The 2 Things That Had to Change on My Journey from 80k in Debt to A Million
The Amplified Impact Podcast
January 26th, 2023
Stuck on your current level of success? Discover the two things that are holding you back and learn how to overcome them with clarity of thought on this week’s episode of the Amplified Impact podcast. Anthony reflects on his experiences in business and wealth generation.
He shares his insights on the concept “what got you here won’t get you there.”
He notes that as one ascends to higher levels, the skills, beliefs, and traits that enables success in the past may no longer be sufficient in helping us achieve future goals.
Anthony discusses the recurring barriers and limiting beliefs that he has encountered in his own journey.
He also emphasizes the importance of clarity of thought in overcoming these obstacles and attaining one’s goals.
He encourages listeners to take a broader perspective on their own paths and consider where they want to go and what they need to get there.
TWEETABLE QUOTE:
” Clarity of thought continually needs to evolve and improve because the thoughts and principles that you need to be able to get started on your wealth journey are going to change, and your ability to have better judgment becomes increasingly important.” – Anthony Vicino
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Episode Transcript:
Anthony: [00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to the podcast. It is a pleasure to have you, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages joining us, yet again, as always. So, I want to share with you guys in Gales today, something I was thinking about recently, which is that, As you’re like ascending through the different, different levels of business or investing or wealth generation, whatever, whatever game you’re playing, you’ve probably heard that like what got you here won’t get you there.
Anthony: Like the skills, the beliefs, traits that you have that were, that enabled you to get to the point, this point now is are, are not the, the traits, the beliefs, the skills that are going to enable you to get to where you are trying to go to necessarily. Because if you already had those, the beliefs, traits, skills necessary to get to where you want to be, you would be there.
Anthony: So the fact that you’re not [00:01:00] there means that there’s, there’s a gap that you still have to cross somehow. And so I was thinking about this in terms. For me, I, I look back on my life and specifically over the last 10 years as I started playing the business game and started playing the wealth game a little bit differently, that two things in particular in my life were consistently the, the, the barrier, the gap between where I ultimately was and were, I was trying to get to.
Anthony: And it was, it’s interesting that these two things. Keep recurring. And it occurs to me now that they always will it, that this is a universal trait at this. This is a thing that we all have to struggle with as we rise from one level to the next, trying to get from where we are to where we want to be. And so when I was, when I was thinking about this initially, I was thinking about it through the lens of.[00:02:00]
Anthony: Like the things that had to change for me when I was going from, 80 K in debt to my first million dollars. those two things had to change again. As I, as I started to recalibrate and say, okay, now that I’m here at one, how do I get to 10? Like, how do I cross that gap? And now that I’m there at that point, and I’m trying now look forward and say, okay, what’s it look like to go from the 10 to a hundred?
Anthony: Like, how do I play that? and these, these things kept propping back up because it’s end of the year now and I’m starting to do my goal setting for next year. And, and as I set these, set these audacious, ambitious goals for myself, I’m like, oh man, I have a lot of limiting beliefs still around money and growth and business, even though like, I’ve done well in overcoming my limiting beliefs up to this point, but the thing is, like those limiting beliefs just, they, they never go away.
Anthony: They just, they transform and change or get bigger in a lot of cases. And so like, you might not have a limiting belief anymore about the fact that a million [00:03:00] dollars is a lot of money, but you might have a lot around a. Right. And really there’s no difference. Like there’s just another zero. but it’s all, it’s everything that zero that, that belief that one is impossible or hard.
Anthony: And the other one is attainable is what keeps most people just making $50,000 a year rather than, a million dollars a year. Right. So it’s through that lens that I, I came to the, these two things that, have to change. That the, they’re the things that are holding you back from where you are right now.
Anthony: keeping you where you are. It’s from, you know, attaining the goals that you set yourself. Number one, as you move through these levels is clarity of thought. So what I mean by clarity of thought is, When you’re, when you’re on the path, you can only see what’s in front of you and what’s behind you from that unique perspective of where you are standing at that moment.
Anthony: And that’s not a very good perspective because it’s just a point, a reference point of [00:04:00] one. Much more valuable is somebody who’s standing up on the hillside overlooking your path and can say, see off into the distance in all the different directions. Right? Even more valuable, somebody who’s up in a plane 50,000 feet in the air, or somebody who’s.
Anthony: Already mapped the entire terrain, right? So there’s different levels in terms of what you can see, like how much information you can take in. And so clarity of thought as you’re moving forward on your path continually needs to evolve and improve because. The, the thoughts and the principles that you need to be able to deploy to get started on your wealth journey or building your first business are going to change, and your ability to have like better and better judgment is, Increasingly important.
Anthony: If you think about like Warren Buffet and why he is so highly sought after as an investor of capital, it’s because he has really good judgment and his judgment has proven out over the last 80 years of his life. And so people pay a premium for that. He might only [00:05:00] be like 1% better than second place in terms of the judgment game, but 1% is everything at that level.
Anthony: And so number one is clarity of thought. one of the things I think you can do to improve your clarity of thought is to actually treat thinking as a skill that is something you can, you can continually improve at. So I think writing, I think intentional reflection, I think meditating, I think quiet time.
Anthony: These are all ways to continually improve your clarity of thought. Number two, the, the number two thing that’s really holding everybody back from getting where they are to where they want to be is the ability to. And the ability to execute is everything, because ideas are worthless without the execution.
Anthony: And so as you’re starting, like from going from say, zero to to six figure business, the honestly, you can execute pretty horribly as long as you’re executing consistently. Like a few [00:06:00] number of variables you can get there. And then getting from six to seven figures is actually pretty simple too. Like you don’t have to execute at the highest levels, but as you move up through the levels of the game, your ability to execute becomes like it needs to increase as well.
Anthony: And so you can’t expect to build a 50 million company with the same skills. And the ability to execute that you have currently at 1 million, they’re just not the same. And so you need to be on this pursuit of constant improvement in learning and growth. And that is through, you know, taking courses or masterminds or coaching mentorships or, you know, just intentionally practicing.
Anthony: And so, Those are the two things that if you, if you look at where you’re at right now and you’re not, if you ha, if you have this goal in front of you and you can’t figure out why, you can’t bridge the gap, start with these two things. Ask yourself, okay, number one, is my clarity of thought the limiting factor.
Anthony: Am I just not thinking clearly? Do I not have enough information? Do I not have a good enough perspective? Is my judgment too [00:07:00] poor number? Do I have the ability to execute? Am I just not good enough? And that’s okay if the answer’s yes, because there’s, there’s room for improvement for all of us and all things.
Anthony: We all exist on a spectrand the coolest thing about being a human is that we all have the ability to improve and to learn and to grow. So I think that’s, It’s one of the raddest things about being a human. So welcome, welcome to the human species. So, that’s going to do it, guys. I just wanted to share with that and share that framework, those two things.
Anthony: I, I hope they maybe give you some clarity of thought, yourself. They, maybe they, Help you see something that you didn’t see before. And as always, like it truly does. It truly, truly means a lot to me guys, and that you’re here, like, I can’t, I can’t really say thank you enough, but I do, I do really appreciate it.
Anthony: So thank you for being here. If you got value out of this, just do me a favor and share it wherever you listen. just take a screen, grab, put it on Instagram, tweet about it. Show me some show, show us some love. I, I want [00:08:00] to see that you guys are engaging, that you guys are, enjoying the content and I want to have a conversation with you guys and that’s the best way to do it, is like to share the content so that I can see it and go, oh, hey, you’re, you guys are tuning in.
Anthony: This is awesome. I can, I can reach out and we can chat. So I appreciate you guys for being here, and as always, I’ll see you tomorrow.
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