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Just do it. Make your dreams come true, so just do it.

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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.

Hey, what's going on guys. Hey, that was my little three year old. She obsessed with that Shia LaBeouf thing where he's like, "Just do it. Make your dreams come true, so just ..." She's like quoting it. She's walking around and she says it all the time. It's adorable. It's hilarious.

There's this part of me that's like, "Oh my gosh. I'm so excited." I've never had any success without becoming a monomaniac about something. Just really obsessing, being all about massive volume in whatever the thing that I'm going for whether it's a physical goal, financial, personal development, spiritual, anything. Monomaniac, these sprints of like really high intensity focus is how I've done what I've done.

When I see my little girl do that, I'm like, "Yay, she's got," but then there's other side of it. There's this other side of the coin that I don't think is talked about as much. Gary V who's at the Viral Video Launch a little bit ago, and he talked about ... He's on stage for a solid two hours it seemed like. He did a great job obviously. It's Gary V, but someone asked him ... I don't remember exactly what they said, but the question had to do with some kind of life balance. That's a question a lot of people ask. It's a good question to be asking for sure.

I do get a little surprised at how many people ask it. I guess how frequently it gets asked. I remember Gary V said like, "Look."

Something to the effect of, "You don't want to wake you when you're 37 years old and find out that what you've been doing the last 15 years you hate. You've built something that you don't want to be a part of or you've built something that literally sucks so much of your time in your life away that you really don't have time to live outside of your business."

It's been kind of an interesting experience going back and forth on that. I mean I've worked my butt off for the last five years. I mean specifically over the last five years. Really it's been like eight, but really the last five years has been just high pressure sprinting, very, very, very little rest.

Just go, go, go, go, go, go, go. I get that a lot from my dad. My dad was an extremely successful businessman. He's actually a software architect. He was an executive at IBM. He took on huge roles over at American Express. He was all over the place and set a lot of industry standards for the software world. My dad's the man.

I learned how to work because of him and specifically because of yard work and the way he interacted with me on that. You know what I'm talking about. I talk a lot about that in the early episodes of this show. Anyway, it was a little bit ago. I've been working like crazy, just doing tons of stuff. Working, working, working. One morning I was leaving and I was like, "Hey guys, I'm going to go to work."

My little girls had just asked like, "Hey." They're saying, "Are we going to go to the park?" I was like, "No, I got to go to work." My little two year old like sucked to my leg and was looking up at me with like the biggest saddest puppy dog eyes I've ever seen. I was like oh crap. It kind of rips your heart out a little. Gosh, dang it, am I doing this for the right reasons or is it my own?

I don't know. I'm really aggressive. I'm extremely ambitious obviously. Chances are if you're listening to this podcast, you are also. I mean usually podcast listeners are go getters. Anyway, the whole point of this podcast, I've had a lot of things in my mind lately for how I want to make sure that I'm crafting my life.

I recently have had the experience ... I'm not sure if you guys read the book "The ONE Thing" by Gary Keller. "The ONE Thing" by Gary Keller. Fascinating book. I looked at that book like many entrepreneurs and said, "Oh yeah, but everyone else has to do just one thing. I could do like 15."

I haven't really taken it that seriously. There's been a few experiences over the last two weeks though where I've been going through it. I've actually had the chance to get to know Don Hobbs who runs the Gary Keller "ONE Thing" events. He's been coaching me through a lot of this kind of stuff. He's been teaching me like, "Steven, man, what's your one thing? What's the thing out in the future?" I'm like gosh, I don't know.

I almost got offended by it at first. I was like, "I don't know." When I was running the two mile race in the army, right, the two mile. You go in as fast as you can for two miles. I never did it by looking at the finish line.

I always did it by looking three steps ahead of me. That's how I've lived my life where I just keep heads down and I just sprint and I just go towards stuff. Build the funnel. Get the thing done. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom and just go, go, go, go, go. It's good because you got a crap load of stuff done. Stuff that takes other people way too long. They think about stuff too much rather than just act and get something out there and fix it as its falling. You know what I mean?

Anyway, and he's asking like, "Hey, what's your one thing? What's your one thing?" I was like, "I don't know. I don't know. I don't honestly know what my some day goals, what my one thing goal is." My thing's way out in the future. Whenever people say like, "Where do you think you'll be in 10 years," I'm like I have no idea. I have no idea. I mean that's what I said to him when he and I were chatting. It almost got a little bit heated. He was like, "You got to know what your thing is." I'm like, "I don't know what my thing is." I'm really good at short-term sprints, getting a ton of awesome stuff done that rocks. I told him. I was like, "Look, I've lived my life this way for especially the last five years."

Actually probably most of my life. I don't plan more than six months in advance because it's guessing. That's what I've always felt. My whole mentality towards that has started shifting and changing. I've started thinking through like okay, what is it that I really want? I know how to hustle. I know how to crush it, but when my little girls are running up to me and saying like, "Look dad, take me to the park," it starts to tug on the heart strings a little bit. It's easier to charge high ticket for my time when you start having those kind of life events happen to you like, "Hey, here's a kid. Hey," whatever.

You kind of check yourself just a little bit. I've been kind of going through that lately and thinking through a little bit more ...

I don't know. I think that living a balanced life is a façade. I still do. A lot of people ask me this type of question, which is the only reason why I'm bringing it up on this podcast. I get this question frequently. How do you balance everything? I was like well, I don't. I don't try to. I've never found success by being balanced. Are you kidding me?

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