Elevate Your Standards with Derrick Lawter

Billy Garton Jr. is a men's coach, former professional athlete, and proud founder of The You Choose MVMT. Billy shares some incredible stories from his past and what led him into the passion for coaching young men and helping them find their self-worth. In this episode, we talk about the overlooked problem of men's mental health and how it is affecting young men across the country. We dig deep into the issues that are facing young men today and the actionable steps you can take today to start moving in the right direction. RESOURCES FROM EPISODE:The Alchemist - Paulo CoelhoCONNECT WITH BILLY GARTON JRBillyGartonJr.comINSTAGRAMCONNECT WITH DERRICK LAWTERTWITTERINSTAGRAM

Joe Mccarthy is the head of sales of Grow With Us Agency and at only 19, he has closed sales well into the upper 6 figures. He is a monster young sales professional who embodies the exact qualities we focus on in this podcast. Joe is a friend of mine and absolutely a young entrepreneur to keep your eye on in the future. In this episode, we drill down on the tactics Joe uses to close high ticket deals in various industries. We talk about cold outreach, handling objections, and the most common ones he hears today in 2022. Also, we go into NFT's and cryptocurrency, talking about what he is seeing in the marketing in the space. Buckle up, this episode is a blast and the segments on high ticket sales calls alone are priceless.  RESOURCES FROM EPISODE:HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE - Dale Carnegie SELL OR BE SOLD - Grant CardoneTHE CLOSERS SURVIVAL GUIDE - Grant Cardone CONNECT WITH JOE MCCARTHYINSTAGRAMCONNECT WITH DERRICK LAWTERTWITTERINSTAGRAMFACEBOOKJOIN BIG WHALE COUNTRY CLUB NFTSECURE YOUR PRESALE SPOTJOIN OUR DISCORDFOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAMFOLLOW US ON TWITTER

Josh Forti is a world-class marketer, master storyteller, and host of The Josh Forti Effect. He brings a unique approach to marketing, encouraging entrepreneurs and companies to perfect their master story and watch as it changes their results. In this episode, we drill down on his background in marketing, some wild stories from travels across the world, and what part faith plays in his career. Josh also breaks down step by step how you can craft a master story for your brand and leverage it in your marketing. This information is invaluable, and personally, I think everyone needs to hear this and apply it to their marketing.RESOURCES FROM EPISODE:EXPERT SECRETS BOOK - By Russel BrunsonDOTCOM SECRETS - By Russel BrunsonPSYCHO CYBERNETICS  - By Maxwell MaltzCONNECT WITH JOSH FORTIINSTAGRAMYOUTUBEFACEBOOKCONNECT WITH DERRICK LAWTER TWITTERINSTAGRAMFACEBOOKJOIN BIG WHALE COUNTRY CLUB NFTSECURE YOUR PRESALE SPOTJOIN OUR DISCORD FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAMFOLLOW US ON TWITTER

Sales funnels are changing the marketing industry.After seeing the efficiency of funnels firsthand, I knew the power they had to help small businesses boost their leads, elevate their ROI, and increase their revenue. So I made it my mission to help other small businesses and entrepreneurs grow their companies without learning an entirely new world of marketing.I started Funnel Construction to accomplish this goal. I want to share with you exactly what a sales funnel is, how you can learn them, and how we monetize them with new business. Listen close, this episode might be worth more than you think!Connect With Derrick Lawter On Social Media:Twitter: @DerrickLawterInstagram: @DerrickLawter

Sales is the lifeblood of any company or business. In fact, being able to sell or convince somebody to work with you is one of the most important skills you can learn in this lifetime. Many people have a negative outlook on sales when in reality, they sell every day.  Join your host Derrick Lawter as he walks through the 3 steps that you can take to overcome your fear of sales. We start by breaking down the three types of wins and why transactional wins create achievement and completion. Then, I walk you through three specific steps you can take to push your comfort zone and overcome your fear of sales! For More Discipline Information, Content, and Merch:https://livediscipline.com/Connect With Derrick Lawter On Social Media:Twitter: @DerrickLawterInstagram: @DerrickLawter

For most people, 2022 will be exactly like 2021 and the previous years of their life. The bottom line is that if you do not change your actions and habits, the results will not change. However, if you are willing to commit to making change and finding what it takes to achieve your goals, this episode is for you.Join your host Derrick Lawter as he walks through the 3 steps that you can take to make 2022 the best year of your life. Start with learning the importance of discipline, and understanding how it affects everything in your life. Next, discover the process of filling your free time with content from your role models. Finally, learn how to measure your goals in an effective way so that you can keep track of your best year ever.For More Discipline Information, Content, and Merch:https://livediscipline.com/Connect With Derrick Lawter On Social Media:Twitter: @DerrickLawterInstagram: @DerrickLawter 

Do you find yourself negotiating promises you made to yourself? Why do you not give yourself the same respect that you would give your boss or a mentor?For most people, this happens all the time. We make a promise to ourselves, like eating right or working out, and when the time comes, we talk ourselves out of it. We negotiate with ourselves. However, if you made that same promise to a role model that you knew was watching, you would be much more likely to keep it.In order to make real progress, you need to turn off the negotiator in your head and start treating yourself with the same respect that you would treat your boss or a mentor. When you say you will do something, it needs to get done!!In today's episode, we talk about the importance of building trust with yourself that your promises will be kept. Once you have developed that relationship with yourself, achieving any goal becomes so much easier!

You hear me talk about discipline a lot, and for good reason. Discipline is the fuel that keeps the fire going in our journey to success. Why do most people quit before they win, why do most traders lose money, and why do most businesses fail? The long complicated answers all come down to one common theme: a lack of discipline.In this episode, we talk about the "Big 3" and how discipline holds them all together. We can all use discipline in our lives and accelerate the path of our goals forward!Share this with a friend!!

A lot of the roadblocks and walls that we run into are caused by the subconscious programming in our minds. From a young age, everything we consume plays a part in forming our beliefs and limits of the world.The only limits that really exist are the ones you set on yourself. When we retrain our subconscious mind to support our wants and desires, we find that the world acts much more in our favor. The biggest enemy you have is limiting subconscious beliefs. In this episode, we talk about the ways that the subconscious mind has been programmed since birth and how we can work to reprogram it ourselves. Your goals cant be reached until you believe they are possible!

Can You Remember The Last Promise You Made To Yourself?Maybe it was that your diet starts on Monday. Or maybe that you are going to start working out next week. Chances are, that promise wasn't a promise at all, but just a hope. I'm sure you can think of some people who you don't like to let down in this life. Were you one of those people you thought of? Are you ok with letting yourself down? So many people are. They make promises to themselves without ever keeping any of them!Start to change into a person who keeps all promises they make, to themselves and others. Your word is everything; start making it count. In this episode, we talk about strategies to start executing on your promises and to stop letting yourself down.

Guess what? Life is hard. The good news is as humans, we get to choose what path of hard we want to take.Discipline is hard. So is living a life of regret.Being a good partner is hard. So is being alone.Staying in shape is hard. So are the health problems of obesity. No path in life is easy. The shortcut that you think is making your life easy is actually setting you up for hard times in the future. We get the blessing in this life of being able to choose our hard. Choose Wisely.

Life is not designed to reward you for reaching one ultimate goal. Instead, the foundation of growth and success is routinely meeting small goals and taking steps forward. This is what I like to call the infinite staircase. Too many people have a vision of achieving success and then being done. They have a place they want to get to and will be happy and done working when that goal is achieved. Understand that the staircase never ends. You have to keep getting better each day, or you will go backward.

Many people are simply waiting for 2020 to be over in a hope that 2021 comes along and solves all of their issues. While 2020 has been a tough year for everyone, we have to take the burden on yourself to make 2021 better.We all have problems that existed before 2020, and they will continue to exist after this year is gone. Waiting for the date to change will only lead to more disappointment when January 1st comes and the problems we wanted to disappear are still here.2021 starts now. Use these last 30 days of December to start your new year in a productive way. Momentum is key, start building it now.

Do you have a craft you are on the path to mastering?-Many people bounce back and forth between different games their whole life. They often pick something up for a couple of months, then quickly give it up as soon as the going gets hard. At the first sign of resistance, most people quit.- Because of this attitude, very few ever get to experience the rewards of mastering a craft. When you spend the hard work and discipline to master a skill, you begin to live life on your own terms. You can charge what you want, work when you like, and people will praise your work thinking you are some kind of genius.-Whatever path you are on, it is time that you find your game and play it. Stop dabbling and commit to going full speed. It's not good enough just to be another player in the game. You have to want to be the best. -I challenge you to focus on something that you want to master. Once you have it, commit to becoming the best in the world at it. The only problem? Not everyone can be the best. And someone reading this post has the same game as you. You know what the means?You need to work harder.-Full Episode available now on all podcast platforms!Listen now with the link in my bio!

How many opportunities are missed by capable people simply because they are afraid of rejection?-In reality, there is no reason to fear rejection. Rejection is a sign that we are pushing out of our comfort zone and attempting to add new things to our life or career.-The real damage is done when we avoid opportunities out of fear of being rejected. When we fail to even try, we sell ourselves short on what we could have been. -You must find a way to use rejection as fuel. Find a way to learn from each rejection and use it to push you forward and improve. When you are rejected, it is a sign that you have something to work on. -It only takes one "Yes" to change your life. You may have to make your way through thousands of rejections, but the payoff at the end is always worth it. Nothing worthwhile has ever been accomplished without struggle. -I challenge you to stop looking at rejection in a negative light. Instead of running away from it, chase it down and use it to fuel your growth.

Fear and uncertainty are often viewed as emotions to avoid at all costs. Fear is not an indication of something you should avoid, but rather a sign that there is a chance for you to grow. When you feel uncertain about a task or a new opportunity, you need to ask yourself if the emotion is coming from a place of fear. If we continue to run away from fear and avoid it, we will never take the opportunities life gives us to push out of our comfort zone and grow!

Often we focus too much on results and not enough on the processes that allow us to achieve them. You will often hear people in sports say to "Trust The Process"; but what does that really mean? The idea of attacking the process is that by consistently doing the work required, and doing it the right way, the results will take care of themselves. Find your process and make a commitment to attack it every day! You will be shocked how quickly your goals come to fruition.

Why does Self Care get pushed to the back in our society today? The reason is actually pretty simple for most people: When taking care of yourself, it feels like you are not getting anything done! When you have stacks of work or tasks that you know need to be completed, taking care of yourself can almost feel counter-productive. In reality, the self-care tasks are the most important ones on your list! By taking care of yourself you ensure that your work doesn't suffer and that burnout is avoided; these are two of the most common causes of failure!

Risk is often misrepresented in our society. People view risk as a negative term and one that can taint decisions in a negative light. In reality, the risk is a necessary factor to success and in order to achieve your goals, you must become a master at working with and taking risks. In this episode, we talk about if you are taking enough risk in your life, strategies for how to evaluate risk, and how to judge decisions based on risk and not outcomes.

Society today is full of people who are losing the crucial skill of tolerance. Instead of trying to see other people's views, they are starting to believe that anyone who doesn't agree with them is wrong or a complete idiot. When you shut your mind to other points of view, you lose the opportunity to make fully educated decisions. Learn to see both sides of an issue before making a decision.

Live Discipline is much more than just a hashtag: it is a movement that is focused on helping people reach their maximum potential through discipline. A lot of people can be discipline for one day, one week, or even a long stretch of time. But how many people actually live their life with discipline on a consistent basis? That is the difference between the people who consistently accomplish goals and those who do not. #LiveDiscipline

Marketing and Sales are two completely different concepts that are often grouped into one. Marketing is the first step in the process and involves changing your customer's beliefs in a way that creates a gap. Naturally, you then want to complete the process by selling your product or service that fills that gap. This episode breaks down how you can market in an effective way and the ultimate difference between Marketing and Sales.

The more time you spend in the past, the less time you have to plan your future. The past can not be fixed and changed, but the future can. Why spend time trying to move an immovable object? Spend your time on the future instead.

Productivity is thrown around a lot in personal development circles.... but what does it really mean? Productivity is really just about getting important things done and moving forward towards a goal. The problem is that most people struggle with getting the right things done and instead make themselves busy with pointless tasks! Learn the three top life-hacks to improve your productivity today!

A lot of people are waiting for 2021 to come around and save them. 2020 still has 3 months. How can you make the most of these last 3 months and set yourself up to hit 2021 with momentum? The key is to set goals and treat each quarter of the year as its own time period. Learn the strategies today to help you maximize the productivity of the last 3 months of 2020.

One of the most underapreciated emotions in modern society is gratitude. The power of gratitude and being greatfuk for what you have can quite literally change your life. We spend so much time focusing on what we want and what we don't have that we forget to take a step back and realize that we are all incredibly lucky for one reason or another. Gratitude is so important; be sure to find someone today that you appreciate and let them know exactly why. It can change your world and theirs.

The key to success in any trade-off is adding enough value to the other person that they are willing to do what you want them to. (Buy a product, work with your company, etc) The question then becomes how can we get customers and people in our lives to repeat these tasks and become loyal? The answer is simple: learn to add value and deliver better than expected at all times.

Many people look at success as being some definitive point in the future, or some amount of monetary value or material wealth. While those are all health goals and visions, it is not really what it means to be successful. Success can be defined many different ways, but in this episode, we talk about success on a daily basis and how you can win each day. If you focus on making each day successful, the long term goals will take care of themselves.

You have probably heard the term "September Slide" before. It refers to the dreaded month where all the progress we made through the summer is taken back due to being lazy! Almost all of us who work hard during the summer experience the let-up of the September Slide and know how hard it can feel to get back on the right track. In this episode, we go over some strategies of how you can avoid the slide and use September to your advantage.

A lot of people have a favorite word: Tomorrow. When they have an idea or something they know needs to be done, they always push it to tomorrow. The problem is tomorrow becomes tomorrow again, and before you know it, 10 days have passed. The true power comes In the word today. Starting today is the most powerful thing you can do for ANY idea or plan that you have. Tomorrow is never promised. Start today.

What do you do when opportunity knocks? Do you open the door and take advantage, or do you let it pass you by and wait for the next? The only way to really be "lucky" is to always be prepared to take advantage of opportunities. You have to always be ready to jump on the chances that you get or someone else will. Be the one who takes opportunities and turns them into accomplishments. This life favors the brave.

When things get hard, you will always fall back onto your habits. Habits and routines are truly all we are made of. The actions that we take on a daily basis end up shaping our lives, whether we like it or not. if you want to improve your life, your productivity, your relationships, and more, you need to change your habits. This episode will help you look at your habits and see what steps you can take to make them elite!

A lot of people take pride in being busy. They like to tell their friends how many hours they worked or how much pointless stuff they got done in a day. However, being busy is actually the enemy of productivity. In order to launch yourself on the right path of success, you have to learn to be effective with your days. This means completing the tasks that matter and move you closer to your goal. Strive to be productive, not busy.

What exactly is a growth mindset? Is it the attitude of always wanting to get better and improve your life? Actually Growth Mindset is something much deeper and more important. The real growth mindset comes from the way our body and brain continue to motivate when we reward effort and not results! It's not about the destination. To achieve a real growth mindset you must learn to reward yourself for the process of putting in the work!

Most people have a serious problem saying no. This usually leads to your days and weeks filled with things and events that you don't really want to do, but have committed to anyways. A simple way to fix this? Learn to say no to people when you're asked to do things that you are not enthusiastic about. It takes some discipline but is well worth it with the time you free up for yourself.

A majority of our generation struggles with some sort of depressive thoughts or times where our mind can get the best of us. In the world we live in, it can be hard to stay positive and happy sometimes. This episode is all about what you can do to give yourself the best chance of winning the battle by taking care of other parts of your life and what you can control.

Most people view decisions as either good or bad and make this decision based on the outcome or the result of the decision. In reality, decisions contain three parts and the outcome of the decision has very little impact on if the decision was a good one or not. In order to make the best decisions on a consistent basis, you must be able to weigh the risk in an unbiased way and make a decision based on the odds of success. After learning this, you will begin to understand that a decision is good or bad based on the risk, not the outcome.

What does it mean to play the long game? The long game is all bout planning and making goals for 3- years in the future. The key to this is not just making goals with the future in mind but making decisions the same way. When you start to make your decisions based on where your life or business will be in 5 years compared to 5 months, you will see the path to success slowly open and will stop hitting so many dead ends along the way. So many people are always starting over because they are always playing the short game, play the long game and you will thank yourself in 5 years.

We have all heard that we need mentors and coaches to succeed in business or life. The big question is, how do we find these mentors? Luckily for us, the internet and wealth of information have provided us an opportunity like no other. We have the chance to create our own group of mentors and receive their priceless coaching for free! Listen now as we talk about how you can leverage these proven figures content to create your own personal mentor group.

Discipline is the one quality that separates the great from the average. While it is easy to have a good day or a good week, you can only see results when you start to work hard on a consistent basis. That is impossible without discipline. Discipline is doing what you know you should do instead of what you want to do. The good thing is that anyone can develop discipline in their life, it is a skill that can be learned by continuously doing things you know you should. Here are three easy ways to develop discipline in your life today.

Many people have things they want to improve on in life. Maybe its communication skills, anger control, or working out more. No matter what it is, simply wanting to change is not enough. If you don't consistently hold yourself accountable, you will be constantly living the same loop and not improving on your weak areas. In order to improve, you must always be looking to hold yourself accountable and call yourself out on your weak areas. It's the only way to get better!

Our generation is plagued by a victim mentality. So many people want to blame others for their problems or failures. They also want to cast others in the light as lucky or privileged and use that as an excuse for why they are not successful themselves. In order to start changing that, you need to take ownership of everything that happens in your life. Stop blaming other people and start realizing that the only person to blame is the person in the mirror. When you start owning your life instead of being a victim to it, success will be on the way.

Why do people accept an average life? Society has trained us to believe that we should be grateful for living a secure and average existence. We have been told since day 1 that If we have a 6 figure salary and are comfortably supporting your family, we shouldn't need or want anymore. This type of thinking has led to a whole generation of people who are content with living an average life and never following their dreams. Don't fall into that category. Never settle or accept anything less than your worth!

When you see other people succeed, you have two choices of how to react. You can either let their success motivate you, or you can let it discourage you and take the victim mentality. Many people fall into the latter. They blame everyone else, call the person lucky and wish it was them that was winning. Learn to be happy for others and use their success as motivation, and you will end up winning yourself.

Have you ever noticed how most people seem to always have great ideas but never take action? It's a shame because when you wait on a great idea, someone else will come in and jump on the opportunity that you missed. You have to learn how to separate your great ideas from average ones and act on the important ideas in your life.

What is Motivation? I'll give you a hint. It's the same category as anger, sadness, anxiety, or love. Motivation is an emotion. Just like all other emotions, motivation takes a path through your mind and body that starts strong and fades away. Between these gaps of motivation, you will still need to be productive in order to be successful and reach your goals. Learn to master discipline to keep that motivation fire burning.

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to push through anything in life and others always quit at the first sign of adversity? Many people say that you have to have a strong "why" to prevent yourself from quitting. I see it differently. The ones who really never quit are the ones who fall in love with the process. Learn to love the struggle and you are on a sure path to success.

A common theme today is that if somebody disagrees with you on an issue, they want to hate everything about you. Are politics really worth relationships? In this episode, we talk about why you should learn to disagree with someone without hating them. It's an important skill to learn to rise above the average mindset.

Should we lower the speed limit to 40mph everywhere in this country? We know it would save lives. This is a very conflicting question and most people will avoid answering it all at costs. We break down exactly what both sides of this question mean, why it is relevant today, and some good answers I have gotten.

Chances are, you probably know somebody you view as very confident. While the initial reaction is to think that this trait fo confidence is natural, the opposite couldn't be more true. Self Confidence is earned, and you can develop it by doing hard things that other people wouldn't. Don't let anyone fool you. Self-confidence is earned, not faked.

What are the values you live your life by? If more people focused on discipline, hard work, and consistency, we would have a lot more successful and positive people in this world. That is why I call these The Big 3. If you can master these three traits, you can accomplish and overcome any obstacle in your way.