YES Talk 288- WHAT MOTIVATES YOU?

So one of the questions that I deal with a lot and that you will run into is, how do I stay motivated? Who's had this issue? You were talking about it, like, when I get back, you said, who is standing there saying it's going to be hard to stay motivated? Somebody said that? Wasn't that you? Yes, I know it's going to be hard for me to stay motivated. I got to really work hard to stay motivated. So here's the question. What keeps you motivated? The dream. That's it. Period. And I'm going to teach you guys a secret I've never heard anybody else. I never heard this from anybody else. I just. I don't know. God showed it to me or something. But I figured this out, because people burn out. How many of you have seen somebody burn out? How many of you have ever personally felt true burnout? Okay, wow. All of you. So that bothered me. And I trained real estate agents, and I see some super high achievers, and then they always burn out. And I'm like, fuck, that's losing. That's not winning. Build, and then you burn it down. Build, and you burn it down. Now, you could burn it down by bad actions like I did, or you can build. You can burn it down by just burning you burning out, and it just all collapses. And I'm like, that's not winning. How do you win in life if you have big dreams and then you're pursuing those dreams and then you burn out. And so I was coach, as I was. I'm a coach, and I'm trying to figure this out. I'm figuring out my own life, and I'm like, I wasn't when I started this journey with this building. Yes, Masters. I never burned out. I've never felt burnout. I've never come close to burnout. I've never got. Now, there are many days where I'm like, I don't want to do this. Like, resistance days where I'm tired and all that, but never a day when I'm just like, I don't enjoy what I do anymore. I don't enjoy it. Now. There are things I don't enjoy about what I do. And I'm like, what drives me? And I don't burn out. And then I realize it's not even what I do. It's why I do it. And then I started studying. So in 2019. But the year before COVID I made a commitment that year I was going to study billionaires and the highest achievers in the world. And I was like billionaires almost are people who almost never burn out. How does Steve Jobs, how did he never burn out? How does Warren Buffett never burn out? Bill Gates, how did he never burn out? Oprah Winfrey, how does she never burn out? Like, what did they do that kept him from ever burning out? And they run Elon Musk. He spent it like his 40th birthday, sleeping on the floor in his office. Because you work 20 something hours that day. You guys remember the story. Like, he works all the time. The guy works 80, 90 hours a week. Like, how does he not burn out? Because his dreams are too big. Did you say something different? What'd you say?

I said, he's on those epic. But that's a weight loss.

Okay. Because he said, I could tell you humored yourself. And I'm like, I missed the humor, but here's why. Because his dreams are too big. He has. Because he dreams. And then I saw something that Ted Turner said. So Ted Turner. You guys know who Ted Turner was? So Ted Turner was a billionaire. He was the founder of TNT Turner. Yeah, Turner Network. He was the founder of CNN. So Turner Broadcasting was way back in the 1900s, like the 80s or 90s. I don't know when he started. His name was Ted Turner. And so he became a billionaire. And they once he was being interviewed one time and I read this somewhere, I didn't hear it, I just read it somewhere. And they were asking him about, how did you get so rich? It was like with Warren Buffet. And he said, my dad taught me something. His dad was not rich, but he said, my dad taught me something. That this is the number one secret to why I've been so successful. He said, my dad taught me, have dreams so big that cannot be accomplished in your lifetime. Write it down. Have a dream so big that it can't be accomplished in your lifetime. Why? Because you'll never wear out, you'll never burn out, you'll never give up. You'll die climbing, you'll die winning. And then they talk about people who think multi generationally. So several Years ago, in 2017 or 18, Julia and I went to Rome. We spent a week in Rome, in and around Rome, and we got a tour of the Coliseum. And they're talking about the Coliseum. And it took like four generations or something like that to build the Roman Colosseum. And the original emperor who envisioned it and started construction on it, he knew that he would probably never live to see it completed. And it was his, not his son, not his grandson, but his great grandson that actually finished the Roman Colosseum. That was the way ancient civilizations that built great empires, they fought that way. They had dreams so big that they could not be accomplished in their lifetime. And they built shit. They built shit that thousands of years later people still go and look at it. How many things are built in America? They were built to last for 2000 years. Things in the 19, early 1900s, 1800s, maybe some.

I meant like there's those were like when things were like I think were.

More beautiful and they were certainly there was more pride. Today most of the construction is just like get it up, make it big, sell it for the most money you can. It's just a different thought, right? We don't think multi generationally. Mount Rushmore. Okay, I don't know. I disagree. Well, it don't matter. It's just his opinion. But it's like. But the point is it's a different way of thinking the way most Americans think, right? We think, what can I do this year? How quick can I get this? I want my dream house, I want it next year. Rather than go like I'm going to have that. How long is it going to take me to get 30 years done? Can actually have a dream so big that it takes you 30 years to achieve. But you look at the highest achievers and that's the way they live, it's the way they play. And when they've achieved one massive dream, do they stop? Nope. They go to the next big dream. But they have one thing in common. They're all fucking big. And they're almost always the next ones bigger than smaller. And Bill Gates, they interview him and said, do you have any regrets about Microsoft? And he said, yeah, my biggest regret is my dream was too small, my vision was too small. What had been his dream? And he still has a stated vision at Microsoft. We'll have a personal computer in every living room in America in my lifetime. And he said, I limited it. I limited my vision to America. Here's a guy that became the wealthiest man in the world who said my biggest problem was my dream was too small.