Daily Motivations - Change Yourself

Episode Date: May 14, 2022

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everything that you're supposed to be. And you're so damn busy waiting to feel like it. And you're never going to. Ever. And your problem is you're not going to. Ever. And your problem is you're not intentional and deliberate. You wake up on Monday and you might be strong.

But by Wednesday, are you hearing what I'm telling you? You're not intentional and deliberate. You are hoping that the best is going to happen to you. And the best never happens to you. You got to be intentional and deliberate. Whether you're making money or not making money you gotta decide that you're gonna do something and you gotta do it every Monday every Tuesday every Wednesday every Thursday problem with some of you in this room you're not intentional and

deliberate you're a good person that just hope the good stuff is gonna happen to you I don't care how small it is I don't care how miniscule the movement is, but make movement. Move forward and do that every single day, no matter what. When you embark this journey, you must know that it's going to go down before it comes up. When it comes up, it's going to go so much higher than you've ever been. Sacrificing today for tomorrow's betterment. But if you didn't know that, you didn't prepare for that, think something's wrong, maybe it's time to stop.

No, it's time to move even further. Whatever challenges or discomfort you experience, you got to handle it. What do you want me to tell you? That it's going to be a picnic? No, it's not. Will it be challenging? Yes.

It's going to kick your butt? Yes, it is. This dream you got, whatever you want to do, will it be easy to just run out there and do it? No. Will it happen overnight? No. Will it be a struggle?

Yes. Will there be times when you can't make ends meet? Yes, that's a part of it. Will there be times when you can't make ends meet? Yes, that's a part of it. Will there be times you won't know what to do? Yes, that's a part of it. Will you have some opposition? Will things go wrong sometimes? You will have many visits to Murphy. Are you going to want to die? Yes, yes, that's a part of it. But that's just what you must go through in order to get where you want to go.

And guess what? You are strong enough to do it. You're strong enough. And your life is worth whatever you have to go through. If you want a great jump in the quality of your life, an extraordinary jump in the quality of your life, you've got to set yourself up to win. You've got to set yourself up with a process that allows you to consistently grow, consistently enjoy your life, and consistently produce the results that you're really after. And I don't care what area of life you want to change, coaching is one of the most valuable tools in the world. Now, when I started my career, there was no coaching industry.

I helped to father that interesting industry almost 35 years ago. And it's kind of interesting. When I first started out, if somebody would have said, oh, one of the best ways you can help an executive perform at a higher level is get them a personal coach, I mean, people would have laughed at you. But today, it's a multibillion-dollar industry because 70% of the Fortune 500 now say, in a recent study, if you want to find the top three ways to improve performance of an executive, one of those is personal coaching. But again, when I began, you know, I'll tell you kind of the history of how this came about.

I was a young man who was always looking for answers. I wanted to change my own life initially, physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. But as soon as I got answers, I always was coaching other people. When I was in high school, I was Mr. Solution. If you had a problem, I had the solution, especially if you were a girl, because then I was more motivated and I want to really help. But really at that time, I would feed my mind. I didn't have a lot of coaches to come after. I fed my mind with books. I read a book a day. My goal is read a book every single day that's about personal development, improvement, psychology, physiology, something that could help you improve your life.

And when people needed help, I had the answer. And I got hooked on having those answers. So I kind of started that coaching at that stage where I coached myself and people saw results. And those results made people ask me what to do. And that's how I got involved in it. You have to teach your mind to honor the struggle. You have to teach your mind. Every day you're getting discouraged.

And instead of saying, well, I guess I quit. I suck. This is no good. It's never going to happen. You have to take control of the self-talk and honor the struggle. Like literally tell your mind how to deal with the process. Tell your mind, no, no, no. This process, this hardship, this struggle, it's part of conditioning me to be ready for the dream, to succeed. This part of the struggle that I hate right now, it's developing character. It's making me force it. It's helping me challenge. It's developing character. It's making me force it. It's helping me challenge. It's making me grow.

In other words, anticipate the fire. Anticipate the difficulty. Anticipate that it's going to suck. Anticipate the days that you just don't like it. 2008 in particular was awful because we had the third launch failure in a row of our Falcon 1 vehicle at SpaceX. And the Tesla financing round that we were raising fell apart, because the economy was going to tailspin. And it's pretty hard to raise money for a startup car company, you know, late 2008 when GM and Chrysler are busy going bankrupt. That was tough.

And then SolarCity had a deal with Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Stanley had to renege on the deal because they themselves were running out of money. So it looked like all three companies were going to die. And I was also going through a divorce. So that was definitely a low point. So it's 2008. You're going through a divorce, which like some, to borrow your word, douchebag bloggers are writing about to make even worse. Right.

Yes, that's true. In addition to all that stuff happening, I was getting dumped on massively in the press. Right. Yeah. It looks like all three companies are going to fail. I mean, why do you keep going with all three? Like, I feel like even a lot of great entrepreneurs in that situation would have been like, I've already sunk everything I have in these companies and I got to pick one. But you didn't. I mean, you kept doing all three.

Why? Yeah, that was probably one of the toughest calls I've had to make because I could either reserve capital for one company or the other. I mean, SolarCity didn't need a ton of capital, so they were okay. But between SpaceX and Tesla,

it's sort of like you've got two kids, and what do you do? Do you spend all your money to maximize the quality of success of one, or do you try to keep both left? Fortunately, it worked. How do you make your decisions? You're changing the world every day. I mean, if it's nothing but the children you have, I mean, you are forming their view of the world and you do it every day.

So you are a teacher. But with the people around you, one of the best things in life to do is to surround yourself with high grade people because you will behave as the people around you do, but they in turn are getting it from you. It's kind of like a planetary system. And I promise you,

you will change the world in some way. And my guess is you'll change it very much for the better. But you can't expect to see something dramatic. I mean, it's not one of those Shazam moments or something of the sort. But you, by how you're behaving, are affecting other people, setting an example for other people.

You will find ways to leave a better world than you entered. One of the biggest mistakes we make is we don't study the stories of the greats. So how many people's lives have you studied from start to finish? If you've studied someone's life from start to finish, I genuinely believe this is like the core skill that's needed. I would say that the people I admire, I have studied their lives from start to finish. I know why they made bad decisions, what they consider

to be good decisions. Like there's autobiographies and biographies out there. There's podcasts like ours where people come and listen to people's stories. If you've not studied someone's story, then you can't follow that path because every time you hit a rejection, so every time I get rejected, I think of Steve Jobs getting kicked out of his own company. Crazy, isn't it? Every time I fail,

I think about Michael Jordan losing a game. Every time I get tired of training, I think about Cristiano Ronaldo putting in that extra rep. Those are the visual cues that we need, but you only get those visual cues if you've done the research and the study. And then you go, oh, if Steve Jobs was kicked out of his own company,

but then still had the audacity at one point to go and build Pixar, then I think I'm all right if I just didn't get this job. Within a year of going public, I think, there's some fortune cover that says the deal that made Bill Gates $360 million or some weird thing like that. How did it change your life, or it didn't change your life at all? Well, that whole period of time was amazing

because I was hiring people as fast as I could. I had brought in Steve Ballmer, who was very good at that, and he was helping out. We had a sense of urgency that we wanted to lead the way. There was this graphics interface thing with Windows that we wanted to do. So I was super busy. And the idea that I could hire so quickly and invest and build this worldwide company was fascinating to me, but I was really busy. So, you know, if some friend had tried to call me, you know, I wouldn't have had too much time for that. I was really into building this company.

And I was going out and telling people about the magic of software, which was good for Microsoft, but also helping them understand the opportunities and the huge change agent that software and eventually software plus the Internet would become. So I was having fun. It was amazing. But I always thought, hey, we're one step away from not leading here. We've got to keep doing better. Thanks for listening. Kindly support the movement of this podcast by supporting us or subscribing to our premium content for more exclusive stuff. When you do so, you also get a shout out in our next episode.

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