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The Easy Path Project Live Stream #03
How to Get 10 Times Better Results with the Same Effort
Hi, this is Michael from the Easy Path Project, and I’m back in the saddle again. Last night, I spent about 45 minutes explaining the basic concept of the Easy Path Project and how following these ideas can really help you improve your life a great deal—easier than you ever imagined. Last night’s question was: Are you ready to be who you were meant to be?
Tonight, the question is: What if I showed you how you could get 10 times better results for the same effort, or even less?
I know that sounds like a bold claim, but I can back it up. That’s what tonight’s all about. I’ve got about 12 examples of ways that when you improve in one aspect of your life, you actually improve in others. They don’t work individually—they work together, simultaneously, in tandem.
The Core Concept: Exponential Growth
The idea tonight is that just by doing simple things and changing your mindset—shifting the way that you see things—you’ll understand that you can actually get 10 times better or even 100 times better. Once you get this one thing right, it’s going to make everything else better.
The Questions We’re Exploring
How can you make your effort 10 times more effective? A lot of people spend so much time and effort learning how to make themselves better, but then they find that it doesn’t really work out the way they expected. They end up looking for another video, article, book, or podcast, trying to get it right.
It’s not because they’re not doing the right things or doing it wrong. It’s that the underlying issues causing these problems persist. If you’ve got an unstable foundation, the things you build on top of that foundation are going to be unstable.
Once you get the inner part down, the outer part will start to take care of itself.
A single shift in your perspective is going to radically accelerate your journey. You’re going to find that things just start to get easier. You’ll feel better about yourself, and people will respond better to you because you feel better about yourself. When they respond better to you, you feel even better about yourself. It’s like a spiral going upwards—it’s pretty amazing.
This isn’t about motivation. It’s not that you have to try harder, be disciplined, or push harder. It’s much simpler than that.
Learning from Jay Abraham
I learned this from Jay Abraham, who teaches about improving the way you think about business. After some time, I figured out that it also works for personal development.
The Three Aspects of Exponential Growth
1. Compounding Effects
Each driver amplifies the others. It creates multiplicative growth rather than linear growth. When you get good at one thing and that pulls another thing up, as it gets better, it creates a compound effect.
2. Leverage-Based Thinking
Focus on high-impact activities that yield disproportionate results. If you’ve got something you’re doing poorly at, but also have an aspect of your life you’re feeling pretty good about, keep going with that thing you’re feeling good about. Don’t worry so much about improving specific things—improve overall.
3. Adaptability and Innovation
This encourages you to continually improve and make strategic pivots that you need to stay ahead and keep growing. Simple things like watching videos like this one, opening your mind to opportunities, and seeing things in a different way.
The 12 Components of Exponential Growth
1. Inner Game (Your Foundation)
Your inner game is your frame—it’s what you build off of. A strong inner game means you understand who you are. Once you feel confident in that, it helps boost your confidence, helps you handle rejection, and enables your authenticity.
You don’t have to be whatever is popular or whatever people say or whatever your friends, family, church, or government tells you. It’s much better when you determine how you feel about things and how you think about them.
2. Confidence
Growing confidence makes your social interactions feel easier and reduces social pressure. Once you feel confident about yourself and care about yourself compassionately, you don’t allow the pressures of society—whether from friends, family, or peers—to push you around.
When people understand who you are and what you stand for (hopefully good stuff), they’re going to see you in that lens. This helps with relationships, communication, and emotional resilience.
3. Self-Worth
When you believe in your values, you attract healthier relationships and navigate rejection with ease. You set boundaries. For instance, if someone ghosts you, cancels on a date, or makes an unkind comment, having strong self-worth allows you to say, “That’s where it butts up against who I am, and we’re going to have an issue with that.”
If you understand your inherent worth and value, you can deal with loss, rejection, and difficult situations because you’re a strong person who’s developed emotional resilience.
4. Mindset
The mindset I want you to take from all of this is that you can evaluate situations through the lens of a lesson rather than a failure or setback. If you get rejected for whatever reason, it’s more of a lesson. Every single person makes mistakes all day, and we can’t go around beating ourselves up.
Even traumatic, horrible situations—you’re going to be able to deal with them better because you’re a stronger person. You’ve gotten rid of the limitations and you’re allowing the coolness to shine through.
5. Relationships
Whether you’re trying to get into a relationship, in the early stages of one, or in a long-term partnership, you need the same core skills: social skills, communication, and emotional resilience. Each lesson you learn pulls you up to reach the next level of understanding.
These skills benefit all your relationships—personal, family, work, and social.
6. Social Skills
Better social skills enhance communication, reduce social pressure, and build confidence. As you develop these, you strengthen your relationships and emotional resilience. All types of your relationships improve, and you feel better in conversations, groups, and even alone.
7. Communication
This might be the most important skill you can develop. Instead of spending money on college, one mother sent her child to neurolinguistic programming (NLP) training to learn communication and therapy skills.
The ability to communicate is the most important thing for your social and personal life. When you feel confident communicating, it fosters authentic connections and smooth social interactions. Everything you learn about communicating well applies to every opportunity you have to communicate.
8. Self-Awareness
Through introspection, you evaluate who you really are—not what you do or where you went to school, but who you actually are. Sometimes this can be challenging, requiring you to dig into parts of your personality and figure out what causes you to be a certain way.
Once you understand yourself, it makes other aspects easier and helps you handle rejection while building authentic relationships.
9. Handling Rejection
Often, rejection is difficult because you’ve built something up or applied value to a situation that it might not warrant. You don’t have to make every opportunity into “the one.” There are billions of people in the world—if you strike out with one person, the world won’t end.
It’s all about how you reframe it. When someone rejects you, they’re actually doing you a favor by letting you save your time and move on to someone who’s more into you.
10. Personal Growth
By applying these principles, all aspects of your personal growth will improve. Each improvement—even just 1% in social skills or 2% in empathy—lifts all the others. A rising tide lifts all boats.
11. Emotional Resilience
Many things we fear aren’t real. Most of the things we worry about never actually happen. Once you start getting your head wrapped around this, rejection is no longer an issue. Things you once worried about diminish in their ability to inhibit you—you’ll just feel better and move forward more smoothly.
12. Authenticity
When you’re authentic, people get an understanding of who you are. They can identify with good things or aspire to even better things. Because they know who you are, they can embrace and be part of that.
When you’re fake or have pretenses, you’re essentially keeping help away. But when you’re authentic, relationships will be authentic, which helps with confidence and communication.
The Exponential Effect
Instead of improving just one thing at a time, every single area boosts all the other areas, creating compounding growth. Strengthening self-worth and building authenticity, inner game, and confidence fuels better communication, which enriches relationships.
When you feel better about your relationships and communications, you feel more authentic. Over time, your personal growth accelerates exponentially, making transformation feel natural rather than forced.
The Secret
This is the real secret: It’s not hard. Once you start to feel good about what you’re doing, it gets easier to do, and then you make more progress. It gets easier and builds upon itself continuously.
The Easy Path Project is about finding ways to grow that are easy, where each improvement creates a cascade of positive changes throughout your life. When you grasp this concept of exponential growth and start to apply it, things will start to go much better for you—and it’ll be surprising how much better they become.
Remember: You don’t have to be a performing monkey. You’re who you are, and you come into situations as yourself, letting people deal with you authentically. That’s when things really start to feel good and growth becomes effortless.
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