How Craig Ballantyne Became the World’s Most Disciplined Man - 002

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Bedros Keuilian

Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A farm boy. A party animal. A twenty-something with severe anxiety issues. And then...the world’s most disciplined man? Looking at the earlier stages of Craig's Ballantyne’s life, most people would never guess he’d become the highly disciplined and successful entrepreneur he is today. In this episode, discover how Craig Ballantyne turned his greatest weaknesses into his greatest strengths.

Here’s what you’ll discover:

1:18 - What Craig Ballantyne learned from his parents that he still applies to this day.

3:37 - The most painful words Craig Ballantyne ever heard as a young man—and the lesson he took away from them.

6:31 - The inspiring quote Craig Ballantyne heard later which changed his life—both personally and in business.

8:29 - The number 1 issue that stops people from making bold career moves, and how you can avoid falling into this trap.

9:50 - The first thing you must do to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and unlock your absolute fullest potential.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Baderos Koolian here with another Empire podcast. Have you ever wondered how some people have a burning
0:14.0	desire and a massive reason why for the things they do and the businesses they build? Well today
0:19.2	we're talking to my friend Craig Ballantyne who is the most disciplined man on the planet and today
0:24.8	we're going to dive deep into his life and find out his why. Craig welcome.
0:28.4	Thank you sir. Yes. All right so we're going to kind of take this a little different
0:32.4	because many people watching this
0:33.8	podcast probably already know you as the person behind Early to Rise, Herbalance training, and of course
0:41.5	a prolific speaker on discipline and structure.
0:44.0	But let's talk about the Craig who lived on a farm.
0:49.0	Let's start there.
0:50.0	How old were you when you lived on a farm?
0:52.0	I want you to take us to one particular day and how it looked like.
0:55.0	Okay, so I grew up on the farm, you know, it's still in the family today and so you know back 40 years ago growing, poor, you know, I didn't know any better, but we didn't have a lot of money.
1:06.3	My mom worked a very low paying job as well.
1:08.8	But what I learned from my parents was that they had this incredible work ethic. And they worked very hard and they passed that on to me and very resilient very resourceful and what they showed me was listen you got to go out and get it done and what they also want to teach me is that my mom
1:23.3	didn't want me to make the same mistakes as she did which was that she
1:26.0	quit high school so they were always looking out for my future so I think the
1:29.7	combination of work hard plan for the future is what really was ingrained in me.
1:34.0	Even was like a four-year-old kid kind of wandering around the farm by myself
1:38.0	because we couldn't afford child care so they just left me at home all day.
1:42.0	So with that said I'm picturing a giant farm, tractors, right?
1:47.0	And you've been very open about sharing how you've suffered
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