Ralph Lauren | Motivational Speech

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is do it because you feel it. Over to you, Ralph Lauren.

Everything I've always done has been for my own emotion, and it was never done for a brand or a label. It's, it's, it's because I feel it. And when you give it a title, and then it sort of takes it away from me.

I think it's a really important message because I encourage entrepreneurs always, always make the big decisions with your heart and the small ones with the head. And too often I think we make these lists of pros and cons and why should we go for this opportunity or not, and quite often The one that makes the most logical sense, the one that everybody tells you to do, the one that looks the best on paper, the one that when you line up all your pros and cons and compare one against the other, quite often that decision is the wrong one for you because your head can only understand the world that currently exists, where your heart can create a new world that hasn't existed yet. Richard Branson is famous for saying that he doesn't involve accountants in any of his deals until he's already closed it. Because in his view at least, accountants are people who only look at a world that currently exists and aren't the dreamers. Well, you have to be a dreamer, right? If you want to go and create an ideal life for yourself, it doesn't yet exist. It doesn't fit into any box. You have to create that box. And so you want to do the things that make you come alive. You want to do the things that get you excited, where you can't sleep, where you're sitting by your bedside writing notes and still working and working on these ideas. You want to do things that make you come alive when you wake up in the morning and you want to get going and get that project done. You know there are some things that waking up at 5 in the morning sounds like, "Oh, I gotta wake up at 5 in the morning, I got this meeting to go to, I gotta do these projects." But then there are some other days when maybe you're booking a flight somewhere, maybe you're working on some really exciting project, and waking up at 5 in the morning is no problem. And so you want to concentrate on finding those opportunities that make you come alive instead of living like the walking dead instead of just living the 9-to-5 lifestyle and living for the weekends and the evenings where hopefully you get to have a little bit of fun. 'Cause that's most people. Most people don't enjoy their lives. You want to do things because you feel it. You want to do things that make you come alive. I look at my YouTube channel. Last night I was up till midnight reviewing the videos. I've got 5 people, 6 people on my YouTube team now. I still review every single second of video before it goes out. Now that doesn't mean I don't make mistakes, and some mistakes slip through the cracks, but I'm still involved in every aspect of it because I love it. You know, I've been trying to give up pieces, but I love it so much, I care so much, I find so much value in the videos, and I want it to have a positive impact on your lives, right? I don't wanna just give it away to somebody. It has to be meaningful, and I get so much value from it still. That's why I'm up till midnight still working on these projects. And thankfully I have a wife who's very supportive and very understanding and is part of the team and is helping me answer your questions. So I want you to find something that you feel that passionately about as well. If you're waking up and you're going to your office and you're sitting in front of your laptop and you just feel like you're grinding it out instead of actually doing something that makes you come alive, you can only do that for so long before you need to tell yourself, I need to change something. I need to find something new for myself. And that's not to say that every day is amazing and every day is roses and peaches and every day you're making tons of money. But if that happens for too many days in a row, if you look at yourself in the mirror for too many days and you're not happy, then change something. And how you know that you're on the right track to the new thing is because it feels right. So the question of the day for you guys today is, what do you do that makes you come alive and feels right? Leave in the comments below. I'm going to join the discussion. Thank you so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso. Espresso, keep me going.