10xTalk With Joe Polish And Dan Sullivan

Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past | Dan Sullivan and Joe Polish

In this 10x Talk, Dan Sullivan talks through the most important lessons from his bestselling book, The Laws of Lifetime Growth. Dan is a veteran of coaching and business-building who has distilled his knowledge into ten simple laws. Listen in and learn how to think about success in a new way – and how to ensure that your future keeps getting bigger.

Here’s a quick glance at what you’ll learn from Dan in this episode:

5 simple ways to always make your future bigger than your past
How to experience more accomplishment, satisfaction, meaning, and progress
Dan shares how to surround yourself with contributors and up-level your performance
Why continually increasing your appreciation can create more success
How to get the most out of every situation and grow 10x

Selected Links from the Episode

The Laws of Lifetime Growth – Dan’s bestselling book, now updated

Genius Network Events – The world’s most-anticipated marketing event

Show Notes

Introduction [00:28]
A new edition of Dan Sullivan’s The Laws of Lifetime Growth is being released [00:48]
A shout-out to the fans in Kazakhstan [01:17]
Dan came up with his Laws of Growth in the 1990s and was encouraged by Catherine Nomura to write a book [02:46]
The first version was published in 2006 – the new version was published in 2016 [04:14]
What are the Laws of Lifetime Growth? [05:46]
The laws are future-oriented – they’re based on investing now for future growth [05:51]

“Always make your future bigger than your past” [06:10]
- Make bigger goals – aim to create more value
- If you strive to make others’ futures bigger, you’ll automatically make your own future bigger
- Be selective – choose people who’ll make the most of your investment
“Always make your learning greater than your experience” [09:22]
- Squeeze as much learning as you can out of any experience
- Decide before each day of work what learning you want to do
- Make a list before events – set an intention to learn a certain number of things
“Always make your contribution bigger than your reward” [12:24]
- Always size up a situation based on the maximum amount of contribution you can make
- You’ll always learn more from contributing than from gaining
- People notice the individuals who take and don’t give back – don’t be one of them
“Always make your performance greater than your applause” [18:08]
- There’s a celebrity effect in the world – people magnify each other in their minds
- The performance I give each day should be better than the performance I’ve given in the past
- Applause is a byproduct of performance
“Always make your gratitude greater than your success” [22:39]
- “I try to constantly increase my appreciation of the relationships and factors in my life”
- “What a lot of people treat as a goal, I’m treating as a byproduct” – get the appreciation right and the success will follow.
- As soon as people become successful, they start doing all the wrong things
- Ego and the need for gratitude [27:43]
- The two things to protect as an entrepreneur are confidence and gratitude [27:55]
- “You can’t explain why some people are successful and some people aren’t…a lot of it is luck and then the response to luck” [28:34]
- Dan’s generation is known as “the lucky generation” – they’re the first generation that was born smaller than the generation before it [29:45]
- He grew up with more than enough resources available [30:54]
- “You can’t control the hand you’re dealt…but you can control how you play it” [32:35]
“Always make your enjoyment greater than your efforts” [34:07]
“Always make you cooperation greater than your status” [34:09]
“Always make your confidence greater than your comfort” [34:18]
“Always make your purpose greater than your money” [34:23]
“Always make your questions bigger than your answers” [34:30]

Joe gives the scoop on who’ll be on the main stage at the Genius Network event [35:42]

People Mentioned

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About Joe Polish:

Joe fell in love with Marketing when he realized as a 4 year old sitting on the counter of his father’s locksmith shop that if he smiled nicely… people would give him TIPS. He parlayed that into his famous “I’m trying to win a trip to Disneyland” Newspaper subscription sales method… and evolved THAT into the name-dropping, self-aggrandizing, super-generous style we all LOVE about Joe.

About Dan Sullivan:

Dan Sullivan is the world’s foremost expert on entrepreneurship in action. Many of the world’s top-performing business owners regard Dan Sullivan as the person to teach you how to be a better entrepreneur.