Cause 1

Question 1

1. The Cause of Higher Standards

Answer 1

The standard level of living that you’re willing to accept and nothing less. Do anything it takes and do not rest until you have achieved at least the baseline has been met.

Question 2

Two Big Realizations

Answer 2

1. We all have standards whether we know it or not and they determine how much power we’re applying to the gas pedal. They also determine how BIG our thinking is.
2. Look at anyone and their life and instantly, no matter what they tell you, you can get a pretty good gauge of their standards. No judging but more or less an observation of what their set point is.
   In short, personal standards always get met.

Question 3

Warning!

Answer 3

Standards set too high without sufficient progression = self-loathing and eventually world-loathing. Raise them high enough but not too high. Progressively raise them.

Question 4

How to meet your standard

Answer 4

Do everything possible to be the best possible at what you do.

Question 5

Before you go to sleep

Answer 5

What do you have to accomplish before you go to sleep?

Question 6

Conrad Hilton

Answer 6

“I was verging on complacent self-satisfaction…and I do not know of anything that will halt a business career so rapidly”

Question 7

How to install higher standards

Answer 7

You get environmental exposure - seeing it up close, feeling it… then you feel inspiration or desperation or both, then you make the internal commitment/decision. What is a real decision? when you cut off any possibility except what you’ve committed to, when you will not look back, when you will not even consider the alternative of giving up.

Question 8

Long term formula

Answer 8

Raise->Reach->Reward->Reraise

Question 9

Anytime you SETTLE for something

Answer 9

You lower your standards