- Have you ever wondered what makes people happy?
What's the real driver in happiness?
Well, in this video, I'm gonna share with you
what I think really makes entrepreneurs happy.
Let's go!
Hi, I'm James Sinclair.
I've been employing hundreds of people,
thousands of people over the last 15 years.
I run lots and lots of different companies
in the family entertainment and leisure sector,
and I'm running those companies today.
So I'm actually doing this stuff,
and I'm gonna share with you my biggest learns.
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So welcome back, guys.
Now, look, I've been thinking about this for some time now,
especially this morning.
I had a chat with a guy that I know who's,
he's quite an old guy, and he's seriously wealthy.
I mean uber seriously wealthy, and we catch up regularly.
And he's still going.
He's going like, I mean he's in his 70s, gang.
He's still going like there's no tomorrow,
and he still wants to do stuff.
And his family and friends can't understand
why he wants to keep on investing, keep on buying,
building, doing stuff, being entrepreneurious
and enjoying what you've got.
He's got money, more than most
of us can every imagine having.
So what keeps him going?
Why does he keep going?
See, this is what makes him really happy,
and it's what makes most people happy,
and of this video, I'm gonna share with you this big word,
and it's on here.
This is the thing that I've understood, progress.
It's what makes me happy.
If I feel we're progressing, then I'm happy.
It's not about how much money I've got
because it's easy to make more money.
I feel like progress is the thing
that keeps me really happy,
and it's the same with relationships.
When you meet someone for the first time,
you get those butterflies.
That progress of that relationship makes us happy,
and as long as our business is progressing in the right way,
as long as our friendships are progressing in the right way,
then we're gonna keep those things happening.
If progress isn't happened,
that's when we look for change,
and change isn't the thing that really makes us happy.
It's progress, responsibilities for getting stuff done
and making things happen is really what drives me.
And I've done a little picture,
which I'm just gonna share with you right here,
and these are some of my senior team,
and we're just pointing to this piece of paper here.
And this, this is the total years
that some of my senior people have worked with me.
I'm up there, 17 years, Aaron, 14 years,
Kate, 12 years, Janequi, Jeanette, Debbie.
There's a total of 66 years,
but all of those people have progressed with us
within our company, and that's how we've managed
to retain them.
If people doing the same year at school year
on year on year and don't feel like they're progressing,
then they're not gonna feel fulfilled.
So if you're not progressing,
that's when you need to look at change
because there's no point in changing
if life is progressing, and too many entrepreneurs
change everything when actually they're at the cusp
and the start of progression.
So this is what we need to look at.
We look at how we can really make effective progress happen
because if progress isn't happen,
that's when change needs to kick in.
Maybe you're in a job where you just can't see progression.
Now, usually why progression isn't happening for people
is because they haven't become who they really need to be.
They're not working at their full potential
so if you're in a job or you're in a business
and you're thinking my God, I'm not making the progress
that I wanna progress with,
then you need to think about who do I need to become?
What do I need to have?
What do I need to do to make change happen?
So here's the formula that we worked.
It's a very famous formula.
You can check it out on the internet.
You've gotta first have this word here, dissatisfaction.
Dissatisfaction needs to be really strong within you
because if you're dissatisfied,
you can then really start thinking about change.
And this is where V comes in, the vision.
You gotta have a really powerful vision
of what your future looks like,
what your progress look like.
You've gotta be able to think with the end in mind.
What does the end look like?
What does that powerful vision look like?
So once you're dissatisfied,
you times it by a powerful vision.
Then you're on the road to progress.
But here's where most people fall down.
It's about putting the first steps in process.
So you're dissatisfied.
You times it by a really powerful vision
of your future, how you're gonna progress to your future.
What's the first steps that we're gonna take?
And all of these things need to be greater than resistance
because resistance, regular habits are gonna stop you
from really getting forward and progressing.
So you've gotta make sure this is bigger than resistance.
So usually, illness is a thing that can really make
the progress bigger than resistance.
So if you're told you've only got six months to live
unless you do some stuff
or you've got a vision that you do wanna live,
that's a very powerful vision.
The first steps is you get healthier.
You go and see a doctor.
You go and see another doctor.
You do research, different medication.
You take the first steps really quickly,
and they far greater than resistance.
When we come into business,
if we're dissatisfied with where our business is right now,
we've gotta come up with a vision
of what our business looks like in the future,
and then the first steps
might be getting a better team involved,
getting more sales, learning marketing,
reading more marketing books, going to more seminars,
knowledging up, and this is really the most powerful thing
that can get the change to make the progression happen
in your life and in your business.
If you liked this video, comment below.
Let me know what you think.
I'd love to hear from you,
and if you wanna come and see me free, live
at one of my seminars, I'd love to see you there.
I've got a little description in the video link.
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So I've got a link in the video description,
how you can come along
to one of my live seminars to help grow your business.
I'd love to see you there, the Business Growth Seminar.
See you very soon, bye bye.