There is one technique that stands out from all the rest. The world’s most successful entrepreneurs and business people often share this strategy in common.

It isn’t an NLP technique or some other kind of tool (in fact, it’s hardly psychological). Read on to find out…

A vertical drop of hundreds of feet, rocks and razor sharp ice below, no parachute or safety gear of any kind besides my trusty helmet.

A little voice at the back of my mind screamed at the absurdity of what I was about to do.

I leapt.

The guaranteed method for enriching your life, in financial terms and in pure enjoyment, is simple:

Get passionate about a hobbie

Here’s why:

When the business elite unwind with their favourite pastime, they’re not destroying braincells in the same way you and I might, when we crack a beer and watch TV.

Hobbies enrich the mind – when you become really passionate and involved in a hobby, it becomes a parable of your own life.

As you learn to be successful in your hobbie, in turn, you’re learning to be successful in life and business.

The CEO who plays Chess is really practicing to stay 3 moves ahead of the competition

The sales star who plays football is conditioning herself to score goals

The entrepreneur who builds model air-planes is constructing the way and means to soar

My hobby is skiing

I’m ridiculously passionate about it. For me, a day carving turns in fresh powder is the best thing in the world.

When I leapt off a near vertical, double black diamond run (read: as difficult as it gets) at Treble Cone ski resort (Wanaka, NZ) I learned an extraordinary business lesson.

You see, in skiing, there is a big difference between “average” skiers (blue runs – medium difficulty) and the elite who throw themselves down the black (and double black) death-slopes.

In business, we’d say there’s a big difference between the half-hearted, “dabbling” entrepreneurs who occasionally make a bit of cash and the ultra-successful tycoons with a midas-touch.

The elite skiers seldom get there by skill. In fact, skill has very little to do with it. Experience also isn’t important.

Being good enough to ski insanely steep slopes comes down to one simple strategy:

Having the guts to throw yourself down that insane slope, despite your lack of skill and experience.

When you shoot off down a black diamond run, your heart is in your mouth… adrenaline is pumping… and you know you’re about to die.

You do the absolute best you can not to fall over (and tumble down the mountain).

You focus on getting to the end, not on having fun.

Then something incredible happens

You finish the run. You look back on how far you’ve come. Suddenly it doesn’t seem so steep. Your adrenaline is wearing off and your brain is flooded with endorphins.

You say to yourself: “That was $%#@ing AMAZING…. I wanna do it AGAIN!”

Having the guts to do something incredibly dangerous and difficult actually forces you to develop the skills and experience you need to succeed.

Every one’s first black-run is the same… it’s all about “just surviving” – just making it out to safety.

The second, third and twentieth runs become about being graceful, fast and precise… then you start looking for jumps and other opportunities.

You connect up the dots – I’ll get back to skiing.