Show Notes
Most people stay stuck in one place and sabotage themselves because they fear failure, but according to "The Big Leap" by Gay Hendricks, a fear of success can be just as debilitating and keep us from becoming a bigger version of ourselves. For Jane Sagalovich, this insight resonated heavily with her, helped her uncover why she was stuck, and allowed her to realign her nervous system so she doesn’t sabotage herself before success. In this episode, she shares how this book impacted her life in so many ways, and we also talk about what it takes to create and scale a great course.
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
Why you don’t need to customize everything in our programs to get results The idea that everything must be custom to get people results is a misconception, often driven by ego and insecurity. When people teach live they want that visual feedback from the other person, but you can also create enough confidence in what you’re teaching.
How to set a new thermostat for our lives Much of our identity is wrapped up in the set point of what we believe we’re capable of, and that makes us afraid to succeed beyond that. If there’s a level of success we’re used to and if we try to go above it, we’ll sabotage ourselves back down to neutral. You have to bring more awareness to your decision and watch for areas where you’re not allowing yourself to go past your set point or present self.
How to watch where you apply your creativity Many coaches apply their natural urge for creativity to the structure of the business and instead of building something long-lasting, they find themselves constantly pivoting, creating new courses and starting from the bottom. We would benefit more from something that doesn’t change that much for the audience, and then find an outlet that allows us to scratch our creative itch, without messing with our core business.
Guest Bio Jane Sagalovich is a coach, strategist and the founder of Scale Your Genius. She founded Scale Your Genius in 2018 to help people whose work makes a difference in people’s lives make a bigger impact, make more money, and have more freedom in how they do their work. For more information and to find out about Jane’s program head over to https://scaledgenius.com/. You can also join The Genius Tribe Facebook group here. “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level” by Gay Hendricks
More from One Book That Changed My Life
"Psycho-Cybernetics" is one of my personal favorite books, and when I first read it, the underlying idea hit me like a ton of bricks and made a huge impact on my mindset. What if we thought of our subconscious as our own success mechanism? For ghostwriter, book coach, and book editor Deborah Ager, this book came into her life at a time of great personal adversity, and it helped her take steps forward. In this episode, we talk about what we learned from the book and how we put its ideas into practice. Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode Why clarifying our ideas is so important You can have a really powerful idea and one that has a lot of potential, but if it’s buried within a book, even if it’s written very well, it can screw up that whole idea by making it confusing or diluting it.
“Traction” and its Entrepreneurial Operating System has had a huge impact on entrepreneurs of all types. Most of us are grappling with the question of turning our own unique way of solving problems into a system that has a strong selling proposition. In this episode, consultant and founding partner at Scalto, Gabriela Pulido shares how this book helped her set and reinforce a new strategic direction for her business. Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
From an author’s perspective, there’s no greater achievement than having your ideas become so deeply ingrained and absorbed that people unconsciously implement them. If there are two books that have rightfully earned that status, it would be “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing” by Ries and Trout and “Crossing the Chasm” by Geoffrey Moore. These books have made a life changing impact on a marketer I really respect, Christopher Lochhead, so much so that he believes any card-carrying marketer can’t consider themselves one without reading them.
Daniel Mangena stumbled upon his own success code while trying not to fail at ending his own life, and he has Eckhart Tolle’s "The Power of Now" to thank for it. Dark, but within it, we can learn just how naturally powerful human beings are at changing our own internal programming. It doesn’t matter what we say we want, what matters is what we desire at our deepest unconscious level. What happens when what we want to achieve isn’t in alignment with that internal programming? How do we get our unconscious minds on the side of our desires?
We don’t get a lot of people on this show who come across a new book that massively impacted them right away, and changed how they’ll do business for the rest of their life. For best selling author, host of top 1% podcast How to Land a Job, and founder of Mastering College to Career, Daniel Botero, "$100M Offers" by Alex Hormozi shifted the marketing of his program, and quadrupled his sales.