While he doesn't have similar celebrity status to Kobe Bryant, JK Rowling, or Michael Jordan, Ed Mylett is both a tremendous businessman and coach.
Ranked as one of the top fifty wealthiest people under the age of fifty, you can learn much not only from Mylett's self-development content, but his life, too.
Teaching something is one of the best ways to learn it, and it is clear that - by passing on his insights through social media, podcasts, and public speaking - Mylett has extended his own knowledge on the subject to unprecedented levels.
Believe me, he's someone you want to learn from.
3 Things To Learn From Ed Mylett:
1) Confidence Comes From Keeping Promises We Make To Ourselves
This first one is so, SO crucial to living a fulfilling life.
People's conception of confidence is completely skewed.
Most believe that confidence is something you are either born with, or without.
Mylett regularly assures his audience that, in reality, TRUE confidence is formed, little by little, decision by decision.
For example, every time we say that we're going to work out, and we get up next morning and do it, we add a little sliver of confidence to ourselves,
Likewise, if we say we're going to work out, but then make some excuse based around time or energy levels, our confidence levels diminish ever so slightly.
This also applies to completing daily tasks, or nutrition, or spending quality time with family.
Mylett describes those who we perceive as naturally brimming with self-confidence to simply be those who are most disciplined in keeping the promises they make to themselves.
Want to be the guy or girl that turns heads when they enter the room, that everyone looks at and thinks "damn, I wish I was that confident"?
Keep those promises.
2) Be Blissfully Dissatisfied
This oxymoron of a concept is essential for solving the issue most high-achievers face of never being able to enjoy their success.
What Mylett believes in is the simultaneous sensations of enjoyment, and desire for more.
When he has achieved a significant goal, he will allow himself to savour the triumph, to revel in the moment; but not for too long.
Overcelebrating one success quickly turns into complacency, which is how athletes lose their sharpness, or entrepreneurs lose their millions.
But never enjoying the moment of achievement is equally dangerous too - why go through all the pain, sacrifice and hard work, only to never enjoy the spoils of it?
Mylett also stresses the difference between happiness and fulfillment.
The former, happiness, comes from short-term pleasure, such as the look of a shiny new watch - material objects in other words, the trappings of success, which is a TEMPORARY feeling.
These can be good, but Mylett touts the latter, fulfillment, as a 10x better feeling.
Fulfillment comes from using your abilities to make a true impact on the lives of others, whether that's showing support and compassion, or educating them, or making them laugh.
It's okay to want both, but understand that only fulfillment can truly enrich your life.
Be Blissfully Dissatisfied.
3) Control Your Identity Change Your Life
Mylett, like Tony Robbins, strongly believes that our identity dictates our behaviour.
If we view ourselves as a highly-successful, ambitious person, our actions are more likely to imitate those of someone who is highly-successful and ambitious.
Mylett describes it like a thermostat: when your life gets going - 'heats up' - because you're doing well at work, or in your fitness, or with your relationships.
Say you're an 80 degree person, and you start eating really well, exercising regularly, hydrating properly etc, you're heating up to, say, 95 degrees.
BUT if you believe that you're only an 80 degree person, you'll start to cool your life back down to where you're comfortable.
So how do you change your identity?
Mylett suggests a few methods, such as making sure you hang around people of higher temperatures than yourself - you'll naturally push towards their level.
He also recommends blasting up the heat in one particular aspect of life for a period of time - say, in business, putting in even more work, making more calls, sending more emails for a month or two - because after that, you'll have become accustom to living at this higher temperature, and want to maintain your momentum.
So start cranking that thermostat up, and change your identity.
Remember that You'll Never Walk Alone.
Until the next time...
Alex (N. Y. A.)
Something Extra
Ed Mylett has so much fantastic content out for your perusal, mostly for free, and I can't recommend him enough:
The Ed Mylett Show (his excellent, top-ranked podcast, which gives invaluable advice, found on iTunes, Spotify etc)
Max Out (Mylett's short but value-packed book, found cheap on his website)
Influencive Article (all about Mylett, his life, and his fairly recent decision to join social media)
Read, listen, and learn from one of the best business mentors out there.
Aspire to be more like Ed Mylett.
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