Geoff Hetherington’s Post

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Hey folks, Jeff Herrington, I want to talk to you about and. An unusual vice, if you like. No, it's nothing pornographic or anything like that, but it's the vice of being selfish. We are taught that being selfish is a bad thing and we often we hear the phrase enlightened self-interest to sort of get round that from there. And the real thing is if we think about ourselves ourselves first, we get a slap on the wrist. We brought up that's wrong. You should be thinking that everyone else now there's good and bad in that sort of thing. And I certainly believe you should be looking empathy And there's always the airline example, you know, put on your own oxygen mask first, which is being selfish. The thing about this in your life is, again, it's a simple question, but what do I. I want ask yourself that, what do I want in business? What do I want my personal life? What do I want in terms of like how much money do I want them to bank? What do I want to be doing next week, next month, next year? What do I want in terms of going out? What do I want in terms of relationships? What do I want in terms of clothes or toys or hobbies? What do I want in jiu jitsu? Do I want that black belt? What do I want if I'm doing CrossFit at the local box? Do I want to really nail Murphy these. This is a simple question, but we often shy away from it or we gloss over it. What do I want? I want to be successful. Well, OK, what does success mean to you? What does that look like? What does that feel like? What does that taste like? What does success taste like to you? I want to be rich. Great. How much is rich? Right? You can have a bloody good lifestyle business if you're turning over 350 to 400. And to hear it doesn't have to be 1,000,000 bucks a year. Yeah, when you're bringing in 30-40 fifty grand a month, life's pretty good, even after you pay taxes and costs and whatnot for most businesses. But if I want to be rich, the fine rich, is that $1,000,000? Is that $10 million? What is it? What do you want in terms of travel? I want to travel. I want to go to Venice. OK, so you want to go to you're just going to fly to Venice? Are you going to catch a cruise ship? What do you want to do? What do I want? What's the ideal, in other words? Is that old book The Magic of Thinking Big, which is far too thick and repeats itself too often. But the basic thing is you should sit down and write out your perfect day, your perfect week, and your perfect life. Asking yourself what I want is a selfish thing. Acting on it is even more selfish. But you know what? It's not necessarily a bad thing. So think about your business. What do you want? Think about your personal life. What do you want? You want to be rich? You wanna be famous? What does that look like? What does that feel like? Let me know what you think. Just being selfish and asking and being very, very clear on what you want and the various aspects of your life. Selfish, too selfish? Or is that a smart thing to do because it helps create intention, direction and action? Let me know down below. I'm Jeff Hedrington. There's always three things. Be well, take care, stay safe. Talk to you again soon.