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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

What if I told you that all that rise and grind and the no days off mentality might be missing a crucial component?

What if the secret sauce to seismic

success isn't more hours at the office? But instead, something as old school as stopping

to think, to reflect, assess, and do some introspection. It might not sound sexy, but it is

incredibly potent. Early in my career, a venture of mine, one thing that I had great hope for and to make a lot

of money in, tanked.

And it was embarrassing.

So I was eager to rush into the next thing, to cover up the pain and misfortune.

But before I did, I took a pause to evaluate closely. What in the hell went

wrong? Not just the external outcomes and the external factors that contributed to the failure,

but more importantly, the internal ones too. Why I made certain decisions. What compelled or

motivated motivated me to do so? Was it FOMO,

fear of missing out, greed, overcompetitiveness, fear, hubris? What exactly? What did I do or not do

that caused this outcome? And why did I do or not do those things? I poured over every decision,

every assumption. This wasn't self-flagellation, but a cold hard debrief with myself.

Something that I now do regularly. My team knows it as a PDR, a plan, due review.

You start with the brutal facts. No sugarcoding, no justifications, no explanations,

the straight, no holds barred truth. What failed and why did it fail? What were the underlying

causes? External and internal factors, all laid out bare and naked. Then the fix. What action

are we going to take now to prevent each of these things from

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