The Secret To Unlocking Your Potential
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Summary
In 1977, when Muhammad Ali was being interviewed by Phil Donahue, Phil asked him a question: What is the central part of your training? Is it running, is it training, what is it? And Ali's answer shocked the entire audience.
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Everybody wants to know the key to success. How do I become successful? But in 1977,
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when Muhammad Ali was being interviewed by Phil Donahue, Phil asked him a question. He says,
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listen, what is the central part of your training? Is it running? Is it training? What is it? And
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Ali's answer shocked the entire audience. It was funny. It was comical, but he was telling 100%
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truth. And by the way, if you get value out of today's video and I give you the message,
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give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. Let me get right into it.
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So Ali's being asked this question, what is the central part of your training?
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And this is what Ali says to Phil Donahue. He says, it's dodging the nightclubs and the parties
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and the girls. You want the truth and being in bed by yourself at nine o'clock at night.
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And if you can get by that, you'll make it. He says, and that's the truth. Now I'll tell you the truth.
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Hitting the bags and jogging and vitamins won't. Dodging ladies is the main thing,
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especially when you're pretty like me. So rather than answering the question of what to do,
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he told you what not to do, right? I'm 24, 25 years old. I got big dreams, but I love playing
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poker. When I would finish my last appointment at 10 o'clock at night, Tuesday nights, I would go
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straight to commerce at a 45 minute drive. I'd go to commerce. I would play cards for three to four
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hours. And then I would come back by five o'clock in the morning. I'd get three hours of sleep. Then I
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would go run my appointments on Wednesday morning, getting three to four hours of sleep. So how
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effective you think I was on Wednesday? You think I had maybe a little bit of a shorter fuse? You
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think I could give my best to close or sell or explain my clients or build relationship? Well,
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you think it was just kind of like, Hey, let me just kind of give you what I want to give you.
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That was one of my distractions. The distractions prior to that was going to the nightclubs. The
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distractions prior to that was women. As much as I was looking for the keys to success,
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sometimes it was about what not to do, not going to the club, not going to the casino to play
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blackjack, not going and hanging out with your friends till four in the morning, not doing any
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of that stuff that was constant distraction from doing something big. So often rather than looking
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for your to-do list, sometimes it's better to make a do not list. What not to do. Here's what I'm not
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doing. I told my friends, I'm not going to the club. I'm not going to the pool hall. I'm not going to
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the bar. I'm not going to Vegas. I'm not going to go hang out with another girlfriend of mine. I'm not
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going to do any of this stuff that gets in my way. Instead, I'm going to take that time and develop
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myself. And all of a sudden you're going to wake up one day saying, how the hell am I competing with
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everybody that's best in my industry? It's because of what you didn't do, not necessarily what you did
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do. So if you got value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. I got
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another video I want you to watch. I gave a message seven months ago and the title of the message
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