The Scariest Question Everyone Must Ask Themselves
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Summary
Two people with big dreams, both very capable of their dreams becoming a reality, but the other one doesn t. Because at one point, this person had a conversation with themselves where they had to make a decision. Behind closed doors, they weren t willing to do it. It s been a secret of their life, their entire life they ve had it, they re going to take it to their deathbed with them, and they ll never share it with anybody else.
Transcript
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So we've got two different people here, both with big dreams, both very capable of their
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One of their dreams becomes a reality, the other ones doesn't.
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Because at one point, this person had a conversation with themselves where they had to make a decision.
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Behind closed doors, they weren't willing to do it.
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It's been a secret of their life, their entire life they've had it, they're going to take
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it to their deathbed with them, they will never share it with anybody else.
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And I'm speculating a little bit today, but I'm going to share it with you.
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But in order for me to make my point, we've got to go back to me being 27, 26 years old.
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I ran a sales contest for my sales guys, and we go to Atlanta.
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This contest had to do with a hot dog eating contest.
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Another one was canoeing to see what we can do.
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A bunch of people flipped in a lake, pretty ugly.
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Anyways, at the end of it, there was this house that the former founder of the company, I was
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And I asked the guy I was with, have you ever been to that house?
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So we get into the car, and we go to the house, and we pull up to the house.
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And we pull up to the security guard, and I said, I'd like to get a tour of the house.
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And at the time, I'm coming up in the marketplace.
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I have a reputation in the insurance industry of a guy that's coming up, but I haven't made it yet.
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So he said, I'm sorry, I can't let you, and I said, I've got to see this house.
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I said, you don't understand how life works with me.
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It's me, Mario, and one other person, or two other people.
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The other four are like, we're not going to get arrested if we run.
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You've got to hear the whole story before you go out there and try something like this.
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I knock on the door, and I said, I'd like to get a tour of this house.
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Can you please tell the owner I'd like to get a tour of this house?
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So security, what do you want me to do with these guys?
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By his brother, kind enough to do it, 26, 27 years old.
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I get a tour of the house, and I'm looking, and I'm saying, oh, my gosh.
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Reminds me of Iran, when I would go get a tour of Shah's house.
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As we get in the car, everyone's like, what happened?
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No, we were getting a three-hour tour is what we were getting.
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But I leave, and I say, I'm going to have my dream house one day.
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And it's not going to be like this, because I like the water.
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I want all of that, but I'm going to have my dream house one day.
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In that moment, there's a few series of questions we all go through.
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You know how they say, hairy, beehag, big, hairy, audacious goals.
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Like I'm talking massive dreams and goals, not small ones.
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And I say, I want to be able to have this one day.
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Number two, how demanding is it for these dreams to become a reality?
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These dreams, if you want these dreams, this level of respect in a marketplace, this level
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of freedom in a marketplace, they come with a lot of demand.
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Today is 4th of July, 5th of July, Monday, everybody's on the weekend, I'm at the office
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The other one's writing the ABCs five times, right?
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Are you willing to meet the demands of your big dreams?
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And that's where this person says, I don't think so.
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But when this person makes that decision, nobody knows it.
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And they start redirecting everything else to big dreams are not that important.
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But until they're 60, 70, 80 years old, and they go to their deathbed, and they remember
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that 35-year-old conversation when they were 40 years old, they had that conversation, whatever
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that conversation was, that I simply was not willing to meet the demands of my big dreams.
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This person also hit that wall at one point where they realized how demanding it is, how
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This person said, I am willing to meet the demand.
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The one question that this person didn't ask, that this person asked, and they got deeper
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They say, Pat's one of the best storytellers, but man, Pat's so much about details, and his
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The question is, how is it going to feel when your dreams become a reality?
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Then you would be willing to pay the price that the man needed for your big dreams to
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But if you can't sell yourself on that feeling worth experiencing, you're going to be in this
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But if you can, you're going to be in this camp.
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This camp is busy with a lot of different people who did not want to answer that question.
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Look, I'll give it to you from multiple different areas.
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For you, the way you look at yourself in the mirror to know that you said something's
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going to become a reality and it became a reality, that level of respect is priceless.
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You can't buy that at Walmart, Nordstrom's, Neiman Marcus, or online.
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Number two, how's it going to feel in the marketplace?
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The marketplace, a lot of people are going to say, man, this guy said he's going to do
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This girl said she's going to do it and she did it.
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Level of respect and salute goes to the highest level.
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Of course, more haters show up, but even haters respect you.
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The legacy side is your kids, if you do it right, your next generation, if you do it right,
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they're going to watch it and they're going to say, man, my dad, my mom's fired.
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And if you teach them the right way and you raise them the right way, that legacy continues
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So yes, at one point, we all have to answer four questions.
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And how's it going to feel if those dreams become a reality?
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If the answer to those questions are very big, you write them out.
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And I want to experience it because I think it's going to feel incredible.
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Then you go pay the price and eventually your big dreams are going to become a reality.
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If you're watching the same path, I just kind of want to go experience this.
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If you watch it, you may want to watch it again because that formula has been a proven formula
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I'm in the middle of the ocean yesterday in Fort Lauderdale.
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And when Tom, his kids, and my kids, in the middle of the ocean, this husband and wife
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run up to me while I'm with Tico, Dillon, and Senna.
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They're talking to me and they said, we took our business from a half a million dollars
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to ten million dollars a year simply because the content we devour.
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They said, I tell you, I guarantee you, no one's devoured your content more than us.
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I'm simply sharing with you stuff that's worked for me and my life.
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Hopefully today's message to you inspires you to answer one question.