Episode 12: Are You Overlooking the Opportunity That Could Change Everything?

somebody following their Passion by somebody following their their their love for something you never know what's going to happen he was looking for all the different opportunities that that that would allow him to to to fulfill that Steve Jobs didn't start as Apple computer he started with one thing he started following his passion Talent Plus effort equals skills skills plus effort equals success M always going to be a good day the wisdom for your [Music] hello how you doing I'm barem how are you I'm doing great you know something I I I listen I watched a podcast I listened to a podcast a few days ago and um he talked he spoke there about Steve Jobs oh okay and Steve Jobs the founder of Apple and it was very he made a very interesting point that I didn't know and uh I would love to hear your your take on it okay he says that Steve Jobs really was into funds okay and he had a he had a very big passion for funds different funds different letters and and he was Mish into that and the reason he started exploring computers was because he wanted to see if there is any way that he can bring certain funds that he he really loved to the wal and he did he didn't see that with any other uh computer so he decided he's going to try he's is's going to try to figure out if there's a way that he can make it work the funds that he has and because of his Lo his because of his love to funs Apple computer came out interesting okay and I found that very interesting because a lot of times people think to themselves you know I'm a loser I'm a this that and you don't know people don't know in hindsight it's very easy sometimes to connect the dots the problem is that you can't you can't connect it ahead of time you have to wait and then see how the dots are connecting so perfect right what I would love to hear what you have to say as such a thing it's what's resonating with me is you know I it's just this past week and say for SCH it was it was occurred to me you know here we see parro who who's par is being um brought with all different types of opportunities to get out of the situation they're in right and no matter what he he finds terum oh you know whatever signs you're bringing me my my magicians can do as well and whatever whatever you're doing you know you're turning things into dumb might just he he he keeps um ignoring the opportunities and just walks away even though they're still in front of his face on the other hand you you haveu who's out in the wilderness and the SN is burning now if he took Po's approach he could have just walked away and not paid okay so you know something caught on fire whatever you know whatever he could have found a terret but he didn't he stopped and he was curious and he wanted to see what is this about and it's because of that that he became M what it tells what what occurred to me is how often do we throughout our lives have snz surrounding us we have and I think I think everybody would admit we're surrounded by opportunities we're surrounded by you know we we we can't we can't turn our head fast enough to see all the different opportunities that we're surrounded by the question is are we gonna be like parro and just say you know I am who I am I am where I am and I'm just not GNA pay attention I'm not going to take advantage of any opportunities I I'm I'm I'm I'm satisfied where I am or when you know are you gonna take Mo B's approach and say stop for a moment hey look at that that's interesting what can I do with that how can how can I act with that how could it possibly affect me or how can I affect what what role do I play here what what what role is the opportunity offering me you know that's maro's approach and I think you know there's such a tremendous yite and I think that's what Steve Jobs is saying is he had a he had an urge to do something he was looking for all the different opportunities that that that would allow him to to to fulfill that and he just said I have an idea but I'm going to just get vit go Vitter with my regular day job and not think about it he wouldn't have become Steve Jobs but you know it's it's of course it's a combination of a lot of factors but one thing that occurred to me when from last week's para was that just look and take advantage of opportunities don't it may be not every opportunities for you or not the right time but don't ignore it yeah but but it's even deeper than that what what what caught my attention is you had a passion for something you wanted so bad something you didn't dream that it's going to turn out to be Apple computer right you didn't dream it's going to come out such an amazing success story from this and and and by somebody following their Passion by somebody following their their their love for something you never know what's going to happen and and then and then what's going to you know in Yiddish how do you say in Yiddish um when somebody is very successful and then you're looking for an excuse why he is more successful than what I think I should be inish they say you ever heard that yeah sure means basically thank you you know him why are you not making it the same as this big guys make you know doesn't he's a different story so I I I I you know I think like two years ago I had a whole on one of my podcast that I spoke about try you know do whatever you can until you become the because every started with a similar story you know oh Steve Jobs Steve Jobs no Steve Jobs didn't start as Apple computer he started with one thing he started following his passion his passion for fonts in hindsight you can connect the dots but if you look at ahead of time you can't connect the dots I am now speaking to you and I have no idea if one day I'm going to connect the dots of speaking to you in this specific time I'm speaking about this specific subject and maybe somebody's life has changed because of what we spoke maybe my life is going to change going to improve maybe you I don't know and then we're going to connect the dots and then I'm going to have such a an amazing success story for myself or for some other listener whatever and then somebody's going to say say you know SP about this and this and this you know it's it's it's people can't get inspiration because they only look at the success they don't see the dots that had to be connected in order for the success to happen and B the dots were connected Bes the dots were happening Bes the dots were created there was no story there was no dut connection right 100% And when I and I I I'm I'm totally I'm I'm not only agreeing with you but I'm just enhancing that by saying we talk a lot about Um passion and we talk a lot about you know just get not giving up but we also have to recognize that you know it's not an excuse to say well I did everything you said but I just didn't have the opportunity the answer is no that's not true we're surrounded by opportunities the question is are you paying attention to them that's the only thing I'm adding to that is is that point but I want to point out to you about what you're saying about passion you know there's a book called grit it it's a it was a very popular book when it came out several years ago from a professor in the University of Pennsylvania and she studied what what what allows somebody to become successful okay and she wrote a paper on and she actually proved this to be true according to her research that there's an equation that she came up with for Success you know what is the equation of success it's Talent Plus effort equals skills skills plus effort equals success okay again Talent Plus effort equals skills skills plus effort equals success so of course Talent means what we're naturally good at and we have to know we have to know what we're naturally good at but you'll notice in that equation what comes up twice in that occation effort effort effort when do we put forth effort when we're passionate about something when we feel driven to do something that's what encourages us to make to put forth effort so I'm saying what you're what you and this she talks about in her book but the point is know what your talents are and and and um equate them or work work together with with you know with with um your passion and Infuse your your your talent with f with passion and that allows you to develop the skills that you'll need as an outcome those skills together with that passion will ultimately lead you to be successful in what you're doing so you know I I'm just I'm saying what you what you're pointing out has been studied and has been proven the role that passion plays and feeling passionate about about about what you're doing um and like I said I think it's also just you know be aware of the opportunities don't don't don't ignore them yeah I would just add with a lot of we need we can't breathe without yeah effort you know I I I I I noticed a few days ago that I was involved in certain projects and I started the day so passionate so motivated and I I was doing the right thing and everything went well middle of the day everything shifted every everything shifted I didn't have the passion anymore I didn't have the motivation and if it I I sometimes I have to force myself not to destroy the good things that I did already because I lost everything and then I thought to myself what happened what happened in the morning you were so passionate you're so motivated you did great stuff you you were you were inspired others you and then all of a sudden everything changed and you know what I realized it said something it's something I ate for lunch that's it that's it I destroyed myself I destroyed the half a day of my life because of something I ate for lunch and it's it's so important you know you wouldn't take poison and in we do it to ourselves all the time we think ah no I'm the type of a person no baloney you're not a type of a person you're destroying yourself I'm talking about myself by the way you know I'm I'm a passionate person I think you can you can say that you can you can tell it I'm a passionate person I'm a motivated person I do a lot of things that others wouldn't won't do because I love doing it and then all of a sudden I lose it because I ate something I shouldn't eat okay and so so you need a lot of you need a lot of self-awareness to make sure that you put yourself in a in a situation that you should be able to do the effort you should be able to have the the the I think the effort is the the the the single thing that you have the most control on and when when I say when I say control it's not only control to make sure that you do the effort because a lot of external factors can come in that will prevent you from doing the effort for example having a smartphone near your on your desk with WhatsApp open could destroy your effort you know you're letting too many destructions come in the middle and of course as I discussed you know eating things that you shouldn't eat especially when you want to have a productive day right well and I I think your story illustrates another important point in that is that you know what it's not always going to be Rosy not everything's going to always you're not going to always feel infused with passion and excitement we have our ups and we have our downs and be prepared for that and just if you have a down day or you if you're just feeling that lack of passion doesn't mean that you've lost it it just means you've had a bad day but that's okay abely part being a human being I once I once gave a lecture somewhere few years ago and I spoke I spoke to salespeople in the insurance business and I remember when I was in the insurance business I had so many times that I was so down after hearing so many noes and I couldn't work for a few weeks and I wanted to leave the business and then all of a sudden things started going very well and I made nice money and people listened and I I I you know I I had success no what they not going to leave such a business it's so good everything is AA and what what Ur to me Ur to me is that so many times people making are making long-term decisions based on a short-term slum and I said that in the in the meeting there in the presentation I gave don't make long-term decisions when all you're going through is a short-term stump right absolutely it it's so important because people you know some sometimes they're in the dark and I agree it's very it's dark it's painful and you don't know how you're going to get out but just think to yourself if you ever were in the dark before and if you got out and you got out you know every time through a different story and uh mem you're going to get out of this also don't don't destroy your life don't take on a job that you you don't want to take on when you just have to push through another two weeks so a lot of people are are um you know it's it's I think it comes back to the instant gratification um that Americans suffer from right absolutely yeah and then hopefully one day you're going to be able to connect the the dots um to see why everything made sense and why everything helped you to get to uh to where you are hopefully to a successful outcome um I want to share with you another thing schulam if you have another few minutes mhm that um from Ila musk okay you you you you play around with the big boys don't you I'm trying listen I'm I'm I'm reading about them and I I listen to their podcasts and presentations um so listen to this ilam musk had a goal many many years ago to build the Model S Tesla and after making the whatever it didn't make sense that they should be able didn't have the the M the funds to it to fund such a such a thing and uh so so he had to put it on hold so what did he do in order to be able to build the model S so in other words the model S was the dream this is what he wanted to get to he didn't have funding and in order to get funding you need to have a certain level of success in order to get the funding you need to show your your uh you know your resume what did you do already you know in order for banks to fund you now he's El mask but back then who who would look at him so he decided that he's going to come up with a model three which is going to be much much cheaper to build and it's something that everybody should want to have it and you know everybody wants the cheap car you want to have it and it's going to be a no-brainer it's going to be at a price point that's it's a no-brainer and he did have the funds to do that so you build the model three in order to build up the company to be able to build the model S so in other words the model 3 was only an introduction to the model S it was only like a something that he had to get done in order to be able to get to the dream right and what when I when I when I heard that I thought about this so many people they have big dreams and they don't accomplish it and they can't go for it because of the it's very hard to get to the big dream dream and justifiably so I understand you know maybe you need a lot of money maybe you need to be in a certain situation in life to be able to get to the to the big to the big dream to work with you know we talk a lot in the book about you know the book that came out the key to your success we talk about some people should do what's their talent and I know you talk about it in your in your uh in your your line of work to help people um identify what their talents are to work only in the talents what their personality is but sometimes you have to understand that in order to get there you need a model three first right so I sometimes ask people when I speak to people in my membership groups in the community that I have I ask people okay I understand your big goal but what's your model tree absolutely and I I think this is what um I can't think of his name now in the in the coaching program um it'll come to me but I will I will quote his name when I when it comes back to me but in any event they they call it the bahag I think the the big hairy audacious goals like you have to always have these big goals that are 10 20 year old 10 or 20 year goals or visions that that keeps you going and driving you have that you know if somebody's if somebody's really taken with having a Rolex watch keep that Rolex watch in your in your mind if it's getting through shot keep getting through Shas what what you know that has to be a long-term goal that keeps you in the game but then go and and but then take that and figure okay in order to be there in 10 or 20 years what do I have to do now and what and what do I have to do in the next three years and in the next five years and the next 10 years you know break that down like Elan said in order to get to the mod next week the next month the next today the next day whatever it is but you know it all boils down to this youo of being intentional and having that mindset that it's you're G to make it work and you know but but be being realistic about it as well I want to tell you something you know you know remind me how do they say good morning in Yiddish yeah it's a test good good morning good morningg yeah go ahead Good Morgan okay it's Morgan what does Morgan mean in yish I always assum that me morning tomorrow oh Morgan tomorrow I'm going to I'm I'm going to meet you so so in yish tomato is M so I once heard somebody said why do you say get Mar why don't you say get hun like today good today okay in English you say good morning because it's morning but why do you say good morning it's like tomorrow why not today good good get get hunt hunt today okay so he said something very very deep he said because most people when they get out of their house in the morning they they already made made up their mind that tomorrow is going to be a good day today is probably over but tomorrow uhuh have something to look out for w so you say good morning you gave up on today so I'm just saying it because he said you should know this year next year and know also today you should have a focused day what do you want what do you want in the long term and what do you need to do today in order to be able to get your long-term you know life is just too short to not take advantage of every moment that we have you know it's just you know I said something to somebody today I told them you know he told me okay you know what I don't have time this week next week I said you know how many weeks like this do we have like next week what do you think just weeks okay next week next week next year you know it's it's it's very very important to understand not only the longterm go but what do you want today right and who says there's going to be a tomorrow anyway you know take advantage today who knows what's going to happen says galic okay so again let me just summarize we spoke about the the connecting the dots in hindsight and then the model three what's your model three okay I would love to hear send me an email you know I'm send me an email you listener or put a comment in YouTube or somewhere you know where you I want to hear what your model what your model 3 is we will be in touch of looking [Music] forward get down the wisdom for your wealth