Power
Lately I’ve been going through the Ben Settle podcast again and taking notes which I highly recommend everyone do. Those that are serious about their writing.
In the first episode he talks about power.
Not in a Stalin-istic way.
BS references having power in your personal life. Real power.
These are a few notes I’ve taken from the episode.
Self-improvement - Constantly improving email skills, focus on getting better at persuasion.
Financial Independence - Don’t have to do anything that you don’t wanna do.
Outcome Independence, not caring about the outcome of something.
Not Having Debt - Personal debt not leveraging credit.
Multiple Streams of Income
Patience
Punctuality
Self-discipline
All things that everyone should be working towards, all the time.
Out of all of these, the one that stands out the most is self-discipline.
Why?
Because people need to learn to discipline their disappointment.
Something I learned from VP who I spoke about in one of my earlier emails.
The man that taught me how to trade.
Learning what I did, and still do from him bled into my personal life, and how I approach everything.
Money management and trading psychology are the two things that I’ve become obsessed with and have helped me more times than I can count when it comes to achieving power and disciplining my disappointment.
You hear life’s not fair, I’m not paid enough for this, I hate my job, I don’t like my spouse anymore, I don’t know what to do, the list is endless from those who don’t have any power.
Even worse, they’re not working on themselves to get it.
The slightest disappointment and they fold like origami.
They head to their favorite social media platform (Most likely Facebook) to shout into their echo chamber and get showered with validation from a bunch of people who are just as powerless as they are.
This inevitably leads to more disappointment and the cycle begins again.
A very small of me that still exists feels sorry for them, almost.
Work toward achieving power. All of the time.
Bartenders are constantly learning new techniques to perfect the craft.
But it starts with the foundation. Without it, you’re building a house of cards.
It’s continual.
The steps toward achieving and maintaining power are no different.
Mike “your favorite villain” Downs