It's this, and then the other thing that's exhausting
is eight-hour speeches.
I just came back from Jordan, and I had to do four hours,
a lunch break, and then four hours of talking.
The worst part about talking is I love helping people.
Some of the people in there were newbies.
Some of the people in there were learning marketing,
and they've been doing it for a few years,
and then some of the people have been doing it
for like 10 plus years.
And then they're like all right, we wanna teach everyone
how to do marketing to the nth level, get the results
so they can rank number one and make shit load of money.
Two things hit me.
I was like well one, half the people in here are telling me
to slow down and give more basic information.
Then the other half I'm like so it's not gonna work
and I get paid to speak so don't get me wrong
I'm not complaining but I hate disappointing.
You disappoint one person, it just adds up
and it's like your brand is tainted for life
like I believe you do everything to protect your brand
so not only did I give the speech,
I'm hoping they're happy 'cause I know some people won't be,
then after that I'm doing three or four more calls
with the whole group and doing
intermediate, advanced, and basic sessions
and giving them a ton of stuff for free
just because I don't wanna look bad.
- [Man] What drives you to do all that though?
I love it, I love helping others.
It's funny everyone always thinks
that it's about money and money's bullshit.
You go buy a fancy car, you go drive a Lamborghini,
you see this shit on YouTube all the time.
What does that mean?
It's like alright cool you got a Lamborghini,
my business partner Mike, he has two,
this is his second one and he's selling both of them.
You get it, after a while you stop driving it
and you don't give a shit
and then you're like alright, what's next?
But what's crazy is you buy the stuff and what does it mean?
You gotta work more to pay your bills.
Why would you wanna keep buying stuff
so you have to work more hours?
You should only be loving what you do
and everything else shouldn't even matter it's just like
cars, homes, I've a fancy home here in Hollywood, right?
Got robbed two times over the past two months
and the last time the criminals were actually nice
I was really happy with them and I know that sounds stupid
but they didn't break the windows
and the stupid windows are so hard to replace
'cause they go into the wall.
But these guys undid the alarm sensors,
they got into the house, and they undid the closets
to see if there were safes behind.
But there's nothing in the house, no artwork,
and every time I get robbed, they never take anything
'cause like I'm cheap, I don't have anything in the home
and I only bought it
'cause I knew I would make money on the home
but like everyone thinks like
oh you're driven because you wanna buy a fancier home
or private jets or all this stuff,
you don't need any of that,
I was happy as a kid and I grew up dirt poor
and I didn't realize like
oh more money is like amazing
but yeah it also creates problems
and no I'm not complaining saying my life sucks,
I'm extremely happy with it,
I'm happy with my friends you guys are here,
my family, life.
But you don't need fancy shit to be happy
don't go buy a bigger home.
That just means you're gonna have to work more.
Don't buy cars that you don't need, go use Uber X,
that shit's cheaper than going paying for gas,
insurance, paying for maintenance, right?
You wanna live a minimalistic life,
I used to go buy fancy clothes, and you know what?
Then I would just keep buying more and more
and then I stopped wearing all of them I'm like
this is all useless,
I don't give a shit what people think about me
or if they think I have a nice home
or they're like oh this guy's poor
'cause he has a crappy house, who gives a shit?
Do what you love and for me that's helping people,
specifically related to marketing and entrepreneurship
and that's what drives me.
Work isn't work, work is having fun
and having fun is helping people grow their businesses.
- [Man] So business is your hobby.
It's my fun, it's the sport.
I wanna work and I wanna do
whatever it takes to do better each and every single day,
not because I wanna make more money
but so I can compete with my buddies and my friends
and ideally create something that's bigger than them.
It's like a little scoreboard, right?
It's like our game of basketball or whatever it may be
but you wanna keep doing better
and it's not so you can just like again buy shit,
it's so you can just do better
so that way you can compete with your friends.