Motivation Daily by Motiversity - THE MINDSET OF HIGH ACHIEVERS #2

Episode Date: March 22, 2022

THE MINDSET OF HIGH ACHIEVERS: Eye Opening Advice from Grant Cardone, Stephen A. Smith, Ben Pakulski, and Dan Pena Will Change Your Life! Special thanks to London Real and Valuetainment for partnering with us on this video! Music by Audiojungle (https://audiojungle.net/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. If anyone in the world can do it, so can you. If people can get that, I hope to give that to my kids. Like, if you want to be an astronaut, why wouldn't you? If you want to be the president of the United States, why wouldn't you? Like, you can't. You just have to figure out what it's going to take to get there and do it. Take a step every day.

And so that paradigm was in my brain. Maybe when I was young, I don't exactly remember, but this idea of no matter what it is, it may just take time in a particular skill set, but if you want to run a multi-hundred million dollar business, find someone who's doing it and get them to mentor here, find 10 people that are doing it and learn little things from them, right? It's all there. It's all been done before, right? So that was kind of where my paradigm came around. If you can't, you must. My philosophy is very, very simple when it comes to my family, particularly, you know, me being a dad.

If they're hungry, it's because I'm starving. I don't eat until they eat. I'm not comfortable until they're comfortable. I don't have unless they have. That's the mentality, and that's the mentality that I strictly get from my mother. And so for me, you know, having that kind of mentality, but what comes with that? What comes with that is a certain work ethic that you have to put for.

It's easy to slip back into, you know, well, you know, I'm not going to push myself. Because when people blow smoke up here constantly, 24-7, 365, it's a good feeling, you know, You know, you know, now... Even the most vigilant high-performance person will be subjected to that. Absolutely. You've seen that. That's why guys like Gates, the late Steve Jobs, Elon, they don't hang. Eagles fly alone. You know, it's hard for the birds that are flying at 10,000 feet to blow smoke up your ass when you're at 25,000 feet.

People are trying to do the impossible right now. They're trying to save what they make. Dude, it's easier just to make another four grand. There's no shortage of money. There's no shortage of money on this planet. There's plenty of money. You said $4 trillion has been freaking manufactured. You got to first decide there's no shortage.

You know, clear up you're thinking about what your daddy thinks a lot of money is. And get rid of the thinking that you make enough. You don't. Nobody does. And then start thinking, okay, my first target should be $125. That gets you in the top 5% of all the earners on planet Earth. Okay. If you earn $125 grand a year, it's $10,000 a month.

Top 5% planet Earth. Planet Earth, bro. You're at the party now. At least you've been invited to the party of prosperity on Planner. I'm not talking about money, man. I'm talking about taking care of your kids. What you want to send in the school? You're going to have to buy a car.

You probably need a house at some point. You need clothes. You've got to have food. You're going to have an emergency. You need some freaking dough. I'm not talking about money, right? Now if you want to get in the big leagues, now you've got to start thinking about these other numbers,

$250, $400, a million, a million a month. It doesn't take any talent to be a critic. It takes real work to think through an idea and see the world differently from everybody else, articulate it, and then put your reputation on the line and go popularize it. That's work. It's not easy to do. And you have to be willing to be unpopular. You know, when I was 15 years old, starting into my exercise journey, I remember sitting on the couch and I wanted to go to the gym. And it flipped in my brain, I was like, the harder this is, the strong.

I become. So the more I feel this pull, the stay home, the more I go. I was 15 years old and I was freezing cold in Canada, you know, grew up in Toronto. And I go out running at 5 in the morning and people go, why do you do that? Because it sucks. And that was always my belief. It was like, because I hate it. And I would go often until I just threw up or until my lungs burnt. Maybe that was the inner contempt that I felt. But it was also like, I know that I don't want to do this. Nothing about me wants to do this. So I do it. Right. And that may be. what allowed me to build that mentality to overcome all those obstacles that occurred during my bodybuilding career right and there meant there was endless

obstacles there was a lot of deterrence there's a lot of negative mindset people think I'm just naturally a mentally strong guy but like oh man I had more struggles than anybody and that's why I succeeded right because I used those those struggles and I looked at them and rather than saying oh I can't do it I go all right I don't know if I'm gonna come out on the other side but I'm gonna do it I'm gonna try right it's just like seeing it as an opportunity for progress. Your greatest obstacle is your greatest opportunity for growth and progress. And if I if I can switch that brand mindset rather than, oh, that's an obstacle. I don't want to go over there.

Run take the first step and then run full speed. And that's the greatest opportunity for progress. And you see the easy road over there. Man, let everybody else go that way. Let them all go that way. And you go over there. Right. And again, why did I build big big legs? Or some people say some of the best legs in all time. Because nobody else did it. You know, I have so much respect for the guys who build the amount of muscle I did because it's not easy man it's not you get it like it's not easy and the amount of struggle I went through and like I had such an obsession because I sucked at it. It's funny that you know I was told I'd never be a professional bodybuilder because I had small legs and narrow shoulders and if you ever want to look at a picture of my bodybuilding career I had the biggest

legs on stage by far and the wide of shoulders by far because somebody said that to me and I was like okay thank you like right I'm not going to get mad at you I'm not going to take it in and go I don't. He was mean to me. Thank you. Fuel. So willingness to sacrifice. Am I the most disciplined person in the world? No. Am I the most meticulous person in the world? Like some people would believe? No, I'm meticulous enough and I'm disciplined enough. But I also know how to let go and relax or whatever. And sometimes I may not be as disciplined as I should be. But I think the key thing is, is that the bottom line is everything to me. And whatever the bottom line requires is what I'm.

I'm going to do. If the bottom line requires an excessive level of discipline, I'm going to do it. If I can slack off a little bit and still achieve that goal, I might pick and choose from time to time to slack off just a little bit. But to me, it's whatever the moment or the situation demands. And it's, I'm a bottom lines oriented kind of person. I have an assistant. I have people who work for me. I have people who work with me. They'll tell you, I'm very bottom line kind of guy. If you tell me, the job is going to get done and the job is going to get done in an excellent fashion and it requires 90% effort i'll let you go with that i'll let you get away with that i'm not going to sweat it but if this means if this needs one if this requires 100% and you give me 99 i might want to fire you

because i'm not i'm about getting the job done sure it's about the results and i think that you know unfortunately when we look at our generation today not Not enough people preach about that. Why do you think that is? Because I think that we live in a society where people have become masters at pointing the finger at other people about reasons as to reasons why things don't get done. I think there's too much explanation that goes on. What you taught me to do is to engineer risk into my life.

Correct. So now every time I'm faced with a decision or sometimes even when I not face with a decision, I just think, how can I engineer more risk in this situation? Whereas before, I would try my hardest to engineer less risk in the situation, which meant growth was slow, and I played it safe, and at the end of the day, it didn't matter anyways. What? So a couple people thought I failed? So you played, instead of playing to win, you played not to lose. And one of the, not new concept, we talked about it when you were there a few years ago.

When you started a business from zero, your first 50,000 in revenue is geometric. Your next 500,000 million. Explain that to people. So when you start a business, most any business, those first 50,000 revenue is geometric. Because it comes from zero, nothing. Right, goes from zero to 50. It's just obviously, I'm infinite growth. From zero to 500 is geometric.

Okay. Microsoft started that way Facebook started that way Google. But then what people start doing is they start playing set of the win. They play not to lose and they start not doing the same things that got them the first geometric growth. But the other more important thing in my judgment, and it's really proven really, beneficial to the kids in the last year or two is that that first million in revenue because we buy revenue it's easier to buy revenue than then created that revenue that has a million now we don't know how much he spent or they spent to create that

million so when banks see that you're de-risking the commercial debt you're de-risking because you're having cash flow free cash flow that covers debt service based on somebody else. It may have taken them 25 years, they got a million in revenue. And you're buying it in a week, a month. It's always great to let the other person talk. Let them talk, let him just keep talking, throw out a word that gets him a little bit and he'll talk more. And as he's talking, you can kind of figure out his mentality, his personality, his personality, what you can get out of him, what you can't get out of him.

And it helped me a lot in negotiating deals later on. And, you know, sometimes you may be the smartest person in the room, and you don't want anybody to know that. You just want to keep quiet like you don't know anything. Let them think they're smarter than you. And there's other times when you're not the smartest person in the room, but you want people to think you are. So you have to learn how to have that skill. I learned when I sat back and reflected on the mistakes that I had made in my career at the time,

I learned that no boss wants to talk to anybody that doesn't have solutions. That is very true. There's a flip side. Yeah. I've never met a boss that doesn't want to talk to someone with solutions. See the difference? That if you don't want to talk to somebody with problems and you don't want to talk to somebody with solutions, then to me you're the problem because you're not trying to solve.

You want to go with status quo. You're perfectly fine with flowing along just to get along, safe, secure, whatever. But when you're trying to win, you're constantly looking to get better. Thank you.