Why no one tells the truth of overnight success

Hi Reader,

I think there’s a lot in common with the way society talks about love and success.

LOVE: You see the love of your life from across the room, time stops, and you instantly know you’re going to fall in love. 

SUCCESS: You see an opportunity, Whitney Houston’s “One Moment in Time” swells in the background, and you do it (write the winning essay, make the winning shot, close the winning deal). Go live happily ever after.

The only problem is … that’s NOT HOW LIFE WORKS!

I call this the “Magazine Version of Reality.” Media editors want a cover story — some tidy example that shows one person coming up with a magical answer right in the nick of time. With harps playing in the background.

But real success is a lot more complicated. It’s slow, it involves a lot of failure and missteps, and it almost always includes help from other people.

I don’t care about cover stories. I want to know how the world really works. In money, in relationships, in business, in fitness … in everything.

TELL ME THE TRUTH! Not the cover story.

It’s almost as if we would rather see tricks, hacks, and gimmicks instead of the messy reality of success.

The “Magazine Version of Reality”:

• You can't just lose weight. You have to be "The Biggest Loser"
• Which Silicon Valley giant is going to buy your startup for $100,000,000? Actually, anything less than a “unicorn” is failure
• Look at this amazing dish we cooked in 18 min (not including commercial breaks)

The hidden message behind all of this is that if you're not hitting home runs, you're wasting your time. This makes their recipe for success: fail → fail → fail → fail → home run.

And that message is nonsense. 

Real success is a series of small steps, not a TNT drama. Each one of them may look small — so small it's easy to miss — but when they add up they can totally change your life and happiness.

I’m writing this email to you, Reader, and hundreds of thousands of other people. But I started back in 2004 by writing for ONE person! (That was me, BTW. Nobody read my stuff back then.)

Little steps matter.

This is an important piece of Mental Mastery. It's a critical ingredient in the deep inner skills of winners.

This is also why I loved hearing about the everyday successes that students in our Mental Mastery program are achieving and celebrating.

Watch how our students applied the concepts they learned in our Mental Mastery course.

Mental Mastery Example #1 – Raghav Krishna learned how to take negative feedback:

“My group and I presented something [at work] that was high level and not tactical enough. We were called out on it by another team member in front of everyone. I took it all in, and that night promised myself I'm never making that mistake again. Period.

The old me would have not truly taken this onboard and repeated something similar later.

Fast forward a week, I created a workbook for one of our key audiences … I knocked it out of the park and everyone on the team from the boss to the designer to the nursing team commended me for it. It felt good.

The old me would have then basked under this admiration for the next week, but the new me realises — water under the bridge. All that matters is what I do today.”

Mental Mastery Example #2 – JK Stewart learned how to handle stressful situations:

“Last night, while my two year old was crying endlessly because he left his stuffed sheep at his grandparents' house, I used the ‘hot to cool’ technique to stay calm, not get frustrated, and just be there for him rather than having to walk away because I'm irritated. 

I literally sat there thinking, ‘Ok, hot emotion. I'm feeling frustrated that he won't stop crying. What would “cool” look like? Just being there, being level-headed, calm.’

Just thinking about ‘choosing to stay cool’ and going from hot to cool allowed me to stay there with him while he was (really) upset instead of just telling him to go to sleep and deal with it.”

Here's how the world really works: Winners play by a different set of rules. 

Instead of chasing tactic after tactic or spending their lives just praying for a home run, they focus on themselves. They put Mental Mastery first. You can, too.

If you want to take your life from “good” to “great,” I’d love to show you how much this material can change your life.

When you join, you’ll discover:

• How to develop unwavering focus — the #1 competitive advantage in our age of never-ending social media distraction
• How to rethink motivation — especially if you find yourself wanting to do more, but losing motivation over time
• How we can intentionally apply mastery from one part of life to others — like working out, business, even relationships

And so much more.

I spent years searching for, testing, and refining the deep inner skills I teach in Mental Mastery. I’m excited to finally be able to share them with you. Click the button below to get the full details.

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You’ll have a full 60 days before you have to decide it’s right for you. That’s enough time to work through the entire course — TWICE. Then, if you don’t love it, email me and you’ll get every penny back.