The Power of Growing with Ivan Tapia
Are you going through a difficult time and need something to help you get out of it? Do you feel like you’re not growing? Ivan Tapia went through something similar during the 2008 recession. He started from the bottom and became a millionaire.
In this episode, Ivan shares his road to success, his ups and downs, and tips on how to get the maximum out of life. He’s had many opportunities in life and taking advantage of them is part of his strategy to success. He has broken many limiting beliefs and by doing that, he is a millionaire coach!
Ivan Tapia, Coach and Speaker
A lot of people believe that rich people were born rich, but that’s definitely not the case. Ivan was born in a middle-class family in Mexico. To give an idea of what that is like, the middle-class in Mexico is low-class in the US and Canada. He went through many difficulties, one of them being the loss of his job during the recession in 2008. At the time, it seemed like a big problem but it was actually what made him pursue success.
See three key elements you cannot miss from this episode:
1) Life is Unpredictable
Everyone has to have a plan, but life has a plan of its own for us. In a matter of seconds, everything can change.
Ivan is a living example of how unpredictable life truly is. When Ivan was a teen, he practiced baseball and was really good at it. His dream was to become a professional baseball player and he was close to actually accomplishing it. In a flash, everything changed. During a game, he was injured and couldn’t continue to play. So, what was next? His plan was destroyed and he didn’t know what to do next. What he did know what that he was not going to stop his life because things had changed.
2) You Don’t Have to Know “How”
Everyone has dreams, some seemingly more “realistic” than others. The idea is that you turn those dreams into goals first, and then you bring them into reality. Fear is what stops people from achieving their dreams— they believe what they want is too big to actually achieve. But, nothing in life is so big that you cannot do something to actually get it.
When Ivan lost his job during the recession, he didn’t have money and couldn’t get a job. A big opportunity came his way. Ivan had met successful people in his business of interest, and he knew he wanted to be successful like them. He didn’t know how to get to that goal, he just knew the why of the goal and with time the tools came his way.
3) Growing
There is a time in your life where money is not everything. Most people focus on how much money they have and how to continue making more, and even though that is essential to continue getting money, it’s not the only thing you should focus on. There is a point in life where the only way you grow is by helping others.
To help others grow, you need to grow. The more you understand how little you know, the more you are actually growing. Life is always teaching you new things but you also have to seek knowledge. Ivan noticed that the people he sees growing are the people that do collaborations with others to keep growing from other people’s knowledge. You cannot do everything by yourself. You need to learn from others to continue growing.
“The only people that I see growing are people that do collaborations and keep growing from other people.”
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