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This is the smashes system podcasts. Welcome back. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk about the one thing that everybody tells you is gonna bring you success. And that’s hard work. And right now, I want to tell you straight out that if you think hard work, is your key to success. You’re believing a lie. I know way too many people that have put their heart and soul into work, have come to the brink of killing themselves because of the hard work that they’ve put in. ruin their health, destroyed the relationships. And at the end of the day, the best they can have is a paycheck that’s maybe just a little bigger than anybody else’s. But I’ll tell you one thing, they’re not rich and half of them are scrambling right now because they’re getting close to retirement. And they don’t have enough put away. They’re saying, I don’t know How I’m going to retire with what I have. So I think I’m gonna have to work until 70. I’m going to tell you one thing at the rate you’re going at the rate you’ve been going by the time you hit 70 you’ve got maybe one more year to live. That’s the sad truth. This whole hard work will give you success mentality kind of reminds me of when I first started playing tennis, I started playing tennis. When I was 35 years old, pretty late. I was a late bloomer with tennis. And it was because I was overweight and I wanted to do something fun to lose weight. So I chose tennis. So I started about halfway through summer. And at about two months of playing. I joined a tennis club getting ready for the winter. So I joined that and about September, and this tennis club had a weekly competition. And I decided, hey, why not join this competition. It’ll give me something to do on Tuesday nights, you know, help me kind of gauge where my games at. So I joined and I was at the bottom of the ladder. Everybody that played had been playing for years and years, some people for 20 years and more. The guys at the bottom of the ladder, they were like, you know, 810 years of playing. And after probably about two months of playing, I started moving up in the ladder, and one guy started to get jealous started to get mad at me, because I was advancing so quickly started to tell everybody Oh, I don’t know how the hell this guy’s moving up so fast. He just started playing some kind of BS He must be getting lessons from some professional must be putting a lot of money into this just so he can get better really fast, but I wasn’t. In fact, I wasn’t getting any lessons from anybody. I was teaching myself but along the same lines, I was Doing it strategically, just like you would with a professional. Yes, I was putting in work, I was putting in a lot of work. I was practicing with intention. I had specific goals in mind. I worked on specific things. And when I did it, I used YouTube to find slow motion video of the pros. And what I tried to do is mimic them as exactly as I could. And at first, it was a total shit show because trying to hit a ball like a professional when you have no skill at all is really tough. But I had a long term strategy. I was trying to program my mind trying to program my body to move in a certain way and not any other way. And so at first it was terrible. But as my body start to understand what to do as my brain understood how the ball was going to balance and where I needed to be, I started progressing really fast. This guy was jealous about how quickly I progressed, because he put in so much hard work. But he put in hard work. That was undirected, that was half assed at best. And so I want to tell you, if you think it’s hard work that’s gonna get you success, you’re wrong. You need to aim at something, you need to have a target in sight. You need to have a strategy, and then put in hard work that’s direct