Militant About Your Vision: FRIDAY FIRE #6
Host: Isaac Mashman · October 2, 2020 · Episode 39 · 8 minutes
Transcribed from the episode audio and edited to read cleanly: names and terms corrected, grammar fixed, filler words and false starts removed, punctuation added. Words in [brackets] could not be made out with certainty. Wording can differ slightly from what was said; the episode itself is the record.
Welcome back to another episode of Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman, the podcast. I'm your host, and this is a Friday Fire episode. This is going to be really quick. This is going to be straight to the point, and this is going to be something that will give you a pick-me-up if you're feeling down. This isn't some motivational clip, but this is something that is raw. This is honest. This is truthful. This is some big brother advice, and I don't mean big brother like 1984, but big brother like, yo, I care about you. I care about your well-being. I care about your success, and I want to see you win.
So guys, it's been a little bit over a month since I've done a Friday Fire episode. I've been going through some crazy life changes, and I did not do what I needed to do to continue with my podcast over the past month.
That is my fault. I recorded a couple new episodes. I dropped episodes 37 and 38, which were a discussion on personal branding. Make sure you go back and listen to those episodes. But I did not stay consistent with my schedule of releasing an episode every single Monday and every single Friday, and that is what is driving me to record this episode right now. That is why you have to put one foot in front of the other, no matter what struggle you are going through in life right now. I understand that with COVID, with everything going on, you're probably stressed out. You might've lost your job, you might've lost a couple of clients (I know I did), and you might've been under an immense amount of stress over the past couple of months. You might be struggling right now.
You might be dealing with depression. You might be dealing with anxiety. You might be dealing with imposter syndrome. With all of these things going on in the world, and then you are thrown into the mix with the presidential election and just all of these [stimuli], you're probably going crazy. If you're not going crazy right now, I know that at one time in the past (I don't know, how long has it been? Six months that we've been locked down), you have felt one of the ways that I mentioned a minute ago. Guys, it matters, but it doesn't matter. I'm not saying that you shouldn't feel your emotions, that you shouldn't feel how you feel, but at the same time, you have to realize that these emotions are not going to help you get to where you want to go in life.
These goals that you have set for yourself, the lifestyle you want to live, the places you want to go, the money you want to make, the people you want to see, the family you want to build, it is not going to happen if you are staying in the past, if you are staying in yesterday, or if you are letting all of the stressors of life hold you down. It just won't happen. I say this in the most loving way. I say this with such empathy, but also with a firmness that I think a lot of people need right now especially. We live in a society that almost promotes being very soft. We live in a society that promotes settling. We live in a society that promotes listening to everybody else but not listening to yourself.
It promotes making sure that everybody else is fed, but you don't feed yourself. It's great to care about other people. It's great to care about what's going on. It's great to stay informed on the election. It's great to stay up to date with COVID statistics and all this other stuff. But at the same time, guys, you got to control the things in your own life before you focus on going out into the world and venturing into solving everybody else's problems. Chances are you have done too much of that in the past six months. I know I have.
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I was just overexerting myself in the areas of life that I shouldn't have been overexerting in, when I should have been going 110% in with my own life, my own vision, my own hustles.
I was going in 110% in 100 different ways, trying to help 100 different people. I don't regret it, but at the same time, now, moving forward, I'm like, man, the better off I get, the more focused I get, the better off these other people are going to be just by naturally watching how I move. I'm leading from a distance. I'm leading from a distance. Part of being a leader is doing shit that you don't want to fucking do. Excuse my French. But literally, guys, one foot in front of the other, you got to keep going no matter how difficult life gets. Think about SEAL training, what it takes to become a Navy SEAL.
This honestly goes for any special forces training. You could be a Green Beret, you could be a Navy SEAL, you could be an Army Ranger, you could be in the British secret forces like the SAS, like a James Bond type thing.
Regardless, during their training they go through mud, they go through snow, they go through rain. It doesn't matter. They have an objective, and they are going to go ahead and achieve that objective no matter what, no matter what goes on in their environment. They are going to adapt and they are going to overcome. They are mentally not going to let anything that goes on around them affect their mission, and their target mission is getting through SEAL camp. It's getting through their training, or it's getting through that day's mission. That's how you have to treat your life. That's how you have to treat your business, your goals, and your vision.
This show is called Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman, and the only way that you can ever chase after your vision and obtain it, or obtain the different segments of your vision, because I don't think that we're ever going to achieve 100% of our vision.
Hear me out on that. I say that because I think the vision is ever evolving. I think the vision is growing and expanding and getting bigger and bigger with every single day. The bigger goals that you meet, the bigger your vision grows because you're like, hey, I could go ahead and achieve something that is even better. So guys, what I mean by this, and what I mean by what I'm saying, is you have to continuously move forward, adapt and evolve and overcome. You have to have this militant mindset, this almost like, no matter what goes on, no matter what happens in my family, no matter what happens in my friend group, no matter what happens on social media or in the election, I'm going to be ruthless about my goals.
A lot of times that is looked down on in society because we have this level of softness. Overcome that, disregard it, and go after what it is you really want in life. Give yourself permission to actually pursue these things. Give yourself permission to be one of the 1% of people who actually have the willpower and, for lack of a better word, have the balls to go after what they really want.
It's not easy. We still got 90 days left in 2020. We don't know what challenges are going to come. We don't know the outlook of the election. We don't know any of this. I'm not trying to speculate on what's happening or what's going to happen, none of that. But just know that no matter what situation you are presented with, you are going to be able to get through it. You're going to be able to get through it and come out on the other side stronger than you were going into it. You are much more capable than you give yourself credit for, and that's something that I've had to learn for myself.
I have developed this mentality, and it's like the only way that you can actually reach these goals, and lose the weight that you want to lose, or make the money that you want to make, or live the life that you want to live, is by having this mindset that is almost like it's laser focused.
It's laser focused. It doesn't matter how injured you could get. It doesn't matter what obstacles you could be faced with. You are going to get it. Guys, stop making excuses for yourself. Grow a pair and go after it. Much love. Until this upcoming Monday, have a fantastic weekend, and I will catch you on the next episode.