- Very good question.
How do you get the most out of any seminar,
any event or any workshop that you go to?
If you're like me
then you're always about improving yourself
and maybe you attend a lot of different seminars
in a year or over several years,
how do you get the most out of it?
Today, I'm gonna share with you my perspective.
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Just in the last 60 days, I've gone to six different events
just because I'm always about improving myself
and I love the live environment.
I think nothing is more powerful
when you get out of your own environment,
get out of your own city and you go somewhere
and just have some learning time, some thinking time
and I always, on my way to the event
or on the flight, I will plan,
I will think about different things, I will reflect.
So how do you get they most out of any seminar,
any event that you go to?
So, first of all, I look at any event and this is just me,
I think most people, they go to an event,
they just go there to learn.
Meaning they go there, they're thinking it's like classroom.
Right?
They have a big notebook or their laptop,
they go there and they try to take as many notes as possible
and then they bring it home.
They bring the big binder and they go home,
and that becomes shelf help, not self help.
You put it on a shelf and you never touch it again.
It becomes what I call a very expensive dust collector
I don't want that to happen to you, okay?
I want you to implement so when I go to an event,
I wear three different hats, okay?
Stay with me, three different hats.
The first thing that I want to get out of the event,
my first hat is the connector hat.
I'm going there to connect with people
because business is all about relationship.
Wealth is created by relationships
so I wanna make sure that I connect with the right people,
with the players, with important people
and establish those relationships.
So, before I go to the event, sometimes I'll have my team
just do some research ahead of time.
Who is attending the event?
Who is speaking at the event?
Who are the people that I want
to make sure I connect with?
So, I would wear my connector's hat and when I go there
my focus is I want to connect with the right people,
I wanna establish those relationships,
deliver what value can I deliver to them.
That's why every time I go to an event, I come home,
I always bring home a lot of new contacts
and it expands my network, right?
So, that connector's hat,
that's how you get the most out of any event, any seminar
not just learning.
The second thing that I do for sure, I go there to learn
but the difference is,
I think most people that go to an event,
they try to memorize, again, it's a bad habit from school
because in school, how do you get good grades?
You memorize, right?
You take exams.
But in the business world, it's not like that.
I go there, I want ideas and strategies
that I can implement right now.
So, if I'm going to a two-day event,
I'm not trying to understand everything
that the speakers talk about.
I am not trying to memorize
everything that he or she talks about.
That's crazy.
I'm trying to get a few elegant,
the key word is elegant, ideas that I can implement.
Now, it depends on the length, in some cases,
sometimes it could be two or three.
If I'm resourceful and if it's the right event,
I might get like a dozen, maybe 10
and all I'm looking for
is I bring those 10 ideas, 10 strategies back
and I can implement those as quickly as possible.
What I believe is if I bring ideas home,
I bring the strategies home,
if I don't implement those within,
listen to me, within 30 days,
it's not gonna happen.
You come home, (fingers snapping) you get busy,
again business, life happens, now you forget about it
and then you're like, "Um, you know what?
"I'm gonna look into it later."
Guess what?
You never fucking look into it again ever.
So, the way I did it, to build momentum,
while I'm at the event with my team, they would know,
at the event, we're implementing shit.
I learn this and say, (palm smacking)
"You know what, let's do it."
The guy is talking on stage, I am doing stuff
and sending emails, "Let's do this, let's implement."
Lunchtime, dinner, we're implementing
and we're implementing even before the flight home.
By the time we're home,
it's just we're building momentum.
So, it's not just so much about learning,
it's about implementation.
I would rather I learn 10 elegant ideas and execute on two
than learning 100 new ideas and not implement anything.
Is that making sense to you?
The third hat that I wear, so the first hat: connector,
the second hat that I wear,
it's just as a student, as a learner, right?
The third is then I wear
what I call the promoter's/speaker's hat.
Now, I'm learning so, imagine me,
I'm going to any conference, if you meet me at a conference
you see two sets of books, I have two sets of files,
and I'm taking notes with my cellphone.
I have one book, it's what I'm learning from the speaker,
another file that I open is what are they doing?
How are they delivering their story?
How they are delivering their speech,
how they are setting up the event,
how's the staff trained?
What's the flow, right?
What are things that I can learn from how they do it?
How they do it, right?
Not just what they say, "Oh, that speaker,
"the way he uses his story, that's fascinating."
"The way he sells, that's very interesting."
"The way they set the room,
"the light and the whole experience.
"The after dinner, that's fascinating."
I take a lot of notes on just how they run the event
and the speakers and all of that.
So, that's my speaker or promoter's hat.
So, when I go to an event, I go there,
I wanna connect with people,
I wanna learn as much as I could,
with taking a few elegant ideas and implement immediately.
And number three, I wanna look at what they do
and what I can learn from them.
That I believe, when I go to an event,
that's how I get the most out of every event,
every workshop, every seminar that I attend.
So it's not so linear.
So, think about it, next time when you attend an event,
how are you gonna do it differently?
How are you gonna view the event?
How are you gonna get more things out of it?
How are you gonna get the value?
And you ask yourself, "Where's the value?"
Right?
"I'm gonna be here three days,
"I wanna get as much as I could.
"I wanna implement (fingers snapping) as fast as I could."
I wanna connect with the right people.
You do that, I think you'll get
a very, very different level of value
from everything that you do.
And then I think maybe then you'll love
going to events more and more and more
and who knows, someday, you know what?
Maybe you and I will meet at an event.
Maybe you'll come to one of my events.
I don't do a lot of events anymore.
I do it once a year, once or twice a year.
If we ever get a chance to meet face to face,
I would love to shake your hand and maybe hear from you
how my work has impacted your life and your business.
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