{"id":1073,"date":"2011-05-19T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewliberty.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2011-05-19T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:48:24","slug":"youre-only-cheating-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threeadventure.com\/matthewliberty\/2011\/05\/19\/youre-only-cheating-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re Only Cheating Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Business (and life in general) is simple people, stop manipulating and start building relationships. When you shift from attempting to cheat or trick people, and start caring about people your business will improve. When you start viewing every situation as an opportunity to amaze rather than a chance to be mediocre, your life will be full.<\/p>\n

Words like \u201cauthenticity\u201d and \u201ctransparency\u201d are so bleeping over used but it is true, being authentic and transparent will change every aspect of your life. Your personal life and your \u201cwork\u201d life can only improve if you care about people and learn to become valuable to them, it\u2019s amazing what comes back to you when you do this.<\/p>\n

The amazing Bob Burg and John David Mann talk about the act of giving, and being authentic in your giving, so eloquently\u2026if you haven\u2019t already, check out their book \u201cThe Go-Giver\u201d. If you take this philosophy and add it to Seth Godin\u2019s ideas of being an artist rather than a \u201cfactory worker\u201d (just another cog in the machine), I think you end up with some very powerful ways to change your life.<\/p>\n

The last few years have really been some of the most amazing times in my life\u2026largely due to reading, and actually trying to understand, books like those mentioned above. Reading, sharing, learning, and a lot of inward searching have liberated me to live the life I want to live. I had fallen in to the same abyss as so many others\u2026what I do defines me, I need a bigger house, I need expensive clothes, or whatever else people do to keep up with the Jones\u2019 (who in the hell are the Jones\u2019 anyways?).<\/p>\n

If you feel crappy, it\u2019s time to focus on change versus the crap. It\u2019s time to push your boundaries and be comfortable with discomfort. When you tell yourself you\u2019re going to try something new, like change your favorite color, it\u2019s hard because it means changing something you have known for however long\u2026but one thing I found is that once you do that enough you actually do get comfortable with discomfort, but instead of discomfort it becomes adventurous and exciting.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get motivated, let\u2019s be real\u2026let\u2019s be more valuable to ourselves and more valuable to those around us. Everything gets better when you do!!<\/p>\n

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