MILLIONAIRE SUCCESS HABITS
Let me ask you this: What’s cool about you? A crazy- sounding question? And perhaps a difficult one to answer? But don’t diminish the value of asking yourself this question regardless of the level at which you perceive your life to be. The first time I did this exercise I was with Sean Stephenson, a three-foot-tall giant. Look him up if you don’t know who he is. Sean is an incredible man who has accomplished more than most despite adversities most of us could never imagine. I was talking with Sean about an obstacle I was dealing with, and Sean said, “Let’s write down what’s cool about you.” I responded, “What? Dude, let’s talk tactics to fix the problem at hand, not try and feed my ego.” And boy, I was completely wrong there. Looking back now, I realize that he had noticed my confidence was down and was trying to boost it back up. So trust me. Let’s do this exercise together. So go ahead and start thinking of the things that are cool about you. One thing I know to be true is that when life gets stress- ful, we focus often on what we’ve failed at, or what we’ve not accomplished, or the mistakes we’ve made. We tend to forget all the things that we’ve done really well. So this is the time to ignore the failures and think of the wins. When Sean first asked what was cool about me, I was scratching my head. He called me out because of my reaction. He knew I was focusing on what was going wrong at that time, and it took me a moment to think of what was cool about me. Like the great teacher he was, he started probing, suggesting examples of coolness to get me started, and slowly my answers emerged. I wrote down things like: I put my kids first over work and accomplishments. I was in special education classes and barely graduated high school, yet I’m a multiple New York Times best-selling author. I can operate a bulldozer and a backhoe (I learned how when I used to build houses).
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