We aren’t meant to go small when hit with bad news. We are meant to go larger than life, do more, and experiment wildly. We must try everything under the sun, calculating each step, until we come out victorious, even if we sometimes slide back 1000 feet into the mud, only to rise to even greater heights. That’s the formula we have already mastered deep within our souls. It’s written in our DNA.
To illustrate, we reintroduced a product at work that previously didn’t sell, but we kept a similar pricing model, and now it’s not selling again. The product I was selling grandly was removed as part of my bonus, too. So, I’m trying new marketing and sales tasks I’ve never done before. I host my first webinar for up to 70 technical people this Friday. Then, I plan on trying wild, bold marketing initiatives, one after the other, measuring each one until I know what will take me to the bonus land. Whatever bad news we receive, we can turn it into glorious wins if we keep throwing stuff at the wall until something sticks, ideally with research, planning, and goals.
Instead of submitting to defeat, we’re meant to double down with new initiatives. Grant Cardone made that claim in his audiobook 10x Mentor. We are all meant to hit brick walls in life, some so traumatic we feel trapped for all eternity, never to escape the shadows of trauma. But there is always the light ready to beam onto our souls. And when we discover that light, that pure love, and manifest it into pure wisdom, which naturally occurs when seeking to love everyone, we pass the first exam in our mission tests. Then, agile action helps us experiment and blast through the problem magnificently so that we can improve ourselves and, ultimately, this world. And that change is making this world more loving, beautiful, and harmonious than ever. We’ve all been called to missions that only we can fulfill, and those of us reading this are now aware that we’re here to do something magnificent, meaningful, and impossibly life-altering. We’ve been called by a higher power, or in atheist terms, our higher self.
I was constrained to swimming only on weekends, but I want to become an Olympian swimmer for my age group. However, I planned a strategy and now can swim three days a week, one of them instructed by a non-varsity team member until my varsity coach returns after the summer. I will stretch these swim sessions to four hours of swim time. It’s a far cry from the 16 hours my varsity swim coach does a week, but it’s progress. The extra lesson will reward me for completing nine or more daily cleaning tasks. With persistence and a plan, we can all compete in the Olympics for our age range or do any task we think is impossible. Nothing is out of our reach.
I was also stuck on how to approach the documentary film for which I wish to win an Academy Award. However, I had an epiphany today based on my Olympic potential coach’s advice. I’m going to apply her advice to documentary filmmaking, Olympic style. I recommend we all try this strategy. Namely, we could do this: First, my swim coach tells me to focus solely on one new aspect of the swim stroke at a time, such as rotation or putting my head slightly forward. She says it takes work to concentrate on all the dynamics simultaneously, such as kicks, underwater catch, pull, etc. I struggled to combine everything to learn the new swimming technique. So, what I’m going to do for the documentary film is watch movies while cycling my stationary bike. But I won’t merely watch the movie, not at first. I will study one aspect at a time, such as color correction, camera motion, sound, etc. That single focus strategy is what shaped my coach into a star swimmer. When we focus on one aspect of an enormous task we wish to master, sometimes breaking it down into parts and investigating those parts is the way to better piece it all together into magnificence.
So, today, I studied the color in Mark Wahlberg’s film, Shooter, and I noticed that when the film cuts from one speaker to the next when facing each other, each character has a different color behind them, even though they’re in the same room. Naturally, the color is intended to flatter the character. So, if a woman has a light summer color palette, she may have some bright yellow in the curtain behind her framing her face. She might often be in front of a yellow backdrop, even if the male she speaks to is washed in a wall of dark blues and dark greens or, in one instance, a male co-star bathed in Autumn colors. His backdrop was created with burgundies, greens, and other Autumn colors in paintings, pictures, and a TV directly behind him. Next, I’m going to find a course on color correction so that I can make my interviewees look extra stunning. Whatever we want to master, break it down into its components and study each component singularly until we can bring it to its culmination–the actual performance. And take courses on those components to map them into our masterpieces.
With another strategy, I received the go-ahead for making a cinematic book trailer ad, so I’m super excited. It will be my first creation of a video for an actual theater. It will use large 4k footage and wave sound files. My goal is to make it better than the theatre’s movies. I want it to evoke a tear. And then I’ll have some experience with a 30-second slot. I didn’t have a creative bone two years ago, but ChatGPT can help us all create magnificent art. And we’re all innately creative. All of us! We’re meant to create beauty and love.
About becoming a billionaire, I’ve adopted a new strategy. I read a project management textbook during my 5-minute work breaks when I feel like I need a rest, usually after 30 to 60 minutes. It’s a textbook assigned for a certificate course I start next year, and I’m enamored with the content. According to the Myers Briggs personality test, I’m an idealist who loves taking on projects, so a project management certificate is perfect. But until recently, I thought project management would be a dry nightmare to learn. However, this skill will make me a powerhouse in my job and a candidate for leadership roles, paying a quarter million a year. We all might have pursuits we consider but believe they are not fitting. These thoughts may reoccur over time, and we might reject them habitually. However, that slight fixation on our aversion is an indicator of gold. The bell rings in our heads, screaming that this fixation is part of our life mission. And when we finally arrive, we may think, “Ah, it was here all along!’
The dark nights of the soul occur to ignite our infinitely loving hearts to take action. Throw stuff at the wall, one strategy after another, going bigger, doing more, and reaching heights beyond the billions, beyond eternity even. That was the advice from Grant Cardone in his book 10X Mentor. In other words, go ten times bigger when hit with trauma or setbacks. And if that seems too small, go 1000 times, 10,000 times, 100,000 times bigger until we’ve achieved all we can in this precious lifetime. And those possibilities of achievements are endless for all of us.