The Code Breaker Newsletter - Issue #010 How This Simple Iterative Process Will Unlock Your Next Level of Success.

Hey Code Breakers,

Welcome to this week's Code Breaker Newsletter, where we share some of the best insights, tips, and stories on how to break the code on your market and unlock the potential within your business.

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to unlock new levels of your success?

In this week’s newsletter, I’m going to be pulling back the curtain to show you how to do just that as I share the way I think about entrepreneurship and my overall success philosophy.

If you’ve been following and keeping up with my daily email newsletter Reflections than you’re likely already partially familiar with what I’m about to share. But whether you are or aren’t doesn’t matter. Below you’ll find a detailed explanation of my process and clear steps on how to start leveraging it today!

Unfortunately, most people overcomplicate the success process and therefore miss out on unlocking their full potential.

The process is simple, but that doesn’t make it easy

The biggest reasons people neglect to implement this process are:

• Most people don’t take the time to detail out their approach.

• It requires a discipline.

• It demands honesty with yourself.

• It takes constant vigilance.

• There will be times that you’ll get frustrated and want to give up.

There, I’ve said it. Full transparency on the process. But here’s the beauty that underlies each of those five reasons, the path to success demands each of these things anyway.

However, by using this process, you’ll gain clarity, guidance, and direction along the way. And, once you’ve implemented it once, all other successes, whether personal or professional, become that much easier to achieve:

Here's how, step by step:

Step 1: Align EVERYTHING with your mission in life!

The first step in the process is technically a process within itself.

You need to define your life’s mission and then align your goals and objectives with that mission. As most of your reading this are either B2B Sales Consultants or NLP Experts, I’m assuming you already have your life’s mission figured out, so I’m not going to provide the step-by-step process of determining your life’s mission here, but I will share some key areas that I’ve found most people leave out.

The problem that most people have when they try to achieve success is that they focus on a singular goal, to make $1M, or to lose 20 lbs, or to spend more time with their kids (click here to access my guide on setting effective goals). But, when the goal or objective isn’t aligned with the larger plan for success, the brain doesn’t know what to do once it gets there, so while there might be a temporary pull to get you to the goal itself, there’s nothing that’s directing your brain to keep moving beyond it!

Often times I find most people have left 1 or 2 things out of their life’s mission in order to make it really effective, and the 1 or 2 things are blindingly obvious if you open your eyes and look.

Here’s how you know this is true… Have you ever noticed that there are really only 3 core markets? In case you’re unfamiliar, the 3 core markets are health, wealth, and relationships. They’re the three core markets because throughout history they’re the three areas people have always been willing to spend their hard earned money to acquire.

And, not having one or more of these three areas covered in your life’s mission is the reason you hear of those who get the career success but ruin their health or family relationships along the way, or their successful in business and a great parent, but they have a heart attack and leave this world too soon, or any combination of the three.

When you review your life’s mission, or the mission you’ve developed for your company, does it cover each of these three areas? If not, you may want to find a way to incorporate these things to ensure you achieve success in all areas and not just one or two.

I’ll share the abridged version of mine so we can use it as an example throughout the rest of the newsletter:

My Life’s Mission (the abridged version ;)

Step 2: Direct Your Mind In The Direction You Want It To Go!

Once you have your life’s mission, everything you do should be centered around fulfilling that mission and moving in that direction. In order to do so, you direct your mind in the direction you want it to go.

To use the analogy of a GPS, your goals and objectives become the checkpoints that let you know if you’re on or off course. Reaching or exceeding your goals provides feedback that you’re on course and should keep moving in that direction. Not reaching your goals provides feedback that you’re off course and need to recalculate your route in order to fulfill your life’s mission.

This is where having the process defined, instilling daily disciplines around it, being brutally honest with yourself, and maintaining constant vigilance around your direction is crucial to your success. Without it, it’s just another great idea that could have helped you become successful, but never gets the chance to have an effect. It’s like ignoring the gps as it tries to recalculate your route and then wondering why you never got to where you intended to be.

Step 3: Improvise, ADAPT, and Overcome!

In the Marine Corps, we have many phrases that are drilled into our heads over and over and over again. One of those phrases is “Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.” It’s not just a motto. It’s not just a mentality. It’s a way of living!

Shit’s going to happen along the road to success. There will be times when you find yourself off course and the GPS will piss you off when it finishes recalculating. If you ever experienced the spinning wheel of death or scene the GPS add 15 minutes to your drive because you missed your exit, you know what I’m talking about.

That’s why it’s absolutely essentially that you remain open to adaptation. Once you direct your mind, you have to constantly be on the lookout for ways you can adapt, improve, accelerate, and simplify. Adaptation is about learning from what’s gone well, what hasn’t worked out the way you planned, and testing new way to either get back on course or accelerate your pace in your desired direction.

The key to adaptation is a willingness to improve. At this point, your own ego is your biggest enemy. It will try to convince you that you’re moving in the right direction. That you’ve done all that you can do. Tried everything you can try. That no one else could do things as well as you do. That you’ve been doing it this way since you started. It’s what got you here. You can’t change it! And on, and on.

Adaptation requires both a constant vigilance and an obsessive nature to improve. And, it’s one of the reasons your life’s mission has to include health, wealth, and relationships, because the combination of constant vigilance and an obsessive nature that’s only focused on one or two of the three areas will lead you off course without you even knowing it. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Align your direction with your life’s mission and maintain a constant vigilance and obsessive nature on progress and as long as you’re open to adapting there’s only one thing left in order to achieve the success you desire.

Step 3. Iterate - Iterate - Iterate

Throughout history, one thing that’s consist with those who achieve success vs. those who don’t is the willingness to persist until they succeed. That’s why it’s literally baked into the process.

Direct - Adapt - Iterate | Direct - Adapt - Iterate | Direct - Adapt - Iterate.

It’s simple, but it’s not easy. It demands that you take time to determine your life’s missions, set your mind in the direction you want it to go, maintain discipline and brutal honesty with yourself regarding you successes and learnings, a constant vigilance around your movement or lack there of in you desired direction, an openness and willingness to learn, implement those learnings, and adapt your approach, and constant iteration until you succeed at accomplishing your life’s mission.

It’s all about enjoying the journey and the process as opposed to the destination, and it’s how this simple iterative process will unlock your next level of success.

It’s Mind Vault’s Direct - Adapt - Iterate process for success. Our success philosophy if you will and it’s how we’re going to continue breaking the code together!

Till Next Week,

Nate