hi today I'd like to talk a little bit
about motivational speaking and the
pitfalls of listening to people that do
not follow their own advice every now
and then I read these comments in the
comment section and I still I sincerely
hope that they're humor since I don't
see myself as being a motivational
speaker saying you should get in
motivational speaking and then I see
videos by Eli the computer guy saying I
bet that years from now lwis is only
going to be doing content creation
because people like watching his stuff
and the main issue that I've had with
any type of consideration that I only do
content creation is that what I find
when it comes to motivational speakers
is that a lot of motivational speakers
they're not actually following their own
advice so a lot of the people that you
see as mentors or that are you know
advertising themselves as business
mentors life mentors life coaches what
they do is they show that they became
successful I became a millionaire I
accomplished this 30 years ago then 29
years ago they became a motivational
speaker then from from 29 years ago to
today they've been a motivational
speaker and the problem I see with this
is that very often they will give advice
that makes a really good sound bite
something that everybody can really get
around and agree with and feel good
about something that's it's one of those
sound bites where it sounds like it
should make sense it sounds like it
should be true until you actually
implement it and then you implement it
and nothing actually works and what I
what I notice happening is that the
person will say I am successful I have
become a millionaire there I've
accomplished all these great things
therefore I'm successful now I'm going
to give you advice so I'm going to say
something that may or may not have had
anything to do with how I became
successful but I'm going to say this
advice I'm going to answer your question
with this advice so I'm successful and
I've given you advice therefore that is
successful advice or advice on how to
become successful and I find this to be
complete and utter [ __ ] because the
advice itself it came from a successful
person but that doesn't necessarily make
it advice on how to become successful or
successful advice you may agree or
disagree with a lot of the things that I
say in these videos but when I talk to
you about any of the ideas or the
concepts in business or personal life
morals ethics sales any of this stuff
I'm talking from the experience of
actually living my own advice so the
video that I did on um uh the video that
was uh what was the
TI I know I can't remember the name of
it Mr
Clinton you want to be on camera
boy this is my cat Mr
Clinton I was if you're going to be the
[ __ ] be the whole [ __ ] ain't no half
[ __ ] here that is not that's not the
greatest sound bite for how to become
successful that's not advice that makes
a good sound bite that's not something I
could probably put on a brochure but
that advice is advice that I am actually
living so when I did that 27-minute
video explaining the mindset behind that
advice and why I stand behind it not
only am I giving you that advice as
somebody that believes in it but I'm
also living that advice when I contacted
the law firm for a $400 billion company
I contacted them and I wrote a response
letter to them based on what I said in
that video I lived that advice I don't
just live it in these small little
sections I live that advice when that
advice can easily just get me get me
crutched but I am doing what it is I'm
saying when I talk about Solutions based
billing I'm not talking about Solutions
based billing as a sound bite I'm
talking about it as somebody who's
actually and I have a company right now
that offers specific services and the
specific Services I offer and the um and
the requests for work that I decline are
based on whether they fit into that
system I use that system with my
existing clients and if you want to see
how that works out for me then you can
simply Google the name of my business
and you can read what people have to say
about it who are clients old clients new
clients and you can see if that's
something you agree with if I'm talking
to you about a poisoned well of employee
culture based on letting one little
thing go here and then go here and here
and here with one person and then that
affecting the um the the mindset and the
motivation of everybody else who works
with you how it is you fix that what can
lead up to that I I'm not I'm not just
saying that out of theoreticals I'm
talking about that because that's
actually happened with me many years ago
when I was employing six or seven people
at a time this is all advice that I live
through my own experience and what I
often find is the case with motivational
speakers or life coaches or business
mentors or any of these people that
write these books is that they became
successful 30 years ago and they
forgot what actually made them
successful they forgot the advice that
actually made sense and they're just
coming up with things to say because
they need something to say but the
reason that a lot of that advice while
it sounds good may not be relatable to
you as a business owner or you as
somebody who could use this advice is
because it's it's not coming from
somebody who's actually practicing it so
I want you to think about whether the
people that you look up to whether the
people who you're taking advice from are
actually in a position where they can
practice their own advice every now and
then I click on these recommended videos
and the side of whatever I'm watching
and there was this one person I'm not
going to link to cuz I'll get in trouble
they have a 500 videos on how to do this
in business how to sell how to live your
life this way how to set up your you
know how to deal with employees that way
how you should um you know look uh for I
guess bigger fish clients and how to
make more money and all this stuff and
then there's a patreon and I click on
the patreon and the patreon doesn't say
it's not one of those things where it's
like if you want me to have nice Studio
lighting pay for the patreon and if you
don't but if I don't get this I'm just
going to do the videos with a regular
camera it's not like that it's I was
laid off off from my job 6 months ago I
have no way to pay my bills or my rent
please help me kind of thing and I'm
looking at this and I'm going through
this advice and it's all the stuff that
like sounds good it's this motiva it's
this generic motivational crap it's this
stuff where there's nothing that you can
actionably do about what what they're
saying but it all it all sounds good and
then you see this and it's like okay
you're telling me how I should live my
life you're telling me how I should run
my business but you need to beg for
money on the internet because you have
no way to pay your
rent one of those things to be careful
of are the people who are telling you
how to live your life doing the same are
the people who are telling you how to
invest your time and how to invest your
money investing their time or money the
same way that they're telling you if I
tell you this is a good thing to invest
$5,000 in it would be nice if I had also
invested the $5,000 in it cuz then that
actually means something if that makes
any sense to you so I would be really
really care careful of listening to
people who don't listen to their own
advice and my cat is my cat is right by
the power button for this extender for
the camera and he's looking at it like
he wants to step on
it I
will [ __ ]
cats now the issue that I have with the
idea of being a full-time content
creator rather than doing what I do now
is that it would lose the story so when
I when I talk about Solutions based
billing when I talk about being the half
[ __ ] versus the whole [ __ ] when I talk
about when you're selling with
salesmanship how you should not be
presenting when I talk about all these
things while getting interrupted by a
phone that I forgot to silence when I
talk about all these things I'm talking
about it in relation to the business
that I have that actively follows that
actively utilizes that advice so it
would be very easy for me to get up here
on camera and say something that when I
try to implement it in the real world
even though it sounds good is complete
[ __ ] and the way that I prevent
myself from doing that is I will have an
idea in my head on how to do something
that sounds good I'll implement it and
if it winds up being a complete and
utter disaster that does not work in any
way shape or form regardless of how I
try to implement it then I'm not going
to tell you to do the same thing but if
I have an idea and that idea works for
me and it avoids me Hassle and it brings
me success then I can talk into the
camera about what made that a good idea
so what makes doing these videos and the
core philosophies and business talk
playlist fun for me is that I can talk
about Concepts that actually relate to
the real world because I've tested those
Concepts to know that they work in the
real world when I talk about not being
afraid of the rooms you walk into as a
technician I can actually quote the
experience I had when I walked into a
room with a bunch of lab technicians
that had their master's degrees that did
not realize that dust on a polarizer
would cause a change in color of the
pixel they thought it was a dead pixel
and when when I talk to you about these
things it's all about the real world
experience so if I were to Simply do
this without having some type of
business it would really dilute and take
away from the the entire point of this
which is real world perspective and real
world advice that hopefully will help
people to not make the mistakes that
I've made I don't know what I'm going to
be doing for the rest of my life I don't
know if I'm going to doy I'm not going
to be doing MacBook motherboard repair
for the rest of my life I doubt I'll
even be doing this two years from now
where I need the phone data recovery
stuff maybe I'll become a programmer
maybe I'll become a salesperson maybe
I'll become a lobbyist maybe I'll maybe
I'll be the person that designs the
Lenovo retro ThinkPad who the hell knows
maybe I'll be a burger flipper I have no
idea what I'm going to do with the rest
of my life but what I do know is that so
long as I'm talking into a camera and
telling you my opinion on things and
giving you my my thoughts on uh or
advice on how you know how to run a
business or how to deal with clients or
how to deal with these situations or how
to educate yourself on something it's
all going to be in relation to what I'm
actually doing so if my job were
literally to do nothing but speak or
literally to do nothing but talk into a
camera I feel that I would lose a lot of
the authenticity that makes this advice
valuable yeah I'm not a millionaire I'm
not the biggest success in the world but
I did go from having 200 bucks in my
pocket and being broke and living in the
shittiest Department in canari to having
a pretty nice home a pretty nice life
and the freedom to do a lot of pretty
much a lot of the things that I want on
my own time when I want to how I want
to and that's a pretty cool thing and I
can live with with that and I think a
lot of people a lot of people miss out
on the points when when I when I really
Hammer home on a point or when I talk
about it over and over again it's not
because I I'm I'm uh it's not because I
want to call you out on something that
you're doing very often when I call out
a specific thing over and over again
it's because it was a mistake that I
made over and O that I made many times
and I want you to avoid it my idea with
this channel is that I'm having a
dialogue with my 17-year-old self so I'm
not talking into account camera lens
because frankly that would be creepy nor
am I talking to other people that can't
see me because that would be even
creepier what I what I imagine is that
I'm having a sit-down talk with my
17-year-old self and that I'm explaining
to him all of what I've learned over the
last 10 years of making mistakes so that
hopefully he can skip all the mistakes
and fast forward to the you know to the
fun part to the success and avoid the
the misery and the nightmares and the BL
so that being said if you take away
anything from this video
I really want you to look into when you
take advice from people are they in a
position to follow it are they are they
living their advice because if they're
not living their advice if they're not
in a position where they're they're
going to be using it just take it with a
grain of salt even if they're really
successful again a lot of people they're
going to say I am successful I became
successful now I will give advice
there's a big difference between giving
advice from the standpoint of a
successful person and giving the advice
that they actually used to become
successful big difference in that I
don't want you to get caught up I don't
want you to get fooled and I don't want
you to wind up following some ridiculous
asinine path that makes no sense to you
because it may have not made sense to
the other person either