The JP Revolution

To be successful, focus your energy and mental bandwidth only on the things you can control.

Today's world of technology has created enormous opportunities for you to accomplish anything you want to in life. Ironically, it has created equally as many barriers to prevent you from achieving those things. Each of us has a very finite amount of energy and a limited amount of mental bandwidth. We are surrounded by negative influences that can rapidly drain both. The TV is filled with bad news from around the world; social media overflows with everyone screaming about how evil everyone else is; the pandemic drags on, and the price of everything you buy is going up. It is way too easy to be overwhelmed and to just shut down.
The hardest thing to realize is that you personally have nearly zero control of any of those things. Yet, you spend an enormous amount of energy and bandwidth dwelling on them.
In today's episode, we focus on how important it is to shut yourself off from those things and spend your energy exclusively on the things in your life that you can control.

Use the 80/20 rule to fine tune your activity and maximize your growth

Have you ever felt like you are swimming upstream with your business or your sales career? Do you feel like the revenue you are generating is out of line with the amount of effort you are putting in? Or maybe you are noticing a diminishing return on new investments of your time and resources. If you are like most folks in the business world, you are susceptible to the Pareto Principle... or the 80/20 rule. It stays that in most organizations, eighty percent of your outcomes are generated by only twenty percent of your efforts. That means that most of the work you do simply isn't very productive.
In this episode, we take a look at how you can you the Pareto Principle to your advantage by identifying those efforts and processes that are producing the profit and just doing more of them. If done correctly, you can actually increase your profit without increasing your workload.

Keep moving forward. The only way to fail is to quit.

If you take a moment to think about every outstanding achievement in the history of the world, you realize that none of them just happened. These all sprung from long strings of start and stops, numerous small successes and large failures, and near-constant struggles by the men and women credited with the achievement. The heroes that made those great things happen, whether it was space flight, the building of the pyramids, the creation of the polio vaccine, whatever, overcame both external struggles and internal struggles to achieve their goals. They all share one common trait: they didn't quit.
It's sad how when we start to pursue our own goals, we forget all of that and expect to find smooth sailing between us and our dreams. All too often, the moment we struggle, we pack it in and walk away. When people doubt us, we doubt ourselves. In this episode, we focus on the most crucial element of achieving success: not giving up.

If you want to achieve your goal, go big! Big goals rewire your brain for success.

Real Estate Tycoon and Motivational Speaker Grant Cardone claims the reason most people fail to achieve their dreams is that they grossly underestimate the amount of work and the change of mindset that is required to be successful. His answer to this is simple. Set your goals ten times higher than you think is achievable, develop a game plan to hit that larger goal, then follow that strategy to the letter. He says if you do that, you'll blow away your old goals no matter what happens.
In this episode, we take a closer look at Cardone's 10X Rule to see how it can change your life and move you one step closer to the success of which you dream.

When working for yourself (especially at home), distractions can be the death of your dreams

When you first become an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges is learning to deal with freedom. When you have a boss "hovering" over you, it's easy to avoid many of the temptations and distractions that arise during the day. However, even the tiniest of distractions can pull you away from the work you know you should be doing when you are your boss. When working from home, this problem is exasperated. There are always chores that need doing, TV shows to get caught up on, and home projects to finish. Since much of success depends upon making yourself do things you don't feel like doing, these distractions can quickly become barriers to your success.
In this episode, we learn some ways to keep these distractions at a minimum. If left unchecked, distractions can quickly become excuses, and excuses can put an end to our dreams faster than nearly anything else.

Your desire for perfection could easily be procrastination and fear in disguise.

Do you consider yourself a perfectionist? On the surface that can appear to be a great strength when you are trying to build a business. It would seem that the attention to detail and minutia while driving to perfection would ensure success. Unfortunately, the opposite is often true. Since perfection is always unattainable, the quest for it can literally bring growth to a halt.
In today's episode, we take a closer look at perfectionism. It turns out that true perfectionism is rare; it is often a mask for a strong fear of failure that can prevent you from ever moving forward toward success.

Make your story a page-turner... not one that no one wants to read.

When biographers of the future write your story will they be dreaming of the movie rights or just praying someone, somewhere will read it? Each day we write another page in the tale of our lives. Great stories are filled with plot twists, struggles, losses, recoveries, perseverance, and ultimately triumph. Great stories never feature a perfect hero facing no adversity or one that quits at the first sign of trouble. No ballad has ever been sung about the man or woman who decided their dreams just weren't worth the effort or discomfort required to make them happen.
In this episode, we take a look at stories that will never be told. Your's doesn't have to be one of those. Today, choose to make your story a bestseller.

Accomplishing trivial unrelated tasks can sometimes be just the thing for jump-starting your success

Sometimes very small tasks that seem completely unimportant can hamper our professional growth in ways we never imagine. So much of our ability to accomplish the things we want in life comes down to our energy levels, our internal strength, and our confidence. Unfortunately, it doesn't take much to throw those things into disarray and prevent us from doing the work we know we need to do.
In this episode, we take a closer look at how "kicking the can down the road" with small seemingly trivial tasks can undermine our mindset and prevent us from focusing on the much bigger tasks we must accomplish to reach our goals.

To get the most out of life, choose an attitude of abundance rather than scarcity.

One of the greatest temptations we face in life is to view the world from a position of scarcity. We want to believe that our options and the resources we crave are limited. This forces us to battle others for what we want and to hoard our assets rather than risk loss. The alternative, however, is to see through the world as an abundant place with plenty to go around for everyone.
in this episode, we take a further look at the Science of Getting Rich and how it focuses on a simple principle... the less you worry about money the less you will have to worry about money.

Be thankful that gratitude has the power to give you a life you can be thankful for

One of the most powerful tools to change your life is gratitude. When you are thankful for the good things in your life and the wonderful opportunities that surround you, you don't get bogged down in the trivial concerns of the world. Gratitude is armor against the challenges in life. It's also one of the keys to the life you want. Successful (truly successful) people live lives of thankfulness knowing that's what propels them past the point where others quit.
In this episode, we continue our look at The Science of Getting Rich. It's a book written over a century ago by a guy named Wallace Wattles. His formula for success includes large quantities of gratitude and is as relevant today as it was when it was written.