If you want to go from 100 people at your shows to 125, your brain tells yourself to just do a little bit more. Go a little bit harder. Keep doing the things you’ve been doing, but just a little bit better and you’ll get those extra 25 people.
And you will.
But if you decide you want to go from 100 people at your shows to 800 people at your shows…you can’t just do more of what you’ve been doing. You can’t just try a little harder with what you’ve been doing in order to go from 100 to 800.
Going from 100 to 125, you say “I need to do a little bit more of what I’ve been doing”.
Going from 100 to 800, your mind says “I need to change what I’m doing”. Well actually your mind probably says “I can’t go from 100 to 800”….meaning: you just can’t go from 100 to 800 by doing the same things you’ve been doing.
The only way to get to 800 is to do something new…but something new might not work at all, and that’s why most people only focus on the 125 goal…cause at least you have an idea that you know works and you just need to squeeze a little more out of it.
But at some point you’re going to have to go big if you want to be big.
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