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Is the key to making money about TAKING VALUE from customers?
On one of his channels the other day, he released a long video where one of the topics he talked about was the subtle nuances of learning and conflicting advice. I feel like the two of us have read a lot of the same books, and developed a very similar outlook on life based on our experiences.
During the video, he used an example how he sees the clear distinction between two types of people.
On the RIGHT side of the spectrum.
The business owner friends. Like many people on this forum, if he talked recommended a book on positive thinking, manifestation, and how archangels come down from heaven to guide you on your path to manifesting wealth and abundance; many of his business owner friends immediately dismiss the book. They would never read it.
On the LEFT side of the spectrum
The manifestation crowd believes anything they read in books. The follow YouTube channels that pump them with feel-good emotions and ask the archangels to do the work for them. If he recommended them to to read books on business, marketing, and hustle; they would immediately dismiss the information.
In these instances, the people on each side of the spectrum places themselves in narrow boxes, unwilling to open their mind and extract any useful bits of information from the other end of the spectrum.
In his video, Owen talks about his ability to rapidly filter through unrelated and unnecessary information, while absorbing the gold nuggets that help him with his business. What if that book written by the angels author lady has one gold nugget in it that could completely turn your business and life around?
You won't read it because you are caught up on the 98% fluff.
On the flip side of the coin, what if the readers of the angels author lady are actually having angels line up the path and hand deliver them millions of dollars in manifestation, but they never actually receive it because the angels are up there above them screaming "Read the millionaire fastlane and read that on blurb about taking action".?
Then somehow by their power-of-the-universe beliefs, some sci fi movie script they wrote out while following their passion gets sent to hollywood and turns into millions of dollars in royalty deals when they take action and send it to hollywood?
Step 1 - Print out their passion.
Step 2 - Go to post office and mail script.
Step 3 - Sign contract for $50 million royalty deal for the next star wars.
It could happen...
So back to the headline...is the key to making money about taking value from customers?
When I first got into entrepreneurship, which was within the same month or two of reading TMF , I approached business with the mindset with "What's in it for me?"
I just wanna make $10,000 per month. I just wanna drive the Lamborghini and live in a mansion. I want to travel the world.
"How are you going to do it?" people might ask me.
"Who cares, I WANT TO GET RICH."
Selfish.
Then MJ installs the valuable lesson for that stage of the journey.
Another mentor from this forum once taught me about The Law of Reciprocity "The more you give, the more you receive." So by adding value to other people, you eventually get money in return.
Eventually I began one-on-one consulting sessions. For the first year of doing this, I took the advice to heart. I would help people out and add immense value to people's lives through my sessions. My skills were rough around the edges at first, but eventually it built up and I began adding a lot of value through what I was doing.
Then, another mentor from this forum gave me the advice "Andrew...it's time to be selfish. This is about what you want and creating the life you want to live."
What?
On the surface, he was telling me to go back to square one:
On the surface, the advice we get often times conflicts with other advice we got in the past.
But it's the subtle nuances which make up the entire difference. By the time the second mentor gave me advice, I embodied the characteristics which allowed me to be selfish again and receive the value in the form of aggressively marketing my services and earning a nice income from it....because I decided to be selfish and take care of me.
Tipping the Scales:
This post has absolutely nothing to do with manifestation, following your passion on a sci-fi script, archangels, adding value, or anything on the surface.
Dig a little deeper...
- We live in a world of conflicting truths.
- Develop the ability to filter through the shit to extract the gold.
- Pay attention to the subtle nuances and the deeper lessons beneath the surface.
On one of his channels the other day, he released a long video where one of the topics he talked about was the subtle nuances of learning and conflicting advice. I feel like the two of us have read a lot of the same books, and developed a very similar outlook on life based on our experiences.
During the video, he used an example how he sees the clear distinction between two types of people.
- The Stressed Out Logical Business Owners
- The Manifestation Crowd
On the RIGHT side of the spectrum.
The business owner friends. Like many people on this forum, if he talked recommended a book on positive thinking, manifestation, and how archangels come down from heaven to guide you on your path to manifesting wealth and abundance; many of his business owner friends immediately dismiss the book. They would never read it.
On the LEFT side of the spectrum
The manifestation crowd believes anything they read in books. The follow YouTube channels that pump them with feel-good emotions and ask the archangels to do the work for them. If he recommended them to to read books on business, marketing, and hustle; they would immediately dismiss the information.
In these instances, the people on each side of the spectrum places themselves in narrow boxes, unwilling to open their mind and extract any useful bits of information from the other end of the spectrum.
In his video, Owen talks about his ability to rapidly filter through unrelated and unnecessary information, while absorbing the gold nuggets that help him with his business. What if that book written by the angels author lady has one gold nugget in it that could completely turn your business and life around?
You won't read it because you are caught up on the 98% fluff.
On the flip side of the coin, what if the readers of the angels author lady are actually having angels line up the path and hand deliver them millions of dollars in manifestation, but they never actually receive it because the angels are up there above them screaming "Read the millionaire fastlane and read that on blurb about taking action".?
Then somehow by their power-of-the-universe beliefs, some sci fi movie script they wrote out while following their passion gets sent to hollywood and turns into millions of dollars in royalty deals when they take action and send it to hollywood?
Step 1 - Print out their passion.
Step 2 - Go to post office and mail script.
Step 3 - Sign contract for $50 million royalty deal for the next star wars.
It could happen...
So back to the headline...is the key to making money about taking value from customers?
When I first got into entrepreneurship, which was within the same month or two of reading TMF , I approached business with the mindset with "What's in it for me?"
I just wanna make $10,000 per month. I just wanna drive the Lamborghini and live in a mansion. I want to travel the world.
"How are you going to do it?" people might ask me.
"Who cares, I WANT TO GET RICH."
Selfish.
Then MJ installs the valuable lesson for that stage of the journey.
Another mentor from this forum once taught me about The Law of Reciprocity "The more you give, the more you receive." So by adding value to other people, you eventually get money in return.
Eventually I began one-on-one consulting sessions. For the first year of doing this, I took the advice to heart. I would help people out and add immense value to people's lives through my sessions. My skills were rough around the edges at first, but eventually it built up and I began adding a lot of value through what I was doing.
Then, another mentor from this forum gave me the advice "Andrew...it's time to be selfish. This is about what you want and creating the life you want to live."
What?
On the surface, he was telling me to go back to square one:
- My goal was to take value and I wasn't making money.
- My goal was to add/give value and I wasn't making money with my services.
On the surface, the advice we get often times conflicts with other advice we got in the past.
But it's the subtle nuances which make up the entire difference. By the time the second mentor gave me advice, I embodied the characteristics which allowed me to be selfish again and receive the value in the form of aggressively marketing my services and earning a nice income from it....because I decided to be selfish and take care of me.
Tipping the Scales:
- First, the scales were tipped all the way to the left.
- And then all the way to the right to over-compensate for the selfishness.
- And then eventually, things tipped back and balanced in the middle.
This post has absolutely nothing to do with manifestation, following your passion on a sci-fi script, archangels, adding value, or anything on the surface.
Dig a little deeper...
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