1829 Strategies for Success in Business and Life with Zack Tlili

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2:09With us right now, it's Zach Talili. Zach, you are a professional speaker, your executive coach, business coach, corporate sales trainer. Zach, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me, Josh. Yeah, absolutely. Well, you're based in San Antonio. Give us an overview of the work you do and who you serve and the impact you have in the world. I'm a motivational speaker, business coach, life coach, business strategist. Josh, to make it very simple, my mission is to serve the I can't group. It's very simple. A lot of times you get to meet individuals that are simply stuck in the past and people that are making decisions based on fear instead of decisions based on faith.

2:51And I made it a mission for myself to help others live a better version of themselves and accomplish their dreams by unstuck them from whatever it is holding them at this point. Yeah. Let's say someone's listening to what you just said there and they go, I don't need that stuff. I'm pretty self-motivated. You know, I show up and I'm working really hard and they feel like they're doing all this stuff. Like, how would you approach that conversation? Josh, that's actually a very good question. In general, motivation is not enough. You can motivate someone day, afternoon, midday, nighttime. You can motivate people, but if people are not willing to make a change.

3:35So for you to be successful, you know, you read books. You know there are many, many, many talented individuals. They lay the path for us in so many different ways. We know how to be successful. But who's following the steps? So for you to succeed, first of all, you have to believe in yourself. You have to believe that you're able to do one, two, and three. That's number one. Number two, believe in it by itself doesn't really make a difference if you don't have the mindset to say, you know what, I'm willing to do the work. And I'm going to do what Les Brown said. You know, he brought up the Robin formula.

4:15I don't know if you've met it, Josh. You probably are. you know the rubber form is something that the R stands for being relentless in what you want because we all want something we all want to see when we succeed we all want to be better what are we doing with it just the want and desire is not enough so you have to be relentless in what you want you have to dream about it morning afternoon and night and you have to actually lose sleep because of it oh it stands for overcoming you have to be willing to overcome anything that might come your way and yes you're gonna have some bumps along the way right but we tend to make him hills so you have to be overcome he you have to believe in yourself and your ability to accomplish such a dream I you have to be involved you're not involved in what you want to accomplish you're never gonna make it happen and the end is you never never to give up so people say yeah I don't need this I can just do this but you ask them what are you doing what are the steps you're taking every single day you have someone that wakes up in the morning that loses sleep a four in the morning wakes up at five in the morning gets a piece of paper cup of coffee and they write 10 new ideas daily you know people think they're crazy you know waking up every day writing up 10 ideas what is it going to leave it's the law of averages 10 ideas a day 30 days those are 300 ideas 12 months about three to three thousand and how many ideas right I mean one of them is going to hit eventually if you stay persistent with the plan so my my passion is to show you what is it that you have to do not just what is it that you want because people don't know the difference between want and need I want to be something I need to be something but the most important part is are we willing to do the work because Zach to Lily or Josh or whomever you might be following can show you the walk I can talk the walk and I can walk the walk but I can't do it alone so you have to be willing to do the work and follow the steps and and that's where my passion comes in I'm gonna show you where what is someone that was nothing and becomes someone bigger than the Sun and the moon why can't you so moral of the story is you know they're all living and stuck in such a dark spot.

6:35Yeah, I mean, I wake up in the morning, I have the energy to go do it. And you ask someone, how happy are you going to your job? This is a job. You know, I go to a job. I got to do the job. Right. And people, Josh, they work hard enough not to get fired. Yes. Right. Right. And an employer is paying them just enough for them not to quit. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. So how do you really how can you really tell me about just work just hard enough not to get fired and that you're actually going the right path or going the right way about you know making things happen for yourself and finding a better version of yourself better version of yourself doesn't start with i want it starts with the belief having the mindset and doing the work for it and stay relentless and to keep going yeah what if someone this is really interesting.

7:26What if someone says, well, listen, listen, I want to create great things, but I also don't want to create a lifestyle for myself where I'm working more than, say, eight hours a day. I am going to put in and I'm going to be absolutely on fire for eight hours, but I want to have the time in my day and my life so that I can do the other things I'm very passionate about. We're not necessarily just talking about, I'm going to get you so motivated, you're going to want to work on your thing 20 hours a day? You know, Josh, that's also an amazing question. The eight hours work, that is an amazing benefit.

8:01And it's an amazing thing for someone to have the mindset, hey, I'm going to do my job for eight hours and I'm going to make the best out of it. Because, hey, these jobs do exist and they exist for a reason. And there are people that do such an amazing job. And the best thing I can tell you this is I'm going to lay this to success. Success is not a house on the hill. is not a yacht, even though they're nice to have. It's not a vacation in the Bahamas every week. Success is a teacher that wakes up in the morning happy and excited about having kids that she's going to cater for. Success is a good mother that chose to be a housewife, although she could be a professional and housewife as well, but she's good at it, and she does such an amazing job at it.

8:44It's a carpenter that just adores what he does, that he works he does his eight hours with the passion success so I'm not here to give you a house in the hill I'm not here to build you a mountain of hope I'm here to make the give you the best version of yourself if what makes you happy what puts the smile on your face and your family's face when you are at work and you get the phone call from your son or your daughter or whoever how are you I'm having an amazing day at work I'm excited to work I'm having a great day. I just was able to do one, three, help so-and-so. But are they actually living these eight hours a day?

9:24Are they actually excited, Josh, for the eight hours of the day? Are they happy leaving home? Are they happy closing the door of the office after eight hours? What a day. I can't wait to have another one tomorrow. Yeah. This is great. And this sounds like such an aspiring position to get to. Break this down. How can we move toward getting that in our life if we're showing up to work and we're a little bit burnt out or showing up to our own business and we're just burnt out a little bit, which happens? So look, the burnt out, this is huge and this is pretty sad. But let me tell you something. Somebody being burnt out at the job, it could be for so many reasons.

10:06It could be due to leadership. It could be due to personal belief. It could be due to our own skills and mindsets. If I'm going to a job just simply because I got to collect my 40 hours and I got to collect my benefits, got to put a little bit of my 401k. So you don't really have a life because you're attached, you're tied down to the little bit only that you're asking and that you're in need. And you're not actually looking outside the box of how much more you can get. somebody has burned out because they're being micromanaged because they're not being appreciated at work and because I can't say bad leadership I'm sorry Josh you know I've read books and books and books that talks about good leader versus bad leader there is no such thing with with my humble opinion either there is a leader or there isn't a good leader is going to see and good leader is a good leader there is only a good leader or there is no leader so some people could be burned out because they are not in any literature that is management that are tired or hungry individuals that are just managing people without actually looking for what they need so if I'm an employee and I see there is no literature for what I'm at and nobody's actually looking at well-being so yes I get burned out because there is no value for me at whatever I'm at here this is when you have to draw a line if you know there is no literature and there is no value before you can make a decision and talk about leadership you have to ask yourself before you lead before you can talk about leadership are you a good follower what is it you're doing as an employee to be a good follower for you to have a good leader because a good leader had to be a good follower before he can lead correct but as far as employees going into that work segment and saying I'm just here for the ride today and you have a manager that wears a leader title saying i'm here to collect the check i don't care about your well-being i don't care about what you go through in life i just want protection and companies don't grow people get burned out a lot of people told me that i gave the best years of my life to this company and i've seen nothing and it's true josh and it's sad i've gave the best years of my life to this company well that's not the company's fault that's a decision you made and a commitment you made yourself to live miserable and to be under no leadership umbrella and give up the best years of life and you were content with it you're happy to collect the 40-hour check and possibly some overtime and you said you know what hey what's what's worth for me more is when i go home after that i get spend time with family if the eight hours of work are not productive and and you're miserable it's not any different than being miserable at home and going to work expecting to have a good day.

12:52They just go hand in hand. Yeah. It's just a mindset. Yeah. Zach, what's something that we should be doing on a daily or regular basis so that, you know, so we can stay inspired, we can stay motivated to be able to do the things that we know we want to do in the world? The first thing we have to do is we have to believe in ourselves first and we have to want more. We have to one - Yeah, I mean, and that's, and again, that's a great trait. And I hate to kind of break it down into something a little bit more tactical. Like that's an aspirational like place to be, but how do we get there? First of all, like I said, you have to believe in yourself first.

13:35You have to have the mindset, the mindset of what? What is it that I want to do in life? What is it that I'm willing to do for it? What is it I'm willing to give up for it? because if I ask you, Josh, what gives you a rich life? Josh, you're an employee today, you're waking up in the morning, I want to ask you a question. Josh, what will give you a rich life? Whatever the answer might be, I'm going to tell you, what is it you're willing to do for it? You're going to give an answer. Josh, what is it you're willing to give up for it? So we have to know what we want. What are we willing to do for it?

14:07We have to know what is it we're willing to do to give up for it as well. And once you find these three aspects, then you can have a good version of yourself. You can have a good vision of your future. What are the next steps that you have to take? If you wake up in the morning, because Josh, if you don't know where you're going, you're going to end up elsewhere. Yeah, yeah, right. So, okay. So long-term target, long-term goal, break it down into, well, what's it going to take in order for me to get there? Do I really, really want it? Or am I just saying that, right? And I think you asked a good question, right?

14:38What am I willing to give up in order to achieve that? And then really just like, okay, well, if you're serious about that and you really truly do want that, and it could be, for example, like I was just in a weight loss competition and I won because I just broke it down to the simple daily activities. I just have to create a calorie deficit day in, day out, pretty boring, but it's kind of the James Clear atomic habits kind of thing. And I wonder sometimes, Zach, that we overcomplicate a lot of these things. You know, stay in your zone of genius. Just do the thing. Have the power, right? As Arthur Schopenhauer would say.

15:17That's, you know, Josh, it's amazing you said that. I give you an example of people wanting and people doing, okay? The people, I give you an example of a ship. If a ship that's actually an harbor, it's fixing to take off, right? Imagine a ship that has a mapped up direction, navigation set up, the destination, sales is ready, team is ready, the crew is ready, and that ship takes off. 99.99 % of the time it's gonna make it to whatever it is that's in the dock, right? Imagine having a ship, no destination, the ship is amazing, looks beautiful, it's a state-of-the-art, it's leaving the harbor, no map, no navigation, no destination, no crew, but yet we expect the ship to go where?

16:01To its final destination that's what we are doing in our daily lives we expect the ship we expect us to make it to go to the next step without having that man without having that navigation without having that crew the crew could be thoughts it could be a mindset it could be you know things that we do the day before and early in the morning things that we have to work on ourselves we have to discipline ourselves when we do that the ship makes it to its final destination it's not any different just when pearl nightingale said you know it's a mindset it's just pretty much like a piece of land josh you know whatever whatever you implement in your mind the results are exactly what you plant if you plant a positive thought that you can and that you will and you're willing to do you accomplish that but if you plant a negative thought a negative outcome exactly that's what you get.

16:53So we have to be willing to know what we want, how bad we want it. Does that give us a rich life? And I'm not talking about rich life, just in financial aspects. And what are we willing to give up for it? Because you are what you think about. Simple as that. Yeah. Zach, your website, zacktalilispeaker.com. When somebody goes there, what would you recommend they do? Like say they've listened to our conversation and they want more Zach in their life. What would you recommend for them? You know, Josh, I made it very, very simple. I tried to make my website very easy. I did not. If you go through it, it's not uploaded with a lot of photos and videos.

17:36It's not bulked up. I made it very simple. There is a book now or there is contact. Send an email, send a message, click contact us, book us. And if you just all that's gonna do is gonna let me know that you are looking for something I'll reach out we'll have a conversation you know I will know one and then we take some it's very simple it's not any different than me take you send a new text message Josh okay I see your phone send your text message hey this is Zach you say hey this is Josh how can I help you and then we have that conversation if I'm a good fit for you so be it if I'm not a good fit for you so so be it you know I made the promise to myself but it's to help others find a better version themselves and find and accomplish their dream.

18:19And that's a promise I intend to keep. And as simple as that. Yeah. Zach Talili, again, your website, zachtalilispeaker.com. Zach, thank you so much for the conversation. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Josh. Appreciate you.

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