277 - Marx Acosta: Double Income, Double Time Off

In this episode, Marx Acosta, a Business and Lifestyle Strategist, shares how he helps successful people double their income and double their time off. For many, this is counterintuitive thinking, and it requires a mindset shift to even think it could be possible. Marx explains how the brain evolves and adapts to make less work the norm. You’ll learn the formulas that drive our personal behavioral changes and company growth—and you’ll hear how the brain works to make decisions that either move us toward or away from freedom.Listen in to discover a simple way to change your life, the questions Marx asks clients to identify what’s wrong, and how he defines strategy - and learn what “thinking differently” means to him.00:00 - 09:00 - Marx shares what he does, why part of the process is overcoming the counterintuitiveness, and the facets of work that he considers, and examples. 09:00 - 17:00 - Behavioral changes, belief shifts, Marx’s journey, what he learned about selling, and some case studies.17:00 - 28:00 - Why people don’t make as much money as they should and don’t take as much time off as they should, and the different parts of the brain and how the impact decisionmaking.28:00 - 39:00 - Why we make money, how we can make more, how we self-identify what’s wrong with our current picture, and how he defines strategy.39:00 - 43:00 - What separates those who succeed and those who don’t, the value of actually applying principles, and why he asks “how.”43:00 - 53:00 - Picking one metric to focus on, the four ways to change your life, improving your reality, and Marx’s process.