Flip back to Chapter 6. Go to the deep dive and read your macrowins aloud (if you haven’t crafted your macrowins, then do it now). What did you hear? I’m not just talking about the particular words. But how did it sound to read your macrowins back to yourself? Hopefully, you could feel your body respond to the words coming out of your mouth. Was there any tingle in the belly? Any quivering in your voice? Did the back of your neck get involved?
Law 1: Marry Your Macrowins
This existence is riddled with responsibilities. “Obligations” will overthrow an existence if you allow them to. Macrowins, however, is where we take our stand. It’s the wide open territory where we plant our flag and stake our claim. I have worked with hundreds of people who’ve used the Microwins System simply because they saw the daily pictures that I would post to social media of my 4×6 index cards. I watched them race out of the gates as if they were running the 100-meter dash in the Olympics. For the first few days, every microwins-related post featured them going 3-for-3.
And then cracks started to emerge. One day they’d go for 2-for-3, the next day 1-for-3, and before long, they stopped posting at all. Let me be clear: you don’t have to share your microwins with the world. This is a personal process. Although I regularly post my microwins on social media (#Microwins), ...
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