Everybody in the room has a story. My story is that was never good enough, never
amount to much. When I was in grade five one day I came home from school and I
wrote a multiplication exam that day at school. My mother worked as a nurse
of the system. My dad was an engineer. Engineers are very touchy-feely people aren't
they? Right? So my mom comes home from work. I go up to my mother. I show her
at 90 percent of my multiplication exam. She's so excited she wants to put on
the refrigerator. My dad comes home same time every day. Being an engineer step-by-step
very methodical. My dad comes home, walks in the door. I run to my father very
excited. Showed my dad he got 98 percent. He looked at it, he analyzed it. What
do you think he did? He says he missed it by 2 percent son and he walked away and
washed his hands at Dalford Inter. At that moment my interpretation in my
life was I am not what? Good enough. Anybody have parents like this? Look around
the room. And it was a transformation in my life. See what my father didn't say
out loud and verbally was son? You can always do better son. He didn't verbally
say that. As a young boy I translate that I'm not good enough. And so in our
life sometimes your greatest insecurities of not being smart enough. I felt
for a number of my years of my life I was a luke. I felt invisible. In my
younger days I'd walk into my disc. I felt that nobody would see me. I felt like
dumb. I felt invisible. I felt like it goes away and nobody could relate to me.
Who am I? I barely passed public school. I didn't amount to much in life. But
inside of me I had a dream. I used to get in trouble at school for day dreaming.
Because I would visualize it. Create vision boards in my mind of what I want to
do. Where I want to go. I had no idea how. Here's what I want you to look at. Is
linear and non-linear thinking. You see in schools we program children to go to
school get good grades and come out with student loan debts. That's what we call
linear thinking. So rather than going to school and say you know how do I save up
money to afford a college university education. Why don't you say how can I get paid
to go to college or university. See the difference? See a lot of good in this
room you say well how the heck have you traveled all over the world? How do you do
that? Because I ask myself how do I get paid to travel the world and do what I
love and love what I do. Does that make sense? So if somebody want to go to
Australia how can you get paid to go to Australia? He's like I don't know how
you paid. I'm an engineer. I'm an architect. I'm a construction worker. Well
maybe there's a construction worker's conference in Australia. Maybe you're going
to go there and do some research. Maybe do some philanthropy. Maybe your church
will sponsor you. Maybe somebody will give you air miles and don't aim to you. But
all you guys do is start thinking in your mindset is how do I get paid to go
there? I get paid to go to Africa. I was in Africa three times last year. It's
not huge amount of dollars. But it's an experience. Does that make sense? But I
fly over there. I collect a lot of aeroplane points. I meet some of the most
fascinating people in the world who have practically nothing in terms of
materials like goods. And I've worked with some of the wealthiest people on
planet earth. Well Southland I've been with the most impoverished people. It's
amazing. We meet people. They don't know they're in poverty. They have no
perspective on that. They just are living life every day. 50% mortality right
in Africa. It's changing now by age five. So where do you plan to all this? Well
one thing is how do you want to grow a successful business? First is have an
idea. Understand this. Your idea is going to be ridiculed. People are going to
laugh at you. People are going to make fun of you. Understand this. In the
beginning they're going to call you crazy. They're going to call you lucky.
They don't call you a crook. You're always going to be hugged and slugged in
business. Some of you are going to hug you. Some of you are going to slug you. I
had a woman that was supposed to be here tonight that flew in here. I pissed her
off her today. She flew back home. She flew out of her room. She's got you to be
here tonight. I had me with her this morning about her business and she flew
back home. It's not here tonight. Okay? Because I told her some things that she
didn't want to hear that if she kept on doing it. I didn't sell her dream. I
sold the nightmare. I sold the nightmare. If you keep doing what you're doing
here's the end result. Why? Because I've done it. I've got the scars to prove it.
How many can really do this in business? You've got scars and things have gone
sideways, partner deals. I said this is from my experience from from practical
knowledge. This is what's going to happen to you. She didn't want to hear it. She
actually left my home. Okay? Follows on here. And the thing was because I had
a conversation with her late last night and all this kind of stuff and really
freaked her out up center. And the thing is to understand is you're going to have
to have uncomfortable conversations sometimes with people. You have to sit down
with your family and say listen, I have a dream. I have a goal of my life right
now and I need to focus on where I want to go and what I want to do. Because
there's going to be times in your life if you want to become a millionaire or
want to become very successful that you have to become self aware of yourself
and realize that you have to shut up all the noise around you have to go
inside yourself and you have to run this race where there's nobody around. You
know it's interesting. I've met a lot of people who run the Iron Man's in Boston
Marathon and stuff like that. And they'll tell you that in their training there's
a time in their life where when they start they blow the whistle or shoot the
gun there's always people around cheering for them. And as they're running the
race all of a sudden there's less and less people and in every couple of
kilometers there's somebody on there who's heading them water. And they said it's
one between the two years of mindset and mental toughness that do I keep going
even though I have a cramp and do I quit or to take the last two three four five
years of intense rigorous training to persevere and keep going.
