Larry Winget - Get Out of Your Own Way: How to Overcome Any Obstacle in Your Life

GET
OUT

OF YOUR
OWN WAY!

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GET
OUT

OF YOUR
OWN WAY!

How to Overcome any Obstacle in Your Life

Larry Winget

Published 2019 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY! Copyright 2019 G&D Media. All rights reserved.

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Interior design by Meghan Day Healey of Story Horse, LLC

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

ISBN: 978-1-7225-0233-1

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2327-5

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Contents

Introduction

Youre probably in your own way. Dont believe it? Do you talk about things that you want but dont deliver? Why is that? Youre in your own way.

Get out of your way so you can actually start to accomplish the things you want. It takes more than just saying what you want. You have to actually deliver on the promises you make to yourself and to others. Thats the purpose of this book: to get you unstuck from a comfortable, mediocre lifestyle and move you to where you can start to accomplish everything youd like to have in your life.

Now Ive just accused you of leading a comfortable, mediocre lifestyle, and you may respond with, It doesnt feel that way to me. I dont care how it feels. Most people rarely move to the edge. Instead, they stay in that safe place where theyre rarely challenged, where they rarely start to make the headway in their livespersonally, professionally, financiallythat theyd like to make, because its so comfortable right there in the middle.

You have to get out of that comfortable place. You have to get to that place where its a little edgier, a little scarier, where youre challenged every single day to do more, to be more, and to have more. How do you do that? Thats what this book is about.

As you go through this book with me, I want you to think about your life and what youd really like to have happen in your life. I want you to consider all the dreams, all the hopes, all the aspirations youve ever had, and I want you to start to think about why you havent achieved those things. Ill guarantee every single time that its because of you, not because of external circumstances.

Dont whine to me about the economy, dont tell me about the government, and dont talk to me about your boss, or the fact that you were the middle child. Dont offer me any of those feeble excuses. Youre the problem. No one else. Its up to you to start to change your life today, and thats what Im going to show youhow you can start to change your life today by getting out of your own way.

Let me tell you what you can expect from this book. First of all, you can expect solutions. I actually think thats what you want. I think you want to read this book, then put it down and be able to startin other words, to take action on a plan that will move you from where you are to the place you really want to be.

So let me give you some ideas. Let me give you some things that you can act upon. Let me give you some solutions to the challenges that you face. I think you want a plan. I believe you want to be able to say, This is where I start. This is the first step. This is the second step and ultimately reach the last step. After youve gone through those steps, you want to be able to look back and say, Look at what I have accomplished.

Thats my goal for youto give you a plan that can move you from where you are to where youve always wanted to be. If we do that together, then we will have accomplished something. Youll be able to look back and say, This has all been worth it.

Accomplishment, resultsthats everything. I want you to have better results than youve had in the past. You do that by taking responsibility for where you are, getting together an action plan, and going to work on it. That is the purpose of this book.

Now you may be wondering why I have the right even to tell you these things. Youre saying, Who are you? Who is this guy? Why is this plan any different than any of the other plans that Ive read about before? Everybody claims that they can help me move from where I am to someplace else. Why, Larry, is this any different?

First of all, I plan to give you something thats more realistic than anything youve read before. I dont care whether you change your life or not. Youre going to say, What? A motivational guru who really doesnt care? No, I dont, because you see, I dont live with you. I dont depend on you. My life is going to be fine without your success.

The key to changing where you are is that you have to care. You have to care more than I care. When you start to care more about your life than anyone else cares about it, thats when you will be willing to be brave enough to do what it takes. So Ill be honest with you, and thats different from what most of the people say: I love you, and I want really the very best from you. I bet thats a shocker to you. I bet thats something youve never heard from anybody else who does this self-help stuff. Im telling you right now your life is up to you. That is the cold, hard truth about success. It is up to you. Thats how Im different.

Another way Im different is that Im talking to you from a depth of experience and a depth of knowledge and research. I worked. I studied. I did research. In the last nineteen years, Ive read over 4000 books. I dont know anybody whos read any more books than I have. I challenge anybody to go out there and read 4000 books on every single area of success, leadership, sales, customer service, teamwork, how to get rich, how to get healthy, how to stay rich, how to stay healthy. Ive actually done some research about what successful people do and the difference between unsuccessful people and successful people.

Mostly, though, I will admit that I could be the poster child for stupidity. Ive made every single mistake any person could ever make in life and in business. Ive screwed up my business. Ive gone bankrupt financially. I grew up broke, so I started out broke, then got rich, then went bankrupt, then went from bankrupt to multimillionaire. Ive screwed up my marriage. Ive been a bad parent from time to time. Ive delivered bad customer service. Ive been a lousy boss. Ive done everything in the world wrong, so everything that I teach other people to do is based on all the mistakes that Ive made in my life, and on all the things that I did to overcome those mistakes, to move me to a better place.

I dont shy away from my mistakes. I dont cower down and say, Oh, Im a perfect guy, and I never made any mistakes. No, thats not real. Im a real guy who screws up every single day. Ive always said I do more wrong by noon than most people do in a month. Its because I do a lot of stuff.