Average Sucks: Leave Your Average Life Behind and Get What You REALLY Want with Michael Bernoff, Dean Jackson, and Joe Polish

Show Notes

• Communication is our most undervalued asset as humans. 
• Michael’s program is designed to get you where you can actually learn and listen. 
• When you communicate, it’s about setting up the state and the frame. 
• People have an ineffective relationship with their business. 
• Many Entrepreneurs still don’t have what they want because they’re operating off an outdated plan. 
• It’s not what you say, it’s the response that you get that you’re after. 
• Entrepreneurs start with wanting to prove a point and survive – that’s not a good business plan. 
• You’re never starting over in business; you build on what you learn.
• The greatest gift for yourself: Understand your average and who you are right now. 
• Most people don’t make their plan from their current self and are farther along than they think they are. 
• Michael was taught to work hard and be a better person; he didn’t know he could change. 
• You can learn yourself better. 
• Consistency becomes part of your identity but most people avoid responsibility. 
• We can all agree that average sucks; we feel it all the time when we hold ourselves back. 
• We have a natural pull to be average, but our average isn’t the full version of ourselves.
•  When you realize what you want isn’t in alignment with what you do, average is holding you back.
• You’ll always be operating out of an average. The question is: Is it the average you want?
• Technology stripped us of natural adversity and life got easy for people. 
• Choose selected adversity to change the chemical composition of your brain, raise your average, and stretch yourself. 
• Cloudlandia gives you instant access to opportunities if you take them.
• People don’t change unless they have to. 
• Michael’s book is about why you don’t have what you want and what to do about it. 
• Information about the Average Sucks Gift Box.
• People don’t market well to themselves, but if you learn to market to yourself you’ll elevate your game. 
• We need to take responsibility for our language and must label things appropriately.
• Comfort zone: You do it automatically and it’s what you are willing to do.  
• Your comfort zone is a perfectly orchestrated psychology to keep you where you are. 
• To raise your average first accept that you aren’t where you want to be, then ask who you really are right now. 
• Show up as yourself in relationships and be clear on needs and expectations. 
• A mentor taught Michael to become a millionaire, not for the money, but for the man he’d become in the process.
• Happiness doesn’t create growth.