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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

You’re Exactly Where You Need to Be | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Is your past pulling you away from greatness? On today’s episode of Mindset Monday, Jason Pantana guest stars and shares the negative impact that obsessing over your past can have on your present and future. Don’t let your past stop you from reaching your full potential. What ultimately matters is the attitude you have towards the place that you occupy today because you’re exactly where you need to be. So what are you doing to change your performance and life for the better? If you haven’t texted me yet with a question, then hit me up at 949-216-5466! Let’s talk about how you can move the needle to reach your breakthrough!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is there something in your past that is making you believe that the work you do today, that the life you lead today is somehow not enough, that you don't measure up, that it's not as significant or as big or as grand as it's somehow supposed to be? You had an MBA and so you're supposed to be doing more. You used to be so and so now it's not good enough. It's as if your past is somehow a disappointed father who looks down at you after your bad baseball game and they look at you at disapproval thinking you don't measure up.

0:28.0

You're not enough.

0:29.0

And so you live every day, you work every day with this belief that what you're doing is it good enough,

0:34.0

that you're supposed to be doing more, and then what happens with that?

0:38.0

Well, you start looking at your daily tasks, the deals you're working, whatever it is, and you add complexity complexity you add challenges that don't need to be there

0:44.9

trying to complicate things trying to make things bigger and grander than they really are why so you can

0:49.7

fool yourself and make yourself believe that the work is somehow more significant.

0:53.4

Oh, it's got to be bigger than it is because you don't believe that what you're doing is good enough.

0:57.4

It's an attitude and it's a damaging one. I'm not talking about ambition.

1:02.2

Ambition is saying I'm here talking about ambition. Ambition is saying I'm here love it want to get there. I've got a goal to get somewhere that I'm not here today. But I meet so many people agents in their business who they look at what they're doing and they think I'm just another one just a number I'm just not measuring up to who I'm supposed to be and it then influences the actions they take on a daily basis as they try and struggle to make what they're doing seem bigger than it really is.

1:25.7

I gotta tell you, right now today you are exactly where you're supposed to be in your business.

1:31.8

It may not be where you thought you be. It probably isn't where you thought

1:35.0

you'd be. It may not be your full potential and guess what? Once again, it probably is not your

1:40.8

full potential, but it is exactly where you're supposed to be. And the only

1:45.2

set of questions that matter are the ones that ask, what am I supposed to do today to move

1:49.4

the needle? What matters today? What's important today? How can I give it my important today? important today?

1:53.0

How can I give it my all today?

1:55.0

That has to be your attitude.

1:56.0

Not, I'm not doing enough, it's not good enough.

1:59.0

I'm more than this.

2:00.0

It's a question of, how can I serve this issue today. How can I advance the needle today?

2:06.0

That's what matters.

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