Liston to Tony Robbins tell the Sylvester Stallone (aka Rocky) Story…

I’ve grown so much over the years, and I didn’t do it overnight as some people will tell you you can. It’s was a gradually incremental process.

It’s not the big deals, or “lucky” breaks, but the little thing you do everyday that are REALLY the key to massive success.

Watch this video to see what I mean…(comment and tell me what you think):

I did lunges today (combined with a one handed shoulder press), and what got me was NOT my muscles.

I had the muscle strength.

My heart was pumping like CRAZY. I was completely out of breath.

What got me was my muscle ENDURANCE.

You see my trainer has me do less weight but more reps to build my endurance.

He’ll gradually increase the weights as well to build up my strength.

So what am I getting at here?

You need BOTH mental strength and mental endurance to achieve high levels of success. Just like you exercise your body you gotta exercise your mind.

So what exactly is the difference between mental endurance and mental strength?

Mental Strength : Your ability to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and come up with creative ideas. This is a KEY skill for entrepreneurs. Think about it, are there more IMPORTANT skills for an entrepreneur than solving problems, overcoming obstacles and coming up with new ideas?

Mental Endurance : This is JUST as important if not MORE than having mental strength. Mental endurance is the ability to handle high levels of stress and responsibility.

It’s the ability to persevere in the face of failure.

It’s the ability to get BACK UP whenever you get knocked down.

It’s the ability to keep going when your mind is screaming “STOP! STOP! STOP!”

You could be a genius with vasts amounts of mental strength, but if you crack under pressure, when the going get a little tough, then you’ve LOST.

“Amit, this sounds great, I GET IT! But how do I build mental strength and mental endurance.”

Other than just staying consistent and building your business, there’s one meditation technology I’ve been using that has allowed me to DRAMATICALLY increase my mental endurance AND mental strength.

I’ve been using this technology for the last 3 years, consistently.

This technology not only increases your mental focus and creativity (mental strength) over time it increases your threshold for the amount of stress you can handle.

It’s called Holosync and it’s the MOST powerful technology I’ve ever used for personal growth. One word of warning though, this technology is SUPER powerful so be sure to follow the instructions EXACTLY and NOT use it for longer than the instructions indicate (I’m SERIOUS).

Here’s a video that (I hope) will REALLY make you think about your journey to achieving your business and personal goals…please comment and tell me what you think.

Once I hit $10k profit in one month; my belief and confidence skyrocketed; I had no trouble growing that to $20k/month profit and quitting my job.

Now the real question is: HOW did I get to the point where I raised my belief high enough to get to $10k/month – my first big success?!?

My lack of belief in myself is what kept me broke and struggling for many years. I started my journey toward financial freedom when I was 24, and didn’t become a millionaire until I was 29.

It took me 6 YEARS, and 4.5 of those years I had NOTHING to show for busting my butt day after day.

I could have quit ANY TIME in those 4.5 years, but I didn’t. I had something inside of me that kept pushing me.

To this day I don’t know what it was that kept me going, but I kept going and going no matter how many times I got knocked down.

Looking back I realized that those 4.5 years are largely what made me the man I am today. It gave me the iron will to succeed and to some degree the belief to succeed as well.

I say ’some degree’ because I eventually stumbled upon a very powerful technique to raising my belief level that finally allowed me to shatter through my pattern of failure and reach that first big success that would be the catalyst for everything that followed.

Here’s the technique….

Everyday while driving to work that I hated through bumper to bumper traffic I yelled out:

“I easily make $10k/month profit through my affiliate marketing business.”

I did it with EMOTION, over and over again.

Now I know some of you are thinking : “Oh NO, not that positive affirmation crap. Amit, that stuff doesn’t work!”

I does work, but only if you’re taking consistent and persistent action towards hitting the goal that you’re affirming.

You see, your subconscious mind believes anything you tell it over and over again with emotion. It can’t tell the difference between what’s real and imagined.

Once your subconscious BELIEVES that you’re a super affiliate making $10k/month profit, then it will go to work to make it HAPPEN.

I know this is weird and uncomfortable to do at first, but it WORKS! Once you’re subconscious believes it’s a REALITY than NOTHING can stop you from hitting your goal.

That’s a great question. I’ll tackle that in a later post. And you know what? A lot of my posts in this blog already answer parts of that question. So if you haven’t had a chance to read this blog cover to cover, do that.

Anyways, let me post the video for today’s post so Shilpi and I can go back to playing Wii Resort.

In this video I talk about breaking through your pain threshold and why it has EVERYTHING to do with success, comment and tell me what you think…

I wanted to give you a quick yet thought provoking post today since I got a TON of work to do coming back from my trip.

I’ve talked a LOT about the importance of having the right mindset and attitude, and how that’s the key to being successful and getting rich.

We’ll there’s another school of thought on this. This is something I discovered from Dan Kennedy’s “No B.S. Wealth Attraction for Entrepreneurs”.

This success strategy actually does NOT require having the right attitude or mindset at all.

It even has a funny name: behavioral congruence.

So what the heck is behavioral congruence? It’s actually VERY simple.

The idea is this: if you do what wealthy and successful people do, you will get the SAME results.

Don’t worry about having the same thoughts and attitudes as wealthy successful people, instead focus on modeling what they do on a daily, weekly and yearly basis.

When your habits, behaviors, and actions become CONGRUENT with what rich and successful people do you will manifest the same results.

Study what successful people do. Model your behavior after their’s as much as you can. If your goal is to build a successful online business that generates a residual income, then start studying the actions and habits of the individuals who have already done that.

“But Amit, what about your attitude and thoughts and all that? Doesn’t that matter? That’s what you’ve been telling us!?!”

Here’s the thing, if your habits and behaviors are congruent with rich and successful people then you will automatically start thinking like them and developing the same attitude.

Motion creates emotion.

It’s THAT simple.

After being full time in my business for about a year I notice:

1. My energy levels began to decline.
2. I was getting sick more. Fact is if you have less exposure to people (I was sitting at home after all) your immunity will go down. I got a 105 fever aftering coming back from the Affiliate Summit in Vegas back in ‘07. I thought I was gonna die!
3. I got hit with allergies, with SUCKED the energy out of me like you won’t believe.
4. I started gaining weight.

Did this take a toll on my business? You better believe it did.

My motivation and energy levels had dropped, I was sleeping 10 hrs a day and sluggish when I did work. I know had to do something to change things fast.

I started training at the gym with a personal trainer and doing cardio on top of that several time a week.

Best decision I ever made. I started feeling better emotionally, my energy levels SHOT up, I started sleeping less and getting WAY more done.

I know a lot of you are burning the mid night oil to get your business going, but whatever you do DON’T NEGLECT your health. Spend 3-4 hrs a week at the gym and don’t think of it as time away from your business because you will get 3 time MORE done with what time you have left.

Trust me on this.

Forget about ALL the other benefits of going to the gym and eating right, just think about what it will do for your business and your bottom line – that should be motivation enough.

And when you make enough money hire a personal trainer, they’ll work you harder than you’d ever dream of working yourself. Like I told my personal trainer during my workout today “I would NEVER torture myself like this!”

LOL – that’s what I’m paying him for, to give me a damn good workout!

Now if you’re super motivated about your health than great, this post doesn’t apply to you. But for the rest of us: get off your butt and get into shape, because it will help you make WAY more money and grow your business that much FASTER.

In part I of this series I I talked about how there are 3 CRITICAL KEYS to getting anything you want in life:

1. A clear vision of what you want backed by a burning desire. In the last 3 posts in this series I talked about how to get that. (Links to those : write your vision, make a dream board, experience your vision).
2. Having an unshakable belief that you will make your goal happen.
3. Persistent and Consistent action towards your goal

Today I wanna talk about HOW to develop that unshakable belief. In my experience this was the HARDEST part for me in the beginning.

The fact is it took me YEARS before I was able to raise my belief level high enough to become financially free and successful in my own business.

I’m not trying to scare you, but show you that if I can do, I know you can too.

My situation was unique: I had ZERO business experience (physics nerd), very low self confidence when dealing with people, and LOTS of negative beliefs about wealth and success.

I had to read a lot of books and take a lot of action before my belief in my ability to succeed began to rise. I won’t wish the years of frustration and pain I went through on anybody. Having people constantly telling you to give up and that you can’t do it, doesn’t help either.

You see, belief is the missing key for MOST people. Part I of the equation, getting a clear vision of what you want is easy with a little effort. After all how hard is it to get excited and motivated about your dreams?

I mean come on, just think Tony Robbins seminars, Amway conventions. These people are VERY motivated about achieving their goals and dreams, they’ve got a burning desire. The real question is how many of them actually achieve their dream and goals?

WAY less than 1 percent of these people will ever become millionaires because they lack ONE key ingredient: BELIEF.

In the beginning I had to work VERY hard to get my belief level up, however once I hit that magical month where I made $10k profit in 1 month (Dec 2005) EVERYTHING changed at that point.

My belief level went through the ROOF because now I had tangible results to back it up. For the first time I really started to believe in ME. That belief fueled by a burning desire to quit my job gave me tremendous energy and focus.

I started taking massive action, and even though my profits dropped to $3k the following month I was able to quit my $90k/year job JUST 6 months later with money in the bank and having paid off $20k of consumer debt.

Each victory shot up my belief level and as my belief level rose I was able to achieve more victories.

Let me REPEAT that:

THE MORE I BELIEVED THE MORE I WAS ABLE TO ACHIEVE AND THE MORE I ACHIEVED THE MORE MY BELIEF LEVEL SKYROCKETED.

It’s an upward success spiral. It’s this spiral that allowed me to go from $20k in debt to a millionaire in just 18 months.

Once you get your belief level high enough to the point you achieve ONE major success (for me it was the $10k month) call it the catalyst, your belief level will skyrocket and you’ll be on that success spiral.

When you get there hold on because it will be the most AMAZING ride of your life.

Now some of you may be thinking “Amit, this success spiral thing is great, but how do I get my belief level high enough to hit that first catalyst?”

Glad you asked because there’s one specific technique I used that allowed me to consistently raise my belief level back when I was seeing no results and facing constant criticism and negativity.

I’ll reveal that in my NEXT post so stay tuned

Here’s the first author that I read when I started on my journey to becoming rich and financially free, that had a HUGE impact on helping me create that rich person/business owner mindset.