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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Work for Your Greatness | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

How many times are you willing to try? How many failures are you willing to endure? How much are you willing to sacrifice to reach greatness? On today’s episode of Mindset Monday, I share with you an inspiring story of Oscar Figueroa, a Colombian weightlifter and Olympic Champion that didn’t give up on winning the gold medal. I highly recommend you check out the video to get a sense of what it truly means to persevere.Greatness takes years of training to hone your skills. If you truly want to have greatness you need to work and visualize your success to obtain it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody tells me they want this. The question is, are you willing to put in the time? Are you willing to do the work?

0:05.0

Are you willing to sacrifice and make the phone calls, follow your schedule, build your business, do the infrastructure?

0:11.0

If you want greatness, you've got to do the work. Watch this short video.

0:16.5

If you're like me the first time I saw that I had goosebumps, instantly goosebumps thinking about the nights

0:26.1

and the days and the training that Oscar must have done,

0:29.0

first of all, to get the chance to take fifth place.

0:32.4

And then after not getting the goal like a goosebumps again he goes for another four years and he fails and doesn't even make it you saw the video and he keeps going he does it again all the

0:45.4

training for basically four years for five seconds to do that deadlift and he

0:51.8

finally gets silver and that wasn't enough he wanted greatness

0:55.6

what did he do he recommitted he trained he did whatever it took and he got the gold

1:02.3

too many people quit on themselves,

1:05.0

aren't willing to go through it, aren't willing to suffer,

1:08.0

aren't willing to persevere.

1:09.0

Greatness in your life, stop thinking short term,

1:12.0

start being like Auster and start looking at things a decade

1:15.9

of time.

1:16.9

When you do, you get greatness.

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