Gary Lafferty, an international speaker and bestselling author, talks about his rugby and taekwondo background, what he learned from mentor Jay Abraham, and why consistency matters more than motivation. He shares stories from shark-cage diving and explains how to think like the CEO of your own firm.
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I used to play rugby for Surrey when I was younger, and then I went into martial arts and did 10 years of martial arts in taekwondo.
Gary Lafferty, international speaker, bestselling author, mindset and sales mentor, Whole Man Academy My shoulder went.
How did your date go? Well, you know, probably not that well if you're here so early in the morning. Right. But one of those people that if I'm going to do something, I want it to the very best of my ability. Now, it might not be the best in the world, but it's the best of my ability.
You name me the top three or four personal development bases for men in the uk and they were like, no, I can't think of anything.
Consistency can follow reason. It's easier to follow. Be consistent if you have a reason to do it. It's harder to be consistent if you don't have a reason to do it.
Dropped out of acid because they were just like trying to high five everyone. And I was like, hell, like, it's 8 in the morning.
That's exactly what it's like. But anyway, apparently by day three, I'm dancing aisle and I'm high fiving people. I was listening to this guy called Jay Abraham. Everything he said just made sense to me before. We bought stuff, thousands of dollars of stuff, and we don't do anything with it because someone just sold us into it. You are the CEO of your own firm. This desk is a profit center. Even though you're an employee and you get paid at the end of the month, you got to think about it from a perspective from a profit center. He got his head round. He went from five grand to 25,001. It's the same package. Just changed his mind.
How have you even got into that?
Because I'm a crazy motherfucker.
Yeah.
So he stuck his GoPro out of the cage to see the shark coming. And as the shark hit the cage, the sharp tooth nipped his finger and sliced his bottom finger. All right, off. And there was blood everywhere.
And the courage at the right time, when you're motivated and have some accountability to be focused on what you need to do. And this isn't going how I thought it should be.
