Don't Dwell on the Past - Joe Rogan's Powerful Message on Moving Forward | #Entspresso

Good morning, Believe Nation. It's Evan. My one word is believe, and I believe in people more than they believe in themselves. And my sincere hope is that if you see in yourself what I see in you, you'll be able to change the planet. So to help you on your journey, today's message is don't dwell on the past. Over to you, Joe Rogan.

Your life would feel better and richer if you had a goal. You chase that goal, you accomplish some things, you would get this boost of confidence, you'd get this boost of self-esteem. Like, whatever it is that you're into doing, maybe you're into drawing comic books, maybe you're into making pottery or sculptures, or— but find whatever the fuck that is and pursue that instead of doing nothing. Like, the people that are doing nothing, those are the real people. Look, doing something might be as simple as like that Alex Honnold guy. He climbs rocks, but he's world-class rock climber. It's something.

One of the most common questions that I get asked when I do interviews is, Evan, if you could go back in a time machine and go talk to your 20-year-old self, what message would you give yourself? And it's a question I always have a hard time answering. I guess it's one of those standard questions that people like to ask you at the end of interviews. I have a hard time with it. One, because I'm so grateful for where I am right now that I wouldn't really change anything. Like, everything that I went through has led me to where I am right now, and I'm happy where I am right now. And so thank you for all those experiences, even though some of them may have been crappy. Two, I don't spend time thinking about what didn't work and spend time living in the past. And I think to be an entrepreneur, to be enthusiastic, to be optimistic, to chase these dreams that are going forward You can't do it when you're just stuck in the past dwelling on all the mistakes you made and how much you suck and everything that went wrong in your life. I've had a lot of negative things that have happened to me, but I don't remember them. I don't focus on them. One of the hardest exercises I had when I first started working with a media coach was coming up with my foundation story and thinking about the hard times I had in my startup business when I was making the $300 a month. I didn't even remember those stories. Like all the negative things that happened to me, just, I don't think about them anymore. I think about what I'm focused on now, where I'm trying to go, and I get how those stories can help. It can help tell the journey, it can help with you guys who are watching. Being able to access those things can help, but I don't live there anywhere close to on a weekly or monthly or definitely not a daily basis. I just don't think about negative things that happened in the past. I think you'll see that consistently with successful people. And then the third answer then becomes, okay, well, I need to say something. I don't want to just tell them that their question, you know, doesn't really touch me. And so the only thing I come up with is I would just tell my younger self to believe more, to believe in myself more, to believe in the mission more, to believe that I'm gonna do great things more, to believe that it's gonna work out more. But I wouldn't go and change any of those specific things that, you know, a time machine might be able to fix. But the time machine doesn't exist, so stop focusing on it, right? Like, if the message is, what would I tell a young person today? I love that question. But what would I tell myself from 20 years ago? I can't. I love possibilities. I love thinking about the future and things that are, you know, impossible and how to fix that. But this is actually impossible right now, right? There's no way to go back and tell my younger self something. So I don't focus on it. I don't care about it. I don't want to go out and do it. If you gave me the option, maybe that's a different choice, but just living in the hypothetical and dwelling on the past is not interesting to me. So again, if I look at this YouTube channel, we've had a lot of failed series. I've had a lot of videos where I really sucked, where my message was okay but my delivery was really terrible. I don't have a video that I'm least proud of. I don't look at that video and say, wow, that, that video is really terrible and it haunts me moving forward. I've had a lot of series that didn't work out. You know, we recently canceled the Believe Love series, which I loved and I found really useful, but you guys didn't. So I might use that myself personally but not share it with you. There's been tons of other series though. We have a spot in our calendar that is just for tests, where we're always testing new series, whether you guys agree to them or not, you guys like them, you want to share them or not. We had a series on morning routines, we had a series on favorite books from entrepreneurs. We had a series on— yeah, we called it where we like compared two contrasting points of view and said, hey, find the line between them. And tons of other series that I don't remember. Even thinking about the series that we cancelled, I don't even care about it. I can't even access it because I've just moved on. And I encourage you to do the same. So many people just live in their past because one thing didn't work out once, now nothing is ever going to work out again. You don't have to be the accumulation of your history. You can set a new path for yourself. And so I would just try to spend as much time as possible thinking about what you're doing right now and thinking about where you want to go. And everything that happened happened. Try to see the positive of it, like it led you to where you are right now. Be grateful for those experiences that guided you to be the person you are right now with this vision that you have to move forward. And that's it. Move forward. Spend as much of your mental energy as possible living in the present and where you want to go and not dwelling on the things that happened to you because you can't change the past. So the question today, today is I'm curious, is there something from your past that is haunting you? An experience, a person, a limiting belief, something that is haunting you and you feel is preventing you from moving forward with your life, with your business? Leave in the comments below. Release it. Let it free. Let it go so that you can focus on building something way more positive. I want to see that in the comments. And if you leave a comment within the first couple hours of this video going live, you might win one of our top 2 prizes that come out daily. I also want to give a quick shout out to Lazar Jovanovic. Thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word. It really, really means a lot to me, and I hope you're enjoying the read. Thank you guys again for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso. I wake up every morning.

Well, the first time that I really got involved in UFC was— everybody had seen UFC 1, you know, I saw UFC 1. But when we got involved, it was because we started taking jiu-jitsu. And through jiu-jitsu, we fell in love with the sport, and then we started to meet some of the athletes. And when I say we, I mean me and the Fertitta brothers. And it was really, you know, learning about the sport and meeting the athletes that completely got us literally addicted to the sport. Then when we went to our first ever UFC event, it was down in New Orleans at the UNO Arena down there. And literally me, Frank, and Lorenzo were sitting in the audience going, holy shit, imagine if they did this and imagine if they did that. This thing could be big. Then Once we bought it, our goal was and always has been to make this a global sport.

Go ahead, tell me what your vision board looks like and can you share some of the things that are on there?

I used to have a traditional vision board where, you know, you would take things that you want and put 'em up on poster board, whatever, whatever. And that's cool. I did that when I did "The Secret." But to me, the best vision boards are when you write down your long-term and short-term goals, write down everything that you want to accomplish. And keep those things in your mind because your mind is what makes it manifest into reality. Like, your thoughts really do become things. Like, I don't have a college degree or anything like that. All I have is back in 1998 I said I want to be a super jock. I said I want to be one of the biggest radio personalities on the planet. I said I want to be, you know, in that Wendy Williams, Tom Joyner, Doug Banks, Howard Stern, you you know, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh. I want to be in that number, you know? When they think of Charlamagne, I want them to think of me like that. I want to be my generation's that. Because all of those guys, it's the natural course of things that power eventually fades and weakens. All of them. It's just like the NBA or music. It was the Magic Johnson, Larry Bird era. Then it was the Michael Jordan era. Now it's the LeBron James era. That's just the way things are in the game. And I knew that eventually it would be my time if I wanted that. And so I claimed it. So my vision board is really just a notebook with everything that I want in my life.

We always had this goal in sports, and I give the credit to my coaches for instilling that in me. It's like always creating this goal, this part of time to achieve something. And during that time, nothing else mattered. It didn't matter what was happening in school for me. It didn't happen— what was, you know, relationships didn't matter. It was just like achieving that goal. Yeah, and maybe it comes back to like childhood or something where I just want to be a great athlete. When I get in that mind frame, I guess, I don't know, I just want to achieve the goal more than anything else, and that's, that's what I like to do.