THE ED MYLETT SHOW - How Leaders Solve Problems
Episode Date: August 10, 202385% of your problems should be solved IMMEDIATELY!Do you have a system, strategy or process for solving problems?Do you want one? I’m revealing mine in my new video/Audio release today 👊🏽The ...reason people have SO MANY problems and obstacles in their path is that most people are INDECISIVE. Instead of taking MASSIVE ACTION, they become stagnant and frozen in their problems and NEVER make a decision.Being DECISIVE, Being CERTAIN and taking MASSIVE ACTION is the #1 habit you must build to eliminate your problems!This will help obliterate most of them immediately.Think about the biggest problem you have right now. What effect is it having on your entire life? Is it affecting your family life? Is it affecting your work? Your faith? Your Finances? Your happiness? Your health? Now imagine what your life would be like if you were able to ELIMINATE that problem!In this new release, I’m going to teach you my 3 steps process on how to become a MASTER PROBLEM SOLVER and eliminate 85% of the problems you are dealing with!The most successful and happy people are DECISIVE. LEADERS ARE DECISIVE! I'm so excited to share these strategies with you. This time to build this habit right NOW!BE DECISIVE. Make the decision and LISTEN/WATCH NOW!
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This is The Edm My Let's Show.
Welcome back to Max Out Everybody.
I'm Ed Mylet and I am so excited about today's program because I feel like it's going to
make such a difference in so many people's lives because of all of the direct messages
I've been getting from people in a max out universe saying Ed would you please cover this
topic.
It would make one of the biggest differences in my own life because it's something that I struggle with.
And that topic today is problems,
specifically how to solve problems better.
And I'm excited about covering it
because it's something I struggle with as well.
And I love teaching things, frankly,
that help me own them and get better at them.
First thing we need to know is,
let's start out with some basic premises.
I'm gonna give you some very tactical steps here
as we move forward, but problems need
energy to live.
I want you to own that.
Remember this, problems need energy to live.
So the concept should be that we solve problems, but we don't have to pour and deplete ourselves
of energy, because the more energy you give something, the more it expands.
We want to be in the max out universe.
We want to pour our energy and expense our energy towards the solution, not towards the problem.
So the first thing I want you to write down is,
90% of your energy, focus, time, and thought
should be towards the solution, not towards the problem itself.
This is a mistake most people make
because they expend all the energy into the problem.
They obsess over the problem, the problem.
And when you expand energy,
it grows to survive. And the problem gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And the
solution becomes more and more difficult. So the first thing is, can you consciously begin to focus
on an energy expansion into the solution, 90% of it into the solution and not into the problem. What we do is we repeat that problem over and over and over again and we magnify it to
the point where we don't come up with realistic solutions and we deplete ourselves as energy
towards the solution.
And so focus going forward when a problem arises and a challenge arises that you focus 90%
of your energy and thoughts on the solution and not repeating the problem to yourself.
And again, I wanna remind you,
we want problems in our lives.
They're the one opportunity we have to grow
without the existence of problems and challenges.
There's no opportunities for growth in life.
And so we don't wish for a life
that doesn't have challenges and problems.
Even though it seems like we would want one,
number one, you're always gonna have problems
and challenges in life.
So today is such a great day to begin to accept strategies and a formula and a mindset that'll help you do that.
You're somebody who wants to grow and improve and change in your life and become a maxed out version and a better version of yourself in every area.
The only opportunity you have to do that is when problems and challenges arise. These are growth opportunities in their life. So when they arise, it's very important
that you see them as an opportunity to grow.
And again, I don't mean that in a rar-ra,
Fufi way.
It's very true.
It's important that we distinguish
what it means because remember this.
In other audios, I've talked about the quality
of our life is comprised of the quality of emotions
we live with.
Our life is our emotions, right?
If you have the emotions of happiness,
joy and ecstasy and peace and faith and passion and intensity
and winning, that's a great life.
If you have a life that's filled with emotions
regularly of depression, anxiety, fear, stress, worry,
anger, that's a totally different quality of life.
So our emotions dictate the quality of our life.
And so when a stimulus like a problem comes
up, we better be thinking it's an opportunity to grow and we better be expensing our energy towards
the solution or we start to experience the wrong emotions. Why? Because in our life, emotions come
from meaning because when problems come up in life, the meaning we take from the event dictates
the emotion we experience. And so that emotion, Dick takes the quality of our life.
And so I want you going for it when a problem arrives
to feel the emotion and take the meaning away
that this is an opportunity to grow, to expand.
If you look back at your life in hindsight,
the problems and challenges you have
have all made you better when you solve them.
So those are the keys to begin today.
The question is, how do we solve them?
Is there a process?
Is there a mindset?
Are there some steps that when these arise,
I've got a recipe and a formula,
and that's what I want to share with you today.
So now I want to start out with a very basic three step
formula to begin with.
Then we're going to get very granular and very specific.
There are three steps that I always take
once I've arrived where I'm ready to take action
towards solving problems. Number one is make a decision. Once you've made a decision, make it.
Number two, massive certainty. Flood yourself with certainty. You can't execute at a high level
with self-doubt or a doubt about the process, the doubt about your strategy.
Flood yourself with certainty
that you know what you've got is gonna work.
And then third, take insane action.
This is a recipe in every area of your life.
I don't care if it's in business, in family, in sports,
make a decision,
flood yourself with certainty, and take massive action.
This process I use with the athletes I coach,
I use it with the entertainers, with the politicians, with the business people.
I'm always reminding them all the time I'm repeating them constantly. Make a decision.
People wait around too long for the perfect plan.
I'd rather have a flawed plan executed with certainty and massive action than the perfect plan executed with doubt and very little action.
There is no perfect decision, make one.
This will crush most problems.
We've already talked about spending 90% of our time
on the solution and not the problem.
I'm gonna give you another set of percentages here.
The vast majority of problems that arise in your life
should be solved immediately, like 85% of them.
Resolve immediately, make a decision,
massive certainty, take action, it's gone.
That means without a lot of deliberation, you've got to start to build a habit of being decisive,
successful people, happy people, leaders are decisive people. And I believe somewhere, if
there's 100 problems, challenges in life, 85 of them should be decided immediately with
not a lot of deliberation, and then certainty and massive action will eliminate that challenge
and that problem most of the time.
It's the people who procrastinate on the problem or ignore it or think it might go away that
gives that problem time to magnify, to fester, to grow, to where now it's become bigger
than it needed to be.
Second point, get clear on what this problem really means.
Is this a problem that's really gonna matter in five years?
Really, because what we do is,
we talked earlier about meaning.
What we do is most people, a problem comes up
and we begin to flood ourselves when they stack it
and stack it, this is a pattern most people go into,
and they lose perspective on how really important
this problem is, they lose perspective.
They get foggy because they've increased their stress level so high
that now the problem is difficult to solve because you've lost perspective on really how big of a
deal it is. And so make sure you're very clear, is this something that's going to matter in five years
because if it's not one of those types of problems for the most part, massive action 85%.
We're going to talk today about the 15% of the time where it requires a deliberation and a process to solve it
But don't be conflicted or confused into thinking most of the things that arise in your life
Most of the time your challenge is you're not solving it quickly enough
You're not being deliberate. You're not being decisive. You're not getting totally certain
Certainty is so huge flood yourself with certainty The reasons it'll work over and over again.
And then most people don't understand.
You can obliterate most problems with just massive action.
What stress really is when a problem comes up
is the fear of loss.
And what you do is you begin to give this a disempowering
meaning and you begin to feel like you're going to lose
something, which is why having a process
means so much to me.
Because when I know I have a process means so much to me because when I
know I have a process to solve a problem, I'm so much less fearful of the loss or
the stress that it's going to cause me. So just know when you begin to get these
feelings, it's where your focus is going that's causing this stress level to rise
in you, unnecessarily, and it's probably a pattern you have. We've talked about
this a lot in other audios and videos where you have a pattern.
And my hallucination for many of you is that when a problem arises, you begin to focus
on the problem more than the solution.
You begin to magnify your stress level, make a disempowering meaning, which is this fear
you're going to lose something.
And oftentimes it's not even a thing.
Oftentimes it's you're afraid you're going to lose certainty. One of the six needs.
You're going to lose your uncertainty.
You're going to lose your significance.
You might lose someone's love, right?
You may lose the ability to grow or the ability to contribute, but you begin to focus on
what you're going to lose and that fear magnetized the problem and causes you stress.
Stress is not a great place to live from.
It's one of those disempowering meanings and it's also a terrible place to make decisions from to solve problems.
And the third way you create stress when a problem comes up is physically.
In your body, what I call like your state, your physiology, you begin to get tense, don't
you?
You begin to hunch over, your breathing gets shallow, you kind of get close, that worry,
that feeling we get.
You know what I'm talking about?
This stress level that you use your body to create. You know what I'm talking about? This stress level
that you use your body to create. Listen to what I just said. You're using your body
in such a way to magnetize and elevate your stress level. See, that physiology of hunched
over shallow breathing is something that is the same as depression, as fear, as worry,
as stress, as pain, as anxiety. It's the same thing you do with your body
to create all those emotions.
You may need to check if you do this to yourself
when a problem arises.
The other type of physiology is like when we're working out,
when we're laughing, right?
Ecstasy if you're with your significant other, right?
That problem, that, that, yes, that celebration,
that's a different physiology, isn't it?
It's your back straight, you're breathing deeply, deeply you're smiling you're using your whole body your face muscles right your face
This month there's a certain way you do laughter and joy and pleasure and ecstasy
Physically isn't there and so when a problem arises check your physiology you can't make a great decision
From a bad physiology you can't make a great decision from a bad physiology.
You can't make a decision in stress.
And so I'm checking these things all the time.
One of the biggest things I check
when a problem rises is my physiology,
because I have a pattern where I go back
to that depressed, worried stress, anxiety, physiology.
And then I either can't make a decision, I can't execute.
So check that pattern with you.
When a problem arises, what do I do physically?
This is something nobody talks about, but you probably get quiet and hunched over.
You start repeating those thoughts and magnifying it and you're using your body in such a way
that elevates the stress and gives you a disempowering physiology to make great decisions.
So get back to that workout, ecstasy, laughter, joy, passion, physiology.
Just move your body, do some jumping jacks, take a quick run, take a walk, right?
You've all probably had the experience where you've solved problems working out, you've
solved problems in the shower, you've solved problems in a peep physical state.
So change your physiology, you can change the ability to solve that problem.
Okay, so let's now transition into a very step-by-step process that I want you to utilize
When a problem and challenge arises that's not in the 85
percent category that should be solved right away, right?
Remember this worry is a misuse of your imagination
So is stress so make sure you're taking an empowering meaning
One more meaning I want you to take away is problems
Are always an indicator that you're making progress
This is so counterintuitive to what we think when a problem arises
Where our mind will naturally go is I'm losing something as I said earlier
I'm taking a step backwards, but the actual arrival of the problem
It's mere presence in your life is an indicator you're on the road to progress. Otherwise, it wouldn't be there.
It's an impediment to the next level, but it's an indicator of progress.
These are all things you must know and believe to be true, so you take the right meaning
away, so you make the right decisions.
Number one thing you must do, define reality.
What does this really mean?
What is really happening right now?
Not the story you've already started to tell yourself about what's happening, but can
you get clear?
Can you step out of your own situation and look at the problem from an independent perspective,
from an unbiased perspective and define reality?
What really is the challenge?
What really is the problem without telling your story about it?
We all begin to tell an immediate story.
Here we go again.
People always do this to me. I'm going to lose that. I've made a better decision here.
And what we do at this stage way too early is we begin to assign blame.
Blame should never be assigned in the problem solving process. That is post mortem.
That is after you're done solving the problem and it is dead.
The mistake we make is we start to tell the story
and who's fault it is, it's my fault, it's their fault.
And what happens is that depletes our energy,
it distracts our focus from the solution
and it begins this story that we start stacking ourselves.
So when that tendency comes up in you,
that need, that behavior, that pattern, who's to blame,
who's fault is it, this takes you away from the solution.
It does not solve the problem, it magnifies the problem.
Always remember this, we will assign blame when it's over.
I'm all about the solution.
Laser focused on the solution.
See, the ability to get laser focused on something in life.
You can obliterate things in life.
You can achieve such massive things
if you begin to build the muscle
of eliminating distractions, eliminating the stories, eliminating the stress and getting perfect
clarity on where you really are. And the number one stressor, the number one distraction is who's
to blame? What's my story? Before it's even been solved, we want to assign blame. That is a distraction.
Don't do it. Number two, you have to get a clear vision of what you want. Like exactly what do you want when
this problem is solved? What do you want to be happening different than it is now specifically?
It can't be a general thing. A can't be that you just want to eliminate this. What is it exactly
that I want with specificity with clarity? Because this laser focus now, I can move towards a solution
if I'm clear on what it is,
which is number three.
Once I'm clear on what it is, get resourceful.
Once you figured out exactly what it is,
the number two, the third step is to get totally resourceful
about solving the problem.
What does that mean?
Who are the people that can help you?
The resources, the places, the things,
the circumstances, the collaborations, who
is that you might need to talk to, who's solved a similar problem when you're like, what
are the resources available to you? The more you begin to point out to yourself, I have
all these resources at my disposal. The more your anxiety and stress level begins to
go down, and it's true. Are there problems like this you've solved in the past, something
similar in the past you've solved or somebody else has solved. Most people get very unresourcedful. They
feel like there's no hope, no help, so ask yourself, how do I get
resourceful? What are my resources here? And then the last thing, if I could just
say this to you that are people of faith or if you plug into the universe, why
don't you embrace the fact and the belief that you're being guided, that there's
a blessing happening in your life or that you can plug into something that's got great answers for you.
There's resources everywhere for you, for those of you that are people or faith, or even
if you're somebody who you don't have a specific religion, but you plug into the energy
of the world.
Why is it that when a problem arises, we abandon our God, we abandon our faith, we abandon
the fact that we're guided, we abandon the higher consciousness that we believe in.
Why is it that when a problem arises, we abandon that?
Why don't you believe your guiding?
My great resource is my contacts, my friends,
my previous experience, maybe the people around me
that I can talk to, but my biggest one is my God.
I'm being guided, I'm being blessed, I'm favored,
plug into that divine inspiration,
that divine understanding.
If you pray for their guidance,
or you pray for their help, you pray for their will, right?
And you can pray for the information as well.
So begin to feel your guided,
get super resourceful is the third step.
The fourth, empowering question,
you just ask yourself very quickly,
what can I learn from this?
People say to me, that's really difficult to do in the middle of the problem.
No, it's not. It's just something that's a habit you've not built yet.
What can I learn from this? What's the learning experience?
Because as you're learning as you go, this problem is less likely to repeat itself in our lives.
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes.
There's nothing wrong with even having problems.
There's a challenge if we continue to repeat the same mistake that causes the same problems. And so what can I learn from this? Now you're leveraging
this problem to grow. Now this isn't something you're just overcoming and putting
behind you, but you're using this experience and this challenge to move in front of
it. Not just get it behind you. There's a big difference in that perspective.
What's great about this problem? That's a difficult question to ask when you're going through the middle of it. No, it's
not. Not if you build the habit, not if you begin to think like this because what that
does is it changes the meaning to you. It puts you in an empowering state and not a disempowering
state. So what is great about this? There are always great things in having problems and
challenges, whether it's going to be that you'll be more prepared next time, or you're
going to put things in place that will prevent it from happening next time, or what you're going to learn from it, or how you're going to grow from it, or who you're going to be that you'll be more prepared next time or you're going to put things in place that will prevent it from happening next time or what you're going to learn from it
or how you're going to grow from it or who you're going to connect with from it or the
other ancillary things are going to be improved or the fact that it just gives you a challenge
and keeps you alive, right?
But what's great about the problem?
It just helps you take the right meaning.
The more we can get in the right state and the right meaning, the more we're going to be
able to do the three things we talked about, which is make that decision, load ourselves with certainty and take massive insane action.
Number five, what's not perfect yet?
And that question is different than what's great, what's not perfect yet?
And you begin to understand what could make it more perfect.
It helps you refine and get more specific, and it helps you with your certainty.
Number six, what am I willing to do to make it the way I want it?
This is important because there will be things
in a minute you're not willing to do.
But what are you willing to do?
Is it an expenditure of money, time, resources,
calling in a favor with somebody, calling a meeting,
willing to call a friend about something?
What are you willing to do to make it the way you want it?
And that leads to number seven.
What are you not willing to do to make it the way you want it? And that leads to number seven. What are you not willing to do to make it the way you want it?
Maybe there's an extent you will not go to to solve this problem.
There's a level to which you will go.
There are things you won't do.
It might be, I won't compromise my integrity.
I won't lie.
I'm not going to spend more than this money on it, or this time, or this resource, or this
energy.
This is important to quantify as well,
because it helps create for us more certainty,
and it gives us more clarity.
I won't do this. I won't cheat. I won't be unethical.
I won't raise my voice. I won't ruin a relationship over this.
It might be with a person at your job, or who works for you,
and they're creating a problem for you.
I've had situations like this a few weeks ago,
one of my colleagues was not holding up their end of the bargain on their work and I wanted to solve that problem.
And I thought about how I could grow from it. What was good about it, what I could learn
from it. I got resourceful about it. I decided what I was willing to do. But I also decided
what I wasn't willing to do. And what I wasn't willing to do to solve this problem was
to ruin that relationship with this person. was to hurt their self-confidence,
was to give them more pain and anxiety and worry on their own life because I knew part of that was the
reason they were struggling that created the problem in the first place. Their own pain, their own
anxiety, their own worry, their own fears helped create this problem. I was solving and I was unwilling
to contribute more to that to solve it. And then lastly, how can I enjoy the process?
Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy the process
of overcoming challenges and problems
rather than always being a grind,
always being something we hate, always being painful?
Sometimes challenges and problems are just painful
things we're going to get through.
But these questions can empower you
to make it less this way.
And so ask yourself that question,
what can I do to enjoy this?
Because the more you can find enjoyment in the process
of something that's going to always be in your life.
Just think about this.
We have this sort of fantasy that if I can get rich enough
or I can get in the perfect relationship
or I have the best business
or maybe if I just don't do anything and I retire someday,
I won't have problems and
challenges in my life.
Now, we consciously know that's not true, but it's sort of the fantasy we live with.
And now that I point that, you know, that is crazy.
Of course, I'm always going to have these things.
So since you have an acceptance that problems and challenges are going to exist, isn't it
probably important that you learn to enjoy the process of overcoming them and solving them?
I think all the time, how can I enjoy this?
I think, man, what are all the great things
that are going to happen when this is solved?
Whose lives are going to be better when this is solved?
And that helps me enjoy the process.
I also remind myself this problem is helping me grow.
It's an existence because I'm making progress in my life.
So all these things fit a meaning
that help us make the best decisions possible. And then finally, I want to give you four things that I think are mandatory and solving problems.
Number one, all problems must be solved on paper. And I'll substitute paper for a keyboard.
But I think they need to be written out problems. There's a process that happens and a clarity of thought
when we move the problem just out of our mind where all the emotions are and onto a piece of paper where we get resourceful and we get specific. And so all
problems in the 15% category need to be solved on paper. When you write them
down you begin to see them. Also by putting the problem outside of your mind and
on a piece of paper you remove yourself from the emotion of the problem and you
become outside the problem and your perspective changes simply by writing it.
It gives you a different level of awareness to solve the problem from.
It removes you from it and the emotion often times and it gives you a world view, a perspective
of above it that's different than when you're in it in your head.
Number two is we talked earlier about being clear on what you want but I also want to
attach to that having a perspective as to why you want it.
So not only being very clear about what you want, but why you want it and then ask yourself
inside that question, how do I know when it was solved?
What evidence, what would need to happen?
What do I exactly want?
Why do I want it and what's the evidence that it was solved so that you will move past
it so that it is something that is now behind you, but more importantly, you are in front of it.
Third is always remember decisions are made on probability.
Once you've made that decision, right?
What have we talked about?
Flood yourself a certainty and take massive action,
but all decisions are made on probability.
Meaning there's never a perfect plan.
You may make a decision to solve a problem,
it doesn't work, but what we're trying to do
is make a decision that gives us the highest probability
of solving it. So make all your decisions based on probability,
not perfection.
If you're sitting here waiting for the perfect solution,
or if it doesn't work, or you've had any experience
in your life, when you tried to solve something
it didn't happen, you're setting up
an unfair standard for yourself.
Problem solving is about probability.
So make sure you're making a decision
that gives you the highest probability of solving it.
And then fourth, all decisions need what I call like value clarity. So make sure you're making a decision that gives you the highest probability of solving it.
And then fourth, all decisions need what I call value clarity.
Often you're going to have several results you could choose from to solve a problem, or there'll be several results when you solve the problem.
And then you got to be clear about their order of importance.
Sometimes one problem has three or four problems connected to it, or the solution of it will cause three or four different things.
So it's getting clarity on importance level of solving the problem in its order.
And then finally I want to remind you of one thing on solving anything in your life
on making any change, whether it's solving a problem or just taking your life to a
different level. The pathway to the best solutions, the pathway to great change
in our life is always 75% what I'd call psychology or thinking and 25% of it is the actual
physical execution of the problem.
So when you're making the decisions, focus 75% on the psychology and the mindset, 25%
on the execution.
And so if you're thinking that the wealthier you get or the more successful, you get the
fewer problems you're going to have, that's not the case.
And all the people that are achieving in their life right now are nodding their heads across the world, listing this because they would all tell you and you could tell this
too.
You have more problems now than you did when you were a kid.
Right now in your life, if you're at a higher level than you were five years ago, there
are more frequent problems and sometimes even bigger problems as you progress in life.
That's why it's so true that problems and challenges are an indication of progress.
Show me the size of your problem and I will show you the size of your success and frankly
the size and scope of your life. I'm telling you, as someone whose life's grown pretty substantially
the last 25 or 30 years, I don't have fewer problems. I have more and they're not smaller,
they're bigger and every one of them is such a wonderful
opportunity for me to grow and to change and to experience, to help other people, but
it's also been an indication all the way in my life of progress.
I'd be terrified, I'd be miserable, I'd be concerned if my life started and not have problems
on a regular basis and challenges.
I do love them.
I do look at what's great about them.
I do look at how I can enjoy them because they're a constant and a staple in all of our lives. And so it's not going to go
away as you climb the ladder. That's why having this formula and this recipe is so important. And
important that I give it to you now. God bless you and max out. This is The Edmila Show.
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