Hello Aluxers and welcome to this Sunday Motivational video.
Last week we promised we will take a look at core values so here it is.
Our goal for today is to help you understand
There are different kinds of values
In order for you to take the most value out of this, we will jumble all of them together and pick the ones we found yield the highest return towards a well-lived life!
Before we jump into the list, this is all you need to know:
When it comes to making a choice, your values determine the option you’ll go for.
This is very different from Goals or Objectives.
When you set a goal, your focus is shifted towards the outcome, towards external things.
On the other hand, VALUES shift the focus on who you are as a person and what are your internal rules you’ll use to navigate the world.
This is a very important difference that people who skip the intros to these videos will miss out on.
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This isn’t about you becoming Hokage or anything like that..
It simply means that you do what you say you’ll do.
We live in a time where talking is cheap, even free, where words, plans, goals, don’t mean anything, nobody is held accountable for what they say or even what they do.
In this world, be different!
There’s a great quote by Jon Stewart that goes like this:
that those around you can count on you to show up when you say you will.
Be strong enough to admit when you got it wrong and don’t just say you’ll try to do better.
Even if it means embarrassment or feeling ashamed.
Those feelings are temporary.
The actual value people use for this is HONESTY, but honestly, this term gets thrown around so much it bears almost no meaning in professional conversations.
So instead, we replaced it with chapter 8 from Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for life.
This one is the natural progression of the previous value we just mentioned.
Here’s our fundamental take on this:
The more chaos you have in your life, in your relationship, in your business, the more stress, unhappiness. and unpredictability it breeds.
People get haunted by Chaos they create their entire lives, never being able to escape it.
And don’t try to play the game... Don’t half-truths, don’t neglect to tell the truth when it was your duty to do so.
If you can’t be the bearer of the light of truth and least try not to lie.
The correct terms here are “resilience” or “perseverance”.
You’re watching this because you’re looking for that extra edge, that secret sauce towards success right?!
We’re speaking from personal experience here: the main reason why we succeeded is because we didn’t give up when things got hard.
Life is always testing how badly you want it, how much are you willing to put up with before the reward.
Most people don’t make it. Most people quit. Most people think the obstacle is too big.
Not giving up doesn’t mean keep doing what you’re currently doing and obviously not moving in the right direction, but we’ll touch on this at number 8.
If this is really the life you chose for yourself if just by listening to this your blood flows just a bit faster...
If the reward is everything you’ve ever wanted, how can anyone say the effort isn’t worth it?
If it isn’t worth it, it means you wanted the wrong things...
We still feel it in ourselves, you probably feel it two.
There’s a hunger within you, a thirst for more, this feeling like this isn’t what your life is supposed to be…
This hunger you feel is part of who you are, this hunger will push you to work harder than your competitor,
to work longer hours, to wake up one hour earlier… this hunger will push you to make an extra phone call...
To send and extra email... To apply for one more job, go to one more interview…
People who don’t have this hunger simply can not compete with those who do.
This is especially true if you were born in a poor country...
Because you know what it’s like TO WANT and NOT HAVE.
How do you expect anyone who was born “having” to want it more than you do…
A lot of people suffer from “WHAT IF” syndrome.
What if they make fun of me. What if all my fears of not being good enough get confirmed?
These are hard things to deal with.. But life is supposed to force you to grow and you can’t do it from comfort.
You actually appreciate it more when you’ve earned it! This is why participation trophies don’t work.
It takes away from the need to compete.
If everyone gets a first place badge, why would anyone work hard to be the best they can be...
The more you think of yourself as a fragile snowflake, the more you’re missing the avalanche coming down the mountain towards you.
Look back on your life right now.. You probably regret not doing more.. Not starting sooner… not telling that cute girl in class how you feel about her...
These regrets keep replaying in your mind while you lay in bed at night, thinking…
simulating what reality would’ve been like if you did things differently...
The truth is you didn’t! The lesson is to not repeat this mistake again.
Some people don’t go to the doctor because they believe what they don’t know can’t hurt them...
Sorry to break it to you.. But cancer doesn’t care what you believe… but the choice you’re making could mean the difference between life and death.
Finding out correlates to the 2nd value we mentioned, the one related to the truth...
Finding out means bringing truth back into your life; even if it’s not the answer you want it, at least you know and can move forward without the curse of
Some people have this, some people don’t.
Those who don’t.. End up working for other people.
People with vision see how things could be, while everyone else sees things the way they are.
To the normal person they seem magical...
Looking at the likes of Elon or Steve Jobs, it’s easy to think of them as having some external ability that you lack.
On a personal level, we’ve always thought about it as an ability to connect dots in creative ways.. Sometimes even ahead of the present.
Fundamentally, it boils down to cause and effect:
A trained person can simulate the future and figure out their best course of action instead of going head first and figuring it out on the spot.
How many of you have seen this quote by Oscar Wild going around on facebook, tumblr, pinterest or instagram:
Ughhhh! Where do we even begin...?
Should you not try to emulate more inspiring people just for the sake of being “yourself”?
What’s so great about this self that we’re so eager to put on a pedestal?
Screw that version of yourself… if you're not a great person tell the truth, nobody's screwing you anyway.
Here’s how we’ve always looked at this:
Every great artist first masters the fundamentals and then uses them in their own unique way.
Picasso had figured out how to win at art by the time he was 15.
Just look at this painting called Science and Charity:
He literally got bored with being like everyone else, so he began doing his own thing, being himself.
Too many people try to skip ahead but end up exposed as pretenders.
We are the sum of every positive and negative influence we’ve had throughout our lives.
Take all these pieces and build something great!
As much as we would love to get into Plato’s “The Last Days of Socrates,” the fundamental truths of Descartes or Nietzsche,
we would probably need a 40-minute video to do so on this point alone.
So the best alternative we found to get the message swiftly to you Aluxers, is this Bear Grills meme:
This is true in business, in life and whatever situation you might find yourself in that requires you to be creative for your wellbeing.
The person who’s unable to read his environment and modify his own behavior accordingly is a goner.
Nature and life is brutal in this regard.
But it doesn’t stop there. In the words of David Goggins:
And although there are plenty of cockroaches on this earth, you don’t see them pushing the world forward,
they’re not planting food, they’re not creating art, they’re not documenting society and we would all be be shocked if we found out cockroaches have their own space-program.
There’s this legendary moment when Nokia was being acquired by Microsoft when Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia said:
That statement, to this day is haunting us as a constant reminder of the need to constantly change.
Just doing nothing wrong isn’t enough.
There’s always someone coming after what you have who wants it just as much as you did in the beginning.
The advantage you had yesterday, will be replaced by the trends of tomorrow.
You either lead the change or be devoured by it!
Translated into common words: Absorb Knowledge & Attract People
The moment you stop learning, that’s when things start to go downhill for you.
A thousand years ago, only the church knew how to read and write and this knowledge was used to influence history.
Only the rich were privy to the tools and ideas captured in books treasured inside sky-high towers.
his knowledge allowed them to conquer and spread quickly throughout the world..
Ironically, the same knowledge today is the one that’s pointing out just how outdated their ideologies are.
Getting back to the point, you no longer have the excuse of valuable information being kept from you.
You can just google it. You’re absorbing the knowledge from this piece of content right now and it’s making you smarter.
Your reality changes because of the things you’ve learned today and choose to implement tomorrow.
You feel lost, because you chose to watch all the seasons of How I Met Your Mother
- despite everyone telling you about the horrible ending - instead of using that time to work on yourself.
Be a sponge for knowledge, for information that has value, because this allows you to connect it in creative ways that create even more value.
The second half of this core-values point we’re trying to make is attracting high-quality people towards you.
We know you wish your friends were cooler, more successful or celebrities, but guess what...
Successful people hang out with other successful people, celebrities hang our with celebrities
and you... You hang out with them, not even by choice, but by circumstance.
This is a very valuable point to highlight.
On Monday we published a video about WHY you don’t make any new friends which you can check out by clicking in the top right corner.
We recommend you watch it.
Believe it or not, it just didn’t make sense to shoot for a list of 15 for this one, so Excellence is our last core value.
Very few people know what excellence stands for.
Some might believe it’s the best of the best.
In the words of Beyonce’s husband, Shawn Carter,
Hitting the very top once isn’t excellence, getting lucky isn’t excellence.
There’s a standard you need to set for yourself in terms of quality, in terms of performance and delivering on expectations.
What kind of standards have you set for yourself? Is excellence one of your core values?
Every one of these Sunday Motivational videos falls under our own excellence criteria.
Yes there are definitely other people out there that maybe have better visuals, better animations,
but there’s no-one out there that’s been delivering this much value, at this high level consistently for the past 5 years the way we’ve been able to do,
which is why you’re here today.
Because you’re expecting value and we can not let you down.
You’re expecting us to deliver it in a way that’s easy to understand and relate to your own life, and we can’t let you down.
Which brings us to today’s question:
Write it down in the comments!
We promised not to bullshit you with sounds-good-doesn’t-work information, so be truthful.
At least then you have a real place to start from!
As a thank you for watching this video until the end you’re getting an additional gold nugget:
We really wanted to throw this in because it’s easy to look at these high performers, at what all these coaches are telling you,
Gary V basically screaming at you to Hustle and go get it 24/7 and feel like you’re not hustling or getting it..
What happens most often, people come across a video such as ours, take a look at the long check-list of traits, skills, in this case values and realize:
WOW… I can relate to only 1 or 2 things, I must be a loser so what’s the point in even trying when there are definitely others out there who got this in the bag.
Truth is, you came here for yourself! You chose to spend YOUR time getting just a little bit better today and that’s all there is to it.
You can’t go 100 every day for the rest of your life, we’re not designed to work like that.
What we found that got us the most value, is being disciplined enough
to do at least 1 thing every day that moves the needle just a bit towards what our goals are in life.
Even the smallest progress leads to great results on the long run.
It’s that 0.01, done daily for a year that gets you those massive results.
We use our core values to make decisions and our strategy to plan for the future.
Wrapping things up, Don’t be put down by your lack of perfection and instead focus on progress,
even if it’s just a little bit; trust us, it will go a long way on the long term.
This is usually the part where we ask you to write a specific word to prove you’re a true Aluxer,
but today we want you to answer this question:
When it comes to Sunday Videos,
Write 15 or 10 in the comments, so we know what to do next week.
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