The Most Valuable Lesson I learned from Grant Cardone

I find Grant Cardone to be quite a magnificent individual. He is quite fascinating because he is so diverse in who he is as a person. He is like this guy who came from St. Charles Louisiana who speaks with a Southern “bayou” drawl, yet he has knowledge in his brain about the world, people’s behavior and about finances (amongst many other topics) that will leave you dumbfounded. His expertise and knowledge base seems quite apparent when he communicates to an audience, and at the same time he is just another human being that has quirks, flaws, and all kinds of interesting characteristics that make him the man that he is today. Apart from attempting to de-construct such an interesting and acclaimed individual at this moment, I would like to commend him for teaching me one or two things (non-modesty at its finest) about money but more than anything for expanding my brain through some of the words that have come out of his mouth.

The first Big Idea is the idea that “you shouldn’t add time to a decision” and that “you should stop adding time to anything”. He has a particular name for these “anythings” and these “decisions”, he likes to call them cycles of action. A cycle of action that is ‘completed’ could be something as simple making your bed as soon as you leave it first thing in the AM. Another cycle of action is washing the dishes after you have cooked yourself a delicious bacon fat-drenched eggs and the dishes have started to stockpile in the kitchen. Another one is you making a promise to yourself or to your sales manager that you are going to accomplish making 78 phone calls during your 8-hour shift, whatever that takes of you, and accomplishing it — like you said you would.

Now, this all seems plain and clear, doesn’t it? Yes. Cycles of action are in essence small bubbles that we create during our day as creatures of habit and once we complete them we are feeling quite good about ourselves. But the real relevance of why completing cycles of action is so important apart from them making us feel super accomplished and boosting our sense of self-esteem, is the point from which the cycle of action started, that point in time where you actually made a decision in your brain to make the bed. The point in time where you made a decision to wash the dishes and not left them to stockpile. That moment in time when you decided that rain, hail, or shine you were going to finish those 78 phone calls because you said at the beginning of Tuesdee (as GC likes to say it lol) morning that you were going to make it happen.

Why is that point in time SO RELEVANT? And why does it take the award of the #1 Lesson that I learned from Uncle Grant Cardone (Mr. Whatever It Takes) from me? Simply, because, most of humanity has been conditioned to go into autopilot mode throughout the time of its whole existence. Most of humanity is trapped in negative emotion patterns, egoic identities that detract them from their natural flow, tending to fake authorities that tell them what to do and what to think, subservient to illusory individuals who have made it clear who expect what, when, and where, from them. This relatively silly yet complicated ordeal has become the status quo of humanity. Living in a constant state of worry, anxiety and depression. That’s why when faced with a tough challenge — whether physical, intellectual, or psychological — like taking on a sales job, most individuals are not able to perform it well. Why? Because they are too trapped in their own heads to be able to respond to the outside world that is moving at lighting speeds! It sounds like a comedy but it sounds true to me.

That’s why when Grant Cardone, a man that has encountered all kinds of difficulties in his life, tells you irreverently to “STOP ADDING TIME TO DECISIONS”, he’s not only telling you something super practical in terms of business, finance, and human performance ‘etiquette’ if I may so arrogantly call it, he is actually telling you to Wake Up. It’s a call to humanity to snap out of it and to start making these decisions on an everyday basis so that you can go back to a time where you ebbed and flowed effortlessly without having to think about your next move, about your next worry, about your next prejudice, about your next goal, etc.

I am quite sure that Grant realizes this at a deep level but doesn’t really communicate it explicitly because he is more in tune with other parts of his personality than I am. Yet the message is the same: 1) Time is made up. 2) Don’t add time to the equation because when you do, what happens? Yes, doubt creeps in and destroys you. 3) And finally, complete cycles of action because once this is repeated in and out for tens of thousands of times and with a sense of direction towards what you want to achieve you will achieve it. Whether that’s completing your first article on Medium or becoming a billionaire, it is easier when you don’t have worry or anxiety looming in your brain because you have stopped giving these ghosts any air to breathe. You have killed time, the imaginary ghost that haunts humanity. Muahahahaha. In all seriousness though.

I hope GC reads this and likes my article just because. I have taken time out of the equation of thinking why I think he should like this article, and just like it for my sake.

I hope that whoever reads this article resonates with it and creates some space in his/her brain for what I attempted to express from the depths of my human brain, and that it touched you at a deep and meaningful level.

I’ll close with a quote from GC, which is, Feed The Beast and Starve the Doubt. Move quick because you shouldn’t forget that we are still living in a jungle and the fastest animal wins. Not the one that has fallen asleep! z

Cheers!

Francisco

Grant Cardone :)

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