Do This Once & Watch How Your Entire Mindset Changes

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you are what you consistently think about whether you think you'll win or lose you're right it's a challenge I think a lot of us face we are stuck in our head in our mind telling ourselves why we can't do something why we're not good enough we're born in the wrong country we have the wrong skin color we're the wrong gender we had the wrong family we're the wrong education and we just keep replaying these same stories over and over and over and over and over again and you don't win because you believe that you can't win that's what the great rewiring has to take place inside all of us because that's why I think that lack of belief is the world's number one problem I'm on a mission to solve the world's number one problem people do not believe in themselves to create amazing things I think everybody has Michael Jordan level genius at something that you are the greatest in the world at something and it's probably not what you went to school for and it's probably not what your parents did for a living it's something totally different and a challenge in being able to go and Chase down something that's totally different is the belief that it's possible need motivation watch a top 10 with believe Nation hey it's Evan Carl Michael and I make these videos because of my first business I struggled to stay afloat I quit my business partner and the thing that kept me going was studying the stories of famous entrepreneurs and seeing how they struggled and seeing what they had to overcome and listen to their wisdom motivation gave me the Courage the strength the belief to go one more day and see my business through and in all honesty I still need the inspiration wisdom motivation today for my business too so today let's learn from me and my team's take on my 10 rules of success enjoy because when you are around people who are not living their life who are complaining who are negative who may not be toxic but who are stuck people who are stuck the easiest thing to do is to get stuck yourself and to have the thought patterns that keep you stuck this is why I create all my channels because I need it for me because I want to be around people who challenge me who when I see what they're doing it forces me to think different to think bigger to want to do more to want to be a better Evan Carmichael whatever that means right to just feel like I'm I want to grow and do more because I'm around the people who are doing that where if you stay stuck with the people that you're in right now you stay stuck in the environment that you're participating in right now then you will likely stay there and not grow and not improve and not learn and not get better now that doesn't mean that you stop caring it doesn't mean that you stop giving that doesn't mean that you stop contributing it in fact it's the opposite you if you're watching this video you're on a journey you're on a growth curve and you want to go here right you want to climb you want to get better you're you're you want to go over there and there may be people who are who are even pulling you back actively saying not to do that don't do that you can't do that the goal isn't even necessarily to leave these people behind the goal could be to come back and help them but how can you help them and how can you pour even more into them well by learning more and improving yourself more that every time that you learn something and you get better at something you can come back and pour it into other people that when you're taking your growth curve you're stepping you're climbing you're improving you're getting better every step that you take you know if you now you move to step number four you can help others other people get the step number three you can reach back and help them climb up another step so it doesn't mean that you stop being optimistic and positive and helpful for the people around you that's that's your light that's your gift that's what you are so amazing at but it does mean that you need to inject newness into your environment because your environment is crafting your thoughts and your thoughts are keeping you stuck you might have these moments where you feel bold and brave and you can do something else but those aren't consistent and because the boldness in thought is not consistent the boldness and action is not consistent and so you stay stuck doing the same thing knowing that you're capable of more we're not doing the thing and this is a game for everybody this is this is for myself this is for you this is for the people who are ahead of you on their growth curve you never want to stop there's always a new level of of self-talk and self-belief to get you to the next thing that's possible so it's why I do what I do because I need it for me I need to be around people who inspire me every day so that I can continue to organize for kindness right Martin Luther King had a great quote about organizing for kindness that people organize for negativity to organize uh looting and the organized violence and their organized Wars and their organized negativity well who's organizing for kindness right that's what we need to do but you need to have the inspired environment to create the inspired thoughts to allow the inspired action to come out so you can organize for kindness too so let's break down how do you actually start doing it how do you actually start to change that self-talk to be a more positive one so that you can actually follow through on the great ideas that you have for yourself number one is to be around your Heroes who are your Heroes who have done the thing that you love doing either the actual work itself like they're in your industry and they have done the thing if you know my story you know I looked up to Bill Gates he had a software company I had a software company I learned from him to build my company I haven't met him but yet but uh his strategy saved my company and then I also learned from someone like Oprah Winfrey or Kanye West or people who are not in my industry but I just like for some reason I'm gonna go and learn from them so who are your Heroes either in your industry or people that you just look up to for some reason and force yourself to spend more time with them be around them more put their pictures up on the wall behind you my favorite entrepreneur of all time is AP giannini who started Bank of America put their pictures on the wall behind you subscribe to their YouTube channels if they have it follow them on social media read their books listen to their podcasts like have them be in your environment as much as possible because they will transport you to another world they will help you change that self-talk in your head because the people who have done the thing that you want to do your Heroes the people you look up to likely have done it with less than what you have right now the the resources that you have right now the heart that you have right now the the mental capacity that you have right now the tools at your disposal you know you have the internet you've got a lot of tools at your disposal get a lot of Technology at your disposal that your Heroes didn't have as much access to if any and they went off and won so yes it might be difficult but if they can do it you can do it too the question is who you're going to listen to you know the voice that says it's too hard I'm never going to do it or the voice that says well they can do it I can do it too so you have to be around you want to change that self-talk you have to be around your mentors Your Heroes because they will pull you to a different place step number two is to create a calendar that has your habits in there your goals that you've set for yourself needs to be reflected in the habits because goals don't accomplish themselves goals will happen when you put time on your calendar to go and make it happen I'm making this video because it's in my calendar this block of time right now to go make videos right what do you need to put in your calendar so that it's not just a hope a dream a goal but it actually becomes something that's in reality and then to start to teach yourself that you do the things that are in your own calendar you want to start to change yourself belief yourself talk your that voice inside your head you have to teach yourself that you follow through on the things that you say you're going to do have fewer goals have fewer things that you write down in your calendar but when they're in there they get done because here's what happens every time you set a goal every time you put something in your calendar and you don't do it you're training yourself that the next time you put something in your calendar that's not going to get done too you're losing credibility with yourself not even somebody else saying you can't do it it's you your own voice saying you can't do it because you haven't done the last thing that you said you were going to do or the thing before that so the rate is start to rewire that is to when you put something in your calendar it's going to get done to even lower the barrier lower the standard for what has to get done for you to get the check mark that you accomplished this thing that when it gets put in your calendar you are going to be the person who actually follows through that starts to shift identity that starts to help you believe more in yourself that the next thing that you add in your calendar you're also going to get done so how do we start to change that self-talk right that criticism or or compassionate voice in our head how do we how do we shift towards belief one be around our mentors and our heroes the people who Inspire us to do it two create a calendar that reflects our goals our actions have to map to our Ambitions right has to be in your calendar and teach yourself that you do the things that are in your calendar and step number three would be to collect good people I'm a huge fan of collecting good people if you believe like I believe that your environment is keeping you stuck and keeping you where you are okay a shift can be to be around your Heroes but you never you may never meet them good people when you're around the right people who fill you up as opposed to you filling others up all the time it changes everything you're a giver you're caring you've got a big heart it's why you're part of this community I love you for that and keep going keep doing it don't stop pointing to others but who's pointing to you when you walk away from a conversation how often do you feel better about yourself how often you have more energy as opposed to well that was draining to me you need to start to inject the people who make you feel better who give you more energy and you may know some of them they may not be the closest of friends to you yet but whenever you meet somebody if it's at an event or a conference or group or in the comments section or on a Discord and they just make you feel better fight to try to find a way to spend more time with them the way I'll often do it is through businesses I end up setting companies with them because I love them so much it's a way to spend more time with them but it can be awkward at the beginning like you don't know what you're gonna do but you'll be the person to reach out to say hey I'd love to have a coffee with you next week or maybe we can schedule a a monthly Mastermind with us and maybe a couple other people like you reach out to find a way to collect good people and fight to spend more time with them because when you're around actual humans who are in front of you who make you feel better about yourself and give you the energy that you're pouring in other people it gives you more hope more momentum and increases the chance of you actually following through so get into the practice of collecting good people lack of belief is the single biggest problem in the world you have Michael Jordan level genie says something you are the greatest in the world at something it's just your belief my belief too and the ability to actually go and Chase it down that will make the difference between the life that you have right now and the life that you know you're capable of living let's solve that together rule number two is outwork your competition hard work is your ticket in hard work doesn't guarantee your success but it's your ticket in there's nobody who you look up to who you respect who you want to be like who did not work incredibly hard to get to where they're at now people say work smart work smart work yes there's lots of people who work hard and never get anywhere close to their goals there's lots of people who work incredibly hard who who stay earning minimum wage their entire life because they didn't work smart they were only working hard but there's nobody who just works smart and doesn't work hard even if they're fooling you with their pictures on Instagram it's that combination of working hard plus working smart I've covered most of these people I've hung out with a lot of these people I see the incredible smarts that they have and the activities that they choose but also just the work ethic they have the show up every day and stay consistent on their goals so in this video I'm gonna try to give you some tips and steps on how to actually do it like how do you stay consistent how do you figure out how to work hard but also work smart on accomplishing your mission so let's get it started first off you have to actually love the thing right I mean how many times have you started a business because you thought it was going to make you a lot of money be honest I've done it too you started business because you think it's going to make you money and then you quickly get bored of it you quickly realize it's not making you money and you don't want to do it anymore and you close it down and move on to the next thing and so many people are just opportunity hopping jump to the next thing the next thing and the next thing the next thing the next thing without ever actually loving any of the things and so you never you never actually win you might make a little bit of money here and there you know you might be able to pay some of your bills off it's great but you're not living the life that you want because you're just opportunity hopping instead of actually finding the thing that you love doing where the number one rule for Success if you watch any of my videos we've covered so many people take my word for it or go do your own research the number one number one guys number one rule for success is that you have to love what you're doing you have to love the process the actual work that you're doing it doesn't feel like work because you like it so much making videos doesn't feel like work because I like it because I like the process I like making it I I like making this video more than getting something like this right it's great hey a million subscribers awesome or the other channel is great but I like I like the feeling of making this video and knowing that you right now are watching it means something to me I like it that's why I keep going otherwise it's crazy you know 10 000 videos plus later why like how do you keep going because I like you it doesn't feel like work to me I talk about it when I do interviews you know how people ask me how do you not burnt out already like so many people are burning out on YouTube well it's not just YouTube It's entrepreneurship people burn out of Entrepreneurship not just having a YouTube channel why do you burn out of Entrepreneurship because you stop actually liking there's too much of the work that you're doing you don't like it anymore right there's too much of the work that you're doing you might still love the vision for where you're going if you don't know the vision you got to get out ASAP but you might still love the vision but you're just taking on too much activity that you don't like doing anymore so when I'm talking to somebody on their podcast I like I like doing interviews it makes me happy it brings me joy to try to hit somebody else's audience right they try to spread believe to an even wider net and so if I'm talking to somebody say well what is this work for you because in talking to you this doesn't work for me this is fine I'm Gonna Leave This interview with more energy than I came in that's a sign that you're doing the right thing so I like this thank you you're you're giving me you know I'm giving you content and exposure for your channel but you're giving me a gift because this is fun you're giving me more energy it doesn't feel like work the second it starts to feel like work you have to adjust and it might be it might be a big adjustment maybe you shouldn't be doing your business anymore period because you just opportunity hopping you don't actually love the thing or maybe you just need to make a minor adjustment and realize okay this makes sense as a strategy but it's just not the right strategy for me I need to move on and do something else even though it works with some other people it's not me I don't want to do it so that's what we start transitioning to working smart right so working hard is you showing up every day working towards your goals but that your purpose means something to you and that the work you do you actually enjoy and having fun in they're working smart is then figuring out there's so many different ways to win inside your industry there's so many different ways to win there's so many people who have won and there's not just one path this is where we get locked up is feeling like I have to do it this way but you don't actually love doing it that way and the second you start taking things on because you think it's the smart thing to do but you have no interest in doing it you will never win you will never win doing work that you hate it's not going to happen you will never win doing work that you hate you'll say that you'll do whatever it takes you won't you'll quit you'll give up on it because you don't like it chasing the goal alone is not enough you have to actually enjoy the process of getting to the goal that the process becomes more important than the goal gives you more satisfaction and happiness and pleasure than hitting the goal how many times have you hit a goal and then been disappointed after right he's like oh what's next sometimes borderline depression right Ted Turner's dad had a goal to hit a million dollars he did it and then he killed himself because he thought things were going to change but he realized his life was still the same so having goals are really good and important but more important than the goal is the process of accomplishing the goal you have to actually like the work so how do you be smart well you have to you have to do things that bring value to people that you also enjoy so in the course of my career on YouTube at least said got a bunch of great compliments um the two that stand out in this context are garyvee and Ed mylett where garyvee said I'm the content DJ that inspires people and said hey you watch so many videos and then DJ it to inspire people and Ed mylett said that I'm the modern day Napoleon Hill that Napoleon Hills the the greatest person in person development history and that I'm the modern day Napoleon Hill now when they both sat down like I'm still working on receiving compliments so I was kind of Blown Away by both of them and then I asked hey well can I use that in my in my bio or my profiles but what what I do is I love I love modeling success you know it's why I make all this content it's why it's why I have all these people you know behind me on the wall you know we got we got Steve Jobs and AP giannini and my parents and Howard Schultz and Kanye West like I love modeling success and and I want to share my own voice my own thoughts my own opinions my own learnings my own stories my own lessons and somewhere in that mix is now Evan Carmichael where some people are if you look at Gary or Ed or whoever else they're they're just sharing their own thoughts for the most part they might have guests on the interviews they might occasionally have a quote from somebody else but it's it's their own views and opinions I never needed to be the guy you know I like sharing other people's stuff I like sharing what I learned from their story and and I've reluctantly kind of stepped forward to share my own I used to think nobody would care about my story or what I had to say or why would you care about me when I'm showcasing Elon Musk like who am I but people kept asking for my story where I came from so I started sharing it more and so in that mix became Evan Carmichael that's how I'm different than everybody else same thing for you you know what do you love doing that then can also bring value to other people and what combinations of things can you bring together instead of thinking I can do this or I can do this in the mix is your next great opportunity when you can take two or three of your interests and not do them as the or right instead of thinking or you think and instead of or or you think and and but not three different businesses this is where people get tripped up it's not three different businesses it's one business that does all three of those things combined in a way that nobody else has done it before because nobody can replicate that the thing that you love doing or the things that you love doing smoosh together that don't make sense for anybody else is and that is how you're going to end up winning that's how you're going to win [Music] James alticher calls it idea sex so you have one idea and another idea and they have sex and it out comes your your great idea I like it that's how you start working smart so working hard as you take it in working hard if you're not willing to work hard you're just not ever going to win period how do you work hard well you actually have to like the works it doesn't feel like work that Jerry Seinfeld calls it the torture you can endure that is torture for other people but for you he's like this is I like this this is fun this doesn't feel like torture you know if making the idea of making 10 000 videos 12 000 videos whatever that would be torture for a lot of people it's like okay that's cool I like it let's go let's make another ten thousand let's get going and then inside of that is what do you love doing that can bring value to other people in a way that only you can do it by mixing some of the things your passions your interests together that have never been mixed before together in that unique way that's how you're gonna win instead of saying that that's not practical instead of saying that um they're two different businesses instead of saying nobody's gonna care no no no that's how you're gonna win you mix those things together focus on how you can use that mix to bring value to your customers and now nobody can touch you for people who say people message me and say hey Evan this person is copying you this person is also doing top 10 rules of success this person is like I don't care like I spend zero time thinking about that because if you are just trying to be Evan Carmichael you're never going to be here from Carmichael right the most you're going to be is an Evan Carmichael Jr instead of trying to be an Elvis impersonator go make your own music right so anybody who's just trying to copy me I don't I don't care about it it's the people who are creating new Innovative things that I consider to be the real competition hard work is your ticket in you have to love what you're doing that allows you to keep going then you have to figure out inside of what you love how can you combine your interests your passions your special things that make you a special unique snowflake bring value to people and when you figure that out that's the unique angle of working hard plus working smart that won't even feel like you're working hard or even working that smart you're just doing you and helping people and that's how you win rule number three is experiment the key to experimenting is expecting to suck just expect to suck expect it not to work out expect it to be a total disaster expect to suck which gives yourself the permission to go and try we're holding ourselves back from trying because you may not expect to be great but expect to be pretty good I think this is a problem for a lot of entrepreneurs is you have an idea you have a dream you don't think you're going to be the next Jeff Bezos maybe yes but maybe no you're gonna make your own YouTube channel you're not going to be great on camera but you expect to be pretty good you know you don't expect to be Bezos but you expect to be pretty good in your business and what ends up happening is you start and you realize oh my gosh I'm not only not Bezos level I'm I'm terrible I see it all the time people who are starting their YouTube channels they don't expect to be terrible on camera they don't expect to be whoever you think is a great on-camera personality and then they record themselves and if they thought they'd be like an 8 out of ten they don't expect to be 10 they think they'd be eight and then they watch it back like oh my gosh I'm a two I'm a two out of ten and then they stop and they never release the video they never try the next thing because they're convinced that they just suck that they suck as a human and that they'll never get the skills well how do you get the skills by practicing by doing just because you're a two out of ten now doesn't mean you can't become an eight or a nine or a ten how do you get there how do you go from a two to an eight or nine or ten at the thing that you want to be great at by practicing by learning by doing not just by researching and studying and watching other people you have to get into the trenches and start to create and start to make that's how you move but people are too afraid to fail that they don't even try you're so afraid to fail that you don't even try and the way through it is expecting to suck I am right now learning about nfts and now I know enough to be dangerous about nfts but two months ago I didn't I knew nothing I didn't know what it's what it stood for non-fungible I don't even know what a fungible token nothing made sense I didn't understand what wag me meant I didn't understand what lfg meant I didn't understand what huddle meant I didn't know the difference between Bitcoin or ethereum I didn't know what I meant a mask while it was all of the stuff zero idea and the more I I just looked at it from the outside the more I got stressed out confused overwhelmed I don't understand any of this stuff I feel like a total beginner and so I'm not going to learn it and I want to be the person who jumps on things who learns things it doesn't accept scary difficult or hard as good enough reasons for me not to do it so I dove in and I asked all of those stupid questions and I learned not just by reading about it but by launching my own nft projects and putting it out there and starting to work with people I went into the different discords and Twitter I didn't even know what Discord was I wasn't using Discord nft land is Discord and Twitter I had to install Discord and get active on it I had to reignite my Twitter account like you guys use Twitter I haven't used Twitter for years but Twitter is where the game is at so I'm picking up my Twitter game again and I'm asking what seems to be stupid questions I'm asking all the beginner questions and I'm launching my own nft project to learn to understand and now I know enough to be dangerous I'm not an expert at it but I know enough to be dangerous and that happened in a relatively short amount of time because I was willing to experiment and I was willing to expect a sec at the beginning I'm gonna go in be a total Noob right total total newbie total beginner ask the questions and then I'm going to learn through that process and get better at it you can surprise yourself with how much you can learn prize yourself with how much you can learn at the beginning if you're just willing to detach yourself that just because you suck at a skill doesn't mean that you suck as a human this is where we get stuck it's like oh I suck at that therefore I suck and I'm never gonna get better so I'm going to stop and go do something else that makes me feel good and sets you know I suck at this skill and I feel good for trying and I'm going to keep getting better at this so that I can I can improve my skill from a two to a two and a half to three to a five to an eight to a ten right so how do we start to do it how do we start to give ourselves more permission to experiment give ourselves permission to fail give ourselves permission to suck how do we do it step number one trust your ideas trusted the ideas that come to you are good trust that idea that you're thinking about right now is good just do a quick gut check is are you trying to rip people off are you trying to serve and try to help are you trying to just take their money put in your bank account and go buy your boat or you're trying to actually do some good right if you're watching this channel hopefully you're in the second category you're trying to serve you're trying to help you're trying to create something of value so if that is your intention then trust your ideas stop holding yourself back stop saying that you can't do it stop finding all the reasons in your head that you cannot take action because your Heroes have done more with less than what you already have right now whoever your heroes are whoever you look up to Jeff Bezos whoever Oprah Winfrey whoever they started with less than what you have right now they could do it you can do it too you can so if the idea is a good one it's it's it's it feels right it's heart Centric you want to serve you want to bring value to people then trust that idea trust it step number two immediate action immediate immediate immediate action the problem is we get stuck in overthinking over planning over preparing over strategizing over asking other people well what do you think I should do stop that immediate action what's the first thing that you can do if you want to get an nfts go join somebody's Discord go launch your own single nft you're going to make tons of mistakes perfect launch it you want to launch a podcast great start your podcast today you want to create a YouTube channel awesome pull out your phone record your video You're a YouTuber now right you want to launch a fashion business perfect create a logo make a t-shirt like just start it doesn't have to be anything great just start the biggest thing for most people that's missing is just momentum it's all of these things stuck in your head and not enough being created in the world and to get all this organized and structured and actually making sense you have to actually put something out so trust your ideas that they're good that they're of value that they're they will serve and then set number two is do something about it immediate in the moment action let's go stop overthinking it and today something has to happen and then step number three is just expect to suck expect to suck expect it not to work out expect not to make money on this expect no comments no replies no feedback expect to to just fail expect it to be a total failure if you expect that going in then you're not you're not surprised when it doesn't work out and you're not taking it personally that you tried this thing and nobody cares about it right now you're lowering the burden for what has to happen for you to feel good about yourself if you only feel good when you win then you will never try if you will only take a yes and enter that competition enter that race or do that thing if you know that you're gonna win you will never try you you will stay stuck doing the easy stuff for the rest of your life and never accomplish what you're capable of never hit anywhere close to your potential so you have to expect it just to suck and again by it's sucking by getting a sucky result it actually means that you're amazing doesn't mean that you suck as a human you only suck as a human is if you don't try to reward yourself for trying search reward yourself for the effort so to reward yourself for doing the things that are outside your comfort zone that are scary for you scary difficult hard right you think of that you're doing it and then you reward yourself saying man I did that I can't believe I did that was crazy even though I didn't work out because you know that if you kept trying and kept learning and kept improving that it of course is going to work out you just have to show up with that level of energy and enthusiasm and intent every day the difference between where you are right now where you want to be is how many experiments you're putting out there how many ideas that you've got that you're trying because you will not be rewarded for the ideas that stay stuck in your head more importantly you don't want to get to the end of your life and look back and say I had all these ideas but I was too afraid of failing that I never tried any of them Wayne Dyer says don't let that song Die within you got to play the song while you're alive you've got a great song in you let's get it out to the world rule number four is build momentum the only thing you're missing is momentum this is one of the most frustrating things with entrepreneurs because you've got the heart you've got the soul you've got the desire to serve you know you're capable of more you see these people doing great things you say why why can't that be me I've got everything I've got all the tools why am I not having more success when I see all these other people winning because you don't have momentum knowing alone is not enough watching this video is not enough researching going to conferences events it's not enough it gives us this temporary high it's so fun to think about where we could be and what we could do when living in dream mode of the things that we want to create how That's so exciting right but until you start actually doing something and so you start going through that little fear Zone to start actually creating nothing happens and this is one of the great missions of my life is trying to get heart-centered entrepreneurs with a cause you want to serve and just getting you out of the Starting Gate and then just helping you stay consistent on the thing those two things from idea to just doing something and then finding a way to stay consistent if you did that if you did that's all you're missing if you did that your life will be dramatically different the people you're going to serve the the amount of income you're gonna make the life you can provide for yourself and your family the the mass massive just flow of goodness you're going to create for the world will be totally different you will be a totally different person one year from today if you did those simple things the only thing you're missing is momentum the only thing you're missing is momentum I promise you I look at my YouTube channel and everything that we've done here and man it took me so long to get going it took me so long to get out of my head it took me so long to get comfortable making videos no matter how much people told me just press record and just do it I still was still that voice inside my head is like well I'm so awkward in front of the camera and I don't know what I'm gonna say and I I'm trying to memorize my script and what camera should I find and all of the things that we tell ourselves are important that aren't you know if you look at my growth on YouTube the first five years was so slow the first five years was so incredibly slow because I started and stopped and started and stopped and started and stopped and convinced myself of why I couldn't do it and my whole intent with this is to try to shake you to say don't waste five years like I did because in the second five years that's when my channel started to really blow up and grow and that's when I started to see the impact and see the growth and see the see the the money coming in all of it it started to take off because I just started creating a lot more momentum I stopped watching my videos and reminding myself of how much I sucked and just kept going so how do you do it how do you start building momentum how do you start taking the thing that you know is inside you that you know you're capable of more that you don't want to be stuck in the same spot one year from today it's like I need to finally make something happen right is that you are you ready for that how do we actually start getting the momentum in our lives I'm going to give you three strategies okay number one your morning routine has to be on point as I said on top of this video successful people don't wake up and say yes oh my gosh what a day I'm gonna take over this is gonna be amazing I woke up and I was tired I don't remember what day it is and I got lines in my face and I'm struggling out of bed right everybody wakes up the same way don't judge yourself and feel like you suck because you woke up and you were tired and didn't feel super motivated to go off and crush your day right that's everybody that's me that's Brandon burchard That's Tony Robbins is Oprah Winfrey everybody the difference is the routine to set you up for success and chances are if you watch this video you already have a morning routine right you're an achiever you have a morning routine so I want to take this to the next level for people with a morning routine because your morning routine is probably not working for you most of the world doesn't have a morning routine most of the world wakes up like an accident most of the world wakes up falls into their phone and starts responding to other people's emergencies right that's probably not you at least not every day you might be 50 50 but you probably have a morning routine what's the value of a morning routine the value of our morning routine is to get you the feeling of bold confidence and courage that's why you have one routine it's supposed to help you go and win the day if you don't feel confident bold and courage at the end of your morning routine then you've done something wrong either the morning routine itself is broken and you need to add something in or you just didn't do it with enough intent most Achievers here's what's happening I want you to do a fair self-assessment and audit of your morning routine most Achievers what you're doing is you have your list of things that you're supposed to do in the morning and you probably hit those maybe 70 to 80 of the time but most of the time of those 70 80 you just check in the box you said you're gonna do this okay I'm gonna work out I'm gonna watch this video I'm going to read this book and listen to this podcast so I'm going to whatever but you're not intentional with it having this video on I created the espresso channel here to try to support you to try to be there for your morning routine to give you a shot of espresso every day to start your day let's go but if you're watching this video while you're making your bed and brushing your teeth and and looking over your email and browsing through social media guess what happens you're not getting the feeling you could check the box and say yep watch the video but if you don't feel courageous and bold you didn't do it with enough intent you didn't do it with enough Focus you were distracted all the way through and so this is what happens with Achievers in a morning routine is you check the box for all the things you said you were going to do but you don't feel any better than you did when you woke up and if you don't feel any better than you did when you woke up you're not going to go off and win the day so the most important part of a morning routine whether it takes you five minutes or three hours is getting the feeling so do an honest self-assessment do you feel bold at the end of your morning routine and if not would you need to add in there so that you do or do you need to go back and just do your morning routine with actual intention because if you'd started your day with the thing that made you feel bold powerful Unstoppable confident your life will dramatically change when you're from today I promise you so number one is you have to fix your morning routine number two to get more momentums how do we get more momentum in our lives number two is to go from idea to action start to teach yourself that you come up with great ideas normally what happens when you get an idea what happens normally when you get an idea we get excited maybe you tell your friends about it your family or you're just researching and planning and brainstorming you get excited about it and then what happens is this little voice inside your head tells you all the reasons why you can't do it you can't do it because of this because of that because you don't have the connections of the money the skills or the education the family or whatever there's always some reason and so the combat that you try to do more research and more planning and more more understanding to try to have the perfect plan and this was me guys I lost a 40 million deal when I was in my 20s because I was trying to be too perfect because I was afraid and all I really need to do is get more momentum so you have to teach yourself to go from idea to action when you get that idea trust that the idea came to you for a reason trusted the intention is good is the intention good is the intention to serve is the intention to help yes perfect action something today has to happen today use your best energy on creating some kind of momentum in Perfect action versus trying to have the perfect plan and then you wake up tomorrow and you've already talked yourself down and you can't do it so number one is you have to fix your morning routine number two is you have to go from idea to action and then number three is to change your environment the more that you are around the people who are doing the thing that you want to do the more that that starts to seep into YouTube it's why I have so many channels because there's always content hopefully out there for you you might say yeah but I don't know anybody Evan who's successful I I can't hang out with Brandon burchard or Oprah or whoever I don't know these people great I know Brandon but I know I don't know Oprah and I didn't know Brendan when I first got started how did I learn from the videos about having videos around me every day having these people on the wall behind me we even wearing this hoodie when I feel like Batman putting it on every morning makes a big difference to start to change your environment to be around the people who are thinking the way that you want to think the people around you right now are influencing you to stay where you are might think about the people who you hang out with now that old expression if you are the average of the five closest people to you yeah great so who are the five closest people to you they are influencing your thinking and they're keeping you stuck where you are right now and if you love where you are right now great but if you know you want to do more then you have to start to change what starts to influence you consistently not these one-off moments of inspiration and boldness but consistency that's the thing that's missing you might have this one day that's amazing oh my gosh I can do anything and what happens you wake up tomorrow and now that energy is gone it's a start and stop and start and stop and start and stop that is holding you back so be strategic with your environment to think about how do I start to surround myself with the people with the videos with the books with the podcast with the physical environment that make me feel like I can do more that you can do more fix those three things fix your morning routine go for my day to action and fix your environment do that because the only thing you're missing is momentum the only thing you have you have the heart you have the care you have the desire to serve you have great ideas inside you other people are winning with inferior ideas with less of a desire to serve than you do and they're winning and the only difference is they got started and they're going the only thing you're missing is momentum I can't wait to see you actually start to apply it to make massive change in your life and your business also to make sure you're actually taking action after watching this video I've designed a special free worksheet just for this video the worksheet will highlight all the Lessons Learned in this video as well as pull out our three favorite learnings and quotes that will inspire you to actually do something the worksheet will also give you space to write down what your key takeaways are and your specific plan of action to make sure you're getting results if you want the worksheet designed specifically for this video absolutely for free there's a link in the description below go click on it and start building the momentum in your life and your business I'll see you there rule number five is show up people don't show up for one of three reasons number one is you're afraid you're afraid of rejection you're afraid of failure you're afraid of it not working out and so you just don't show up number two is you're not consistent you show up some days but you don't show up other days because you don't have the routines and habits in place to make you show up consistently every single day and number three is you don't want to you don't want to show up because you don't actually enjoy the thing that you're about to do you would rather procrastinate on it because you don't love it and showing up is more painful than just sitting around so my goal today with this video is to help you bust through these so that the impact that you want to have so I think the fear of showing up is actually a good thing it means that you are doing something different something outside your comfort zone something that is that is not normal that is new and that's good you want to be pushing the envelope if there was nothing that you are afraid to show up to today tomorrow next week then you're not growing you're not learning you're not pushing against your boundaries and comfort zones and so even today I had to show up but and again it should be every single day so today I was procrastinating on sending out an email to Grant as well as a couple other people where I'm looking at doing more collaborations more work on my YouTube channel and more cross pollination connection to other successful YouTubers to help the whole entrepreneur YouTube Community grow right I want to get the message out there I want to be playing a bigger game and so I emailed Grant and emailed for the people with a new idea that I had so when the idea was first suggested to me about doing this and reaching out I had a little bit of nerves like okay it's gonna require an ask I might get rejected it may not work out and I had it scheduled for today because today was my YouTube day and so I look at the list today I'm like ah maybe I should start with one person or two people or just pick the easy people and just the fact that I felt that just the fact that that was one of the reasons meant I had to go and do five I had to do a bigger number I had to go after the harder people I had to do the people that I thought may say yes may say no may make me look bad if they say no and a lot of it is just head games the honest truth is Grant's probably not gonna care Grant's probably gonna say yes like 98 chance he says yes and he passes on to somebody on his team we start working together and we create the collaboration uh one percent chance he ignores it and one percent chance he says no but it's not the logical rational things that hold us back it's the emotional fearful things and so what I've trained myself to do is anytime I feel that that that oh my God it may not work out then I have to do it I have to do it I have just to show myself because the worst thing you can do is get to the edge of the cliff and say you're gonna jump and then not jump It's better not to catch that you're nervous it's better not to even come up with the idea to just float around in ignorance ignorance is bliss than to catch it and then play small and so as soon as you catch it I've trained myself I want you to do the same thing as soon as you catch it train yourself to do it even if it doesn't work out just training yourself that you don't back down when you are afraid so I'm going to give you a three-step process you can follow to help you conquer your fears to help you show up consistently every day let's do it number one is tell yourself that you do scary things one of the biggest reasons why people don't Advance their ideas forward is because it's scary it's scary you're afraid amazing that is now no longer an acceptable reason you do scary things you love scary things you Embrace scary things you want to do scary things this isn't just a mindset trick it's actually actually true you you what's the opposite of scary things the opposite of scare if you walk through life and you're never scared of anything it's not that you're super confident no it means that you're living inside your comfort zone it means you're only doing things that have zero fear that you have absent certainty in because you've done it before you're bored you're living inside your bubble and you need to break out because that means you're photocopying your life every single day if there's nothing in your calendar that makes you scared you hate your life and so pay attention to the language pay attention to how you talk to yourself pay attention to when you feel afraid and as long as it's not against your code of ethics or doing something stupid don't go jump out of an