We become our standards in many ways.

Your mindset will operate at the standard

that is offered to you by the people around you. Your behavior always matches your
internal identity and your inner standards.

Your standards are important. Your standards for your friendships, your standards for
the quality of the work you do, the standards of your languaging, the standards of the
nutrition you put into your body, the standards of your love life, the standards of your
mindset, and the standards of the way you occur in the world. My invitation for you
regardless of what you do is that you raise your game to a place called world class
and that is all about being a game-changer.As you leave the herd and the crowd and
perhaps the cult of mediocrity and rise to being a game-changer it’s a very disruptive
act and you actually threaten the masses of people around you, and that’s why every
visionary was first ridiculed before they were revered. How many times have we
given up on a dream because we were mocked by the people around us?

When people don’t understand your next level of world-class that just means you’ve
got a great dream, that just means you’re on the path of growth. Be a game-changer.

Rule of game-changers No1: No idea works unless you do the work.

Ideation without execution is delusion!

When people say they invested time, money, and effort in personal development and
their life didn’t change, well your life could have changed but you didn’t do the work
required to make the change happen. The reality is an idea is the starting point on
the process to get you to where you want to get to. So remember that really building
something great is all about execution. When you look at a Steve Jobs, Elon Musk,
Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Tesla, and a DaVinci, all those people had the
vision and then they outworked everyone around them to execute on the vision until
the product was done. And it’s not only the execution it’s the grit. Any game-changer
has literally out persisted everyone around them. When you get full of self-doubt on
the path to world-class do you continue? So the first idea, just remember no idea is
going to work unless you have the courage to do the work, it’s all about high levels of
execution intelligence. Great leaders and game-changers have a bias towards
getting things done and it’s like a muscle, the more you do the more you’re going to
want to do, and you start building this incredible momentum, the momentum fuels
internal confidence, the confidence wants you to make even more gains and it
becomes this upward spiral of unbelievable execution.

Rule of game-changers No2: To have what few people have, do what few
do!
To have the results of game-changers you need to start thinking and behaving like a
game-changer. Populate your mind with the best books, the best ideas, the best
conversations, behaving in ways most people don’t behave, again, you want to have
the results very few people have you’ve got to start doing things that very few people
do. Turn of the television, delete the naysayer, stop gossiping and start producing,
eat better food, run longer runs, shift from a focus on what’s not working to a focus
on what’s working. You really want to install a whole new series of mindsets and a
whole new series of rituals that very few people are doing.

Rule of game-changers No3: The best way to change the world is to

change yourself!

You will receive from the world who you become. The world is so obsessed with
externals but the doorway to success swings inward not outward. We get from life
who we become. The real value of external success is who you’ve had to become as
a person and what you’ve had to build in terms of your character and the capacities
and talents you had to polish to get the external success. That’s the real value of
success. Even if you lose the external success you get to keep the internal gold for
the rest of your life. Work on your character, work on your emotional architecture,
work on your mindset, work on your spiritual life, and then you become this force of
nature that becomes invincible and this force of nature that radiates this enthusiasm
and inspiration and this self-belief that really brings everyone around you into your
dream. Leaders execute on their internal power so that the people around them feel
the dream and do the work.

Rule of game-changers No4: An addiction to distraction is the death of

creative production!

You can be distracted or you can be a game-changer, you just can’t be both. Take a
look around most people are so distracted. People are addicted to distraction and
have lost their focus. If you really want to be a game-changer focus on your vital few.
Focus on the few projects at work that will move the needle, focus on the few
activities in your personal life that will allow you to live an iconic personal life. When
we become a minimalist, every game-changer is monomaniacally focused on just a
few things.

Rule of game-changers No5: The thing that you’re most afraid to do is

the thing that is most valuable to do!
Your fears are nothing more than growth in wolf’s clothing. Your progress lives where
your greatest fears lie. The things terrify you walk towards those, and the more you
do it the more the more you build confidence. The more you actually stand in the fire
of your greatest fears the more you actually find freedom. Being a game-changer is
counterintuitive. Feel the fear and do it anyways. I grow almost every single day, I
become braver almost every single day. Going to the places that frighten you is your
bravery training and the more you do it the stronger you become, the freer you
become, and literally every single thing you’re afraid of you’ve given your power to.

Rule of game-changers No6: Education is an inoculation against

disruption!

If you really want to be a game-changer you need to be in the rooms game-changers

play in, you need to go to the conferences every single quarter, read the books
game-changers read, and invest in the programs. If you really want to be a
game-changer, invest in your learning. The person who learns the most wins. The
person who understands the most can see around corners. So you want to invest in
knowing more than anyone who does what you do in the history of what you do.

Rule of game-changers No7: The seduction of safety is always more

dangerous than the illusions of uncertainty!

The world around us sells us this bill of goods to cling to the known, to live within the
comfort zone, to never stray out of your community of safety. To not reach too high
and do what you want to do but to live within your circle of understanding and safety,
a lot of people die at 20 and get buried at 90. If you want to be a game-changer it is
about living in the blue ocean of the unknown. Playing with new ideas, stretching
your internal capabilities. The best way to expand your limits is to go to the edge of
your limits. Do the most difficult things to grow. Be a game-changer.