so let's start this video with some excuses.
I don't have the time. I don't have enough savings I can't afford to take a risk right now there's probably a
better opportunity later this isn't the opportunity for me I don't know enough
about the market I don't think that I'm educated enough I need a business partner
I'm just not confident in myself. these are your excuses and I hate to put this
on you but out of all the people who've tried to express gratitude but in the
same breath said that this is never gonna happen for them all of you let me
clarify you're saying I'm considering starting a business and you've said that
months ago and I haven't seen you move yet you think that YouTube's a one-way
street you think I don't see you guys I keep up with all of you and there's so
many of you who have messaged me like I'm going to start an Airbnb business
and you haven't done it yet so let me ask you this what are you so afraid of
well I think we've talked about all of your excuses now right so which one of
those is is your excuse and what is the root of your fear there let me tell you
something that you may not know yet obviously you saw that I was just on
Vacation. My good friend Sean ray and I we have something in common we both went
homeless on the way to our level of success where we are today so I started
my first business in 2010 and that was after I went homeless I went homeless
because I worked for a company that that kind of screwed me over and I was too
proud to go get a new job and I was determined on doing my own thing I was
put into a situation where I was not ready and I decided to start reading a
lot of books a self-educated find the opportunity and go out there and get it
so I was halfway there right I knew I wanted to work for myself and I decided
I was never gonna work for anyone else ever again
but I also wasn't ready to commit to myself to actually be a business owner
regardless of what that meant so I went homeless along the way I was forced to
finally make that move and I started my first business in 2010 and everything
has been great since just Airbnb business of mine this is one of five
businesses so I can tell you from experience starting a business is not
that hard the greatest thing about starting a business is you're the one
working on it there's nobody who's gonna care more
than you you will survive as a standalone businessperson that's not
where most people fail most people fail when they grow and they try to put other
people in charge of their businesses when they start spending too much money
too quickly this is where people fail you will not fail if you start a company
that is not where you're going to fail if you just want to become independent
and make your own money and start finding your path you're going to be ok
my buddy Sean ray and I both were servers that was like one of our last
real jobs and then we got into sales getting into sales we learned so much
about business and then we finally go by what I mean is real jobs is like
employee jobs when we both got into sales we were above contractors for
companies we're kind of like semi independent and that's where we learn a
lot about business and now we're both you know business owners and we're happy
so a couple quotes for you Richard Branson says if somebody offers you an
opportunity and you're not ready for it yet
say yes and figure it out along the way basically what he's saying is that
opportunity Trump's readiness because opportunities don't come often so if you
have an opportunity to get into business for yourself and you're staring at it
right now you better jump otherwise that window will close and you'll have to
wait for your next train ok there's another quote that I read recently that
is revenue beats readiness if you are sitting by looking at an opportunity
going you know I just don't think I know enough yet I'm not confident enough yet
again reason to act is the heading cash in hand beats having a perfect product
or beats having a perfect plan a lot of the businesses that I've started I've
started with only half of a solution right but I knew enough to be dangerous
so I started my business I got out there I started you know making money and I
noticed all these little problems along the way and they're not problems that
you could have ever liked like with a crystal ball and when writing your
business plan could have even accounted for right these are things you have to
be there to learn so one little problem at a time we started solving those
problems and the business started to grow and grow and grow actually built a
software this way I write in PHP and JavaScript and I'm self-taught basically
from sitting down 10 to 12 hours a day with coffee playing in my computer
staring at stuff that made no sense trying to write a software for one of my
business and I'll tell you what it's been
absolutely the best thing I've done in years because now writing software I
look at the world a different way and I solved one of the major problems for my
company and put that company in a position to lead that industry so I
didn't know that I was gonna need to write software in 2010 when I started
that company I didn't know the value of it I'm not a tech guy but I started a
business with what I knew and now eight years later we street tripped over
something big but it took eight years to get there so what I'm communicating to
you is when you start your company it's not gonna be the greatest thing you've
ever done yet you're not gonna be the greatest you've ever been yet you're not
gonna know what the hell you're doing and that's absolutely okay so get out
there Napoleon Hill wrote a book called Think and Grow Rich is immoral the story
this book is that he believes you should burn every Bridge behind you as you go
towards an opportunity because it keeps you from retreating back into comfort
you need to have this do-or-die mindset if you're gonna go out there and get it
so this Airbnb business that you're watching me grow we had our biggest
month again month over month that's six months of growth in a row we have
doubled our revenue from six months ago we're almost at $70,000 last month and
six months ago in October we are like thirty four thousand I'll show you that
too for those of you who don't believe me so you guys don't think it's real you
don't think it's possible it's just you don't believe in yourself you're
standing on the sidelines going man it would be so nice to be successful or to
start my own company but you're you're chicken shit right you are not
committing to yourself that you are capable you are great you will go out
there and you will get it you just need to take the first step there's something
called paralysis by analysis if you're watching this channel watching videos
from me some other people you're watching the Harvard iLabs YouTube
channel that I showed you guys you just watching all this content and learning
all this stuff but what are you gonna do with it you are paralyzed by the the
excess knowledge that is in your brain you're too heavy to move now right you
need to shake that that's called paralysis by analysis and you gotta just
get it out of your way see knowledge is not power it's the application of
knowledge so that is true so put your phone down get out there
even if you don't have a plan just start executing thank you for
watching Airbnb automated and I will see you all on the other side