10 Minutes to Start Your Day Right! – MORNING MOTIVATION | Motivational Video 2020
most people when they see an ambiguous
situation they get scared and they
freeze they wait for someone to tell
them what to do you don’t have to make
your decisions in your own head okay
that when you start to realize that you
know what you’re good at and what you’re
bad at that a power comes to you when
you start to know okay who’s the best
person to give me the advice or who’s
the best person to lead me through this
or when you start to know that you can
go beyond what you think and you’re
opinionated miss so that you can
triangulate I call a triangulate with
others so that you find three people who
are really capable of giving you good
advice who will argue with each other
and argue with you so you can see all
sides of it and you work yourself
through so it’s not just your eyes
looking for the path but it’s other
people’s eyes looking with the path with
you knowing that you’re going to have
successes and failures but that power of
that collective learning and triangulate
well with humbleness is a great power as
you go through that cycle lots of people
who will tell you you’re crazy because
it’s easy for people to give you
drive-by advice look there they’re just
driving by oh the economy sucks you
should give up and and you know what
it’s easy to identify the drive by
advisers much harder to identify your
own mind playing tricks on you when you
start to say things like this will never
work because or who would ever buy this
right now you are doing the same thing
those drive by advisers are doing you’re
just driving by your own head so my if I
keep on that in don’t try to deny it
your mind will always play from a
position of safety not expert and so
acknowledge it write it down and say
okay this will never work this is
horrible I suck I’m not good write it
down but then open up another piece of
paper and say okay I wrote down all the
reasons that this might fail now let me
write down all the reasons that this
might succeed and then take those two
piece of paper and look and you choose
which one you want the easiest thing
I’ve done was to get out from under the
labels and to live the life that I live
the most difficult thing I’ve ever done
was to believe that I can do it the
difference is that when you don’t know
what’s impacting you
and it’s it’s something that that’s
holding you down and you’re not aware of
it
so there are things that will you leap
in in my situation you live in a
dominant culture that is designed to
destroy your sense of self and your
belief in yourself in and you have to
learn ways in which you can begin to
connect with this power that you have
within yourself to handle where you are
the key is to be constantly in a
perpetual process of discovering the
truth of who you are and fighting
constantly to look for ways in which you
can escape the inner conversation and
speak to audiences around the world in
art when I trained speakers as well and
I tell them that when you speak that
there’s a there’s an objective that you
want to achieve when you speak to an
audience because how people live their
lives as a result of the story they
believe about themselves so you as a
speaker and you speak in this program
when people see you what you do is
describe dispute and inspire you
distract people from their current story
with your guests and the questions that
you ask through the process of the
ongoing questioning and the way in which
they respond and the things they have
learned you dismantle them
belief system and inspire them to create
a new chapter with their lives and so
but that’s an ongoing process of
constantly interrupting that
conversation what psychologists call
your self explanatory stuff there’s life
is gonna beat up on you in so many ways
and many things they come back you know
negative thoughts and and how you feel
about yourself they don’t die they they
come back once you stop doing the
maintenance work on your mind I have
access to a lot of hiring managers both
my friends and in my I will teach you to
be rich community and I reached out to
them and I said hiring managers tell me
what do you see
and I also reached out to job applicants
I said what do you see so here’s what I
heard first off the job applicants one
of them told me I had four interviews
going three of them dropped off the face
of the earth they just stopped
responding okay that was a very common
trend I’ve heard from job applicants
that that the markets they were going
after just completely dried up so very
common interestingly on the hiring
managers side there were some people who
said there are hiring freezes that were
immediately instituted but I had some
hiring managers who said we are hiring
and we can’t get enough applicants and I
said why do you think that is they’re
like I think nobody thinks anyone’s
hiring so there’s a whole game being
played around us and of course it’s true
that right now it’s an employers job
mark of course it’s true that it’s
fiercely competitive but that doesn’t
mean we shouldn’t still focus on landing
a job and I want to tell you how I think
about landing a job right now most
people when they see an ambiguous
situation they get scared and they
freeze they wait for someone to tell
them what to do that’s because that’s
what we’ve been taught since we were
kids I don’t know what to do is the
teacher gonna tell me to go over here go
over there and we’ve been indoctrinated
okay
but in times of ambiguity I think we
love it you and I we love were like
ambiguous great I’ll create my own
opportunity so imagine that you see a
job that’s in Washington DC and you live
in Seattle and it says requires eight
years of experience and dc-based blah
blah blah I would look at that and say
great I only have three years of
experience and I live in Seattle I’m
gonna write the most amazing cover
letter and tell them why I deserve this
job I’m gonna point to the exact
briefcase technique things that I’ve
implemented you guys can Google
briefcase technique and learn about that
and I’m gonna tell them look I work in
Seattle we can discuss DC but nobody’s
working physically right now so we might
as well just get this started so you
don’t have to wait for the right
candidate I am the right candidate in
other words take all the rules and put
them aside it’s a different time for
most people they get scared by that
ambiguity for you you’re listening to
this you’re watching this you can create
your own rules right now in the old days
when people used to carry around a
briefcase you go in for an interview and
they say all right tell me you know tell
me about yourself blah blah blah those
are all rote questions and yes you
should answer them but what really
distinguishes a top performer in an
interview is that they say let me tell
you know I spoke to several people on
your team I did a little research
I studied the interviews you’ve given to
the press recently and I put together a
little 90 day plan for what I would do
in my role let me show you boom you see
a trick they pull out your briefcase you
give them a copy of your document and
then you say let me walk you through
this now as you do this the managers jaw
drops you know she can’t believe that
somebody came in and did this level of
preparation now let’s just zoom out for
a second there’s two types of people
listening to this right now the first
type is saying call Ramiz how are you
gonna find out any of the information
you’re so presumptuous Oh
who would ever think that you could go
in and tell a company what to do those
people will fail because you’re looking
for reasons for this exercise not to
work so why don’t you just give up right
now and save the middleman you’re always
gonna look for why something won’t
the other people aka the thousands of
people online who have publicly talked
about using the briefcase technique they
go in and they do their homework they
use what we call natural networking from
our career program they meet other
people at the company they study what
the company’s strategies are they also
accept that they probably can’t get it
all right from the outside they’re doing
the best they can
85% is better than nothing and they walk
in with a proposal and although their
proposal isn’t going to be perfect
because they’re on the outside they did
more than anyone else and they just
decimate the competition and we see what
you a hiring manager do when you see
that your jaw drops and you can’t help
but hire that curse
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