How Leaders Solve Problems! - with Ed Mylett

85% of your problems should be solved IMMEDIATELY! Do you have a system, strategy or process for solving problems? Do you want one? I’m revealing mine in my new video/Audio release today👊🏽 The reason people have SO MANY problems and obstacles in their path is that most people are INDECISIVE. Instead of taking MASSIVE ACTION, they become stagnant and frozen in their problems and NEVER make a decision. Being DECISIVE, Being CERTAIN and taking MASSIVE ACTION is the #1 habit you must build to eliminate your problems! This will help obliterate most of them immediately. Think about the biggest problem you have right now. What effect is it having on your entire life? Is it affecting your family life? Is it affecting your work? Your faith? Your Finances? Your happiness? Your health? Now imagine what your life would be like if you were able to ELIMINATE that problem! In this new release, I’m going to teach you my 3 steps process on how to become a MASTER PROBLEM SOLVER and eliminate 85% of the problems you are dealing with! The most successful and happy people are DECISIVE. LEADERS ARE DECISIVE! I'm so excited to share these strategies with you. This time to build this habit right NOW! BE DECISIVE. Make the decision and LISTEN/WATCH NOW! The reason “Maxout w Ed Mylett” is the fastest growing show in the world right now is because this content, information, and training you won’t get anywhere else on planet earth, period! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

  I hear so many small business owners say the exact same thing. They just never have enough time in the day. Well, I measure time differently. I've compressed, condensed, heck, I've bent time. My first day is 6:00 a.m. to noon. My second day starts at noon and goes till 6:00 p.m. And my third day, 6:00 p.m. to midnight. I now get 21 days a week. Stack that up over a month, over a year, over five years, and my life's completely different than it would have been otherwise. And if you want to win as an entrepreneur, you have to compress your time, too. And you definitely can't afford to waste it. Waiting weeks on a big bank for capital? Your best bet's to work with my friends at Cardiff. They know how to compress time for entrepreneurs. They get your business approved in minutes and funded the very same day. They're America's favorite small business lender, and for good reason.

• 0:45Ed Mylett?

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  This is The Ed Mylett Show.

• 1:47Ed Mylett?

  Welcome back to Max Out, everybody. I'm Ed Mylett, and I am so excited about today's program because I feel like it's going to make such a difference in so many people's lives because of all of the direct messages I've been getting from people in the Max Out universe saying, "Ed, would you please cover this topic? It would make one of the biggest differences in my own life because it's something that I struggle with." And that topic today is problems. Specifically, how to solve problems. And I'm excited about covering it because it's something I struggle with as well. And I love teaching things frankly that help me own them and get better at them. People ask me often, "Why do you give away such detailed, specific content for no charge?" The reason that I do that is my mission is to change the world and change people's lives. And I know the lower the barrier of entry, free is pretty low, the more people are going

• 2:31Ed Mylett?

  to get access to the content and information. And hopefully, our bargain is that you'll share this with people as well. But the second reason is it helps me learn new things as I prepare and as I teach things. And so, today's all about problems and problem solving. First thing we need to know is let's start out with some basic premises. I'm going to give you some very tactical steps here as we move forward. But, problems need energy to live. I want you to own that. Remember this, problems need energy to live. And so, the concept should be that we solve problems, but we don't have to pour and deplete ourselves of energy. Because the more energy you give something, the more it expands. We want to be, in the Max Out Universe, we want to pour our energy and expense our energy towards the solution, not towards the problem.

• 3:12Ed Mylett?

  So, the first thing I want you to write down is, 90% of your energy, focus, time, and thought should be towards the solution, not towards the problem itself. This is a mistake most people make because they expend all the energy into the problem. They obsess over the problem, the problem. And when you expand energy, it grows to survive. And the problem gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, and the solution becomes more and more difficult. So, the first thing is, can you consciously begin to focus on energy expansion into the solution, 90% of it into the solution and not into the problem? What we do is we repeat that problem over and over and over again, and we magnify it to the point where we don't come up with realistic solutions and we deplete ourselves

• 3:57Ed Mylett?

  as energy towards the solution. And so, focus going forward, when a problem arises, a challenge arises, that you focus 90% of your energy and thoughts on the solution and not repeating the problem to yourself. And again, I want to remind you, we want problems in our lives. They're the one opportunity we have to grow. Without the existence of problems and challenges, there's no opportunities for growth in life. And so, we don't wish for a life that doesn't have challenges and problems, even though it seems like we would want one. Number one, you're always gonna have problems and challenges in life. So, today is such a great day to begin to accept strategies and a formula and a mindset that'll help you do that. But I know who you are because you follow my content. You're somebody who wants to grow and improve and change in your life and become a maxed-out

• 4:41Ed Mylett?

  version and a better version of yourself in every area. The only opportunity you have to do that is when problems and challenges arise. These are growth opportunities in our life. So, when they arise, it's very important that you see them as an opportunity to grow. And again, I don't mean that in a rah rah, foofy way. It's very true. It's important that we distinguish what it means because remember this. In other audios, I've talked about the quality of our life is comprised of the quality of emotions we live with. Our life is our emotions, right? If you have the emotions of happiness and joy and ecstasy and peace and faith and passion and intensity and winning, that's a great life. If you have a life that's filled with emotions regularly of depression, anxiety, fear, stress,

• 5:24Ed Mylett?

  worry, anger, that's a totally different quality of life. So, our emotions dictate the quality of our life. And so, when a stimulus like a problem comes up, we better be thinking it's an opportunity to grow and we better be expensing our energy towards the solution or we start to experience the wrong emotions. Why? Because in our life, emotions come from meaning. Because when problems come up in life, the meaning we take from the event dictates the emotion we experience. And so, that emotion dictates the quality of our life. And so, I want you going forward, when a problem arises, to feel the emotion and take the meaning away that this is an opportunity to grow, to expand. If you look back at your life in hindsight, the problems and challenges you have have all made you better when you solve them.

• 6:09Ed Mylett?

  So, those are the keys to begin today. The question is, how do we solve them? Is there a process? Is there a mindset? Are there some steps that when these arise, I've got a recipe and a formula? And that's what I want to share with you today. So, now I want to start out with a very basic three-step formula to begin with. Then, we're gonna get very granular and very specific. But there are three steps that I always... Once I've arrived where I'm ready to take action towards solving problems. Number one is make a decision. Once you've made a decision, make it. Number two is have massive certainty about that decision you've made. Once you've made a decision about how you're going to execute on this problem, make the decision. Number two, massive certainty. Flood yourself with certainty.

• 6:53Ed Mylett?

  You can't execute at a high level with self doubt or a doubt about the process, a doubt about your strategy. Flood yourself with certainty that you know what you've got is going to work. And then third, take insane action. This is a recipe in every area of your life. I don't care if it's in business, in family, in sports. Make a decision. Flood yourself with certainty and take massive action. This process I use with the athletes I coach. I use it with the entertainers, with the politicians, with the business people. I'm always reminding them all the time, I'm repeating them constantly. Make a decision. People wait around too long for the perfect plan. I'd rather have a flawed plan executed with certainty and massive action than the perfect plan executed with doubt and very little action.

• 7:38Ed Mylett?

  There is no perfect decision. Make one. Now, we're going to talk about how to arrive at the best decision in a minute. But I want you to remember, make a decision. Massive certainty, massive insane action. This will crush most problems. We've already talked about spending 90% of our time on the solution and not the problem. I'm going to give you another set of percentages here. The vast majority of problems that arise in your life should be solved immediately. Like 85% of them, resolved immediately. Make a decision, massive certainty, take action, it's gone. That means without a lot of deliberation. You've got to start to build the habit of being decisive. Successful people, happy people, leaders are decisive people. And I believe somewhere if there's 100 problems, challenges in life,

• 8:22Ed Mylett?

  85 of them should be decided immediately with not a lot of deliberation. And then certainty and massive action will eliminate that challenge and that problem most of the time. It's the people who procrastinate on the problem or ignore it or think it might go away that gives that problem time to magnify, to fester, to grow, to where now it's become bigger than it needed to be. Second point, get clear on what this problem really means. Is this a problem that's really gonna matter in five years? Really? Because what we do is, we talked earlier about meaning. What we do is, most people, a problem comes up and we begin to flood ourselves. When they stack it and stack it, this is a pattern most people go into. And they lose perspective on how really important this problem is. They lose perspective.

• 9:07Ed Mylett?

  They get foggy because they've increased their stress level so high. That now the problem is difficult to solve because you've lost perspective on really how big of a deal it is. And so make sure you're very clear, is this something that's gonna matter in five years? Because if it's not one of those types of problems, for the most part, massive action 85%. We're gonna talk today about the 15% of the time where it requires a deliberation and a process to solve it. But don't be conflicted or confused into thinking most of the things that arise in your life. Most of the time, your challenge is, you're not solving it quickly enough. You're not being deliberate, you're not being decisive. You're not getting totally certain. Certainty is so huge. Flood yourself with certainty. The reasons it'll work, over and over again.

• 9:51Ed Mylett?

  And then most people don't understand, you can obliterate most problems with just massive action. I see people hem and ha and make excuses all the time when challenges arise. And it would've just been solved if you'd have decided, you'd have been totally certain and you'd obliterate that problem with some massive action. Now, in order to get stressed about the problem, there's a few things that you have to do. That you're gonna be negative for you. Number one thing most people do to increase the stress level unnecessarily on a problem. Is you focus on the pressure that's aggravating you. In other words, you begin to focus on what the pressure means. You increase what it really means in the grand scheme of life. And you give it more energy than it needs. This is something you need to stop doing.

• 10:32Ed Mylett?

  Number two, you give this stressor like a disempowering meaning is what I call it. It begins to make you think, quite frankly, you're going to lose. What stress really is when a problem comes up is the fear of loss. And what you do is you begin to give this a disempowering meaning and you begin to feel like you're going to lose something. Which is why having a process means so much to me because when I know I have a process to solve a problem, I'm so much less fearful of the loss or the stress that it's going to cause me. And so just know, when you begin to get these feelings, it's where your focus is going that's causing this stress level to rise in you unnecessarily. And it's probably a pattern you have. We've talked about this a lot in other audios and videos where you have a pattern.

• 11:17Ed Mylett?

  And my hallucination for many of you is that when a problem arises, you begin to focus on the problem more than the solution. You begin to magnify your stress level, make a disempowering meaning, which is this fear you're going to lose something. And oftentimes, it's not even a thing. Oftentimes, it's you're afraid you're going to lose certainty, one of the six needs. You're going to lose your uncertainty, you're going to lose your significance. You might lose someone's love, right? You may lose the ability to grow or the ability to contribute. But you begin to focus on what you're going to lose and that fear magnetizes the problem and causes you stress. Stress is not a great place to live from. It's one of those disempowering meanings. And it's also a terrible place to make decisions from to solve problems. And the third way you create stress when a problem comes up is physically.

• 12:01Ed Mylett?

  In your body, what I call like your state, your physiology. You begin to get tense, don't you? You begin to hunch over, your breathing gets shallow. You kind of get closed, that worry, that feeling we get. You know what I'm talking about? This stress level that you use your body to create. Listen to what I just said. You're using your body in such a way to magnetize and elevate your stress level. See, that physiology of hunched over, shallow breathing, right? Is something that is the same as depression, as fear, as worry, as stress, as pain, as anxiety. It's the same thing you do with your body to create all those emotions. You may need to check if you do this to yourself when a problem arises.

• 12:44Ed Mylett?

  The other type of physiology is like when we're working out, when we're laughing, right? Ecstasy if you're with your significant other. Right, that problem, that, that, yes, that celebration, that's a different physiology, isn't it? It's your back straight, you're breathing deeply, you're smiling, you're using your whole body, your face muscles, right? Your face is smiling. There's a certain way you do laughter and joy and pleasure and ecstasy physically, isn't there? And so when a problem arises, check your physiology. You can't make a great decision from a bad physiology. You can't make a decision in stress. And so I'm checking these things all the time. One of the biggest things I check when a problem arises is my physiology.

• 13:27Ed Mylett?

  Because I have a pattern where I go back to that depressed, worried, stressed, anxiety physiology. And then I either can't make a decision, I can't execute, so check that pattern with you. When a problem arises, what do I do physically? This is something nobody talks about, but you probably get quiet and hunched over. You start repeating those thoughts and magnifying it, and you're using your body in such a way that elevates the stress and gives you a disempowering physiology to make great decisions. So get back to that workout, ecstasy, laughter, joy, passion physiology. Just move your body, do some jumping jacks, take a quick run, take a walk, right? You've all probably had the experience where you've solved problems working out, you've solved problems in the shower. You've solved problems in a peak physical state.

• 14:11Ed Mylett?

  So change your physiology, you can change the ability to solve that problem. Okay, so let's now transition into a very step-by-step process that I want you to utilize when a problem and challenge arises. That's not in the 85% category that should be solved right away, right? Remember this, worry is a misuse of your imagination, so is stress. So make sure you're taking an empowering meaning. One more meaning I want you to take away is, problems are always an indicator that you're making progress. This is so counterintuitive to what we think. When a problem arises, where our mind will naturally go is, I'm losing something, as I said earlier. I'm taking a step backwards. But the actual arrival of the problem, its mere presence in your life,

• 14:53Ed Mylett?

  is an indicator you're on the road to progress, otherwise it wouldn't be there. It's an impediment to the next level, but it's an indicator of progress. These are all things you must know and believe to be true, so you take the right meaning away, so you make the right decisions. Number one thing you must do, define reality. Where are you really? What does this really mean? What is this really all about? So you have to define reality. Like, what does this really mean? What is really happening right now? Not the story you've already started to tell yourself about what's happening, but can you get clear? Can you step out of your own situation? And look at the problem from an independent perspective, from an unbiased perspective, and define reality? What really is the challenge? What really is the problem?

• 15:38Ed Mylett?

  Without telling your story about it. We all begin to tell an immediate story. "Here we go again." "People always do this to me." "I'm gonna lose that." "I'd have made a better decision here." And what we do at this stage, way too early, is we begin to assign blame. Blame should never be assigned in the problem-solving process. That is post-mortem. That is after you're done solving the problem, and it is dead. The mistake we make is we start to tell the story and whose fault it is. "It's my fault." "It's their fault." And what happens is that depletes our energy, it distracts our focus from the solution, and it begins this story that we start stacking ourselves. So when that tendency comes up in you, that need, that behavior, that pattern, "Who's to blame?" "Whose fault is it?" This takes you away from the solution.

• 16:23Ed Mylett?

  It does not solve the problem. It magnifies the problem. Always remember this. We will assign blame when it's over. I'm all about the solution. Laser-focused on the solution. See, the ability to get laser-focused on something in life, you can obliterate things in life. You can achieve such massive things if you begin to build the muscle of eliminating distractions, eliminating the stories, eliminating the stress, and getting perfect clarity on where you really are. And the number-one stressor, the number-one distraction is, "Who's to blame?" "What's my story?" Before it's even been solved, we want to assign blame. That is a distraction. Don't do it. Number two, you have to get a clear vision of what you want. Like, exactly what do you want when this problem is solved?

• 17:08Ed Mylett?

  What do you want to be happening different than it is now, specifically? It can't be a general thing. It can't be that you just want to eliminate this. What is it that you want? You can't just eliminate something without replacing it with what exactly is you want. So the second... The thing I always ask myself, and I do this very quickly, and remember, this is only on 15% of the problems. What is it exactly that I want with specificity, with clarity? Because this laser focus now, I can move towards a solution if I'm clear on what it is. Which is number three. Once I'm clear on what it is, get resourceful. Once you've figured out exactly what it is, and number two, the third step is to get totally resourceful about solving the problem. What does that mean? Who are the people that can help you?

• 17:50Ed Mylett?

  The resources, the places, the things, the circumstances, the collaborations. Who is it that you might need to talk to who solved a similar problem in your life? What are the resources available to you? The more you begin to point out to yourself, I have all these resources at my disposal. The more your anxiety and stress level begins to go down, and it's true. Are there problems like this you've solved in the past, something similar in the past you've solved, or somebody else has solved? Most people get very unresourceful. They feel like there's no hope, no help, so ask yourself, how do I get resourceful? What are my resources here? And then the last thing, if I could just say this to you, that are people of faith, or if you plug into the universe. Why don't you embrace the fact and the belief that you're being guided?

• 18:33Ed Mylett?

  That there's a blessing happening in your life, or that you can plug into something that's got great answers for you. There's resources everywhere for you, for those of you that are people or faith. Or even if you're somebody who, you don't have a specific religion, but you plug into the energy of the world. Why is it that when a problem arises, we abandon our God, we abandon our faith, we abandon the fact that we're guided? We abandoned the higher consciousness that we believe in. Why is it that when a problem arises, we abandon that? Why don't you believe you're guided? My great resource is my contacts, my friends, my previous experience. Maybe the people around me that I can talk to, but my biggest one is my God. I'm being guided, I'm being blessed, I'm favored. Plug into that divine inspiration, that divine understanding.

• 19:17Ed Mylett?

  If you pray for their guidance, or you pray for their help, you pray for their will, right? And you can pray for the information as well. So begin to feel you're guided. Get super resourceful is the third step. The fourth empowering question you just ask yourself very quickly, what can I learn from this? People say to me, "That's really difficult to do in the middle of the problem." No, it's not. It's just something that's a habit you've not built yet. What can I learn from this? What's the learning experience? Because as you're learning as you go, this problem is less likely to repeat itself in our lives. There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. There's nothing wrong with even having problems. There's a challenge if we continue to repeat the same mistake that causes the same problems. And so, what can I learn from this? Now, you're leveraging this problem to grow.

• 20:01Ed Mylett?

  Now, this isn't something you're just overcoming and putting behind you, but you're using this experience and this challenge to move in front of it, not just get it behind you. There's a big difference in that perspective. What's great about this problem? That's a difficult question to ask when you're going through the middle of it, Ed. No, it's not. Not if you build the habit. Not if you begin to think like this. Because what that does is it changes the meaning to you. It puts you in an empowering state and not a disempowering state. So what is great about this? There are always great things in having problems and challenges, whether it's going to be that you'll be more prepared next time, or you're going to put things in place that will prevent it from happening next time, or what you're going to learn from it, or how you're going to grow from it, or who you're going to connect with from it, or the other ancillary things that are going to be improved, or the fact that it just gives you a challenge and keeps you alive, right? But what's great about the problem?

• 20:46Ed Mylett?

  It just helps you take the right meaning. The more we can get in the right state and the right meaning, the more we're going to be able to do the three things we talked about, which is make that decision, load ourselves with certainty, and take massive insane action. So the more you understand a couple of reasons this is great, the more you've learned something from it, the more you're flooding yourself with certainty. All of these are steps that help you with step two I shared earlier of flooding yourself with certainty. Because I know when I said that earlier, like I could, I know you were thinking, "I can make the decision and I understand number three with insane action, but how do I get more certain?" How do you do that? You do that by taking away what you're learning, by taking away what's great about it. And number five, what's not perfect yet? And that question is different than what's great.

• 21:29Ed Mylett?

  What's not perfect yet, and you begin to understand what could make it more perfect. It helps you refine and get more specific, and it helps you with your certainty. Number six, what am I willing to do to make it the way I want it? This is important, because there will be things in a minute you're not willing to do. But what are you willing to do? Is it an expenditure of money, time, resources? Calling in a favor with somebody, calling a meeting, willing to call a friend about something? What are you willing to do to make it the way you want it? Now that you're clear on how you want it to be, what are you willing to do to make it the way you want it? And that leads to number seven. What are you not willing to do to make it the way you want it? Maybe there's an extent you will not go to to solve this problem. There's a level to which you will go. There are things you won't do.

• 22:14Ed Mylett?

  It might be, I won't compromise my integrity. I won't lie. I'm not going to spend more than this money on it. Or this time, or this resource, or this energy. This is important to quantify as well, because it helps create for us more certainty, and it gives us more clarity. I won't do this, I won't cheat, I won't be unethical. I won't raise my voice. I won't ruin a relationship over this. It might be with a person at your job, or who works for you. And they're creating a problem for you. I've had situations like this. A few weeks ago, one of my colleagues was not holding up their end of the bargain on their work. And I wanted to solve that problem. And I thought about how I could grow from it, what was good about it, what I could learn from it. I got resourceful about it. I decided what I was willing to do. But I also decided what I wasn't willing to do.

• 22:59Ed Mylett?

  And what I wasn't willing to do to solve this problem was to ruin that relationship with this person. Was to hurt their self-confidence. Was to give them more pain and anxiety and worry in their own life, because I knew part of that was the reason they were struggling that created the problem in the first place. Their own pain, their own anxiety, their own worry, their own fears, helped create this problem I was solving. And I was unwilling to contribute more to that to solve it. And then lastly, how can I enjoy the process? Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy the process of overcoming challenges and problems, rather than it always being a grind, always being something we hate, always being painful? And again, this isn't fluff. Sometimes challenges and problems are just painful things we're going to get through.

• 23:42Ed Mylett?

  But these questions can empower you to make it less this way. And so, ask yourself that question. What can I do to enjoy this? Because the more you can find enjoyment in the process of something that's going to always be in your life. Just think about this. We have this sort of fantasy that if I can get rich enough, or I can get in the perfect relationship, or I have the best business, or maybe if I just don't do anything and I retire someday, I won't have problems and challenges in my life. Now, we consciously know that's not true, but it's sort of the fantasy we live with. And now that I point that out, you go, "That is crazy. Of course I'm always gonna have these things." So since you have an acceptance that problems and challenges are going to exist, isn't it probably important that you learn to enjoy the process of overcoming them and solving them? I think all the time, "How can I enjoy this?"

• 24:28Ed Mylett?

  I think, "Man, what are all the great things that are gonna happen when this is solved? Whose lives are gonna be better when this is solved? How much better is my body, my fitness, my faith, my family, my life, other people's lives, when this problem is solved, depending on what the problem and challenge is? And that helps me enjoy the process. I also remind myself, this problem is helping me grow. It's in existence because I'm making progress in my life. So all these things fit a meaning that help us make the best decisions possible. And then finally, I want to give you four things that I think are mandatory in solving problems. Number one, all problems must be solved on paper. And I'll substitute paper for a keyboard. But I think they need to be written out problems. There's a process that happens and a clarity of thought

• 25:12Ed Mylett?

  when we move the problem just out of our mind, where all the emotions are, and onto a piece of paper where we get resourceful and we get specific. And so, all problems in the 15% category need to be solved on paper. When you write them down, you begin to see them. Also, by putting the problem outside of your mind and on a piece of paper, you remove yourself from the emotion of the problem and you become outside the problem, and your perspective changes simply by writing it, it gives you a different level of awareness to solve the problem from. It removes you from it and the emotion oftentimes. And it gives you a worldview, a perspective of above it. That's different than when you're in it in your head. This is a huge thing I do.

• 25:53Ed Mylett?

  On almost every problem I have that's in the 15% category is putting it on paper. Then I'm above it and not in it and I have a much better probability of solving. That's a huge one. Number two is we talked earlier about being clear on what you want, but I also want to attach to that. Having a perspective as to why you want it. So not only being very clear about what you want, but why you want it. And then ask yourself inside that question, how do I know when it's solved? What's my perspective? What's my evidence I need to know the problem was solved? Number two. So it's in writing. How do I know when it was solved? What evidence? What would need to happen? What do I exactly want? Why do I want it? And what's the evidence that it was solved? So that you will move past it. So that it's something that is now behind you, but more importantly, you are in front of it.

• 26:36Ed Mylett?

  Third is always remember decisions are made on probability. Once you've made that decision, right? What have we talked about? Flood yourself with certainty and take massive action. But all decisions are made on probability, meaning there's never a perfect plan. You may make a decision to solve a problem that doesn't work, but what we're trying to do is make a decision that gives us the highest probability of solving it. So make all your decisions based on probability, not perfection. If you're sitting here waiting for the perfect solution. Or if it doesn't work, or you've had any experience in your life, when you tried to solve something, it didn't happen. You're setting up an unfair standard for yourself. Problem solving is about probability. So make sure you're making a decision that gives you the highest probability of solving it. And then fourth, all decisions need what I call like value clarity.

• 27:20Ed Mylett?

  Often you're gonna have several results you could choose from to solve a problem, or there'll be several results when you solve the problem. And you gotta be clear about their order of importance. Sometimes one problem has three or four problems connected to it, or the solution of it will cause three or four different things. So it's getting clarity on importance level of solving the problem in its order. And then finally, I want to remind you of one thing on solving anything in your life on making any change, whether it's solving a problem or just taking your life to a different level. In my opinion, it's always 75% psychology and 25% actual mechanics. And so I want you to be thinking about what you're thinking. The pathway to the best solutions, the pathway to great change in our life, is always 75% what I'd call psychology or thinking,

• 28:04Ed Mylett?

  and 25% of it is the actual physical execution of the problem. So when you're making the decisions, focus 75% on the psychology and the mindset, 25% on the execution. And I hope that helps you today with some very tactical steps. I don't know that I've ever laid out more tactics and steps in one thing, because it's such an important topic. And I gotta be honest with you. There's a great song Biggie Smalls had for years, "More money, more problems," right? And the truth of the matter is, uh, that's true. And so if you're thinking that the wealthier you get, or the more successful you get, the fewer problems you're gonna have, that's not the case. And all the people that are achieving in their life right now are nodding their heads across the world listening to this, because they would all tell you, and you could tell this too, you have more problems now than you did when you were a kid.

• 28:48Ed Mylett?

  Right now in your life, if you're at a higher level than you were five years ago, there are more frequent problems, and sometimes even bigger problems, as you progress in life. That's why it's so true that problems and challenges are an indication of progress. Show me the size of your problem, and I will show you the size of your success, and frankly, the size and scope of your life. And so, please know, learning to solve problems at the level you're at now, and having a formula and a recipe, like what I just talked about, is so critical. You may say, "Look, at my level, I don't need to know what's great about a problem. I don't need to know what I'm learning from it." Yes, you do, because you're building the habits and routines that'll serve you as the problems get bigger and bigger and bigger in your life, and the challenges. And what's wonderful about that is,

• 29:33Ed Mylett?

  it also proves to be true what I told you earlier. The bigger the problem and the challenge, the bigger the opportunity, the greater the indicator you're going to grow and have progress. Because I'm telling you, as someone whose life's grown pretty substantially the last 25 or 30 years, I don't have fewer problems, I have more. And they're not smaller, they're bigger. And every one of them is such a wonderful opportunity for me to grow and to change and to experience, to help other people. But it's also But an indication all the way in my life of progress. I'd be terrified, I'd be miserable. I'd be concerned if my life started to not have problems on a regular basis and challenges. I do love them. I do look at what's great about them. I do look at how I can enjoy them. Because they're a constant and a staple in all of our lives. And so it's not going to go away as you climb the ladder.

• 30:18Ed Mylett?

  That's why having this formula and this recipe is so important. And important that I give it to you now. I just want to tell you how much I believe in you. And I share this kind of level of specificity. And let's just be honest, I don't mean to be braggadocious. But nobody in the world shares this level of content and specifics. Anywhere, particularly for No Charge. And all I ask for you is that you just share the program with people. Also, if you're listening to this on an audio platform like iTunes or Spotify or my website. Go over and subscribe to the YouTube channel so you're getting the videos as well. If you're watching this video. There's going to be times where you're going to want to hear this stuff working out or in the car. Or share. Go subscribe on iTunes or Spotify or the website. I think you'll be glad that you did. And then lastly, I want to remind you every day, I connect more than anybody on social media.

• 31:02Ed Mylett?

  In fact, Instagram blocks my account half the time because I do it so much. The Max Out universe is getting huge. Number one growing account in all personal development. All business, life strategy. On all social media the last year and a half. And that's because I engage so deeply. And so every day I run the Max Out 2 Minute Drill. Just every day, when I make a post on my main feed on Instagram. If you make a comment within the first 2 minutes. You qualify every day. We make a drawing every day. Everyone who makes a comment the first 2 minutes. We pick a winner every single day. And those people get Max Out gear, my book. Coaching calls with my guests, coaching calls with me. It's pretty cool stuff. I don't think anybody else does it. And it's something I'm very proud of because it keeps me connected with you. And I know what content to create. And I can help you on a one-on-one basis every once in a while.

• 31:45Ed Mylett?

  And so make a comment, follow me on Instagram, turn your notifications on. And make a comment within the first 2 minutes and you're enrolled every day and a chance to win. By the way, here's another thing that's cool. If you miss the first 2 minutes. But as long as you make a comment on every post I make every day. Then you're going to have an opportunity to win as well. Because if you miss the first 2 minutes, at the end of the week. We pick somebody who just commented on every post every day. And I usually post, by the way, somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m. Pacific time. So it's kind of predictable when I make a post on my main feed. I look forward to engaging with you and God bless you and Max Out.

• 32:21Speaker 03

  This is The Ed Marlin Show.