What if time management isn’t the problem at all? What if the real constraint is the standard you’re operating from? In this episode of the Seven Figure Standard Podcast, hosts Myke Stiller and Arash Vossoughi challenge the belief that better scheduling leads to better results and introduce a different approach they call “standard boxing.” The episode challenges the idea that productivity is about managing time, and instead, focuses on how standards shape results. Arash explains why busyness often masks distraction, and how raising standards creates focus, consistency, and faster progress without adding more hours. The conversation centers on how standards are built through repetition and discipline, and how they influence identity over time. The episode closes with a simple experiment: commit to one higher standard for the next seven days and observe what changes. If you’re ready to rethink productivity from the inside out, this conversation offers a clear place to begin!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Why time management fails and standards drive results.
• Busy does not mean productive: focusing on what actually moves the needle.
• Understanding standards as daily actions, not intentions or motivation.
• Choosing one standard to intentionally install at a time.
• What standards really are: behaviors you normalize and repeat.
• Fearlessness, action, and obsession as core high-performance standards.
• How to install a new standard today, stay consistent, and hold yourself accountable.
• Why standards must be stronger than emotions, comfort, and excuses.
• Building momentum through daily wins and repetition.
• Seven-day sprints to create fast identity shifts.
• Competing with yourself instead of settling or conforming.
• Final challenge: choose one standard and enforce it this week.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn
Voss Coaching Co on Instagram

Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram
Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

Do you ever feel like you’re doing everything right and checking all the boxes, but still not getting results? In this episode of the Seven-Figure Standard Podcast, Arash breaks down the concept of the Identity Tax: how your old identity causes self-sabotage and limits your growth. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about how your identity is holding you back and how to see the weaknesses in it. We even share a ‘formula’ for bulletproofing your identity so that you can decrease the identity tax you pay and finally get the results you want. If you want 2026 to be the year that you decide your identity instead of letting the world define it, then be sure to press play now!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Arash explains what the identity tax is.
• Why you need to make your identity the foundation of everything you do.
• How to know when your identity is holding you back and the power of extreme ownership.
• Asking yourself what the identity of your future self is when you set a goal.
• The importance of enforcing your standards.
• How to see where the gaps in your identity are and why it’s so hard to work on your identity.
• Why you need to be bold and think big.
• How to figure out where you’re paying identity tax right now.
• Why the behavior of your new identity has to be non-negotiable.
• The formula: decide, enforce, normalize.
• Seeing asking for help as a strength.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn

Voss Coaching Co on Instagram

Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram
Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

Have you ever felt comfortable in your success and then wondered why things have started taking a wrong turn? Today on the Seven-Figure Standard Podcast, Arash and Mykie are breaking down the meaning of the phrase, ‘nothing fails like success,’ and exploring the power of embracing failure. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about why success is more dangerous than failure for people who are driven, why you need to constantly move the goal posts on your ideas, how success affects identity, and why you always get what you prepare for. We delve into how ego keeps you stuck before Arash shares some early warning signs that success is starting to fail. We even discuss how to find your drive instead of operating from motivation and how discomfort plays into goal-setting. Finally, Arash encourages listeners to map out their wants clearly and ask if they have let themselves get comfortable. Thanks for listening!

Key Points From This Episode:

• What ‘nothing fails like success’ means.
• Why success is dangerous for driven people.
• The importance of constantly creating bigger and better ideas.
• How success changes how you see yourself.
• Arash explains why you always get what you prepare for.
• How ego keeps us the same and prevents growth.
• Early warning signs that success is starting to fail.
• What to do when you need to find your drive again.
• The role intentional discomfort plays in goal-setting.
• Arash encourages listeners to map out their wants clearly.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn
Voss Coaching Co on Instagram

Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram
Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube