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Don’t Chase Money, Chase Your Purpose and Money Will Follow – Kerwin Rae

Don’t Chase Money, Chase Your Purpose and Money Will Follow – Kerwin Rae

Follow your purpose, add more value than anyone else and the money WILL follow you.

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Don’t Chase Money, Chase Your Purpose and Money Will Follow – Kerwin Rae – Transcript

“When you have the ability to raise people’s energy to a level where they feel better about themselves, they will break down doors, they will climb through windows, they will break through walls in order to spend time with you… all you need then is a billing system.”

It’s not how much money you make, it’s how you make your money. I’ve had businesses where I made millions of dollars, but I wasn’t doing what I loved so I wasn’t happy.

When I first got into business… when I first had the desire to get into business it was because I wanted to have money, because I grew up in an environment where I didn’t have a lot of money.

When I started making money for the first time all the voids that I thought I had as a result of the absence of money started to get filled.

 

Underlying Voids

But what happened was the voids that were underlying, that were really there, the true insecurities, they started to become more apparent.


What I started to realize was the more money I made, the more insecure I was becoming because all I was doing was putting band-aids on Chafed skin. I wasn’t actually going into, and fixing the real issues at heart.

I guess it comes down to defining what success means to you. 
In the early stages, to me, success was money-oriented.

And when I wasn’t in pursuit of money and I wasn’t making it, I used to question myself all the time. Am I really cut out to be successful?


But when I finally made that shift, when I finally understood that success is the pursuit of purpose,
success is the expression of purpose, and once you get to do that then you realize that no matter how you do it, you’re succeeding.

 

The Transition from Being Money-Focused to Being Purpose-Focused

For me, once I made the transition from being money-focused to being purpose-focused, it was quite an easy transition from there.

From there it was more about developing a healthy relationship with failure.

To me, your relationship to success is just as important as your relationship with failure. Because you know, success is one of those things depending on how you define it, that not everybody achieves on a consistent basis.

They often assume that… Once I meet the one it will be amazing! But they keep on meeting all these people in between that don’t make them feel that way because they don’t really have a relationship with what success is because they’ve never really spent much time with success.

But one of the things that a lot of us do is we spend a lot of time with failure because everybody fails, that’s how we grow, that’s how we learn, but what I find really curious is people’s relationship with failure.

What Does Failure Mean to People?

The thing most people don’t realize is that failure is nothing more than… a signpost.

It’s a requirement to identify skills, knowledge, and experience, gaps that need to be filled in order for it to achieve success.

But most people look at success in isolation of failure. Whereas for me, they’re one and the same, and if anything, the pursuit of success to me is the pursuit of failure intelligently.

 

How do you pursue skills, knowledge, and experience?

How do you pursue activities in a way that identifies skills, knowledge, and experience gaps in a way that gives you what is required so that you can get one step closer to your goal?

When most people fail, they look at it as something that is bad. They look at it as something that is wrong and doesn’t realize that failure is actually an essential ingredient in order to succeed.

But it’s that relationship when people fail, what is their first instinct? What does it mean? Does it mean it’s a good thing? Does it mean it’s a bad thing?

For me, being able to reframe failure in every moment regardless of the context of the situation, that’s critical.

I think it’s fair to say that regardless of your pursuit, you’re not going to get financial rewards in most cases, really solid financial rewards for at least the first 3-5 years.


For me that’s what the best piece of advice I’d give anyone is to pursue what you love.

Because if you’re pursuing money, your temperament, your mood, your feelings, will be governed by how much money people will give me at any moment, and when you’re an entrepreneur, especially when you start out people don’t want to give you money.

For me, when you start to develop a relationship with what it is that you’re here to do, then the rewards… they come whether you are making money or not.

So the more connected we are to purpose, the easier it is for us to express that potential.

 

Do what is it that we love and the rewards are in the activity, not in the consequence.

For me, a piece of advice I’d give on top of that is to focus on the thing that as a natural consequence produces what it is that you’re looking for. When you focus on money…

What behavioral science tells us people who focus on money are 8 times more likely to engage in deceit, deception, fault-related behavior because they’re focusing on money.

Whereas what I prefer to do is focus on the activity, which in my case is the purpose, the expression of purpose, done in a really sound and intelligent commercial way,
that as a natural consequence produce money.

As a result, I don’t have to focus on money, I just focus on delivering value in a commercially intelligent way and the money takes care of itself.

So, therefore, my decision-making process is never compromised by someone waving a dollar bill in front of me.

It’s always going to be governed by the things that are actually genuinely important to me because delivering value… when you deliver value in a commercial intelligent way you can’t help but make money.

It was Stuart Wilde who wrote the book ‘The trick to money is having some’


“When you have the ability to raise people’s energy to a level where they feel better about themselves, they will break down doors, they will climb through windows, they will break through walls in order to spend time with you… all you need then is a billing system.”

Film by Etienne Rouleau

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3 Brutal Truths About Becoming Successful You Must Hear – Lisa Nichols

In this powerful speech full of truth, Lisa Nichols explains 3 things about becoming successful that no one talks about, but you should know before “signing up” to this life.

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3 Brutal Truths About Becoming Successful You Must Hear – Lisa Nichols – Transcript

Hi, I’m Lisa Nichols and today I’m gonna share with you the 3 greatest things about becoming successful nobody talks about.

 

Number One: Success is going to cost you something.

People who want to be successful normally don’t think about what it’s going to cost them.

Success is going to cost you way beyond money, but the other thing that you don’t know is how much time it’s going to cost you, the friendships that it may cost you…

Success comes with a price that’s normally bigger than what most people want to pay.

See, success is not something that’s gifted to you. Success is something that you have to go get. And in order to go get it, you gotta be willing to put something in that you probably did not sign up to put in.

You gotta put in more time, you gotta give up much more sleep than you thought, you gotta put in more money, again and again…

No one talks about that it’s going to take me so much longer, so much longer than I thought.

Those 3 years I thought it was going to take… ok great, I want it to happen in 3 years, but am I willing to put in 9?
 Are you willing to put in 12?
Oh yes, you think it’s only going to cost you $50,000? Ok great. But are you willing to put in $350,000 if it costs you that?
Are you willing?

 

Number Two: It’s a lonely journey

The second thing about becoming successful that no one talks about is that becoming successful can be, and at some point will be a very lonely journey.

There’s a time when you’re becoming successful that you have to put everything into this moment, everything into this season, everything into this project, everything into this experience, and the people around you might not get it.

And at times they may not only physically and emotionally pull away they may pull away in every form or every fashion or you may pull yourself away from them so becoming successful can be a lonely journey.

No one talks about that when you’re holding on to a vision that no one else gets that you’re the only cheerleader for that vision, you’re the only parade for that vision, and that it doesn’t mean stop parading and stop cheerleading for the vision.

It means continue parading, and continue cheerleading until other people can understand the sound of your voice until one more person joins the parade.

You may be the only person parading for your parade for a long time. Still parade. Still cheerlead. Still march.

I for so long expected, required, needed my family to get the vision with me.
That wasn’t their job to get the vision. Because God didn’t give my vision to them, God gave my vision to me.

So if you’re expecting other people to get your vision… you call it whatever you choose, I’ll call him God… God didn’t give your vision to them, God gave a vision to you.

Be willing to walk alone. Be willing to have lonely moments, hours, weeks, and months.

Be willing. Be the cheerleader of your own parade. Be the bandleader… and the marchers until someone else joins you.

 

Number Three: If you’re doing it for money… It’s not success.

The third part about becoming successful that no one discusses, that you don’t hear is that success, if you measure it just by business, just by money earned, just by likes or popularity on social media, then success will be very very hollow and very very shallow and very, extremely unfulfilling.

If you’re only measuring becoming successful by the balance in the bank account, and the number of likes, and the number of followers, and the number of people giving you accolades, the amount of media exposure that you have, then success, all of the success you have will be hollow.

The things that define you as successful existed long before you were becoming successful: the relationship with your family, the health in your body, the ability to command your army to raise and raises, the ability to smell the roses and to enjoy laughter to laugh until your belly hurts, the ability to have faith and pray and see and believe in the unseen…

Most people trade in those things… for monetary success, for popularity success… they trade in the very things that make their life feel successful.

They trade in relationships… I know I did for a while. I traded in relationships so that I can have business success. I traded in nurturing the things that gave me life with my mother, with my father with my son with my family chasing success.

Only to realize once I became successful that I wanna go back and make sure those things are along the journey too.

Success without memories, success without relationships, success without those great moments that ground us is not really a success. It’s just a slice of a pie. I think success is having the whole pie.

I want health.
I want relationships.
I want spirituality.
I want to finance.
I want to love.
I want all of them because that’s a success.

But no one talks about how on your way to becoming successful you often forget and leave behind the things that are going to matter the most.

Make sure you measure success by the right barometer.

Success is a holistic experience. It’s not partial, it’s not compartmental, it’s an entire experience.

Most of the things that will matter to you when you become successful are already sitting around you, waiting to be nurtured and brought along the journey.

So most people don’t wanna talk about that. Because they don’t wanna deter you from pursuing success.

But I wanna tell you about it because if you really want success then you have to know about it and then sign up.

• If this is too much for you, don’t sign up for it. But if you sign up for it, sign up for the complete experience.
• Sign up for everything.
• Sign up for the lonely moments.
• Sign up for the costly years.
• Sign up for the getting back up 1000 times.
• Sign up for no one getting your vision.
• Sign up for making sure that you bring your family along, even if it means that your 14 hour day now needs to be an 18 hour day so you can watch a movie, so you can walk on the beach, so you can have dinner with them, so you don’t leave them behind.

Make sure you understand that if no one else gets your vision it’s because right now your vision is to be nurtured by you and you only.

No one wants to talk about that. But I would be remiss if I didn’t. Why?

Because I wish someone would have told me.

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These 5 Eric Thomas Rules For Success Will Bring Out The Beast In You

Eric Thomas delivers unbelievable wisdom and great advice in this powerful interview with Lewis Howes from The School of Greatness Podcast. What is your biggest take away?

Eric Thomas Rules For Success:

Eric Thomas’ 5 Rules For Success Motivational Speech:

Transcript, Best Parts – Eric Thomas Speech:

1. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. USE THEM WISELY!

You should be grinding for grinding’s sake. You should grind because that’s what you do. You’re passionate about what you do. So you’re waking up every day with this concept of

“I have 24 hours and they’re mine. These 24 hours belong to me and whatever I do in these 24 hours will determine where I’ll be tomorrow and the next day.”

And I think that’s what people need to focus on. Like, get off of this “I wanna make 6 figures”… “I wanna drive this car”… “I wanna live in this house”

I think what people should be focusing on is: I have 24 hours. Like, Oprah only has 24, Bill Gates only has 24, Warren Buffett only has 24 hours and in that 24 hour period, I can either break my life or make my life.

And I’m not saying you shouldn’t have goals. I just think that goals for people is too high on the priority list. And I think what should be on the priority list is going to bed so you can wake up the next day and you can grind it out.

I’m just a dude that believes that you reap what you sow. So if you’re grinding on Monday, grinding on Tuesday, grinding on Wednesday, if you’re grinding 6-7 days a week, for a span of 5 or 6 years, something’s gotta come out of that.

But if you’re only grinding… you know on Monday you’re fired up… Wednesday, you’re back to sleeping in… Thursday you got the funk of the world…

I think if we would spend more time on: “What’s my goal”

Meaning: What do I need to accomplish in this day… to live this lifestyle? and you go after it then I think more people would be successful.

2. Rise early and beat them to the spot!

So I go to bed consistently early. I wake up early. Now, this is why I wake up. Now if you’re listening to me and you’re an entrepreneur you have to hear this.

There are people who graduated Magna Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude… I didn’t. There are people who were born into wealth. There are people who were born into a certain network. I wasn’t.

But here’s the trick:

Even though I don’t have what they have,
I can outwork you.

So if I am getting up at 3 in the morning and as sweet as you are: networks, parents, wealth, opportunities and you’re getting up at 8 I’ve got a 5-hour jumpstart.

I don’t care who you are if we’re traveling to the same city and I get up 5 hrs before you: I’m going to get there before you get there.

So my trick is, I get up at 3 in the morning because I didn’t know who my biological father was. It took me 12 years to get a degree. So what I’m trying to explain to people is my ritual is: I’m gonna beat you to the spot. I’m gonna beat you to the spot! That’s what it’s all about.

 

3. If you say you’re going to do it: DO IT!

Innovation is rewarded, execution is worshipped.

Your money changes when you execute. I realized I didn’t have the right concept of success.

Now I understand success is accomplishing what you say you’re going to accomplish. It’s getting done what you said you’re gonna get done.

And let’s be honest: If you were to sit back and do a percentage on what you said you were going to do, in a time span, how would you grade yourself?

If you say 70%, you’re a C. If you say 80%, you’re a B. 90%, you’re an A. 100% (You’re top of the class) So if you can execute every single time…

So as I begin to look at my life if I say I’m going to work out 21 days in a row and nobody knows about it… Nobody knows I’m going to work out for 21 days, I can kinda sneak away with I’ll do 30, I cheat here, cheat there.

But when I call somebody and say: “Hey! I’m going to work out for 21 days and I need you to hold me accountable.”, a part of my working out has absolutely nothing to do with working out. It has absolutely nothing to do with my health. It has absolutely nothing to do with me caring about my body.

It has everything to do with “I told you I was going to do it. and I don’t want you to call me and ask me did I do it and I’d have to tell you I didn’t do it.”

So I realize that every man is where he is because when he says he’s going to do something, not only does he do it, but he does it in a certain timeframe and with a certain quality.

I always think about if I don’t execute how is that going to hurt my family?

So I’m going to say I guarantee you this year could be the best you year of your life if you execute more. I’m not saying you’re not executing.

But I’m telling you if you to execute 100% of the time you probably had another comma to your income, another zero to your income. Just by executing, executing within a timeframe, you said you’re going to do it, and executing with excellence.

Just do those three things and I guarantee you’re going to go to a whole ‘another level.

 

4. Model the successful one.

I gotta believe that millionaires do certain things. I gotta believe they have a certain habit. I gotta believe they sleep so many hours. I gotta believe they know their craft. I gotta believe they’re passionate.

So when I take my goal instead of looking at my goal and asking how much money can I make I gotta ask myself what from 8 to 9 what should I be doing, from 9 to 10 what should I be doing, from 10 to 10:15 what should I be doing, that’s why I wake up every morning at 3 because for me it’s ok.

Monday do this. Tuesday do this. Wednesday do that. And if do those things, I’m guaranteed to be successful.

 

5. You can always be better.

Greatness is about making things better Greatness is about getting better.

You know when we were kids Granny used to say:

“Good, better, best, never let it rest until your good is better and your better is best.”

So for me greatness is about… Nobody knows what I’m capable of. But I know what I’m capable of. Getting better every single day. Never settling.

Never saying “I got a Ph.D., so I’m finished.”… “I got a few videos that went viral, I’m doing good.”… “I wrote 3 books.”

Eric, you know at the end of the day when you lay your head down to sleep, you KNOW when you’ve given your best. You KNOW when you’ve gotten better. And greatness is challenging the today you and the FUTURE you saying you can get better.

I got average skill, but I got the phenomenal will.

I had to really ask myself what do I want to do with the rest of my life. All of us are born with a gift but you gotta hone it.

It’s just not.. You’re not gonna become great. Greatness is upon you. I realized that my gift wasn’t going to create itself. My gift wasn’t going to nurture itself. My gift wasn’t going to perfect itself, that was something that I had to do.

 

GO ALL IN.

And let me say this to my entrepreneurs: I have a ritual where even with my closest friends… I have boundaries.

So just because it’s my company, it doesn’t mean I can take calls all day. I have boundaries. So you can’t call me at a certain time. Why? I’m working. So if I’m on the phone all day… and I’m saying this to entrepreneurs… you gotta find the gaps.

And one of the gaps for entrepreneurs is that they feel like because they own their day they can spend it like they want to. You can not spend it like you want to.

So if you are working for IBM or working for Ford, whoever you’re working for you couldn’t be on the phone all day at a major corporation talking on the phone.

So why do you allow yourself to talk on the phone
when it’s your business? You should probably… You should make sure there are no phone calls going on.

One of my rituals is when I get started there are no interruptions.

When I get started, I don’t care if it’s my wife, my children, they know that for a certain timeframe I’m going all in. And I can’t go all in answering the phone. And I can’t go all in watching tv. And I can’t go all in with the distractions.

Some entrepreneurs ask why am I not blowing up. You’re not in abstraction. You don’t have that moment of your day… I don’t care if it’s 2 hours, 4 hours where you shut the entire world out.

No Twitter. No Facebook. No Instagram. No Instagram!

So just for 2 hours, I’m going in. And once I come out, then we can do Instagram. And I’ll be honest your content probably will be stronger if you have that time of isolation,
of solitude, where you give yourself a chance to think. You give yourself a chance to go in. And when you go in you go 120%.

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Consciously Create Your Life – Jack Delosa

Start living your life on purpose. On your own terms. Start living your life consciously.

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Consciously Create Your Life – Jack Delosa – Transcript

We live in a world where most people are in the hypnosis of disempowerment.

They’re living unconsciously. They’re drifting through life.

They don’t understand that they are the ones creating their life, whether they’re conscious of it or not.

So when I say it’s important to consciously create your life, I mean it’s really important that each individual wake up to the fact that everything that happens in your life is your responsibility.

And I’ve to head my brother die as a result of drug use, I’ve had parents separate, I’ve head relationships end, I’ve had, you know, commercial near-death experiences, in business I’ve been through an incredibly challenging period… So I don’t say that from a position of privilege or a position of somebody that’s coming from an easy background.

What I say is when you take responsibility for who you are, when you take responsibility for who you’re becoming, when you take responsibility for the life and the business that you want to create… the impact that you want to make, the contribution that you want to have, and you map out who do I want to become, what do I want to do, then you start consciously creating who you are, rather than unconsciously sleepwalking through life.

When the voice inside your head is louder than the voices outside of your head, that’s where you begin to master your life.

It’s really important you don’t buy into all the cultural paradigms and messages that we bombarded with each and every day. Get really centered in yourself create who you are create who you want to become and live your life unwaveringly in line with that.

 

You’ve got to be willing to dream. You’ve got to be willing to have big visions.

You’ve got to be willing to not be influenced by other people’s rules and other people’s limitations and other people’s expectations.

Typically, entrepreneurs and anyone walking a non-traditional path are very independent thinkers, we’re less susceptible to public opinion, we’re less susceptible to the status quo.

So, I think no.1 is: Have big visions.

No.2 would be to Be an independent thinker. Meaning thinking for yourself. It’s not saying you don’t learn from others and be guided by others and engage your mentors, because you need to do that, absolutely. But you need to be the captain of your own ship.

And then, no.3 is Resilience. You absolutely need to have think skin. You absolutely need to be determined.
One friend of mine, a guy called Peter Davison, he was the seed funder in PayPal, he was the first investor into PayPal. He came in, he invested in PayPal at $500,000, they went on to exit to eBay 1.5 billion.

I remember I asked Peter one day what the no.1 characteristic of an entrepreneur? And he said: ‘Delusion’.

You need to have an unwavering knowing that you will create what you want to create.

That’s not to say you won’t change. That’s not to say you won’t evolve. That’s not to say that you won’t be flexible, but you need to be delusional in your belief around your ability to make it happen even when all the evidence is against you.

Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can’t, either way, you are right. – Henry Ford

It’s so true.

I think people hugely underestimate and under appreciate what human beings are capable of when you have absolute conviction.

So it’s so important that as you go on this journey you place equal if not more emphasis on your own personal journey, your own personal growth, your own personal fulfillment, as you do at the attainment of your goals.

I think that for any entrepreneur, or any individual pursuing a non-traditional path, there are so many setbacks along the way, there are so many reasons to give up, there are so many challenges and the game is won and lost between your head… And I think that in order to sustain and have longevity particularly on a non-traditional path, you need to be incredibly determined and often you need to have a pretty high threshold for pain.

Speaker is Jack Delosa, Entrepreneur, Author and founder of The Entourage
Film by Etienne Rouleau

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