So you said there were like three big opportunities.
Yep.
There was your mentor, there was the internet,
why do you think there was only three opportunities?
I thought like,
I thought we live in a world of abundance
and lots of opportunities
and you've just gotta be ready for it, right?
I think there are many many opportunities
we can take advantage of,
but I think in life, there only certain moments
where you accomplish more in seven months
than you've accomplished in last seven years.
It's a very different kind of opportunity, right?
So when you have those opportunities,
you recognize, I will be able to accomplish more
in these seven months
that what I've done in the previous seven years.
You've gotta recognize,
hey this is one of those opportunities,
I'd better not fuck this up.
I'd better not let this slip through my finger, right?
It's a very different thing.
But people don't,
they don't have the awareness to recognize,
this is what that is, right?
How do you know?
Like, do you just feel it, or?
You would feel it and you would know.
It's very simple, you know,
hey, you know what?
If this is just like the internet back then.
Yeah.
If this is what I think it is
and this goes the way that I think it would go,
holy shit
like where would I be, right?
That's all I could think about, right?
The first mentor, if I could learn a skill,
if I could, I wasn't even thinking about it,
but if I could learn a skill,
a high income skill cooperating
and that would take me at least off this treadmill,
cos I was not making money,
my businesses were losing money,
I wasn't going anywhere, my Mom wasn't paying,
like take care of my Mom.
Well then, what do I need to do?
So if this works
and I could of had someone that I could go to,
like I would take advantage of that
and that's exactly what happens, right?
Cos I was making like next to no money,
to making 10K within one year.
Like it doesn't take a rocket scientist, right?
To figure that out?
And then from there,
because I'm in the industry consulting and then speaking
and just branches out from there.
And then when I took the skill, went onto internet,
I'm like wow, this is like,
there's no competition,
this is crazy.
I'm able to get in this early back in 2004, right?
Like wow, I wasn't even thinking about,
there's no competition,
no-one is marketing a ton online
and then I was selling like e-books and stuff like that
way before e-book was popular, right?
I was selling it in a .exe file.
Oh.
Cos that, back then you don't have PDF.
You need to have a software in order to read the e-book.
Was it like a floppy disc?
No no, no floppy,
but you download software in order
to read the e-book, right? Okay.
And it's like this type of stuff,
so that's what I mean.
I don't think in life we get more than three.
Like if you get this done,
you accomplish this goal,
it gets you everything else.
What is this thing?
You get this, you get everything else.
Right?
You'll be able to help your Mum pay off the debt,
buy the car, get the girlfriend, get everything else.
The fucking get this done,
everything gets done,
then why do I need to worry about this?
I'm not worry about this,
I just need to worry about this,
then I get everything else.
But most people do,
oh maybe I do this, a little bit of this,
a little bit of this, a little bit of this,
they try to catch everything.
I'm like holding it with two hands,
like I'm like, I'm on sole focus
and that's why my life you see, even today,
like really, no joke,
why I'm only good at a couple of things,
maybe handful of things.
Everything else, I'm like useless.
In like the most basic thing in life, like cooking,
or I don't know how to do it,
cos I never spend a minute of my time on those things.
I don't know how to turn on a laundry machine,
I just don't know.
I don't know how it works,
cos I never done it.
All my focus is on this, nothing else.
I block out everything else.
And just this.
All this day to day stuff,
doesn't matter.
At least that's been my life, right?
I was focusing on one
and then once I focus on this,
it seems it opens up another world, right?
It opens up another world.
Like, I never in my mind I thought I would become a speaker.
All I wanted to do was stretch outside of my comfort zone
to learn to pronounce English with ours
heavy of the accent,
and also improve my communication skill.
That's why I joined Toastmasters, that was it.
Then from Toastmasters, because I did that,
right cos I found that that's what's holding me back
and from there I learn,
I say oh this would be cool to be a speaker
and because I was doing, like cooperating and marketing,
I have the opportunity to actually speak
and I thought, oh I need to speak,
maybe I need to,
cos I want to maybe make a living doing this,
that's when Alan suggest
maybe put together some kind of product.
Okay, now I'm putting some kind of product,
now I'm speaking, I'm closing on the platform,
sucked, horrible, right?
But I kept kinda doing it,
I kept doing it and kept doing it
and then there was a time
I was in Langley speaking to a group
of I think 50 business owners.
50, far away, Langley,
but it doesn't matter, I showed up,
spoke to 50 people,
I closed five people.
I was selling I think a $2,000 package.
Okay, 10K is nice,
but there was one guy sitting in audience,
his name is Dave.
He was the promoter organizer,
for a huge seminar company.
He thought, oh Dan you're pretty good,
you wanna come to speak to our people?
So from 50 people, suddenly I'm speaking to 500
and from there it was good
and said you know what?
You're pretty good.
Why don't you speak to us continuously?
Then he gave me the opportunity to beyond that
and that honed my skills all these years
and now switching back to even whatever we do,
even webinar or anything that we have
because I made a decision.
I would not be able to do what I do,
crafter, the webinar, do a closing or anything that we have
without the decision to join Toastmasters back then.
You know what I mean?
If I didn't do that, and make some sacrifices,
was Thursday night every week to go to Toastmasters
just to learn stuff, right?
So from there, and now I'm able
to take advantage of the opportunity,
so everything there you see
that we do now as a company,
it's all my life,
all the sacrifices,
all the mistakes lead to this point.
It is not, it didn't just happen.
It happened and I've got all the skill sets
to make it happen right at this moment.
What if when I went to Langley,
I didn't have the skill set to close?
Then I wouldn't have met the organizer,
I wouldn't have gone on tour,
I wouldn't have had the opportunity to hone my skills
and I wouldn't have the skills I have today.
You see, it's like a domino effect.
One thing I didn't do, at least,
then the whole thing just goes down like that.
But I did, and just, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, right?
Then from there, the door opens up for you.
It really does, it really really does,
the whole world just opens up.
I find it to be the case,
so then I can take advantage
of more opportunities when they come.
Most people they don't, they're not ready.
So it's like, kinda go deep and then you go wide. Deep, I go deep.
trying to go wide,
and like try to go deep like, you can't.
Yep.
You don't have it.
Yep, yep
and that's why my skill set's deep.
Yeah.
Like I would challenge anybody,
if they wanna, oh let's talk cooperating,
oh let's talk cooperating then, right?
Or let's talk one on one closing,
let's talk one on one closing.
Or you want, let's talk speaking,
well let's talk speaking,
or let's do event, let's do event.
Let's do event, no internal marketing,
let's do internal marketing, right?
You know I could, any skill set,
I say let's go toe to toe, belly to belly,
let's do it, right?
When you're well rounded (click),
then things would work.