My personal motivator,
Grant Cardone
Anyone who reads my Quest Facebook page knows that I love Grant Cardone. For those of you who are unfamiliar with him, Grant is a very successful businessman and sales consultant. He is the CEO of several self-created multi-million dollar companies, a NY Times bestselling author, host of his own radio show, and now, TV series.
Grant published the book, “The 10X Rule,” which I happened to pick up at an airport bookstore while traveling on a business trip. I love his BIG thinking in this book and given my lofty goal of wanting to compete in a Grand Prix, we are as they say, “birds of a feather.”
Here is an excerpt from “The 10X Rule:”
“…following are the basic mistakes that people make when setting out to achieve goals:
1) Mistargeting by setting objectives that are too low and don’t allow for enough motivation.
2) Severely underestimating what it will take in terms of actions, resources, money and energy to accomplish the target.
3) Underestimating the amount of adversity they will need to overcome in order to actually attain their desired goal.”
The reason that I bring up Grant, and specifically the above noted points, is that it they are a really good reminder for me, especially number’s 2 and 3 (I don’t have a problem with #1 ) as it seems my riding life has been fraught with my underestimating, well, all of them!
To fill you in, both my horse and I are undergoing yet another round of injections due to muscle soreness in various parts of our bodies. This coupled with the fact that even though I have been in a lesson program for nearly two years, it seems that I am still trying to master the most basic of equestrian form i.e. proper hand and leg contact, and, oh yeah, heels down…..UGH!
Most people would be a bit frustrated, to say the least, at this point given all of the training and medical costs, for both me and my horse, to-date. (And yes, I too, fall under the category of “most people.”)
So when confronted with yet another obstacle in my path to the Prix, I pull out Grant’s book and re-visit his words of wisdom, and feel comforted in the fact that it seems that what Jaliska and I are experiencing is – well, just “par for the course.”
