Some good few months back, Chris Guerriero said something that's really stuck with me:š¤
āWhen you force someone to leave their sandbox, one of two things often happens. Either they resent you for it, or they just find a way to return to it.ā
I thought this was interestingā¦š§
Especially the second partā¦
Where people want to return to whatās familiar.
It makes me think of The Big Leap (which is an exceptional mindset book, by the way)ā¦
And in that book, the author talks about the Upper Limit Problemā¦
Which is where, if we begin having too much success, this internal thermostat kicks on and tries to āregulateā things by taking us back down to normal.
To carry that thermostat analogy even furtherā¦
We go from being āon fireā in our livesā¦
To living a āroom temperatureā kind of existence.
Now this isnāt all our faultsā¦
We, as humans, are conditioned to love the familiar and dislike changeā¦š¤·āāļø
And any time youāre experiencing tremendous personal growth…
āāYouāll feel the weight of mediocrity start tugging on your pant legs, trying to bring you back down.
So really, the key is to just be wary of thisā¦
When you have an exceptional month or months as a freelancer, or a copywriter, or an entrepreneur…š
And then suddenly you have a garbage month where everything seems to be going wrongā¦š
Itās worth stopping and asking yourself if the reasons for this bad month are really externalā¦ā
Or if youāve subconsciously changed or modified your behavior in some wayā¦
A way that you might be blind toā¦
But that is ensuring you go back to your ānormalā mode of struggle or feast-or-famine.
Does that make sense?
I think the only way to consistently have amazing success from a financial perspective, and really from a personal one tooā¦
And to do it year-after-yearā¦
Is to always be guarding against mediocrity and your Upper Limit Thermostat.
It takes timeā¦ā³
But being aware of the problem is a great place to start.
ā SPG
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