SFR 17: Bend The Crap Out Of Rules (My Part-Montra)

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Hey my name is Steve Larsen and welcome to Sales Funnel Radio.

Welcome to Sales Funnel Radio where you'll learn marketing strategies to grow your online business using today's best internet sales funnels. Now here's your host, Steve Larsen.

All right guys, what's going on? I have story for you today. What's funny is that every time you start publishing anything, you're going to start getting a lot of questions, right?

I published this podcast. I have 600 followers on Periscope and I think you can still look at it, actually, if you look at my YouTube channel and stuff. There's not that many videos but 40, I think. I show a lot of strategies that sometimes require a screen on the internet and things like that. It's interesting though.

That's actually an aspect I was not expecting when I started...

I just wanted to show people how to do some cool stuff with online marketing and it's kind of developed into this thing as people started asking.

Anyways, I get probably one to two questions a day right now, which isn't a lot, but it's surprising me how many people that even is right there because sometimes their not small questions. They're like, "Hey, will you build my sales funnel for me?" And I'm like, "Sure. My fee is 10 grand, but yeah."

Anyways, it's funny though what it does to your friends when you start publishing and when you actually try and make a personal brand. If any of you guys are thinking about this, just know this is about to happen.

You're going to get some friends that are okay with and then other friends that are almost like, I don't know how to describe it.

Almost like, they're not jealous because it's not like I'm ... I'm Steve Larsen from Littleton, Colorado. It's not like my name's on the news or anything. I just like to publish. I feel like I have things to say and I've got a sweet job, a sweet personal business, and I get asked a lot of questions anyways so I thought I might was well publish what people are asking and answer it.

That's the basis of this podcast, right?

Anyways, you'll get a divide, you'll see, of people who are openly supporting you and then some people just kind of fade away into the distance and they kind of get pissed off.

I think a lot of it is because on what I'm publishing, like right here on Sales Funnel Radio or anywhere else, is intimidating to them meaning they don't want to do what I'm saying, even though what I'm saying, I know it works because I do it all day. I figured out a little bit ago, I'm spending about 12 hours a day building sales funnels right now. 12 hours a day! Oh my gosh, and doing things that are related to it. It's a lot of time.

Anyways, I had a buddy who is texting me and he's like, "Hey man. Dude, I love what you're doing. I remember when you and I did that together a while." If you're listening to this right now, man, this is out of love, all right?

This is medicine.

He said, "I so wish that I could be doing what you are." I wanted to just like flick my computer, like, "You were doing it! We did do it together!" You can't get in that mentality. If you guys are listening to this and you're in that mentality of, "Oh I just so wish I could build sales funnels."

Or, "I so wish I had a business."

Or, "I so wish I could do my hobby and make money with it." You freaking can! My hands are literally up right now.

Stop. That's one of my biggest pet peeves. Stop. I get up at 5:00 everyday and I don't want to hear it.

That's how I built my business on the side of a full-time job is I get up early and it sucks sometimes. I mean, I'm crazy tired. I've been tired for five years so I have nothing to complain about.

Nothing's new.

I get up at 5 and I get ready for the day and then I live so close to our office that I just bike there. It's 1.6 miles away. The other was 4 and half miles aways. That was a longer bike ride. I bike to the office everyday which I know that might sound goofy. I sit at a computer all day long so why would I not try and move? I haven't lifted in a long time.

All right, so I'm getting on side tangents. I have a lot of thoughts this morning. The point is you can and you need to be able to see yourself as an exception, right?

A lot of people live. They want to live exceptionally, but they are very, very, very scared to do anything that's exceptional on the way.

It's that path that leads up to being exceptional, to doing things that's amazing. I used to call myself the student of exceptions and I still do. The reason why is because when I was in college, I literally was the student of exceptions.

I should not have been accepted to that college, my grades were so bad in high school, right? Then I got around and I learned how to learn and I got straight As, basically. I never got any Cs but I got very few Bs. I ended with a 3.8 with 170 credits.

Now I went to BYU Idaho and they kick you out after 140 credits because the point of college is not to stay there forever. They want you to move on, so they put a credit limit on there.

I had 170 credits. That's like 2 and half, 3 semesters more than I should have been there. Why? I don't do it because I think I'm better than people but I just want to ... There are certain things that I want and by merely asking for them I get them.

That's why I work for Russell Brunson. You need to get out of the same ... Now there's this commercial. I can't remember what commercial was or what company it was for but he's in the exact same grooves every single day so his footprints are already in the ground, exactly where his feet are.

In the grass, his footprint is worn away in the grass. Wherever he puts his hands everyday there's a sunken imprint. He's doing the same thing every single day and then one day he turns and he sees something new and it's their product or whatever, and he changes his path, changes his course. It's the exact same thing.

I want to cure you guys of this.

I'm not saying you need to, if you're listening to this, but if you want to know the cure, here it is. You got to go do things that are a little bit crazy to get you out of your comfort zone that require you asking for them.

There's so many things that I have done in my life that is sweet because I've asked for them. When I went through basic training for the Army, the reason I was able to do so many cool, extra things in there that a lot of people were not able to do and they were getting smoked and doing push-ups and stuff like that, I did a lot of that too, but it's because I was asking for it.

They'd be like, "Oh dude, if the drill sergeants, if they come to you, they're looking for volunteers, always say no." I was like, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Why would you do that? You guys are here to experience it.

Experience it!

Who cares if it's freaking hard. You have to get up a little bit early." It just pisses me off when people say that. "I have to get up early." All right, then you clearly are not ever going to do anything exceptional in your life. If s...