Jennifer Aniston: How To Push Yourself Like A Successful Entrepreneur!

Good morning, Believe Nation. Today's message is push more. Over to you, Jennifer Aniston. I wake up every morning. Espresso keep me going. I wake up every morning.

I was saying the other day to somebody, you know, I think all actors who are, you know, maybe gratefully successful Sometimes if you're identified with something like Friends, you almost feel like you're an actor in a closet always trying to— like, I want to do more. You know what I mean? And there's always a little bit of a struggle and a challenge. But I find that exciting. You know what I mean? And to keep pushing myself and to keep challenging myself and taking risks. I think it's important not to get lazy. And stay safe, you know.

This is a really important message and one that entrepreneurs really struggle with because when you don't have a boss, it's really hard to push yourself to do more. Entrepreneurs struggle with pushing themselves out of their comfort zone because there's nobody to report to. And yes, we report to our customers, right? If we're under a deadline or customer wants to get this thing done by a certain time, then you're pushing yourself hard, you're crushing it to go out and get that thing done on time. But if your customer isn't pushing you hard, then it's easy to be a little bit lazy. Not that you're gonna sleep in all day, but you're not pushing yourself to be the best that you can be, right? You may be taking a little extra long at lunch, you may be coming in a little late to the office, maybe spending more time just browsing around on social media, or, you know, just being a little bit of a slacker than you should be. Because there's nobody to kick your butt. There's nobody to say, "Let's do this." because when you commit to somebody else, you're much more likely to follow through. And when there's nobody for you to commit to, as entrepreneurs, we are our own boss, there's nobody we're committing to besides ourselves, we're gonna let ourselves down a lot. And so I think the capacity and the willingness to push yourself consistently hard makes a difference between a really successful entrepreneur and just an average mediocre one. And so how do you push yourself harder when you are an entrepreneur. A couple ideas. One, have important goals. Have goals that you look at consistently, daily, that are big goals, that are meaningful, that are important to you. Remind yourself why you're doing this to get the energy to get up and want to push harder every day. Two, have somebody to kick your butt. Whether it's a mastermind group, whether it's an advisor, whether it's an online group, something, somebody that you're committing to to say, "I'm going to get this thing done." I have a mastermind group that we meet every month, and in between you have a weekly phone call with somebody in your team, and you're pushing each other. Because if you come to that next meeting the next month and you didn't do what you say you're going to do, the group starts holding a little bit of a flame to your foot to say, like, what's going on? You've been saying you're going to do this, but you haven't. Come on, let's get, let's get in shape. You don't want to come to that meeting and not have done the things that you said you were going to do. And so that accountability is really important for entrepreneurs. And then 3, we've talked about it a ton on this channel, the environment and the routine. It's so easy to get up for one day. It's hard to get up consistently. It's hard to keep that energy level high. And so build whatever gets you pumped and excited into your morning routine consistently. So whatever you start your day with, think about what makes you come alive. Again, if it's watching a video or reading a book or viewing your goals or listening to some music, Whatever it is. You know, for me, it's being around famous entrepreneurs, successful people, and seeing what they're doing. Yes, their strategies help me, that's part of it, but a big part of it is just seeing people going off doing amazing things makes me want to push myself harder. They push me to do more because the people around me aren't really pushing me to do more. And so whatever gets you excited, whatever makes you feel like you want to push a little bit harder, build that into your daily routine as opposed to having it randomly happen because you turned on YouTube at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Build it in every day so you're pushing yourself hard. So the question of the day today is, how do you push yourself? How do you keep yourself accountable to doing the things that you say you're gonna do and reaching your actual potential? What do you do? Leave in the comments below. I'm gonna join in the discussion. I also wanna give a quick shout out to Kathy Cashmere from cccinspire.com. Kathy, thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word. It really, really, really means a lot to me, and I hope you enjoyed it. 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 inspresso. I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going. Hey, Believe Nation, for those of you who want a little more content on pushing yourself harder, I think you'll enjoy these special bonus clips.

And what compelled you to get involved in the project? I know it's kind of a hard question because it's probably so many different things, but when you think about projects that you get involved with, what is— what are some of the key elements?

Well, I think, you know, it can be really anything that gets you interested. I just always— I just want to make sure I'm gonna be challenged the whole time because I know if I'm not given like sort of obstacles, I don't really— I I get kind of lazy. I don't really engage in the way I want to. So if I know something's gonna constantly be throwing challenges at me, not in like, I wanna have fun, you know, I always wanna enjoy what I'm doing, but something that is gonna be, that's part of the fun I think is getting all of the, you know, the challenges of it.

I took this like big risk and quit school. I quit the one thing that I was like, that was like surefire, and went and became a model, and got really bored really fast, and didn't love being a coat hanger, and then I became an actor, which was like a coat hanger that talks, and then I ultimately like came full loop and came back around, and by the way, when you talk, you're generally not even speaking your own words, you're speaking somebody else's words, and trying to make it sound really real. And then I came full loop around and started looking at technology again. I started getting interested in technology and started getting interested in engineering and started really getting interested in solving problems, solving my own problems and then solving other people's problems and what the value of that is. And so whether it's technology or philanthropy or actually even performing or being an actor, I started to make it about solving problems. And I think that that's the— probably the single biggest thing that, as an angel investor, I look for in entrepreneurs is people who genuinely want to solve a problem, a real problem, a problem that exists not just for themselves, but sometimes just for themselves, and then it sort of turns into this wave effect that solves other people's problems. And sometimes, by trying to solve your own problem, you're solving everybody else's problems. 'Cause generally, if you wanna affect the world, you have to change yourself first. Everybody tries to go out and change the world by changing other people and other things, but the real way to do it is by changing yourself. And sometimes making those really uncomfortable choices to go up against everyone in your life that you look up to and take that risk to go be a model or go do this thing that nobody else is doing.

Basically, what success meant to me was the opportunity to be useful so somebody else might entertain me as a choice. But it also meant that I could use that event of a success to do something different than what was expected. I could go to another genre. I could go to another kind of role. I could go from the success of Witness to the opportunity of Mosquito Coast. And people say, whoa, wait a minute, you know, might not be the best career choice. And I thought, well, I don't have to make the best career choice. I have to make a choice that will challenge me and be interesting for me.