It Starts with Passion, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 23Real education is igniting what’s inside you

I believe you need to grow there mentally before you go there physically. You need to acquire the success mindset first before you can achieve your goals in reality. To achieve all that you are capable of achieving, you need to gain the level of belief, skill and knowledge that is required to obtain and maintain that success. In other words, you need to grow mentally into the person you need to be to achieve the goal you desire.

It is the process of developing the belief, skill and knowledge needed that creates a mindset that turns your potential into a world of possibilities that will sometimes take you to places beyond your wildest imagination. When you are mentally prepared you start to change your physical state, how you walk, talk and present yourself to others, which in turn starts the manifestation of those goals that are most important to you. To put it another way, prior planning prevents poor performance.

So what do you need to do to become the living example of the person who is achieving all that you are capable of? In the previous chapter you identified what you need to stop doing, start doing, do less of and do more of in your life. Now let’s look at how you can move to the next level. Below are the eight areas you can focus on to personally and professionally develop yourself …

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