Landscaping Business | Your Mental Health & Perseverance to Win🏆

These days, I’ve been asking myself…

How do successful entrepreneurs continue to stay excited when they have everything against them when their business isn’t working and/or growing at the speed they were hoping it would grow? But then, I realized that it’s not about their emotions; it’s their attitude. As the saying goes, happiness is a state of mind, and it’s something we can always choose.

This episode focuses on sound mental health, and I hope you tune in to learn more. It might be easier said than done, but until we stop comparing ourselves to others, we won't find the end of this spiral path that only pulls us down.

“Basically, if you're looking at somebody else who has anything that you don't have, and you think that their life is great, that's not true at all. True happiness and fulfillment come in the moment. You can be in the middle of a total struggle and be totally happy; you can be broken and be happy. Happiness is a state of mind. It's a state of consciousness that you can have at any time, and I think is mostly separated from anything material.”

– Keith Kalfas

Why do you have to listen to today's episode.

01:44 – “Attitude is something that you can consciously choose.”

These days, I’ve been thinking about mental health and how entrepreneurs stay excited in doing business even through the challenges; then, it led me to think about attitude – a word more powerful than emotions.

03:18 – “If you want to grow or do different things that create your income and your career, you have to learn how to do a bunch of stuff that you don't know how to do yet and lean into the direction of what you don't know.”

Being in a slump and being full-blown depressed are two different things. Recently, I’ve been depressed again, and my conversation with my friend Rob was really of big help.

07:21 – “Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result.”

What Albert Einstein said is true. You have to rise to a new level, a higher level of consciousness, in order to see the challenge differently and try different approaches.

10:45 – “In the last two years, I’ve had the most success I’ve ever had in my whole life.”

Going back, I’ve been through a lot, but I’ve also succeeded a lot. Growing up poor is a big achievement for me. True happiness is a state of mind.

Key Takeaways

“Attitude is something that you can consciously choose.”

“He’s like, that thing you’re upset about? That’s fiction; that’s not even real. No matter how much energy you feel into something that’s imagined to try to fix it, you can’t fix fiction. You have to objectify and realize that it is fiction, and it’s not even real, so you’re worrying yourself to death over something that hasn’t happened yet.

“If you're doing something every day for money that you know how to do, you can just get in and do that thing. But if you want to grow or do different things that create your income and your career, you have to learn how to do a bunch of stuff that you don't know how to do yet and lean in the direction of what you don't know, which means you're probably not gonna make a lot of money, you're gonna make a lot of mistakes, there's going to be a lot of learning curve, so it’s going to take way more time.”

Connect with Keith

Resources/People Mentioned:

My Website: Official Site Keith Kalfas

My Podcast Page: The UNTRAPPED Podcast

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Spencer Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese?

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