Here is today’s Game and what’s going on.
Here is what I discovered today in our Dadly Daily Declaration reading from The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne.
The title of today’s reading is “The 3rd Pillar: Social Support, or How to Harness the Power of Other People.” Let’s jump in with a few highlights first:
- The positive power of other people must be harnessed in your drive to having your best days ever.
- For personal and professional goals, this means recruiting a social support network filled with friends and family, employees, business partners, personal assistants, and mentors (both virtual—through books, videos, and online programs—and in-person coaches). Regardless of who is on your list, positive people are a necessity and a reality. Seek them out. Do not stop until you find them. You must recruit staunch allies to support your daily battles, to help you win the war for your mornings, and to heal and recover from your battles.
- Surround yourself with people who inspire you, who make you better, who you respect, and who you look up to. You’ll be better for it.
- There really are great people out there who want to help you. But many of them are hiding. They hold back their positivity and their goals and dreams because they too have had those dreams crushed by others. Better to keep their desires secret than be ridiculed by friends, family, and co-workers, they think.
- How does one escape this? It starts with small steps, making little bets, and doing minor tests. You must proceed cautiously at first. You leak out a small amount of your dreams to someone. You watch their response. If it is supportive, you share a little more. If they laugh at you, tell you it will never happen, or list all of the ways that you’re going to fail, then you simply reverse course and strike that person off your list of people that you should be spending time with. You don’t have to ban them from your life forever, but be prepared to interact with them on only a superficial level. They are not worthy of your goals, dreams, and aspirations. They are a crab. They’ll never leave the bucket, and you won’t either if you let them influence your life.
- If your friends, family, and co-workers want you to be lazy, fat, unhappy, unproductive, and average, it must stop. You have no other option but to cut back on the time you spend with these people. The time has come for you to stand up for yourself and do what is right for you in the long run. You only have one shot at leaving a legacy for your life. How you use your time and who you spend your time with are the most important decisions you’ll make in life. Choose wisely.
- Ask the big question: What do you really want to achieve in life? Then think, are the people I’m spending time with helping me achieve this?
- “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best,” Epictetus said. Become the person you need to be to achieve what you want to achieve.
- It might seem difficult, but it is essential that you remove negative, stressful, and poisonous attitudes from your life. Cut the cord quickly. Search out more positive people and experiences. Start with books or videos from your local library. Begin to change with the help of virtual mentors. Then build your network.
- Go online and find new friends through forums and meet-up groups. Begin attending live events in your chosen industry, occupation, or hobby, so that you spend time with people who have the same interest in achievement as you.
- The top level of social support in business is found in a Mastermind group. These consist of positive, like-minded, goal-oriented people just like you, and these are led via mentors who have had great success in the past and now want to coach you on your journey. Finding the right social support for your goals is one of the most important steps you can take on the path to success.
Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice—NOW. Stop the excuses and procrastination. This is your life! From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do—now.
