The fruit of everything good in life
begins with a challenge.
Everything is uphill that's worthwhile
And it's not gonna come to you
and it's not gonna fall in your lap
and it's not gonna be something that, oh my gosh,
it just was so simple.
it's always going to be difficult.
And your problem is
you're not intentional and deliberate,
you are hoping
that the best is gonna happen to you,
and the best never happens to you.
You gotta be intentional and deliberate.
You gotta decide that you're gonna do something
and you gotta do it every Monday,
every Tuesday,
every Wednesday,
every Thursday.
The problem with something, you in this room,
you're not intentional and deliberate.
You're a good person
that just hopes the good stuff is gonna happen to you.
You can't get outta something
something that you're not willing
to put into it.
You have to put your everything,
your mind,
your energy,
your effort,
your discipline,
your tenacity.
Nothing is gonna jump out the fire
if you don't throw something in there.
It's not gonna happen.
It's a commitment,
it's not a feeling.
Commitments don't have nothing to do with your feelings.
You do it because you're supposed to.
If you're creative enough, can you find the answer
yes or no?
If you're determined enough
can you find the breakthrough
yes or no?
Creativity
decisiveness
passion
these are the ultimate human resources.
And when you engage these resources
you can get any other resource on Earth.
And if you don't have what you want,
stop telling yourself the story
because you don't have the money, you don't have the time,
that's bullsh*t.
It's because you haven't committed yourself
where you would burn your boats.
If you wanna take the f*cking island,
burn your f*cking boats,
and you will take the island,
'cause people, when they're gonna either die or succeed,
tend to succeed.
Dedication.
Hard work.
Dedication.
Hard work.
I'm a on man army.
The world can go against me,
I'mma still come out on top.
I need you to go harder than you've ever gone before.
I need you to be more dedicated
than you've ever been before.
Dreams don't happen on couches
and they don't happen in bed.
If you're gonna realize that dream,
you gotta go out into the world.
You gotta meet a new you.
You gotta go through obstacles and barriers
to where it's like, it doesn't even bother me anymore.
We have more information available to us today
than any time in the history of the world.
You got too much information
and not enough action.
You gotta go get it.
Most people starve
between the idea and the execution.
You take so long to get to execution.
If you'de know you can do more,
if you know you can help,
if you know you can make a difference,
then you have to do more.
I want to get the deal done.
I wanna make my kids proud of me.
Pay the price today,
so you can pay any price in the future.
Pay the price now.
Pay the price.
Learn to do that,
and you can make any dream of reality.
Most people only pay attention
to the final product of a successful entrepreneur.
They say things like,
"I can never be like them, or they got lucky.
What most don't see is what they've overcome,
all the struggles,
the daily rejections,
the heartaches, the betrayals, the rumors.
The criticism, the empty bank account
and all those lonely nights while
trying to make their vision a reality.
You see, the only difference between the one who quits
and the one who doesn't
is that they showed up every day.
They worked hard every day.
They hustle every day.
They learn from a proven mentor every day.
They improve every.
They did all this,
even though they felt like quitting
every day
and eventuallyoday.
hey became who they are today.
Many years ago, I met a fellow, an entrepreneur like us,
very successful
but I knew that for several years he had been just kind
of drifting through his career.
I mean he was just booming.
His personality was completely different.
He was starting early, working harder, staying later.
He was up, he was positive.
His income had gone over $100,00
and in another two years was over $200,000 and he was smoking.
And so I asked him this question and I never forgot the answer.
I said, what was the turning point in your life?
And he said, Brian, he said, I finally decided to get serious.
I finally decided to quit screwing around
As I was talking all the time about I wanna be successful
and I wanna make a lot of money and everything else,
and I went home and watched television
and I started a little bit later and went for coffee
with my friends during the day and so on.
I finally decided that
I'm gonna get serious about this.
I put my head down
and from that time on, I started to get up earlier.
I started to start earlier.
Work harder, stay later.
Don't waste time.
Hammer, hammer, hammer.
I'll give you another example.
Very simple.
No successful entrepreneurs work less than six days a week.
No Successful entrepreneurs work less than 60 hours a week.
Anybody who thinks that they can have balance and work eight hour a day
and spend, you know, time in their personal life and so on, that's good.
Get a job working for wages
and worry about money all your life.
Drive a used car, have holes in your shoes, and eat macaroni and cheese
cuz that's what people do who work from 5:00 to 8:00 to 5:00
every single person who is wealthy hits it all the time.
They get up earlier.
They start earlier and they hit it and they work longer hours.
But here's the great payoff is they're happy all the time,
is if you're doing something that you enjoy.
They could talk about your values, your one-word,
if you're doing something that you enjoy
and you're getting better and better at it,
you love your work.
and we're talking about self-discipline and what we find is it
takes more discipline not to work than to work
I mean, we really have to promise ourselves and others
and block off the time,
make non-refundable deposits
on vacations and things like that,
because other than that, we just love to work all the time.
And so, so it's really important.
And if you are working on something
that you enjoy and you're making progress,
it gives you a steady flow of energy.
You'll find that the successful entrepreneurs are happy all the time.
They're just smiling all the time.
They just love what they do, and they wanna do more of it.
You can have more than you've got
because you can become more than you are.
Success is something you attract
by becoming an attractive person.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
If you work hard on your job,
you can make a living, which is fine.
If you work hard on yourself,
you can make a fortune, which is super fine.
I started hearing those ideas.
Age 25.
And it revolutionised my whole life.
My original teacher was Jim Rohn when I met him when I was 17,
and I wanted to know why
all my fathers were broke cause they were good men.
I remember him saying, Tony, we're all equal as souls,
but we're not equal in the marketplace.
I was like, what does that mean?
And he said, well, think about it.
He goes, you need to become more valuable
If you want to have economic freedom
He said you have to work on yourself more than anything else
and you have to work on in a way where there's something you can do
for others better than anyone else.
or at least more a better quality.
And he gave me an example of like
working at McDonald's and he said, you know,
if you work at McDonald's,
you make whatever it was in those days, $5 an hour, whatever it was.
And I go, yeah, but that seems so unfair.
And he goes, yeah.
And teachers, I give example of teachers
and there's these billionaires
you know, that make a billion dollars in a year, hedge fund guy.
And he said, Tony, the guy you just mentioned,
he provided a 40% return last year
and that went to nonprofits
and everything else
he said, that means those organizations double
their money almost every two years.
He is adding massive value, hundreds of billion dollars
so he made a billion.
He goes, this person is doing a job that anyone can learn
in 20 minutes or half a day.
So it's a beginning job.
He said, you gotta think of it as one thing.
It's all about adding value.
How can you do more for others than anybody else in the world?
And that stuck with me.
I mean, I was just like I decided I wanted to do more for
others than anybody in the world.
In order to do that, I had of certain skills.
And I went after those skills and I still do
like, it's a never ending thing.
If you think you're a master, you're full of it, right?
So I think that's probably some of the best advice I've received,
at least on life and
business and direction and, and it affected my mission