Episode 114: Your Standards Are Showing | Why Average Habits Create Broke Results
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Jun 24, 2025
Honesty with oneself is the first crucial standard for success. The conversation dives into how average habits stifle personal growth and financial success. Emphasizing the need for elevated standards, listeners are encouraged to redefine their identity and beliefs. The hosts share transformative strategies for setting ambitious goals and surrounding oneself with inspiring individuals. They also challenge conventional thinking, motivating listeners to embrace bigger ideas and break free from mediocrity to unlock their true potential.
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Honesty as Foundation Standard
Honesty is the crucial first standard to hold for breakthrough results.
Without honesty, creating lasting change and new habits is impossible.
insights INSIGHT
Avoid Complacency and Market Comparison
Complacency and self-deception about effort kill growth.
Playing your own race with big ideas beats market comparison.
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Commit and Build Identity
Commit fully to your chosen standards by treating them as rules you live by.
Build your new identity by holding daily habits aligned with those standards.
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What is the habit you have that you’re not honest with yourself about? The first standard we need to have is honesty, but most of us have normalized lying to ourselves. That’s holding us back from reaching our goals and reaching new levels of success! During this conversation, Arash and Mykie dive deep into what prevents us from being honest with ourselves and what we need to do to form different habits. Nothing will catapult your results more than your standards! So today, we’re deconstructing how Arash changed his relationship with standards and transformed his average habits to build better ones. We discuss how playing with bigger ideas helps to achieve different results and how changing your beliefs around your identity can help you to create a different reality. This is one of the most important episodes we’ve ever published, and a reminder to never give up, but to rise up instead. Don’t miss it!
Key Points From This Episode:
The first standard we need to have with ourselves: honesty.
What prevents people from being totally honest with themselves.
Some of the most widely accepted average habits people have.
What you need to do to form a new habit.
Why you can’t change your identity until you change your standard.
What you need to do to set new goals that lead to a new standard.
An example of how Arash’s ideas have helped him to grow.
How being humble and hungry changes your life.
Playing with bigger ideas to achieve different results.
The role of belief and identity in creating success.
Why you have to surround yourself with people who are doing better than you.
Action steps for today: define your standards that your goal demands.
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