50 Breakthrough Success Drive Past Your Goals
b'This is a very special episode, it is episode number 50. It\\u2019s hard to imagine that there are 50 episodes already. Also, I really appreciate all the great, kind comments and reviews that I\\u2019ve seen in iTunes. I read every single one of them. If you haven\\u2019t done that, please do it. It helps a lot with the exposure of the podcast, and I appreciate it. Now for the episode. What we\\u2019re talking about today is Breakthrough Success. It actually came about as I was talking to a person who I\\u2019m using as a coach, an excellent person, and what she was doing was explaining to me as I was talking about what she saw in what I\\u2019m doing, both in the book Mechanics for Breakthrough Success, as well as in the podcast. That is, first of all, what is breakthrough? As she put it: \\u201cIt\\u2019s something that somebody themselves can\\u2019t even see for themselves.\\u201d That is, their goal is something beyond what they normally would look at and see. Maybe you would see for them or somebody else would see for them. I\\u2019ll explain in a little bit about that, because it has a lot to do with how we set our goals and how we really reach out to goals that may not even seem quite realistic; they\\u2019re almost dreams, etc., or things that we want and we\\u2019d like to see about ourselves and around us, but are outside what seem to be reasonable right at the moment. Let\\u2019s see how we go about doing that. First, let me repeat a story that I used a long time ago, and that is to the moon shot. When most people are talking about it, and John F. Kennedy as President said that he wanted to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. They didn\\u2019t know how they were going to do it. In essence, there were several things that had to be discovered, invented, or created before that original shot to the moon, that is before the rocket took off. Everybody else talks about how you\\u2019re making those adjustments or course corrections and how that is success. That\\u2019s not the significant part. The significant part was having to overcome or break through different things that they didn\\u2019t even know we could do. At the end of this episode, I\\u2019m going to announce something that I\\u2019m giving away to help you in not only setting those goals for yourself, but also get you along the way. First, one of my most disliked expressions that you hear all the time, and maybe it\\u2019s because it\\u2019s overused, is \\u201cto the next level.\\u201d, \\u201cGet to the next level.\\u201d, \\u201cWe\\u2019re going to get you to the next level.\\u201d, \\u201cYou\\u2019re going to get to the next level.\\u201d All of the times that I hear that, it implies some things that I don\\u2019t like. One of which is that you\\u2019re going to go to some place and stop, that is that\\u2019s where you are. Then you go maybe to someplace else and stop. It is a very, very interrupted path to take. One quick example was in weightlifting. When I was taught weightlifting by a champion, he explained to me as I would start to seem to be slowing down at a particular level, that is I\\u2019m putting more weight on, then all of a sudden two or three times in a row, I\\u2019m using the same weight. He would just say: \\u201cWait a minute. Slap on some extra weight.\\u201d It was actually easier with that extra weight. Why? Because in my mind, I had expectations of where I was and what I was able to do. Instead of driving through and continuing on progress, I had my vision of getting to start bench-pressing at 285 or 315, or something, whatever the number was, and when I hit that, I sort of adjusted my expectations to be where I was, rather than where I was going which is higher. Another situation is in direct marketing. This is interesting, and it was pointed out to me actually by the person who was on episode number two, Steve Thompson. He pointed out how an awful lot of people target to get to a particular position; they want to be promoted to a certain position. The reason they want to get there is because at that point they can make a lot more money. But they get to that new position, and immediately stop and don\\u2019t do anything. Which is kind of crazy,'