Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show. There's no one way to get to the level that you consider successful, but with this day and age of social media and technology where there is no barrier to entry anymore of meeting and getting out to people, tonight in any business no matter what you need to have a proof of concept. Meaning, hey, I may think that my cupcakes are tasty, but let me see how many people buy them.
Now, if you can't even make a cupcake, I'm sure you can film a 30 second video on your phone of you making it or telling people about it and you can get proof of concept if you have 10,000 people views your video. Whatever it likes, whatever the case is, right? And then you take that and then improve, want to improve, want it and start the process, right? Or it wasn't that easy, necessarily.
You know, before when I made a shirt, I had to go and either sell it on the corner, sell it to somebody and then I had to find the person the next day to sell them a tool and again. Or if I sold it to the store, who would they sell it to? Who walked by and pick it up? Unless I'm going to sit in the store all day. You see, was it a woman, was it a man, was it a kid, did they buy it for themselves, was it a gift, did they buy it to wash their car with?
I have no idea, did they haggle over the price. Now, you know, you're on the computer, you go, boop, somebody bought it, oh yeah, it's 18 year old kid, lives in California, loves to skateboard, has a pit bull and has a bad case of dandruff. This is where we are today. So you can test your concepts very, very easily and you can then be more equipped to go out to the world and you'll find funding. There's so many ways of getting funding now.
The person who learns the most from Shark Tank, whether the viewers or anybody else is me. I learn from my joke about the other sharks, but all joking aside, I learn from them and I learn from these young men and women who are coming up here and they're doing business in an entire new way. Little Mo Bridges, you know, he came on the show, young man, very laser focused on making bow ties in his mother.
They remind me of my relationship with my mother and he was going to do a deal and takes Kevin O'Leary's offer, which is not wrong because he came on the show to ask for capital and resources and Kevin O'Leary stepped up to the plate. But I told him that if he were to take in that $30,000, you know, if I were to take in that back then with the Fubu days, it would have been worth a couple of hundred million dollars, right? Because of, you know, the percentage. So he decided to climb the deal.
I became his mentor and honestly, I barely helped him. He helps me more than I help him because I turn on TV. He's the fashion correspondent on the NBA draft, right? Doing about $300,000 in business. I go and I take him on the CNBC one day because I say, hey, I want to introduce you to Mo and I want to take Mo out to Fashion Week in New York. I'm a women's market to see you in the morning.
One of the highest retail outlets in the world calls the show and I've never been in the market and I pick up the phone. Yeah, how can I help you? You know, you and my Kooji brand and all that. She's like, let me speak to Mo. All my life, I've never talked to this person. She wanted to speak to Mo. I have nine goals that range from business to health to family. I raise them, expire every six months and two of them expire in five years and one expires in 20.
They're very, very detailed in what they are and the reason is I just want to read, I want them to be the last thing I think about when I go to bed. I reset them every six months but I noticed that as the date comes up, I start to have this anxiety. If you have an achieved, yeah. Yeah, you have an achieved.
And most of them you're not going to achieve if you really set aggressive ones but you're going to get their 50, 60, 70 percent bank then reset it for a longer period of time with another higher goal to reach. I read this book the first time when I was 16, the third time I read the book, I was 19, I read the book every year, thinking, grow rich. Richel is pretty simple. It's if I say, hey, I need to lose X amount of pounds, you know, by this date, I'm going to, and then it was the process.
Well, I'm going to drink six bottles of water. I'm going to drink one green drink a day. I'm going to do cardio in the morning and if I can slip in some weight training at night, I'm not going to eat out to 7 pm. I'm not going to eat fried foods and or meat. And in return for that, I will be healthier and I will be able to live a longer prosperous life and be in my daughter's lives longer and to make sure that I'm there for them. So you know, what is the goal?
How are you going to get to that point? When does it expire? Yeah. And what is the reward for the goal? Sure. I think six months is a reasonable time to accomplish something and or say to yourself, what's wrong with you? You've been talking this crap for six months, right?
I think that also in six months, you can see the change because if I sit there every morning and I sit there and say, I'm going to have a green drink or a banana for breakfast, then that's one less time that I'm going to have at everything bagel with sour cream and um, salmon and all that stuff. Right, you know, by time, six months ago, I probably have done that 40 times, 90 times and you start to see the difference in what it is.
So the five year one, I want to be somewhere in, you know, what are we going to do in five years? I don't know. And then 20 year one is always going to be about that kind of as you look over or as I look over or my family and my health. I like to see to some extent and hopefully I then I have to reset the 21. I am so excited for you to finish the rest of your day strong.
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