The most powerful tool you have is your mind, and the people who stay stuck in life are the ones who make this one mistake without realizing it:
Trying to solve problems with the same mindset that caused them in the first place.
You can't solve a revenue problem with the same scarcity mindset that led to it, and you can't fix a relationship with the same communication patterns that broke it.
Unlocking the next level of anything in your life requires a new approach and more investment than before.
But too many people let ego get in the way, and double down on the thing that caused the problem in the first place.
I did the same thing...
I lost $100M because I let emotions from one bad decision dictate my actions for the next few:
I became successful, then I started thinking "I'm always right" and I wouldn't listen to anyone less successful than me... (first bad decision)
Then, I overleveraged myself in deals, treated everyone terribly, and went places I shouldn't have.
And sure enough, one deal fell through the cracks, then another, then another, then a lawsuit followed, and my wife told me she was leaving me because of the person I'd become.
All of this because after every loss, my need to be right kept getting bigger and bigger, and I kept repeating the same mistakes that were taking my life away.
This kept happening until I lost everything, and then someone taught me these 3