Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
I can guarantee you will never achieve anything greater than your highest aspiration.
Learning from rich and successful people is one of the most effective strategies to go forward and achieve your life's objectives.
You will most likely achieve your goals far more quickly if you open your heart to listen to their advise.
It's more important to concentrate on the attitude you choose to have when you're at work making your aspirations a reality than on what you already know.
Such successful people have likely faced many rejections before their businesses blossomed, and they have gone through what you are going through now.
For them, the obstacles are still present, but on a different scale. Despite this, they have consistently remained committed to their objectives.
As a result, there are many life lessons to be learned from seeing what they did to get to where they are now.
1. Acquire Knowledge and Skills that You are Enthusiastic About.
The first piece of advise is to engage in activities that we enjoy. To put it another way:
Choose a hobby that you enjoy. If you're doing something you love, you'll succeed naturally, and a lot of other things will take care of themselves."
You have no idea how long you'll need to keep doing what you're doing until you achieve your goal.
That is why you will frequently hear many of these wealthy people advise you not to pursue wealth.
Alternatively, you should pursue a hobby or a cause that you are enthusiastic about. It takes a lot of perseverance to keep going when the odds are stacked against you.
However, if you are doing something you enjoy, you will inevitably succeed.
2. Be Forgiving to Yourself
It is critical for every human being to forgive himself or herself because making errors is an unavoidable part of life.
However, once you've done so and recognised your error, you should forgive yourself and say, Well, if I'd known better, I would have done better.
It's all too simple to point the finger at yourself for past errors.
However, by acknowledging that your mistakes can serve as a great springboard for your development, you can learn more about yourself and, eventually, your full potential.
People get into difficulty because they strive to be flawless and then punish themselves when they aren't."
Instead than blaming yourself for your mistakes, see them as part of your learning curve.
3. Accept Failure
"Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, it is difficult to live without failing at something." If that's the case, you'll fail by default."
4. It's Never a Big Problem to Have a Setback
This is a great way to look at how we can learn from our mistakes.
I never consider a setback to be a negative experience. It's just a matter of getting used to it.
As a serial entrepreneur, you've probably experienced your fair share of setbacks. It came close to failing in its early years.
But, thanks to a combination of luck and foresight, they were able to get through the difficult period and succeed.
They immediately learnt to use these setbacks as a springboard for learning more about the business.
The capacity to adapt fast to changes is one crucial lesson to learn, as is the ability to acknowledge when something isn't going well and either alter course or close the business.
5. Develop Expertise in a Specific Area.
I've implemented this advise to practically everything I do since my college lecturer delivered it to me.
Personally, I strive to be a leader in the areas of entrepreneurship, product development, and parenting.
So we pondered:
What if we provided our employees with full-time employment, benefits, leadership and management training, and a career path?
Industry experts predicted that this would never work, but we went ahead and did it after all.
6. Pay Attention to Yourself
The most important thing is to trust yourself and have faith in yourself.
When you're young, you're told that you don't have enough experience to perform some things and that others have more.
Almost all of us who want to be successful will come across people who doubt our efforts, including those who sincerely care about us, such as our parents and spouse.
This is due to the fact that they are unable to see what we are experiencing in our brains.
We have this fantastic idea in our heads of us being extremely successful at what we're doing right now.
"If you manage your life around your passion, you can transform your passion into a tale, which can then be turned into something bigger–something that counts."
You are never too young to achieve anything major in your life and be successful, no matter how old you are.
There will always be some who say it's not possible for you, and that all the brilliant ideas have already been executed elsewhere.
7. Have Patience and Perseverance.
My uncle instilled in me the value of perseverance and patience.
Both of these skills were essential in my day trading job.
Everyone expects to become a millionaire following a weekend course, but trading is a talent that takes time to master.
Consistency took me several years to accomplish.
I asked my uncle if I should quit when Google's algorithm changed and its popularity plummeted.
He advised me to keep going, so I did.
It was formerly one of the most popular travel blogs on the internet.
We typically seek quick gratification, yet anything worthwhile takes time.
8. Learn to Identify and Understand Hidden Emotions
Don't forget to perfect your people skills while you spend more time honing your technological skills.
Learning to read microexpressions is one of the most effective ways to understand people.
They're unintentional facial expressions that disclose hidden feelings.
If you want a million you'll make a million
not a $1.5 million.
If you want $10 million, a $100 million and you'll never exceed that.
If you change a billion lives, that's the formula to become a billionaire and change the world.
Time costs lives.
Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
You want to know why you're all f***** up?
Just look at the bums you hang around with.
I do what you don't want to do that you know that you've got to do to be where you want to be.
The first 10 years of starting CNN, Dan Penna slept on his couch, he didn't have an apartment.
Bill Gates slept in the office, Steve Jobs slept in the office and I can go down a whole list.
Now these are super successful mega-wealthy guys.
They slept in his office, not everybody is willing to make that sacrifice.
But it's not the only thing but even:
- if you don't want to sleep in your office,
- if you want to send your kids to a better school,
- if you want to be able to take care of your mother when she gets dementia,
- if you want to... this all takes money.
When you die..your children aren't getting any of your money.
Not not one centavo, not one penny.
And...
Two of your kids are cool with it, one of them is not so cool with it.
I think Andrew Carnegie by the way, arguably the richest most successful entrepreneur of all time.
He said:
The best thing that you can have for a child is him to be born into poverty.
And I agree.
Lack of self-esteem, lack of self-worth.
They think they have self-worth.
They think because they made a few bucks but in actuality.
And when they measure it against the other 8, 10, 12 people sitting around the table they realize or they start the question.
"Hell, maybe he was just lucky."
Now all of us, when you're only a one-trick guy or gal think, "Was he's lucky?"
Now he've done it so many times, he know he wasn't lucky, he might have been lucky the first time but he haven't been lucky the 15, 20, 40, 50.
He know that.
But maybe he was lucky the first time.
Dan Penna life changed when he went, he was a pretty much...a haphazard kid got in a lot of trouble, got arrested 4 or 5 times, thrown in jail and this was with his dad as a cop.
But then he went, he volunteered for the draft in 1966 at the height of the Vietnam War and he went to OCS and that changed his life because it was the really first real high performance thing.
That he could measure himself against, with other people.
- Two-thirds of all Fortune 500 CEOs have one thing in common - military background. Really
- Two-thirds of those two-thirds have something else Martial Arts.
- What do you learn in martial arts Brian?
- Discipline, focus.
- A lot of people don't believe they deserve to be there I convinced them and we have these drills, why you belong there?
A lot of people that come there, you know with money that have made money think they made it by accident.
Try a lot of different things because failure is just testing and one of the reasons.
Been so successful in generating this equity and value in kids because convinced them that making a mistake is okay.
Your parents probably told you, you can be anything you want, but you can't.
That's ***.
You can't.
If it's all juxtaposed
So but what you tell them is that you can do anything you want that you have passion for.
Because that eliminates most of the crap because most people don't follow their dream.
- You can't have a dream come true unless you have a dream.
- Now I still dream.
- I dream in technicolor.
- I say my affirmations and goals every single night.
- It's bloody hard to be a high-performance person.
- Perfection equals paralysis.
- If you left it to the engineers, no car would ever come off the assembly line.
- No car would ever come off the assembly line.
- I've been in business with enough engineers that I can tell attest to that with my hand on my heart.
- They'd still be...
- Trying to make it better and the internet business is very much the same.
The internet kids want to test and they will want the landing page to be this.
Just roll it out, the great thing about the internet is your results are instantaneous.
If something that I'm overseeing that doesn't work in two days forget about it move on.
You ran it three days, and closed it down."
And you are thinking I'm going to ask. Why!
No, that's fine next"
Because without making mistakes, and without being allowed to make the decision you never get any better and 95% of the time.
I know now probably better than they do, We're never going to be able to know everything or have them know everything unless they make some mistakes and get comfortable with making mistakes.
What gets measured gets accomplished.
Without measurement you're just fooling yourself.
Before you had any money you should go to the Rolls Royce dealers and sit in the cars and smell the leather touch the leather.
You should went to million dollar houses and your wife and you would walk through the house and,
- Practice within when you're without.
- Practice being successful.
- How many people listening to this today practice being successful today.
- Through affirmations, through going to the Rolls Royce dealer.
Maybe Lamborghini, maybe something else.And within a year of you going to a Rolls Royce dealer, you had a Rolls Royce within years of dreaming and...
adding it to your goals a castle on an island,
You will owned one castle in - 1 or 2 years.
- Go to stores you can't afford.
- Go hire lawyers, you can't afford.
- Lawyers will meet with anybody, accountants will meet with anybody.
- Go to the big four accountants.
- With a business idea, the first couple meetings are for free.
- Jettison, probably a lot of the people you hang around with.
- If you have poor public speaking skills join Toastmasters.
Do these.
If you go, if you went to a good school and you're not successful, go to the alumni deals.
Many wealthy people didn't go to a good school, there are many perfect living example that a lot of trouble as a kid, working-class background, went to just a mediocre university that flunked out of three times before finally graduated with honors.
And I had no money to begin with, $820. So it's all possible, but you know I devoted myself
to feeling successful.
I was wearing suits like this, before I could afford them.
Most people procrastinate because they're unsure.
So just do it.eee
And, but I've never had a problem just doing it because one of the things you learn as a young combat, infantry officer is time cost lives.
We over analyze because we're unsure, we're not- over analyze, we don't over analyze because we are not sure.
If it will work or not, we're more worried about on the emotional side it embarrassing us.
I appreciate your time.