Don't be in the penalty box - Dean Graziosi Weekly Wisdom

Hey, if you're getting this video, that means I'm in Asia right now at this very moment. And I wasn't able to get a video from there over to you in time. But I have a powerful message for you today. Hey, everybody. Dean Graziosi, welcome to the Weekly Wisdom. I have a really short but powerful message for you today. I have a good friend right here, right now that just flew in from New York. We've been in friends since fifth grade, so like five years. No kidding. It's been a long time. And he, over the years, he still lives in a little town I grew up in in upstate New York. And, you know, you can get complacent and a lot of negativity in that little town. There's a lot of negativity in the whole world. Just seems like there's a lot. But maybe everybody's hometown has that right. I love it. But sometimes, you know, it's the taxes are high, economy's still not rebounding as well. So long story short, he hasn't been the healthiest. He's about 30 pounds overweight. So I love the guy. He's been friends with me forever, and I want him to be healthy. I want him to live forever. I want him to feel vibrant, alive, just like I want with every single person watching right now. So what I realized with him is I've been encouraging him for years to get on the treadmill, work out, feel better. So let me just fast forward. About a month and a half ago, I flew down to hang out with Tony Robbins. I talked to you guys about that. If you're just watching now, I flew down to a UPW event. And one thing I, I did is I invited my friend Ricky, who's here to fly down with me. Spent a couple days, I was down there for business. I pushed him. He went to the Tony Robbins event, had a great time. He gets done, he's fired up. But I didn't want it to go away. And this is where you come in. I made a deal with him. I made a deal with him to lose 25 pounds in 30 days. But here's what worked with him. I made a deal with him, lose £25 in 30 days, and I would give him a cash reward. He's like, I don't want to take your money. Like, no, this would be worth it to me for my friend to be better. So I gave him a cash reward if he did. But I did something I never had done before. I gave him a penalty if he didn't do it. So cash reward if he made it. But if he didn't, I gave him a penalty that that's between me and him. But it would have been the most embarrassing thing he had ever done in his life. And I knew he feared it and he dreaded it so bad that literally he took a picture and drew on it what it was. And it's personal, so I can't share, but it was something that would have embarrassed him really bad compared to money. And for the first time in 20 years, he lost 27 pounds in 30 days. He was under 200 pounds, which was the first time in almost 30 years. And what I realized is for the last 15, 20 years I've been saying, go here, it looks great up here, it looks great up here. You can feel better, live better, exercise more, feel good every day. That wasn't enough. But what did it for him was if he gets there, yes, he's got to win, but if he doesn't, he has something embarrassing that would be taken away. Here's what I know. If I said to you, hey, let's be partners, and if we do, if it's successful, I can make us $25,000. That's exciting, right? But what if you had just $25,000 in your bank account and I said, hey, let's be partners and I think we can make money and I think we can make 25 grand. But if it doesn't work out, I need your bank account because I'm going to go into your bank account and I'm going to take your $25,000 out. Oh. Then all of a sudden you go, wait a minute, you're not taking away from me. So here's my chall week. Set a 30 day goal. Right now. I don't care if it's getting your first buyer on the list, your first deal, making your first offer, doing a wholesale deal in the next 30 days. If you're doing wholesale deals, do an extra wholesale deal. Get your buy, fix and flip done or get a buy, fix and flip. Talk to your relative about partnering with you. I don't know what you've been putting off, but there's something you've been putting off. Get on the phone, start calling people. Give yourself a 30 day challenge. And when you do it, when you accomplishment, I want you to figure out something that would make you feel amazing. This is your gift, this is your bonus. You're giving yourself your own prize. But I want you to do something one step or one level deeper. I want you to figure out something embarrassing, something you'd hate to do, something you don't want to do. And that is if you don't accomplishment so many times in life, it's like, off. We get it, great. If we don't, no big deal. No, if you get it, yes, it's what you deserve and you need to get in the game and do it. But if you don't, you got to find something that you would never want to do that you'd be embarrassed. I don't care what it is. Something at work, something with your family, something with your wife, your kids, your husband. I don't know what it is. You set it in stone. Make it happen and let me know how you're doing over the next 30 days. I'm Dean Graziosi. Thanks so much for watching. If you're watching this on itunes or if you're watching this on YouTube, make sure you go to www.deansfreebook.com. that's deansfreebook.com. get my brand new book, student secrets revealed for free. No catch, no shipping and handling, just free. And if you're on dean graziosi.com and if you don't have that book, just go right up over here and and enter your name and email and we'll send you the digital format of the book immediately. I'm Dean Graziosi. I'll talk to you next week.