You Are IGNORING This DAILY Game-Changer! | Gratitude Habit

Hello everyone, welcome to another stream. We're working on the name, we're working on the name. J-Rise and Rishi Cup have been sending some names. We are here getting the game on and answering your questions with my fellow co-host Rishi Cup TV. Rishi, welcome back.

Thanks Evan, glad to be here. Happy Monday, Believe Nation.

What is in the cup?

A cup of gratitude. Just had a great time on our gratitude stream that you had just started today. That was a lot of fun.

Yeah, we talked about that on Friday. We talked about doing that on Friday and boom, here we are on Monday, next day getting it done. So I'm going to try that for the week, see how that goes. 9 AM, 10 minutes of gratitude with Believe Nation and see what's up.

And fabulous.

I'm ready to get into a game here, answer some questions. Do we talk about what's in the cup? Yes, gratitude. I've got, uh, my usual vitamin drink and, uh, smoothie and water. So this is good. I'm excited. I'm ready to go. We got, we got people in the Twitch chat too. Just gonna drop a welcome all here.

Yeah, shout out to a day now and more coming.

Oh, it doesn't recognize me as a leader here, so I can't actually chat. All right, whatever. We'll figure that out later. All right, so let's do it. First question, what do we got? Who's up?

All right, first question comes from Raquel. Raquel is from Brazil and she admires your work a lot, Evan.

Thank you, Raquel.

She wants to know, Yes, she wants to know, would you help mentor her in her— she wants to build a business and she just would love to have you as a mentor. We get this question a lot, don't we, Evan?

Yep.

Lots of people want to be mentored by Evan. #MentorMeEvan.

It's a new stream.

And yeah, but what we've talked about a lot is that Really, the best way to get mentored by Evan is watching. I mean, there's just so much that you're pouring out value every day on your channel. And I know that your mission is to really— you kind of consider mentoring something that you could just scale in the largest amount possible. So you're trying to reach, I know, 1 billion entrepreneurs, which means that you're not necessarily always making yourself available for one-on-one mentoring. But hey, I am getting mentored by Evan every single day as I watch videos, and you're not limited by anything but your hunger if you— stay tuned to the Believe channel and get active in Believe Nation and be a part of livestreams. And yeah, so that's what I got. What do you think, Evan? Anything you want to add to that?

You're not limited by anything but your hunger. Look at that. Hello, Rishi, on a Monday morning. This is some motivation. I like that. Yeah, so a couple thoughts. First off, I already am, right? Like to Rishi's point, I already am mentoring you. Like the videos are there. I mentor myself with the videos, right? Like maybe not what I'm saying, but the top 10 rules, the Believe Life, all of that is for me to get mentorship for myself. And I don't want to downplay the importance of having somebody you know, face-to-face that you can ask help for, but don't let that limit you. Like, if you don't have somebody in your life that you can go up to and ask personal questions to— oh, we got a game going here. Um, there's so much— I mean, J-Rise was talking about how he was grateful for YouTube. There's so many resources online that you can just get to. Oh, I'm playing mid. That's gonna be interesting. Okay, uh, should I do Heimer mid or Teemo mid? What do you think, Rishi? Rishi, you pick.

Heimer. Heimer mid.

Back to Heimer?

Yeah, I like Heimer top.

Oh wait, J-Rice wants the Heimer top. Okay, I'll Teemo.

Okay, Teemo's good too.

I'll hop to Teemo. Let me ban, let me ban. Sorry guys, I gotta ban somebody here. Oh, I'll Teemo top. I don't know how to message J anymore. This is confusion. All Teemo top. I mean, all Teemo mid, Jay, if you want time. There we go. I'll switch that up. This is kind of awkward here. There we go. Okay. Yeah, and so like, look at the people on my wall here, right? You know, you can't see this one, I don't think, in the livestream, but this is Steve Jobs and Howard Schultz, my parents and Ippigenini and Kanye. You know, I've never met— well, I've met my parents. But aside from my parents, you know, I haven't met any of these people. Two of them I can't meet because, you know, they passed on. Two of them I hope to meet someday. But you can learn a lot from people who are just putting out content, who have interviews, who there's top 10 rules on. And so Go out and start investing in yourself and make a list of people that you want to learn from. Part of what I love about the Top 10 too and the content we're creating is I don't know a lot of the people before we put them up. Like there's a number of people who've had tons of success and had great ideas that I never heard of before somebody asked me to do, and then others who I totally didn't give a lot of respect to or didn't really know a lot about. So, mm-hmm, like Selena Gomez has an amazing top 10 video we did on her, and Denzel Washington had a great top 10 video out, and lots of other people too. And just not just writing that person off, like, what am I gonna learn from Selena Gomez, or what am I gonna learn from Denzel Washington? But they have a lot of great stuff out there that I can learn from. So So that is your easiest first step, is that recognizing you are already being mentored and take it more upon yourself to go out and continue in that, in that tradition. That's it. I don't really do a lot of one-on-one mentoring. I do have a package through my book that if you buy a certain number of copies, you can get some either one-off mentoring or 6 months of mentoring. Which I don't normally do. And it's only because the work that I want to do is at scale. Where I love being able to help people one-on-one as well, but it's hard to scale. Like, I want to help a billion entrepreneurs, and it doesn't happen by spending 6 months helping one person. So the stuff that I do, I want it to be at just a bigger scale. So as much as I love helping people one-on-one and still do, like yesterday I met down with an entrepreneur and was helping them at a coffee shop. I have to almost force myself not to because I'm not tapping into my true potential to be able to reach a lot more people and have a bigger impact on the world. Yeah, that's it.

Makes sense. Shout out to— did we have a shout out to Damasta in the chat?

Damasta, welcome aboard, man.

Yeah, welcome. And Rise had some good value he's given in the comments. He mentioned the mastermind group as well as the book. I mean, aside from the channel, now your book is out. So that's also another way to get even, even more mentoring.

So yeah, so we're getting into game. Uh, I don't remember the last time I played Teemo mid. It's a long time, and, and I don't think Jay and I have ever done Teemo mid, Heimerdorfer top before, so this is a good experiment. But we're all about the experiments on this stream. We've had a number of successful ones, so I'm excited to try it up again.

I feel confident you will win today.

Oh, wow. Wow. Well, that's— you had a bold message this morning about hunger and now a bold prediction, a blind prediction there about what's going to happen. So I'm excited. Let's see what happens.

Oh, gosh. Okay. Next question comes from Praneeth, um, Praneeth says I'm a software engineer, and he works for Intel currently. He wants to start his own company developing an app and solving real problems. For example, maybe like an online store or online platform where you can deliver groceries. And anyway, he's just got some insecurities, and that is related to finances because, you know, he wants to venture out and follow his dream of this app, but he's worried about, you know, making enough money to be able to survive if he just goes all in on the business. So he's basically wondering, is it better to raise some money from working, continuing to work at Intel, and slowly start his own company, or kind of should he get his hands dirty and just, you know, kind of in his words, get his hands dirty in the early stages? So, well, I think this is a really, really common kind of dilemma for people. I'm thinking now about Jen, You So Much and how, you know, she was at a job and then shares on her channel about how she jumped, you know, she just decided to take the leap and leave her job so she could be all in on her business. I think that there's no one right answer. I just think the most important thing is to decide what are you willing you're willing to do and what are the conditions you're willing to live with. I mean, I think, I think if I'm not mistaken, Robert Kiyosaki at one point was living in his car, you know. I think I'm wrong about that, but I've heard stories about, I've heard stories about what the lengths that entrepreneurs will go to to make their dream a reality. I.e., living in your car for a season because they are willing to live at that level so that they can achieve their goal. So I don't think there's one right answer. It's about what's right for you and what are you willing— like, what, what lifestyle are you willing to live? And do you love that idea enough to suffer for it, you know? So I think Evan, one of your videos talked about passion, the root of passion is to suffer. So are you willing to suffer for your passion? And only you can determine what level of like willingness of suffering, and hey, I'll be the first one to say, I don't know, I'll be the first one to say, like, I wanna know that I can always buy my cup of coffee every day, and there's certain luxuries that I like, and I don't know if I'd be willing to live in my car. I don't know.

Right.

But that's a decision that only you can make. So I don't think there's a right answer, but it's what's right for you and what are you willing to live with. What do you think, Evan?

Yeah, first thing I realized is that when I play a lane, like so I'm playing mid instead of jungle, there's a lot more focus that has to go in. This is gonna be a lot harder than I expected, but it's okay. There's a lot of focus that has to go into actually playing the matchup, 'cause I'm playing, I'm like actually fighting against somebody instead of just taking out, playing against the computer kind of thing with the robots. But that's OK. It's experiments. That's what this is all about. Yeah, so I didn't understand. Does he have the skills to actually do the app programming, or is that not in there?

He's a software engineer, so it sounds like he does.

OK, so he can do it. Yeah.

Yeah.

If it were me, it's my typical advice. Is the typical advice, typical EC advice is I like starting stuff on the side. Like this, what are we doing right now, right? This is an experiment. What was my Monday morning stream on gratitude? It's an experiment. I love starting small experiments on the side. I want to do small tests, see if it works, see if I like it, see if we're getting results, see if it makes me come alive, see if I want to continue to experiment and try new things out. Or if I realize it's not for me and I quit, because there's been a ton of stuff that I've also quit and gave up on because it just didn't float my boat. It wasn't something I was super passionate about, but it's worth an experiment to see and try. If you have the skills to do the programming, then I would be like, "What are you doing when you get home from Intel?" That's what I would be focused on. Wake up a little bit earlier and focus on coding, or when you get home from work, you know, focus on coding, right? I'd be spending time every day to make sure I'm moving forward on my dream, extra hard on the weekends to get my hustle on and make sure that I'm seeing if it'll work. I don't think the option is raise money while you still have your— like, who's gonna give you money so you can keep your full-time job, right? Like, unless you're taking money out of a bank, so you're taking out a loan, but no investor is gonna want to give you money so that you can keep it, keep your job, and then try to go out and program. Oh, I'm not, I'm not doing well here. This is rough. I should have done Hymer. You know what, I should have not traded with Jake because Hymer is so much easier to play. I can go more autopilot. Anyway, it's good, good lesson. Nobody's gonna give you money to do it unless you're taking money out of the bank, which is not something I would recommend. I hate going I hate spending money, you know, you guys know me. I hate spending money before I'm making money. So yeah, I've been investing my hustle, investing my time on the side to make sure that I could try to get something working. The one caveat is some people have that personality where they have to go all in. It's not me. I hate it. Like, I love the experiments, but think about like if you were a smoker and you're trying to quit smoking, do you go just cold turkey and go all in? And that's your personality style, like I'm either— I'm doing it or I'm not doing it. Because some people have that, and it's— I think it can— I think it can hurt because if you go all in, you're gonna be quickly running out of money, right? So you'll have, you know, 3 months worth of money to live on, and you have to make it in that 3 months. But some people need that. Some people need that pressure. They need to burn the boats and not have a backup plan and just go all in and make it happen. So if that's you, that would be my only caveat to leaving your job. Oh, I got a gank! Did not see, I did not see, I did not see. My teammate came to help me, but I wasn't paying attention, so— well, we did okay there. Yeah, so that would be my only caveat. If you have that kind of personality where you have to go all in and you know you can't commit to doing something on the side and you're just always going to slack off unless you force yourself to quit your job and do it, then that's the advice, but it's a lot riskier play. And I hate having to do that personally. That's what I got? And good luck. And what's the app about?

Great.

What was the app about? Did he say what the app was about?

Yeah, he wants to solve basically real problems. For example, like an app that delivers groceries.

Yeah, but what does his app do?

That part is not included.

Right, okay. So like how long was that message?

How long was the message?

Yeah, how long was it? Like, he emailed in, right? How long was that email in?

Oh, um, it was like— I can't remember because I always take a little snippet of it.

Got it. Well, it was longer than a little snippet. It was longer than a little snippet, right? So instead of complaining about how most people don't do real stuff, right? Tell me in that message what it's all about. Like, maybe I could have helped you with something, right? Or maybe someone's listening to this stream or watching this channel and they say, oh, that's a great idea, I want to be a part of it, right? Without giving away everything, you know, by sharing a little bit allows you to build a team and get people on your side. So, uh, you know, and that's a lesson for everybody. If you want people to help you, you have to give a little bit more context. And definitely not just kind of complaining about the status quo. Give me your solution.

Great. Okay, we have a question actually in the chat today. All right, all right. Yeah, from DeMasa. He's actually got a question specifically about your channel and TDS. He says, in what ways Actually, Damassa, I should not assume that you are a guy. I don't know if you're a guy or girl. In what ways do you actively practice social sustainability with your channel or with TDS?

Social sustainability with my channel or TDS. I wonder what he means by social sustainability.

Yeah, I was going to ask that question as well. Maybe you can clarify, Damassa. What specifically would you want to know?

Since he's watching live, let's get some added clarity on that. Leave it in the chat. Rishi's paying attention. I am not. I am paying attention to Rishi and trying not to die. But yeah, let's get some added clarity. What does that mean? Because I would love to answer the live question too.

Great. All right. And you're doing great. I can see you. Looks like even though you've got more on your hands today, it looks like you're doing great.

Yeah, I'm actually ahead of this guy, surprisingly, somehow. But I'm excited. This is the— Rishi called to win, so I better deliver for her.

Oh man. Alright, next question comes from Faisal, and Faisal says, I'm in an environment which I don't like and it's not serving me. I want to move to another country, but I also have a chance to study here in my country for free. So I don't know what's better. Should I, you know, move or take advantage of my free studies here where he is?

Right.

So, yeah, I mean, this is another one of those things that I think we were talking about with, with some of these life questions are things that I think you've got to kind of dig deep and ask yourself what's in your gut and in your heart for what is right for you. I don't know if the studies that you have available to you for free, if they are something that can further you in the direction that you want to go. I'm assuming you're an entrepreneur. So, hey, if someone's giving you a free education and you can take advantage of it so that it can further you along in what it is that you want to do, and it can help you build a network, and it can help you get mentoring or whatever You know, identifying what are the things that you need for where you want to go, and maybe that education can provide that, maybe it can't. But I think most importantly, you know what you want and you know what you want to do, and so that will help you decide what's the best way to get there. Environment. Evan, you talk a lot about environment, so When you say your environment's not serving you, I'd be curious what that means to you. I mean, lots of people think, well, I live in this country, so, you know, that's going to hinder me from achieving my goals, whereas most of the time that's actually just an excuse that we will tell ourselves. So, I think it's a— I think it's a complex question that obviously doesn't have a one right answer, but I think that the most connected you are to who you are, what you want, and where you want to go will at least get you closer to knowing how to answer that question for yourself. And hey, plenty of people move. All the time because they're interested in a particular industry and they want to be where that industry is. So there's nothing wrong with moving either, but I think it's just really knowing what do you want and, you know, what are the goals that you're trying to achieve.

I like it. While that was happening, I got a kill, so pretty excited. I'm going to be honest, I'm pretty excited about that one. I was expecting to really not do well in lane, but things are going well. I got a little distracted there. So yeah, in terms of education, really with all big decisions, it's hard overhead. It doesn't always make the most sense to do the things that you need to do that's best for you. I'm sure it's easy, like it's the easy path, which still may be the one to take. Like maybe you should be taking the easy path, but it doesn't mean that it's necessarily the right path. And one of the things that really helped me when I was in university, it wasn't about where to go to university. I didn't, I liked where I went, but more what I wanted to do coming out of university. It was the stupid thing, like the not smart thing, the thing that didn't make a lot of sense logically to turn down, you know, high-paying jobs to do my own business where I'm making like no money. What helped me through was figuring out that I didn't want to live with regret. And so I would be looking at your situation now and saying, if you have this potential opportunity to go somewhere else and, you know, your environment isn't great and you want to go and learn and you don't take it now, will you regret that? Or if not, then great, don't worry about it, right? Like, if you think, hey, you know what, I'll try the free one. If it doesn't work, I can go next year. You know, like, give it a shot on the free one, and if If I'm not liking it, I'll transfer out next year. Great.

Like, yeah, that's true.

That can work too. Just what are you gonna regret least? Like, is anything gonna lead to you having massive regret in this situation? And if it is, then I'd be looking at how to avoid it. And often the thing that you might regret is the thing that you are afraid of. And so there might be You know, it's usually not the one that's the safe path. It's the crazy idea. It's the one that, you know, everybody tells you that you shouldn't be doing. So that's it. It's like for all of these decisions, major life decisions, you know, what business to start, who to marry, what school to go to, you know, what job to take, what city I should live in, you know, all of those ones where you might think, hey, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make that list of pros and cons and logically work my way through this. At the end of the day, it's not a logical thing that will save you. It has to be through something that your heart is in on. So big decisions with the heart, small ones with the head. Always, every situation. And when you make that big decision with your heart, your head will help you figure it out. Right? If you're like, okay, my heart really says go do this education somewhere else, okay, great. Now your head can help you figure out how to go and do it. So that's my advice and good luck.

Yeah, good stuff. All right, next question comes from Nepro, and Nepro is asking, hey Evan, I'm not sure if you have a video about this, but I'd like to know your top 10 cities for fitness tech entrepreneurs.

Wow, okay, I love it, I love the I love the randomness. This is great.

Yeah, so, you know, I personally can't say I have a top 10 for this, but I would say if you're interested in fitness tech, I know some of the leading companies right now are companies like Fitbit, which Evan, I don't think you're doing your Fitbit this morning.

I do. No, no, I'm just not walking. I can't constantly. I have like 4,000 steps there. It's not a lot, but I cannot add this to answering questions. It's my limitation at the moment. Maybe I'll work on it. One of these days I'll get there.

Yes, yes. So Evan loves his Fitbit. I know Nike, I mean Nike, we all know Nike, FitWall, Jawbone. So I would look into these leaders of fitness tech and, you know, find out where they are, and maybe that'll help you. I don't know if you, you know, pro, are interested in moving somewhere where there are these industry leaders, but yeah, just I would just take some time to research where those companies are and make your own. How about you make your own list of top 10 cities and then email us what you get back as your research.

All right. This one is a hard one for me. I have two conflicting thoughts. One, so the easy one is like, I don't know, you know, I don't, I don't keep track of that stuff. I don't, I don't have a city that I would recommend you go see. So I can't add a specific, I can't directly answer your question. But in terms of kind of adding more value to the topic, on one hand, I am a big believer that the environment matters and that you need to, you know, be somewhere where you're surrounded by people who make you come alive. On the other hand, I love my city so much that I can't imagine another city that I would ever want to go to. And my approach is I want to make Toronto great, and I get upset when people want to leave to go to— they feel like they have to go to New York or Boston or California or wherever to start a business. I want to make this city amazing. And so, I don't know, those two ideas are— they seem opposite, right? Because if environment is really important, then you should be where the good stuff is happening. But my— maybe it's my local pride or just my own confidence in that I feel like just make it amazing yourself. There's amazing things around you and my belief is wherever I am, that city has to be amazing.

Yeah.

I don't know if we helped. I don't know if we helped answer that question, but that was a tough one.

Well, I think you're, as usual, you're instinctively going kind of, I think, to what is the heart of it, which is, you know, this— I think we can fall into this thing where we are chasing something that we already, you know, it's what often limits us, is we're waiting to have this perfect circumstance to be able to, you know, get what it is that we want, when really we are able to do it right now where we are. With what's in your cup. Hello.

There you go. Wow, Rishi, she's turning up today. I like this Monday morning Rishi.

So I don't know, I just think that it is important to know where the industries are, but like you were saying, it really, I think you're just tapping into what might be the, you're giving value to what is, really, I think, at the heart of the question. But Rise Online also says Silicon Valley in the chat. That's obviously a huge industry for tech, and so Silicon Valley for sure is a great location to add to that top 10.

So yeah, I think I'm just too counterculture. I don't— I would never move to a city just for business. I mean, I'm fortunate I live in a great city to start with, so maybe if I lived in, you know, some tiny farmland or something where, you know, maybe my mind would change. But the people that I respect, if I look at cities, I don't really have a ton of respect for the Silicon Valleys, and it's not that I disrespect them, but what people like Tony Hsieh are doing, where they're trying to build Las Vegas into something, like trying to recruit people to come to their city and make it amazing, that is something that I have just a ton more respect for and something that I would want to do. I want to figure out how to bring that to my city. City to bring that to Toronto. So I don't know, I might be the— I'm a weird person to ask this question to. I appreciate it though, I appreciate the question.

All right, going back to the Damasta.

All right, we got follow-up, follow-up on the line. Okay, nice.

Yeah, yep. So Demasta, when he was talking about social sustainability, what he means is kind of what are your decisions about lending to being green, environmentally friendly, or lending to charity, helping some world cause. It sounds like he just kind of is curious to know, you know, maybe your— philanthropic goals or the things that you are wanting to achieve on a more social level.

Got it. Okay, so this might be just a philosophical difference because I believe that you don't have to be a charity to— I think entrepreneurs solve the global problems of the world. Like, what I do is is giving back, is making the world better. I don't do a lot of it through the lens of donating to charities or just following, you know, green best practices. Not that those aren't great things to do as well, but if you look at what I'm great at and the impact that I want to have, it's through Entrepreneurship. Oh, I just got a crazy lag spike. What happened there? Okay, I'm back. So, you know, the biggest initiative that I've probably done is I do a project with Kiva where we've helped raise— I'm going to go back— where we raised over $100,000 for entrepreneurs in Africa and like parts of the sales that we made. I need to do seminars and you know, the money raised would go to support those entrepreneurs into building something better for themselves. But like I never made a huge deal about that. It's not all over my website and I am proud of it. It was more someone on my team's initiative. I said, hey, what do you— what like she loved this cause. I said, oh, I can contribute to that by doing what I know, helping entrepreneurs. But the reason why I want to help a billion entrepreneurs is because the planet will be so much better because we're going to solve all the major problems. Like that last guy that— I forget his name— but said that he wants to do something meaningful, something big, something not just the same app that everybody else is doing, right? Yes! Got the kill! Rishi, man, I have 4 kills, no deaths, 2 assists. This is happening, this is happening, this is happening.

I see it.

This is, this is real game here. Yeah, so I think that the work that I'm doing is the greatest social cause of all, and I think, I think you should be doing whatever, like, whatever best helps the planet in your eyes. You should go out and do that. You don't have to live through my world and see the world that I see. You should be out doing your own big thing and having the impact that you want to go out and have. And maybe for you that is doing, you know, helping people eat more green and organic or having less pollutants in the environment or whatever it is. There's a question that somebody always asks in a live stream that I watch. And it's along the lines of, if you had all the money in the world, what would you spend it on? Like, what disease would you solve, or what would you spend that money on? And inevitably, most people say something that has big, like, world value, like, you know, I want to solve cancer. Or whatever. My take on it is if there's some big thing that you want to do, don't wait. Like, you should be doing it in a small way already.

Isn't that the truth?

Why are you waiting until you have a million dollars or whatever? You have an ability right now to go out and do it. So yeah, do it in a small way, right? Like, if I had a billion dollars, I would be helping entrepreneurs. And that's what I'm doing right now, just in a smaller way, right? So I don't know, it boggles my mind. Like, if there's something that you really want to do, there's some big impact you want to have on the world, then, then start now. Just go out and do it, just in a smaller way. There's nothing stopping you. Yeah. Anyway, that's my rant. I'm glad I got a chance to bring up that rant.

Yeah, that's really a good rant, and you will do what you you're passionate about at any scale. So, and it's funny, like, people think too, you know, if I get all this money, I would, would help this or that cause. But actually, you find that when people get a lot of money, they end up actually just doing what they were doing before they got all that money. So, you know, it's I think we can deceive ourselves into thinking that if we have more money, we're going to somehow do something different, you know. All right, continuing to dominate in the game here as we move on to the next question.

All right, let's do it.

So Andrew asks, I want to pick your brain about narrowing your focus. I'm 26 years old, I got my BA last year, and he was flip-flopping a lot on his major. Now he's working in an unrelated job with the intent in the world to get out and move forward, but I have too many visions and interests. And so he just wants to get some feedback. You know, what do you do when you, when you don't really have a narrow focus? How do you start?

Got it.

This is a, this is a question that I relate to a lot because, you know, I am one of those people who, who just didn't have that one thing. That was clear from the start, and, you know, it's been a challenge for me because I have a lot of passions for a lot of different things. So, um, for a lot of years I would do one thing and I would, you know, excel in that one thing, but it would ultimately not be really fulfilling for me because it felt like I was choosing this one thing at the expense of another thing. And so, like, you know, for years I was the dancer, and then I was the, you know, and then I focused on the singing and I was the singer, and then there were years I was the teacher. And, you know, it brought success, but I never felt fulfilled because I decided to narrow this focus, and it was at the expense of other passions and interests. So I think that some people are like this. They have a lot of different interests and a lot of different passions, and I get that there's always going to be this pressure to pick one and just be this one thing. But, uh, the whole reason I started my YouTube channel was to honor and acknowledge the whole me. And so for me, that means I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, I am someone who loves to do talk show type segments, I like to do educational videos. I mean, there's just all of the things that I've been up until this point are being able to be brought into my YouTube space. And I do still get a pressure to focus and, you know, I'll get the question like, but what exactly are you doing? And it's kind of like letting me know that, you know, this isn't the right way to go. And as I continue to do it, I'm hoping that I'll continue to improve. But I think that the more you can honor who you are and find something that can bring all your strengths together in a way that, you know, is unique to you, I think you're going to find the most— not just the most success, but the most fulfillment. Because for me, success is not just being able to make the money. It's feeling personally fulfilled and like you are doing meaningful work. So, I think it's easy to say, how do I just narrow my focus and do this one thing? But for me, it's all about pursuing the— all of the interests and the passions and letting them lead you wherever they take you. And hopefully, you know, that, that will help you get closer and closer each day.

I like it. We're on our way to victory.

Wow.

We're getting close. We're getting close. It's pretty close. It's not guaranteed yet, but it's pretty close. I just— I went blank. What was the question again? Just quick? I know what to say, but I just went blank.

How to narrow your focus when you have a lot of interests. Like, where should he start?

Yes, and we just won. All right, GG. Sorry, it was crazy. It was crazy. Like, we're all on the base, it's like this insanity happening. But, um, that was good. Let's give a quick recap of how we're doing, what the final score was here. It's just loading up, and then I'm gonna answer that question because I'm excited. I got an S. Good game to play. Oh, I went 7 kills, no deaths, 4 assists. And we won. Feeling pretty excited about it. Good. So Rishi called it. Another victory. The undefeated streak on the stream seems to be going well. I think in a 2016 world, you should have a hard time explaining what you do. I used to hate that. I couldn't explain what I did and I would just say like, I'm an entrepreneur or I help entrepreneurs or And then people say, "Well, like a coach? Like a consultant?" Not really. We kind of— I think it's good though. I think it's good not to just sit in a box. I think the people who have an easy job explaining what they do are in a box and aren't doing anything great. I think the people who have more— I mean, I think we all have the depth. I think we all have the ability to have the depth, and I think we all have the ability to take different things. If you want your true genius to come out, it's got to be by combining different things together that only you can do. I call it the genius at the end. It's from— what's the book? Jim Collins. I forget the book. Anyway, it's a genius at the end. Find the things that only you can do together, right? Like, look at what I'm doing here as an example, as a test, right? We have League of Legends, we have entrepreneurship, nobody's doing this, right? Now it doesn't mean it's gonna be super successful. We're trying, we're seeing, we're building up, you know, we've got more viewers than we had last time. Hopefully it's having an impact, but your magic will come when you do the 2 or 3 or 4 things together. The key thing is you find a way to integrate them so you're not off doing this on one side and this on the other side because you're gonna feel like you're all over the place and people will tell you you got to be focused. It's finding a way to integrate all of your talents together into one business that represents all the things that you have a passion for. If you do that, that's where you're gonna— like, you need to do that. Otherwise, just go get a job and sit in the box and you can say you are a lawyer or you are an accountant, right? And it makes it easy over dinners to explain what your job is and but it's not going to be fulfilling. And, you know, I think there's no excuse in the world that we're living now. It's just so easy to get started. There's so many resources available that if you can figure out what that combination is and explore until you figure it out, you know, the gratitude stream this morning was an example. Like, who is doing gratitude for entrepreneurs? You know, lots of people do gratitude, but specifically entrepreneurs, nobody's doing it. And I'm interested in both, so I'm gonna try it. It felt pretty good this morning, you know, I liked it. We had a nice 10-minute stream. Will that continue? I don't know, we'll see. We're gonna do it for the week and then see how it goes, see if I keep wanting to do it, see if people keep wanting to show up. The league stream, you know, we're upping the number of days that we do it. Will it continue to work?

I don't know.

But we're testing, we're trying, we're seeing, and being okay with kind of exploring your curiosity until you find the thing that just really makes you come alive. That's a man, that's how I'm gonna execute it. And so there was a video, I think it was Anna, I think it was the Anna Wintour espresso that helped clarify this for me as well, in that I feel like it's good to be able to not describe in— like, I feel good that it's hard to explain what you do, that it takes a sentence to explain what you do. This from the guy who wrote a book called Your One Word, you know, like there's the caveat, right? There's the dichotomy. But yeah, I think you need to go out and Be able to make it difficult to explain what you do, get some depth to what you do day in, day out, and most importantly, all those areas that you have, how can you combine them into a focus without having to give something up? Because if you give something up, you're always gonna feel like, ah, I wish I still did that, and did I make the right choice? And you're always gonna doubt yourself, and there's always gonna be a piece of you that's missing. 'Cause you want to go and do that. So figure out a way to do all of them together where doing one helps the other and helps the other instead of doing 4 different things that are on their own island, right? Like build your own country where all 4 things exist on that same country instead of having to hop between 4 different islands. So, you know, this stream, most of the people watching, I'm assuming came from my my YouTube channel, but if we get somebody new from Twitch watching, that helps my YouTube channel. You know, when I go out and speak, or when I write my book— I don't have a copy here— you know, that brings out a new audience that helps my YouTube channel, helps my website, it helps my speaking, right? Everything— I'm doing a ton of different things, but they're all connected to each other. When I do one, it helps the other one succeed as well, instead of the opposite, where if you focus— if you you live on 4 different islands, when you do one, you're hurting the others because you're not spending your time there. So you're actually taking away from the others. Where if you combine all of them, when you spend time on one, you're helping the others build momentum as well. And figure that out, that's the real focus that will help you succeed. I'm excited, that's a great question, and— so another victory, guys, I need to show you here, right? Like I win 261 and I've lost 252. So I lose a lot, just not on stream. So it was another fun session. Rishi, final thoughts, final words? You started with hunger, you dropped some motivational advice. What are we closing the session on?

Well, I think on your last point, you know, just Encouraging everybody to discover what's in your cup and to pursue the business that acknowledges all of who you are. And I loved how you said, you know, if you don't, there's always a piece that's missing. And so that's what I'm trying to do at Reach Your Cup TV is encourage people to bring all the pieces together and integrate it into whatever it is that you want to do and how you want to impact the world.

I love it.

So great, great way to end.

Cool. Well, thank you guys for watching. Thank you, Rishi, for the energy and advice. Thank you, Jay, for the great game. Another victory. And we'll see you again tomorrow morning. Continue to believe, or whatever your one word is. We'll see you then.