The Three-D’s For Maintaining Momentum

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Welcome back to success with Srini. Today is December 31 of the year 2022. Today is the last day of this year. And we are just exactly at the time of this recording less than 24 hours away from the year 2023 from the New Year. And today, I’m going to also continue this discussion that I started on the 26th of December, wherein I said, I’m going to be coming here every day and sharing a strategy with you, that is going to empower you to maximize your chances of success in 2023, whatever goals whatever things you have got going in this new year. And today happens to be the last insight as I wrap up this concept. And also today is a goal that I’m personally accomplishing, which is 365 days of this podcast, I made a commitment to myself at public commitment to do this podcast on a daily basis for 365 days for the entire year 2022. It’s a significant year for me. And this is a significant thing for me. And as I’m wrapping up this daily podcast, I do not know if I’ll be here tomorrow doing this podcast again, maybe I will. But as I’m wrapping this up, I want to thank you for your support for staying with me and subscribing to the podcast listening asking questions, I have so many questions that I could not get to this year. But first, let’s get into the core message that I have on today’s podcast. And then we’ll come back and talk a little bit more about this goal and about this podcast and all that. So the core message is, please maintain momentum.

See, as you’re pursuing your goals in 2023, and you probably have already done that here in 40. This year, what he’s wanting to do, which is you set some goals and along the way, you had some resistance, you had some setbacks, and you drop your momentum, and you had trouble getting back into it into, you know, probably took some time to get back into it, which you some cannot get back and they just give up. So maintaining momentum is the key to success, I’m going to share with you three things that I have learned. And I learned this very early in my life. But then ever since getting into entrepreneurship, and starting businesses and working with people allowed me to kind of refine this. And interestingly, there are only three things that will help you to maintain your momentum, whatever you have got going doesn’t matter independently and will apply to anything. First and foremost you’ve got to do something on a daily basis, something. So let’s say your goal is to lose weight in the next 90 days, then do something on a daily basis workout or diet or sleep or something has to be done.

Now, the second step to this is just don’t do something, do it. Because there is a small goal associated with it. For example, let’s say you are ACE a musician, you play guitars, let’s say you play guitar. Just don’t pick up the guitar because you have to do something, pick up a guitar and try a chord progression, play the chord progression and do it for maybe 1020 or 30 minutes till the end. Kind of a small micro-micro goal, but it does add up. And then once you’re done with that, the next step, the third step two, is documented. So write down that you did this chord progression for this much amount of time on this day. Simple, very simple. So if I have to sum this up, there are only three steps. First is done second is done. And third is a document. So three days to maintain your momentum. Let’s say you have 10 goals. You want to accomplish each goal every day, do something, and make sure that something whatever you’re doing is getting to a done state. Like you schedule some time and get in and you make sure that that amount of time is fully given to that and whatever you’re doing, you complete it. Just don’t play one chord, play the entire chord progression. Make sure that you feel good while doing it and you allocate time and get to L logical link for that, that is called done, and then document it and celebrate it. You document you write down what I did. Now, this podcast let’s come back to this podcast the commitment I made to myself at the beginning of this year I made myself a public, in fact, everyone, to all my radio listeners and all people on my email list that I’m going to do a podcast on a daily basis for one full long year. And, every day, I’ll tell you the number of challenges we had and the number of issues we had. But I continued sometimes I pre-recorded a few episodes here and there sometimes I was helped with some questions here and there from people and listeners called in and, you know, subscribers called in with their questions and texted me with questions. I mean, but I never looked at, you know, filling the time with some guests. I did this podcast with as much honesty as possible. With as much sincerity as possible. I’m not the greatest of the greatest speakers not, I was not accused of any incredible skills in podcasting, none. I just started kept doing it. And I’ll tell you, I did this on a daily basis. There was never a single day I did not podcast, never I recorded a podcast. It’s not that I published it on the same day, but I continue to record podcasts on a daily basis. Maybe when, when I was traveling when I was not in a position to record, I missed those dates. But overall, I might have missed five or six days of recording. But I pre-recorded I published those podcasts, I never missed publishing. For a single day, I made sure that I record a podcast, I made sure that I get it done. And there are so many instances where the microphone failed, the hard drive got full.

Sometimes I recorded. I remember one incident where I recorded an entire podcast thinking that it was recording but I did not press the record button. I was in my car I recorded podcast episodes I pulled I was waiting in the parking lot for my children to come back I recorded on my iPhone I recorded podcast episodes. I mean, it’s crazy the things that I’ve gone through. But there is something at the end of each podcast I documented. Every podcast episode has been documented. Every podcast episode has a date to it has a title to it has a description to it has an entire transcript, like every podcast has been transcribed, and the text has been put on my website. It’s crazy what has happened. All good things, all good things. Never did it cross my mind, I’m going to monetize this podcast, I’m going to run some ads, I’m going to make money never did. I’m not saying that that is not an option. That option was always there. But my mind never went there. Now, let me ask you a question. If I take all the fluff out of this podcast, there is some intro there is some outro. All that right, every recording has it. If I just go to the content, I take the content. And I transcribed the content. I beautifully align it on a page. And I’m telling you I can print 365 pages at a bare minimum with some good real content, real good stuff. And I can make it available. It’s a book. People asked me how you write a book, this is how you write a book, you write one page a day, for as many pages as many days as possible. And then you, of course, I need to edit this, I need to, you know all that, but my core idea is in place. So a good book has come out of this podcast and lasts 365 days. And there are many other good things as come up. You allowed me to come into your years you allowed me to come into your house, you allowed me to come into your car into your work. And you know, it’s possible that I may not meet you, we never met but somehow I know that I feel I have a relationship with you. And I know that you have a relationship with me. So all the good things and these are still things that you can’t measure these things. These are blessings from somewhere. I don’t know what it is. So that’s how I look at this. So thank you for staying with me. Thank you for being a part of this journey.

Thank you for coming this long this far. And I don’t know whether I can say I’ll be back here tomorrow. With Anna before you know it. I say that all the time here. I can’t I don’t think I can say that. Because I don’t know if I’ll be here tomorrow, because I don’t have I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow. I’m here today. I’m recording this tonight. It’s going to be an incredible night. So let me take the honor of wishing you a very very happy new year, a prosperous new year. And I want you to, you know, get to all the goals that you have for yourself. I don’t know what this new year has, for you and for me, but in my vicious, all I want you to have is everything that you ever desired, and everything that you ever deserve. That’s how I think about you. I want you to get all your wishes fulfilled, and more happening for you, not only for yourself, but also for your loved ones, and everybody whom you love and whom you care for. I want good things to happen for you in the year 2023. And I wish you all the best. I wish you an incredible year ahead. Some amazing things happening for you ahead. And above all, you know all I want you to undo your past. In the next 365 days, undoing everything that did not go right for you didn’t happen for you, as you expected. For you to happen, all that completely wiped out in the next year. That’s how deep I feel for you. That’s how I wish for you.

Wherever you are, be safe. Enjoy this day to date as we’ll come back and step into the year 2023 in an empowering manner. And if our paths are supposed to cross in the new year, they will cross if not my journey was only this much with you up till this point. I don’t expect anything from this point on. I’m wrapping up this podcast in my mind. I don’t know tomorrow morning, I’ll wake up and how I’ll feel about myself. I’ll come back I’ll record something I don’t know. But I’m wrapping this up today, as a goal is a commitment I made to myself and to you that this is it and that this podcast is going to end as a daily podcast. At least that’s how I’m wrapping that up. But I don’t know what’s gonna happen tomorrow. I don’t know. We’ll see. That’s all for now. You take care of yourself. And I’ll talk to you when I talk to you. Thank you. Bye now.

Why Model Excellence?

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Welcome back happy Friday morning to you on the podcast. Today I’m going to continue my main line of thinking, my main line of thought, which is, which I started on the 26th of December. And I said, I’m going to be coming here every day I’m sharing, I’ll be sharing one strategy with you, that’s going to empower you and put you in a position of higher success. Come first of January. That was my goal. And today is again, I’ll be sharing something with you that I think I know for sure. Not thinking I know for sure is going to get you closer to all the success that you want to create for yourself in 2023. So let’s get into this. Today we are talking about modeling excellence. Who doesn’t want to model excellence? I think everybody does. The idea. The idea is that somebody, someone ahead of us has done something that we can model we can follow, we will improvise them, or we will improve, improvise that in our own way. But we have a reference, we have something that acts like a guiding journey to wherever we want to go.
So somebody has already paid the price. Why shouldn’t we model them? Of course, who paid the price who did it. But we do not know that is the pursuit. And that is why I meet people who tell me I haven’t yet found my master haven’t yet found my teacher haven’t yet found somebody who I can connect to whom I could take the lesson or learn from and model I have not found them yet. I hear that people tell me a lot. In principle, the idea is that if you somehow model someone who has already done what you have, what you’re trying to do, that means you’re putting in less effort, and you’re putting in less time, I’m not saying that you are not going to encounter challenges. I’m not saying that you’re not going to face resistance, you will each one of us, we are going to make our mistakes. But then if I’m able to take something that has been done before that I can model that I can see myself in there that I can take and make it my own. And it’s okay, I’m going to put my effort and time in my own way, but then I’m going to put them at a level that is different, I’m not saying less but different. And every time somebody who in every time there is something that I can model, that means I’m accelerating my success.

Now, modeling excellence has also two other elements to it, modeling excellence means that there is some systematic existence of something that can be done. That means, if something has already been done, that means there is a system in place. That’s how to say so, there are the elements of the system or in play. Of course, over time, when more and more people will do the same the system will evolve, but there is some element of the system in place and there are some signs of structure in place, the structure is also visible, even though not entirely, but then there is a system and there is some structure already in play if you want to model now when you are modeling excellence, you are keeping your thoughts in line are your thoughts aligned. And when you keep your thoughts aligned, you are now action-focused, hey, if they can do it, I can also do it and if they can do it this way, why not I also do it that way? So there is a path that is focused, there is an action that is channeled, so amazing. You see, when somebody has already done something, that means you are you can accelerate, then you can see their system, then you can see their structure, then you can get your thoughts and your actions focused. All this is true, but there is something else that’s happening when you model excellence. You can inspire yourself and you elevate your state, and your mental state also, when there is no evidence of something done, it’s easy to get disengaged. It’s easy to get and drop the belief and lose patience and persist. turns in all that so it’s very easy to become a nonbeliever. But if there is evidence of somebody doing something, then the only thing that’s left there is to get inspired. It’s a four-minute mile by Roger Bannister. I think there was 1977 76 Whenever till that point, everybody believed that no, no human can run a four-minute mile. Roger Bannister came and ran the four-minute mile under four minutes, one mile by a human for the first time and thereafter schoolchildren, retired people, people who have recovered from you know, otherwise, you know, from surgeries from diseases. I mean, everybody ran have you know, 10,000 over 100,000 I don’t know what that number is. But everybody and the neighbor has run a four-minute mile. It’s crazy. By the way, my best.

My one-minute mile is seven minutes. Seven minutes. That was in 2015. I never could beat that seven-minute mile. I’m old. You know, that’s the fact. You know, I don’t have the physical strength to do it. But it’s possible that I could have built my strength and could have gone and better that yes, yes. But six-minute mile, five-minute mile, and four-minute mile. In sub four-minute mile sub, you know, three is crazy. What’s happening now? Quickly. Find out who has done what you’re trying to do. Make sure that you model them. And that’s the secret to success. I’m going to stop here today. So you can go. You can enjoy your Friday. But I’ll be back here again as early as tomorrow and December 31. I can’t believe December 31. Unbelievable. Okay. I’ll be here before you know it. Okay, go enjoy. This is the last weekend of the year. And before you open your by the time you open your eyes and by the time you really can sink everything in. We will be in the new year. Go enjoy your Friday. I’ll be with you tomorrow. Stay tuned. Thank you.

How To Practice Patience

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Today on the podcast, we are talking about how to practice persistence, which is an absolute must necessity for creating any level of success. Welcome, or welcome back to success training. Happy Thursday morning to you, we are just a few days away from the year 2022 coming to an end. And we are getting into 2023. The idea behind today’s podcast and for the last couple of days, I’ve been here talking about several different strategies, the idea is to get there and get into 2023, in the most empowering manner possible. So my intent is to share with you the things that I think are necessary for getting there publicly. And based on that, today’s podcast episode is about practicing persistence, there is no level of success that you can create without persistence because, in the first attempt, the chances are, you’re going to encounter some level of disappointment a couple or more times later, maybe still a disappointment. And thereafter, maybe some success, but may not be at a level that you expect or expected to begin with. And you go back and take a few more attempts. And then maybe thereafter, in one more attempt, you may find some level of higher success, but then still not to your expectation. And then you keep on trying and encountering failures, and any going through that loop over and over and over again. And eventually, you come out much stronger. The idea is to face resistance, the idea is to learn through that resistance not necessarily to face failure. But then if at all there is a failure, then process the failure in a way that it is a lesson.

So the key is, we all know, we all know the key is persistence, the key is practice. But then very few people want to go through the process because they don’t believe the in the outcome. Maybe they have walked away from the outcome, maybe the opportunity is not appealing to them anymore. Whatever it is somehow people do not stay in the game long enough. If you just stay long enough. Success is yours. So how to practice persistence, and what does it take? So before it actually takes only one thing. But let’s talk about, you know, what are the things that you need to have in place before you get this one thing to work for you. So if you start breaking down persistence, you can break it down at three levels. At the core basic level, you need to have some element of passion in you for whatever you’re doing. It’s impossible for me to do a podcast on a daily basis for 365 days. And, here, I’m on December 29, 2020, to successfully completed 351 episodes of 52 episodes, as of today, I think they want three more episodes to go. So we have the 30th and 31st actually do more to go. So 354 episodes now. But this one, hoping this recording is going to go all the way to the end, without any interruptions. I still have that fear after doing all this. You know, it’s amazing how many times I have done a podcast recording only to lose it. Sometimes I recorded, and I spoke for 30 minutes without looking at my screen. And never press the record button. Crazy Things have gone through with this. But you get the idea. Without an element of passion, it’s impossible to pull something off like this. I’m not saying this is anything great. And that’s not the point. I’m coming from a very good place when I say that, so anything you do has to be an element of passion. And then with passion comes one more challenge sometimes how do you convert that passion to purpose? How do you connect those two, we know we have a purpose. But then, and then we know we have some passions, but some people spend a lot of time going doing things that really do not get these two things in sync with what is that one passion? What is the one purpose and once those are the code, that’s the code? If that’s not identified, then it’s very difficult to persist. See, if I give you a business to do that will make a lot of money.

The minute it is not going to make money you’re going to leave you’re going to quit. But if I give you a business that really speaks to who you are, to your cost, your purpose, your passion, then chances are you’re gonna stay, go to stay. If somebody would have told me extremely start a podcast people did but I couldn’t find myself in it. And now this podcast is my passion. I wake up in the morning I Want to raise this baby, this baby every day. Now once we get the passion and purpose in place, the second thing is a mindset. Within this mindset, we have to have a positive mental outlook and a positive mental attitude. And in that mindset, we also have to become a little bit disciplined. So I have a disciplined routine, thinking about my success. I think about my success in a disciplined manner. I don’t think about my success at random times of the day, just because I happen to think about myself. So in order for me to be very disciplined about my success, I need to wake up in the morning and have to have a routine in place. Otherwise, I’m going to drop my mindset, I’m human, and all of us are. So it’s very natural for the mind to divert, and get distracted, and we are going to lose our path, we will lose our course very naturally. So a good mindset is necessary for any level of success. Then, the third thing is mentors. You need some role models, some people who you look up to, in order for you to have that same level of, success or the same level of positioning that you are seeking in, your pursuit, you need to have some role models that you are to look up to then mentors, also get a good mentor will keep you in line with the vision, they will help you define the vision, but also keep you in line with that vision. And they can do that by coaching you by training you if need be. So you need mentors and coaches. That’s the point.

Now, despite having all this, that doesn’t mean that you’re going to persist. I mean, all these things will help you persist. But you also have to practice something. Your practice all this, by the way, you got to become disciplined, you got to have a positive mental attitude, all these things you have to practice. But there is one thing that is going to set you apart. And that’s something that you have to practice every day, which is your self-talk. I did the very early, one of the early ESP podcast episodes of this year was self-talk. So when you lose your track, you need to talk yourself into success. When you lose track, you need to talk yourself out of backtracking whatever track you are on right now, because that’s not the right track. So you’ll need to learn how to talk yourself in and how to talk yourself out. So an example your goal is to get the job, or Bill makes that money or start that business, whatever tax that goal and everything that you do. And you have a timeline for it, you have activities that you have figured out, and you have days that you have marked, and the time the hours that you have already allocated. Now if somebody comes and distracts you, maybe this is your spouse, maybe this child distracts you. And now you have been tucked out of what you should otherwise be in, you’re out. Now you need to have a way to get out of that. You have to mentally talk yourself out of that. And then once you’re back, it’s not necessarily that you’re already back on to your, your main thing, people. I’ll give you an example. I have two hours, the time I have marked to do some things done. And my son wants me to certainly my son shows up, he wants me to help him with something or take him somewhere. And I drive him there for an hour or a half hour, whatever, I drop it comes home. And at this point, I have completed the task, whatever he wanted me to do, because that’s a priority for him. May not be for me, but for him. Family, my son got to do it. Just because I got back home. It’s not necessarily that I’m on my work right away. So I’m not in yet. Even though I’m out of that activity, so I need to get back into what I’m doing. And if I do not get back into what I’m doing. Then there is a daughter at home. There’s a wife at home, there’s a father at home. There is a client on the phone that has an email in my inbox, and everybody looking at me. They are willing to take my availability for granted. I promise you, that’s how it works. And I need to quickly get back into what I’m doing and for that, I need to have an In, in my mind, and that is what a good self-talk routine does. I did a podcast on self-talk, and I’m going to make this self-talk available to you. If you listen to today’s podcast, you’ll text mystery and need the self-talk. Podcast. I’ll send it to you, I promise you, but you’ve got to text me. And all you have to do is send me a text message at 888-818-0404. If we do not do anything else, we can’t identify your passion. You don’t know what your purpose is.

You don’t think you have the right mindset. You don’t have mentors. But you can simply bank on good self-talk and still get back into your game and you can still accomplish a lot of things. I promise you, that helps work. Okay, text me at 888-818-0404. I’m going to stop here today. The key message is that you got to practice persistence. And the reason why you have to do it is that no matter how hard you try, sometimes things don’t happen the way you expect them to happen. And you’ll be challenged, you will encounter setbacks you have other people are going to step into your timeline, and you need to recover from all that and get back into your game, a game that you have defined for yourself, and to do that. You got to persist. Okay, good. Stop yet. Go enjoy your Thursday, tomorrow the weekend, and last Friday of the week, and I’ll be here talking to you. Stay tuned.