Free Trickle Down Mindset: The Missing Element in Your Personal Success by Michal Stawicki Page A
Authors: Michal Stawicki
similar to those I had in the past with online forums. I was involved in communities gathered around my hobbies: computers and card games. It is a nice feeling to meet like-minded people and exchange experiences. Nice, that’s all.
At the beginning of 2013, I joined another online community and it was a transcending experience. I took part in the Transformation Contest organized by Early to Rise. There were about 40,000 participants from all over the world. We spent three months together in the deeply committed online community. I met new friends there. We shared our life stories; we hid nothing. Deep stuff like life and death, like losing someone or falling in love. Those people know some things about me that even my family doesn’t.
Within a month, this event transformed from a simple contest to an encouragement volcano. We cheered up and encouraged each other. We prayed for each other. We offered comfort to each other. It was an empowering experience. It fostered an amazing level of trust between the participants. I met half a dozen friends there from all over the world. “Friends” in a Polish meaning of the word—people who I am ready to die for. I met a lot more acquaintances. To this day, we hang out together and we are ready to do a favor for any member of the Transformation Contest.
Just two concrete instances of how much this experience altered my life.
1. On Feb. 26, 2013, I shared on my Transformation Contest wall my personal mission statement creation process. One of my friends commented: “ You should write an e-book about this. ” I took her advice seriously and A Personal Mission Statement: Your Road Map to Happiness was my first work ever published. It has sold 410 copies in the last 90 days.
2. English is not my native language and when I was starting my writing career, it was much worse than today. I needed a native proofreader but I had no funds to pay for the service and no idea how to get one. I posted the first draft of my book on the Transformation Challenge Facebook group. Diane Arms was impressed with my openness and she volunteered to edit my book. She did it with my first four works. Without her help, I could never have moved forward with my publishing venture.
The second cornerstone of personal philosophy is data input sources. Inspired by Jeff Olson’s advice to read ten pages of a good book every day, I introduced some changes to what information, how, and in what amounts I consumed. I had a habit of doing a Weider (exercise) series for fifteen minutes each morning. So I started to listen to audio materials. I also completely changed the type of books I was reading. I replaced pulp fiction books with philosophy, personal development, spiritual, and business books. One of the first six habits I started at the beginning of my transformation was reading a book written by a saint for ten minutes a day. You can check out my Goodreads profile to observe this transition in my lectures in the past two years.
Exposing myself to new kinds of information bore fruit within a couple of months. A few examples:
- I read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and created my personal mission statement
- I read The Compound Effect and started my first gratitude journal.
- I read Start Over, Finish Rich by David Bach and was convinced I had to pay myself first, which translated into about $7000 in savings in 18 months.
The last element—interpretation of emotions, experiences and data—is the least tangible of the cornerstones, but important nonetheless. Your internal voice is extremely significant in the process of absorbing new ideas. I could read Mr. Bach’s advice and comment on it internally—“ What BS! I know everything about savings. I’ve been tracking the exact amounts on my savings account for the last three years. Paying myself first? What a stupid idea! And what will I eat, when the funds run dry in the middle of the month? ” Instead, I said, “ It’s counterintuitive, but
At the beginning of 2013, I joined another online community and it was a transcending experience. I took part in the Transformation Contest organized by Early to Rise. There were about 40,000 participants from all over the world. We spent three months together in the deeply committed online community. I met new friends there. We shared our life stories; we hid nothing. Deep stuff like life and death, like losing someone or falling in love. Those people know some things about me that even my family doesn’t.
Within a month, this event transformed from a simple contest to an encouragement volcano. We cheered up and encouraged each other. We prayed for each other. We offered comfort to each other. It was an empowering experience. It fostered an amazing level of trust between the participants. I met half a dozen friends there from all over the world. “Friends” in a Polish meaning of the word—people who I am ready to die for. I met a lot more acquaintances. To this day, we hang out together and we are ready to do a favor for any member of the Transformation Contest.
Just two concrete instances of how much this experience altered my life.
1. On Feb. 26, 2013, I shared on my Transformation Contest wall my personal mission statement creation process. One of my friends commented: “ You should write an e-book about this. ” I took her advice seriously and A Personal Mission Statement: Your Road Map to Happiness was my first work ever published. It has sold 410 copies in the last 90 days.
2. English is not my native language and when I was starting my writing career, it was much worse than today. I needed a native proofreader but I had no funds to pay for the service and no idea how to get one. I posted the first draft of my book on the Transformation Challenge Facebook group. Diane Arms was impressed with my openness and she volunteered to edit my book. She did it with my first four works. Without her help, I could never have moved forward with my publishing venture.
The second cornerstone of personal philosophy is data input sources. Inspired by Jeff Olson’s advice to read ten pages of a good book every day, I introduced some changes to what information, how, and in what amounts I consumed. I had a habit of doing a Weider (exercise) series for fifteen minutes each morning. So I started to listen to audio materials. I also completely changed the type of books I was reading. I replaced pulp fiction books with philosophy, personal development, spiritual, and business books. One of the first six habits I started at the beginning of my transformation was reading a book written by a saint for ten minutes a day. You can check out my Goodreads profile to observe this transition in my lectures in the past two years.
Exposing myself to new kinds of information bore fruit within a couple of months. A few examples:
- I read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and created my personal mission statement
- I read The Compound Effect and started my first gratitude journal.
- I read Start Over, Finish Rich by David Bach and was convinced I had to pay myself first, which translated into about $7000 in savings in 18 months.
The last element—interpretation of emotions, experiences and data—is the least tangible of the cornerstones, but important nonetheless. Your internal voice is extremely significant in the process of absorbing new ideas. I could read Mr. Bach’s advice and comment on it internally—“ What BS! I know everything about savings. I’ve been tracking the exact amounts on my savings account for the last three years. Paying myself first? What a stupid idea! And what will I eat, when the funds run dry in the middle of the month? ” Instead, I said, “ It’s counterintuitive, but
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