How to Develop Your Killer Instinct

LESSON DRILLS

What are the fundamentals of your industry? Here are some examples:

• Writer: grammar and plots and sentences and reading

• CEO: marketing practice, sales pitch, studying competitions

• Salesperson: role playing, pitches, deals, product details

• Musician: fundamental movements and practicing songs

• Basketball: jump shots and dribbling

• Quarterback: throws and learning offense

• Golfer: Swings, shots

• Artist/Architecture: Draw/sketch daily

Hit every day hard. Bully the day. And be patient.

Inside you is a killer, but every killer listens to wise old man too. Still, some people confuse the wise old man, patience, for apathy and cowardice.

<strong>Bonus</strong>: Ignoring the "Wise" Men: Leonidas

In the movie 300, Leonidas the leader of Sparta goes to see the wise old men about fighting the Persians. Leonidas knows the Persians are coming to invade Sparta and wishes to go out and meet them. But the wise men, the seers know as Ephors, deny him permission. Leonidas ignores them and goes to the meet the invading empire. At times, you will have to ignore the "wise" people around you and do what you think is right if you will be a Killer.

How many nights and mornings have you spent working on your craft... alone?

Are you willing to sacrifice the comforts others have to achieve what you want?

*Compare yourself to others - the best in your field’s work ethics

*How many reps are they getting per day? What do they read? How many hours a day? Who did they study under? How do they view the world?

1) Say NO to your laziness

2) Say NO to your self lacerations (don't beat yourself up!)

*90% Reps (Mental and Physical Repetitions)

*10% Abstract Belief that You Can Do It + Experience of Success + Being Peer Reviewed Positively

Hard Exercises

*Weights

*Basketball

*Boxing

*Conditioning

*MMA

Soft Exercises

*Tai Chi

*Stretching

*Yoga

*Pilates

“The Spirit of Buffalo County”

Somebody; said that it could’nt be done,
But he, with a chuckle, replied,
That “maybe it could’nt; but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the Trace of a grin
On his face; if he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed, “Oh, you’ll never (do) that;
At least nobody ever has done it.” But he took off his coat, and he took off his hat,
And the first thing he knew he’d begun it. With the lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
If any doubt rose he forbade it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure, There are thousands to point out to you one by one
The dangers that wait to assail you, But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,

Then take off your coat and go to it; Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That cannot be done, and you’ll do it.

The importance of setting nightmares cannot be overrated. Do this drill. Listen to the music below and set these nightmares - type them or get a journal to write them down:

Music: https://dillonfreed.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/y2mate.com-war_music_no_copyright_TNs5JFYaTMk.mp3

• Body (appearance)

• Morals/Virtues (honesty, boldness, courage)

• Intellect/Education (e.g. if you don't read a certain number of books, go to school, etc.)

• Health (Diet, energy, drugs, alcohol, etc.)

• Money (credit score, travel, clothes, cars, where you live, house, home, those who rely upon you etc. - what will that look like?)

• Career

• Ultimate Goal/Passion

• Relationships

• Any other category you can think of, go ahead and add it

Get your body, face, voice, vision, and emotion involved with these! Say with total body mind and feeling.</strong>

*I could care less what others think!

*When I feel lazy, I say to hell with my feelings and I go to work!

*I will sacrifice anything I need to to achieve my goal!

*I'm a curious about my fears, I love to explore them!

*I can do it! I know I can do it!

*I siphon off the haters and doubters negative power and it gives me power!

G.R.O.W.S.

• GOAL: Visualize your main goal, your ultimate goal. See the process. Go inside your body.

• RELATIONSHIPS: Visualize/feelulize successful relationships with family, friends, and lovers.

• OTHERS: See others being successful, those you care about.

• WORDLY: Material things, body, health.

• SPIRIT: Your spiritual qualities, for a killer it might be honesty and boldness.

*Make a list of your nightmares for the following.
>Body
>Intellect
>Passion
>Relationship
>Career
>Feel free to add your categories

*Now a list of your dreams, the opposite and greater of those categories, for the same categories:
>Body
>Intellect
>Passion
>Relationship
>Career
>Feel free to add your categories

In this day and age we lack FOCUS. Picking three 30 day challenges every month has RADICALLY improved my efficiency.

Create this list, and review it monthly.

Common Archetypes

• Warrior/Killer Archetype

• Sage/Wise Old Man/Woman Archetype

• Comedian/Jokester Archetype

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KILLER PROFILE

• Independent – own man, see his Twitter

• Competitive – wants to win (laughs at competition)

• Bold visionary – to hell with other people’s neurons

• A bit of contempt for lazy, small thinkers

Dark Side

• Volatile temper like Jobs and Gates and Jordan

• Will push people under them

• Not worried about their karma (Jobs later in life was, he was a man battling with being a warrior and a saint)

KILLER PROFILE

*Trained psychologically from a young age

*Intimidating because his skill

*Obsessively competitive

*Dark Side: conquering everything, women, voracious appetite

KILLER PROFILE

• Unreal Work Ethic

• Wants to beat the best

• Psychological Warfare

• Creates a Fuel List (lives off doubters) – Siphoning

• Psychotically Competitive

• Only Small Outbursts of Anger, then the Simmer

• Worships Pressure

• Fundamental Obsessed

• Creativity came from it

Spirit Animal

• Black Cat

Dark Side:

• Can be cruel to teammates, owners, opponents, etc.

• Not faithful to wife allegedly

*Volatile temper

*Makes people around them raise their standards

*Wicked “good luck” – things turned out in his favor in his career

*Dark side, ability to compartmentalize his “sins”

*Great tension between the Killer and Saint