Solve BIG Problems With Purpose

I want to remind you of the power of purpose, the power of passion, the power of hunger to accomplish something. How that can overcome any obstacle that's in your way.

When you get past the worry of money, the next thing you think about is, who can I give it to? And we also only have a certain amount of time to solve problems in our lives. So what I realized at a young age is if I'm going to solve problems, I want to solve big problems. Welcome to the Dean Grazios Show. All success starts right here.

We think if we hear it once we got it, move on to the next. How many times do you have to go to the gym to get in shape?

Can you go over a weekend and.

Be in shape for the rest of your life?

No.

How many times do you have to hear success rules, habits, foundational skills? All the time. How often do you have to practice it? All the time. You know, I remember when Tony Robbins first got me to give him a money, give him, you know, cut a check for speed. I got his course and then he introduced me to. He had these things called Power Talk where each month I would get a new dvd. That's how long ago it was cd. And it would be someone like a Wayne Dyer, an Eckhart Tolle or Deepak Chopra or coach John Wooden.

And I got all these people.

I got to learn self education from personal growth, from success, skill. Oh, my God, transform my life. Well, some things never change. I just saw that he did an interview with Martine Rothblatt, and I knew who Martine was. In fact, I think I met her really quick. She is the creator and founder of Cirrus Radio. Right. Now, here's the other thing about Martine. Martine used to be Martin. Now think about that. That's a whole nother story of having to deal with a gender change in today's world where people aren't just. They don't really know yet, right? It's just new. So I can't even imagine that road. Married for 33 years, seems like the most amazing couple. But I'm sharing this for a reason, because I want to remind you of the power of purpose, the power of passion, the power of hunger to accomplish something. How that can overcome any obstacle that's in your way. If you don't have enough purpose, if you don't have enough hunger, the first obstacle will stop you. He'll say, I tried, but. But what if there was no but, There was just an answer, there was just a solution, no matter what. So why do I tell you this. So Martine has incredible amounts of accomplishments in her life and things that she's overcome and success. Sirius Radio, I mean, come on, satellites in the air so we could have radio. I mean, you know that. But when her daughter was nine years old, when everything was flying high and serious, Sirius Radio was crushing and relationship was great. Martine takes her nine year old daughter to the hospital to find out. And I wrote this down. She has pulmonary arterial hypertension, a lung disorder that's fatal. No one's ever lived from it, ever. And Martine just didn't want to accept that. But wherever he went, every doctor said there's nothing. So what does he do? He raises funds, uses his own money and starts trying to do research to find a cure. The doctors and the scientists that he hires, I think we can find a cure, Martine, but not in time to save your daughter. I'm sorry. So he still doesn't give up. So they tell him that and he's like, that's not enough. So he searches every pharmaceutical company, finds that one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world has a pill that may or an ingredient, a process, a pill, a patent on something that could help slow it down. So he goes there and he's a Sirius Radio, he's got satellite company, they don't want to sell it to him. And they said no, it's not even in final stages. It's preliminary approval. We're not selling it. They tell him no a second time, they tell him no a third time, and the third time they say absolutely not, we're not selling this. But he had purpose, he had passion, he had hunger. I can't even imagine. I'm a dad, I can't imagine what that feeling is. But I got goosebumps today after a third time, he still wouldn't accept no. Because his hunger was so strong, his purpose was so driven that he convinced them after the fourth, fifth or sixth time to sell them, sell them the patent for 25,000 bucks. And he said he got a little pile of powder and a breakdown of what was in it. It wasn't pills. He thought he was having a pill for his daughter. So he really had to start from there because it wasn't ready to give to people. He went to his scientists, his doctors, they said, no, this will never be a pill. It won't work, it won't process it. All these technical terms, he said, unacceptable, unacceptable. We're going to find how to make this work. And through perseverance, through purpose, through passion, through hunger, figured out how to make it into a pill. Figured out how to make it where a human could actually take it. I'd like to report his daughter's 33 years old. Over 35,000 people in the world have not lost their life because of Martin and his obsession and his passion and his purpose. And here's the craziest part. He got to save his daughter. And you know how much that drug did in sales last year alone? $1.5 billion. $1.5 billion. While simultaneously saving his daughter's life and so many others. Now, were there a million obstacles in between that?

Of course.

And sometimes you fail and you don't get the prize like that?

Of course.

But he was so purpose driven, so passion driven, so hungry for the solution, he did not hear no. He didn't hear the people say, no.

It'S not gonna work.

There's no cure. Your daughter's unfortunately gonna die. We're not gonna sell it to you. We can't do it. That was nothing to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How many times you gonna say no before we finally get to the yes? Now, what if we can just rob a glimpse of that passion? Listen, I don't want to compare your business to a child facing a life threatening disease. But what if we can have 10% of that passion, 10% of that purpose driven life, 10% of that hunger to pull your life in the direction you want to go. Listen, at the end of our life, at 100 years old, you're going to look back and wish you had a piece of it, that you went after it, you stopped dabbling, you stopped thinking, and you went after your full potential, your next level. We all deserve it, we all desire it, we all crave it. I'm just asking you right now, who are you? I'm just asking you right now, are you ready to go for it? Because I have to tell you, I've been on both sides. Struggle, worry, and I know what they both feel. I know what it feels like. But I've been on the other side where things all seem to go right, where I'm living in my passion, I'm living on purpose. I'm hungry for achieving more. And I have to tell you, it's absolutely worth it. Not kind of worth it, absolutely worth it.

I had the opportunity to spend two separate years, a whole week with Richard Branson on his island. If you don't know who he is, he's the billionaire that started all the Virgin companies. Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines, Virgin Mobile, all those companies, right? I helped raise a Million dollars for his charity. And we got invited to go to his island. And he came, and it was awesome to spend time with a billionaire. And one morning I get up at 5 and everybody else didn't. And he did. And he saw me a couple mornings, and he's like, hey, tomorrow morning, meet me at the docks. So I ended up sailing around the island with him for about three hours. It was really cool, just me and him. So I'm learning how to pull the ropes and sail and all that stuff. I wouldn't tell him that I get motion sick and I wanted to throw up on my own face, but it didn't matter. It actually wasn't that bad. But I talked to him about this, and because he owns Virgin Unite and a lot of Virgin Unite is his charity arm, the one we raised a million dollars for. And he pays all the bills in the company. So you give him a million bucks. A million bucks goes on the ground to help people in need. Pretty cool. We built so many schools and did lots of great things. But I talked to him about that feeling, like, to get rid of the last little bit I had in me about maybe even feeling guilty about making money. And he said something pretty cool. He said, dean, the way I look at it is we're all blessed with different abilities. We all are blessed with different gifts. I'm not Mother Teresa. He said, I'm not the person that will spend a month working at a soup kitchen, even though I'd love to, because my unique ability is to make money. And he said, let me ask you, Dean, if you, with your ability to make money and having this mindset of generating money, not be afraid to create profits and companies and all that stuff. He said, if you went to a soup kitchen and worked for two weeks, if that's all you could do, that's amazing. And the people that do it, that's their ability. That's their gift. That's what they're giving to God, the universe, back to society, back to a whole. He said, you could do that for two weeks or a month, or what. If you popped by that homeless shelter and dropped off a check for $50,000, which one do you think you personally could make a bigger impact on that homeless shelter? He said, if you know how to make it, if you get the right mindset, if you get the right tools and you go to another level, you have an ethical obligation to make more and then do what you want. Give it all away. If you want to help everybody, help your family, make sure your kids are okay, Retire your parents, help your church out, build a school in Africa, donate it all to Houston or Florida. The next disaster that comes with people who really need it. And when he said that, it just. It gave me that freedom. That last little bit is, this is what I want to do. I want to make thriving companies that make money, and I can do whatever I want with that money, and you get to do whatever you want. And if it's taking care of other people, helping people out, which is the greatest thing, we're all put on this earth to serve. That's why we're here to. When you get past the worry of money, the next thing you think about is, who can I give it to? Who can I serve? Once you have the security for yourself, it's about everybody else. So get that whole belief out of your system, the last little bit of it, that if you're making money, you're hurting someone else, because it's simply just a lie. I want to talk again, and I say this all the time, about getting bigger problems. We care too much about too many things, and you don't have enough care for the things that actually move the needle. If you're driving down the street and someone cuts you off and you want to flip them off or yell at them, you don't have big enough problems. If your food comes out and the waiters a little off that day and rude to you, you want a medium rare and it's medium, and you lose your mind. You don't have big enough problems. If a friend goes to the movies and doesn't ask you, if you think someone disrespected you because they didn't say hi in the right way, because they're driving down your street. If all of those things are bugging you, you don't have big enough problems. But take it up another notch. If you're worried about gossip, if you're worried about what other people have to say about you, if you're worrying that. That you don't have the support that you should have and you do things for other people but they don't do it back, or you do so much for other people and they take advantage of you. If you think. Think about that on a regular basis, you don't have big enough problems. Here's what I know. The most successful people I've ever met in my life, and I've been blessed to meet lots of millionaires and lots of billionaires and presidents and world leaders. All that great stuff. Not bragging, but I never hear them bickering or being petty about so many things. So just think about it as time. We only have 24 hours in a day, right? We also only have so many things to worry about and we also only have a certain amount of time to solve problems in our lives. So what I realized at a young age is if I'm gonna solve problems, I want to solve big problems. I don't want to solve the problem on why the waitress isn't happy today or why the person cut me off in traffic or why someone doesn't like me or someone judges me. I don't want to solve that problem. I want to solve a problem that's got lots of zeros on the end. Or I want to solve a problem to find a lifelong love or solve the problem of being a really solid parent that my kids can look up to and be proud of and I can help them become better adults someday. I want to solve big ass problems. So if you're delusion to think once the money comes in, once the success happens, once the perfect relationships there, once I lose the weight, problems will go away. They never ever, ever go away. They in fact get bigger. So you might as well strengthen your muscle. And instead of saying I want to avoid problems or I want them to go away, how about you change and say, bring it on, I want problems. I want that next level. Because if I'm solving bigger problems, I get bigger results. Listen. 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There's friends of yours who think you're crazy because you listen to personal growth and personal development and want to make more money and have more success. That's okay. Let them Think what they want, but you can know what you know, that you have more inside of you that you are ready for another level. You know, I think back in my life when I was going through problems when I was at a collision shop and I wanted to get a tow truck. Because if I got a tow truck I could be on the roster for whenever there was an accident in town. They would call me and I could go get the, the vehicle, the wrecked car or somebody that was impounded and you know, maybe average 500 to a thousand bucks every time I do it. But I didn't really have the money to do it. I also knew that if I got a tow truck or a flatbed, I could go after a rental car company, Enterprise Rental car. I had a little connection with them and I wanted to get all Enterprise rent a car. Every time somebody got an accident with that rental car and within a 100 mile radius I wanted it. Couldn't do that without a flatbed. Now when I went to my dad who was my, I owned 75% of the business. My aunt dad owned 25% of my collision shop. It was Dean Collision Center. When I went to my dad, he said, absolutely not. You'll go broke. You can't afford it. You. He was looking at the cost of the flatbed, not the return on investment. Now when I say that was a problem, and this is a simplistic problem, just picking one of many, he didn't just say no, we got in a fight over it and he told me go fuck myself. And I'm sorry, that's the way my dad and I, you know, I don't talk to him that way, but that's the way we had a little moment in time like that and tell me you'd want to be a big shot and we can't afford flatbeds. Who do you think you are? And we fought to where we weren't talking and I didn't have the money. But I wasn't worried about the person cutting me off. I wasn't worried about people in my town talking about me because I was trying so hard. I wasn't worried about that shit. You know what I was worried about? How do I find the money, how do I close the deal and how do I get a flatbed and how do I do it and not have my dad lose his mind? It was a big problem at that time. But guess what? I went and did it behind my dad's back. I got a loan. I went to three different banks. I got a guy who Believed in me. He gave me the loan. I got a loan. I went and bought the flatbed without telling my dad. I pulled in. My dad almost lost his mind. That's it. You're done. Your business is going to go out. You're going to go broke. And then a week later, he's like, well, maybe that wasn't a bad idea. And then five weeks later, we're on the roster, getting calls three, four days a week. Three, four new jobs coming in the door. Then it was a pretty damn good idea. Then I closed Enterprise Rental Car, and I got all the calls, cars. I ended up getting two and three. I had three tow trucks in flatbeds. We were doing hundreds of thousands of dollars extra every year because of that flatbed. Now, there was a million problems I could have solved. I could have worried about my dad's feelings so much that I didn't go behind his back. I could have worried about the. My employees, you know, talking behind my back. I could have worried about a million things. But at that time, when I was in my early 20s, I picked a bigger problem and. And the result was massive. The problems didn't go away then. I had to work on being better, getting more sophisticated to deal with Enterprise Rental Car. Cause they were a big corporation and I wasn't, you know, there yet. So I had to create more problems. I had to learn new soft computer software to match with how they wanted their estimates. I had to have a bigger route. I had to hire people that would drive the tow truck on New Jersey and New York and picking up all these wrecked cars. I had lots of bigger problems. But I'll take those bigger problems because it meant hundreds of thousands of dollars more in our pockets every single year. It meant the expansion of our company. It changed everything about what we do now. That's one simple little thing. But I look back and I have so many friends who I love dearly. And they still are worrying about the problems that are driving them crazy. They still worry about the person cutting them off in traffic. They still worry about people talking behind their back and. And they're still in the same place. When I left that town that I grew up in, you know, almost 20 years ago. I love those guys. I love those girls. They're amazing. But they're stuck because of one thing that I wanted to share with you today. Raise the standards of your problems. Find bigger things to solve. Forget the things. Stop worrying about so much. Stop caring about so much. And care about the things that move the needle. 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