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“I CAN’T AFFORD IT”—
Most people believe they’re limited by what they can afford, but that mindset keeps them stuck. This issue of The Grip challenges the affordability trap and introduces a powerful shift: taking full responsibility for creating financial means instead of settling for what’s already available.
INTENTIONAL RENEWAL:
We want growth, but we resist the pruning. We crave reinvention, but we hesitate at what must die.
Renewal isn’t just an idea; it’s a lived process, and if you’re in it right now, it might feel more like destruction than transformation.
But there’s a way to move through it with mastery—one that requires embracing its paradoxes instead of fighting them.
UNLOCK YOUR CREATION MASTERY
The reason for not getting desired results when doing all the “right” things is being out of sync with the fundamental laws of creation to begin with. The more you understand how creation works—and get in step with it—the more effectively you will create what you want in life. Ultimately, the more skilled at creating you become, the less constrained by scarcity, stagnation, and strain you’ll be.
MEDIOCRITY OR MASTERY
Creation has an order to it, and once you understand the fundamentals, you will be equipped to create more of what you want, whenever you want. In this issue of The Grip, we’re introducing three foundational distinctions for masterfully creating your life.
Where in your life are you not getting the results you want? Whether it's your career, personal relationships, or your well-being, prepare to begin a massive upgrade.
THE SPEED OF LESS
Many of us have a habit of saying yes to new commitments without first making room for them in our lives. At a certain point, Bob decided he would remedy this for himself by proactively quitting something every week.
And the result? A life with less stress and more clarity, energy and impact. In today’s issue of The Grip, we’re illuminating this paradox of slowing down to speed up; how pruning back produces more.
LEADERS UNDER FIRE
Imagine this: You’re at the helm of a rapidly growing company, faced with a tidal wave of societal pressure. The world is demanding that you take a stand on divisive cultural issues—issues that, while important, have little to do with your mission.
The noise is deafening.
The critics are loud.
What do you do?
THE SURPRISING EASE OF DECISIVE LEADERSHIP
As a leader, you likely face hundreds of decisions a day, which will be stressful and fatiguing if you’re pouring great amounts of time and energy into each one. That’s why becoming decisive is so valuable; it transforms your relationship to this critical skill. When practiced regularly, decisiveness correlates with higher rates of happiness, life satisfaction, mental wellbeing, and overall success.
CURIOSITY OVER ANSWERS
In the normal course of events, we ask questions to find answers. This is useful and also limiting. To be curious, to question, to comprehend mysteries with no agenda regarding the answers—this is a most unusual way to ask questions.
BEYOND VISUALIZATION
If you've done any amount of personal development work, you are already familiar with the concept of visualizing your desired outcomes. Why does it seem to work for some but not for others?
Harnessing the subconscious is the differentiator between visualization that propels your life forward and visualization that unintentionally creates more of what you don't want.
In this week’s issue of The Grip, we show you the next critical step for harnessing your subconscious: reprogramming it.
MEET YOUR HIDDEN SUPERPOWER
The subconscious brain operates in the realm of the unseen. It has access to options and information that never make it onto the conscious brain’s radar. Between it’s processing capability, it’s 24/7 operation, and it’s access to mind-boggling amounts of information, the subconscious brain is your own AI companion.
This is why mastering your subconscious brain makes such a difference in what you achieve in life—the more you move conscious desires into the domain of the subconscious, the more power gets behind fulfilling them.
FORWARD FOCUS
Thus begins the cultivation of one of the most disempowered thought processes known to man: focusing on what you don't want in an effort to achieve what you do want.
This disempowered focus gets initiated, then habituated, and eventually automated so that by the time you’re about seven years old, you’re already programmed to focus on what you don’t want…you don't even know it's happening.
And it will frustrate you like nothing else in this life.
Put simply, success comes more easily and quickly when you stop focusing on what you don't want and focus on what you do want instead.
THE INNOVATOR LEADER’S EDGE
Imagine turning your greatest adversaries into your greatest allies--what if you could flip the script and have resistance work for you rather than against you?
As The Innovator Leader, you have the capacity to not only overcome resistance, but to leverage it.
In a society driven by validation, your strength lies in being indomitable—unbeatable, unbreakable, impossible to defeat or discourage, undeterred.
Not everyone is built for this; you are.
In this week’s issue of The Grip, we show you how to tap into this edge.
YOUR MISSION DOESN’T NEED A MENTOR
The real power of these types of conversations is not that they solve issues for you but that they give you access to a realm of knowledge from which you can create solutions yourself; often immediately and easily.
A mentor isn’t needed for ordinary growth. As a living being, you will grow at your default rate one way or another, because the nature of life is to grow. Your mission doesn’t need a mentor…unless ordinary growth is no longer enough for you. If you’re ready to powerfully advance your service in the world, get a masterful mentor.
The most effective way to access the realm of What You Don't Know You Don't Know—to do it frequently and consistently— is through mentorship.
In today’s issue of The Grip, we give you Eight Attributes of A Masterful Mentor so that you can identify a mentor skilled in helping you leverage What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know for your accelerated growth.
THE GAME-CHANGING ACCELERATOR FOR YOUR GROWTH
The real power of these types of conversations is not that they solve issues for you but that they give you access to a realm of knowledge from which you can create solutions yourself; often immediately and easily.
Access to this realm of knowledge allows you to see what you’ve never seen before. This is the game-changer between slow, minimal progress and rapid growth.
In today’s issue of The Grip, we reveal this powerful realm of knowledge for accelerating success in your life and show you one way to start accessing right now.
THE UNREASONABLE ADVANTAGE
In ordinary life, being unreasonable is considered a negative trait. What if it's not always that way? What if being unreasonable can actually be of great benefit, not only to you but to others as well?
In this week's issue of The Grip, we'll show you how being unreasonable is the key to creating extraordinary results in life. Your purpose and mission are counting on it.
CREATING AGREEMENTS THAT WORK
At both work and home, it is very common to have complaints and frustrations in relationships. What’s not so common, however, is understanding that the reason most complaints and frustrations exist in relationships is because effective agreements don’t.
When effective agreements are missing, complaints and frustrations flourish.
Leading By Agreement
How would you like to increase the productivity of your business AND workability of your team while simultaneously minimizing frustration and friction in the process? The most powerful thing you can do to get this result is to stop leading by expectation and start leading by agreement instead.
Living FROM Rest
Rest is not a place to get to; it’s a place to come from. Regardless of which day of the week you designate as your rest day, I’d like you to start seeing it as Day One from which the following six days will be fueled.
Seeing your rest day as the start rather than the end of your week fundamentally shifts it from being a day to crash in exhaustion to a day intentionally designed to support your wellbeing.
Doing Weekly Rest
For much of my adult life I thought a three-hour Sunday afternoon nap was getting the job done; nice try, but no.
What does it look like to “do” Weekly Rest? Today I’m giving you a snapshot of how I intentionally rest each week.
It’s not a standard of “perfect” or the “right way” to do Weekly Rest. It’s an example of what is working really well for me right now.
When Was Your Last Day Off…Really?
There was a time I viewed weekly rest as optional.
Like many leaders, I prioritized getting quality sleep every night, but I was “too busy” to carve out a day for nothing but rest each week—who’s got time for that??
Then a mentor challenged me to experiment with it for a couple of months to see if it made a difference.