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What To Do When You’re Mentally Out Of HUSTLE

hustle-every-day I remember coming home from a particularly tough day at the office and sitting down to work even more on my dream. I stared at the screen trying to force something out, but I had nothing left.

This is how you build dreams though right? You work when you’re spent. You create when you’re out of energy. You HUSTLE 24 − 7.

Despite dedicating over an hour or more to my dream, I accomplished next to nothing that night. I scanned my Twitter feed, I checked my email again, hoping for something easy to accomplish.

Nothing.

“Why can’t I focus? Does this mean I’m not cut out to build Life Stoked? Do I not want it badly enough?”

Deep down I knew I had what it takes to crush my life goals, but I couldn’t understand why I was failing in that moment. Working on Life Stoked was supposed to be the work I’m most excited about, yet here I sit – flat.

What the world tells you about HUSTLE

The world will tell you you’ve got to be on all the time. It tells you if you’re not hustling day and night, then you just don’t want it badly enough. You just don’t have what it takes.

The world’s wisdom leads to two outcomes:

1) Burning out.
2) Giving up.

If you’ve experienced either of these while building your dream, it’s not your fault (and I can prove it)!

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From Hopelessly Overwhelmed to Unstoppable Force – A Case Study

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productivity-tool I felt hopeless more than anything else. Here I had discovered this amazing new world where I could design my work around my life (instead of the other way around), but I just couldn’t get there.

Why?

It wasn’t for lack of effort, that’s for sure. In fact, I’d been working on Life Stoked daily for over a year at that point. I knew exactly where I wanted to be, and I was already impacting others lives in exciting ways! The future was bright!

But in that moment last summer, I felt hopeless.

I remember sitting at my desk staring at my computer screen. A pile of notes lay in front of me, a pen in hand, and no idea what to do next.

There was just too much to do! Articles have to be written, marketing has to be planned, websites have to be updated and maintained, services have to be refined, and clients have to be served. And this was all “on the side” of being a full time husband, dad, and employee.

I was completely overwhelmed.

And so I did nothing. I froze. I sat. And I stared.

Days went by where I did little real work. As days turned into weeks I began to feel both frustrated and hopeless. I was frustrated I wasn’t making progress, and hopeless because I didn’t know how to handle it all.

What I needed to regain hope

What I needed was a way to attack and achieve my big goals without being completely overwhelmed. I needed a way to get big results with limited time.

And I found it. My quarterback method completely changed the way I work, and it completely changed my results! I want to share with you exactly how I implemented it, and five unexpected ways it changed my results!

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How To Make Huge Progress Even When You’re Crazy Busy!

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Knocking out your toughest goals is all about momentum. The more you accomplish, the more success becomes a part of who you are. Pretty soon, everything you touch seems to turn to gold!

And no matter how busy you are, you can start gaining momentum in a BIG way.

Here’s how…

How the “Quarterback Method” Helps You Create Momentum to Accomplish Your Biggest Goals

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Like I said in the video, the last eight months have been crazy for my family as my wife and I tried to figure out this parenting thing!

And yet I was able to accelerate my progress rather than slow down. That’s a huge testament to how powerful the “quarterback method” really is.

What should you do now?

Now that you know how to build momentum to achieve your biggest goals using my “quarterback method,” it’s time to put it into action for yourself.

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How I Rescued My Dream From A Busy Life

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The first night home

Do you have a big dream, but can’t find the time to work towards it? Is there something awesome you want to accomplish, but you don’t see how you could ever put in enough time to achieve it? Do you struggle with making significant progress on your biggest dreams because there’s just way too much other stuff to get done?

You’re not alone.

One of the biggest struggles I see holding people back every day is their ability to work consistently towards their dreams to achieve them. When you can’t do that, then your dreams just feel like big fat wishes. And when your dreams feel like wishes, eventually you quit wishing.

But don’t give up.

Because no matter how busy your life is you can still make significant progress towards your biggest dreams. No matter what else is going on around you, there’s a way to get traction.

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Does Your Life Pass The Fireside Chat Test?

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Imagine yourself at a party. You’re relaxing in a chair by the fireplace when a guy in the adjacent chair starts making small talk. As you share a little about what you’ve been up to lately, your new friend leans in. He doesn’t want to miss a word of your story.

Soon you notice others nearby abandoning their own conversations to listen in. Your fascinating experience draws them in close. They don’t want to miss a thing.

What is it they find so interesting? What’s so amazing about you people can’t get enough of?

Maybe you’ve met someone like this before. Perhaps you’ve been a member of the crowd listening in as someone else shares their own real life epic. Your mind wanders back to their adventure as you sit at your desk waiting for your next meeting, or as you daydream sitting in traffic.

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