Be Obsessed Or Be Average

Be Obsessed Or Be Average motivates you to get your heart into your work and live up to your true potential by identifying the thinking patterns and work habits of the passionate, successful, and driven Grant Cardone.

Unless you’re some mythical creature, you regularly get tired and low on energy. Nobody’s immune to fatigue, but is there a way to generate energy instead of always lacking it?

When you’re starting to feel burnt out you have two choices, according to the author. You can either take a break or get obsessed. If you want to be average, you can just relax. But if you want to be extraordinary you’ve got to unleash the power of obsession.

If you do this right, your work will begin to energize you instead of exhausting you. That doesn’t mean you’ll be completely free from becoming tired though. We all have to rest regularly. But if you begin to feel disconnected from your work, all you’ve got to do is recenter yourself on your purpose.

Cardone had to do this when he turned 40. He was busy traveling from one speaking engagement to the next. He would even schedule talks in Canada on US holidays. But when he began to wake up not knowing which city he was in, he knew something had to change.

After some thinking, he realized that it wasn’t a public speaking career he wanted. His first passion was sales. All it took was simply reviewing his purpose and writing it down for Cardone to unlock the power of his passion. And the same can happen for you whenever you’re feeling burnt out.

When you’re going strong following what you love to do most, not everything is easy. As you’re pushing yourself to achieve great things, you’re bound to encounter the barrier of fear. But it’s important that you let it in and try to understand it because it’s often what you need to succeed. First, you need to recognize that fear will come in one of two ways. You either feel like people will reject you or that you will fail. And you’ll have to learn how to handle both to come out on top. Rejection is something that J.K. Rowling learned about when writing the first Harry Potter book. In a speech at a Harvard graduation, she once spoke of the need to have the courage to fail. She told the students that if they never fail, they would never live. Rowling knew what she was talking about, too. When she was trying to get her first book accepted, she had to deal with 12 rejections before succeeding. Remember that it’s okay and even a good sign if you’re…