Why So Many Lose It All
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Summary
Your biggest enemy in life is not your enemy, it's your next move. What is your next step after you have achieved a goal or milestone? What are you going to do next? What are your next 5, 10, 15 moves you need to make to get to your next milestone?
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I want you to think about somebody named Alexander the Great who conquered 2 million square miles
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and he was the most incredible, greatest leader, general we ever had.
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And then all of a sudden, after 2 million square miles, he comes back and he has so much idle time,
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he starts drinking, partying, celebrating until he kills himself at the age of 33.
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Because he got so much success and he had no clue what to do after he retained the success
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Let me put it through this way, what I mean by he didn't know what his next was.
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Your biggest enemy sometimes when you're winning in life is winning.
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I had a conversation the other day with a group of our guys and I said,
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listen guys, let me tell you what I watch for people.
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Some of them win, they're like, well, let me tell you who I am.
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Most people who win, they don't have a next milestone right afterwards.
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Mario and I were having a conversation the other day.
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Mario asked me a question and says, Pat, how do you,
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what is it about the people that you see that keep advancing?
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I said, every single time they reach a goal or a milestone,
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immediately they have their next goal already set up.
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And then to bring it back up, it's twice the effort.
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Because you've got to recreate that momentum that took years to create.
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Recreating momentum is a very, very heavy task.
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And this happens to the greatest of the greatest who don't sit there and identify their next.
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And by the way, this is not other people's jobs.
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This isn't somebody else's job to sit you down and identify your next.
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You can say, well, I wish I had somebody, Pat, that would tell me what I need to be doing next.
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There's a part of you that will eventually in life, you've got to have those private conversations and say, my next goal is dot, dot, dot.
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If you get to a point where every single time you reach a new marker, you say, dude, this was amazing.
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And here are my next 5, 10, 15 moves to get to my next goal.
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If you don't have that, every single time you're going to do this.
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Because idle time, you're sitting there, and there's time to think.
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There's time for you to sit there and think and strategize.
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But some people have way too much idle time and they have too much time on their hands.
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And all of a sudden, too much idle time, not knowing how to handle victory, not having your necks identified, everything disappears.
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So whoever you are watching this right now saying, Pat, this message is a little bit scary.
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Just got every single time you win, put your next milestone in place and say, I'm going after this thing.
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And if you don't have one right now after watching this video, take a few moments to yourself and say, what's my next thing I'm going after?
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If you don't come up with it, that idle time is going to get you to go backwards.
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Having said that, if you've never watched the video I made, how to plan your next 15 moves, click over here to watch it.
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