71 Sustained Hustle, Motivation
b'I want to talk about one of the problems that I see in the area of self-motivation or hustle. In the first part, \\xa0I just want to talk little bit about the quandary of motivation; \\xa0the difficulties people have who have much more opportunity than what you might have. If it is difficult for them, how much more difficult it might be for you. \\xa0In the end, \\xa0I am going to give you four points tell keep yourself relatively motivated.\\n\\n\\n\\nTo be successful you must hustle. For long term business success, hustle needs to be sustained.\\n\\nI often look, study, and see: How do people motivate themselves, how do you learn, how do you succeed, how do you make progress?\\n\\nRecently with a whole bunch of events that I\\u2019ve seen on TV, etc., related to the sports world, as well as other people, comes with an interesting question. If people who already have great promise for success, that it\\u2019s even guaranteed, they already have the success, they already have the millions \\u2013 if they can\\u2019t motivate themselves to just follow the rules or be good to collect the money, how are you going to get somebody who\\u2019s not guaranteed, who\\u2019s starting out and saying: \\u201cGee, I wonder if I can become a millionaire, a multimillionaire and make all that money. How will I have whatever I decide as success\\u201d? How do you motivate those people if you can\\u2019t motivate the people who already have the guarantee? They are different people. They are different situations, different people. You have to have, already built into your DNA, those motivational factors, those factors of life that say: \\u201cThis is what I should do, this is what\\u2019s right, this is what\\u2019s wrong.\\u201d\\n\\nRecently, take a look, the most prominent example, of course, is Johnny Manziel. He had a life that was guaranteed to be wonderful for him. Now, maybe because his parents are well off or something, he doesn\\u2019t think he\\u2019ll ever have to worry about that. Whatever it is that\\u2019s going on, whatever that constant decision to make himself look bad on everything from TV, to selfies, the constant ongoing mistakes that he seems to make. But he\\u2019s not the only one; there\\u2019s lots of them. There\\u2019s been lots of people in the football world or other sports world, where they have done things that are just ruining their career.\\n\\nJust the other day we had the NFL draft, a few days ago, and during that draft, here was this video that pops up, and this guy lost somewhere between 7 and 12 million dollars because that video showed him smoking from a bong with a gasmask on. It\\u2019s not just those in those situations. There was somebody who was guaranteed a ton of money, and he knew it, even though that was a couple years old, he knew it well back then because he was that much of a star player; expected to be the top draft pick, other than a quarterback.\\n\\nLet me go a little bit adrift, then, from just football players or other sports figures. I use those as an example, because these people are guaranteed a great income that\\u2019s going to be provided for them, or they\\u2019re already under contract and they screw up. What happens to the person who\\u2019s trying to work their way up, going to college or other things? Take a look at some things. It turns out 30% of people being interviewed lose the interview not because of what goes on in the interview, but because then when the research is done on Facebook or some other social media, they don\\u2019t want that person or that person of character coming into the office. In discussion with some younger people, I\\u2019ve had them say things like: \\u201cWell, that\\u2019s not anybody else\\u2019s business, or that\\u2019s self-expression,\\u201d etc. Fine, it\\u2019s self-expression, but somebody who was going to give you a job just found out things about you that they feel uncomfortable with, bringing you in, having you go out, and be \\u201ctheir employee.\\u201d How do you stop that kind of behavior besides just giving knowledge and information? How does somebody motivate themselves, or just to follow certain guidelines of their own as when they represent or put th...'