10X is Easier than 2X With Dan Sullivan

Episode Summary

In this Episode, you’ll Discover how 10 X is Easier than 2 X, 3 tools you can use to create your bigger future, the 10X Method, the 10X Map, and more with Genius Network and GeniusX Member Dan Sullivan.

Dan Sullivan is the co-founder of Strategic Coach, author of over 30 publications, a visionary, innovator, and gifted conceptual thinker, Dan has over 35 years’ experience as a highly regarded speaker, consultant, strategic planner, and coach to entrepreneurial individuals and groups.  

Recorded Live from the Genius Network Annual Event.

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Dan in this episode:

  • Why 2x is bad for your brain and 10x is good for your brain
  • How to increase your confidence, freedom, revenue, profits, health, fitness, energy, free time, purpose, reputation, customers, connections, technology and any area of your life that is important to you by 10x
  • Your 10x Mindset: 3 tools you can use to create your bigger future (and the easiest way to use these tools)
  • Your 10x Method: The way to stop doing everything that other people do better, everything that drains energy, and stop relationships that go nowhere…and instead, START increasing energy by doing everything you permanently love, everything that produces growth, and doing everything that increases confidence
  • Your 10x Map: The Scarcity Spiral, the Abundance Spiral, and how to stay inside (and build) an Abundance Neighborhood around you that increases gratitude, creativity, cooperation, opportunity, ingenuity and exponentials in your business and life

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Show Notes

  • Joe Polish Intro:” No one understands entrepreneurs like Dan Sullivan.”
  • 10X Mindset
    • How to leverage the past, present, and future (17:37)
  • Why 2x is bad for your brain (19:20)
    • Starts with the present
    • A 2x goal doesn’t look to the future, it actually looks to the past trying to change as little as possible.
    • No excitement, no new energy in the system, no forward movement
    • The Past negotiates with you about the future
  • Why 10x is good for your brain (22:40)
    • Requires change and challenge
    • It adds energy: “You gotta go 10x or nothing moves!” 22:35
    • 10X Mindset: Don’t forget about the past, Lead with the future
    • The past has to justify itself to the future.(23:31)
  • Model(25:30)
    • “With 10x you start with future, freeing your present as much as necessary from the past.”(24:00)
    • Find the right teacher: Genius Network – Bring together people who are future oriented( 27:48)
  • Method: 10X Easier or 2X Harder (30:00)
    • Stuff: Activities, relationships, situations that drain energy
    • Eliminate Stuff, maximize Energy (33:30)
    • Energy: Activities that are free from stuff. Feels like “BulletProof Coffee”
    • “Just do the things you are good at.  Identify that you’re not good at everything!” Draw a circle of three things. (38:00)
    • “All progress starts by telling the truth.” (38:53)
    • Increase Energy: Everything that you permanently love, everything that produces growth and everything that produces confidence (39:28)
  • Map: Scarcity vs. Abundance (45:40)
    • “Envy is the emotion that kills energy.” (46:10)
    • Looking at what someone else has and wanting them not to have it.
    • Envy leads to guilt, blame, scarcity, depletion. Zero-sum. All energy killers.
  • Abundance Spiral: It all starts with gratitude. (49:10)
    • Gratitude is connected to Appreciation: psychological and economic meaning.
    • “Every time you are grateful you appreciate the value of something.” (49:40)
    • Be grateful for everything.   
    • “Gratitude is energy and it leads to creativity.” (50:20)
    • Creativity is putting things together. You only put things together that you love and appreciate. (50:30)
    • “Creativity leads to cooperation:” Capitalism is an example of cooperation among strangers. (50:40)  
  • Put an abundance barrier between these two systems. (52:25)
  • Continually surround yourself with people who are energy people, in the  “Abundance Neighborhood.” (51:58)
  • “Get the past present and future right in your mind.” Understand that the mechanism for growing the future is to increase energy, reduce stuff. (52:55)

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