- People have been keeping a secret from you.
In fact, they've been keeping quite a few of them.
Let's talk about it.
Hey everybody, this is Roberto Blake of robertoblake.com
helping you create something awesome today.
Welcome back to the channel.
Today I wanna talk about five secrets of success
that nobody probably told you,
and the reason they probably didn't tell you is
they don't even know about 'em.
For those of you who are new to the channel,
my name's Roberto Blake.
I'm a creative entrepreneur.
I'm also a public speaker.
I've been doing that quite a lot lately
and also I'm somebody who wants to help you
with education and motivation here on the internet.
I wanna help you get new skills.
I wanna help you become successful
and give you the advice that somebody should've given me
when I was 18 or 20 years old.
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jump into today's topic around five success secrets
because I think you really wanna know
what you can do to change things in your life,
make things go a little bit smoother
and make a little bit more money.
First secret of success I wanna share with you
is one that came from my friend Chris Ducker.
Chris Ducker is the best selling author of Virtual Freedom
and Rise the Youpreneur.
He also has the Youpreneur podcast
and he himself is also a prolific public speaker
and has built multiple successful ventures,
and something he told me that stood out
that was very important is be ruthless with your time.
Be ruthless with your time.
Everyone today wants productivity hacks.
Everybody wants to be able to live the four hour work week,
but what people aren't doing is they aren't setting
clear priorities for themselves.
They're not drawing lines in the sand when it comes to
how they spend their time and it's important
because you're not gonna get more time back.
It's a commodity that is non-renewable.
There's only so many hours in the day.
There are only so many heartbeats in your chest.
So you need to make a firm decision about
what you're gonna commit your time and your focus to.
You need to be disciplined and you need
to be absolutely ruthless.
If people are wasting your time, you need to audit that.
You need to cut those people out of your life
or minimize your interactions with them.
If people are disrespecting your time,
you need to understand that and you need to act accordingly.
If you are squandering time on things
that you're complaining about
and it's not moving the needle for you,
then you need to be more disciplined.
You need to be ruthless with your time
and that is one of the fundamental secrets
to being successful.
Set those priorities.
Make them clear.
Be very loud about them and hold yourself accountable.
Secret to success number two.
This one comes from Lewis Howes.
Lewis Howes was a career athlete.
Lewis Howes had an injury that allowed him
to not play football anymore, which was his dream.
It was a goal he worked to constantly
throughout the majority of his young life through adulthood
and that dream was taken away from him by circumstance.
So, what did Lewis do?
He completely rebuilt himself from scratch.
He was broke and broken and he turned himself
into a successful businessman, a successful marketer,
entrepreneur, world class public speaker,
best selling author, and the host of a tremendous podcast.
The School of Greatness podcast is one
of the best podcasts out there.
It is phenomenal.
I highly recommend you give it a listen.
It will both educate and motivate you
and inspire you to tap into your greatness.
The lesson that we need to learn
from Lewis Howes is that success isn't permanent
and failure isn't final.
Lewis thought that his success in football was going
to be the thing that carries him
to the finish line and it wasn't.
That failure, however, wasn't final.
It was a pivotal moment in his life
that allowed him to tap into his true potential
and his true greatness and to inspire literally
tens of thousands of people to also become the thing
that they were meant to be.
To fulfill their destiny.
So you need to understand that success isn't permanent
and failure isn't final.
So we go to success number three.
This one comes from Gary Vaynerchuck.
Gary Vaynerchuck is a successful serial entrepreneur,
investor, yet another world class public speaker.
You might be seeing a trend here
and Gary is all about hustle,
but what you need to understand
is that hustle is moving with a sense of urgency
toward a clearly defined goal.
It's being willing to put in the work.
It's willingness to put the effort
that your ambition requires on the table.
And so the lesson that we need to learn
from Gary Vaynerchuck is to have a tremendous work ethic.
It is one thing to say hustle
and it's very popular to say hustle.
Well a lot of people don't understand
is that this means actually working hard,
working smart, and being consistent.
Your work ethic is everything.
It is the foundation of all success
and so if you're not willing to build a body of work,
then I don't know why you're watching
this video in the first place.
So let's learn from Gary not only
about the importance of hustle,
but that that looks like working smart,
working hard, and being consistent.
Show up.
Put in the work.
Secret of success number four comes from Lilly Singh.
Lilly Singh is one of my favorite creative entrepreneurs.
One of my favorite creators here on the YouTube platform,
and she also has a tremendous book called How to Be a Boss.
I highly recommend you guys either get as an audiobook
or pick it up.
It's a really good read.
Lilly is someone who had an inner struggle.
Someone who went through depression.
Somebody who had a very good life,
but didn't feel very good about her life in general.
Couldn't see the upside.
Couldn't see the glass half full
and that's the nature of depression.
No matter how good your life looks from the outside,
everyone's inner demons, they don't discriminate.
They don't care if you have a good home life.
They don't care if you go to a nice school.
They don't care how much money is in your bank account.
Your inner demons will come for you
and you need the inner strength to be able to face them down
and to be able to come out a conqueror.
Lilly was able to become successful
and to become what she calls her avatar, Superwoman,
because she ultimately had the self-awareness
to know that she was unhappy in her life
and that she needed to make a change
and she was able to identify what made her happy
and making videos on the internet
that at the time nobody was watching.
Making these funny, cringey jokes that she just wanted
to get out there initially turned into something more
and allowed her to build herself
into the woman she wanted to be
and allowed her to build an empire and it's fantastic
and that's something I admire
and respect a lot about Lilly and her journey.
Not everyone's version of success is built for you.
Success is not one size fit all.
So you have to have a level of self-awareness
to know what makes you happy.
How are you defining success?
What are your goals, your dreams?
What are your fears?
What gives you anxiety?
If you understand that,
then you can conquer your inner demons
and you come truly successful,
and that's what we need to learn from Lilly.
We all need to be a little bit more self-aware.
Success secret number five comes from well me, Roberto Blake
and so as a creative entrepreneur I think
that one of the most important things I can leave you with
is don't underestimate the value of creativity.
Tap into your creativity.
Tap into the thing that makes you unique.
The thing that makes you different,
whether that's a different perspective or point of view,
or a weird way to use a conventional idea
that somebody else wouldn't have thought of.
You could take something from one space,
bring it to another space,
and it changes everything completely,
and I think that when you understand
that there is unique knowledge that you might have,
a unique perspective, or a unique experience
that you have in life and when you can leverage that
and you can turn it into your strength,
then I think there's real power in that.
I think that Tony Robbins defines personal power
as the ability to act and the thing is,
my different way of thinking, my different perspective,
the approaches that I use are things
that a lot of people are not willing to do but I am
because it's the way that I see the world.
It's the way that I see things.
It's the thing that works for me
and so don't be afraid to be different.
Don't be afraid to be the square peg in the round hole.
Don't be afraid to stand out
because here is the sixth secret of success,
the hidden one that I didn't put in the title of this video.
The sixth secret of success is that there's a reason
that misfits and outliers are successful.
There's a reason that successful people are wildly different
the majority of the people that you know.
Majority of the people you know would never have done
the things that the most successful people in the world
or the most successful people you know would do.
They are the top 10%, the top 1%, the top 0.1% for a reason
and that's because they embrace the thing
that was unique and specific to them
instead of trying so hard desperately to fit in.
If you fit in, you're part of the tribe.
If you are a misfit, you're either an outcast or a leader
and you have to be willing to do
that in order to be truly great
because otherwise you're settling for mediocrity.
So if you want success instead of mediocrity,
you have to be willing to do what no one else will do.
You have to be willing to see things
that no one else will see and you have to be okay
with being the outlier, with being the minority,
with being the exception to the rule.
If that means more to you than acceptance and fitting in,
there's a good chance that you're on the path
to becoming truly great, to becoming someone successful,
to building a body of work that stands the test of time.
It means you might be blessed with actual self-awareness.
It means that you might have hustle
and it means that you're gonna have to be disciplined
and ruthless with your time in a way
that may alienate people, may not be wildly satisfying
because you have to give up a hobby or something like that,
but at the end of the day if you get
to do the thing that you love each and every day
or you get to crush it and you get to be successful
when people doubted you, it's absolutely worth it
if that's what you want.
Anyways guys, I hope you enjoyed this video.
I hope you got something out of it.
Those are the five or six secrets to success
that nobody tells you and I hope that now
that you know this you actually put it into action.
So my question of the day is what's your secret to success?
What do you know about being successful
that nobody else does?
And if you don't know yet, that's okay.
Drop me a comment and tell me
what your favorite success secret was from this video
because that would be awesome and I would just love
to have that conversation with you.
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