If you’re smart (which you probably are if you’re reading this), then chances are that YOU are your own worst enemy.

Because you’re too smart for your own good.

I hate to break it to you but being smart does not equate to being successful.

If you look around, you may notice that there is an abundance of idiots who are just doing their thing, and unlocking massive levels of success in the process.

They’re living their best life. Living free. Healthy. Enjoying life on their own terms.

Meanwhile you’re busting your ass trying to change your life with far less success. Stuck in the rat race, struggling with creating the economic levers that you know will unlock a better lifestyle.

Whatever your definition of success may be, you should be seeing better results, but you’re not.

This thought came to mind because I’ve been having countless conversations with people who have every intention of transforming their lives, yet are perpetually stuck in the same place for months, or even years.

Because they’re literally too smart for their own good.

Here’s why…

People tell me all the time that the thought of making a big lifestyle change seems too overwhelming.

So they never take action. They think it’s going to be too much work or too big of a commitment for them to handle.

They erroneously assume that they don’t have enough time, or enough money, or enough discipline to start something and follow through on it.

Or they worry about what others will think. Or they wonder what will happen if things don’t go as planned. Or that they are not qualified.

These are all self-limiting ideas that have yet to be validated. They have not played out in reality, thus they are invalid. They are mere figments of the imagination.

And invalid thoughts should not stand in the way of taking action, because they don’t represent the reality.

Yet, smart people have a tendency to create imaginary scenarios in their mind that don’t serve them in any regard.

The quickest solution to the overthinking problem is to not think at all.

I know this sounds counter intuitive, but you’ve done enough thinking already.

Stop thinking. Seriously. Just stop.

Society does not reward clever thinkers. It rewards action-takers.

Because people who take action learn fast and have real world feedback from which they can iterate from.

There needs to be a special word for the level of hubris people have when they start confidently making elaborate plans around untested ideas.

This is especially true in business, but also in many other areas of life.

Because when you make big and audacious plans before you ever have real world feedback, you’re operating purely in theoretical terms.

You’re not based in reality.

I notice this to be especially true for corporate workers who are transitioning into solo-entrepreneurship.

For whatever reason, people coming from this space are abundantly cautious, and risk averse.

And one symptom of being exceptionally risk-averse is trying too hard to control uncontrollable outcomes. So they plan for everything. They try to account for infinite variables.

And what’s worse is that they spend a whole lot of time and energy making irrelevant plans that are not useful in the slightest while neglecting the actual things that will move the needle forward.

I know people who’ve been planning their business for the past 6 months when they could easily have a monetizable product or service AND their first paying customer within just a couple of weeks through a process of rapidly testing in iterating.

Planning is just a smart person’s way of procrastinating.

It is expensive as f*** to have an “I can do it myself” mentality.

Because you simply don’t know what you don’t know, and it’s always better to accelerate the learning process by bringing other people in for help.

But ego and misplaced confidence gets in the way.

I’ve had the misfortune of falling into this trap myself.

For two years I struggled with trying to create a successful online business. I only learned through reality checks that could have been avoided if I stayed more open to learning from others who’ve been there and done that.

Now I listen to extremely thoughtful and educated people lay out their business plans and they almost always rattle off a laundry list of mistakes that I’ve also made in my own journey.

They talk of all the different things they’re working on instead of having a single focus that drives results, or they’ll explain their bloated social media content strategies that will only dilute their messaging.

This one hurts the most because knowingly watching someone sabotage themselves in this way is a genuinely painful experience for me.

I won’t claim to be an expert. But I am 2 or 3 steps ahead of anyone who’s at the beginning of a journey that I’ve already traveled.

I’ve learned that the power of shared knowledge is extraordinarily valuable, because you just don’t know what you don’t know.

So over the years, I started a habit of regularly sliding into DMs and offering people money to get on a call with me for an hour and tell me everything they know.

I realized most people’s egos wont allow them to drop a single dime on receiving advice from another person when they can just “google it” instead, so this became a key differentiator in my strategy for accelerating my own expertise.

And to this day I still maintain this practice.

If its not a monetary payment, then it’s some other offer of value in exchange for knowledge.

The power of “buying” knowledge that someone spent years attaining is underrated.

But ego, and “smarts” is a major inhibitor when it comes to leveraging the power of shared knowledge.

And recognizing the power of shared knowledge is one of my motivations for creating The Focus Algorithm Private Network where like-minds can not only come together to share in knowledge and experience, but where I can also leverage my own expertise to directly guide members who are serious about re-designing their lifestyles for working less and enjoying life more.

Stop overthinking. Stop talking yourself out of action. Stop placing imaginary and invalidated limitations on yourself. Stop making plans. And stop assuming you have all the answers.

Stop getting in your own way.

Stop being too smart for your own good.

Start executing. Take action. Learn fast. Iterate. Buy other’s expertise. Keep an open mind.

Do this, and the universe will conspire in your favor so fast it feels illegal.

If you’re ready to lock in, leave the rat race, and live free then apply to join The Focus Algorithm Private invite-only network.

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