The Importance of Vision and Process for Growth

Vision without a process leads to stagnation; embrace daily habits to achieve true growth.

### Embracing Vision and Process for Personal Growth
* 🌅 Every morning, I strive to implement new practices that will **propel my growth in the direction I desire**, including reading Proverbs to **align my mind with wisdom**.
* 📖 Proverbs 29 highlights that "**where there is no vision, people perish**," emphasizing the necessity of having both **vision and direction** to avoid personal corrosion.
* 💪 My past habits, like substance use and reckless spending, reflected a **lack of direction**, but by establishing a process and daily habits, I began to make **significant progress toward my goals**.
* 🕔 Consistency is key; I set a wake-up time of **4:25 AM** and focus on **controlling my daily actions and thoughts** to stay aligned with my vision.
* 🏆 The journey to success is not just about having **grand goals** but also about **mastering the process** that leads to those achievements, as demonstrated by my own business experiences.
* 🔄 Trial and error have taught me the importance of **following a proven process**, which I now share with my clients to help them **avoid the mistakes I made**.
* 💖 I genuinely care about my audience's success and strive to set a standard of **discipline and authenticity** in everything I do.
* 📈 My commitment to **personal growth and community building** drives me to elevate my content and value, ensuring that I not only achieve my vision but help others do the same.

every single morning, I've been trying to implement new things that are going to catapult my growth towards the direction where I want to go. I've been reading two Proverbs in the morning and two Proverbs in the evening because I want to more align my mind with wisdom. Where I am, the position that I'm in now, I need to push myself harder than I ever have. And so, bro, I want to come and I want to talk to you today about something I was reading. Proverbs 29 says, Where there is no vision, people perish; but he who keepeth the law is happy. Now, biblically, if you look at it surface level, it's just like, Okay, you know, if you have no vision, you're not going to go anywhere. And this is in simple basic terms. And then you're like, But you know, if you do what's right, you're going to be happy 100%. You know, that's the very, very surface level. But to me, in my own situation, bro, the way I interpret

that is, it's like you have to have Vision Without Direction. You're going to corrode without Direction. The way I used to live my life, it was corroding: smoking weed, going out drinking, blowing all the money that I had, you know, mindless sex with women. You can relate to what I'm talking about. I know you can because you either lived that life or you're currently living that life right now. And no matter what, we're men, bro. That's going to have a grip on us. It's going to keep a hold on us. But the way that I interpret that verse, Proverbs 29, obviously you have to have Vision. But when you stay congruent with the law, the process, the habits, the daily conscious congruency that you know you need to follow. And when I say conscious congruency, I mean you know when you stayed up and you knew you're supposed to wake up early the next day and you have that little gnawing in the back of your head and it's like, Bro, go to bed.

you were supposed to be in bed an hour ago. Why didn't you follow your day properly so that you were able to go to bed on time, right? Or when you wake up in the morning, say you missed your wake-up, right? I wake up at 4:25, but I went through so many days, so many days of missing my wake-up, telling myself I was going to wake up early, not doing it, feeling guilty, not executing on what I needed to do throughout the day because I felt like a fraud because of it. And when I finally learned I had to have a process and I had to stay in line with that process, I had to fall in love with what it took to get me to the vision that I had. That is when I started to make massive, massive amounts of progress, right? And I'm not perfect by any means, I'm not perfect by any means, but you have to set your sights on the daily micro tasks, the daily micro thoughts, taking full captive, full captivity of

what you're thinking about full captivity of the direction that you're traveling in. It's very easy for me to get discouraged if I put my worth in a result, if I put my worth in a goal. It's very easy for me to get discouraged when, you know, I can't control the outcome of that. But what I can control is the work. I can control my 4:25 wake-up. I can control what I eat throughout the day. I can control the thoughts, the negativity that I let come into my mind. If I let it take captivity of my actions, if I let it take captivity of my emotions and bring me down, I have full control over that. Because as a man thinketh, so is he. So whatever is coming into my mind, whatever is trying to bring me down, whatever is trying to derail me from the law, whatever's trying to derail me from my process that I know to be true, that is what I have to fight. And I can measure my happiness based on how hard did I fight to stay in line with

what I know to be true: how hard did I work to stay in line with what I know is going to get me to achieve my vision. Without vision, a man will perish, but without your process, your mind will perish. You have to have building blocks that are going to step, that are going to catapult you into that vision. I talked to so many. I was talking to my Elite one-on-one, my business group, and we were talking about how everyone has these massive goals. It's not uncommon for you to want to have a Rolls-Royce. It's not uncommon for you to want to be successful. It's not uncommon for you to get that feeling as a man where you're like [__]. I want to provide. I want to be the one who's financially capable of taking care of the people around me. That is a masculine instinct that you should have, but it will drive you nuts. It'll drive you [__] nuts if you don't have a process that you know will lead you there. So

Many people have goals. Everyone starts the race to success with the same goal, the same exact goal: I want to win. But the only people that actually win are the ones who practice and train and know exactly what to do. If you've run track before, you know there's an exact way that you need to start off of your blocks. You need to have a good start, you need to drive through the start, and then you need to get into your stride, right? That's the only way. You have to have a process. If you have a beginner, he comes in, he's just going to run and just do whatever he thinks is right. You have to know exactly, If I follow this process that I practice on the daily, I will be able to be successful. And the same thing goes with your business, the same thing goes with your personal development. You wake up in the morning, you fall asleep at night, you go through about your day, you have massive goals, you have huge achievements that you're working towards, but if you don't have an

irrefutable process that you know is copy-paste. You're going to be always walking in confusion of what you need to do next. It's very easy in hindsight to look back when you've gotten to a certain level and be like, Oh, you know the answer. I know exactly what the answer was, because you lose sight of the fact that the whole difficulty was knowing which answer to choose, knowing which door to walk through, knowing which problem to solve. In the beginning of building my business, there were so many options. I didn't know what to pick. I didn't know that a coaching business was the highest leverage business to make the most amount of money in the quickest time without spending a ton of money. So, I went into drop shipping and e-commerce and service-based businesses where I had to create something, right? I didn't understand that I could sell information and make six figures a month like I'm doing now. I didn't understand that that was possible. So, I made mistakes, and I made mistakes, and I made mistakes, and I

banged my head into the wall, and I went through doors that had walls behind them, and I went through doors that shut on me that weren't for me, looking back now, and I'm very, very, uh, it's very easy for me to decipher, Oh, this is the best model, this is what you do in this situation, this is how you solve this problem. So, I was just in South Beach, and I was on the phone with one of my clients, boom, I called him, and then boom, I called another client, and I'm talking to him. I don't have to be sat down at a desk with all this information, like being like, Oh, he might ask me a question that I don't know. I've been in his shoes, right? I've walked this line, I've made mistakes, I've fallen, I've lost money, I've got beaten down, I've been completely laid flat out on my back, but I've created a process that I know gets me back up on my feet, ready to fight.

every single time, so any question one of my one-on-one clients that are in my mentorship could have, I know exactly what to do. I know exactly what to tell them. That's the whole point of being a coach. You can't be a coach if you can't master yourself. How are you going to master others if you haven't mastered yourself? And that's why I set the standard. People ask me, they're like, Bro, why don't you sleep in and get more sleep now, you know why? Because I have to set the standard. I have coaches that are in my mentorship that are making $112,000, $10,000, $6,000 a month, and I've only had it open for 40 days, and I have to set the standard for them. I'm not going to tell them, Hey bro, if you wake up early, it's going to help build your business because clients are going to see your discipline, if I'm not doing it. I don't want to set that tone.

because I have a process that I know works. And so many people today, they sell some process, they get on YouTube, and they talk about a process, and they don't even follow it. They don't even follow it. And to me, that's crazy. I would never ever want to preach something that I don't practice. And that's why I speak with so much conviction, because I care. I care so much. I'm so animated because I care. You can't fake the actual emotion that's inside of me. You can't fake the conviction that's inside of me 'cause I live it out. And that's what I want you to do, brother. I want you to understand that once you've created a process through trial and error or investment in a coach, investment in someone who's done what you want to do, and you've integrated that into your life, you must follow it. Because it doesn't matter how grand your vision is, if you don't fall in love with the process, if you don't

fall in love with the work if you don't fall in love with seeing how much you can develop yourself. The vision will perish; the vision will collapse on itself because there are no credible actions moving you towards that vision. You don't want to live a life of being like, I want to accomplish this, and not having a process and falling short and then being like, Okay, well, that didn't work. I want to accomplish this, you know, the next level below that, because you'll ride that line. You'll never solve the problems that you need. You'll always go to the next vision or the next solution, and you will end up to settle for a life that you despise. You'll end up settling for a life that you hate. You'll end up settling for a life that is worth less than you were created to give, and that's when you become envious. That's when you become jealous of other people. That's when other people's accomplishments reflect your own lack of self-belief, your own lack of

self-discipline, and that's a sad life to live because you'll never be elevated. With Envy in your heart, the reason why I was blessed to be in this situation, and the reason why you're going to be blessed to get into the same situation, or hopefully better than I am. I want everyone that comes across my videos to become more successful than me. I didn't have my content to watch, and that's why I created it, so that any other men who needed to hear what I wanted to hear, what I had to say, and what I lived by before I was in that position could consume it and Elevate from it. I was only elevated because there was no Envy in my heart; there was only authenticity. I want everyone around me to win; that's why I make these videos, and that's why I'm so consistent for my audience. And if you can embody that, brother, and stop focusing on this Grand massive Vision as your driving Point, don't collect energy from the Lamborghini that you want; don't

collect energy from the condo in Miami that you want, don't you know? And that's my situation. You might want something completely different, and that's great. You need that because it gives you motivation, but what you need to collect energy from is your congruence to your daily tasks, your congruence to your daily habits. If you use the 545 method: five goals, four-step morning routine, five daily tasks, use your take, build your value off of how congruent were you on that, how much progress did you make, did you consistently stick to everything that you said you were going to do every single day? And I promise you, brother, I promise you that vision will come as a byproduct of the work, the sacrifice, and the effort that you put into life every single solitary day. I love you boys. I'm grinding on this new project that I'm going to get out. The YouTube videos are going about to go crazy. If you don't follow my Instagram, co-follow my Instagram. I'm about to go 100x on my

content 100x on my brand, 100x on the value that I'm going to be giving you guys. My main goal is literally to completely obliterate everyone else in my market, everyone else who promises this much and only gives this much, everyone else who talks about mindset and habits yet they sleep in until 3:00 p.m. 'cause there's so many other coaches that do that. You've seen me wake up at 4:25 every single day for hundreds of days and not miss. You've seen me post my push-ups, you've seen me post my 545. You guys know that I put my all into this because I want to set the example, and I want to set the standard that if I don't miss, you know that you can't either. So, we are taking this thing 100x. We're taking our content 100x, our mindset 100x, our discipline 100x, and we're going to 100x the value of every single one of our Lives. You have to go

Follow my Instagram so you guys can be a part of this, and you can join me. I love every one of you guys that subscribes, that likes, that comments. I read every single solitary comment. Just because I don't answer some does not mean I didn't see your comment. I promise you, this is my community, and I am so [ __ ] like blessed to have seen you guys level up with me, see you guys win, see you guys getting in shape, see you guys making money, building your brand, posting your morning routine, and tagging me on Instagram, posting your push-ups, and tagging me on Instagram. It's the most fulfilling thing in the world, and I'm so blessed to be building this community. I love you guys. Stay aggressive.

How to 100X Your Mindset for Riches and Fulfillment | Aggression Talk Ep. 66

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The speaker is implementing new habits, like reading Proverbs, to align their mind with wisdom and push for personal growth.

They interpret Proverbs 29 as emphasizing the need for both vision and direction to avoid a destructive lifestyle.

By establishing a process and staying congruent with daily habits, the speaker has made significant progress towards their goals.

Focusing on the process and daily actions is crucial for maintaining motivation and control, rather than being discouraged by unattainable goals.

Building a strong mental framework and fighting against negative thoughts are essential for staying aligned with one's vision.

Success is achieved through consistent practice and following a structured process, whether in sports, business, or personal development.

The Journey of Building a Successful Coaching Business

The speaker reflects on the confusion and mistakes made while trying to choose the right business model, initially exploring drop shipping and e-commerce.

They highlight the realization that a coaching business offers the highest leverage for making money quickly.

Through personal experience and overcoming challenges, the speaker has developed a process to help their clients succeed, emphasizing the importance of mastering oneself to effectively coach others.

The Importance of Following a Proven Process

Having a successful process is crucial, and it's important to practice what you preach.

Falling in love with the process and committing to it is essential for achieving your vision.

Without credible actions and dedication, you risk settling for a life that doesn't fulfill your potential and may become envious of others' accomplishments.

The Power of Self-Discipline and Authenticity

Self-discipline is crucial for success, and envy can hold you back from elevation.

The creator's goal is to help others succeed and offers consistent content for motivation.

Focusing on daily tasks and habits, rather than a grand vision, is key to making progress and achieving your goals.

The speaker is dedicated to providing 100x the value in content, mindset, and discipline to outshine competitors.

They emphasize their consistent work ethic, waking up early and sharing their progress to set an example for others.

The speaker encourages followers to join them on Instagram, expressing gratitude for the community and the shared journey of growth and success.