3 Habits of High Performers
Host: Isaac Mashman · May 25, 2020 · Episode 23 · 27 minutes
Transcribed from the episode audio and edited for names and terms. Wording can differ slightly from what was said; the episode itself is the record.
What is going on everyone? You are now listening to episode 23 of Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman the podcast I am your host Isaac Mashman and this is the podcast basically meant for anybody Trying to achieve more out of life. You see I believe that we all have Something that we are pursuing in life We all have a vision for what we want our life to be what we want our careers to be what we want our Families to be like all of these different things. That's the beautiful thing about being a human And we are in complete control of our life. We are in complete control of our results. And although far too many people like to preach that they are not in control of their results, that is just simply not true.
That is not true. Most people go throughout life blaming the world for their current circumstances, blaming the world for what they do not have, blaming the world for what they do have if it's a negative result. And that is the wrong viewpoint to have. I am all about extreme ownership. Jocko Willink, he was in the Navy Seals for 20 years. He wrote a book called Extreme Ownership and something that he mentions and talks about in just his brand and in his message is taking control over the results you get in life, whether good or bad. And so this podcast is here to educate you guys, to help you guys really chase after your vision and I'll cover a variety of different topics. I talk about entrepreneurship. I talk about mindset. I'll probably end up talking about sales and marketing and branding and future episodes.
I don't want to call it a business podcast. It used to be a business podcast if you go to my older episodes. But then I recognize that why put a label on who you are, why label yourself as an entrepreneur if you are an entrepreneur deep down in your heart, why put a label on this show. And so I would like to refer to this more as a self-improvement podcast, and that sounds kind of cliche, but I don't want you guys to think the topics in this show will be cliche because I am a down-to-earth man. I like to keep it simple. I like to talk about facts, and I'm not afraid to speak my opinion. But anyways, so before I go any farther, I want to basically tell you guys the fee for listening.
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So that's the feed. Pretty simple. And I ask that you do that for every single episode that you listen to. So the topic for today, I'm going to go ahead and dive into it. I want to talk about high caliber habits. I want to talk about high performance habits. Now, that is what a lot of people reference them as, high performance habits. And let's go ahead and talk about what is it? What does it mean to be a high performance person? High performance is the state of being in high productivity and accomplishing things that you need to accomplish in order to move forward in your life, in your business, in your career, and better achieve your vision and better achieve your goals that you set for yourself.
A lot of people throw high performance around like it's a buzzword. Like it's something that everybody is doing just because they get up at a certain time. And yes, that is extremely important. But what is more more important is to understand how every single thing you do in life, no matter how small or how big, attributes to your success, how you do anything is how you do everything.
That is something that I learned from a mentor of mine. He was saying, he's like, you know, Isaac, how you do anything. If that means that picking up a piece of trash off the floor as you walk by or you're going on a walk in your neighborhood and you see a piece of trash picking it up, that is a surefire sign of how you're going to be when it comes to your business. How do you expect to build a multi-million or multi-billion dollar company if you cannot do the small things? People get so big for their shoes. They feel like they're a hot shot now that they made money or that they're running the company, that they have the title of CEO and their name, that they can't do the small things. That's simply not true. You should always be able to do the small things.
And I've been listening to a lot of phenomenal podcasts lately, such as the Ed My Let Show Real AF with Andy Fursella. And there's this one episode that Ed My Let did that was talking about high performance habits. And I got so much value from that episode. I wanted to go ahead and discuss with you some of the different things that they talked about and also some of the different things that I have personally noticed in my own life and through other mentors that I study that they do in order to be high performance and to actually achieve massive results. These are things that I am actively doing every single day because I know that in the end they will add up. That consistent effort will eventually compound and then it'll become just a ritual in my life.
These people don't become successful overnight. I was having a conversation with someone and we were talking about a country artist, a country singer, and he was like, yeah, he was an overnight success. He was an overnight success. I never heard of him, and the next thing I know I see him on a TV show. And I was like, mate, that just, he's not an overnight success. You might not have heard of him, but he was spending thousands of hours before you heard of him working on his craft, working on being the very best country artist, and then he achieved success. For whatever reason, guys, people like to say that these people are an overnight success, but they don't realize how much work and how much effort really goes in to achieving anything in life, anything of substantial respect.
And so I started a program back in the beginning of April called the Live Without Limitations program. And it's a 90-day program broken up into 30-day phases, three different phases, and each phase gets progressively more difficult. The entire point of launching this program was to help people become the very best versions of themselves mentally, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. A lot of programs cover two of the four. They cover three of the four, but they normally miss one of the different aspects of health and well-being. And I believe that we are infinite beings, we are infinite creatures, we have unlimited opportunity, unlimited potential, and unlimited energy locked up within ourselves.
And so if we're not growing at all of these different levels, then we're going to basically be starving our health in a specific area. Why not nourish our health in every single area possible? So I started the L.W.L. Live Without Limitations program to basically get people into a series of habits and routines in order to better affect their life, to get themselves from doing nothing and then introducing small tasks that are contributing to their success and their well-being and then over time those tasks get a little bit larger, they might be a little bit more labor-intensive, they might be a little bit more difficult to do, but But it's teaching all of the participants how to be an effective man, how to be an effective woman, how to be an effective leader, an effective role model, because your business will not grow if you do not grow.
And this is what if you do not get anything else from today's episode, I want you to get the one factor that you cannot expect other areas of your life to grow if you yourself are not growing. That is why my entire mantra is live without limitations because we are infinite beings and we have to focus on ourselves first before we can focus on all of these other things in our life. And so a couple of these habits that I'm going to talk to you about is personal development. Basically every successful person is into personal development. I'm going to be doing a part two of this episode and I'm going to be launching it a couple days after I launch this episode I'm going to be publishing this Monday which is tomorrow and then I'll be doing part two on Wednesday.
And I'm going to go ahead and talk about the four stages of learning in the next episode which you guys definitely want to tune into. So make sure you tune into episode 24. But one of the things that every successful person does who is cautious of how they are achieving success, how they are achieving results, they are cautiously competent. They always do self-development. They find coaches. They find mentors who have the results that they want out of life and they learn from them. They're consistently learning. I'm reading a book by Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, and it's called Made in America. He talks about how he was beginning to build up Walmart and build up the company and he would always carry around a yellow notepad, a yellow legal notepad. He would take notes.
It doesn't matter who he was talking to. If he thought that he could get an ounce of value from that person or learn what to do or what not to do, he would write it down in his notepad. He was never too big to do the simple things. He was never too big to be humble. And so he was learning from all of these different strategies. You can learn just as much from a homeless person as you can learn from a millionaire. From a homeless person, you can learn what not to do. From a millionaire, you can learn what to do. or from a professional guitarist, a professional musician, a professional athlete, you can learn what to do.
But just on the opposite scale, you can examine and look at what not to do from the people who don't have the results you do, or the results you want.
But every successful person values their time. And because they value their time, they're not going to spend decades of their life making mistakes that they could otherwise save by learning from someone who has already made those mistakes. That's all about cutting timeframes. That is the entire principle of this podcast. I've recently had a conversation with a video editor. He edited one of my videos for TikTok. His name is Christian Chin. He's a friend of my good friend, Eric Chow. And he's a very talented kid who has a lot of potential. And we were having a conversation. And after he edited the video, he was talking.
And he's like Isaac, you know, he asked me about doing free services or paid services. He asked about how to price himself. And I was able to give him a little bit of knowledge.
I was able to, you know, help teach him some of the things that I personally have learned, which saved him a ton of time versus going and spending the time researching it for himself. I don't like calling myself a mentor, but what I did is I did in essence a form of mentorship. I helped educate him on what he could be doing that would bring about more results in his editing career and his business and his freelance work, whatever you wanna call it, whatever he wants to call it. And just the power of saving time is huge. We don't know how much time we have.
What is in the past is in the past. You know, I've had to work through a lot of time and a lot, it's taken a lot of effort to let go of my past and only focus on the present and know where I'm going in the future.
Because it's like an hourglass, right? A mentor of my Bob Proctor, he talks, he uses an hourglass to give the demonstration. On the top of the hourglass, you have sand. You don't know how much sand you have. You don't know how long you're going to be alive. Some crazy thing could happen tomorrow. God forbid, and your sand is up. What sand is at the bottom of the hour, glass already happened. That is the past. That doesn't mean it's not important. You respect what happened. You understand what happened, but you do not live in that old sand. What you focus on is the sand that is going down to the bottom right now.
It is the present time. You focus on what you can do today to get your results. You focus on what you can do today to improve yourself.
And that is what these high performance people do. That's what these millionaires and billionaires do. Bill Gates takes a week off every single year to go and catch up on reading. You know, the average millionaire reads like two books a month or a book a week and the average American is lucky if they read like two or three. There's a reason why these people spend time and study. There's a reason why these people spend millions of dollars on mentors. Steve Jobs had a mentor. Mark Zuckerberg had a mentor. Warren Buffett had a mentor. Sam Wallen in this book listed off a ton of different people that he learned from, who had results that he wanted. Mentorship. That is one of the habits I want to talk about. I want to be talking about two more habits.
The second habit is respecting your time. Respecting your time. Now I briefly mentioned that in the first habit, you know, and in looking for mentors and improving and investing in self-development, but people who are of high performance, they do not spend a lot of time doing activities that are not contributing to their success. They respect what they're going for in life. This isn't only respecting time, but it's respecting their goals and their vision. You cannot spend all of the time in the world watching Netflix anymore. You can't spend 50 hours every single week playing video games. You can't spend the same amount of time doing the same exact things you were doing before you set these massive goals.
If you want to be a millionaire, you can't expect to be a millionaire by only working a couple hours a day. That's something that I've struggled with over the past couple of years. I have not put in enough time to get the results that I want in life. And guess what? Because I didn't invest enough time, I didn't get the results that I really wanted. And that's 100% my fault. So now I took a step back, re-value-ated my strategy, re-value-ated what I was doing and I was like, Isaac, I need to respect my time more. Respecting your time also means that you're respecting who you're hanging out with.
If you value your time, you're not going to be hanging out with the same exact people who you were once hanging out with. You have to be around other people who are going after similar things that you want. You know, another mentor of mine mentioned, I know that I mentioned mentor, mentor, mentor mentor. But when I say that, a lot of the information I get is from a handful of mentors.
I don't listen to just anybody. I listen to people who have the results I want out of life. So just know that the information I'm telling you not only comes from my own personal experience, but also reputable people that you can trust. But he was saying that if you really want to get a understanding of what your income per year is going to be, take the incomes of the five people you spend the most time with and divide it by five and you'll get your estimated income. Now I don't like talking just about money or just talking about business but guys we live in a society where money is extremely important.
You need money to survive. You need money to put food on your table to wear clothes to pay for a roof over your head.
We cannot help it. When I was taking some time to reflect over the issues of my childhood or different struggles that I endured or those different things that I watched and observed as a younger child and a younger kid. I recognize that at the forefront of nearly every single issue in my life and the issues in my parents' lives and my grandparents' life, money was the determining factor. If they had $100,000 in their bank account, a lot of the things that they complained about, a lot of the issues that they were having, whether that's financially, whether that's regarding health care, dental care, living situations, if they had money, they would have been able to solve those problems. And that's just a fact of life. We can't go around life disregarding the value of money and what we can do with it.
And so I'll use the analogy of money. But if you wanna become a millionaire, you can't spend a whole bunch of time hanging out with people who are smoking weed every single weekend, every single day, drinking every single day, partying every single week, You cannot do that. If you're hanging out with these people, you're not only not valuing your time, you're also not valuing your health. High performance people and people who want more out of life value these things because they know that the one thing and the one commodity that they can never get back is time. You can make more money. You can make new friends.
You should make new friends. Regardless of whatever circumstance you're at in life, you should always be looking to increase the value increase the people in your circle.
Again, you can learn from people who have more results than you. You can always be learning. You should be the person setting the example, not looking to just bring everybody else with you. You know, an analogy that I once heard was a boat. Actually, a fleet of boats. You're in your own boat. And then you have a rope behind your boat tugging another boat. You shouldn't be tugging other people along. If they don't want to come along, then don't force them. Don't drag them. You only have so much energy. You only have so much fuel in your own boat before you run out tugging these people.
You know, sometimes you have to give more slack to your rope and then you'll be surprised at some of the people who drop out of your life, some of the people who you stop hearing from.
That's to be expected. You know, the people who you start with will not finish with you. So the first habit of high performance people, of people who are looking to achieve massive results or who have achieved massive results, is self-development and mentorship. They learn from people and they're always learning from books, from audios, from videos, from mentors, from coaches. The second habit is valuing time, which also means valuing what they do at that time. They're looking for things that will be able to contribute to their success rather than be a detriment to their success. And the third habit that I'm going to be talking about today is simply valuing themselves.
Now this sounds a little arrogant. That sounds a little narcissistic, but I promise you it's not. There has to be a balance between selfishness and selflessness.
And far too many people try to be so selfless. They pretty much spend their entire lives working for other people but never focusing on what they really should be doing for themselves. How are you supposed to bring up the people around you if you can't bring up yourself? That's something that I've had to take a step back and examine in myself. These people get right for themselves first and then they focus on helping other people. When you're on an airplane, and the very beginning of before you even take off, the air attendants go through and they walk you through the safety steps of if this plane goes down.
And what do they say? They say to always put your oxygen mask on first. If you do not put your oxygen mask on and you try to help the person next to you, then you might get their mask on, but you're going to be a toast.
You're going to be dead. If you put on your mask, then you're able to help three times the amount of people. You're able to help the person to the right of you, to the left of you, to the front of you, and to the back of you. Put your oxygen mask on first. And that again goes back to working on every single area of life, every aspect of your health physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. If you're emotionally unstable, how do you expect to run a multi-million dollar company? How do you expect to bring up your friends if you're an emotional wreck? If you're physically unfit, how do you expect to set the example for your future family?
The way that you are is the way that your kids will be as well. You have to realize that this goes into subconscious programming, this goes into our DNA, this goes into the way that our parents raised us.
You are the way that you are today because of the people who had a heavy influence on you when you were younger. You can't help who you were born into, what family you were born into. social class you were born into, you cannot help that. But what you can help is what person you will become today and over the next couple of years and over how you will raise your future family, over your future kids, what influence you will be on the internet. You know, it's like, everybody is promoting the wrong things. It's something that really bothers me and really irritates me. I see these 11 and 12 year old kids dressing and, you know, like flexing with guns and flexing with weed and flexing with codeine and all these different things and cussing and not realizing like that they're going down the wrong path.
And I say that. I say that very humbly but it hurts me to see that. It's like how do they expect their future kids to be? You know, are they really living the life that they should be living? I'm not here to judge but I'm just saying that, you know, we have to be aware of our actions. We have to be aware of who we are. And the better we become as ourselves and the more work we do on us, the more every other area of our life will grow as well. Billionaires do not spend a whole lot of time just hanging out with normal people.
Now that could be misinterpreted. I don't want you to misinterpret that. I say that in a way of these billionaires have to protect their energy and so they're going to help who they help.
They're going to help as many people as they can help or they should be, you know. But at the same time, they value themselves enough to where they know that they have to take care of their health first. They have to take care of themselves first. There's a balance between being selfish and being selfless. The better off you are, the better off the people around you will be. But money doesn't change a person. Money amplifies who you are deep down. If you're a total jerk and you get money, you're going to be even more of a jerk. If you're a giving caring person, the more money you get, the more giving you'll be able to do.
A big reason why I'm trying to become successful is to help my mom out, to get her into a better situation, to retire her, to help out my grandparents, to get them into a better situation, to give back to friends of mine who believed in me, even when there were times where I didn't believe in myself.
I am doing this on a large part to help other people. I recognize that the bigger my podcast gets, The more people and the more attention I have in my brand, the more people who know my name, the more I'll be able to influence them for the better because I respect myself and I respect what I'm putting into my body. I respect what I'm taking in, what information I'm learning and I know where I'm going. Far too many people do not know where they're going. But the only way to get to that point where you know you're going is to have a certain degree of selfishness and spend time on you and your journey and your progression towards your better future so you can better help other people.
So in today's episode guys, I'm about to cut this, but in today's episode we talked about the three habits, not just you know all the habits because there are a ton of other habits and different habits will vary but three of the things that we talked about was investing into themselves, investing into self-development, investing into coaches and mentors.
The second one was valuing time, valuing who they spent time with, what they did with their time. And the third was the balance between selfishness and selflessness. The habit of focusing on getting right themselves before they help every other person get right. So I hope that you got some value from today's episode. I will say stay tuned for episode 24, which is coming Wednesday, early in the morning. And it's going to be talking about the four stages of learning. I'm super excited to teach you guys this information. So like I said, the fee for the show is to share this with one person or more.
You could share this with every single person you know in your life. And with that being said, I'll wrap it up. And if you are not following me already, go and follow me across all social media platforms at Isaac Mashman on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on TikTok.
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