Enthusiasm

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It's a new day and there's no substitute for enthusiasm.

There's no that that don't work.

That's not enthusiasm.

There is no substitute for enthusiasm.

You got to have enthusiasm.

There's nothing, nothing great that's going to happen.

If you can't get yourself excited, I remember the OG,

one of the OG's in our business back in the day.

Eric Gigley owned used to say, you wouldn't even be here.

If two people didn't get really excited,

some of that might have went over a few of your heads,

but that's OK.

We're winding back and see if you know what I'm talking about.

When the members of an organization or a team

are enthusiastic, the whole team becomes highly energetic,

energized, and that produces power.

So who is the hype man or woman in your deal,

in your situation on your team, in your business,

we got to have enthusiasm.

The whole team gets energized and the energy creates energy,

which creates power.

And sometimes you need to act your way into feeling.

So you know, I see people, I'm just not fake.

I don't feel like I have energy today.

Sometimes you got to act your way into feeling.

You know you don't feel like it today.

You know you don't feel energy today.

So what do you do?

Start creating energy.

Clap your hands.

Hot five somebody, put some music up,

turn the music up on the headphones.

Get yourself excited.

You can't break a cycle of not having energy

by waiting to feel like doing it.

You do it first and then you'll end up feeling it

and that creates the cycle that you need.

To have like to conquer fear of something.

You only have to feel the fear and then you take action anyways.

You understand what I'm saying?

It's like to conquer fear, to beat fear.

You still feel it but you take action anyways.

To break a cycle of being lethargic and not having energy,

you still feel it but you take action and get it rolling anyways.

The only way to break the cycle is to face your fears

and take action if you want to pass through stuff.

If you wait for the feeling before acting,

you may never become enthusiastic and have enthusiastic.

If you wait for the feeling before acting,

you ain't gonna, you ain't gonna,

you may never feel like it.

No matter how you feel,

act enthusiastic about your life today.

Start today.

Get excited.

Act like you're excited and watch what happens

with the way that you feel.

Your greatest asset can be having a positive attitude.

What usually separates the best from the rest?

Like have you ever thought about what separates the best

from the rest of the people?

Usually it's their attitude.

What separates the gold medalist from the silver medalist

in the Olympics?

What separates the super successful entrepreneur

and business person from the one that don't make it?

Same company, same business, same product, same everything.

What makes it possible for one person to thrive

after a bad accident

while another person gives up and dies.

It's attitude.

It's attitude.

The winner's edge is all in that attitude.

Not aptitude, attitude is critical for success.

Attitudes ain't for sale.

You can't go by a positive attitude.

You gotta force yourself at first if you don't have

a positive attitude in the speaking positively

you try to have those conversations and they're like,

yeah, it would be nice, Simon.

But I just can't.

With me, you can't.

Can't. Can't.

It ain't even a thing.

You won't.

You choose not to.

But you can.

Let me tell you what you cannot do.

I cannot always choose what happens to me.

But I can always choose what happens in me.

My attitude in the areas that are beyond my control,

I believe that's the difference maker.

I'm always talking to people about control,

which you can control.

When you're going through stuff, just control what you can control.

I truly believe from watching people struggle

and go through things and going through things myself,

people get depressed or cause themselves

to get anxious.

Usually it ties to stuff that you can't control.

Even down to the most smallest thing,

like this person was talking shit about me.

This person was talking shit about me.

If you are still at the level and believe me,

I've been there.

It ain't easy.

I've been public about telling people one of my struggles

is when people started talking shit about me,

I wanted to go get them.

It wasn't normal for me to accept it.

Sit back, chill.

Go to the next level.

Don't get in the mud with the pigs.

The pig fell in the mud.

That's the joke.

You gotta learn to let things go that are out of your control.

That's a big, big, big difference maker.

What things are you stressing over in your life

that you know that you don't have control over?

You need to let go and let God.

The key is your attitude in the areas that you do control.

That's the key.

That's the real difference maker.

That's where you can make a difference.

Having a positive attitude in the areas that you can control.

This is why your greatest asset

or your greatest liability

is gonna be your attitude.

It lifts you up or brings you down,

just like an elevator, just like people.

People are like an elevator.

They either lift you up or they bring you down.

Your attitude is the same way.

Your attitude, take control of that sucker,

take control of that attitude.

See, they're taking you places that you wanna go

or is taking you down.

So many people out here, you'll see people in businesses

are in sports.

Why, how does the person that's not the most talented

end up the best?

How does the six round draft pick end up

with more super bulls than everybody else?

How does the walk on end up defensive NFL MVP?

How does the young person that's 20 years old in business

have so much success when people double their age,

have more experience and all these things?

Let me tell you what I think it boils down to

other than all the stuff that I've been talking about.

Most of life after you get out of school

is the answers to the test are readily available to you

to start winning at a high level.

It's only until you wanna make those next climbs

to another level where no one's ever gone before

that you can't really seek some advice

and whiz them all the time, but once you get out of school,

in most situations and most careers and most things,

it's an open book test.

Find the person, find the people that are the most successful

in what you wanna do and humble yourself.

You know, I got this shirt on right now.

It says stay humble or be humbled.

Stay humble or be humbled.

What it don't mean, it don't mean stay humble

or I'm gonna knock you out in a restaurant.

It means stay humble or life is going to end up humbling you.

Somewhere in life you're gonna get humbled.

You will get humbled.

That's in the word of God.

Those that exalt themselves will be humbled

and those that humble themselves will be exalted.

Sometimes people think humility is weak.

It means you have to be cowardly or you have to be meek.

No, you could be humble and still be confident at the same time.

Still exert yourself when you need to.

Still assert yourself when you need to

at the right times all that, but it's in your heart.

It's in your mind, the spirit of humility,

because I'm willing to do,

I'm willing to learn off of somebody 20 years old

right now to this day, 37.

I don't care how many millions that they throw on me this year.

I am willing to sit down and learn from somebody 20 years old

right now today if they're killing it in our business.

But there's people that are not killing it,

that refuse to listen to somebody 20 years old

just because they're 30 years old.

That'll make any sense.

That's ego.

Pride is expensive.

I want to win.

How about you?

You want to win?

Pride's too expensive.

It'll cost you a bunch of pain, a bunch of money.

What I want you to do is look at who's the greatest

in the area that you're trying to grow in.

Interview three people in the area that you want to be the greatest at.

Who's the best in those areas?

Write down what they tell you.

Do what they do.

It's an open book test.

It's a copycat business.

If you copy the formula and you do the formula,

chances are you're going to have a lot of success.

You know why people don't get the success sometimes

as they don't do 100% of the formula.

So if I go steal Chick-fil-A's formula,

but I only do 75% of the formula,

that can come out horrible.

Imagine you make an recipe of a cake

and you do everything in there,

except for where it says to put icing.

You put ketchup,

where it says to put sugar, you put salt.

You can't change the formula if you want to be great.

You can just literally skip the line fast forward.

If you're willing to humble yourself,

and learn from the people that are already doing it,

and do exactly what they're telling you to do.

That's why you hear me say a lot of times,

yeah, people want to do what you do,

but then they want to do what you did.

For the people that are entertaining,

having greatness right now,

people want to do what they do,

but do you want to do what they did?

I got friends that are professional mixed martial artists.

And I get to see them behind the scenes.

There's no secret as to why they're so good.

They outwork people, most of them.

The ones that are at a whole nother level

of everybody else, they outwork people.

Training two, three times a day.

Other people, yeah, I want to do this.

I want to do mixed martial arts.

I want to do that.

They want to do what that person's doing,

but they don't want to do what they did.

They don't want to pay that type of price.

And then are you willing to pay that price consistently?

Copycat, copy whoever's doing the best.

Don't switch it up.

Don't change it up.

Don't try to be a genius.

Just execute.

And see if that don't bring greatness to your life.

Don't worry about what the critics got to say.

Don't worry about what the haters got to say.

Don't worry about what the skeptics got to say.

Those people ain't going to pay your bills.

Those people ain't going to be around when it's time

to live the life that you want to live or not live the life

that you want to live.

Pay the price.

More people are going to discourage you

to not pay the price.

Then you're going to find people that encourage you

to pay the price.

So if you want all this applause from everybody around you

but you want greatness,

you're probably not going to get it.

That's why you need to watch the company that you keep.

Watch the circle that you put yourself in.

Get around people that are trying to run the same race as you.

I know if I'm a married man,

it's not going to be great for me to hang around

for other single men that kick it five days a week.

You're playing with fire.

If I'm struggling in my marriage,

it's not going to help me to hang around

for other men struggling in their marriages

so we can all sit around and complain.

You know what the best thing would be for me?

To struggling my marriage and hang around

for other people that are not struggling

and that have a good marriage right now

that can help me learn from what they did,

how they got out of ruts.

And the same thing applies to everything else in life and in business

Run with the circle that's on the same mission as you

It may sound

raw

You may want to quote keep it real

But if you're trying to go to another level like if I'm trying to get on the best

Nutrition and diet plan. I got to cut some weight. I got to cut 10 pounds

It ain't gonna be great for me to hang around four people that are eating pizza wings ice cream

Pasta all day long

It's hard

Get around people that are on the same mission as you

People are gonna talk shit when you do

Ah, you think you're bed and everybody else you forgot where you came from blah blah blah you're on a different you on another mission

And if somebody is hating on you and not supporting you

They either don't deserve you to be with them or

They're not mature enough mentally to grasp

The winning activity that you're trying to perform

So you can't take all of that and internalize it all

Because you can't let that control your dictate where you're trying to go

And allow somebody else to dictate your life at the end of the day you are gonna be left in your life

You the choices that you make the decisions that you make

Make or break you

How many times have you heard

show me your friends and

I'll show you your future. How many times?

You'll be where you want to be based on the books that you read and the people that you hang around how many times

And I was listening to John Max one he said when he first got started he got rolling he was trying to

Find ways to get better. He said him and his wife Margaret

Would plan their vacations

Around

Around where was a good leader that John Maxwell wanted to speak with in visit with and get some of their time

So if they lived in Cleveland the vacation was we're gonna take a vacation and go to Cleveland

Let me try to get some time with this person

Think about that

Who wants to do that

Not many who gets to do what he does not many you got to ask yourself what life you trying to live you want to live the life with

That if you get to live or you want to live the life that many get to live

Just just saw commercial the few the proud the Marines

So much respect for the Marines so much respect for those that fight to give me in us the opportunity and freedoms that we have today

But you could replace that with whatever it is that you're trying to do the few the proud the this the few not the many

Not everybody can do it

Not everybody can be a seal

Not everybody the few

So if you're on a mission for greatness it ain't gonna be the majority it's gonna be the few

Why are so many quitting why are so many can't make it what you're tearing over what listen if everybody can do it if everybody can make it

chances are

You're not gonna be getting paid a ton of money to do it if it's something that a lot of people can do that means you're replaceable

You got to make yourself you're replaceable you got to make yourself the few you got to make yourself high quality high price

That means you got to you got to be able to do some things that other people ain't willing to do you got to be able to go to places other people ain't willing to go

You got to be able to stick it out and not quit out and on that I

Have never seen anybody that quit their way to the top have you?

Have you ever seen anybody that quit their way to the top we started out talking about enthusiasm

Have you ever saw somebody quit their way to the top? How did you get here John? I just kept quitting shit

When things got really hard for me I went through a real tough period of my life and I quit every time

So what makes you think that quitting is gonna get you to where you want to go

There comes a time in life where you got to plant your roots plant your feet down bite down on your mouthpiece and fight

Get punched into face something's gonna go wrong something's gonna go bad a decision's gonna be made that you don't like

Something's gonna happen that you make you want to quit makes you want to give up and it's beyond that where the growth is it's beyond that where the opportunity is

That's how you separate yourself

I want it to be hard why if it's hard not everybody's gonna do it

If it's hard all the week people are gonna tap out all the week people are gonna give up all the week people are gonna quit

They're gonna be looking for a leader. They're gonna be looking for me. They're gonna be looking for you if you don't quit

Don't give in don't tap out don't quit

And watch the things that you could do in your life if you believe in yourself keep on grinding

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