Summary of Business Lunch Podcast Episode: Unlock Your Potential: 5 Steps to Success | Business Lunch with Roland Frasier
Podcast: Business Lunch
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Learn how to break free from the crutches that are holding you back with these 5 steps Discover why letting go is difficult and how to prepare yourself for the journey ahead Start walking without your crutch and embrace a new level of freedom and success.
Unlock Your Potential: 5 Steps to Success | Business Lunch with Roland Frasier
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Key Takeaways
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Often the ‘Crutch’ that you lean on will become a leash that holds you back or hurts you or your business
- “The only way to fix dependence on a crutch is to let it go and start walking without it” – Roland Frasier
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The 5 steps to getting rid of your crutches:
- Inquire
- Identify
- Visualize
- Prepare
- Act, Throw, and Cut
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The reason crutches are hard to remove is that they helped us once
- Ending a relationship, whether with drugs, alcohol, a person, or a crutch, is one of the hardest things we as humans may have to do
- Prepare yourself for this: For each item or person, you need to let go of, write out what you want to say and rehearse the conversation in your head
- Ending a relationship, whether with drugs, alcohol, a person, or a crutch, is one of the hardest things we as humans may have to do
Intro
- Host: Roland Frasier (@RolandFrasier) is an investor, business mentor, and podcaster.
Be Careful of Crutches
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Often the ‘Crutch’ that you lean on will become a leash that holds you back or hurts you or your business
- “The only way to fix dependence on a crutch is to let it go and start walking without it” – Roland Frasier
- Crutches are meant to be used only for the short-term, not something you depend on forever
- If you literally use crutches for too long, they can actually damage the nerves under your arm. The same applies to figurative crutches.
- “Think about taking action today to break free from your crutches”
- If you literally use crutches for too long, they can actually damage the nerves under your arm. The same applies to figurative crutches.
- Crutches are meant to be used only for the short-term, not something you depend on forever
- “The only way to fix dependence on a crutch is to let it go and start walking without it” – Roland Frasier
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The 5 steps to getting rid of your crutches:
- Inquire
- Identify
- Visualize
- Prepare
- Act, Throw, and Cut
- “Take a minute and really paint the picture of how much happier, joyful, profitable, or fulfilling your life will be once you’ve eliminated that crutch leash” – Roland Frasier
Step 1: Inquire
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Ask yourself the following questions:
- What things are you doing in your life and business that you don’t want to do?
- What are the tasks that you dislike?
- What are you doing that’s not earning you the money you need to live the life that you want?
- Who is someone you work for, or with, that no longer brings joy or value to your personal life or business?
- Is there anyone in your business or life that you don’t see eye-to-eye with on moral or ethical issues? Who has values that don’t match your own, and they’re not likely to any time soon?
Step 2: Identify
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Make a list of things to stop doing and relationships to end, based on your answers to the questions above
- When you’ve done this, you now have a list of all of the crutches that have become leashes.
Step 3: Visualize
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If you are going to take these necessary actions, you’re going to need some help getting motivated
- Take a moment to imagine life in a year, when you’ve eliminated each crutch/leash on your list. Picture how much more profitable, peaceful, joyful, your life will be.
- Behavioral Scientists call this future pacing
- “Take a minute and really paint the picture of how much happier, joyful, profitable, or fulfilling your life will be once you’ve eliminated that crutch leash” – Roland Frasier
- Behavioral Scientists call this future pacing
- Take a moment to imagine life in a year, when you’ve eliminated each crutch/leash on your list. Picture how much more profitable, peaceful, joyful, your life will be.
Step 4: Prepare
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As humans, we are all conditioned to avoid pain and seek pleasure
- The reason these crutches are hard to let go of is that at some point, they helped us
- Ending a relationship, whether with drugs, alcohol, a person, or a crutch, is one of the hardest things we as humans may have to do
- Prepare yourself for this: For each item or person, you need to let go of, write out what you want to say and rehearse the conversation in your head
- Ending a relationship, whether with drugs, alcohol, a person, or a crutch, is one of the hardest things we as humans may have to do
- The reason these crutches are hard to let go of is that at some point, they helped us
Step 5: Act, Throw, and Cut
- Take action, throw out what’s not working and remove crutches in your life
- Accelerate your happiness and success by using this process and taking a leap in the right direction in life
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Lean on the work you’ve done and do what you need to do
- Now that you’re thinking consciously and intentionally about recognizing these crutch and leash situations, you will be able to move forward faster into the life you want to live.
- At the end of these 5 steps, you should be freed from your crutch
- Now that you’re thinking consciously and intentionally about recognizing these crutch and leash situations, you will be able to move forward faster into the life you want to live.