In this episode, I share a few key tips to improve your communication and presentation skills.
Perhaps the most important thing you can do is use tonality and vocal variety in your voice. If you have a monotone voice, your message can get lost as you won’t engage or interest your audience.
You can have the best message or information in the world, but if you fail to present it in a way that captures attention, don’t count on there being any retention.
I want to share an extremely powerful video Gary Vaynerchuck published a few years ago with you.
As of today, it is his most viewed video. Within 3 years, it has amassed 4.8 million views.
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Gary mentions that the biggest poison in us is regret. His vehicle for pushing hard is business, as that is his passion. He loves building businesses and competing.
Through that vehicle, he always pushes a lack of regret and how you should do everything possible.
“If anybody ever did it, then you can too.” Stop complaining! Nobody is listening. The market doesn’t care about your complaints. It rewards value that people bring to the world.
Gary goes on to say that you have to make one person, and that person is YOU. It’s like when you hear the safety presentation on an airplane. They say if the oxygen masks on the plane fall down, you are supposed to put your own mask on first before you can help others.
If you aren’t happy, how will you be able to work to make others happy?
Gary admits that he’s just trying to figure it out, and has been doing it for years in front of his audience. Obviously, it’s working. They key here is to take massive action. We’re all figuring it out.
Just be sure to ask yourself if you are truly living a life of no regrets.
Key Takeaways
Remember that we only have one life. So why live one that you’ll regret? Take chances, take risks.
We are all trying to figure this thing called life out. Remember Gary’s motivating line that “if anybody ever did it, you can too.” That is 100% true and so freaking inspiring.
Daily Motivation
“How you make your money is more important than how much you make.” -Gary Vaynerchuck
Actionable Steps
Do yourself a favor and just watch Gary’s video now, even if you’ve seen it before. It’s so well done.
The message really hits home and gets a fire under your butt to evaluate your life now and think about if it’s something you truly want. If not, it might be time to change something.
Today’s episode talks about an amazing video on Gary Vaynerchuck’s YouTube channel. It is his most viewed video, published just 3 years ago, which has over 4.8 million views.
The title is pretty self-explanatory. In the video, Gary talks about how we don’t want to have any regrets. We have just one shot at life. Take risks, step outside your comfort zone.
The Pareto Principle (also known as the 80/20 rule), states that 20% of our actions account for 80% of the results.
I heard a few different stories when looking up Pareto’s Principle. One story says that Pareto found that 80% of his healthy pea pods were made from 20% of his plants.
In another article, I heard that Pareto noticed how 80% of the land was owned by 20% of the people.
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This is how the “80/20 rule” came about. Pareto realized that this same ratio applied to several things in life.
The vital few vs. the trivial many
This principle essentially shows that we need to focus on the “vital few” instead of the “trivial many.”
In today’s world it’s so easy to be overwhelmed with information overload. There really is an endless amount of content to consume. If you head over to YouTube to watch the Joe Rogan Experience, you may be a bit overwhelmed when you see multiple interviews well over 2 or 3 hours in length.
One hack I use especially when watching YouTube content from a creator a channel I enjoy is to sort by “most viewed.” This allows you to identify what most people have viewed, as the videos are likely very valuable and have been shared online.
When it comes to picking new books to read, I check Amazon book reviews to make sure it’s going to be worth the time. Time is money, and I’d hate to waste 3 or 5 hours reading a 2 or 3 star rated book.
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Focus on the 20% that truly matters
Make sure to get focused, laser focused, on the 20% that truly matters. We all have huge goal lists or to-do lists. Chances are that many things on those lists don’t really need to be done. Perhaps the smaller things on our list are things we added to distract us from the large, important ones.
Sometimes we don’t want to do what we know we need to do: prospecting, lead generating, cold calling. We know we need to do things to generate business or move the needle. But sometimes we push them off very creatively.
Key Takeaways
So remember that 20% of what we do accounts for 80% of the results. Be maniacal about that focus… say no to anything that distracts from what is truly important.
Daily Motivation
“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.” – Josh billings
Actionable Steps
Evaluate your goal list, to-do list, or planner. Circle the top few key things that you know you must do. Perhaps even number all of your goals in order of priority, with 1 being most important.
Then start chipping away in order of importance. You can even spend an hour on priority #1, then take a break from that to work on priority #2, then go back to finish #1. Often times, we create mini tasks for ourselves that are not really important to distract us from the hard goals we want to avoid (creative avoidance).
So set your priorities, and start taking action on them today!
Are you really ready to become your own boss? In this interview, I had the chance to pick Henry’s brain and get tons of helpful tips for entrepreneurs who are wondering if they are really ready.
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Ultimately, to be ready you have to be three things: Ready, willing, and able.
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Are you mentally and emotionally ready?
A good question to start with is are you mentally and financially ready? There’s a big difference between being afraid of embarrassment and being truly afraid of the financial implications on you and your family if you fail.
Are you WILLING to put in the time and effort?
Starting a business isn’t easy. It’s going to take a lot of time. This means that sometimes, sacrifices have to be made. You’ll be building your business while others are at happy hour. That’s just how it goes.
Are you ABLE to afford the time, money and energy?
Henry shares that the most common reason that businesses fail is that they run out of cash. Maybe you need to keep your day job while building your side business.
Health is a huge part of a business. If you are not in good health or something is seriously ailing you, it will be more difficult to put the time and focus into your business necessary.
Are you really ready to become your own boss? In this interview, Henry Lopez joins me to share his wisdom from over 34 years of experience across multiple business and industries.
Ultimately, to become your own boss, you must be three things: ready, willing, and able.
Whether you’re really considering starting a business or you’re already well on your way, this is a really powerful conversation you don’t want to miss. Henry provides some some great tips that will benefit business owners at all levels.
In this post, I want to share an interview I was featured on. A new friend of mine, Schuyler Diehm, runs the Early Risers Podcast, for which I am grateful to have been a part of.
I talk about my story so far, how I was caught in a corporate role I wasn’t growing in, then quit that job to pursue an invention idea, and how I underestimated the time and money necessary to bring a product to market.
I struggled to bring that to life and after several months of making no money, I had to figure something out.
That’s how I landed in real estate, and I came across real estate wholesaling, which I’ve now done for the past year.
We all get ourselves into things we aren’t 100% sure about. I think it’s important to set big goals for ourselves, make these statements public through means like social media to hold ourselves accountable, and then give it our absolute best shot.
Make sure to listen to the full interview and watch the video which summarizes some of what we talk about!
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Key Takeaways
Don’t be afraid to “take the leap.” When you say you are going to do something, stay committed. Stick to your word.
Face your fears.
Sometimes life can humble us when we get too cocky. I thought I was smart, had a good cushion of savings, etc. and it resulted in me taking some huge risks and losses. Stay humble, but stay hungry. Take risks. You’ll take some losses, but there will also be some wins.
Stay consistent… when you feel like the needle isn’t moving, don’t give up. My podcast is a perfect example. For months I had a few downloads. Then it jumped to around 400 in a month. Within a year, I was hitting 20k downloads a month! All organically.
Remember to stay FOCUSED. Do not fall victim to shiny object syndrome.
Daily Motivation
“Less dreaming, more doing.” – Chris Bello
Actionable Steps
Get very focused and figure out what it is you want to accomplish. Break those big goals down to figure out what you need to work on today, this week, and this month to move closer to those.
Align yourself with people in places you want to be in and start chipping away. It’s a long game. Most “overnight successes” are not overnight at all and take years to come to fruition.
With that said, go take massive, focused, action today.
