Host: Roland Frasier (@RolandFrasier) is an investor, business mentor, and podcaster.
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”
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
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?
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.
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
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
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  
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