Focus Like a Superstar!

Welcome to LegalBiz Cafe! Digitally remastered with AI, in this podcast series, Attorney Shaune B. Arnold gives to frustrated professionals like YOU the tools and resources you need to make the LEAP to entrepreneurship so you can start, build or fix a business you will absolutely LOVE. 

In this inspiring episode, Shaune unpacks Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and the power of 10,000 focused hours. Success isn’t luck—it’s practice, timing, and support. Learn how to build your own ecosystem for mastery, stop flying solo, and create an environment that accelerates your entrepreneurial dreams. 

Transcript

Well, hello, friends! ...and welcome, once again to Legal Biz Café. I know you know…I am your host. Attorney Shaune B Arnold.

Well, when last we met, we were talking about ways of dealing with one entrepreneurial head twist after another. That's what we do here on legal biz café. We talk about the mindset of the entrepreneur. We discuss the issues, challenges and obstacles that you are going to encounter as you go along your journey through entrepreneurship.

I invite you also to listen to my other podcast, Your Business Accelerated! On that show, we discuss the hardcore legal and business issues that stump you, and that stop you from starting, building or fixing that iconic business. So, I want to give you a small disclaimer, and that is that I am a California attorney, and that means that to the extent that we talk about legal issues, we're talking about California law.

If you are in another state, or you're in another country, …or you're just in another state of mind, …then I invite you to take whatever I give you as being based on California law and take it to a lawyer in your jurisdiction. They will chat with you about it and let you know if there are any differences between what's going on here and what's going on where you are.

I am trained in neurolinguistic programming, and I know how to identify the blocks that are stopping you from building your business. Legal Biz Café and Your Business, Accelerated! can help you to identify those blocks and get rid of them. So, let's get started on our show today.

What are we talking about today? Well, you know, I have been re-reading Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, and I'll tell you, I’m reading it again because it’s a really wonderful book.

In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell takes a very different tack. Outliers suggests it's really the environment that gives rise to business superstars, like Bill Gates. This book tells the story of the success of various folks who have been game changers.

The thing that I would like to share with you about Outliers is that it's so doable. Take the story of Bill Gates as an example. We have all heard that he dropped out of Harvard and he tinkered around in his father's garage and created a personal computer, started Microsoft, and then the rest was history.

Well, it wasn't quite that simple. You see, Outliers explains to us and shows us that the year you were born really matters to your success. The place you were born really matters to your success, and the support system that's around you as you are growing up really matters to your success because those things in combination can create a superstar in you, in your child, or in your business.

When Bill Gates was in high school, he went to a particular school which had a computer that was hooked to a local college. That computer allowed him to participate in computer programming activities. He spent hours and hours at it. In fact, he actually put in more than 10,000 hours of programming time before he ever got into a position to tinker in his father's garage. Anyone that spends 10,000 hours doing anything will become a master at it.

I'd be willing to bet that Michelangelo did an awful lot of study of his craft before he was able to really create David. Don't get me wrong. He was an amazing talent, but YOU have amazing talent as well.

If we focus on the Michelangelos of the world, if we focus on the Bill Gates, and we say to ourselves, “Boy! That's somebody who had extraordinary ability. Look at that Bill Gates. He went to Harvard. I didn't go to Harvard, so I could never do what he did.” If you said that, I would suggest to you that you're incorrect.

Malcolm Gladwell would also suggest to you that you're incorrect. The 10,000 hour rule can help you become a master at anything you choose, no matter your level of formal education. The support systems that you have around you will also help you as you progress in your life.

Now, any one of us can truthfully say that it's hard to go it alone, right? So, it behooves us to put that support system around us. So many of us are trying to go it alone. And you know, as the solopreneur and lone gunfighter out there on the range, and we all want someone to scream to us, ...“Shane, come back!”

Well, here's what's real. Even Shane had a support group. Remember when Shane found himself in trouble at the beginning of the movie? He landed on a ranch. He landed on a ranch full of people that cared for him when he was unable to care for himself.

Develop, nurture and utilize your support group. They know your goals and will help redirect you. They will help you focus. 

All of those beautiful souls that we have attracted into our space deserve the best of what being in our space has to offer. This requires our intent focus to bring our plans, goals and dreams to fruition.

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for joining me on this week’s episode of Legal Biz Café. I invite you to follow me on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter X. My moniker in all of those places is Shaune dot Arnold. In the meantime, and in between time, this is attorney Shaune B Arnold, reminding you, …as always, …to MAXIMIZE your COMPETENCE, …to get the CONFIDENCE, …YOU NEED …to succeed.

I’ll see you right here next week, on Legal Biz Café. Bye-bye, folks!