This will revolutionize the way you see self-improvement.
Let me explain.
So if you guys have been listening to this podcast lately,
I'm going through a few changes
because I am at a business conference right now.
And it's actually, it's called Fun Lacking Life.
And it's much, much more than a business conference.
It's transformational, it's life-changing.
And this is my first time going.
And I'm 18 years old and this is,
I'm doing this when I'm 18 years old.
So this is going to set me up extremely well for the future.
And there's a lot of guest speakers.
There's like over 30 speakers speaking at this event.
And I'm on day three out of four and I'm at lunch right now.
It's an hour and a half lunch break.
And I just want to say there was this one speaker.
Now all the speakers were great,
but for some reason this one speaker was the best
that I've ever heard.
And he was the best like for the entire conference so far.
And his name is Benjamin Hardy.
And he's an author of a book, many books,
but he's an author of a book called 10X is Easier Than 2X.
So pretty much he spoke for,
I don't know how long his speech was,
but he spoke for a very long time about pretty much
the psychology and all of the science,
all the just the reasoning why 10X growth
is easier than 2X growth.
And he also like gave us every,
he gave every single person in attendance
of the conference his book,
10X is Easier Than 2X.
Like all hard copy, hardcover books.
So that was amazing.
And I know that I think I said this in yesterday's episode,
but yesterday I got a book that's called Create, Don't Capture.
And I said that I was going to read that next,
but the next book I'm going to read is definitely going to be
the 10X is Easier Than 2X.
Unless obviously things change because a lot changes.
And pretty much he basically went through the,
his like a foundation of his entire speech was
you, your present creates your past
and your future creates your presence.
I don't really a hundred percent understand it all.
It's just fresh in my mind,
but I'm going to try and try and explain a lot of it
because he pretty much the premise of 10X is Easier Than 2X
is most people have a flawed worldview.
And if you have been paying any attention to like any books,
you'll see a common theme or even just any like high achiever
or just anyone who has accomplished a lot,
you'll see a common theme.
And pretty much the common theme is if any,
if most people do it, you probably don't want to do it.
And the whole thing is that most people
create their present based on the filter of their past.
So they basically try and figure out
how they can improve marginally right now.
I'm probably not doing this justice
and I'm definitely going to be reading the book a lot more
because when you hear something, you forget it.
When you see something, you remember it.
And then when you do something, you understand it.
I just heard, I just saw it.
I mean, I just heard it.
I just heard it.
So when you hear something, you forget it.
When you see something, you remember it.
And I just heard it.
So it's not really that solidified,
but the important piece is that whenever you're trying
to grow, always create an impossible goal
and filter it through, filter everything you do
in the present filter your entire existence
through that filter.
And this goal needs to be impossible.
You need to have a fear to even write it down
on a piece of paper.
And this, what needs to happen is
he pretty much uses the 80-20 rule.
So right now, most people use the worldview
of they look at their past to create their current goals
and their current future.
But what needs to be done is you look at the future
and then create an impossible goal.
And then that means that what's happening right now
is you're doing 80% of your actions right now
are not, they're not new, they're old actions,
they're habits, they are comfortable, you're good at them.
That's 80% of your actions.
And then 20% of your actions are new
and you're improving 20%.
Like you're doing 20% new things.
But when you have an impossible goal,
what happens is it shifts.
Now only 20% of your actions are old and comfortable
and you're good at them.
And then 80% of the actions are new.
And they're like, so that's basically,
when you have this impossible goal,
you're filtering everything that you do
through that lens of that impossible goal.
Because one thing that he said is that
if the goal seems impossible,
nothing you're doing right now is gonna work.
So you have to radically shift your actions.
You have to radically change your worldview,
your habits, your comfort zone, everything.
You have to radically shift everything
because he also talked about your floor.
So my floor one year ago was barely anything
because I had just, my floor one year ago was tiny.
I'd just gotten into self improvement.
I'd just gotten into learning.
And then it slowly, every single day,
it increased and increased and increased.
And now my floor is so much bigger.
It's like a hundred times bigger, more than that.
Thousand times bigger than it was one year ago.
And now at my worst, I am way better.
I'm thousands of times better than my best a year ago.
So my perspective was to just to slowly change things.
But just to slowly change things.
Maybe I had the perspective to radically change things,
but I'm not really sure.
Because I believe that I've been following
the worldview of most because I,
and you've probably heard this on recent episodes
where I compare myself, my current self to my past self,
and I keep on comparing back,
which is fine to see your growth
and see how much you've grown,
but that's like kind of, you're not supposed to create
the past to create your present,
or use the past to create your present,
you're supposed to use the future to create your present.
So one thing that I have been doing lately
is running a slide of my goal.
And my goal is, I've discussed this on my show
in earlier episodes, my goal,
but I'm not gonna be discussing it anymore
because I made a rule where I don't discuss my goals
with other people anymore because,
and I've talked about this in the episode
called Don't Share Your Plans or something like that.
But pretty much my goal right now is I realized
because at the end of the speech,
he said, now write a goal for the end of this year.
So write a goal for three months.
And then I wrote it down,
which was my goal that I've been having.
And then he said that it should be,
it should seem so impossible
that you kind of have a fear to write it down
and you don't want other people to see.
And so I immediately crossed it out
because I already know that it's possible.
Like I've run my slides so much
and I've gotten my suspicions confirmed
because one thing that I didn't realize for Transurfing
was I didn't know that visualization actually works out.
I didn't know that it actually works.
And then I started visualizing.
And well, let me explain
because when I, I been,
I first discovered Funnel Hacking Live
and I'm at Funnel Hacking Live right now.
So I discovered it probably like a month,
probably like two, maybe three months ago.
And well, I discovered it before that,
but when I first had the idea to actually come,
I got an email from Russell Bronson.
He sent it to his list.
I got that email and then I was like, oh yeah,
that'd be cool, but I didn't really have any intent to go.
I just had desire.
And then the next day I went to the park
with my friend Franklin and I told him about it.
And then initially he also was like, oh yeah, cool.
And then after like an hour, two hours, three hours,
maybe at the park, we were just talking about the whole time.
And then we like created an entire plan
and we realized that it was actually possible.
And so we decided to do it.
And then a couple of weeks pass, blah, blah, blah.
You guys have heard this story before,
but long story short, we decided to go
and then we figured things out along the way
on how to get there.
And one thing that an integral part of the journey
was I was visualizing.
And my slide was I would visualize myself
looking up at the stage at Russell Bronson speaking
in an angle.
So it was like from the side.
And the thing is I don't really know,
I'm not really able to visualize.
So whatever the first image that pops up into my head,
I just run with it because I can't really change it.
And so that was the first image that popped up in my head.
So I ran with it and I visualized it for weeks.
And then I stopped visualizing it.
But once I actually got here on the first day of Funalhacking
Live, we like sat down, we were trying to find our seats.
We took a little bit to find seats
and then we found some seats.
And then we got situated.
We were just sitting there for like 15 minutes maybe.
And then the speaker was talking, Devon Brown, the emcee,
or as he likes to call himself, the emcee.
And I just had this random moment.
And I just had a moment of realization
that this was the exact slide that I ran, the exact slide.
I had the same exact angle looking up at the stage.
And it was insane.
So from then, that point, I had proof that visualization works
because that was the first thing I've ever actually
visualized legitimately.
Well, actually, that's not true.
I visualized that mansion.
But that's a bigger order.
That was the first thing that I visualized legitimately.
And then I ended up actually achieving that.
And so that just showed proof that it actually happens.
And it works.
And so now I've been visualizing my, what's it called?
I almost said my goal.
But my current goal is something I
expressed in earlier episodes.
But pretty much I've been visualizing it a lot lately,
more so than the phone hacking live slide.
And to be honest, I haven't really
visualized it in a few days because I haven't really
meditated in a few days because there simply
was not enough time.
Because yesterday I was at phone hacking live,
the event for 14 hours.
And then we didn't get home until like 11 o'clock at night.
And this morning, we got here at 8 30 in the morning.
So this event takes up a lot of time, but it's 100% worth it.
But with all that said, the visualization, I almost said it
again, but the visualization for my current slide
is I've expanded my comfort zone, and I actually
think that it's possible now.
And it's starting to become an integral part of me.
And now I realize that it was easy.
So going back to at the end of the speech,
he said to write down a goal that you want to achieve
in three months time.
And then I wrote it down, my current slide, my current goal.
And then he said it should be something that
feels impossible to achieve.
It feels crazy hard.
And you should have a figure of writing it down.
And then I immediately crossed it out
because I got to the point where I actually
think that it's possible.
And so I tried to think of an even crazier, more difficult
goal.
I don't know.
I think that what I do is my goal is one thing,
but I'm going to include financially free as well
as being able to live exactly how I want
with no financial burdens or financial restrictions
or restraints.
So that would be an impossible goal for me.
And that's the whole premise of the 10x is easier than 2x
because when you have an impossible goal,
you realize that you have to drop 80% of your actions
and then create those focus on those new actions.
And what the actions I took to get here
are not the actions that I will have to take to get there.
And that's a really powerful quote from him
because I had to do some certain things
to get to phone acting life.
I had to expand my comfort zone, had to do some stuff.
And yes, there was a lot of the stuff was very difficult
and it was very crazy for me.
But what I realized is that it's not enough to get me there.
It's not enough to get me to my goal.
And my goal is at the end of 2023, by January 1,
that's my goal.
And it's crazy because I remember writing down
on my journal at the beginning of the year.
So I've said this on the podcast before.
But at the beginning of the year,
I wrote down on my journal all of my stats
and my starting stats for the year.
And then I ended up improving on them
a lot over the past 10 months because it's
about to be October.
So I've ended up improving on them a lot.
But one stat in particular, at the time,
I was just focusing on my health.
So most of my stats were health.
And then I was trying to think of more stats to write down.
And income came into mind.
And so I wrote down income and it was zero.
And I was like, I probably won't really change that much.
And then what happened is I started
getting into entrepreneurship probably like six months
after I wrote that down.
So I started really looking into business
and really looking into all this stuff.
And now I'm at a business conference.
So this is the first time I've ever taken,
ever been around people like this.
And it's funny because all the people that I've talked to
are richer.
Like the poorest person that I've talked to is richer
than the richest person I've ever known before I came,
which is insane.
Every single person I've talked to is like,
they're running their own business.
They have their time separate from their money.
They like all this stuff.
And it's absolutely like life changing.
Like all of the speakers are great.
They're amazing.
And they're actually changing my life.
But one thing that I didn't even suspect
that would also, I'd also find so much growth in
was the simple fact or the simple act of talking
to other people in the crowd.
Like I'm an outlier.
I think I'm an outlier in this crowd.
I'm like, there's probably not very many people in this crowd
that haven't made any money yet in their business.
There's not many people.
And like most people have made money in their business
and they've made a lot of money.
And like even yesterday last night,
we were watching the awards ceremony
and it was actually, it was actually not,
like I didn't really get what I thought I would get out of it.
So I thought what I assumed I would get out of it
was the fact that it's actually possible.
I thought that I was gonna be able to see all these people
that look just like me and all these people who,
I think that I could, like I would be able to see the fact
that other people got the two comic-cub award.
I thought that I would get that belief and that world change.
But what I actually ended up getting out of last night
was completely different from what I expected.
And let me explain.
So the way they had it set up was they had an entire team.
So ClickFunnels founders are Russell Brunson and Todd Dickerson.
So they had an entire team
basically managing the award ceremony.
So Russell Brunson and Todd Dickerson were standing
in the middle of the stage the entire time
just taking pictures with the people who won the awards.
And these people who won the awards,
there were multiple awards given out,
like a two comma club award.
So you had to make a million dollars in a funnel,
a two comma club X, so 10 million.
And then two comma club C is like anywhere between 25
and a hundred mil in a funnel.
And all the people that won just looked like normal people.
And they didn't really seem that crazy,
which is kind of what I assumed I would get
out of the award ceremony.
And I definitely got that,
but I got something much, much more.
And I was watching all these people,
every single person would receive an award
that was given to them by Russell and Todd.
And then they'd shake Russell and Todd's hand or hug them.
And then they'd take a picture with them.
And then they'd leave.
And then this was just one person.
And then another person would come.
And then the main, like the common theme amongst them all
was Russell and Todd.
And I realized that all these people won their awards,
but the real winners on that stage last night
was Russell and Todd.
Because Russell and Todd created the entire universe.
Like they created the entire universe of click funnels.
They created all of this stuff.
And they created an entire movement.
And all of these people are here for Russell and Todd.
Like they're here because of Russell and Todd.
And that is like what I learned.
Like what I originally intended to do was be the small fish.
Be the small fish in Russell and Todd's pond.
And go and get my two comic club award.
That's what I intended to do,
to be a small fish in their pond.
And what ended up happening was I realized
that those, the Russell and Todd were the real winners.
So now I realized that I gotta be the,
I gotta have my big pond.
I gotta have my own pond with my own fish in it.
And yeah, I probably will use click funnels software,
but that doesn't necessarily mean
I'll be a fish in their software.
Because I think it's called Fubi.
Damon Johns Company is, he's like a billion dollar company.
And that company uses click funnels,
but they're not necessarily small fish
in click funnels pond.
They're big fish.
Like they are kind of in their pond, but not necessarily.
So I was gonna be like kind of like a cog in the machine,
but now I realized that I gotta go on my own path.
Like yes, I'm gonna be using the tool, the system.
One of the speakers today was all about,
you have to be great,
but you also have to have the system.
Like Michael Jordan, I think it was Jordan.
One of the basketball players that is on the bowls
and then had the coach create a system around him,
he wasn't successful until he had the system around him.
And you have to be great.
And then you have to have the system.
So me working on this podcast,
and then soon to come TikToks and all this stuff,
that will be my greatness.
Like that will be me working on myself,
building my brand, building all that stuff.
And then the system will be like the coach for the coach
that put in place the system for Michael Jordan.
What would be click funnels?
Possibly if that is what I choose, because
honestly, there's a lot going on right now.
And what I realized is that I just gotta lock in,
focus up on the podcast
and like focus up on building up my brand.
Because there's one thing that I noticed today
was the speaker that spoke today.
I already forgot his name,
but the guy who wrote the book 10X is easier than 2X,
that guy, he spoke kind of like in a monotone.
Like he didn't, so let me give some context.
Most speakers would like scream and scream and then,
and then they get really soft.
And then, or they would just scream the whole time.
They'd scream, scream.
And then they were like hype, all that stuff,
which is that's great.
But this speaker, he was kind of like the same voice,
same chill, quiet, soothing voice the whole time.
And yeah, he has fluctuations,
but I don't know, but there was like something magical to it.
Like his speech was like my favorite speech
that I've listened to the whole time.
And I've heard some amazing speeches
in this time period, but there was something to him.
And then he kept on repeating like the same thing
over and over again.
Like your present creates the filter for the past.
And like you create the past through your present.
And then pretty much his like whole deal is like the psychology
around your past and present.
And it's like, he's an author.
And then he was even using his own stuff
while writing the book, 10X Rule.
He switched from, he actually like rewrote,
or not rewrote, but he actually like edited the book heavily
after he like already finished it.
And people around him were giving it 10s.
Like they rated it a 10.
And then he saw someone else and she said it was a five.
And so he is like, he does his own stuff.
And you can tell because he was an amazing speaker
and he was speaking very fluidly and not too fast.
He was speaking like the same speed the entire time.
And it was extremely inspirational
because I was thinking to myself like,
a lot of people speak like, I do this.
When I get into it, I speak a lot and hard and fast.
And then I'm like, when I'm in the flow,
I get really fast and quick.
But a lot of people like this guy,
he literally was speaking at a normal pace.
And I am trying to replicate that
because I really liked how he did it
because he's an amazing speaker.
He was on stage, which is something
that I definitely see myself doing in the future.
He's on stage, but he also talked about
how he was on a podcast.
And now I'm realizing that I am literally doing
the best thing possible right now by like finding my voice
because this guy definitely did not get it on accident.
He definitely chose to keep on improving
and constantly refining his craft.
He definitely did a lot of practice with speaking
and a lot of podcasting and just a lot of like content creation.
Or I don't even know, but he definitely improved a lot.
And now I'm realizing that the podcasting skill
improves my speaking.
Like I've already become so much more of a better student
in general and just a better person in general
because my speaking is so much better.
And the podcasting is such a foundational or element
to get better and practice at.
And podcasting, I realized that this guy
is such a good speaker because he practiced.
And I've on episode 73, so I've been practicing a lot.
And I had suspicions and I talked about this yesterday.
I had suspicions about whether I was on the right path,
about whether I was actually doing the right thing
or whether I should go for fun or whether it's a good idea
that I'm not really focusing on funnels
and I'm just focusing on building my podcasting skills.
And yesterday my suspicions were confirmed,
but especially like also today after hearing this guy,
because I realized that the billionaires of tomorrow
are building their brands now.
And right now, billionaire status seems impossible,
which I guess would mean that it would be a good goal
to have over the next like five years or three years.
And now I'm like seeing that,
but I'm not really sure if I want to do that.
And I have to get back into my routine once I get home
and start like getting back into meditation
because I haven't meditated in like two days.
Actually, I didn't meditate today or yesterday.
So I haven't meditated in like a day or two.
And it's like, I just got a key moving forward.
And one of the things I realized is create my short form
because one of the guys actually said that short form videos
are extremely good for driving traffic
because I want my podcast to grow
and I want people to be listening to this.
And to be honest, I haven't even checked my analytics
and I need to be checking my analytics now.
I realized that I should be checking my analytics,
but I'm glad that I didn't check my analytics.
And if I am still in the same spot I was a couple days ago
or a couple of weeks ago,
I won't be checking my analytics much
because it's just pointless.
But eventually I will get to the point
where I'd be checking my analytics consistently
because that tells you a lot of good valuable information.
And there's one thing I want to reiterate yesterday,
controlling your environment,
taking control of your environment is extremely important.
Now, I'm in, I'm at Florida right now,
I'm at Funal Hacking Live.
And we don't like, one thing is that
I'm kind of at the mercy of my environment
because, and I might be taking, making an excuse
or any or something, but pretty much yesterday
I was recording right by like a,
I was recording in a really bad spot.
And today I took like 10 minutes
to try and find a better spot,
but I realized that you need to be taking control
of your environment because you guys might be hearing
all this stuff in the background.
I'll do my best like removing all the background noise.
And it's also all the distractions,
all the distractions are like,
I'm right now I'm recording like in,
on right next to the sidewalk.
And it's like a terrible, terrible thing.
So take control of your environment and change things
because that's exactly what you need to be doing
to get success.
And that's like, that's exactly what I'm doing.
But I, my original spot, and actually,
if you guys noticed back when I was explaining the,
my slide and how I,
how I realized that it was true back when I explained that,
probably on like eight minutes into the episode,
I actually paused like I stopped recording
because my original recording spot was a good spot.
It was isolated.
It was in the golf course in shade,
on the golf course in shade.
And I was just chilling there.
And then eight minutes in, two dudes on the RV,
actually, or not the RV, the golf cart,
rode up to me and said that I got to leave
because I'm on the golf course
and they don't want me to be in the range,
like the range of fire.
And so I had to stop it.
And that's another interruption
that should definitely be avoided.
But right now I'm just focusing on getting,
just constantly being consistent,
getting out an episode every single day
because it is all about consistency.
It is all about just staying with it.
The one guy that I was talking to last night,
he was probably one of my favorite dudes
that I talked to last night.
He's from Hungary and he does a business.
Pretty much his story is when he was,
by 23, he was working a day job.
And then he started podcasts
and he knew that he wanted to get into entrepreneurship.
He didn't like his job.
He wasn't making much.
He wanted to get into business and all this stuff.
So he started podcasts
and then he like recorded,
not, he did everything wrong
and he got to 100 episodes after like a few years.
He was doing everything wrong.
He was not consistent, not anything.
And after a few years, he kind of,
after like a hundred episodes,
he just stopped recording.
He just stopped.
And his podcast, like he actually had a lot of listeners.
And even to this day, he has his business.
He's making about 20K per month.
And to this day, he's still getting leads from his podcast.
And he's only done a hundred episodes.
And I talked to him,
I was sitting next to him during the award ceremony
and he was an awesome dude.
He's probably one of my favorite people that I've met so far.
And I basically talked to him, asked him about a story.
Right now he's in the works of fully automating his business.
He's in the works of expanding
and going to different countries.
Cause right now he's just based in Hungary
and a few other countries that speak Hungary or Hungarian.
And he is in the works of being fully automatic,
separate from his time,
and moving to different countries,
expanding to different countries,
and translating all of his content to different languages.
So he's in the works of that.
And I talked to him and I asked him,
what would be your biggest piece of advice?
Like for someone like me,
and I told him where I was in my journey.
Like I've been recording my podcasts.
I'm on like episode, last night my episode 65,
I think or 66 just posted,
or I was on like episode 66 were live.
So last night I said like, yeah, I'm on episode 66.
And he basically said,
I asked him what the one piece of advice he would suggest.
And I've asked two people this.
So let me, let me go back to the first day I was here,
or not the first day,
but the first day of the event I was here,
he, Gary, I talked about him in yesterday's episode.
Gary basically said that his number one thing is
to always read and always study,
like make it a habit of reading one hour a day.
So that is one thing that I took from that guy.
And then what this Hungarian guy said was absolutely,
like it's exactly what I kind of was suspicious about.
And I kind of understood intuitively,
but I never really put it to words
and I never really got this,
my suspicion confirmed by other people.
And he basically said, what he said was,
never effing stopped, never stop.
Like never stop.
Like once you're on this path of entrepreneurship,
self-improvement, never stop.
Like that's all there is to it.
Never stop.
Like yeah, do all this stuff and then never stop.
So that's exactly what I needed to hear from my podcast
because I'm on episode 73,
which is already in itself extremely inspirational.
It's already making me very proud of like what I've done
so far and I've only done it for two months
and I've already gotten so much growth
and I haven't even gotten the monetary benefit.
And then he also, one other thing he said was,
get to episode 100.
So Seth Godin, he quoted him, he said,
Seth Godin goes on podcasts.
He'll go on any podcast.
He's extremely, extremely generous with his time.
He'll go on any podcast,
but his one requirement is that the show will have,
has reached at least 100 episodes.
Like the show has to have at least 100 episodes.
And what that shows is these people are serious
and they're actually dedicated and they've been in it.
They're in it for the long run.
They're not just trying to get that instant result
and they're actually serious about it.
And they actually understand that you have to be here
for a long time.
You have to be in for the long run.
And so that's the other milestone.
When I first started, my first milestone was like episode 10.
And then my second milestone was episode 21.
Episode 21 was a huge milestone for me
because I had learned about how when you post
21 episodes on a podcast,
you're already in the top 1% of podcasters.
Like all you have to do is post consistently every day
for three weeks and you're in the top 1% club already,
just with as simple as that.
So that was a huge milestone,
but I'd never really made another milestone after that.
And I just like focused up
and then just focused on what's currently happening right now.
And so what ended up happening was last night,
I'm really glad that this Hungarian guy that I met,
I'm sorry, I don't remember his name.
And we never actually introduced each other.
It was just like a very informal.
We're both introverts
and I could tell that he was an introvert as well.
And so it was a good conversation.
Like it flowed very well and I was learning a lot from him,
but we like just didn't really ask each other their names.
And which is fine.
I like read his name on the name tag,
but I didn't know how to pronounce it.
And I forgot what the name was
cause I didn't memorize it.
I'm also really bad at names,
which is something I have to work on.
But when he said the Seth Godin quote of the 100 episodes,
and then he talked about how he had done at 100 episodes,
the Hungarian guy that I met last night
had done 100 episodes.
And that was like the milestone.
That was the big shift in his podcast.
And unfortunately he hasn't recorded an episode
since like last January,
but that was like the big shift in his podcast.
And now that he has 100 episodes
and he hasn't recorded in like nine months,
he is still getting listeners, still getting leads
because that stuff is permanent.
It stays there forever,
which is crazy because I'm building,
I'm already on 73 episodes.
I'm building this amazing thing that will stay here forever
and people will be listening to it forever probably,
which is crazy to think about.
I don't even know like what it really means.
And it's also amazing.
And I wanna talk about one more thing after I say this,
but now my new milestone is episode 100.
So I only have like
22 episodes or 27 episodes left.
And then I'm on episode 100,
which is actually amazing.
So that's my next milestone.
But another thing I wanna talk about,
when I first started, if you guys go back,
I was literally saying like,
when I first started my recording,
I was in my basement,
I still am in my basement,
but right now obviously I'm in Florida,
I'm outside recording,
but I was in my basement out recording
and I would like speak really quietly
and like lean in really close to the microphone
because I didn't want my parents or my sister to hear.
I didn't want my family to hear what I was doing.
Like I was so embarrassed
and so ashamed of what I was doing.
I didn't want anyone to find out.
And that was two parts.
One, simple embarrassment, assaiment.
And two, I didn't want people to know what I was doing
because I like hiding my goals.
I like hiding.
There was one thing that I heard today is,
yeah, love your parents.
Like, I don't remember, I think it was,
I don't even know.
One of the speakers said that he really loves his parents,
but he had to cut ties with his parents.
Not love ties.
Like he didn't cut ties through love with his parents,
but he had to cut ties through business.
Like he had to stop,
he had to completely cut ties with his mom through business
because his mom was just that,
she was like saying, get a stable job,
like work for someone else, like all that,
but he wanted to be an entrepreneur.
So he had to cut ties through business.
And I really liked that.
It's okay to stay in a relationship with your family,
but cut ties with them.
Like don't do business with them.
And so that's, and another thing is,
don't share your big goals with small minds.
Don't share giant goals or large goals with small minds.
That's another thing.
So when I first started, I was extremely ashamed of,
and I was really embarrassed of podcasting.
And I couldn't even imagine sharing to my parents
much less like podcasting in public.
But I'm on episode 73,
and I've already made so much progress
in just my personal development journey.
And it was crazy, it's crazy
because right now I'm just standing outside,
right in front of a street, right in front of a sidewalk,
I'm just standing under a palm tree,
recording in the middle of like Florida,
Orlando, Florida, and there's a bunch of people walking by.
And like people are seeing me,
and I'm actually shirtless and shoeless right now,
just standing up with my computer on the floor.
I have my microphone, I'm holding onto my microphone,
I'm standing up.
And I just, a lot of people are just looking at me.
And I can tell because like I look into the windows
of the cars while I'm talking, literally right now
as I'm speaking, I'm looking into the window of a car,
and I can see people looking at me.
And it's crazy because this was like unheard of
over the past like couple months,
I would never do anything like that.
But now I'm like, people are just like walking by,
and yes, I'm losing my focus a lot
because I'm sure you guys can tell,
like just now there's two people walking by.
And I had to like look away
because I didn't want to lose my focus.
And so I'm losing my focus a lot,
but I'm not really ashamed.
Like I'm not embarrassed.
That's amazing because I simply just took action.
I have recorded 73 episodes, I took action,
and now I'm not ashamed of podcasting.
Like yes, I don't like having people that I know
near me while I'm talking
because I want to be able to uncensor myself,
but I'm absolutely okay having a random stranger walk by.
Like right now there's a guy walking by,
and I'm absolutely okay with having random strangers
hear what I have to say, just passing.
I obviously I don't want anyone,
I don't want a live audience while I'm recording
because that's just a simple distraction.
I actually talked to my friend the other day about this
because I had recorded my episode,
I think it was two episodes ago,
I recorded my episode,
and after I was done recording,
I said like, were you listening?
And he was like, yeah, I heard a little bit,
and I was like, nice.
And then he was like, is that bad?
And I was like, no, it's not bad.
I just, the reason why I didn't want you to hear,
like I don't care if you hear,
I just don't want to know that you're hearing.
If like, because in the beginning,
when I first like sat down to start recording,
he was like, can I listen?
Can I be like a live audience?
And I said no, because I don't want to get distracted,
I don't want to know that people are listening to me right now,
and like currently live.
And he was like, yeah, that's fair, and that makes sense.
Cause he actually recorded his episode just prior to me,
and he realized that because he started his first
couple of minutes in the kitchen where I was cooking,
and I was like listening because I was just there,
and he knew it too,
and then he could tell that he lost a lot of focus,
like he wasn't focused as much.
And that's another thing,
we're going back to the environment thing.
Like your environment is so crucial.
Control your environment, eliminate distractions.
And I did that two episodes ago,
I locked myself in my room,
and I made sure that no one was listening,
or at least I made sure that I believed no one was listening.
So I started recording, and I was done,
and then I went to the room, and I was like,
did he listen?
And I just told you, but it's like,
I said that it's okay that you listened,
I just didn't want to know that you listened,
because it's the mindset thing.
And I don't remember where I was trying to go with this,
but that's like, oh, I was trying to say that,
I'm in the, when I first started, I was ashamed,
and now I'm literally standing in the middle of a street,
and in front of like, there's probably 100 people
that walked by, right now no one's walking by,
but there's people like driving by,
there's probably been at least 200 people
drive by in the car, and I am not ashamed at all,
and I'm literally just standing here barefoot, shirtless,
all I'm wearing, I'm not even wearing underwear,
I'm commando, I'm literally, all I'm wearing is shorts,
and I'm just standing here with a microphone in my hand
talking into it for an hour.
So, and I'm only on episode 73, like,
I was listening to Centema, I think is his name,
Centema Gali, I think, he is a motivational speaker,
and he's amazing, he's like a massive dude,
he was a NFL, Super Bowl ring owner,
he has an amazing story, I heard him speak,
and he said he was on episode 600,
like 650 or something like that, just from his phone,
he was just recording on his phone,
so he is much further along of the journey than me,
but now, like, he started way longer than me,
like, he started a long time ago,
he started like two or three years ago,
and I'm just starting,
dude, I completely forgot what I was going with this,
but pretty much another thing that I learned is
you just have to start, like,
don't even try and figure out what you're doing,
and like, there's a lot of changes I'm making
as I'm going, so you guys can see my journey,
like, for example, literally yesterday,
I cut out my introduction, because it was stupid,
it was 30 seconds of boring,
first three seconds are the most important of the video,
and I learned that yesterday,
you have to cut that out,
like, you just figure it along the way,
and the most important thing is just to take action,
just start, and that's what I did,
I literally started with my phone,
and then I switched to a voice recorder,
and then I switched to a microphone,
and this microphone is very good,
and in hindsight, I should have stayed on my phone,
because that microphone was way better
than the voice recorder, but, you live, you learn,
I recorded 28 episodes on a voice recorder,
and now I am on episode 73,
and no one listened to those first episodes,
so it didn't even matter anyways,
so no one's gonna listen,
even if you have it all figured out,
no one's gonna listen, so you just have to move forward,
and then by the time people listen,
you'll, like, your graph will converge,
and then you'll get to the point where you're actually good,
and then people will actually listen,
because it takes time to get people to listen,
even if you're the best, like, right off the bat,
which no one is, but, it takes time,
and then that, like, it's actually good that it takes time,
because that allows you, it gives you time
to actually get good, like, right now,
again, I haven't listened, I haven't checked my analytics
in quite some time, but right now,
I doubt anyone's listening, I don't, like,
yes, people are listening, like, I had six viewers
that were listening every single day
for the, since last time I checked,
so I checked the analytics probably, like, two weeks ago,
I had six viewers that were listening to every episode,
and so yes, people are listening,
but when I say that, I'm speaking in big terms,
like, thousands, millions, tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands, like that,
and when, like, the whole thing is,
well, actually, so, I'm figuring it out along the way,
and I'm actually getting to the point,
like, I'm at a transformational event,
and I'm literally just here,
learning, picking up a lot of golden nuggets,
sharing them along the way,
but I'm also incorporating them,
like, I just cut out my intro,
and another thing is, one thing that I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna buy a face cam,
because right now my YouTube presence is zero,
again, I haven't checked my analytics in a couple weeks,
but my YouTube presence is zero,
because right now I post, I schedule my episodes
to post at the same time every single day, at 12 a.m.,
and that's on all the podcast directories,
every single place that you can get a podcast,
or that RSS has access to,
I post there at the same exact time,
and it all goes at the same time, automatically,
but the one downfall is, if you're on rss.com
and you try and post to YouTube,
you have to manually do it,
so I'm not up at 12 a.m. clicking to manually post on YouTube,
and so my YouTube consistency is lacking,
I post every day on YouTube,
but I'm not posting at the same time,
and so once I get a face cam,
I'll be able to record, with my microphone,
I'll record just my normal episode with a face cam,
but what I'll do is I'll convert that video episode
into a podcast on podcast.ly.ai,
so I'm gonna record myself speaking with face cam
on a separate platform,
and then I will convert it on podcast.ly.ai
to an audio to a podcast,
and then I will upload that to RSS,
and then I'll schedule both the YouTube video,
as well as the YouTube video,
as well as the podcast, to the same time,
so then I'll get consistent on YouTube,
and the big thing is, right now when I'm posting on to YouTube,
is literally like audio sound waves,
and it's just the classic audio form podcast
that RSS.com automatically makes for you,
which is good, it's fine,
but it's not good for people trying to watch.
I think that most podcast listeners on YouTube
are watching the video,
because it's like a video of the person speaking,
so they'll actually be able to see the person talking,
so that's what I plan on doing,
that's another little piece of, like, a little gold nugget
that will help me immediately,
and I haven't actually bought the face cam yet,
and I'm not gonna buy it until I get home,
because so it's probably gonna be like
at least 10 episodes till I start that,
so because right now,
my friend, so the whole deal with this trip
is my friend bought the tickets for $2,000 to lock us in,
and then I bought the hotel a couple months,
like a month later,
and I'm paying for all the food and all this stuff here,
and so right now I have less than $1,000 in my bank account,
and so I don't really know how much money I'll have
when I get home,
so I don't really wanna drop like $50 or $100,
or however much money it'll cost to buy a face cam
until I get home and actually do all the math,
because I just don't wanna put myself in a bad situation,
if that makes sense.
You gotta play smart,
and one amazing piece of information
that I've picked up on that I have been speaking about a lot
in the past couple episodes in the last show
is your worldview, your mindset, your attitude,
everything that goes on in your mind,
everything that goes on in your thoughts
is extremely important,
probably the most important thing, piece of you,
probably the most important part of your life,
and I learned that in Transurfing,
I learned that in a lot of books,
but I was suspicious,
like I knew it, but I didn't know it, if that makes sense,
and so I came to Fond du Lac in Live,
and on the first day, Russell Brunson talked about
the New Thought Movement,
and immediately my suspicions were confirmed
that your worldview, your mindset,
everything is the most important,
like that, everything that goes on in your head
is the most important thing,
and one thing that I, one piece of information
that I picked up on Related to Transurfing is
do not focus on the money,
and then also another thing is whenever you find yourself doubting,
you immediately destroy that thought in your mind,
like get rid of it,
and so I kind of combined those two pieces of information is
whenever you find yourself worrying about money,
destroy it out of your mind,
like instantly become aware of it,
and just release it, get rid of it,
do not keep it into your mind,
and that's like, that's another thing
that I've been conscious of,
because I am conscious of not worrying about money,
but you also have to play smart,
like it'll be stupid if I go buy a credit card
and finance a car right now, like that'll be stupid,
like there's a difference between worrying about it
and like focusing on your mindset, keeping your mind clean,
and doing stupid things, like there's a difference,
but that's like the mindset,
I actually know that the difference between,
alright so there's a few differences between me
and the people that were on stage
accepting awards last night,
one is they take action,
do not stop, and their mindset is different,
they know that they can do it, because they did it,
like and you can't get that mindset shift
until you actually do it,
like you actually have to do it to be able to know how to do it,
and, or you actually have to know,
you actually have to do it to be able to know to do it,
if that makes sense,
and so the people on stage did it,
so they know they can do it,
so it'll be easier for them to replicate and do it again,
because they know it's possible,
and another thing is they take action and they don't stop,
going back to my Hungarian friend, do not stop,
like one of my best,
one of the best things that I've done,
so I started reading self-improvement one year ago,
last September,
and one of the best things is I didn't stop,
I kept on moving forward,
and that was evident because I'm still doing it,
and it's like the results after that is insane,
because if you find yourself, you start,
and then you just don't stop,
it's like you don't even have to focus on results,
you don't have to focus on anything,
just focus on, keep on going,
focus on every single day, do it and do it and do it,
until you create a positive feedback loop.
Positive feedback loop is essential,
you just have to focus up,
use discipline until you form that positive feedback loop,
and I was conscious of that when I was podcasting,
because I remember,
I was, okay, so back when I was doing odd jobs during summer,
I was probably like episode 10, 15, 20,
and I was in the car driving to an odd job
at like 8 in the morning with my friend Franklin,
and we were talking like,
we want to do this, I want to do that,
you want to do this,
all of these things that we had planning on doing,
but I wasn't taking action,
and then I was talking to him, I was like,
I just really want to focus on podcasting right now,
because I know it's really important,
but I also want to do this stuff,
so I'm just going to focus on getting the positive feedback loop forms,
like I know it'll take a few weeks,
and I remember talking to him, I was like,
I know it'll take a few weeks,
just like it took a few weeks for me at the gym
to get a positive feedback loop,
to want to go to the gym every single day and get jacked,
like it took a few weeks to get a positive feedback loop formed,
but once you get it formed,
then you can work on other things,
and that's why I'm able to improve upon like 10 things at once.
Now admittedly, you have to cut out some stuff,
or at least like reduce the time on certain things,
because if you want to focus 100% on one thing,
like the speaker today was talking about,
you're not great, like you're just good,
or no, you're not, yeah, you're not great, you're just good,
like you're not great until you drop everything
and only focus on one thing,
like once you focus on one thing and become great at one thing,
that's when you become great,
but until then, you just remain good,
and being good is fine,
but you're not living up to your fullest best potential,
so that's why I'm focusing,
like that's another reason why I'm focusing so much on podcasts,
because I want to be great,
I want to be like, I know that the podcast
will open up so many doors to so many different things,
but another thing is, since I'm getting that face cam,
another thing is that I learned about short form content
and how it's amazing,
and sorry if you guys can hear that helicopter in the sky,
this is another reason why I record in the basement,
so there's less distractions, I control my environment,
but when I, well, I don't even remember what I was saying,
but what was I saying?
Control your environment and then be great,
and you have to focus on one thing,
focus on one thing only,
focus on podcasting,
and then what I was going to focus on is short form content,
because short form content will drive traffic into this podcast,
and I know that in the beginning I was working on the shorts,
as well as posting on TikTok,
I only posted two videos,
I was doing 18 videos on TikTok,
I was doing three videos a day for six days,
and then I realized that I didn't have the positive feedback loop
formed on the podcast, so I dropped the TikToks,
because the podcast was much more influential for my growth
at the time, so I wanted to focus on the positive feedback loop,
and now that I have it, I can comfortably, calmly,
and confidently add in another thing to my routine
and work on the TikToks,
working on the TikToks will be extremely beneficial
for the growth of this podcast,
because a lot more people will watch TikToks,
and then I can send that traffic over to this podcast.
And honestly, today was a great episode,
and I hope that it didn't get ruined by background noise,
and honestly, if there was no background noise,
you guys are probably going to be extremely confused,
because there won't be background noise,
but I can hear a lot of things going on,
like there's a car driving by right now,
there's like some birds, I don't even know,
but the point is it doesn't have to be perfect,
just take action,
and this is not even just about self-improvement,
or not just about business,
this is also about self-improvement and anything you do.
I didn't even know what my gym routine was going to be,
I just simply went and started lifting weights,
and then I figured it out along the way,
just start, like the most important thing is just to start.
The enemy of, I don't remember the exact quote,
but the enemy of results is delay,
like the enemy of wealth is delay,
and that's so true,
like if you just eliminate the enemy,
you can just figure it out along the way,
as long as the enemy doesn't exist,
then you won't have anything to hinder you,
you won't have anything to hold you back,
and that's like something extremely important.
All these, I feel like the motivational speakers
are the most important,
because they always say the same thing,
like just start, just start,
like that's all there is to it,
and like, it's, they're the best, to be honest,
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