2020 GO HARD MINDSET - High Performance Lessons from Billionaire Dan Pena

Steve Jobs Elon Musk Warren Buffett Bill Gates Ted Turner Success leaves clues, kids. I just named five of the biggest names in business over the last 150 years and they all have one thing in common. They are ballbusters, they are tough as nails. Where does that leave you? I still work 50 or 60 hours a week and haven't had to work in 35 years. He is not willing to do anything. You are not willing to sacrifice anything to be a

high

-performing person. I don't want to be like that. - No no. most people don't: I want to please. If that?

Say you want to fit in, I don't... I'm the only speaker you're going to hear who really wholeheartedly doesn't give a - If I leave it here that you like it, I did something there's something wrong If we wanted to improve the quality of our personal life and professionally, what would be your advice? What can we do? What is the most important? Well, the most important thing is self-esteem. The people who do it, the people we read about, the people we admire: Elon Musk, Steve Job, Warren Buffett, etc. They all have one thing in common: they have extremely

high

self-esteem.

Of course, you've heard me say this before, self-esteem is built during the first 7 or 8 years of life and unfortunately we were with our parents for the first 7 or 8 years of life. Ergo, we don't have very high self-esteem. But to build high self-esteem and the way you build high self-esteem if you're 25, 35, 45 years old, surround yourself with other people who have high self-esteem. Show me your friends and I'll show you your future. And you can still reverse your childhood depending on who you associate with. How do you do that? Well, you find people who are where you want to be but they're already there.

You are 22 years old, you are 32, you are 41 years old and there is a 45-year-old boy or girl who is where you want to be. They've accomplished a lot of things, if you like: they're saving the world, they're using their money for good causes. Go associate with those people, be around those people and they will be easy to find. But you, they are not going to knock on your door. They're not going to come to your apartment or apartment and ask, "Oh, can I help you?" and the best tool I've seen, that seems to have been designed for this, is LinkedIn.

It's the best social media tool for what we're discussing and you can find these people now, just remember everyone who is on LinkedIn. All, I don't know, 20 million or whatever people who are on LinkedIn are there for a reason: they're there because they want to do business, they want to meet people. Unlike other social networks like Facebook or Twitter, but I'm talking about LinkedIn, they are there for a common purpose, they have a common bond, they have a common goal. They want to expand their horizons and it is a great tool. I had self-esteem. I didn't know until I grew up and was an adult that not everyone has self-esteem.

I did not understand that. I didn't realize that not everyone was confident in themselves. I didn't realize that not everyone had self-worth. Gallup did a survey in 2016 around the world, 87.6% of all people on the planet, well, to round up, 87% of everyone walking the face of the earth, 7.65 billion people, are unhappy . The only thing high performers have in common is that they are hungry for a better life, hungry for change, hungry for the tough love that their parents didn't give them. So is that what you need? You, you have to be hungry, do you need to feel the pain?

Growth is only achieved through pain. Without pain there is no gain. It's the same in life. If love did the work, you wouldn't need podcasts, you wouldn't need seminars. It is not like this. Tough love gets the job done, but being liked doesn't get you a raise and you're working for whoever you're working for for efficiency and accountability. Most people who attend seminars do so because they were not held accountable as children. What is your definition of a high-performing person? Be everything you can be every day 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, be everything you can be.

I asked the question a couple of days ago. How many of you - can you raise your hand - how many of you have children? Don't raise your hand now, how many of you would like your children to grow up like their parents? You know the answer, right? Close to zero. Since they weren't good role models, I'm not going to ask the second question. How many of you would like your children to grow up and be like you? But being a high performer is a full-time job. I'm like this when I get up in the morning to brush my teeth.

I'm like that when I brush my teeth before going to sleep. I am like this 24/7, 365 days a year and have been like this for the better part of 50 years. I'm always like this. I'm always on edge, but the Sun will swallow the Earth in about 7 to 11 billion years. Although I plan to live a long time, I won't live that long. , but I, you know, I just work

hard

, I don't know anything but work

hard

and hard work is out of use now. It simply is. But I am a dying breed. I am a Neanderthal. I understand that.

It makes me sad to say that. Because I mean, I know it's like that, it's a sad commentary on the human race. Since you are not willing to make any sacrifices to be a high performer, I still work 50, 60 I don't consider work. I still work 50, 60 hours a week and I haven't had to work in 35 years. So the bottom line is that you are not willing to do anything. You are not willing to sacrifice anything to be a high-performing person. It sounds strange, in hindsight I found it easy to make $450 million and I wanted to do something else with my life.

And so when I got into financial coaching, I wanted to change the fabric of financial coaching, which I have, and I wanted to be known as, well, and now that's what they call me, the best of all time. But this was just me mouthwaving 25 years ago, now I'm the greatest of all time. Vis-à-vis, creating wealth through people like you and you know, I wanted to leave that legacy and I wanted people like, I'm from the neighborhood, I'm from a very tough environment, I was in jail five times, I did a lot of ugly things, but I'm glad it happened to me because I know what the other side is like.

As if some of you have never been kicked in the teeth. I know what it's like to have your teeth kicked in and to get kicked in the teeth. him, on the sidewalk. I know what it feels like, I know the humiliation. Forget the pain, you get over it. I wanted poor kids to understand that they had a methodology, that there was a methodology used by one of them who was once poor and got into a lot of trouble and that you can do it, if you want to do it bad enough. The operational part of that little description is whether you want it bad enough.

Muhammad Ali, arguably one of the greatest fighters of all time, had been saying since he was 14 or 15 years old: "I'm the best" before ever having a professional fight. My father said, if you have something on your mind, it should come from your lips. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and your whole life you have been taught not to ask. You've been trained, keep your head down, don't be embarrassed, don't embarrass the family, don't say things that might not happen. And I do the opposite, I tell you to set goals beyond your life. I tell you to set goals as soon as humanly possible.

When kids come to me, they want to make a million, 10 million. You know, and then when they made 100 million, they say, Mr. Pena, we never would have dreamed that we could create 100 million until we met you. They will never exceed your highest expectations, they will never exceed your highest and craziest thoughts. Never. That's a guarantee, but I mean, kids, I mean, you can have whatever you want.