71 – Sustained Hustle, Motivation

I want to talk about one of the problems that I see in the area of self-motivation or hustle. In the first part,  I just want to talk little bit about the quandary of motivation;  the 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.  In the end,  I am going to give you four points tell keep yourself relatively motivated.

To be successful you must hustle. For long term business success, hustle needs to be sustained.

I often look, study, and see: How do people motivate themselves, how do you learn, how do you succeed, how do you make progress?

Recently with a whole bunch of events that I’ve 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’s even guaranteed, they already have the success, they already have the millions – if they can’t motivate themselves to just follow the rules or be good to collect the money, how are you going to get somebody who’s not guaranteed, who’s starting out and saying: “Gee, I wonder if I can become a millionaire, a multimillionaire and make all that money. How will I have whatever I decide as success”? How do you motivate those people if you can’t 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: “This is what I should do, this is what’s right, this is what’s wrong.”

Recently, 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’t think he’ll ever have to worry about that. Whatever it is that’s 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’s not the only one; there’s lots of them. There’s been lots of people in the football world or other sports world, where they have done things that are just ruining their career.

Just 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’s 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.

Let 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’s going to be provided for them, or they’re already under contract and they screw up. What happens to the person who’s 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’t want that person or that person of character coming into the office. In discussion with some younger people, I’ve had them say things like: “Well, that’s not anybody else’s business, or that’s self-expression,” etc. Fine, it’s 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 “their employee.” 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...