Unlock Your BIG Break in 13 Minutes | Stop THESE MISTAKES

Hello, Believe Nation! Today I'm going to talk about the 7 mistakes that are standing between you and your big break. A lot of people aren't where they should be. A lot of people are not getting the results that they should be getting with their talent, with their skill, with their love. They are not where they want to be. They're not hitting their goals. They're not having the impact that they could have. They're not making the money that they should make. They're not reaching people like they should, and it's because they continue to do these 7 mistakes over and over and over and over again. And hopefully by shining a light on them, by giving you guys some awareness about them, you can recognize if this is a pattern in your life that you need to break through to reach the success that you're after. So mistake number 1 is working on your weaknesses. And this might be a little counterintuitive because we tend to look at what we're not good at and say, oh, I need to get better at that, I need to improve, I need to fill fix that weakness. There was a story on my channel that I heard recently, and I thought I wanted to share it on this video, where it says bunny that is going to school, and he got an A in hopping, and he was failing his swimming. And so his parents look at that and they say, oh, you're not really doing well at swimming, you gotta work on that. And they give him extra lessons and private tutoring, and every day after school he's going swimming and swimming and swimming and swimming. And then finally he becomes, you know, he gets a passable grade, he becomes an average swimmer. But in that process, he forgets how to hop. And what's a bunny made to do? Hop, right? Michael Jordan is fantastic at playing basketball. He doesn't need to know French. He doesn't need to know how to make a pillow. There's a million things that he doesn't need to do. He needs to focus on what he's great at. And the same thing for you. You need to focus on what you can be one of the best in the world at, what you can have Michael-level talent and genius at and go all in on that, because otherwise you're a mediocre generalist at a whole bunch of things, but you're never able to have the impact that you want. Stop trying to swim when you should be hopping. Mistake number 2 is thinking you can do everything alone. There's this temptation to say, "I'm going to do everything by myself. I'm the best at what I do. Nobody cares as much as I do. Nobody has the skills that I do." I'm just gonna go all in on my own. You cannot achieve massive success by yourself. You need to have a team. You need to have people with you to help you with your cause, to help you build the business that you wanna build. Otherwise, you're always gonna be limited. You only have so many hours in the day, and you can automate, you can make yourself as efficient as possible, but you still only have 24 hours in a day. You know, Steve Jobs, Howard Schultz, AP Giannini only had 24 hours in a day. That's it. Where you get the leverage is using other people's time as well. And I know it can be hard, and maybe you've tried hiring somebody and it didn't work out. And you say, "Forget it, you know, that person I hired, I put so much effort into hiring them and they made all those mistakes and I just had to monitor them and it took me more work than me doing it myself." And you need to learn to be a better hire. You need to learn to be a better manager. You need to learn to bring on the right people. Most companies, the first person they hire is not still with the company a few years later. And it's not that that first person sucked, it's that the company didn't know how to hire. The entrepreneur didn't know how to hire. The entrepreneur didn't know how to manage. You can't just put somebody into a job and poof, expect them to be magic. Chances are your first couple hires are not going to work out. You're learning a new skill that you don't know before. You can't mail it in after that though. You can't have one bad hire and say, forget it, I'm never going to hire again. In order to get to where you need to go, you have to bring on a team to round out those weaknesses so you can focus on those strengths. You can focus on the big picture visionary stuff. You can focus on the thing that you are best in the world at, and you have the people around you support everything else up. Mistake number 3 is listening to the little man. The little man is the person in your life who's telling you all the reasons why you can't do something. He's the person that when you show your business plan or your idea to, all they do is poke the holes in the plan and tell you all the reasons why it'll never work. And tell you that you don't have the education, you don't have the upbringing, you're not from the right country, and you know, the government will never support you, and all the reasons why this thing will never work. And the mistake is listening to them, right? Because as entrepreneurs, we get this moment of boldness, we get excited, where we have this vision, we get this idea for what we want to accomplish. And it's 3 in the morning, we wake up and say, "This is what I want to do!" And then you wake up the next day and that energy is gone. Or maybe you wake up the next day and you tell somebody and they say, "That's what? That's what you want to do?" And then immediately, just by their reaction, you get all cowardly, right? And then you start thinking, "Oh, maybe that's not a good idea. Maybe I shouldn't do that." because of this one person's opinion who has never done what you are trying to do. And even if they love you, they haven't done what you're trying to do. Why are you listening to this person who has not done what you want to do? How is their advice meaningful to you? If anything, you want to do the opposite because what they're saying may be out of love because they want to see you take a safe, more traditional path, but their advice is going to help you take the same path as them. And if that's the path you want to take, great. But if that's not the path, then you shouldn't be talking to them in this circumstance. Your parents may be able to help you be a great person. They may be able to help you be a great husband or great wife or great mother or great father. But if they're not an entrepreneur themselves, they can't give you the business advice to help you go out and chase your dream. More importantly too, the little man inside your head, the person inside your head who's telling you, like, I can't do that. I don't have the skills. I don't have the knowledge. I don't have the money. I don't have the connections. I don't have the resources. I don't have the education. I can't do that. And whenever you catch yourself in those moments telling yourself why you can't do something, try to stomp it out. Look yourself in the mirror and say, I can't be successful. I can't reach my goal because— and what is that? What's that because? Fill in that blank for yourself. That's the limiting belief that you've been telling yourself your entire life. And until you crush it, you're never going to get to where you could go to be that best version of yourself. Mistake number 4 is being afraid to fail. Failure is not this final thing. Failure is not just like, I failed and then therefore I will never be successful. Look at the most successful people in your field, outside your field, it doesn't matter. They failed and they failed and they failed and they failed and they failed, and then they became successful. It's a story of everybody's success. Nobody just hits it and boom, never makes a mistake and is off for the rest of their life. So many people try something and they fail at it and they never get back off the mat. They never try it again because, "Oh, I tried that, you know, and it didn't work, so I can't do it again." And I get it, and it sucks, especially if it's in a public arena, especially if you're, you know, telling your friends and family, "I'm going to be an entrepreneur," and you take your shot and you miss and you fail. That can be really hard. You know, hopefully you don't have friends and family who are kind of laughing at you or making fun of you. That can be hard to get up and do it again. The only situation where failure is actually failure is if you haven't learned from it. If you learn from it, then you become a better entrepreneur. And the key is to not try to take huge, big risks so that you have huge, big failures, but you have a lot of little failures. You try something, you don't invest your money, invest your time, invest your energy, invest your hustle. Try, see if it works, see if you get results, see if you love it, see if it makes you come alive. If it doesn't, great, that's not a failure, it just didn't work. I learned from that. I'm not going to do that again. I'm going to do something else. Try that small. Invest your time, energy, hustle, not your dollars, your time. See if that works. If not, move on to the next thing. Continue to explore, continue to try, and every time you learn, you get a little bit better. But being afraid that something's not going to work out, if that's your mindset going in, you're never going to do anything big because you will always fail at stuff. And it's through the failures that you learn. Mistake number 5 is blaming your circumstances. So many people blame other things, other people, their environment on why they are not successful. I'm not successful because, you know, my parents don't believe in me. I'm not successful because, you know, I come from another country and I'm an immigrant. I'm not successful because I don't live in America. I'm not successful because my parents didn't send me to an Ivy League school. I'm not successful because I don't have $1 million in my bank account. Whatever it is. Right? It's always somebody else's fault. And until you take responsibility for your life, you know, in the early years, okay, great, you know, you're living under somebody else's expectations. You're doing what your parents tell you to do because that's your environment growing up. But when you become an adult, you know, you're an adult. This is your life now. You can change things. Just because somebody has expectations on you, it doesn't mean you have to do it. You have to decide whether you're going to live your version of your life or somebody else's version of your life. And too many people set these outside circumstances as that story that as long as you believe it, as long as you believe you're never going to be successful because you didn't get a university education, if that's your story, then you never will. Where there's been tons of people who have way worse situations than you do and they achieve success. You know, by the fact that you're watching this video, you know, you have a computer. You have internet access, you probably have some food, you know, your electricity bill is being paid. You're already way ahead than most of the world. You're already way ahead than somebody who's going to create the next game-changing thing and take off because they didn't let their story, their circumstances dictate where they can go. Mistake number 6 is not taking immediate action. I've already talked about this a little bit where you have that moment of boldness and you think A big idea, you get all excited, all confident, all energized, like, "This is it, this is my next big thing, I'm so pumped, I'm so excited by it," and then you wake up the next day and that energy is gone, and you're not feeling like, "Oh, that was too big an idea, I can't do that, who am I to do that?" The key to combating that is not waiting. Don't wait until tomorrow. It's easy to say, "This is so exciting, tomorrow I'm going to go do this," and then tomorrow you wake up and say, "Eh, I'm not sure, maybe tomorrow," and then the next day you wake up and poof, the idea's already gone. Forget about it. You've already fallen back into your, your mindset, your way of doing things, your limited thinking, and then you'll never take action on it. Where the key is to start building momentum immediately. As soon as you set a goal for yourself, like a goal is something that is challenging, is different, it stretches your comfort zone, it pushes you to be a better version of yourself. And because it pushes you, it's painful, right? It sucks to have to go through some of that stuff. If it was easy, then it wouldn't really be much of a goal. And so because it's painful, you don't want to do it. And as soon as you lose motivation and energy for it, it's going to fall off the plate because it's too painful for you. You don't want to do those activities. It stretches you too much. So the key is immediately take some kind of action, and ideally with somebody else, right? You're more likely to stick to a gym program if you sign up with somebody else. It's just like any other goal, right? If I have a goal to accomplish something, then first thing I do is I try to email somebody, set up a meeting. Hey, I have this idea, I wanna do X, Y, Z. Can you meet next week to talk about it? Now even if the next day I wake up and I'm like bowing down like, ooh, that maybe is too big an idea, I've committed. Like, I've gotta go meet that person next week. I'm not gonna back down and say, you know what, I didn't really believe in that idea anymore, right? I feel committed to following through. And so even if it's some small, tiny action, right? It's not this big, huge step we're gonna take. Some small, tiny action Take it immediately as soon as you set any goal for yourself in your life or in your business. And mistake number 7 is not having self-awareness. This is what I talk about a lot in my new book, Your One Word. Understanding your values, understanding who you are, living your life and creating the business on purpose. A lot of people are just constantly being reactionary. You're just reacting to the things that are happening to you. Your morning is a reaction to what has to get done, right? Your entire day just is reacting to emails and putting out fires and just constantly reacting to other people instead of with intent planning out your day, your business, your life. So understanding what it is that you stand for, what's the one word that you stand for? How does that then filter out through your company, through the people that you connect with, through the rest of your life so that you are living with intent. You're living with design. And sometimes that plan falls apart, sometimes emergencies happen, that comes up. But my goal is to live a no-crisis life, to not have— to have a no-crisis business. And it's not 100% attainable, but it's pretty close. You can design way more than you give yourself credit for. And instead of— an easy way to start, instead of just waking up and reacting to your day, Plan it. Design it. Here is how I'm going to spend the first hour of my day every day. These are the things that in order for me to be a success, in order for me to get to where I want to go, in order for me to achieve those things, this is the kind of person I need to be. And these are the habits that I need to keep. And this is the schedule that will allow me to keep those habits. And put it in and stick to it. Plan it. Design it. And that's the easy place to start. That first hour of the day, what are you spending your time on? And then stick to that schedule. Instead of reacting to the things around you. So that's my take on the 7 mistakes that are standing between you and your big break. I'd love to know what you think. Did you like the video? Uh, which one of the 7 meant the most to you? Do you resonate most with? Did I miss one? Are there really 8 or 9 or 10? Leave it in the comments below and I will join in the discussion. I also want to give a quick shout out to Tamara Weeks. Tamara ordered 10 copies of my book. Tamara, thank you so much. It means the world to me. For those of you watching, if you want your chance at a shoutout in a future video, make sure to pick up a copy of the book and then email in the receipts so we can enter you into the draw. Thank you guys so much for watching. Continue to believe, or whatever your one word is, and I'll see you soon.