Take the Stairs Mentality
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Today’s podcast is going to be all about the book, “Take the Stairs”, one of the best books I’ve read in the last several years by Rory Vaden. I may you guys some direct quotes from this book, as well as giving you a general outline of what the book talks about and what the book stands for and why you should go pick this book up and read it and implement what Rory Vaden talks about within this book.
Let me start the show off with a couple of quotes:
“Success is not the result of our major decisions, but more deceptively, it is the aggregate sum total of all our small and seemingly insignificant ones.”
“Success comes down to choosing the hard right over the easy wrong consistently.”
Success is never owned, it is only rented and the rent is due every day. The only question now is “am I willing to pay the price that is greater than everyone else?” These are two really great quotes. Basically, this is what this book is all about, what this book stands for.
The difference between average and exceptional is all about taking the stairs. He gives an analogy of how escalators in life, if you take the escalator in life, that’s the easy way out.
But if you take the stairs that’s doing the hard actions every day, they’re going to get you close to your goals and get you to be more disciplined and ultimately going to help you reach what it is you’ve set for yourself as your business goals. Two of the main point of insight in the book are pay the rent. You have to be willing to pay the rent each and every day. You cannot coast through life. You can’t rest on your laurels.
You have to keep moving forward. These are all the things that I talk about on a regular basis, and that’s what this book is all about. You have to be willing to do the hard actions each and every day if you want to continue to move your business forward. And that’s what Rory means by taking the stairs. It requires a daily commitment to improving yourself, a daily commitment to making the hard decision and not looking for the easy way out.
If you want to grow in business and in life, you have to keep doing the hard things that are going to set you apart from everybody else that are looking for easy ways out, easy way out within their businesses or within their life. You have to be willing to do the actions that make you feel uncomfortable. They’re going to move you closer to your goals and keep pushing forward and stepping out of your comfort zones and pay the rent.
You have to pay the rent because success is never owned. It’s only rented. It’s such a great axiom on in regards to doing what is necessary to keep moving yourself forward and what basically what this book is all about.
The second intent within the book is the law of diminishing intent. So we’re all and basically what the law of diminishing intent means is we all set out on fire to achieve our goals because our intent to take action is the strongest the moment that we’ve created these intentions.
Unfortunately, as time keeps going on, our intentions start to erode and we start losing focus. And that’s what happens within our business if we don’t keep our goals in the forefront of our mind, like I talk about all the time and keep focusing on moving forward towards our goals, eventually our goals are going to start to erode. And the actions that we take each and every day are not going to start getting us closer to our goals because we’re getting comfortable.
That’s the law of diminishing intent. Those are two main points of this book. You have to be willing to pay the rent and you have to stay focused on the law of diminishing intent. Eliminate that, stay focused on your goals and keep moving yourself forward and keep paying the rent each and every day so that you get yourself closer to your goals. This is a fantastic book about breaking things down for you on doing those daily actions that I talk about all the time, on getting you one step closer to your business goals and not taking the easy way out.
If it’s easy you don’t want it easy is not going to get you guys to the results that you want within your business. You have to be willing to do the hard things within your business. If you want to keep moving forward, you have to pay the rent because the rent is due every day I love this book, I highly recommend that you guys go pick it up — Rory Vaden, Take the stairs. The difference between average and exceptional is all about taking the stairs.
You have to pay the rent and you have to remember that law of diminishing intent and stay focused on your goals or they start to erode over time, we repeat those quotes for you guys. Success is often not the result of our major decisions, but more deceptively is the aggregate sum total of all of our small and seemingly insignificant ones. Success comes down to choosing the hard right over the easy wrong, consistently. It’s such a powerful quote.
You have to be willing to do the hard things. You have to be willing to sacrifice and not take the easy way out because the easy way out is not going to get you to your guidance goals. And then the second quote. If you’re willing to pay the price that is greater than everyone else than all of your competitors, you are going to win in business and you’re going to have a large share of the market within your area.
I know that you guys can do this. Go pick this book up, Rory Vaden, take the stairs. I highly recommend it. If you have any questions, reach out to me. I’m here for you guys. Get on my calendar. What I to you and your business will create a clear road map for you to follow. It’s going to help you get your business from where it is now to where you want it to be, start setting more appointments, start closing more sales and ultimately start improving your business by setting systems.
Get on my calendar, fitprobusiness.com/audit and help walk me through all the systems that I’ve created over the past 15 years to help you get your business to where you want it to be. I know that you guys can do this on my calendar, fitprobusiness.com/audit .
I’ll check in with you guys tomorrow for another FIT PRO Business podcast. Have a good one. Thank you for listening to the pro business podcast with your host, Andy Salazar.
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