Breakthrough to Success the Easy Way, with Mike Kitko

Today, we’re talking with Mike Kitko; author, speaker, coach who helps you lead powerfully, love selflessly, profit shamelessly, and play recklessly. If you’re an elite business owner who wants to break through to success and live soul out… tune in now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Bo-zzgpts Table of contents* Working in Your Zone of Genius* Breakthrough to Success and Happiness* Mike's Personal Breakthrough to Success* How Do You Own Your Zone of Genius?* Solving the Money Mindset* The Breakthrough to Success Begins with Real Leadership* Mike Kitko’s Prosperity Principles* Get in Touch with Mike Kitko* About Mike Kitko* Book A Strategy Call Does success have to be hard? Mike Kitko argues that the breakthrough to success doesn’t have to be! You can make it simple, and today we’re talking about how to simplify your journey to success. It starts with letting go. [1:48] “For 43 years, I made everything in my life as hard as I possibly could because I was taught...that if it’s not hard, it’s not valuable. And if it’s easy, then you’re missing the point.” Working in Your Zone of Genius Your “zone of genius” as defined by Gay Hendricks, author of The Big Leap, is the space where you rely on your innate abilities. Many people call this “purpose,” and when you’re working within this zone, as Mike says, life is easy. This is where the magic happens, energy is limitless, and synchronicities occur. And yet, because we're conditioned to believe that success is hard, we distrust ourselves when we're in that zone. We are trained to think we have to work hard to be worthy. And it’s the exact opposite of what we should be striving for. Mike breaks down the steps for working in your zone of genius in this way: * Find and understand your purpose* Create a vision for your life that reflects what you want to experience* Understand your desires and know that new ones will always surface* Get into your flow in your zone of genius* Act from within your zone of genius [5:50] “Life doesn’t have to be hard. I have too much fun having joy and success and happiness and wealth the easy way. My wife termed them grind gurus and hustle whores. Let all those guys teach everybody... I’m looking for the path of least resistance.” [13:40] “When you’re in your zone of genius, it’s like time stops and things happen for you and because of you.” Breakthrough to Success and Happiness [6:45] “I think the mind has a problem with happiness. The mind creates problems where they don’t exist... We don’t understand what’s happening [in our mind], and we don’t understand how to discipline this, and we don’t understand how to eat the fruit and spit out the seeds... We don’t understand that we can let the thoughts go—the ones that don’t serve, that create struggle, that create stress out of joy and happiness. When we can let them go, we don’t have to follow them into a problem-solving space.