How to Adjust to the Seasons in Your Life & Business

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Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind guys. Hey, listen, I've got a segment of one of our high-end mastermind groups that I wanna play for you today. I think some of you need to recognize what's happening in your life right now and learn to adapt and optimize to the seasons in your life. So I'd love to be able to give you the opportunity just to listen in to one of our mastermind groups that we had.

I hope you enjoy and have an amazing weekend. I'll talk with you soon.

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Understanding Life's Seasons

I know most of you and most of the members I've tried to get to know in the academy and even in our community, and there are some of you that are crushing it. I've got a couple other CEOs that are very successful, and then there's some of you that are like making great money, but it's a job like you, you just don't have any time.

There's others of you that are just struggling and believe me, I know what it's like. You're struggling both with your job, your income, your mindset. You're struggling like eight ways from Sunday. And so this topic I want to talk to you about will apply to all of you. So it's very important you think about this.

One of my mentors, Robert Schuberg, who's no longer with us, he used to talk about the idea that life, and you've probably heard this, life and business are like the seasons. Life and business are like the seasons. You got good ones, you got bad ones, you're up, you're down. It's like a roller coaster.

In fact, sometimes you feel like you're riding waves in life. And the second point that I wanna make, and I wanna talk a little bit about this, is yes, life and business are like that. Seasons, they're changing all the time.

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Adapting to Life's Seasons

But the second thing you have to understand is that you can't change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

You can change your perspective, you can change how you adapt to the seasons and the problem that some of us have, even when we're doing well, the problem some of us have is we don't adapt to the seasons because we go through life wishing or thinking. We had less challenges. When it's hard, when it's wintertime, we have, we want less adversity, we want less problems.

Or when we're doing well, we're coasting. We're thinking, this is great, everything's good. We're not preparing for the winter, we're not preparing for the fall. So most of us go through life exposed to the seasons, but we're not adapting for the seasons. And it's so important. And the reason I'm bringing this up is because you will, you'll be more successful by adapting to the seasons.

You will deal with the seasons better if you adapt to them. And it's not always a negative. I'm not talking negative. Some of us just can't wait for freaking summertime. I'm one of those guys, right? It could be wintertime. And I'm like, ah, I want the results right now. Guess what? You're not gonna plant seeds and get 'em in the winter.

It, that's not how it works. Ecclesiastes says there's a time for everything in and a reason for every activity under heaven. And there's a. These are universal principles that we hear and we say, yeah, I've heard that. But we don't adapt to 'em. And so what I wanted to say is I want you to recognize, I want you to really, truly take a minute and think about this.

It's the whole point of the academy every week is that I pull you out of your rut. I pull you out of your gr and I pull you out of all the good things happening. You listen to principles that are universal truths. The key for you, the number one thing I've gotta hammer home is you've got to recognize the seasons that you are in right now and take action accordingly.

And I want you to think about this, 'cause I'm gonna talk through a couple of these things. The reason is, number one, you're going to be able to deal with the season better. But more importantly, some of you are doing well and you could be doing a lot better. Because you are out of season, you're not recognizing what's going on.

The other thing is that you may be in different seasons than other people around you. Your circle, you got somebody that you're working with that's flat out crushing it, and you're not, and you're pissed off. And you're jealous or you're, you don't understand. You don't understand why they're doing better and you're not, or maybe you're doing well and you just want to try to help everybody else.

That's not. That's not serving you because you're not adapting to where they're at. So you can't change the seasons, but you can change who you are and what you do. So let's talk about that for a minute.

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Enduring the Winters

Robert used to say, a winter time, what's the winter time? This is when you gotta listen to me when I say this.

You gotta learn to endure the winters of your life. This is when. Yeah, man, it's just business sucks. It's a COVID-19 thing. It's a isolation. It's you're starting over. You got a business that failed. You've got money problems, or maybe you're killing it here. You got a relationship issues, life and seasons.

We want, we're not gonna get into the depth of the fact that different areas of your life could be in different seasons too. But you gotta learn to adapt and endure the winners, because you gotta remember this. This is so important for you to remind yourself of this. All the winters end. Every single one of the winters end and spring will come but you, but if you make it harder on yourself, it's just gonna be harder on yourself.

Seizing Springtime Opportunities

And so then you got springtime and springtime because the winter ends, it's gonna come, spring will come. You've gotta take advantage of opportunities coming in your life. And some of us. Because you know where your energy and your focus goes, your energy flows, right? So some of us are caught up in stuff so much that we don't recognize.

When springtime ISS coming, you don't recognize when the opportunities are there. You're too busy focused on all the problems. You're not looking at solutions. You gotta recognize the springtime and take advantage of opportunities that are coming your way. And that's when you've gotta go to work. You've gotta go to work because opportunities are like planting seeds.

Opportunities will always be guaranteed. But the results will not. The results will not, and so you have to be willing to recognize the springtime and know, all right, I'm just gonna have to put my head down and get to work. It's no longer about, taking a little extra time. We should always have a three day weekend.

It's Labor Day coming up. We're taking four days off, no, you, you could, if it's your summertime, maybe a little bit, but not if it's winter, and definitely not, if it's spring. If you don't recognize the springtimes in your life and triple down, you are losing the momentum lever that you could be using in your business or in your life or in your relationship.

So you know where all winters end and spring comes. You've gotta recognize when spring comes, because this is the season, that can be very brief. These are the season, spring times it can be very brief and you only get a few spring times. It's like everything else. There's only a few spring times.

You gotta take advantage of that. Don't miss the spring times in your life. And I think you might know what I'm talking about, 'cause some of us in business. We went through the grind, we're through the grind, and all of a sudden something good happens, and we're just in the summertime, we're ready to go, and we missed the opportunity to plant seeds that we're gonna harvest in the fall because we just, things went well.

How many times do things start to hit your way and you're like, all right, we're in summer. We're gonna skip right over. Some of you do like to skip certain seasons, by the way, but don't lose those opportunities to work. Put your head down, dig deep, and really plant.

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Navigating the Summer

Because then the summer comes, look, we've all had summers, and summers is when things are starting to work.

It's when a lot of people that are not success-minded take their foot a little bit off the gas. We've been working our asses off. In springtime, it's time to at least let the foot off the gas a little bit. Just a little bit. But the problem is you gotta recognize that summer is when you've gotta nourish and protect what you have happening.

Because summertime, you're gonna be tested, your discipline's gonna be tested, your mental discipline's gonna be tested. Your you're gonna be attacked in different areas because things are going good. People are gonna be jealous. People are gonna, throw out hate. They're gonna, they're gonna troll you on social media and all these things, and you just have to recognize that's gonna happen.

That's what happens in the summertime. But you gotta remember, all values in your life are gonna be attacked. So don't give up. Keep pushing through. Push that momentum as much as you can.

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Reaping the Fall Harvest

And then, look, we're all gonna be, we're gonna all have those areas of fall in our life where we're gonna reap our rewards.

And here's the biggest challenge I see with a lot of people when it's time to really take advantage and gain the opportunity and results that you planted. Some of us aren't getting much. Some of us were going to kinda collect our county, right? Like we're out there wanting to get results.

We put the hard work in. We've done what we've done. But here's the problem. You don't get what you want in life. You get what you deserve. And some of us are forgetting that we didn't do the work. And so other people are starting to get some great things happening. We didn't. You will reap what you sow you will get based on your results.

And here's the problem. The results you're getting in your life as little or as great or whatever they are, they're based on what you did three to six months ago. And that's just a fact. Too many of us are like, ah, I want to put this work in for three weeks, two weeks, four weeks. I wanna go to the gym for a week, two weeks.

You don't realize it's at eight weeks. At eight, let's say 12 weeks. You'll get based on what you put in and what you deserve.

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Taking Responsibility and Adapting

So we're all adults in this academy, right? And you've heard me say it before. You create your life, you better take freaking responsibility for your life because the results you have right now are not based on anyone else.

Nobody did this to you. Nobody created this for you. Everything in your life was created by you, and the sooner you would adapt to that, the sooner you're gonna realize next time you have the opportunity or when it's time. Now, when you adapt to the seasons, when you adapt to the seasons, here's the beautiful thing about it.

You can shorten and you can lengthen those seasons when you adapt the right way. Because I can tell you from experience, when you recognize the winner and you accept where you're at, you can push quicker into the springtime. Now, you don't have full control over that, but just understand that we are our own worst enemies.

We are so validating creatures. We extend those winners way longer than we need to extend them. When we recognize, and it's like I say in my, in, in the pillars that I pull together that mine, I pull 'em together, I create my life. I take personal responsibility. I act in spite of my mood.

Those are not just cool words that happen to actually fit the poster really well, although I did tweak a couple of them to do that, I'll be honest. But you've gotta, when you take responsibility, all of a sudden that winner can flip on you pretty quick. When you recognize opportunities rather than skipping through to something that looks like it's a big thing, you wanna jump into the summertime, you recognize it's time to dig down and work.

Things are gonna happen.

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