Larry Weidel gives a solo motivational talk (Episode 26) about how winners view motivation. He argues many people avoid motivational content—often those who need it most—and commonly claim “I’m motivated enough,” which he contests by asking whether motivation produces action (e.g., getting up early, planning next moves). He stresses that motivation must activate effort: talent alone is insufficient without inspired hard work ("hard work beats talent"). Using meeting and sports analogies (teams losing when complacent, Usain Bolt jogging), he urges listeners to seek and chase motivation continuously and to give full effort. The episode closes with a CTA to rate the podcast and visit related channels/websites.
Welcome to this episode of the Million Dollar Mastermind. I'm Larry Weidell. And let's get started. This episode is another idea I'm sharing with you from my own personal daily reflections on winning over my lifetime. I've done tons of meetings, one on one meetings, small group meetings, serious high level meetings, inner circle meetings, spoken to 50,000 people at the Superdome, other places, those kind of big public meetings, all kind of meetings. And the funny thing is when it comes into meetings is that the people who are most likely not to want to go are the people who need it the most. Have you ever noticed that? And what they'll often come up with, or the comment they'll come up with is, oh, no, not just another motivation meeting, is it? They can't think of anything else to put it down. So, oh no, that's not just another motivation meeting. Well, one thing to write about when you learn new things that you didn't know before, you do get more motivated. But they'll say, I'm motivated enough. And it's always the most negative who say that, you know, because it's. It's almost like you give them a tape. You hear a tape or a book or something like that that could just really fire you up. Somebody really has got some new exciting information and insight that would particularly help this person, you know, and you pass it on. Now they don't have time for that. And it's always the people that are eager to get their hands on something new and exciting to the people who move up. And it's the reason people try to avoid this stuff. They're not looking for things to get ahead. They're looking for how to avoid. They're in the avoid work stage of life and they don't realize they're wasting their life. They're not going anywhere. I mean, because obviously what is in their head right at this point is not driving them to greatness. And so, you know, I never do, but I always feel like saying, when they say I'm motivated enough, I always feel like saying, oh, really? About what? What, what are you doing about that thing you're so motivated about? You know, how would you know? How'd you get. How early did you get up this morning? Were you thinking about it all night? What's your next big move? What's your next big milestone in moving towards this goal? And when is it going to get done? See, the thing is, people misunderstand motivation. Motivation is tied into inspiration. It ties into your blood working in your body. You can be the Fastest Usain Bolt. You can be as fast as Usain Bolt, but you get in a race and you just jog for 50 yards, 100 yards, 40 yard dash, you're not going to beat even the average junior high student. You know, you're going to have to. It's one thing to have the talent, but you got to display it. See, hard, hard work beats talent. Hard work is the great leveler and the people that do the hard work are the people who are inspired and a super, we all know this, a super talented team that for some reason just doesn't have their mind in the game. They put in an average effort. Maybe they're playing a team that is not that great and maybe this, maybe this team is 10 and oh, in the season they're going for the championship and maybe they're playing a team that hadn't won a game all season. So the championship team goes into this game just going through the motions. Well, they may get beat and sometimes they do get beat because they just didn't put out their ability, you know, and I remember, you know, we've all got histories of this thing. This is why you see the, the coaches, especially the professional level, said finish the game, play all 60 minutes. You know that they don't celebrate early in the sideline because they know an average team with super effort will knock their team out. And see if you know that it's the effort that activates the talent, you're going to be looking for as much inspiration, as much motivation and you're going to look for it everywhere you can to keep yourself fired up. And just thinking about this, just knowing the reality of this will make it easier to understand when on one of these future segments I cover what I believe and what I've always said is the hardest job, I've got the hardest job, you've got the hardest job. We all have as we move through life. So anyway, motivation. Look for motivation. Chase motivation so you can be at your best. You know, you cannot go to greatness with a half hearted effort. I used to tell our people that all the time. I don't know if you're good enough to do it. I don't know if you're good enough to be great, but I know you're not good enough to do it or be great with a half hearted effort. So it starts with effort. See you later. Bye.
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