2014-10-28 Winning is a CHOICE

Hey, what's going on guys policy Q here Cassandra Lee and together We are the power couple man and welcome to the inner circle today We're gonna be talking about what baby man this audio this inner circle audio man We specifically designed it for you man and today's topic is winning is a choice winning is a choice man winning You know what's cool about this is that it is a choice actually You know one of the things that you always talk to me about babe is that every single day? We're given two options It's either you win Or you lose and those are literally the two options. We are faced with every Single day and the way you base those decisions is either by the pain that you feel at the moment Right your current situation your current circumstances. You know the pain the frustration of that moment or Of the reward you're going to gain in the future you see that's the problem a lot of people They have this all backwards right and instead of instead of looking at their situation as it being so painful Right so it can move them to action so they can get the rewards right by taking action They do the opposite and what they do is that they look at the work Or they look at what they need to do in their business, and they look at it being so painful Doing that work that maybe not doing it and not taking any action is a lot better You know you know what's funny. Oh, you know our pastor.

We were in church. He was saying you know most people are afraid of Persistent because they're more interested in the instant man in the instant and that's a gratification Perfect quote for this you know a lot of people think that you have to have certain skill sets to be a winner You have to be bred a certain way. You have to be books marks. You gotta be oh, yeah Nation from the right look you have to at least have generations of wealthy people in your family I want to share you have to have a good mentor I want to share this quick little story And I was talking to someone over the phone and I you know she was saying how it just seems like it's too good To be true or can she really succeed you know can she really succeed and I said well of course you can You know it's just a decision You know if you're one decision from winning and She's like oh you make it sound so easy And I said well, but it is we complicate it and she said that she wanted to be like an actress or something So I said, what's your favorite actress and she said Jennifer Lawrence, and I'm like you know I love Jennifer Lawrence Yeah, yeah, yeah, we actually just came back from the Hunger Games right and we saw we saw Canada That was a good that was a good great movie great movie. Go that was inspiration I got like a million-dollar idea from that.

Oh, so did I so that so I was like all right? So you like Jennifer Lawrence like yeah, she's pretty cool, and I go okay well How do you think she got successful? I said what's the difference between Jennifer Lawrence and you and she said well? She probably was born into Hollywood right she's born from a rich family. Oh, yeah, of course She created her own fantasy Wow of who Jennifer Lawrence was well She's going off on that I go on Wikipedia And I look up Jennifer Lawrence come to find that everything that she said was total false Well, it was her imagination Wow of what success is like so in her mind Successful people are only successful because they were either born into it was given to them like it came conveniently dude.

That's a bunch of BS. That's a belief system It's a belief system. Do that's not true not true Never met one person who was successful by doing what was convenient exactly man look It's winning is a choice, and yeah, it's it gets you uncomfortable sometimes, but you know what you got to learn how to be comfortably Uncomfortable right serious because if you're not feeling uncomfortable every single day right then something's happening You've either you've either slowed down you're stagnant you've plateaued right because you're not taking you're not making new decisions You're not making decisions that are gonna lead to winning right because the bottom line is if you're not winning Then you're losing right can you imagine what I'm starting to cut you off right? But can you imagine if you had a scoreboard right and every single day that scoreboard either gets tallied up by you winning? Making winning choices are you losing right you probably start looking at it and say holy crap.

I'm losing here, man You know they're kicking my butt here. I'm losing. I'm down and out You know the truth is that you do have a scoreboard. Okay, your bank account is a score Okay your life the results the things that you can or can't do Like everything around you is a score exactly you are satisfied with everything around you're doing good If not, you're not doing so well, so I mean winning is a freaking choice guys I'm gonna choose to win look listen You're listening to this audio right now And you have the ability right now to either shut this off right which is a decision We have a decision to make and say you know what I'm gonna listen to this power couple And you and I'm gonna get what I need to get so I can start winning every day is a choice guys And you have to learn how to make that conscious decision to wake up and win every day It's not a choice you make once a lot of people think it's just a choice. They made once no It's a it's a daily choice you make if every day is a new day.

It's something you've never experienced exactly winning is a choice Why are we talking about this? Why are we doing this in the inner circle audio? Why well because? We believe that no matter what it is that you are involved with whatever it is that you're doing whatever Walk of life you are in it is nearly impossible To succeed at anything without understanding this concept exactly so if I go back to the story And I'm talking to this girl, and I look Jennifer Lawrence up on Wikipedia, and I say to the girl you know Everything that you said is a total false in fact. She's like Yeah I go in fact Jennifer Lawrence was not born into Hollywood.

She was born in like I forgot Mississippi, I don't know some random state right Not only was she not born into Hollywood her mother was like a manager at a daycare center And her father was a construction worker you see this is the problem though you see people are operating on under false information They believe and they think it's true. They think that success chose them No, you choose to success dude. You got a true success you choose to every single day You got to choose you winning doesn't choose you. I mean it's a mutual choice. I would say so check this out.

I said look Jennifer Lawrence the only difference between her and you is that Jennifer Lawrence made a decision that she was going To become an actress and you have not yet done so exactly And so I actually pull up on Wikipedia, and I said look what Wikipedia says it says at the age of 14 she made a decision to pursue Her acting career, and I literally it repeated exactly what I had just told exactly the only difference this goes for everyone on here The only difference between you and the person you look up to is that the person who is where they want where you want to be Made the decision to be there, and you yet have made the decision. You're probably saying you know what I have made a decision You know I've made a decision. I'm crying about it. I'm writing it I'm doing it right the truth is that you haven't really made a real decision. Let me share with you guys You know it's actually you know today's December 3rd And you know it's actually a couple of days before my birthday right on December 7th And I and just earlier this year back in March 2014 right we got a knock on our door Where we were actually getting evicted from the place we were living which by the way was not a very good place We were living in somebody's basement right in this whole time Seven months inside of our business thinking this whole time we've made a decision this whole time We've made a commitment right we get this knock and all of a sudden our world just boom get snatched up From the bottom of under a carpet now all of a sudden now we got now It's like our backs are against the wall, and now we really have to make a real decision because we don't have any options anymore, right?

I mean where are we gonna stay at what are we gonna eat? I mean these are the things that we were thinking about and these are probably some of the questions that you guys might be Fighting with writing if you're fighting with these simple problems It just means that you have little money It just means that you have lack of money in your life And if you actually just made a decision to make your business work You probably have those problems fixed in a matter of minutes Just think about it think about if your bank account went from where it's at right now To the amount that you need or the amount that would give you the life that you want What did most of the problems that you have in your life be gone in an instant right well back in March 2013? That's exactly where we were and I caught I caught a reflection right I caught a glimpse of my reflection, and I'll never forget this I was on top of a hotel you remember right and I was actually walking back and forth and I started to scream at God I start to blame God you know for the situation I was in you know I was like God you promised me that you were gonna leave me to the promised land you promised me That I would I would be living a life of freedom right what's going on here. You know how come we haven't made any sales How come we're not getting any leads? Why does this seem so difficult right?

We used to think getting 30 leads and two sales are extremely difficult the truth is it's not Right is it no it's not hard and winning is simple winning is simple. It's a decision. It's a choice It's a choice right and as my wife is inside right because we were staying at this hotel for a couple of weeks, okay? It's a nice hotel by the way, and you know she's she's on the computer, and I'm outside And I just look at myself, and I say today, I'm gonna go out there, and I'm gonna create two sales and 30 leads That's it period you know and all of a sudden you won't believe right, but that decision that was the moment That led into a transformational a couple of weeks and that same day believe it or not I got two sales and 30 leads and it began the journey of what happened, okay? What happened later a couple of months later is that we went from never being on the leaderboards, okay?

And it's inside of our own business, okay? It's all of a sudden being on the leaderboard so all of a sudden Sponsoring close to over 140 people in 90 days to building a list over 5,000 people into hitting our first five-figure month right in our business look How does that happen all because of a choice I mean But the thing is that we didn't didn't we make a choice in the beginning when we put it wasn't a real You mean you mean what you mean when people pull out their credit cards, and they get started They're not making a real decision. No, it's it's it's still not real yet So what needs to happen people do I mean I have met people who made real decisions because they put themselves in that urgency You know one thing I used to share with my students all the time when I used to teach martial arts Was you know we would do push-ups or you know horse stance I don't know if you guys know what this is just imagine holding yourself in a squat, right? And I would see them I would have them hold it for a few minutes and their legs would be shaking you would see the pain in their face The sweat dripping down they're biting their lips you can hear the you know the moans Come on, right you hear it all and I say hey guys you can give up right now if you want You can get look life is gonna. Give you this choice every day winning or losing pushing through or giving up and You will base that choice on the pain you're feeling right now Or the rewards powerful of the muscles you're gonna gain later, right?

Which one are you gonna? Do are you going to give up because it's so painful or push through because of the rewards you're gonna get and they would yell Push through ma'am right this is this is something for life guys My father used to tell me never base a permanent decision on a temporary Situation hmm that's powerful say that never base a permanent decision on a temporary situation Wow Every day is temporary man, dude So you're telling me that the situation people might find themselves in their business in their finances You know all the hardships that they might be in is a temporary situation Which means people who are thrown in the tower making a permanent decision to give up on their dreams to give up on actively Pursuing what God has given us that they're making the wrong decision man look. It's a decision. I wouldn't make dude. That's crazy It's a decision.

I wouldn't make I don't care what you're in you make it work look you are the one who let me you look you're the deciding factor of success. You're the different component Yeah, it's not the industry no, it's not the system It's you whatever you whatever vehicle you're operating in right now works, okay? There's there's plenty of proof around you the people that you see the leaders are there they're creating results so it works Right they're not these magical wizards right? They're not Harry Potter. They're not Superman.

They're not flash right? I like flash They're not Cassandra Lee. They're not they're not They're not the power Look, we're just normal people We just call you ourselves a power couple because we work on each other's strengths because we work together We actively work our business together. We actively every single day wake up and go after James Do we not or do absolutely right we do that we do look let me tell you something I you know she shared a powerful story about the martial arts school and in her martial arts career And you know what when I was about 11 10 years old I used to play pop Warner football Okay, and some of you guys know this or some of you guys don't right, but in pop Warner football You're not a good player They only give you like 20 plays right and the only time they ever put you in is when you're actually the whole team at The team your team is getting beat up Okay, I mean they're getting blown out or okay. You're winning by a thousand points, okay?

Well this happened to be one of those situations right and the thing is my parents used to come to every single game Every single game happy Right never would see the kid play me. They would never see me, so I'm out there right, and I see the team getting crushed Okay, I'm drinking my wit my Gatorade my suit is completely clean my socks are clean my cleats are clean my helmet my hands Are clean right my freaking leggings are clean my everything is clean And I'm looking back, and I see my parents and this starts to hurt me It's painful you know watching my parents come out come out their way to watch the kid drink Gatorade You know I mean, that's not cool. No, it's all of a sudden man. I get so angry. I get pissed off I get like really mad you know for the first time in my life And I said what the freak how come I can't get in the game?

Why come I can't get in the game I need to get in the game So I walk over to the coach, and I say coach. Can you put me in coach? Can you put me in can you put me in can you put me in can you put me in I started being a nag Started nagging him. He finally puts me in right and my parents get off their chair. They start cheering on ah My dad making noise right excited.

You know why totally they're excited. Let me ask you something Who do you know whether your loved one your family your kids your wife your husband is watching you? On the stands waiting for you to go out there and create the results that you need to create who's watching you who's watching you? Because I promise you people are watching you Your close ones are watching your loved ones are watching to see if you're gonna hold your word to see if you're gonna perform To see if you're gonna get the results as I walk into the game I made it I made a decision that I was gonna do something epic and as I lined up on the defense I say to myself. I'm gonna sack that quarterback now.

I'm a scrawny person back then I was really skinny you know and as they snapped the ball. I just Charge and I take off and I go around the office of lineman and somehow I get around Enough where I grab the quarterback's shoulder pads And I squeeze his jersey and I spin him around and I throw him on the floor and I sack him I sack him And I start jumping up in the air. I start getting happy getting so excited my parents get so pumped up They get excited I get so pumped up and I start celebrating like I just won the Super Bowl So much so that the other team lines up and is ready to go to the next play and I'm still celebrating and That was my first experience of making a real decision and the reward of making that real decision Are you in enough pain where people are counting on you, and they're looking at you? Okay, and you're you're on the bench. You're waiting.

You're waiting. What are you waiting for dude go out there and make me do it Yeah, man for real man look winning is a choice You know one of the quotes that changed my life forever was in a book called the slight edge by Jeff Olson And he says the problem isn't the actions It's the people that don't keep doing You see people think like I said before that winning is a one-time decision Know every day you have to wake up and choose to win Because it's the people that don't keep doing the same actions that are the problem So every day I want I want to encourage you We want to challenge you to choose to win every day no matter the circumstances or situations that you're in Instead of letting them determine where you should go in your future or how fast you should get there I want you to tell your circumstances where you're going in how fast you're gonna get there. That's what it's about Winning is a choice. There is no difference between The person who's succeeding and you there is absolutely no difference The only the only different component is that person made a decision? When are you gonna make that choice?

When are you gonna make that decision? Because the clock is ticking if you knew That the action you needed to take was going to produce the income you're looking to generate Wouldn't you take care of that action like tonight like right now wouldn't you pause this audio and go and take that action right now? You know what? I want you to stand up wherever you are and I want you to yell out and say I choose to win I Choose to win. Yes.

I am a winner. I am a winner We used to tell our students winners never quit quitters never win. I choose to be a winner man, right? We used to say that right winners never quit quitters never win. I choose to be a winner man, sir We're winning is a choice guys.

Get it get it in your head, dude You have options man. Some of you guys have forgotten and think you the only option is to lose. No, no Listen, you got options, baby It's either you lose or you win look you don't have to continue to keep losing in your business in your life and in your Married life in your spirit in time with God or whatever the case may be. Look you can start winning today Let me tell you something. Okay winning Produces more winning.

Okay, who winning produces more winning when you when you start winning What happens is that you get introduced to a friend of ours? What's his name? Big Mo Big Mo Big Mo, man You know, I don't think they know who Big Mo. They don't know who Big Mo You should tell him Big Mo bro. Big Mo is big momentum look momentum carries in the momentum starts man.

You cannot be stopped, bro You can't you cannot be stopped guys in the house. Our question to you is what's the choice? What are you gonna choose today, what are you gonna choose tomorrow, what are you gonna choose for the rest of your life? Are you gonna choose to win or lose? This is the power couple