Why You Should Consider Quitting Social Media

You have the opportunity for more. Is it going to be easy? Hell, no. Do you have to work more than you think? Yes. Welcome to the Dean Graziosi show. All success starts right here. I want to kind of talk about two things that I see and you could tell me if I'm wrong or you don't agree with me, but I believe that we have this dilemma going on and I think social media has caused it. Now, I love social media. I get to contact and probably met a lot of you because of social media. So many people get to stay in contact. People that were once alone in the world someplace or alone right down the street from you get to be parts of communities and follow things they like and have easy access to education. And in my mission to change the global conversation in education, to make self education the new norm, I think social media is an incredible vehicle. But simultaneously for those of you that want to reach success in any way. Now I talk a lot about making success financially because I think if you make all the money you want, you get to fix all the other problems. You get the health coach, you get the food prep, you get the fitness instructor, you go read more books, you go to live events, you come to mind, you go to Tony Robbins, you go to Brendon Burchard, you go, you work on you, right? So I think money solves a lot of problems. Number one, cause of divorce, money. Number one, cause of depression, money. So if we can get money out of the way, then we can work on the other stuff. So when I say that. But if you think about this, what social media can do, let's just take weight, for example. You're trying to lose weight, you're knocking down a pound a week, and then all of a sudden you see six zillion ads where somebody took 7,000 pictures with 14 filters and somebody lost 80 pounds in 30 days. And they look like a rock star. And you're like, I had to get up and go to the gym at 5 and I didn't really get a good workout because I was up late working and then my son wasn't feeling good. Like we have. Social media can rob our enthusiasm because we think it's so much easier for everybody else, and it's not. We see a lot of young kids, a lot of them are very successful and some of them are just faking it. But we see so much of the fancy cars, the fancy houses and the jets and holding up big checks, and we're trying to just make an extra couple bucks an hour so we can Work on our dream. Maybe if there's time, you're like, ah, I can never get there. Or you see a guru flying around in his $50 million jet telling you how great it is, and you're like, my Honda Accord, I need two quarts of oil in it because it's burning oil. Like, sometimes social media can also rob from you and make you feel like you'll never get there. And I want to tell you, it's all bullshit. It's all bullshit. Nothing's changed. I get so many comments from people saying, yeah, Dean, you were able to come in a millionaire in the old days because things have changed. I mean, I'm not 100 years old, but people say, oh, it was easier back then. Well, should I say it was easier during the Industrial Revolution? When was it easier? I don't think there's a better time in history for somebody who says that. I say, why don't you read the stat that right now in America alone, there's over 1700 new new millionaires a day being created bigger than ever before in history. The old days weren't the time 10 years ago. Now is the time influencing, being influenced by social media. What that does is sometimes you might watch with envy, watch to maybe be inspired, but it also could be robbing you of, of what you need to make 2019 the best year of your life. And that's your confidence. So I want to tell you, don't believe the hype. There's no difference in success now. So some people are getting successful being influencers and having followers on Instagram. So that's a, it's a new medium. Back in the 90s when the Internet revolution came, I was there. I watched everybody. I watched millionaires overnight and I watched a lot of them fall on their asses and lose everything because they weren't the new. They, they weren't the, you know, the main. They weren't Google. They were the other 10 search engines. Like, there's always a new phase. There's always a new thing. In the 1900s, it was steel mills and cars and then lumber. Like, there's always something new and nothing changes. The people who make it are the people who know how to go upstream and build the foundation for wealth. Why do you think I wrote millionaire success habits? Not millionaire overnight or millionaire money machine or millionaire this. It was millionaire success habits. And that's what you're here right now. You're getting self education to build a core of success, to build a rock solid foundation. And whatever it is you decide to do. Whether it's investing in real estate or making money online, or running a high level mastermind or building a course or writing a book. If you have the core, if you build success internally, it will exude out of you. And I want to give you permission to realize it does not matter where you're living right now. Yes, some of you live in some really tough areas. Especially because people are watching this from all around the world. It doesn't matter what your parents did or how much money you have, or what education you have. The Internet, the world where we are today has made it the most level playing field on the planet. You have the opportunity for more. Is it going to be easy? Hell no. Do you have to work more than you think? Yes. Maybe I'm the first guy that you know I hate even I don't want to say guru or influencer. I'm just a successful business person, businessman who loves to inspire, who's addicted to it, wants to share everything so you can go faster and we can make self education cool. I want to tell you the truth. When you see these insta millionaires all over, that's not real. It takes work. But I'm gonna tell you, being in a place like this and watching what I'm sharing with you, it takes the right work. You can run on a treadmill at 4 or 19, whatever you wanna put the treadmill on, you're still not going anyplace. If you are working hard in the wrong area or not working smarter, you might work hard your whole life. That's why without gaining the success you want. That's why it's smart to be here and learn the foundation. And I want to tell you this first off, write down, and I've been saying this for about three months now, you're going to work 25% harder than you are right now. How do you work 25% harder when you're saying Dean, you have no idea how busy I am is. Do what I've been teaching for years. Make a not to do list. Start throwing out the shit that doesn't serve you. It doesn't move the needle. It doesn't serve God, it doesn't serve the universe, it doesn't serve your family. It doesn't serve a better version of you. It just eats up your time. And if that's surfing online too much or playing video games or having lunch with your negative friends or doing something that you used to do and you don't even know why you still do it, get rid of all the shit in your life, make a not to do list. Go deep on it, go strong on it and throw stuff away and open up time to work on things that move the needle. Work on the things like marketing and sales and positioning and understanding your brand, understanding the avatar, understanding your buyers, understanding your sellers. Go deep, get the information. Listen, I created a course called the Set for Life course. All that was is giving people the tools, the foundation to see that if you don't know how to persuade, if you don't know how to market, if you don't know how to sell, it doesn't matter how great your products, if you build it, they will not come unless you market and persuade and get somebody to say yes and give you money. And then once they give you money, treat them so damn well they want to keep giving you money and they tell all their friends. As simple as that sounds, most people get it wrong. More people will spend time on what color their logo should be than understanding their avatar or their marketing. So I share this because you have an unfair advantage. You have an unfair advantage working with me. I've already done everything you want to do. I've been where you've been. But I'm going to tell you to stop doing the shit that doesn't move the needle and start doing the stuff that does and work 25% harder. Second part of that is find a way to trick your mind into more confidence immediately. Without confidence, you're just going to play small. Without confidence, you're going to wear someone else's name on the back of your jersey and you're going to play. Watch up in the stands and watch us down in the arena playing hard. That's not you. If you're watching me, you don't want to be in the stands with someone else's name on your jersey. You want to be in the game. You want to be getting bloody, you want to be getting fouled and beat up, but you want to score the touchdowns. I know you do. You're here. So how do you do that? You have to be confident to run out on that field. So few things real quick is stop doing the things that rob your confidence. Oh, now you're like Dean, you are brilliant. Yeah. Stop doing the things that rob your confidence. If you watch the news and get pissed off, stop watching the news. If you go to lunch or hang out with some friends that drain your energy and make you feel bad or question your next level of life, stop hanging out with them. If having negative thoughts or that self doubt you're letting it creep in. Tell that voice to shut down if you think you don't have what it takes. Google and find millionaires, successful people, billionaires that had the same shit story as you and did fine. Shut the voices that rob your confidence and fuel the voices that inspire you. Listen. I do these podcasts week after week for you for free to empower you with capabilities to go to the next level to set the foundation for success and we're growing so fast right now we're number 22 in the world in the entrepreneur category and I want more people to gain this knowledge for free. So if you love what we deliver then share it with a friend. Comment, take a screenshot, post it on Instagram, tag me. 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