"FIND the WORK You Were BORN to DO!" - Beyonce (@Beyonce) - #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: we are all stars. Over to you, Beyoncé. I wake up every morning, and spread it so it keep me going.

I wake up every morning I think a star is born a star. Absolutely. I think— I know me, I was born to do what I do. It's just too natural. There's certain things that I know no one taught me. No one can teach you. It's just you are. And I feel like we all are stars. We all have that. We just have to figure out what that thing is that we're supposed to be doing in life. And I know that for me to know exactly what I was born to do at such a young age is why I've been able to do what I do as well as I do it, because I've been doing it for a really long time and I'm doing the right thing. So I'm very lucky.

So I believe that everybody has Beyoncé, or what I like to call Michael Jordan level talent at something. You have Beyoncé-level talent at something. You just may not have discovered it yet, and if you have discovered it, you may not be good enough at it yet, and you need to practice and hone in your skills and put in the work. And what I would really encourage you to do is look at the work that you're working on right now. Does it make you happy? Are you fulfilled in the work that you're doing? You may not be happy with the results. You may not be happy because you're a perfectionist and because you know you can always be better. You may not be happy because you're not earning the income that you want to be earning yet. You may not be happy because you're not getting the awards or the accolades from people yet. But are you happy with the actual work? Are you happy with the progress? Because at the start of anything, you're gonna suck. You know, at the start of me making my YouTube channel, I sucked. I enjoyed making the videos, I enjoyed the process, I enjoyed getting in front of the camera and talking to you guys. But I sucked. My delivery sucked. My editing sucked. You know, my SEO and titles, all of that sucked. I had no comments from an external perspective, like no comments, no views, no awards, very minimal growth. But I was happy doing what I was doing, and I wanted to get better at it. And so for me, that's the key, because you can quickly surpass people who have years of experience in any field if you are deeply passionate about it. The person who has the passion, the excitement, and the enjoyment for the work, enjoyment for the process, will quickly destroy the person who doesn't really have the enjoyment but has the years of experience. You can learn anything really quickly. Think about anything that you've learned recently. You could pick it up super fast if you're motivated to do it. If it doesn't feel like work, you can learn anything, whether it's a language, whether it's a skill, whether it's how to market yourself, if you wanted to learn YouTube marketing, if you wanted to understand the YouTube algorithm, you could pick that up really quickly. You know, within a day you could know more than 99% of the YouTubers out there, just by doing research. And so I wouldn't get so caught up in a lot of industries about, you know, the experience level, because you can get there faster if you have that deep, dedicated passion to it. But that's the thing: are you happy with the work? And sometimes that's hard to separate. Sometimes it's hard to see something that you are excited by and you love doing and you're not seeing the results and you just keep on doing it. For me, to make 5,000 videos, to keep on making the content even though you're not seeing the results. And that's why the single most important lesson that comes from all of these videos, all these people that I've researched, is to follow your passion. Do the thing that you're excited by. Because if you don't, you're gonna quit. You're gonna quit 'cause it's too hard, 'cause there's lots of competition, there's lots of people doing it. It's just too hard to break through in a lot of these industries. Unless you are super passionate about what you're doing. And so you have Beyoncé-level talent at something. Maybe you've discovered it, and if you have, then you just need to continue to work at it, even if you aren't seeing the results, to work at it every day. Work at it. Stop putting it off till tomorrow. Stop quitting. Stop starting and stopping and starting and stopping. Every day you have to work on it to get better, because Beyoncé had the talent, but she put in the work, right? That's what you need to do. What if Beyoncé had never discovered her singing though? What if Beyoncé had never discovered her dancing? She would be, you know, working at some job at Costco or Starbucks or McDonald's or some job that, that was not to her level of stardom. That's what most people do. Most people are in a job or even starting a business that is below their capabilities. Where you could be a star at something and instead you're, you're playing way, way, way below what you're capable of. Of doing. And so if she had never discovered her singing or her dancing, how much worse off would she be? But how much, how much worse off would we all be, right? Like, her music, her dancing has been a gift to all of us. How many of you have been inspired by a Beyoncé song that moved you, that was there for you when you needed tough times, or that motivated you to go off and do something great? I have a couple of her songs on my playlist that I love when they come on. And so You're doing a disservice to yourself and to your community and to the world at whole if you are not going in on the things that you could be a star at and you're living a smaller life than you should be. So the question of the day today is, what are you a star in? Or developing star in? You could be a star in? Leave it down in the comments below. I'm curious to see what natural talents we have in Believe Nation. And also, if you are leaving a comment within the first couple hours of this video going live, you have a chance to win one of two daily prizes. I also want to give a quick shout out to Chow. Thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word. I really, really appreciate the support, 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, espresso keep me going.

When I was in the 7th grade, my buddy moved away to Oregon. There was a week where I went up to go visit him in Portland. I flew up there by myself, go to his house, and the whole thing was, is, hey, he's going to be in school on some of these days this week, so you can shadow him to school or you can hang out until he gets out of school. I shadowed him one day and I was like, this is weird, I'm gonna stay at your house and wait, but in his room there were 4 things that were very important. A Stiff Little Fingers record, there was an All record, there was a Dinosaur Jr. record, and there was an electric guitar. So what I did was I would play those 3 albums on vinyl, and I would go over and pick up this guitar to keep myself entertained throughout the day for those 3 or 4 days that he would be at school until he'd come back and we'd skate at night and do whatever. That changed my life, you know, changed my life. The hearing punk rock music and picking up the guitar, something clicked where it's almost like there's a bunch of gasoline on the ground and someone flicks a cigarette, it just ignites, you know. It's just, it was a chemical reaction that just flipped on a switch that nothing could take that guitar out of my hand from that point forward.

Well, my message to you is pretty much, man, is just to follow your dreams, you know what I mean. I think a lot of people get caught up and get sidetracked by what's happening around them and what's cool. People always ignore their gift, not realizing that gift is what's gonna take you out of your poverty, take you out of your situation. That gift is the true— is the ultimate element that God provided for you to get you out of any situation or to take you to what's destined for you. You know, some people are just great at certain things, but because music or modeling or film is cool, they alienate what their gifts are just to be a part of something that is pursued to be, or persuaded to be, cool. So I always felt like, you know, my method and message always has been to just follow the gift that you have, put a lot of emphasize in it, concentrate on what you feel that you're great in, because what you're great in is always gonna be what pulls you out of the worst situations that you could ever imagine and put you in a better situation like me in today.

Your gift can be anything. You can't look at it as simply running, jumping, singing, and dancing. But I'll tell you one thing, your gift is the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort. For me, it was comedy. So once you identify it, then that's the beginning of it. But there's a lot of work to do even after you identify your gift. You know, you can believe you're something all you want, but if you don't work towards it, you just sitting there, it's gonna be empty.