Overcome Self-Doubt & Thrive | Gary Vaynerchuk EP 385

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation show.

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0:51One of the moments that you doubt yourself the most, are there moments and what are they and how do you get through it when you have that doubt in anything you're doing? One of the weird things I do is I'm in a funny place now where I'm not putting myself in a place where I doubt myself. And so I always wonder, is that like not challenging myself or is that like staying in my lane? When you ask me like what's scary, reading in public is scary. Then it's things like throw me in a pit of snakes. I'm like, I don't want that. Like jump off this building. But there's nothing in business that makes you doubt yourself.

1:20Is there a situation that you could see? Like you've spoken in front of 50 ,000 people. That's not scary. At this point in my career, I've been in the room with everybody. I'm of the cloth. I think when it's all said and done, I win this generation. I think Elon and Zucks and Uber guys, I think a ton of people make more money. I'm convinced now that nobody will make more money and help people make more money than me in this generation. I will win. In that game, yeah. In the game that I like, which is winning personally and winning helping other people. I don't think I'm going to be touched. I have definitely suffocated excuses better than a lot of people, which is really the biggest reason so many people who are listening right now are not winning.

2:01they are surrounded by people that are willing to accept their excuses on one very interesting insight. Your friends and your family are letting you get away with your excuses because they don't care. I weirdly don't know you and I care. And let me tell you how to fix this. Get your excuses out of your mouth. Between that and then showing people this whole$1.80 strategy, everyone's like, how do I grow? I'm like, there's a way. It's called the thank you economy. Leave your two cents, you know, in a comment. Leaving your two cents. Go take nine hashtags that are relevant to your business and then go to 10 accounts, pick 10 hashtags, the random nine, that's 90, leave two cents.

2:36Now you've left$1.80 for the day. Yeah. You know, because it's funny, right? People are buying likes and comments. People are like trying to give away iPads or Yeezys or Off-Whites to get followers. Or you can actually work for an hour. Add value. Know your craft. People see that you're leaving something meaningful. Basically, I'm thinking about bringing the most value. I think it's mindset and strategy. I used to not like the motivational version of me. I've gotten much more comfortable in the last 18 months because I'm like if I didn't think of it as motivational and I thought of it as strategy because mindset strategy right like being insecure is a mindset it was put into you for a million different reasons figuring out how to get out of that hole by who you surround with how you think what you do insecurity is the biggest poison in our lives lack of self-esteem is why people do everything bad you talk a lot about you know delayed gratification and there's time and everyone has a lot of time and people are wanting things right now, even with that mentality, I know that you would love to get bigger results all the time with what you're doing.

3:36You know, if you sell 100 ,000 books, you would like to sell 200 ,000 books right now. That's exactly right. Micro, micro, macro. Yes, exactly. That's it. But what do you think you're going to need to do to step into getting faster results in the micro and the macro? What would take you to the next level quicker? I think what takes everybody to the next level is cutting out dumb shit. If you really look at anything, no question, whether in your training, in your business, in your friendships, do you understand that if every person who's listening right now started to weed off the friend that is bringing the least value, and I mean they're a bad influence, they're a bad mojo, they're bad.

4:14They're a negative person so they're dragging you down, they're selfish, they have bad habits like a drug addiction or something. If you audit your circle of who you spend time with, If you just spent less time with something that is broken and you added one person that was incredibly valuable, your life would be a lot better. That's just real. The thing that I'm not good at, but I will never give it up, so I don't know if it's a strength or weakness. I do a lot of meetings on spec when people ask me to. I think at this point, no question, my time has become remarkably valuable. 20 % of my time this year will be highly questionable.

4:50and somebody was auditing my life, you know, at some level, you got to accept some of your humanity. But I think that is the thing that would take me to the next level, getting even more disciplined on every single thing I do, debating every single idea. If Tyler was in a room right now, he would argue that I've made a mistake by being here today for an hour. Your assistant, Tyler? Yeah, yeah. We've got a lot of things going on. We had a bunch of new business meetings, new people I could have met. High, big, good. Would have been on your biggest wall. You know, Tyler gave me a list of things. He's like, you can do one of these four things and I did this.

5:21Somebody analyzing me would say this is the wrong route. A couple of reasons. Number one, the new book Crushing It is selling so well that I'm not even trading for speaking or doing podcasts. I've never been this passive two weeks away from a book release. I don't even know what I'm doing. I'm like, I'm weirded out myself. This audience that is listening right now has heavy crossover. A lot of people that like you, like me, vice versa. I get somebody analyzing how do you get better, that this was the wrong choice for the hour. And I just like you. I just wanted to see you. That's a human thing.

5:54Like sometimes you just have to do those things. That's why I say I won't change what would make me better, but what would make me better is to analyze my time more fruitfully for micro results. But for macro results, I think this is the better decision. And so I will always make a macro decision. I will take 100 % of the macro results and only 60 % of the micro results. I'm blown away by people literally analyzing like what's in it for me in this microsecond of this thing. And I think everybody who's listening, man, do I think 99 % of people are trying to maximize micro.

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7:26Again, have an amazing day and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

7:43Thank you.