283: Why "Burning Your Boats" is Terrible Advice with Tim Grahl

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Business, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

According to legend, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés issued a rather interesting order to his men as they began their conquest of the Aztec empire in 1519.

The order was simple: Burn the boats.

He wanted his men to realize that they had no opportunity to retreat, so they had to give this fight everything they had. Failure was no longer an option and winning this battle just became that much more important.

There is much debate about the legitimacy of this story, both in reference to the true intentions of Cortés and whether the actual burning took place at all.

However, regardless of the accuracy in this particular case, this phrase "Burn your boats" has become popular advice in the context of business and success.

In today's episode, my friend and best-selling author, Tim Grahl, and I discuss why burning your boats may be the wrong strategy and one you want to avoid, and then we share what we believe will be a much better approach for your to take your success to the next level and beyond.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share
0:13.8	actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview
0:17.8	world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals
0:21.9	themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek
0:24.2	behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go.
0:31.3	Hey, goal achievers, this is Hal, Elrod,
0:34.0	and you are about to hear a conversation
0:35.0	that I had yesterday with my friend Tim Graw,
0:38.0	and this conversation actually turned out to be really insightful.
0:42.0	And, uh, you know, the Achievous Girls Achieve Girls Podcast we really focus I focus on
0:45.0	bringing you stories and strategies that will enable you to achieve your goals bigger
0:49.7	goals better goals better goals more meaningful goals, faster.
0:53.0	And you're going to get that from today's episode.
0:54.8	But before I introduce Tim Mitchell here in a minute,
0:57.4	I wanted to mention that last week's podcast,
0:59.4	we talked about why human nature is arguably the number one factor at least a very prevalent
1:05.1	factor that holds us back from fulfilling our potential from creating the life
1:09.0	that we want and in that episode I teased that this week,
1:13.7	that the next episode would talk about
1:15.8	the other thing that holds us back, which is societal conditioning.
1:19.1	And so I ended up having this conversation
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