if you're under 30 years old this video
is for you today I'm gonna share with
you three pieces of advice that I wish
someone would have told me when I was
going through school and when I was just
getting started I know a lot of my fans
you're following my work you are
watching me on social media that you're
going to school right now or you're
about to graduate or you're still young
people you're still trying to figure
what what path you should choose and
what career you should choose right so
today I'm gonna help y'all with that
number one and that is this figure out
exactly who you are and what your
strengths are early on
you see most people they teach you to
work on your weaknesses I don't believe
in that I believe you spend your life
working on your weaknesses at the end of
your life you have a lot of strong
witnesses right and what we want to do
is to figure out who we are what we are
good at what we are naturally good at
chances are those are the things that we
enjoy doing that we have a passion for
right then you one or two things that
that you want to focus on now you want
to put all your energy into that and you
get exceptionally good when you get
exceptionally good what happens is the
marketplace will compensate you for it
so I think I'll see a lot of young
people they struggle because they say to
me walked in I really don't know what
I'm good at or I don't know what what I
should focus on I don't know what career
I should focus on well chances are if
you don't know what you need to focus on
you have not tried enough things right
because imagine if you're playing sports
right what should you play basketball
you play tennis
should you play ping pong you play golf
well if you have not tried different
types of sports how do you know which
one you are naturally good at and what
which one you enjoy so instead of just
thinking about okay I guess that's what
I like try things experiment right test
new things
once you try enough things then you know
you know what definitely I know these
things I'm not interested and these are
the few things that I think I'm good at
and you put maybe more time into it and
now
actually you see the hey what comes easy
for you might not be so easy for others
that's when you know you found your
thing right that's your strength that
you're naturally good at something that
other people are not good at so advice
number one figure out who you are and
what strengths you have and focus all
your energy on that one or two things
advice number two and that is work for
skills don't work for paycheck you see a
lot of graduates they graduate from
school and and say hey I want to make
sure I pick a job that pays me the most
right whoever pays me the most
this pays an extra dollar per hour I'm
gonna take that job no don't do that
because that's very short-term thinking
when you work for a paycheck or when you
work for money you're always making
decisions based on you get pay a little
extra versus what's the overall vision
you have for your life just because your
parents tell you that you should take
that job you should focus on that career
or your friends are doing studying
certain subject and then you say you
know what maybe I should study that to
you or a lot of you are studying
computer science maybe I should get into
computer science well they may not be
the case right what are you good at what
do you love but at the same time work
for skills in my early 20s I was working
for my first mentor Alan for next to
nothing for one year I was basically a
volunteer right I was working in his
office learning from him he took me
under his wings one solid year I didn't
get paid a whole lot
I was working less than minimum wage but
it would make no sense but I've learned
so much I always referred that year as
the the million dollar year of my life
because I got a million dollar worth of
education from my mentor so I wasn't
working for money or for a paycheck if
that was the case I would said no but I
was working for skills
I was working to acquire skill sets that
I could use in the future you see most
people who are struggling financially
they want more income without skills you
do not have an income
you have a skill problem because the
marketplace is always willing to pay for
people with talents and skills because
I'm a pretty young guy I'm only 18 but
through these three calls I was only
asked about my experience once and it
wasn't a very big deal I kind of just
answered it and that was it
and throughout my search for insulin
series I've probably exuded that that
vibe of I don't have any experience and
I'm very conscious of it but through
these calls I didn't do that
and it didn't come up so I'm hoping that
maybe you could learn from this if
you're maybe an assembler spot to where
I was yesterday a few days ago
especially if you're young like me we
don't have to be conscience of our
experience because at the end of the day
they're not looking for experience
they're looking for results and other
than that that's really all that I have
with that realization but the best thing
about these this boom is that even if
this influencer falls through have a few
more my pipeline that I'm talking to and
even if those fall through I can go find
new ones there's influencers everywhere
once you know where to look it's like
running water like there's so many of
them other than that I don't have too
much to say you're closer than you think
take care so work on your skills work
for skills pick an industry pick a
company pick someone that you could
learn from don't just work for a
paycheck work for skills advice number
three and that is think long-term not
short-term one of the biggest mistakes I
see a lot of young people make sometimes
on social media sometimes some of them I
have done business with they have a very
short-term mentality right they try to
make a quick buck they're trying to get
rich quick a lot of decisions that they
make you I can see that it's very naive
and a lot of those because they don't
think long term they're thinking about
this month they're thinking about this
quarter then maybe maybe some of them
think about this year but they don't
think very long term you see I look at
what I do I say you know what
looking Oh dan you're very successful at
a young age I'm like yeah I'm more like
a 10-year overnight success right that
I've worked many many many many many
years to get to where I am today
right I paid the price early on when I
was young when I was going to school the
first five years of my life when all my
friends are going out there drinking
partying chasing girls and just wasting
time for the first five years of my
career I didn't take a single day off
I was working 12 to 14 hours a day every
single day in my in my one-bedroom
apartment with my mom right staying with
my mom working in my room studying
working and learning and that was it
I paid the price early while all my
friends were doing something else so you
have to understand that there's a price
that you've got to pay and you have to
think that living long term so don't get
frustrated when you look at people from
social media and say oh this person's
got this kind of lifestyle
and he's successful what she's
successful and this and that and you
think it to yourself oh I want to get
there I want to get that in six months I
want to get that in get there in one
year you're not gonna get there in six
months you're not going to get there in
one year you have to adjust your
expectations now it doesn't mean you
don't have their sense of urgency what
I'm saying is the surefire way to get
the frustration is you have this and
we'll list the expectation in terms of
time frame and this is where you are
you're 20 years old you're 21 years old
you've got time youth is your biggest
advantage right that is the biggest
advantage that you have if energy of
healthy of youth take your ton Jack Ma
from Alibaba has a hundred and two year
business plan a hundred and two years
that's why he's Jack Ma he thinks long
term he's not thinking about doing
things were or being there we active
this is what I want to do know what's my
plan this is where I want to get you
what do I need to do today what skills
do I need acquire today who do I have to
be today what habits I need about today
that would set me up for the success in
the future
if you only look at there you always get
frustrated because
you're looking at where you are you're
never good enough you think you're never
good enough don't focus on that right a
tree becomes a huge tree not overnight
years and years of nurturing years and
the first few years it's like this tall
but when it grows strong is a different
story so figure out where do you want to
be if this is where you want to be and
this is your goal your long term vision
then you reverse engineer figure out who
do you have to be today to get that
right what new skills do you need to
acquire what new habits do new develop
in order to attain that goal does that
make sense
now for all the young people out there
if there's one skill that I wish someone
would have taught me when I was in my
20s when I was 18 when I was 19 this
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