Uncommon Achievers

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And we're going to talk about a few secrets of uncommon achievers.

So this sparked my mind through listening to a podcast of a guy who's actually a pastor.

Jonathan Shuttle's worth.

And the podcast was called Taking Your Place at the Top.

He went into a few and one of them was uncommon achievers decide to do something that's never

been done before.

And so basically the idea in the inspiration can come from anywhere but you have to either

do something that's never been done before or do something in a way that it's never been

done before.

And so when you think about doing something that's never been done before, breaking records

faster than most, you know, more knockouts than anybody, more super bowls than anybody,

doing it younger than everybody or anybody that's ever done it.

Breaking records, doing something that's never been done before.

You're that uncommon or you do something in a way that it's never been done before.

Watching Mike Tyson win a world title at 20 years old and with brutal knockouts or watching

Tom Brady win multiple super bowls playing it over 10 super bowls and hoist Gracie coming

into the United States with bringing the UFC and MMA before, they're not necessarily

doing something that's never been done before but he's doing it in a way that it had never

been done before before that.

A lot of the world thought as, you know, fighting and martial arts more as kicking and punching

had really seen submissions arm locks and chokes before.

And so Mike Tyson, nobody had ever seen it.

That mean that young, you know, before and small really to be a heavyweight.

Dennis Robman, all he did was rebound doing something in a way it's never been done before.

So he made his money and fame off of just doing that one thing.

Steph Curry lights out, you know, shooter.

And so you got to ask yourself, what are you trying to do if you want to go to the next

level, if you want to be that uncommon, we got to do something that's never been done

before in your business, in your world or doing it in a way that it's never been done before.

This thing he said is uncommon people value time differently.

And so the example he used was when Solomon was building a temple for God, it was actually

I think in first Kings chapter six, verse one, I'm engaged in great work.

So I can't come.

Why should I stop working to come meet with you?

Was the exact scripture.

And so this is one that gets tough for people as you climb, as you accomplish more as

you go to new heights, the higher you go, the less time that you typically have, the more

careful that you need to be with the time that you're giving out.

And not everybody's going to understand that.

And so you're going to have to learn to say no to certain things.

And you're going to wish that you could do it all sometimes, but you're going to have

to be careful what you're putting your time into.

And so appointments that you end up having with people, you know, this is one people that

you meet with or people that want a meeting with you.

There should be a start time and an end time.

So you already know how much time that you're spending there and it doesn't end up getting

wasted and then also have some topics like what do we want to accomplish in this meeting,

not just meeting with people, just to be meeting with people.

And I'll give you an example now of, you know, I got people that will say, hey, let's

go to dinner sometime.

Let's grab dinner sometime.

I don't have time to grab dinner.

I really don't when I look at the 365 days in a year and how many days that I travel for

business, how many things that I have, you know, things going on for my life, my family,

my, you know, this and that when I look at how many nights are actually left to go to

dinner, you know, sometimes I'll be on the road out of a month and I'll, I'll be gone

out of 30 days, you know, you're gone 10 days.

And so out of those other 20 days, how many of those days do you think you need to be putting

into your business at home where it may cause you to have a couple evenings or a couple

nights.

And then how much time are you left to really put your kids to bed or be there when

it's time to put, put the kids down.

And when I look at those, it's like, man, I really don't, I got to be very careful about

when I'm giving up my evenings because I can add up so many evenings that are already

gone.

And so people not, they might not understand that.

And so you may have to do lunches over dinners.

You may have to do breakfast instead of dinners with people.

You got to be careful of if you're pouring into people, are you pouring into people as

a leader that are, that is going to be a multiplier.

Are you, are you just allowing anybody to get your time for any, any reason?

And I think what will help you is understanding that you could lose money and get it back,

but you can't lose time and get it back.

And I think one thing that is, that is, that can help you is putting a value on your time.

So how much money do you make?

How much money do you want to make?

Like how much money are you about to make within the next, like what is your value?

Where do you see it going?

And then put a dollar per hour on it.

So let's say you say, hey, you know, I, I view myself as a,

500,000 a year person, okay.

What that's 10,000 a week.

And you know, when I'm working, you know, I'm working 40 hours a week, okay.

So 40 hours into 10,000 is $250 an hour.

So if somebody's asking you for four hours at your time, it's an hour to drive there, an

hour to drive back, two hours at the thing or whatever, that's four hours that really

costed you a thousand dollars.

Or if I'm going to cut the grass, and it's going to take me an hour or two hours to cut

the grass, you're worth $250 an hour.

That's $500 of your time you're losing that if I spent $30 and paid somebody 60 bucks

to cut the grass for those two hours, I would essentially make $190 because I can't multiply

only have so many hours in a day, so many hours in a week.

So how many of those things am I going to take away if I'm, if I'm doing five hours of

things that I could hire somebody else to do, where could I use those five hours?

Is it, man, my time would be better off spent those five hours with my kids because I already

don't spend enough with them as it is because I work so much.

So I value the five hours with them over five hours of cutting the grass and painting the

roof or whatever.

And maybe that's not it.

Maybe it's, well, I can pay somebody to do those things for five hours, but I'm going

to go mentor people for an extra five hours.

I'm going to work in my business for an extra five hours.

And for that extra five hours, I ended up making $1,500 because I put the five hours in

and it only cost me $150 to pay somebody to get some of these things done for me.

And so it's, it's understanding and valuing your time that, you know, I think the exception

to that is, and you'll see this out of a lot of busy, high net worth people.

It's not that they're lazy.

It's that they understand the value of time to where I'm not going to waste five, ten

hours a week on something that I could pay somebody for something to do that's less than

what my time is worth that I could put that time and go make more money into it because

time is what time is, time is money.

And the more you achieve, the more valuable that your time becomes.

So now if you start making two million dollars a year, now that turns into $400, $500

an hour as a thousand dollars an hour, excuse me.

Now so now if somebody said, oh, can you come drive here?

Do you want to meet for dinner?

And the dinner is four hours.

That's a thousand dollars an hour.

Is that dinner worth $4,000 to you?

Because that's $4,000 worth of your time.

Then you got to understand you can't meet with everybody.

Everybody's going to want to meet with you.

You can't meet with everybody.

You got to be careful when you're taking meetings, who you're taking meetings with.

What is the purpose of the meeting without coming off?

You know, but nobody's ever going to be all the way happy with what you do.

You're never going to please everybody if you want to please everybody.

Sell ice cream.

We're trying to sell some ice cream over here, but there's only way you're going to make

people happy all the time is selling ice cream.

You're pretty still going to probably have a couple of people pissed off.

And so, you know, I saw a post recently also when it comes to time and it made me think

of some beasts of uncommon achievers like Natalie in my office who started from the bottom

now we're here with me.

She started $10 an hour, 20 hours a week and now she's my HBIC.

She's our CEO.

She runs the deal for us and the back office stuff, everything not sales.

And the quote said, if you want to get something done quickly, ask the busiest person you know.

If you ask someone who has all the time in the world, it'll take them all the time in the

world because the busy people are the ones that accomplish stuff and the winners find

a way to win.

And so it blows my mind how this woman works beyond 40 hours because I require I'm always

asking questions and need her for stuff on the weekends and evenings and incident.

So she works all the hours plus she's married happily as a wife that has a husband and then

also has children, three children, young children, baseball games, sporting events, all this

how on earth as a mother of three wife full time beyond full time.

Can she still handle things if I need it done and I'm really like in a bind and I really

have to get it done, I would throw it to her all day long over people that don't have

kids, don't have a husband don't have all that she finds a way to get it done and she'll

get it done and not take all year long to do it.

So if you want to get something done, give it to the busiest person, the people that execute

stuff.

Uncommon achievers handle adversity well.

I think, you know, recently we had an opportunity to hear from David Tyree, play for the New

York Giants when they upset the Patriots think two separate times, won a Super Bowl,

but he's known as the helmet catch, he won an espy award which I believe is the best

play in all of all of sports or all of football.

He caught the ball on his helmet and it was a critical moment in play and he talked about

how much adversity he went through all that year.

He was hurt coming into camp, missed the first two games of the season was only playing

special teams didn't really feel like he was being looked at as a wide receiver, although

he wanted to prove himself and wanted to play as a wide receiver.

His mother passed away that season where he had to miss a game or two and then he comes

back in and because he didn't quit, didn't give up, most people could have packed it in.

He ends up making one of the biggest plays in Super Bowl history.

Uncommon achievers handle adversity well.

Whether it's a breakup with a girlfriend or boyfriend or husband or wife issue, personal

life issue, death in the family, something unexpected, having a hater, having a setback,

having something happen, they just handle adversity well.

Marcus first person that was a mentor to me in this business, I come in my friend Marcus,

he had just lost his dad and his brother, his older brother and his dad who he was close

to within a six month period right before getting into the business, but he didn't let it

stop him.

And so if you want to be uncommon out there, I just want to encourage you to just, I'm

not saying think negativity into existence, but you got a plan and prepare for the worst

and hope for the best.

What are the things that could cripple you mentally in plan form already, how you're going

to respond when that day comes?

None of us listening to this podcast is going to be here probably a hundred years from

today.

Every single one of us is going to this similar place.

We're going to be not on this earth at least.

So every death is a part of life as much as it sucks.

So that's going to be one we're going to have to get through.

Haters is going to be one we're going to have to get through injuries, obstacles, setbacks,

things out of our control.

If you want to be uncommon on your journey, just expect obstacles.

Really, it's just, you know, I heard a long time ago saying from a mentor that said,

big dreams, big devil, small dreams.

small devils, how big is your dream?

So if your dream is gonna be big,

you gotta expect big devils, big obstacles,

big hurdles, big haters, big stress.

Sometimes we'll get all been out of shape

when the moment that we're currently in

is exactly what we pray for.

Man, please let me be the starting quarterback.

Please let me be the starting quarterback.

Now you're the starting quarterback

and your team's down four points and no time outs,

and everybody's looking at you.

Please let me be the president of United States.

Let me be until half the country hates me

and somebody's always trying to kill me.

Sometimes what you pray for, what you dream for,

where you wanted to be, you're in that moment

and then you don't wanna handle and take

what comes with that position.

If you don't want a portion of the country

to hate you, don't be the president of United States,

you'll never please everybody.

If you don't want the pressure,

how often do you hear people say they can't handle the pressure?

If you don't want the pressure, don't be a pitcher.

Don't be the quarterback, don't ask to be the quarterback

because I can't want the $50 million contract

like Patrick Mahomes, but not want the $50 million

worth of pressure that rides on your shoulder

that you can't do what everybody else can do in your mid 20s.

You can't go to the same parties, you can't act a fool,

you can't make the same mistakes, you can't do the same things.

You have to act complete, you have to protect yourself.

You have to be able to have 90,000 people screaming

at you wishing that you would do horrible

and you find a way to will your team to victory

with all that bad juju looking at you

and cameras in your face.

And people saying he's not that good.

You have to be able to handle that pressure

that comes with the position.

Sometimes people only want the pleasure

that comes with the position

and they don't want the pressure

that comes with the position.

If you can handle a little, you can handle a lot.

How many of you people out there

can really keep it real with yourself and say,

yeah, I've been saying that I want this big life,

this big thing, but in some of these small moments,

I've lost my cool.

If I can't trust you yet with a little bit,

how can I trust you with a lot?

Oh man, I lost my cool.

My bad, I was frustrated, had a rough day

which happens, right?

But how often?

And if you had a rough day stressed out

to where you can't handle yourself,

now, but you want to do four times this amount,

what makes anyone believe

that you're going to be able to handle four times the amount

if you can't handle what you currently,

be a good steward with what you have right now.

Uncommon achievers learn how to handle haters well.

You got to let it motivate you.

You got to learn to take the high road.

You got to understand it, it comes with the territory.

This one was tough for me.

I'll give you a couple examples.

I don't know if there's any basketball fans,

you could Google it, but there's a basketball player,

Ron, our test.

I think he was playing for the Pacers.

He changed his name to Metta World Peace.

You know, you could change your name, Ocho Sinko.

He went Metta World Peace

and somebody was upsetting him,

pissing him off in the crowd, talking shit to him.

And he ran up in the stands.

It was like choking one of the fans.

Now I know there was a bunch of people out there

like, man, I wanted to do the same thing.

Until you get slapped,

what a big fine.

And you lose how much money if you could have got endorsements

and you lost $30 million of endorsements,

is it worth it to you as a professional

to lose $20 million, $30 million in endorsements

to pay $300,000 in a fine to, is it worth it

to let somebody get you out your game

because guess what's going to happen in next game?

Next game you go away,

somebody else going to have something to say.

How many people do you want to give millions of dollars

because you lose your cool before you realize

this is the life that you chose.

Long term, you got to let haters motivate you.

Let all the things that people say negative to you,

the uncommon people they have,

whether it's David Goggins

or Neil Armstrong or Lance Armstrong,

you look at people, Kobe Bryant,

you look at people, period,

and they'll, a lot of people,

you hear them talking about people that hate it on them

and how they let it motivate them.

You gotta let the haters motivate you

versus letting them get you down and get you out of your game.

Take the high road, compare yourself to people,

that's what I, when I started getting my first bit of haters

and I had to learn to not physically react

was when I started to compare

and other people would tell me, listen,

imagine LeBron James,

you think when he goes to different arenas to play basketball,

there's not people screaming stuff about his mother

there's not people screaming negative things at him.

Posting negative things about him.

Anybody that's in front of the public eye,

they always got people talking sauce,

there's always these critics

and you can't go around arguing and fighting with everybody.

Comment on the trolls, social media posts

and fighting and arguing and trying to defend,

let those people roll down there in the mud

with the pigs and you stay up there with the Eagles.

Take the high road, let it motivate you,

kill people with kindness, Lance Armstrong,

I was watching recently, he was talking about how,

one day, this the same guy that's best in the world,

got cancer, came back and won.

I guess he was taking some performance enhancing drugs

like the other 90% of the people all end up admitting

was going on, wasn't like he was a huge body builder

to look like he was all roaded up,

but yeah, I get it, he made some mistakes, whatever.

But he's done a lot of good.

And if he did that, what does it matter to me?

I would never say to the man,

so he said he was walking across the street

and all of a sudden the guy looks at him

and says Lance Armstrong, he looks up, he says,

Aff you, what is middle fingers up?

Aff you.

And then he said that there's four other people,

what I'm gonna know is people joining

and they all start screaming at him, at him.

And he's like, I wanted to take off

and just punch the guy in the face, he said,

and I left and asked the manager of the place

where we were at to buy all of their food, appetizers,

anything that they bought, put it on his bill

and tell them that it's from Lance Armstrong with love.

And he said you can't forget the love part,

you got to tell him with love.

And that's called taking the high road,

that's called killing people with kindness, that's called,

it's just a whole nother world when you learn

how to start digestion,

accepting that your life is gonna have haters in it

when you start to go to the next level.

So I wanna encourage you out there to go out there

and be uncommon, put the work in more than other people

are willing to put in.

Block off the distractions, learn how to handle adversity,

learn how to handle the haters,

be careful and be protective with your time

and go out there and reach your full potential.

Time flies by.

Don't let another 10 years go by and you not accomplish

everything that you want to accomplish.

Don't let another five years go by,

think I heard Elon Musk said,

hey, look at your vision for the next 10 years

and try to condense it into one

and work like you're trying to get it done in one year.

It may not happen, but you accomplish a whole lot more.

Let's go out there with a sense of urgency

and do what the uncommon people do

and we'll see you at the top.

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