Mindset Metrics

Welcome back to a new episode of the List Building Lifestyle Show. I’m Igor Kheifets. In a day job, you’ll never thrive as an entrepreneur because there’s always someone telling you what to do. Take my brother, for example, he practically runs a bakery, yet he tolerates being treated unfairly. Unlike him, I refuse to settle. I’ve always had a standard in mind for what fair treatment means. There’s no job in the world that can offer the freedom, quality of life and opportunities I feel entitled to. My success is the result of continuously striving for the standards I set for myself. Join me as we explore the keys to unlocking your entrepreneurial potential, and building the life you desire on the List Building Lifestyle Show.

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I’m Igor Kheifets and this is the List Building Lifestyle. The podcast for anyone who wants to build a wildly profitable email list working from home. If you’d like to make six figures, travel the world and help people improve their lives in the process, this podcast is for you. I also invite you to claim a free copy of my best selling book, the List Building Lifestyle Confessions of an Email Millionaire at igorsbook.com. Get the free book plus $3,000 bonus package that includes my best capture page templates, email swipe files, and traffic blueprints, visit www.igorsbook.com for details. And now it’s time to claim your list building lifestyle.

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At the end of the day, you’re not going to thrive as an entrepreneur in a day job, because there’s always going to be somebody who tells you what to do, there’s going to be somebody who enforces their rules on you. And there’s going to be somebody who doesn’t appreciate you the way you want to be appreciated or deserve to be appreciated. I mean, I see with my brother all the time, you know, he pretty much runs a bakery,he opens it, he shuts it down, he’s the first to come in, last to leave, while the owners family members work there as employees and do next to nothing.

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I mean, my brother pretty much is the mule of that business. But you see, he just puts up with it. And that’s the difference between him and me, he puts up with it, believing that that’s the way it’s supposed to be, you know, for an occasional bone that the owner will throw at him, I don’t get it, my brother, given the opportunity could run his own bakery chain. He knows the numbers, he knows the logistics, he knows the salesmanship, he knows the craftsmanship, but it’s a mindset thing. You see, there are some things that you as an individual will accept, and there are some things you will not accept. And what I never really accepted at my core level is being told what to do by somebody I consider to be less intelligent than me.

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Or being treated unfairly and always had a standard in my mind about what fairness means. So that’s why I never put up with anything less than what I felt I deserved. And that’s why at some point, I realized that there’s no job in the world that can offer me the freedom and the quality of life and the quality of opportunities. And the scale that I felt I was entitled to basically, like I really definitely, and certainly felt like I was entitled to more in this life. Now, of course, I knew I had to work for it. But my basic minimum allowable standard for quality of life was much higher than any job could offer me know if anything, my success is a result of continuous striving for a standard that I set for myself. 

It’s a standard, that was an absolute necessity. And anything less than that was simply unacceptable to me, which kept me going and going and going and going. Now, what’s interesting is that over the years when I would hit that standard, and that would achieve that standard, I quickly learned I had to set the next standard, because if I didn’t, I would get complacent. So as a result over the years, you know, once I hit a certain income level, I would set the next goal. Once a certain lifestyle level, I would hit the next goal. Once I would set a certain relationship standard, I would immediately have to set the next goal and strive for that because I find that I’m happiest in pursuit of the next goal is as weird as it sounds like I need another target like all the time. 

And I think most successful entrepreneurs in every field are a lot like that. It’s very difficult to find a successful entrepreneur, not a wannabe entrepreneur but a successful entrepreneur that doesn’t have a very specific goal in mind at any given point. And the really successful ones, the ones who really have their shit together or usually have multiple goals that they’re working on all the same time in different areas of life, they’ll have one for their professional life and another one for their personal life and one for their spirituality or fitness, another one for their relationships, and so on and so forth.

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And the older I get, the more I learn about myself, which is really what I’m doing most of the time. I’m learning about myself by experiencing life, and then seeing how I respond to it. The more I realize how important it is to always have a specific goal you’re working towards, otherwise, you get lost and life isn’t the same at all.

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