How To Know Yourself Again || POSITIVE MORNING MOTIVATION
you know there’s greatness all around
you but you’re gonna have to ask for
help no matter how old you are when you
achieve your dreams then you have to
reset you have to come up with new goals
you have to come up with new dreams
unless your intention is just to ride
that out for the remainder of your
existence passion is the antidote to
self-doubt because when you’re in your
passion space you don’t have time to
have all that negative talk invade your
thought process when you’re in your
passion space you know you’re you’re
leaning forward and then in your passion
space you’re actually looking for a way
to be effective it’s passion that gets
me through today if a character mainly
is developed out of adversity
I know in my life it’s been in my
failures that I’ve discovered myself and
it’s been in my failures I’ve discovered
things that I really probably do well
it’s also been my failure
first things I discovered about myself I
think awareness is always on the front
end you can’t grow yourself if you don’t
know yourself so I think awareness is
huge you have to be aware of yourself
strengths weaknesses you know the whole
deal and once you’re aware of yourself
then you have to take your giftedness
and maximize your strengths and then you
have to make the right choices I write
down my day and what I do is I go back
and study that day like sometimes I
might I might get sick I might be over
trained I might gain a couple pounds
here I might feel it whatever it’s like
my accountability journal of what I’m
doing with my life
physical mental I had an eating Journal
oddish and helped me go back to once
again study I’m a lab rat and I studied
myself I’m like not feeling up I go okay
when I do last week and usually I can
find out where I messed up last week you
know how much time travel how much I’m
sleep and how much I’m doing all this
stuff and and through journaling man you
can really figure out so much about
where you’re messing up in life in which
you need to fix about yourself I like
micro failure
I like micro failure I hate macro
failure like death of your business is
bad but to me you know it’s funny I’ll
use a boxing analogy my favorite boxing
that I watch a lot of boxing
I think box things are very interesting
and I know and I’m super into mixed
martial arts but I grew up on boxing I
understand it better and I like watching
it because there’s so many things that
happen in boxing first of all what I
love about boxing is there’s nowhere to
hide you know like it’s super
interesting right there’s nowhere to
hide number two there’s a scenario
boxing that I love the most
there’s for some reason there’s nothing
more interesting to me than watching
somebody get knocked down in the first
round and then go on to win the fight
easily
it’s an interesting psyche right and I
like that and this is what I’m thinking
about it which is like here’s what’s bad
in boxing and in business going into a
fight getting knocked out in the first
round of losing the match bad getting
knocked down and then having the
adversity to readjust to what you got
caught on and navigating it too easily
when a fight is remarkable that’s how I
think about entrepreneurship the reason
so many people struggle with
entrepreneurship is you have micro
failures almost daily and they’re very
in-your-face you can’t hide and I like
that I like failure because I think I
deserve it
I hate when people don’t respect the
game when I fail it means I’ve done and
I like that because I think people get
audacious my number one thing that I
hate about capitalism is that people use
it and they love it and they’re big
capitalists and they love open market
and competition and all that and then
they become 73 and they try to use all
their money to protect their money
they’re not willing to let a young lion
eat them the way they ate somebody else
I hate when they try to manipulate it
that’s what I love about sports what I
love about sports is when you’re 36 and
you were once the best player in the
league but now you’re getting a little
bit older and your body breaks down you
are forced to retire the one thing that
entrepreneurship and capitalism has to
adjust to is once you get old and you’re
tired and you want to be on a yacht
instead of working your ship you should
lose some money because you’re losing so
every single organization on the planet
even our own careers always function on
the same three levels what we do how we
do it and why we did everybody knows
what they do these are the products we
sell the services we offer some know how
they do it these are these are things we
call our unique selling propositions or
you know differentiating value brothers
whatever’s the things that we think make
us stand out from the crowd but very
very few people and very very few
organizations can clearly articulate why
they do what they do and by why I don’t
mean to make money that’s a result by
why I mean what is your purpose what is
your cause what is your belief why does
your company exist why did you get out
of bed this morning and why should
anyone care and what I learned is that
organizations or leaders that start with
by telling you what they do are less
able to inspire people to do business
with them inspire loyalty where those
who start with why whether it’s Steve
Jobs or mama Gandhi are able to command
loyalty and are able to innovate in ways
that others cannot and the reason I say
that every company functions its way is
because the model is not based on some
highfalutin management theory it’s based
on the biology of human decision-making
this is how the brain works that when
you start with why it talks to the part
of brain of the brain that is
responsible for decision making and
feelings like trust and loyalty but it’s
not responsible for language which is
why it’s hard to put into words where’s
the part of the brain that controls
rational like numbers and products and
benefits and features doesn’t affect
decision-making how many times have you
had somebody say to you hey have you got
a minute Bob you got a minute
would you think about that I read a poem
one time I said I have only just a
minute only 60 seconds and it was forced
upon me I can’t refuse that I didn’t
seek and I didn’t choose it but it’s up
to me to use it I must suffer if I lose
it
give a count if I abused it it’s only a
tiny low a minute but eternity is in it
well any rate I thought I’m going to put
this on the video am I just gonna share
with everybody just this one little part
out of the seminar I’m making I want you
to look at this Sam timer and let this I
want you to think about your life the
sand in the top of the glass represents
the future the sand and the bottom of
the glass represents the past now Genoa
we know what’s in the past and younger
we can’t do anything about it you know
what the trick is you don’t know how
much sands and the top of the glass you
may think you have a lot you might only
have a little then again you may think
you have a little and you might have a
lot when I was little boy I was raised
by my grandmother and I don’t know when
I was little after she was probably 60
but as long as I can remember gran would
say and I’ll soon be done there I’ll
soon be gone well you know we loved her
she was really an angel of God but we
thought she was never gonna go she lived
to be 94 for 30-some years I’ll soon be
gone
she didn’t think she had much time left
she had 34 years left
now about the same time I had a buddy of
mine Bob gates he was just 16 and bang
he run into the abutment of a bridge and
his life was snuffed there if you had
asked him a half hour before how much
sand he had left he would have said at
least a half a century he didn’t have a
half an hour see the trick is we don’t
know how much sand we have left the
future we don’t know the past it’s gone
now the only thing you can deal with is
what’s right here right now and if you
look the sand is always moving now think
of this you see I was working on that
and then I was working on a graph I’ve
got here at Mike
and I’m thinking that the time somebody
said to have you got a minute
well they don’t really want a minute you
know if you’re earning $50,000 a year a
minutes 42 cents a half-hour is $12.50
if we take that ahead a bit if you’re
earning $80,000 here a minute 67 cents
half hours $20 getting $150,000 here got
a minute
it cost you a dollar 25 a minute a half
hours $37.50 so if you see if somebody
said you want to stop for a cup of
coffee
well if you’re earning a quarter of a
million dollars a year a minute is two
dollars and eight cents half hours sixty
two dollars and fifty cents and then of
course you’ve got the coffee to pay for
I’m talking fat so do you see the point
is this this is all we’ve got right here
right now
we don’t know how much we have left in
the future but we do know what we’ve got
now and I have found the people that win
are the people who make up their mind
then I’m gonna waste the minutes they’re
gonna be productive
they’re gonna make it happen every
minute
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