- One of the greatest challenges
that you'll face in life
is the necessity to reinvent yourself from time to time.
You see, in history even thinking back
maybe your father, your mother,
your grandfather or grandmother,
most people back then
they would have one career for many, many years.
They work for one company for 10, 20, 30 years
even until the day that they retire.
But now with technology with everything that's going on
things are happening so fast.
Things are changing at a pace
that we've never seen in human history.
So, what it means is it could be an industry
that you're working in
that's not even just a company you're working for
but the industry could be gone in a matter of years.
The company that you're working for,
they could be gone.
Doesn't matter how big they are,
doesn't matter they are
like multi-billion dollar company, Fortune 500 companies.
Within days, sometimes within weeks and year,
suddenly they could just go bankrupt and disappear.
And it has nothing to do with you.
Now remember in my career that I had
to reinvent myself multiple times
in my life and in my journey.
People most of the time, they resist change.
Human being, we don't like to change.
We are creatures of habits.
We kind of like to be complacent
and do the same thing again and again,
and anything that requires change
for human beings is always difficult, right.
Just like you're sitting in a spa, you're comfortable.
You're like, ah, you know what,
I don't want to do, this is nice.
Until you get a little uncomfortable
then you kind of shift and you wanna make some changes
and you want to change.
I remember when I was just getting started
my first identity was,
I was basically a wannabe entrepreneur.
Not a real entrepreneur,
a fucking wannabe entrepreneur.
I thought I was an entrepreneur.
But I was trying different things
and I was starting all these businesses.
None of them worked, I was losing a lot of money.
Then I reinvent myself to be a copywriter, right.
I developed that skill.
I developed a high income skill
as a young guy twenty-somewhat years old.
And then I developed my next skill
which is being a consultant
for all the clients I was writing sales copy for.
And I was making very good money.
As a young guy twenty-somewhat years old
I was bringing in, you know,
two, three hundred thousand dollars a year.
That's very, very good money.
And most people would stay at that pace,
stay in that same spot for a long time, but I didn't.
I knew that in order to go to the next level
I had to reinvent myself.
And what does it mean to even reinvent yourself?
I'll tell you exactly what it means.
It means that you have to let go of what,
what has gotten you up to this point,
and let go, and go to that next level.
That is a difficult part.
It's one thing to let go of things that didn't work for you,
but it's a whole other thing to let go
of things that worked for you.
So what got you here won't get you there.
So I was making good money,
and I had all these clients and one day I made the decision
I didn't want to do that anymore.
I had to transition from being just a copywriter
or a marketing consultant to being an internet entrepreneur.
I needed to make a shift in my identity
and I call all my clients one day,
and I fire all my clients overnight without knowing
what the next step it's gonna look like.
But I knew deep down,
that I knew that's the right thing to do.
How many of you ever had an opportunity,
that it requires you to take some form of action.
To take that leap of faith,
but deep down you know that
it's scary as fuck, but it's the right thing to do.
And I did that.
And I fired all my clients and I started,
and pursued my full-time career as an internet entrepreneur.
As that was working I had
to reinvent myself again as a speaker.
Even before I didn't think I am a speaker.
I'm a trainer, right.
I'm a teacher, but because my internet businesses
were taking off a lot of people were coming
to me and asking, hey Dan, how do you do this?
How do you do this internet online thing?
How do you make money online?
How do you grow a business online?
I was sharing them with,
like, here's just what I do.
And they thought, well, this is amazing.
Can you teach us?
And then from there it grew from a few people
to a dozen people
then hundreds of people coming to my workshops,
come and do my training.
And now suddenly, again, I have a new identity.
I had to reinvent myself.
And, again, I reinvent myself multiple times in my life
and every single time it's when I hit the peak.
Kind of the peak of that career,
I had to let go.
And I had to reinvent,
and that's the most difficult thing to do.
And that's the most difficult thing for you to do,
and that's why most people cannot do it.
To let go of what works.
What is working for you,
what got you to where you are today,
and to reinvent yourself to adapt a new identity,
a new belief, develop new skillsets
in order to go to that next level.
What got you to six figure won't get you to seven figure.
What got you to seven figure won't get you to eight figure.
What got to eight figure won't get you to nine figure.
Can you let go of that?
And remember, in life in order
for you to go to that next level
the old you sometimes must die
so that the new you could be reborn.