“Good fight managers start a new boxer off with easy opponents and gradually pit him against more experienced fighters.” – Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
In today’s quote from Dr. Maltz, we are looking at how success is created with far greater ease.
As an example, even when a boxing manager has a rare talent, such as legendary fighters Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, he knows it’s almost always a bad idea to throw him into the lion’s den against a Top-10 fighter.
So he starts the boxer out slowly, feeding him opponents he knows he can beat. And once the boxer’s confidence grows, the manager gradually gives him tougher foes.
If the boxer continues to win, the manager continues to move him along strategically, and within a short period of time the amateur turns pro.
After turning pro, the boxer, even if he happens to be an Olympic gold medalist, as Ali and Leonard were, his manager still feeds him opponents he knows he “should” beat.
The boxer does not immediately fight for the championship, even if he thinks he can whoop the guy currently holding the belt.
This procedural way of moving a boxer along is the same approach you can take to learning and getting good at anything. Start with the low-hanging fruit and make gradual upgrades.
Beginning weightlifters don’t begin with 500 pounds on the bar.
Marathon runners don’t begin with a 26.2-mile run.
Writers don’t learn their craft by beginning with three-hundred-page books.
And artists don’t begin with the goal to paint a Mona Lisa.
The above illustrates how ridiculous it is when people who have yet to earn a single dollar in a business, setting goals to become billionaires.
This is not the way of wisdom.
A far better way is to start with momentum-building daily goals instead of frustration-inducing scary long-term goals. Begin your journey with the low-hanging fruit.
Prove to yourself that you can make one dollar selling something. Then, increase it to two dollars. Then four, then eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on.
If you were to pull off this level of doubling your sales on a monthly basis, within a mere twenty months, how much would you be earning?
The answer is $1,048,576 per month. Nothing to scoff at, is it?
Once you realize that a seemingly slower, procedural approach is much faster in the long run, you’ll want to use it in everything you do.
Give yourself mental pictures that inspire you instead of those that scare you. Give yourself winning pictures, not those that lead to losing.
Feast on the low-hanging fruit and it won’t be long before you can take a seat at the table of a five-course meal, and devour every bit of it.
Matt Furey
author of Psycho-Cybernetics 365
In the Zero Resistance Living course – the first lesson alone on the Power of Imagination – changed my life forever. That lesson alone is easily worth 10X the amount for the entire 12-lesson course.
