Speaker 1: 0:02

So your future contains an infinite range of possibilities, like, quite literally, anything can happen, right? I mean, actually, people spend a lot of time and energy organising their lives around schedules and repeated tasks and repeated activities to try and get a little bit of order, predictability, into their lives, but technically, anything can happen. Now, when you set an intention, a goal and you start to form plans for the attainment of what you're actually doing, is you're actually narrowing down that range of infinite possibilities into essentially yes or no, like it becomes binary you're either going to succeed or you're going to fail. Yeah, so like you go from all of the things that could happen down to essentially it's not 50-50 but let's, you know, let's keep the math really simple and pretend like it's 50-50, you actually increase your odds dramatically purely by stating the intention and clearly being able to define it. Like it's a really powerful concept and it's actually so important that it's the first step out of the gate, the conceiving of the logical plans and actually, to be fair, they don't even actually need to be all that logical, but they definitely need to be plans. It needs to be done and, yeah, it's the first step towards attainment, so please make sure you do it.

Speaker 1: 1:50

Biggest barriers in the early stages is actually getting stuck in the thinking stage, and, and the amount of people who I've met who have had fantastic ideas and passion and drive, but the energy gets wasted and diluted because they can never quite get out of the figuring out stage, out of the figuring out stage. Now, listen, your plans don't even have to be workable. I promise you like that's, it's a natural fact right at this stage, your plans don't even have to be workable. Yeah, and because and part of the reason for that is because you're starting on a journey, like, depending on your goal, yeah, fingers crossed, you've gone for something big. Yeah, you've gone for something meaty? I hope so. Yeah, like, don't put any pressure on yourself right now to know all the paths of the journey, all the twists, all the turns, all the detours, like you, because, as far as we know, nobody can predict the future. There's no human brain out there, as far as we know, that is that capable of figuring out every single step. There will be things that you will have missed as you're on the journey, as you start and go forward, you're going to be gaining experience, going to be gaining knowledge. You're going to learn what doesn't work, what does work. All these things, when you're actually on the path, are much, much more helpful to you in terms of studying your course and changing direction and deciding in the moment, in the future, in the future present, what to do.

Speaker 1: 3:51

Right now it's more of a rough sketch, you know. It's a rough outline of your way forward. Okay, and it only needs to be workable in so much as your current understanding and your current knowledge. So we know that you couldn't just take off and fly right. It's ridiculous. So you wouldn't include that in your plan. So it still needs to be logical, but only to the extent of your current understanding. Forgive yourself already for the mistakes that are going to be in this plan. Yeah, you're not going to be able to get it right a hundred percent. Yeah, it's a rough plan, but just. But it's important that you still do this, even though you know it's going to change and you. It doesn't need to really even be necessarily logical, or rather based in reality, only to the extent of your knowledge it does. Yeah, hope that makes sense.

Speaker 1: 5:01

Putting yourself in a winning position can be as simple as sitting yourself down in front of your computer or at your laptop and just staring at a blank screen. I can distinctly remember a time when I was going to the start of my property business, one of, and I'd done all my planning and I'd written all my scripts and all the sort of things which I'll be honest with you like almost immediately went out the window, but at the time I thought were really important and had to. You know they were important. Again, it's conceive, believe, achieve. Yes, that conception stage was important. However, I wasn't taking action. I knew I could do it, I knew I could go and speak to landlords and do all that sort of stuff, but I just wasn't taking action. Instead, I was sat down watching a bit of Netflix here, a bit of PlayStation there, not really doing the right lot.

Speaker 1: 6:08

So, in order to put myself in a winning position and beat procrastination, I made the commitment to myself that each day I would sit in front of my computer for one hour and in that hour I would either do nothing or I would do something productive towards my goals. And that was it. So I, every single day, and literally at the start, like the first, I think, even maybe the first two times I can can remember I just I went upstairs to my home office, sat down, turned on the computer and I think the first time I think I maybe in a whole hour, I maybe organised some calendar things, just like, maybe kind of ungrouped some tabs and closed some. You know like. It was really like I did nothing really productive, but I made sure I didn't game and I made sure that once the hour was up, I went back downstairs and I carried on watching netflix, yeah, and the next day I went up, I sat myself down, turned on the computer and I just wasn't moving until the hour was up and the only tasks that I would permit myself to do were productive. So you know, I'm not a social media person anyway, but nothing that's, you know, game or kind of information related research, yeah, sure thing, definitely research around my goals, but it had to be productive anyway. Two days in and I'm absolutely smashing through tasks. Yeah, sometimes all you got to do is just put yourself in the right position, um, for long enough, and just set, set your own boundaries, set your own rules.

Speaker 1: 8:03

Okay, this is going to take some sacrifice. Okay, especially when we're talking about beating procrastination. Yeah, this is a war. Okay, it's a war and it's a fight to the death. Procrastination wants to kill your dreams and will not stop, will not let you go until your dream is dead. Who is going to win? Yeah, who's going to win? You or procrastination? Okay, but listen, it gets its power from you.

Speaker 1: 8:43

The fear demon, yeah, that little voice that's telling you that you can't do it, or that you're too tired, or that you'd rather just, you know, relax, or you'll start tomorrow. That whisper in your voice. It isn't you. It only wants what is worst for you. It wants your dream to die and it will not stop until your dream is dead. It's a war, but it gets its power from you.

Speaker 1: 9:13

So put yourself in a winning position. Set yourself some boundaries. You know, let's use a laptop. Uh, example again yeah, so you, every single day, you set aside one hour, you open that laptop and you set a. You set the rules in terms of what you're allowed to look at, turn off your notifications. There's no social media. There's no gaming. There's no checking the news. There's no checking, um, you know, like articles or anything like that. No scrolling, doom scrolling or anything like that. There's no memes allowed. It's either work or it's nothing.

Speaker 1: 9:57

Trust me, you'll get to work, so getting as many benefits to other people into my goals, dreams and aspirations seems to be the trick for me. It allows me to sidestep any feelings of unworthiness or that. You know, am I even deserving of this? And I think part of it is. I think, starting off so poor is you? You know like? I distinctly remember how I would feel towards people with money, right. So those, I guess, gremlins, those like pre-programmed feelings, they don't just leave overnight, okay. So for me and again you may be different, but just in terms of me the way that I deal with those is I get as many other benefits and silly benefits to other people as possible, and I don't stop thinking about more.

Speaker 1: 10:53

So let's take an example. So let's take my property businesses. So well, who benefits from that? Well, if I'm working with a landlord or a property owner, so they've bought a property that they're using as an investment property, I'm definitely helping them because they're getting a return on the investment. All right, okay, cool, that's at least one person, okay. But by them getting a return on the investment, they can have a better life and that might spread to their immediate family. All right, okay. Well, I don't really know how many people that's helping, but it's probably gonna be more than one.

Speaker 1: 11:32

What about the guests that book turn up and stay in the locations? Well, I'm helping them because I'm giving them. You know they're essentially getting what they paid for, right? Okay, so it's a nice, simple transaction, okay, fantastic. The cleaners, yeah, okay. So I'm helping the cleaner, I'm putting food on their table by giving them a job. When something goes wrong, I need to maybe call a handyman or a plumber or electrician or you know some kind of uh trade, skilled tradesman. Okay, well, I'm definitely helping them because I'm also paying them. I pay council tax, I pay gas and electric, what else. You know, I keep on going, yeah, I keep on going.

Speaker 1: 12:14

And suddenly it gets to the stage and I could go on like software and all sorts. It gets to the stage where it actually stops being a case of hey, do I deserve this or not, and actually becomes a case of, wow, if I don't do this, how many people are going to suffer? Literally, it stops being a case of whether I'm worthy or not and starts being a case of, like, all these people depend upon me, like I need to get to work, like I can't, I can't let these people down and you know again, you might be different, but for me that's really really powerful. Yeah, because that way, like I can actually sacrifice, like my life could be serviced, like I can, I can. You know there's almost a part of me that potentially is um, a big sort of, I guess, like the martyr, you know, like I don't kind of shout about it or obviously I guess in this voice that I am um, but for the last 10 years, um, you know, I haven't. But I take that on myself and and I, and I enjoy, I enjoy that, I enjoy the pressure, I enjoy putting myself into the breach, I enjoy being the person who can sort things out and connect people and give people jobs and make sure that everything is working smoothly. As soon as I've got a problem, yeah, bring it to me.

Speaker 1: 13:48

For me, and that kind of self-deprecating, um, feeling of maybe not being worthy, it, it almost ticks that box, but it's ticking that box in a positive way.

Speaker 1: 13:55

Yeah, I hope, I hope you understand, because obviously by helping the landlord who owns the property and the guest to book it, and the cleaner who goes and cleans it afterwards, and the furniture store you know, the charity store I bought this from and by helping all those people I've essentially helped myself, yeah.

Speaker 1: 14:16

And then when it does come time to receiving those rewards, I can receive them graciously, I can bow my head, I can give thanks, I can stay humble and I can know that I've worked for it. You know, it's not all about hard work, you know, as I'm sure you know, but for me, as I said, putting as many other people into the sort of, I guess, the value stack as possible and almost sort of like hacking it, you know, sidestepping that self-doubt, sidestepping that feeling of not being worthy. Because when you stack it suddenly, and if you write down, you know, and certainly if you're a sort of person who maybe needs to see things written down, write it down, because once you find this you've got, you know, 30 plus names on one, or 30 plus roles of people on one side and a little old you on the other there's no doubt that you deserve success and everything coming to you.