Lessons - The ONE Secret to Dominate Every Day | James Whittaker - Entrepreneur, Speaker & 3x Best-selling Author

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daily goals with a bigger purpose is the key to sustainable growth and fulfillment so there's a few things that i want to unpack we'll understand like the win the day philosophy but before we go into that because that's the the current thesis that you've come to understand that started help people the most but you derive that thesis from the people that you interacted with when you uprooted your life and you went all over the world for your MBA and you worked with all these entrepreneurs so what is the difference what is the i mean there's like probably unlimited differences that you can pinpoint but what is that like one thing that that the person who has intent that is building something that has their purpose in the world what allowed them to do that at a certain age or at any capacity that you originally didn't have that the person who's listening to this knows what an entrepreneur looks like but they're like that's not me i've never done that what is that one thing that differentiated you i think there's really two traits that this comes back to thinking garbage talks about yeah if i can be permitted to have two thinking garbage talks about 13 principles of success but the two that if you had to really break it down i just i don't think you can have success without these two things and i think you can have extraordinary success over the long term when you have these two attributes and these are the most important things i want to have it my clients that i want to have it my children that i want to have it my friends the first one is resourcefulness meaning that you can acquire anything that you want and the second one is resilience meaning that when adversity inevitably strikes that you will keep moving forward i think if you have those two things then the the sky is a limit to what you can achieve and when i look back at the person that i mentioned at the start of our chat today who was in his early 20s i didn't have resourcefulness really i didn't have any resilience i was busy blaming other people but the fact that it reached a point where to me it was literally life threatening if i had gone down that path i have absolutely no doubt how that would have unfolded zero doubt in my in my mind and it's why i'm so passionate about helping people to have a similar realization in their lives i love that so let's talk about let's talk about how you codify all the principles all the lessons that you've learned into that one sentence win the day because there's win the day and then there's like extreme focus and intent and a word that i picked upon your website actually is clarity which i love so win the day to me i want to understand that because win the day means like i'm winning today and when i think about winning today that's great but it doesn't in my mind immediately make me think tomorrow or the next day or six years for 10 years or 20 years from now it's literally today so walking through i winning the day is important for the long-term vision the focus and the clarity well the whole where i first got this trauma was when i was reading and rereading and rereading thinking garbage by Napoleon Hill which was part of my role of writing the book thinking garbage the legacy i needed to know that text inside of out also as a producer of the film and there was one passage that kept standing out to me and that was that any mind that is not preoccupied with being success conscious will automatically be overtaken by the poverty conscious and i was like wow that is so interesting and it kept it kept coming back to me and then i was like well how do i say that in a way that people can understand and then i thought will each day if you do not make the decision to win you have automatically made the decision to lose and then it was like huh win the day if we can focus on winning the day and then i started thinking more and more i by brainstorm more and more about this concept and that's what i thought about where do people's anxiety and fear and worry and stress live they don't live in the present they live in the future worrying about something that's about to happen or they live in the past when they're freaking out about something that they might have done a year ago or yesterday or five years ago and none of that stuff can help you there's no point dwelling on any of those things or worrying about what's to come but if you have an idea of who you are in terms of things like your values and where you want to go in terms of goals in all areas of your life rather than just a financial goal or a fitness goal or a business goal or a family goal or a travel goal it's important to think about all of those things holistically in a comprehensive manner and once you have the foundation on who you are and where you want to go you can focus on putting one foot in front of the other you have completely alleviated yourself from everything that's going to happen in the future because you already know how the story ends because you've written it you just need to do what the character in the book would be doing today that's going to help you get there and some of those things as part of that win the day routine i think the very first part of that is coming up with an awareness because are you mentioned something a little bit earlier along the lines of that how do we motivate people who don't want to help themselves and you you can't really you can only john asera from the secret told me that he only works with he said help the people who want to help not the people who need to help and that can be very tough when you want to go out there and and help everyone but if you help someone who isn't ready for the help they're not going to change and you're going to end up really frustrated and depressed and and burn out in the process so giving someone the ability to have that awareness of the trajectory that they're on is that happy for them is is that a good thing for them to hear and do they recognize a change needs to occur and then are they willing to embrace that change so coming from that foundation of awareness is very very important then we can look at things like purpose what do you put here to do i had a for me personally i have a career purpose and i have a family purpose they're very different and it's important that i live both of those things and i live that i list out both of those things and then from there we can focus on things like goal setting and then your daily routines and your environment and your relationship with stress and your mindset around reframing adversity all of those types of things a huge shout out to federated computer for supporting today's episode let me explain why i love federated computer why they are friends of success story they are changing the way businesses buy software because we all need software to run our businesses i don't care what kind of business you're building but the best business software doesn't have to cost 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actually do actually want to progress which can be a massive benefit or candidly there's spots in every career and every job or business for people that actually would just like to do the thing that they're doing and that's also okay too but to identify that is huge because that could be well placed or misplaced energy depending on who you're trying to mentor and and and help right so that's a very very smart point now when you start helping people achieve clarity and direction what are what are some of the major roadblocks so somebody is very willing and they're like listen I'm listening to this I hate my job or I'm an entrepreneur and I have five side hustles and none of them are going the way I want them to so what is it what is the major roadblocks you see there's so many a lot of them are there is no balance they've taken the time to define success in one area of their life but they haven't tied that that in so if you don't have an idea of three things that you need to do today that are going to make that day or win then you're going to struggle I see a lot of people they wake up and they they just work hard they work hard they work hard but if you don't have I always write down three things and then never all business related there's always one that might be related to family or might be related to health I'm really interested in those people who are very mentally strong physically healthy and strong financially healthy and strong they're the types of things that we can start to calibrate get those things ready perhaps there's some other relationships that can inspire they can inspire them on their next chapter because a lot of people reach a point where they feel like this is it and it can be very daunting for them to say look I'm 50 years old I might have ten million dollars in the bank but I'm not happy day to day so what needs to happen well that's when we move away from money and we can focus on first of all restoring balance and getting clear again on who they are and where they want to go and then we focus on impact like how do you want your children to think about you and how do you want to how do you want to turn up each day like when you wake up in the morning and you just take a moment to think about who is Scott and how does he go through the day what are the standards that you're willing to uphold how do you what food you putting into your body what conversations are you initiating where are you allocating your time once you can start to bring all of those things in together that's when you can give someone very much a renewed passion and sometimes it means they need to say farewell to the certain phase of life that they're in they might have a business that could have served its point it's like it's just died it just led to like a natural conclusion and that's fine that the business can move on with some people who have the excitement and you can move on to doing something that frees you up mentally it creates all that space for you which in that time of having six months for like a mental reset and allowing your intellectual curiosity to go to wherever it needs to be that's a lot of the times that I found with clients and really highly successful entrepreneurs they had that time off to figure out their next move and the next move is something they went all in on and it was generally something they were that they were really excited to do after the day was done an example of that is a guy called Michael Fox who created a good friend of mine he created the world's first female custom shoe company so you could go on a shoes of prey if you're a woman and you'd order whatever shoes you want completely custom made for you and they would send them out to you a week or two later but he realized that he wasn't coming home from work he didn't want to read magazines and articles about women's shoes so eventually