Roger Federer says he stays sharp by constantly asking himself how much better he can get and how much harder he can train. Evan Carmichael adds that you need to surround yourself with people and work that makes your own achievements look small, so you keep pushing instead of getting comfortable.
Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is question yourself. Over to you, Roger Federer.
For me, very important are the short-term goals, then the long-term is where do I want to be in 6 months' time. Because if you never set yourself goals, you can never question yourself because you just move from one to the next and you say it's gonna be okay. And the best thing I've done, to be honest, in the last 10 years, I think it was question myself at the best of times. When things are going great, what more can I do? How much better can I become? How much harder can I train?
I think this is a really important message for entrepreneurs because oftentimes the people around you can't push you to get better. I think this is why I go on and on and on about the importance of environment. I look at I look at myself and I look at the businesses that I've built and a lot of the people around me look up to me and think, "I want to be like Evan," or "I want to do my own version of that," and that's awesome and that's really humbling, but who are the people around me who are pushing me to want to do more? To look at what I've built, to look at Toronto Dance House, to look at my YouTube channel, to look at my website and say, "Evan, yeah, that's good, but you know, it could be way better." And I think You have to do that yourself, and you have to create an environment that creates that for you. To be your hardest critic, to surround yourself with ideas and energy and creativity that force you to always want to try to get better. When you are at the top of your game, to have it not be enough, right? I want to disrupt this school even more. I want to disrupt the YouTube world even more, and the way I do it is I surround myself with The top 10 rules for success videos, the espresso videos. You know, I'm reading Howard Schultz's book right now. I consume Walt Disney and Steve Jobs and super successful entrepreneurs, and I realize that what I've done is nothing. It's like tiny nothing compared to what others have done, and that pushes me to want to get better. And so if you find yourself in an environment where you're comfortable, where you don't have that motivation from outside of people telling you you need to get better, then create it for yourself because otherwise you get bored, you stagnate, and you don't realize your full potential as an entrepreneur. So the question of the day today is, how do you question yourself? Leave it in the comments below, I'll 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. <LYRICS>I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.</LYRICS>
