Live Today With Passion - Brendon Burchard: "Have you ever heard that advice to take risks but you felt like well I don't
want to take risks no one likes risk right no one wants to say when they wake
up in the morning I'm going to take tons of risks today usually risk brings about
fear we're worried that if we take a risk we'll fail
other people will judge us we'll look stupid we'll feel uncertain or unsure of
ourselves and nobody likes those feelings are those outcomes so as much
as people say take risks it's easy for us to say mom not into that but we also
know intellectually that we can't grow unless we take more risks that your next
level of success that leap from this level to that level there's going to be
risk there you know it's from here to there and there's that gap in between
you don't know is you take that leap if you're going to do well that's the risk
you might fall you might fail you might not do well but if you're not making
those leaps and taking those steps you'll always be stuck where you were
yesterday and to grow we've got to have a lot of courage to jump in those risks
new businesses start out small and so you know it would it would be very easy
for say the person who runs our us books category to say why are we doing these
experiments with things I mean you know that generated you know a tiny bit of
revenue last year why don't we instead focus those
resources and that you know that all that brainpower on this on the books
category where we which is a big business for us and instead that that
would be a natural thing to have happen but instead inside Amazon you know when
a new business you know reaches some small milestone of sales email messages
go around and everybody is you know giving virtual high-fives for reaching
that milestone and I think it's because we know from our past experiences that
big things start small you know the biggest oak starts from an acorn and
you've got to recognize you want to do anything new you've got to be willing to
let that acorn grow into a little sapling and then finally into a small
tree and maybe one day it'll be a big business on its own
another guy interviews man named Kyle bass Kyle bastard thirty million dollars
gathered money together a lot of money but other people's money turn in a two
billion in the middle of the subprime crisis that's a whole theory or a big
return it's laid out of two years right oh my god like how did you do this mark
it's a separate book you even they open up the chapter and some of the most
historic books written recently on the gentleman who wrote Flyboys also read
one of the books in spark that I'll talk about Kyle Bauhaus doing this that's
incredible piece it's like it's like being there with him but the way he did
it was he risk six cents to make a dollar and just leverage that up so he
could be wrong how many times and still breakeven 15 hippy wrong 15 times and
make money so what he's also smart as hell he looked at things he evaluate
because more detail that I explained the book but the core they all have in
common is they risk valuable treasure I want to make whatever I'm doing harder I
know that sounds weird I'm like how could I make my job more difficult
because in the taking that risk to make it more difficult I'll grow I'll give
you guys an example last weekend I had the blessing to keynote a conference in
New Orleans some of you all were there it was at the Superdome in New Orleans
which holds like a hundred thousand people but they kind of spiced it in
half with a curtain and they had twenty thirty thousand people in the audience
it's sort of the beachbody convention and it was a blast now I could get up
and talk to 20,000 people pretty regularly in my life I'm doing it again
next weekend it's what I do is a motivational speaker right I'm used to
doing that but I could just go on stage do my thing and get off and that
wouldn't be serving the audience as much and so I asked my question myself how
can I make this presentation even harder on me so that I can grow so I text two
of my friends who happen to be in that organization Tony Horton many of you
guys know he is kind of a founder of and trainer for p90x and chalene johnson who
does piyo and i text them both I said what's your hardest exercise move that
people usually can't get because both those people going to be the conference
and this was a lot of their superfans so I was like
led to go so Tony told me he's like the donkey kick is the hardest one
the donkey kick is basically you do a handstand you kick your legs out you
land back plank position you're right you're on your leg through like
threading the needle in yoga and then you return and you do a burping okay and
chalene said well the hardest one is like which calls the piyo flip which is
like imagine doing a bridge right but then going to kind of one arm and
because like you're doing a bridge this way and one arm goes that way I mean
it's not easy so I decided in front of 20,000 people
to do those two moves back-to-back in a suit so imagine doing a handstand in a
suit kicking your legs out threading the needle then flipping over doing a full
extended bridge not easy but I did it because it would be hard
does that make sense part of the reason I got better as a speaker is because I
was pushing myself pushing myself I mean I used to be it's very comforting and
easy to give a big speech and you know have a transcript or all these notes to
read from but I said one day I'm going to be able to get up on stage and give a
speech with no notes whatsoever now that's hard that's not comforting it's
not easy but it's by putting challenges in front of ourselves that we grow and
that's part of taking risks you know I always say to people look if the only
challenges you're dealing with in life right now are the ones that life's dealt
you then you're not living a fully conscious life yet and what I mean by
that is you're living a life of a reaction if you're not moving and put if
you're not moving towards harder and more difficult goals if you're not
giving yourself challenges if you're not taking risks consciously then you're
just reacting to the world you're not growing and so challenge yourself the
next time you're going to go do something your art your career put
yourself out there try something make that sales call how could you challenge
yourself to make that process even harder so you get better
you got to become a risk taker right there done this job said if you're not
willing to risk you can't grow and if you can't grow you can't become your bed
and if you can't become your best you can't be happy and if you can't be happy
then what else is there you know what I saw dr. Norman Vincent Peale 23 years
ago but for thirteen years I wouldn't take the chance for thirteen years I was
living in my comfort zone for 13 years I kept saying less fun you can't do that
Les Brown you can't have that kind of audience left round you don't have the
oratorical skills you don't have the knowledge you don't have the money I
kept saying I can't do that there's an old African proverb that says if there's
no enemy within the enemy outside can do us no harm
Bishop talks about the enemy in me if there's no enemy within how many of you
know that you've been your own worst enemy raise your hands so you've got to
be willing to get outside your comfort zone and no one could have told me that
the willingness to get outside of my comfort zone the willingness to fail the
willingness to try to experiment the willingness to take some chances the
willingness to do something I've never done that in the last 12 years but 13
years I didn't do it I convinced himself I couldn't do it then the last 12 years
I've earned in excess of 14 million dollars let me tell you 14 million
dollars a good garden and I helped the halt and you can make it through a
winner and Birmingham Alabama do you hear me
no one could have told me I have two books live your dream and it's not over
until you win no one could have told me born in an abandoned building on a floor
labeled educable mentally retarded no college training no one could have told
me I would have produce five specials for public television then I have had
three years ago the highest-rated fastest cancelled talk show in the
history of television because I wouldn't do those conflict and controversy shows
no one could have told me I had no idea that I can do what I'm doing right now
let me tell you what I know about you and I don't to know you
you got greatness within you wanna dr. house dr. King's mentors dr. Howard
Thurman said something one night I was reading and I couldn't sleep
he said the ideal situation for a man a woman to die if they have family members
standing around their bed praying with him as they cross over he said but
imagine if you will being on your deathbed and standing around you all the
ideas the dreams that have been given to you by life the talents the gifts that
you've never nurtured that you never develop the skills that you never did
anything with standing around your bed looking at you with large angry eyes
saying we came to you only you could have given us life and now we must die
with you forever and the question is if you died now what dreams what I did what
talents what abilities what skills what books
what sermons what seminars what businesses will die with you Myles
Munroe said the wealthiest place on the planet is not in the 40 where they have
oil in the ground it's not in South Africa where they have diamond mines is
that the wealthiest place on the planet is Cemetery
because there you find dreams not pursued books never written songs never
song sermons never delivered businesses never arrested tell us never nurtured
you never develop you survive one out of forty million sperm you were born to win
God wants you to be rich and wealthy and successful and to live the abundant life
you must affirm that for yourself every day so you look at yourself and you look
at your life and you look at your circumstances as you work on your goals
and your dreams here are some things I want to give you write this down hold
yourself to high standards see what if Bishop TD jakes had decided when he
first received the idea of the manpower conference that it could not be
what if utilize allowed that idea to die we would not be here see many of you
here you are pregnant with some ideas I'm telling you what I know I will leave
here this afternoon tonight in one hour doing what I'm doing down one hour earn
in excess of 150 thousand dollars I had no idea that I had the capacity to do
what I'm doing right now you've got genius of you you made and unlock this
an image of God you've got greatness in you you have some special stuff in you
you showed up with you so as you look at your life and you decide to become a
risk taker and make it okay to failed experiment trial and error repeat after
me please no tip no testimony you're going to face
some hard times what's the first thing they say when you get on an airplane
before they take off fasten your seatbelt why because you
will experience some turbulence before you reach a comfortable altitude
life was testing me when the man looked at me and said you have prostate cancer
you're too is too large to have the surgery we're going to give you
radiation seed implant the most anybody has ever gotten was 90 they gave me 238
I went back three weeks ago they checked my PSA level which indicates the
presence of cancer your prostate area one to four is normal beyond that is
that you have cancer and it's spreading when I first went a year ago it was six
point one when I went three weeks ago at Howard University Hospital they gave me
an MRI it was ten point five the guy said I'm sorry to tell you this and so
what do you mean you're in the same situation that you were in when I when
you came here here's something I heard at Christ Universal Temple Church at a
new restaurant Bishop TD jakes was praying for a lady
in a wheelchair and it's on how things come to you when he finished praying for
the lady I'm sure there were some questions were asked that weren't verbal
that if the prayer work why did she get up and walk and what he said as he is
walking away healing takes first place first he said healing takes place first
in the spirit
it is not about with numbers it did not about their diagnosis just not according
to appearances you must have a face the call for those things that be not as
though they were know do you really believe it's one thing to believe when
you got money in your pocket it's one thing to believe when your marriage is
working out and you got your help and your children acting like they got good
sense oh it's good so all the Lord is blessing it it's easy to believe then
awful when you get that diagnosis they you and will be hello when you lose your
job when someone you thought you'll be with for the rest of your life say no we
can't do this no more that's when you have to stand that's when you have to
begin to live this faith and that's not on you that's when you've got to call on
something how do you let that mind being you you got to be out of your mind to
believe in spite of these numbers you can still make it in spite of the pain
you feeling you can still come back again you got to be out of your mind
that's right I'm in that Christ mind I believe it and not when things are just
favourable not fair whether faith and you've got to believe that when you're
going out here with your ideas with your products with your services and part of
being successful is you've got to hold yourself to high standards I use Bishop
Jake's as a model his people take care of you he sparrow hold yourself to high
standards whatever you do there's no saying do not go where the path may lead
but go where there's no path and leave a trail
three people with respect three thin the way that you want to be treated Tony
who's with me who's been assigned to me courteous respectful call several times
is there anything I can do for you can I help you out as first-class service if
you decide to provide first-class service
Johnny's just a book called making against the offs he said there's no
defense against an excellence that meets the pressing public needs when I decided
to become involved in the motivational industry I didn't have the money of a
doctor's Norman Vincent Peale of Zig Ziglar of Tony Robbins and all the other
Giants out there I had to gift of gab so what I did was I trained myself I
discipline myself to read three to four books a week
first I sought out a month not increasing with a reading system that I
have mr. Washington mr. Brown yes sir do you want to make it yes sir first you've
got to develop your mind young man because you don't get in life what you
want you get in life what you are next you've got to develop your communication
skills once you open your mouth you tell the
world who you are they said about Jesus who obviously was an effective
communicator never Becca man the reason that you're here is because no one can
milk scripture and deliver a summon that can transform your life and have you
jumping up and down like you crazy like TD James I'm home one day looking at
this video my daughter gave me call he called me son
let me tell you something by the end of that video and I've never seen my father
when that video got to the end I was going to the television saying daddy
daddy come by day I push reverse it back it up a dead baby now you take it so he
just probably died of a bad movie all by myself I look around see me device TV
that make crafted that message you happy I'll cry like about a funeral I will bye
daddy
see I forgive you hear me that's a give you your people uses word
a non Edition only place I've ever seen an applicable is with his kings that's
closing hoping to tell you I think I'm a good speaker but this is this a bad what
we got over here words cannot encompass the symbolism of
what we have the chance to see effort here and yes he's down to earth I mean
down to earth where all these little 20 outfits he has I mean it not be happy
and let me tell you what my daughter said to me my daughter my oldest
daughter is on his advanced speed she said you know what I was listening to
Dion last night and I think I'm going to call on Bishop Jake's daddy - I said I
wish you would I beg you I will throw you out here right now and break his
legs how about calling him daddy now here's I want you to write this down
write down take responsibility for your life take responsibility for your life
now that's a very important remember what what Bishop said last night about
Adam Adam when God asked him what happened Adam did not want to take
responsibility for what he had done men have always tried to escape that so
the reason I'm telling you that we got to start owning our stuff as men write
down the next are and that is not only responsibility but B was possible a lot
of men I don't have I had it I'll give it if the women has that kind
of attitude that children would starve to death the reason that they eat the
reason that they have some place to stay and to lay their head and have clothes
on their back because the women decides I'm going to make it happen no matter
what and they're resourceful my momma raised seven without a man she cooked
she cleaned houses here's something else I will cause you to reach your goals
when you leave here write this down reasons compelling reasons why you here
when you make this covenant with God when you decide to live like a conqueror
when you decide to become more successful to create wealth to be a
change agent in your community what is it that can keep you on the straight and
narrow that will cause you to keep your commitment to your commitment I used to
do door-to-door sales with a man named Sam axe right Sam axe Arad was intrigued
by me because when he came to pick me up he'd
have to blow his horn I was downstairs waiting for Sam when he came around the
corner and unlike the men that worked with him and other young people when it
got dark and Sam blew the horn everybody ran to the station wagon and
they would do a headcount and if they lose here so everybody's here except
less and if they hit last along now I'm not coming Sam why I haven't sold
anything no one stole anything less it's a long run from Liberty City to over
town you got to pass a 20th Street shots in the 14th Street game the rigidities
will stop running through I can't touch them until I sell something see my
reason for going door-to-door different than everybody else most people are
they're trying to make some extra money to party on the weekend or to buy a new
outfit or new bicycle the reason that I was working was to take care of my mama
the reason that I was working is because I was working on Miami Beach with my
mother my mama used to fix the kind of sweet potato pie that you couldn't eat
with your shoes on
you had to take your shoes off so you can wiggle your toes and when we would
go to door sometimes as late as 10 o'clock at night I would not want to do
who's there would you like to buy a nice working television set no money now boy
are you crazy yes I am crazy I'm crazy about my mama
and I'm going to take care of her and I'm going to sell a television set
tonight and invited for only you and after a while somebody said come on in
you're born that better be a good set one of the reasons write down why you
are here at this manpower conference write down five compelling reasons but
why are you going to keep your commitment to change your life keep your
commitment never to go back to the life that you once live keep your commitment
to creating wealth for yourself the taking care your children to be more
responsible to manifest price in you in your life in your community keep your
commitment to live a life of contributions to keep your commitments
to be a conqueror and to act like that and to have authority in dominion of
everything in your life one of those reasons I got on one of my tapes is like
not strip down try and land on your back because then you can look up you can get
up your reasons will help you to get back up again therefore your rod of
staff to comfort you so you got to write down five reasons on everything that
Bishop is saying and ambition merit and all the different speakers and the
relationship seminar that brother Lewis prenup will do how you will incorporate
the principles from this manpower conference in your life and live them
and manifest them and support them now here's one sucker to the last thing let
us say together you got to be hungry okay mr. washer said mr. Brown what do
you want to do well sir I'd like to be a disc jockey mr. Brown if you want to be
a disc jockey you got to be hungry what do you mean by that sir you've got to be
willing to do the things that a others won't do in order to have the things
tomorrow others won't have he said you got to work on yourself develop yourself
develop your mind you don't get it live what you want you get in life what you
are always tried to get on top in life because it's the bottom that's
overcrowded you got to be hungry I said yes sir I'm hungry I want to be a disc
jockey sir and said is that right I said yes sir
he said started listening to Paul Harvey started listening to people who are
effective communicators be conscious of what you're saying and how you're saying
it because how you express yourself once you open your mouth you tell the world
who you are see yourself and as a radio disc jockey start working to get
sponsorship start creating the radio format that you want start developing
your personality test it wait a minute sir I said I want to be a disc jockey I
don't have a job yet and then he quoted Whitney Young he said it's better to be
prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not
be prepared you got to be hungry
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