{"id":546,"date":"2009-12-10T18:49:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-12-10T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:49:48","slug":"how-big-is-the-check-on-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/how-big-is-the-check-on-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"How Big is the Check on Your Heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In San Francisco last week a nice fellow walked up to me and said &#8220;Thank you.&#8221; I shook his hand and asked why and he then told me that he&#8217;d read about me in a book called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Get It<\/span> written by my colleague <a title=\"John Hayes\" href=\"franchisemastermind.com\" target=\"_blank\">John Hayes<\/a>. In the book John had written about the fact that I have a signed, $1 million check taped to the mirror in my closet. It&#8217;s a reminder of my economic ability, my earning power, and of the value of my contribution. \u00a0Think about it, if you wouldn&#8217;t write yourself a $1 million check, why should anyone else?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this nice guy named Kirk said &#8220;Yeah, I taped a $300,000 check in my mirror, and this year, I&#8217;m going to earn $150,000.&#8221; Hmmmm. I thanked him for mentioning it and told him I was glad he&#8217;d read the book and found the idea helpful. But then later I got to thinking: &#8220;He had a $300,000 check taped to his mirror, but I wonder what size the check was in his heart?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet it was $150,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In San Francisco last week a nice fellow walked up to me and said &#8220;Thank you.&#8221; I shook his hand and asked why and he then told me that he&#8217;d read about me in a book called Get It written by my colleague John Hayes. In the book John had written about the fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,3,32,15],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-achievement","tag-belief","tag-high-performance","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}