Elevate Your Standards with Derrick Lawter

What do you do when opportunity knocks? Do you open the door and take advantage, or do you let it pass you by and wait for the next? The only way to really be "lucky" is to always be prepared to take advantage of opportunities. You have to always be ready to jump on the chances that you get or someone else will. Be the one who takes opportunities and turns them into accomplishments. This life favors the brave. 

When things get hard, you will always fall back onto your habits. Habits and routines are truly all we are made of. The actions that we take on a daily basis end up shaping our lives, whether we like it or not. if you want to improve your life, your productivity, your relationships, and more, you need to change your habits. This episode will help you look at your habits and see what steps you can take to make them elite!

A lot of people take pride in being busy. They like to tell their friends how many hours they worked or how much pointless stuff they got done in a day. However, being busy is actually the enemy of productivity. In order to launch yourself on the right path of success, you have to learn to be effective with your days. This means completing the tasks that matter and move you closer to your goal. Strive to be productive, not busy.

What exactly is a growth mindset? Is it the attitude of always wanting to get better and improve your life? Actually Growth Mindset is something much deeper and more important. The real growth mindset comes from the way our body and brain continue to motivate when we reward effort and not results! It's not about the destination. To achieve a real growth mindset you must learn to reward yourself for the process of putting in the work!

Most people have a serious problem saying no. This usually leads to your days and weeks filled with things and events that you don't really want to do, but have committed to anyways. A simple way to fix this? Learn to say no to people when you're asked to do things that you are not enthusiastic about. It takes some discipline but is well worth it with the time you free up for yourself. 

A majority of our generation struggles with some sort of depressive thoughts or times where our mind can get the best of us. In the world we live in, it can be hard to stay positive and happy sometimes. This episode is all about what you can do to give yourself the best chance of winning the battle by taking care of other parts of your life and what you can control. 

Most people view decisions as either good or bad and make this decision based on the outcome or the result of the decision. In reality, decisions contain three parts and the outcome of the decision has very little impact on if the decision was a good one or not. In order to make the best decisions on a consistent basis, you must be able to weigh the risk in an unbiased way and make a decision based on the odds of success. After learning this, you will begin to understand that a decision is good or bad based on the risk, not the outcome. 

What does it mean to play the long game? The long game is all bout planning and making goals for 3- years in the future. The key to this is not just making goals with the future in mind but making decisions the same way. When you start to make your decisions based on where your life or business will be in 5 years compared to 5 months, you will see the path to success slowly open and will stop hitting so many dead ends along the way. So many people are always starting over because they are always playing the short game, play the long game and you will thank yourself in 5 years. 

We have all heard that we need mentors and coaches to succeed in business or life. The big question is, how do we find these mentors? Luckily for us, the internet and wealth of information have provided us an opportunity like no other. We have the chance to create our own group of mentors and receive their priceless coaching for free! Listen now as we talk about how you can leverage these proven figures content to create your own personal mentor group. 

Discipline is the one quality that separates the great from the average. While it is easy to have a good day or a good week, you can only see results when you start to work hard on a consistent basis. That is impossible without discipline. Discipline is doing what you know you should do instead of what you want to do. The good thing is that anyone can develop discipline in their life, it is a skill that can be learned by continuously doing things you know you should. Here are three easy ways to develop discipline in your life today.