The 1st LAW of SUCCESS - The Success and Reward Function! 4 Examples from My Life! - 042

with nothing and nearly as close to what I had. I had to work my ass off, ask my fucking wife, who I would never hear for, because of traversing the world, trying to achieve the highest level of Scrum and Agile certification. Hahahaha. Ah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I built many startups, most of them are failed. So Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be. We're gonna end it right there. MMMM. The MMMM. The MMMM. The MMMM. The MMMM. Ah. Guys, I wanna talk to you guys about the secrets to success. Or one, I'm actually, I should qualify. One secret of many secrets to success. Obviously, that's the clickbait title that I put online here, but doesn't matter, no one's actually going to watch this because no one actually cares. Most people just want to be entertained. But I'm gonna give it to

you right here. I'm gonna give it to you right here right now, upfront and then we're gonna review it at the end after four examples. After four examples from my life. One of the secrets to success is simply this. Your success, your rewards, your success is directly proportional to the effort that you put in. That's it, that's it guys. Your success, your rewards, your outcome is directly proportional to the grind, the effort, the hustle, the no-quit attitude that you put in. This is a true secret to success. It really is. I figured it out. There's a lot of them and I wanna cover a lot of them over our time together here. But this is, it has to be the first one that I really talk about kind of in depth on this new podcast platform. Guys, the secret to success is that your rewards,

your outcome is directly proportional to the effort you put in. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, the hardest part about this, the hardest part about this idea is the execution of this quote-unquote secret. It's the execution of it because no one wants to work that hard. No one wants to do the, what is necessary. Everybody wants to become an overnight success. That's why the lotto, the, the, the lotto system is so sticky. It's so addicting because man, you don't have to do anything. You just have to pay a dollar. You just have to pay two dollars. A couple bucks guys and you're in the game. You are in the game for imminent success. You know one of the reasons, when I figured this out, when I realized this through life experiences that, that my success, my rewards, my outcome is in direct proportion to the

effort that I put in. When this clicked, it made so much sense to me, because it sensed to me because I'm a data guy. I'm a data guy. I'm a math guy. I'm a function. I'm a code guy. Inputs outputs baby. I'll take it. Inputs outputs are easy. Input x, output y. Simple as pi guys. Simple as pi. So for me as a data guy, as a math guy, as a function, as a computer scientist, as a coder, this made a lot of sense to me. You put in x and you get, not y. Now I've realized this through many different experiences in my life and I want to go through them with you because I want to talk about them because these are parts of my life and gives you an insight to the background of what I've done. But it's also an opportunity

math guy, as a function, as a computer scientist, as a coder, this made a lot of sense to me. You put in x and you get, not y. Now I've realized this through many different experiences in my life and I want to go through them with you because I want to talk about them because these are parts of my life and gives you an insight to the background of what I've done. But it's also an opportunity to exercise the thinking process in the memory process of what happened, what transpired in those earlier days for me. I'll give you one of these, of my first example I want to give you of this function to being absolutely true, is my growing up and wanting to be a professional soccer player. See, I grew up in the years in which Maradona, Pele, these types of individuals were

the men on my wall besides the Diablo Lamborghini and the Mercy Elago and these types of things. But, right, these were the men on my wall. I wanted to play division soccer in college. I wanted to play pro soccer. It was something that was on my mind. And when we had moved, when we had moved to Japan, when we had moved to Japan, my father, knowing this, got us plugged in to a Japanese soccer club when we were there. I didn't speak no Japanese when I got there, but we played on this Japanese soccer club on the gravel, if any of you guys know in Japan, you practice on gravel fields, not often, it's hard to find yourself often grass fields. So we used to scrape the fucking shit out of our legs playing on these gravel fields in Tokyo, Japan. After moving back from

Tokyo, back to the States, we got into a private high school. With the focus, let's just say on athletics. There's a lot of Olympic swimmers that come out of this particular school world, world renowned swimmers, world renowned football players, baseball players, I could name a couple, but I won't. Right, so this school had a lot of focus on sports. And my brother and I had gotten recruited to this school. And we joined the varsity team in ninth grade. Coming out, coming in from Japan. And during this time in Jacksonville, Florida, where we lived. During this time, I also played on the Jacksonville Jaguars. A travel soccer team as well as was looking into ODP or Olympic development. Long story short, I had, let's just say, anger issues. Anger issues in my high school days. Anger issues in my high school days, which my senior year,

my senior year, I only played like six games the entire season in senior year. You know why? Because I kept getting yellow cards. I kept getting red cards. I kept getting kicked out of the games because I couldn't control my emotions. If we make the long story even shorter, I ended up playing D3. I ended up playing division three soccer, not division one, but division three soccer up in New York City right at a high school. And I didn't want it that bad. I didn't want it that bad. After one, after my freshman season, red shirting by the way, I never actually played. I did the two-odd practice this early in the morning practice, school school school, no social life after school practice. I did all of that. Entire season, red shirted, never played. And the reason is, is frankly, is I didn't want it.

up in New York City right at a high school. And I didn't want it that bad. I didn't want it that bad. After one, after my freshman season, red shirting by the way, I never actually played. I did the two-odd practice this early in the morning practice, school school school, no social life after school practice. I did all of that. Entire season, red shirted, never played. And the reason is, is frankly, is I didn't want it. I didn't want it that bad. You see, my success, my rewards, the outcome, was directly proportional to the effort that I put in. I didn't want it that bad. I didn't want it that bad. I floated and here's something, here's a really unique thing. And this can be a travesty. This could be a travesty, especially if you're later in life. But for me, this is an event

which opened my eyes to the power of coasting. You see, I could be successful in soccer in middle school, on travel teams, Olympic development teams, I could be successful at a high school level, merely because of my talent. But when I got into the bigger games, the division league in university, I didn't want it that bad. I didn't want it enough. My talent couldn't take me to D1. It couldn't take me to division one. And I didn't work hard enough to get my skills and my natural inborn talent, to level required to be able to play a division one soccer. This is one of the travesties. And what this is one of the traps of life is that our natural talents can only get us so far. And for some of us, we're still living on our natural talents into our 30s and 40s. And

we want to get to the next level. But we never really wanted it that bad. We just coasted for decades on our natural talents. And frankly, it's not enough. You see, my success in soccer was directly proportional to the effort that I was willing to put I quit after my freshman year. I quit. The dream was done because I didn't want it enough. Another dream that I had, another goal that I had was to win a powerlifting contest in my early 20s. Win a powerlifting contest. I thought this was a novel idea. I thought this was a novel idea. And I decided to go for it. I remember telling my friends one of my friends, Tom, I said, hey, I want to do powerlifting. I want to see if I can get a state record. I want to see if I can do something like

this. And so I did the research. I put in the time. I learned how to eat and write, how to lift right all the forms. I would wake up in the fucking morning at three o'clock to eat because I had to maintain weight to be able to put up the weight. You can't put up heavy weight with nothing. Ya gots to eat. And so I put in the time, two days, workout before work, workout after work, same idea. I wanted it bad. The great thing about this particular goal is that the goal was short term. It wasn't a long term goal. It was a short term goal. So I could achieve this. And my rewards, my goal to win a championship, win a weightlifting contest happened. And I achieved it. And I won a fucking broadsword. There should be a picture right here, a picture

the time, two days, workout before work, workout after work, same idea. I wanted it bad. The great thing about this particular goal is that the goal was short term. It wasn't a long term goal. It was a short term goal. So I could achieve this. And my rewards, my goal to win a championship, win a weightlifting contest happened. And I achieved it. And I won a fucking broadsword. There should be a picture right here, a picture right here of the broadsword and of me winning that. That was, I had two options, one I won. The two options was, is they could either give me a battle ax or a broadsword. I chose the broadsword because the battle ax was just, that was just, I mean, it's a fucking broadsword. And so my success, my outcomes, my success were in direct proportion to the work that

I was willing to put. I was willing to eat at three o'clock in the morning. I was willing to wake up in the morning early to work out and then after work out again, because this was doable. I'm challenging myself. I am capable of doing this. This is not hard in terms of the long term ideas. This is a lot of short term pain. A lot of, you know, it took me three years to build up to being competition ready. But you know what? It's doable. It's totally doable. And I got the reward that I wanted, which was a fucking broadsword and winning a state title. Very cool with the Southern Powerlifting Federation. Southern Powerlifting Federation. You want another goal that I had? Three masters degrees. Three masters degrees. Three masters degrees. A million dollars later. And three masters degrees, guys. This was a goal

of mine. A goal of mine, the goal of mine was to understand how humans worked from educational, cognitive, and cultural and religious and spiritual standpoint. Right, I got a masters in education with the folks on cognitive learning theory. A second masters degree in counseling. Folks in organizational behavior, human behavior, especially in groups. And my third masters degree is a master's divinity focused on religion and apologetics. Kind of makes sense, because I do like to apologize for things that I'm passionate about. You see, this was a goal that I had. This is a very tangible, real goal. You work, you do the classwork, you play the game, you study, you pass the tests, you submit the papers, you submit the dissertations, you defend your ideas. And then you get the reward. My reward, my success in getting three masters degrees was in direct proportion to the

effort that I was willing to put in. This was a noble goal. It was totally doable. But the effort is required. The effort is required. Let me give you my longest grind that I've ever been on, 12 years. And then I retired. I wanted to travel the world. I wanted to be one of the best software development consultants on the planet. And I ended up becoming the youngest certified scrum trainer in the world at the time, there was only about 200 of us. It became the youngest certified scrum trainer over these 12 years I trained over 16,000. I handed it over out over 16,000 certifications. And it conferences and workshops, these types of things. Man, I'm just thinking about right now, the effort that was required to do that. It was crazy getting, I'll tell you this, it was crazy getting the certified scrum trainer

youngest certified scrum trainer in the world at the time, there was only about 200 of us. It became the youngest certified scrum trainer over these 12 years I trained over 16,000. I handed it over out over 16,000 certifications. And it conferences and workshops, these types of things. Man, I'm just thinking about right now, the effort that was required to do that. It was crazy getting, I'll tell you this, it was crazy getting the certified scrum trainer designation. Unless be intellectually honest, this is an old boy network. When you're talking about 200 people in the world, able to certify people into scrum masters, scrum product owners, these types of scrum teams, these types of things in agile. Man, it was an old boy network. You know what I had to do? For three and a half years, I had to travel all over the world to

co-trained with existing trainers who have been certified, CSTs, certified scrum trainer. I had to travel for three and a half years all over the world on my own expense to co-trained and co-coach with these other coaches and trainers so that I could get their letter of recommendation to the board. Okay? I had to travel all over the world to do this. I also had to get 10 plus recommendations from sea level executives to prove that I could truly consult at the highest echelons of corporate and business. I had to do it. By the way, I also knocked out two books. The second book was published by John Wiley and Sons, which is the number one business publisher in the world. Check it out, Peter Sandington, Agile Pocket Guide, Amazon. You see, this is a 12 year grind. I got rejected three times, three times for

my CST designation. The first time I got rejected, I think I had four, five, I think it might maybe six CST recommendations out of pocket. We're talking about flights, travel, car, food, all that stuff. I think I spent over $120,000 of flights alone just to get this thing. So I got rejected at six and then I had like two recommendations from sea level executives. So went back to work, got more, traveled more. I think the next time I had like nine recommendations from CSTs, current existing CSTs, and I think I've had maybe seven or eight recommendations from executives at large organizations. And I got rejected again, second time. I got rejected fucking again. I mean, this is when you really, and I think it was two years in by now, two years into this, trying to achieve this goal. This was the time when you

really begin to question. You really begin to question all the hard work and what you're trying to do. By the way, I was also getting the three master's degrees while I was doing all of this. Then I got rejected a third time. And at the third rejection, I had 12 CST recommendations, 12 CST recommendations. I travel all the world to do this. And to get on these guys, schedules was almost impossible anyway, because they're so busy, because everyone, all these CSTs, myself included when I finally got, well, I'm making millions of dollars of your guys. Let's be intellectually honest. I was crushing it. Oh, man, with my work ethic, fuck. My third time that I got rejected was that I had 12 CST recommendations and 10. I think it was 10 CTO, CTO, CIO recommendations from the large organizations, Fortune 500 companies. And I got

guys, schedules was almost impossible anyway, because they're so busy, because everyone, all these CSTs, myself included when I finally got, well, I'm making millions of dollars of your guys. Let's be intellectually honest. I was crushing it. Oh, man, with my work ethic, fuck. My third time that I got rejected was that I had 12 CST recommendations and 10. I think it was 10 CTO, CTO, CIO recommendations from the large organizations, Fortune 500 companies. And I got rejected. And I found out why, because there was this guy, this guy in the system, who when I was at a conference, he told me to my face that he had rejected me, just because I don't even know why. He just was just being an asshole. Finally, long story short, someone who had mentored me, who ended up purchasing and acquiring my consultancy here in Atlanta, by the

way. So thank you, my man. He was mentored me. He gave me a recommendation and he helped me push it through. He helped me push my application through after three rejections and he just thought it was bullshit. Other people had been accepted into the CST ranks with less recommendations, with nothing, and nearly as close to what I had. I had to work my ass off, ask my fucking wife, who I was never here for, because I was traversing the world, trying to achieve the highest level of Scrum and Agile certification. She saw how much she sacrificed 12 years of building an Agile and organizational company at the same time, while trying to get a dad gone fucking designation to allow me to do the coolest stuff, train in some of the coolest places I wanted to see, what the insides of these powerful technology companies

and what they were doing. I wanted to know, and I needed to get these designations, I needed to publish these books, I needed to speak at Keynotes, I needed to do all this stuff, 12 years of work. So I could earn the right to stand in front of Fortune 50 company CEOs and tell them that I could help them improve their business. I had to earn the right to do that. You see, my success in the software development consulting world and the publishing world and the conference circuit world, those rewards, those rewards, that outcome was in direct proportion to the effort I put in. And fuck, did I sacrifice life? Did I sacrifice pleasure? Did I sacrifice relationships? Did I sacrifice, I sacrificed a lot to achieve it. And then I retired, and I moved into cryptocurrency to build something that no one else has

ever built before. You see, I think I'm making it pretty clear. And I hope, and I don't expect any of you guys to compare yourself to me, because remember, go back to my podcast on compares, please don't ever compare yourself to me, ever. I am mentally handicapped. I have a genetic disorder, which requires me to work. That's just, there are some people that just don't have it in them. I have a rare genetic disease in which when I wake up, the first thing I want to do is work. But I just want to get to work. I want to build. I'm a builder. And so the function is really simple, guys. If I haven't made it clear through my life, through growing up and trying to achieve soccer, greatness and soccer, to winning a powerlifting contest, to achieving three masters degrees, and spending 12 years

in them. I have a rare genetic disease in which when I wake up, the first thing I want to do is work. But I just want to get to work. I want to build. I'm a builder. And so the function is really simple, guys. If I haven't made it clear through my life, through growing up and trying to achieve soccer, greatness and soccer, to winning a powerlifting contest, to achieving three masters degrees, and spending 12 years getting a designation and building an organizational consultancy, which was eventually acquired by my mentor. You see, all of this was achieved with the secret to success. One of the secrets to success that I positioned us in the beginning of this, which is simply this. Your success, your rewards, your outcome is in direct proportion to the effort that you put in. It's that easy. It's that easy. And

you say, well, Peter, that's not very helpful. Help me more. What does this mean? What does the effort mean? Well, I'll tell you, I wrote it down. What does the effort mean? Your success is direct proportional to the effort that you put in. Here's how what effort is. Experiment, experiment, experiment, do more, do more. Work harder than anyone else. I can't find anyone when I enter into a market. And maybe it's just because I'm a green bean in that market, but I can't find anyone in that market that I've just entered in if it's a new project or a new interest. I don't know anyone that works harder than I do. Work harder than everyone else. What are you waiting for? The reason why I could only get to division three, soccer is because I didn't want it. I wasn't willing to work harder than

other people. Maybe it's also because I didn't have good field vision, but that's beside the point. My talent could get me to the start, but I couldn't finish because I wasn't willing to put the work in. Don't fucking give up. That's what effort is. Program your goal. Program yourself every day, gone day. So a lot of people in my community know that I keep my goals on my mirror. When I wake up, the first thing I see is my fucking goals in the mirror every day. I have to face myself. I have to look at myself and I have to sometimes despise myself for doing so because it's so blatant. It's so obvious, it's right there. I can't ignore it. I have to do it. It's only me versus me because no one else is waiting on me to do things. No one else is

waiting for me to achieve my dreams. reprogram yourself. Program yourself towards the goal every day. Remind yourself. Work harder than everyone else. Remind yourself. And there's no off days. I'm sorry, there's no off days. I know, I know, I know. People are always like, oh, it's some other roses. Sometimes you do. Sometimes you do. Sometimes you have to. So find the balance there, but I'll tell you the idea here is no off days. What are you taking vacations from? Hard work. Do you want it? Be your own standard of greatness. Be your own standard of hard work. Be exactly what you want to be for the goals that you have. Do you have goals? Do you have things that you want to achieve? Do you have places you want to see? Do you have things you want to do? People you want to meet? If

the idea here is no off days. What are you taking vacations from? Hard work. Do you want it? Be your own standard of greatness. Be your own standard of hard work. Be exactly what you want to be for the goals that you have. Do you have goals? Do you have things that you want to achieve? Do you have places you want to see? Do you have things you want to do? People you want to meet? If so, then your rewards are in direct proportion to the effort that you put in. So that's the secret. One of the secrets is success. So tell me, where do you need to lean in a little bit more? This is Peter, the Bitcoin Land dough. If you enjoyed this episode, share it. Share it with someone. Encourage someone. Remind yourself, remind them that success is directly proportion to the

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