This will change your life.
Alright, so if you guys have been avid listeners to this show, you'll know that I did not do
my intro.
And usually I have like a 30 second intro in the beginning of every single episode.
And that's because when I first started podcasting, I was, I started because I read a book called
Expert Secrets and in that book Russell Brunson actually went through and talked about, you
should start a podcast and then he actually gave like a example introduction.
And it was the introduction that I have at the beginning of every single episode.
But I'm actually at a business conference right now called Funnel Hacking Live.
And it's actually funny because I just, I just learned about Russell Brunson's books
and click funnels and all that stuff a few months ago, like three months ago, I found
out about this stuff.
And now I'm in Florida, like a thousand miles away from my home on my own with my friend.
And I'm at a business conference, which is actually amazing.
Already yesterday I was unable to record.
So it's been, I've been here two days now.
So yesterday was the first day of the event and tomorrow will be the second, or no, yesterday
was the first and today is the second and then tomorrow is the third.
But I'm halfway done with today's actually.
So we had, I had, we got here at 8.30 in the morning and it's currently 1.50 right now.
We're just at lunch and I'm going to be honest, we don't really have any Tupperware or anything
to pack lunch.
So we basically brought three packs of carrots and a pack of dates and some butter.
And that's it.
That's where we're eating all day.
So today's a low calorie day for sure.
But I'm, I was going to record today during dinner time, but my friend wanted me to record
during lunch instead so he could record during dinner.
So I'm, I just did it because I'm at the mercy of his decision because I'm using his computer
to record.
But I want to talk about immersing yourself and surrounding yourself with like-minded
people.
So in my life at home, I'm always, I'm kind of like an outlier.
So if you've ever heard of the 1%, then that's us.
We're like the 1%.
And at home, I'm like on self-improvement and I'm doing all this stuff like I'm reading
books, going to the gym, all this stuff.
And no one else is doing that.
So all like 99% of the people that I surround myself with on a day to day basis are not
anything like me and they don't really do anything that I do.
But today or over the past couple of days, I've actually been at Florida and my friend,
I have one friend that is, well I have a few friends, but one friend who's in a similar
place to me and he's on self-improvement.
He's working on business and his name's Franklin and me and him went to Florida.
And it's actually crazy how, like how eye-opening and how life-changing this experience is because
we grew up in an environment of just middle class.
And so that was our mindset.
Our mindset was you had to work long hours and you had to work for someone else.
But at this event, I've already met like four or five millionaires just like that.
And like people here are just normal people, but they're just people who are going after
their dreams and it's amazing because I have conversations with people and you would never
even expect that they're like millionaires.
They seem like normal people.
If you look around in the crowd of the event, there's like 5,000 people here.
And most people, they just look like normal people.
And so that it just shows, goes to show that anyone can become a millionaire.
And actually on the first day of the event, there was one guy that we sat next to.
His name was Gary and we didn't really talk the whole time because we were just paying
attention to the event and listening to the event.
But at the end, we were talking to him and he asked us what we do.
He told him and then we asked him what he does and he basically runs a spa.
So he's got like a local brick and mortar shop, just like a spa and he makes like 10
mil or I don't even know how much like 5 mil a year.
It's absolutely insane.
And he was just a normal dude.
And then we were talking to him a lot more and he actually said like, you got to just
never work for another person.
Always work for yourself because he told us a story where when he was just graduated
high school, so when he was still in high school, he basically had two dads.
One was his biological dad, his father.
And then there was another who was his uncle.
And so his father was, he would work for someone else and he didn't really have that great
of a life.
But his uncle was an entrepreneur, a business owner and he had an amazing life.
So what Gary did was he actually listened to his uncle's advice and actually followed
into his uncle, like everything that his uncle said to do.
And then what happened is once he was graduated.
So he went through high school and then graduated.
He never worked a single day of his life for somebody else.
And he literally just hustled.
So the moment he graduated, he would become like a salesman.
So he would walk door to door and he, at the beginning it took him like 100 knocks.
So he would knock 100 times on 100 doors or no, it would, he would knock on way more
doors, but a hundred people would answer.
So every hundred people that answered the doors and he actually had a conversation with, he
would get one sale.
And then he kept on doing at it.
Like literally every single day he would knock on hundreds and hundreds of doors.
And towards like every single day it would go down to 80 and then 70 and then 60.
And then after a while he was able to knock on two doors and get one sale.
So that's like a simple thing that he did, consistency and hard work.
Discipline and consistency is literally all that he had in order to become great at sales
and make a lot of sales.
And I want to relate that back to the podcast.
I'm literally being consistent and I guess it's hard work to record one hour every day,
which I don't think it's very hard, but some people think it's pretty hard.
So that's consistency and hard work.
And then after a little bit you'll get better and better and better.
And then eventually you'll actually make it.
And then we were talking about it a lot more and then he said that the best habit to have
is to read books.
And then he said, make sure that you're reading the right types of books because it can mess
you up if you don't read the right types of books.
He actually talked about a few books, but he basically said that if you create a habit
to record or read and study for one hour a day, then you'll basically be guaranteed success.
And he actually, when he was looking at the guest speaker lineup for this event, he actually
went through and looked for the best speaker and found the best one and then bought their
book and he just sat, locked himself in his room for two days straight, didn't do anything
except for read that book.
And then he read that book and now he's well prepared for this business conference.
So reading that, and that's also goes with consistency and hard work.
Like most people don't want to read.
And so if you can stay consistent, read every day for every morning, which is what I've been
doing.
One of the, one very good marketing thing is to confirm people's suspicions.
On my way to Funnel Hacking Live, over the past couple months, I've developed a lot of
good habits.
For example, I would read like an hour every morning, I would podcast an hour every afternoon.
And I would have all this consistency and reading and podcasting and a lot more different
things.
But I kind of had suspicions that I was on the right path forward, but I didn't know
for sure.
And after yesterday and today, I know exactly that I know that I am actually on the right
path forward because yesterday there was one speaker that talked about short form videos.
And so he basically said that if you create, if you like basically post a TikTok every
day or post a short every single day, just like a 60 minute short every single day, then
eventually you will actually make it.
And so that is, I essentially knew that principle, but he went like deep into like his exact
journey, like his, he actually showed his graph.
So for two months, he was actually like losing followers.
And then that was like the first two months of him posting a short every single day.
And that was probably because he sucked at it.
And in the beginning, he like, he was so bad at like recording those videos.
And so it took him two months.
And then after two months, he was even, he broke even.
So he was gaining the same amount of followers as he was losing.
And that's probably because he picked up a little bit more skill to where people were
just like neutral with him.
And then on like the fifth month, I'm pretty sure it was the fifth month, his like account
skyrocketed.
And his, there is on the graph that he showed, there was two lines, one line for unfollows
and then one line for new follows.
And the unfollows line was all the way on the, it was kind of like steady throughout the
whole time, but the follow line was low for the first two months, a little bit higher
for the next two months.
And then it just skyrocketed on month five.
And I'm on episode 72, so it's been like two months.
So right now I'm in the suck phase, like I'm in the sucky phase.
And then soon I'll shift and I'll hit a point where I'm actually going to start gaining
followers.
And then eventually I'll hit a point where I'm going to skyrocket.
And I understand that it's not going to be the same graph for everyone, but I feel like
I'm very glad that he showed that graph because right now I'm in the first two months, I'm
just two months in.
And it's very, it gives me some ease and some like a little bit more understanding to know
that it took him five months to even get results.
So I don't feel bad about not having like all the way, not having that much results yet.
And with that said, I actually haven't checked my analytics in a couple of weeks, but that's
another thing I want to talk about.
Today, another lady was speaking and she was a YouTuber, she's a YouTuber.
And she started in like 2019 and she actually showed her whole journey.
She started in like September or October.
And in like the first month, she like was pretty bad.
And it's always like bad.
And then she would post like once a week and then she'd get better and better and better.
The more practice she had that she posted once a week.
So she actually gave me so much insights, her speech was the best that I've, it was
exactly what I needed to hear because she basically went through and talked about her
progress.
And she also said that the first three seconds were the most important of your videos or
podcasts or whatever your show is.
And that's why I cut out my introduction because my introduction was just 30 seconds
of stupid.
Like, I was just speaking for 30 seconds mundane and it was stupid.
But that's why you need to capture everyone's attention within three seconds.
So that's my new rule.
That's why I had a hook in the beginning of this episode.
I tried to hook your attention so you would stay in and watch the whole episode.
And another thing that she said is don't ask people to subscribe.
Ask people to subscribe at the end and also at the end, send them to another video on
your, on your show.
So that's one thing that I'm going to implement.
Send them to another video on your show.
And she basically went through and showed exactly like many different strategies on
how to find video ideas.
So one thing that she said was you create a dummy account.
So basically you go on YouTube and create a brand new account that is like a dummy person.
So it's a fake person, but it, that person represents your dream customer or your viewer,
your listener.
And then you basically like, I don't really 100% understand the concept just yet.
I have to go look at the replay if the replays are available.
But pretty much what I understand is you watch YouTube as your like viewer, your dream viewer,
and then you would go through and like look at all the suggested videos.
And then you would like see if your video is suggested.
And then on your video, you would look at the suggested videos and then you would figure
out what they're doing and basically model them.
And then you can find a bunch of video ideas from that.
But that's like, that's just the, just two speakers.
And there was like, probably, I think there's probably like 15 speakers already, I bet.
And yesterday we were, the keynote speaker was Jaco Willink.
So I was listening to Jaco Willink.
But I want to also talk about another thing called the new thought movement.
So this is something that Russell Brunson was talking about on stage yesterday.
And this was his like first speech.
So basically he said that he's been treasure hunting for the past year.
So basically what that means is he was flying around the world looking for like documents
and artifacts and all kinds of books and stuff like that, that he could purchase that relates
to the new thought movement.
Now, what the new thought movement is, it's a, it's basically like reality transurfing.
So if you've been listening to this show, you'll definitely know what reality transurfing
is.
And if you don't know what it is, it's basically a method of thinking.
And it's, it actually, reality transurfing is a book.
So transurfing is basically it relates to how you perceive the world, your worldview,
your attitude towards the world, your thoughts, your everything that goes on in your mind
relates to transurfing.
And the new thought movement is basically that it's like a movement that started in 1850s
where people actually realized that the way you think actually affects the course of your
life.
And it was very like awesome to see that Russell Brunson has actually been looking into this
stuff and he's like going deep.
And he's like starting his own library and he's building his own library in his house
about the new thought movement.
And the fact that he is getting so deep into this stuff really confers my suspicions as
well because I'm going deep into this stuff as well.
And I know that I'm on the right track now.
But that's pretty much the new thought movement.
And he actually had a few books or he listed like nine or six people.
I don't know the exact number, maybe eight people that are revolutionary.
And he said that he's going to be talking about it a lot more.
Now let's talk about this one quote that I heard.
The billionaires of tomorrow are building their brands today.
And that is, that makes a lot of sense because if you look at Mr. Beast, Mr. Beast is a billionaire.
And he has spent like the past probably like 10, I don't even know how long he's been on
YouTube, but he's spent the past like half a decade or a decade on building his brand
and creating YouTube videos.
And now he's building like, so now that he has this huge audience, huge follower base,
and like this cult following, he's got like a hundred, he's got more than a hundred million
subscribers on YouTube.
Now that he's got all of these people that follow him, he can build businesses and like
basically use that audience and promote that traffic, all that traffic towards that business.
And that's why he's been so successful because he launched a burger chain, Mr. Beast burger.
And he basically just promoted it on his show, on his YouTube channel and it became an overnight
success.
Like thousands of people flew across the country just to get a burger from a fast food joint.
Like that is an insane thing.
And then he launched another chocolate bar company.
And once again, he followed the same process.
He leveraged his like traffic, all of his following his channel to send it to the, send
all of them to buy candy bars, chocolate bars.
So and now like he's a billionaire and that's exactly like what Elon Musk does as well.
Like no one cares about Tesla.
I mean, people care about Tesla, but on Twitter, like people follow Elon Musk.
Like Elon Musk is so much more entertaining than Tesla.
That's why so many people followed Elon Musk, but not necessarily Tesla.
So basically the billionaires of tomorrow are building their brands today.
And now I know I'm on the right, on the right path forward because that's exactly what I'm
doing right now.
I've been working on this podcast for quite some time and I plan on working for quite
some more time.
And also another thing that I want to talk about is I realize now that I need to be making
shorts.
So I kind of was brought, this was brought to my attention a while ago because when I
first started recording my podcast, I was actually recording shorts as well, but they
weren't necessarily linked to the podcast.
They were just kind of separate things and they were TikToks, but I didn't post any of
them.
And I did this for probably like six days and I would record three podcasts a day for
six days.
But I got like 19, not podcasts.
I got TikToks.
I basically recorded like 19 TikToks.
And then I kind of stopped because I felt that I wasn't going to be able to keep this
routine up because I wanted to focus on like the big mover like podcasts.
I wanted to focus on the podcast a lot more and I didn't think that I would be able to
be consistent at both at the beginning at least and I definitely planned on starting
shorts again in the future once I basically became proficient at podcast, not necessarily
proficient at podcasting, but consistent enough for a decent amount of time to where it's
easy to do it.
So for example, when I first started going to the gym, it took some willpower to go to
the gym for the first few weeks or months and then eventually a positive feedback loop
formed and then going to the gym actually became like pleasurable and I actually wanted
to go to the gym instead of not.
And so that's basically why I dropped the shorts because if you record shorts, then
it would take a little bit of time to actually get like the positive feedback loop rolled.
And then I was doing shorts and podcasts.
So that's basically, it would take, I didn't want to risk dropping them both.
So I just dropped the short and then focus on podcasting so I could build that positive
feedback loop and then eventually I recorded the podcast or eventually now I'm going to
start the shorts.
I definitely plan on starting them.
I don't know when I'm going to start them, but I definitely plan on starting them soon
because yesterday one of the speakers that I was talking about earlier was talking about,
he was talking all about the shorts and how if you post a short a day, it'll like absolutely
revolutionize your business and everything like that.
So I think that instead of just posting on its own short like I did on my like when I
first started, I'm going to post like maybe I'd have to figure out how many I want to
record.
I'd either do one or three shorts per day.
So I'd have to figure that out depending on how long it takes to do it.
I don't want to spend, I would want to do this during my editing because I already have
to do like spend like 30 minutes editing the podcast because it takes like 30 minutes for
the software to actually automatically like reduce the background noise, level the audio
levels and all that kind of stuff and then actually download it and then post it takes
like 30 minutes at a time. So if I just right after my podcast, I actually plan on doing
a short based off of what I just talked about because this is what Hamza does.
So Hamza is a YouTuber that I used to watch that is basically a role model to me and my
friend actually showed me his channel again and showed that he's making longer form videos
and then he is taking little concepts from that video and then turning them into a short.
So he basically creates a long like hour and a half long video and then gets like nine
or three, I don't know the exact number of shorts that he gets out of that, but he basically
gets a few shorts out of that long video from that video.
So basically if he was talking about like going to the gym and lifting weights for 90
minutes in the video, he would basically create a short about one specific topic that he talked
about in that video and that would allow him to basically post that short and then drive
traffic from the short. So he get a lot more views on the short and then all the traffic
that he got from that short at the end of the video, he would actually have a call to
action to go watch. He said like, if you like this, go watch the full unedited like full
length unedited video and then he would like give a link or something like that. So that
is basically like his strategy and I was aware of that over the past couple of weeks, but
I never really implemented it until a lot of times when you hear something, you don't
implement it until like you hear it again. That's what happens a lot. And then for example,
my dad told me to read the book called the alchemist and I understood that it was a good
book, but I didn't actually implement it until I, well, even then I heard it again on the
Hamza's reading list. I saw the alchemist on that and I still didn't implement it, but
then I implemented it. It took me like a little bit longer to actually implement it. So I
had to wait for the actual opportunity to present it itself. And in that specific case,
the opportunity was me in class. We, in my English class, we have 30 minutes to do independent
reading or 20 minutes every Monday and Friday to do independent reading. So that was the
opportunity. So usually you, it doesn't, you don't, what am I trying to say? Like I originally
saw this strategy on Hamza and I didn't implement it until, well, I actually haven't implemented
it yet, but this is the second time that I saw it yesterday when that speaker talked
about it and he actually gave us a book all about it. So I'm definitely going to be reading
that next. And that, that's the thing. And before Funnel Hacking Live, I created this
whole plan of books to read next. And I was conscious of the fact that Funnel Hacking
Live will definitely shift me and I may not want to read these books next. And so I decided
to just wait. And then once I got to Funnel Hacking Live, I am just waiting for like the
next books to present themselves. And what I ended up doing is we actually received a
book for free. It's called Create, Don't Capture. And I forgot the author's name, but
I'll definitely be, I'll definitely know the author's name as I read it, but that's the
next book that I'm going to be reading. And basically, like my, in essence, my plan is
to incorporate all of these strategies. Like for now, like now that I know the first three
seconds is the most important in your video, I'm dropping the intro. Like that's stupid.
And I already had suspicions to drop my intro like the other day, I was talking to my friend,
I was like, should I just drop my intro? It's kind of stupid. And then today I'm definitely
dropping it. And then another thing is I'm going to add a hook to the first three seconds
of my video because hooks are essential because if you don't hook their attention, they won't
listen to the video. And then after every single video I'm going to be while I'm editing,
I'm going to be recording a TikTok or like a YouTube short or something like that. And
I haven't decided whether one or three or two, I don't know, but that will help drive traffic
to the podcast. So that's huge. And then what else is there? We were talking, Jaco
Willink came last night and he was basically talking about extreme ownership and taking
100% ownership of your business and all your failures. So I really liked him and I might
read his books, but probably not for a little bit while. But tonight, okay, so Garrett J.
White came and one thing that, okay, let me just talk about this. One thing that I really
noticed is throughout the whole event, I was thinking I want to be on that stage, like
not necessarily fun-hacking live stage, but I want to be on a stage. And I was thinking
that I grew so much over the past couple of months just from doing like comfort zone challenges
and like just a bunch of stuff. I grew so much over the past couple of months. And then
I remember like a year ago, if I were to think about like even talking to a stranger, I would
like be nervous. But now I'm actually having like aspirations of being a public speaker
and doing all this stuff. But I don't know. And then I want to talk about the business.
I'm sorry, this episode is going to be a lot about business because that's like the mindset
I'm in right now because I'm at a business conference. But I want to talk about the business
because right now the theme of this year's event is called the Lynch Pin. And it's basically
all about continuity. So it's like a membership service. So anytime you have a recurring revenue,
so that be like if you are subscribed to like Netflix or just like any subscription or membership
service. And then even if you're like on Amazon, there's like options for if there's things
that you can get multiple times, like let's say you buy toilet paper, there's an option
that says subscribe and save. That's continuity, that's recurring revenue. And that's basically
what I'm like. That is what I definitely am going to be moving forward on because I know
that continuity is everything in business. Because this whole event is tailored to get
us to want to do continuity and basically focus on continuity. So also networking is
a huge piece of business events. And one thing that I realized is when I'm networking, when
I first came here, I was like, I'm not really doing anything. But now I realize that what
I'm doing right now for business is I'm just focusing on my podcast and trying to find
my voice. And I keep on telling people that I'm podcasting and finding my voice and then
waiting for like the path to present itself and waiting for something to happen. And that's
basically what I plan because I know that once I find my voice and actually the speaker
today was saying that step one to creating like a membership or a continuity is to have
like a small following like of 100 people or like a couple hundred people. That's literally
easy. I don't know how many people are following me right now. But last time I checked it was
seven. So like if and like 100 people is not that much like you see people with millions
of followers. So 100 is simple. And actually, a few of my friends when they used to do YouTube,
they had like 100 followers. So it's not that difficult to get 100 followers. That's basically
the first step to creating a continuity like membership program. And then after that, you
basically create your program and then you send all of your people to that program. So
that's basically I've been waiting for things to happen in my podcast. And now I'm learning
a lot of tools to be proactive and actually get things to happen on like actually get
move the move the wheel forward and get things to happen. Like many different small things
I'm starting right now is the shorts and then the hook cutting out my intro. All these things
are small things that are happening that will help me move forward. And also, I know that
once I have like a decent following, I'll be able to ask people because a lot of one
of the biggest concepts is asking your client what they want like asking your dream customer
what they want. So I'll basically just create an episode. And like I've actually been doing
this in the past where I dropped my email and I'm like, everyone who is like if you
have a problem, then email me and then if there's enough people who have the similar
problem, solve it. And that's like that's also what I was thinking. Once I get enough
people, I think that the one of the first steps on the path is creating a coaching program
because having a coaching program, Hamza did a coaching program and he was able to learn
a lot because if I have like a bunch of people and then I do a coaching like individual one
on one coaching, then you can basically have like one on one sessions with people and then
you'll like be able to learn what they want. And then you'll be able to learn exactly all
the problems they have. And then you'll be able to see like common themes. That's that
was actually my strategy a couple, actually a couple weeks ago was once I checked my analytics,
my strategy was if I had a high number and a lot of people are listening, I would offer
a coaching program and then promote it onto the podcast and then I would like coach five
people, see a common theme and then solve it. And now I'm figuring out like more better
ways to solve it because continuity is an extremely good like continuity is everything
in a business. But I'm sorry if this episode is not like as great as the other episodes
because I am sitting outside in Florida and there's a bunch of people around a lot of
distractions. And but this is like the best that I could find. This is the best spot that
I could find. And I'm like tonight is going to be awesome. I'm pretty sure Gary J. White
is speaking again tonight. And he is all about like he's all about motivation. But he's
he's also saying that well, let me talk about let me can completely switch the topic to I
want to talk more about networking. Now, networking was a big fear that I had come in here. Like
I'm an introvert and I don't have a very large comfort zone yet. And but over the past couple
like weeks and months, I've been doing a lot sorry if you can hear this noise but I'm
recording outside and the spot that I chose has barely any shade and the sun is moving
around. And so the computer that I'm recording on was in the shade but now it's in the sun
and it got really hot so I had to move it but pretty much the networking is so valuable
because when I was coming when I was like when I knew I was going to come I knew that
networking was great. But one thing is that networking is so valuable. Now I think I talked
about this on yesterday's episode but literally the first day we were here during registration
day zero of the event, I saw two dudes networking and one they literally just met and one dude
literally hooked the other guy up with so many leads and so many like potential clients
and it was like an amazing sight to see. So right there I already like learned of the
value of networking and then but I was still like a little nervous to network and then
once I just did it like I didn't to be honest I didn't even like I didn't even walk up to
many people but once I actually did it I was super what am I trying to say once I once
I actually did it then like all the excess potential just dissipated and it was like
what am I trying to say the excess potential dissipate I'm sorry I'm like very distracted
right now because I can see someone in the corner of my eye but all the excess potential
dissipated and then I was comfortable talking. Now I made a few mistakes like for the first
couple network things that I was just talking about myself and then I became conscious of
that and then I started asking other people and I've met like a bunch of people and like
they're all millionaires like everyone here are business owners and everyone here are
like millionaires so that's another thing the biggest lesson is to surround yourself
with like-minded people. Now let me explain so probably like so I started self-improvement
let's just say one year ago I started reading my first books like one in September of 2022
and so I was working on that and then I heard this quote of the your five people you spend
the most time with or you're the average of the five people you spend your most time with
and I kind of just assumed that it didn't really affect me I kind of just assumed that
I can just stay indifferent to other people and that I can just not like make them pull
me down because at this time I was doing a lot of like high values high value habits
like reading and going to the gym and a lot of this stuff and eating healthy and then
most of my friends were not and so I just assumed that I could just be indifferent and
not really be affected by them but what I found out was I actually didn't find this
out until a couple months ago when I met my friend Franklin who is on self-improvement
and is on a similar path to me and it was absolutely insane because we grew so much
like and so it wasn't until a couple months ago it wasn't until a couple weeks or months
after I met him when I realized that and I talked about this on my episode on my show
before that I realized you're not just losing out on the fact that all those five other
people are pulling you down yeah they're pulling you down even if you're indifferent to it
but you're also missing out on the fact that those five people are not going to be able
to like pull you up and I realized this I've only met two people that are on self-improvement
and one of them I don't even spend that much time with but one of them I spent a lot of
time with Franklin and we realized that over summer we spend the majority of our time with
each other and we're able to pull each other up and so that's huge because in my current
school I go to school and there is like everyone is like going to college and everyone is going
on their own paths like the traditional path and that's not what I'm doing but I pretty
much spend my entire day at school with all these people and now I'm staying indifferent
like I don't really talk to many people at school I just have like simple conversations
with them I don't really hang out much but I'm trying to stay indifferent which is like
I'm doing the best I can but I'm missing out on the fact of other people can pull me up
and I realized that again like that was the biggest lesson that I learned coming to Fun
and I Can Live because literally on the first day of the event we I sat next to a multi-millionaire
he makes multi-million dollars every year in income in his business and like just talking
to him for like we probably talked to him for like 10 20 minutes maybe just that one
conversation we had with him it was so amazing like he we were just talking about all like
literally I did not learn anything new from him but he confirmed all of my suspicions
because he was probably like 50 60 years old like he was a pretty old dude and I like
he is like 50 years ahead of me on this path and he confirmed everything all my suspicions
of whether I'm doing everything right because throughout my podcast like throughout my journey
I knew that I was doing all like I was I knew I was doing the habits of millionaires and
I knew that I was like on the right path but those were just my suspicions but now talking
to this one guy just one guy who is like 50 years ahead of me all of my suspicions were
confirmed he said meditate he said talk to people like network and all this stuff and
all my suspicions are confirmed it's amazing so that's one guy that we spent time with
who is a millionaire and that he like pulled us up and then there's other people that we
were talking to that were like on a similar they were like there's like two people who
were like in their 20s like 26 years old and they were just starting their businesses as
well similar to us who are able to pull us up as well so even though we're not even if
we talk to like people who are in the same level as us they're pulling us up so that's
why I really believe in the you're the average of the five most people you spend five people
you spend the most time with because like I'm just looking around and in the event they
talk about like there's a thing called the two comma club it's basically if you have
earned two million or earned one million dollars in revenue in a funnel and there were thousands
of people in the audience so there's like five thousand people there in attendance and they're
like who are my two comma club winners and then thousands of people are talking and then
there's like this inner circle that you have to pay like fifty thousand dollars a year or
like two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year to get into and we saw so many people and
the most amazing thing is they all look like normal people they just look like you and I
so that's another thing limiting beliefs I am grown up like there's a quote in Transurfing
where your worldview is exactly what it's you are taught for it to be so you basically
think in exactly the same way where you're supposed to think and your worldview is like
been formed and created by like your upcoming and so basically I grew up in a middle class
house and my worldview was basically formed by that so I grew up seeing all like the normal
people because normal people are basically you the your definition of normal people is
people who you see on a day to day basis so I'm I can see probably like 20 people in my
field of vision right now so these are the types of people that I see on a day to day
basis so they become my definition of normal people now normal people differs from everyone
so if you are born into a hunter gather tribe with completely different clothing then those
are your normal people so if you come into my world as a hunter gather and you see all
my normal people they're not going to be normal to you it does that make sense so basically
my normal people are middle class and then the whole reason and I see middle class as
normal I don't see them as having any particular like strong qualities or any particular thing
like attributes to them and the normal people to me are middle class that's just exactly
how I was raised but going to this event now I'm seeing all these normal people and they're
millionaires so you're the average of five people you spend your most time with so if
you spend your most time with millionaires and you see them as normal people well you're
going to automatically want to assimilate into that and you're going to automatically
want to become normal like most people are normal and you're not going to want to be
an outlier because that's natural human like tendencies like primitive tendencies and so
naturally your normal will become millionaire and then you'll become a millionaire so that's
another reason why simply just passively being here not even necessarily doing much here
is so game changing because I'm I talked to like I've already said this multiple times
I've talked to like 10 people and there's probably two people walking by right now that
are millionaires so that's all about you're the average of the five most people you spend
your most time with shoot sorry about that interruption that was actually not my phone
it was Franklin's phone that was the first time I've ever actually had a phone call
in the middle of my podcast and it was because his call his phone was on not on silent so
I'm actually going to power it off right now because this is my podcast and I don't want
his phone on but that actually just goes to show one very important thing making sure
that you create your environment exactly how you want it to be so let me explain basically
I made sure that my environment when I podcast like at home right now I don't really have
much control because I'm at Florida and I'm at like a hotel that I'm not even staying
at so shoot I think okay I close my computer but right now I'm at an environment that I'm
not really in much control about I'm out in public recording now I probably could have
done a better job finding a finding a location to record with less distractions but that
is one important thing in your work in your day to day basis all of your things you have
to take control of your environment this is like the first time I heard about this lesson
was in the book called the millionaire fast lane by MJ DeMarco he basically he basically
talked about how when he was first when he was still living at his parents house trying
to become a millionaire he was living in his mom's basement and one of the things is he
was living in Chicago and he has like seasonal depression and that was like a big bad thing
for him and he didn't realize that he could actually change and control his environment
so what he did was he literally just picked up his bags and moved across the country to
the sunniest place in the world and so that is one way he changed his environment so that's
the first that's like the first lesson that I learned about changing your environment
and so I knew about that but I didn't really I wasn't really conscious when I was making
these decisions so I kind of like subconsciously controlled my environment because a year ago
my room I had a bed and a TV mounted to the wall and I had my PC all my gaming stuff my
Xbox in my room and then I realized that I could actually control my environment put
because even after I stopped playing video games I realized that this stuff was still
a distraction and so I would I literally just got rid of all of my stuff in my room and
it became minimalist and then I realized that I wanted to focus on studying and I wanted
to focus on meditating as well so studying and meditating is one of the things that I
wanted to get into like hardcore because I knew that those were two successful habits
to have studying and meditating and so I was like I was questioning like how can I make
this the easiest possible to be consistent so I was thinking like I tried to meditate
in my in the gym and it didn't really work out very well because it's hard to be consistent
and meditating if you're meditating in the gym because you can't really control that
environment because most people like there's people that walk by and then in the gym if
you have a rest day you're resting from meditation as well so I was trying to figure out how
I could make it like a consistent practice and so what I ended up doing was I tried to
find a mat to meditate on and I found a tatami mat because I just watched a video about sleep
and in that sleep video he basically recommended a tatami mat and so this is like a tatami mat
who is all about it's just like a straw grass this is a grass straw mat and this this mat
I bought just for meditation I put it in my room and I was consistent and then I ended
up wanting to study and so I basically got rid of everything in my room except for that mat
and that basically made it so there was no distractions absolutely zero distractions
in my room at all zero and so now I have ever since that I did that probably like one or two
probably like two months ago and ever since then it I've been extremely consistent no I think it
was three months ago I've been extremely consistent at meditating and studying so that is like if you
want to be successful in like a certain thing control your environment and make it the easiest
possible so when you are so that's like that relates to me right now I'm podcasting and I'm
actually like a little stressed out because everyone's going inside and I think I'm missing the event
but I still have eight minutes left so that's another thing that I failed on to control my
environment controlling your environment is so important like you need to control your environment
that's like that and I didn't even learn about that at fun life in life yet but tonight we're
actually I believe the next thing that is planned is the awards ceremony for fun life in life and
this award ceremony is basically like a two hour long award ceremony which I refer to the
two comma club earlier and it's like that it's basically a club or it's basically the award
you were you are receive when you make a funnel that creates one million in sales and this when
this when you do this you basically receive the two comma club award and click funnels provides that
and there are like I think there's like thousands of people in the two comma club now and there's
been like 400 people that received a two comma club award since last fun life in life so on today
is actually going to be the two comma club award ceremony and the two comma club x and the two comma
club c so pretty much I'm going to be watching a bunch of normal people that look like you and me go
on stage in front of 5000 people and receive an award that they had earned by creating a business
that that generated one million ten million or like five 100 million in revenue so I'm going to be
seeing a bunch of people that look just like me on stage winning an award doing something that I
strive to do so that's going to be another very good like life-changing um thing but one thing is
Gary J. White it was on stage today and he's basically the founder of wake up warrior and
he's a beast so he's like the man he if you think of a masculine man he is basically what will come
up and he was on stage just talking about business and he's usually like motivational so he was on
stage just for business and in I'm pretty sure he's going to do his motivational one on in like a
week or or not a week but today or tomorrow or the next day and pretty much he was on stage and
to be honest I completely forgot where I was going with this because I keep on seeing people
that I'm getting distracted by so that's another thing of the event or control your environment but
Gary oh this is what I was saying Gary J. White was talking about how you cannot be consuming so
much content and this is something I realized in funnel hacking live because we're sitting in a chair
for hours like literally today we're at funnel hacking live for 14 hours with only like two
breaks of dinner and lunch so and we're consuming so much content and this is something me and my
friend Franklin realized yesterday after the event we got home and we're like so what happened today
and I was like I have no idea I completely forgot everything that happened and like that's the issue
we consume so much content like do not consume so much content and he actually preaches consume as
little content as possible and make sure that that content is extremely high quality and that's why
business like that's what he does in business click funnels does this and Gary J. White does this in
business so basically when you have a bunch of content this you don't want to put out so much
content you want to I'm not talking about like general like YouTube channel I'm talking about
if you're creating a course like a membership course like the continuity program that I really want
to do but I don't really know how to move forward on so you don't want to place all of your content
in there you want to curate all that content and create the most dense piece of like content possible
and then that will basically get the person to move as quickly and optimally towards their goal
and so what happens is they're able to go on this and then it consumes little content as possible
and so Gary J. White is big on meditation and so he doesn't like consuming a lot of content and
that's what I've been doing yesterday and today which I'm very conscious of but I want to consume
it all because this is an event that only happens once a year and this is my first time ever doing
anything like this so I'm consuming everything so I'm making the exception to the rule right now but
basically if you consume as little content as possible but make sure it's the most high quality
content and then he says meditate like make sure your mind is clear he said conscious awareness
conscious awakening and that is like all about making sure that you're listening to the most
information high quality stuff possible and that's another thing Gary yesterday we were the guy that
the millionaire that me and my friend were talking about yesterday we were talking to him
and he when I was saying this relates to what he said he said make sure you're studying a book
or make sure you're studying for one hour every day at least and make it a habit
like studying a book and he said he also said make sure that you're reading like good high
quality books like don't read some trash garbage make sure that you're reading the most high quality
books possible and then he gave like an example principles by Ray Dalio he said he's gonna listen
to everything he says because he is like a millionaire he knows exactly what he's talking about
and he has what he's and like don't read some book by Joe Schmoe that they don't even know anything
about like they don't even know anything about the thing they're talking about so that's another
thing like make sure you're consuming as little content as possible and but that's another thing
like I'm producing a lot of content so naturally I want people to consume all of my content but
if you really want to move forward can make sure okay so let me explain this I was in a stage like
a couple months ago where I was consuming a lot of content but I was making sure I was listening
to the highest quality possible so I was listening to Hamza um diary of a CEO like the highest quality
content but I was still consuming it in mass and then I and then there's a turning point that you
have to get to where you're basically you shift from not even consuming anything and that's actually
what happens eventually you end up consuming nothing like that's what I'm doing so if you
I recommend you consume as much content as possible so listen to my stuff if you think that
my stuff is the most important for you listen to it and then eventually once you get to a point where
you're like self-sustainable then that's when you make the shift and cut out all content and all media
everything like I'm not even the only content that I've been listening to for the past like
couple like honestly the last couple months is obviously school but other than that it's been
this for my life like this is the most content I've consumed in like the last long time but
that's pretty much it so one thing that I said that I was going to do is refer you guys to another video
and I want you guys to listen if you guys haven't listened to the Transurfing Principles episodes
I recommend going back and listening to them all in order um and if you don't like like the first
ones because I remember the first one it was when I was first starting recording so I wasn't very good
at recording so go back and listen to that stuff and skip through if you don't like listening to
my early voice but pretty much go watch that but to wrap things up don't forget to download your
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