Gene Simmons gave his first $10 million check to his mother and says true success means waking up each day trying to beat your own record. The hosts push Kaizen, the practice of daily incremental improvement, and say compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to people ahead of you.
Good morning, Believe Nation!
Today's message is: Do better than you did before. Over to you, Gene Simmons.
I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.
Because you want inspiration, look to your mother. You bet. Don't listen to the self-help gurus and the people stuff. Even though I get paid a lot of money to do this stuff myself. Turn around and look at your mom. That's the most inspiration. That's the reason you should go out there and strive. I remember the first $10 million check I ever made, and it came in at one lump, $10 million check, and I gave it to my mother and I said, "Mom, look," because, you know, I want my mom to be really proud. And she said in her broken English, "Wait a minute, hold on a second." And she said in her broken English, "Wonderful." 'Cause she's Hungarian. Wonderful. Tikanes. Greek. Wonderful. Now what are you going to do? That's precisely the point. You did well. Now go on. If you're the fastest human being on the face of the planet, when all the cameras leave and when the girls stop kissing you and you put the award away, are you gonna get up the next morning when the sun is just coming up and all by yourself try to break your own record even though you're the fastest on earth. The idea is, shouldn't life be about striving? There is no such a thing as winning. There's only doing better than you did before. 'Cause once you give up, you're just waiting to die.
So what do you think?
I love this because I think it's a goal of mine to try and improve myself every day. Every time I write some copy, I want to be better. I want to learn from my mistakes. And so that's what I think— that's so great.
Yeah, I think a lot of people, uh, you compare yourselves to people who are a lot further ahead of you, and that's a great way to model success. You know, for example, you're trying to launch a YouTube channel. It's not fair to compare yourself to me, who's done it for years and have a team of people helping me, and because you can't meet that standard, you feel like you're not doing well, you're failing. It's great to be able to learn from people to model success. You may take something from me and something from other people and put it to use to make your channel better, but I think too often people compare themselves to people who've done a lot more and then they get discouraged, they stop. The most important thing is do better than you did before, right?
Compare yourself to yourself.
You make a video, the next video should just be better than the one that you just made. It doesn't have to be at a level that is unsustainable at this point. One day you'll get there with practice. Kaizen. Every day getting better.
I love it.
So the question of the day today is: What have you done lately to improve yourself? What have you done lately to improve yourself? Out? Leave it in the comments below and we're going to join in the discussion. Thank you so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe, and we'll see you again tomorrow morning for another Shot of Espresso.
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