- Asking me about Dan, if you were to start all over again,
what would you do?
What would you do differently?
(upbeat music)
(melancholy music) I have been close
to bankruptcy two times in my life, two times.
I've never filed bankruptcy but it was very, very close.
So I know what it's like to hit rock-bottom
financially, emotionally.
So I wanted to share with you, a little bit
how I overcame that in my own career.
It is very difficult when you get to a place where
you felt that there's just no hope.
There's no help coming from anywhere, anytime soon.
And you feel so hopeless.
You feel that you are totally stuck
and this is just it and you see no way out.
You see there is no solution.
What I notice is when you have to start all over again,
the first mindset you have to understand is
is looking back, if I look at those moments,
it's through your toughest moments,
your deepest pain, comes your greatest power.
Looking back, those moments I don't want to go back,
I don't like to go back, but those moments,
those deep pains shape who I am today.
It's because of what I've gone through
that's what makes me, that's what forges me
to be the man that I am here, sitting in front of you
in this Bentley today.
So I want you to think about whatever you're going through,
knowing that a year from now, two years from now,
three years from now, is not the end of the world.
It's not life and death.
I know it feels right now at the moment,
it feels like the whole world is crashing down on you,
that you are stuck, you have to start all over again.
But, you know what?
I think you would agree with me.
Think about those moments in your life
where you had some ups and downs, the worst moment.
And after so many years, you look back on those,
also your greatest moments.
Comment below and share your story with me.
And those also were moments
where you learn and grow the most.
Those tough, tough moments.
That's what I'm talking about.
Maybe you got fired from your job.
And you're like oh my god, I'll lose my income,
what am I gonna do?
Maybe that's what inspires you to be an entrepreneur,
to start your own business, to do your own thing,
and now you have a successful company, right?
Maybe it is sometimes tragedy,
where you have family members passing.
I've had that happen to me too.
That makes you cherish more and appreciate more
the people that you have in your life right now.
The family members, maybe your parents,
maybe the people that you love,
it teaches you how to be more appreciative.
How to be more grateful with what you have.
Sometimes human beings we have to go through that.
So starting all over again, if that actually happens to me,
knock on wood, I lose everything.
Business, all that stuff, I have to start all over again,
myself, I would do two things.
I'm just giving you from a business context here.
The first thing I would do if I still have the skills
that I have, actually it will not be that big of a deal.
I would go get a job in sales.
I would do some kind of selling job.
Doesn't matter what it is, I would get a job in selling.
Because most of the time, it's commission-based,
it requires no education, it requires
I don't need a college degree or anything like that.
(finger snapping) With the skill I have today,
I could make money so easily and so quickly,
if you let me keep my skill.
If you take away also my skill, meaning I have no money,
no contacts and all the skills that I have developed
over the years, you take that away from me,
then the second thing I would do is
I would go be mentored by someone who I respect
and highly successful.
I would work for them, I would do work for them,
I would do whatever it takes, but I want to be
around them, I want to learn from them,
that's what I would do.
Someone like that.
And that's what I did in my early 20's.
Being an apprentice, learning from a mentor,
that's exactly what I would do.
I would do that way earlier, I wish I had done that earlier,
I wouldn't have made so many mistakes
and lost all that money in business in my early years.
I would have done that a lot earlier.
So, that's what I would do.
I would learn everything I could like a sponge.
I would be around the person,
I would learn as much as I could, to start over again.
And then try to add as much value as I could to my mentor.
To help him, help her, to add as much value as I could.
Knowing that there might be an opportunity that he or she
might give me, maybe a project I could work on,
some business deal I could work on to prove myself.
I would do exactly that.
It would be the shortcut to get back to where I am today.
So those are two things, if I start all over again.
What I want to say is this,
That whatever you're facing right now,
even the perfect storm, the worst storm, it'll be over.
You take it a little bit further
one year, two years, three years, 10 years,
you will realize what you think is a big deal today,
is not a big deal tomorrow.
It just isn't.
If you look at it across more time, it's okay.
It is okay.
Even though you think there is no way out,
there is no solutions, there's always a solution.
There's always something you can do.
So you have to ask yourself,
have you done everything you possibly could?
My guess is you have not.
Because if you have done everything you possibly could,
to start over again, you would be right back
on top again.
It will not stop you.
That's been my experience and that's exactly what I did.
So until next time, Boss in my Bentley.