Walter Bond’s Speech Will Leave You SPEECHLESS – Best Motivational Video for 2019
and I believe collectively as a group
we’re gonna kick the competition but
because we understand how important it
is the big execute and domination suck
it up get tough suck it up get tough
people want to have success people want
to make a lot of money but they want it
to be easy without any challenges do you
think it was easy for me to become one
of the top 450 basketball players in the
world that you never heard of the only
way I made it to the NBA that was
fundamentally sound I was mentally tough
and I never quit
and even when I wanted to quit I had
people in my life that would make sure I
didn’t quit I hired and and set up the
top ten motivational speakers watch all
their videos and I watched it one by one
because I understand that if I pay
attention to what the best of doing I
could be the best – I watch Game film on
Michael Jordan no matter how much I
watch I couldn’t do what Michael Jordan
can do I would watch Magic Johnson I
couldn’t do with magic Johnson would do
but I sat down had these videos I
watched Les Brown Zig Ziglar Tony
Robbins my hot wife was scared I was
scared I called him to my office and I
said what a husband say I said baby
we’re gonna be okay everyone to check in
a Kelly drink they said they were gonna
be okay let’s start a motivational
speaking business
I go to Jerry Sloan I said Jerry I’m
trying to make your team but since we
don’t scrimmage I feel like I can’t show
you what I can do go to corral hear me
clearly listen to his answer and it will
unlock some mysteries as to how you
become the best in the world at what you
do over a long period of time Jerry I’m
trying to make your team but I feel like
I can’t show you what I can do he says
Walter I already know what you can do
but if you want to make my team I
suggest you listen follow directions and
execute listen
follow directions
the next you what I didn’t realize even
though we didn’t scrimmage in practice
through our practice we did drills and
he created what I call habits and
rituals every single day practice was
the same every single day we drilled on
fundamentals every single day we worked
on the habits and rituals so even though
my mind was floating even though I was
selfish and self-centred
he was conditioning me into the culture
through practice of habits and rituals
the reason why a trip of my MBA income
and three years is because of habits and
rituals next year if your name didn’t
get called to come across the stage I’m
here to tell you they will call your
name next year if you go back home and
execute habits in rituals
I wanted to scrimmage for me but jerry
sloan was getting me ready to play for
the Utah Jazz so everyday it was about
habits and rituals having hot food is
about habits and rituals great customer
service is about habits and rituals
being the best in the world of what you
do being a pro is all about habits and
rituals let me tell you something I
learned a very valuable lesson when I
played for the Utah Jazz I had a point
guard on my team who’s arguably the best
point guard in the history of the NBA
his name is John Stockton John Stockton
we go to a chiropractor four times a day
on game day you know what I said to
myself I’m not doing that it doesn’t
take all that John Stockton paid 19
years in the NBA I played three you
would have thought I’d have been smart
enough to watch a hall-of-famer and just
shut my mouth hop in the car and go with
them
No my mercy and then take all that and I
would tease him man John stocking you
were OCD or something why are you going
to a chiropractor four times a day
he swore by his chiropractor that land
played point guard in the NBA until he
was 40 years old and he didn’t retire
because he got slow he retired because
he refused to wear baggy shorts
he loved his Daisy don’t every day on
game day then be able to go to a
chiropractor four times a day and in
Miami to a basketball mind I was said
and taken all that I don’t need to do
all I’m gonna war-winning motivational
speaker because now I pay attention to
details another people forum is true
pay performers a detail-oriented
the reality is this their 450 ball
players in the NBA every single year
they give out 450 jerseys and there’s
only ten Superstock so why the general
public focuses on the superstars
professional sports is really made up
for guys like me every single day I
drilled the fundamentals
so now let’s sports you got into
business I didn’t focus on making money
I focus on fundamentals because I
understood I made it to the NBA because
I was fundamentally sound so when I get
into business
if I become fundamentally sound in
business and if I become the best in the
world in business I bet you I can make a
whole lot of money I can recruit a coast
to coast and that’s how I learned how to
sail the doorbell ring he’s comfortable
coming into my living room
they always traveled in a pack of three
they always wore University issued golf
shirts they always had a brochure they
put the brochure on the coffee table
they’re always for students on the
brochure two white one Asian and one
African American every single time and
sometimes they will substitute the Asian
for Latino as I collected more brochures
I began to recognize some of the same
kids on different schools brochures and
then I realized you know what oh my god
these aren’t students these are models
and this is big business your industry
it’s big business and whenever you have
big business it’s very competitive
but in basketball if you win by one you
still win if you win by one you still
win so you want to compete at a high
level in a very competitive business you
better pay attention to every little
detail sometimes in franchise systems
when the leader talks about what we need
to do something you sit there song we
don’t need to do that I’m not doing that
and then take all that they don’t need
to do that I don’t take all that some of
you guys right now in the opening
keynote have that thought going to your
mouth oh I’m not doing that
I don’t need new plates I’m not doing
that I’m not doing this I’m not doing
that you already made up your mind not
to do it great people
pay attention to detail so at this
conference don’t you dare let your mind
say I’m not doing that don’t take all
that I’m not doing I didn’t take all
that and uh you’ll be average the rest
of your life great people pay attention
to every single little detail I used to
think that way it doesn’t take all that
but you know what if my basketball
career I played three years and I should
have had a longer career because I did
not pay attention to detail I’m kicking
my competitions but mainly because I cut
off the news and I understand my success
is based on my daily habits the first
day of high school I walked in full of
confidence I believed confidence is
arrogance under control I walked through
my first day of high school full of
confidence until I passed the
principal’s office and he was 6 6 240
pounds everybody else called to Mr Bond
but I called him dad that first day of
school the longest day of my life I
attended High School in Chicago’s in the
city where my father was a parable about
high school I got to the luncheon when I
ate lunch all by myself I can hear my
classmates whisper I couldn’t wait to
get home I made up my mind when I get
home I’m gonna throw a pity party go
ahead and cry feel sorry for yourself be
angry be frustrated but I only give you
three days I went home that first day of
school not through me a three-day pity
party you guys don’t know me but I’d
know how to party peak performance
always think positively so go ahead and
throw your pity party for three days and
that’s it every ever thought after that
third day make sure it’s positive and
you see you or feel yourself thinking
negatively stop it right there and
reprogram your mind to think positive
I’ll give you three days go ahead and do
it I’ll do it myself all the time right
through that three day pity party that
came up with the plan I’m going back to
high school I’ll be starting baseball
team basketball team football team
president of my journalism Club my
classmates are gonna vote me most likely
to succeed
four years later after my pity party I
got focused when I was an immature – a
basketball player I didn’t get that
concept and another teammate named Karl
Malone who arguably had the best body in
the history of the NBA I would go to
restaurants with him and he annoyed me I
couldn’t even imagine what the waitress
felt like he annoyed me now he had the
best body of all time in the NBA but he
ignored me at restaurants he would order
grilled chicken Caesar salads and he
would ask the waitress when you grilled
my chicken caesar salad
can you make sure there’s no char marks
on my chicken breast uh you want her to
levitate the chicken over the grill very
picky very meticulous with Walter char
marks have carcinogens carcinogens
create cancer I want the chicken breast
but I don’t want the cancer another time
he ordered a chicken salad
this man was 69 256 pounds he always ate
salads and I rarely saw him clear his
plate had the best body of all time in
the NBA you ought to check his cell at
one time he came with hard-boiled eggs
the salad came out he says I don’t want
a hard-boiled eggs they’re high in
cholesterol and we’re in Salt Lake City
they all know who we are we’re the only
brothers in town well mr. Malone the
salads are pre-made and the egg is
crumbled over the salad well would you
mind picking it out for me he annoyed me
i’ma go behind his back I would
apologize to the waitress and give her
an extra tip
me I ate whatever they brought me french
fries cool crazy cool mr. wrong order
I’ll keep this and I’ll eat the food you
bring out till he annoyed me when he
ordered food because I thought he was
difficult karma loan paid 20 years in
the NBA I played three I actually have
motivational speakers calling me saying
Walter we’re in a recession I’m thinking
about quitting and getting a real job
now getting that an oxymoron a
motivational speaker quit it you know
what I do when I get those phone calls I
motivate them to quit cuz in my mind if
it’s gonna be a dog-eat-dog world I’m
gonna be the big dog and I always asked
him a question cuz they say you know
Walter the economy the recession the
economy the recession
I don’t trust the media I was a high
school basketball star I began to deal
with the meeting when I was 16 17 18
years old
I understand how the media operates I
understand how they make money so I
always challenge these motivational
speakers well we’re in a recession how
do you know prove it to me
answers always the same heard it on the
news let me show you how it plays out I
just had a financial service firm with
me for 30 events if you multiply my feet
sounds 30 that’s the NBA contract but
one of these events delt and deliver it
in 90 days
my fellow motivational speaker friends
stop marketing to financial service
firms because they were convinced the
financial service firms weren’t spending
money based on the AIG pushback is
everybody with me in 90 days I made NV a
money merely because I don’t trust a
thing the media says what are you
allowing the media to do to your mind
your approach your outlook are you
kidding me I could always hit my daddy’s
voice I don’t care where I was I could
be on the school bus I could be in the
lunch room I could be on the playground
I could be somewhere I shouldn’t be like
I always hit my daddy’s boy my daddy
could protect me on the streets of
Chicago when he was not even there you
have children you have branches make
sure they can always hear
but most importantly in business whose
voice you’re listening when it comes to
franchising whose voice are you
listening to when it comes to same-day
sales
whose voice you’re listening to when it
comes down to hiring the right Cassie
whose voice are you listening to when it
comes down to being successful in
franchising whose voice are you
listening to my wife’s now former
franchisees that’s why I’m a no-brainer
to speak in franchise conferences
because every franchise system has
typically two groups at the covers
you have one group that buys in and
they’re in the corner talking about how
can we execute how can we improve
same-day sales
wow you’re doing good I’m doing good
let’s keep working together what can we
do to improve the friends we had the
conference let’s buy it
there’s always another group over
another corner oh yeah man corporate
your corporate couples are always trying
to sell us something just to make money
all that stuff they’re talking about and
you won’t do it no you me either so
every system trust me has two different
groups at the conference the group that
buys in and the group that’s rebels and
dough
here’s another rhetorical question for
you work group are you with
birds of a feather flock together didn’t
say old birds new birds he says birds of
a feather flock Brian Tracy puts it this
way another very great motivational
speaker he says your salary will be the
average of your five closest friends
I’ve never made the Kobe Bryant Michael
Jordan money I was terrified of becoming
that athlete who went broke and for
months I saw my cheque in the ground
doing though every single month
college-educated college degree but
every month my checking account was
dwindling I had no other skill sets I
sold out to the sport in which you have
to do to play pro basketball you got to
sell out so here I am 31 years old white
for three kids
mortgage clicking every single month and
I was scared
not believing mama ain’t happy ain’t
nobody happy so the next day we join the
country club
and I walked in for my typical Chicago
strap all the other guys walked like
this
I looked at my wife and I said baby I
can’t even walk like that that does not
look comfortable doesn’t even look
natural brothers don’t walk like that
Brian Tracy is right
when I walk into the Country Club I was
scared to death about my future
but your salary will become the average
of your five closest friends now we’ve
been at the Country Club for 14 years
now I can walk like they walk now I
could talk like they talk now I think
like they say and now I make what they
make
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