Should You be Delusional or a Realist? | Episode 278
Real Business Owners
Trevor Cowley
5 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Real Business Owners Podcast, Trevor Cowley cuts through the BS and serves up some hard truths about success and what it really takes to win in business. Are you being realistic, or are you living in a delusion? Trevor dives into the importance of setting honest expectations, the dangers of chasing immediate gratification, and how frustration and resentment can destroy your business.
Hyper Realism vs. Delusion: Why seeing things as they are is crucial to success.
The Power of Consistency: Hard work, discipline, and staying the course over time are the real keys to growth.
Pain is Part of the Process: How expecting challenges can help you overcome frustration.
Stop Seeking Instant Gratification: Why trading today's pleasure for future success will make or break you.
The Truth About Hopelessness: How setting the wrong expectations can lead to resentment, frustration, and failure.
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| 0:00.0 | Real business and real business. |
| 0:01.9 | Whatever your situation is currently is not your forever situation. |
| 0:05.7 | That's really what real business owners is, man. |
| 0:07.7 | Like, we don't care where you come from. |
| 0:09.7 | Where are you going? |
| 0:11.1 | Our goal and our job is to reduce the mistakes that you have to make or the money that you have to lose. |
| 0:16.6 | You want to be an entrepreneur. |
| 0:17.8 | You want to be successful. |
| 0:18.8 | Don't give up. |
| 0:19.6 | You learn, adjust, and continue to move forward. |
| 0:23.1 | Welcome back to another episode of real business owners with myself, Trevor Cowley. |
| 0:27.3 | Hope you guys are having an amazing week. |
| 0:29.9 | This week's episode is something that I believe everybody will have the ability to benefit from. |
| 0:38.0 | You know, whether it's family, friends, loved ones, business partners, employees, |
| 0:42.3 | it doesn't matter who it is. |
| 0:44.2 | This episode is going to be universal to the species that is a human being. |
| 0:49.7 | And so I was listening to something the other day and it was talking about Ray Dahlia, which is a, you know, a billionaire, you know, famous businessman investor, super successful guy. You know, he's wrote some books that are highly successful as well. And I downloaded this app that tells you about, you know, various different books in, you know, 15 or 20 minutes kind of goes |
| 1:12.3 | through these principles. I think it's called headway if I'm thinking, right? But anyways, on my |
| 1:18.1 | runs, it's a way for me to kind of get different ideas, get my brain going without being stuck in |
| 1:24.0 | one mode or one book or, you know, one way of thinking for, you know, a week or whatever it is, |
| 1:30.1 | however long that book is going to take to finish, right? And so I like to go through things a |
| 1:35.3 | little bit quicker and digest as much as I possibly can. And Ray Dalio called himself a hyper-realist. |
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