LOVE what you do - David Beckham - #Entspresso

Good morning, Believe Nation. Today's message is love what you do. Now over to David Beckham.

I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going. I've always been driven, you know, even at a young age. All I ever wanted to do was become a footballer, a soccer star. And that was my only ambition. I know it's different these days with kids. There's obviously this fame, this fortune. And it might be easy for me to say that because obviously I've done very well out of the game. But I'd still be playing this game even if I wasn't being paid for it. Not that I don't want to be paid for it. But I still would be playing. Playing this sport.

So what do you think?

I think it's a great message, and I love that David said, it's easy for me to sit here and say this. I think you can love what you do, but what you do might not always be what you love. They can be two separate things. For example, I don't want to talk about me for more than 10 seconds, but I've wanted to play piano my whole life, considered going to Juilliard, and at one point I realized I'm good, I'm not that good, and me pursuing what I love isn't gonna feed my family, isn't gonna take care of my ambitions. So I do something else, but in my spare time I play piano. Sometimes I'll go to a hotel and sit at some piano in a bar, and sometimes people give me money and it's amazing. But I am not gonna have that as my career. But I think you can keep that passion, you can keep it ignited, and it might not necessarily be part of your larger career plan, but you can have a spin-off.

I think you need to have the passion to keep going in what you're doing. Like, you drove here from Cleveland, you've been up since I don't know how long.

19 hours.

19 hours to come and do this. You know, I look forward to Wednesday, which is video day. It drives me. It's one of the best days of the week for me. Being an entrepreneur is so hard. It's so hard. And if you look at, you know, in any profession, I guess it could be so hard. The people who've risen to the top are the people who truly enjoy the work that they're doing. If I stopped loving making videos, I would stop making videos and move on to do something else that I love. And I think entrepreneurs will often get trapped in that. They maybe love it at the start, but stop loving it, and then it prevents them from doing something greater. The thing that gets you through the darkness, the like This is just so crazy that you have to love what you're doing. When my first presentation I did at YMCA, only 3 people showed up. It was a free thing, and I thought, I'm never gonna make money off of this. Like, if 3 people show up for a free thing, how am I ever gonna turn this into a business? But it just, I loved it. Like, it made me come alive. I figured even if I had to go get jobs to support this, I had to figure out a way to keep doing it, and it evolved into what is now a YouTube channel. I never thought you know, X number of years ago that I'm going to be a YouTube channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. It just came from following that love and passion that I have. So I hope people watching are doing the same thing, not just opening up like Inc. magazine and saying, hey, the 50 hottest companies to start, but actually doing something that you are madly in love with.

So once again, your point was way better than anything I formulated. And the other thing that got me thinking while you were speaking is Perseverance. You have been so persistent, you've persevered and not giving up. And again, loving what you do usually means you're not going to give up as quickly as someone who doesn't.

Yeah, you will, you will give up if you don't love what you're doing. You'll give up as soon as it gets super hard. You'll give up.

So the question of the day today is, for those of you that have worked for CEOs and major companies before pursuing your independent dream, did they love what they did?

Interesting. Leave it in the comments below. We'll join the discussion. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have an amazing day.

Continue to believe, and we'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.

I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.