THE 1 FACTOR HOW TO TURN PRESSURE INTO PROGRESS
growing up as a preacher’s kid
i was taught that you don’t drink you
don’t chew
you don’t use the f word and you don’t
go with boys that do
well i can’t say that i did everything
that my parents taught me to do but
there was this
one thing that resonates in my mind over
and over
and over again that’s actually proven to
be an accelerator in both
business and life it’s called the one
percent factor
and it has the ability to actually shift
the
biggest f words of your life including
faith
family finance fitness and freedom
and well i’m living proof that it works
you see i didn’t go to college i don’t
have a fancy pedigree
i wasn’t raised in a rich family or rich
area
and yet what i’m about to show you has
enabled me
to travel around the world share the
stage with five us
presidents sing at the olympics be able
to help grow companies into the hundreds
of millions
and even build sales teams into the
hundreds
of thousands so how does the one percent
factor work
well it’s a method of mental mastery
where you actually retrain your brain
to think progress instead of pressure
in fact you turn pressure into progress
or movement forward you turn setbacks
into comebacks well how do you do that
think about how many people you know
right now
that actually cave under pressure
and then there’s other people who go
through far worse things
and they turn the pressure into some
type of progress
or epic stage of success think about
oprah winfrey
born into poverty later molested she’s
pregnant by the age of 14.
has a life of setbacks and yet she
somehow turns all that around and builds
a multi-billion dollar empire
was it luck was it privilege
or was it her perspective on how to turn
setbacks into comebacks think about
bethany hamilton
just 13 years old had a dream to be a
world champion surfer
she gets her arm bitten off by a shark i
don’t know about you but most of us
probably would never have gone back in
the water
but what does she do she applies the one
percent factor
she got back in the water and every
single day she just got a little bit
better
a little bit better a little bit better
one percent every day until she finally
wins that world surfing championship
you see your perspective on pressure
determines your progress but see this is
not a natural way
of thinking we’ve got to retrain our
brain
think about it right now if you think
that life
is unfair then you’re gonna spend your
energy
trying to prove that to other people if
you think that you’re disadvantaged
somehow
well you’re gonna spend your energy
trying to say to other people
it’s not fair but if you can see life
as an opportunity and that every setback
is a potential comeback
then you can shift anything in your life
i mean think about the bow and arrow
it’s the pressure or the tension
behind that arrow that actually creates
the trajectory
think about the sonic boom or or the
breaking of the sound barrier
it’s that pressure that’s built up that
when the plane breaks through the
pressure
the pressure creates the boom so
everybody do this with me just say boom
oh no say it like you mean it say boom
boom means breaking out of mediocrity
let me give you an example so growing up
i was teased and bullied a lot by the
boys
because i was a skinny scrawny
tomboy scrapper i didn’t have any
natural
athletic ability but i had this dream
i was going to be the first white girl
on the harlem globetrotters
so my dad sits me down and he says baby
girl
i’m never going to tell you you can’t do
something just because you’re a girl
or just cause you’re tiny but i am going
to tell you that if you want to play
this sport basketball
well you’re going to have to out think
outwit and out practice
everyone else so that day i remember
fifth grade
i determined that there wasn’t going to
be any boy that was going to tell me
what i could or couldn’t do
and i certainly wasn’t going to let
someone else’s opinion of me
dictate my future so i started
to learn the one percent factor my dad
said baby girl just get better every day
by one percent
so every day i practiced a little harder
than anyone else
i shot more free throws than anyone else
i practiced my ball handling skills more
than anyone else
until eventually i was averaging 23 to
28 points a game
and i got picked up for the junior
olympic basketball team
but soon i realized this doesn’t just
work for sports
you can actually apply it to those
biggest f words in your life
faith family finance fitness and freedom
i mean think about it in the area of
faith
what would that look like maybe just as
simple as just pray a little bit more
spend more time studying things that are
good and lovely
what about your family maybe progress
every single day is just
saying i love you just a little bit more
and being intentional
with your words maybe it’s coming home
30 minutes earlier from work
so you can spend more time with your
kids before they go to bed
see this type of method of mental
mastery it actually requires us to
rewire some things
it requires us to start to resonate
things that are good positive progress
well what does it mean to resonate the
word resonate actually means to
amplify or multiply so let’s go back to
the family example
i’ve been married 24 years and i learned
early on
that if you resonate negativity anger
hatred then it magnifies or compounds
into division and potential discord and
divorce
however if you make it your intention to
resonate
or amplify love joy
peace forgiveness kindness gratitude
then all of a sudden you have a family
of greater unity
see your perspective impacts
your progress so what are you resonating
it’s it’s like
geometric progression right you know the
story of the penny it’s something so
small and yet a penny doubled
every single day for 30 days can become
over
5 million dollars
problem is this is not our natural way
of thinking
you know researchers actually tell us
that we have something called
the negativity bias which means that we
tend to naturally
our brains naturally resonate negative
stimuli
maybe that’s why we replay that negative
conversation
over and over and over or we replay that
trauma that happened to us years ago
over and over and over again and it will
continue
to replay unless we boom everybody say
boom
breaking out of mediocrity you see
i’ll never forget one day i was coming
home i had two little babies two little
kids
and i was coming home from the grocery
store i turned the corner to our
subdivision
and i saw a big black billows of smoke
coming out the top of our house now
naturally
i immediately started to resonate every
negative emotion you can imagine
where are my kids what about the dog i
see my husband out there with a water
hose trying to put out the fire
and i immediately realized this is
trauma
but as soon as i realized that my kids
were okay my husband’s on the outside of
the house
and i realized that i don’t have to be
in panic mode
i shifted into critical thinking see i
had been spending years
teaching my brain how to resonate
positive outcomes
i began to immediately assess the
situation and realize that
people process trauma very differently
right like some people were crying
some neighbors were freaking out and
then there were other neighbors who
literally pulled out their lawn chairs
and beer coolers
and they watched our house burn for
hours
but that day i sat in almost an
out-of-body experience of
complete and total peace what was going
through my mind was all things work
together for good
all things work together for good i
don’t know how but this is gonna somehow
work together
for good and just this sense of peace
and gratitude overwhelmed my natural
negativity bias
a reporter walked up to me and said
ma’am why is it that you are
you’re so calm i looked at him and i
said
this is a chapter of my life
but this is not the end of our story
and as he walked away i stepped back i
found a little curve and i sat on it
and i’m sitting there and i’m watching
my house burn down
i’m watching our possessions so many of
them go up in smoke
and yet gratitude and thankfulness was
filling my heart
and i sat there that day and i wrote
this little song that just goes
thanks for the joy
that you’ve given to me
thanks for your love
unconditionally oh
thanks for peace
in the midst of this storm god
i thank you yes i thank you
cause you’ve been faithful
faithful to me god you’re
faithful and your mercies are seen
and when i look back on my life
the message is clear god
you’re faithful and i’m
just grateful
and that day despite the trauma
i found this place of absolute peace
in the midst of the storm but i have to
admit
it has not always been that way for me
ten years before that fire
i was an award-winning country music
artist i married a rodeo cowboy
and in seven months of marriage he left
me
broke my heart i spiraled into such
negativity my self-talk my shame
my hatred my anger i was not practicing
the one percent factor
and i certainly wasn’t resonating
anything positive
i fell into anger and discord and i just
wanted to
have my way and get back and suddenly it
got darker and darker
until i spiraled down into a state
of complete suicidal depression and i’ll
never forget the day i was in the worst
spot
of my life and i turned on the tv
and a commercial came on and it was a
commercial for a motivational spiritual
event
and i remember being so mad looking at
the tv and saying all right god if
you’re real
then meet me at that event or else
that’s where i kill myself
well i went to that event and obviously
something happened because
i chose to live and not die
and i had an awakening of consciousness
that day
that reminded me of the one percent
factor reminded me of the things i had
already overcome
and that day i made a decision that i
wasn’t gonna give up
let up or shut up instead i was gonna
use my life
to help somebody else get up from
similar circumstances
i determined that there was not a
circumstance i could not
overcome and so that day i left that
event
and i began to apply the one percent
factor
of getting a little healthier every
single day i started studying the brain
i started studying psychology
neuroplasticity
i started studying my scriptures again
and i started studying spirituality
until finally i realized
that my pressure the pain is actually
the source
of a platform from my power
and i realized that day that even though
we might have a negativity bias
we can either stay in that negativity
bias or we can choose to get up
and that day you know what i did
everybody say boom
okay say it like you mean it say boom
that day i got up and i broke out of
mediocre thinking
and my son when he was only 11 years old
we started to see how this duplicates to
other generations
when he was seven years old he got stung
in the middle of the night
four times by a scorpion now needless to
say
that was a traumatic night in fact it
was a little freaky for all of us we
couldn’t sleep for a couple of weeks
why because we were resonating the fact
that there could be more scorpions
underneath our sheets right
so we realized very quickly that fear is
a natural
emotion in fact it’s a positive emotion
if you’re being chased by a bear
but fear if you meditate on it or
resonate
fear it can become debilitating
so that night we sat down with our son
and we said listen we want to tell you a
story
there’s a little boy he was a shepherd
boy named david and he actually had to
kill a lion and a bear in the middle of
the night to protect his sheep
but they were a setup that lion was a
setback
that was a set up because one day
david was gonna have to kill a giant
named goliath
and it would give him the rulership as
king over a nation
well that night we told our son you know
that scorpion it’s your lion
and it’s preparing you to one day slay
greater giants in your future
well two years later my son comes home
and he walks up and he’s just come home
from the pet store
and he says mom dad i have a new pet and
he holds out a six
inch emperor scorpion i looked at him
and i didn’t say just no i said hell no
you’re not bringing that into my house
and that day i looked at him and he goes
mom dad
this isn’t about a scorpion this is
about me overcoming my fears
and proving that what used to enslave me
i now have dominion over and i walk in
victory
we recognize that day that our son was
having an awakening of consciousness
and he was applying that one percent
factor to his own life
two years later he takes that same story
and he enters a national speech and
debate competition
and he ends up winning first place
scholarships
and goes on to become a serial
entrepreneur
see i don’t know what it is right now
that you’ve got going on that is a
pressure that has enslaved you
i don’t know what one of those five
areas that you need to focus on
just a little bit more every single day
but what i do know is if you just look
at those areas let’s look at faith
again can you pray a little longer your
family can you be a little nicer
your fitness maybe just turn off the
news tonight go for that walk you’ve
been putting off
and do it consistently finances maybe
you do need to start your own business
maybe it’s just as simple as putting
away some of those extra expenditures
and applying it towards your debt in the
area of freedom
well i don’t know what is enslaving you
or maybe you’ve got addiction
but maybe one percent is just waking up
tomorrow
and joining that recovery group whatever
it is
do something every single day one
percent
get better every single day and remember
when you have a setback
don’t take a step back but get ready for
your comeback because sometimes
a setback is actually a set up for you
to rethink
reboot recalibrate or even reinvent
your faith your family your finances
your fitness or your freedom what do you
need to change today
whatever it is give it at least one
percent
every single day thank you
you