How To Design Your Life And Reach Your Goals

Dean Graziosi argues you should picture your life from the end and refuse to play small. Cut time with people who drain you, focus on the future instead of the past, and commit fully rather than dabble in multiple things at once.
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What kind of life do you want to live? You see, I know this, and this helps me a lot. And if this sounds morbid, I'm sorry, but I. A lot of times picture myself at 95 years old, or 105, whatever age you're going to live to. And I picture being in the hospital or being on my deathbed, and my family is standing there and they're talking about me. And I picture what they'd say. And if they said he lived an okay life, what if they even said he lived a good life, he had a good job and he had a good relationship and he was a good dad, how disappointed would you be if someone was saying you did good? Who wants good? No, I got you on that one. Sorry. Who wants outstanding, right? We want an outstanding life. So I want you to think through those eyes this weekend. And I want to challenge you of what kind of life do you want to live? Do you want to be scared and fearful? Because a lot of us are. We think we are entrepreneurs. We think we want more. And then the world tells us we can't. People tell us we can't. The news tells us we can't. The news is horrific. And we watch that kind of stuff and. And it's cumulative. So you think you're on fire. You think you could do your own thing, but your ex or someone you don't like, or someone you do like, or somebody who's supposedly a dear friend tells you you can't accumulates. And all of a sudden, one day, you start playing a little small. You just back up a little bit. This world is moving too fast. You can't back up a little bit. You have to lean forward. When people tell you you can't, that's gotta be your fuel. When they say it's not the right time, you show them it's your time. This is what we have to do. Cause if not, thank you. Because when you lean back in a busy world, then you know what happens after that. If you play a little bit scared, a little bit fearful, then you start seeing other people who are still getting ahead. And if you're not in the right space, let's all admit this. Cause I'm human, too. When you see other people your age doing something similar to you, and they're crushing it. Some days when you're in a grateful space, you're like, good for them. I'm proud of them. If they can do it, I can do it. But I think this inner villain that lives in us most of the time says, shit and anybody get a little envy sometimes of someone else getting ahead. And you. Not. If you're not, you're not human. You get a little bit of jealousy. And then if you're doing that, the next thing is you say, you know what? I'm gonna do it. And you kind of break through and you get an opportunity or you get new capabilities and then we do something. What I see all the time is we dabble. Like, we think we're putting time in, but not really. We're not dedicating the time. We're doing six things at once. We're checking social media while we're watching the course, we're answering the phone while we're. We're not really. We're texting while we're. Don't dabble. I'm challenging you to decide what kind of life you want. I'm guessing everybody in this room wants a better life. Who wants a better life? Okay, you know what we're do? We're going to start something. I stole this from Trent Shelton too. When we get to a part like that, if we're gonna play full out, I wanna hear you guys say, yup. Let me hear you say it. Real. One, two, three. Yup. Beautiful. But here's the thing that I want you to think about. We can live a life being scared, a little fearful. We can live a life of being envious. We can also live a life of hope. Hope is great. You need hope. But there's a lot of people that don't just hope and they don't take action. What about if you combined them together and you had hope, but you also lived a life on fire? That at 95, when you look back, you're like, I squeezed every bit of juice out of this life it had to offer. Who would rather have tried and failed than sit and play small? Who'd rather try and fail? So this weekend, I want you to play full out. I want you guys and challenge you guys to live a life on fire. To don't listen to the world around you. Most people are wrong. You've never seen them build a statue of a critic. If you guys know one, let me see it. I'd like to take a picture of it. They build statues of the crazy bastards. The people they condemn when they're alive and 50 years later they realize they were the revolutionary. They were the one that saw something when no one else did. Don't let anyone talk you out of your life, because here's what I know. There's two types of people and I really want you to think through this. There are battery chargers and there are battery drainers. If you guys. Who follows me on Instagram every time I post that, it goes viral. A couple hundred thousand people watch it. The truth of the matter is there are some people in your life that when they call you or they text you or the phone's ringing, not that many people call in today's world. People call me. I feel like I'm being violated. It's like, why would you call me? You could text me. It's like somebody knocking on your door and coming over without telling you. That's how I feel when my phone rings. But who has people in their life that when you get a text or a phone call, you're like, oh, shit. And then you have to let it ring the whole time because if you hit the end, they know you sent them to freaking voicemail. So you gotta sit there and be like. And then if somebody sees the phone, they're like, you gonna answer that? Like, no, no, don't. Don't touch that. Don't touch that. Right? There's people in your life that when you see them, you're the one that gives the energy. You have to talk about the same shit that they've been talking about for the last five years that they saw you. There's people in your life. I'm being funny, but now I'm being serious. That when you're with them, they make you doubt yourself. True. Can I get a yup? They make you doubt yourself. They make you doubt your opportunities. They make you doubt your capabilities. They make you doubt what you could do. And I want you to know this and remember this. You probably heard everything I'm saying before, but this is me. Small, intimate room. Before we have 5,000 people in a room like this. I want you to realize that that is also cumulative. If you hang out with battery drainers enough, they will run your battery down and all of a sudden you'll start questioning yourself. You'll have stress in the middle of the night. Maybe I won't get another relationship that'll be loving. Maybe I won't be able to take my income to the next level. Maybe I won't be the best parent I think I can be. Maybe this isn't the right time. Maybe it's the wrong president. All those things. So I want you to identify people that are battery drainers. Alongside of the opposite side are the battery chargers. They're the people you go to lunch with. And when you come back, you're on Fire. You want to accomplish the world, and a lot of people don't have many of them in their life. That's cool. That's why you got me. But anyway. But in today's world, we can find it online. We can get into different groups, find different peers. Listen, as you evolve, some friends will go away. They can't handle that. You're focusing on what's right, and they're focusing on what's wrong. That's okay. That's the journey they're supposed to be on. And you're supposed to be on another one. You. So I'm gonna tell you right now, like, I literally. I know this sounds terrible, but I have two conversations always going on inside my head. Anybody else? Anybody? Thank you. Look at that. We got a good. Yup. Who has ever spoke on stage? Okay. Did you ever speak on stage or in front of people or even a group of friends? And I could be on stage talking just like this. And simultaneously, I'm going, why the hell would the guy in the third row be sleeping right now? Like, I'm gonna walk back there and smack him. And that's all going on while I'm talking. Right? So this sounds crazy, but I do that with battery drainers and battery chargers. I literally will have a conversation and meet somebody. Can't you tell? In a second, which is who? Right? And in a second, I'll literally be meeting someone. Oh, hi. I'm like, oh, what a drainer. Hi. Yeah. Hey. We should communicate. Yeah. Text my assistant, Jeremy. I give everybody. If you say, let's hook up, and I give you Jeremy's info. I judged you. I'm sorry, I did. You want to plug your battery and drain me. I don't want that. And then there's. Then as that evolves, there's two types of people. There's bigger past people, and there's bigger future people. Bigger past people is when you talk to someone and they talk about back in the good old days. I hate that so much. You talk to somebody. Yeah. Well, when the other president was in, when there was a Democrat, when there was a Republican, when it was this, when it was that, it was like, there's, you know, back when Jesus was here, it was so much better. Like, there's so many different things about the past. It's like my bigger. My best days are ahead. How about you guys? Let me ask you something. Who in this room wants to make more money next year than they're making this year? Who wants to be happier next year, more fulfilled? Take your Relationships to the next level. That's what this room is about. That's not the whole world. You ask a lot of people, you know what they'd say? You guys are dreamers. You need to get real. Listen, who in here had someone tell you you were crazy for coming to this event? You know what I always think? Two things. Bigger past, bigger future. I love thinking when somebody's talking about the past. They're not somebody I can spend time with. I want somebody talking about what's going on tomorrow. But here's the thing. When you have a family member, someone you love or a friend, and they're telling you how to fix your relationship, how to make more money, how to do all those things, you know, another one of my two stories, two conversations going on at once, you know what I immediately do? I say, if I woke up tomorrow morning and looked in the mirror and I was them, how would I feel? And I'm always like, oh, shit, I'm not taking their advice. Think about it like someone is in a shitty ass relationship going, oh, you shouldn't put up with him. You should just tell him to. It's like, yeah, you're on your sixth relationship. The broke friend telling you how to make money, the single friend telling you how to fix your relationship. Just immediately replace that with what I be them. And all of a sudden things change. What's up? What's up? Hey, before you go, you need to watch these next few videos. They're absolute game changers. 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