Wisdom can come from unexpected
places.
Image: Daily Driven Exotics Lamborghini Huracan
I enjoy
watching YouTube videos - mostly car related content; and I’ve recently been
watching some videos from the YouTube Channel: Daily
Driven Exotics. The main protagonist of the channel - Damon Fryer - has
created a playlist
entitled 'Success Series'. The ‘Success Series’ is a great series of videos
where Damon talks about what’s made him successful.
I was
looking for a transcript of the content, but only seemed to have Portuguese
subtitles, so I’ve typed out a partial transcript of some of the highlights
(for me).
1) Watch
the videos:
2) Come
back here for the (partial) transcript (if you need it)!
Episode 1: 3 Things
That Lead Me To Success!
It
actually doesn’t matter what I do, you can make a lot of money doing just about
anything.
It’s not
what other people have done to make money, more importantly, it’s what can you
do to make money.
1) Define what success means to you!
Success
is different for everybody. You need to identify what lifestyle you want to
have. What does that look like? What material things are within that lifestyle?
What are the relationships like within that lifestyle?
You need
to get really clear about all the things that you want to have in your life.
That’s called goals. And they’re very real, and a lot of people just
don’t have them. You have to be really specific.
You can
make like a little collage, or a little vision board of your goals.
2) Make a plan!
You
don’t need to know everything about the plan before you start.
3) Start putting things into action.
I would
highly advise that you just take action right away. You don’t even need a perfect
plan. You will actually get to your goal - if you know what it is - if you just
start doing. You’ve just got to start trying different things.
(On
failing) I came to the understanding that certain things just weren’t my forte.
I didn’t enjoy doing them. Or I wasn’t good at doing them. (I came to) being
self-aware what wasn’t working for me. Until I finally got to a place where I
was doing what I found was getting me the lifestyle I wanted, and achieving
that level of success, or getting closer and closer to it.
You know
what makes people successful? Their mindset. It’s the determination. It’s the
consistent motivation that no matter what happens, even if you fail over and
over again, you don’t give up and you just keep trying new things. And you’re
persistent. And employ some patience because things take time.
Employ
some patience. Get a goal. Make a plan. But most importantly - just start
doing!
Episode 2: 3
Emotions Successful People Master:
How I Overcame Fear
(The Success Killer)
1) Fear
Fear
affects everybody. And, for the most part, someone who is very successful has
found a way to overcome that fear. It is not that they’re not fearful, it’s
that they’ve gone to a place where they know how to overcome it very quickly.
And why
did I have that fear? Well, I cared what other people were thinking of me. That
is something - I think - that affects so many of us. I didn’t know how to
overcome it at first, until I came to the realization that all those strangers
were not going to pay my bills; were not going to help me make my videos; had
no interest and really didn’t give a crap about what happened to me, or how my
family lived, or how well our lifestyle was going to be. So, I just stopped
caring about what other people thought.
We all
have fear, but you need to find a way to get over it as quickly as possible.
2) Motivation
You need
to identify what motivates you.
If you
know how to stay motivated, or if you’re not motivated, you know how to get
re-motivated, that will help you achieve your success so much quicker.
3) Attitude
You’ve got
to have a positive attitude!
Being
motivated and being positive are two completely different things.
- Motivation
is something that drives you.
- Being
positive is something that’s going to keep you in a place where you have a
better outlook on a situation.
And we
have this little voice in our head that talks to us all day long, and you’ve
got to start getting very consciously aware to what your voice in your head is
telling you. For so many of us the majority of that chatter is negative, and it
is sucking the life out of all of us and our hopes and our dreams. If you learn
how to control that, and turn that around so you can have more positive
chatter, it is going to completely transform your life. And it is going
transform the way you act on the outside, and the way your facial expressions
are, and people will be drawn to that. And through that you’re going to have
some amazing things happen, you’ll have new amazing people show up in your
life...
One of
the things I do to practice the positive attitude - by the way - is be happy
for other people and their success. It is impossible to get what you want in
your life if you’re not happy for someone else who’s getting what they want in their
life.
You need
to be grateful for not only what you have in your life, but you need to be
grateful for what you see other people achieving.
Again,
success really comes from your mindset, and how you look on life and look at
the world, and whether you see opportunity or not, and how positive you think
you can create an outcome.
Episode 3: 3
Principles I Use To Make Millions!
I want
to talk about 3 more principles you can apply to your life, to hopefully
achieve whatever it is your level of success is.
Defining
what success means to you - because it’s different for everybody.
I have a
success plan based on my lifestyle wants and needs and my goals, both from a
health perspective, my relationship perspective, and then material items
perspective - things that I find happiness from. And that’s ultimately what we
all want in life is to be happy.
So, I’ve
been able to identify what makes me happy from all of those areas, and I’m very
fortunate to have my health, and to have great relationships, and so I can
focus on what material things in my life I want to have that I get joy from.
1) Learn how to leverage yourself
Learn
how to leverage yourself, through one of these platforms, through technology,
or maybe even just through other human beings. You can only leverage two things
in life, you can leverage time, or you can leverage money.
You can
leverage your time through building businesses where you hire employees, or now
we live in this great place where you can learn how to leverage yourself
through technology.
2) Learning how to make sacrifices
The
truth is, you’re going to have to make some sacrifices in this life, if you
ultimately want to get to the thing you say you want, and you’ll know if you
really want it or not, because you’ll either make excuses or you’ll actually
have actionable items and things that you’ll go and do.
You’ll
do it if you really ultimately want something more for yourself.
3) Network
I can’t
tell you how much I’ve based most of my success on, it’s who I know and not what
I know. Get good at networking with people, sometimes you just need to show up,
go get in the mix, go where whatever it is you have interest in doing, go be
where those people are.
You don’t
know who you’re going to meet, and what single nugget of information is going
to completely transform the way you look at whatever it is you’re doing,
because more than anything on this planet, it will be other human beings that
will ultimately add value to you and help you in your success, in getting you to
your path and goals and dreams.
Go and
network. Go and meet people.