The biggest lesson I\u2019ve learned this year came from watching a mouse trying to tote a cracker home for dinner (link below).<\/p>\n
In <\/span>the video<\/span><\/a> a little bitty mouse tries to pick up a gigantic cracker and throw it 3 inches above its head so it can take it to its little mouse family for a nice dinner. <\/span><\/p>\nBut guess what happens?<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He fails.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The little mouse tries 32 different times to haul the cracker off. He throws it. Carries it. Pole vaults off of it. And\u00a0every time he is defeated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, he takes a break, eats a little bit of the cracker, and on his 33rd attempt…he makes it!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And his sweet little mouse family dines like kings that night!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The point is this: If you want it, get it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stop making excuses.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excuse: I don\u2019t have time:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: Wake up at 5 AM. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/blog\/figure-it-out\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hustle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Excuse: I don\u2019t have money.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/how-an-8-year-old-entrepreneur-kept-his-mom-and-3-siblings-afloat\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sell<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> your dumb iPad. Deliver pizza. Drive an Uber. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excuse: I don\u2019t know what to do.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: Hire a coach. Buy a course. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2014\/03\/two-ways-to-listen.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to smart people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Excuse: I can\u2019t do it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you can!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world needs you.<\/p>\n<p>We need you.<\/p>\n<p>But first you have to stop making excuses. I mean…a freaking mouse did it!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to step up.<\/p>\n<p>[su_note]<b>Two action items for you today:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Action item #1: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ctt.ec\/rm1WJ\" target=\"_blank\">Share this with<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ctt.ec\/rm1WJ\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0one person<\/a> you know who could use some encouragement.<\/p>\n<p><b>Action item #2:<\/b> Leave a comment below\u00a0and tell me the limiting belief that is holding you back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a template to get you started:<\/strong> “My biggest limiting belief of 2015 is [insert your excuse]. \u00a0This has kept me from [describe what this has prevented you from doing].”<\/p>\n<p>(I\u2019ve already left a comment with the excuse that held me back in 2015.)[\/su_note]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest lesson I\u2019ve learned this year came from watching a mouse trying to tote a cracker home for dinner…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
But guess what happens?<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He fails.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The little mouse tries 32 different times to haul the cracker off. He throws it. Carries it. Pole vaults off of it. And\u00a0every time he is defeated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, he takes a break, eats a little bit of the cracker, and on his 33rd attempt…he makes it!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And his sweet little mouse family dines like kings that night!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The point is this: If you want it, get it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stop making excuses.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excuse: I don\u2019t have time:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: Wake up at 5 AM. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/blog\/figure-it-out\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hustle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Excuse: I don\u2019t have money.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/how-an-8-year-old-entrepreneur-kept-his-mom-and-3-siblings-afloat\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sell<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> your dumb iPad. Deliver pizza. Drive an Uber. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excuse: I don\u2019t know what to do.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: Hire a coach. Buy a course. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2014\/03\/two-ways-to-listen.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to smart people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Excuse: I can\u2019t do it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you can!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world needs you.<\/p>\n<p>We need you.<\/p>\n<p>But first you have to stop making excuses. I mean…a freaking mouse did it!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to step up.<\/p>\n<p>[su_note]<b>Two action items for you today:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Action item #1: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ctt.ec\/rm1WJ\" target=\"_blank\">Share this with<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ctt.ec\/rm1WJ\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0one person<\/a> you know who could use some encouragement.<\/p>\n<p><b>Action item #2:<\/b> Leave a comment below\u00a0and tell me the limiting belief that is holding you back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a template to get you started:<\/strong> “My biggest limiting belief of 2015 is [insert your excuse]. \u00a0This has kept me from [describe what this has prevented you from doing].”<\/p>\n<p>(I\u2019ve already left a comment with the excuse that held me back in 2015.)[\/su_note]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest lesson I\u2019ve learned this year came from watching a mouse trying to tote a cracker home for dinner…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He fails.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The little mouse tries 32 different times to haul the cracker off. He throws it. Carries it. Pole vaults off of it. And\u00a0every time he is defeated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, he takes a break, eats a little bit of the cracker, and on his 33rd attempt…he makes it!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And his sweet little mouse family dines like kings that night!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The point is this: If you want it, get it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stop making excuses.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excuse: I don\u2019t have time:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: Wake up at 5 AM. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/blog\/figure-it-out\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hustle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Excuse: I don\u2019t have money.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/how-an-8-year-old-entrepreneur-kept-his-mom-and-3-siblings-afloat\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sell<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> your dumb iPad. Deliver pizza. Drive an Uber. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excuse: I don\u2019t know what to do.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: Hire a coach. Buy a course. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2014\/03\/two-ways-to-listen.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to smart people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Excuse: I can\u2019t do it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Answer: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you can!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world needs you.<\/p>\n<p>We need you.<\/p>\n<p>But first you have to stop making excuses. I mean…a freaking mouse did it!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to step up.<\/p>\n<p>[su_note]<b>Two action items for you today:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Action item #1: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ctt.ec\/rm1WJ\" target=\"_blank\">Share this with<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ctt.ec\/rm1WJ\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0one person<\/a> you know who could use some encouragement.<\/p>\n<p><b>Action item #2:<\/b> Leave a comment below\u00a0and tell me the limiting belief that is holding you back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a template to get you started:<\/strong> “My biggest limiting belief of 2015 is [insert your excuse]. \u00a0This has kept me from [describe what this has prevented you from doing].”<\/p>\n<p>(I\u2019ve already left a comment with the excuse that held me back in 2015.)[\/su_note]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest lesson I\u2019ve learned this year came from watching a mouse trying to tote a cracker home for dinner…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}