Foolish Adventure

Fantastic episode Tim and James. You and James are two of the marketers I have the most respect for and it was great to have you reflect together.

About half way through the episode I started thinking it was all about things I knew already but then I realized that I was missing out on a lot of nuggets.
I was expecting you to go for all the internet ninja strategies that James has but you chose a more valuable route for the interview. And I thank you for that.

I think you’re right about our education and environment having polluted our way of thinking. The internet is full of strategies to make money and if I’d implement 5% of the courses I have on my hard disk I’d be financially free already.
What I (and probably more people around here) need, is to be able to make this mindset shift you’re talking about and stop beeing afraid.

I’m not posing as a victim of the system but I believe that getting out of years of education/training takes time and a little more than a conscious realization that you’re in a Matrix.

Anyway. Just wanted to say thank you for the last sets of episodes which were more focused on mindset and philiosophy… very inspirational and most helpful.

I really did intend to go into business operations and systems, but mindset is always an attraction to me and I just couldn’t get myself to move James away from it.

I’m glad you liked the episode and James and I just spoke this morning and we’ll be doing some more FA episodes to dive into how to run a company.

Get – SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham

SPIN Selling is a great book for learning to sell high value products and services. Also, you should check out The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes.

James is so right, most people winge about their (self-inflicted) unsatisfying life, and then go watch TV for 3hrs. People need to take responsibility for their own lives… well said James!

Great. Looking forward to the future episodes.

yes but the willpower weakness starts at the store when he passes by the sweets, that’s the first weakening, and then there’s eating them later… This is a very theoretical approach Tim, many people can’t surround themselves with positive thinkers, it really comes down to their DNA if they have it in them to rise above it all. I wonder if James’ point is that some people, no matter what you do for them, they can’t be helped, their DNA just doesn’t have the correct structure.

I love your passion in your response, these days, I’m way too pragmatic, perhaps I should be more of a sappy optomist too! (is that in my DNA?? lol)

I agree with what you are saying “technically”, but I think I was being more general, and saying that when you are down, and feel life sucks, it doesn’t matter who sits in front of you and tells you over and over that life will improve (or you can change your life etc etc) – you don’t hear it, and you don’t feel it. To me, that is the DNA – and I think that’s what I meant when I said “DNA”, but I think I really am referring to one’s “State of mind” (perhaps we agree here??). I def believe that love/nurture can make paramount changes to one’s potential, no doubt. But many get that love/nurture and still suicide, with parents in disbelief how that could happen all things considered.

This is why I feel your approach to this is over generalised, maybe I’m digging too deep here… From personal experience I can say these wholeheartedly that if I don’t want to change my lilfe, no matter who is there telling me they love me, and I can do better, I look back at them blankly. Because until I am ready to hear those things, they are not processed by my brain.

If, on the other hand, I was pre-disposed to being lazy and unmotivated, but whining that life sucks all the time (and this is the person I thought James was referring to – but I could be wrong) then my thought is “until they are ready to take responsibility and make a real effort” then their lives will not change. To me, that’s DNA pre-disposition – it doesn’t mean they can’t, it means they are less likely, hugely less likely.

I have friends who really have so much potential, but because they focus on the “bad things” in their life, (which all of us are affected by – debt, bad relationships, unperfect childhoods etc) then they let life’s awesome opportunities just pass them by. It breaks my heart…

Be careful here TIm, I might start to tell you their stories LOL (I got oodles of stories up my sleeves on wasted opportunities) haha

this book explains willpower well:
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

Fantastic. The discussion of fears vs reality is motivating for those stuck in place. Fear causes hesitation which in turn causes your worst realities to come true.