Thoughts On The 10X Rule

[TonyStark]

First off, let me say that I'm not reading the book, I'm listening to it via Audible; and I have to say, I like his speaking tone.

I like Grant Cardone's seriousness, and lack of frivolity when speaking. He attacks this issue - failure, poverty, success - with the seriousness it deserves.

This book made me reflect, reflect on the source of my frustrations.

It made me think about my own goals, and personal achievements.

The reason, I can attest, for being so frustrated after every failure, was because I had underestimated how much time and effort I would need to accomplish these goals.

I was getting mediocre results, because I was putting in mediocre effort.

My goals and dreams don't need to be fixed, changed, or altered; my effort does.

Grant Cardone says in the 10X Rule that one of the biggest mistakes he see's managers make is setting the bar lower for their employees, when they should be doubling, tripling, and '10X'-ing their efforts instead.

I would quit after every failure, frustrated as to why, why I couldn't make this work.

I understand now, that this was part of the process. That I was underestimating how much time, effort, and resources I would need to achieve my dreams.

So instead of quitting, instead of giving up, instead of lowering your expectations, it's time to 10X your efforts, and double down when the going gets tough.

 

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[Scot]

I got maybe 30 minutes into the book.

I’m not really sure I could listen to a whole book that essentially was telling me to put in ten times the amount of effort.

Honestly, I compare 10x with Gary V. It’s working harder, not smarter.

Sure, I could send out 10x more emails to stores in hopes that I’ll get more responses. But. In the 200 I sent out already, I got ZERO replies.

Why?

Because I didn’t qualify my targets. I didn’t do the right things to ensure they were valid and that they would want to work with me.

You can get way more results doing 1x but by doing it in a laser focused way.

Quality of quantity.

 

[SRathwell]

To pre-qualify this answer I have not read the book yet but understand the Idea behind it.

I think it is BOTH

To really go for it, to really make it happen you have to have both quality AND quantity!

Take your calling for example. You may make 10 pre-qualified calls today and it in turn gets you 1 lead/sale today. Now if you worked harder and made 20, 30, 50 qualified calls in that same day you could have 2,3 or even 5 leads/sale, in the same amount of time! What might take you a week now takes you a day leaving the rest of the week to take MORE action. From there it snowballs.

The person that only works SMARTER will get overtaken by the one who is willing to work SMARTER AND HARDER!

The premise is to push yourself to do more, we all have more in us, we just need to get by our limiting beliefs that hold us back.

I say all this but this is one of the things I need to work on as well! DO MORE, BE MORE, ACT MORE!