17: Let Your Haters Push You To The Top!!!

Do you approach life from an abundance perspective, or a scarcity perspective?

Do you allow resistance to disable you, or do you use it to propel yourself to even greater heights?

Does your competition slow you down or inspire you?

Resistance comes in many forms, and is frequently self-inflicted.

As entrepreneurs, we are creative individuals, and that creativity can be challenged by what we perceive as roadblocks.

The trick is to learn to use that resistance, those perceived roadblocks, as fuel for our journey.

In the same way that a plane uses the power of the headwind to achieve "wheels up" faster than it would with a tailwind, we can use our

competition to elevate us and accelerate our growth.

Used constructively, even anger can be a tool for growth.

This week we talk about how you can avoid letting the haters, the naysayers, the competition get the best of you.

You can welcome that energy and use it to power yourself and your business to the top.

As usual, our references are all over the place.

When was the last time you heard a podcast that managed to seamlessly go from Andy Warhol to Henry Ford, to the unfortunate reality of life for a

zebra in the jungle? Thats's right. John and Tom 360! Well, maybe not the seamless part.

Hey, if you haven't read it yet, check out The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.

We're gonna keep on talking about it, so you might as well break down and buy it now.