The #1 Threat to Your Success
Host: Isaac Mashman · June 22, 2020 · Episode 30 · 12 minutes
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What is going on, everybody? Isaac Mashman here. You are now listening to episode number 30 of Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman. Now, last week's episode, or I don't want to say last week, but episode 29, was a very, very fiery topic. I encourage you guys to go back and listen to that. I do, because I mentioned a lot of things that have to do with our current situation in society, and I provided a lot of value. So if you're not caught up yet, go back and listen to that. If this is your first time listening to the show, thank you so much. I really appreciate you.
Chase the Vision is all about helping other people chase after their dreams and have massive, massive success. That is a big goal of mine. I want to help as many people as possible achieve massive results and massive success in their life based off of the things that I have learned, based off of the experiences I have lived. I think that we all have something to share. I think that we all have something that we can learn from another individual, or that we can give as a way for that individual to learn from us. So this is what the show is all about, so thank you for listening.
Before I jump into what I'm going to be talking about today, and I have an amazing episode lined up, I would like to ask a favor of you. That favor is, if you get any ounce of value, which I'm sure that you will, go ahead and share this with a friend of yours. I ask that you do that for every single episode that I release and that you listen to. If you get value, share it with somebody who you've never shared it with before. That is the only way that this show can grow. I'm not spending a lot of money on advertisements. I'm actually spending zero dollars at the time of recording this on any advertisements.
This is all coming organically, and the way that organic growth works is you guys helping me grow. I am here trying to provide value, and if you guys could help me by trying to get my numbers up, man, that's a win-win situation in my book.
So today I'm going to be talking about why it is important to always be aiming higher, why it is always important to be taking action and have your eyes set on a new level. You know, when I look back over my life, and when I look around and think about my family members and think about friends that I've had and people in my life and those that I've been surrounded with, I come to some very unfortunate conclusions. I know that sounds super depressing, but I literally have come to some sad conclusions, because most of the people around me have stopped growing. They've stopped looking for higher levels of success. They've stopped looking for new achievements and stopped setting goals, or some people have never even set a goal in their entire life.
I'm not somebody who came from a middle class background or an upper class background. I wasn't a trust fund baby. I wasn't born into money. My grandfather was a carpenter. My mom's worked in retail a lot of her life, and she's worked in fast food, trying to provide for me as a single mom for a lot of my life. My grandmother was a housewife. That's my background. I'm not coming from money. I'm coming from let's go and eat off of the dollar menu, and you don't order a soda when you go out to a restaurant, you order water to save those two dollars. You get the Great Value can of beans rather than the Bush's can of beans. I don't want to say there's nothing wrong with growing up like that, because there is something wrong with that.
[You] can't provide as well as you should be able to provide for your family, whether that's health care concerns or whether that's dental concerns. You know, the majority of Americans, if a health crisis came up in their life today, would not be able to pay for it. They would go into debt if they had a medical emergency. God, that is just horrible. It honestly is horrible. By looking around and examining and having an open mind about the way I was raised, and looking at the people around me, I noticed that they all have one thing in common, and like I said, they don't set goals and they become complacent. They become comfortable. Napoleon Hill has his book Outwitting the Devil, and there's an amazing audio version of it on SoundCloud.
Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil, it's a four-hour audio worth listening to. I've listened to it multiple, multiple times all the way through. He talks about people who drift, and the people who drift in their lives really just live without purpose. They live without a chief aim, without a chief reason to be alive. That's what most people around us do. Unless someone is trying to move up in their company or trying to start a business or trying to improve their lifestyle or trying to improve themselves, they are drifting. They're just living and waking up every day, not knowing why they're waking up. They're living but not thriving.
They're breathing but not really living. It's not the right way of doing things. You might be like, who am I to say that that's not the right way of doing things?
Well, it's looking at the basis that we have one life to live, and we need to make the best out of this life that we're given. We have one shot at this. Not only that, but we have a one in 400 trillion chance of being alive and being the exact person we are today. So with those numbers and those statistics alone, [the odds are] in our favor. You could have been a tree, man. You could have been a cockroach. You could have been anything other than a human. But you are here with a conscious mind, with a mind that you are able to control and program, and to create massive things and massive success and massive results and unique inventions, and provide services that nobody else would have ever been able to provide, or make music that nobody else would ever be able to make.
God, that is so powerful. That is so powerful. There is only one Beethoven, one Vincent van Gogh, one Salvador Dali, one Thomas Edison, one Nikola Tesla. There's only one of those people, and just like there's only one of them, there's one of you. So what are you really going to do with your life? Well, I can tell you one thing and give you a suggestion on where to start, and that is to always set goals and then have a high level of self-awareness, to where you understand if you are ever becoming complacent. I've taken a rather slow week the past week. I've spent a lot of time writing, and I've spent a lot of time just kind of in my head and in my thoughts, thinking and absorbing and talking with amazing people.
I recognized that the one thing I was doing a lot this week was nothing. I was doing a lot of nothingness. I was like, man, that got so easy to do. It became so easy for me to just not do anything. That's a major issue. That's a problem, man. That is a problem. But it's one thing doing it for a week versus doing it for a lifetime, or versus doing it for 10 years, staying in the same job that you hate for 10 years, even though you want to get a different job, and you just never go out and get the different job.
It's as easy as you make it. But those seven days that week could easily lead to a year. That week that leads to a year could lead to a decade that could lead to a lifetime. That's dangerous. It's extremely, extremely dangerous. I use dangerous a lot, but it is because danger is a threat. I see complacency as a threat to your future. It is a threat to your success and to your goals. I think that's the title of the podcast episode right there. Let me digress for a second. If we're given one shot at this, if we're given one chance to make this great and to make our life great, we have a series of smaller chances, but one actual life. So we should always be aiming higher.
We should have our sights aimed on another level. We might not be at that level physically, but mentally we are already there. Mentally, you are aiming towards something greater than your current self. You're aiming for a situation, for a career, for a lifestyle that is greater than your current physical circumstances. That goes to speak about paradigms, the way that you view things, the way that you view life. Are you viewing life on the level that you are at, or are you viewing life on a higher level, a higher degree of success? I heard from a mentor of mine that when you have 10 cents to your name, think like you have a million in your bank account. But when you have a million dollars in your bank account, think like you have 10 cents.
It's powerful. That's powerful. But what I want to focus on is when you have 10 cents, thinking like you have a million. You might be on a low physical plane, a low physical level, but if your sights are set on that million dollars in your bank account, and then you follow those thoughts and you follow those emotions with massive action, you will receive those massive results and achieve your goals. I'm not one of those people who talks about the law of attraction with everything in life and thinks that you can just sit there and write out your goals every day and just think it into existence, think it into reality.
I'm not one of those people, because that's not the way life works. That's not the way the law works. The law works when you work.
You have to have a vision of where you're going, or [where] you have to start in the first place, and then you execute. You take action. The law of reciprocity: what you give, you get back. What you give, you return. Some might call it karma. I call it the law of reciprocity. If you've ever been a jerk to somebody and they become a jerk back to you, are you really surprised? But if you're nice to somebody, a lot of times they're going to be nice back. Not always. Some people are just sour about life. Have you ever done something nice for a person, or opened up a door for another individual going into a store or going into a restaurant, and they just don't say anything to you? That's one of the most annoying things ever.
I remember I've opened up the door for so many people, and they just walk through, and I'm like, man, gosh. But those people who walk through and never say thank you, those are the people who are complacent in life. Those are the people who have become comfortable and who have stopped growing. I adopted the phrase "live without limitations" because I recognized the one key principle in living a happy and fulfilled life is to never stop growing. Geniuses learn from the mistakes of other people. Idiots don't learn at all. I would like to think that you would learn from the people around you, that you would learn from their mistakes, and you wouldn't repeat those same mistakes. Complacency is a horrible place to be in. So that being said, guys, it's a rather short episode.
Always be aiming for a higher level. Always be looking forward, always be looking up, never be looking down and never be looking back. I feel like it's so easy to focus and dwell on the past that we almost prevent ourselves from living a really great present. Our present actions lead to our future life. The future is already set into stone if you want it to be. Your present self is just catching up to it. So guys, if you got any ounce of value, like I said, please share this with a friend of yours. You can follow me at Isaac Mashman on all social media platforms and go to isaacmashman.com.
If you're an artist or a musician, I've been working on stuff that is especially powerful for you guys. So if you're a rapper, an artist, a singer, a songwriter, message me.
Let's talk, let's hop on a phone call and see if we're a fit to work together. This is for those of you who are serious about really taking control of your brand and your career, and aiming for a higher level goes hand in hand with that. So have a phenomenal day. Thank you for listening, and always live without limitation. Stay tuned for next week's episode.