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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Try Playing the Long Game | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Do you want a quick fix to all your problems? Overnight results in your business? Immediate impact? Then look elsewhere, because sorry to break it to you, but that’s not reality. In today’s episode of Mindset Monday, I’m talking about identifying what’s most important to you and your business, and then moving each one of those things forward – just a little bit, every single day. That’s how true growth and prosperity is achieved. The only question now is this: Do you have the discipline required to make it happen?

Transcript

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0:00.0

So many people don't consider the long game.

0:03.3

They're looking for the quick fix, they're looking for the fast hit,

0:05.8

they're looking for get rich quick, thin thighs and 30 days or less

0:09.1

without diet and exercise.

0:10.9

And I'm telling you, you know it and I know it, it doesn't work. What works is imagining your life and a few key

0:19.6

pebbles, the things that matter most to you, your physicality, right, your mindset, your love life, your family, your relationships,

0:27.0

right, your business, your finances, your money, the things that ultimately matter to you.

0:31.0

And it's like, imagine that every single day what I want to do is climb

0:35.8

to the top of a huge mountain and just push each one of those pebbles off you

0:40.4

know what I mean like like sort of metaphorically as I drop that little pebble, I'm going to let it start to build up momentum.

0:47.0

Not like on a Tuesday, not like change my life on a Wednesday, not transform everything in 30 days or less, but instead push

0:56.2

the pebble, right? Every single day, a little bit better on my health and vitality.

1:00.4

A little bit better as a husband or a father or in my relationship with the people that I love the most.

1:05.0

A little bit better as a dad, right? A little bit better in business. A little bit better with my finances.

1:09.0

A little bit better with my spirituality. A little bit better with the people that matter most to me but a little

1:13.3

bit every single day playing the long game because you know what life isn't short life is

1:19.6

long right life is really long if you think about the average person living to be 85 or 90

1:25.7

365 days a year four times a year you get a bonus day of a leap year you start

1:29.9

thinking about it what most people are thinking is they say life is short, life is short,

1:33.4

I gotta hurry up. The challenges with that mindset, you know what you do? You make a lot of

1:37.2

rush decisions, you cut corners, you stop doing the things that matter, you stop paying attention

1:41.7

to the people that matter because you're

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