You’ve Got To Have Skin In The Game

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Are you ready, ready to release internal pain to find confidence, clarity and direction for your future, to live a life of meaning, fulfillment and contribution to trust your intuition again, but something's been holding you back, you've come to the right place. Welcome. I'm a Ian Hawkins, the host and founder of The Grief Code podcast. Together, let's heal your unresolved or unknown grief by unlocking your grief code. As you tune into each episode, you will receive insight into your own grief, how to eliminate it and what to do next. Before we start by one request, if any new insights or awareness land with you during this episode, please send me an email at info at the Ian Hawkins coaching.com. And let me know what you found. I know the power of this work, I love to hear the impact these conversations have. Okay, let's get into it.

I remember one of my bosses saying was talking about doing different deals for the from programming we had on fox sports he, he said you got to have skin in the game. If there's no skin in the game, there's not the desire to provide the best possible service. Now he's talking about how we often did some deals with production companies and so on where there was no money exchanged. And so the quality wasn't always there. But if someone's getting paid a certain amount, or they're paying to play, which is often the case for some of these smaller production companies, because they would make their money elsewhere, you got to have skin in the game, you've got to have something on the line, we just not going to put on the amount of effort and resources that you need to make it happen. Now, if you look at your life, same thing, you've got to have skin in the game. How many times have you opted in for something free? Free course free training and ebook. And you just haven't taken action because no value anymore first proper program with a mentor. First proper training was two and a half grand. And at the time I'd never invested anything into myself and was a massive leap but I just knew it was something I needed to do. I just knew it. And I'm I referenced this before but when when I went to the these a live event and went to the front of the room to to talk to him about the actual debt what the plan was. He said, Well, why do you want to do this and just this involuntary words came out of my mouth, because I'm sick of being mediocre. My God knew I needed this, I'd listened to his voice again. And again, we talked about upgrading your mindset, I knew I needed this in my life. Now, I did that course with a heap of other people. On I know many of them, some of them are I'm still friends with I don't know many of them who got the same results that I did. Now, I don't know if that was because that money to them wasn't a great amount. For us, it was a big deal. Like we were kind of living paycheck to paycheck earning crazy money, and we weren't doing that well in our life. And two and a half grand was a big deal. But a what having that skin in the game was like, I have to make this work. I have to make a success of this program of this training. Otherwise, I just wasted two and a half 1000 And you can imagine what it's like for someone with that that's a big lot of money. That yeah, there's there's just no motivation, like it got to have skin in the game. To even now when I run some trainings, maybe $97 or something like that, and some people don't turn up and they don't even ask me for the link. I'll send it to them still but they're not kind of semi overly excited about it. It's a sort of society we live in. But when you've got an investment in yourself, where you've got a decent amount of skin in the game, whatever that is, doesn't have to be financial. You will get results. So whatever that looks like for you, whatever amount that is whatever investment that is time energy, finances Emotions mental strength physically. Whatever you're putting into something the level you will achieve the level result based on how much skin you build. Have you think about an area of your life where you know you need to improve? You want to but actually, you know you need to. It's something you know you need to do. Have you got skin in the game?

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