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Lessons - The ONE Secret to Dominate Every Day | James Whittaker - Entrepreneur, Speaker & 3x Best-selling Author · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  transformative power of resourcefulness and resilience two traits essential for long term success
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  explore the philosophy of winning the day how clarity and intent shape your actions and why
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  aligning your daily goals with a bigger purpose is the key to sustainable growth and fulfillment
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  so there's a few things that i want to unpack we'll understand like the win the day philosophy
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  but before we go into that because that's the the current thesis that you've come to understand
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  that started help people the most but you derive that thesis from the people that you interacted
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  with when you uprooted your life and you went all over the world for your MBA and you worked with
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  all these entrepreneurs so what is the difference what is the i mean there's like probably unlimited
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  differences that you can pinpoint but what is that like one thing that that the person who has
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  intent that is building something that has their purpose in the world what allowed them to do that
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  at a certain age or at any capacity that you originally didn't have that the person who's
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  listening to this knows what an entrepreneur looks like but they're like that's not me i've never
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  done that what is that one thing that differentiated you i think there's really two traits that this
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  comes back to thinking garbage talks about yeah if i can be permitted to have two thinking
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  garbage talks about 13 principles of success but the two that if you had to really break it down
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  i just i don't think you can have success without these two things and i think you can have extraordinary
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  success over the long term when you have these two attributes and these are the most important
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  things i want to have it my clients that i want to have it my children that i want to have it my
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  friends the first one is resourcefulness meaning that you can acquire anything that you want
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  and the second one is resilience meaning that when adversity inevitably strikes that you will
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  keep moving forward i think if you have those two things then the the sky is a limit to what you
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  can achieve and when i look back at the person that i mentioned at the start of our chat today
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  who was in his early 20s i didn't have resourcefulness really i didn't have any resilience i was
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  busy blaming other people but the fact that it reached a point where to me it was literally life
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  threatening if i had gone down that path i have absolutely no doubt how that would have
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  unfolded zero doubt in my in my mind and it's why i'm so passionate about helping people
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  to have a similar realization in their lives i love that so let's talk about let's talk about how
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  you codify all the principles all the lessons that you've learned into that one sentence win the day
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  because there's win the day and then there's like extreme focus and intent and a word that i picked
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  upon your website actually is clarity which i love so win the day to me i want to understand that
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  because win the day means like i'm winning today and when i think about winning today that's great
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  but it doesn't in my mind immediately make me think tomorrow or the next day or six years for 10
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  years or 20 years from now it's literally today so walking through i winning the day is important
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  for the long-term vision the focus and the clarity well the whole where i first got this trauma was
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  when i was reading and rereading and rereading thinking garbage by Napoleon Hill which was part of my
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  role of writing the book thinking garbage the legacy i needed to know that text inside of
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  out also as a producer of the film and there was one passage that kept standing out to me and that
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  was that any mind that is not preoccupied with being success conscious will automatically be overtaken
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  by the poverty conscious and i was like wow that is so interesting and it kept it kept coming back
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  to me and then i was like well how do i say that in a way that people can understand and then i
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  thought will each day if you do not make the decision to win you have automatically made the decision
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  to lose and then it was like huh win the day if we can focus on winning the day and then i started
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  thinking more and more i by brainstorm more and more about this concept and that's what i thought
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  about where do people's anxiety and fear and worry and stress live they don't live in the present
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  they live in the future worrying about something that's about to happen or they live in the past
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  when they're freaking out about something that they might have done a year ago or yesterday or five
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  years ago and none of that stuff can help you there's no point dwelling on any of those things
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  or worrying about what's to come but if you have an idea of who you are in terms of things like
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  your values and where you want to go in terms of goals in all areas of your life rather than just
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  a financial goal or a fitness goal or a business goal or a family goal or a travel goal it's
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  important to think about all of those things holistically in a comprehensive manner and once you
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  have the foundation on who you are and where you want to go you can focus on putting one foot in front
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  of the other you have completely alleviated yourself from everything that's going to happen in
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  the future because you already know how the story ends because you've written it you just need to
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  do what the character in the book would be doing today that's going to help you get there and some
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  of those things as part of that win the day routine i think the very first part of that is coming
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  up with an awareness because are you mentioned something a little bit earlier along the lines of
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  that how do we motivate people who don't want to help themselves and you you can't really you can
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  only john asera from the secret told me that he only works with he said help the people who want
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  to help not the people who need to help and that can be very tough when you want to go out there
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  and and help everyone but if you help someone who isn't ready for the help they're not going to
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  change and you're going to end up really frustrated and depressed and and burn out in the process
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  so giving someone the ability to have that awareness of the trajectory that they're on
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  is that happy for them is is that a good thing for them to hear and do they recognize a change
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  needs to occur and then are they willing to embrace that change so coming from that foundation of
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  awareness is very very important then we can look at things like purpose what do you put here to do
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  i had a for me personally i have a career purpose and i have a family purpose they're very different
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  and it's important that i live both of those things and i live that i list out both of those things
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  and then from there we can focus on things like goal setting and then your daily routines and your
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  environment and your relationship with stress and your mindset around reframing adversity all of
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  and so let's let's say you're working with somebody and I love that the fact that you work with
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  people who are motivated and who do want to change I think that's a huge huge I mean that that
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  transcends somebody who's just a a coach or somebody who's advising a founder or somebody who's
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  looking to grow in their career that transcends to CEOs to executives that are trying to upscale
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  people on their team and even it even is a great it's a great thought when hiring people are you
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  looking for people that actually do actually want to progress which can be a massive benefit or
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  candidly there's spots in every career and every job or business for people that actually would
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  just like to do the thing that they're doing and that's also okay too but to identify that is huge
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  because that could be well placed or misplaced energy depending on who you're trying to mentor
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  and and and help right so that's a very very smart point now when you start helping people
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  achieve clarity and direction what are what are some of the major roadblocks so somebody is
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  very willing and they're like listen I'm listening to this I hate my job or I'm an entrepreneur
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  and I have five side hustles and none of them are going the way I want them to so what is it
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  what is the major roadblocks you see there's so many a lot of them are there is no balance they've
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  taken the time to define success in one area of their life but they haven't tied that that in so
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  if you don't have an idea of three things that you need to do today that are going to make that day
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  or win then you're going to struggle I see a lot of people they wake up and they they just work hard
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  they work hard they work hard but if you don't have I always write down three things and then never
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  all business related there's always one that might be related to family or might be related to
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  health I'm really interested in those people who are very mentally strong physically healthy and
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  strong financially healthy and strong they're the types of things that we can start to
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  calibrate get those things ready perhaps there's some other relationships that can inspire
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  they can inspire them on their next chapter because a lot of people reach a point where they feel
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  like this is it and it can be very daunting for them to say look I'm 50 years old I might have
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  ten million dollars in the bank but I'm not happy day to day so what needs to happen well that's
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  when we move away from money and we can focus on first of all restoring balance and getting clear
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  again on who they are and where they want to go and then we focus on impact like how do you want
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  your children to think about you and how do you want to how do you want to turn up each day like
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  when you wake up in the morning and you just take a moment to think about who is Scott and how does
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  he go through the day what are the standards that you're willing to uphold how do you what food you
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  putting into your body what conversations are you initiating where are you allocating your time
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  once you can start to bring all of those things in together that's when you can give someone very
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  much a renewed passion and sometimes it means they need to say farewell to the certain phase of life
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  that they're in they might have a business that could have served its point it's like it's just
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  died it just led to like a natural conclusion and that's fine that the business can move on with
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  some people who have the excitement and you can move on to doing something that frees you up
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  mentally it creates all that space for you which in that time of having six months for like a
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  mental reset and allowing your intellectual curiosity to go to wherever it needs to be
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  that's a lot of the times that I found with clients and really highly successful entrepreneurs
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  they had that time off to figure out their next move and the next move is something they went all
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  in on and it was generally something they were that they were really excited to do
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  after the day was done an example of that is a guy called Michael Fox who created a good friend of
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  mine he created the world's first female custom shoe company so you could go on a shoes of prey
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  if you're a woman and you'd order whatever shoes you want completely custom made for you
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  and they would send them out to you a week or two later but he realized that he wasn't coming home
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  from work he didn't want to read magazines and articles about women's shoes so eventually