. Relentlessly acquire skills. Read. Pick a topic and get at least 3 opinions. Eg Nutrition - Tim Noakes, Dom D’Agostino, Peter Attia. Follow thought leaders on social media - ask questions

*Begin to form your thoughts on the subject. Take notes. Write down your insights. Review

*Talk to people about burgeoning theories. Teaching what you learn will help solidify it in your mind

Practice anything that can be practised. Over and over again

Learn to fail well. Failure will provide you with the most valuable lessons. Failure is part of the process. Think of yourself as an experimenter who is seeking truth above all else. Reflect, learn, improve, try again. (Adopt - Adapt - Improve). If you do all of that it ill only be a matter of time and consistency before you succeed and get so good you can’t be ignored. And once you’re there, everything else in your life gets better. Of this I assure you!