Unlock SUCCESS Through Hunger & Curiosity | 14-Min Insight

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today we're going to talk about 5 ways that you can achieve massive success. Number 1 is my personal favorite, and I also share my advice at the end of the video. Also, as you're watching and listening along, if you hear something that you really enjoy, that really resonates with you, add it to the comments and put quotes around it so we know what really has an impact on you.

Let me share something with you. You can learn all the techniques in the world. If you don't believe in yourself, it won't happen for you. I learned all of it. So that's why I do a training called Focus on the Seller. You've got to focus on you. And as you convince you, as you sell yourself every day, every day, every day, you will begin to see a difference in the things that you're doing. Selling yourself on your ability to perform a job, to achieve a certain objective, telling yourself every day, "Here I go again, and I got what it takes.

This is my day, and nothing out here is going to stop me." I'd say the number one common thread of anybody that I work with that's successful—financial, athletes, people in politics—it's hunger. You know, you and I both know intelligence is a pretty damn valuable tool, but there are a lot of very smart people who can't fight their way out of a paper bag. And then when you find somebody who has that hunger, the hunger that doesn't go away, that hunger to be more, to do more, to give more, that hunger that never ends, you know, that's how you get these people that are the best in the world at whatever they do. And so if you can, I think everybody has that hunger, but for some people it's been asleep for a long time because they're afraid. They're afraid that I'm gonna get hungry, I'm gonna try, I'm gonna fail. And so it's human nature to protect yourself from the fear by just lowering your expectations. But one of the things I've learned is you get what you tolerate. You get what you tolerate in yourself, you get what you tolerate in your life, and sooner or later we sometimes hit a point where we say, "Not another day, not another hour, this is done. I'm not walking this way, I'm not talking this way, I'm not living this way, I'm not going to be in this relationship anymore, I'm going to change it." And when people do that, that's the beginning of a breakthrough.

Because a lot of people just say, "Well, I want to get ahead." And I say, "What does that mean?" They say, "Well, Brendon, I want to make some more money." And I say, "Great, make money at what?" And they say, "Well, I got this job, so I'm going to try and, you know, get ahead here at this job." And I said, "But is this is the job what you really want to be doing in the first place? Because sometimes the busy work that you have in your life isn't your life's work, you know? It isn't your real passion, your real drive, your real desire, that your work feels like a hobby, it feels like you get lost into it because it's so great and so fun. And those, so many people out there are lying to themselves saying, well, I couldn't make money doing X thing, you know? They have some big dream, but they say, I couldn't make money doing that. I say, what are you talking about? I know yoga instructors making 6 figures a year. I know piano teachers making 7 figures per year. You can't go online and not find someone crushing it in any given topic area of life today. The business opportunity is there, it's just will you show up in a disciplined, intelligent way, which we'll talk about, right? So it's becoming conscious, what do you really deeply truly desire to do? Because if you get ahead at things that you don't care about, maybe you're climbing the ladder or, you know, you're succeeding at something, but it's not your real thing, you know, it'll eat at you. It'll eat you from the inside out. It'll deaden the soul because, yeah, maybe you have some financial or material success at that thing and maybe you even have some accolades. Maybe people appreciate you for it. Maybe you're even paying people's mortgages and paying employees at it. But if it's not really your thing, then you're in trouble because you'll never feel internally like you're getting ahead because you won't integrate those successes to yourself because you don't find them meaningful. So getting ahead begins with becoming conscious to what is it you truly desire? What would you love to do? Because you can build a business model around anything today. That is the great gift of the online world. That is what we've seen over and over and over worldwide. People in any given area crushing it. So what do you want to do? That's where we begin. What do you truly consciously desire to do? Not what are you doing because you fell into it. That's not consciousness. Consciousness means consciously designing your life, designing who you are, deciding where you're gonna go and what you really want to accomplish. The second thing that we have to have to get ahead is competence, right? We have to have knowledge, skill, ability in any given area. It's not just one day you wake up with talent. It's that if you're really going to get ahead, you have to study your craft. You have to deeply study it. You know, I decided— what was it now— 18 years ago that I wanted to help inspire and motivate people, and I wanted to coach people one-on-one on motivation and on high performance, and I wanted to write books on the topics. So 18 years ago, I started reading a book a week on psychology, leadership, communication, marketing, anything I could get on my hand about human behavior and high performance. I was studying everything I could in psychology every single week. Now, it's like, people are like, "Wait, you read a book a week for 17 years?" I don't brag about it. I'm not like, "Oh yeah, look at me." That was for my passion. I knew if I really wanted to succeed at something, I had to study it, and I had to study it deeply. And I couldn't, you know, spend all this time doing all the other things. So I had to study my craft. The great artists of our past history, that's what they did. They did one thing. They had a true level of depth of study in that area. Now, maybe they dabbled in some other areas too, but they became famous because they studied one area. And so what's your area? What's the thing you need to study on, develop a deep level of competence into how to do it and how that world works? Because, you know, we have this saying in Montana that the time to have the map is before you enter the woods. But a lot of people have a dream and they run out into the woods and they just start trying stuff and they take this path and this path and this path and this path and because they didn't study best practices, they someday, you know, they wake up and they're lost. They're confused about who they are and where they're at and they're in this dark forest of the unknown. Into the unknown with no plan to get out. They had no idea, they just jumped into something. They didn't study before taking that leap. And I always say, you know what, study, pay attention, learn from the best, model the most intelligent, smart, successful people you can in any given area that you want to succeed in in your life before you get into it. Then develop competency by doing it over and over and over and over again. Don't do it once in a while here and there, over and over and over. That's how you get competence.

I mean, the reality is reading a book or going to a conference or having a great conversation where you get this golden information, that's all fantastic. But what makes mastery is execution on the ideas, not the ideas. And so no idea works unless you're willing to roll up your sleeves, do the practice, invest the time, put in the effort, Do the work. I think we've all observed a lot of people who, they love reading the books, they love showing up at the courses, they do all the online training, and nothing ever changes. And they say, well, you know, I don't know why it doesn't change, why my life doesn't change, why my thinking doesn't change, why my performance doesn't change, why my relationships don't change. Well, it's because ideas don't work if you don't execute on them. So, if you look at the great business builders, you look at any great performer, one thing that makes them great is their grit. One thing that makes them great is their hunger to practice. One thing that makes them great is they are willing to sacrifice. I mean, yes, they're passionate, but did you know the root of the word passion is suffering? You've got to be willing to suffer for your vision. You've got to be willing to suffer to reach BIW, best in world. You've got to be willing to suffer the ridicule and laughter of your critics and your cynics to get to a place called world-class.

See, unfortunately, a lot of people stand in front of the stove of life and they say, now stove, you give me some heat, then I'll put some wood in you. That ain't the way it works. You got to put something in before you can get anything out. So many times, you know, the employee goes to the employer and say, give me a raise, then I'll start coming to work on time. Time, or so many times they will come to him and say, "Make me the boss. Now, I know I haven't been here very long, don't really deserve to be the boss, but I just function better when I am in charge of the thing. You reward me now and then I promise you I'll learn what this business is all about later on. Reward me now and I'll produce later." It doesn't work that way. Can't you just see a youngster in school saying, "Teacher, if I take a failing grade home, my parents are going to skin me alive." Pass me on this quarter, and next time I'll study more than anybody else. Reward me now, I'll produce later. It doesn't work that way. Can't you just see an old farmer standing out in the fields in October and saying, Lord, I know I didn't plant a thing this year, but if you give me a big crop this year, I'll plant more than anybody next year? It ain't that way, folks. You gotta put something in before you can expect to get anything out. Well, he's just pumping away, you know. That's hard. It's August. I mean, uh, the question is just how much pumping are you going to do for a drink of water? And finally, old Bernard said, you know, Jimmy, I don't believe it's any water down there. Jimmy said, yeah, it is, Bernard. You know, in South Alabama, the wells are deep. And oh, we're glad they're deep, because the deeper the well, the cooler, the cleaner, the sweeter, the purer, the better tasting the water. And isn't that true of life? Isn't it true that if you could become an MD by 6 weeks of summer school, that the rewards would be almost minimal or nothing, and how many patients would you have? Isn't it true that if you become a sales expert in 3 days of a training school, that the rate of pay would go down rather radically? Isn't it true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can learn to do it well? We'll never know how many kids have missed a college scholarship because they didn't study if we would study an average of 10 more minutes a day. We will never know how we come so close to promotion, but we grew discouraged and quit too soon. We'll never know how much more success we would have had had we just had a little more pumping in there and pump and pump and pump and pump. Well, finally, old Bernard just got disgusted. He threw up his hands. He said, "Jimmy, there's just no water down there. Jimmy said, 'Don't stop, Bernard. Don't stop. If you stop, they—'" The water's going to go all the way back down, and then you're going to have to start all over. The reality is, folks, and I'm totally convinced of this, this is the story of America. This is your story. This is a story of success. This is the story of life. I believe with all of my heart that if you would pump long enough and hard enough and enthusiastically enough, that eventually the reward is going to follow the effort. And then once that water starts to to flow. All you got to do is just keep a little easy, steady pressure on it, and you're going to get more water than you can possibly use. The basic problem is this: so many times people get involved in something, and they say, "Well, I'll give it a try, and if it works out, that'll be good. And if it— if it doesn't work out, I mean, hey, I ain't gonna kill myself, you know what I mean, fella?" Well, I got to tell you something, folks. You You're going to pump forever like that before anything happens. When you get into something, grab that sucker and get with it. And then once the water starts to flow, then ladies and gentlemen, that's what Strategies for Success is all about.

So my quick take on achieving massive success is that it comes when you are doing something that you're really excited about, that you're really passionate about. You have to do something that you love, that gets the creative juices going, that you wake up and you can't wait to do. That you fall asleep, you're thinking about, that thing that really ignites you. But then you also have to do it in a new courageous way. You have to do it in a way that is unique to you, because you may want to be a YouTuber, as an example. Your goal is to be a YouTuber, and you love making videos, and it's what you're all about. And you can look at my channel, somebody else's channel, and say, I want to be exactly like Evan, or I want to be exactly like Eric Thomas, or exactly like, you know, Michelle Phan, or whoever it is that you really look up to, and that's great in that, you know, people before you have laid the path down for some of the rules to get to, you know, where they've gotten to. But you can't just follow somebody else's path to achieve massive success. At some point, yes, you can learn from other people. You could take bits from all these different people that you look up to, but where you will achieve massive success is in doing it in your way. If you look at the greatest The people who've had greatest success in any field, you look at athletes, you look at the way that Michael Jordan has had tremendous success, it wasn't doing it the exact same way that the people before him did it. He had to find a way to live within the rules of basketball, but then find a way that he could do his own thing and have his own kind of trademark on the game that was unique and special for him. And so don't box yourself in. You will not have massive success by only following somebody else and boxing yourself in to say, "I'm just going to be a clone of that person. I'm going to do exactly what they did." Your massive success will come when you do something that you love, when you're doing something that makes you come alive, but then also when you have the courage to do it differently than anybody before you has done it. That's my take. So thank you guys so much for watching. I made this video because Abdul Majid asked me me to. So if there's a topic you'd like me to cover in the next edition of Believe Life, leave in the comments below and I'll see what I can do. I'd also love to know what of the messages that you've heard today had the biggest impact on you and why, what change you're gonna make and why. Leave in the comments and I will join in the discussion. Also, if you see people that have left some of the remarks in quotes and one of them really resonates with you, make sure to give it a thumbs up and show them some love. Finally, I want to give a quick shout out to Patrick Sanchism or Sankism. Hope I pronounced that okay. Patrick, thank you so much for purchasing a copy of my book. It really means a lot to me. For those of you guys watching, if you want your chance at a shout out in a future video, make sure to pick up a copy of the book and email in the receipt so we can keep track. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe, or whatever your one word is, and I'll see you soon.