Achieve Results NOW! Podcast

Thank you for listening to the Achieve Results NOW! Podcast. The podcast that gives you immediate actions you can take to start seeing life shifting results now! In this episode, we talk about the difference between resolutions and goals, and how to use both effectively to achieve maximum results.

Questions Answered in This Podcast:

- The true differences between goals and resolutions.

- How and when to set resolutions and goals

- Best practices for ensuring your success

Action Steps for The Week:

- At Achieve Results NOW!, we are about action! Time for the rubber to meet the road. In this episode, we talked about goals and resolutions! Put follow-through into action today, then let us know your results!

​Your Turn:

- Once you have done this week's action step, let us know what improvements you saw or challenges you faced in the comments below or on our Facebook page. Share this post with someone who could use it!

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Episode 15 – Follow Through – Your Fast Lane to Success

Thank you for listening to the Achieve Results Now Podcast. The podcast that gives you immediate actions you can take to start seeing life shifting results NOW! In this episode, we talk about Your Fast Lane to Success.

Questions Answered In This Podcast:

- What is one tool you can implement to start seeing immediate improvements and results?

- What to do when you have failed repeatedly at achieving a goal?

Action Steps For The Week:

At Achieve Results NOW!, we are about action. Time for the rubber to meet the road. In this episode, we talked about Follow Through! Put follow through into action today, then let us know your results!

Your Turn:

Once you have done this week's action step, let us know what improvements you saw or challenges you faced in the comments below or on our Facebook page.

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Episode 14 – The Greatest Gift you can give Someone

Thank you for listening to the Achieve Results NOW! Podcast. The podcast that gives you immediate actions you can take to start seeing life shifting results NOW! In this episode, we talk about giving the gift of gratitude.

Questions Answered In This Podcast:

- How can we show gratitude to others?

- What are the unseen benefits of showing gratitude?

- When is gratitude appropriate?

Action Steps for The Week:

- At Achieve Results NOW!, we are about action! Time for the rubber to meet the road. In this episode, we gave you some action steps you could take to give the gift of GRATITUDE. Take one or two of those steps and put it into action, then let us know your results!

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- Once you have done this week's action step, let us know what improvements you saw or challenges you faced in the comments below or on our Facebook page. Share this post with someone who could use it!

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Episode 13 – Overwhelmed?

Thank you for listening to the Achieve Results NOW! Podcast. The podcast that gives you immediate actions you can take to start seeing life shifting results now! In this episode, we talk about how you can effectively deal with feelings of overwhelm.

Questions Answered In This Podcast:

- What are the main causes of overwhelm?

- What can you do to avoid overwhelm in the future?

- How you can get yourself out of overwhelm quickly!

Action Steps For The Week:

- At Achieve Results NOW!, we are about action. Time for the rubber to meet the road. In this episode, we gave you five action steps you could take to get yourself out of overwhelm and keep overwhelm away. Take one or two of those steps and put it into action, then let us know your results!

Your Turn:

- Once you have done this week's action step, let us know what improvements you saw or challenges you faced in the comments below or on our Facebook page. Share this post with someone who could use it!

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Thank you for listening to the Achieve Results NOW! Podcast. The podcast that gives you immediate actions you can take to start seeing life shifting results now! In this episode, we talk about how you can overcome procrastination!

Questions Answered In This Podcast:

- Why do people procrastinate?

- What are some steps you can take TODAY to start overcoming procrastination?

- How you can use pressure as a resource.

Action Steps for The Week:

- At Achieve Results NOW, we are about action! Time for the rubber to meet the road. In this episode, we brought up three ways to overcome procrastination. Take one of those steps and put it into action, then let us know your results!

Your Turn:

- Once you have done this week's action step, let us know what improvements you saw or challenges you faced in the comments below or on our Facebook page. Share this post with someone who could use it!

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Episode 11 – Your Most Untapped Resource

Thank you for listening to the Achieve Results NOW! Podcast. The podcast that gives you immediate actions you can take to start seeing life shifting results now! In this episode, we talk about your most untapped resource, and give you some actions you can take to start taking utilizing it to its fullest!

Questions Answered in This Podcast:

- What is your most untapped resource?

- What are some things I should MAKE time for?

- What things can I start doing today to better utilize this resource?

Action Steps for The Week:

- At Achieve Results NOW, we are about ACTION! Time for the rubber to meet the road. In this episode, we gave you five things you should make time for on a daily basis. This week, take ONE of those items and put them into daily action.

Your Turn:

- Once you have done this week's action step, let us know what improvements you saw or challenges you faced in the comments below or on our Facebook page. Share this post with someone who could use it!

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Thank you for listening to the Achieve Results Now Podcast. The podcast that gives you immediate actions you can take to start seeing life shifting results now! In this episode, we interview 4th degree Black Belt team leader Michaela Baratta. Ms. Baratta is a college student, a professional martial arts instructor, and one of the most intense performers out there.

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Listen to this podcast and learn Ms. Baratta's secrets of success, and learn how you can model and use those secrets to start achieving results now!

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Episode 9: The Most Dangerous Distraction

In this Episode:

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Achieve Results NOW! podcast with your hosts, Theron Feidt and Mark Cardone . In this installment, the guys confront an internal barrier that limits your absolute ceiling of success: the way you manage and feed your mind .

Theron and Mark pull back the curtain on how average performers unconsciously pollute their mental real estate through passive consumption and conversational shortcuts . They contrast these habits with the rigorous mental diets of high achievers and layout the exact inputs—across what you see, what you hear, and what you do—required to build an unshakeable psychological state .

The Architecture of the Mind's Input 1. What You SEE: The Media Audit 📺

• The Baseline Reality: Distraction is entirely natural, regardless of where you stand on the performance spectrum . The difference lies in the ratio and the content squeezed into that time . If you are distracted $90\%$ of your day, your chance of true achievement is slim to none .

• The Average View: The average individual consumes massive volumes of standard television (historically up to 7 or 8 hours a day) . This heavy consumption forces your brain to scan other people's fictional narratives or real-world highlight reels on social media instead of building your own .

• The State-Shattering Commercial Trap: Passive viewing exposes your subconscious to aggressive political advertisements and media campaigns explicitly engineered to trigger a negative, reactive state .

• The Achiever's Reading Habit: High achievers switch out the screen for active reading . While casual fiction offers creative benefits, priority is placed on intentional, developmental literature :

  • Inspirational & Core Grounding Texts: Setting an unshakeable perspective first thing in the morning .

  • Biographies: The ultimate roadmap for human execution . Every massive challenge or objective you currently face has already been solved by someone else . Reading their life story is the fastest way to get from point A to point B without repeating their scars .

• The News Illusion: Constantly scanning daily newspapers or headlines under the guise of "staying informed" is structurally no different than sitting through television commercials . The vast majority of mainstream media highlights variables entirely outside your circle of influence . If an event is truly critical to your immediate survival, someone in your circle will tell you . Keep the background noise in context .

2. What You HEAR: Conversational Poison & Audio Architecture 📻

• The Stagnant Audio Trap: Average loops consist of endless talk radio, generic celebrity gossip, and toxic rumors that are blindly accepted as factual variables and repackaged across social channels . Spending an entire 8-hour shift swimming in talk radio guarantees you will finish your day in a hostile, negative state .

• The Subconscious Loop: Your brain actively processes and anchors the specific phrases you vocalize out of your own mouth . When asked a standard question like, "How are you doing?" the average response is a weak, uninspired, "I'm all right."

• Stating Truth in Advance: High performers counter this with calculated verbal shifts . Mark's signature standard response—"I am so outrageous, it's contagious!"—functions as a conversation driver and a neurological cue . Even on days when you do not feel perfect, speaking with calculated, present-tense power trains your mind to align with that baseline state .

• The Drive-Time University: Achievers optimize their travel time by converting their dashboard into an educational platform . Use tools like Audible to maintain a strict audio curriculum comprised of instructional podcasts, strategy breakdowns, and audiobooks .

• State-Driven Playlists: Music should be chosen intentionally, not randomly . Maintain separate playlists specifically tailored to your destination: use one intense sequence to prime your physical state before a heavy workout, and use a completely separate playlist to focus your state before stepping into a high-stakes client sales call .

3. What You DO: Daily Habits and Environmental Tone 🏃‍♂️

• The Morning Snooze Cycle: Average patterns begin with multiple rounds of hitting the snooze alarm, followed by an immediate dependency on caffeine over motion to jumpstart the nervous system . If you wake up in an absolute fog, it is not the fault of your coffee machine; it is the natural byproduct of a poorly constructed evening input stream .

• Raining on the Parade: The default cultural standard is wired to spread subtle negativity . In an independent study tracking corporate receptionists, salespeople walked into offices and remarked, "Beautiful day, isn't it?" $85\%$ to $90\%$ of the receptionists immediately agreed, but automatically paired it with a negative caveat, like, "But it's probably going to rain later." Average minds instinctively look to cloud positive environments .

• The Standard of Expectation: Achievers violently reject this default mode by setting immensely high expectations for themselves, their employees, and their direct teams . By keeping goals written cleanly at the forefront of your head, your subconscious uses those expectations to filter opportunities that normal eyes delete .

• The Baseline Gratitude Check: True appreciation is an active decision, completely independent of whether you are experiencing a difficult day . If you are living inside the borders of a great nation like the United States, you already possess a baseline of fundamental freedom that can serve as an unshakeable platform for perspective . Remember the ultimate standard: every single day above ground is a great day .

Action Steps for Listeners:

1. Flip Your Script: The very next time someone casually asks how your day is going, refuse the standard "all right" response . State your truth in advance with a specific, high-energy phrase to break the automatic linguistic loop .

2. Execute a Media Swap: Cut $30\text{ minutes}$ of scrolling through social channels or television networks tonight and replace it entirely with two chapters of a high-value biography or leadership text .

3. The Media Distraction Audit: Audit your current drive-time audio content . Dedicate the first half of your commute tomorrow strictly to educational podcasts or tactical audiobooks before cueing up your high-state musical playlists .

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• Official Website: Head over to www.AchieveResultsNow.com to explore the archives and download your completely free copy of our action book, Ignite Results, to map out specific, daily wins !

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Episode 8: Unscripted Q&A—Your Toughest Goal Questions Answered Live

In this Episode: Welcome to episode eight of the Achieve Results NOW! podcast with your hosts, Theron Feidt and Mark Cardone. In this special unscripted mailbag episode, the guys answer real questions collected directly from clients and comment sections.

To keep the episode entirely candid, Theron and Mark each brought a private list of tough personal development questions that the other host had never seen beforehand. They trade questions back and forth live on the air, tackling topics like goal paralysis, chronic demotivation, conflicting priorities, tracking metrics, and navigating an unsupportive personal environment.

Unscripted Q&A: Tearing Down Modern Goal Obstacles 1. What should you do when faced with a massive, terrifying goal? 🧠

• The Bite-Sized Breakdown: When a major milestone feels completely overwhelming, the key is to break it down into manageable, bite-sized pieces.

• One Step at a Time: Remember the classic adage: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time." Isolate the single next step or small sub-goal you can control right now. Focus entirely on completing that one thing, and only once it is achieved should you map out the next immediate step.

2. What do you do when you repeatedly set a goal but keep failing at it? 🔄

• Audit Your Emotional Drive: If you keep dropping the ball, look past the execution and audit your underlying "why". Frequently, people do not fail because they are making tactical mistakes; they fail because they aren't taking action because their "why" lacks true emotional weight.

• Get Emotional & Visual: Write down the real reasons you want this objective and get deeply emotional with them. Intentionally visualize the end result and picture it as if you have already achieved it to trigger your internal momentum.

3. Why does personal motivation fade so quickly after a strong start? 📉

• The Progress Trap: Motivation often drops the exact moment you begin to see a small amount of progress. When you start to see tiny shifts, the pain of your starting point begins to fade—you realize you aren't quite as out of shape, broke, or in danger of relationship failure as you were yesterday. This muting of the friction causes quick complacency.

• The Daily Defense: The ultimate weapon against early satisfaction is handwriting your goals every single day. Daily rewriting keeps your baseline targets fresh in your mind, anchors your initial "why," and prevents your momentum from stalling.

4. How do you handle major conflicts between your goals (like fitness vs. family time)? ⚖️

• Establish Clear Internal Values: Conflicting goals are usually a symptom of a lack of internal clarity. Take the time to sit down, think deeply, and explicitly write out your core values in order of priority.

• The "Buddy System" Ripple Effect: When chosen properly, high-level goals do not conflict—they actually cooperate and function as buddies. For example, when a practitioner commits to a high-level physical goal like earning a martial arts Black Belt, the journey inevitably improves their focus, mood, and temperament. That positive energy creates a natural ripple effect, making them a more patient, present, and loving leader when they return home to their family.

5. What should you do if you wake up in the morning completely unsure of how to start your day? 🌅

• Avoid Waking Up "Under the Tires": If you wait until you wake up to plan your morning, you have already lost control of the day. You find yourself living "under the tires," constantly reacting to external distractions, notifications, or family chaos.

• Take Back the Hours: Spend just five minutes the night before designing your morning routine and plotting your schedule. Your sleep schedule will never voluntarily volunteer extra time; you must aggressively take those early hours back by going to bed slightly earlier and moving your alarm clock forward. If you slip up and sleep in, accept the lump and simply reset the next morning.

6. How do you navigate a spouse, coworker, or friend circle that doesn't support your goals? 🛑

• Check the Value Flow: If your goals are genuinely positive and designed to elevate your life, they should ultimately bring value to those around you. If a goal is entirely self-centered and provides zero big-picture benefit to your inner circle, it is natural for them to push back.

• The Adult Environment Trap: As parents, people fiercely guard who their children associate with, yet adults frequently forget this lesson and maintain toxic, stagnant friendships out of comfortable habit. You can remain kind and friendly to old peers, but you must not model your lifestyle after people who haven't evolved in twenty years.

• Become the Salesperson: True leaders are great salespeople. If someone you care about doesn't support your path, do a better job of communicating and selling your "why". Frame your growth around how it will directly benefit them, not just you. Set the tone, take the lead, and stop following the crowd.

Action Steps for Listeners:

1. Elephant-Size Your Goal: Take your largest, most intimidating goal for this quarter and break it down into three micro-tasks on paper, selecting one to execute entirely today.

2. Pre-Plan Tonight: Set a timer for 5 minutes before bed tonight to write down your exact wake-up time and your first three non-negotiable actions for tomorrow morning.

3. The Relationship Sales Pitch: Identify a goal where you need more support from a loved one. Write down three specific ways your achievement of that goal will positively impact their life, and pitch it to them this week.

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• Stump the Hosts: Do you have a difficult goal-setting or personal growth question you want Theron and Mark to break down anonymously on a future podcast episode? Send your questions in through the official contact form on our website or drop them on our social channels.

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Episode 7: Why We Are Happy When You're Failing

In this Episode: Welcome to episode seven of the Achieve Results NOW! podcast with your hosts, Theron Feidt and Mark Cardone . In this episode, the guys turn a common negative on its head and explain exactly why they are happy when you are hitting obstacles and failing .

True failure isn't the opposite of success—it is an active byproduct of trying . Theron and Mark discuss how to harness the mental laws of momentum, handle the intense psychological resistance that spikes right before a breakthrough, and leverage a community of high performers to turn frustration into fuel .

Four Reasons to Embrace Your Failures 1. Failing Means You Are Actively Taking Action

• The Knowledge Trap: It is incredibly easy to spend your time dreaming, planning, and collecting a massive storage of knowledge about what you should do, without ever executing a single physical step .

• The Momentum Factor: When you are actively failing, it means you are in the game and trying to make things happen . This process breaks your initial stagnation and builds momentum . Just like the first half-mile of a physical run can feel completely miserable and sore, pushing past that initial friction kicks your momentum into gear, making you want to run miles further .

• The Eleanor Roosevelt Rule: The hosts reference a powerful perspective from Eleanor Roosevelt: "You must do things that you think you cannot do." If you never take the risk to try, you will never expand your possibilities .

• Avoid the Lemming Effect: People who refuse to take action love to look for excuses . They actively look for other unmotivated people to glom onto so they can comfortably lay in a slump together . Taking action cuts you away from that crowd .

2. Failure Means You Are Logistically Getting Closer

• The Daily Mirror Blindspot: It is fundamentally difficult to track your own growth on a day-to-day level . Just as you can't visually see a child getting taller when you live with them every day, you often cannot see your own progress in the mirror . It usually takes an outside observer who hasn't seen you in months to look at you and validate the massive change .

• Using Failure as Feedback: If you are trying and failing, you are gaining direct visibility into why you are hitting a wall . This insight provides the exact stepping stones you need to adjust your approach .

• Einstein's Insanity Check: The hosts highlight Albert Einstein's classic observation that the definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing over and over again while expecting a completely different result . If an approach fails, harvest the feedback, change your tactics, and move ahead .

3. Resistance Always Spikes Right Before a Breakthrough

• The Darkest Before Dawn Principle: In personal development, psychological friction and environmental obstacles always hit their absolute hardest right before you are about to cross the finish line . Small goals have simple obstacles, but massive goals invite massive, complex resistance .

• Truth in Advance: When the tunnel gets dark, you must function as your own primary cheerleader to pump yourself up . Practice stating your "truth in advance"—deciding your future victories ahead of time and setting an unshakeable tone for your mind .

• The Mental Weight Room: Resistance is explicitly designed to make you strong . Walking into a gym and lifting a bare $45\text{-lb}$ bar isn't going to change your physique . You have to slap heavy plates on each side of the bar to build real muscle . Mental obstacles function the exact same way; the larger the opponent or challenge you beat, the sweeter your ultimate victory will be .

• The Inches-Away Trap: Too many people quit just inches before achieving their ultimate target . Theron shares a pattern seen over decades in martial arts, where students endure years of grueling training, pass their black belt tests, and then abruptly drop out just two or three weeks before the official graduation ceremony . They defeat themselves right at the finish line . No one ever returns years later to say they are glad they quit on their black belt, but countless people look back with deep regret that they didn't push through that final stretch .

4. Failure Means You Are Part of the Community

• Inspirational Dissatisfaction: If you are tracking your failures, it means you are actively engaging with this podcast, reading the blog posts, and analyzing your life . You are refusing to settle for a life of quiet complacency . If you are unhappy with your current metrics, do not fall into depression—channel that "inspirational dissatisfaction" into focused, aggressive action .

• Pity Party Dynamics: Pity parties are acceptable for a very brief moment to process a loss, but remember that pity parties always invite lousy guests . Shake off the stagnation, build a new strategy, and start moving forward . This community is not a group of flawless people; it is a room full of high achievers who fail every single day but refuse to stop stretching for more .

Action Steps for Listeners:

1. Locate the Friction Point: Write down the exact goal where you are currently experiencing the heaviest failure or roadblock right now, and isolate the exact reason why it is stalling .

2. Shift Your Standard Model: Stop measuring your success solely by the massive end result . Tonight, check off your wins based strictly on whether you executed your planned actions today .

3. The Mirror Reality Check: Categorize the people around you . Identify one person you look up to whose habits you want to mirror, and note one person whose life choices serve as a perfect warning of what you do not want to do .

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