Why Push Yourself

1. You have an ordinary day.
2. The next day: same thing.
3. The same thing over, and over, and over, and over.

The next thing you know:

• You're halfway through your career -- not growing, learning, expanding, thriving.

Going everyday without pushing yourself keeps you stagnant.

Why push yourself?

Take Johnny.

1. Johnny wants to grow muscles.
2. He picks up 20-lb weights.
3. He lifts them easily.
4. He continues doing that daily.

He doesn't grow muscles.

Take Billy.

1. Billy wants to grow muscles.
2. He picks up 20-lb weights on his first day.
3. He lifts them easily, so he increases the weights to 30 pounds.
4. The next day, he increases the weights to 35 pounds.
5. Then 40, 45, 50, 55 pounds for every successive day.

Billy grows his muscles.

Push Yourself to Grow Your Business

Seek an X% increase in:

• productivity
• sales
• customer satisfaction
• customers
• innovations
• yaddas

...by today/this-week/this-month/this-year.

Stressing yourself in X grows your capacity to become better at X.

You'll gradually see a freakish growth in your business.

The rule of thumb:

• If you have an ordinary day, you're not growing.

Challenge yourself daily.

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