and then just work like hell I mean you just have to put in you know 80 hour 80 to
100 hour weeks every week and then all those things improve the
odds of success okay I mean if other people are putting in 40
hour work weeks and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks then even if you're
doing the same thing you know that in in one year you will achieve what they
achieve you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve
I'd say a common trait of anybody that I work with that is successful financial
athletes people in politics its hunger you know you and I both know
intelligence is pretty damn valuable tool but there are a lot of very smart
people who can't fight their way out of a paper bag and then when you find
somebody has that hunger the hunger that doesn't go away that hunger to be more
to do more to give more that hunger that never ends you know that's how you get
these people that are the best in the world at whatever they do and so if you
can I think everybody has that hunger but for some people it's been asleep for a
long time because they're afraid they're afraid that I'm gonna get hungry I'm
gonna try I'm gonna fail and so it's human nature to protect yourself from
the fear by just lowering your expectations but one of the things i've learned
is you get what you tolerate you get what you tolerate yourself you get rich you
tolerate in your life and sooner or later we sometimes hit a point we say
not another day another hour this is done I'm not walking this way I'm not
talking this way I'm not living this way I'm not gonna be in this relationship
anymore I'm gonna change it and when people do that that's the beginning of a
breakthrough help to create a different vision for
myself some of you are already doing it right now
I'm saying this is the time more than ever that you want to begin to inoculate
yourself with positive words coming to conventions showing up on meetings being
on the calls to make yourself unstoppable to get out of your
mind the polluting negative thoughts that's causing most people to go through
life being stuck because their volunteer victims somebody said that many people
died age 25 and don't get buried until they're 65 because they got so much
garbage in their minds you are here because you've got a clear vision of
what you want and where you're going give yourselves a round of applause come
on bring energy level up yes yes
you want more you want more
you're different you're different than everybody else don't worry if they don't
get it don't try and convince people to do this business a person convinced
against their will is of the same opinion still you are not like everybody
else you can walk outside and find pigeons but if you're looking for eagles
it's gonna take you a minute you are different it's lonely at the top how
many of you know it's lonely at the top raise your hands
it's lonely at the top but you eat better that's what I'm talking about
the secret is is there's certain times don't think like when you get up in the
morning don't think just roll out of bed go on your lifecycle or go on a bicycle
ride or go to the gym work out you know that's what you have to do and then
read something and learn something so don't even think about it but there's
other times where you have to really think and they really have to get
creative and have a clear vision of where you want to go and what you want
to do and that's what I always had and that's what I always believed and always
believed in making money so that then you can do something with that you
invest it in all this eventually you create a family you give some of the kids and
all that stuff but also for charity look I have the Schwarzenegger institute at USC
we have to raise money all the time that make money
to pay for that and support that we have the R20 the environmental
organization or any organization and any idea is great but if you don't have the
money you can't implement anything and so this is why it is important that if it is
an environmental organization or if it is my after-school programs to the
nationwide where we raise millions and millions of dollars every year or if it
is just you know living in a great mansion or driving a nice Bentley
and the Bugatti you know this kind of things it takes money to do all these kind
of stuff so therefore I believe in making $1
into $2 and having a good time I mean the reality is reading a book or going
to a conference or having a great conversation where you get this golden
information that's all fantastic but what makes mastery is execution on the
ideas not the ideas and so no idea works unless you're willing to roll up your
sleeves do the practice invest the time put in the effort do the work I think
we've all observed a lot of people who they love reading the books they love
showing up at the courses they do all the online training and nothing ever
changes and they say well you know I don't know why it doesn't change why my
life doesn't change why my thinking doesn't change why my performance
doesn't change why my relationships don't change well it's because ideas
don't work if you don't execute on them so if you look at the great business
builders you look at any great performer one thing that makes them great is their
grit one thing that makes them great is their hunger to practice one thing that
makes them great is they are willing to sacrifice I mean yes they're passionate
but did you know the root of the word passion is suffering you've got to be
willing to suffer for your vision you've got to be willing to suffer to reach BIW
best in world you've got to be willing to suffer the ridicule and laughter of
your critics and your cynics to get to a place called world class the fifth one
is about mindset and the mindset shift is to appreciation because the truth is
oftentimes everything what we're trying to get get get we're focused on what we
don't have and if you can shift your mindset simply from not focusing on what
I lack but what I have and shift it from not focusing on the bottom of that
ladder or the stuff but to the connection and the growth that is the
shift that will lead to the most lasting happiness we have access to this at all
times of our life even in the annoying moments when we're standing in line it's
20 minutes to get out of the food store you can focus on the fact that you're 20
minutes late what you don't have is time or you can focus on the fact that
you have food surrounding you from all kinds of the world and you live
literally better than kings did 100 years ago because they couldn't get
grapes right they were on the other side of the planet so depending on what you
compare yourself to if you're alive today if you're watching YouTube if
you're on the internet you literally live better then Kings did not very long
ago you are in the top 0.1% of lucky people who have ever lived so
no matter what's going in your life I know that there will be things to knock
you down things that suck reasons to be unhappy or there's always a reason to
bounce back if you shift your focus to what you have compared to what you don't
so I hope you find that helpful I hope that you can focus on what you
appreciate and if you take one thing from this right now write down or say
in your head one thing that is common to your life that is little that maybe you
don't notice all the time that you appreciate right now and I think that
that'll make you have a much better day and you can keep it up that habit
will give you a much happier life the easiest way to build self-confidence
there's no magic button I can't say this plane is going down who can fly it put
your hand up I can I'm confident
repetition repetition repetition right what does Malcolm Gladwell call it the
10,000 hour rule there's no magic button I recruited a goalie from Columbia South
America one year a big tall six foot three man you know he had hands like
stone I thought he was like flipper every time I throw him the ball down
down onto the ground I was like oh my god we're in trouble
simple solution get to the wall kick a ball against the wall and catch it kick
the ball against the wall and catch it his goal was 350 a day for eight months
he came back his hands were callused the moisture on his hands were literally
gone he is now playing in Europe magic no repetition repetition repetition the
problem is we expect to be self-confident but we can't be unless
the skill or the task we're doing is not novel is not new to us we want to be in
a situation where we've created we've had so much pressure in that and what I
mean because pressure builds diamonds we want to be in the situation where
I've done this a thousand times I did in my speech I practice in front of the
mirror hey I'm sounding good and then I read in front of my kids and my
and my wife is like oh my gosh I got a little nervous then I get in front of
Glenn Cool oh my goodness I'm a little more nervous by the time I get to the
ACG where 2,500 people can't say any more right 2,500 people
where 2,500 people are there I won't have a single ounce of nervousness
because of my ability to practice right over and over and over again
the problem with repetition is how many of us bail after the first bit of
failure how many of us bail after the first bit of adversity Edison was on that
video and depends who you ask is anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 tries to
build that lightbulb 1,000 to 10,000 JK Rowling's should be on that video you
know how many publishers she took her Harry Potter book to I believe the number was
12 or 13 I don't I'm pretty confident but after two or three no's I'd be like
dang it after six or seven I'm like maybe not definitely after nine or ten
I'd be looking to be a soccer coach or something else beside it often right I
mean 12 times somebody said no but practice practice practice and do not
accept failure maybe it shouldn't be repetition maybe the answer should be
persistence because we all repeat something but very few of us really will
persist so that's one way to build self-confidence get out there do what
you want to do and do not accept no