THE ED MYLETT SHOW - THE 4 HIDDEN ENEMIES OF SUCCESS

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

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So I'm really excited today to talk about the obstacles to our dreams. You know, it's very common on podcasts and self-help shows or personal development, entrepreneur shows to talk about, you know, making your dreams come true. The journey success, morning routines, daily habits, you know, scheduling, journaling, mindset, all of these things, they're all very important. I cover them every week on my show. But what about the obstacles to success? In other words, if we knew what the objections are

or the obstacles are to making our dreams come true or making progress, if we knew what they were in advance, we could probably reduce them, maybe eliminate them, but at least reduce the impact that they have on us. Yet no one really talks about these things. Like what's going to get in my way? You got this big vision for your family or to change your body or to start a business or take your business to the next level, whatever it could be.

What's in the way? You know, what are the things that are going to stop? What kills most dreams? What are most dream stealers? What are most things that are going to stop? What kills most dreams? What are most dream stealers? What are most things that block people from getting to their potential? But for me, once you're aware of something, oftentimes it loses its power over you. Even if you have a, you know, in your own personal behavior, you have this tendency to go to anger or worry or frustration.

You know, just being self-aware, going, pshh, I'm doing that worry thing again. It loses like 80% of its power over you. So awareness is such a powerful weapon in the tool bag of success. And so what I want to talk about today are what I call the 4Ds. A lot of people have their Ds, different speakers do, my friend John Gordon does, John Maxwell does, you know, they'll list these sort of acronyms or letters. We're going to cover 4Ds today that I believe are the obstacles to success. A couple of them may be obvious, and I think at least one of them will be something you've probably never heard before. I've talked about it briefly on one of my previous podcasts, but I want to kind of take a deep dive

into this today. If I could be, you know, a little bit since we're saying deep, if I could go deeper with you, you know, as a person of faith, I believe there's an adversary. Some of you might call it the devil. What's the weapon the adversary uses against us to get us off our game, to get us not to chase our dreams to potential, to get us not to get in a place in life where we could change other people's lives and contribute to our charities or our churches or our families the way that we'd like to. And so if you're a person of faith, whatever your faith belief is, if you believe there's an adversary or a devil, if you don't believe in any of that, but you believe there's, you know, low vibrational frequency and high vibrational

frequency, and that when you're successful, you're operating at a high vibrational frequency, what gets us to operate at a low vibrational frequency? First thing is this, truth always vibrates at the highest frequency. And so I'm a big energy person and I'm a person of faith. And so I look at it both ways. I really believe the adversary is trying to get us to operate at our lowest vibrational frequency by telling us lies.

And God in our lives is telling us the truth about us, which vibrates at the highest possible frequency. And so I think there's four weapons that the adversary uses against us to steal our dreams or to get us off our dreams or our potential or our vision, our future. And so, or you could just look at it really basic and very simple. What are four things that are objections to me getting to who I want to be, wherever they come from? And so I want to be, wherever they come from? And so I want to go through them with you today.

And, uh, and I think it's important that when you see these happening and coming, you can identify them. That's not from God. That's from the adversary. That's not a high vibrational frequency. That's a low vibrational frequency. That's not true. That's a lie about me. And so here's the four weapons that I'll just say that the adversary uses against us for us not to have our dreams and their four D's.

The first D is if I'm the adversary and I want to get you to quit on your dream and not chase who you could be, not help the people you want to help, not make the difference in the world, not reach your potential. I'm going to use the weapon of discouragement against you. I'm going to try to get you discouraged. If I can just get you a little bit discouraged, you'll flinch, you'll question things, you'll lose confidence, you won't believe you're worthy.

So if I can discourage you, give you some setbacks, give you some trials and tribulations, have somebody let you down or hurt you or take from you, and I can just get you discouraged because discouragement is really the opposite of courage to Encourage is one thing to discourage is the other so this is with people I can get haters I can get critics for you if I can get if I can load you up with a failure if I can load you up with You know the worst type of discouragement doesn't come from a hater the worst type of discouragement comes from someone that you know loves you

If I really want to get you off your game, I will get a parent or a sibling or a spouse to say, listen, I'm telling you this because I love you and what you're doing is not going to work or here's why it's not going to work or here's why it's not the right time. And I discourage you. I remove courage from you rather than encourage you. And so when now when something happens in your life and it discourages you know this is a weapon of the adversary discouragement is a weapon that the weak use against the strong so that the strong don't prevail. It's really true and it's a lie. It's an indication of a lie. Now, what actually may be happening is true, but the impact it has on you is magnified into a lie.

And then it gets you to reduce your vibrational frequency. And all of a sudden, you know what I mean? You're not moving with that swagger, that cachet, that confidence that you need. If I could just get you to move a little bit. People ask me all the time with the professional athletes that you work with, whether it's a UFC fighter or a golfer or a Major League Baseball player,

NFL quarterback, whatever it might be. What do they wanna work with you on? And oftentimes, believe it or not, the main thing they're working on is their courage, is their confidence, is their worthiness. Because if they can get into a slump, if they're an MLB hitter and they get into a slump and they're one for their last 20,

they get discouraged. Their vibrational frequency drops, their confidence drops, and all of a sudden this gifted, talented, amazing athlete can't perform at their peak level because they're discouraged. Does this make sense? So this happens in every area of our lives

that the weapon of discouragement can take the best in the world and reduce them to very average and ordinary or below that because they've been some evidence. It's a lie. It's you think about it. If you're a professional athlete, you've hit 50 home runs in a season before. All of a sudden you're one for the last 20. This discouragement will get you to believe you no longer can hit.

You were never that good. It was always a fluke, which is of course a great lie. You've already proven it otherwise. So for you in your life, it's a lie when you're discouraged. God did not make you to be discouraged, did not make you inferior, did not make you less than capable. But the adversary wants you to believe that, right? By the way, failure wants you to believe that. Forget the spiritual part of it for a second. Failure wants you to be discouraged. Success wants you to be encouraged.

So from now on, when you see the first D, which is discouragement, know that that's a weapon of the week. Know that that's a lie. Know that that's there as an obstacle to get you off your game. And if you can overcome these four Ds, you become successful.

So the first thing is when discouragement hits is to be aware of it, to rid it out, to call it for what it is, to know what it is. And by the way, what something discouraging really indicates is that you are on a path to something great. The adversary wouldn't be attacking you if you weren't trying to do something great. Failure wouldn't be trying to chase you if you weren't on the way to being successful. So the very presence of a discouraging circumstance, a discouraging event, a discouraging conversation, a discouraging mindset is indicative that you are on the path to doing something great. Let me be candid with you. I have discouraging situations happen all the time in different areas of my life.

Whether it be someone lets me down or I hear they've said something bad about me or I make a mistake or I have a setback or a failure or three weeks ago's podcast didn't get the downloads. I thought, I'm like, oh, the shows. That discouragement is trying to get me to not be great. And the very fact that that's happening means I'm on the pursuit of greatness. That discouragement is trying to get me to not be great. And the very fact that that's happening means I'm on the pursuit of greatness. So the first D is discouragement. That's a weapon of the adversary. It's a weapon of the devil.

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I'm good enough, whether it could really happen, whether it's possible, whether it's worth it, whether I can trust, whether I, whether I'm clear, whether I'm crazy, whether I'm an imposter, if I can get you doubting, I got you. There's no way to perform at the highest level in life in the presence of doubt. You might be able to perform okay, but if you're out there doubting, flinching, questioning, you've all been having someone sell you something before, haven't you? And you can tell they doubt their belief in what they're doing. They doubt their belief in themselves.

You've all had a test you've had to take or one of your precious children's had to take and they doubt whether they can do well. You know, an athlete going up and doubting whether they can perform their toast. So doubting is a weapon of the adversary. Doubt is a lie. Right? Doubt is a lie, okay? Someone who knows they can do something, believes they can do something, that's truth. People say to me all the time, you know, I love my children, I don't know why they're not doing better in school or why they're not happier. And one of

the tips I always tell people is every parent loves their children. That's like a ticket into the game. But do your children know that you believe in them? Do you so belief into them? If you have a spouse that you want to be, you know, doing something they're not doing, maybe stepping up financially, stepping up and starting a business. Loving them is great and it's mandatory. But do they feel that you believe in them? And of all the things I don't do very well in life and there's a long list of those one thing I do very well is I believe in people and I find reasons to believe in people. I'm looking for their giftedness

I'm looking for the gifts God gave them so that I can truly authentically believe in them based on something That's true about them. So I'm looking for belief. I'm not looking to doubt. I don't mean trust. I mean believe in their ability to do something, believe in their goodness, believe in their ability to perform. Great leaders don't just love people. They believe in people and as a consequence when they believe at a high level that vibrates at a high frequency, they transfer that belief to the person they're leading, the child they're leading and that person is now infused with belief and lots of belief riddles out doubt. So the antidote to doubt is belief. Now when a believer in their faith doubts, it really means they're not connected to their faith because you wouldn't be doubting

your ability to do something. You wouldn't be doubting your greatness. You wouldn't be doubting your favor if you were truly operating in faith. And so again, it is such a strong weapon of the adversary, the devil of the weak. It's a weapon of failure if you believe in nothing spiritually because it's a lie. When you're doubting, it's a lie. When you're believing its truth, you were born to do something great with your life. You were born with your own unique giftedness and talents that maybe you take for granted because they're not you know We look at Beyonce. Well, that's a gift. Look how beautiful. She's look how she sings or look at LeBron, you know Six age six seven three sixty dunk a basketball man. That's an obvious gift and those are obvious gifts. They're incredible

Those are great gifts. Maybe you've seen a great speaker go, wow, what a gift. That's a gift or a talent. But there's lots of other gifts that are equally important. The gift of discernment, the gift of kindness, the gift of generosity, the gift of toughness, resiliency, math skills, problem solving skills, beauty, humor, intellect, nurturing ability, kindness, right, strength, equanimity, peace under pressure. There's all kinds of gifts that people have that they take for granted because they've had them all their lives and they just don't think they're that special. And when we're not connected to our giftedness, okay, we doubt. So doubt is a lie, doubt is a weapon of the adversary,bt is a weapon of the adversary.

Doubt is a weapon of the weak. And doubt will kill your dream. So, when you're feeling doubt, see it for what it is. It will lose most of its power over you and know the antidote to this is I've got to believe. If you're leading somebody in a business or you're of a family that you're leading and they're doubting what they're really necessary, what's really necessary for them is more belief. You've got to feed their belief, feed their belief, feed their belief. This will read out doubt. The third weapon that the adversary uses to get you off your dream or that life will use to get you off your dream.

We've got doubt, discouragement, and then delusion. Delusion is seeing things for what they aren't. Usually delusion is making you believe two things. Number one, making you believe a problem is bigger and worse than it is. And what we do is we do something called thought stacking when we get a problem. We repeat the problem over and over and over and over. You ever do that before? Thinking, well, I've thought about it 20 times. I don't have the answer. If I think about it another 623, I'm sure I'll come up with an answer. Right? I know I've done that before, but what it does is it actually makes you delusional. You actually begin to believe things

that aren't true and it makes it bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. The other type of delusion can come from ego, where you believe something about yourself that you're better than you are, meaning that your ego takes over. I'm talking about a gift. I'm talking about you start believing your own press clippings. You start believing you're so incredible. I've seen so many people get delusional on their own success. They get high off their own success that they end up making stupid decisions like a drunk or high person would make, not off of some substance, but off of their own success. Their previous success makes them delusional thinking, well, this is just going to happen forever. Now that I'm this successful, it's autopilot. Everything I touch turns to gold.

That's delusion. The other type of delusion is this problem's the end of the road for me. It's just so huge. Or it proves I'm not worth it. It proves I'm a fake. It proves I'm an imposter. So this failure I just had, it makes you delusional and you don't see things clearly for what they are. That's number one part of delusion. The other part of delusion is, it makes you think your dreams and your success is much further away than it truly is. If I can get you delusional believing,

well, only 20 years from now, this is only 30 years from now. If I can get you delusional, what you'll do is you'll start pacing yourself and you'll start acting like somebody who's not going to achieve success, happiness, bliss for 20 years, some delusional distant future. And when then what happens is you start creating patterns and beliefs, thoughts, processes in your life that perpetually keep it that far away. The truth is, it's not that far away. The truth is, you're usually one decision, one relationship, one meeting, one new client,

one podcast like this you're listening to because there aren't a podcast like this. This is the one and only for this type of stuff. You're one away. The delusion is that it's so far away. That's delusional thinking. If you look at the history of most successful people, it's one decision here, one new relationship there, one meeting, one new encounter, one new thought, one new strategy, right? One connection away from completely changing their life. So delusion gets you to believe that something's

far worse than it is, or you're far better than you are. That's delusion. Both those can kill a dream or delusion is a distance issue or depth perception issue. So so far we've got three D's. It's good, isn't it? That are going to, when we see them, we'll know what they are now. When I'm doubting, I know that that's a lie and I know that's a weapon of the adversary. It's a weapon of failure. It's low vibrational frequency. When I'm discouraged, I know for sure that someone or something is trying to get me off my game, get me not to believe, get me distracted, get me to quit, get me to give in, get me to

forget that I have courage, that I'm strong, that I'm resilient, that I'm bold. If those things don't work, man, then I'm going to try to get this person delusional. If I can't get you discouraged, I can't get you doubting, I'll get you delusional. I'll get you thinking it's way further away than it is. You're never going to get there. This problem's way bigger than it really is. Or it's way further away the success you want. So those are the three D's so far. So I get asked all the time, how did I get so much attention on social media, in my businesses, email list, etc. I can tell you straight up, it's been constant contact.

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The fourth one, which I've never talked about before, the fourth D that the adversary uses, that failure uses, that's low vibrational frequency is delay. This is the big one. I'm going to get you to delay delay making the decision delay starting to write the book delay starting to start your speaking career delay starting your business delay making that hire delay making that contact delay getting after it delay starting your new nutritional program delay starting the cardio.

I'm going to get you to delay delay is a massive insidious weapon of the week. I have so many people on my team that are always trying to get things perfect Right, and I'll tell them all the time. I don't need this perfect. I need it now right Perfection is the enemy of success Perfection is actually the lowest possible standard because it's never gonna be reached and so what happens is you delay Most successful people although their preparation freaks Have a lower threshold

of what they think they need to know before they get started. They've built something in themselves where they go, I'll figure it out when I get there. I'll figure the next step out when I get there. You think about anyone who's ever built something great. What if they had to think through everything they had to know before they get started? They would have delayed and delayed and delayed and it would have never happened. Take Henry Ford starting Ford Motor Company. Think way back. What if you'd have thought, well, wait a minute, if I actually build these cars, who's going to fix them? There's no mechanic shops. There's no mechanics because there's been none of these cars. I shouldn't get started until I can have mechanics. What about tires? What

about spare parts? What about repairs? Who's gonna sell them? Right, if he thought about every, what happens when fuel, where are they gonna get the gas? Like think about all these things. You would never get started. What about Steve Jobs and Apple?

They were a board company. What if he started to think, well, well, wait a minute, what happens if there's no internet right now? What happens when the internet comes? What happens when this? What happens when technology? What happens with technology? What happens?

It would be crazy. You would never get started if you had to think through all the things. Successful people get in motion. I can't teach you how to drive a parked car. You've got to get moving. No more delay. Successful people know.

Once I get into that next level, I'll figure it out when I get there. And when I get to the next level, I'll figure out when I get there. And when light throws me a problem, I'll figure it out when I get there. And when I get to the next level, I'll figure out when I get there. And when life throws me a problem, I'll figure it out when I get there. I just got to get in the room. I got to get to the next step. You don't have to have every step figured out.

And by the way, God laughs at our great plans anyways. You think you got every step figured out until you get hit with a curveball. Mike Tyson has that famous quote, everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face. Life punches us in the face. You've got to have this belief that when, not if, they get punched in the face. Life punches us in the face. You've got to have this belief that when not if I get punched in the face metaphorically, I'm going to get up and figure it out. I'm going to adjust. You watch an NFL football game.

They can have all the great scripted plays in the world. And on the third play, the tight end blows out as Achilles. And now they can't run those plays or the defense presents something they didn't think through before or a penalty happens or you get way behind. Things happen in life and it's your ability to improvise and figure it out without all of the preparation that gets you. Now, preparation is very critical. The separation is in the preparation. Don't get me wrong. But you can't prepare for everything. Eventually you have to take a step. Successful people get going faster than unsuccessful people. Unsuccessful, unfulfilled, unhappy people

live their life in delay. It's the weapon the adversary uses to get you to lose or at least not to reach your full potential. And when you're not expanding your being like your cable oven, giving to the maximum amount you could and experiencing emotions on the deepest level you could and creating memories that you could have but you're missing them.

When you delay, you become an unfulfilled human being. And by definition, that makes you unsuccessful. And I can tell you right now, there is a direct correlation between people that delay. Listen, the best time to make that contact usually is right now. The best time to take advantage of a situation is right now. The best time to make a move is right now. Not every single time, but your default answer should be now.

Your default answer should be now. There are some things in life that need to marinate a little bit They need to take a little bit of time. That's the exception not the rule But most people live that as the rule and the exception is that they don't delay Successful people their default answer is to go now and they will delay by exception not rule and so the most insidious weapon that the adversary will use, the devil will use, success will use, failure will use big time. Okay. Failure will use big time, getting you to delay. And so if you're delaying right

now by definition, you're operating at a low vibrational frequency and the adversary's got his hands all over you. Failure has their hands all over you. No more delay. Okay. It's the fourth D. Oftentimes the first three D's cause you to do the fourth one, which is delay your dreams, delay your life. Here's the truth.

You don't know how long you have. I've had guests on my podcast that are in their 30s pass away. I've had friends of mine recently that are in their 50s that I've talked to on a given day and three days later they've been gone. We don't know how much time we have. I think sometimes all of us think everybody else is gonna die, just not me. But I don't know when that's coming for you. It could be in five days, five minutes or 50 years. But I also know that dreams have an expiration date. And if you delay too long, the dream dies.

You'll miss the moment. There's something to timing in life. There's something to timing. And what the adversary is trying to do is to get you to miss your time, start the business too late. See, what if just Bezos started Amazon today and not when he did 30 years ago?

You understand? The timing matters. What if that person that you're married to now, you would have waited to ask them out five more years, you may not have that precious person in your life. So timing matters and delaying is almost always wrong. It's almost always the weapon of failure. It's almost always the weapon the adversary uses in our life. And so today, when you see discouragement coming, you know what it is you're aware.

You make a shift. When you see doubt or feel or experience doubt, you know where that comes from. You know exactly what it is. It's both the weapon of the week, the weapon of the adversary, and it's an indicator you're about to do something great. See, if you're a professional athlete, you can't have discouragement or doubt if you weren't in the game. But because you're in the game, you got to deal with doubt and discouragement. Okay. And delusion, we start making something worse than it is, or we start

believing we're so incredible and great beyond our abilities. We get a little bit delusional or we believe something's further away than it is and we have a delusional belief system. Once we have that, we now know where that comes from. We have our awareness over it and we make a shift. What if my dream was right around the corner? What if my dream was right now? What if I am immensely qualified to make this happen? What if this problem isn't quite as bad because God's got His hand on my life and there's favor and I'm going to get something for my pain here. I'm going to get a lesson. On the other side of this temporary pain, I'm going to learn something that I didn't know favor and I'm gonna get something for my pain here. I'm gonna get a lesson on the other side of this temporary pain

I'm gonna learn something that I didn't know before I'm gonna experience an emotion or have an understanding that I did not have prior That is why we don't want to be delusional and then delay. I know what's happening here. They're trying to get me to flinch They're trying to get me to wait trying to get me to cool it trying to get me to keep preparing to get perfect I know that's a weapon of the week. That's a weapon of failure. That's a weapon of the adversary. And I'm not gonna allow that to be in my life because I was born to do something great with my life.

Okay, so we've gone through the four D's today. When they approach you and they will, you now know what they are. And I'm gonna tell you, how about a life, picture your life where you call out doubt when it comes and you rid yourself of it as quickly as possible. You live a life where you're not discouraged except for in very short pockets of time that you can get out of. You don't live in delusion, you live in clarity and focus and passion and peace and you don't delay.

What would your life look like? I'm gonna ask you again. You're the life that is not riddled with doubt. What would your life look like? Not riddled with discouragement. What would your life look like? Not riddled with delusion and not riddled with delay. What kind of a life would you have?

I think we both know the life you deserve to have, which is the fifth D, you deserve to have an amazing life. You deserve to make your dreams come true. Your family deserves to see the best possible version of you achieving and contributing at the highest possible capacity that you were born to have. God deserves all of that favor he's poured on you

to see you pay it back with your best effort in serving him. Okay, everybody, hope today helped you. I got a feeling that it did. This is one of those I would ask you, share this episode with anybody that you love that you believe in. And I hope this episode blesses them. Hopefully it blessed you. It blessed me for sure. All right, everybody, God bless you. Max out your life. This is the Ed Milon Show. Hi there.

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