The Importance Of Surrounding Yourself With Inspiring People & How To Do It If You're Bootstrapping

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hey miles Beckler here and in this video I want to talk about the importance of surrounding yourself with inspiring people and what to do if you don't feel like you have any inspiring people around you if you feel like you're kind of isolated right now wherever you may be now what I found kind of moving forward in my business and growing my business is that I reach these kind of plateaus right I essentially become the the smartest person in my own personal mastermind and I'm only able to kind of see what my beliefs ideas and understanding of the game if you will allows me to believe at that point in time and every time I've leveled up my business in any way shape or form it's been through ideas I've gotten from people who truly inspire me people who I trust as advisors and I looked at their ideas and their kind of even thought processes and even just reverse engineering what they're doing and I often find that I'm able to come up with really great ideas from synthesizing what they've done but yet interpreting it kind of in a creative fashion for my life so how do you find these inspiring people well first and foremost you got to get to industry events I've talked about that in one of my previous videos but it's really important if you're doing affiliate marketing go to the affiliate summits if you're doing funnels and funnel market marketing go to the click funnels event whatever your events are if your travel bloggers go to the travel blogging vines events whatever these are you have to get out and see the people now you might be thinking wow miles but they're so expensive you know these events are a thousand dollars or two thousand dollars to attend here's a little hack for you and Stefan if you're watching like good on your buddy because I know that you're executing this kind of stuff and the hack is just go to the hotel that everyone's staying at for the event this is called unconference Incanto down to the bars the restaurants and you can still be in the energy of the event you might even be able to make your way into a workshop or a meet-up that's going on along with the event by the way look for the facebook group of the event and try to get into that if you're going to pull this off but just being around the people in the bars at night that's where the real connections happen you know we're all sitting in these conferences like the one I just attended here in Bangkok or the next one to put on here in Chiang Mai and everyone's sitting there kind of in their own world they're at their laptop they've got their notepad and they're really focused engaged with the the speaker or the presenter and they're thinking you know how does this apply to me in my business and and how am I going to adapt this or use this in my business then at lunchtime at dinnertime in the bar afterwards kind of that night that's when the people get together they're laughing they're joking they're shaking hands they're learning who are you what's your business and that's really where the deep connections are going so whether you can afford the events or not it's important for you to get to the events even if you're just going hopping in the hotel go into the kind of mixers and the meetups that are having afterwards that is a brilliant way to get started and to learn how to really just surround yourself by really really inspiring people and that's where you can make connections that can really help take your business to the next level another option is reading you got to read books from people who inspire you from Napoleon Hills thinking Grow Rich to the 4-hour workweek by Tim Ferriss to Robert shell deanie's influence or any of Dan Kennedy's ultimate sales letter or the great books of the the boron letters from gary halbert google it it's free it's incredible he was writing letters to his son when he was in federal penitentiary and he's a he's a great copywriter and it's one of the more interesting and entertaining books ever but you're able to look inside of the lives of these people through the material that they put out look at biographies read the biographies or listen on audible to the biographies of brilliant people like Albert Einstein or Henry Ford or I mean any of them like there's there's been so many great people in the history of our country in our world and in kind of modern era history that you can learn so much about their philosophies about what makes it work for them or what their favorite part about businesses or why they've been successful in business and I can tell you firsthand that a lot of these older books like Napoleon Hills think and grow rich written in the 1920s or Wallace wattles the science of being rich written in the late 1800s the ideas they're talking about are still incredibly relevant in this day and age we live in a day and age of ninja tactics and all this super super duper ultra ninja stuff that goes on there trying to sell these thousand our courses but i can tell you honestly they're generally just regurgitated ideas that have been covered over and over and over by the great thought leaders of eras and generations before you and I so going back into some of these older books and older content is how you can really connect yourself you know Napoleon Hill had as his virtual mastermind we're at his table every night before bed he visualized himself sitting at a table with the greatest thinkers in Common Era I believe Abraham Lincoln was one of the people he had Benjamin Franklin were the people he had at his virtual table and he would just pretend he would bring his ideas to the table he would read their biographies and then he would hear how they would respond and this is all imagery that's happening in his mind but he still got great ideas out of just taking the time to read their ideas to read their kind of philosophy on life through their biographies and then to imagine what a one-on-one meeting or a small group meeting with them would be like and he got great great value out of that and you can do this obviously you're watching this youtube channel so take a minute and subscribe this is our way of connecting right I'm putting this video out to connect with you directly and there's thousands of people connecting with this video so find the people that you know you like and you trust and follow them peer inside of their brain read their books connect with them on social media see what makes them tick and surround yourself when you find out they're going to be at a specific event do what it takes to go there and when you're there ping them on Facebook and say hey I'm going to be at this event I'm not going to fully event but I'll be at the bar downstairs let me buy you a drink and buy them a drink hang out with them shake their hand and I will you will be amazed at the kinds of connections you can make by simply putting that effort forward everyone's going to respect the fact that you got yourself there with your at the event or not everyone's going to understand it they're going to totally get it and they're going to think wow this person has initiative this person's got Drive this person's got passion and you never know where that can lead cause I'll tell you right now dr passion initiative that outranks skill skill can be taught those things can't be taught so prove yourself as one who has that kind of ambition get yourself out there surround yourself by brilliant people whether you join a mastermind whether you go to local events or whether you just read inspiring books from inspiring authors at home or watching these YouTube videos so I'm Myles bechler thank you very much for your time coming from Phuket Thailand leave me a comment below go ahead and click Subscribe give me a thumbs up on the video and I will catch you on the next video thanks again for your time